Life and nature of the Messiah
Sunday, 05 April 2009 22:44
Along these two thousand years that the Messiah left us under the promise of return, much conjecture regarding the period of his life from the age of 13 to 30 has appeared (as it is not clearly registered in the Bible). The book of Isaiah gives us the key-clue for deciphering this enigma: “Behold that the LORD will give you a sign: the virgin is with child and shall bear a son, and shall call him Immanuel. He shall eat curds and honey until he learns to reject the evil and chose the good” (Isaiah c.7 v.14). Considering the translation variables (as in the most ancient versions of the Bible, mainly the Bible of Jerusalem, it is written curds, that is sour, instead of butter), the expression “eat curds and honey” means to experience the sweet and the sour, the good and bad things of his time, live the world sins knowing the good and the evil, in order to obtain deep knowledge of the human nature. Behold why Christ is not merely a repeater of words; his speech is endowed with authority of one who carries the personal experience, rich and deep in essence, away from the superficiality of those that merely recite the Scriptures: “They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, not as the scribes” (Mark c.1 v.22).
Conscious of being muddied by the world sins, Christ insisted that John the Baptist baptize him: “John would have prevented him, saying: ‘I need to be baptized by you, and why do you come to me?’ But Jesus answered him: ‘Let it be so now; for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all the righteousness” (Matthew c.3 v.14). Only then the Holy Spirit descended upon him. Christ was purified in the baptism and in the fast. On the contrary to what is taught by the false religious men, he is pure, but he is not naïve. The school where he passed, two thousand years ago and now too, was the School of Life. And this school granted him, much beyond an academic title, a unique attribute that is beyond the terrestrial conventions and embraces all mankind: Christ is the Educator of Souls. And it is right in this condition that he returned in order to fulfill the new stage of his mission on Earth, which began two thousand years ago. Behold why understanding INRI CRISTO transcends the academic methodology, the merely intellectual perception; it is an experience that evokes intuition, inspiration, feeling and mystical sensibility, characteristics that will mark the next stage of human beings’ spiritual evolution.
