Posted by Lou Pilder on December 11, 2007, at 15:38:59
In reply to Sigismund's reply to Lou Pilder, posted by Sigismund on December 11, 2007, at 13:45:20
> Lou, just to go back a bit to your vision.....
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> >I came to a very tall Gate that opened and I saw a Great Gulf that was joined by a narrow bridge
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> Maybe the image of a great gulf spanned by a narrow bridge brought that prayer to mind.
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> For is this not an image of the abyss?
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> >If it is so that you have gathered our suffering in your poor body, if it is so that you have borne it with you through death, if it is so that you meet God over there in the other land, if it is so that He turns His face toward you, if it is so that you can speak the language this God understands, if it is so that you can speak to this God. If it is so, pray for us. Agnes, my dear child, listen to what I am now telling you. Pray for us who are left here on this dark and dirty earth under an empty and cruel Heaven.
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Sigismund,
You wrote,[...maybe the image of the Great Gulf spanned by the narrow bridge brought that prayer to mind...].
You may have a great insight into what I have been writing here. You see, the Great Gulf can be known to Jews because the Great Gulf exists. It is the rift that has the Jordan River flowing through it making a spactacular canyon in the area of now Israel and Jordan. In some writings of the ancient Jews, the afterlife was depicted as compartments with a river flowing through it. Some ancient Greek writings speak of the River Styx? (sp) with a boat going from one side to the other.
The ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were located there and were destroyed by fire.
But the River Jordan needed to be crossed to enter the land of milk and honey by the ancient Israeites, the promise to Abraham, the Land of Canaan, The Promised Land. I believe that others have had such visions, perhaps M.L. King. And I believe that that is what he meant when he said, "I have seen the Promised Land."
Lou
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