Introduction to Christ’s Prophecy

Jesus had the spirit of prophecy which told him many things that would happen, both during his mortal life and long after.

Jesus knew the Bible would go through a process of filtering that would happen by uninspired men with various motivations, which would result in many of his words being removed or even changed. For example, they would have deleted his words of warning if Jesus had prophesied saying, “My words and teachings will be evaluated by councils of  uninspired men whose goal is to politically unite the Christians and Pagans to serve their leaders and fight their wars. Be sure to question everything they try to tell you and don’t participate in any Holy Wars.”

Any comment that Jesus made that did not appear to support the goals of the political leaders and Spiritual Counsels that decided what would be included as part of the Bible, would be thrown out and disregarded. 

The goal was to share his greatest message in a way that appears to support the leaders that would call people to participate in Holy Wars so that it passed through the filters, but still remain intact enough to teach the crowning Jewel of the atonement when the revelation came that would reveal his teaching and ultimately destroy the power of Governments and Religions to use his words to do Satan’s work. It would ultimately prepare the world for the Millennium of peace, but it would first have to survive the filtering process. For this reason, Christ taught saying,

“And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.

36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” – Mark 8:34-38

These words have been used to convince followers of Christ to give their very lives to support the wars of men, with the promise of eternal life and the rewards that come from giving your life in the service of God. They could not have been more wrong.

In these words are found the greatest teachings of Christ, which when understood and accepted bring about the fulfillment of the atonement in us and give us the key that ends all wars, and binds Satan that he has no power to “buy up armies and navies, false priests who oppress, and tyrants who destroy, and reign with blood and horror on the earth!”

The atonement was intended to bring us back to unity with God and all men. There is no atonement without change. All of the teachings of Christ were directed at bringing about this great change in us. The change that makes us one with God.

We will explain this prophetic counsel, but first we need to discuss what it means to fulfill the atonement.