What Is the Last Judgment?
Joburg – the Final Judgment—What Is the Last Judgment?
The Holy Spirit’s job is to exchange the concepts in our mind and take you to higher and higher states of consciousness. He will happily use everything we believe in to help lead us out of this dream state. As each of these concepts is given over to the Spirit, we will face His Final Judgment, which simply speaks of our freedom, perfection, and wholeness!
Other topics in this talk include reincarnation, true forgiveness, and the unhealed healer. Enjoy!
Gold Nugget:
“I grew up in a Christian faith. I think most Christians or all Christians have trembled a little when the words ‘last’ and ‘judgment’ are put together. It did not sound good to me. I was going to Bible school and then I hear, ‘the Last Judgment.’ Please don’t even tell me what that one means. I do not want to know what that means because it does not sound good. So it was interesting when I was reading the Course, and I came upon, this is the Last Judgment, this is the final judgment, and I go, Okay take a deep breath. It is from Jesus. He is going to put it in words. So I read it, and it was, ‘Holy are you, eternal, free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of God. Where is the world, and where is sorrow now?’ M-15.1:11-12 Period. That is it! That is the Last Judgment! Oh my God! I was really concerned there for a while. That sounds really good.
And what he is saying is that the Last Judgment is for you, for you who believe in linear time, for you who believe in fragmentation, condemnation, for you who have forgotten who you are. That is the pronouncement of the great Corrector, the great Comforter on the world. And it is such a peaceful judgment. Of course, the world is benign. Of course, the real world is happy. Of course, it is a happy dream, and it is beautiful, it is spectacular, and it is because of the Spirit’s pronouncement that the world is unreal. That is really part of the Last Judgment. And only the Holy Spirit can do that. There is not a person who can do this because the person remembers the mask. How is the mask going to say the whole world is unreal when the mask is part of the world? So the Holy Spirit is part of that Final Judgment or that Last Judgment, and you might say that it is what you do or how you approach that; is you let the Holy Spirit do the judging for you because we were talking about concepts like reincarnation. The Holy Spirit’s function is to exchange concepts. So wherever you believe you are in this world and whatever you believe you are, it does not really matter; the Holy Spirit is going to be there as your friend to help your mind keep exchanging concepts. It is going to take you higher and higher and higher in consciousness until finally, you get to the top, which is the Last Judgment, which is complete forgiveness, which is Atonement, salvation. Christians call it salvation.”
Recorded at the 2014 LM South Africa Tour on December 14, 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa
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