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Other Religions

Question: Referring to the story of Moses and the 'Promised Land' in Old Testament, is it possible that the true meaning of this story is that because of Moses' leniency towards the Israelites the Lord did discipline him by not allowing him to look into the Inner Planes but prevented him from entering?

Answer: It is a matter of common experience with Godly Man that when They forget, however momentarily, that They are Agents of God and have a delegated authority to work for and on behalf of Him and arrogate to Themselves the honour and glory which rightly belongs to Him, the inner vision is curtailed, let alone to speak of entering into the Promised Land flowing with milk and honey.

While encamped at Kadesh, Moses and his brother Aaron grievously sinned. When commanded by God to speak unto the rock for water, he and his brother said unto the people (their followers when being led through the desert of Zin, with no water to quench their thirst),

Hear now ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

Numbers 20:10

It was for this sin that they were denied the privilege of conducting the people into the Promised Land.

Even the earnest prayer of Moses:

Oh Lord God thou has begun to show Thy Strong Hand […] Let me go over, I pray Thee, and see the good land that is beyond Jordon, 

Deuteronomy 3:24-27

proved ineffective.

Such indeed is the result of transgressing the commandments of God even by an Iota and it may mean intolerably long suffering.

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Question: The Bible says: The first shall come last and the last shall come first. What does this mean?

Answer: These words are from St Matthew 19:30 and also appear in Chapter 20:16 (Ibid) and again in St Mark 10:31 and in St Luke 13:30. They connote that the Grace of the Godman like so many gifts of God: air, light and water, flows freely and fully to all and sundry, no matter whether one comes to his vine-yard early or late. Living in the timeless, the divisions of time as made by us are of no consequence to him and each one receives whatsoever is right no matter when he comes, early in the morning, or at the third hour, the sixth hour, the ninth hour or the eleventh hour, but all get alike beginning from the last to the first, as it has been so beautifully described by means of a parable of the Kingdom of God, in Chapter 20 of the Gospel of St Matthew for He is the best Judge to dole out His Spiritual Riches in the manner He thinks right.