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Eschatological Viewpoint of Life
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November 1962
The talk offers an eschatological perspective on Christian life, highlighting the anticipation of Christ's return and its implications for human existence and salvation. It discusses how Christ's coming and sacramental presence transform human time and existence, emphasizing the inner renewal of believers through baptism and the spiritual reality of Christian life between the two comings of Christ. The notion of living in an 'end time' through Christ’s resurrection is explored, presenting an integral connection between spiritual transformation and eschatological fulfillment.
- The Bible, St. Paul's Epistles: The talk frequently references passages from St. Paul’s letters, especially emphasizing the inward renewal of Christians and the eschatological significance of Christ's resurrection and return.
- Book of Revelation (Apocalypse): Discusses the eschatological imagery of the universe revealing divine glory, portraying Christ's final presence as an epiphany and highlighting the transformative power of divine intervention.
- St. Augustine, Confessions: The talk refers to Augustine's description of divine love that transcends human limitations, aligning it with the transformative experience of believers.
- Jewish Tradition, Tisha B'Av: Mentions Rabbi Akiva’s reflections on destruction as a precursor to Messiah's birth, illustrating how renewal emerges from destruction, correlating with monastic life and spiritual rebirth through Christ.
- Writings of Martin Buber: Cites Buber's insights into the depth of redemption, exploring themes of hidden strength and the transformative power of memory.
- Letter to the Colossians: Encourages looking beyond earthly concerns, focusing on the hidden spiritual life with Christ, emphasizing the transformative and redemptive aspects of faith.
AI Suggested Title: Living in Christ's Transformative End
I know what you mentioned. We have a little different. Let us pray. Let us re-restriction only. Learn how we need to know what we need to know about. In what school does he tell us to look for the coming of Christ he has got a model. And that he, when he shall collect luck, he may not find us creeping in upstairs, but watching and exulting in his place. It's limited. At this end, it's at the same time, I commend to the anticipation of the Second Coming of Christ.
[01:04]
Our Lord has been provided to these words, for the Son of man is conceded with his anger in the glory of his power. And then he created a venture to every form according to his conscience. Even I say to you, there are some of those standing here who will not face this till they have seen the Son of Man coming in history. Out of these, there are worse than the least. The Queen, that's what we make it, she sings the poem as he drew So the coming, the judgment, and the judgment, there are
[02:27]
phases of the end. Now we have always emphasized in the past that the very world coming, even coming, betrudes us. We don't do the vocabulary of the agony. The end of human history is not brought about by man's efforts, reaching their final goal, that by a divine intervention, by a history of the Lord's coming. The end, therefore, is outside of the reach of the human errors. It is the act of a divine anger. Just as in the beginning, we try to deal with a creator precedes creation, and as we have said it, not because we loved God first, but because God loved us first, and we were still as enemies, so it is the end of history, and the completion of the work of redemption, not mass, but widely, but twice, God.
[03:56]
And he said, Christ, to make clear that the end is not of our bit. We realize that it's cunning. Naturally, we realize that it's cunning is not a private, local approach. It's rather a powerful thing. It's full and time presence. It's becoming presence. one had been a manifestation, an apocalypse, a revolution. The ancient I could not wear feelings to represent this event to the book of the apocalypse as a rolling up of the visible universe, like a cart to spend the fears behind it in the heavenly world, the glory of the risen cart of the So this coming is not like the trapping of the light from a star down to the stone.
[05:05]
It's the revelation of a hidden presence. Therefore, not a matter of counting the years, thousand, two thousand, fifty thousand. The Father has become near by stepping his stone into the world And she has torn down the wall of artisan between God and man, you rest, dead on the cross. And there it remains our peace. I said they make peace. For that builds the church. That's the temple of this Lord. So the church lives in another time of time. that they lost in the past, the time which is filled with the presence of the curious. Understand the time, said Paul says, for it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep, because now our salvation is nearer than if they retain the blue.
[06:25]
The light is but advanced The day is at hand. Let us therefore lay aside the works of darkness and because all they are come of life. Let us walk in comagery and in the dead, not in reverie and puberty, not in debauchery and wantedness, not in crime and jealousy. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ. and therefore the place takes no thought for itself. In this passage I quote it because every single theory, the connection between the transformation of time to Christ's calling, how was the error, with the transformation of man. Because that is part
[07:27]
essential part, leading essential part of our way of, you say, looking at, better would be experiencing, reposing, repent. We are, as Christians, we are alive. That means, not perfect, but particularly in. We are living at the end, particularly in. and that is, because we leave from baptism and enter into the power of the Lord's resurrection and into the fellowship of the disciples. So a new man is born in common, such that the time of earthly time is not at the present moment. They annihilate it,
[08:28]
Lord, that way he will, in this, but interiorly, when I say he constantly transformed by new presence, the presence of the power of the Lord's resurrection, the presence of the curious. This presence of the curious is the expression is in his church, because they essentially first propose In the sacramental prestige, the sacramental life of the church, there is this, in this telos, in our wedding and worship. There of course, we term it our own inner reality as Christians. We have entered through baptism into this new island, into this new presence, into this new Therefore, the Baptist tree was always built as an octagon in order to make it clear that here man is born into this new island by an internal trust for which.
[09:47]
And that's the promise that here where we watch so to speak tomorrow in the mass So it announces this way of this inner, final transformation of the whole cosmos that we already suffer mentally and therefore also naturally spiritually, in our thinking, in our believing, in our loving, in this new balance in us, that we exist also in our realm, human beings in this microcosmos, what's what will take place in the macrocosmos. And in that way, already place ourselves into this temple, that was truly telling us. So through baptism, man, we all can enter into the power of the Lord's resurrection, and into the full description, into fellowship of this
[10:53]
A new man is born selfish and born in silence. We are renewed in the spirit of our minds, they call them, and that puts on the new man, who has been created according to God's injustice and holiness of truth. But new baptism in us, this allegria, has taken place, but the cross has taken place in such a way that still, the very world has not been good. The world, the [...] West Christ is working through the Sabbaths in this church.
[12:00]
But this inner transformation naturally that puts us, I repeat it, into the end. And that makes the special way in which we experience, in which we live history, in which we are bound up and looked forward and are connected with the large destruction of all the veils and the last power of the earth which we are looking for. And where it works and what it says, let me say, if listen to the Corinthians, we do not lose hearts on the contrary of their wealth, even though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed dead widely. for our present life affliction, which is for the moment, works in us an eternal way of glory.
[13:03]
That is beyond all measure. While we look not at things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen. For the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal. We stand here in this time renewed in our inward man, at least in our previous personal existence, through the Holy Spirit, that has been given to us by the risen cross, the skin of peace to us, the final peace, the peace that is already the new and final idol for time of Christ alone. But still, related upon a human existence continues. I would try in that formation to read to me, because I think the fourth chapter I was taken, may be still to the questions that were used for description, just on this, on your status, at a saving expectation, and also in the present, on the housing.
[14:17]
Since the court would sit this way on a few weeks, to destroy our inner relations. We are no better that cops aren't earthenware to contain this threat. And this proves that such unstandard power does not comfort us, but if there is alone. That is such a beautiful description of the fact that already lived out in some way. The end has caught is being made. We don't let it carry in, in, it has thoughts on the earth's way. It is living in truly a completely different heavenly treasure. And that makes the essence of our existence clear under. Hard press on every side we are never let in. One way, hard press on every side,
[15:21]
Living in this life, but we are never yet in, still the end has already happened to us. But we are dead, we are never at all with sin. Hunters, we are never about abandoned to ourselves. Struck down, we are not left to die. Wherever we go, we carry death with us in our own. the death that Jesus died. And in this body also, life may reveal itself, the life that Jesus lives. For continually, while still alive, we are being surrendered into the hands of death for Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be revealed in this mortal body of Christ. Thus death is what we have worked in us.
[16:22]
But Scripture says, I believe, and therefore I spoke out. And we too, in the same spirit of faith, believe, and therefore speak out. For we know that he who raised the Lord Jesus to die, with whom Jesus raised us to, and went us to distress with our sin. and you, the greatest goodness. Indeed, it is for you that the common things are not, so that the abounding grace of God is shared by one woman, greater may be the colors of heaven's giving, than a sense to the glory of God. For we know that if we personally pray that hounds with us today should be demolished, We possess a building which God has provided, a house not made by the human hand, eternal and in heaven.
[17:29]
I don't know any passage there in the Ephesians of St. Paul, which expresses more precisely this real history of our Christian existence. After the first coming, and before the second and final coming, In this season between, the world of country shall predict the existence of the terrorists, here in the Ecclesiastes, and we share it. So that we, in earthly ways that houses of today should be polished, we possess a village which God has provided, a house not made by human hands, eternally built, This is so important because this describes so confidently the very essence of the living act of faith. Faith is outside the living experience of the fact that this, to this hour, earthly threat would be demolished, the eternal, bold, innocent.
[18:42]
In this present body, Saint Paul continues, we do need to walk We dare not to have our empty habitation put on over this world. In the hope that we must grow, we cannot find ourselves later. With Rome, indeed, we who are in those within this earthly way, we are oppressed because we do not want to have the old body stripped off. Rather, our desire is to have the new body put on soul blades, so that our mortal power can be absorbed into life every morning. God himself has shaped us through this path again, and as a pleasure of it, he has given us his steps. Therefore, we never cease to be conscious. We know that as long as we are at home in the body, we are exact from the Lord.
[19:45]
Faith, however, is our death. We do not see. We are confident, I repeat, that while we leave our hope in the body, can go to live with the Lord. We therefore make our wish, wherever we are, here or there, to be acceptable to Him. For we must all have our lives laid open before they find the goodness of God. when each must receive what is due to him for his conduct in the water, good or fair. Since we have this world's touch, there has a deep mystery which, which, uh, dominates our lives here on. The reality of the divine love, the divine agape, has reached us. Agape is the thing that remains In the activity we are at the end.
[20:49]
That is the final gift that God gives us. And this activity has been given to us. But here in this earth we find. There is that, as we said, the clash. The clash between the outer and the inner. Between the bold man and the dude. On the earth, even though our own outer man is the great, yet our inner man is beautiful new today for Adam. Except the depth, the blind depth, or the depth line, that the agape of all the time works in us, day by day, minute after this. The agape is, it is in some way, a depth. So beautifully. St. Augustine describes that in this, in a way, it's all going to be born.
[21:52]
It's a character of children, what will it be? What will it be? What will it be? What will it be? But this dead, according to the dead, is sanctioned, is transient, is transient, is transient into the new world that fire the sun has brought into us, that there is the new world of this film, which the pledge of this final consummation. There is another passage that I would like, you know, in this connection, too.
[22:53]
You mentioned that you are king of torture. The other day, in bringing in the, the Castile, a, that must move out, collect, and that's it, one, on the day of destruction. You know that the Jews always think that they are, the Methodists, The day of destruction is the night of which the temple was destroyed, which is the great day of mourning for the Jewish people. And on this day of destruction then they asked But by a king house, why should the Messiah be born on the anniversary of the destruction of the temple, as the tradition happens?
[23:57]
And again he implies, the colonel, which is so old in hell, must fall to peace, so that the ear of growing may start from it. Strength cannot be resurrected, until it has dwelled in deep sleep. To dark escape, to dawn escape, is this dawn in the instant of pure love. In the path of projecting, the power of memory grows, and that is the power of redemption. On the day of destruction, power lies at the bottom of the deck, and close. That is why on this day we sit on the ground. That is why on this day we visit graves. That is why on this day the next time is born. That's immediately for us to know.
[25:03]
Thousand aspirations quite a way crystallized in our life, whilst in this time we talk about the anniversary of fortune on the table, as the tradition has it. Of course, we know how all of them say that refers to that tradition. Before it is said, and in three days, on a way around it, and he says that, you know, that this thing, so there must die, so that it may murder. Though strength cannot be resurrected until it has dwelled in deep secrecy. To dock a shape to dawn a shape is the dawning instant of pure nothingness, in the hush of forgetting the power of memory grows. That is the power of redemption. All that reverbs by the way all the truths live in experience with us, and
[26:09]
Because there is that covenant, the soul of the earth called Jesus, that the brain is gone. Strengths cannot be resurrected until they have surveillance and deep sleep. I would say that there we have one of the ways and the deeper reasons too for the monastic mind and for the role of silence in monastic life. To dock this shape, to dawn this shape, This is not in the instant of pure nothingness. At this stage, we understand it, but it's an illusion, but an illusion, but an illusion, related to the change that takes place in baptism. The old man is being put on, the new man is being put on, but in the instant of pure nothingness, through the death with Christ. In the past, we're forgetting the power of men will grow.
[27:12]
So often God seems to withdraw, seems to withdraw His presence. And we find ourselves in the darkness of being forgotten. But we don't, we don't see, I mean, that's, that's, that's natural things. That's just enormous of withdrawal, in which, as we can see when I read the Old Testament, the power of memory grows. Something that I hide, but I will never. In hiding, the power of memory grows, and that is the power of redemption, because the power of memory is the power of God, is the power of God's eternal life, which he draws absolutely. So on the day of destruction, power lives at the watching of the dead. and grows. That is good time. And it grows.
[28:14]
That is why on this day we, the Jews, sit on the ground on the day of Christianity. That is why on this day it is great. That is why on this day the Messiah is born. And that is also again the tremendous inner dimension of the Macro-Cosmos from the Older to Macro-Cosmos. That is the day of the destruction of the temple. It means the temple of this visible world. And in this moment of destruction, this night, there, the Messiah is born. The Lord comes to judge us who are loved. So therefore, I feel this reason for us to be in faith. for tomorrow for all, of us that think or have us need. Therefore, if you have wisdom with Christ, seek the things that are divine, that Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
[29:24]
Mind the things that are divine, note the things that are on earth, for you have died, and you have died of this, even with Christ in God. but promise your life that people that you, too, will appear with their victory.
[29:44]
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