A person doesn’t feel well.
He waits for the pain to go away — as pain often does — but it persists, and eventually he decides to undergo some tests.
It turns out that he has a serious illness.
After the shock and a stage of denial — which is typical for anyone who receives news like this — he is forced to begin facing reality. However, what happens next depends on which kind of doctor he chooses to believe.
The first kind of doctor is highly intellectual.
He looks at the test results, he knows the statistics, and so he tells the patient:
“You have three months to live. Unfortunately, all I can offer you is painkillers.”
The second kind of doctor is highly emotional.
He promises the patient all kinds of magic potions, and tells him that he has nothing to fear because conventional Western medicine simply likes to frighten people.
The third kind of doctor — very rare to find, because he works with spiritual consciousness — will not ignore the test results or the severity of the situation. But he knows that a serious illness also has a spiritual root cause, and so he will help the patient identify it.
If the sick person then accepts this diagnosis and makes a genuine effort to change from the root, he can heal!
And this analogy relates to the time we are living in.
Anyone who waits for the “pain of the times” to pass, and justifies ignoring what is happening by saying, “There have always been difficult times,” is only deceiving himself.
By contrast, someone who begins to investigate and expose himself to the truth experiences an extremely powerful shock, and his survival mechanism of denial is activated again and again, until he finally accepts that this is indeed the reality. (In other words, the fact that we have been living in a world of lies for thousands of years!)
And now the question is: who will he choose to believe?
The one who predicts nothing but doom?
The one who reassures him that there is nothing to fear and that everything will be fine?
Or the one who tells him the truth — that yes, the situation is serious, but there is always hope, if one is willing to stop complaining, stop blaming others, and begin taking responsibility.
The first two are false prophets, because both of them, in fact, remove responsibility from the person and take away his free will. Only the last one is a true prophet.
Only the true prophet does not ignore the truth. Yet, right up until the very last moment, he calls upon us to repent!
Because he knows that, according to the mechanism of God’s Laws of Creation, at any given moment, we have the ability to begin climbing upward and correcting our past, whatever that past may be.
