BLESSED ARE THE TRUTH SEEKERS

My Dear Precious Child,
    When Jesus finished His insightful instructions to His disciples relating to the fact that persecutions were going to come upon them and how for them to react to the persecutions, He left there and went to preach in the Galilean cities.  His instructions to His followers were becoming more and more specific about the coming days.  He was being careful in teaching about the persecutions and episodes of harassment that were surely to come upon His followers after He fulfilled His ministry on earth and went to hell to die for the sins of the world, His resurrection and His ascension into My heaven to sit down with Me.  
   The cousin of Jesus, John the Baptist, was in prison.  John sent a message to Jesus inquiring if He really was the Messiah or should the people keep on believing for another One to come.  Jesus told the messenger to report to John that the blind see, the lame walk, the deaf hear, the dead are raised and the poor have the Good News preached to them.  He told them that anyone who did not find any offense in Himself, being Jesus, had found no cause for stumbling in Him and is not stopped from seeking Truth, that person is blessed and will continue to be blessed.  (Matthew 11:5-6; Isaiah 35:5-6; Isaiah 61:1) Jesus knew that John was well acquainted with the scriptures and that he would be assured that Jesus was indeed the Christ, the Son of the Living God.  His promise was that people would be blessed beyond measure if they continued in following Jesus in His ministry.
    After the messenger left to return the affirmation of Jesus' ministry to John in prison, Jesus began to speak to a crowd who had gathered.  He inquired of them relating to John the Baptist if they had gone to see merely a reed swaying in the wind or a man clothed in soft garments like people in the service of kings?   Jesus knew that the clothes of John were primitive and his diet of locusts and honey was unconventional, yet Jesus told the crowd whom He was teaching that John the Baptist was superior to prophets in his ministry of baptizing the Jews for repentance.  Jesus affirmed that John was the person who was the messenger sent by Me to pave the way for Jesus' ministry, even though John didn't look like a person who could be of great importance to Me and neither did Jesus appear to be the Messiah because of the erroneous interpretation by the people of the prophesies.  (Matthew 11:7-10; Malachi 3:1)
    In order to amplify the importance of His teachings about My kingdom of God which was soon to come into the earth on the day of Pentecost and in order to give credence and honor to the miracles that would happen in the lives of the people who received the Holy Spirit into their bodies so that they would become My children who are born of the Spirit, Jesus gave this assessment of the powerful change in their nature to come: Jesus said that among everyone born into the world there was never one greater than John the Baptist; yet the person who is least in My kingdom of God is greater and more powerful against evil than John the Baptist.  (Matthew 11:11)
    That assessment of Jesus Christ, My Son, about My children who would become born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit as being so great in My family of heaven that even the least powerful one is greater than John the Baptist was Jesus' affirmation of the truth of His words about My kingdom.  That assessment by Jesus Christ put My seal of approval on My children of promise and that statement by Him is an indication that the partakers of My kingdom are justified and anointed in My sight because of the Holy Spirit in them. (Matthew 11:11)
     Jesus' statements in that teaching began to amplify the prophesies that He had begun to teach about the importance of My kingdom of God which was soon to come into their lives after He was crucified, went to hell, rose from the dead, appeared to people and then ascended into heaven where He ended His earthly ministry and sent My Holy Spirit into the world to live inside of people and complete My magnificent plan for the salvation of the earth.  Everything went as promised and prophesied by all of the prophets and Jesus Christ.  On the day of the first Pentecost a new heaven and a new earth was instituted where My Holy Spirit came to live in the earth in the bodies of believers in Jesus Christ, making the earth new; and the spirits of the saints of old were released from their waiting place and ascended along with Jesus from the dead and came with Him to become inhabitants of My heaven, making it a new heaven because of their presence.  (Matthew 27:50-53; Hebrews 12:22-24) 
    The preparation of the disciples was as complete as it could be with Jesus Christ preparing His disciples for everything that was to come upon the earth.  Their lack of spiritual understanding was still limiting them.  (John 16:7-14)  The things that appeared bad were necessary for fulfilling the prophesies of My new covenant of the Holy Spirit but in retrospect they were good because of the entrance into the world of My Holy Spirit whom I sent to live inside of My Children so that they could allow Me to speak My words through their mouths in intercessory prayers and My will would be done on earth as it is in heaven, like Jesus taught the disciples to pray. (Matthew 6:10)     
    All things were to become new and Jesus Christ tried to prepare His disciples about how the changes were to come.  Their lack of spiritual understand at that time kept them from anticipating the importance of what was to come.  After Jesus ascended into heaven, what happened on the day of Pentecost was the greatest event to occur in the earth since Adam allowed the devil to enter into the earth and curse the lives of people.   It was exciting and its excitement still reverberates in the earth today when it is replayed in the lives of people who seek My kingdom and My righteousness.  They also become filled with My Holy Spirit and participate in changing the world.
     Your Loving Father of Great Plans