BLESSINGS EVEN IN UNBELIEF

My Dear Precious Child,
    After Jesus Christ rose from the dead and was appearing to many people including His disciples, the chief priests were continuing to sabotage the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His salvation.  Some of the guards at the tomb left and told the chief priests what they had seen and heard, that the tomb was empty and Jesus Christ had obviously become alive again.  The chief priests could not stand for that truth to be circulated among the Jews lest they abandon the old law and convert to My new covenant of the Holy Spirit.  In order to stop the truth from circulating to the Jews, the chief priests consulted with the elders of the synagogue and they consented to pay the guards a sufficient amount of money and told them to tell people that while they were sleeping the disciples had come at night and stolen His body away while they were sleeping.  The chief priests told the guards that if the governor heard the truth that the chief priest would appease him and make the guards safe from any punishment.  The guards took the money and did as they were told to do and that story has been current among the Jews even unto this present day lest they become converted and become born again of My Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:11-14)  If they became converted to believe in the ministry of Jesus Christ, the religious and political leaders would lose control over a large percentage of people and their control over the Jews would be diminished.
      While the religious and political leaders were denying that anything supernatural had happened, Jesus Christ was appearing to His disciples who had scattered.  Thomas was not with some of the disciples who had seen Him.  When they told Thomas that they had seen the Lord, Thomas professed that unless he saw the mark made by the nails and put his finger into the nail prints and put his hand in his side, he would never believe.  Eight days later Thomas was with the other disciples when Jesus came, though they were behind closed doors.  Jesus stood among them and told them to have peace at His appearance.  Then He told Thomas to put his finger into a nail hole and his hand in the side of Jesus.  He told Peter to stop being faithless and unbelieving and instead for him to believe.  (John 20:24-27)
    Thomas believed because he had seen Jesus appear with His wounds visible, and as a result he called Jesus his Lord and his God.  Jesus told Thomas that he had seen and had believed, but that the day would come when the people who did not see and yet believed would be blessed.  Jesus performed many signs and miracles which He did in the presence of the disciples but there are too many to write in a book.  However, the ones that are written are done so that people might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Anointed One, My Son, and that through believing in Him and His salvation for the sins of the world people would have eternal life in His name.  (John 20:29-31)
    The disciple Thomas is a perfect example of people who have a spirit of unbelief in their mind.  Jesus did not condemn Thomas for that demon of unbelief because Jesus knew that it was a demon that caused Thomas to require seeing with his eyes before He believed.   There were many Jewish religious and political leaders who also had a demon of unbelief, a veil placed over their minds so that they could not believe in the miracles that Jesus Christ had performed as being from Me.  Once they allow the Holy Spirit to remove that demonic veil from their minds, they can believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation from the works of the devil.  They can become born of My Holy Spirit, baptized in My Holy Spirit and become trained by My Spirit to become My images in the world which draws all men to Me.  
    The disciple John observed the risen Jesus Christ many times and wrote about many occasions of them.  He wrote that if all the things that Jesus did were written that there would be so many books that the world could not hold them. (John 21:25)  Jesus Christ made Himself known many times in the world after He rose from the dead and before He ascended to sit down with Me in My heaven.  There was still another phenomenon in which He would participate, along with My angels, Me, the blood of Jesus and the spirits of the old covenant prophets when heaven came to earth in answer to the prayer that Jesus taught the disciples to pray.  That is when a new heaven and and new earth became reality.
     Your Father of a New Heaven and a New Earth (Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22; Jeremiah 31:31-33; Acts 1:1-8; Acts 2:1-4; Hebrews 12:1; Hebrews 12:22-29)