Until heaven and earth pass away
2 Cor 3,4-11; Ps 98; Mt 5,17-19
12 JUNE
The evil of our day is the loss of all faith in the Word of the Lord. It is by now everyone’s conviction that the Word of God is only said, but not kept by Him in all that it says. Is not it observed? No harm, no eternal perdition. No sin. At the end of our life we will go to his Paradise all without distinction. Yet Jesus does not speak this way. Instead He warns us. One does not enter his heaven as a wicked person.
Then he said to me, “Do not seal up the prophetic words of this book, for the appointed time 7 is near. Let the wicked still act wickedly, and the filthy still be filthy. The righteous must still do right, and the holy still be holy.” “Behold, I am coming soon. I bring with me the recompense I will give to each according to his deeds. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” Blessed are they who wash their robes so as to have the right to the tree of life and enter the city through its gates. Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the unchaste, the murderers, the idol-worshipers, and all who love and practice deceit. “I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright morning star.” The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” Let the hearer say, “Come.” Let the one who thirsts come forward, and the one who wants it receive the gift of life-giving water. I warn everyone who hears the prophetic words in this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words in this prophetic book, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city described in this book. The one who gives this testimony says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all (Rev 22,10-21).
The Letter to the Hebrews urges us to pay close attention. The Word of the Lord must be heard. It always does what it says. Not the least will ever fall into emptiness. All will be accomplished according to the truth placed in them. So it recites, so it will happen. Always.
Therefore, as the holy Spirit says: “Oh, that today you would hear his voice, ‘Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion in the day of testing in the desert, where your ancestors tested and tried me and saw my works for forty years. Because of this I was provoked with that generation and I said, “They have always been of erring heart, and they do not know my ways.” As I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter into my rest.”‘” Take care, brothers, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God. Encourage yourselves daily while it is still “today,” so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin. We have become partners of Christ if only we hold the beginning of the reality firm until the end, for it is said: “Oh, that today you would hear his voice: ‘Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion.'” Who were those who rebelled when they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt under Moses? With whom was he “provoked for forty years”? Was it not those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert? And to whom did he “swear that they should not enter into his rest,” if not to those who were disobedient? And we see that they could not enter for lack of faith (Heb 3,7-19).
Not only will the Word of Jesus be fulfilled entirely, even the Word of the Father will be fulfilled entirely. Every Word that the New Testament has not abolished – almost all the ritual prescriptions have been abolished – will be fulfilled; moral prescriptions are valid forever. They never pass.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
It is urgent to resume faith in the fulfilment of the Word. It is the only way of salvation.
Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that we believe in the fulfilment of every Word of God.