The Cambrian Pesher*
Pentecost, 2020
Beloved Friends,
My family is grown and our estate is established and the abbey grows. God has mercifully allowed me to come out of semi-retirement – now after ten years – and revive an internet ministry.
To the world, our new website – www.2046AD.org – is a strange introduction, but for those of you who have followed our writings and weekly lessons, it is all appropriate. In the third of our trilogy on Grail theology, we focused a chapter on the prophecies of Merlin and then another on the prophetic commentaries of Sir Isaac Newton. In them we discovered a confluence of arguments that confirm the findings and conclusions of Douglas Vogt’s thesis in God’s Day of Judgment: that 2046 AD is the terminal year for Earth history.
While Vogt arrives at his conclusion from a marshalling of scientific data – and did so decades ago – we also have reached it from a different source: the theological discourses of great men – ancient and modern. I cannot explain how this happened except to say that the closer we get to an event, the more obvious and synchronistic the indicators will become.
All of this knowledge was originally a part of the “esoteric” tradition of what I loosely call “the Grail church.” And what we have known of it, we have reserved for our adepts only. But now, it is time to tell the world; for the great question before us is that of Saint Peter, in which he warned us:
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? (2 Peter 3:11-12) (emphasis added)
Indeed, “What manner of persons ought we to be?”
Running God’s Gauntlet
The untested and self-confident are building their bunkers in anticipation of various “apocalypses” that will befall us. They have visions of survival and the building of a “brave new world.” We, however, are confident that “the day of God” cannot be survived except “by the grace of God.”
We argue that if any one is to survive, it will be by God’s grace which will be imparted only to those who have the faith and spiritual stamina to endure the bleak existence which must surely follow – one which may last a thousand years. Running God’s gauntlet will require a strong doctrine of succession; because if there is anything about our current civilization which brings us comfort, hope and satisfaction, it will all be lost to our descendants unto a far and distant time. You might emerge gleefully from your bunker as a survivor, but will you want to survive after the third, fourth and even tenth wave of world-wide catastrophe?
Thus, we must dispute with the various versions of “tribulationism” found in fundamentalist Christianity. They promise a short time of sorrow of perhaps seven years – then heavenly bliss with an effortless existence to follow. Rescued from suffering by their plastic Jesus, a “Rapture” and a Millenium consummating in a perfunctory judgment, they get to rule as demigods in an altogether lovely new creation.
But many of the fathers and reformers of the Church saw something different. They saw a tribulation period of over a thousand years and a “day of God” which does not result in immediate utopia, but rather a day which destroys civilization and returns us to the Stone Ages. We argue that the biblical Millennium is really the imposition of a technologically primitive, albeit righteous, neolithic culture. Can you handle that?
Pentecost, 2020
Today, we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost: a commemoration of the giving of the Law at Sinai and the birth of the Church in Acts chapter 2. It beckons us to consider the words of the Prophet Ezekiel, who, after he foresaw – as “the Son of man” – the cycles of calamity leading up to “the day of God,” then asked the question: “If the transgression of our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?” (33:10).
In future studies, we will offer a closer examination of Ezekiel’s prophecies, but for now, it is enough to point out how God answers the prophet’s question by the promise of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit:
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
And ye shall dwell in the land . . .Ezekiel 36:25-28
This is the promise of the New Covenant, sealed by the blood of Jesus Christ, which results in a heart religion that brings forth joyful obedience to the very law promulgated in the Torah.
The Jews have yet to explain how this promise can be fulfilled without the life and message of Jesus Christ – their rejected Messiah – and, conversely, Christians have yet to explain how the results of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit can mean anything other than “the law and the prophets” which constitute over two-thirds of their inspired Bible.
The Christian Pentecost also represents the reversal of Babel with its “confusion of tongues” by the restoring of one Lord, one Law, and one Logos unifying the world through the power of languages (Acts 2:4) and a common heritage “in the land.”
With blessings,
James
Collect for the Day
Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
*Cambrian Pesher is the pastoral epistle of the Cambrian Episcopal Church of the Grail, a fellowship and abbey adhering to a spiritual tradition from ancient Wales. We use the Authorized Version of the Bible (King James Version) as our default translation.