The Great Gospel of John Book 13

54. THE DISCIPLES ASK FOR THE REWARD IN HEAVEN [1] Peter said: “Oh yes, that is still very much in my memory and certainly in that of all of us! But I will take the liberty here in the name of all of us to ask You what will be for us one day who have left everything and followed You faithfully?”

[2] At this I answered and said: “Truly, I tell you all who have followed Me: In your full rebirth, when I have risen and sit on the throne of My eternal magnificence, you will sit on the twelve chairs beside Me and like Me and judge the twelve tribes of Israel, which means as much as that you will once be just as active as Me in My heavens with Me for the eternal good of all people of this Earth and also the other worlds. And you will watch over, guide and lead these people here and on the other side as invisible guardian spirits for the people of the Earth!

For only in a constantly growing, true loving activity does the true Kingdom of Heaven and its growing bliss consist.

[3] And I also say to you all: Whoever leaves his house, brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or his wife, his children, or also his fields, or gardens and pastures and herds for My name‘s sake, will receive everything in My kingdom a hundredfold and thereby inherit true, eternal life.

[4] But remember this also: Those who are now the first will very easily be the last there, and those who are the last here will also easily be the first there!”

[5] The disciples did not understand that, and Peter asked: “What should that mean, what did You mean to say by that? For what You say has its reality for all eternity, and we want to know everything quite exactly and understand what comes from Your mouth! This seems to refer to us, and it would not be very good if we should be the last in another kingdom because we were the first here!”

[6] I said: “My dear Simon Juda, not for that reason; but if one of you were to think himself better because I had chosen him first, he would thereby fall into arrogance, with which he could never be the first in the Kingdom of Heaven. Suppose there 122