What Child Is This?

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Mary looked at her husband, who looked back at her. He said finally, "This is really happening, then." He turned to the young child. "Do you not think that this means we will not go to that big city you saw as soon as we might have."

"It will not have to be the soonest time, when there is an occasion there, but you should have us go the soonest time it can be managed."

"So if we are going to have a new child, it would be after that one is born."

"You will know the right thing to do, when it is time. You have been managing well."

Mary's husband fell silent. Lately, speaking with this child was not like speaking with a child at all. He then said, "Yeshua, are you hungry for a morning meal, now?"

The child nodded and Mary said, "I will have food for us ready right away!" She sprung away right then.

Her husband, still looking at this young child, thought to himself, sometimes he is just like any child. But he doesn't do everything other children do and speaks with understanding things no other children do.

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It was an important day, besides the news Mary and her husband unexpectedly had about another child to expect. After their breakfast, Mary's husband would be out seeing any of the family still around in this community about working with them.

As they sat and ate together, Yosef said to Mary, "You are staying here for now with our child. Make sure he is not out there where he might talk with any of those soldiers. While you stay here, besides unpacking and cleaning, you should learn anything more from what he says, there will be meaning in it."

Mary said, "I think there is too. But I don't know if I can understand much from it. He says a lot of things that still puzzle me."

"It would not hurt to ask him when there is something puzzling. We want to learn what things there are, to learn."

Yosef left soon after eating quickly. When he was gone, Mary looked at the young child still eating. So little, yet capable of saying knowing things that would be hard to understand. She thought about it, and when the child had almost finished the helping that was given for him, she asked, "Yeshua, do you know how the soldiers seen around here are not here by invitation and they are not here to help us? Do you know already why they are here? How long will this continue?"

Her child said, "The first soldiers were here because they were asked to be sent here. There was another enemy. This happened before you were here. But more were sent since then. You want to say they invaded this country, though. They will still be around a long time, while we are still here. But even they will not last."

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Mary wondered, not understanding as much as she wanted to. She responded then, "They won't last, but they will last longer than we will?"

"Not all of them each. But more will be sent in place of those here. We will not be still in this world, but that is not a bad thing itself. Years later where they are sent from cannot keep sending more in their place. But much destruction will come from them before they will not be here anymore. But in that time the kingdom of above will grow here in this world."

Mary did not understand much more yet, but she saw what she could inquire more about. "What is that kingdom you say is above, what is it like?"

"No one can see our God, ever, no one. But those there know where to look for seeing a manifestation of the presence of our God, and they know all things that are seen, there, and here as well, are made from our God. And there things are free from all that goes wrong, which everything here is not free from, with many choosing what things are wrong, that turn from our God."

Mary went on, "And what things are there, where everything is free from what goes wrong?"

"That place is with many very large homes with many nice things in them, and all around there are many very beautiful trees, with many nice fruits, and other nice things grow all around, just by themselves, our God made it all that way. And animals there seem rather different than here, and other creatures are there too. And there is not death there or suffering."

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Mary said, "So soldiers will still be here the rest of our lives, until we die, and then we would go there to where everything is free from what goes wrong." She looked at her child, and aware of how little the child was, became concerned. "You know about people having to die, don't you?"

"Many will. Still all who do would not go there. And some don't have to, to still go there. That part isn't really needed, though many will go that way."

Mary responded, "Really? I thought all will die."

Yeshua said, "But it wasn't that way at the start. But people changed things from then."

Mary wondered, and then asked, "Can you say what some animal there is so different, and how?"

"Yes, I can. There is a very unique one. That one is is a lot like a lion. It has six wings though and can fly. And that animal has many eyes."

Mary said, "And that animal really won't kill any that are there? You said everything there is free from what goes wrong!"

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The child Yeshua went on, "As that one sent earlier has spoken as shown, 'There is no hurt or harm on all my holy mountain.' There is no hurt or harm among all the creatures there, and the inhabitants do not hurt them. It is meant for us to be there, and there were things made to be that way to start with here."

Mary considered. "Things were meant to be that way. It is right for us to live that way as closely as possible. I have heard about that as it was read. It would mean not even wearing clothes!"

"It was not told to any of the people before us, that we had to have clothes on. Clothes are useful and ways to have clothes are provided. But if we have situations where we don't have to have clothes on it is not wrong to just not wear any."

"Like when we wash ourselves, even at the river, and the way the poorest are much of the time."

"Yes, like that, and not just because of being among poorest, you don't have to have clothes on all the time, just as some who were sent to speak what they should from our God."