AFTER THE END
INSPIRED BY THE BOOK OF MYSTERIES BY JONATHAN CAHN - THE LAST MYSTERY
The last mystery had been given. It was now the day after the day after the end. It was time to leave. I had spent the morning packing my belongings, the teacher came to my room and walked with me to the end of the school grounds. There we stopped and looked out at the vast expanse of plains and mountains of the desert wilderness.
Do you know the way? Asked the teacher,
Very much so I answered, I mean, through the wilderness I do.
What are you feeling? He asked.
Sad to leave.
Are you glad you came?
I am. I can't imagine having not come. I wish it could go on.
But leaving is part of it too, he said, You've been on a mountaintop. Now it's time to go down. Now you must take what you've learned and apply it to the world for life, what you've received. You must now give the disciple.
You must become the teacher
The teacher? I replied, I could never be like you!
But I was once just like you, he said, a disciple invited to come here by another teacher, and he, in turn, was once a disciple like me, invited by another. And so the mysteries have been passed down from teacher to disciple, from age to age. Remember what you were given here.
I will. I wrote it all down every day after every teaching. I wrote down everything I could remember. I have it all in a journal, a book
A book, he said, a book of mysteries.
Good, then you'll always have them, and every time you open up the mysteries, every time you ponder them, and every time you apply them to your life, you'll discover more revelations and more insights than you found at first.
There was a pause and a silence as we gazed out into the wilderness.
Do you remember the fraction that represents our time on Earth, One eternity?
If I said yes, that's how much you know so far. One eternity is one infinity-ish of what there is to know, there's so much more to learn.
So the course could never have ended here, and you must never stop seeking more of him. So the course goes on for eternity, because eternity is how long it takes to know God, yes, and to know the final mystery. The final mystery of God. He said, the final mystery is God. God is the final and ultimate mystery, the mystery of all mysteries, and the mystery of you. And so the more you know him, the more you'll know the answer to the mystery of you. And so the course goes on that we embraced, and then I left.
I walked into the desert, then stopped to turn around teacher. I said, Yes, I never thanked you.
For what?
For everything, for inviting a traveler who had no destination to find one that was your destination. He said, all of it with God, there are no accidents. It was He who invited you, He who called you, and He who taught you, and now it is He who goes with you.
Those were the last words I heard the teacher say.
When a little farther on, I turned around to look back, he was gone.
And so ended the year of my dwelling in the desert, my days with the teacher. And so with the writing of these words ends the record of those days and of the mysteries given herein, I then resume the journey and the course of mysteries as I walk through the wilderness in the presence of the Teacher. And the day I think I know everything , that is the day to nail the lid on my coffin! Not before, because that day will never come, whether here or there, and may the one who reads this book, believe likewise.