By Banji Ayoola
Darkness came to be through our human faults of twisting and distorting the true meanings of words once given out of the Light to help us.
Construing, remoulding, reconstructing, retouching, refining them to suit and serve our mere earthly, one sided selfish wishes; to, like balm, soothe us, and encourage us further in indulging our wrong activities. To endorse, justify and seal our wrongs.
And thereby dilute them, make them impure, infuse impurities into them, weaken them, water them down, render them impotent and useless.
Such that the ardour of the true meanings, the splendour, the wealth, richness loaded in the original meanings are lost.
Thereby what is left is mere husk, empty, lifeless shell of the real words. Which give us nothing, which confuse and mislead us. Rather than enlighten, enrich, guide, truly help and serve us.
This wanton distortion, twisting of all words and concepts had assumed a frightening dimension even before the Coming of the Word of Truth in Jesus, as an emergency.
The words and teachings of the prophets, teachers, all Called ones as Forerunners of the Word of Truth, had been twisted and distorted into baffling caricatures spread all over the earth like grains.
They had fertilised, taken root, germinated, blossomed and flourished as traditions and gospel truth. These had developed into errors that had been torturing and tormenting mankind and the earth,.
Even the Word of Truth Itself given by Jesus, Himself a Part of Truth, and as the only Way, the Truth and the Life, was not spared. It suffered worse distortion that is more baffling, that causes further confusion, that further misleads humanity.
Thus His true Words were dissected, twisted, distorted, diluted and stripped of their true meanings, Which in their originality, bear so much lustre, rapturous power that only could truly enliven men, transform them and the conditions on earth.
This distortion and the confusion it caused, threw humanity and the earth into our present ordeal, the unimaginable, seemingly intractable, uncontrollable chaos, disorder, crises and confusion raging almost everywhere on earth.
This condition necessitated the preparation and sending, once more in unimaginable love, of another Revelation of the Word of Truth.
But now in a permanent form that cannot, and must not be distorted by man again.
Now, we are cautioned never to distort the meaning of the Words that are given out of the Light.
For it is only in their original state, meanings that they could convey to us the richness with which the words are loaded, as intended for us.
It is only by grasping and absorbing them as truly expected, it is only by letting the words in their true meanings come alive within us, that the words could form the keenest swords in our hands with which to slay all Darkness, with which to charge forward victoriously and clear our path towards Paradise, upwards towards the Light.
