@ABYA,
ABYA wrote:
Hi Sun
I can't see how my answer is going to help you in any way. But here's something that for several yrs I've been trying to understand,its a question that will just not go away.
"The Apocryphon of James"
Then I asked him, "Lord, how shall we be able to prophesy to those who request us to prophesy to them? For there are many who ask us, and look to us to hear an oracle from us."
The Lord answered and said, "Do you not know that the head of prophecy was cut off with John?"
But I said, "Lord, can it be possible to remove the head of prophecy?"
The Lord said to me, "When you come to know what 'head' means, and that prophecy issues from the head, (then) understand the meaning of 'Its head was removed.'
I believe I have the answer to this now, with some help from Mark.
Head = the thoughts and plan of the Creator.
John represents prophecy, and prophesy is the message of the coming of the Messiah.
So, inbuilt into the plan of creation was for a Messiah to come.
John correlates to all the prophecies up to that point about the coming of the Messiah.
As the Messiah had come, there was no need for prophecy about his coming. That part within the Head, the plan of the Creator for the Messiah, had been fulfilled, so was now cut off from prophecy.
I Think?