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Matthew 24:14 · World English Bible

Matthew 24:14 Meaning This Good News of the Kingdom Will

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

What does Matthew 24:14 mean?

The good news of the kingdom is the report that the ruling reality is within, and it is proclaimed through the whole world of a person, every region of the body and every nation of thought, until no faculty is left unaware. The end that follows is not the collapse of the earth but the completion of a state, the finishing of the old order in a man once the inner announcement has reached all his parts.

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The good news of the kingdom is the report that the ruling reality is within, and it is proclaimed through the whole world of a person, every region of the body and every nation of thought, until no faculty is left unaware. The end that follows is not the collapse of the earth but the completion of a state, the finishing of the old order in a man once the inner announcement has reached all his parts.

Every nation within must hear before the age can close. When the awareness that the crown of consciousness lies within has penetrated each corner of the self and stands as a witness there, the former condition has served its purpose and gives way. The end is the turning point where a person, fully informed of the kingdom inside, stops living as the outer creature he was.

World: the whole field of a person, body and mind, through which the news of the inner kingdom spreads Nations: the many populations of thought within a person, each of which must receive the inner report before the old state ends Kingdom: the ruling reality of higher consciousness seated within, not in any far place

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Live Matthew 24:14 today

  1. Take what you believe into one place it has never gone: how you drive, how you handle the slow checkout line, how you talk to yourself at 11pm. One corner at a time.
  2. With one person today, let your actual life show instead of your explanations. People read what you do in traffic and in the kitchen long before they hear what you say.
  3. When you are stretched thin at work, keep the same self you are on a good day. The test of what you hold is whether it holds in the hard hour.

Which part of my ordinary day has not yet heard what I say I believe?

The same truth in other traditions

Zen

After the first opening, the real work begins: carrying water, chopping wood, letting the new seeing reach every ordinary hour.

Bhagavad Gita 6

The one who is steady sees the same reality in every condition, in comfort and in loss alike. Nothing in a life is left outside it.

Sufism · Rumi

What you are looking for is already looking out of your own eyes. The search ends when that news reaches every corner of you.

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