Matthew 24:22 · World English Bible
Matthew 24:22 Meaning Unless Those Days Had Been Shortened
Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
What does Matthew 24:22 mean?
The body inherited from the parents cannot survive an endless ordeal, so the passage through the lower centers is cut short for the sake of the part in a person already awake. Overcoming the 6 energy centers of the body shortens the struggle and brings the higher power down, and were that climb not compressed the physical form would burn out under the strain before the work finished.
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The body inherited from the parents cannot survive an endless ordeal, so the passage through the lower centers is cut short for the sake of the part in a person already awake. Overcoming the 6 energy centers of the body shortens the struggle and brings the higher power down, and were that climb not compressed the physical form would burn out under the strain before the work finished. The elect are not a chosen crowd somewhere else but the awakened current within, the portion of consciousness that has begun to rise, and for its sake the days of pressure are shortened so the flesh holds together long enough to complete the ascent.
Salvation here is a matter of timing inside one person. The ordeal is made brief enough that the body endures it, and the waking part is what earns the mercy of a shorter passage.
Flesh: the physical body received from the parents, which cannot outlast an unbroken ordeal
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Live Matthew 24:22 today
- If you are white knuckling something today, set an actual end time for it. Thirty more minutes of this, then I eat and lie down. Your body is part of the deal.
- When a friend is spiraling in a long text thread, help them shrink the window instead of solving the whole thing. Ask what only has to get through tonight.
- In the worst stretch of your day, somewhere between traffic and the next meeting, say to yourself that this is not the permanent weather. Then drink water and keep driving.
Where are you treating a hard season as if it will last forever, when it was never built to?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 23
A violent storm does not last a whole morning. What is most intense in nature is also what passes quickest, because nothing living could carry it longer.
Buddhism
The Buddha taught the middle way after nearly starving himself to death. He found that the body has to be kept alive for the work to finish, so he ate the rice and sat down.
Stoicism · Seneca
Seneca wrote that what is unbearable is brief and what lasts is bearable. The pain that could truly break you is also, by its nature, short.
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