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You are hearing Marshall Vian Summers speaking in a state of
revelation, where the Voice of the New Message is speaking to
him and to the world.
As revealed to
Marshall Vian Summers
on April 29, 2007
in the Old City, Jerusalem

Peace is on the minds of many people, but peace is not possible

without necessity. Peace as a goal or peace as an ambition or
peace as a wish does not have the power to overcome the tensions
and animosities that exist between people and even within people,
within individuals.
The peace that can be forged in the future must be based upon
necessity. It must be based upon a clear understanding that
humanity is entering a period of grave difficulty, facing a world in
decline, a world of declining resources where many more people
will be drawing from the bounty that the world can provide, a
world where humanity will be facing competition from other races
from beyond the world, a set of circumstances when taken
together is greater and more profound and far reaching than
anything that humanity as a whole has ever had to face before.
And there will be no one in the world who will not be affected by
these Great Waves of Change and by the Greater Darkness that is
in the world, that is growing with each passing day. Here peace
cannot simply be the cessation of conflict, for the steps taken to
establish peace now must be far more radical and far reaching. To
simply hold people back from attacking one another will not be
effective in the future when these restraints will not be there.
In order for you to understand what will be required in the future,
you must understand the great peril of the future and the great
needs of humanity and how they can be fulfilled in the future. You
must bring a new understanding to the situation, or you will not
see the nature of the problem, and you will not see how the
solution can be forged.
It is not enough to say that people want peace, and you should not
believe that people have always lived together in harmony, for
there has been very little harmony in the world at any time. And
you should not think that establishing peace in the world is simply
creating a new social program or platform or that it is all about
politics or relations between various nations or groups.
If people are at war within themselves, they will express this in the
world, and they will add to conflict that exists between people.
And if people are committed to fulfilling their desires, it will place
them in conflict with others whose desires are competing with
theirs. And if people want more than they really need, then they
will be taking from others whose needs are going unmet.
This is a moral and an ethical issue for each individual, for here
the rich must give to the poor. It is not simply an option. It is not
simply a moral or ethical question. It is a necessity, or there will
be no stability.
Or there will be no stability and people will continue to behave
and to think as they always have.
Now the whole world is in peril. Humanity and civilization could
fail. Humanity is facing a grave threat from beyond the world by
those races who seek to take advantage of a weak and divided
humanity. This is all revealed in the New Message that God has
sent into the world for the protection and advancement of
humanity. But a protection and an advancement must require a
different understanding. For if individuals and groups and nations
continue as you are continuing now, the world will enter a period
of prolonged decline, and war and competition and conflict will be
rampant, and people everywhere will suffer greatly, and great
calamities will come to the world.
And people will not be prepared and people will not understand.
And people will feel betrayed by God. People will feel that their
prophecies are being fulfilled and that the end of the world is at
hand. But this is not the end of the world. This is only the result of
human ignorance and human error and the result of humanity’s
emergence into a Greater Community of intelligent life where you
will have to face competing forces from beyond your world.
It is necessary therefore in the New Message that God is sending
into the world that a clear understanding be given of humanity’s
predicament and situation and a great opportunity for human unity
and cooperation that exists, even at this moment. But to see this
greater opportunity, you must see the greater problem that is
facing humanity. And this requires a clear and new understanding.
It is difficult to gain a new understanding unless circumstances
compel you to do so. Therefore, do not be in denial of the Great
Waves of Change that are coming. Do not try to lessen them and
call them other things. Do not dismiss them as mere fearful
thinking. Do not think they merely represent one perspective. Do
not think they are simply the projections of certain individuals. If
you cannot see the problem, you will not see the solution. If you
cannot face the gravity of your times, then you will not bring this
real seriousness to the situation that is required. And you will not
have the motivation to forge a new understanding and a new
approach.
It is not enough simply to be fearful and to fret about the future
and to complain about the behavior of others, for you must now
take stock of your own life and how you relate to the world and to
other people. This is a confrontation for each individual. It is not
simply a problem that some government should solve. The
responsibility is shared by everyone, individually and collectively.
If you can consider this seriously, you will realize that you do not
have an answer, that your answers are inadequate and that even
you yourself are not sure what to do within your own life and
thinking.
This is why God has sent a New Message into the world, not to
answer all your questions, not to solve all your problems, but to
ignite a greater intelligence within you and to show you clearly
where the world is going and what will be required.
People will have to work out all the details and will have to figure
out how to apply all these things. But without this greater
understanding, humanity will fight and compete and struggle with
itself. Its divisions will become sharper. Its wars will become
more embittered and prolonged. It will be group against group,
religion against religion, nation against nation. And here you
cannot blame one government or one leader, for everyone will be
responsible.
People are not even thinking within the correct context to
understand what is happening even today, why people are
suffering so much and why their suffering is increasing. Other
people are blamed, other governments are blamed, but the
problem is more fundamental than this. It has a great deal to do
with how people use the world and its resources. And that people
identify only with their family or their small group and do not
realize that humanity will have to work together far more
cooperatively in order to use these resources in the world, which
are now declining.
The question for governments then is not simply how much
military power you can have or how much wealth you can
accumulate or how you can maintain a lifestyle that cannot be
sustained into the future. The question is, “How will you take care
of your people? How will you provide what they will need?” For
only this will maintain stability and order, and only this will keep
humanity from falling into chaos and destruction.
It is not simply having a new political ideology. It is not simply
demanding that people be at peace, for people will not be at peace.
The change that will be required will keep people in a state of
confrontation and turbulence, for peace and change do not coexist
very well.
It is a confrontation that is necessary, or people will not rise to the
occasion. They will not see what will be required of them or their
nations. They will always blame other people. They will always
think it is because of someone else that they are suffering or that
the times are difficult. And all the energy that goes into
complaining and whining and projecting blame upon others will
all be wasted, for it will lead to nothing at all. It will not generate
constructive action. It will not raise the level of personal
responsibility. It will not encourage or require people to consider
how they live and what they themselves must do within their life
and in their own relations with others, to live a more balanced and
simple life.
And those that are rich will try to remain rich, and those who want
to be rich will strive for wealth, and those who are poor will
become poorer. There can be no peace now under these
circumstances. The world is being exhausted. You simply cannot
plunder it further and hope to provide for all the needs of
humanity.
Human unity now must be driven by necessity and not simply by
high ideals. It becomes a practical question as well as an ethical
and a moral question. It requires that each individual recognize
how they live and to see and to ask themselves, “Is the way I live
going to be able to sustain me in the future? And how can I
support human unity and cooperation?”
All of your resources, both material, psychological or emotional
will have to be brought to bear to forge a greater union in the
human family. This will have to happen within families, within
cities, within communities, within nations, between nations. And
war will have to be set aside as mutually destructive to all
involved. It is no longer an option. You cannot afford it. It cannot
be brought to bear. The human family cannot absorb it. It cannot
endure it. It will have no resolution.
You are entering a new set of circumstances that will require a far
greater commitment not just from governments and leaders but
from people everywhere. And the motivation will be practical,
moral and ethical. The wealthy will have to live more simply in
order for resources to be shared more equitably. The world will
have to be cared for far more conscientiously and its resources
sustained, or humanity will not have a future. Without this
stability, there is no peace. There is no security. There is no well
being.
The whole human family has entered a situation now where the
stakes are so high that there is no room to maneuver. There is no
new lands to conquer. The world is being used up. It is filled.
Therefore, humanity cannot behave as it has always behaved. And
the greater aspects of human nature must now be brought to bear.
And its darker aspects must be arrested and controlled and
contained.
This is the great trial for humanity. This is the great need of
humanity. Humanity has reached a great threshold now. Your
ability to survive and to advance will be determined within the
next decade. Do not assume that humanity will succeed. Do not
give yourself this false confidence. Do not think, “Oh, we’ve been
through all these problems before, we’ve always survived, we’ve
always managed, we have always pulled ourselves through.” Do
not give yourself these assurances. Do not think that because the
human spirit is strong that humanity’s success is guaranteed.
You now face competition from beyond the world. There are
competing forces seeking advantage here even now. You have
never had to face them before. They are not like those who have
visited the world from before. They care not for the value of
humanity, and freedom is unknown to them. To them, this world,
and even humanity itself, is only a resource to be used and
exploited. Do not think then in the face of all this that humanity
will continue and advance, for you are not only subject to the risk
of decline in the world, but you are also subject to the risk of
subjugation from beyond.
And that is why there is a New Message from God in the world,
because without this New Message, humanity would not see, it
would not know and it would not act appropriately. It would not
prepare for a future that will be unlike the past. It will not
recognize the gravity of the situation. And it will not alter its
course, its direction or its behavior.
This will require strength and courage from each person. Here you
cannot be lazy and self-indulgent. Here you cannot be indifferent
or ambivalent. For everything you value is at stake. Everything
that humanity has ever created that is beneficial is at stake.
Everything that you love is at stake. Every person. Every place.
Everything.
Do not assure yourself in thinking that the town you live in or the
country you love or the lovely wilderness that has inspired you or
the beauty of nature or the sacred and holy sites will be able to
survive under the Great Waves of Change and the Greater
Darkness that is in the world!
You must find a deeper strength, the strength of Knowledge
within you as an individual, the greater strength that God has
placed within you that you must find and follow. For everything
around you will be in question and will be in turmoil, and great
uncertainty will prevail. And this uncertainty will either defeat
you or it will call from you a greater strength, a greater wisdom,
the strength and the power of Knowledge—a greater intelligence
that the Creator of all life has given to the human family and that
resides undiscovered within each person.
It is this Knowledge now that must come to the fore, for this is
what will give humanity the strength and the courage and the
determination and perseverance to carry out what will be
necessary. It is only this Greater Power within you that can
restrain human grievance, human anger and the dreadful weight of
human history.
You may see what is possible for humanity, you may see what has
to change, but what will give you the strength to change this
within yourself and to become part of the change in the world that
will be required?
Here you cannot simply say, “Well, other people will not be able
to change. Humanity will not be able to change. Therefore, I don’t
need to change.”
You do need to change. You have not found your strength. Your
energy is misappropriated. You are lost in what you want and
what you are afraid of. You are committed to things without
consequence. You value things without value. You make
assumptions that have no foundation and will not stand in the face
of great change. You have beliefs that are inconsistent with life
and with where life is going.
There is great change that must happen within enough people. Not
everyone will be able to make this change, but enough will have
to, to counteract the temptation to fight and to struggle and to
wage war upon others. And this temptation will be very great in
the future, it will be very strong. And the temptation for you to
take sides and to think that you should join a group that is being
imperiled or that you should join a group that is trying to
overcome other groups, will be very strong. Your life will be
threatened and challenged because you live at these great times.
But it is also true that you have come into the world to serve the
world in these great times and that Knowledge within you is fully
prepared for what is to come. It is not afraid of the world. It is not
afraid of what might happen here. It does not care about the things
that you care about, necessarily. It is here on a mission within you,
and this is your mission in life. But you will never find this
mission through your desires and your fears and your political
views and your cynicism and your judgment of others. You will
not find this Greater Power through wishful thinking or through
trying to believe or insist that the world is better than it really is.
You will not find the strength that you will need to survive and to
contribute to a world in need unless you can face the Great Waves
of Change, unless you can allow them to inform you of what you
must reconsider and what you must do even today to begin the
long preparation that will be required. For no one can stay where
they are and hope to be in a position that is advantageous in the
future.
This is why there is a New Message from God in the world
because people do not know what is coming and do not know how
to prepare and do not know of the greater strength that lives within
them. Do not think that everyone has to find this strength, for not
everyone will be able to. But you will need to. You and others like
you will need to. And you are not yet in a position to understand
the nature of this strength or how effective it can be in an
uncertain world.
The New Message from God establishes what must be understood,
establishes what is coming and establishes the great need for
preparation. It emphasizes what each individual can do in
discovering the power of Knowledge within themselves and how
they must consider their relationship with the world itself and with
others. It speaks of the great change that is coming and sets a
direction for human activity, human behavior and human
understanding.
God’s New Message is not bound by any institution or
government in the world, for it is a Message from God. God has
sent a messenger into the world to deliver this Message. Do not
ever think that God has sent all the Messages in the world that
God will ever send, for this cannot be true.
Do not think that the past is determining the future, for in truth,
the future is determining the present. The future is not here to
fulfill the past. Even the messengers that God has sent into the
world could not foresee what is coming now.
Therefore, a New Message from God must be sent into the world,
for humanity is entering a new reality—a reality for which it is
unprepared and unaware, a reality that even the great Messages
that God has sent before into the world cannot fully and
adequately prepare humanity in time.
You know not of the great danger in the world today. You know
not of the Great Waves of Change that are coming. You know not
what it will require of you. You know not where you will find the
strength and the wisdom to navigate these difficult times—not
only to survive but to become a force of good, a force of
resolution, to play your small but essential part in building human
unity and cooperation. This unity and cooperation will not be
based on people agreeing about everything. But it will be based
upon people cooperating to assure security and stability for their
nations, their towns and their families.
The New Message has spoken to the governments of the world, to
the leaders of these governments, to the leaders of religious
institutions. Instead of building military strength and protecting
the very rich and trying to maintain predominance over other
nations, instead of trying to control or manipulate other nations,
you must take care of your people. Every nation must take care of
its people. Every town must take care of its people, for the needs
will grow and become predominating. In the future, many people
will lose their jobs. Many people will be facing deprivation, even
in wealthy countries. How will you take care of these people?
How will you maintain stability by providing the basic needs,
meeting the basic needs of people, providing the essential
resources that people need?
This is not about having luxuries, for there will be few luxuries in
the future. Your real luxuries will be stability and inspiration from
Knowledge within yourself and Knowledge in others. For there
will be great heroism and much selfless activity that will be
required now. You must think now of the well being of the whole
world, the security of the whole world. For humanity is not alone
in the Universe, and there are others who are watching and
waiting and planning.
You must not think of protecting your personal interests or the
interests of some segment of society or your group or your
religion or your nationality. You must think of security for the
whole world. When enough people can do this, it will override
everything else. It will be like being in a house on fire where
every other concern or preoccupation is forgotten in the face of
what is happening at that moment. And you either cooperate or
you perish. You save people. And you work together.
This is the great need of your time and the great opportunity of
your time. Many people around the world have prayed for peace
and the end of war and deliverance and Divine guidance. That is
why there is a New Message from God in the world. But the
message is not what people expect. It is not what people think, and
it does not conform to their religious beliefs or social customs. But
the true messages from God never do because they are messages
from God and not from people.
You may invent any scheme you think is possible. You may think
technology will save you. You may think that Jesus will return or
some other great leader. You may think there will be a final battle
that will settle everything. But none of this is correct, for it is all
based upon a very ancient understanding that is not relevant now.
A great war will destroy humanity and enslave it to other powers
in the Universe. There will be no great leader that can lead
everyone, for not everyone could follow such a leader or any
leader. If Jesus returned to the world, people would fight over
whether they believed in him or not. He would bring war and
destruction to the world, and that is not what God wills.
Humanity has not come this far with such great assistance,
through so many travails, simply to extinguish itself at the end. Do
not think these are the end times. That is foolishness. Yes, many
things will have to come to an end, but this represents a great
threshold for humanity and the possibility for a new beginning, a
new direction and a new set of requirements.
The messenger sent into the world to bring this Message will not
lead humanity will not become a political leader, will not solve all
the problems of the world. He is here to deliver the Message and
to do everything in his power to assure that the Message will
remain pure and uncorrupted, that it will not be seized by a state
or another religious group and turned into something else that is
self-seeking.
There will be many leaders for humanity, but if they are to be
effective and beneficial, they must have this greater
understanding. They must look at the world with new eyes, and
they must see what is coming over the horizon, and they must
recognize humanity’s great vulnerability in the Universe. But as
long as humanity remains weak and divided, in conflict with itself,
it will be powerless in the Universe and extremely vulnerable to
intervention—intervention such as already occurring now.
It is God’s New Message that holds the greatest promise. It has the
power to unite the world’s religions in a greater state of unity and
cooperation, to engage human thinking, inventiveness, creativity
and activity, to meet a far greater set of needs. It is here to restore
true integrity to each individual by revealing your spirituality—the
meaning of your spirituality, the importance of your spirituality,
humanity’s One Spirituality at the level of Knowledge.
Such a Revelation has never occurred before, but it must occur
now. For this is the time of Revelation and this is the time of
danger. There is a Greater Darkness in the world. Humanity is
facing great peril now. You have competition from beyond the
world and humanity is weak and divided and unsuspecting.
It will take great love from each individual to respond, as it has
taken great love from the Creator of all life to send a New
Message into the world for the protection and advancement of
humanity. It is all based on great love. There is concern, as a
parent has concern for their child, but it is not based upon fear.
It is great love that has brought this New Message into the world,
and it will be great love within each individual and between
peoples that will give people the strength and the power and the
understanding necessary to prepare and to assure a greater security
for the human family and a greater unity between nations. For
there must be cooperation and unity now, greater than anything
that has ever been established. And this unity will not be
temporary. It will not be based on or surrounding one event only.
It will be for the preservation and protection of the world and the
protection of human civilization and all that is good within it.
The Creator of all life has confidence in humanity because the
Creator of all life has given Knowledge to humanity—a greater
intelligence that resides within each individual. God does not have
confidence in human beliefs and assumptions, human wishes or
human ideologies. God has confidence in Knowledge, for this is
what God has created in you. Everything else you have acquired
from the environment around you and from other people, but
Knowledge within you is what God has created in you—greater
than your mind, greater than your body, greater than your
thoughts, greater than your fears. This is the great love that lives
within you and this is the great love that will move your life
forward and spare you your own destruction and give you the
power and strength to care for others.
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