Jesus In India — Page 52
42 JESUS IN INDIA dismiss the case. Thus what I had announced about my acquittal on the authority of divine revelation to hundreds of people and in public meetings, quite opposed to the most fearful situation that existed, turned out to be true. This served to fortify the faith of many people. This was not all. More charges of this kind and calumnies of a criminal character were preferred against me for the same kind of reasons as laid out above, and cases were taken to court, but before I could be summoned to court, God informed me through His revelation, of the origin and the end of each affair, and in every case howsoever alarming, I was given the glad tidings of acquittal in advance. The point of this discourse is that without a doubt God Almighty accepts prayers, especially when those who rely on Him are facing oppression and knock on his door; He attends to their plaints, and helps them in wonderful ways. To this, I myself am a witness. So what was the cause and what was the reason why the prayer of Jesus, the Messiah, uttered in such anguish was not accepted? No, on the contrary, it was indeed accepted, and God did save him. God caused things to happen on earth and in heaven to rescue him. John, i. e. the Prophet Yahya, was not given reprieve by God to pray for his end had arrived, but Jesus, the Messiah, was given a whole night to pray, and he spent it in supplication, standing and prostrating before God, for God had willed that he should give expression to his distress and pray for his deliverance to Him for Whom nothing was impossible. So the Lord, in keep- ing with His eternal practice, heard his prayer. The Jews lied when they taunted Jesus, the Messiah, at the time of the crucifixion as to why God had not saved him despite his trust in Him? God frustrated all the designs of the Jews and saved His beloved Jesus,