Jesus In India — Page 40
30 JESUS IN INDIA being till today, it has never happened that God Almighty should induce a person in a dream to act in a particular way to save some person, and yet that effort should fail to succeed. For example, it is written in Matthew that an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying: Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. (Matthew 2:13) Now, can anyone say that it was possible for Jesus, the Messiah, to have been killed upon arriving in Egypt? In exactly the same way, it was a part of the plan from God Almighty that Pilate's wife was shown a dream regarding Jesus, the Messiah, and it was not possi- ble that this plan could fail in its objective. Just as the possibility of Jesus, the Messiah, being put to death during the journey to Egypt was against the specific promise of God Almighty, so here too it is unthinkable that the angel of God Almighty, should appear to Pilate's wife and point out to her that if Jesus, the Messiah, died on the cross it would spell disaster for her, and yet the angel's appear- ance should go in vain, and Jesus, the Messiah, should be allowed to suffer death on the cross. Is there any example of this in the world? No, never. The pure conscience of every good man, when informed of the dream of Pilate's wife, will no doubt testify that for a fact it was the purpose of the dream to lay the foundation for rescuing Jesus, the Messiah. Everyone in the world is free, of course, to reject a self-evident reality, out of sheer prejudice for his creed, and not accept it, but on the basis of fairness we have