- 134 - 2. 6 Questioning God according to reports in the Holy Scriptures (Transmission from the SPHERES of LIGHT) Thus, says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel and its Maker: Ask me of things that are to come! (Isaiah 45: 11) God is the fountain of truth. Whosoever draws from this fountain will receive the truth and will be preserved from error. This knowledge led the faithful of olden times to enter into communion with God when seeking the truth. This was not a communion by way of inner illumination; rather, they chose the way of receiving revelations of the truth from without, sent by God in a manner perceptible to the human senses. They inquired of God by human means, and were answered by Him through the same channel. They were well aware that the good spirit world in the service of God is the agent of His will and His revelations, and so consulting the spirit beings of God’s kingdom is equivalent to inquiring of God. They were equally well aware that there is such a thing as an evil spirit world, and daily experience had taught them that it was possible to communicate with it also. Throughout Old Testament times and in the early days of the Christian era, those who sought God made liberal use of the privilege of asking of God. The writings of the Old and the New Testament abound in instances in which it is related that the faithful, when desirous of learning the truth, ‘asked of God’ and received their answers, transmitted to them through God’s spirits. “If you will open your Bible and read through the individual texts, you will find my statement confirmed. Mention of ‘asking of God’ is made very early on in the Bible. It is reported there that Rebecca, the wife of Isaac, had asked of the Lord because she was worried during her pregnancy: Genesis 25: 22: ‘As the twins struggled in her womb, she said: “If it is thus, why am I in this condition?” So, she went to consult the Lord.’ There is no record of either the manner in which she ‘consulted the Lord’ or the way in which she received the answer she was given, but the casual way in which the story is told shows that asking God was not an unusual practice at the time. After the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, the people daily came to Moses to have him ‘ask of God’ on their behalf. Exodus 18: 14-16: ‘And when Moses father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, “Why do you go to such effort for the people? Why do you sit in judgment alone, while all the people stand before you from morning till evening?” And Moses said unto his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to ‘ask of God’: Whenever they have a lawsuit, they come to me to be the judge between the parties, and I make known to them God’s judgments and decisions.”’ Here, too, nothing is said about how the inquiries were addressed to God. Not until later, when Moses, at God’s command, had built the Tabernacle, do you find a more detailed account of the means by which ‘asking of God’ and the answers thereto were made possible: Exodus 33: 7-11: ‘And each time Moses took the tent, and pitched it for the Lord outside the camp, and called it the ‘Tabernacle’ (tent of revelation). Whenever someone wanted to ask of the Lord, he went out to the Tabernacle, which was outside
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