The Tale of the Two Caterpillars

The Tale of the Two Caterpillars is a parable and a fable depicting today's spiritual journey of the Bride of Christ watching and praying for their metamorphosis towards perfection. Most of all, this is an allegorical novel that reflects the stages of metamorphosis of every Christian's Spiritual life from the time that he is baptized by the Holy Spirit up to the time that he will be Glorified.

It contains partly about the life cycle of a butterfly, partly about Spiritual perfection and lots about Hope and Love. Hope that indeed, our Lord and Savior will return to claim those who are His and to change our bodies so that we will be made perfect like Him; and Love because we are always loved from the beginning, and from the beginning His love never leaves us. No matter what we do, nothing can separate us from it. No matter how great our sins are, at the end of day, what matters most is how great His love upon us. It's actually not about our sins, it's about His love.

Spiritual stagnation is the failure of growing from one stage into another stage because we fail to realize this universal truth and the heart of the Bible - "For God so love the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). Yes beloved, the universe was created because of His love - for you! When we fail to realize this that's when evil prevail. We no longer want to grow thinking that God no longer loves us because we have sinned against Him. The world may not forgive you for it, but we must always remember what the apostle Paul said, "Nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ" (Rom. 8:35-39). Nothing, not even sin.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the divine and complete expression of God's love for us (1 John 4:10). He is the Word of God made manifest (1 Tim. 3:16). In order to attain that perfect love, we must be one with His Word. I have stated above that from the beginning our God loves us and His love will never leaves us. The same is true: in the beginning was the Word and so it will be until the end.

Sadly, we are in a generation today where most of the people think that they can be one with the Word by doing good works. They have believed that they are saved by grace through faith and not by any works that any man should boast (Eph. 2:8-9), but then something went wrong. They also believe that they can be in the Rapture by works and that they will be adopted if they will work hard not to sin for a year or three. They have started right but ended wrong. They have started by Grace but ends by - works? Something really went wrong.

This story will take you to this natural typology of perfection. The life cycle of a butterfly has been utilized as an image for spiritual development since the early times. The physical transformation of a butterfly has been thought about to be like the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ since the dawn of Christianity. Depicted through the symbolism of butterflies, is the changing process of profound spiritual perfection.

Most of all, this novel will remind us to be back to the Word, back to the Absolute. The metamorphosis of the main characters will tell us that from the beginning, we are saved by grace trough faith and not by works and so it will be also in the Rapture. We will be Raptured by grace through faith when we have already attained that rapturing faith and not by any works.

Author: Bonifacio Tamparong

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Jun 05, 2024

Number of Pages: 52 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798327649910