Surely Jesus was not demanding that they say nothing about Him raising the girl from the dead. For everyone would soon be able to see that He restored her to life again, as soon as she stepped out the door. So there was something else that Jesus did not want the other people to know, when He strictly ordered “that no one should know this.” Clearly Jesus did not ask them to hide the fact that He raised the dead girl to life. Jesus was not saying that He did not want the others to know she was now able to eat and drink either (i.e., their superstition believed that a ghost could not eat and drink, so her eating was proof that she was truly alive). Obviously, everyone outside would soon see her do those things too. And we can definitely assume that Jesus was not telling her parents to hide her away in a dark place, so no one would see that she was alive. In fact, Matthew told us, “The report of [the girl’s resurrection from the dead] went out into all that land” (Mat. 9:26). Thus, we logically assume that Jesus did not those inside the house to let others know something that He had taught to those few selected people when He was alone with them. Jesus seems to have revealed some truth to the three disciples and to the parents of that girl, a teaching He did not yet want others to know at that time.
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controversial doctrines to them, and did not yet want those concepts to be taught openly, not until all the others were ready to hear them. And, considering the misogynistic culture of that day, and how Jesus just finished healing an “unclean” woman on His way to raise this girl to life, it seems most probable that Jesus explained how the two miracles illustrated truths found in God’s Law and the Prophets, truths about women that others were not ready to hear and, thus, would strongly oppose.
Mark and Luke mentioned the names of the three disciples that went with Jesus that day into the room of the deceased girl. They were Peter, James and the teenager John. So both Mark and Luke must have interviewed one, two or all three of these disciples, in order to provide us with an accurate record of this event. And Luke seemed to have fully understood that secret controversial teaching which Jesus revealed that day about women, since Luke seemed to write the most “feminist” of all the Gospels. Yet Matthew spent many years with the three apostles who went into that room with Jesus. Matthew spent far more time with those three disciples than Mark and Luke ever could. And Matthew was also walking beside Jesus for almost another two years after this, with ample time to hear that hidden truth. Thus, surely Matthew also would have eventually heard whatever Jesus and those three disciples discussed relating to the two miracles of this event, although after it occurred.
The Jewish apostle Matthew, who seems to have been a biblical scholar, most likely possessed a far deeper and broader knowledge about this event, after having been with Jesus. Matthew likely knew more than Mark or Luke could have acquired through their interviews with Peter, James and John.
For Matthew would have heard an explanation from Jesus in the flesh, and asked questions about those teaching, obtaining answers directly from our God in a body of flesh. And, while Mark and Luke could still have sought answers from the very Holy Spirit of Jesus in the same way, neither of them knew the Old Covenant Scriptures and Jewish traditions as well as Matthew. So they were not likely able to even ask questions that were as deeply theological and biblically based as Matthew could. So, of all three synoptic Gospels, Matthew’s account should have been the best. Yet his account hid many relevant details, in the same way Jesus did when He took only three disciples into the room with Him, and gave them a secret teaching. Thus, the only reason I can think of for keeping some kind of lesson or teaching secret was because the Jewish people would not fully understand all the implications of His words and actions that day. Yet all those Jews possessed far more knowledge of God’s Law and teachings than any church member does in our day. So, after much explanation, those devout Jews would have been able to comprehend far more than any Gentiles or any of us.
Still, we must remember the context of all those other Jews being steeped in the human traditions invented by their humanistic rabbis, and how they would also accuse Jesus of endorsing some kind of left-wing Gentile doctrine of feminism—in the same way false churches today also accuse truly biblical Christians of offending their pagan Roman humanistic doctrines of their own false churches.
Most Jews back then would have called Jesus something similar to what right-wing churches do, and slander Him for being a feminist, communist, anarchist, radical and so on. But, just because true Christians reject the pagan Roman traditions of false humanistic churches, and trust the deeper wisdom of our God Jesus, it does not mean they side with left-wing humanists. Rather, it means that all kinds of humanists lie about and steal all kinds of biblical teachings, but corrupt them for the sakes of their selfish and demonic ambitions, so they can dupe foolish, infantile elect souls into joining them, and enslave them. Both right-wing and left-wing humanists war against God and His people, in stupidly violent ways. So, to avoid unnecessary violence, Jesus and Matthew kept silent and chose to fight this battle another day, when they could personally respond to false accusations.
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invented by deceivers. And so many elect souls are still being taken captive by a lust for artificial superiority, preferring the binding lies of man-made traditions to the freeing truths of our God Jesus.
This is particularly true regarding the oppression of women. Do not forget justice! Do not forget that love is always just. Remember all the equalizing principles of God’s Law, which Jesus came to fulfill in us and through us. Saving faith in God and in His words never binds souls in darkness and selfish oppression, but strives to free souls into the light of God and an abundant life. This is why I find the churches so disturbing, because of the internal binding they practise, in both the Jewish and so-called
“Christian” churches of our time. Lies appealing to the pride of flesh still deceive most elect today.
Yet the humanistic arrogance of fake rabbis, priests and pastors will not always dupe and enslave the elect, will not forever corrupt those who are able to love humbly, within a full acceptance of the truth about themselves and the world around them. “For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith. For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us ...” (Rom. 12:3-6a, WEB). Surely this teaching from the Holy Spirit of God applies to the arrogance of humanistic men in their treatment of women as well.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus who was filled with His Holy Spirit, wrote this according to God’s will, commands and authority. And this tendency of a man “to think of himself more highly than he ought to think” is a firm rebuke of all wanna-be human gods clinging to humanistic beliefs—including all men who think they are some kind of Roman authority in their own homes, or even “own” their wives and children as their inferior properties, then justify this abomination against God through their own carnal false interpretations of God’s Word. And notice how Paul said this “through the grace” God gave him; as one who had previously believed the worst of fake religious teachers, who even murdered for those esteemed liars that he served blindly; but also as an elect man who was able to learn to love in the just and equitable ways of God, who was forgiven and brought into the true church of Israel, gaining acceptance from both God and His awakened elect, as a man who now served the real Creator God, Yahweh who came to us in our Messiah’s body of flesh. Observe how this Paul told us “to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith,” so we do not think too highly of ourselves. This directly indicates that our saving faith (our trust in the power, love and words of Jesus), always leads us into a rational understanding of our own errors, weaknesses, naive dupability, blindness, ignorance, lack of strength, propensities to lie and carnal sinfulness, yet also into a knowledge of our God-given and joyful destinies, where each elect spirit is learning to provide a very unique and personalized service to our God, justly for all of His creations.
So know this: There will be a world-wide revival in His church of Israel. Soon we shall fulfill the words Jesus spoke so long ago, when He commanded us: “What I reason with you in darkness, you people must relate in the light. And what you people are hearing in the ear, you people must shout upon the rooftops” (Mat. 10:27, from: ὃ λέγω ὑμῖν ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ, εἴπατε ἐν τῷ φωτί· καὶ ὃ εἰς τὸ οὖς
ἀκούετε, κηρύξατε ἐπὶ τῶν δωμάτων, SBLGNT). Since the world continuously finds itself in chaos, but also in a situation where God’s truths can be openly revealed—just as Mark and Luke could reveal controversial truths to Gentiles in a Roman Empire that strove to accept all religions and all philosophies all at once—we can now begin to fulfill these commands from Jesus. Now we are able to broadcast all that had to be hidden for so long. Of course, in this open environment, the lies of false religions can be disseminated more easily too. So, for the elect who live in places which protect some freedom of expression and some freedom of conscience, there is a duty to nullify those lies and Page 673
all the devil’s works done through those lies, so we can then build up God’s just, equitable, loving kingdom where Satan’s world order once stood. And we can only do this by fulfilling the commands of our Lord Jesus, by openly proclaiming the secrets that His Holy Spirit reveals to each of us in the night, and by standing on platforms to shout out all that He whispers into the ears of our elect spirits.
Of course, there have always been lands that deny their people the freedoms, especially the freedom of conscience. For the elite human gods of those lands want to own those people, want to steal those human souls and all other creations from God. And they know that, if they allow any freedom of conscience, their people will soon start to discuss spiritual matters of love, equity and justice. Then many elect might awaken and their spirits may begin to hear the real God’s Spirit. Soon those elect will realize that their so-called “superiors” are lying, and even stealing them from God, as well as committing countless other terrible crimes. Those elect will discover that those elite are not only totally unnecessary to their well-being, but are actually enslaving, oppressing and destroying them and their children. So those elect will begin to shun and dethrone those delusional, destructive and deadly elite. Soon, all those wanna-be human gods will become so ridiculed and shamed that they will lose all their illicit power over all the people who had maintained their high status and wealth.
This is why the most destructive and useless souls in every land, the parasites whom evil nations worship as their most esteemed religious, political and financial “leaders,” work so extremely hard to keep their people focused upon distracting matters of flesh. They need to keep the people ignorant about all truly moral and spiritual matters, so the minds of their people’s spirits will become dull and lethargic, so their people will use only their amoral and irrational minds of flesh to make every major decision in their lives. Yet the Bible, along with all of God’s other spiritual and physical creations, teach that each individual must learn about God and His ways directly from God Himself. And all that truth from God also teaches us that we must allow freedom of conscience, so our spirits are set free to develop a personal relationship with God, so that God Himself can teach and train each of our spirits personally, so that the minds of our spirits can develop a truly informed, wise and loving inner conscience. Yet this freedom of conscience is extremely difficult to maintain, almost impossible, if external physical threats are coercing all of us to believe the stupidity of elite human gods who focus only upon personal gain, according to the demands of their father, Satan. Governments that always suppress the truth and only permit the people to hear the lies of their own false religion, including all humanistic governments, destroy the people, and never help the people. They are utterly incapable of freeing anyone, and even their “freed” elite live in prisons of their own making, since they are all slaves of their father, Satan. But, if any elect soul stops hiding from the light, then lets one’s mind of the spirit wake and hear God, and wisely frees those truths from God into their land, those truths will not be easy for the devil’s children to kill. Rather, a seed of truth is very hardy, and will grow until the elite fall and a free, open state replaces them. So we must let the light shine into the darkness, let truth overcome lies, and expose the crimes of self-serving autocrats who war against God’s truths.
Naturally, the truth always has one disadvantage. For it must be diligently searched out, which takes much time, effort and sacrifice. Then truth must be wisely and carefully weighed against opposing views, lest violence and lies snuff them out. Truth needs to be worked in the mind over long periods of time to gain a complete understanding, with a solid grasp of realities and facts, or it can be easily misled or defeated. And this often requires difficult and soul-crushing labours leading to godly sorrow and much repentance into those truths. Then there is the difficult task of presenting the truth to the right people at the right time, together with diligently and thoroughly examined and rightly interpreted evidence. In other words, truth involves much work. Meanwhile, the devil and his evil children can easily invent lies, instantly, then broadcast and force those lies upon the people through Page 674
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threats of physical violence, without wisdom, without taking the time to convince the spirits of the people to accept the truth for repentance. Nevertheless, literally all the lies and delusions of selfish, power-hungry, greedy human gods, including all the laws and ways of despots, can only accomplish destruction, never any good for anyone, not even for those liars themselves. For their contradictions are eventually exposed. Then their competitors and enemies pounce on them, to murder and plunder them, because they found them to be liars. But their worst and most vicious enemies are liars like themselves, and simply start the cycle of destruction all over again. All this is empty foolishness. All lies are weak and fail. Thus, the truth will eventually overcome all the darkness of lies and delusions.
Now there are also a few more details provided by Mark and Luke, about this event of Jesus healing the woman with an issue of blood, then raising the deceased girl to life. For one thing, both Mark and Luke tell us that, while Jesus was still speaking to the woman who had been healed, a messenger from the ruler’s house approached the father while he was walking home beside Jesus. And that man told the father that his daughter had just died. Now, that father and Jesus, together with the disciples and a crowd, had been walking toward that ruler’s house for some time. And they had stopped to heal the woman with the issue of blood too, which may have involved a fairly lengthy conversation as well. But, since Capernaum was a small town, they were likely drawing quite close to the house, by the time those messengers arrived. Of course, it would not take too long for the people to assess that the girl was truly dead, and immediately send the messengers to the father, with a dire sense of urgency. So some time would have passed after the girl’s confirmed death, before the girl’s father learned about it. Thus, we might speculate that the girl died at approximately the same time that Jesus healed the woman with an issue of blood. Not only this, but, if Jesus did not stop to heal and talk with that woman, He may have arrived at the house in time to heal the girl before she died. All this was surely more than a coincidence, and predestined to teach us something, which is why both Mark and Luke informed us about these details. There are times in our lives when we think, if only we refused to take the time to do a less important task, we could have had time to do some other far more important task, and possibly even save a life or prevent a great tragedy. But is that really true?
We need to trust in God’s timing for all things, and learn the wisdom He teaches us here. We do not want to waste too much time, but prioritize our time for more important aspects of life, although we need time to rest and sort out our thoughts as well. However, if we do God’s will, some lesser tasks may delay us, so we may not arrive in time to do some more critical tasks. Yet we must consider that God’s timing had ordained that loss for a good reason. There is a time for all things under the sun. In this instance, Jesus was not supposed to heal a sick girl, but raise a deceased girl from the dead, to complete His teaching about women, life and blood. We say this because we see how Jesus took the news of the girl’s death in stride, as though it were predestined, and her death did not stop Him from keeping His promise to return that girl to her parents, whole and sound. Jesus simply told the father,
“Do not fear. Merely trust” (Mark 5:36, from: Μὴ φοβοῦ, μόνον πίστευε, SBLGNT; cf., Luke 8:50).
These two exhortations of Jesus, given to that father, used imperative forms of verbs. So they were commands. And His Holy Spirit still utters these commands to our hearts, very often, whenever we face great losses, deep regrets, extreme anxieties and even the deaths of loved ones. For our fears of physical losses, even the losses of loved ones, are delusions of the flesh, because literally everything material is predestined and will be “burned” into nothingness, but literally all the elect spirits of our loved ones cannot possibly die. God promised that all spirits will eventually shed their bodily flesh.
And, for elect spirits, bodily death in its ordained time is a good thing. Then, since our spirits cannot take any material things with us into the spiritual realm after death, the loss of any physical thing is not much to fear nor worry about. And we also know that, since love comes from the spirit, all our Page 675
eternal spirits will forever love all our deceased loved ones, while their spirits, if they learned to love and are standing awake at the gate of heaven, will still be actively loving our spirits too. In fact, the ever-living awake elect spirits of deceased loved ones will know and love our spirits even more after the death of their flesh, since those spirits will no longer have hindering flesh to interfere with love.
So our little amoral minds of flesh will always fear loss and death, but our spirits must silence our terrified flesh and learn to fully trust in God. In our very relative and varied earthly time, which is experienced differently by each spirit of every plant, animal and human being, God’s Spirit will work out all that exists for the good of all elect spirits. For instance, look at how the Spirit of God in Jesus knew He would raise that girl from the dead. Clearly, her resurrection was ordained from the beginning of time, because it was coordinated with the healing of another woman. Also, as soon as Jesus came to that ruler’s house and saw the people weeping, He wanted them to stop their grieving, because He obviously knew she was not going to remain dead, and that her flesh was only sleeping until He returned her spirit to her body (Mark 5:39, Luke 8:52). That is, the girl’s spirit had not yet finished her time on earth, did not yet permanently abandon her body of flesh. That girl’s spirit was still bound to her body, destined to experience time on earth, although her spirit was not maintaining life in her body. Yes, this little girl died at about the same time that Jesus healed the woman with the issue of blood. And, if Jesus had not healed that woman, but rushed to the house, it is possible that He might have arrived in time to save that girl before her body died. Yet God did not want to ignore the woman who needed to be healed. And the almighty omniscient Spirit in Jesus also could have also kept the girl alive until He arrived, or could have healed her without going to see her, if He chose to do so. But our God Jesus wanted to let the girl’s body temporarily die, for a good reason.
Because that girl died, then saw our God Jesus restore her flesh to life, that girl’s elect spirit became far more aware of its own existence and gained much faith in God, even while she lost much faith in her own mind and body of flesh. Likewise, her faith-building experience was shared by her parents and the three disciples that Jesus took with Him into that house. Furthermore, truths about how much God valued women and the critical roles He had assigned to them were illustrated at that time. For we see how Jesus chose to let the girl’s spirit leave her suffering body, even at about the same time that He healed the woman with the menstrual disorder. Then Jesus returned the spirit of life to that girl’s body within the hour, a girl who was only beginning to menstruate at twelve years of age. And Jesus did both miracles so that both females would continue to serve in God’s ordained ministry for women on earth, a sacrificial ministry of giving life through a loss of their life in their blood. Jesus was implying that, just as He gave life to the daughter of the ruler, women must labour to give life.
I realize all this seems to be strange speculation. But it is a rational explanation evidenced by the twelve years specified regarding two females involved in one event, if we interpret this event in the context of our Messiah illustrating how He came to fulfill the Law. We may sit idly by and delude ourselves that these coincidences were meaningless. For ignorance is bliss to lovers of darkness who hide from the light, for those who fear the toils and rewards of truth and wisdom. But, from all these details provided by three true apostles, we conclude that Jesus wanted us to draw a close connection between the healing of the woman who suffered an “issue of blood” for twelve years and the raising of a twelve-year-old girl to life again, as though the woman who could not bear a child for twelve years had somehow been chosen to give birth to the life in the twelve-year-old girl twelve years ago, but a life that would only live twelve years later. Both miracles in this one event were obviously meant for a purpose, to teach us, His disciples, about His principles of holiness and life in women, and our God’s own intent regarding His laws about menstruation, as well as the other Scriptures proclaiming God’s reasons for creating women. His laws and teachings were never intended to put Page 676
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down, dehumanize and degrade women, were never misogynistic. Rather, His laws and teachings tell us how women serve God by serving every inner and outer aspect of life, even by bearing children.
Humanists have always viewed justice as something for men. But God intended the same kind of justice—an equitable and evidence based judging with the goal of teaching and restoring the spirit’s right motives and intentions—for both males and females. Yet synagogues and churches have long denied this true justice to women, and thought in terms of humanistic superiority and inferiority. So this has to stop. It is almost time for the true revival of God’s priesthood of His real Israel, time to learn what Jesus kept hidden in that house, time to shout it from the rooftops. A woman’s physical act of sacrificing life in monthly bloodshed all her life, then risking her life to bear the life of a child, are signs of her spiritual ministry involving the restoration, redemption and building up of life in the familiar souls whom God brings into the sphere of her life. All this is a sign from our God Jesus, that His laws about menstruation referred to the life of the spirits in women. His laws and teachings were not about any kind of Greco-Roman subjugation of women, not about dumping women into a lower caste of a humanistic hierarchical system practising a pagan religion that worships elite human gods.
Yes, the thoughts of godly elect women definitely follow different pathways through the neurons of their brains of flesh, and women do not think like men do. Compared to a man’s brain, a female’s brain is oriented more towards earthly needs, but both physical and spiritual. Women think less in terms of the immutable and foundational principles of God’s wisdom and justice. But all of these differences are complementary, and both ways of thinking enhance the effectiveness of the other. In fact, almost every aspect of spiritual and physical life becomes far more full and just when both male and female brains work together in harmony. Both kinds of minds are needed in everything from legislating nations to planting a household garden, in medicine, law, science, management, farming, construction and everything else. There are even scientific studies that prove how groups consisting of only one sex are never as effective in solving problems as groups of both sexes, groups with equally respected males and females, if all other factors are taken into account. Of course, final decisions involving purely moral and spiritual structures or judgments are best left to older, wiser, loving and godly males. But this also means that final decisions involving the purely physical and spiritual needs of souls dwelling on this earth are best left to older, wiser, loving and godly females.
Then, whenever those elderly men or women are determining such things, they absolutely require input from trustworthy souls of the opposite sex. For male elders cannot judge and teach without information provided by females, and elderly female cannot justly provide for needs except through the spiritual/moral structure provided by males. There is literally no aspect of biological or spiritual life which can be effectively and justly fulfilled if both sexes do not contribute input for our choices.
In my younger days, I often confronted the extremely bad exegesis of Scriptures about women. And now that I am older, I could write a large book on the subject, since Jesus has taught my spirit more since that time. Yet there is much more to learn from God, and I will never live long enough to learn all that about this one topic alone, much less all the other matters of life and faith. And I still must confess that I cringe before God regarding some of the false teachings I previously believed, the blasphemous false doctrines I once trusted, thinking those lies came from God. But I am learning and repenting, while others do not. And literally all the elect must also learn and repent before the great revival, which will occur after Jesus opens the sixth seal, which may even happen within this current generation. In the meantime, I pray for more learning and repentance, for myself and others.
There were a few other details mentioned by Mark and Luke as well. For instance, both told us that the father of the girl was a synagogue ruler by the name of Jairus (Mark 5:22, Luke 8:41). So, as the chosen synagogue ruler, Jairus would choose the one to pray and the one to read the appointed Page 677
Scriptures at each particular Sabbath gathering. Then he would keep order during the teaching sessions in the assembly. Also, Jairus would be the one who would keep track of all that happened to all the people in his synagogue. For he had to pray for and help each individual in need, or else arrange for help to be given to them, or make announcements in the synagogue about those needs, with careful wisdom and loving discretion, so other members could pray and provide assistance to the needy whenever he could not cope with them alone. And, since they chose Jairus to do all this, he definitely had to be a capable, trustworthy, beloved and devout Jew with a deep love for the people, as well as a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures, which included God’s laws about menstruation.
Consequently, Jesus must have thought that Jairus was able to comprehend what He secretly taught about women in that house, and through the miracles He performed during this event. Jesus must have thought that Jairus could fully understand what He taught in private, after expelling the crowd and shutting the doors to the house. So Jairus must have been as well-taught and faithful as those three core disciples whom Jesus took with Him into that house. And Jesus also knew that the wife Jairus would understand His secret teachings as well, although most other women could not do so.
Jairus even seems to have had a Hebrew name meaning, “Yahweh enlightens” ( The Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Part 2; Inter-Varsity Press, 1998, p. 731). So both the occupation and the name of that girl’s father suggest why our God Jesus deliberately caused these two miracles to occur at the same time, both for the suffering older woman and the girl, then seemed to have given some kind of private teaching in that house, to enlighten those few people He chose to hear it. Jesus simply must have more fully explained the biblical roles of women within His church of Israel, to Jairus, his wife, Peter, James and John, although Jesus did not yet want to teach those truths to the biased and very humanistic general public at that time. And, throughout history, most people have not been willing to hear those truths found in God’s Word. So God’s servants had to remain silent about them too, and let those truths become gradually proven to all, lest Satan’s world order react violently against them.
Lastly, we should notice what the messengers, when they approached Jairus and Jesus, said: “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more? ” (Mark 5:33, cf., Luke 8:49). So those devout Jewish messengers, like so many Christians today, did not seem to really believe that Jesus was the promised Messiah and God, but was merely a famous and influential mortal man. And, yes, they knew God’s power worked through Jesus, enough to heal the sick. But they did not think God could or would also raise the dead as well. So they put God in a little box which limited Him on all sides.
The words of those messengers, about not further bothering a great Rabbi about the death of one little mere girl, were telling. Those words illustrated how those men had developed a man-made image of God in their own minds, a false idol, one which was able to heal the sick but was not able to raise the dead. Their minds of flesh carved this false idol into their minds through many purely imaginary religious doctrines that defined all their false idol could do and could not do. Then they named this false idol “God.” And, if they did believe that Jesus was the biblical Messiah, who is God in a body of human flesh, then they revealed that they believed He was merely this idol, and limited by the ways their imaginations limited it. If they accepted that their Messiah, their God incarnate, could heal the sick, they did not believe this because the Scriptures said He could. Rather, their minds of flesh simply saw Him heal so many people that they had to admit He could do it. Yet, even though the Scriptures also told them that God could raise the dead, they did not believe it, since their eyes of flesh had not yet seen Him do it. Thus, they did not accept the God whom Jesus had declared Himself to be, in the words of His own Book. They had no faith in God’s Word, did not truly believe what God revealed Himself to be in His own words, but only believed what they saw or heard in Page 678
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their own personal lives. Then they invented their own personally comfortable image of a god in their own minds of flesh, an image that would be more suitable to ways in which they chose to live.
Many souls desire a god that is like themselves, a god who endorses their humanistic traditions. And, if anyone says anything that even slightly contradicts their man-made image of a god, they will consider it to be blasphemy, a sin worthy of expulsion, severe punishment or even death. Also, if anyone tells them that God’s Law forbade them to invent and worship those idols they have invented for themselves, they will fly into a carnal rage, insisting they are worshipping the real God, Yahweh, and Him alone—even though it is blatantly obvious to God Himself, and to all honest elect spirits, that they are doing no such thing. For even plain logic reveals that their invented gods clearly is not the biblical God, and their invented gods oppose the real God. In fact, each one’s own invented god opposes all the other invented gods of their fellow idolaters in their same church. Furthermore, each invented god even opposes itself, by teaching totally inconsistent doctrines catering to carnal whims.
When religious people insist that the true worship of God is about oppressing and demeaning women in every way possible, and will dismiss a little girl’s death as something not worthy of their god’s attention, they are actually worshipping a false idol created in their own minds of flesh. And it is these false idols which cause or allow them to persecute lost and terrified female children at abortion clinics, slander good and godly works of women, and oppress women in countless other ways. Their false idols, whom they call by the name of the real God, also cause the real God to hand them over to other delusions, so they will even follow psychopaths into all kinds of other sins too, so they unjustly harm or even murder their own brothers and sisters in humankind. These idolaters will persecute people of a different culture, language, political party or colour of flesh. For, in reality, their idols called by names like “Jesus,” “Yahweh” or “God” are actually demonic spirits, and the real Creator God has given them over to be enslaved by them. Then their worshipped devils oppose every word and work of the real Jesus, of the real Yahweh. As a result, their idols teach them life-destroying lies, encourage them to lap up every conspiracy theory and delusion that bolsters their own vain pride of the flesh, or that feeds the lusts of their flesh. Then, by all this, they destroy their own flesh as well.
Many of these fake god worshippers are actually serving their spirits’ real father, who was a liar and murderer from the beginning. So they create their idols in the as image of their father from hell, and are actually calling their father, whom God’s Word calls Satan, by the name of “God” and the name of “Jesus.” Then their very spirits worship that wicked, deceiving, malicious prince of demons. For all the false doctrines that their darkened hearts believe actually define the attributes of the false gods they are worshipping. And it is by their teachings and actions that we know they are worshippers of Satan, that they definitely are not worshippers of Yahweh, in their spirits and in truth. By their deeds we know them, by their teachings which hate and oppose the God of the Bible and the real Messiah Jesus. That is why we refuse to join them, and why we no longer put a man-made god in a man-made box, like they do. For, even if we began life among them, our spirits cannot ignore realities and simply invent a highly limited fake god who flatters our egos. Rather than a self-serving idol, we have learned that, to truly live an abundant life of loving and being loved, we need to let the one and only Creator God define His own attributes through His own words and His creations. We must get to know the real Jesus, and understand His attributes through His words, then assess His character from what He actually does in our personal lives, as well as in His spiritual and physical creations.
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one another. That demon employs his ultimate religion of secular humanism against his own fake churches, and vice versa. For demonic spirits are always teaching the spirits of the their children how to fulfill their purpose of destroying God’s just and loving influence on earth. However,, once we cast aside those man-made idols, and get to know the real Jesus, our God, we begin to see how God’s laws and ways have nothing to do with the arbitrary and unjust cruelty of the fake churches. Rather, all God’s spiritual laws are perfectly designed to enhance a respectful expression of just love for our elect brothers and sisters in the church and throughout the world. So God’s laws regarding women, even His laws about menstruation, are not what false rabbis and false preachers say they are, since the real God is not like the gods they worship. The real God was never a chauvinist nor a misogynist.
When we look at how God’s Word portrays the roles of women, we should not interpret those truths through the distorting lenses of Roman humanism, since that is the religion of Satan’s beast, not the culture of God’s kingdom on earth. Keeping this in mind, let us rightly interpret the teachings about women from God’s Word, in the ways God intended them to be interpreted for His elect on earth.
For example, look at what one of those teachings, which is often maligned, really says about women:
“The wives [are as concerned] for the benefit of their own husbands, as for the benefit of the Lord, because a husband is the head of the wife as also Christ [is] the Head of the universal church. He [is] the Saviour of the body. But, as the universal church is being put under assignment for the benefit of Christ, so too also the wives [are being put under assignment]
for the benefit of [their] husbands in all things. [That is, women tend to focus on the spiritual and physical attributes of the principal men in their lives, rather than directly on God Himself. Consequently, they consciously or unconsciously interpret the world, life and all things according to the moral and spiritual structures which those men provide. So the doctrines of women are the views of human lords, not their own.]
“Husbands justly love [your] wives, just as Christ also justly loved the universal church and gave up Himself on behalf of her, so that He might set her apart as holy, cleansed with the washing of water in a spoken word [that is, here our God Jesus tells men to provide a just, loving and biblical spiritual/moral structure for their wives], so He could stand beside the universal church with Him in good opinion, not having defect or wrinkle or any such things, but so that she might be holy and without blame. Just so, the husbands are under obligation to justly love their own wives as their own bodies. The one justly loving his own wife is justly loving himself ...”
(Eph. 5:22-28, from: Αἱ γυναῖκες τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ὡς τῷ κυρίῳ, ὅτι ἀνήρ ἐστιν κεφαλὴ
τῆς γυναικὸς ὡς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς κεφαλὴ τῆς ἐκκλησίας, αὐτὸς σωτὴρ τοῦ σώματος. ἀλλὰ ὡς ἡ
ἐκκλησία ὑποτάσσεται τῷ Χριστῷ, οὕτως καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες τοῖς ἀνδράσιν ἐν παντί. Οἱ ἄνδρες, ἀγαπᾶτε τὰς γυναῖκας, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς ἠγάπησεν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ ἑαυτὸν παρέδωκεν
ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς, ἵνα αὐτὴν ἁγιάσῃ καθαρίσας τῷ λουτρῷ τοῦ ὕδατος ἐν ῥήματι, ἵνα παραστήσῃ
αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ ἔνδοξον τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, μὴ ἔχουσαν σπίλον ἢ ῥυτίδα ἤ τι τῶν τοιούτων, ἀλλʼ
ἵνα ᾖ ἁγία καὶ ἄμωμος. οὕτως ὀφείλουσιν καὶ οἱ ἄνδρες ἀγαπᾶν τὰς ἑαυτῶν γυναῖκας ὡς τὰ
ἑαυτῶν σώματα· ὁ ἀγαπῶν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα ἑαυτὸν ἀγαπᾷ, SBLGNT).
In the first verse above (Eph. 5:22), the datives indicate “for the benefit of.” In this context, those datives suggest a concern by women for their husbands, fathers and other principal men in their lives, with a will to help and support them in whatever ways they can. And—as we see around the world today, as well as throughout all history—truly loving wives, whose spirits have committed to a true marriage covenant with their husbands, always and invariably possess a deep, spontaneous concern for the spiritual, emotional and physical well-being of their husbands. Then her husband’s spiritual views, directions, goals, intentions and desires soon become the guiding principles of their own lives. For what is in his head becomes what is in her head. So he becomes her head. And, in the Page 680
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same way, an awakened elect man also takes all that is in the mind of Jesus Christ, as the guiding principles of his own life. So Jesus becomes his Head. This headship occurs naturally, through the love of the spirit in the heart, and can never be forced by things like vows made by minds of flesh, nor by the wills of human powers or authorities. Nor is this headship earned. Yes, at times, influence may be temporarily won by deceit, but is soon lost again, since the love that builds a bond with the head of one’s life can only construct a lasting relationship like this upon a solid foundation of truth.
Now, when a loving elect woman naturally and spontaneously concerns herself with the spiritual, emotional and physical welfare of her loving, elect husband, and with everyone else within the sphere of her life, she is doing so “as for the benefit of the Lord.” For, just as God Himself causes the spirits of awakened and faithful elect men to be “put under assignment for the benefit of Christ,”
God also causes the spirits of loving elect wives to be “put under assignment for the benefit of” their husbands (or fathers or other principal men whom they love, or at least inwardly esteem). Thus, all awakened and faithful elect men naturally and spontaneously serve Jesus, their Head, according to the guiding principles from the mind of Jesus and through the “assignment” that God has written on their hearts. Likewise, all loving elect women naturally and spontaneously serve their husbands, or other men, as their heads, according to the guiding principles from the minds of men, and through the “assignment” that God has written on the hearts of those men. And a godly elect woman will feel lost if she has no trusted or beloved man to be her head. In all this, there is nothing about the mind of flesh making vows and commitments, nothing about being forced or forcing oneself to submit to any authority, neither on earth nor in heaven. For this serving comes from one’s spirit through love alone.
Of course, the elect spirit of the man and of the woman must often war against the more selfish and worldly desires and demands of one’s flesh. A mind of flesh can sometimes be a powerful enemy of the spirit, when it is tempted by the carnal rewards that deluding demons and the citizens of Satan’s world order might offer. Thus, each elect individual must live life according to an internal structure which provides enough lawful gratification of flesh to prevent the unbridled wrath and rebellion of that flesh, so the spirit can grow in love by learning from the Holy Spirit of Jesus. And this is why the spirits of elect men were created with a propensity to love and serve Jesus with their bodies of flesh in more direct ways, by building up moral/spiritual structures, by making final decisions and judgments. Meanwhile the spirits of elect women were created with a propensity to serve Jesus with their bodies of flesh in more indirect ways, but in ways that men need to accommodate, and thus become aware of, in order to make right decisions. From the beginning, God ordained that a man shall build the internal structure and guiding principles of his family and community, while a woman naturally absorbs those guiding principles and serves her people through them, within that structure.
For God created the minds of female flesh to absorb the wills of their human heads, but also inform those males of all they did not or could not see, including the motives and intentions which those men must carefully cross-examine in order to make right judgments. So God created elect male minds of flesh to absorb the spiritually just will of God, but with the help of elect female minds too.
All elect spirits, both of men and women, are equal. In fact, spirits maintaining life in all earthly creatures, including plants, are basically the same, since all are made of the substance of God’s Spirit, either from His power or from His inner substance of life, which is called His “breath.” And all elect human spirits serve Jesus directly and equally, according to whatever spiritual and physical attributes and gifts God has granted each one. Then, after death, in heaven, there will be no elect spirits in male flesh nor elect spirits in female flesh, since spirits cannot have sexual identities. In heaven, all bodies will be made of a spiritual substance, and without reproductive organs, thus, will be identified as “male” by souls on earth, just as all heavenly angels seen on earth are called males.
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Since neither male nor female spirits exist, and because all judgments must be made based on the motives and intentions of a spirit, then proven by solid evidence which reveals genuine truths, there can be no hierarchical class systems. For we cannot judge others to form class systems based upon physical criteria of the very temporary flesh. We cannot say a male is superior and a woman is inferior when their spirits are exactly equal, in the same way we cannot judge others as lesser souls based upon race, or their lack of Satan’s invention of money, or their lack of educational accolades granted by highly biased chief scholars, or by any other superficial attributes of the flesh. For all right, just, effective, beneficial and loving judgments must be based upon the attributes of the spirit.
Of course, earthly souls have two minds, a mind of flesh and a mind of the spirit. And both of these two minds, through the interface of the soul, produce all of one’s decisions and thoughts in life. So our earthly souls see our human bodies, and the bodies of others, as either male or female. Even our spirits usually understand that our flesh is either male or female—although God may confuse this sexual identity in some, primarily due to the sins of a family or culture, but seldom due to anyone’s own personal sins. Then we need to realize that God assigned certain earthly roles to spirits with male bodies and minds of flesh, earthly roles which differ from those of females. And all of these natural, spontaneous roles sought by males or females can never be altered by propaganda, although unnatural circumstances and delusions formed by liars can confuse and distort those roles for a time, sometimes during a spirit’s entire life on earth. And many such disruptions originates through the unnatural religious sects of Satan’s world order, especially humanism, because demonic spirits want to be their own gods who make their own laws, and nullify God’s spiritual and natural laws. Yet, any attempt to alter what God irrevocably ordained, or to gain good spiritual and even physical effects in ways that do not follow the wisdom of His laws, will inevitably result in much chaos, destruction and death. Outside of God’s ordained ways, which He designed specifically for the benefit of His spiritual and physical creations, there can be nothing but the darkness of loveless lies and delusions.
An abundant life in the true earthly kingdom of God can only be realized if men willingly serve as responsible, loving heads of their families, in the just ways God taught, as judges who teach and actually fulfill God’s Law in Jesus. Men must learn to serve as the chief priests and saviours of their families, just as Jesus serves them, with a willingness to sacrifice for their loved ones. Then women must sacrifice their blood, spirit and lives for their loved ones, as Jesus did. The only way we, as the church or priesthood of God, can be “set apart as holy,” is if we are “cleansed with the washing of water in a spoken word,” in the counsel of truth and wisdom, which the Holy Spirit within our God Jesus personally and directly provides for our elect spirits. All the matters of the flesh, everything from romance to dealing with tragedies, must take second place to these spiritual duties and the commitments of our loving spirits, because all that is good about physical life is built upon what is believed and done by our spirits, and life becomes and empty, dark hell without the spirit’s love.
All spiritually mature elect men are obligated to teach and use the “spoken word” of our God Jesus in all their judgments, and to humbly apply His truths for both males and females regarding all the decisions of their lives. And there can be no ranks or hierarchies in truly just and godly judgments, no male superiority or female inferiority, and no humanistic kinds of “heads.” In the true church, all
“husbands are under obligation to justly love their own wives.” This God-like kind of love is built on a foundation of God’s truths, and grows through His wisdom to rightly apply those truths. Thus, the very spirits of all men in His true church must learn these truths and this wisdom directly from the Holy Spirit of Jesus. Once elect men do this, their wives and daughters will naturally respond in joy to any true and wise thoughts expressed from the spirits of their husbands or fathers, as those men also respond in joy to all they learn from Jesus. Then elect females will spontaneously apply those Page 682
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just, loving, wise spiritual truths themselves. These are the spiritual structures for a woman’s life that her husband or father must provide, for every aspect of her life. Consequently, there has never been any need for forced Roman-like hierarchical structure which coerces women to serve men, like inferior slaves owned by those men. Nor has there ever been any need to devise any other humanistic hierarchy, such as where women rule over men. God’s love has never endorsed arrogant hierarchies.
If we look closely, all the Scriptures teach “heads” to serve, not to be served, to love and not coerce the flesh of others into slavery. God’s Word, from the very beginning, portrays males and females as entirely spiritually equal, then assigns individuals of each physical sex different an equally critical earthly role in serving God and their loved ones. Yes, God did differentiate between male and female roles, but also commanded that He must be the Teacher of all. And He allows each unique individual to naturally and spontaneously develop and grow into the destiny and eternal spiritual being that He crafted each one to be, as each spirit personally learns truths and wisdom from Him throughout life.
So let males and females respect the spiritual equality of one another. Let us all learn to apply and fulfill true justice for all, without bias, without arrogance. And, to do this, let us first learn to allow the whisperings of God’s Holy Spirit to be heard by our spirits, so we might walk according to those wise words, and no longer walk according to the arrogant, selfish and often violent impulses of our irrational and self-destructive minds of flesh. If we do this, we will also encourage and promote the freedom of each individual to do whatever God calls one’s spirit to do through one’s body of flesh.
For each one’s calling from our God Jesus Christ is always based on the inherent attributes and natural propensities which God Himself created in the spirit and body of each one. So there is no need to control and oppress the elect disciples whose hearts follow the teachings of our God Jesus, no need for any kinds of humanistic hierarchies. What we really need are true servants of our God.
Mat. 9:27-34,
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“As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed Him, calling out and saying, ‘Have mercy on us, Son of David!’ When He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him.
Jesus said to them, ‘Do you believe that I am able to do this?’ They told Him, ‘Yes, Lord.’
Then He touched their eyes, saying, ‘According to your faith be it done to you.’ Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, ‘See that no one knows about this.’ But they went out and spread abroad His fame in all that land.
“As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to Him.
When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marvelled, saying,
‘Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!’ But the Pharisees said, ‘By the prince of the demons, He casts out demons’” (Mat. 9:27-34, WEB).
These were the last two miracles of Jesus which Matthew wrote about before telling us that Jesus left Capernaum to teach and serve in the other parts of Israel. And Jesus did these two works only days before He sent out of His twelve core disciples, His assistant teachers, on a mission to teach His doctrines and perform the same miracles that He Himself did, but all in His name. And Matthew himself was one of those twelve. Now, both before and after this time, Jesus healed many blind men and cast out many demons. Yet Matthew seemed to think these two miracles were special. For there was a change in the way Jesus began to minister in Israel after these two miracles. Once Jesus healed these men, He then implied a public declaration of war against the false churches. And His twelve Page 683
core disciples were His soldiers sent out to defeat the spiritual enemy, to free those who those false churches had enslaved. In Matthew’s eyes, these miracles defined the mission of His spiritual war.
The false churches had been attacking Jesus from the beginning, but now began to declare that the Creator’s utterly holy Spirit within Jesus was Satan, a lie designed to make souls afraid to hear the real truth. And this is a still a typical kind of lie told by psychopaths. They instinctively accuse others of the very same sins that they commit, or of being the kind of criminals that they are themselves.
So, since these leaders of fake churches did all their works by the counsel and power of Satan, they accused our God Jesus of doing the same, while also denying that they served the devil. For these liars were true psychopaths, although they falsely claimed to be servants of God. They disguised themselves as God’s servants by using the names of God to call on demons instead. So, when these religious right-wing humanists accused our God Jesus of being Satan, Jesus ordained that it was time to make an open declaration of spiritual warfare against them, then deploy His best trained troops into the enemy’s territories. And this is what Jesus has been doing ever since, throughout all history.
Now Jesus has gained millenniums of small and large victories for God’s kingdom on earth. And soon He will send even more of His soldiers, who shall wield more power than the ancient prophets, to free enslaved elect spirits from blind servitude to the world order, and from Satan’s silencing oppression. For that devil, through his fake churches, has suppressed and nullified the truth far too much and too long, through his carnal and faithless dogmatism of his man-made traditions, and by demanding the worship of human gods. Since the day of these two miracles, throughout the ensuing centuries, Jesus has employed many elect in the works of teaching, judging, building structures of understanding and expressing just love in the world. His army has besieged strongholds of spiritual darkness and terrified the vile thugs in them. They have forced many vain and despotic kings into surrender and, above all, continuously constructed solid foundations for the human temples of God’s loving elect, so they can enter His New Covenant kingdom on earth. Yet their work has only begun.
Matthew had a good reason for recording the accounts of these two miracles just before he began to write about Jesus’ declaration of war against false churches. First, these two miracles symbolized what His soldiers most needed to do in their battle against cunning lies and slanderous propaganda from the devil’s troops. To fight as His soldiers, we all need to see the spiritual and physical realities that God created and maintained all around us, and we also need to speak with total freedom from demonic oppression. Second, the Father of our spirits ordained that these two miracles would be symbolic works performed by Jesus just before He sent out His disciples for the first time, so we too might attack the forces of evil religious delusions and lies. Of all the hundreds or even thousands of instant healings, expulsions of demons, and other miracles, it was predestined that these two events should occur just before Jesus deployed His New Covenant priesthood of Israel, to go out in His name, into a spiritual war against false churches. Since Matthew saw God’s hand in this, and the symbols of what we need for effective warfare against the devil’s army, he recorded an account of these two miracles just before he told us how Jesus went on the offensive in His declaration of war.
Jesus Heals Two Blind Men
Jesus healed many blind eyes of flesh, and all were symbols of how Jesus makes blind souls to see.
But this healing at this particular time was for a more specific purpose. This miracle of healing these two blind men was obviously teaching us that our spirits must see His created realities in order to do His works. We must know the physical and spiritual truths before we can speak and act rightly in the name of our God Jesus. This is evident in the way this miracle occurred. It happened not long after Jesus returned to Capernaum, where He publicly taught and performed many miracles. Because of Page 684
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His truth and power, crowds of disciples followed Him, seeking to learn about God and life through His words and deeds. And these two blind men were disciples with the rest, believing that the words of Jesus were true, and that He was the long-promised Messiah, God incarnate. So, shortly after they began to believe in the love, power and authority of Jesus as God, they too wanted to be healed of their blindness. Thus, they began calling out to Him, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.” And notice they addressed Jesus as “Son of David” (υἱὲ Δαυίδ), a title of the Messiah. Thus, we know they had already believed He was the Messiah. They had heard His words and believed He was God dwelling in a body of human flesh, since that is what Jesus and all of the Scriptures taught about the Messiah.
Yet Jesus ignored the two blind men for awhile, as the crowds thronged Him and the two blind men called to Him from a distance. It was not as though Jesus remained unaware of these men who were calling out to Him. For the people standing beside Jesus heard them. So Jesus must have heard them too. And, if His ears of flesh did not hear them, surely the Spirit of God in Jesus would have heard them. Nevertheless, Jesus waited and did not immediately respond to them. But He did not likely shun them for any reasons of the flesh, not because they were hypocrites, nor because His flesh was too tired to minister to them. Rather, there must have been some a spiritual reason for ignoring those blind men for a time, and why He simply returned to His house instead. Now, once a rabbi goes home, his disciples are expected to depart and let Him rest. This was just common a courtesy, to respect a rabbi’s right to privacy. So the vast majority of Jesus’ disciples left at that time, all except the ones He invited into His home. And Jesus probably invited only His twelve closest disciples, the ones serving as His assistant teachers. Only these would have gone into the house of Jesus, so they could engage in private conversations, teachings and a good meal. But the two blind men stayed, standing outside the house, and pondering what they should do next. For they felt compelled to see Jesus, not only for the healing of their blind eyes, but also because they sought a new life in Jesus.
Then Matthew tells us: “Now, [after] having gone into the house, the blind ones approached Him”
(Mat. 9:28, from: ἐλθόντι δὲ εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν προσῆλθον αὐτῷ οἱ τυφλοί, SBLGNT). Thus, the blind men must have knocked on the door after Jesus went inside His home. And Jesus Himself must have come to the door, to personally speak with them. So Jesus seems to have already known they would knock, as well as what they wanted, before either said a word. Then they likely did not say anything before Jesus asked them: “Are you both trusting that I have the power to do this?” (Mat. 9:28, from: Πιστεύετε ὅτι δύναμαι τοῦτο ποιῆσαι;, SBLGNT). This was a question designed to stimulate the inward searching of the soul, making them take the time to discern between the doubting thoughts from their minds of flesh and the solid, more thoroughly convinced thoughts from the minds of their spirits. After some internal arguments between the two minds within their souls, the stronger minds of their spirits, with the aid of God’s Spirit, had clearly discovered their true faith. So they responded in the traditional way a disciple answers a rabbi’s question, by calling Him their “Lord.” And, when they said, “Yes Lord” (Ναί κύριε), they did not lie. Although their eyes of flesh could not see the miracles Jesus had previously done in their home town of Capernaum, their spirits saw Him do all of it. Far more than this, their spirits, with the interceding power of God’s own Spirit, realized that all Jesus taught them from the hillsides, on the streets and in the houses rang true. All was nourishing food for their hungry souls. So their spirits knew Jesus also could surely make their eyes able to see.
Think about this. Approximately two millenniums ago, Jesus ascended into heaven and will not return until this current night is fully spent and the sun has risen well above the horizon in a genuine revival of biblical truth. So does His physical absence mean that we, who are all somewhat blinded by the darkness we live in every day, must remain in the spiritual suffering caused by our sightless existence? Will our spirits never be able to knock on the door of Jesus’ house so He might heal us?
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Well, long after Jesus ascended into heaven, He told His church, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me” (Rev. 3:20, WEB). So now, Jesus waits until we are inwardly ready and knocks on the doors of our hearts, without us needing to physically go anywhere. Of course, there likely would have been more than two blind souls hearing Jesus preach that day. But we know these two blind men hastily stumbled along behind the crowd, following Jesus, calling out to Him, then waited until the throngs dispersed. These two had the persistence and the courage to knock on that famous Rabbi’s door, knowing He would not turn them away, confident that He would love them enough to heal them, so they could serve Him in a new life. And Jesus did heal them. So why would we, in our day, believe anyone who dares to preach cessationism, and teach us that our spirits are no longer able to ask our living and loving Lord Jesus to heal our blindness? Yes, Jesus rose and lives, so He can and will open our eyes to see the spiritual and physical realities He is constantly revealing to the true children of the Father, to all the elect who have ever lived and ever will live. Today, let all elect spirits remember how He expressly commanded us: “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened” (Mat. 7:7-8, WEB). Furthermore, Jesus will even knock on the doors of our hearts, whenever our spirits are ready to hear Him, and not wait for us to knock.
Jesus went into His house (as indicated by the aorist dative participle, ἐλθόντι). But those two blind disciples knocked on the door without paying any heed to the protocols invented by men, although most other disciples would consider this to be rude and offensive. Yet Jesus did not mind them doing this. In fact, Jesus seemed to be waiting for them to come and knock, since He seemed to answer the knock on the door personally, so He could ask them a soul-searching question. Therefore, His Spirit must have prompted their spirits to take courage and ask Him to be healed. Likewise, since those blind men did this, and since Jesus warmly received them and ministered to them, why can’t we also knock on the door of heaven and ask for Jesus? After all, His home of heaven is closer to us than that physical house in Capernaum was to those blind men. Heaven exists beside us, on the other side of our thin walls of flesh, so close that even the softest whispers of our spirits can be heard by those who dwell there. Consequently, is there any reason why our elect spirits, as His disciples, cannot also see and hear Jesus today, and ask Him to heal us of our own blindness to the obvious truths in plain sight all around us, so we may see His light of life and truly enjoy His loving providence during every moment of every day? Do any of us lack the right to knock on His door? Will He turn away any of us through selfish anger, or send angels to drive our spirits away from His door? No! Jesus loves literally all elect human beings, like His siblings, though all are equally loveless sinners. For Jesus commanded elect sinners to knock on His door, and told us that He sought only sinners. Jesus only refuses to speak with the “righteous,” since all claiming to be “righteous” are either deluded or lying. Jesus will only refuse to hear the arrogant and dishonest souls, if they dare knock on His door.
But if our spirits knock on heaven’s door, we must go with the expectation that our Creator God, our Jesus, will indeed rebuke all the lies we believe, and lead us away from our sins. His words will cut deep into our souls and make us question the motives and intentions of our hearts, until our spirits must admit the truth. His voice is a painful fire that burns away every delusion in our souls. All the words voiced by Jesus’ Holy Spirit slice our soul in two, dividing our souls from our spirits, forcing the minds of our spirits to part from our minds of flesh, and part from any other spirits that might be found there. Yet we soon learn to not fear this penetrating pain, since we find that Jesus heals and will never destroy our spirits. Rather, He burns away all that harms our spirits, leaving us cleansed.
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we experience those deeply personal and intense conversations, we are always filled with renewed zeal, a sense of purpose and, most often, pure joy, in awe and wonder of His insight and pure power.
Like those two blind men, if we knock on Jesus’ door, we must be willing to search out our spirits’
faith, find what is in our hearts, be it strong or weak, true or false. For it does not matter what our spirits can do for themselves. It only matters what Jesus can do for our spirits. And even our faith comes from Him, since all of the faith in our spirits is built up by His personal teaching and training, by His words and works alone. So our infantile spirits boldly counter the doubting and self-justifying thoughts from our minds of flesh, and pierce those doubts with razor-sharp truths and realities. Our spirits leave our souls and those fearful doubts behind, so our spirits might look honestly into the humbling eyes of our wise and almighty Brother and God. Then our spirits will answer Him, and say, “Yes, Lord,” when He asks us if we trust in His wisdom and power as we make our requests.
When Jesus asked the blind men this question, He used a present tense participle. He asked them
“are [your spirits] continuously trusting,” with an ongoing, consistent confidence in His love, truth, wisdom, power and authority. And this is what their spirits confirmed. For all elect spirits, when they face the real God, our Messiah, find that their faith in Him is natural, spontaneous and everlasting.
Only their flesh causes doubts in their souls, not their elect spirits. So, when we pray, Jesus will also speak directly to our spirits, asking if we have this kind of faith, the kind that can exist only in our spirits, even the permanent and undying kind of faith that He Himself builds in our hearts. Then we too will discover, sometimes surprisingly, that our spirits actually possess this kind of true faith, as we look into the brightly lit soul of our God, where all love resides. Jesus will query our spirits in this way because He does not want us to have a fake and temporary faith, worked up by emotions in the mind of flesh, which is the kind that most false churches teach us to have, the kind that is created in mind of flesh after being hyped up by professional music and the charisma of self-promoting motivational speakers. Jesus looks for genuine faith, the kind that His Spirit builds in our spirits.
Therefore, before anyone can knock on heaven’s door, one’s spirit must first silence its interfering flesh with a well-reasoned rebuke founded upon genuine truths. And speaking to our God Jesus will be even better if one’s spirit leaves the chamber of the soul while praying, and withdraws into the chamber of the heart—although it is usually necessary for the spirit to remain in the soul, so the mind of flesh also hears the voice of God, and learns to fear Him. After freeing the spirit from all the pride, lusts and cultural biases of the flesh, and after disregarding all the lies from men and demons, an elect spirit will be able to honestly assess whatever one truly knows about the actual words and deeds of Jesus, our God. For every human spirit must rightly judge His words and deeds; those in one’s own life, in history, in God’s creation, and in His Book. And only an elect spirit is able to judge spiritual and physical realities based solely on true and genuine evidence. For only an elect spirit’s mind can wisely interpret evidence through its far more rational and correct reasoning, but a non-elect child of Satan has no ability to do this. Now then, after an honest and humbled elect spirit does this, that one’s spirit can answer His question and say: “Yes, Lord of my life, Teacher of my soul.”
Then that humble and faithful elect spirit can make requests through just love, according to His will, whether those supplications are for Him to teach some truth or to do some kind of good work. And, whatever we ask according to His will, He definitely will grant us that good request. But, even if we do not ask what is according to His will, He is willing to correct us, to teach us wisdom so we might understand why He will not grant the request, or why He will grant it later, when He predestined it.
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them. For they came to Him in public, as though they were expecting Him to heal them as a show of His power. But Jesus never healed anyone in that way. Rather, since the Spirit in Jesus is God, and the power of His holy Spirit does the healing, each and every elect spirit in all the bodies He heals must personally know and love His Holy Spirit first. Then His Holy Spirit will heal through His own personal love for that elect soul, and only because of that one’s faithful love. Only through this love will God heal any individual, and only according to a spirit’s loving faith. Thus, Jesus waited until He (1) affirmed and build up the love and faith in the spirits of those two blind men, by teaching them more about Himself and all they should believe about Him and His ways; (2) confirmed His personal love for their spirits; and (3) caused each to serve Him through trusting love, through a meaningful life, through an abundant life of fulfilled love in joy, to fulfill their destinies. Thus, since those blind men did not yet realize all this while in public, Jesus waited before answering them. First Jesus had to personally ask if their spirits continuously trusted in Him. After that, they went through the process of searching their souls until the minds of their spirits subjugated the minds of their flesh with His Spirit’s fearsome presence in their souls, while they addressed Him and made their request.
Then He healed them according to their faith, to built up the love, trust, knowledge of God, wisdom for living and all else in their spirits, in a way where they could begin to serve Him as true disciples.
All this may seem to be speculation. But, based on our own experiences, we know it all must be true.
So now let us learn from this event about these two blind men. They were healed because of their spirits’ trust in Jesus. And this had absolutely nothing to do with the twisted, superficial doctrines of Gnostic witchcraft preached in many churches today. These blind men were not healed by a “spoken words of faith,” by the power of a force called “faith,” by superstitiously believing their words could produce results and effects according to anyone’s ignorant, greedy will of the flesh. When a mouth speaks through the will of its flesh, that word will be utterly meaningless and totally ineffective.
And, if one speaks a word through the will of a perverse and selfish spirit, it will be used by demonic powers to produce deadly and destructive effects. Rather, an elect spirit needs to speak to Jesus and to the heavenly Father, with or without the mouth of flesh. More importantly, our spirits need to humbly listen to the words spoken directly and personally to our spirits from our God Himself. And, if we request anything from our Creator God, it must be according to His will, after hearing His will, after He builds up our spirits’ inherent faith to trust His just love, truth, wisdom, power and authority.
Furthermore, if one persists in living through witchcraft’s “faith in faith,” and trusts in one’s own words created by one’s own mind of flesh, God may allow Satan to grant some of those desires, in a way that casts one into the darkness of lies and delusions, to destroy oneself. So we should be very careful about becoming too persistent and stubborn about gaining selfish desires through fake faith, or about demanding what our flesh covets through its pride, greed and lusts. For that kind of arrogant faith of the flesh will lead us into a spiritual void. And there is no escape from that kind of hell on earth, except through extremely humiliating spiritual repentance into the truth about oneself and a complete acceptance of the core spiritual realities taught by God in His Word. First one must realize that one is a useless, vain sinner, worthless to man and God. Then, once one’s elect spirit knows that one is not a god, and that no entity on earth or in heaven is a god, that spirit can pray. Only if an elect spirit humbly knocks on Jesus’ door, after the crowd is gone, when there can be no proud display of getting one’s own way according to one’s own will, and after one honestly searches one’s soul in a way that puts down beguiling thoughts of one’s irrational flesh, can one’s spirit hear and heed Jesus words, then receive an answer to one’s prayer. And, even if a miracle is needed to fulfill God’s will, Jesus will provide that miracle. But He only grants prayers of supplication so your spirit can keep on learning and growing as His disciple, so one may effectively serve Him in truth and wisdom for life.
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So Jesus touched their eyes and told them, “According to the faith [in the spirits] of [both of] you, let it be done for [both of] you” (Mat. 9:29, from: Κατὰ τὴν πίστιν ὑμῶν γενηθήτω ὑμῖν, SBLGNT). Of course, Jesus did not need to touch their eyes to heal them. But He did it as a sign that He personally willed to heal them, to show them that His power, as God incarnate, willingly caused them to see the realities of His creations existing all around them. And, when Jesus commanded the healing, He used a theological passive (i.e., an aorist passive imperative form of the verb γίνομαι), to indicate that God did this healing, that is, the Spirit of God inside His own body. Jesus also told them how they were healed, “according to their faith.” Of course, this did not make the healing conditional upon the degree of faith in each blind man’s spirit, since God heals, not a “faith power,” and even our saving faith originates from God, by the inherent attributes He created in our spirits and through His own personal teaching and training of our spirits. Therefore, like all commands of our God, Jesus made His command to be healed effective according to His will and power alone, with none able to oppose Him. So this supposed “condition” was simply His acknowledgement and encouragement of their faith in Him. Jesus was saying, “Because I recognize and affirm that your spirits trust in Me and in My words, the Spirit of God in Me commands you to be healed.” This was a very comforting and positive counsel He had granted to them, which further built up their faith in Him and His words.
Another thing we should notice here is how there were two blind men. And keep in mind that this event occurred just before Jesus sent out His disciples in a campaign against His worst spiritual enemies, who were the false churches. So we can conclude that the healing of the two blind men was done as a symbol of what we, His disciples, require to become effective soldiers in this war. For all of us are also blind, and must be healed of our blindness, if we are to see and overcome all the lies and delusions of the false churches. Jesus predestined two blind men to be healed at once because this symbolic event would not have illustrated His discipleship as well if He only predestined one blind man to be healed. Our wise God predestined two to be healed in order to represent two kinds of elect soldiers, and how they must not go out alone, only in pairs or groups. Jesus was showing how He must make both kinds able to see, since both are needed to do His works of undoing the works of the devil through false churches, and building up the true kingdom of God upon the ruins of that evil kingdom. And the two kinds of blind souls requiring sight for these works are often the righteous and the wise labourers. For blind righteousness is never effective, but seeing righteousness strikes a deadly blow. A strong blind soldier, wildly swinging his sword against an unseen enemy, is actually equally dangerous to both the enemy and his own side. Then blind wisdom causes far more harm than good. For even the most brilliant strategist will guide his own troops into deadly danger, if he cannot see enough of the truth and realities in the current situation to make the best decisions. All effective works need to be done with eyes wide open, in strength and wisdom that is fully informed.
Blind, poorly informed or misinformed elect souls throughout history have been duped into serving Satan’s world order, and have caused incredible harm, suffering and death, although they have usually done their evil deeds through a warped intent to serve God and their people. Countless elect have served little antichrists in unjust wars. Misguided elect missionaries, from all kinds of false churches, have horribly slandered the name of Christ over the centuries, since they have done their oppressive and soul destroying works in the name of Christ. Most also proclaimed a fake salvation, invented by men to serve their particular sect and culture in Satan’s world order. Thus, most elect have been practising highly exploitative and destructive works against Jesus throughout their lives.
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devil sent their false churches to make those elect fear the truth, and panic, so they would think they were saving the lives of their children and loved ones by doing the evil they were told to do. They obeyed the lies of those religious monsters, to preserve their putrid, vile, demonic status quo, since they thought this darkness would save their loved ones, and that darkness was the only kind of life they had ever known. Satan’s churches are extremely skilled at appealing to fear and perverting the love inherent to elect spirits, as well as experts in suppressing the thoughts of elect spirits so they do not trust the voice of God’s Holy Spirit. Fake churches thoroughly train those elect to trust only in human gods and the physical rituals which focus upon those human gods. In other words, those elect were kept spiritually blind. But blindness is not something to be tolerated in the true priesthood of God. For the loveless “righteousness” of those elect worked many evils. Then we also have seen many brilliant theologians in churches, elect men who have profoundly influenced the beliefs and actions of their people. But almost all other theologian spent their entire lives arguing lies and delusions against the lies and delusions of other theologians, and obsessed with their humanistic hierarchies and human gods of their churches. Most were also totally blind to the painful ravaging devastation they inflicted upon the elect souls all around them, and saw nothing of God’s realities, since they were safely tucked away in ivory towers and never stepped out into the real world of the common man or the actual battlefields. Satan made them very comfortable in their cozy offices, so they would stay there and not see the effects of their lies, nor realize the suffering and deaths they were perpetuating. Besides, even if some did see the frenzied chaos of blood and death, they were far too blind to truly realize they were the real causes of those deaths and the crushing effects upon the hearts of God’s children. Their detachment from reality, their total inability to see either spiritual or physical realities all around them, caused them to devise the most unsound and dangerous strategies possible for their churches, and usually resulted in injustice and untold numbers of avoidable deaths.
Blindness has caused great tragedies over and over again, throughout history. More recently, we have even seen blind elect souls take up the banners of Satan’s most cherished servants, like Hitler, Trump and the Faith Movement fraud artists. These elect blindly fight and even die for Satan. Some actually were involved in insurrections against biblical principles of Christian democracy, which God’s Word taught during the days of Moses, and which God’s creations taught since the beginning of time. For, if the elect walk blindly according to their minds of flesh, they can be convinced that Jesus wants a lying and murdering psychopath to rule over them as their god, although that one’s spirit was created in Satan’s image by Satan. They somehow think a loveless human monster god should be their lord who dictates all that their churches and nations should do. Some elect are so blind that they actually think their own lying, exploiting and ruthless acts of violence serve God. Yes, most take pride in a fake righteousness, thinking their adulterous hearts are chaste and their thefts from both God and men are justified, because they “worked for every cent” they stole. A few have wisdom, but only for evil, a blind wisdom that never does any real good for the real Jesus. They can only plot to deceive and destroy. Yes, most work very hard, but to blindly, harm or kill everyone and everything they touch, as well as themselves. For they place their faith in non-elect human gods, whose spirits will always inherently hate God’s light. There have always been countless elect among the false churches and in the most evil secular governments throughout history. And all of those elect possessed an innate ability to love in a just way, upon a foundation of truth, but would not let their spirits knock on Jesus’ door and be healed of their blindness. For only He can make one truly righteous and wise.
Matthew, to complete his account of how Jesus healed these blind men, wrote: “So their eyes were opened and Jesus passionately enjoined them saying, ‘You [both] must always see to it [that] not one must ever know [blindness].’ Then they went out. They thoroughly reported it in that whole land”
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(Mat. 9:30-31, from: καὶ ἠνεῴχθησαν αὐτῶν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί. καὶ ἐνεβριμήθη αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς λέγων·
Ὁρᾶτε μηδεὶς γινωσκέτω· οἱ δὲ ἐξελθόντες διεφήμισαν αὐτὸν ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ γῇ ἐκείνῃ., SBLGNT). So Jesus first gave them a command using the second person plural present (durative) imperative form of ὁράω, “You [both] must always see to it that ...” The present tense implies a command to do so in a continuous, ongoing way. Of course, in context, it also may be interpreted as Jesus not wanting them to drift back into a blind and worldly life. It seems that Jesus was commanding them: “You
[both] must always see.” Jesus would have been referring to the sight of their spirits’ faith, their knowledge of Him as their Messiah and God, as well as the truths He taught. For Jesus wanted them to ensure what was indicated by a third person singular present (durative) active imperative form of γινώσκω (“to know”), preceded by a nominative singular adjective, μηδείς (“no one”), which was substantivized as the subject of the verb. So Jesus commanded, “No one must ever know.” But what was it that no one must ever know? Well, when we consider the context of how the two healed blind men immediately went out to continuously tell everyone who would listen to them about what Jesus did for them—and did so as trusting disciples of Jesus, in obedience to His commands—this second command must have been an exhortation to never let anyone remain in the same kind of spiritual and physical blindness that they once had to endure. There seems to be no other rational interpretation.
Thus, considering the context, most translations of these two verses (Mat. 9:30-31) seem to be either misleading or outright wrong. For here Jesus seems to have been exhorting these two formerly blind men to continuously save others from blindness, just as He saved them from their own spiritual and physical blindness. In fact, Jesus seems to have been commanding these two previously blind men to reach out to all the elect who could not yet see through the eyes of their spirits, in faith. He enjoined them to have compassion on His people who were now living in spiritually darkness, to proclaim Him and His truths to those who lacked faith in God and His loving ways, to those not able to see His realities, so others might come to be healed of their blindness by their loving God Jesus, and let their own spirits trust in Him and His words. For Matthew tells us that these two healed blind men then went out and did just that. They told everyone they could find about Jesus and His teachings, about His concern for all who suffered from spiritual blindness. Both men became faithful disciples of Jesus, who diligently did the works He commanded, with much loving zeal in all their pure joy.
Now I know that many translate these two verses something like this: “Their eyes were opened.
Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, ‘ Se
e that no one knows about this .’ But they went out and spread abroad His fame in all that land” (WEB). This interpretation implies that Jesus commanded them to keep silent about their healing, “but” they disobeyed Jesus. However, as I reasoned above, this interpretation makes no sense. For we must realize that hundreds or even thousands of people in the crowds following Jesus had heard those two blind men shouting and begging Jesus to heal them.
So most in that crowd, as well as the families and friends of those blind men, would recognize them as those two blind men, then immediately realize that Jesus had miraculously healed them. And all those people would soon tell others. Since those blind men had no way to possibly hide their healing, why would Jesus bother to ask them not to tell anyone about it? So that traditional interpretation of these verses (Mat. 9:30-31) must be wrong. Actually, Jesus told them the opposite, to go out and tell their people to seek Him through faith, so that others also may be healed of their spiritual blindness.
Since everyone would soon know that Jesus healed those blind men, whether or not they testified about it, it would be ridiculous for Jesus to “passionately enjoin” or “sternly charge” or “strictly command” (ἐνεβριμήθη) them to keep their healing a secret. For a healing from blindness was so obvious that no one could possibly hide it. Therefore, we need to reexamine and reinterpret these verses. And, grammatically, when two thoughts are joined by the particle δέ, the second thought (the Page 691
one beginning with the particle δέ) can be translated as indicating either a contrast with the first thought (“but ...”) or a continuation of the first thought (“then ...”). Consequently, we definitely do not need to translate the second thought (i.e., v. 31) as being “in contrast” with the first thought (i.e., v. 30b). That is, we do not need to interpret verse 31 as a clause beginning with the word “but.” Also consider how the conjunction καί is found at the beginning of the first thought (v. 30b). This implies that the second thought most likely was a continuation of first thought. Through the context of those two healed blind men going out to preach, and through the grammar, we can conclude that Jesus did not intend His command to mean what traditional translations imply. In reality, Jesus did not want them to keep silent about being healed. A much better translation would indicate that Jesus commanded them to never let anyone suffer the same kind of spiritual blindness they once suffered.
When Jesus spoke to the healed blind men and commanded, Ὁρᾶτε μηδεὶς γινωσκέτω, His body language would have indicated the thing He did not want anyone to know. And Jesus’ Holy Spirit would have indicated what He wanted no one to know, as His Spirit spoke directly to the spirits of the two blind men. So it would have been obvious to them what Jesus meant. Then Matthew, who also would have seen and known what Jesus meant, told us that the two blind men immediately went out and reported what Jesus did for them through their faith in Him and in His words. So we must use logic to determine what Jesus was referring to, since we were not eye-witnesses. And, logically, we can only come to one conclusion, that Jesus commanded those two blind men to see to it that “no one must ever know [blindness],” in the same spiritual and physical ways those two men did. Thus, these two healed blind men were attempting to obey Jesus’ command, with all the ability and power He gave them, when they went out to report how Jesus healed their blindness. These two faithful and grateful disciples travelled throughout their land with their testimony, so others could be healed too.
A better translation of these verses must be something like this: “... Jesus passionately enjoined them saying, ‘You both must always see to it that not one must ever know [the same kind of spiritual and moral blindness you once lived in].’ Then they went out. They thoroughly reported [their healing of spiritual and physical blindness through their faith] in that whole land.” For a right understanding of what Jesus commanded these blind men also helps us see the symbolism found in this healing event.
Jesus was about to deploy His disciples as His soldiers, to war against forces of darkness which had been abusing, enslaving, oppressing and killing God’s elect children, which had prevented their spirits from entering His true priesthood of Israel. Yet even truly elect souls in the church of Israel had become so blind that they could not tell the difference between their murderous enemies and God’s saving troops. To them, a greedy little psychopathic preacher was the same as one of God’s true prophets, possibly even equal to the Messiah-God Himself. In fact, since the soldiers of Satan spewed out emotionally appealing ambiguities with their deceiving, trite false logic, and also loved to flatter their dupes by calling them “good honest folks,” while making themselves into the “good, honest” human gods of those “folks,” those carnal elect actually worshipped those deceivers far more than God Himself. Then they fought for their exploiting human gods against God and His real servants. And they thought God’s humble real servants were fakes, because God’s real servants were honest and did not flatter them, but instead revealed the hard and often complicated truths created by God, along with physical facts, all through irrefutable logic. And, to understand those true servants of God, it required honesty, effort and true wisdom. Yet the blind elect were taught to prefer and place their trust in blindly accepted lies, no matter how much those lies contradicted what they saw with their own eyes, because blind conformity is always easier than labouring to find the truth. So the ego-boosting preaching of their own exploiters was always more popular among the carnal elect, Page 692
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since it was always easier on their puffed-up egos and more appealing to their flesh, although every word of those vile destroyers was just a cunning lie designed to steal their money, minds and lives.
Clearly, the true elect in the church of Israel needed to be healed of spiritual blindness. And, to be healed, they first had to persistently pursue God and His truths, even if it meant casting aside the commanded social customs and traditions of Satan’s world order. To be able to see, the true elect had to let the crowds leave them behind, then bravely knock on the door of Jesus’ home, just as those two blind men did. Then they too would see, and discover the suppressed trust that their spirits had been hiding from their minds of flesh. Once their spirits spontaneously placed their confidence and trust in God and in His wise words, they could become useful and trusted servants of God. Yes, to allow the faith of their spirits to go to God, the elect must first learn to silence their dull, materialist, arrogant and self-serving minds of flesh, in the same way that Jesus made those two blind men silence their objecting minds of flesh—by forcing their flesh to run after Him, knock on His door in opposition to public protocols, then search out their spirits’ faith. Jesus made them examine their hearts and souls, to discover their spirits’ inherent desires and love for God and His truths, then diligently and fully separate or sanctify the minds of their spirits for His purposes. Once they did this, Jesus’ Holy Spirit spoke directly to their spirits. So He taught and trained their spirits for their salvation, as was God’s promise in His Messiah’s New Covenant. And Jesus did these inner works before healing their physical blindness. Then, after Jesus healed their inner and outer blindness, He sent them out to tell other elect souls about how He heals all blindness, how He frees blind souls from Satan’s darkness.
Jesus Casts Out an Oppressing Demon
The next symbolic miracle occurred when some men brought a friend who was made mute by a demonic spirit’s control over him. Right there, in public, before the eyes of the “multitudes,” Jesus cast out that oppressing spirit, making the man able to speak again. This event most likely would have occurred the next day, the morning after Jesus healed the two blind men. For, remember, when Jesus healed the two blind men, He had already entered His home and the crowds of His disciples had dispersed. So the healing of the two blind men must have occurred in the evening, at the end of the previous day, when Jesus went home for supper. And here Matthew said they brought the demon-oppressed and muted man to Jesus and His disciples “as they were in the process of going out ...”
(Αὐτῶν ... ἐξερχομένων). Thus, His casting out of that demon occurred after He opened His doors again the next morning, and after He had gone out with His twelve teaching assistants to proclaim God’s words and lovingly heal the people of His church again. For our God Jesus served His people, and zealously freed all His elect from demons. This was His passion and joy, the food of His Spirit.
Now Matthew said, “And after the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. Then the multitudes were amazed, saying, ‘No time ever saw such as this in Israel’” (Mat. 9:33, from: καὶ ἐκβληθέντος
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Ἰσραήλ, SBLGNT). Since this mute man spoke after the demon was cast out, the demon must have been the only cause of his inability to speak. The demon silenced and oppressed him by forbidding him to speak, perhaps by inciting irrational fears in his soul. And the demon likely silenced him for an evil purpose, possibly because this man was too honest or too wise for its liking. But, if this man was so honest and wise that he needed to be silenced for the benefit of Satan’s world order, then that man was probably cherished by the people of his home town, which explains why a group of them took the time and effort to bring him to Jesus. Now demonic spirits are far too powerful for infantile human spirits to cast out, although many rabbis and priests would have undoubtedly tried to expel this demon by falsely claiming to do so in God’s name. Nevertheless, none but the one Creator God Page 693
bears the authority and power to command demons to leave. And, apart from God, only Satan can command a demon to leave a person. But Satan only casts out a demon so that another worse demon or demons can take control of that person, while God casts out demons for the benefit of His people, so His Holy Spirit can counsel and guide them. Therefore, when this demon was cast out, and this man spoke again, without any negative consequences from other demons, the crowds were amazed.
That is, these crowds recognized that the demon was cast out by God Himself dwelling in Jesus.
Yet the crowds, which contained some who knew and loved this demon-possessed man, were not astounded by this display of Jesus’ power alone. Rather, they were amazed because Jesus’ miracles effectively delivered souls from powers which even all the armies and authorities of the devil’s entire kingdom of human sinners could not possibly overcome. And these miracles were different than any they had ever read about in the Scriptures, or any they had imagined that their promised Messiah would do. For these miracles saved one soul at a time, individually, through His love for each one.
So His miracles reached beyond the boundaries of politics and power, and were even greater than the miracles seen in the days of Moses. These were loving and personal miracles, and done by the will of Jesus Himself, unlike those done by Moses through the commands of God, and for the sake of God’s own name, to prepare His priestly nation for His future arrival as their true King. No human being, not even Moses or Isaiah, could instantly cast out an oppressing demonic spirit in his own name, as Jesus did. Casting out demons was the mightiest of miracles in the eyes of most people, since all had experienced the weakness of their infantile spirits. All knew that they remained utterly helpless and easily manipulated by fallen angels. And not even mighty heavenly angels could easily overcome demons, since demons were their equals in power. All honest, humbled elect knew they had to rely on God to free them from demons. And here Jesus was doing what only God could do.
However, when false pastors saw how the multitudes were greatly admiring Jesus, they knew that those people would soon learn the truth from Jesus, then realize that their fake churches and false doctrines were not worth supporting with their offerings and laborious servitude. So His truth would cause a huge loss of respect, power and money for all those frauds. Thus, those liars went running to their spiritual father, and prayed to Satan, to that liar and murderer from the beginning of time. And it only took a second for that devil to respond, to invent a slanderous lie against Jesus, one that could help those false shepherds turn the ignorant and superstitious against Jesus, and against God’s loving Holy Spirit in Jesus. Satan inspired his children to proclaim that the utterly holy God in Jesus’ flesh was actually him, the devil himself. As always, Satan accused the innocent of committing the crime he was doing himself, so his mindless carnal captives would then flee from Jesus. Matthew tells us:
“Yet the Pharisees were saying, ‘In [the power of] the ruler of the demons, He casts out the demons’”
(Mat. 9:34, from: οἱ δὲ Φαρισαῖοι ἔλεγον· Ἐν τῷ ἄρχοντι τῶν δαιμονίων ἐκβάλλει τὰ δαιμόνια, SBLGNT). Since they claimed that the power of Satan cast out that demon, they were saying that Satan’s spirit, not God’s Spirit, was dwelling in Jesus. They accused Jesus of being Satan incarnate.
And we should not dismiss this false accusation by simply denying that the devil can cast out devils.
For Satan will often “cast out demons” through his fake priests and preachers in his false churches, yet only so he might replace those lesser demons with far more deluding and destructive demons.
This lie had the added benefit of also convincing the weakest and most foolish that Satan’s spirit in the false preachers was God’s Holy Spirit. But no, the influencing spirit working in fake pastors, priests and rabbis is the devil. And this kind of falsely casting out demons is done all the time by that devil’s most cherished children. For Satan is a deceiving deluder, who makes evil look good and good look evil, who makes truth look like a lie and a lie look like the truth. Then all of Satan’s most faithful servants do the same, by pretending to be the servants of God while calling all of God’s true Page 694
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servants the servants of Satan. We have seen this kind of deception throughout history, especially in humanistic churches and societies. Therefore, this was a very natural lie for the devil and his own fake church leaders. For Satan and his fake churches have been trying to replace God and His true body of elect priests since time began, and will always attempt to do so until the end, until Satan and all non-elect spirits are cast into hell. So these jealous Pharisaic puppets of the devil wanted the people to recoil in fear from Jesus, from the wise Holy Spirit of God in Jesus. They wanted their dupes to keep placing all their faith in them alone, to believe their lies are true and to disdain truth as a lie, to love darkness and hate light, to embrace the hate-filled devil as though he were their loving God, while they feared and rejected their real God as though He were the unjust, murdering devil.
Now Jesus, through His almighty power and authority as God, had already commanded many other demons to flee from Him, and had often stopped Satan from oppressing His elect children in Israel.
He would also continue to cast out many demons as well. But this particular event of casting out this demon was recorded by Matthew due to the false church’s response, and because Jesus was about to send out His disciples to war against those pretenders who slandered God’s name among all the nations on the earth. When the false church began to teach that God’s Holy Spirit was Satan, this lie ordained the change in Jesus’ ministry, the next phase of our Messiah’s work. Their slander was a declaration of war against God, where our God Jesus responded by declaring war against them too.
From that day on, Jesus began to organize and deploy His troops against the devil’s false churches.
Of course, Jesus predestined the enemy’s response at that time. And, for centuries, God’s servants had prophesied that He would purify the hearts of His people, cause them to turn away from the devil and his kingdom, so their spirits could esteem and serve Him instead. That is, long before this spiritual warfare began, God told us that He would declare war against they lies and sins of Satan’s kingdom, and would defeat that kingdom. And, since earthly time is all one “now,” without any real past and future, God has already won this war, even “now.” However, all humans must experience time sequentially and linearly. So this predestination does not seem to affect us, except by providing us with a confidence that our futures existed from the beginning, from the day God created the earthly timeline. Yet our timeless spirits still need to learn His truth and wisdom each day, since the earth is the training ground of our spirits. And that day, when the false church slandered Jesus and blasphemed God’s Holy Spirit within Jesus, was the day Jesus declared war on that false church, but a war that was designed and predestined to teach and train our elect spirits to love God and His ways more each day, as we experience this fight against the unloving, unjust and untrue doctrines of Satan.
This was the day when Jesus must have told Matthew, and His other eleven core disciples, that He was about to engage in the next phase of His ministry. No longer would He preach and minister to the world as a solitary Priest, like the solitary priests He had sent out from the days of Seth to the days of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Now, as Jesus began this war against false churches, He would begin to work within His chosen individual elect and serve the world through an entire priesthood consisting of them, just as He had promised Abraham. Then Jesus began with His twelve closest disciples. For God also created and chose the twelve sons of Jacob, to began a work together as God’s priesthood, as a sign that the Abrahamic Covenant was to be fulfilled by Jesus’ New Covenant salvation and priesthood. His twelve core disciples were to be the foundation of God’s true, fulfilled priesthood, like His symbolic priesthood of the twelve sons of Jacob, who were the “gates” leading into His fulfilled kingdom (see Rev. 21:12-14). Soon Jesus would send His twelve out to do all He was doing. They would be His soldiers, deployed to destroy the dark kingdom, so they could build up His light-filled kingdom of God over its ruins. Now, and until the end of time, His New Covenant priesthood of Israel would serve the world in His name, according to His will and through His own Page 695
personal power, bearing all His authority as God. Finally, God’s promise to Abraham would begin to be fulfilled, as soon as He sent out His twelve assistant teachers to oppose Satan and build up truth.
But, before that priesthood could move out in Jesus’ name, all those elect servants of the real God would first need to be completely freed from the demonic powers which oppressed and silenced them. All irrational inner fears and anxieties, put in their minds of flesh through deceiving spirits, must be washed away by the pure and holy power of Jesus. Then the minds of their liberated spirits could manage their minds of flesh, focusing that flesh on rational and necessary truths, which their tongues of flesh could express wisely, honestly and through their spirits’ love for their beleaguered brothers and sisters in this world. First Jesus’ works of overcoming the powerful demonic influences over the lives of His people must be completed. Then the citizens of His kingdom could enlist in His army, to war against the lies of fake churches and all others opposing the just love and truths of God, to build up His just, equitable, wise and loving kingdom throughout the entire earth, all in His name.
Christ Declares War
Mat. 9:35-38,
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“Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out labourers into His harvest.’
“He called to Himself His twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness. Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother; Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him” (Mat. 9:35 to 10:4, WEB).
When Jesus began His war against false churches, it was not through hatred. He did not know any bitterness or desire for revenge against the psychopaths who committed cruel, painful, dehumanizing crimes against His people and the sinless creatures in His kingdom on earth. For Jesus neither hated nor loved those wanna-be human gods striving to destroy all truth and justice, attempting to replace Him as rulers over all. Rather, our God Jesus simply saw them as His own temporary creations, as makeshift tools which He would later toss out, as dead branches used to prop up vines of life until fruits were born and ripe for the harvest. Those enemies of justice, love and God existed for a time, but only until He had accomplished a worthy and eternal good for the spirits of His beloved siblings.
Nor did Jesus begin this war through His hatred of their cruel lies and intentionally self-serving, perpetuated delusions, which they created through through their own greed and lust for power, which they invented to ruthlessly exploit His elect family members. Yes, Jesus surely hated their monstrous injustice, and their deadly fiction against the innocent. But that evil was not the primary factor which motivated our God Jesus to engage in this war. For His primary reason for now declaring this war on those deceivers, and for doing all that He did since creation, was His love. Our God Jesus has always Page 696
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been far too busy with His labours of love to bother obsessing on His hatred of evil. Love welled up in His Spirit for each individual among His suffering people, compelling Him to save all of those
“harassed and scattered” souls from their own stupidity, from all their own foolish weaknesses which was causing them to remain loveless, empty and alone. Hatred and bitterness are always the primary motivators for all the works of Satan and His children, but never for the works of either God or His awakened elect, since hatred distorts and deludes, but love wisely builds up only realities and truths.
The enemy had successfully divided and conquered most souls in Israel. For each psychopathic head of each false church had lured gullible fools into its own subject kingdom within Satan’s kingdom of the world order, then enslaved those dupes for works of making money and power, in chain gangs of brainwashed minions. And if these psychopathic kings of these little subject kingdoms ever saw the least hint of disinterest or disloyalty among their religious slaves, they hastily rallied to beat them until they either submitted with a full focus upon the whims of their taskmasters, or dies. For all the attention of all their dupes had to remain upon themselves. Each false shepherd bullied and deceived their dupes until all faithfully esteemed and served only him and his words at all times. Then each of these human gods jealously guarded his own little kingdom of slaves, using slanderous lies to turn his worshippers against the real God, as well as against worshippers of all other human gods. For all Satan’s self-serving and self-worshipping offspring refuse to share their possessions, unless it is for financial and political gain. Thus, each human god whipped his own slaves when they desired any other master, and forced them to hate every other god, while rewarding all who ruthlessly betrayed their fellow slaves who did not bow to that master alone. For those human gods all learned these tactics from their spiritual father who did the same to them, to his preferred children, whom he had always called his slaves and had never set free. So all those human gods served Satan as beaten, abused and overworked slaves, focusing on him alone, worshipping him in their spirits and in lies.
Consequently, these little subject kingdoms within Satan’s kingdom, these fake Judaeo-Christian institutions used for the slander of the real God and for the destruction of just love upon the earth, were always divided, and always will be. For each human god is always jealously warring against the other, trying to steal from the other. Then their hellish father stands in the bleachers laughing at their abject stupidity, spurring on their insatiable covetousness and violence, stirring up as much hate and bitterness in them as he possibly can. And their father does all this simply to feel like a god who controls their destinies, and this warfare perversely entertains him. Thus, until Jesus returns, there always will be psychopaths striving to create kingdoms of duped slaves, while those human gods themselves slavishly labour to rob human lives and other possessions from one another. Yet those filthy, dark, deluded little kings do occasionally unite, in one mind and for one purpose, to achieve a common goal commanded by their hellish father. They will sometimes cast aside all their differences and work together to prevent God from healing their lands, so they can remain “free” to commit all their self-serving sins. For there is nothing they hate more than God forcing them to free their slaves, and not being able to plunder and destroy one another, along with God’s other creations, which they falsely claim to possess as god-owners. And it is always extremely easy for their father and master to unite them, since the wills of their spirits are utterly enslaved, irrational and weak, obsessed with the gain of god-like ownership, as well as the destruction of good. They too love this kind of darkness.
This also means that most elect children of God will also remain scattered until just before the day that Jesus returns, since most have been enslaved by those subject kingdoms belonging to Satan, since psychopathic human gods will expertly turn each elect soul against one’s other elect brothers and sisters. Then those human gods, with all their minions, will always unite to harass the few elect children of God that remain free, and force their enslaved elect to persecute their own freed brothers Page 697
and sisters. The only time the human gods of false religion shall let their enslaved elect refrain from persecuting other elect souls is if those freed elect fall again into slavery and worship human gods like the rest. Even then, those once-free elect who fall, who then grudgingly worship human gods, will never be fully trusted. For the only time Satan’s religious subject kingdoms tolerate trust, or unite, is through the unjust hatred and distrust of a common enemy. And this kind of hatred always must originate from their hellish father, from the devil. But, since the father of their spirits hates God more than anyone or anything else, and since the life-giving Spirit of Jesus is God, all his enslaved human gods and their false churches naturally hate the real Jesus with a passion. So they can only unite in this common hatred, in order to slander the real Jesus, and to turn all their enslaved elect in their false churches against Jesus. Yet the once-free elect can never again war against the real Jesus, because they have known the love of Jesus through genuine truths. Thus, Satan can never again trust those once-freed elect to fight against our God Jesus beside all his other enslaved elect souls, and will forever brand them as traitors to his own religious kingdoms. Still, though threats of physical torture and death, those re-enslaved elect can be used to labour in his fields, to provide the logistics required for his continuous war against God. Thus, Satan grants these once-free elect a slower and more painful death, filled far more self-loathing than they would have had if he simply killed them.
Still, the never-freed elect in false churches and other false religions are brainwashed into thinking that all the words and works of the real Messiah’s utterly holy Spirit are bad, even evil and demonic.
They are duped into believing good is evil and evil is good, that slavery is freedom and freedom is slavery, and that man is a god whom even the Creator of heaven and earth must worship. Then fake churches with fascist-like doctrines falsely accuse Christ’s true servants of being a communists, even as fake churches with communist doctrines falsely accuse them of being fascists. Then ultra-demonic churches with totally fascist doctrines accuse the awakened and faithful elect of being fascist and demonic themselves, as those truly demonic fascists deny that they are demonic fascists themselves.
All such lies may seem stupid, and easily refutable, yet they remain very effective and thoroughly dupe the majority of untaught and infantile elect souls. Then those ignorant little elect captives soon begin to hate “Jesus” as much as they hate their own taskmasters, although they are actually hating a false image of Jesus created by the lying tongues of their human gods. Nevertheless, those lies cause those enslaved elect to persecute and even kill the freed elect disciples of Jesus, even in the name of God. Although the truly faithful disciples of Jesus are the brothers and sisters of those deceived elect, with the same kinds of elect spirits born of the same heavenly Father, they hate and destroy them. As a result, the majority of God’s elect children were very busy trying to enslave or destroy one another back in the days of Jesus, just like the majority of elect do to one another today. All were just foolish, blind, scattered and harassed, a flock of sheep fleeing from the Shepherd who owns and loves them.
The Boot Camp
Now, from the beginning of His ministry, and since the beginning of earthly time, our God Jesus has been teaching and training His elect to live freely, while keeping them away from the binding lies and delusions of demons and Satan’s offspring. There have always been freed elect on earth, men and women who learned to love and be loved, whose joy of the spirit knew no bounds, whose spirits shall not sleep after the death of their flesh. But, although Jesus had awakened, taught and trained the spirits of His twelve assistant teachers, He not yet sent out those disciples to battle against the false churches and other liars, nor to independently labour in His ultimate mission of building up His kingdom on earth. For not even the spiritually strongest of His disciples was mature enough to fight in this war against those destructive deceivers without Jesus being physically present, without Jesus Page 698
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standing beside them. Yet He would soon need to send them out, both to battle and to build, but with Him dwelling inside them. So, knowing they would need more insight, Jesus let them see the tragic effects of the enemy’s lies and sins, to fully grasp the terrible devastation inflicted on their land by God’s enemies, to comprehend the incalculable cost of losing this war. So these disciples would know that this war had to be won, no matter what the personal cost might be, Jesus’ Spirit would stand beside them as He sent them out to war and build in His name. Jesus left Capernaum and led His disciples into all the towns of Israel, always stopping to teach and heal, always demonstrating all the works they needed to do for the dying souls of Israel, then sent them out to do those same works.
“And Jesus travelled around to all the cities and towns, teaching truths in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, also healing every infirmity and every sickness” (Mat. 9:35, from: Καὶ περιῆγεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς τὰς πόλεις πάσας καὶ τὰς κώμας, διδάσκων ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς αὐτῶν
καὶ κηρύσσων τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς βασιλείας καὶ θεραπεύων πᾶσαν νόσον καὶ πᾶσαν μαλακίαν, SBLGNT). This was His boot camp, His training for His elite shock troops, whom He would soon deploy in enemy territories. However, His was not like the boot camps of the enemy soldiers, since those were designed to harden their troops for cruel works of physical destruction. Rather, Jesus did all this to soften the hearts of His soldiers, to instill a deeper compassion for the ruthlessly brutalized elect souls whom He was sending them to save. For this battle was not entirely focused upon the destruction of the enemy, although His enemy wanted his soldiers to do only that to Him. Rather, the main goal and purpose of this war was to weaken His enemy, so He could build His just and loving kingdom on earth, and prevent His enemy from sabotaging His good works. Our God’s mission was to save, not to kill. Yes, we must destroy some enemies, those who refuse to surrender or flee. But, above all, our goal is to feed and heal God’s people, then build homes and walls to keep them safe.
Also notice that our Commander in Chief did not train His disciples in a simulated battle situation, not with artificial structures and wooden targets. Rather, He personally apprenticed them out in the field, out in Israel and the world. He Himself led them into enemy territories for their training. And He uses the entire world as a training ground for His elect because He created it for that purpose. All material universe exists temporarily so that our spirits might learn to hate evil and love good, for our own sakes and the sakes of all others. Jesus trains us to serve all in the universe, just as He serves all, and so we might learn that a servant of all is the highest rank and calling of all—and that the demonic humanistic idea of being at the top of a hierarchy and served by all is the lowest and least of all possible states of existence, contrary to what Satan proclaims. Then Jesus Himself did all the initial spiritual warfare, with His own hands, to demonstrate how His kind of warfare must be done.
Jesus always used this method and, to this day, His Holy Spirit still trains our hands for battle by leading us into enemy territories. After some preliminary education for His disciples, which also involves practical works of battling and building, He walks with them deep into enemy territory, where there is no censoring of demonic lies and delusions, where we will see the death and suffering caused by our enemy. For we must learn to be committed to His cause in love, without reservation.
All of Jesus’ sound biblical teachings for His disciples in Capernaum and Galilee were followed by His actual applications of those principles within the lands occupied by God’s self-proclaimed and bitter enemies. And Jesus performed these works of God’s truth with His own hands. From the very beginning, and in exactly the same way today, Jesus has always apprenticed His disciples by doing real-world works together with them. He never gives degrees and accolades for stages of learning or higher ranks for academic achievements made in comfortable classrooms, nor is He ever content to simply inspire His pupils with motivational rhetoric, before sending them out alone, to do difficult works in the real world. For Jesus is not a pagan Roman teacher, nothing like seminary teachers we Page 699
find in the Bible colleges today. Rather, Jesus is thee Teacher, the original and highest, who imparts knowledge in the field, then trains His disciples to apply those truths wisely through love. Jesus goes with and within each individual disciple, inside billions of human hearts, and always labours beside them with His personal power, whispering His guiding counsel to their spirits, demonstrating all the ways, laws, truths and wise principles He has taught elect souls for millenniums, as well as all the reasons for doing all He calls them to do. Jesus thoroughly prepares His disciples for all their hard and sometimes traumatic tasks, so their hope in His loving goal of salvation always keeps them sane.
And remember that the most critical aspect of His training has always been to awaken the just, wise, loving compassion in our spirits, the same kind found in His Spirit. For all His disciples say and do in this war must be done through a wise and just kind of compassion, to assist in His salvation of all those whom they serve in His name. This love is the only antidote that can prevent souls from falling into a state of “post traumatic stress disorder.” So Jesus brought His disciples to a place where they could see the suffering crowds and, standing by Him, they could feel all that He felt. “So, examining the multitudes, He was moved by compassion concerning them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep not having a shepherd. Then He reasoned with His disciples, ‘On the one hand, the harvest [is] abundant. On the other hand, the workers [are] few. Therefore, you people beg from the Lord of the harvest, that He might send out workers into His harvest’” (Mat. 9:36-38, from: Ἰδὼν
δὲ τοὺς ὄχλους ἐσπλαγχνίσθη περὶ αὐτῶν ὅτι ἦσαν ἐσκυλμένοι καὶ ἐρριμμένοι ὡσεὶ πρόβατα μὴ
ἔχοντα ποιμένα. τότε λέγει τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ· Ὁ μὲν θερισμὸς πολύς, οἱ δὲ ἐργάται ὀλίγοι·
δεήθητε οὖν τοῦ κυρίου τοῦ θερισμοῦ ὅπως ἐκβάλῃ ἐργάτας εἰς τὸν θερισμὸν αὐτοῦ, SBLGNT).
Those disciples standing beside Jesus were “workers,” soldier servants, whom the heavenly Father was sending out into the harvest. Yet they were to beg the heavenly Father to send out more workers, to help with the overwhelming task of the great, expansive harvest. For half of the whole world has elect spirits that are capable of just love and repentance into the truth. And this work of God is not a competition, to see who can gather the most serving worshippers for oneself. Rather, this is a selfless work, void of ego, with enemies everywhere, trying to steal the harvest and kill God’s workers. And there is always an immeasurable amount of work to do for the benefit of the workers, the harvest and the Owner, who gives all His profits to His people. So some of His workers not only had to gather in the harvest, but keep one eye on the horizen and the sword of His Word strapped to their belts, with armour on their bodies and the helmet of salvation firmly set upon their heads, as godly soldiers do.
Armed with the words of God, Jesus sent these twelve apostles out to free His Father’s elect children from life-darkening lies, and from the frauds and liars who enslaved them, from Satan’s brood who forced them to labour endlessly in futility. For all the elect had been taken from their homes, fields and delicious crops to dig for gold in that enemy’s cold, dark, gloomy gold mines, to make a profit of of Satan’s invention of currency, in that devil’s ways which destroyed their land, poisoned their waters and accomplished only suffering until death. In stark contrast, the works of Jesus’ followers were the same kinds of useful and healing works that Jesus had been doing. For Jesus had always been setting an example for them. Thus, Matthew said the first and foremost kind of work done by Jesus was a particular kind of teaching, indicated by the Greek verb διδάσκω. The ecclesiastical meaning of this verb involved what all good rabbis taught their disciples. And good rabbis did not merely provide their disciples with a formal and scholarly in-depth exegesis of the Scriptures, but also worked directly beside them to engage in the real-life application of those biblical principles.
When good rabbis performed the action of the verb διδάσκω, they did it both inside their synagogues and throughout the daily lives of their disciples. It always involved both teaching and training, both a broad, deep knowledge of God’s Word and continuously practised wisdom which correctly applied Page 700
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that truth, which exemplified concepts within the Scriptures. Yet Jesus was not merely a good rabbi.
He is the best who ever lived, the original and perfect Rabbi, who has taught the very spirits of all God’s elect children since Adam. So, when Jesus performed the action of διδάσκω, He taught the purest and most true exegesis of the Scriptures ever recorded in history, and still provides this same exegesis of Scriptures for all of us to this day. Then, after this, Jesus also went out with His disciples to rightly apply His teachings in every aspect of their lives, just as He does with His disciples today.
So this was the first and foremost work of His disciples, for those among them whom He called and sent to serve as His assistant teachers. They were to learn all that the ecclesiastical definition of the verb διδάσκω implies. Jesus called, taught, trained and sent these men to be teaching elders who would assist Him in the teaching and training of His New Covenant branch of Israel. They were to work with Him in serving His other disciples. Yet Jesus remains the only Head Teacher of all His disciples, while He is alive. And, since Jesus rose from the dead, He still remains alive, and the only Head Teacher of all God’s disciples, the final authority in all matters of life and faith. Until all of us graduate at the end of the judgment day, and while all our elect spirits remain infantile and ignorant in our bodies of flesh, we have only one Head Teacher. Thus, no disciple has any power or authority to override any decision made by our one and only Head. If anyone claims to be His disciple, but then attempts to become a head of any church, and tries to exert the power of an authoritative judge over any church, acting independently to determine truths through one’s own will, then that one has actually abandoned Jesus as one’s Head Teacher, and is not actually His disciple at all (I John 2:19).
Then Matthew said that Jesus went about “preaching the Gospel of the kingdom” (κηρύσσων τὸ
εὐαγγέλιον τῆς βασιλείας). He was “proclaiming or heralding” (κηρύσσω) the Gospel (εὐαγγέλιον), that is, the report of critical information that God’s people needed to hear, the facts about God and His kingdom on earth, about how to fulfill God’s ways of loving His creations. For the biblical or ecclesiastical definition of the “Gospel” refers to something far more than merely “good news.” In fact, to the Greek-speaking people of the day, a εὐαγγέλιον could even involve bad or tragic news, yet news which explained how an event produced good results or effects. For instance, a εὐαγγέλιον
might report the deaths of many beloved soldiers in a battle, but also how they won a victory over an oppressive enemy. So a εὐαγγέλιον or gospel could be a sobering and sad report, but with a positive effect or result. And a εὐαγγέλιον usually reported something critical which the people desperately wanted and needed to hear. So here Jesus heralded a report about the arrival of His New Covenant salvation for His priesthood of Israel, which He would grant through His works; even by His tragic work of freely allowing sinners to condemn His sinless body to a tortuous death on a criminal’s cross, but as His willing sacrifice for their sins. It was this unjust tragedy that would build up the kingdom of God on earth, a holy kingdom that would slowly grow until it was the only kingdom in all the earth, with the wise, just, loving Messiah, King and Creator equitably administering all to all.
Now, of course, literally all the Old Covenant Scriptures revealed aspects of this Gospel which Jesus preached to the awakened elect in Israel back then. For God’s New Covenant saving power was now to fulfill all His Law and ways in and through His people. So all these devout Jews, who were taught the Scriptures from birth, recognized Jesus’ Gospel instantly, that same Gospel He now preaches to the awakened elect throughout the world today, so He may join all elect to Israel. This kingdom, that Jesus heralded in His Gospel, consists solely of elect spirits learning to fulfill God’s laws of love and all the prophets taught. This kingdom will also see God complete all His other promised works that they read about, because, whenever Jesus is “preaching the Gospel of the kingdom,” He is teaching and training them to build up His entire kingdom, both the spiritual and physical aspects, including His plans to create a priestly centre of operations in Israel. So this Gospel was Israel’s hope, and His Page 701
teachings of biblical truth were the substance of that hope, for the showed Israel how to work for that hope. All Jesus writes on the minds of elect spirits, with His teaching and training, is all they need to build up and maintain God’s kingdom on earth, and to prepare their eternal souls for life in heaven.
Lastly, Matthew told us that Jesus was “also healing every infirmity and every sickness.” This too was a task His disciples were going to do in His name, during their warfare with the enemy. For there were many casualties from the sins of false churches and from the crimes of Satan’s secular servants too. There were countless elect souls who required physical, mental and spiritual healing, both in Israel and throughout the world. Through their love for their beleaguered brothers and sisters, and to assist their family members in fully experiencing the joy of fruitful lives in our Creator God, the Christ, these twelve also had to heal. So Jesus demonstrated who to heal and how, then lent His almighty power to their hands, so they also could redeem elect lives. Yes, their first duty was to teach and train, as well as report the news of a His kingdom rising up in Israel. But they also to heal those who trusted in the truths they uttered. And they were to heal each individual through a personal love and care for each one’s entire eternal soul, just as Jesus always healed through His love for each one.
So now Jesus had taken His disciples through boot camp. He had revealed to them the great need of His own weak, beaten down, defeated, confused, divided and self-destructive priesthood of Israel, in order to instill His Spirit’s wise, just, selfless and zealous compassion for His family of God in their hearts. He demonstrated how they were to assist Him in teaching and training other spirits, how to herald the hope of His coming kingdom, and how to heal their broken lives, redeeming them for the joy of accomplishing gratifying works as His people. After all this, they would be ready to face the ruthless enemy, to be “mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (II Cor. 10:4-5, WEB). But, above all, these strong soldiers of Christ would be able to construct warm homes for His people, even on this deadly planet, with massively fortified walls protecting their souls from the enemy’s malicious intentions. And the fields of good crops and fruit trees they would plant and tend, all the spiritual and physical seeds of realities and truths necessary for love and life, would provide healthy nourishment for all their souls.
Jesus Arms His Soldiers
Now Jesus thoroughly equipped His soldiers, adding much to the sword of God’s Word He already granted them, with all things useful for liberating the captive elect in a conquered land. Jesus had been teaching and training His twelve assistant teachers privately and publicly, as they laboured beside Him night and day. So they possessed much truth, and some wisdom to apply that truth, enough to begin the building of God’s kingdom on the earth. Yet they still lacked enough armour to neutralize enemy blows and the ability to restore casualties to health. “And, having called His twelve disciples to Himself, He granted them decision-making authority over unclean spirits, so as to cast them out, and [decision-making authority] to heal every infirmity and every sickness” (Mat. 10:1, from: Καὶ προσκαλεσάμενος τοὺς δώδεκα μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ἐξουσίαν πνευμάτων
ἀκαθάρτων ὥστε ἐκβάλλειν αὐτὰ καὶ θεραπεύειν πᾶσαν νόσον καὶ πᾶσαν μαλακίαν, SBLGNT).
Because God never has and never will grant personal and autonomous authority and power to any infantile human spirits, not even to the most mature of elect spirits, these twelve disciples remained utterly incapable of stopping or binding any unclean spirits from Satan’s army, no ability to prevent them from deceiving and controlling people, at least not through their own wills. For the thoughts coming out of their souls were corrupted by the irrational and self-serving thoughts of their flesh, by the anger and fear produced through the self-preserving instincts of their flesh. And their infantile Page 702
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spirits would never be capable of completely reigning in all those anxieties of earthly flesh. So the demons, and their enslaved human spirits, could effectively turn the majority of captive elect against all the truths those disciples spoke according to their own wills. Unclean spirits could make anyone distrust and work against all the reasoning and all the genuine evidence offered by God’s servants, even the most blatant and obvious realities which those captives saw with their own eyes. Not only this, but His disciples had no way to heal and redeem the lives of the countless elect casualties who were suffering from the unjust and destructive lies and delusions actuated by those unclean spirits.
But God can do what man cannot. So our God Jesus granted His own power and authority to His most spiritually mature, well-taught and faithful disciples. This is something we need to realize, that those twelve, and all true servants of Jesus since then, did not go out to preach, teach and heal in their own names, and did not do their works according to their own wills. Rather, they were sent out with the power and authority of Jesus, to fulfill His will and His commands, by saying and doing all they said and did in His name. For even knowing and rightly applying God’s Word is never enough to actually advance God’s kingdom on earth. Rather, each right and loving word and deed we say and do must be led, empowered and authorized by His Holy Spirit, if we want to accomplish any effective works for His kingdom on earth. For His decision-making is omniscient and ours is not. He knows who, what, when, where, why and how, but we do not. Only His judgments take into account all relevant factors and variables, as well as all motivations and intentions, then apply the right laws in the right proportions to each soul in each unique situation, in order to turn hearts to Him and to build up His loving kingdom on earth. Therefore, our spirits must let His Spirit decide all matters.
Thus, as indicated by the participle προσκαλέομαι, Jesus called the twelve near to Him, to hear His private counsel. Then He “granted them decision-making authority” (ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ἐξουσίαν), that is, His own power to silence and cast out unclean spirits of fallen angels, so those common men might be able to redeem the suffering casualties of this ultimately spiritual war. This did not mean that their own spirits became powerful enough to do this. It did not mean that those twelve cast out demons and healed according to their own authority and by the decisions of their own wills. Rather, it meant that the power and authority of our God Jesus would go with them and inside them, to work through them, whenever His Spirit told them to cast out an unclean spirit or heal. They would do these works in the name of Jesus, according to His commands uttered to their spirits, according to His will, through the power and authority of their almighty God. When a miracle occurred through their words, they declared: “Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had [done this miracle].... By faith in [Jesus’] name, His name has [done this miracle]”
(Acts 3:12,16, WEB). It was Jesus’ Holy Spirit of God within them, the omnipresent and ubiquitous Spirit of the Creator, who did all. Only His authority and power could enforce His will over unclean spirits that were instigating lies, destroying innocent lives and murdering according to Satan’s will.
The power and authority of our God Jesus, His name, would heal the elect casualties of the unclean spirits, and the elect who were disabled by severe trials used by God to then strengthen their spirits.
After this, Jesus gave them His final instructions for their campaign into enemy territory, all of which also applies to all His disciples whom He would ever send out to do His works for His kingdom throughout all time. In those instructions, Jesus clarified that they would not be speaking and acting through their own wills, but that God—the heavenly Father who was the Spirit of life inside Jesus—would grant them the words they had to speak. These would include all the words they must utter to drive out demons and to heal broken lives. For it is His power alone that is able to cast out demons, heal and do all the other kinds of works needed for His kingdom. And, since God was with them, they were not to fear nor heed any other moral authorities, not kings, high priests nor Page 703
even their biological parents, if the words of those servants opposed whatever God had called their elect spirits to say or do. The true disciples of Jesus were to fear and heed God alone, to do His will alone. They had to do whatever God’s Holy Spirit in Jesus privately called each of their spirits to do.
For, if their spirits truly served God’s Spirit, anyone who received them was also receiving Jesus too.
And let me repeat, Jesus started this spiritual warfare by first establishing the overarching motive for all that His disciples must say and do for His kingdom. Before Jesus sent them out to war, He first took those twelve, possibly with a few other disciples, to a private place, apart from the crowds. For He wanted to describe the vast expanse of work needed to be done, and the loving ways in which it must be done. They had to know that this critical building of true foundations for God’s kingdom must be perfect, without weakening cracks or flaws, and could only become everlasting and solid through His kind of wise, just, loving compassion. Or, just as a farmer carefully studies his crops until they can be harvested, and does whatever he can to protect them and nourish them, Jesus also studied His people until He they were ready, and called His workers to do the same. But now it was the time to gather in the harvest. Today, the twelve knew how to discern the ready from that which still must remain in the soil, and those twelve could gather the ripe elect of Israel into His kingdom.
Israel’s green had faded. God’s Law, especially when rightly exegeted through their Messiah, had taught the elect how to take loving responsibility in the freedom God provided—although many still bound themselves to the dirt, with ruthless thoughts of self-serving rule upon rule, and blindly bent their wills to the malfeasance of their human gods. By now, thousands of priestly elect in that land lost all that bound them to the rocky, weedy grounds of Satan’s world order. Their greed and selfish ambitions had long since died in them. Now that filth beneath their feet meant nothing to their souls, whether it was moist or dry, whether it was willing to reward or not. Now their spirits only desired the joy of being gathered together, with their brothers and sisters, into God’s kingdom, so all might be freed from the chaff which prevented close communion with God and His creations. Now these chosen children of God inwardly knew that just, responsible love was all. Now, in this harvest, they and the other seeds of life would soon be sown again, but closer to one another, in the nourishing and clean fields of their Father’s kingdom, where all could forever grow side by side, and never perish.
Before looking at Jesus’ final instructions to His shock troops, at the mission He gave to them, also notice how Matthew wrote down the names of the twelve disciples sent out to serve as our Lord’s assistant teachers, as the elders He ordained to teach and judge in His New Covenant branch of the church of Israel. All these were Jews, although one had been a Gentile Canaanite who was brought into the church of Israel. All were Semitic men, “brown men,” like Jesus. And all were faithful, except Judas, whom Jesus chose as the one who would betray Him at the appointed time (John 6:70-71). So, out of Jesus and the twelve, only Judas resembled the wealthy North American churches we see today, except that he was not what our churches call “white.” Nevertheless, Judas best displayed the absolute power of Jesus, because Jesus was able to send that traitor out on this mission together with His faithful disciples, yet without jeopardizing His mission or the faith of the beloved elect He served through them. Jesus was capable of maintaining total control over the thoughts, words and actions of Judas at all times. Just as God once caused His enemies to truly prophecy, by taking over their thoughts and minds with His power (I Sam. 19:20-21), Jesus did the same with Judas. For Jesus is God. Likewise, Jesus has also used the fake churches of Satan’s world order to do some good as well, such as the preservation of His Word in its original languages, so His awakened elect could find His truth within, so they too could enter into the New Covenant branch of His church of Israel.
Jesus used this mission to train His eleven faithful disciples for the works of His kingdom. He was apprenticing them, providing them with work experience—to prepare them for all they must do for Page 704
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His kingdom on earth and in heaven. For His Holy Spirit stood by them in all they said and did during that time, to guide and counsel them, to help them rightly apply the truths they learned from their Teacher. Then, after He ascended into heaven and after the Pentecost, His Spirit entered the chambers of their souls and hearts. In fact, the reason His body departed was so that the priests of His New Covenant church might realize that He has always been, and always will be, with our elect spirits, even within us. So we have no need to be near His body of flesh. Rather, we become His body of flesh walking on earth, each a member of His one body, but multiplied millions of times.
Mat. 10:5-8,
Our Mission
“Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, ‘Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, preach, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!” Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.’” (Mat. 10:5-8, WEB).
First we need to know precisely what Matthew, a faithful one of the twelve, actually wrote. And a somewhat more literal translation may be: “Jesus sent these twelve out on a mission, declaring what must be done” (Mat. 10:5a, from: Τούτους τοὺς δώδεκα ἀπέστειλεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς παραγγείλας αὐτοῖς, SBLGNT). The verb ἀποστέλλω indicates a particular kind of sending, a kind which involved a duty or mission that an “apostle” or trusted servant was obligated to perform for the Lord who sent him.
So Jesus sent out the twelve to serve Him by performing a specified mission for Him. All were obligated to accomplish a particular task for Him. Then, in His instructions, He clearly told them who they were to serve in His name, and who they were not to serve, as well as the kinds of works they were to do and how to do them. The verb παραγγέλλω indicates that they were to proclaim a message in His name. Then they had to perform other works in His name. All these tasks were a critical mission, to fulfill His goal of saving the elect of His true Israel, including the Gentiles whom He gathered into Israel. Jesus came to deliver His church from Satan and from that devil’s world order. But He never ever wanted to create a new church from the Gentile nations, nor from the pretend Jews in the false churches of Israel and Samaria. Yes, countless Gentiles and Samaritans would indeed enter His church of Israel, but as individuals, and only by His inward decrees, through the wills of their elect spirits which He created and shaped. Jesus, however, did not come to save any other nations, religions or races on this earth. We see this in His eternal mission statement here, in this “declaration ... of [His] general principles of operation” ( Oxford Dictionary), which remains valid to this very day. Jesus came to build up the New Covenant branch of the same Israel that He created through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—since He would minister to the world through it alone.
Who We Must and Must Not Serve
Jesus’ first and foremost instruction was to conduct this mission “for the sheep belonging to the house of Israel, for those having been destroyed with ongoing effects” (πρὸς τὰ πρόβατα τὰ
ἀπολωλότα οἴκου Ἰσραήλ). So this was not a mission for Jews alone, for Israelites alone. Rather, His disciples were to serve only those “belonging to the house of Israel” (οἴκου Ἰσραήλ). And, in this context, the term “house of Israel” is very broad. It includes more than just Jews or the race of people physically descended from Jacob. Here Jesus was actually telling them to fulfill this mission Page 705
only for those with elect spirits born of the heavenly Father, only those whom the Father brings into His true priesthood of Israel, those whom He predestined to be citizens of His heavenly Jerusalem.
If we consider whom Jesus and His disciples served during their previous and subsequent ministries, as well as all whom God served in history, we are forced to conclude that the term “house of Israel”
refers to all the elect who currently know and worship the one true God, and all the elect who will know and worship Him in the future. The “house of Israel” is the church or priesthood which shall exist at the end of the last day, all who will esteem and serve Jesus after His Holy Spirit brings their spirits into a fully completed repentance at the gates of heaven by the end of the final judgment day.
The “house of Israel” is the family of God, all the elect who ever lived on earth and all who ever will live on earth, all who will soon faithfully serve their heavenly Father in heaven’s lands forever, all those to whom He will grant eternal homes in the New Jerusalem above. The “House” or temple or family whom Jesus commanded the twelve and all His other disciples in history to serve, in every mission He will ever send any of us, includes: (1) all Jewish descendants of Jacob with elect spirits that trust in and worship the real Jesus; (2) all apostate but elect Jews whose spirits possess an innate ability to justly love others according to God’s definition of love, but have been taken captive by the false religions of Satan’s world order, religions like humanism; (3) all the elect Gentiles whom God has ever joined or will ever join to His true priesthood of Israel during their lives on earth; and (4) all Gentile elect taken captive by false religions or fake churches, all who did not esteem and serve the real Jesus because their spirits were deceived by false religions like humanism, but whose spirits will trust and worship our God after He awakens, teaches and trains their spirits during the judgment day.
All the awakened elect whom Jesus will teach, train and send out on a mission today, also need to fully understand whom Jesus calls them to serve. As they conduct their current missions for Him, they should notice how Jesus used the plural noun “sheep,” modified by a plural perfect participle form of ἀπόλλυμι, to describe those people He sends us all to serve. Now Jesus assured us that the Father will eventually gather each and every one of those elect children into His “house of Israel,”
and that He Himself would personally cause their elect spirits to grow truly loving, wise and strong by the end of the long last day. After He conforms literally all the elect into the image of Himself, into the likeness of our resurrected, living, loving, wise and just Jesus, literally all of them will be able to serve the creations walking in heaven’s lands just as He does, and will labour beside Jesus and their Father to build up joy and abundant life in all life there. However, on that day when Jesus uttered the words of this mission statement, and up to this present time, there were not many elect to whom our God could say, “Good and faithful servant, well done! Welcome into My house, My child of My beloved family.” For all were sinners. All were sexually immoral murders who stole their meals from their siblings and from God Himself. All were evil and unfaithful servants, whose works were done poorly, if at all. His wretched, unloving priesthood of Israel remained extremely weak and
“sheepish,” easily frightened away from God and His truths, since they worshipped only false gods.