is trying to teach, but rather reveals all. Then all judgments require wise and right teachings to heal the lives of victims and to bring offenders into repentance, to justly judge and guard life. So, just as doves and pigeons are creatures of the daylight hours, with large and openly visible bodies and ways, always gently cooing for all to hear and easily find, seldom hiding and totally lacking secretive ways, never using stealth to get food, never intentionally causing harm to any other creatures and gracefully sharing all with their flock, God’s wisdom does the same. Wisdom from Jesus, our God is not like the “secret knowledge” guarded by the self-serving and often violent cults that we have had to endure for millenniums. Rather, Jesus’ wisdom opens our hearts, so we might share the truth and all else with everyone willing to receive it. In all whom God has made wise throughout history, we see this same propensity to openly and readily teach and share. And when “God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding” (I Kings 4:29, WEB),
“all the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart”
(I Kings 10:24, WEB). Therefore, since so many went “to hear his wisdom,” then Solomon must have willingly shared his wisdom with all, in a way where none left disappointed. From Greece to South Africa, from Spain to India, many thirsty souls received the wisdom God granted to Solomon.
Solomon’s father, David, the previous king of Israel, also prayed that his son would be granted God’s wisdom: “May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God. Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong, and courageous.
Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed” (I Chron. 22:12-13, WEB). Many love the part about being strong and courageous, then use this text to justify the way they forcefully impose their greedy will upon others, or bravely torture and murder innocent souls to gratify their carnal desires. But David was actually talking about receiving God’s strength to overcome evil and do right through just love, with the courage to be completely honest in all one’s dealings with all others, even when an enemy embarrassingly proves you to be dead wrong. This is a prayer for strength and courage to serve God.
So David wanted Solomon to learn God’s wisdom for the same reason that Solomon himself wanted to gain God’s wisdom, for the benefit of all God’s people. This prayer held the pure motives and intentions of a dove. For God’s kind of wisdom always fulfills God’s own wise laws and ways. And the right handling of all God’s laws and ways, all the principles He wrote into all His creations, will always produce the best possible effects, naturally and spontaneously. If we justly and lovingly serve Him, it will produce good effects, all that God chooses to produce directly through His will and power. Now Jesus, the promised heir to David’s throne, has taken the throne as the eternal King of Israel and the entire world. So now He wants His disciples to walk in the same wisdom that David hoped God would grant to Solomon, to receive the kind of wisdom that fulfills God’s just and loving laws. And, as our God, Jesus Himself is granting this just, loving wisdom to all He sends out to serve His people in His name, this “strong and courageous” wisdom which works peace and justice for all.
Ours is a Wartime Mission
After Jesus commanded those twelve (and all future disciples) to become wise (which His Word declares to be impossible, except through a gift of God’s grace to the humble and pure of heart), He told them this: “But you r emain c
ontinuously on guard against the people . For they will hand you
over to [religious] councils and they will flog you in their synagogues. Then you will be led away before [secular] rulers, even also kings, for My sake, in order to testify to them and to the Gentiles”
(Mat. 10:17-18, from: προσέχετε δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· παραδώσουσιν γὰρ ὑμᾶς εἰς συνέδρια, καὶ
ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς αὐτῶν μαστιγώσουσιν ὑμᾶς· καὶ ἐπὶ ἡγεμόνας δὲ καὶ βασιλεῖς ἀχθήσεσθε ἕνεκεν
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ἐμοῦ εἰς μαρτύριον αὐτοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, SBLGNT). So Jesus sent His disciples to serve the true Israel of God, the elect He had already gathered into His eternal church, which included countless Gentile converts, those He had been bringing into Israel since the days of Abraham and Moses, even up to that very day. This was their mission. But Jesus also indicated that His disciples would extend this mission into Gentile lands, where His elect were scattered among the non-elect born of Satan, within a people who hated God, who despised His truth and justice, who warred against the works done by God’s awakened elect whom He would send out from His church. And those enemies of God ruled over many local churches (synagogues), as well many religious councils. Thus, all whom Jesus sent out to find and gather in His elect, must remain on guard against those fake shepherds.
Since His disciples’ mission was to find, serve and gather in the elect scattered among the non-elect, those servants of God also had to overcome the deception and violence of those non-elect too. For the children of Satan controlled most churches and church authorities of the day, just as they do to this day, and will continue to do so until the great revival of the end times. And this is exactly why Jesus commanded His faithful disciples to “continuously remain on guard” (as indicated by the present/durative imperative form of the verb προσέχω). To this day, we must remain carefully alert and cautious about trusting those who claim to be servants of God. For even the elect might actually be duped into working for Satan, or for the false teaching elders and judges sent by the devil, for vile and lying religious “leaders” who arrogantly demand privilege and worship in their false churches.
The point of commanding His disciples to continuously remain on guard was not to solely to avoid being handed over to those fake religious leaders and councils, to keep themselves from being beaten and flogged in local churches. For His disciples would naturally flee from such things, and He did not need to command them to guard against those dangers. Rather, Jesus was telling them to never simply assume that all who claim to belong to His church of Israel were His true Israel. Not all who voice words of faith have faith. Not all who say they love God and ways are the elect, to whom they were sent. Only the spirits of true actually want to hear truths from God and, even then, their own minds of flesh may spontaneously object to those truths. Only elect spirits desire the free works of God in their lives for their own benefits and, even then, the cultures and habits of their flesh resist.
Many professing members of the church of Israel wanted nothing to do with the real God, nor with the truths He revealed through His servants, nor with any of the loving works God did through His true servants. Thus, in order to continue their mission uninterrupted, Jesus’ true disciples had to learn to make wise judgments, to determine which of those souls they would serve. They must look for the most loving ones, not the most pious-sounding ones. For the loving ones had elect spirits that were being taught and trained by God to be like Him. Then His true disciples were to serve these true elect as their first and foremost priority, by teaching the truth and allowing God’s works to be done for those loving souls through their hands and mouths. For, if His disciples served any and every person who asked them for a teaching or for help, and naively trusted everyone, then, at the very least, they would waste most of their precious time accomplishing absolutely nothing. For Satan will always send his minions to distract God’s labourers from their most critical works, or wear them out in the performance of countless fake emergencies. Then, if our Lord’s true servants persist in doing God’s genuine works, the devil will send his most faithful psychopaths to beat or kill them, since that is the chief form of entertainment enjoyed by Satan and his children. Consequently, the real disciples of Jesus must learn to keep a low profile, and humbly allow that devil’s children to stab each other in the back, as they alone greedily quarrel among themselves for all the money and status offered by their hellish father’s world order. The true disciples of Jesus must dwell in the Sabbath rest of God, without inheritance, and let the non-elect heap up their own damnation until they hang themselves.
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In those days, when our God Jesus walked in flesh on this earth, the Roman Empire had gained control over all Israel. And Rome did not officially allow the local churches to murder those who displeased the human gods whom they set over the synagogues. Thus, after the false churches gleefully tortured those who uttered God’s truth, the fake religious were often forced to hand their victims over to the Gentile Roman authorities for execution. They had to ask the government to murder those who spoke God’s inconvenient truths. And most often, the Romans were more than happy to help, since their psychopathic leaders enjoyed the spectacle of gruesome and slow deaths.
They eagerly murdered anyone brought to them, that is, unless the victim was a Roman citizen like themselves, and classified as a fellow human being. And very few Roman authorities who judged the hapless victims had ever developed an inner conscience of their spirits, since Rome only allowed the most ruthless children of the devil to enter the superior ranks of their very steep hierarchical system.
And Romans also loved to perform their merciless executions in public, because they were terrorists who wanted to “make an example” of everyone they murdered, just as criminal gangs do today. Yet their public displays of psychopathic power sometimes backfired, in a way, since God’s disciples then had an opportunity to publicly testify about Jesus and His truth, whenever they were led in chains before Roman rulers and the people watching those mock “trials.” Thus, not all was lost, even if false churches and their fake leaders did ensnare some. But, obviously, with all the violence and death resulting from the just and loving teachings of the apostles, this mission that Jesus was sending them out to accomplish was truly a form of warfare, a dangerous task in guarded enemy territories.
And, for all true disciples sent out by the real Jesus in our day, the situation remains basically the same, throughout the entire world. All whom Jesus sends out are entering a war zone, where a very ruthless enemy is indeed seeking to destroy them, in one way or another. That enemy is weaker in some lands, but is still powerful. For the spiritual essence of Rome, which is the devil’s most effective delusion of a religion called humanism, permeates the world and almost all false churches.
Thus, the fake churches and their demonically inspired human gods still spiritually, emotionally and physically attack the true servants of God, and even all the elect whom Jesus teaches and trains to be honest and loving. Then, if the devil’s world order cannot silence Christ’s disciples the easy way, by threats of violence and other forms of terrorism, they try to destroy them with slander in the courts of willing and corrupt governments, or in the courts of public opinion. Then, if God’s servants dare to speak the truth against them, those liars will claim that the truth is a lie, and that they are the victims of slander, although a little genuine research and honesty will reveal all their claims to be false. So they will try to maintain a deadly state of chaos. Although some just teachings of God’s Word have infiltrated governments and populations of the world, it remains equally dangerous to proclaim the real Jesus and the real truth, because the power of the lie has increased through technology. And, in the past, a servant of Christ could run and hide from false churches and corrupt authorities. But now they cannot, since electronic eyes are everywhere. However, on the other hand, their evil use of this technology can also be turned against them, and more effectively, since even technology consists of God’s creations, which God controls. In the past, faithful servants of God could only proclaim the truth to as many as could hear their voices or read their hand-written letters. But now God’s servants can proclaim His created truths and realities to millions of souls all over the world with the mere press of a button, in the same way the devil’s devious servants broadcast all their contradicting lies.
So the battle rages on, and the spiritual principles which Jesus taught to the twelve still apply to us in our day, although our technology and cultures have altered some of the physical methods. If Jesus sends us out to proclaim His truth, we may do so through the same methods they used back then, by speaking in public gatherings or writing letters to individuals or to bodies of people. But we can also Page 744
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use mass media. We can release documents, videos and sound recording on the internet, or publish truth through printing presses, and broadcast it through television or radio. However, telling the truth is just a dangerous in Satan’s world order today. So we still need to “remain continuously on guard against the people.” Even in nice little suburban neighbourhood churches, some will slander us and try to “hand us over to religious councils.” Or the lies of local churches will motivate some members to try and physically beat or kill us. Then, if this fails, some will take us to court and slander us in an attempt to get a government to destroy us. But, since we come in the name of Jesus, to proclaim His realities and truths, we can publicly testify, with evidence and reasoning, about those consistent and verifiable truths in our courts. And real truth always works effectively in the hearts of the elect, though not always in our courts. Still, truth will prevail. So, instead of false churches being able to condemn us through their lies, the truth will condemn them, and will work their own destruction.
Now let us always remember that Jesus came to fulfill God’s Law in us and through us. And His Law demands that we must base all our judgments on the physical and spiritual truths and realities He created, on the facts that exist. And lies do not exist. So our truths are always and absolutely supported by genuine evidence and honest witnesses. Yet all that evidence must be discovered first, then carefully weighed and cross-examined. And this cross-examination always requires us to diligently and carefully apply the truly rational and logical principles by which God Himself created and maintains all existence, in order to determine and prove all that is or is not reality. God requires us to thoroughly investigate everything, and to think clearly about it all, to cross-examine all. For
“he who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him” (Prov. 18:17, WEB). Yet almost all churches today despise these requirements of God’s Law, because they only want to believe what their flesh desires. Therefore, almost all churches hate the real Jesus with a passion, since Jesus came to fulfill all God’s laws in us and through us. This hatred of Jesus causes churches to support lying fascists like Hitler and Trump. So let us become aware of these enemies of Christ Jesus in the false churches, these children of the devil, who are liars and murderers just like their father from hell. We must remain on guard against them, yet search for the loving souls still trapped in their midst, and testify to those true elect about the real Jesus, and all His just, wise truth.
Some false churches like to act as though we are not engaging in warfare against the real enemies of God, against the devil and his non-elect children, who are seeking to devour souls (I Pet. 5:8). They like to say that no one actually has a “non-elect” spirit born of Satan, even while most of those who preach this false doctrine do have non-elect spirits born of the devil, and are the real enemies of God.
Instead, they say that God loves literally everyone, even the psychopathic murderers they raise up on their pulpits and support in their governments. Yet most of these same churches preach against God’s truth and His true servants, warning their dupes to flee from Jesus and His true disciples, calling both their own soldiers and the government’s soldiers to persecute them, as though those loving and just souls were dangerous enemies of God and His church. Thus, their proclamation of God’s love only extends to like-minded self-contradicting liars, and to the dupes who worship them as gods. For they intentionally reject God and His words, maliciously murder and crush the innocent, torture the guiltless for their own pleasure, enslave through their covetousness, ruthlessly exploit the weak, slander and ruin lives in totally callous ways, and serve their hellish father in all they say and do. We have seen Roman Catholics do this for millenniums, and Protestants do so for hundreds of years.
Then, in this past century, churches have supported Hitler, Trump and other fascists, although the beast, in whom Satan dwells, can best be described as a fascist leader. And those churches not only follow those monsters who deny biblical principles and truths, they actually worship those lying despots as their gods, while claiming that the doctrines of God’s election are “cruel” and “unloving.”
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So here Jesus was implying that we would suffer in the same way that His faithful theologian, Paul the apostle, did when Rome executed him. And, not long before they killed him, Paul wrote: “Do all things without murmurings and disputes, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labour in vain. Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all. In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me” (Phil. 2:14-18, WEB). So Jesus sends us into a war between His spiritual kingdom and Satan’s spiritual kingdom. And, in reality, all physical wars on earth are actually manifestations of these spiritual wars, where evil wants its way but God denies them the fulfilling of their wicked spiritual desires. Jesus has sent out all of His disciples into an enemy territory, into Satan’s world order, into “the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.” And that enemy’s kingdom is still primarily ruled by his most ruthless children, by those who are willing to lie and murder just like the hellish father of their spirits. But, although that enemy always stupidly attempts to get his way through physical violence, Jesus wants us to be wise and harmless, yet continuously on guard against those non-elect. We are not to become efficient killers, but “lights in the world,” in its darkness of fear caused by its violence, lies and delusion. So, yes, our work will be dangerous, and many of our bodies of flesh will suffer as casualties of this war. But all the elect who remain faithful to the end will also see victories for God’s loving and just kingdom, just as Paul did, though his flesh was murdered by Satan’s false churches. God’s kingdom is indeed growing. His truth has been gaining a strong foothold everywhere on earth. And soon our God Himself will come to rule over all the earth.
Our Spirits Must Rely on His Spirit
Jesus then told His disciples how to respond when facing accusers of any kind—whether they are prosecutors, judges and juries in a court of law, members of church councils or boards, members of other kinds of criminal gangs, or otherwise. He counselled all His awakened elect to do this: “Now, when they might hand you people over, you should never be unduly concerned about the way [you present yourselves] or what words you might utter. For what you should utter will be given to you in that hour. More specifically, the ones uttering words are not you people, but the Spirit of your Father
[is] the One continuously uttering words in you people” (Mat. 10:19-20, from: ὅταν δὲ παραδῶσιν
ὑμᾶς, μὴ μεριμνήσητε πῶς ἢ τί λαλήσητε· δοθήσεται γὰρ ὑμῖν ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρᾳ τί λαλήσητε· οὐ γὰρ
ὑμεῖς ἐστε οἱ λαλοῦντες ἀλλὰ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν τὸ λαλοῦν ἐν ὑμῖν, SBLGNT). This instruction was clear to those who had been with Jesus for some time. But is not so clear to others.
So let us examine it more closely, to find out what Jesus intended His words to mean for His people.
First, look at the verb used in this exhortation. Jesus used a negative with an aorist subjunctive form of μεριμνάω, to indicate a prohibition against ever beginning the action of that verb. And that verb means, “be apprehensive, have anxiety, be anxious, be (unduly) concerned” (BDAG3). This was followed by a description of the matters they were forbidden to have no anxiety or undue concern about. One matter was the way or manner in which they uttered words, as indicated by the adverb πῶς (which is an “interrogative reference to [a] manner or way, in what way? how? ... [inserted] to determine how something has come to be, how something is happening, or should happen,”
BDAG3). So we are not to have anxiety about how or in what way we are to speak. The other matter was indicated by the interrogative pronoun τί (“what, who, which”). So Jesus exhorted His disciples:
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or what we say. For Jesus wanted us to fulfill God’s Law by respecting all other human beings and, therefore, we should ensure that our elect spirits guard our tongues of flesh and edit all we may say.
Our respect for all human souls requires us to be somewhat careful about what we say. Yet we must refrain from speaking through empty pride, irrational anger or carnal esteem for the rich, famous or powerful. At the same time, we need not be anxious nor have undue concern about offending others with the truth. To the best of our ability, we need to speak honestly, but as gently as possible, through our love for God and His people. And, certainly, we should try to ensure that our intended meaning is clearly understood. Furthermore, our respect for others requires us to answer sincere questions, or to correct the biases of others when the situation allows. Yes, there are times when our enemies will not actually ask questions to find real answers, but only to deviously twist whatever we might say into slanderous maligning propaganda and false accusations against us, just as they did and still do with the perfect words of our God Jesus. So it is better to remain silent at times, as Jesus also did.
Nevertheless, Christ’s constant teachings of truth and training in wisdom will help our spirits know what to say when the times of trial come, and His guidance of our spirits in those hours will counsel us and edit our words, if we walk according to our spirits, with the ears of our spirits focused upon Him, and overcome the fears and other emotions in our minds of flesh. Then, if He calls us to expose their wicked, unjust motives, and they slavishly serve their demonic impulses for revenge, we will also be prepared for that, and face it with courage. Yet Jesus will not always call us to ask cutting questions and utter penetrating truths before the faces of our enemies. Very often His Spirit tells our spirits to simply remain silent and let their own contradicting words condemn themselves. But the point Jesus made here is that we must never rely on making good outward appearances, nor use cunning rhetoric to sway opinions, to win others over to our side. Rather, we must honestly present ourselves as the common sinners we are, as ordinary ignorant souls with infantile spirits who are beginning to learn the truths and ways of God. We need to remain humble about our deficiencies in knowledge and wisdom, uttering only what we do know through our love for God and His creations.
We should never act like the psychopathic Greek and Roman lords, who dressed in the costly and god-like garments of superiors and portrayed themselves as omniscient overlords, whose lies should be believed and obeyed without question. We should never use their kinds of outward appearances and practised rhetoric, nor be duped by them. Rather, we trust in the truths from our heavenly Father.
The minds of elect spirits are powerfully rational and capable of extremely deep thoughts. Then, if the minds of our elect spirits ignore the thoughts originating from between our legs, and take control of our minds of flesh, our elect spirits will be able to hear and learn great quantities of truth and wisdom from the Holy Spirit of our heavenly Father, who is also the Spirit of Jesus the Christ. And, if we have awakened elect spirits, that Holy Spirit will be “continuously uttering words in” us. This is why Jesus prohibited us from becoming unduly concerned about how we look and what kinds of persuasive rhetoric we should utter. The reason He gave was because “what you should utter will be given to you in that hour.” We have no need for the techniques of distraction, misdirecting attention and transferring blame upon the innocent, in order to save ourselves from just condemnation and well-deserved judgments against us. For we will be innocent, or at least the honestly repentant, if our spirits have been truly heeding the counsel of Christ. So we will not need to use the same tricks and devious tactics used by the demonic pagans use to escape their liability and responsibility for crimes.
Here Matthew told us that “the Spirit of [our] Father” would be “continuously uttering words in” us.
But Luke called this same Spirit doing these same works “the Holy Spirit” who “will teach [us] in that same hour what [we] must say” (Luke 12:12, WEB). So this continuous uttering of words in us, by our heavenly Father, is not some kind miraculous epiphany we shall receive by blanking out our Page 747
minds and waiting for divine inspiration. Rather, it will be our God’s Spirit pointing out realities and truths existing all around us, reminding us about the meaning of His words in certain Scriptures that pertain to our God-caused observations, and much carefully reasoning through those matters with the minds of our spirits, so our spirits can then tell our minds and bodies of flesh what to say. The Holy Spirit of Jesus and our Father must teach us, and His teaching always involves all of these activities.
God cannot and does not “teach” us while we are practising pagan forms of mindless meditation, such as by uttering nonsense syllables and falsely calling it the “gift of tongues.” Rather, our God can only teach us if the minds of our spirits take control of our souls and cause our minds of flesh to submit, so our whole beings consciously pay attention to His words and fully comprehend His reasoning. Our God, our Father and oldest Brother, can only teach us His wise counsel if our spirits are praying to Him with our eyes wide open and our ears listening intently. We must remain awake inside, and always remember that there is only one God, a timeless and uncreated Holy Spirit, one Spirit in Jesus and the Father. And the words this wise, omniscient Spirit continuously speaks to our spirits, to teach (διδάσκω) us His eternal truths and the realities that came from within Him. Our Creator of all existence is able to train our spirits to rightly apply the truths and created realities that He teaches to us, which is wisdom. Our spirits are indeed His disciples continuously being taught and trained by the one and only God, by Jesus, as is evidenced by all He has taught us to this day.
And, naturally, the phrase “in that hour” meant “in that circumstance.” So it did not mean that God always wants us to speak contemporaneously and spontaneously, without first taking the time to gather and thoroughly examine evidence, without obeying His laws about investigating and logically weighing the evidence, since Jesus fulfills God’s laws, and never nullifies them. Here Jesus was not forbidding us to rationally prepare for our trials. He was not saying that we should not think about which questions we must ask when we cross-examine witnesses according to His Law, because that would be a sin, acting in wilful disobedience of His Law, which Jesus actually came to fulfill in us and through us. Therefore, when Jesus told us that God would give us all that we should say “in that hour,” He meant that, both before and during the trials we face, God will grant us all the truth and wisdom that we should utter. He will teach us what to say and how to say it, through a process that will continue from the beginning of the first accusations arising against us, right until the end of the trials we shall face before church councils, secular courts and even in the courts of public opinion.
Even if our trials drag out over a period of years or decades, our spirits must keep our eyes and ears open for the teachings of God regarding the slander and false accusations of the enemy. Perhaps God will provide new evidence or witnesses, more information, greater revelations or insights, and so on, during that entire time. Or God might further expose the wicked intentions and false motives of our accusers over time. Throughout all this, our Father will be teaching and training our awakened elect spirits to not only counter our false accusers, but to also testify about Him and His truths in ever expanding detail and in wiser ways, to inform the elect involved with our cases, as well as all of the interested elect in the public. Not only will we gradually build up our case against false accusations, but we will continue to fulfill the mission of Jesus, just as the apostle Paul continued to do even after God’s enemies threw him into a prison cell. For every time God’s truth and wisdom overcomes the lies of the enemy, those truths cannot be easily nullified themselves, and will set firm precedents for future trials involving similar false accusations. Yes, no matter how many times a lie is proved false, the enemy will attempt to utter that lie again, perhaps in a new way, with modified rhetoric. And the devil’s humanists also believe that, if they repeat a lie often enough and loud enough, they can make it true. So God’s servants have been fighting some of the same kinds of lies for millenniums. Yet, Page 748
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each time those lies rise up again, our truths that expose them will also grow deeper, more solid, more purely refined and more effective, because some elect spirits listen to the counsel of our God.
This is why Jesus said the same thing regarding His disciples in the end times: “Therefore, settle in your hearts not to practice a speech beforehand, in order to have a defence made for yourselves. For I will give a mouth and wisdom to you people, which the whole group of your adversaries will not be able to stand against or reason against” (Luke 21:14-15, from: θέτε οὖν ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν μὴ
προμελετᾶν ἀπολογηθῆναι, ἐγὼ γὰρ δώσω ὑμῖν στόμα καὶ σοφίαν ᾗ οὐ δυνήσονται ἀντιστῆναι ἢ
ἀντειπεῖν ἅπαντες οἱ ἀντικείμενοι ὑμῖν, SBLGNT). Here again, Jesus told us to not rehearse a speech in the same way the pagans did when they faced a court, practising to deceive, distract and distort the truth, by carefully designing every detail of their outward appearance, every gesture and every word carefully, all scripted to convince the judges and the people that their lies are trustworthy and true.
For that kind of Greco-Roman practice of appealing to the emotions and biases of the flesh allowed the unrepentant and guilty to escape justice, while it unjustly condemned many falsely accused and innocent souls. That is, the humanistic adversarial court system, which favoured the wealthy who could afford to hire the most skilful deceivers, that demonically unjust system which is still used in our lands to this day, simply pits one insincere rhetorician against another, where only the best play actor with the most convincing external props can win. So the party with the trickiest and most expensive lawyer was basically guaranteed to be found innocent, whether or not he actually was innocent. But any of the accused who could not afford those skilled deceivers was automatically guilty, whether or not he actually was guilty. And, obviously, Jesus did not condone that kind of injustice. Jesus did not want us to play those games with the lives of His people. So, yes, we can dress in a way that is acceptable to the judges in those unjust courts, and to the biased public. And we can diligently to the research and preparations for our court cases. At the same time, we must not play their demonic games, but rather expose them, and shine the light to overcome their darkness.
On the other hand, Jesus certainly was not telling us to reject the cooperative justice system taught in God’s Law, nor any of the practices of just judgments which He Himself demanded. In God judicial system, He assigned a number of impartial Levitical scholars or teaching elders to act on behalf of both the accusers and the accused, and without pay. This would be similar to our courts requiring that all of the prosecutors and defence attorneys must be approved and paid for by the government.
Then both the prosecution and defence were to thoroughly investigate the matter, with the help of the Levitical guards, which served as a police force. Both sides also had to cross examine all witnesses and the experts testifying about the physical evidence, to use sound reasoning that takes into account all possible motives and intentions. For they were to collectively and rightly judge in God’s name, that is, with hearts that respected and heeded God’s words, even His words spoken to their spirits.
In Luke 21:14-15, Jesus was rejecting the unjust, adversarial and costly humanistic court systems of the Greeks and Romans, because He wanted us to enable abundant life through God’s justice system.
Jesus calls our spirits to heed all that His Holy Spirit teaches, even all He dictated in the Scriptures.
He wants us to be just and equitable, even towards our enemies. He trains our our spirits to trust and to apply what He teaches. We must not allow our hearts to be deceived by outward appearances and cunningly crafted words, but follow the truth which He writes in our minds, then rightly apply that truth His kind of rational wisdom. For Satan and his servants will never be “able to stand against or reason against” His truth and wisdom, but will always destroy themselves in time. The devil’s world order, both his false churches and corrupt governments, inevitably resort to slander and physical violence to maintain unjust power. Yet God’s truth and wisdom invariably destroys their deceptions and false reasoning. God’s truth and wisdom cannot be overcome in the very end, but will expose Page 749
worthless dirty little liars, no matter how violently they resist. The majority, both the elect drawn to the truth and the non-elect rivals of human powers, eventually withdraw their support and leave the deceivers defeated and alone. Since there is no way to destroy the created realities and truths that God reveals, whether we win or lose in their pagan Roman adversarial and unjust court systems, God’s kingdom will will win, will assert His ownership of the entire earth and all who are upon it.
Thus, our best defence is His truth and wisdom. And, once His truths and wisdom are released in the world, God’s almighty power will produce good effects, to build up His kingdom for us on this earth.
Yet we are always lacking some wisdom. No mystic nor scholar is truly wise. Only God is entirely wise. So we must seek and trust in our God. As His foolish and sinful children, with infantile spirits, we need to let our elect spirits hear and learn as much truth and wisdom from Jesus as we possibly can. But, at the same time, we must never start to think we have received all we need. For literally all of us are indeed weak, foolish and prone to outright stupidity. Even Solomon, a human being granted the greatest gift of wisdom among all his contemporaries, did end up ruining his life and the lives of his family, as well as countless other lives in God’s priesthood of Israel, all through his ignorant and very carnal foolishness. For, if any body of flesh gets too little or too much sleep or food, or it may receive too little or too much drink or pleasure, it becomes either too hot or too cold to be useful to God or to us. The flesh also suffers pain or sickness, then shuts down all communication with its own spirit in the chamber of the soul. Yet God only grants His truth, wisdom and love to a spirit. So, when a mind of flesh stops heeding the mind of the spirit when both meet in the soul, then the love, honesty and wisdom of one’s soul ceases as well, and one becomes a loveless fool. This happens to all of us, frequently. Therefore, not one human being in all time, except Jesus, has been found to be sinless. Literally all, except Jesus, are deadly sinners. None is worthy of any trust and esteem. Only Jesus, whose Spirit is the almighty God, whose Spirit always maintained complete control over His flesh within His soul, is worthy of our faith and can be worshipped as our God. Jesus alone has been absolutely beautiful in all His words and ways, an awesome wonder to study and emulate in worship.
Human beings are generally so loveless and foolish that they seldom possess the ability to even recognize real love and genuine wisdom, even when it is staring them in the face. And most think they are as good as everyone else, and even become quite proud of themselves. However, all are truly horrible. All have directly or indirectly caused huge quantities of needless pain, death and destruction, so much that humanity has now almost destroyed all life on earth. Thus, if anyone feels as “good” as as everyone else, it simply means one is feeling like a filthy and murderous sinner worthy of eternal hell. Now, of course, spirits born of Satan never recognize even the most obvious manifestations of love and wisdom, since real love and genuine wisdom are God’s light, and those kinds of spirits only love darkness, never light. Their spirits crave nothing but the utter darkness of vain, greedy, foolish, stupid, destructive lies and delusions. But—although most elect possess dull and barely conscious spirits remaining in the same infantile state possessed at conception, and have learned nothing of real value throughout their lives—literally all those elect still possess the potential to learn love and wisdom. All that potential may be latent and totally undeveloped. Yet an inherent desire and ability to build up wise and just love upon a foundation of truth will forever remain an integral aspect of their spirits, a God-given attribute that none can ever damage or destroy in them.
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receive the counsel of Jesus Christ’s Holy Spirit. And our spirits must keep the emotions and foolish impulses of our minds of flesh in check, so we might fully trust in the truth and wisdom we surely will receive from God. We need to place our spirits’ faith in God, not in human beings. Then, as each day passes, we should let our spirits pray, listen, and watch for what He might grant us, truly see Him, and not ignore Him. For He will work in the hearts and minds of everyone and everything around us. Then, whether He calls our flesh to live or die, we must heed the truths and wise counsel He grants to our spirits, and act upon that truth in the ways He commands. For He will cause events to provide us with an opportunity to continue labouring in the tasks of His true mission, even if the liars and their courts remain against us. If we do this, our entire experience will bear good fruit for God, whether or not the enemy might “win” in court. Our words and deeds will win the real prize, the hearts of His elect children who see and find Jesus through us. In Jesus, we can vanquish our enemies. “For what we should utter will be given to us in that hour. More specifically, the ones uttering words are not us, but the Spirit of our Father is the One continuously uttering words in us.”
Stay On Task
Some who attempt to exegete the next instructions of Jesus (Mat. 10:21-23) are so horrified by the examples of betrayal within them that they become totally distracted and cannot understand what He actually meant. Yet He was telling the twelve disciples to keep themselves from becoming distracted, to remain focused on the mission He sent them to accomplish, even if terrible things happen to them.
Jesus said: “Now brother will betray brother unto death, and a father [will betray] a child. Even children will stand in opposition against parents and will kill them. And you will be always being hated by all kinds of people because of My name. Yet, after having suffered trials until the end, this one will be saved. So when they might constantly persecute you in this community, flee into that
[community]. For, with all certainty, I reason with you, there definitely is no possibility you will finish [serving] the communities of Israel until the Son of Man should come” (23, from: παραδώσει
δὲ ἀδελφὸς ἀδελφὸν εἰς θάνατον καὶ πατὴρ τέκνον, καὶ ἐπαναστήσονται τέκνα ἐπὶ γονεῖς καὶ
θανατώσουσιν αὐτούς. καὶ ἔσεσθε μισούμενοι ὑπὸ πάντων διὰ τὸ ὄνομά μου· ὁ δὲ ὑπομείνας εἰς
τέλος οὗτος σωθήσεται. ὅταν δὲ διώκωσιν ὑμᾶς ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ, φεύγετε εἰς τὴν ἑτέραν· ἀμὴν γὰρ
λέγω ὑμῖν, οὐ μὴ τελέσητε τὰς πόλεις τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἕως ἂν ἔλθῃ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, SBLGNT).
God is continuously working a dichotomizing process, separating His elect children from Satan’s brood. God is always drawing those who with an ability to love toward Him and His light, even as those who are all incapable of truly loving anyone, because they cherish only darkness, flee from God. Consequently, this means that families will be torn apart. Siblings, parents, extended families, churches, close communities and other groups, even where the elect assume that all will be forever remain bound by the covenants of their spirits, shall be torn apart. For Satan’s offspring will never abandon their father, and will always purge the loving elect from the higher levels of their class systems and other hierarchies, sometimes even while trying to make those elect believe that their wicked and psychopathic deeds are done for God. And those non-elect souls will do this through threats, fear-mongering, rage and hatred, all put in their hearts by their father, the devil. And none will maintain faithfulness to anyone or anything, since all are utterly incapable of real love. So none will ever experience true godly sorrow leading to their spirits’ repentance and into a communion with their Creator. In fact, the only time they feel bad is when they fail to gain the power, status or control that their spirits desire, when they fail to be perceived as the gods they want to be. So they never repent into the truth, but slander and murder the elect precisely because they cannot tolerate the truth flowing into and out of loving elect spirits. Yet the elect will feel great godly sorrow and Page 751
regret when they are betrayed and slandered, since their spirits made genuine and honest covenants of love with those unfaithful brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers and children. So the betrayals will indeed hurt the elect. Yet the crushed elect are not able to stop loving, and their spirits never let them completely abandon their life’s mission, written by God, although pain may distract them for a time.
Now materialists may try to slander God by saying His dichotomizing process is cruel, since it causes so much pain for His elect. But, clearly, it is not God who causes that pain. It is Satan’s family of betrayers, and their lies. And God’s Holy Spirit is always warning His elect to keep their distance from Satan’s children. Therefore, none of the blame can go to God. It always the devil’s children who lure elect spirits into making covenants of love with them, because those non-elect want to take those elect captive, want to enslave those elect, because they want to become gods who own other human beings. And that devil’s brood are always fully aware they cannot reciprocate the love of those covenants of faithful which they demand from their captive elect. Those non-elect know full well that they can never love those elect in return for their worshipful esteem and service.
Satan teaches all his children’s hearts to practise this kind of deception, so his children can exploit and enslave the infantile elect, whenever possible. And this is why God commands us to refrain from fellowshipping with the loveless, lest they take us captive. As for God, all He does, when He tears families and close friends apart, is make His elect children aware of this spiritual reality. He is simply granting the truth which sets His elect free from slavery and exploitation by the wicked. Yes, it hurts to realize that your beloved ones do not love you in return, and are incapable of love because they hate the light of God’s truth, and cannot build any genuine love within the vacuum of dark lies and delusions that their spirits spontaneously pursue and cherish above all else. It is painful to realize that those you served through the covenants of your heart were ruthlessly exploiting and enslaving you, while you sought to lovingly practise God’s wise justice towards them. But that loss and pain grows more love and wisdom, a more careful and informed walk in life, a watchfulness which sees through the superficial niceness and smiles practised by the non-elect. It makes one aware of the bait and the mechanics of the traps laid by the non-elect. That suffering causes the spirits of the elect to wake up and reevaluate their inner priorities and reasons for all they think, say and do. It knocks them into reality. Then, with new-found truth and wisdom, the elect might live more meaningful and fulfilled lives, truly serving God, either consciously or unconsciously carrying out Christ’s mission.
Jesus told us that we “will be always being hated by all kinds of people because of My name.” So He did not say that we will do the hating. Rather, it will be Satan’s children who will do this continuous and ongoing hating (indicated by the present tense verb). And Satan’s children will include “all kinds of people” (i.e., in context, the genitive plural form of πᾶς in verse 22 obviously connotes “without distinction,” meaning “all kinds of people, every kind of person,” and does not imply “without exclusion,” does not mean “all people, everyone”). So the non-elect include all kinds of people, the rich and the poor, the religious and the non-religious, the strong and the weak, the cunning and the foolish. Then the elect are also “all kinds of people” too. Thus, the elect are placed everywhere with the non-elect, and will meet them everywhere. And there is no physical way to distinguish the elect from the non-elect, because the principal differences are in their spirits. The elect have spirits created in the image of God, since their spirits originate directly from God’s Spirit. And the non-elect have spirits born in the image of Satan, fashioned by his evil spiritual power. However, we can often know which kind of spirit one has by the physical fruits produced by one’s spirit, since all human spirits express themselves and do their works through their flesh. The words and deeds from a person’s heart reveal one’s father, in whose image one’s spirit was formed. Love and truth come from a spirit born of God, even if one’s body of flesh may have been duped into thinking it must hate Page 752
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and lie. But only hate, delusions and lies come from a non-elect spirit, even if one’s body of flesh may sometimes want to outwardly appear loving and speak some truths at times. Then nothing reveals what is in a spirit better than the reaction to an awakened elect servant of God truly speaking and acting in Jesus’ name, a spirit’s response to an elect soul doing what Jesus wills and commands.
Jesus said His disciples will be hated “because of My name,” that is, because they say and do what Jesus calls their elect spirits to say and do. This is where the “rubber meets the road.” As long as the elect are saying and doing what Satan’s world order wants or allows them to say and do, the non-elect are happy to be with them—especially if they can exploit or enslave those elect, since those elect possess an inherent kind of loyalty, which serves those whom they love. But the minute those elect stop serving the human gods ruling over the devil’s families and institutions of his world order, and being to serve the truth and wisdom of Jesus through love, the devil’s world order feels severely threatened. For, when Jesus calls the elect to speak the truth through love, and to minister with compassion through grace, Satan can no longer hold them in bondage through his delusions and lies, nor gather those dupes into a unified army in his wars against God, through an artificially induced hatred of someone or something. Consequently, Satan’s children always react violently whenever they see the elect begin to serve in Jesus’ name. For they desperately want to preserve their father’s unjust, self-serving and destructive hierarchical systems. After all, their spirits know that the devil’s temporary kingdom on earth is the only inheritance they will ever receive throughout eternity. So they will do everything they possibly can to rescue their loveless delusions and lies, which are the walls bearing up their father’s kingdom, lest the light of Jesus Christ’s truth and wisdom might dissolve the darkness of those walls. There is no limit to the demonic kinds of cruelty and injustice they will perform, in order to preserve Satan’s kingdom. All are willing to become pure psychopaths.
Literally all non-elect spirits are just like their father. And all the sins of their father are committed through his desire to be a god. Satan wants to ignore God’s will and do only his own will, no matter how unjust or cruel it may be. So the non-elect are the same. All of them want to be gods too. So the greatest pleasure of their spirits comes from deluding themselves into thinking they truly are gods, that they can cause their own wills to be done on earth. Thus, the non-elect will readily sacrifice the lives of their own flesh just to see their own wills accomplished. Although their spirits know that the death of their flesh will mean the loss of all their other earthly pleasures forever, and that their spirits will go directly to hell, they are still willing to die for the pleasure of knowing they forced their own god-like wills upon others, since that is their chief pleasure. Besides their spirits already dwell in the dark void of hell while they live in bodies of flesh on earth. So, if Satan awakens a non-elect spirit, then that spirit’s act of sacrificing its body and going to hell seems like a small price to pay, if one can gain the pleasure of deluding oneself into thinking one caused one’s will to be done, like a god.
But the core decision-making and motivating process in the lives of all the elect functions through the directives of their spirits’ inner conscience, through massive amounts of data and information, that is, through the spiritual truths and wisdom that God has granted to them throughout their lives, which is eternally stored in the minds of their spirits. And that inner conscience tells their spirits how to love. Yet it is God alone who teaches and trains those elect spirits throughout their lives, and who will continue to do so throughout the judgment day—in order to build up that inner conscience in the minds of their spirits. Of course, the elect also make decisions through their temporary, man-made outer consciences created in their minds of flesh, by their parents and society, as various people rewarded or punished their “good” or “bad” behaviours of their flesh. And even flesh of the non-elect possess an outer conscience that may be identical to that of the elect. However, every outer conscience is very fragile, full of false and contradicting data and information, and can be harmful to Page 753
oneself and others, if the people in one’s life build it upon a foundation of lies and delusions. That outer conscience can even cause perpetual sin. Therefore, the elect need to seek our God Jesus, to let Him develop their deeper, broader and eternal inner conscience, so they might walk according to the truth and wisdom in it, according to what Jesus has taught and trained them to do. And all elect do this at times, to a certain extent. Still, throughout history, most elect have lived according to the dictates of their outer conscience of the flesh, according to what their parents and churches taught their minds of flesh to believe and practise, not according to the truths and wisdom that their God Jesus writes in the minds of their spirits. And this is how the elect get trapped in the false churches.
Depending on the family or community one has lived in, especially from birth to about twelve years of age, everyone will develop an outer conscience, either a partially good or very bad one. Then some non-elect will even lose their outer conscience as they grow a little older, as their hellish father teaches and trains their spirits to become more like himself. And Jesus also will begin to reshape and reform the outer consciences of His elect, to comply with the inner conscience that Jesus is building in their spirits. For evil parents and a corrupt society will often build an outer conscience that shall constantly and violently conflict with the inner conscience that God is building in the spirits of His elect. There are many parents and societies who routinely reward sin and punish acts of loving justice, who promote unjust revenge, racism, class systems, selfish ambitions, greed and so on. But, since non-elect spirits are never taught and trained by God, they cannot develop any kind of godly inner conscience. So they never experience the kind of inner conflict that the elect do, when the elect are raised by evil parents and corrupt societies. And, as Jesus builds up an elect spirit’s inner conscience, it tears down the lies and delusion found in the outer conscience of the flesh. So that conflict between the more powerful mind of the spirit and the weak mind of flesh always improves the outer consciences of the elect. So the lives of the elect grow more wise and godly as they grow older. But the non-elect can never develop better outer consciences, because there never is much of healthy conflict between their spirits and flesh. In fact, their outer consciences tend to always go from bad to worse, as they find new ways to gratify the desires of their flesh, even with a cruel cost to other souls. The non-elect can only create worse traditions and build up worse outer consciences.
So, if parents and society raise up children in the just, wise and loving ways they should pursue, those children will be better off, whether or not they have elect spirits. For, if a child has an elect spirit, he or she will improve the outer conscience built by humans throughout childhood. And a non-elect child also will be better off, since he or she will do less damage throughout life. For, although a non-elect spirit will continuously whittle away at the good outer conscience created by parents and society during childhood, it will take that one much longer to become totally evil and destructive.
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will not develop good inner consciences created by God. Then their outer consciences will inevitably deteriorate throughout their lives, and all will be lost. So it is far better for a child to have weak and faulty parents who cannot build a good outer conscience inside the mind of flesh, if those parents rely on God to build up good inner consciences in their loving spirits. Then their child can learn to trust in God as they do, and let God shape a just, equitable, wise and loving spirit within him or her.
There is a constant struggle in every family and community, as both the elect and non-elect question the failing human precepts that have formed the outer consciences in their minds of flesh, as each side strives to build new ways, traditions and laws within themselves, as well as in their children and siblings. In every generation, the elect do the works needed to sustain communities and build their own families. And the spirits of literally all these elect long to practise God’s just and loving ways, so conflicts will cease and so they might live in peace with their Creator and His creations. Thus, every generation of elect will seek changes. But, if the elect are taught that the gods of their outer consciences are their only gods, and do not learn to trust in God for the building of their inner consciences, they will suppress the desires of their spirits and live by their minds of flesh alone, as pressures from Satan’s world order bear down on them, forcing them to comply with the dictates of the outer conscience taught by deceiving humans and devils. Yes, Jesus will awaken some elect spirits and build their inner consciences to a certain extent. So these elect will push for reforms throughout their lives. And Jesus will intervene for these. Once Jesus develops inner consciences enough for these to actually know how to do something which is truly according to His will, Jesus will answer their prayers and cause a truth or principle they rightly desire to take effect. But these elect will find much resistance, even from elect siblings, since others will live according to their minds of flesh and their corrupted outer consciences, not according to their spirits taught by God.
This is why Jesus comforted His disciples in this way: “Yet, after having suffered trials until the end, this one will be saved.” After a disciple’s spirit has matured enough, after one’s inner conscience has grown in truth and wisdom through Christ’s teaching and training, those precepts will be made effective in his or her own life, and in the lives of others, though their many trials. And all those with spirits being taught and trained by Jesus’ Holy Spirit will be saved from the darkness of Satan and his world order. Then there will be changes in their families and communities, all made effective by the almighty power of our God Jesus. Life will be better and filled with meaning. They, together with their families and their communities, will live more abundant lives in God’s truth and wisdom.
Soon even the non-elect will find themselves forced to live in truly just and loving families and democracies, where all are judged in truth, where every soul is respected as an equal before God, and where there are no hierarchical classes of superior and inferior people. Sure, their the innate desires of non-elect spirits will still cause them seek positions of power, and they will attempt to own other human siblings, so they might rule over them like gods. Those non-elect spirits will be stirred up by their hellish father’s teaching and training, and they will continuously try to destroy the just families and communities which God establishes through His elect children. The non-elect will never cease from their attempts to reestablish ruthless dictatorships, where they can climb to “success” in their own evil ways, so they can achieve unmerited esteem and a fake “superiority” through their base, vile ways, through slander and backstabbing. They will continuously and slavishly work to corrupt the ways, traditions, practises, laws and outer consciences of families and communities. Therefore, each and every generation of the elect must remain on guard, lest they become complacent and walk according to the outer consciences of their minds of flesh, according to what is easily corrupted by the non-elect. Rather, each elect individual, in every generation, must be careful to always let their spirits be directly and personally taught and trained by Jesus, so each will walk only according to the Page 755
inner conscience that God is building within them. For their own salvation, and the deliverance of everyone they love, let each elect spirit trust in Jesus alone, and abandon all human gods of all kinds.
Now, throughout the centuries since Jesus established His New Covenant branch of His church, we have seen much progress in the ways of families and communities. The truth and wisdom brought into the world by our God Jesus, through both His Old and New Covenant branches of His church of Israel, have radically altered the outer consciences of most souls in the world. That is, by creating inner consciences of rightly interpreted biblical concepts in the spirits of His loving elect, purer and more equitable justice has been revealed throughout the world. Whether or not the devil’s children acknowledge that this has been done by Jesus through His elect in His two branches of His church, that fact cannot be honestly disputed. Now it would require many massive volumes of brutally honest historical writings, which focus on the words and deeds of loving “little people” and the
“faceless masses,” to reveal exactly how all truly just and good concepts in our world came solely from the God of the Bible working through His priesthood of the elect. And we will have those kinds of history books soon, when Jesus returns. But, for now, let the elect realize that, throughout history, God’s common elect have made their families and communities more Christ-like, according to what Jesus has written in the spirits of unheralded and suffering elect. It is their inner consciences, created through His teaching and training, that spurred all this progress, not the human gods esteemed by the humanistic history books. And this progress in loving justice has involved many painful trials, since the non-elect have also been continuously hindering this process, since human gods hate freedom, justice, equity and love. Let us must remember this. Absolutely nothing good has ever entered our families or communities through the human gods that humanistic history books write about. Literally all that is just and good in this world was built by God’s effective works in His individual awakened elect, whom He causes to strive together with one mind and purpose, to fulfill the mission of Jesus.
Each and every individual elect brother and sister is able to be saved, and used to save others, by persisting in the good works that Jesus writes on their spirits in their hearts. And there are no “great”
nor “small” works for Jesus. All are the same. All are little pieces of the whole, where the “great”
works are actually compilations of many “small” works done by countless faithful elect souls who came before, through whom all “great” works are done. As each contributes “small” works, a time comes when there are enough to complete a “great” work. Now Jesus may use a particular man or woman to place the last piece of the puzzle in a “great” work. Yet each “great” work is based entirely upon all the difficult and painful works done by the nameless elect souls who contributed over a long period of time. Satan’s world order turns our focus to particular individuals, and usually to the wrong ones, calling them “great.” But that is just a lie. For everyone is just another small piece of the whole puzzle, and the “greatest” are often the least, who contribute with the least trouble. So the one called
“great” by Satan’s world order is, at most, just another “common” contributor, in the honest eyes of God. And we must never believe those delusions of the devil, but respect all people in the same way.
As always, I feel compelled to repeat that each elect soul must now work hard and fast to fulfill the personal mission that Jesus has called one to complete, since the end times are drawing near. Soon we will see the destruction of economic systems in the entire world order, as massive earthquakes and meteors striking the ground crush infrastructures everywhere. Then there will be a short hiatus, for the great revival of the true New Covenant church. And that revival will require right teachings, the genuine Gospel of Jesus the Messiah, before the perils of the great tribulation will bring about the total destruction of Satan and his kingdom on earth during the end times. Thus, many elect and many “little” works need to be done now, to build the foundation for that revival and the end of the world order. This is why Jesus is now calling many elect souls to come out of the false churches, so Page 756
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they can do those works of constructing that solid foundation. This is why Jesus has accelerated His process of dichotomization, separating His elect from the non-elect, waking up the spirits in so many elect souls, so He might begin to teach and train their spirits, through His Spirit’s personal counsel.
So we need to work diligently and quickly now, in a way where all our works are right, precise and complete. This also means that we must stop doing works through our flesh alone, take some time to pray, listen to His counsel, meditate upon His words, think through to the end of all the concepts He teaches to our spirits, repent often and weigh the truth and wisdom that He also grants to our other faithful brothers and sisters in His true church. For Jesus teaches, trains and works through all the various and unique members in His body, without favour or biases. The life of His blood, the Holy Spirit, flows in part of His body, not just to some supposedly “elite” members. And, as with every critical work that needs to be done quickly, we must not mindlessly rush to complete our works, but pause to think through every move we make, to carefully plan and to remain totally focused on what needs to be done, prioritizing the most spiritually critical aspects of our works, so we can complete all our works to perfection. Some may think we can accomplish more if we simply do eighty percent of our works in twenty percent of the time it would take to do the job perfectly. But most of God’s works, especially the works of imparting spiritual truth and wisdom, require absolute perfection. And perfection takes five times as long to complete, sometimes with a hundred times more effort, and a more focused, skilful kind of labour. To complete His mission of salvation, for both His earthly and heavenly kingdoms, far more than a merely adequate performance is required. So He now needs to thoroughly teach and train all His elect to do His complex, perfect works of loving, equitable justice.
Then we will also need to deal with a strong opposition against our works, with much slander and even physical violence, with continuous attempts to weaken, corrupt, sabotage and destroy our godly works. Pain and persecution are inevitable, as long as Satan’s world order exists. And this is often a gift of Jesus, designed and predestined to train our spirits and to keep our minds fully alert, fully attentive to the counsel of His Holy Spirit, lest we become dull and complacent, living only for the desires of our flesh. Because our spirits are infantile and ignorant, we must share in the suffering of Jesus, or our spirits will not grow mature, in His likeness. So Jesus will not always want us to take a stand to physically defend our loved ones from Satan’s persecutions. Yes, we must always stand fast in His truth and wisdom, which protects and provides for all His elect, for all our loved ones. And, yes, we must defend them and ourselves at time, even using physical force, occasionally even deadly force. For we too must strive to nullify the works of Satan, because that is what Jesus does through us. We may need to fight some physical battles, or place destroyers in prison, to prevent them from causing any more harm to the innocent. Yet we must never try to force others to believe the truth, which is tantamount to forcing them to build their own inner consciences in their own spirits. For those works can only be done by our God Jesus, and we cannot do such tasks even for ourselves.
If we are to fulfill the mission of Jesus, we must always allow freedom of worship and freedom of conscience, leaving what can only be accomplished by our God Jesus to Him alone. In other words, we need to heed Jesus command: “So when they might constantly persecute you in this community, flee into that community.” Here Jesus used a present imperative form of the verb φεύγω to command us to “always flee” from persecution in this community, that is, in the community where we are current attempting to serve Jesus and fulfill His mission. For He may want us to serve that other community instead, to fulfill His mission for those other people, those with elect spirits that He is awakening and making more-receptive to the teachings and good works He sends us to do in His name. And that present form of the imperative does not mean that we should “sometimes flee,” and only if we do not own enough guns to defend ourselves. Rather, it implies a continuous, ongoing and Page 757
always practised heeding of His command, to flee from all the people whose hearts He Himself has hardened, from those who do not love the truth, from those whom He is punishing by handing them over to Satan for the deluding of their souls. We are not to stubbornly insist that we can change such people through our own wills and our own power, but rather shake the dust off our feet against them, leave them behind, then press on with our mission for the people whom Jesus calls us to serve. We are to always practise this command from Jesus, not just when it is convenient or we want to obey it.
Then He told us why: “For, with all certainty, I reason with you, there definitely is no possibility you will finish [serving] the communities of Israel, until the Son of Man should come.” Yes, there will come a time when our works of teaching His truth and wisdom, as well as all His physical works of caring for the needy and healing the weakened ones, shall be completed. When Jesus returns, our mission will be over, and we will be given a new mission. But, until that day, rather than waste our time in futile arguments with the non-elect, who will never be convinced that they should repent into the truth, we must move on. And the word φεύγω does not bear a narrow area of meaning like the English word “flee.” Especially in this context, it actually implies all of the following: “to seek safety in flight, flee; to become safe from danger by eluding or avoiding it, escape; to keep from doi
ng something by avoiding it because of its potential damage, flee from , av
oid , s hun ; to cease
be
ing visible, vanish , di
sappear ” (BDAG3). Therefore, if we see that a family or community clearly hates the truth and despises the real Jesus, if they want a superficial false church that only speaks and lives according to the outer conscience of the flesh, and Jesus calls our spirits to shun them and move on, we must do so, even if they are family members or influential in our current lives. For there are many true elect in this world, with awakening spirits searching for the love and truth that comes from our God Jesus. Thus, we continuously practise to flee from—that is, avoid, shun, vanish from and disappear from—the stubborn non-elect in false churches and the secular world. As much as possible, we leave them to themselves, to the darkness of their cherished delusions and lies, which will destroy them in the end. Of course, if their lies and delusions actively destroy innocent souls, we need to intervene, as much as Jesus grants us the power to do so. We may even need to use deadly force at times. But, for the most part, we move on to more receptive elect souls in other families and other communities, while allowing as much freedom of religion and conscience as we possibly can.
Fearlessly Preach Plain Truth
To fulfill His mission, let us remember: “A disciple is not above the Teacher of life principles, nor a slave above the Lord owning him. [It is] enough that the disciple might become like the Teacher of life principles for him, and the slave like the Lord over him. If they gave the name Beelzebub to the Head of the household, how much more [will they give derogatory names to] the members of His household? Therefore, you should not be intimidated by them. For nothing has been effectively veiled which will not be revealed, and [nothing is] a secret which will not be known. What I reason with you in the dark, speak in the light. And what you hear in the ear, proclaim upon the rooftops”
(Mat. 10:24-27, from: Οὐκ ἔστιν μαθητὴς ὑπὲρ τὸν διδάσκαλον οὐδὲ δοῦλος ὑπὲρ τὸν κύριον αὐτοῦ.
ἀρκετὸν τῷ μαθητῇ ἵνα γένηται ὡς ὁ διδάσκαλος αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὁ δοῦλος ὡς ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ. εἰ τὸν
οἰκοδεσπότην Βεελζεβοὺλ ἐπεκάλεσαν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον τοὺς οἰκιακοὺς αὐτοῦ. Μὴ οὖν φοβηθῆτε
αὐτούς· οὐδὲν γάρ ἐστιν κεκαλυμμένον ὃ οὐκ ἀποκαλυφθήσεται, καὶ κρυπτὸν ὃ οὐ γνωσθήσεται. ὃ
λέγω ὑμῖν ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ, εἴπατε ἐν τῷ φωτί· καὶ ὃ εἰς τὸ οὖς ἀκούετε, κηρύξατε ἐπὶ τῶν δωμάτων, SBLGNT). In other words, let us realize, and know with all certainty, that we are all far too ignorant and weak to overcome our enemies, to force them to do what is right. And not even our almighty Page 758
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God—who willingly teaches our spirits, which He owns as His property—is willing to destroy our enemies, who are also His enemies, not until the appointed time, when they fulfill all of their guilt.
Back in those days, of course, every mortal διδάσκαλος (teacher of life principles) and every κύριος
(owner of slaves) was a worthless sinner, just as they all are today. So Jesus wants all His disciples and slaves to become better than their mortal teachers and lords. For all humans actually have only one Head Teacher and only one real Owner. And Jesus wants us to become like that true Head Teacher and Owner, that is, like Himself. Consequently, contrary to the way humanists interpret these words, Jesus definitely was not teaching a general maxim to be followed by all disciples and all slaves. Actually, He was specifically referring to His disciples and to their Teacher, to us and to Himself. And He alone owns us, as our Creator, God and Lord. None of Jesus’ true disciples must ever think they are above Jesus Himself, that is, neither in terms of the status and esteem they may receive from the devil’s temporary kingdom of the world order, nor in terms of their own deluded perceptions of themselves. Our mission in life is to become always more loving and just, like Jesus.
Yet most so-called “Christians” throughout history have striven to become respected and esteemed by human teachers and human lords, far more than they have ever laboured to be affirmed and loved by Jesus. Most have sought the praise of psychopathic popes and kings, or the general approval of the inwardly dead and blind masses, than a restoration of their relationship with God. Most want human gods to tell them, “Well done, good and faithful servant,” far more than they want the real God to say this to them. For most Churchians have loved and served Satan’s world order far more than they have loved and served the kingdom of our God. Then the human gods of their false and humanistic churches demand titles of honour and accolades of men, to prove their worth to the devil and his citizens. And some are even the devil’s preferred psychopathic children, trying to prove they can ruthlessly exploit God’s creations for their own gain much better than all the other non-elect, so they might be worshipped in Satan’s name, although they call Satan by the name of “Jesus.” And, of course, those human gods all employ the same methods of proselytizing as their hellish father. All use the same temptations of the flesh and sales techniques, the same appeals to carnal pride, the same fear-mongering to drive duped souls into their slaughterhouses, while hiding behind the walls of their secretive cults. But our God Jesus forbids us to practise any such abominations ourselves.
Throughout history, the elect, especially the somewhat awakened children of the heavenly Father, have always publicly disseminated whatever Jesus has taught their spirits in the darkness of their own trials and woes. They have published the reasoning their hearts, all they have learned from Him in their private and deeply searching prayers of petition, while sitting at His feet, like good and fully attentive disciples. Those common souls—who were almost always hated, vilified and slandered by Satan’s world order, just as Jesus was—felt inwardly compelled to bring Christ’s truth and wisdom into the light of their siblings’ daily lives, so there would be justice and freedom for their loved ones on this earth. Through their love for God, for His family and for His creations, they refused to be intimidated into silence. Their love overcame their fear of Satan’s violent oppression. Meanwhile, the devil and his minions desperately tried to censure, distract from, confuse, falsely interpret, lie about, slander, outshout and nullify every word of truth and wisdom uttered by the mouths of those elect. And, when they failed, Satan’s slaves falsely accused them of sins and crimes, using cunning rhetoric made more vivid because those children of the devil falsely blamed those elect for the very sins and crimes they committed themselves. And, whenever something bad happened, or whenever their lies and other sins produced evil effects, those slaves of Satan transferred all the blame upon those guiltless elect. In other words, those slaves of the devil persecuted the awakened elect in exactly the same way they persecuted Jesus Himself. And, as those elect began to realize this, they Page 759
no longer felt afraid, alone or beaten down. For their spirits saw how Jesus rose from the dead, and knew that they could not die either. So their hearts trusted that their God would silence the wicked and grant eternal rewards to them. Now let us do the same, and not let their threats intimidate us.
Naturally, workers of injustice, lies, delusions and death do not want the reality of their destructive, selfish, evil hearts and minds to be revealed, lest their duped minions might be repulsed and turn against them. So, as they worship Satan, by serving and esteeming him, they will often call that devil by the name of “Jesus.” And their father of lies approves of this deception, then chuckles at how his children have turned out to be so much like him. Likewise, these liars also call the real Jesus by the name of Satan, then brand all the heavenly Father’s awakened elect children as “demons” too. For, by doing all this, those faithful slaves and disciples of Satan can outwardly appear to be servants of the real God and messengers of light, so they can successfully dupe many infantile and foolish elect souls into slavishly serving and supporting them, to help them serve their hellish father by doing his evil deeds of murder through greed and avarice. But to maintain this false image, that brood of Satan must carefully and effectively veil their lying words and monstrous deeds with an opaque veil, one that appears to be white and shiny, lest anyone discover that their words are lies and their deeds are evil. So they must always portray everything that is truly just, true, holy or loving as Satanic and evil, while they also present their lies and evil deeds as the works of justice, truth, holiness and love.
And, while they are doing all this, they strive to keep their actual motives and intentions secret. For they need to keep their dupes thinking that they are “good folk” who are leading them toward God.
Fortunately for God’s elect, and unfortunately for Satan’s children, God remains the High King, with absolute authority, power and knowledge of all that has ever existed, now exists, or ever will exist in the future (since the past and future are now). So God knows exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it, and has already made His plans to nullify all their works. So the devil’s children, and demons themselves, slavishly labour, night and day, to promote lies and gain power, but profit themselves nothing in the end. All they can ever accomplish is futility. Yet non-elect spirits refuse to acknowledge that their kingdoms in Satan’s world order are a mere subject kingdoms belonging to God, where the devil and all his minions will forever need to bow before Jesus, their High King.
The non-elect try to ignore the fact that every word and deed of their temporary, subject kingdoms are always being monitored by God, and forever limited by His will, where that the only things He allows them to do ultimately serve His own just and loving purposes, namely to spiritually and eternally benefit His own elect children. In the beginning, God also decreed that literally everything which “has been effectively veiled” by Satan and his children shall be revealed to His elect children, so that God’s kingdom can nullify that devil’s works through this knowledge. Jesus will call some of His elect to make known every secret motive and intention of the devil’s self-serving and evil brood, to all of His honest and loving loving disciples, since His faithful ones need to know this information to judge and condemn those servants of the devil. Furthermore, when those false motives and evil intentions of some of Satan’s children are revealed, the devil’s other self-seeking, selfishly ambitious brats will then use those condemning facts against their own siblings, to can gain the upper hand. So Satan’s gang will cause divisions among themselves. And, if facts are not available, each will then vengefully lie about, falsely accuse and violently attack the other, until they all destroy one another.
Of course, God’s process of unveiling all the hidden motives, evil teachings and works of Satan’s children involves much tedious and intensive work for the elect, often through a great sacrifice of their flesh, in much pain and hardship. And proving their wicked motives and intentions is even more difficult than proving what they teach and do. But, when the elect work together in one mind and for one purpose, where all seek to do the will of God, the truth, wisdom, authority and power of Page 760
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Jesus Himself will support them and ensure their success, in the end. We have always seen this in the past. For instance, when just and loving hearts all united to build a more biblical justice system, to replace the unjust humanistic justice system of terrorism that Satan formed for his Roman beast, the elect have had victory after victory throughout history. They have built reform upon reform, even though Satan’s world order had cast most of the elect into the powerless and impoverished lower classes, and allowed almost none into the ruling classes. It was only after Satan began to successfully divide the elect with his religious lies, particularly humanistic lies, that they began to fail. For, while each elect fought with another to serve their insignificant and self-serving human gods, Jesus had to withdraw His support from those with wrong motives and intentions of the spirit. Nevertheless, He has always kept a remnant of faithful elect disciples upon the earth, and calmly labours for victory.
So we must realize that Jesus has a purpose for allowing Satan and his kingdom to remain on earth for a time. Jesus, our almighty King, allows evil on this temporary training ground for His elect in order to build up the character and resolve of their spirits, to grow the attributes of love and wisdom in their hearts. For the adversity they face causes the minds of elect spirits to more earnestly desire truth, and become more zealous in their efforts to learn how to rightly apply that truth, so they can build up just love in their hearts. Through their conflicts with evil, the elect realize that they need God and one another. So they learn to work together, in communion with God and one another, to obtain truth and wisdom for the construction of true and biblical justice and love. This communion develops and strengthens their love for their heavenly Father, for their oldest Brother, for their Holy Counsellor, and for one another. Thus, Satan’s kingdom is doomed to failure and futility, because it is just the temporary scaffolding used to construct the inner temples of God’s children. It is a tool which tills spiritual ground, to make a fertile place for God’s elect seeds to grow. But this scaffolding and tilling tool will soon be cast out. For God is only constructing once on this site, and He will only produce one harvest before He rewilds the the physical universe. For all God’s spiritual power which He has transformed into the energy of this material space-time continuum will become His original spiritual power again, and all that is physical shall vanish like a mist in the wind. God is not going to continue to build up elect spirits forever, and is not going to till up the devil’s weeds forever. When the devil and his kingdom are no longer needed for God’s purposes, they will be cast into an empty storage room for all eternity, sitting in the spiritual darkness that they love so much more than light.
Neither God nor man needs to justify His decree to temporarily allow Satan’s sinful kingdom to remain on the temporary earth, causing painful and deadly evil. For justification has nothing to do with it. I mean that using a scaffolding is not what justifies the construction of a temple, and tilling down the weeds does not justify growing a crop of necessary food. The scaffolding and tools for tilling are simply instruments used for a purpose, and it is only the purpose itself which requires any kind of justification. Then justification is solely for the administration of justice in a judgment, where that justice is administered by a judge or judges. And every just judge judges motives and intentions, that is, the spiritual purposes, whether the purposes are good or evil. Therefore, if any human beings want to judge God for allowing evil on earth, then let them judge justly, by judging His purposes for allowing it temporarily on this temporary earth, taking into account God’s motives and intentions, and basing all judgments on facts alone, on what God Himself has revealed about His purposes for doing so. Yet building up the eternal temples of elect spirits, or growing good crops for the eternal nourishment of those spirits, are both good purposes, both done through good motives and intentions. Both are labours of love by a Father for His cherished children, though He does not provide these same benefits for Satan’s brood. And, if Satan’s children also want such things, which Page 761
they do not, then let them ask their own father them, since Satan also has the power to do good, but his loveless spirit always chooses evil. Likewise, his children always choose lies and murder as well.
So now let the elect keep moving on toward the goal of fulfilling our mission, assigned to us by our Lord, by our only Owner, King, High Priest and God, who is our eternal Father and oldest Brother.
All that our spirits learn from Jesus, as He teaches and trains us throughout life, we will speak, write and practise in the light of day, for the sakes of all who enter the spheres of our lives, even for total strangers in the public. All He reveals to us privately, we will “proclaim upon the rooftops.” Yet we will also apply His wisdom as we do so, by only giving souls what they are ready to hear, according to the counsel of our Messiah’s Holy Spirit, and not push the unawakened too hard. Jesus will tell us when someone is ready, then provide opportunities for us to speak His truth to that one, and often accompanied by His personal intervention to awaken that one’s spirit and prove His truth. But we will not waste our time and strength on those who cannot be convinced, except to boldly guard the innocent and vulnerable from those lovers of darkness who ruthlessly work evil. Then we will unveil their delusions, lies and cunning deceptions. When they pretend their lies are “truth,” their slavery is
“freedom,” their hatred is “love,” their rebellion is “patriotism,” and their worship of Satan is “the worship of Jesus,” we will expose their secret motives and wicked intentions, so all can then rightly and justly judge those servants of the devil. However, exposing and nullifying the works of the devil and his slaves is not our ultimate goal. Our goal and most difficult task, the one with the greatest and most blessed eternal rewards, the work that develops communion with God and with one another, is the spiritual labour of building God’s just, equitable, peaceful, joyful and loving kingdom on earth.
Mat. 10:28 to 11:1,
A Missionary’s Rational
“‘Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. Everyone therefore who confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
“‘Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s foes will be those of his own household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me isn’t worthy of Me. He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after Me, isn’t worthy of Me. He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
“‘He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.’
“When Jesus had finished directing His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities” (Mat. 10:28 to 11:1, WEB).
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This is how Jesus ended His instructions and critical information that He provided for His twelve teaching assistants He was about to send out on a mission. And this was the first of all the missions in which He would continue to send out His disciples, throughout earth’s history. So He ended it with a summary of the reasons and rational for diligently following His mission strategies. Now it is certain that Jesus actually would have given these twelve many more instructions than those which Matthew recorded here (in 10:5-42). Jesus would have taught them through a series of much longer interactive sessions over a period of many days, all based on what He had been teaching them since the beginning of His ministry. He would have pulled the twelve aside from the crowds at various times, then talked for hours about how He was going to send them out on their first priestly mission.
Also remember how biblical rabbis, like Jesus, taught their disciples in those days. Jesus would not have simply lectured them. Instead, all His teaching times would have been interactive. That is, He would have encouraged and expected the twelve to respond to every concept He taught, to ask Him many questions during those teaching sessions, including questions about who else He would send out in the future, and what kinds of responsibilities His more mature disciples would need to fulfill in His name, for the people. But, since paper was extremely expensive back then, and time was not always available for an author to write lengthy documents, and the reading audience seldom had the time to read large books either, most writers only recorded short summaries of conversations and events. So Matthew did just that here. Matthew told us only the essence of what Jesus taught to him and to the other eleven. But once we, the future disciples, unpack this tight summary and understand it, we have a guideline of all that Jesus wanted His sent-out disciples to do, and why we must do it.
Also remember, in Matthew’s summary of Jesus’ instructions, he clearly indicated that all His teachings about this mission also applied to all future missions of all future generations of His disciples, all He would ever send out. His last words to the twelve, before they set out, prove that Jesus taught all this for the benefit of all He would ever call to serve Him throughout history. And we see here that Jesus will send out His disciples on many different kinds of missions, and they are to serve Him in some missions throughout their lives. Some would be mostly physical missions, such as providing food, clothing and infrastructures for the needy. So these might seem insignificant to the New Covenant salvation works He came to do. Yet, even giving water to the thirsty in His name proves God’s love and grace, and often in ways far stronger and more effective than mere words. Nevertheless, other missions would almost entirely spiritual and are far more critical, such as proclaiming the wise counsel and soul-piercing revelations that God commanded one’s spirit to utter in teachings and prophecy. Still, because all missions performed in Jesus’ name are critical for the establishment of God’s just and loving kingdom on earth, Matthew warned us that Jesus Himself must send out all His disciples to serve in His name, in all of His many kinds of missions, and that His disciples themselves could not choose to serve in His name nor the kinds of missions would do for Him. Nor could any of His disciples become rabbis and chose disciples for themselves, then send out their own disciples out missions in their own names, or in the names of other church authorities and denominations. Rather, Matthew assured us that Jesus always spoke in way which indicated that He would live forever, and that He would always be the Head Teacher who would send out disciples.
Now, after giving His twelve assistant teachers these instructions, Matthew told us: “And after making an end of giving detailed instructions about what must be done by His twelve disciples, He departed from there, namely in order to teach doctrine and to preach in their communities” (Mat.
11:1, from: Καὶ ἐγένετο ὅτε ἐτέλεσεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς διατάσσων τοῖς δώδεκα μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ, μετέβη
ἐκεῖθεν τοῦ διδάσκειν καὶ κηρύσσειν ἐν ταῖς πόλεσιν αὐτῶν, SBLGNT). Here the present participle form of διατάσσω indicates that Jesus ended His task of “continuously giving His disciples detailed Page 763
instructions as to what must be done” (BDAG3). Then Matthew also tells us that Jesus not only sent out the twelve, but sent Himself out as well. The epexegetical genitive (τοῦ), before the following infinitives, explains why Jesus went out. That is, Jesus sent Himself out “in order to teach doctrine and to preach in their communities.” Therefore, Jesus sent Himself out to fulfill the very same mission that He sent out His twelve teaching assistants to fulfill. For Jesus did not come to be served, but to serve. This was and always will be His mission, to serve. He even raised His body of flesh from the dead so He could continuously teach the spirits of His disciples, while they lived in bodies of flesh. And He will never cease from this mission that He sent Himself to fulfill. But, of course, as mentioned, Jesus would not send all His disciples out on the same kinds of missions. Not all whom He sent out would teach doctrine and proclaim the Gospel. For He would also send some to give water to the thirsty, to serve in physical ways. Yet this was an equally critical role, since it expressed God’s love too. It may also lead thirsty spirits out of the devil’s desert into God’s well-watered land.
Think about how, in the Old Testament times, God only called a “tithe” of Israel, a small fraction of His entire priesthood of elect souls that He separated from the Gentiles. This tithes of people were set apart from the rest of His sanctified priesthood of Israel, to become His full-time servants, to be the ones He would send out on life-long missions, to do His works in His name every day of their lives. Those missionaries were, of course, the Levites, who did both physical and spiritual good works for God. Then God called a “tithe” of these Levites, Aaron’s descendants, to teach, judge, preach or proclaim His wisdom and truth to His people. Thus, when Jesus established the New Covenant priesthood, the reality of all that the Levitical priesthood represented, He did the same. For His New Covenant branch of the church of Israel is God’s “royal priesthood,” the King’s priesthood, servants of our King Jesus, those sent out on missions to do all kinds of works for Him, called to dedicate their entire lives to His works alone. Yet Jesus did not appoint all to be apostles. He only sends out a few apostles, to clearly teach His truths and proclaim the Gospel (e.g., I Cor. 12:4-30).
When Jesus was sending these twelve apostles and teaching assistants on their life-long mission, He was not giving these instructions to them alone, that is, not just to those whom He called to teach and preach, but to all His disciples whom He would send out to do all kinds of other missions, since He would soon send out many others on missions of various kinds. Jesus’ Spirit will teach and train each individual for that one’s own kind of life-long mission and destiny, then send each at the appointed time. And all will do some physical kinds of works, just as all the Levites did. And Jesus Himself will work beside all these various kinds of workers, of all kinds, apprenticing and guiding each one, sharing in all of each one’s labours, no matter how physical the works of each individual might be.
For we must remember that Jesus did physical works all His life. To begin with, we know Jesus must have helped Joseph, His surrogate father, to do the carpentry or masonry work of their small family business for the first 30 years of his life—since this was expected from all sons of all fathers, and especially from the oldest sons. This was considered to be God’s way of honouring parents, although a father was also to provide teaching and training for his children in any other calling God gave to each of them. And notice that Jesus’ father was the hereditary king of Israel, a descendent of David.
Yet Jews did not look down on those who worked with their hands, and were to have no class systems like the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks and Romans. Therefore, Joseph and his Son, Jesus, did not think it was unseemly or disgraceful to labour with their hands as carpenters or as masons.
Then we also see how Jesus performed many physical works during His ministry as the King, High Priest and Prophet of Israel. Not only did He labour for the infirmed, to heal them, He also served bread to His disciples and strangers, physically rescued souls from storms and perils, as well as other physical tasks. He even took up the job of a Levitical soldier, to guard God’s temple, by constructing Page 764
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a whip of cords as His weapon, then using His own hands to drive out the vile offenders who sinned against God’s loving ways. There was never a time when Jesus even hinted that He was not willing to do the physical works of God. On the contrary, Jesus always acknowledged and taught that all kinds of good physical works were equally worthy of God’s praise and reward, just as much as the cerebral, emotional, soulish and spiritual kinds of good works of teaching, judging and praying. For all the abilities and circumstances required to do literally every kind of good work originate from God alone, and no kind of work can be effective unless God’s will and power shall cause it to be.
Fearlessly Align With Jesus
Jesus provided this wise counsel: “And do not become apprehensive because of those destroying the body, yet not being able to kill the soul. But rather become apprehensive because of the One being able to destroy both the body and the soul in Gehenna. Are not two sparrows sold for a quarter? Yet one out of them will not alight upon the ground, apart from the purpose of your Father. So, regarding you people also, all the hairs of [each] head are having been counted [for a purpose]. Thus, do not become apprehensive. You people are of more value than many sparrows. Therefore, everyone who will commit to allegiance with Me, in the presence of the people, I also will commit to allegiance with him in the presence of My Father in the heavens. Yet whoever might totally disavow Me in the presence of the people, I also will disavow him in the presence of My Father in the heavens” (Mat.
10:28-33, from: καὶ μὴ φοβεῖσθε ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποκτεννόντων τὸ σῶμα τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν μὴ δυναμένων
ἀποκτεῖναι· φοβεῖσθε δὲ μᾶλλον τὸν δυνάμενον καὶ ψυχὴν καὶ σῶμα ἀπολέσαι ἐν γεέννῃ. οὐχὶ δύο
στρουθία ἀσσαρίου πωλεῖται; καὶ ἓν ἐξ αὐτῶν οὐ πεσεῖται ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἄνευ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν. ὑμῶν
δὲ καὶ αἱ τρίχες τῆς κεφαλῆς πᾶσαι ἠριθμημέναι εἰσίν. μὴ οὖν φοβεῖσθε· πολλῶν στρουθίων
διαφέρετε ὑμεῖς. Πᾶς οὖν ὅστις ὁμολογήσει ἐν ἐμοὶ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὁμολογήσω κἀγὼ ἐν
αὐτῷ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς· ὅστις δ᾽ ἂν ἀρνήσηταί με ἔμπροσθεν τῶν
ἀνθρώπων, ἀρνήσομαι κἀγὼ αὐτὸν ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς, SBLGNT, Note: The “assarion” mentioned in the first clause of verse 29 is a sixteenth of a labourer’s daily wage, that is, a sixteenth of a denarius. Since a denarius is close to four dollars, an assarion is about 25 cents.).
In the second clause of verse 29, τοῦ πατρὸς would be a genitive of purpose, indicating that a sparrow will “not alight upon the ground apart from the purpose of” God our Father. For all God’s creations, even humans and fallen angels, ultimately do God’s will. Yet the spirits of all other living creations, except humans, are born with fully mature spirits, programmed to know God’s will for its existence on earth. Only humans are born with infantile spirits and weak wills, and each human spirit must be taught and trained to know God’s will and destiny for itself. And an elect spirit’s education is entirely initiated and completed by God, while Satan is responsible for educating the non-elect spirits of his own children. God chose to create the wills of all other spirits in completed states, so that all their patterns of thought and all their attributes were in place from the very first moments of their existence. But all human spirits were created with mere potential attributes, which all need to be slowly developed and shaped throughout their lives on earth, including even their ability to love.
So this is why all animals, like sparrows, always do exactly what God commands their hearts to do.
And this is also why all the plants and animals on earth are sinless, because their spirits were made in such a way that they never even begin to question or oppose the will of God, but spontaneously do exactly what God tells their spirits to do. Yet many humans like to think that creatures, like sparrows, are of very little value, that is, in terms of Satan’s invention of money in his economic systems. But God does not value anyone nor anything by the devil’s financial methods. Instead, God personally involves Himself with every creature’s life, through His love, and possesses ample capacity to love Page 765
and greatly value each and every living creation. So God tells every sparrow when to land upon the ground, to protect it, since a sparrow is most vulnerable to attacks by predators while on the ground.
God loves each sparrow enough to keep it safe until it is time for it to cast off its body of flesh and go home to heaven, where it will never experience any suffering, danger or death again, for eternity.
Likewise, God provides the sparrow’s body as food for His other beloved predators at right times, and has programmed the spirits of predators to take the physical lives of other creatures at their appointed times. But both the spirits of the predators and their prey cannot die, and neither were ever meant to live forever upon God’s temporary creation of this material universe. All those spirits of all those living creations, even the spirits giving life to the plants, were made to dwell in God’s heaven.
After pointing out all these implications in verse 29, Jesus referred to them in next verse, when He stated: “So, regarding you people also, all the hairs of [each] head are having been counted.” And the perfect tense theological passive participle form of ἀριθμέω (i.e., ἠριθμημέναι) indicated that God had already completed the counting of the hairs of each head in the past, but with a currently related and ongoing result or effect that was made evident in the context. So that participle was indicating that God did this past counting of the hairs for a purpose, just as He caused the sparrows to land on the ground for a purpose. Of course, we all keep information in our minds about the souls we care about, because that information will be useful whenever we may need to help or protect them in the future. We also remember their attributes and abilities so we will know what they may be capable of doing, and to prevent them from being overburdened or harmed by attempting to do what is beyond their capabilities. We also remember little details about our children, such as a birth date, so we can give them gifts and enjoyment on that day, or in case we need do other things for them, like admit our sick or injured child to a hospital, or register our child in that one’s desired recreational program.
But it seems to be a ridiculous level of care that will even count the number of hairs on the head of a loved one or child. We would never even think of doing that, and could not do that if we wanted to.
So, of course, Jesus was speaking metaphorically when He said that God even counts the number of hairs on the head of every one of His beloved children. Yes, God can and actually does that. But here Jesus was saying that the Father of our spirits is an extremely good Father, a perfect Father who wants to know absolutely everything about each and every individual child of His, while the infantile spirit of His child is dwelling in a body of flesh on earth. And our heavenly Father wants to know all things so He will be fully prepared to meet every one of our inner needs and desires, in the most wise and individually tailored way possible. Counting the hairs on a head Indicated God’s perfectly detailed knowledge about every minute detail of each child’s life. And, yes, God actually does know how many hairs exist on everyone's head, even how many molecules are in each one’s body at any particular nanosecond. But the point Jesus was making was that our heavenly Father cares so much for each of us that He surely will warn us of danger, if our spirits listen to Him, and He will always protect us from danger, even if we do not heed His warning—until the day each of us is appointed to cast off this fragile body of flesh. But our wise God also bears very clear and unalterable priorities in all that He causes or allows through His love for us, and all these priorities are spiritual. So He has indeed set His human elect children as His top priorities, above all the living creations on earth. His elect children are His most valued in terms of His love, the very first and foremost whom He will help whenever they need Him. However, His priority is to educate our spirits, not please our flesh.
God loves His foolish and infantile elect children, even far more than He loves sinless sparrows, who sing cheerfully for the enjoyment of His children, and who also fulfill a necessary role in His natural ecological systems which provide for all His children’s needs. Therefore, we should not be more apprehensive than sparrows, who have very many predators seeking to kill their bodies of flesh.
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Now sparrows are always extraordinarily cautious and watchful, always keeping their eyes open, always looking all around them, always ensuring that no predators are near. And sparrows only land on the ground long enough to grab the food lying there, then nervously flit up to the safety of the trees, immediately after they get the food on the ground. Their spirits are also tuned to God’s voice at all times, forever ready to heed His warning and flee. Sparrows are well-known for this nervous and cautious behaviour, which God ordained for them, since He also created many other creatures who will eat them, and destined them to be food for those predators. This is why Jesus deliberately used sparrows as an example of why we should not be apprehensive, though Satan and his entire kingdom of self-destructive and malicious wretches are constantly trying to destroy our lives. For, although a sparrow needs to be wary and careful at all times, it never suffers from apprehension, never clings to an irrational fear about what might occur. Rather, the sparrow merrily goes about its business all day and every day, cheerfully singing and living a fully productive life. Likewise, we must do the same.
I have raised chickens for years. And, when one is taken by a fox, even a chick in their brood or a hen they have been friends with for years, they mourn a little, then turn back to the business of life.
And those chickens also learn to be more wary and keep closer to cover as they search for food. So Jesus was not saying that we must become stupid and foolish, never be watchful or careful about attacks from our enemies. And Jesus certainly did not tell us to boldly stand our ground against a much larger enemy that is approaching with deadly weapons. Rather, like sparrows and chickens, we are to learn wisdom through adversity, physically and especially spiritual wisdom. Our God Jesus has never told a sparrow hold its ground against a cat or hawk and say, “In the name of Jesus cease your attack and be gone!” Sometimes Jesus will tell a sparrow, “It is not yet your time to leave this world. So flee in haste!” But Jesus never counsels stupidity. By using the ultra-cautious sparrow as His example, Jesus was here implying that we should do the opposite; remain watchful and careful, then flee from the physical attacks of predators, so we may live to oppose them in wise ways. But He did not want us to live in constant and debilitating anxiety either. For we not only monitor threats through the eyes and ears of our flesh, but also by keeping the ears of our spirits ready to heed His voice, by seeking His wise counsel and fully trusting it, as even a little sparrow does. Yet obeying His command to be watchful and careful, or to flee from an enemy, does not mean that we must be cowards. Take sparrows for example. They are extremely brave. A little sparrow will even attack a huge and deadly hawk in the air, flitting around it, pecking and clawing, driving that predator away from its nest. And the little sparrow is usually successful in driving away that giant predator, wisely, through its God-given gift of greater manoeuvrability and speed, which God gave it for this purpose.
In the same way, the true disciples of Jesus are not to be cowards, but are not to be vain, stupid and foolish either. We need to be wise enough to not put ourselves in vulnerable positions, where we can be attacked and destroyed. And we are not to be so foolish as to think they can command God to do whatever we want Him to do, and whenever they want Him to do it. Rather, our spirits must remain humble before our God, and heed His commands. Then we are to overcome our enemies in the way God has ordained, where each employs the gifts God gave to one. Then God will make our attacks against our enemies effective, when we overcome evil with good, nullify lies with the truth, and wash away blind hatred with rivers of seeing love. Just as sparrows do not possess the same physical size and weapons as their enemies, but can use their own God-give advantages against their enemies, so should we. God did not make sparrows to be hawks, but ordained them to be sparrows. And, if a bird finds that it is the same size as a hawk, with the same abilities and propensities as a hawk, and it likes to eat sparrows, then it is not a sparrow but a hawk. For a sparrow is small and uses only its Page 767
God-given attributes of a sparrow to attack hawks, without a hawk’s huge talons to attack hawks. In the same way, a true disciple of Jesus will not even attempt to become a devil in order to fight devils.
So a true disciple of Jesus is cautious and wary, yet brave and without apprehension about letting go of the flesh to go home to Jesus. And a true disciple also walks in faith, letting one’s spirit hear and heed the counsel of the Creator’s Spirit, who personally cares for one’s eternal spiritual welfare. A true disciple will flee when necessary, and will not be stupid like the pagan Greeks and Romans. Yes, a true disciple of Jesus will attack when Jesus calls him or her to do so. However, a true disciple will not use deception, will not use terrorism to force others to be just, and will only injure or kill when absolutely necessary. All true disciples of our God Jesus, all who have awakened elect spirits that can hear and heed His words, use only the truth that God created and reveals, to cast down the lies and delusions of all enemies, to chase their slander back into hell, to scatter their words into useless fragments. In the power of Jesus and His truth, we are set free and take captive the self-serving laws, traditions, doctrines and philosophies of the devil and his minions. We imprison those deceivers in walls of reasoning and evidence, so they cannot escape to cause more harm and death. In the name of Jesus, by His will and power, we nullify their works before they can confuse, weaken or nullify any of the just, equitable, loving works of God. We rightly and wisely assess, judge, condemn and prosecute evildoers, to keep peace, justice, harmony, equity and love effectively operational for all.
Another thing a true disciple of Jesus will never do is esteem and serve the human gods from Satan’s world order. We cannot blindly follow their ways, teachings, commands and thoughts, not while we see realities and truths through the opened eyes and ears that Jesus grants for our spirits. Yet most churches have worshipped human beings for centuries. Since the second century, most churches, led by Satan, have also persecuted, tortured and murdered true disciples of Jesus. All have cast aside God’s love and justice, to practise the unjust terrorism of the devil’s religion of humanism. In fact, both the secular and theistic humanists have been responsible for most of the nightmarish despotism that has occurred in history, with all its accompanying wars, exploitation, slavery, racism, lies and delusions. Both the evangelical and mainline churches have always been as bad or worse than the secular humanists. Now evangelicals zealously worship fraudulent pastors and Trump as their fake gods. So their mission for their “christ,” who is actually the lying and murdering devil, is to promote fascism, an unjust and racist type of despotism based on demonic delusions and lies of little foolish terrorists calling themselves “Q.” They are just like their fathers in North America and around the world, who once worshipped Hitler, like the fraudulent pastors who bowed before that psychopath.
So most churches today, like the previous churches who worshipped Satan and his ruthless servants throughout history, all zealously pursue a mission gather all souls into hell, via wars, persecutions, inquisitions, terrorism and oppression for all. Throughout history, most churches have actually hated Jesus and His true elect, then warred with the physical weapons of Satan’s world order against Him.
And what deception do most of those fake churches use to stir up their faithful minions into a deadly rage, then even get the sleeping and foolish elect to side with them? Well, literally all those churches of Satan tell their dupes: “You must help us violently terrorize, oppress, torture and murder all of those who proclaim biblical justice, equity and love, or else those ‘woke’ demons will destroy our churches. Then God will die and Satan will win.” So those fake churches use utterly blasphemous lies to instill fear and apprehension in the hearts of their dupes, then use physical weapons of Satan’s world order to maintain and spread those lies. But Jesus said we must “not become apprehensive because of those destroying the body, yet not being able to kill the soul.” So those false churches, who are always trying to crucify Jesus over and over again, by nailing His body of His disciples to a Roman cross, will never succeed in silencing us. They may rally their own dupes against us through Page 768
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their fear-mongering, but they will never get us to join them. For we know that God is almighty and cannot be killed. Nor do we ever fear that God will allow Satan to win, neither now nor at any time in the future. And, since Jesus has always taught, trained and empowered elect spirits to do His will throughout history, as His true disciples and true members of His eternal church, we never fear that anyone or anything will ever destroy His church. Because God is invincible, and bears the power to educate and influence any elect spirit He chooses to awaken, His true church will always be on earth.
Neither the secular psychopathic humanists, like Hitler and Trump, nor the thugs and criminals in the various humanist religious organizations of the devil, such as in the false churches, synagogues and mosques we see today, shall ever nullify God’s truths, nor silence the true church of God on earth which proclaims those truths. For all those servants of the devil merely serve a temporary purpose, and will ultimately fail in all their works. All of them are only able to serve Satan until their flesh is torn away and removed from their spirits, until their spirits are cast into the bottomless pit of their own dark delusions and lies for eternity. And, in hell, none of their evil desires will ever find even the most tiny and insignificant gratification, not ever. For none of God’s realities and good creations are allowed in hell. Thus, Satan and his minions will never have anything to exploit or abuse for their own egos, and will never again be able to pretend they are powerful gods. Yet the true disciples of Jesus will be granted the complete fulfilling of all their spirits’ loving and just desires, of all the propensities and potentials which God wrote upon the minds of their spirits when each was created.
And this reward begins to be fulfilled with the love and justice they receive through their loving, just works for Jesus on earth. Then these holy desires will be entirely fulfilled forever, through their labours in heaven beside their oldest Brother and the Father of their elected spirits. So the only thing we ever become apprehensive about is our compromises and failures to fulfill the mission of our God Jesus, because we know that He is able to destroy both bodies of flesh and erroneous thoughts in the minds of our souls through fire, just like the fires of anguish in the garbage dump of Gehenna destroy Satan and his minions. We fear the judgments of our God, since His rebukes burn in our souls like a consuming fire. His power can chastise our flesh with so much pain that it can entirely burn away all our body’s stubborn desire for sin. If anything, we dread His disapproval most of all, even though we also know that He will instantly and totally forgive us if we repent into His truth.
Therefore, in spite of threats from Satan’s servants, we press on toward the goal of Christ’s calling.
We love and work equitable justice, shattering the lies and delusions of the devil and his slaves with His revealed and unbreakable truths. We pierce their darkness with God’s light of love, wisdom and justice. Yet we must not act rashly or foolishly. We must learn to speak and act according to words His Spirit teaches and reveals to our spirits, just as the sparrows and other creatures do. We do works in His name even if we must shed our flesh, since we know we cannot die, nor go to hell, but will complete our education on the final judgment day at the eternal gates of heaven, and will be made perfect, ready for all our joyful and rewarding labours in heaven. Even if God chooses to take our flesh away from us and our loved ones, we know the vitality of our elect spirits can never be stolen from us. We know this because our spirits have already set a foot upon our homelands of heaven.
Our spirits have touched, tasted, smelled, heard and seen what is waiting for us and our loved ones, whenever Jesus’ Holy Spirit communes with our spirits in our prayers, as He awakens the senses of our spirits, as He makes us aware of heavenly ground He is standing upon. We all see how His eternal lands surround the tiny speck of the material universe, where our spirits exist in this short and fleeting “now.” Our spirits see that earthly time and space are nothing, and shall soon pass away.
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in secular circles. That verb is ὁμολογέω, which literally means, “[being] together [regarding] a rational principle.” Its action is: “to commit oneself to do something for someone, promise; to share a common view or be of common mind about a matter, agree; to concede that something is factual or true, grant, admit, confess; to acknowledge something, ordinarily in public, acknowledge, claim, profess, praise” (BDAG3). This verb indicated a formal or sincere acknowledgement of a declared statement, doctrine, precept or principle, as well as agreement with it. Then this verb always implied a commitment to act, either to do what one declared or a will to uphold one’s declared promise, purpose or responsibility. And its ecclesiastical use always implied actions of the human spirit, while its secular use merely involved the will of the flesh. Thus, there is no equivalent English word or gloss that can be used as a suitable translation of this Greek verb or its cognates, and certainly nothing that adequately interprets its ecclesiastical uses. In both secular and ecclesiastical contexts, it means far more than simply “confess” or “acknowledge” concepts or accolades or good attributes.
Other Greek words were used to indicate actions like confessing or acknowledging, but not this verb, not forms of ὁμολογέω or its cognates. Rather, this verb indicated a serious and often life-threatening confession or acknowledgement, but always together with some kind of formal or internally binding
commitment to take action, regarding one’s acknowledged words, or else a binding concession to submit to an action by the one who made a declaration of truth, and often both. The actions of this verb always involved acts of upholding a declaration, as well as acts of serving the one who caused one to make the declaration of truth. In the Greek New Testament, every form of ὁμολογέω (and its cognate, ὁμολογία) carried a theological implication involving some commitment to act regarding a declaration, either to uphold what was declared, or to submit to the one making a declaration, or to act against one who was declared to be an enemy or against what was declared to be undesirable.
For example, John said, ἐὰν ὁμολογῶμεν τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν, πιστός ἐστιν καὶ δίκαιος ἵνα ἀφῇ ἡμῖν
τὰς ἁμαρτίας καὶ καθαρίσῃ ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ πάσης ἀδικίας (John 1:9, SBLGNT). This means: “If we s hould agr
ee that our sins [are indeed sins] and commit to act against them , He is trustworthy and just, so that He should forgive the sins and cleanse us from all injustice.” So this is telling us that we should not only confess that our sins are unjust, in agreement with God’s Word, but also commit to performing actions against our sins. Then Jesus said this about those professing to be Christians, but proved to be the kinds of people who bore only bad fruit: καὶ τότε ὁμολογήσω αὐτοῖς ὅτι Οὐδέποτε
ἔγνων ὑμᾶς (Mat. 7:23, SBLGNT). This means: “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you people,’ and will commit to taking action regarding that declaration.” Jesus used a form of the verb ὁμολογέω here, to indicate that He will make a very serious commitment to act upon the declaration He made to those fake disciples. That is, He would immediately cast them into hell forever. Another example is: ἐὰν ὁμολογήσῃς ἐν τῷ στόματί σου κύριον Ἰησοῦν, καὶ πιστεύσῃς ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου ὅτι
ὁ θεὸς αὐτὸν ἤγειρεν ἐκ νεκρῶν, σωθήσῃ (Rom. 10:9, SBLGNT). This means: “If you [i.e., singular, as an individual] might acknowledge and agree with your Lord Jesus in your mouth [i.e., openly, even in public], i n a way where y
our spirit commits to serving Him and His words , and trust in your heart that God raised Him out of the dead, you will be saved [by God].” The phrase “in your mouth” refers to a willing and open declaration of one’s spirit, to an acknowledgement of Jesus as one’s personal Lord, together with that spirit’s full agreement regarding all His teachings, counsels and commands. And it also means that this declaration must be made with your spirit’s inner commitment to act upon His words that He grants, through His Holy Spirit. Then your faith “in your heart” is actually the trust and confidence of your spirit dwelling in your heart, a faith in His words, power, authority and love for you. This is what truly saves. For even the devil’s children can “confess” that Jesus is their Lord, with their lying mouths, and pretend to have faith by uttering nice words that outwardly sound pious.
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Now, in Matthew 10:32, Jesus said: Πᾶς οὖν ὅστις ὁμολογήσει ἐν ἐμοὶ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὁμολογήσω κἀγὼ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς (SBLGNT). Here Jesus used the verb ὁμολογέω twice. The first instance described a condition. If spirits made a commitment to act upon a declaration of full agreement with His teachings and ways, as well as a commitment to serve Him, then the inevitable result or effect of this would be what He described by using the same verb. That is, if spirits did this, Jesus declared that He would then commit to taking action through His allegiance with us. He would do whatever it took to save us from condemnation and wrath on the judgment day. For all those with spirits who made a commitment to Him and to His teachings, He committed Himself to defend their cause on that day, to completely purge these spirits of all their errant thoughts and ways, to purify them, to make them holy and utterly fit to serve the creatures in heaven, together with Him and our Father. So the Greek text actually means far more than any English translation seems to indicate. And this is why I interpreted it as: “Therefore, everyone who will commit to allegiance with Me in the presence of the people, I also will commit to allegiance with him in the presence of My Father in the heavens.” For the verb ὁμολογέω packed many more implications into its ecclesiastical area of meaning, much more than can be adequately expressed in idiomatic English. In English, we also have all kinds of words with large and complex areas of meaning in some contexts, such as “serendipity,” “sagacious” and “blaspheme.” But Greeks, who specialized in precise philosophical, theological and scientific terms, had even more words with very deep and broad areas of meaning. So we should not forget this when we read our God’s own words.
After the statement above, Jesus also made another declaration, which further clarified the exact meaning of His previous one: ὅστις δ᾽ ἂν ἀρνήσηταί με ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἀρνήσομαι
κἀγὼ αὐτὸν ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς (Mat. 10:33, SBLGNT). The verb ἀρνέομαι
literally means “pouring out against [in words and deeds].” It’s definition is: “to refuse consent to something, refuse, disdain; to state that something is not true, deny; to disclaim association with a person or event, deny, repudiate, disown; to refuse to pay attention to, disregard, renounce”
(BDAG3). So, as we consider how the aorist tense in the first clause indicated a completed act, this text may be translated: “Yet whoever might totally disavow Me in the presence of the people, I also will disavow him in the presence of My Father in the heavens.” And, in context, the first aorist form of ἀρνέομαι suggests almost every action in the above definition. Jesus was talking about anyone who would publicly or openly refuse to consent to His will, wisdom and words; and/or would claim His words were not true; and/or would not want to be associated with Him; and/or would disregard almost everything He taught. In other words, anyone who is like vast majority of priests, pastors and congregants today, Jesus will also “refuse, disdain, deny, repudiate, disown, disregard and renounce”
in the heavens (plural), that is, both on earth and at the gates of the eternal spiritual lands above. Not only this, but Jesus will do this before the face of the Father, who makes all final decisions regarding our eternal futures. Thus, since Jesus is one with the Father, and all whom Jesus condemns are also condemned by the Father too, there will be hell to pay for every spirit not aligned with the real Jesus.
Of course, we must also remember that Jesus surely will not do this if He sees true repentance. But it must be genuine repentance of the heart, an actual embracing of His truths and Him, by the very mind of the spirit. And, whether this repentance occurs on earth (through His opening of the spirit’s eyes and ears), or at heaven’s gates (during the judgment day after death, when elect spirits will see and hear Jesus clearly), one’s acceptance and agreement with His truths will be accepted by our just and compassionate Lord Jesus. Then His unmerited grace will reward true repentance with complete forgiveness, including a total restoration of one’s relationship with Himself. And literally all the elect who thought they despised Jesus, while living in deceived and deluded flesh on earth, actually have Page 771
spirits that inherently love the real Jesus and all that He personifies. Thus, all will fully and truly repent when they hear His truth on that last day. However, not one of the non-elect will ever be able to truly repent, since they inherently despise the real Jesus and His truth. They could never begin to love Him or His truth, since their spirits possess only a covenant of love for their own lies and delusions, and can only value and worship self, with a few others that gratify their wicked desires.
Therefore, these instructions (Mat. 10:28-33) are a brief and highly compressed version of many teachings about how His serving disciples should perceive Him, themselves, their elect siblings and their enemies. Here our God Jesus taught that He was an intensely personal God, concerned with every tiny detail of our lives on the earth, on His deadly training ground. God made this earth full of lethal dangers for our fragile flesh, because earth was never meant to be our home. These bodies of flesh, which He created for our spirits, were built to last only a brief moment in our eternal lives, and all flesh was destined to be soon cast aside and “burned,” together with the entire material universe, on that final day. And, in reality, both that final day and all past times are one time, one moment that we call “now.” So our spirits, which exist in the non-linear spiritual time, can see this end of earthly time now. Thus, our spirits never really worry about physical death, although our flesh surely does.
Since our spirits know that our eternal bodies, which are made of a spiritual substance and waiting for us in His spiritual space-time continuum, cannot be harmed or killed by anyone or anything, our spirits bear only spiritual concerns about our lives on earth. That is, our spirits worry about whether or not we shall do what is right, just, equitable and loving, according to God’s will. To our awakened elect spirits, this is far more important and valuable than any earthly rewards we could possibly receive, and we are willing to sacrifice our lives of flesh for these eternal spiritual treasures. And, on earth, God carefully manages literally every factor that affects our spirits, and mitigates all that may be harmful to our spirits, until our spirits mature in Him, until our appointed times to go home. So, if something might destroy one’s flesh, God will only allow it so one’s spirits will no longer believe a lie or pursue a sin, such as worshipping false gods, especially human gods falsely claiming that they control one’s destiny. Then, after the few short days of teaching and training our spirits on earth, our God Jesus will surely fulfill His Spirit’s commitment to align with our elect spirits on the last day, and for our benefit. Through His judgment works of teaching our spirits for our repentance, He will entirely complete and perfect our infantile spirits, so we will be able to serve His eternal creations, together with Him and our Father, for all of eternity. For He loves and deeply cherishes each of us.
Because our awakened spirits know all this with an affirmed certainty, our spirits “do not become apprehensive because of those destroying the body, yet not being able to kill the soul.” Our minds of flesh fear pain and death, but not our spirits. Our spirits know it would be foolish to fear such things, since Satan and his murderous children are not the only ones who can torture and kill our flesh, and they can only do their evil if God allows them to do it. Rather, our spirits fear God far more than any demonic spirits or their armies of blind human minions. For even one microscopic virus, floating unseen in the air within the “safety” of our own home, can cause our flesh to suffer a painful death.
Realistically, there are so many things that can God can do to cause our flesh to writhe in agony and kill our flesh that our rational spirits must admit it is utterly impossible to protect our flesh against them all. And, when our spirits speak with our terrified minds of flesh in the chambers of our souls, we also remind that flesh of this fact, as our flesh faces our enemies in the flesh. For God can destroy our enemies as easily as He can destroy us, yet He loves our spirits, and guards our flesh so our spirits can do His works on earth as they are done in heaven. So what do we have to fear from any of them? Of course, Jesus wants us to learn wisdom too, which includes taking precautions for the good of our neighbours, loved ones and ourselves. We are not to be reckless and careless with anyone’s Page 772
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life, but to love and serve all lives, even our enemies and ourselves—although we are usually our own worst enemies. And we must not arrogantly “test” God, never attempt to manipulate Him so He will serve our own foolish, infantile wills. Rather, we are to serve His wise, just, loving will alone.
And this means that we must not stupidly throw our flesh at the guns of our enemies, but destroy them in the just and wise ways of God, through the dissemination of truth, which erodes their power and breaks the unity of our enemies, until each turns against the other and they destroy themselves.
Now let us serve our oldest Brother, our High King and High Priest, through a trust and confidence in His words, in His examples of His ways He set for us, in His power over all existence, in His full authority to command all the events that need to be done for our good, and in His just and loving commitment to stand beside us on the last day, when He will perfectly heal our souls, when He will teach and train our spirits until we are fully able and entirely worthy to receive our blessed eternal inheritance. This is our saving faith, which aligns our lives with His. And this faith of our spirits is not a matter of our own wills, certainly not the wills of our flesh. It is simply letting our elect spirits look to Him and listen, while His Spirit gradually and gently rebuilds our lives from the inside out.
This is a War for Discovery
The next words of Jesus warned us that we will engage in a very costly and painful war, in order to find or discover all that is in the minds of our spirits, and a beneficial use for our minds of flesh, as our two minds work together within our souls: “You people should not think that I came to forcibly establish peace upon the earth. I did not come to forcibly establish peace but rather a war. For I came to alienate a person against one’s father, even a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And one’s household [will be] enemies of the person. The one cherishing a father or mother above Me is not worthy of Me. The one cherishing a son or daughter above Me is not worthy of Me. And who is not receiving one’s cross and [not] following after Me is not worthy of Me. The one having found one’s soul will fail to keep it from being lost, and the one not having kept one’s soul from being lost, for My sake, will find it” (Mat. 10:34-39, from: Μὴ νομίσητε ὅτι
ἦλθον βαλεῖν εἰρήνην ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν· οὐκ ἦλθον βαλεῖν εἰρήνην ἀλλὰ μάχαιραν. ἦλθον γὰρ διχάσαι
ἄνθρωπον κατὰ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ θυγατέρα κατὰ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῆς καὶ νύμφην κατὰ τῆς
πενθερᾶς αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐχθροὶ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οἱ οἰκιακοὶ αὐτοῦ. ὁ φιλῶν πατέρα ἢ μητέρα ὑπὲρ ἐμὲ οὐκ
ἔστιν μου ἄξιος· καὶ ὁ φιλῶν υἱὸν ἢ θυγατέρα ὑπὲρ ἐμὲ οὐκ ἔστιν μου ἄξιος· καὶ ὃς οὐ λαμβάνει τὸν
σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀκολουθεῖ ὀπίσω μου, οὐκ ἔστιν μου ἄξιος. ὁ εὑρὼν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἀπολέσει
αὐτήν, καὶ ὁ ἀπολέσας τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ εὑρήσει αὐτήν, SBLGNT). Now, to see what Jesus intended these words to mean, and avoid the errors of false churches, we will examine them.
First of all, notice that this does not mean that family members need to betray one another to the despotic human gods of fake churches, so those deceivers can oppress their dupes more effectively.
Many cultic psychopaths love to twist our God’s words for this purpose. Yet they cannot deny that Jesus told us to cherish and follow Him more than any other human being, including any human wanna-be god. At the same time, Jesus desires us to love even our enemies, although we must not love them more than God, and we certainly must not worship God’s enemies, by esteeming and serving those usurpers of God’s authority more than God Himself. So, when Jesus told us, “one’s household [will be] enemies of the person,” He meant that the person who becomes His disciple will become the enemy of one’s other family members, because His disciple will stand up for what is true, just, equitable and loving, in a way that exposes the lies, injustice, biases and hatred of other family members who hate God, in a way that turns them against His true disciples. Above all, we need to realize how Jesus told us that He did not come “to forcibly establish peace upon the earth.”
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That is, Jesus did not come to cast Satan and his fallen angels into hell, then slaughter all of that devil’s non-elect children upon the earth. For their time here on earth has not yet ended, and their purpose has not yet been fulfilled. They will remain until His elect, both the deceased elect of the past and all who shall live until His return, can see and understand that God’s ways are best, and that anything which even slightly deviates from His just and loving ways will either be fruitless or else cause harm and death to both the spirit and the flesh. Therefore, Jesus cannot “forcibly establish peace upon the earth,” not yet. Rather, He will teach and train us to be honest, just and loving, which will cause the non-elect and their blind dupes to hate us, so much that they declare war against us.
Of course, when Jesus contrasted εἰρήνη with μάχαιρα, He was contrasting “peace” with “war.” He did not come “to cast down” (βαλεῖν) “peace” (εἰρήνη) upon the earth, through a forceful and violent act of suppressing or destroying all who perpetrated war, inequity and injustice in the world. For He would do that at His second coming. During His first advent, He actually came to forcibly establish a state of war. For the noun μάχαιρα literally refers to a “knife” or “sword,” but figuratively refers to
“war,” or to execution as a form of capital punishment. The authority, power, truth, wisdom and love of Jesus, through His New Covenant kingdom on earth, began a process of separating the elect from the non-elect. Jesus first came to initiate centuries of drawing the elect out of Satan’s world order, especially from the kingdom of his fourth beast, that is, from the humanistic religious empire of Rome. His Holy Spirit would gather His elect into Himself, into the Rock, until that Rock grew large enough to crush Satan’s world order into dust at His second coming, when He and His elect would inherit the earth. But, until then, His justice, worked through the love of His priesthood, would be engaged in a war against the devil’s kingdom and all the human gods Satan raised up to rule it, all who work arrogant injustice through hatred. All our God Jesus would say or do during the last days, from the moment He was baptized as Israel’s High Priest to the day He would return from heaven to rule the earth, would work a dichotomization, to divide the elect from the non-elect. And Satan’s beast would perpetually attack, murder, war against, persecute, oppress, imprison, enslave and slander Christ’s people. Furthermore, this process would greatly intensify during the end times, in the years that His Revelation to John portrayed as the last eras, those of the sixth and seventh seals.
Also, in every war, there is espionage and sabotage, with much secrecy and deception. So the devil established many deceiving fake churches and other false religions to corrupt and hinder the elect as much as possible. Then all of these distracting and sabotaging religions eventually conformed to Satan’s most cherished religion of humanism, to the religion that worships self and other human beings. All demanded that their people esteem and serve certain exalted human beings as their gods, that they must worship those lying sinners as their only head teachers, as their final authorities in all matters of life and faith, and as their lords. When those frauds did this, many elect also worshipped those human gods as their creators and owners as well, as their saviours who prompted and guided all their thoughts and actions. Thus, those elect worshipped Satan too, who is the creator and owner of those psychopathic human gods. And the worst false religions were forms of fake, humanistic
“Christianity.” So God’s Word called the oldest and most corrupting of them all “the Great Prostitute” (τῆς πόρνης τῆς μεγάλης, Rev. 17:1), and told us that she gave birth to many harlot daughter churches, which we call Protestant churches. Jesus called all these spiritual prostitutes or harlots because they all sold their favours to the principal human gods whom Satan raised up in his dark, lying, unjust, murdering, psychopathic world order, even to psychopaths like Hitler and Trump.
The worst of these fake “Christian” churches, called the “Great Prostitute,” continuously commits sins of the first four orders. That is, she establishes all her priorities based on the wills of fake gods, but never according to God’s will. She worships and serves idols, teaches false doctrines and makes Page 774
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false prophecies in God’s name, and refuses to dedicate any part of her life to actually doing any of God’s genuine works. And this fake church rides upon Satan’s beast (Rev. 17:7). That is, like all espionage organizations, she is supported, directed and informed by the general of the devil’s army, by the beast, whom Satan placed in charge of his dark and unjust kingdom. Then another title of this great fake church is: μυστήριον, Βαβυλὼν ἡ μεγάλη, ἡ μήτηρ τῶν πορνῶν καὶ τῶν βδελυγμάτων τῆς
γῆς (“Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of [Spiritual] Prostitutes and Abominations of the Earth,” Rev. 17:5). She is “Mystery” because she does her evil in secrecy. She is “Babylon,” because her essence is Babylon, the head of all four kingdoms of the beast, and the beast is the servant of Satan who created the vile and vain religion of humanism through its king, Nebuchadnezzar. She is
“Great” because she is renowned by the non-elect and by the spiritual capital “city” of the devil’s world order, which is the city of Rome. She is the “Mother of Prostitutes and Abominations of the Earth” because the beast-serving “Christian” churches on earth, and all fake churchians who sin against the first four orders of God’s laws, originated from her and inherited their beliefs and ways from her. Thus, this fake mother church, and her daughters, were prophesied to be very successful in sabotaging and corrupting many of God’s elect, for a time. But, in the end, God will call out to all the gullible elect in her: “Come out of her, My people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues!” (Rev. 18:4). Then, immediately after calling the elect to flee from her, God Himself shall manipulate the beast’s mind, cause him to utterly destroy that church.
All this is why Jesus declared: “For I came to alienate a person against one’s father, even a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And one’s household [will be]
enemies of the person. The one cherishing a father or mother above Me is not worthy of Me. The one cherishing a son or daughter above Me is not worthy of Me. And who is not receiving one’s cross and following after Me is not worthy of Me.” Now, obviously, in this context, the One who will cause a person to become alienated against a father or another family member is Jesus. So Jesus was saying that He came this first time, with His New Covenant salvation, in order to divide (διχάζω,
“divide in two ... cause a separation ... turn someone against someone,” BDAG3), to separate one from another, to dichotomize, to alienate His true disciples from all others, even from the members of their own nuclear families. And, if this has been His purpose throughout all these centuries of these last days, during all this time before He returns in the end times, then literally all the doctrinal compromises of ecumenism, all that has been worked by the human gods of all the fake churches in the ecclesiastical movement, all attempts to deliberately ignore the destructive false teachings of each member church so that a united worldwide church could exist, cannot logically be the works of Jesus. Rather, the real Jesus is busy building a separated people, a kingdom which will be served by a faithful priesthood, by a people who never dare to esteem and serve human gods, by those who worship only Him as their Head Teacher and Lord, by those who always believe and heed His words above the words of any other god. And, yes, this true church will be united as a world-wide church, but only through the works of Jesus inside of all His true disciples, by His teaching and training of their elect spirits, until all see and understand all truths and wisdom together, until all are of one mind and purpose. But this unity will not visibly occur until the great revival of the sixth seal’s era.