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but gaslight the loving elect, who had entered God’s New Covenant branch of Israel’s priesthood.
Those deceivers made every effort to convince the elect that they should reject the prophet whom God had sent to prepare Israel for their coming Messiah, and even flee from the Messiah Himself, although their Messiah was the one God, Yahweh, dwelling on earth in a body of flesh. And all those deceivers also hated one another, divided from one another through greed and selfish ambitions. Yet, all their bitter and factious cults joined together, like a unified army, to war against God, in an effort to prevent as many untaught elect as possible from believing what their own eyes saw and what their own ears heard. In Jesus’ day, the rigid Pharisees even joined with the Roman-loving Sadducees to attack John and Jesus. For, when God sent the spirit of Elijah in John, to prepare elect souls for their Messiah, those enemies of God said, as with one voice, “he has a demon.” Then they all agreed to use the same lie against Jesus. And their anecdotal reasoning pointed to how John refused to eat and drink wine with those religious hypocrites at the feasts, at the times and in the places where those liars practised their most effective deceptions and spewed forth their cunning propaganda. Since John wanted no part in their rebellion against God, the human gods of those fake churches poisoned the people against John, by convincing them that a demon drove John out into the wilderness. Of course, the elect who actually took the time and effort to see John soon realized why John did not eat and drink wine with those hypocrites. It was because those religious leaders hated God and the truths of God. This is why they also hated God’s true prophet, John, then turned the authorities against John and exiled him. For John was exposing their lies. So all the true elect, once God awakened their spirits and they heard John’s words, soon recognized that John spoke the real, intended meanings of God’s words. Thus, it was obvious that the Spirit of the utterly holy Creator ruled John’s life, not a demon. So they believed John, when he called them to follow Jesus as their Messiah. They became the loving “children” of God in the marketplace, summoning others to join them. Then, after John gladly became less, so Jesus could become more, the religious hypocrites turned their attention to gaslighting the untaught elect through the same kinds of poisonous lies about Jesus. Those selfishly ambitious fake rabbis also attempted to deceive elect souls, to make them distrust their own thoughts and opinions regarding their own Saviour and Messiah, Jesus, so they would flee from Him in fear.
Of course, those lying enemies of God could not use precisely the same lies they used to slander John. For Jesus was far more powerful, and did not need to hide from their violence, since He could bend their minds and confound their counsels with ease. Then Jesus also called His disciples to eat and drink with Him, at all the biblically commanded feasts—where He gently and wisely taught them the true and intended meanings of God’s ordained celebrations, as well as other Scriptures. For the real Creator God dwelt in Him. Nor could the deceivers of that day deny that Jesus performed thousands of amazing miracles, because hundreds of thousands of souls witnessed those miracles with their own eyes. Consequently, since they could not lie, and declare that Jesus performed fake miracles as a deceiving magician, they had to slander Him with another kind of lie. And, when they lied about Jesus, they lied about God in Jesus. They slandered the very core of God’s heart, the Holy Spirit of God, by calling Yahweh in Jesus by the name of Satan. They claimed that the devil worked his evil power to perform those just and loving miracles through Jesus. Although our Father God in Jesus did those miracles through His love for His children, those malignants declared that this love of God in Jesus was “the power of Satan.” So, when they spoke this lie, solely to turn souls away from God to protect their illicit incomes and their status in their fake churches, it was an intentional slandering or blaspheming of God’s utterly holy and loving attributes and character. And it attacked the very Spirit and heart of God. Thus, this sin was unforgivable. Such a sin can only be deliberately done by spirits, not merely by the lusts and pride of the flesh. And only a ruthless and evil spirit, who recognizes God’s holiness and love, who sees the inner joy of the God-worshipping elect whom Page 811
Jesus healed, yet truly hates God’s just, holy, pure and loving essence, as well as those awakened elect souls, can allow its soul and flesh to say such things. And those kinds of non-elect spirits, who love the psychopathic spirit of their hellish father, are incapable of repenting into the truth through a love for God, since they love only darkness. So, without any repentance, forgiveness is impossible.
Then those fakes slandered Jesus and His disciples in other ways too. Because Jesus ate and drank wine, without fasting two or more times per week in a false display of religious piety, those lying enemies of God pounced on the opportunity to call Him a glutton and drunk. For this eating and drinking turned people away from the methods those deceivers employed to control the people, by causing the people to focus upon an entirely physical, fleshy, carnal relationship with them and with the false spiritual deity they had invented and called by the name of God. So they created this lie about Jesus being a carnal man, a glutton and a drunkard, like many of them were, in spite of the testimonies of those who actually knew and followed Jesus, who saw Jesus go hungry and without rest for His body, in order to lovingly serve needy souls who bore overwhelming troubles and hardships. Then, after seeing Jesus’ pure equity and compassion for souls suffering ostracization and poverty, and after observing how Jesus saved the elect from traps of sin and a fruitless existence, those deceivers seized the categorize all Jesus’ disciples as impious and wicked. For, if there is one thing the non-elect love, it is to stuff all souls into little, carnal, imaginary boxes. Since a former tax collector stood among Jesus’ inner circle of twelve teaching assistants, these liars found a means to slanderously label all His disciples as “tax collectors” and “sinners.” Yet, at the same time, most of these hypocrites knew and taught the biblical doctrine which declares that literally all human beings are sinners, that all are equally unworthy of heaven and only fit for hell. So they proclaimed that this humbling fact made all human beings equal under God, although they never practised the application of this truth. Rather, while saying everyone is a sinner and equal, they implied they were not sinners and were superior to all sinners. Of course, these heads of churches did not recognize this logical contradiction, nor their other irrational teachings, but arrogantly insisted that all must worship them as the only reliable sources of information about God, even as they utterly rejected the words of the real God, who walked among them in a body of flesh. Nevertheless, many foolish elect souls trusted their irrational, contradicting, self-serving and outright evil teachings, and still do to this very day.
Naturally, all the human gods being worshipped in those false churches are spewing out the same lies today, although they use slightly different catch phrases when they slander God and His loving elect. As for Jesus, Satan’s other children, they try to convince everyone that He is merely a fictional character, or that the Bible was written by lying religious zealots in the second and third centuries, or that Jesus never said what He actually said. Then they conclude, from these unfounded speculations, that no one should have any faith in God, in Jesus and in the well-proven effectiveness of teachings in the Bible. Both the religious and secular humanists insist that all their imagined explanations for everything must be true, because all existence is material, and nothing spiritual exists. At the same time, they make every effort possible to distract the people from anything spiritual, and to focus all attention upon the physical, so the people will think only with their minds of flesh and suppress all thoughts from their own spirits. They will take much time to carefully explain how the love of a spirit, granted by the Spirit of God, is merely a chemical reaction in the brain of flesh. Then they will pontificate on how all justice and morality can only be explained by irrational and self-contradicting humanistic philosophies, because equity, compassion and consideration for the rights of others are not matters of the spirit’s love directed by a just, loving God, but only by selfish self-preservation.
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the existence of spiritual realities. They desperately want to prove they are right, and that all the actual empirical evidence of spiritual or physical realities is wrong, because their own spirits are always staring into the eternal abyss waiting for them after their flesh dies. They desire an existence where only the flesh matters, because they inwardly know what will happen after death. And this is also why these monsters have such a negative and materialistic view regarding all matters of life and faith. For all these liars assume that everyone else is a liar just like them. They assume that money is worshipped by all, in the same way they worship the demon Mammon, and that everyone can be bought or sold like they can be. They assume that the delusions of their hierarchical systems are real, and that their equal brothers and sisters in mankind are all either superior or inferior, based solely upon physical characteristics like the colour of one’s skin or the allegiance of the flesh to their own particular human god. So, when they see someone utter a genuine truth through the spirit’s genuine love, they tell themselves: “Aha! Another fraud like us. Well, we are not going to let him steal our money and our status!” Yet, if they do see another liar like themselves, they say: “Good! Here is another honest soul like myself, who promotes my cause. I simply must join with him.” These kinds of non-elect souls have been the heads of churches and governments for so long that even many elect believe them. For, if a lie is told often enough, the flesh assumes it is true, no matter how much the real evidence proves it is wrong. Still, God will soon expose all their lies to the eyes of all His elect.
Then the false heads of churches defend their lies, and their status as human gods, by slandering all whose elect spirits manifest even the slightest genuine love and truth. Today, we often hear these demonic pastors and their minions use terms like “communists” and “terrorists” against all the real disciples of Jesus, all who practise kindness, compassion, mercy, equity and love for others. Then these fakes and their duped masses also threaten, beat, terrorize and destroy the lives of innocent and honest souls who oppose them, even while many of these ruthless destroyers like to call themselves
“servants of God.” They insist that all who see, know, believe and testify about genuine truths are
“liars,” and that all who have been sent by the real Christ are demonic antichrists. Through the spirit and power of Satan, those deceivers continuously lie and war against Jesus and all His created truths.
Then this malignant brood of the devil sells fear, irrational suspicions and hatred to their dupes, at a very high price—both in terms of money and at a devastating cost to their own well-being. For Satan and his children love to keep their deceived minions in a state of high anxiety, with much delusional negativity. And, naturally, the non-elect among their minions love those lies, since anything negative and false is positive and true to them. But, above all, those lies help the chief human gods of the fake churches manipulate their poor, wretched elect victims more easily. Through fear-mongering, the loudest demonic churches can effectively prevent their depressed, trembling minions from trusting anyone whom God has sent to speak the truth. Churches can even cause their people to hate anyone with a positive attitude, anyone able to see God’s created spiritual and physical realities, anyone who acts justly through hopeful faith and love, anyone who heals. They can make all their people blindly accept all their negative lies and all the misery they cause, so those liars can be worshipped by all.
To maintain all these lies and delusions, vile religious institutions of Satan’s world order have always loved to tell yet another lie too, that their evil churches are so much more just, true, faithful and godly than all others. And they will even invent fake histories of their churches to prove it. So, when their current dupes actually see today’s hypocrisy and sins, the church gods will say, “All are sinners, even us. But be patient, because we will soon revive the past glory of our good church.” Thus, they distract the attention of today’s dupes away from their own obviously evil works, and turn it toward a fake past glory. Then their current dupes strive to revive the supposed “glory” of the days of that fictional past. But that past was actually no better than the present, and usually was far worse. Those Page 813
so-called “glorious” times of the past were living hells for the majority of the deluded souls who had to endure them, because the same kinds of psychopaths ruled over them. Still, this ploy convinces their dupes to cling to the same Satanic lies and traditions of the same fake churches, even to believe their clearly sinful cruelty and blasphemies which they have perpetuated since the beginning, in a hope that they too might someday become as glorious as the even more miserable souls of the past.
Of course, to maintain the lies of the false history rewritten by those fake churches, all the evidence and information that exposes the realities of those past days must be suppressed, so it will be totally forgotten. And, when they speak about their past glory, they must never reveal that the fruits of their past churches were actually nothing but greed, violence, poverty, racism, injustice, senseless wars, seasoned with countless murders, rapes, thefts, deliberately false testimonies and despair. Instead, they replace all these realities with fictional accounts about their psychopathic human gods lovingly and faithfully administering truth and justice to the people in God’s name. They blind their dupes to the realities of the past, never allowing them to see how they constantly battled against Jesus and all His God-given truths. They lure their dupes into a dark delusion, where lies become the only “truths”
that everyone must confess, or face extreme punishments which ignore all the intentions and motives for not confessing them. For all genuine truths must be deemed to be lies which all must denounce and oppress through violent terrorism. Then, lest any might somehow find the time to actually search for real truth, they keep their dupes very busy. They stir up base emotions and fears so they will feverishly crusade for one utterly foolish and futile cause after another, assuring them that their whole world will fall apart and die if they do not blindly fight those worthless battles for those fake causes, in the names of their glorious human gods, for their slave owners, for their demonic pastors and esteemed political leaders. They tell their dupes that, if they refuse to suppress and oppress everyone God sends to serve them for their own good, and for the good of the victims of their vile sins, all hope will be lost. Yet all hope is always lost, regardless, since fake causes can never be won.
So all those lost souls in the fake churches are led into a total darkness of lies and delusions, into a hopeless void, and made to feel useful only when they do the evil and unjust works of total Satanic destruction. Thus, you would think that every elect soul take captive by those fake churches would soon flee from such a dark, anxious, depressing life. Yet most elect among those institutions of the devil’s world order are too afraid to leave this negative, tormenting life, and can think that the only place they can flee into is Satan’s secular world order. Very few even realize that they are able to flee into God’s just and loving kingdom, since those fake churches describe God’s kingdom as an unjust place where God hates them. So they stay in their fake churches, blindly clinging to the lies and the delusions of those hypocrites. For they believe those lies and that evil will provide the only chance they have to earn a place in heaven. Those deceivers cause their captive elect spirits to stop believing their own eyes and ears, to distrust the whispering of God in their hearts, and to trust only in the acts of the flesh performed by the human gods ruling over them. Whenever those elect see the obvious evil of those human gods, they ignore it and pretend it never happened, and will even find a way to justify that evil as a “work of God.” Then, whenever they actually hear God’s just and loving truths, or see His loving works, and realize how God actually and effectively helps souls, their terrified flesh turns the ears and eyes of their spirits away from those words and sights, forcing their spirits to ignore such things. And, if they cannot ignore those realities, they rage against them, fearfully force themselves to believe that their demonic human gods, who are actually trying to destroy the truths and works of God, are the only ones who can actually reveal truths and do the good works of God.
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soul over to Satan, as a punishment for loving things of the flesh more than the truth, even the least of all demonic powers can easily delude that soul, and the human will has no power to resist. Until that elect spirit repents into the truth, that one will remain a slave of demons and their non-elect human minions. I have witnessed the painful and brutal destruction of many elect lives by ruthless false pastors and priests, or by other cult leaders, where those elect go to their grave still esteeming and serving those demonically inspired human gods, praising them with their last dying breath. And I have known some of these elect since my youth. I saw how they once loved truth and their siblings in mankind, even at great sacrificial cost to themselves. Yet their carnal desires and materialism led to their gullible and blind trust in human beings and their delusions. This includes even some very intelligent and loving elect souls. God allowed Satan’s appointed human gods to lure them into fake churches or cults, then exploited them, sometimes until the day they died. And, if anyone exposed the lies of those human gods, those duped elect souls would cover their ears and run away. They began to fearfully shun all truth, all realities, all honest brothers and sisters, and God Himself. In fact, if those elect could not silence the truth, they would become extremely frustrated and rage against it, and against God’s true servants. The only effective way of ever bringing those elect souls to repentance is by sharing God’s love and truth with them in real-life experiences, and only when they are ready to cast off their materialist, carnal desires. Even by simply drinking the same water with them, while they are extremely thirsty and tired of their folly, God might suddenly awaken their spirits, wipe away their delusions, then teach their hearts until they repent into the truth and begin to truly love again. God uses our most simple and pure deeds of speaking the truth in love to save those captive elect, but only after they have been physically exhausted by lies and relinquish materialism.
Now is the time for the elect to learn the loving, just truths of God. And our God Jesus also warns us that we must never blindly trust any human being, never call anyone our teacher, lord or saviour. At the same time, Jesus wants us to trust the evidence brought to our hearts about other elect souls, and love them in the realities we see, hear, touch, taste and smell. Yes, if we get to know a brother or sister well, we can place some faith in them, responsibly and wisely, as much as their weaknesses allow. However, we cannot afford to esteem any human being above others, and absolutely must never serve anyone as a god. Rather, we only worship the real Creator God. The only one we can confidently set over us, as the Head Teacher and Judge of every man on earth, is Jesus. There is no other Teacher and High Priest. No other is able. No other is worthy. And a free, abundant life needs real spiritual and physical truths, must be built upon genuine realities about everyone and everything, all that God wove into His spiritual and physical creations. But it is impossible for minds of flesh to discover enough of these truths and realities, not unless the greater minds of human spirits rule over those minds of flesh. Then it is impossible for our infantile human spirits to find and accept enough truths and realities, if our God Jesus does not provide them for us. If a human spirit learns to work any pure, just, God-like love, built on a foundation of truths, it must originate from Jesus. Then literally all our truly godly and just works can only be done through this kind of love, which Jesus builds up in us through His teaching and training of our spirits. So, without Jesus, nothing is good.
It is also time to place just and practical limitations on the lies and evil works of both secular and religious destroyers. Jesus came to nullify and tear down the works of the devil, and we work beside Him to do just this, remembering that He does this with truth, and seldom with violence or brute force. So we allow many freedoms within God’s natural laws, but can no longer compromise with Satan’s human children. There is no part of God-like love that will ever appease them, nothing about love that will ever let them practise slandering, bullying, dehumanization, exploitation, fraudulent thefts, plundering, wilful negligence, enslavement and murdering. The non-elect need to be kept Page 815
harmless through the threat of punishment, since they have no inner conscience of their spirits. We need to threaten heavy fines that equitably pay for their lies, prison terms that keep other safe from their ruthless violence, as well as other fair and just practises. But, at the same time, we must also allow every opportunity for repentance into the true principles and realities of a godly life. That is, we need to practise respect for the God-given lives in even the worst criminals, because there may be a sleeping elect soul hidden among them. For there are many elect whom the non-elect deceived and dragged into their sins, and literally all the elect have experienced this ourselves. Thus, our God demands that we must provide full forgiveness for elect spirits who truly repent, along with enough assistance to help them begin a new and just life, where we all live equitably through God-like love.
Although the non-elect will invent every kind of lie to confuse, distract, confound and destroy the truth, the elect must now learn to practise wisdom, justice and love, so we might do truly good works in the name of the real Jesus. We must now learn to counter every lie with genuine truth, not with the kinds of speculative rhetoric which the non-elect use to convince their dupes to believe lies. And we can only find and apply that truth effectively if we let the rational, loving voice of the Christ’s Holy Spirit teach and train our spirits. Of course, if we do this, we must also expect slander and violence from the non-elect. Yet we need to press on toward our goal of building up God’s just and loving kingdom on earth, which is the work that all the generations of the elect have been building up with their sweat, tears and blood. The whole of Satan’s world order will jeer, mock and sabotage our works, turning even our own elect siblings against us. Still, we must continue these hard labours, since the survival of the whole earth depends on Christ’s true justice and love, and will find only death with the lies of men. Without God’s truth and wisdom, working through just love, humankind destroys itself and everything else. For, even when the non-elect are granted the most ideal physical conditions, they still exploit their neighbours and all else in their land. So, whenever the non-elect slander and attack us for our spiritual works of justice and love, we must not be ashamed, must not believe their nonsense. For all history proves that their focus on illicit gain has always resulted in tyranny and death. Yet, always, when the elect practise works guided by spiritual considerations of justice and love, they produce paradises. The fruits of true justice, worked through love, are always beneficial for all, and enduring. So “wisdom has been proven to be equitable and just by her works.”
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“Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent. ‘Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
“You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until this day. But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.’
“At that time, Jesus answered, ‘I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in Your sight. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father. No Page 816
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one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.
“‘Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.’” (Mat. 11:20-30, WEB).
So we see here that whole Jewish cities, places that heard God’s Word read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath day, who were inundated with truths from God, who saw God’s works done by Jesus, did not repent into those truths. Instead, they resisted the preaching of our God Jesus, and put their faith in the humanistic human gods who falsely claimed to be their rabbinical teachers and judges. In other words, those places were exactly like the fake humanistic churches and so-called “Christian”
communities of our day. And they all expected that, after death, God would welcome them into His arms and say: “Well done good and faithful servant. For you slandered, beat and murdered the innocent without fair trials, basing all your condemnation upon the traditions of men, which My Law condemns, then punished with extreme biases and prejudices, without hearing testimonies from the accused and without allowing any kind of real and honest cross-examination of the evidence. Now take a seat with Me at My table reserved solely for the holy, just and loving souls of My Kingdom.”
But our God Jesus, who knows the future as well as He knows the present, assured those hypocrites that their expectations were wrong. On the judgment day, God shall welcome and save many of the pagan idol worshippers from Tyre and Sidon, who practised all kinds of sins routinely, even murder, sexual orgies and homosexuality. But God would will even fewer, a smaller percentage, of “devout”
Jews from Chorazin and Bethsaida. For there were elect souls among those Gentiles in Tyre and Sidon, whose spirits were able to hear truths from God, who developed inner consciences of the spirit, but remained captive to Satan’s world order. For those Gentile elect never had the same kind of access to God’s Word as the Jews did. Thus, a greater portion of those Gentiles will repent into the just and loving concepts and ways of God on the judgment day, when our Judge Jesus teaches them that truth. For these Gentiles also would have joyfully repented into those truths during their lives on earth, if they had been able to hear God’s Word proclaimed in the same way the Jews did in Chorazin and Bethsaida. But loveless, unjust, non-elect, fake Jews in those Jewish communities usurped God’s authority over individual spirits in the synagogues of Chorazin and Bethsaida, took them over and transformed those places of worship into institutions belonging to Satan’s world order. Then those rabbis, scholars and other wanna-be human gods drove out the loving, honest, awakened elect and demanded esteem and service from the rest. In other words, they were humanists, just like most of the so-called “Christian” churches are today, even Platonic humanists like the Churchians of our day.
So God will not welcome many fake Jews and Churchians into heaven. Rather, on that final day, the angels will sternly herd most of them into the eternal and bottomless pit of hell, together with all their other ruthless, inwardly lawless, loveless siblings born of Satan. But now remember how Jesus also condemned a Greek city, and warned their Gentile residents of eternal woes. Our God in a body of flesh had moved to that town, to Capernaum, together with His entire family. Then He spent much time there, preaching truths and performing miracles. Thus, of all the cities on the earth, Capernaum was one of the most privileged, even “exalted to heaven,” because it was a home of God, just as heaven was the permanent home of our God Yahweh in Jesus. However, Capernaum was an outpost which Rome established for the collection of their taxes. As such, it seems to have become a hard and loveless place, primarily dedicated to capitalistic principles and Satan’s invention of currency.
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Due to the almost exclusively financial focus of Capernaum, it obviously would not attract many elect Gentile souls, although there were a few forced to dwell there. Of course, Jews had lived in that region for centuries, and most seemed to have been elect souls. However, almost all the Gentiles were immigrants, who came to extort and exploit through the Roman taxation system. The foul odour of Capernaum lured in the most voracious predators, such as exploiters, profit-seekers and other loveless non-elect Gentile souls. Thus, very few of those Gentiles repented into the just ways of God, and away from the ruthless precepts taught by their principal god, the demon Mammon. This made the majority of them worse than the Gentiles of Sodom, which also refused to repent into any of God’s truths. For Sodom had only one fairly inept priest of God, named Lot, dwelling among them. And Lot never performed any miracles. But Capernaum had the perfect Teacher, the eternal High Priest among them, who spoke the very words of God Himself, because He is God. Then Jesus also proved God’s personal love for both Jewish and Gentile individuals, through countless healings and other wonders. Yet those Gentiles of Capernaum also refused to repent into the just and loving principles taught by God. So the Roman citizens in Capernaum were like many of today’s Gentiles that hear God’s Word, yet intentionally choose to misuse and abuse it for their own financial and political gain, then stubbornly refuse to repent into any kind of honest justice and God-like love.
Therefore, our God Jesus revealed the certain fate of these money-oriented Gentiles, their destiny which He will grant to them on the last day. Our God Jesus warned Capernaum, along with all the other Gentiles who have made the same choices as them since that day: “it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.” For there must have been at least some captive, deceived, Gentile elect souls remaining in Sodom on the day God rained fire down on them, to destroy them all. Yet an even smaller percentage of the Gentiles in Capernaum were God’s elect children while Jesus dwelt there, because so very few repented into His just and loving truth, even when it was perfectly presented to them. And keep in mind that a huge portion of Gentile Romans respected the teachings of the Old Covenant Scriptures in those days, and would have repented into the truths of Jesus if they had heard them. This is proved by the number of Gentiles who flocked into the true apostolic churches shortly after this, in the times before the corruption of the churches by the humanists. And it is much the same situation today. However, many Gentile Fascists and their rival siblings, the Communists, are like the people of Capernaum, and prefer to worship Mammon rather than God. Many Gentiles still suppress the truth and murder their opponents like the worst of the humanistic Romans, working against the application of the truth for the benefit of all. Thus, Jesus revealed their eternal destiny. Jesus will herd all those loveless non-elect Gentiles “down to Hades.”
Satan’s spiritual lies, in his war against God, invariably produces very real consequences, not only for eternal human spirits, but also for human flesh, as well as the flesh of all the animals and plants on earth. And the most demonic of lies tells us to ignore our spirits and focus solely upon gain for our flesh. Of course, the foolish and weak non-elect always believe this lie, not only because it gets them everything they want and need for their flesh, but because things of the flesh are all they will ever receive throughout their eternal spiritual lives. So the non-elect continuously lie to themselves and to others. Naturally, the whole community, especially when it is too busy surviving to take the time to understand the effectiveness of God’s spiritual laws and ways, will observe how the non-elect liar is prospering more than they are. Thus, the majority, even many elect among them, will begin to follow his lies and try to gain what that liar has. Not long after this, the community begins to exploit, enslave, terrorize, murder and plunder a few hundred of their siblings in mankind, since they believe the devil’s spiritual lies, which delude them into thinking that the flesh of their siblings is inferior to their own flesh, and should be exploited by their superior and wealthier community, to Page 818
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gratify the lusts of their flesh and make them even more prosperous. In time, that community grows and not only steals the lives from hundreds of their own siblings, but from thousands, then from hundreds of thousands, then from millions. And that community, bound together by a body of dark and demonic lies focusing solely upon things of the flesh, grows into a vast empire of slaves within Satan’s world order. And none can escape into an abundant life, filled with inner joy, founded on the truth which enables them to love and be loved. All have lost any ability to free themselves, and remain trapped in a dark fortress of spiritual lies. So, since they are walled in on every side by their own lies and sins, become bitter and vindictive, and do all they can to prevent their enslaved siblings from escaping into an abundant life as well. Yet those enslaving slaves not only destroy the physical flesh of their victimized siblings, but their own flesh, and even every other living thing on this earth as well. But their deluded souls are too ignorant to heed the screams of their victims, and even their own cries, as they torture themselves to death. So they blindly continue their deadly folly until all is lost to death. And now those spiritually deluded empires of Satan’s abused slaves have forced literally billions to serve them as their own blind obedient slaves. So their spiritual lies, which cause their physical stupidity, have currently led all life upon this entire planet to the threshold of death.
We must realize that the minds of non-elect spirits do not bear the rational capacity to figure out that, whenever they sacrifice the lives their human siblings and God’s other creations for spiritually evil purposes, such as to gratify the irrational and self-destructive lusts of their flesh, there will be hell to pay, during their temporary lives on earth and forever in the spiritual realm. The minds of non-elect spirits are stupid, and cannot think that far ahead, even if their weak little minds of flesh possess a very high intelligences, compared to other minds of flesh. However, the laws of nature dictate that, whenever someone or something is exploited through a lie, the exploiter will pay for it by being separated from the Creator of all persons and all things. And this separation ultimately also means a separation from all that God owns and ubiquitously exists within. So, if there is no repentance into the spiritual truths of God’s created ways upon the earth and in heaven, then the offending exploiter will be removed from one’s flesh, in physical death, and one’s spirit will be cast into the part of the spiritual realm where God hides His presence, the vast pit where not one beam of God’s good light, nor any of His other good creations, is allowed to exist for even a moment, the place called “hell.”
The deluding power of Satan can cause souls to accept his lies, if God permits it. The devil’s power can even cause elect souls to praise, esteem and exalt him and his lies. But the fruits of his lies are always darkness, fear, anxiety, despair, negativity, pain, loss, futility and death. Suffering and dying in abject wretchedness is the inevitable cost of not learning the physical and spiritual realities and truths created by God, and living by them. Now one might think that the inevitable terrible effects of that devil’s arrogant lies are always so consistent and obvious that no rational, loving soul could possibly avoid seeing them. All our own personal experiences and literally all real historical facts have proved this beyond any shadow of a doubt. Yet the majority of souls on earth ignore those effects. Why? Well, Satan is very good at stupefying and deluding minds of flesh, especially the flesh of the non-elect, whose spirits are incapable of mustering any resistance to those lies. Then, if the elect choose to live only for their flesh, if they ignore God and do not love His truths, God will hand them over to the deluding power of demons. Then the idle minds of their elect spirits shall be entirely suppressed by their deluded minds of flesh. So both the elect and the non-elect can blindly believe and follow Satan’s lies. And, throughout history, most of the human race has been deluded.
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variation from the whole truth can be, then repent into His truth, if not while they live in flesh on earth, then during the judgment day at the gates of heaven, after their spirits depart from their flesh.
So, in the very end, literally all the elect will discover the value of God’s real truths. All will know, eventually, that all of His truths, the complex wholes of His truths, and nothing except His truths, are essential for the love and joyful existence of every living entity, both here on earth and in heaven.
Of course, while the majority of souls are blinded, the eyes of their spirits cannot see the beautiful, loving, compassionate works of God, neither here on earth nor in heaven above. Because their spirits cannot see His truth, wisdom and justice, nor how those spiritual realities always and invariably produce good and beneficial effects for everyone, they ignore them. But all awakened elect spirits can see and understand such things, no matter how infantile those elect spirits might be, even if those awakened elect spirits had once been as deluded as the non-elect spirits. Thus, elect spirits need to be awakened, and must stop heeding the selfish demands from their minds of flesh, since the temporary flesh is utterly incapable of seeing or loving any kind of spiritual truth. And, once those elect spirits begin to love the truth, they will require hard labour from their flesh, to uphold those truths, and only allow their flesh to gain the rewards of a lawful, modest gratification of its lusts. Then this kind of life in the flesh will enable literally everyone and everything to thrive in flesh, in a way where the life of elect human spirits, as well as the lives of all God’s other creations, will find harmony in joy.
Of course, God, not men, has always awakened and revealed His physical and spiritual truths to some elect souls, even while He hides those truths from others, through the agency of the deluding demonic spirits. And God reveals each and every physical or spiritual truth through His unmerited grace alone, not through any human wills. This includes scientific truths. For all true science is based on the honest, humble and rational evaluation of real evidence regarding all that God created or has allowed to occur. And honesty, humility and the ability to reason in rational and objectively unbiased ways are all strictly spiritual attributes, gifts from God. None of these abilities can ever possibly be possessed by any mind of flesh, since all flesh is inherently dishonest, arrogant and biased toward its own pleasures and its own survival. Likewise, in matters of justice and theology, God alone is able to reveal both physical and spiritual truths, through the same process in which He grants truth in all true sciences. Regarding every law and tradition, God must first awaken a spirit, must open its eyes and grant it the ability to see. Only then can that spirit observe truly applicable evidence without carnal biases, then humbly accept and honestly analyze those realities through the kind of inductive logic taught by God to one’s far more rational mind of one’s elect spirit. Yet most scientists, as well as the vast majority of those handling matters of justice and repentance into the truth, only serve the lusts of their flesh, in profoundly dishonest, arrogant and totally irrational ways leading to destruction.
So our biggest problem is that most elect let their spirits sleep and they walk only according to their minds of flesh. But flesh is easily manipulated. So those elect believe any lies of the devil and do not allow their spirits to pursue any truth which disturbs their comfortable status quo. Then, since flesh cannot love, it will do very little of anything through just and God-like love. So most elect remain blind, dishonest, irrational, unjust, exploitative, destructive and extremely weak in all ways, as good citizens of Satan’s world order. However, since the non-elect are much better at doing the bidding of the demonic spirit who rules the world order, they rise to the higher positions in all hierarchies, and especially institutions that regulate core spiritual/moral matters for all souls, such fake churches and false governments. Thus, the non-elect can always trample over the elect, and literally get away with murder. And the only reason those non-elect have any fake churches and other false religions at all is to keep elect spirits from waking up. Satan calls some non-elect to make a big show of religion, but keeps the religion carnal, focused on doing so-called “spiritual” rituals performed entirely by the Page 820
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body of flesh, so the elect can be deluded into thinking they are spiritual/moral, although their lives are carnal, sinful, delusional hypocrisies which totally lack the power and love of God, and build up Satan’s kingdom on earth, instead of God’s loving, just, equitable, peaceful, joyful, stable kingdom.
So it is for the benefit of all people that God condemns and opposes fake “Christian” works, and will seldom endorse or help the elect in false religions. For God must make most of their works fail, for the good of His whole creation, for the sakes of His elect children, His other plant and animal life on earth, and even the non-elect, since even the lives of the non-elect improve when God rules over all life on earth through His faithful elect servants. Only when He wakes elect spirits and they begin to walk according to the thoughts of their spirits, as their spirits openly and willingly receive teaching and training from His Holy Spirit (who is Christ’s Spirit), can the elect begin to learn and rightly apply God’s truths for the good of all. Only if Jesus dwells in their hearts and souls, as the Lord and God of their lives, can the elect produce effective fruits through the power of the omnipotent Creator.
But, before elect spirits can trust the Spirit of Jesus to work in them and through them, so they may nullify the evil works of the devil and build God’s kingdom on earth, Jesus must choose to awaken them. Jesus must first open the eyes of their spirits to become aware of Him, our God. He must make them able to see and hear, able to realize how He has been speaking to their spirits from birth, and able to prefer and trust all He teaches to their spirits, with confidence that it is indeed the infallible truth. And, if elect spirits remain asleep—so they continue to walk according to their flesh and serve only Satan’s world order, comfortable in the fleshy lies of human gods, ignoring Him and refusing to love the truth, Jesus will need to keep on handing them over to the deluding power of demons. And, in those powerful delusions, it may even become impossible for some elect to force their stubborn, self-serving minds of flesh to even acknowledge the existence of their own spirits, much less the reality of the Creator’s Spirit speaking to their spirits, not until God’s Spirit awakens and empowers their elect spirits. No genuine knowledge of any physical and spiritual realities can be acquired by elect souls, not until their heavenly Father grants it to their rational elect spirits, since an irrational, dishonest mind of flesh cannot begin to comprehend even the least of realities, not even any of God’s natural creations. Consequently, we conclude that the only way the elect will be saved from the lies and sins of Satan’s world order, especially from the violent tyranny of that devil’s institutions of his fourth humanistic kingdom, is if God will awaken their elect spirits. And God will do this by first removing the reliance of their flesh upon Satan’s world order, so their elect spirits may turn to Him.
Since our God Jesus is the only Authority and Power who is able to save an elect soul from the lies and delusions causing sin, from the captivity and chains of demonic fear-mongering, from being cast into a destructive, futile existence of serving Satan in his dark, ruthless, unjust and self-defeating world order, we need Jesus to nullify the deluding power of that demonic kingdom. Then the flesh of the elect will have no fake spiritual/moral authorities and human gods to rely on, and their spirits will turn to God Himself. Their spirits will lose confidence in lies and seek truth. The Holy Spirit of Jesus will respond and wake their spirits, allow those spirits to see spiritual and physical realities as they truly exist. Then the elect will grow to love that truth, as it sets them free, as they construct an abundant life of loving and being loved, as they build up God’s just and loving kingdom on earth.
Of course, the non-elect will remain on earth when Jesus begins to destroy the world order. And they are never able to love any truth. Their spirits love only the darkness of their hellish father’s lies and delusions, and shall always hate the light of God, always instinctively flee from any kind of exposing truths. For non-elect spirits were created incomplete, like Satan’s spirit, lacking any ability to build up God-like love on a foundation of truth. Therefore, it was God’s will to create them for another purpose and for a different home, for a spiritual void where they can forever harmlessly revel in their Page 821
lies and delusions. And, if God ever wanted to save them, He would need to utterly destroy those eternal non-elect spirits, make them cease their existence. Then God would need to create entirely new elect spirits to replace the non-elect spirits He removed. Yet all non-elect spirits, including the devil himself, want to exist forever. And God will never cause those non-elect spirits to stop existing.
So, because the non-elect can never save themselves, nor ever want to be saved, none of them ever will be saved. The only spirits that continuously desire to be truly saved are elect spirits, especially elect human spirits born in the image of the heavenly Father. And, no matter how evil an elect soul may have been, that one’s spirit truly and inwardly desires salvation. Thus, literally all elect spirits will indeed be saved, although most will only be awakened during the judgment day, after they have cast aside their bodies of flesh. On the other hand, God also appointed a time of great revival on this earth too, when He will awaken most elect spirits. In the era of the sixth seal, Jesus will spiritually nullify the devil’s deluding power, break his religious, political and economic lies which enslave His comfortably carnal elect. Jesus will send His Holy Spirit to forcefully call His elect, and seal their spirits as His possessions, as He sends earthquakes and meteors to strike Satan’s physical world order, throwing that devil’s world-wide fourth kingdom into chaos. And, even now, the demons are gasping for breath, as they are wildly swinging their swords to make their last stand on this earth, to preserve their kingdom. For the truths of love, justice and equity have been slashing off the limbs of their power for many centuries now, and Roman humanism is failing, standing on its last weak legs.
Miracles Cannot Produce Saving Faith
After Jesus taught about the struggle which would occur between His awakened elect and others in their generation and throughout the last days, until His return, let me repeat that Matthew also wrote:
“Then He began to rebuke the communities in which He did many of His miracles, because they did not repent: ‘Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Because, i f the miracles having occurred in you had occurred in Tyre and Sidon long ago, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes. In addition to this, I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon during the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will not be lifted up as far as heaven. You will fall down as far as Hades, because, i f the miracles having occurred in you occurred in Sodom, it would have remained until today. In addition to this, I tell you that it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom during the day of judgment than for you’” (Mat. 11:20-24, from: Τότε ἤρξατο ὀνειδίζειν τὰς πόλεις ἐν αἷς
ἐγένοντο αἱ πλεῖσται δυνάμεις αὐτοῦ, ὅτι οὐ μετενόησαν· Οὐαί σοι, Χοραζίν· οὐαί σοι, Βηθσαϊδά·
ὅτι εἰ ἐν Τύρῳ καὶ Σιδῶνι ἐγένοντο αἱ δυνάμεις αἱ γενόμεναι ἐν ὑμῖν, πάλαι ἂν ἐν σάκκῳ καὶ σποδῷ
μετενόησαν. πλὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, Τύρῳ καὶ Σιδῶνι ἀνεκτότερον ἔσται ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κρίσεως ἢ ὑμῖν. καὶ σύ, Καφαρναούμ, μὴ ἕως οὐρανοῦ ὑψωθήσῃ; ἕως ᾅδου καταβήσῃ· ὅτι εἰ ἐν Σοδόμοις ἐγενήθησαν αἱ
δυνάμεις αἱ γενόμεναι ἐν σοί, ἔμεινεν ἂν μέχρι τῆς σήμερον. πλὴν λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι γῇ Σοδόμων
ἀνεκτότερον ἔσται ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κρίσεως ἢ σοί, SBLGNT). And we need to exegete this teaching in its local and global context, since so many use it to instill a carnal fear in many gullible minds of flesh.
First, we should notice how Jesus rebuked only those who did not repent into the truth after hearing His perfect teachings, and after their own eyes saw His loving miracles done through the truth and power of God within Him. But His emphasis was not upon causing souls to believe in Him because they saw miracles, as most false churches assume. Rather, His main point was that many refused to believe in Him even after they witnessed countless real miracles done for those who believed His truth. One might assume that, surely after hearing and seeing all Jesus said and did, even the most immature, lethargic spirits would wake up and recognize their Creator’s Spirit in Jesus. And that Page 822
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would be true if there was such a thing as the “free wills” of human gods who had been created by an ignorant “logos” god in the sky, by a creator who had a “slave will” or else no real will at all.
But the fact is that human spirits, like their bodies of flesh, are born with inherent attributes and all their propensities, with a will that God then shapes throughout their lives, with a destiny assigned to them by God, according to His will. Thus, thousands of elect and non-elect human souls saw their family members and neighbours supernaturally healed, and witnessed how those well-known lives radically changed for the better, through the words and works of Jesus. All saw His power to silence and rebuke demons, how He easily nullified their seemingly invincible control over human souls. All had no way to deny that Jesus instantly healed disabled minds and bodies, and raised the dead to life again, into better health than they possessed before they died. And, more than anyone ever did in all history, Jesus revealed the almighty God’s heart and mind, all the intended meaning and purposes for His Law, all the effective truths that God gave to His elect priesthood about 1,400 years before then.
Yet, after witnessing all this omnipotent and irresistible truth and power flow from Jesus, many remained hard-hearted, without repentance. None but the elect spirits whom Jesus inwardly drew to Himself, even from those cursed places He mentioned, came to Him. And all of these elect spirits, whom He awakened, could not resist Him nor ignore Him. We rationally conclude this from the evidence. So the only ones who did not place any faith in Jesus were those who loved the lie more than the truth, since they witnessed so very many proofs of God’s love and truth. Only the non-elect in Israel hated Jesus. And only the more carnal elect, whose flesh suppressed their spirits, refused to repent into His truths. Thus, Jesus warned only those kinds, only the unrepentant souls in Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum, proclaiming that they would suffer woes worse than than the Gentiles in those violent, immoral, unrepentant pagan cities He destroyed. And the only reason God destroyed those pagan cities was because they did not repent into the truths proclaimed by His Old Covenant servants, who offered no miraculous proofs of their truths, servants like Lot and His other prophets.
Now Chorazin and Bethsaida seem to have been small communities just a few kilometres or miles away from Capernaum. And, of course, Capernaum was the home base of Jesus and His apostles, their primary centre of operations. Nazareth and, more importantly, Capernaum, two places in Galilee, were where the true and real temple of God, the body of Jesus, chose to dwell and spend most of His time on earth. So, more than Jerusalem, where God’s symbolic and temporary dwelling place existed, and more than all other places on earth, Capernaum and its surrounding villages had been almost “lifted up as far as heaven.” The Creator of all three heavens chose that earthly region to initiate and maintain His ministry. He selected this Gentile city in Israel to be where He would do most of His teaching and works for the salvation of the elect. Capernaum was where God initiated and centred His task of rescuing all of His children in the world from enslaved captivity in Satan’s world order. Yet—like the bricks and mortar of Bethlehem, which tried to murder Jesus as a newborn infant, and like the streets and physical temple of Jerusalem, which crucified the flesh of Jesus—the material existence of Capernaum and its region held no spiritual value in the eyes of God, since all the earth is destined for complete destruction, and because they were inhabited by God’s enemies, by men who tried to drive Him and His elect out of those lands. So we remember this, and do not call earthly places or things “holy,” just because our omnipresent God had touched them with His flesh.
Remember, God is omnipresent and ubiquitous. Therefore, He stands in or touches literally every place or thing in the material universe, and in the spiritual realm. David said, “If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!” (Ps. 139:8b, WEB). So hell, and all the skies in the spiritual space-time continuum, are inhabited by God. Yet hell is not holy, because it is not a place set aside for His loving purposes. And God never made any material place or thing on this temporary earth to be Page 823
intrinsically holy in any way. Rather, the Spirit called God created material existence for destruction, even the physical land and city of Jerusalem, where He promised to make His presence available to His people until the earth ends. After every material body, place or thing completes its purpose for the training of the eternal spirits belonging to His elect children, God will deem it to be worthless, of absolutely no value; then annihilate it, burn it into vapour, and even make even that vapour vanish.
Real holiness is an entirely spiritual quality, indicating the purest of spiritual righteousness, justice, wisdom and God-like love. So absolutely nothing but a spirit, or an entity made entirely from His Spirit’s holy power, can be truly holy. Only if God or aspects of God exist in or around a spirit or eternal spiritual thing, only if a spiritual entity possesses or reflects nothing but the true, eternal, spiritual attributes of God, can it be truly holy. Yet literally all material entities were created with the ability to possess or else reflect both holy and unholy spirits or spiritual qualities, and often both at the same time. On every living and inanimate physical entity on earth, God wrote the knowledge of what His is as well as what He is not. Therefore, because Capernaum, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and other biblical cities are physical places, none can ever be called truly holy places. Only when the real God—or possibly one of His utterly pure and chosen human or angelic spirits, or one of His eternal spiritual things—temporarily becomes the sole spiritual presence within a physical place or thing, that is, after literally all profane or evil spiritual entities have been expunged, can any physical place or thing be called truly holy. Then, as soon as any profane or evil spiritual entity is allowed to pass through or into that material entity again, it loses its holiness. So let us now notice how Jesus clearly proclaimed, as a matter of indisputable fact, that all the non-elect in Capernaum, as well as those in other places of that region, “will fall down as far as Hades.” That is, God predestined many in those places to go to hell. The same goes for every non-elect soul in Jerusalem, Israel and other so-called
“Christian” churches on earth. Literally all the non-elect everywhere on earth will go to hell. So let us stop revering places where Jesus walked and worked, or the things He may have touched. They are of interest only for the purpose of confirming His Word. They are interesting, but are not holy!
Yet many false “Christians” love to worship the places and things associated with Jesus, even as they totally ignore the teachings of Jesus. And some minds of flesh also “believe” that Jesus performed miracles in the same way do, to trick souls into trusting them and their words. That is, they “believe”
Jesus did miracles, but refuse to repent into the truths He taught while He performed those miracles through His love which exemplified His teachings. So their minds of flesh only want to believe in miracles because they hope they too can someday perform the same kind of “magic” through their own carnal wills, or that they will be able to manipulate God into obeying their wills and cause Him to do “magic” for them, according to their own wills. And they all want this power so they can impress other human souls, so they can be personally esteemed and receive glory for themselves, instead of God. But none of Jesus’ miracles were “magic,” and none were done to lure souls into esteeming Him and believing Him. Rather, all Christ’s miracles were simply God’s powerful and personal expressions of His love for individuals. There is a huge difference between magic and the miracles of Jesus. All magic is black, void of any light of truth and love. For all magic is entirely worked through faith in the will of a human mind of flesh, and all seeks glory only for the human being doing the magic, either through trickery or the power of demonic spirits, whenever God lets those evil spirits display it. And all magic seeks to make God obey the will of one’s own flesh. Yes, some may add a little feigned gratitude to God when they perform “white magic” or fake miracles in a church. But this is for publicity purposes alone. However, there is no real difference between this so-called “white” and “black” magic. Both are exactly the same demonic practises, although the
“white” magic is more disguised and deceptive, thus, it is a little more evil than overt “black” magic.
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The point is, Jesus rebuked the people of “the communities in which He did many of His miracles,
because they did not repent.” Jesus did not condemn those people to “woes” (i.e., to doom, to future
“pain or displeasure,” BDAG3), because they refused to believe that He actually did miracles. For they, like the fakes who practise “magic” in churches, and even Christ’s Satanic enemies, all openly admitted that Jesus performed miracles. So the reason those souls, that is, the non-elect among them, remained condemned to hell was because, when they saw how Jesus helped and healed souls through His pure, equitable love for them, they responded by slandering Him, by trying to turn others against Him and His truth. Jesus condemned those non-elect to hell because they hated Him. And they hated Jesus because His truth was exposing their hypocrisy and lies, even all they were doing through their loveless greed and selfish ambitions. So they were condemned because none of them repented into the truth which Jesus proclaimed, into the truths He exemplified through His loving, just, equitable miracles done to rescue the personal lives of His beloved elect siblings from torment. And, even before Jesus began His ministry as the High Priest of Israel, those same non-elect souls called John the baptizer “a demon” as well, long before those haters of God’s greatest Old Covenant prophet also lied by calling our utterly holy God Jesus a “demon” too. They were eternally condemned because they caused even some elect souls flee from John and Jesus, before those elect had a chance to hear the words of God from John and Jesus, before those elect even had a chance to repent into the truth.
But, if the non-elect are doomed to hell solely because they will not repent, why did Jesus associate the sight of His miracles with repentance? Why did Jesus say that, if Tyre, Sidon and Sodom had witnessed the same kinds of miracles that He did in the region of Capernaum, then those ancient Gentile cities would have repented into the truths of God, and that they would have recognized Him as their Creator God and Messiah, then would not have been destroyed? Well, I repeat, the reasons are: (1) Although there were many non-elect in Tyre, Sidon and Sodom, just as many as there were in Capernaum during the time of Christ’s ministry, none of the elect in those Gentile cities had been hardened against God’s truth by the false teachings of fake “servants of God.” Those Gentile places did not have false rabbis and pastors who were turning the intentions of God’s words upside down.
Thus, if the Gentile elect in Tyre, Sidon and Sodom heard the truths of God, and saw the miraculous proofs of God’s love for those who repented into His truth, they all would have instantly repented into that truth. Then, with the power of God working for them, they would have been spared. And, (2) due to the uncorrupted minds of elect spirits in those Gentile cities, the vast majority of them also would have instantly recognized how Jesus’ miracles vividly expressed the wise and loving truths He was teaching. And this recognition would have compelled them to repent without duplicitous hearts.
Thus, we know that the reason why so many elect in Capernaum and the rest of Israel did not repent into the truth. It was primarily because many generations of the non-elect dwelt among them, and were allowed to rise into positions of spiritual/moral influence. Then those non-elect, often with the help of their spirits’ hellish father, were allowed to freely twist and contort the Scriptures without any real rebuke or godly opposition, until those liars could deceive the elect into believing very false interpretations of God’s words, even in a way where the minds of flesh in those elect actually feared the real God and His real truth. Since the non-elect caused elect minds of flesh to fear the real truth, and think that truth was evil, the flesh of the elect began to rebuke and suppress their own spirits, whenever their spirits heard the truth and were drawn to it. As the infantile and foolish elect began to believe the lies and conspiracy theories of the non-elect, they fled in terror from Jesus and His truth, lest their demonic human gods might severely punish them and send them to hell. For those ignorant elect did not know that their human gods were destined for hell themselves, and that Jesus was the only Being who could free them from their current hell on earth, through His truths. Due to the fear-Page 825
mongering perpetuated by the children of Satan, which hardened the Jewish elect against the truth through many false teachings, only a few elect spirits repented during the time of Christ’s ministry.
In the days of Jesus’ earthly ministry, most rabbis and religious scholars had long-since syncretized the humanistic traditions (philosophical and religious doctrines and practices) of Satan’s four-headed beast (i.e., the four heads are Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome) into all their teachings. They had transformed God’s priesthood of Israel into a pagan priesthood which taught a carnal, humanistic kind of religion. Their teachings consisting of only physical rituals and superstitions, which those non-elect human gods used to distract the people away from the purely spiritual laws and principles of God’s loving justice and way of life. And the beast’s religion of humanism, which those non-elect thoroughly embraced, was indeed an effective tool of the devil, for hardening and taking captive elect souls, for making God’s elect into weak and useless vessels, unable to serve in God’s kingdom.
Therefore, miracles themselves cannot ever cause any repentance into the truth. Rather, only the elect whom God has driven away from the blinding deceptions of Satan and his non-elect children, only the spirits whom God awakens and grants the courageous ability to recognize His pure, just, merciful, compassionate love and His truths exemplified by His miracles, can repent into God’s created realities, into the truths that Jesus taught. Jesus’ miracles only caused His called, awakened, purified, taught, trained and loving elect spirits to repent into His truth. But the corrupted elect spirits, and their non-elect teachers, could not repent, even after seeing Jesus’ miracles. When the untainted and softened spirits of some elect saw Jesus work God’s love for them, through unmerited grace and unlimited power, they believed Jesus was their Messiah and heeded His every word. But miracles, signs and wonders have never been able to bring any non-elect spirits into an acceptance of the truth, and never will. Therefore, we must conclude that Jesus was not really warning any non-elect to repent. Actually, all those woes of Jesus were warnings meant for the poisoned and hardened elect souls who remained captive to non-elect souls, who worshipped non-elect souls as human gods.
Now, if an elect man serves only Satan’s world order throughout his life, then dies, the fiery rebukes of our God Jesus, during the judgment day, will burn away all the lies and false causes he laboured to build up during his years on earth. So, “if the work of anyone will be consumed by fire, one will be suffering loss, yet one will be saved, even in this way, as through fire” (I Cor. 3:15, from: εἴ τινος
τὸ ἔργον κατακαήσεται, ζημιωθήσεται, αὐτὸς δὲ σωθήσεται, οὕτως δὲ ὡς διὰ πυρός, SBLGNT). In the context of this statement, which was addressed to members of a true church, it is only referring to the elect. And the author, the apostle Paul, knows that literally all the elect who dwell in bodies of flesh on earth are sinners, although God’s Holy Spirit is always actively teaching and training all elect spirits for their eternal lives in heaven. So literally all the elect will indeed go to heaven, even the elect whose minds of flesh suppress their spirits in a way where their entire earthly lives are used for the works of Satan’s world order. Those worldly elect, who pant after delusions of wealth and power, will receive far greater loss and pain on their last purifying day of life, during the judgment day at the gates of heaven, just before Jesus leads all the elect together, as one people, into heaven.
So, is it worthwhile for the elect to pursue the self-indulgent rewards of Satan during their lives on earth? Or should the elect bow to the devil and do his will simply to avoid the wrath of his unjust minions, whenever that evil kingdom gains enough power to pervert justice and persecute those who speak the truth? Some irrational and shallow thinkers say, “Yes!” But the rational, who look at all the factors involved and at future consequences, all conclude that the answer is no. For deeper thinkers will realize that: (1) All non-elect souls are “happy” when their flesh is fed, clothed and housed, and being able to gain wealth and power will never make them any “happier”; (2) No amount of food, clothing and shelter can ever make the spirits of the elect more satisfied, whole and fulfilled; (3) Lies Page 826
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and sins always enrage the spirits of the elect, and partaking in any lies and sins will make the spirits of the elect feel empty, lost and dead, especially the sins of stealing from siblings to gain wealth, or the sins of omission which allow their siblings to suffer hunger while they indulge in pleasures of the flesh; and (4) escaping persecution, while allowing Satan’s kingdom to plunder and even murder loved ones, or even unknown siblings in humankind, can never preserve actual life in any elect soul.
When our elect spirits consider the cleansing flames pouring from Christ’s mouth on that last day, and the pain from His stern rebukes against all the delusions, lies and sins that our inherently loving and just elect spirits allowed our flesh to carry during our lives on earth, we soon realize that nothing we could possibly receive from Satan’s world order, even sparing our lives in the flesh, could ever be worth having to face that inwardly devastating wrath of our God. And that pain will be much worse for some elect than it will be for others. For Jesus is an entirely just Judge. So He cannot ignore the injustice we worked against His other subjects, not even our sins against rocks, plants and animals upon His earth. At the same time, our just Judge also always considers a spirit’s capacity, motives and intentions, in all His equitable and wise judgments. Thus, He knows that the worldly elect, who partook in evil and worked injustice against God’s kingdom, who built up Satan’s ruthless kingdom instead, were always doing so though plain ignorance of God and His ways, and because the devil’s children put their spirits to sleep so their spirits would not hear the truth about God and His ways. So Jesus will spare the most ignorant of the elect much pain and loss. Yet the elect who heard God’s Word with their own ears, who knew they could simply let their spirits receive a right interpretation of those words directly from God, will be judged far more harshly than those more ignorant elect.
It surely “will be more bearable for” the ignorant pagan elect who heard little to nothing about the true Creator God, such as the elect who once lived in Tyre, Sidon and Sodom. And it will be more painful for the informed Jewish elect who had never seen nor heard their Messiah Jesus, although these elect will suffer less on the judgment day than the Jewish elect who did not repent when they heard Christ’s words and saw His loving miracles while living with them in Capernaum. The elect in that region, along with all the elect who have heard the faithful testimonies in the Scriptures about Jesus’ teachings and works, will be judged the most severely on that final day. For the spirits of those elect received the greatest opportunities to silence their selfish flesh, then repent into Christ’s truth.
All those spirits had an opportunity to pray, then receive a right exegesis of the Scriptures from the Spirit of God, then see His truths expressed before their own eyes through His loving miracles. Yet the flesh of most elect in Capernaum held their spirits captive, because that flesh remained too afraid to let Christ’s truth expose lies from their corrupting rabbis, and their ignorant, infantile spirits were too weak to pray for the real truth, lest that truth might compel them to flee from the familiar fleshy comfort of their dark, filthy spiritual dungeons, into God’s unfamiliar light. The point is that elect spirits must not resist the words of God’s Holy Spirit, as He utters truth within the chambers of their hearts and souls. Rather, elect spirits must wake up, take courage and listen to His saving counsel.
Before continuing, we should realize why Jesus mentioned those three ancient cities, beginning with Tyre and Sidon. These were ancient, prosperous, pagan cities situated along the coast of what is now Lebanon, and both still exist to this day. Tyre and Sidon were allies of Israel before Alexander the Great came. And Alexander was the third head of Satan’s beast which Daniel prophesied about and John’s Revelation referred to. Alexander’s seemingly invincible Greek army marched into the region of those two cities in about 332 BC. Then Sidon realized that it was too weak to fight the Greeks. So they surrendered and agreed to worship an image of Alexander. However, Tyre believed its city was an impregnable fortress and refused to worship Alexander, since its people preferred to worship a different demonic god. Thus, Alexander besieged Tyre for seven months, built a causeway across the Page 827
surrounding waters, used Greek military technologies to overcome their defences and conquered it, then killed tens of thousands and enslaved thousands more, before totally destroying the entire city.
Jesus mentioned Tyre and Sidon because God’s Word, hundreds of years before their worst trouble occurred, prophesied that this would occur, to punish them for profiting from Jerusalem’s destruction (see Ezek. 26:2, c. 593-571 BC). Since Babylon was the golden head of the beast, who destroyed Jerusalem at that time, Ezekiel’s prophecy said that God would use that same beast to administer His wrath against Tyre and Sidon, to utterly destroy them, although they would survive and the cities would be rebuilt. (That is, we know this because it was also prophesied that God would send Israel to destroy Tyre and Sidon again in the end times, see Joel 3:4-8.) Of course, Daniel’s very literal and specific prophecies revealed the most about that demonic beast with its four heads and seven horns, so we might be able to identify all four of its kingdoms in the other prophecies by Jeremiah, Ezekiel and so on. In fact, Daniel even prophesied about Alexander’s death, saying it would not occur by human hands (see Dan. 8:21-25). And Alexander did die from an illness, not by human hands. So, keeping these prophecies about the beast in our minds, we can then interpret Jeremiah’s prophecies about the lands that were to be destroyed by God. Some would be conquered by the four-part beast during its very long reign, which began in the days of Babylon (starting in about 605 BC) and will last until the day Jesus returns, sometime in the future. And Jeremiah mentioned that Tyre and Sidon would be two of the places that God would destroy through Satan’s beast (see Jer. 25:13-28). So Nebuchadnezzar attacked and beseiged Tyre for 13 years in about 586 BC, but failed to take it. Then those two cities fell under Persian rule (539-332 BC), and Persia was the second head of the beast.
The the Greeks (the third head of the beast) conquered those cities and all of Persia. But, in the end, Rome (the fourth and final head of the beast) completed the beast and ruled over Babylon, Persia and Greece, then grew into the world-wide religious empire it is today, usurping all the religious beliefs on earth with the worship of human beings. Therefore, the prophecies were fulfilled and proved true.
But Ezekiel’s prophecy most vividly told us the way in which the beast would level the impregnable island fortress of Tyre. And, to understand his prophecy, we must remember that all four heads of the beast are often called by the name of the first head, by the title of “Babylon,” because the golden head of Satan’s beast will always be Babylon. For the worship of human beings above all other gods began in Babylon, and is the soul or core driving principle behind all the beast says and does. So the next three heads of the beast (Persia, Greece and Rome) are sometimes also called “Babylon” in the Scriptures. And, as Ezekiel prophesied, Tyre was indeed besieged by Babylon. But its devastation was only accomplished much later, by the beast’s third head, by the Greeks. Alexander totally levelled the part of Tyre which was situated on the mainland. Then he dumped its debris into the sea, so he could build a land bridge to its island fortress. While the land bridge was being formed, he also constructed a huge siege ramp that was higher than the fortress walls. So, when he wheeled that ramp up to the wall, he was able to overcome the greatly weakened inhabitants hiding in Tyre’s great fortress. After Alexander held the entire city, he enslaved many survivors, but also left a few behind to rebuild the city. Then, in subsequent years, Tyre did flourish somewhat. However, it was severely humbled and never recovered its former glory as the principal merchant city in the known world. It was never a major influence throughout the Middle East ever again. And Tyre never rebuild its island fortress “in the midst of the seas,” because there was now a causeway across the waters, and it was no longer an island. Consequently, all the events in Ezekiel’s prophecy (26:1 to 27:36) were fulfilled.
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sulphur down upon Sodom to burn away even the bricks of her buildings because that city was much like the American and European churches have been throughout history. Then, several times in the subsequent centuries, God also killed many souls in His priestly nation of Israel, because they too were committing the same sins as Sodom did, or else were aiding and abetting those sins. During those times, God sent most of the survivors into exile as well, because He did not want those sinners to continue to slander His name by practising the same sins as Sodom in Israel, where He promised to maintain access to His presence forever. For their kind of greedy exploitation and their focus on selfish gain through a fake religion which bore His name, always led to an infinite array of other sins as well. Thus, God warned His church of Israel that its proud, well-fed, prosperous exploiters of the poor, and the fake prophets who spoke to His people falsely in His name, “have all become to Me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.” Israel was no longer His priesthood, not if they “commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness” (Jer. 23:14, WEB). Also, when God handed Israel over to Satan’s world order, we know there must not have been even a tiny remnant of faithful souls within it. For God, who is immutable and does not ever change His ways, told us that, if ten relatively just and loving men were left in Sodom or Gomorrah, He would not destroy them (Gen. 18:23-32). Thus, there must not have been even a small remnant of just and loving elect left within His church of Israel either, by the time God chose to destroy it. Just as God killed all the hopelessly wicked souls in Sodom and Gomorrah, and only rescued the three persons who still had a little love and justice remaining in their spirits, He also killed most of His church, and only rescued a tiny remnant of those whose spirits still held a little true, God-like and just love in them. And the same is true regarding the fake churches in our day.
All the Jews who heard the woes of Jesus knew all these facts about Tyre, Sidon and Sodom. And most of their rabbis often used those three cities as examples of the wicked. So, when some loveless and unjust members of the church of Israel heard how Jesus compared them to the people of Tyre, Sidon and even to Sodom, they would have been extremely offended. But Jesus, our God, wanted the elect among them to become greatly offended, even so ashamed that they might repent from their complacent fake religious lifestyle, into the truths He taught, into a just and loving life of selflessly serving their God in joy. He wanted their spirits to awaken, to fear their own lethargy and their total apathy towards the evil and injustice being perpetuated by their psychopathic religious and secular rulers, by those men who thought they were gods. Jesus likened them to Tyre, Sidon and Sodom, with all the clear implications of the Scriptures regarding those places, so they might think about their ruthless ways and humbly repent into the truth and gain abundant life in their loving Creator.
So Jesus definitely did not put the principal focus of this teaching (i.e., Mat. 11:20-24) on miracles.
Jesus was not telling us to strive for supernatural signs and wonders in our churches, as some of the most fake, ruthless, exploitative and demonic churches do in our day. For those lying institutions of the devil seek only to feed the carnal desires of wilful and selfishly ambitious minds of flesh, so those worldly souls will artificially “believe” in the “magic” power of Jesus’ name. Those deceivers are luring their non-elect siblings, along with many infantile and foolish elect souls, into an army of warriors against God. And their fake salvation, built entirely upon a humanistic concept of becoming gods who are able to exert their wills of flesh over God’s will, is actually demonic and sociopathic, not Christian at all. This why you will never see them proclaim any real truths taught by Jesus, none of the kinds of truth which form the foundation of genuine, pure, just, God-like love. For the last thing those fake churches want is for the elect among them to wake up and recognize the real truth, that is, to recognize the real Jesus. For, as soon as the elect do that, they will repent into real truth and begin to serve the real Jesus. Then those elect will receive real salvation into His abundant life.
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When these woes of Jesus are more carefully examined and understood, we see that His primary emphasis was on repentance into the truths He was teaching, the kind of repentance which also turns away from a loveless and outright ruthless life which serves only Satan’s exploitative, hierarchical, biased, racist, elitist, unjust world order, and more specifically, which serves the humanistic Roman religious empire of the beast. Jesus wanted all the elect, even the most lost and hardened of them, to turn away from serving human gods who promised to gratify the greed and selfish ambitions of the flesh. For, at that time, only the least corrupted and most humbled elect spirits clearly recognized that the miracles of Jesus were manifestations of God’s love for individual elect souls, and that the whole of this loving Spirit of God was actually dwelling in Jesus. So these elect were the only kinds of people who truly repented into His teachings of genuine truth. Thus, our God and Judge, Jesus, gave woes to the hardened elect, so they might then reevaluate the motives and intentions of their lethargic and apathetic spirits, so their spirits might wake up enough to find godly sorrow and repent out of their delusions, lies and sins, into a loving life built upon His truths. And this is still His intent today, that elect spirits might wake up and cast aside what the beast is offering, to step into salvation.
However, there is a huge difference between the elect at that time, two thousand years ago, and the elect of our day. Back then Jesus spoke the immutable truths which have never changed and never will change for all eternity. But, in those days, the lies of the Roman beast had only begun to be proven false. Thus, the humanistic ways of that beast, which were based on those lies, were thought to be non-religious, not spiritual/moral practises. The people of that day just assumed that the ways of Satan’s beast were simply the way life had to be lived. This included all of the devil’s hierarchical systems, with their casts of human gods exploiting their “inferiors,” as well as their unjust judicial and enforcement systems that employed bullying, violence and terrorism to control the masses for the benefit of the elite, and where all these sins were enabled by their strict financial controls over the distribution of goods and services, where all were enslaved by the demon Mammon. Almost everyone at that time assumed their siblings in mankind practised slavery and injustice as normal and even godly aspects of life. Very few recognized such things as unjust, against the will of God and outright demonic. However, throughout the last two millenniums, God has exposed all such things as evil, and has provided proof after proof of how such practises cause only harm and death.
Consequently, the elect of our day can more clearly see how effective the truths of God actually are, how those spiritual realities can justly, wisely and lovingly work for the good of all. For they are able to compare God’s truths with the demonic lies and delusions of Satan’s humanistic beast, since the last two thousand years of history also have proved how very effective the Roman beast’s lies have been in causing the destruction of this planet and all that exists upon it. Those delusions and lies have always caused the plundering of God’s creations, the robbing of God’s property from His appointed stewards, the stealing of lives into a slavery which serves only destructive lords, the promoting of exploitative sexual immorality, the torturing of the just and the murdering of the most innocent. Therefore, at this time, and from now on, the elect have far less of an excuse for not hearing and heeding the truths of our God Jesus. And this is why Jesus waited all this time before He would awaken the majority of His elect on earth for the great revival of the sixth seal’s era. But now the time is growing very near. Now the world has been exposed to the truth and has seen how the lies of Satan’s beast work only evil, even for those who worship the beast and other human gods. Thus, the great revival of Christ’s true and faithful church is drawing near. Then, once God has separated the elect from the non-elect, that generation will not all perish before Jesus utterly destroys the beast.
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The Elect who Repented
After proclaiming woes to the corrupted and hardened elect, a man seems to have approached Jesus and asked Him a question that probably was something like this: “When we saw Your miracles, we repented into all that You taught. Why did so many others refuse to repent?” So Jesus told that man, and the whole crowd, why the more humble and less corrupt elect were able to repent into the truths He was teaching. The reason for the repentance of those ostracized, impoverished man and many others was not because of anything they did, but because of what the Father of their spirits did for them, in their hearts. It was God who kept their spirits from being hardened by corrupting influences.
It was God who kept them in extremely modest physical circumstances and far too lowly for all the arrogant elite of Satan’s world order from taking the time to pay any attention to them. In many ways and by many means, God prevented the false rabbis and politically ambitious from striving to lure them into their devious traps, and would not even darken the doors of the messy little homes which those loving elect lived in. And God continuously drew their desperate and hungry spirits toward Himself during their days of trouble and anxiety. Thus, these ones were drawn to their heavenly Father in their loving Messiah. Their faith trusted and relied on Him, not on the moneyed churches.
Most of the words of Jesus would have been responses to questions by men during a Jewish form of interactive teachings, although Matthew and the other Gospels did not record the questions of the men, but wrote down only the response by Jesus. But here we see a reference to a question: “At that particular time, having answered [a question], Jesus prayed: ‘I profess full agreement with You and commit to doing Your will, Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because You hid these things from wise and intelligent ones, and unveiled the same to infants. Yes, the Father [of these infants], because such as these [infants] became well-pleasing before Your face. All things under My Father have been entrusted to Me. And no one fully knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone fully know the Father except the Son, and to whom the Son might be willing to unveil [the Father]’” (Mat.
11:25-27, from: Ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ καιρῷ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν· Ἐξομολογοῦμαί σοι, πάτερ κύριε
τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τῆς γῆς, ὅτι ἔκρυψας ταῦτα ἀπὸ σοφῶν καὶ συνετῶν, καὶ ἀπεκάλυψας αὐτὰ νηπίοις·
ναί, ὁ πατήρ, ὅτι οὕτως εὐδοκία ἐγένετο ἔμπροσθέν σου. Πάντα μοι παρεδόθη ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρός μου, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐπιγινώσκει τὸν υἱὸν εἰ μὴ ὁ πατήρ, οὐδὲ τὸν πατέρα τις ἐπιγινώσκει εἰ μὴ ὁ υἱὸς καὶ ᾧ
ἐὰν βούληται ὁ υἱὸς ἀποκαλύψαι, SBLGNT). So it was to answer a question that Jesus uttered this short prayer to our heavenly Father first, then made a statement which indisputably claimed that all the aspects of our salvation rest in His hands, because He serves the Father and fully does His will.
These words of Jesus reveal the real eternal salvation that we preach, the biblical and true kind of salvation which I could not find in my family’s Roman Catholic church, nor among Evangelicals, nor in other churches. For this salvation is the kind which is worked entirely by our omnipotent, wise and loving Father for the infantile spirits of His children, completely through His labours of His one and only Proxy, who is both our Messiah Jesus and His Holy Spirit. This is a salvation involving
“full agreement” with the Father and a commitment to doing His will, like our Messiah Jesus did, since He came to us in a body of flesh like our flesh, as our Teacher and Mentor, to serve as our example in all matters of life and faith. This is the prophesied salvation of our God, the “Lord of the heaven and the earth,” the High King of heaven, the Creator and Maintainer of every photon and atom of the material realities we now live within on earth. And here Jesus confirms that His will can and does either hide or unveil His existence, His truths and His wisdom. Therefore, not one can even begin to know the true God unless His Holy Spirit chooses to let that one’s elected spirit know Him.
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of those churches impatiently waited for their oath-bound slaves to make a mistake, even just a little one, so they could point out their ignorance and immaturity, so those human gods could gaslight their slaves into thinking they utterly depended upon those so-called “spiritual leaders,” so their slaves would fearfully cling to those human lords and worship them instead of the real God. And, if any slave questioned the words or deeds of those human gods, those fake “shepherds of God’s flock”
gleefully condemned those “disrespectful rebels” to eternal torture in hell, in an attempt to make all their other superstitious slaves fear them blindly obey them. Then each human god chose to grant their greatest rewards to the obedient toadies who were able to become just as psychopathic and lying as that head of the church. So only the most evil in the church received the worldly wealth and status offered by the church. But the church very often punished any love and compassionate justice.
I later found out from Jesus that the cruel high god and so-called “Jesus” of those kinds of churches was actually the spirit whom His Word calls by the name of “Satan,” or by a title like the “Accuser,”
and that this liar, who was a murderer from the beginning, was the father of their spirits, which is why they too became liars and murderers. I also saw how some churches were worried about the world beginning to openly criticize and reject their high god, “Satan.” So, instead of abandoning that demon, those false churches simply marketed their demon god with a more positive image. They falsely claimed that their ruthless god was loving, because he wanted everyone to become rich and self-indulgent exploiters, and to commit other sins in its name, all to appease their most base and ruthless impulses of their flesh. Of course, this new marketing strategy involved far worse lies than they had previously told, and an even greater slandering of the real Jesus, the real God. Yet, for a time, they were successful and became as popular as their previous unmasked demonic churches did.
Still, although this new and improved “loving” image of their ruthless god was more positive, it was the same destructive stupidity, ruthless oppression, racism, death and hell that their old churches practised through obedience to their malignant father of their spirits. Thus, God has been opening the eyes and ears of many truly loving elect spirits, allowing them to eventually catch on to the schemes of those enslavers. And now the elect are abandoning both those mainline and evangelical churches.
Here Jesus’ prayer indicated how Creator, the Father of all elect spirits, took full responsibility for the eternal welfare of the infant spirits born of Him. The Father continuously labours, from the moment He brings each one into existence, for one’s eternal benefit. He also raised up a priesthood and many prophets for them, using His power to equip those prophets with a knowledge of Him and His truths, then sending them out to teach those truths to His children. In time, our Father even sent Himself out to serve His children, and dwelt in a body of human flesh, so that His Holy Spirit could personally teach and train their spirits, which dwelt in bodies of flesh on His nursery of this earth, on this training ground designed to grow love in them. Our Father did all this so His infants would learn to love and serve others in the same way He loves and serves, so His children could become wise enough to effectively practise equitable justice for the benefit of His heavenly creations, when they would come to labour beside Him for all eternity. Since the beginning of time on earth, the Father of elect spirits has been continuously unveiling His love and His truths to His infant children, always working all circumstances to guide and shape the thoughts of their spirits, for their inner education.
Now look a little closer at this short public prayer (i.e., 11:25-26). It began with a present middle indicative first-person form of the verb ἐξομολογέω. This durative form suggested continuous, ongoing action, especially in this context. Then this verb means: “to indicate acceptance of an offer or proposal, promise, consent ... to declare openly in acknowledgement, profess, acknowledge ...
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ἐξομολογοῦμαί σοι, in this context, He personally professed or declared His full acceptance and acknowledgement of, that is, His full agreement with, all that was willed, thought, said or done by the heavenly Father. This was Jesus’ consent, promise or commitment to do the Father’s will at all times. And Jesus prayed this in a way which glorified or praised the wisdom and love of the Father.
Now, since Jesus spoke this prayer publicly, before the elect surrounding Him, it is also obvious that He wanted His disciples to emulate the way in which He fully agreed with their heavenly Father, regarding all matters of life and faith, and to likewise commit to always doing the Father’s will. All these devout and well-taught elect Jews would have understood all these implications, and would then seek to pray like Him and become like Him. Now Jesus would have uttered this prayer in Greek, since Greek was the native language of both the Jews and Gentiles in that region. And, in our day, many like to interpret His prayers in a way which does not imply these things. But the people in that crowd spoke fluent Greek, and all knew that the first words of a Greek declaration or prayer are the most emphatic and the most memorable. So we can be sure that the crowd fully comprehended all the implications of those first words of that prayer, ἐξομολογοῦμαί σοι, which He spoke out loud in public, so they would realize what their Messiah wanted them to do. They all knew that Jesus was telling them to continuously strive to accept, acknowledge and agree with their heavenly Father at all times, in every aspect of their lives. They all knew this was to be the first and most emphasized aspect of all their prayers, of they said and did in God’s name. And we need to realize this as well.
The next thing we need to notice is how Jesus used the word “Father” when He referred to God. He often did this, because the Greco-Roman philosophies had infiltrated the church by that time. And those doctrines had thoroughly corrupted Israel’s perception of the biblical God. For those teachings portrayed the originator of all existence as an impersonal being, almost identical to the false god worshipped by Roman Catholics. The pagan Greco-Roman high god was seen as an intangible pool of thoughts and concepts resting in a static state within another physical realm located high above the earth, in this material space-time continuum. And this god remained completely unreachable by human beings on earth. Supposedly, only some vain and exploitative souls were sometimes able to delude their own minds of flesh enough to feel that they could partake in the supposed omniscience of that empty thing they called their high god. Then all the rest of the people were taught that all that occurred in their lives was a mere delusion. For all physical entities were formed from the high god’s thoughts or concepts, that a semi-physical being had created all vile and disgusting physical realities.
Thus, physical things manipulated every thought and action of all lives on earth, just to somehow entertain the lesser gods who broke free from the high god, or to entertain the gods on earth whom the lesser gods in higher realms created for their entertainment. That is, Greeks and Romans invented a massive hierarchy of psychopathic gods, who each abused lesser gods, where the least of their gods abused humans, while greater humans abused lesser humans and the animals. So those psychopathic and hierarchical Greek and Roman philosophers had actually created those gods in their own image.
Now some of those philosophers were determinists, who believed all humans were pointlessly and cruelly predestined to say and do everything in their lives for the entertainment of the gods, just as their own slaves and livestock were forced to serve them blindly, for their own pleasure. Others believed a slight variation called fatalism, where the destinies and deaths of the people had all been determined by three demigods who could sometimes be manipulated or tricked by humans. So any one of the three fates, or all three, could change their minds at any time. Later, a few began to hate the fact that determinism and fatalism left them so little choice. So, because they wanted to think of themselves as gods, they invented the doctrines of “free will,” then rewrote the invented history of their gods. These wanna-be human gods believed that, although humans had no power, any of them Page 833
could earn the favour of higher gods, increase their power, and alter their own destinies. Lastly, the worst of these “free will” humanists decided to make themselves into the only truly omnipotent, omniscient gods existing on earth, so they could justify how they forced their own wills upon all the others, with the help of swords, through terrorism. And this seemed acceptable to everyone in Greece and Rome, since those cultures were parasitic, and simply forced their siblings in humankind to obey their self-serving wills, who used terrorism from the beginning, and borrowed the hierarchical forms of their slave societies from Persia and Babylon. So the “free will” doctrines won out, and became the most popular, for they offered the most vain and carnal delusions which those wanna-be human gods could use to justify their crimes of exploitation as the gods who created their own destinies. Of course, reality consistently demonstrated the truth, that none actually possessed any ability in any real way whatsoever to create their own destinies. For all those human gods remained entirely subject to the genetics, inheritances, brain-washing education, military training and providence of others. Still, they loved to think they could be their own gods, and even lied about some of the other human gods, saying they had indeed made themselves into wise masters of their own destinies. Then these lies encouraged those Greeks and Romans to keep following their vain delusions all their lives.
All this humanistic nonsense was circulating throughout the entire church of Israel at that time. Thus, fewer and fewer held fast to the teachings of God’s Law and the prophets. Still, some knew that the Scriptures taught about a very personal Creator God, who was nothing like the Greco-Roman high god. All the spirits of the prophets and apostles knew God was a loving Spirit like their own spirits.
And, in the Bible, spirits were never defined or portrayed as mere forces which attempted to distract human minds toward various good or bad thoughts. Nor did God’s Word teach that human beings have only one mind, then call that mind the “soul.” Rather, Scriptures taught that each human being had two minds, a mind of the spirit and a mind of flesh. And these two minds dwelt in an inanimate place called the soul. Nor were the terms “spirit” and “soul” synonymous. Rather, a spirit was the conscious eternal essence of every living entity, and each spirit had its own mind and will, just as the flesh had its own weaker mind and will. Thus, the anthropological doctrines taught by God in His Word were completely different and totally opposed to the Greco-Roman anthropological doctrines.
Scriptures also taught that God’s rational and omniscient Spirit possessed an immutable will, which was resolved to do specific spiritual works for His chosen people through His own temporary creation of the material universe. And the God of the Bible defined very clear boundaries between good and evil, while He maintained a totally consistent and utterly holy character. This Creator God deliberately created elect human spirits from His own “breath,” which meant from the core of His own Spirit. Then God, in a human body which He had created for Himself, also walked and talked with those elect human beings whom He made in His own image. Thus, God clearly wanted to build a close relationship with them—even as their Father who was deeply concerned about the way His children behaved, and personally taught each how to love wisely and justly. So nothing that the spirits of the prophets and apostles ever taught about this true God in the Bible had even remotely resembled any of the irrational humanistic rhetoric about the creator god portrayed in any of the Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman religious and philosophical writings. In fact, pure and entirely biblical Judaism and Christianity were the polar opposites of all those pagan humanistic religions and philosophies. And God’s predestination for His elect children, which all the Scriptures taught, was never even like the determinism or fatalism taught by the early Greco-Roman humanists either. Rather, biblical predestination merely the way in which the loving Father of the elect would control all physical matters of temporary earthly life, so He could effectively teach and train their eternal spirits for life at home in the eternal heaven. Predestination had nothing to do with Roman Page 834
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humanism, nothing to do with an impersonal game of psychopathic gods created by men in the image of their own flesh. Those psychopathic slave owners, who deluded themselves into believing they were gods, actually hated the Scriptures. For, in the Bible, humble men, who suffered tragedy and disgrace in sin, honestly wrote down the facts they saw and the concepts their repentant spirits received directly from God’s Spirit. And wanna-be gods, with spirits held captive by the devil’s lies and by the lusts of their flesh, will never be able to serve in God’s true priesthood, together with His humbled elect spirits who learn His truths from Him, who can then overcome the lusts of their flesh.
So Jesus, while standing there in a body of flesh, directly and personally prayed to the heavenly Father, who was the same Spirit as His own life-giving Holy Spirit of the one God inside His body.
And this prayer denounced the core humanistic concepts of a Platonic high god. The moment Jesus said the words, ἐξομολογοῦμαί σοι, He claimed that the Creator God was a personal God who deeply concerned Himself with all His creations, including the welfare of human flesh. For this God of the Bible was called the “Father,” who willed to heal human bodies of flesh, since He in Jesus was doing the Father’s will whenever He healed human bodies of flesh. More critically, the Creator God taught human spirits through His Spirit in Jesus, and did so personally as well, like a Father and a Brother to human beings. And, since even Jesus’ mind of flesh knew and agreed with the will of the heavenly Father, then the real Creator God must also be able to reveal His will to human flesh. Only a deeply personal God would do all this, not an impassive Platonic kind of god. Furthermore, none could manipulate this God of the Bible, nor alter His decisions through any kind of supposed “free will,”
since this God of Israel could hide His will even “from wise and intelligent ones,” from philosophers and scholars, whom the foolish and corrupt people esteemed like gods in Rome’s vain institutions of Satan’s world order. God chose to unveil His attributes, as well as all other truths, only to those who knew they were “infants,” whose spirits He awoke so they would inwardly desire His teaching and training, so they could become like their Father. Only elected “infants” were “well-pleasing” in His sight. So this was a God totally unlike any god imagined by the self-esteeming human gods, who all fed their irrational souls with the bread of stale and very old lies and delusions created to sustain the exploitative hierarchies of Satan’s religion called humanism. This biblical God that Jesus proclaimed was the antithesis of the humanistic god. The true Creator God is a loving, deeply personal Father who builds close relationships with His “infants,” who are “well-pleasing” to Him, even though literally all those children born of this God are horrible sinners. For this Father knows that all their spirits will surely repent into the truths He teaches, then learn to express love through His training.
After this short prayer, Jesus directly addressed the crowd (11:27, et al.). And what Jesus boldly declared to them was firmly opposed all the core pagan humanistic doctrines of Greece and Rome, especially their extremely vain teachings about “free will.” After Jesus professed that He always did the will of the Creator’s Spirit, and called the one God His Father, as well as the Father of all His cherished infants, Jesus then proclaimed Himself to be the Judge to whom the Creator handed over all decisions regarding all His creations, including the destinies of all His infantile children. Jesus announced, “All things under My Father have been entrusted to Me.” And, in the context of His Father being the Creator God described in Scriptures, “all things” referred to all that existed in the three heavens (i.e., on earth, in the universe and in the spiritual realms of God’s home and hell). The will of God’s Spirit in Jesus already proved to bear the decision-making power and authority to judge both physical and spiritual entities, to calm storms, heal flesh, raise the dead and command demonic spirits to obey Him. So the life-giving Spirit in Jesus could not possibly be a created and infantile human spirit, but proved to be the whole and indivisible omnipotent Spirit that Scriptures call the one God. And this one God made the first day and the heavens, created time and space, so Page 835
He was outside all time and all space. Thus, He can choose to relate to His creations as any number of Persons at the same time, but decided to relate to His children as three Persons: (1) as the loving Father who establishes and maintains a spiritual structure and framework for His family and all of His creations; (2) as the Spirit of Jesus walking among us as our Judge and, therefore, as our oldest Brother, the Teacher of the Father’s children, whose elect spirits possessed an ability to repent; and (3) as the Holy Spirit who would dwell inside the hearts of His children, directly beside their spirits.
But, if Jesus is the one Creator God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, and one with these two Persons of God, then absolutely none of the spirits created by Him could possibly know Him in full. For all created spirits are, by necessity, limited. For it is impossible for God to ever recreate the whole of Himself, although He can simply be the whole of Himself in any number of Persons at the same time. Yes, God could be any number of Persons, and choose to relate to His creations as three Persons. But none of those Persons of God were ever created. All remain Him. That is, all Persons of God remain the one uncreated Being who is omniscient and omnipotent, with the same mind, will, attributes, memories and goals. And it would be impossible for God to create another Being who was uncreated, who also existed outside of both the material and spiritual space-time continua, who was also omniscient and omnipotent, but with its own unique mind, will, attributes, memories and goals.
Since only God Himself could know what all His limited creations perceive as the infinity of all His attributes, only the other two Persons of God could fully know the Father. Only the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit could be omnipotent and hold all existing power, or omnipresent in all that existed.
So Jesus spoke the truth when He stated: “No one fully knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone fully know the Father except the Son.” The only other Being that fully knows the Father and Son is the Holy Spirit, who actually is the Spirit called the Father and actually is the life-giving Spirit in the body of Jesus, in that body while it walks on earth and in that same body while it has been transfigured into a body made of spiritual substances in heaven above. No created being, no spirit except the one uncreated Spirit of God (who relates to us as three Persons), can fully know any of the three infinite Persons of the one God. In fact, our infantile spirits cannot even know ourselves or one another very well. That is how limited we are. Yet this infantile ignorance of all human spirits born in flesh on this earth is the precise reason that our God Jesus came to us, walking in a body of flesh which is like our own bodies of flesh. For Jesus also proclaimed that all the infants born of His Creator Spirit, that is, all the spirits of the elect, are those “to whom the Son might be willing to unveil the Father.” For the children of the heavenly Father, the Creator of all spiritual and physical existence, were created in a way that can truly and deeply know Him, far better than any other kinds of spirits. And, although none of the elect will know their Father in this way until the end of the final day, some elect spirits will begin to know the Father of their spirits in this way while they live in flesh on earth, if Jesus wills to “unveil” or “reveal” Him to them. In other words, Jesus will start to teach some elect souls about the Father of their spirits, and train those spirits to wisely apply the ways of their Father, so they can share in the experiences and thoughts of their Father, so they can truly know the heart of their Father. Then Jesus will perfect and complete this work in literally all the Father’s elect children on that long judgment day, using their earthly experiences as a teaching tool, to illustrate both good and evil. Thus, even the elect who die in vanity, lies and sin will not eternally die in hell. For their lives outside of the heavenly Jerusalem will not be over until the last day ends.
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an attribute of the Father. Only after these experiences in life on earth, will Jesus use that knowledge to complete and perfect their elect spirits, with His teaching and training during their judgment on the last day. And there are other purposes for letting these elect spirits remain ignorant on earth, some of which are not possible for us to fully comprehend with our minds of flesh. For example, Jesus has allowed the elect spirits of many just and loving Jews to remain hardened against Him, as Paul the apostle explained in these Scriptures: “For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial ha rdening has happened to
Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and so al
l I srael [i.e., all of the true Israel, all who
have elect spirits in Israel] will be saved.... Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake.
But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. [Here Paul is clearly referring to elect Jewish descendants of Abraham who have not only rejected Jesus as their Messiah, but actively oppose Him as well.] For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable . For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. For God has shut up all
[His elect children] to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all” (Rom. 11:25-26a,28-32, WEB).
Therefore, these words of Scripture, like other Scriptures, reveal that “hardening” is done by God, that is, it is a choice of Jesus to withhold the unveiling or revealing of the Father to some elect, but it will only be “partial” and temporary, not eternal. So Jesus’ Spirit always reveals some truths, some principles of God-like love and true justice, to all elect spirits on earth. But not all consciously know that it is Jesus’ Spirit who teaches these truths to their spirits. Actually, many elect do not even begin to become fully aware of their own spirits’ existence, since their minds of flesh ignore their spirits, and their spirits do not hear audible sounds from God, but simply receive whole and often very complex concepts poured into the minds of their spirits by God. Thus, since there is almost never the sound of a voice speaking in an earthly language that can be heard by their minds of flesh, their flesh thinks God does not speak to them. And, because their minds of flesh ignore the input of their own spirits within the chambers of their souls, their spirits begin to think their own spirits do not exist.
Yet all these elect do have spirits, as well as an inner conscience written on the minds of their elect spirits. Furthermore, they sometimes become aware of their spirits, and other spiritual entities, even God, whenever there is an inner conflict between what their self-serving minds of flesh want and what their elect spirits desire. But, primarily from Satan’s humanistic religion, they learn to call this inner conflict something other than what it actually is. For example, some see it as a mere conflict between the id (which is actually the mind of flesh) and the superego (which is actually the mind of the spirit), and think this conflict is resolved by the ego (which is actually the two minds working together in the chamber of the soul). Of course, this recent teaching is just another slight variation of the ancient Greco-Roman doctrines of humanism, such as Platonism, which taught dupes to believe that internal conflicts arose between two forces pulling the so-called “soul” (i.e. the mind of flesh) in opposite directions (or, later, a good angel, sitting on one shoulder, argues with a demon sitting on the other shoulder). And many other variations of this same humanistic doctrine exist, especially in our day, although all are similar. Nevertheless, all these variations have been very effective in causing the elect to ignore their own spirits and God, through their very strong appeal to the lusts and pride of the flesh, because they make the flesh believe it is its own god. Thus, many elect remain trapped in an ignorance of God and His Word until the day they die. Yet all those elect will truly know Jesus and the Father after they die, and all will learn to love somewhat, while living on earth.
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His Call to the Hardened Elect
After Jesus told the awakened elect that the only reason they began to know the Father of their spirits was because His Holy Spirit unveiled their Father to them, Jesus once again addressed the elect who did not yet know their Father and had not yet repented into the truth. But this time, instead of sternly warning them about the negative effects of not repenting, or telling them to overcome their carnal fear of losing material possessions and status, Jesus began to reason with them. They needed some spiritual fear of their carnal fears, before they could inwardly hear His words of reason. But now at least some of those worldly elect were ready to listen and digest His food for the spirit. And, rather than continuously hounding those unrepentant elect about the terrible pain and loss they would suffer on the judgment day, Jesus told them about the benefits of repentance into the truths He taught, how His ways of an abundant, just and loving life could replace their current futile, little, narrow, unjust, irrational, darkened lives of abject slavery in Satan’s arrogant, exploitative and loveless world order.
Now Jesus commanded or exhorted those unrepentant elect: “Come to Me, all those toiling hard and overburdened, and I will refresh you people. You people lift up My yoke upon you and learn from Me, because I am gently mild and humble in the heart. Then you people will find rest for the benefit of your souls. For My yoke is useful and My burden is light” (Mat. 11:28-30, from: Δεῦτε πρός με
πάντες οἱ κοπιῶντες καὶ πεφορτισμένοι, κἀγὼ ἀναπαύσω ὑμᾶς. ἄρατε τὸν ζυγόν μου ἐφʼ ὑμᾶς καὶ
μάθετε ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ, ὅτι πραΰς εἰμι καὶ ταπεινὸς τῇ καρδίᾳ, καὶ εὑρήσετε ἀνάπαυσιν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν·
ὁ γὰρ ζυγός μου χρηστὸς καὶ τὸ φορτίον μου ἐλαφρόν ἐστιν, SBLGNT). Having one’s elect spirit taught and trained by Jesus involves bearing a yoke, with physical burdens, which are all ultimately spiritual obligations, carefully balanced on either side. And each one’s ordained share of burdens, as all God’s servants partake in them together, as a united body, are very light. Then their labours will be effective, and they will feel useful to their loved ones and to God. But being a slave of Satan, or to his selfish minions in the world order, also involves bearing a yoke, a heavy one with meaningless and unbalanced burdens on either side. For no human soul can live without a yoke, not while one’s spirit dwells in a body of flesh, because inactive flesh will surely die. So, even if one fled into the wilderness, a yoke of one kind or the other will be worn, and living flesh is itself a yoke, a burden that a spirit must bear in order to express itself on earth, either through its sins or deeds of pure love.
So Jesus commanded the unrepentant elect to compare the two kinds of yokes, the kind carried as a slave of the devil and the kind carried for God. Throughout history, some families, tribes and nations have allowed themselves to be ruled by the worst psychopath among them, by a terrorist who could obtain the most feared deadly weapons, by a bully and his toadies who learned how to intimidate the others most effectively. So the others in those societies were forced to bear crude, ill-fitting yokes with extremely heavy and unbalanced burdens, in order to serve the whims and pleasures of Satan’s chosen children in that demon’s destructive world order. All the souls cast into the lowest layers of the devil’s hierarchy, which included most of the elect, had to perform difficult, sinful, destructive, senseless, useless tasks which resulted in much suffering and death, and had to do all this with as little pay as their illicit owners could possibly pay them, and often as slaves whose only rewards were the minimum required for survival. So those human gods ensured that the lower classes always suffered neglect and deprivation. This enabled those elite to acquire extreme excess, as well as the sick pleasure of mocking the wretchedness of their terrorized “inferior” lower classes. Then, as these greedy chief psychopaths lusted after even more land, slaves and wealth, or were merely bored and wanted entertainment, they gathered up their younger men and commanded them to murder all the younger men belonging to another chief psychopath, but with strict orders not to touch “superiors.”
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game, which they called “war.” And the winner would get what he wanted, that is, the valuable prize of more slaves, more land, and more gold to use for controlling and manipulated his siblings in his family of humankind. Thus, the winning psychopath was even better able to force even more of the common souls to labour and bleed to create more toys and pleasures for himself. And these systems of psychopaths cruelly exploiting their siblings and God’s other creations were called “civilizations,”
while all the remaining just, equitable and loving societies were called “uncivilized” and “demonic.”
The so-called “great” empires of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome all practised these psychopathic traditions. And all four empires remain in power to this day, in every place where criminal gangs oppress the people, since all of those “great” empires of the past were indeed mere criminal gangs operating on a very large scale. In our day, those gangs of the four empires have become the despotic capitalist, fascist and communist states in Satan’s world order. And all of their elite psychopaths are slaves of the devil, who must labour in futility, night and day, to entertain their hellish father, and all take pleasure in that evil themselves. All these continuously play games of war, which strive to kill and enslave the innocent, even while they are trying to stab each other in the back. Then the rest of the people in their lands are kept in fear and serve as slaves of those elite psychopaths, forced to worship those least of all human beings. And some of the elect become so deluded through the lies of their esteemed and blindly obeyed gods, that they willingly entertain those devils by killing or dying themselves. But these self-destructive systems can only be maintained through the lies of these psychopaths, which they continuously reinforce through endless repetitions and carefully designed propaganda or violent threats, until those lies transform into pseudo-realities within the minds of their dupes. Otherwise, their exploited slaves might begin to realize that their lords do not actually own them, that they are owned by the Creator alone. Then those slaves might also wake up to the reality that they are the ones doing all the real work, even all the thinking and planning needed to provide everything required for life. Meanwhile, all the works of their psychopathic lords are just parasitic, destructive, selfish and worthless. So, in truth, there are no good reasons for their souls to endure their slavery, cruel exploitation and unjust deaths in terrible pain. When they look back on history, those slaves may also see how some, even from the beginning of time, escaped from those psychopaths and lived in free communities, in just, equitable democracies where all loved and cared for one another. Some walked in God’s ways for centuries, until psychopaths came to kill or enslave them. Therefor, this is another work done by Satan’s children. They are always trying to revise history, to erase the realities and the lessons learned in the past, to make their own hells appear to be
“the good old days,” while they slander the truly good people and places as “barbaric hells.” For they must trick their dupes into imagining that their psychopathic lords are the best and most noble of all, that they live in comfort and ease because they are superior, because they are the anointed favourites of the Creator God, and should be held high in the estimation all sane human beings. But, in reality, their hells were truly hells, and all future empires of all such psychopaths will be hells too.
Jesus saw hells built by Satan’s brood everywhere on earth, and watched them destroy others and themselves for millenniums. So now He came to personally call all the duped elect out of those hells.
And notice that Jesus called them openly. In public, Jesus commanded His trapped and enslaved elect brothers and sisters, “Come to Me.” For, although no individual elect possessed enough power or strength to leave Satan’s world order, that devil’s children, and all their unjust institutions within his kingdom, are far weaker than Christ’s awakened elect working together in His kingdom. But each elect mind of flesh had been stuffed so full of lies and delusions that it was impossible for any single soul to cast it all out, and replace those lies with a knowledge of genuine physical and spiritual Page 839
realities, truths and wisdom. For elect spirits had been kept infantile, ignorant and weak for so long, that those spirits became totally incapable of correcting their own deluded, defeated minds of flesh.
Even if an elect man fled into the wilderness, like John the baptizer did, that one would still carry all those lies and delusions with him, and could not escape his slavery to those psychopaths—that is, not unless God had first cleansed and strengthened his spirit, just as God did with the spirit of John. For all one’s sins would still cling to one’s soul, all the losses of one’s spirit would still remain lost, and all one’s nightmares would still haunt the heart every moment of every day. No matter where one went, one would remain an exploited soul, doomed to serve the devil, forever “toiling hard and overburdened,” producing empty futility for the void of hell. Yet Jesus is the High King who bears absolute power over all the psychopathic wanna-be human gods of the world order, since He is our God. And He is also willing to personally teach each of our spirits about all the spiritual and even physical realities He created, and able to train our spirits to be wise. He forgives all our sins, restores a good relationship between our elect spirits and Himself, recovers our losses a hundred-fold, and burns away the fear and darkness of nightmares with His light of emboldening truth. This is why Jesus commands the duped elect slaves of the devil to come to Him, since only He can save them.
Now, when the elect go to Jesus, they find that the yoke He gives to each has been custom fitted to the shoulders and neck of that one’s own spirit. Each one’s life has been carved to the exact contours of each spirit’s earthly destiny, carefully sanded and padded for maximum comfort. In other words, although every body of flesh has what Satan’s world order would call defects, it is still very useful for the tasks which Jesus calls each one to do through the aspects of one’s flesh. And the burdens carried by that yoke, even all the loving and just works that one’s spirit does through one’s flesh, are dense but light. In fact, sometimes the burdens of godly deeds seem to lift the yoke, and us, making one’s entire being feel lighter and free. Also, we are not each unto ourselves alone. We are a family with the same Father, all siblings of the same oldest Brother, and all our spirits are being counselled and taught by the same Holy Spirit. Thus, Jesus called all of us to come to Him, together, as a family.
And He also promised, “I will refresh you people,” as His family working together for one another.
All the plural pronouns Jesus used in this exhortation obligate all of us to find all the other elect spirits whom Jesus has awakened and called to Himself. Jesus wanted us to work together for our own benefit and the benefit of all our other family members, sharing in the love of our shared Father, which our oldest Brother and Counsellor leads us into. Jesus is building a very large and complex kingdom on earth, where many kinds of tasks must be done in perfect harmony, each task in its own appointed time. So a perfect coordination of works, with uniquely skilled workers assigned to each, must be managed by one central, informed, wise, fully trusted coordinator all, so all will be of one mind, working most effectively for the same purpose, where this purpose will be for the good of all.
What we all need is to be taught by the same Teacher, so we can all know everything we need to know about the kingdom we are building. And this requires all to be humble, to know that we do not know everything, since all learning requires humility. Then we require a teacher who knows each worker so well that He can give individualized lessons perfectly designed to suit to each one, taking into account each one’s individual spiritual and physical attributes. For that teacher must greatly magnify each individual’s strengths to the maximum, while also preventing each from being dragged down by his or her own weaknesses. And, when a particular individual is not able to perform one kind of task well, then this teacher must assign that kind of task to another who can do it better, and who wants to do it, because it is the desire of one’s heart. In other words, our teacher must be a perfect and extremely wise judge of all the workers, able to look inside all, able to counsel all into the realities that each must face and embrace, able to gently correct until each repents into the truth Page 840
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about oneself and others. That teacher must be a biblical kind of judge who works tirelessly and sacrificially for the good of all, not a self-serving judge. And only Jesus is such a Teacher and Judge.
Jesus judges the will, propensity and aptitude of each elect individual, before He assigns each to each task. He personally counsels, corrects, advises, straightens, teaches and trains each worker for each task, like the most faithful, just and loving teaching judge possible. The Judge, Counsellor and Manager of all the infantile elect is “gently mild and humble in the heart,” and knows that infants are slow to learn, that they make many costly mistakes. None but Jesus can ever be that kind of patient, kind, gentle, compassionate, wise and loving teaching Judge. So the only Head of every elect man must be Jesus, no other. If we all lift up the personalized yokes He gives us, and learn from Him the right way to place that yoke upon our shoulders, then carry His light burdens, all of us together will find true rest for the benefit of the minds of our spirits, and our minds of flesh, within all our souls.
Mat. 12:1-13,
Battles With Evangelicals
“At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to Him, ‘Behold, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.’
“But He said to them, ‘Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him; how he entered into God’s house, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless? But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,” you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.
“He departed there, and went into their synagogue. And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?’ that they might accuse Him.
“He said to them, ‘What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won’t he grab on to it, and lift it out? Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.’ Then He told the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other” (Mat. 12:1-13, WEB).
After reading this, we see how the ancient evangelicals (Pharisees) used the same tactics as the Evangelicals of our day. They kept their dupes in constant fear, by teaching that certain kinds of God’s creations were evil, and that specific physical deeds offended God, regardless of what the motives or intentions of the spirit might be in performing those action. For these religious deceivers did not care about making right judgments, but only about maintaining control over their dupes. And keep their dupes dependent on them, these “leaders” had to keep their dupes focusing entirely on physical things and actions, so those dupes would ignore all the spiritual elements of God’s spiritual teachings and ways. For those fake pastors were not spiritual at all, but needed to pretend that they were spiritual, needed to convince their dupes that they were more loving and wise than their dupes, that they were closer to God than them, that they heard God’s counsel better than any of their dupes.
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To instill controlling fears and superstitions in their dupes, religious frauds are only capable of doing physical deeds, and only able to manipulate perceptions of physical things. And this is why they need their dupes to disregard all just and loving spiritual realities, and to transform all the spiritual principles taught by the real God into mere rules about physical things and physical deeds. The last thing church heads want is for spirits to awaken and start to listen to God, who is a Spirit that speaks directly to the spirits of His elect children. So those liars dress in physical garments to outwardly look like “servants of God,” then utter physical words that sound like religious teachings. But their spirits are utterly incapable of praying to the real Creator’s Spirit, in truth and honesty, and totally unable to hear any teachings and counsel from God. Since there is absolutely nothing spiritually good in them, they are forced to provide an entirely physical brand of fake religion for their dupes.
Therefore, by getting the minds of flesh in their dupes to abide in the constant fear of doing some kind of wrong physical action, they control the physical lives of their enslaved dupes. For their dupes have to go to those frauds to find out which physical deeds and things they either need to flee from, in terror, and which they must do or obtain for God. For instance, they need to find out that they must always flee from God’s loving works of sharing with their siblings, and remember to condemn it as Satanic communism, but they must labour night and day to bring more of Satan’s invention of money to God, by placing it at the feet of their god-like priest or pastor. And their dupes must always learn to rely on the physical presence of their human gods far more than do on the Creator’s Spirit.
Those dupes must always esteem, bow to and worship those religious frauds alone, and seek them for all knowledge, never letting their spirits seek the Spirit of God. For the god invented by those
“men of God” will only bless the terrified dupes who blindly trust their lies and obey them, but will curse all the others. Above all, their invented god will curse anyone who believe any truths they may read for themselves in God’s Word, but only believe the Scriptures that their human gods twist into self-serving lies. Then, once those frauds get their dupes to distrust all truths and to persecute or flee from all who speak the truth, they have entirely enslaved those dupes. Then they beat their dupes to make them work harder for them and their father, Satan, to build up his ruthless, unjust world order.
And that is not enough. So they send their slaves to war, to destroy God’s just, loving kingdom and to kill His children, as well as to plunder more wealth for the devil’s preferred psychopathic children.
So keep in mind that, when Jesus and His disciples harvested grain on the Sabbath, and when Jesus healed a man on the Sabbath, they did not break any of God’s laws written in the Bible. Contrary to what those evangelicals claimed, there is absolutely nothing in the Law or the Prophets which even slightly condemns anything they did on that Sabbath day. Nothing they did was contrary to any of God’s own revealed interpretations of His own laws. They did not turn even one degree to the right or to the left of any general principles taught anywhere in any of the Scriptures. Thus, Jesus declared that He and His disciples were indeed “guiltless” (ἀναιτίους, “innocent, without any cause for blame”). Therefore, all the “sins” which those Evangelicals (Pharisees) accused them of committing were based on their own false interpretations of God’s Word, based on their carnal, superstitious and manipulative teachings about the Sabbath. In reality, the only reason those evangelicals became so angry, then so vehemently condemned Jesus and His disciples, was because those “guiltless” men had ignored their irrational, contradictory false teachings and remained free from their enslavement.
Those esteemed evangelical human gods, who were manipulating the people for their own financial and political gain, were unable to ensnare, enslave and control the minds of Jesus and His disciples.
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all those fake Sabbath laws, as well as all the rest of those arrogant traditions of men, were just petty physical rules heaped upon other foolish precepts of Satan’s world, that all those prohibitions were built on other irrational and delusional precepts of that devil’s kingdom. Yet all those strict physical requirements were indeed spiritual too, since they all prevented elect spirits from seeing, hearing and knowing their God, who is a Spirit. And anyone who actually worshipped the real God, directly from their elect spirits, through honest faith in His real truths, would never feel any inward compulsion to ever obey those ridiculous Evangelical traditions. In fact, all awakened elect spirits will actually feel compelled to undo those deluding and enslaving demands of the devil, so their flesh can be freed to serve their spirits instead, so they can use their whole beings to build up the true spiritual kingdom of God, based on all His just and loving spiritual/moral teachings and principles. And, if the awakened elect do all this, it would soon bring an end to the power and wealth accumulated by those fake heads of false churches. So, to defend their illicit positions of authority and money, those fraudulent pastors and scholars simply had to viciously attack the true holy God Jesus and His awakened elect.
The First Evangelical Attack
Matthew starts by explaining how this particular series of attacks against God began: “At that particular time, Jesus had been travelling through the planted fields to [attend] the Sabbath services.
But His disciples were hungry, then began to pluck and eat heads of grain. So the Pharisees, seeing
[this], said to Him: ‘Look! Your disciples are doing what is not lawful on a Sabbath” (Mat. 12:1-2, from: Ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ καιρῷ ἐπορεύθη ὁ Ἰησοῦς τοῖς σάββασιν διὰ τῶν σπορίμων· οἱ δὲ μαθηταὶ
αὐτοῦ ἐπείνασαν καὶ ἤρξαντο τίλλειν στάχυας καὶ ἐσθίειν. οἱ δὲ Φαρισαῖοι ἰδόντες εἶπαν αὐτῷ· Ἰδοὺ
οἱ μαθηταί σου ποιοῦσιν ὃ οὐκ ἔξεστιν ποιεῖν ἐν σαββάτῳ, SBLGNT). Now, since Matthew wrote for Jewish readers, he did not bother to explain much here. But we need to know some of the Jewish biblical and unbiblical traditions alluded to here, before we can understand what had happened here.
Now the parallel accounts of this passage in Mark 2:23-28 and Luke 6:1-5 are not much help to us, in terms of understanding what happened here, although Luke’s version was written for an entirely Gentile audience. This was likely because the Jews were explaining and practising their traditions more openly back then, since the Roman persecutions of the Jews had not yet begun. Also, the Gentiles of that day seemed to have frequently discussed various religions and their practises at their dinner tables. So Jewish traditions were quite well-known by all. But most do not know such things in our day. Thus, we need to review some of those traditions. First, we need to remember that the Jews believed all lands ultimately belonged to God alone, and human “ownership” of land was just a temporary stewardship of that land. Therefore, each “owner” was responsible to God, and to all the other creations of God, for everything that he or she did with that land. This meant that there could be no trespassing laws. If anyone walked across another person’s land, that one was walking on land which belonged to God alone, and no equally owned human being could object to that. Every human being had the right to walk on everyone else’s land, just like every wild animal also had the right to walk anywhere it wanted to on that land. Because God owned all the land, none but God had a right to either forbid or allow anyone or anything upon His land. Thus, even the fake evangelicals, who were looking for any excuse to condemn Jesus and His disciples, did not accuse them of trespassing, because there were no laws against trespassing in any of the Jewish communities back in those days.
Second, no one accused Jesus of allowing His disciples to steal the grain on that farmer’s land either.
For, according to God’s Law, farmers had to allow anyone to walk onto their land and eat their crops.
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at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container. When you come into your neighbour's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbour's standing grain” (Deut. 23:24-25, WEB). Like most of God’s laws, this was worded like a case law, like an example of a principle which was to be applied to all kinds of crops, not just to grapes and grain. It not only forbade landowners from forbidding anyone to trespass on their land, it also commanded them to let anyone eat as much of any kind of produce as they desired.
In God’s Law, the only stipulation was that no one was allowed to harvest and take home another person’s crops, nor harvest it to sell it. A hungry person could go out each day, even a few times each day, and eat his or her fill. However, gathering up produce and putting it in a container, for later use or to sell, were things that God only allowed His appointed stewards do on His land. And these kinds of works were called harvesting. So God forbade the harvesting of produce on another steward’s land, but not the simple act of gathering food for immediate consumption. Only harvesting another person’s crop was a form theft. Of course, Jesus and His disciples certainly were not harvesting the crop of another man, not by any means. Thus, these evangelicals did not accuse Jesus and His disciples of doing this either, since the Jewish people, who all knew this law very well, would have laughed at their clearly faulty exegesis of God’s Law. Also, they could even legally harvest another person’s crop, if they had permission from that land’s steward. And many farmers loved Jesus. So most farmers likely would have granted Jesus and His disciples permission to harvest some grain for later use, or even to sell, if they wanted to do that. Therefore, we should not believe anyone who says that Jesus and His disciples did anything wrong or illegal, like trespassing or committing petty theft.
Then there is another important detail found in this law (Deut. 23:24-25). For this law clearly implies that God does not consider it to be “work” when one picks a few handfuls of grapes, nor when one plucks a few heads of grain and rubs them in the hands to release the kernels. For all our meals will require us to do certain procedures in order to deliver the food to our mouths, and some procedures are even more difficult than plucking grapes or breaking the chaff off of grain, such as picking bones out of fish or cutting meat into bite-sized portions. Since these tasks are not considered to be the kind of “works” forbidden on a Sabbath, and are necessary during Sabbath or Passover meals, neither can plucking grapes or heads of grain be called “works” forbidden on a Sabbath. In addition to this, there was also no law of God which prohibited walking through a field on a Sabbath day. Therefore, there was absolutely nothing in God’s Law that could be used against Jesus or His disciples on that day.
However, just like the Evangelicals of our day, the Evangelicals at that time (i.e., the Pharisees) had also spent centuries developing new ways to twist God’s Word into a vast collection of petty rules and traditions. And they guarded these corrupt teachings with their lives, since they were extremely useful in keeping the spirits of their people dull and lethargic. By placing the entire focus of their false religion solely fixed upon useless rules for the flesh, they could transform all their people into carnally minded puppets. Then, exactly like the Evangelicals of our time, those Evangelicals could more easily replace each elect spirit’s worship of the real God with a bodily worship of human gods.
And those who worshipped human gods were, of course, idolaters. Consequently, those Evangelicals back then proved their bitter and poisoned hated of the real God, almost as much as Evangelicals do in the 21st century. The only difference between the two is that those ancient Evangelicals recorded all their false doctrines in a book called the Talmud, while modern Evangelicals have recorded their false doctrines in books they call Theology. But, just as some of today’s Evangelicals forbid their members from entering a liquor store, even to purchase alcoholic wine for the Lord’s Supper, those old Evangelicals also invented many petty rules that added unintended meanings to some of God’s laws, while also nullifying other laws of God. However, those ancient Evangelicals allowed a person Page 844
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to walk on any land and pluck grapes or heads of grain, just not on a Sabbath day. But our modern Evangelicals have done much worse, since they call such things crimes of trespassing and theft, then even allow the farmer to murder an innocent hungry person, to gun him down with a weapon of war.
Now, as we see in Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus’ disciples were plucking heads of grain while on their way to the synagogue for the Sabbath services (i.e., the dative plural phrase, τοῖς σάββασιν literally means “for the Sabbaths,” but indicates an act of going to a synagogue service—that is, to pray, partake in the teaching time for men, then eat together with Jewish brothers and sisters, all in order to celebrate the Sabbath rest and to prepare for the next six week days of work before the next Sabbath occurred). Thus, those ancient Evangelicals condemned Jesus’ disciples according to their own man-made laws which opposed the literal and intended meanings and purposes of God’s Law.
We should also remember that, in those days, declaring that the disciples were “doing what is not lawful on a Sabbath,” was a proclamation that they had committed such a serious sin that they should be immediately stoned to death. For the laws of God demanded that, every seventh day, His people must set aside all their own works, all actions for their own selfish ambitions, so they could dedicate the entire day to good works done solely for God Himself. And the main works of God that they were to do on the Sabbath day were to teach and learn God’s ways. Therefore, if one claimed to be a member of the priesthood of Israel, yet deliberately did works of selfish ambition, and wilfully refused to do any of God’s Sabbath works, this was tantamount to declaring that all works for God were worthless, that God Himself was nothing, and that all should live selfish, self-serving lives.
And, if there were no consequences for this kind of lie, it would soon spread among the people. Then the people would soon become selfish, self-serving, lawless slaves in Satan’s kingdom, who would no longer teach and learn about true justice and how to love as God loves. His truths and wisdom would evaporate from Israel and the world. So this is why God commanded the death penalty for any egregious intentional offences against His Sabbath laws, if such a sinner’s spirit refused to repent.
Next, we also need to remember that God’s Sabbath laws did not apply to Gentiles, only to members of God’s church of Israel, because God made the Old Covenant covenant with Israel alone, not with the Gentiles. So Gentiles were never obligated to do God’s works. Only His priests were, and most of His priesthood was legally obligated to do God’s works during one day of the week. Thus, it was impossible for Gentiles to break God’s Sabbath laws, and church members were not allowed to force those Sabbath laws upon any Gentiles. Therefore, the Evangelicals thought that this provided them with an opportunity to pay the Gentiles to do the selfish works they wanted done on the Sabbath, and still obey the Sabbath laws, by not doing those works themselves. And they actually believed that they had found a loophole in God’s Sabbath laws. Yet, they were liars with false interpretations of God’s laws, and were indeed deliberately breaking the intent and purposes of God’s Sabbath laws, even in a way that deserved the death penalty. For God also commanded that neither “your male servant, nor your female servant” must be allowed to do selfish works for them on the Sabbath (Deut. 20:10), which would include any paid Gentiles who served them in any capacity and for any brief period of time. This same law also to encouraged them to invite “your stranger who is within your gates” to celebrate the Sabbath rest with them, which negated the possibility of then asking that stranger (i.e., that Gentile) to break the Sabbath. So, actually, God’s intent for His Sabbath laws was to get His priesthood to encourage Gentiles to cast aside works of selfish ambition, so they might do God’s good works instead. And those ancient Evangelicals totally perverted God’s holy intentions.
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alone, an inner priesthood which was never allowed to work for selfish ambitions, forbidden to ever become stewards of any land used for their own personal gain, prohibited from building up any kind of inheritance for their children. Rather, Levites had to serve God alone, all their lives, seven days per week, which made every day of their lives into a Sabbath day. Then this restriction would also apply to those who inwardly desired to share in the joy of the Levites, and serve God full-time. They too must only do God’s good works seven days per week, forsaking all works for their own selfish ambitions. All who became godly priests devoted to serving God full-time, by serving His people and lands full-time (especially in Levitical functions like judging and teaching, such as full-time governing officials and church elders), had to commit to a Sabbath life for every day of the week.
And this is what many of those ancient Evangelicals (Pharisees) claimed to have done. Many of the Pharisaic rabbis and scholars said they would serve God full-time, even in their mundane chores of gardening and other manual tasks. Yet those Evangelicals broke God’s Sabbath laws every time they did works of selfish ambition, through greed and a lust for power. No matter what day of the week they served themselves, and did works for their own gain, they sinned against God’s Sabbath laws, in a way worthy of the death penalty. And they sinned doubly whenever they selfishly sought power and money on the seventh day of the week. Thus, they doubly sinned against God’s fourth-order Sabbath laws when they unjustly slandered Jesus and His disciples on that particular Sabbath day, through their selfish ambitions for power and in their greed for an illicit income, along with their malicious jealousy of Christ’s total freedom from slavery to their physically demanding man-made religious traditions. They hated how Jesus and His disciples casually ignored their carnal lies, which they so carefully crafted to trick their people into serving Satan’s world order. So, in their rage, they cited deliberately false interpretations of God’s Sabbath laws as the basis for their false accusations, and thus also committed third-order sins of slandering God’s name. And they did all this wilfully!
Of course, if those fake religious leaders did all this impulsively through fleshy anger, then later repented into sane and sober reality, with fruits of repentance (such as public apologies to Jesus and His disciples for their public false accusations), they could be forgiven, and would not be eternally condemned by God. But most never repented, not in the least. In fact, most not only continued to slander Jesus and His disciples, but even tried to murder them. Then they continued to slander God by continuing to teach their intentionally false interpretations of His Law. And all this slandering of Jesus, who is God incarnate, began when they first allowed themselves to break God’s tenth-order laws, which forbade lies, especially false testimonies. As novices, the Pharisees were taught to lie about rival sects of Jews, and about Gentiles, to stir up hatred against them, mixed with a gigantic helping of fear. For those Evangelicals wanted their people to cling to them, to flee to them for salvation from those falsely perceived “enemies.” And they did not want their captive souls to rely on God, to overcome evil with good, as God commands. So, even from the days of their youth, those Evangelicals learned to believe lies and to lie about their neighbours. Then their dishonest hearts grew worse with each passing day. Soon they were practising disguised forms of theft, the abuse of women through their sexually immoral delusions, falsely justified types of murder, dishonouring both their earthly and heavenly fathers, means of justifying the breaking of God’s Sabbath laws, the abuse and misuse of God’s name through intentionally false interpretations of God’s words, the idolatry of worshipping human gods, and the prioritizing of the worship of those idols above the worship of God. Furthermore, they did all their capital offences deliberately, in a premeditated way, such as by constantly watching for an opportunity to slander God in Jesus and His disciples. Nor did their spirits ever even begin to repent. Consequently, all those Evangelicals deserved death and hell.
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Of course, Jesus commanded His true New Covenant branch of the church of Israel to limit the punishment of intentional, unrepentant sinners. Now God only allows us to expel the intentional and unrepentant sinners from our churches, and only judge the professing members of our church, while letting God judge those outside of our local churches. That is, God’s agents in the secular world, the governing officials of His lands, will handle those sinners and, even then, must only judge against their more physical offences against His natural laws. For God has never allowed His priesthood to judge and punish anyone outside the church according to His spiritual laws of the first five orders.
Since Jesus limited church authority, and only allows us to sentence any sinner among us to a punishment that is never worse than expulsion from our church, He definitely does not allow any true New Covenant church to use corporal punishment. Nor does He even allow us to extract the smallest fines or lightest forced labour from any sinner among us. In New Covenant times, God only allows corporal punishment, including capital punishment, to be administered by those whom He appoints to serve as His priestly servants in the secular law enforcement and justice departments of our governments. Thus, if we see a member sin in a physical way that harms others, or that threatens the health, well-being or lives of others, the most that Jesus allows our church to do is expel that sinner, and perhaps warn other churches about that one, if we are absolutely certain of that one’s guilt and expect that one to continue sinning. Then God may sometimes also want us to hand that sinner over to God’s appointed servants in the government, such as to the police, so they can protect others from being harmed by that sinner. Or God might want us to deliver that sinner over to lawsuits in courtrooms, to expose and hinder that one’s sins, in a way that prevents the sinner from hurting other potential victims. The point is that, although our churches can only punish the sins of these particular Evangelicals by expelling them from our churches, and they seldom receive the punishments they deserve while they remain alive on earth, it does not mean that they are getting away with those sins. Actually, although their sins are often worse than murder and rape, and may even include physical murder or rape, it is never up to the church to punish them with the death penalty, nor even imprisonment. God may call a government to punish them in those ways, be not us, not our churches. For our God-given duties primarily involve learning and teaching the truth, so we can work more skilfully in building up God’s just, loving kingdom on earth, while we also nullify the works of Satan, while we expose and destroy their lies with the overcoming truth. God granted His church far more critical tasks and better ways of stopping the worst of sins. And He gave His New Covenant priests far more power to do these works than He gave to His Old Covenant priests.
So the church of Israel no longer needs capital punishment to stop sinners. Instead, the power of God Himself, His Holy Spirit, will more effectively silence them, possibly by causing their enemies to destroy them, or through self-destruction. Thus, no one may accuse Jesus and His true church of ever using human power, or the weapons of this world, to destroy their enemies. Instead, all shall see how God Himself punishes those sinners. Then those who want to sin like them will fear the all-seeing and almighty God, not half-blind and weak men. So they will surely hesitate before they dare to sin.
Look at how Jesus illustrated the intentions of God’s Holy Spirit regarding His laws: “So He said to them: ‘Have you people not read what David did when he and those with him needed food, how he went into the dwelling of God and they ate the bread of the offering? This was never lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, [never for anyone] except for the priests alone. Or have you people not read in the Law that, for the Sabbath services, the priests in the Holy Place are causing the Sabbath to be for [their] common daily activities and they are innocent. Now I reason with you that one greater than the Holy Place [i.e., “the Holy Place” refers to the inner room of the Temple in Jerusalem] is here.
So, if you people had effectively understood what this is: “I want mercy and not sacrifice,” [then]
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you people would not have judged the guiltless to be guilty. For the Son of mankind is Lord of the Sabbath’” (Mat. 12:3-8, from: ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Οὐκ ἀνέγνωτε τί ἐποίησεν Δαυὶδ ὅτε ἐπείνασεν καὶ
οἱ μετʼ αὐτοῦ; πῶς εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τοὺς ἄρτους τῆς προθέσεως ἔφαγον, ὃ οὐκ
ἐξὸν ἦν αὐτῷ φαγεῖν οὐδὲ τοῖς μετʼ αὐτοῦ, εἰ μὴ τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν μόνοις; ἢ οὐκ ἀνέγνωτε ἐν τῷ νόμῳ
ὅτι τοῖς σάββασιν οἱ ἱερεῖς ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τὸ σάββατον βεβηλοῦσιν καὶ ἀναίτιοί εἰσιν; λέγω δὲ ὑμῖν ὅτι
τοῦ ἱεροῦ μεῖζόν ἐστιν ὧδε. εἰ δὲ ἐγνώκειτε τί ἐστιν· Ἔλεος θέλω καὶ οὐ θυσίαν, οὐκ ἂν
κατεδικάσατε τοὺς ἀναιτίους. κύριος γάρ ἐστιν τοῦ σαββάτου ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, SBLGNT).
Let me begin the exegesis of this teaching by explaining His last statement first. And, to do that, we must remember that literally all devout Jews knew the Sabbath day was set aside for the purposes of Yahweh God alone. The Sabbath was “for,” “to,” “unto” and “of” Yahweh (e.g., Ex. 16:23,25; 20:10; Lev. 23:3; 25:2,4; Deut. 5:14). And every Sabbath day was to be “holy,” that is, separated from the other days of the week and sanctified unto Yahweh, set apart solely for the purposes of Yahweh God (e.g., Ex. 31:15; Deut. 5:12). Thus, Yahweh God was the Lord of the Sabbath, the one and only Owner and Master of that day. Every Sabbath was a day when one stopped doing works for oneself, that is, for one’s own personal gain. Self-serving was forbidden and only works for Yahweh and His property were allowed, all according to His just and loving will. From the beginning of time, God ordained the seventh day to be a Sabbath (Gen. 2:1-3), and He will continue to do so even until time on earth ended. Yahweh alone shall remain the Lord of the sanctified Sabbath day on earth forever.
Yet here Matthew told us how Jesus proclaimed, “the Son of mankind is Lord of the Sabbath.” Now the term “Son of mankind,” as an ecclesiastical term, referred to the promised Messiah, to Jesus. So here Jesus claimed that He, the Messiah, is Yahweh God, who is the only “Lord of the Sabbath.” The Messiah was also prophesied to be the “inheritor” of Yahweh’s rule over mankind. For God’s Word proclaimed Yahweh God to be the High King over all other kings on earth, then prophesied that the Messiah was to be the King of kings. Thus, the Messiah was prophesied to be God. Therefore, God’s uncreated Spirit was to dwell in the created human body of the Messiah. He was to be God incarnate, the Spiritual Being of the Creator dwelling in flesh, the High King over all that exists on earth, even the Lord of the Sabbath. Yahweh God, who is a Spirit, was to be the Messiah’s life-giving Spirit, and the Messiah would not have a created human spirit in Him. The only Spirit in the Messiah was to be the Spirit who created the heavens and the earth, whom we call God. There is no doubt that, when Jesus used this title, “Son of mankind” (ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου), as a reference to Himself, and then proclaimed that the “Son of mankind” is the “Lord of the Sabbath,” He was claiming that He is Yahweh God dwelling in a body of human flesh. This would have been crystal clear and totally unmistakable to His disciples, and to all the devout Jews who knew the Scriptures. And none can say that Jesus was referring to someone else as the “Lord of the Sabbath,” because He often used this title, “Son of Mankind,” or a similar a third-person reference to Himself, to indicate that He is the Messiah, to indicate both the humanity of His body of flesh and that His Spirit is God, that His is Yahweh who came to labour among human beings for their salvation. All the people of Israel were familiar with this habit of Jesus, of calling Himself by titles indicating that He is the Messiah God.
Now, when God sent an Aaronic priest named Ezekiel to prophesy, as a watchman or overseer that He appointed to judge, testify against and condemn His corrupted church in His name, God gave him the title of “son of man” or “son of mankind” too. This title was somewhat used in the sense of a human being whom God deeply cared about, but made to be a little lower than Himself. That is, one name of God is the plural form of the Hebrew word eloheem, referring to a judge over all matters of life and faith, and God appointed Ezekiel to be a judge, but a judge remaining under His authority as the High Judge. Like all the judges of Israel, including all kings and all other elders, God gave His Page 848
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good opinion and respect to Ezekiel, then allowed him to rule over the earthly works of His hands, but as one who was a little lower than Himself (Ps. 8:4-6), since Ezekiel was to judge in the name of God, not in his own name. Yet, in the context of Ezekiel’s book, the title of “son of mankind” held no claim of deity. Ezekiel merely claimed to be human man whom God would use to symbolically represent Himself and proclaim His judgments, albeit more than any other prophet had ever done before. For instance, God literally gave Ezekiel a scroll of His words to eat, so His words, and the essence of Himself, would become one with Ezekiel’s body and whole being (Ezek. 2:7 to 3:10), because these were the words of God’s Spirit deeply grieving over His rebellious children. This scroll enabled Ezekiel to speak as God Himself to His church (Ezek. 3:7). Then God commanded Ezekiel to act out various prophetic scenarios, where Ezekiel represented what the church was trying to do to Yahweh God (e.g., Ezek. 3:24-27). This is why God chose to call Ezekiel the “son of man.”
After all these prophecies of Ezekiel, God then revealed, to a contemporary prophet named Daniel, how He used Ezekiel to symbolically represent Himself. Then God also called Daniel by the title of