Mat. 13:1-23,
Parable of Elect Souls
“On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. Great multitudes gathered to Him, so that He entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach. He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, ‘Behold, a farmer went out to sow. As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.’
“The disciples came, and said to Him, ‘Why do you speak to them in parables?’ He answered them, ‘To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, “By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive: for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.” But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
“‘Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it; yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty’” (Mat. 13:1-23, WEB).
Keep in mind here that Jesus was speaking to the crowds shortly after an incident where His mother and brothers had been duped into betraying Him. For deceiving false churches sent them to stop Him from serving us as our Messiah and God, to force Him to abandon His ministry as our High Priest and our greatest Prophet, to forfeit His role as the eternal King of heaven and earth. And, just before Jesus taught this parable, along with other unmentioned parables, He had just come from His house Page 924
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(v. 1). Therefore, Jesus must have gone there to talk awhile with His mother and biological brothers, and must have succeeded in convincing them that their fake Evangelical (Pharisaic) pastors (elders and scholars) had been lying to them. Jesus would have explained to them how those Evangelicals were breaking God’s Law and serving Satan. And, after they had previously come and stood outside the crowd, listening to Him preach, seeing Him work miracles, and witnessing how many souls had turned to God through His labours, His family trusted Him more than ever. They grew more open to hearing His reasoning. They began to see that He was actually teaching His disciples to truly fulfill God’s Law, even in ways that the Law did not require from a people who had not yet received the Father’s Holy Spirit. Thus, when the Evangelicals sent them on that mission of betrayal, it backfired.
Now the family realized Jesus was on God’s side, and hypocritical Evangelicals were God’s enemy.
So now that Jesus had reasoned with His biological mother and brothers, now that His family was convinced that those lying Evangelicals were actually the real Satanic reprobates, Jesus went out to preach again. Yet those Evangelicals had caused much spiritual damage to many other souls with their lies. The mere fact that those Evangelicals convinced Jesus’ mother and brothers to temporarily turn against Him, in public, that very mourning, fractured the trust of weak and fragile elect spirits in the crowd. When they saw Jesus’ mother and brothers standing apart from them, only a few hours before this, they knew why His family came. They all knew Jesus’ family came to take Him away, to be tried and condemned as a criminal by their church elders. And, just as some lose trust in a person who has been indicted for a crime, even if that one has been framed, some lost faith in Jesus. Now many timid souls were thinking that, if Jesus’ own mother and brothers turned against Him, there must be something very wrong with Him. For, just like the vast majority in our day, most people in that crowd also judged all matters in superficial, unjust ways, strictly through outward appearances.
Nevertheless, many of those superstitiously tainted people were the elect, with spirits irresistibly drawn to the truths Jesus spoke, a people who thanked God for the loving miracles Jesus worked for them and their loved ones. And many knew some of God’s intended meanings of His laws. Yet, in spite of all this, their infantile spirits remained too afraid, insecure and weak to cast out the doubts from their minds of flesh, regarding Jesus. Thus, many of their souls still clung to many threatening lies planted by the religious saboteurs who served Satan’s world order. And this greatly affected their perception of their incarnate God in many ways and to varying degrees. So, that day, Jesus began to teach their suspicious and trembling souls in a way that could bypass their minds of flesh, and reach their spirits. Jesus began to use parables and figurative language that could be understood by the minds of their elect spirits better than by their minds of flesh, and draw mental pictures of the truth in their souls. In fact, God has done this throughout history, even to this day, in all of His creations.
God’s physical creations are themselves a figurative representation of spiritual truths about good and evil. So, from the very beginning, the Creator spoke to us in parables. Likewise, Jesus taught through parables that day. Of course, in the one parable that Matthew repeated for us, the parable about how nature uses seeds sown on different kinds of soil, Jesus taught about four basic kinds of elect souls.
And Matthew recorded this parable because it pertained to the current situation, where some elect had immediately fallen away from Jesus, as soon as they saw that even His mother and brothers did not believe in Him. Yet His core disciples, with deep, fertile hears, had remained completely faithful.
Jesus saw that there was no other way to teach this lesson, about how and why some elect remain faithful and some do not. Under the circumstances, He could only teach this lesson to His Father’s children through a parable. For He simply could not abandon His elect siblings to fear, ignorance and destruction. They had to know the truth about who they were and how they failed their God, so they could face their weaknesses in saving repentance. Thus, this particular parable was both suitable Page 925
for the elect in that crowd that day and critical, since many still remained suspicious of Him. Most were too weak to let go of lies that were so confidently asserted by fake Evangelicals and the other citizens of Satan’s kingdom. And, when Jesus changed His method of teaching to a deeper reliance on parables, after the incident with His mother and brother, Matthew and His closest disciples did indeed notice this abrupt change. However, when Jesus taught in plain words, it was already quite difficult to understand Him, if a listener did not possess a thorough understanding of God’s Law and the Prophets, and without His Spirit dwelling inside. So these parables proved too much for some.
Why Jesus Began to Speak in Parables
After Jesus’ closest disciples saw how He suddenly began to teach through parables—which seemed to illustrate critical teachings for the elect, but in a way few understood—they directly asked Him,
“Why are you speaking to them in parables?” (13:10). So Jesus revealed the sad reason why He, our God, found it necessary to do so. And His reason was heart-breaking. In figurative language, we might say that God has always had to reveal His light of truth and wisdom to His beloved children from distant horizons, through a thick filtering atmosphere and at steep angles; or by requiring us to peek through cracks in thick walls built by our resisting minds of flesh; or in brief moments, as He passes between our mountains of doubt while we are trudging through deep valleys of suffering in deadly times. From the days of Adam and Eve, to this very day, and for the same reason Jesus had to speak in parables on that day long ago, our God’s Holy Spirit has seldom been able to reveal His bright and unfiltered truths directly to the bravely faithful and willing spirits of His beloved children.
“So [Jesus] responded. He said to them: ‘Because, to you [disciples], it has been effectively given
[the ability] to know the mysteries belonging to the kingdom of the heavens. Yet it has not been effectively given to them. For whoever has, it will be given to him, and he will have overflowing abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Due to this, I speak to them in parables, since looking, they are not seeing, and listening, they are not hearing nor comprehending. Even the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled in them, the one saying: “You people will hear with the sense of hearing and definitely not comprehend. Even looking, you people will see and definitely will not [choose to] perceive. For the heart of this people has been made calloused, and they can hardly hear with the ears. They even closed their eyes, lest they see with the eyes and hear with the ears and comprehend with the heart and might turn back. Then I will heal them.” Yet the eyes belonging to you [disciples are] blessed, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.
For I truly reason with you [disciples], that many prophets and just people longed to see what you see. And they did not see. Also, [they longed] to hear what you hear. And they did not hear” (Mat.
13:11-17, from: ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Ὅτι ὑμῖν δέδοται γνῶναι τὰ μυστήρια τῆς βασιλείας
τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἐκείνοις δὲ οὐ δέδοται. ὅστις γὰρ ἔχει, δοθήσεται αὐτῷ καὶ περισσευθήσεται· ὅστις δὲ
οὐκ ἔχει, καὶ ὃ ἔχει ἀρθήσεται ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ. διὰ τοῦτο ἐν παραβολαῖς αὐτοῖς λαλῶ, ὅτι βλέποντες οὐ
βλέπουσιν καὶ ἀκούοντες οὐκ ἀκούουσιν οὐδὲ συνίουσιν· καὶ ἀναπληροῦται αὐτοῖς ἡ προφητεία
Ἠσαΐου ἡ λέγουσα· Ἀκοῇ ἀκούσετε καὶ οὐ μὴ συνῆτε, καὶ βλέποντες βλέψετε καὶ οὐ μὴ ἴδητε.
ἐπαχύνθη γὰρ ἡ καρδία τοῦ λαοῦ τούτου, καὶ τοῖς ὠσὶν βαρέως ἤκουσαν, καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν
ἐκάμμυσαν· μήποτε ἴδωσιν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς καὶ τοῖς ὠσὶν ἀκούσωσιν καὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ συνῶσιν καὶ
ἐπιστρέψωσιν, καὶ ἰάσομαι αὐτούς. ὑμῶν δὲ μακάριοι οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ὅτι βλέπουσιν, καὶ τὰ ὦτα ὑμῶν
ὅτι ἀκούουσιν. ἀμὴν γὰρ λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι πολλοὶ προφῆται καὶ δίκαιοι ἐπεθύμησαν ἰδεῖν ἃ βλέπετε καὶ
οὐκ εἶδαν, καὶ ἀκοῦσαι ἃ ἀκούετε καὶ οὐκ ἤκουσαν, SBLGNT). Now, obviously, the situation has not changed much, not yet. Most elect are the same as they were back then. God, through unmerited, unearned grace alone, is still granting a wider opening of eyes and ears only to very few elect spirits.
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However, a progressive dissemination of God’s truth over the millenniums means that His appointed time of the great revival, with His second coming before that generation ends, is imminent. The days when most elect spirits accept and understand their utterly low situation in the flesh, with a greater awareness and comprehension of spiritual and physical truths existing all around them, is about to arrive. And this will be accompanied by a completed dichotomization, a separating of the elect from the non-elect, everywhere on earth. So now it is expedient to carefully examine what Jesus said here.
The first thing we should notice is that Jesus only uttered these words to some of His disciples, not to the crowds, although most people in those crowds were also His disciples. He only spoke to chosen disciples, to those with spirits granted a certain kind of spontaneous capacity to comprehend spiritual principles of New Covenant salvation, and able to make a spiritual covenant of loving faithfulness, much like a marriage covenant, with Him. Jesus addressed His core disciples, only the twelve and possibly His other assistant teachers—although His description here would not include at least one of them, Judas Iscariot, who walked among them, but never loved Jesus, since his spirit clung to delusions and lies. Only the men with spirits granted opened eyes that were able to see and ears able to hear, those whom Jesus was willing to send out on His missions, the “twelve apostles” and possibly the other seventy apostles He sent out later (see Luke 10:1), received this encouragement.
So Jesus likely spoke these words to less than a hundred disciples, out of thousands of His disciples in Israel. And even the thousands in Israel were only a fraction of the entire population of the world’s elect. Likewise, the spirits of most elect since then have never been granted this gift to see and hear in same way as that group of less than a hundred. Of course, those apostles saw and heard Jesus in His flesh, then their spirits later heard His words rightly exegeted by His Holy Spirit after the day of the Pentecost, in an honest and meaningful way. Meanwhile, the vast majority of the elect on earth have always remained trapped in ignorance, lies and sins, with only occasional epiphanies of God and His truth during their lifetimes. Yet we should not lose heart, since Jesus rose and lives now, to serve us, and has been opening the eyes and ears of many elect spirits, to greater degree, throughout history. And now Jesus has begun to reveal more truths to more chosen elect spirits than ever before.
Yet, back then, Jesus told His apostles that it was impossible to plainly reveal very much truth and wisdom to the majority of devout, knowledgeable Jewish disciples following Him. But, if that was true in the first century, then it surely is also impossible for Him to do the same for the vast majority of the elect in our day as well. After all, the reason our God Jesus could not reveal much truth to most elect back then was because they constructed their entire lives within the Satan’s kingdom of the world order. They were materialists, whose elect spirits only worshipped God part-time. Almost their entire foundation of life principles were outright lies or half-truths. The vast majority had no concept of freedom from lies and sins, especially their sins of omission. Almost none possessed any skills or abilities to live a modest, humble, just and loving life in the ways of God. Only the tiniest fraction knew anything about God’s kind of teaching and redeeming justice, or how God taught about communal cooperation for a common cause, about life as a people working in one mind for the one purpose of God, for sake of all His creations, without egos and selfish ambitions. So, if Jesus began to reveal too much to them, and they began to separate from the non-elect to form societies dedicated to serving God alone, where God alone became the Head of every individual man, they would produce only chaos and destroy themselves. At that time, only the apostles possessed the knowledge and wisdom required to live as God intended His elect to live. Then those apostles also taught many thousands of other elect souls to live in this way, but over a period of decades, while teaching and providing examples of this kind of life daily, and while the power of Jesus’ Holy Spirit personally counselled those thousands of elect spirits without hindrances from the deep corruption of Page 927
Roman humanism. Nevertheless, Satan’s religion of humanism remained strong at that time. Thus, although the apostles provided a brief glimpse into how we will live during the great revival of the end times, they and their true churches were soon crushed through intrigues and physical violence.
In our day, far less devout and far more ignorant Jewish and Gentile elect souls cover the earth. But, at the same time, God has been eroding the arrogant power of humanists throughout the world for two millenniums. Sure Satan’s religion has now conquered every nation in the world, but only in a progressively weakening form. Meanwhile, the loving, just and wise counsel of Christ’s Holy Spirit has gained strength during that time. Consequently, on the surface, the situation for God’s elect may even outwardly appear to be more hopeless in our day. But, if we look deeper, we can see that God is indeed preparing His elect for their great revival and the complete dichotomization of the end times.
It is true that the Jewish elect were more thoroughly taught God’s spiritual laws and ways from birth.
Then these more informed Jews personally saw and heard Jesus illustrating and proclaiming God’s true attributes and His spiritual realities, His truths and His wisdom. Even so, most Jewish elect spirits could not readily digest those truths. Their spirits were too infantile to cope with solid food, and required the milk of God’s Word. Even then, some were lactose intolerant, and required milk substitutes like His parables. Only the elect spirits of His apostles were mature enough to digest solid food. And most of those “mature” ones still required that solid food to be cut into very small pieces, because they themselves found it difficult to chew that food. Therefore, even those most mature elect spirits were mere toddlers, entirely unfit to be earthly “fathers” of God’s elect children. All needed their entirely mature oldest Brother to teach and train them in the ways of God throughout their lives.
All needed their spirits’ heavenly Father to provide their education. All required His helping power to grow mature. And now only the capable hands of Jesus and our Father can also provide this for us.
Of course, by the end of that day which sees Jesus return, His Holy Spirit will heal the world’s entire remnant of elect, will grant them all ears to hear and eyes to see. And millions of the elect from that generation will have already received this gift, years before that day, when the appointed revival will have arrived, immediately after the opening of the devastating sixth seal. Until now, each generation of the elect, since the days of His first ministry on earth, have been granted a few more revelations of our Lord’s truth and wisdom. A little more truth has been awarded to each successive generation. Yet most elect spirits remain blind and deaf. So it has been hard and frustrating to see the vast majority of elect remain so callous to the loving, saving light of God throughout all history. Nevertheless, the time of His second advent is drawing near. So changes will soon occur in the hearts of all the elect.
Thus, when Jesus began to address His faithful disciples, He used a theological passive form of a perfect tense verb, together with a complementary infinitive, which indicated the kind of action that God’s gift would perform. In that verbal phrase (δέδοται γνῶναι), Jesus implied that God gave them an effective and permanent ability to perform the action of knowing. For the main verb’s perfect tense indicated that, at an unspecified time in the past, God gave them the ability “to know,” and that this ability was currently producing effects or results which were ongoing, which would continue into an unspecified future time. That is, in context, Jesus implied that they would even possess this knowing forever. For, since the passive indicated that it was the omnipotent God who gave them this ability, it also implied that they received it as an effective and permanent ability, as an eternal gift.
For the immutable God causes the minds of spirits “to know” spiritual and even physical truths in ways that are impossible to forget. So Jesus was actually telling those few chosen disciples that the Creator had “effectively and permanently given them the ability to know the mysteries belonging to the kingdom of the heavens,” and those mysteries are wisdom, knowing how to rightly apply truths.
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A Lexicon may define these “mysteries” (μυστήρια) as “secret teachings, religious ... unmanifested or private counsel of God” (BDAG3). But, in context, these “mysteries” were clearly the teachings that gave spirits a better understanding of the Spirit called God, and His creation, and His Word. It gave their hearts a greater comprehension of how God applied His spiritual and physical principles to make His “kingdom of the heavens” function. And the use of the plural noun “heavens” referred to all three heavens. So it included the ability to know many undisclosed truths and much wisdom regarding God’s people and lands here on earth, and wisdom to rightly apply His truths in the rest of His material universe, as well as the wisdom to apply His truths within His eternal realm of spiritual heaven. For all our spirits learn to do rightly on earth, through love, will also be done in heaven too.
Then notice how Jesus proclaimed that this knowledge and wisdom “has not been effectively given to” the rest of His disciples, not to the rest of the elect in the true priesthood of Israel, nor to the rest of the elect in the entire world. For, when Jesus declared this, He repeated the perfect passive form of the same verb (δέδοται). That is, this theological perfect passive phrase indicated that this truly effective knowledge and wisdom was a gift of God that the others would not yet receive. And, since it is a gift of God, it cannot be obtained from men or any other source, only from God. This gift was not the kind of knowledge that men can teach to others, nor train them to apply. It cannot be learned by apprenticing under anyone except Jesus, our God, and only if He will choose to grant a disciple this gift. Then, no one to whom God granted this gift has the ability effectively teach and train any other elect spirit, not while that one lives in a body of flesh on earth. For it is a spiritual knowledge and wisdom, which must be taught by one spirit directly to another spirit, in the language of all spirits, which is not an earthly language of the flesh. None but God’s Holy Spirit can open the eyes and ears of an elect human spirit, to enable that spirit to see and hear this knowledge and wisdom.
Then Jesus stated something very hopeful, followed by an ominous warning. He told those chosen disciples, “For whoever has, it will be given to him, and he will have overflowing abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.” Once God grants an elect spirit the gift of opened eyes and ears, that spirit will see and hear more each day. That spirit will gain more knowledge and wisdom each day. As a spirit learns the most effective and beneficial applications of God’s created truths, often through failures to properly apply it, one’s heart will increase in wisdom. So increasing knowledge and wisdom “will be given” to one’s soul. The passive future form of the verb (δοθήσεται) also indicates that it is God Himself who will give it to one. The Holy Spirit of our heavenly Father and our oldest Brother will constantly and personally teach and train the spirit of each one to whom He has granted this gift. For this is the principal promise of the Messiah’s New Covenant for our salvation. However, on the other hand, another passive future form of a verb (ἀρθήσεται) indicated that God “will carry away, lift away, take away” true knowledge and real wisdom from a person who might have learned some through one’s experiences, teachings and training times during one’s life on earth. If all one had learned came from other human beings, but God did not grant one’s spirit the gift of opened eyes and ears, and one’s spirit does not seek God for the beneficial and loving truth and wisdom required to serve His Creation, God will remove even the small amount of truth and wisdom which that spirit might have gained from those other sources. As a thankless and selfish soul grows older, that one shall actually grow more ignorant and foolish daily.
Also, look at how the local context suggests that all whom Jesus referred to here were elect souls, and this harmonizes with the global context of all the related teachings in Scripture. Therefore, when some say that God will never take away knowledge and wisdom from His elect, remember how the entire Bible does indeed warn the worldly elect that God will do so if their spirits refuse to listen to His Spirit. God will cause a famine of His Word in their lands if their souls prefer the carnal rewards Page 929
of Satan’s world order to the inner rewards of God. And God will hand the elect over to delusions if they refuse to love His truth. Both the local and global context confirm that, even the most basic knowledge of God and His ways that a stubborn, worldly elect soul might possess, even the fleeting moments of peace within the beauty and comfort offered by nature’s divine revelations, will be taken away if that one does not repent. And remember, most of Jesus’ elect disciples were worldly at that time, since He began to teach in parables, so they would not see nor hear the truths He was teaching.
So here, in Matthew 13:12, Jesus stated an interesting fact about the elect and about His first advent.
Our God Jesus indicated that the vast majority of elect spirits were not yet ready to see and hear His Holy Spirit’s counsel. Therefore, it was not yet time for Him to come and rule the earth with loving justice for all. For Jesus will only come to rule the world when His entire elect family trusts in Him and in His words. But building that kind of faith in the whole body of His elect would require at least two more millennia. Through untold sufferings in many future centuries, God would repeatedly prove that the ways of Satan’s world order, and especially that devil’s religion of humanism, were always and invariably dangerous and destructive. For, at the present time, most elect still believed in and supported those greedy, exploitative practises of human gods in their unjust hierarchical families of siblings, in systems which murdered their children and destroyed themselves. Thus, before our God could return in a body of flesh, to eliminate those systems and their lies, He had to demonstrate how elect souls could achieve an inwardly joyful peace, by allowing their spirits to learn how to grow a just, responsible communion with Him, with one another and with His creations. Until then, even if a stubbornly worldly elect soul did gain some true spiritual knowledge and wisdom from His Holy Spirit, from His Word, or from His natural creations, He would take that sustaining light away from that one’s elect spirit, leaving that one’s soul in a dark and empty existence, until one repented.
Of course, before Jesus came, other human beings would be the main source of most knowledge and wisdom possessed by elect spirits, whose eyes and ears remained closed. Logically, God’s Holy Spirit could not be the source, not until Jesus made the required sacrifice for their sins, to restore their right relationship with the Holy Spirit of their heavenly Father through a just and fully justified forgiveness. Therefore, this meant that, if an elect child was raised by elect parents in the “way” that he or she “should go,” God definitely did not guarantee that the devout parent’s child would always continue in the spiritual and moral ways of God. For all elect parents are indeed sinners, and all their children are too. Thus, since the spirits of the parents and the spirits of the children filled their hearts with lies and delusions from Satan’s world order, there could be no guarantee that any of them could ever live a just, loving life on earth. But, if the omniscient and omnipotent Father of an infantile elect spirit chose to awaken, nurture, teach and train that spirit, if He dwelt beside that spirit in the child’s heart, to apprentice that spirit in the “way” that it “should go,” then He could fully guarantee that His child would eternally continue in those spiritual ways. This was the salvation that Jesus taught, the Gospel that Jesus preached. Yet only a few believed Him. Only the apostles, His assistant teachers, with the exception of Judas Iscariot, understood this. For God had previously prepared them to believe this message, had awakened their spirits at some time in earlier years, so they could realize the wisdom of God’s just and loving ways, then utterly reject the unjust and ruthless ways of Satan.
Parental teaching and training, even if it might somehow be right and good, can never assure that a child will forever believe and practise their teaching and training. No one but God can assure that a child will never “depart from” His just and loving ways. Yes, a proverb says, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6, WEB). But this is not
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to a child at an early age, so the child could apply that knowledge throughout life. But here Jesus, our real God Himself, said He did not guarantee that any elect child will be able to hold onto God’s truth and wisdom. In fact, He stated the opposite. If any elect soul hardens his heart, if he will not allow his spirit to see or hear what God is revealing, if he heeds his mind of flesh and the lies of Satan’s world order in order to reap carnal rewards, then God will surely take away even the little truth and wisdom given to him by his parents. And consider this too, that not all His elect will have elect children. So, no matter how well a non-elect child is taught and trained in the just and loving ways of God, that child will invariably turn away from them—although a well-taught non-elect child will realize that his sins can result in very bad consequences from God, then avoid at least some lies and sins. Then, even if a child has an elect spirit, he or she still might “depart from” the knowledge and wisdom which their parents carefully taught. We often see how that truth is “taken away” from many elect children of God, by God Himself, leaving them bitter, foolish, empty, lost and constantly repeating their failures. And we all know why God often does this, because their elect spirit love the world, because their spirits do not want eyes to see nor ears to hear, because their flesh never allows their spirits to develop a love for the real truth of God. And God does not want that kind of elect soul perverting His truth and wisdom before the faces of other elect souls. He will not let those elect souls apply His truth in carnal ways which slander His name. Thus, God pulls them away from His awake and faithful elect, abandons them to delusions, sends them into fake churches of Satan’s world order.
Jesus was teaching us that most elect spirits will have spirits with closed eyes and ears. Thus, most elect will be handed over to a faith in that which is not true knowledge and not genuine wisdom. In other words, like the non-elect, if the elect do not love God and His creation enough to seek out and embrace an honest, rational way of thinking, if they “do not love the truth,” then even all those elect souls will be punished by being handed over to delusions and lies, to deceptions, conspiracy theories, paranoia, destructive foolishness and other unreal perceptions. Even those elect will be condemned to an utterly irrational thought process, for the destruction of their flesh. For God Himself will “take away” whatever they might know about the physical and spiritual realities He created, all He allows to exist. And, without this knowledge, there can be no wisdom either. For there can be no “right” or
“correct” way to effectively apply lies and delusions. Then, clearly, if God removes this critical truth from their minds, it is indeed a punishment. So, if this is God’s just punishment, then those elect must have intentionally sinned, even with an evil motive. It implies guilt. For God judges all in the ways He taught in His Law, and His Law only allows punishments for intentional sins, even only with a measure equal to the degree of evil motives and intentions. Thus, genuine guilt can only exist through the volition of their elect spirits, through the deliberate sinful choices made by their spirits.
Therefore, we can conclude that most elect back then, and throughout history, have been infantile idiots who have not loved the truth, who have stubbornly remained worldly in their their hearts, even though literally all of them have possessed the potential innate ability to love God and one another in just, equitable, responsible ways. Jesus gave His apostles the reason for speaking in parables to most of the elect in that crowd. And this is the same reason He has always spoken to His elect throughout the world, since the beginning of time on earth, in the figurative ways of His natural creations. Our God Jesus revealed truths indirectly because the vast majority of elect remained unable to receive an inner knowledge of His kingdom on earth and in heaven, unwilling to let their spirits find abundantly overflowing lives of joyful love. Then we see a more detailed description of elect lives in the only parable Matthew chose to record out of the “many” parables Jesus likely taught that day. That one chosen parable illustrated why Jesus hid the truth from most elect, why they were never able to gain knowledge and wisdom about God’s kingdom, and why God disciplined them by taking away even Page 931
little truth some might have acquired. This parable explained why Jesus began to teach the majority of the elect in parables. Jesus taught those crowds a parable about seeds sown on different kinds of ground. However, when we look at this parable, we need to remember that God always turns the elect back to Himself, eventually, either while they dwell in flesh on earth or during the judgment day. No matter what kind of soil the hearts of the elect may have made for themselves during their lives on earth, whether they intentionally made the soil of their souls hardened, weedy or fertile, their heavenly Father loves them, and His almighty power will not lose even one of them. Yet our Father also refuses to allow His children to follow the lies of inept, dangerously foolish human gods too. Thus, while they dwell on earth, their Father will indeed discipline them and punish their flesh.
It was because God Himself had taken away knowledge of “the mysteries belonging to the kingdom of the heavens” from the majority of the elect that Jesus suddenly changed His style of teaching. As Jesus told us in His own words, “Due to this, I speak to them in parables, since looking, they are not seeing, and listening, they are not hearing nor comprehending.” But how could the elect see or hear the truth if God did not heal and open the closed eyes and ears of their spirits? And how could those elect know any real truths if God had removed those truths from the thoughts of their spirits? So it was actually God who caused them to remain spiritually and morally blind and deaf, incapable of reasoning through the most basic applications of truth, in order to obtain the loving, just, beneficial results of genuine wisdom. And, clearly, God did not merely cause their minds to merely forget those truths. God did not “take away” their memories. Rather, God took away their actual ability to know.
God removed their rational thinking, their ability to process information, their ability to gain any kind of understanding or comprehension of either truths or lies. For words and illustrations of truths still remained in the memories of their spirits, and even in their vastly inferior and forgetful minds of flesh. All were still able recite Scriptures, as well as the moral and spiritual words from their parents and religious teachers. All could remember the events of their lives, and much of what their eyes of flesh saw all around them. Their real problem was that they were completely inept interpreters of all those words and illustrations of truth. They possessed absolutely no understanding of the truth. They did not comprehend those principles, not in ways that could effectively apply them. For truth is not mere words. Words describe or illustrate truths. But truth itself is spiritual and moral. It consists of concepts and useful applications of principles permanently etched upon the minds of spirits by God.
God grants elect spirits the inherent attributes which provide them with the potential ability to see and hear both physical and spiritual realities, together with a potential ability to rightly process that data into information and effectively produce the most beneficial effects for God and His kingdom, through loving intentions, motives and efforts of their spirits. And this ability is essential for the well-being and survival of themselves, all other human beings, and all other living creations. Yet, most elect treat this ability with disdain, although all their personal lives, families, communities and nations always and inevitably suffer and perish without it. Instead, most elect prefer to focus solely on an ability to grab more of Satan’s invention of money, so they can use it to buy meaningless junk and indulge in their selfish, loveless flesh. Then this slanders their Father’s name. Thus, He takes away what little truth and wisdom, received from human sources, that they may already possess. Or, if a few of their spirits did actually gain a little truth from God’s Holy Spirit, that truth begins to burn with a violent heat in their hearts, whenever they walk according to the flesh, whenever they value lies more than His truth. So, if those enlightened ones do not return to God, their flesh soon perishes.
If God allowed the elect to continuously turn away from their potential ability to see and hear truth, from their ability to wisely apply truth through love, for the benefit of all, the world would soon end.
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planned ways originating from its Creator, according to the truths God only grants to His elect. The ability “to know” these truths and wisdom, the ability to see and effectively apply them, is a gift of God which the non-elect lovers of delusions and lies cannot receive. Thus, the elect are the only means of disseminating God’s light into the world, the only wages that the earth can possibly gain to purchase what it needs to live and thrive. The elect are the only creatures on earth who possess an inherent attribute which allows them to provide the essentials which the planet requires to remain alive and prosper. There can be no justice on earth unless the elect apply this potential ability. There can be no wisdom to maintain the earth unless the elect develop this ability in the minds of their spirits, unless their souls allow their spirits to be taught and trained by God. So God must discipline their flesh when their spirits become captive slaves of their flesh. God must cause the elect to realize that they must walk according to the thoughts of their spirits, as their spirits learn truth and wisdom from their heavenly Father’s utterly holy and wise Spirit. And, if elect flesh thinks it can apply a few grains of selfishly chosen truths to maintain enough order for its own survival, while still allowing sins that please its flesh and weaken those truths, God will “take away” that little truth and that flesh.
God wants us to think about what He wants, not about the wants of our naturally selfish, unjust and completely loveless flesh. For our flesh cannot be wise, because our flesh is incapable of any kind of genuine love, and all true wisdom is simply an aspect of just, equitable, God-like love. Earthly flesh is an utterly foolish, temporary creation designed to be a training tool for our eternal spirits, and will soon be replaced by an eternal and permanent body fit for the far more substantial spiritual realm of heaven. Therefore, God wants the spirits of His children to learn to serve His creations through our spirits’ love, in truth and wisdom, because true love can only be built upon a foundation of truth and wisdom. Then the creations whom God calls us to serve, above all others, are our elect siblings. And all His other creations directly impact the lives of our elect siblings too. So none can be neglected.
No animal nor plant life be treated unjustly. Even His lifeless creations must be used wisely, never in greedy, exploitative ways. All must be tended responsibly, and cared for through truth and wisdom.
Yet most of the elect maintain extremely ignorant spirits, completely lacking all spiritual, moral and loving truths. Most follow their fleshy desires in the pursuit of their own destruction, in riots against God and their siblings, with a willingness to sacrifice their freedom and lives for the pleasure of Satan’s most filthy lusts, rampaging and ruining everything they can possibly reach in God’s just, loving kingdom. For instance, during the last century, a majority of the elect blindly followed the lies of Satan himself, every demonic word voiced through his most psychopathic children, such as Hitler and Trump. The devil’s brood called out to “patriots” who did not love God and their lands. So most of the selfish, carnal, greedy, entitled elect idiots thought those criminals were calling out to them, and responded with their stupid hearts. For God had long since taken away what little truth those wilfully ignorant elect had acquired in their fake churches. But, of course, Satan’s messengers did the old “bait and switch” routine, as expected, as they did throughout history. They substituted love with blind “patriotism,” with treason against God and their own siblings in humankind, transformed their already fake religion into a violent and psychopathic betrayal of God, of His children and of all His earthly creations. Those vile churches set out to destroy, torture and murder every good soul in their lands and throughout the entire world. They all became lying, unjust, ruthless, racist monsters.
Make no mistake. God is completely capable of removing every particle of truth from elect souls, until they become the most stupid, senseless, ignorant, useless, destructive fools on earth. The vast majority of the elect seldom do what God calls them to do, but only what their flesh dictates. So they continuously go through cycles. First, due to their carnal ways, their flesh receives stern discipline from God. Then this pain in their flesh causes their spirits to grow a little receptive to God and the Page 933
discipline stops. Yet their spirits only receive a tiny fraction of His truth and wisdom. So they fall away as soon as their flesh gets comfortable again. Thus, God removes what little truth they gained and hands their souls over to the prince of the world order. Then that devil casts them into unjust and foolish delusions and lies, for the destruction of their flesh. So this more severe punishment of God may cause some of their spirits to once again willingly hear their heavenly Father and oldest Brother, but only until their flesh gets relatively secure and appeased. Then their flesh boldly claims to be the god of their spirits once more, and takes over their lives. So the process is repeated, with even more pain for the flesh. But the time is coming, and is almost here, when God will break this endless loop.
Now look at how Jesus quoted Isaiah 6:9-10 directly from the Septuagint, verbatim: “You people will hear with the sense of hearing and definitely not comprehend. Even looking, you people will see and definitely will not [choose to] perceive. For the heart of this people has been made calloused, and they can hardly hear with the ears. They even closed their eyes, lest they see with the eyes and hear with the ears and comprehend with the heart and might turn back. Then I will heal them.” And Jesus acknowledged that this “prophecy of Isaiah [was] being fulfilled in” the majority of the elect in the crowd on that day. Of course, God’s healing, which Jesus promised by quoting the last line of this prophecy, had not yet been fulfilled. Thus, most elect still doubted Him and His teachings. Still, thousands would soon be healed, shortly after His Holy Spirit fell upon His few faithful elect on the day of the Pentecost. Not long after that, thousands of these other Jews who followed Jesus, would also be filled with His Holy Spirit. However, the majority of elect spirits in the Old Covenant church of Israel would remain without eyes to see or ears to hear, until an appointed time at the end of days.
So this prophecy definitely was not referring only to most of the elect living in Israel during the days of Isaiah. Yes, it was about most of the elect Jews at that time, in about 700 BC. However, it was a Messianic prophecy pertaining to the majority of elect Jews living during the time of Jesus, as well as the majority of elect Jews living during the next two millennia, until a small remnant of elect Jews remained as the sole survivors in Israel during the end times, on the day when their Messiah returns to rule the world. And Isaiah’s prophecy was also about the majority of elect Gentiles scattered in all the nations of the world, all who have existed on earth from the beginning, and most Gentile elect who will exist until the last day. Thus, since Isaiah’s day, the state of the elect has not changed much, except that, in each generation, God has granted a little more truth to the permanent records of His elect people. So there has been some progress in His revelations of truth, even progress in the ability of a few elect “to know” that truth, in ways that are effectively applied. But the majority remain the same in every generation, and only because their worldly souls still do not seek Jesus, so their flesh
“takes captive” their infantile spirits. But the time of flesh will soon end, and we must prepare for it.
We can now begin to see why Jesus chose to quote the Septuagint, although He obviously knew the Hebrew Scriptures too, and also could have paraphrased the Hebrew Scriptures for the purposes of this teaching. The main reason Jesus quoted the Greek Septuagint seems to be that He wanted to emphasize the last clause of the Septuagint version. For the Hebrew text is less clear. In Isaiah’s day, when God told him to proclaim this message to Israel, it was given in the midst of his other end-time prophecies. These declared that God would destroy His church of Israel, then later restore a small remnant. However, in Hebrew, the last cause of this quoted passage simply said Israel would “be healed” (Is. 6:10), although they had stopped themselves from seeing with the eyes of their spirits, or hearing with their ears. So they could not understand with their in their hearts. And they did this lest their elect spirits might turn back to God and ruin all that their flesh had worked so hard to gain. But the Septuagint did not simply say that they would “be healed,” by an unknown source, which many Jews assumed to be by their own efforts to perform the physical rituals commanded in God’s Law, Page 934
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even though most should have realized that this was theological passage indicating that God would do this healing. So Jesus chose to quote the Septuagint, which correctly translated the last clause of this prophecy as God Himself saying, “And I will heal them” (καὶ ἰάσομαι αὐτούς, which uses a first person singular verb). This seems to be what Jesus wanted to emphasize from Isaiah’s prophecy, that He would someday personally heal the majority of elect souls from their disease of ignorance and foolishness. Jesus wanted to declare this Himself, because He is God incarnate, the Messiah whom Isaiah prophesied about in the next chapter, when he gave another Messianic prophecy to Ahaz. Just a few lines later, Isaiah told that reprobate king about Immanuel, “God with us,” born of a virgin (Is.
7:14). Thus, Jesus seems to have deliberately quoted the Septuagint version of this prophecy in order to remind the elect that He is God in flesh, who will someday heal the entire remnant of all the elect.
To understand this quote from Isaiah, we need to understand it as Jesus and the devout Jews of that time would have understood it. They knew that, when Uzziah was king of Judah, the land had much material prosperity, since most of the people worshipped God, not idols. Due to the waning Assyrian influence in the entire region, Uzziah was able to provide relative peace for his people, along with agricultural productivity and other benefits. But the people were not spiritually healthy, and God was very angry with His carnal priesthood of Israel. So He proclaimed their eventual doom: “Therefore My people go into captivity for lack of knowledge” (Is. 5:13a, WEB). God was warning their very comfortable and physically secure kingdom that it would soon fall and be plundered, with many of the survivors removed from the land, held in vulnerable captivity by strangers who would compete against them. God was going to allow this because, with their mouths, they outwardly tried to appear faithful, proclaiming, “Let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it” (Is. 5:19b, WEB). However, their spirits slept and were content to allow their worship to be nothing more than religious words and deeds of their flesh. They were total hypocrites. For their religious teachers and priests taught clearly false doctrines, which were obviously opposed to God’s loving and just Spirit. Yet almost all the elect willingly believed those lies, which caused them to act in ruthless and unjust ways, especially towards the poor. The church of Israel became almost as vile as most churches are today. Thus God warned them: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!” (Is. 5:20-21, WEB).
This was the hypocrisy Isaiah confronted in God’s priesthood during the year Uzziah died (about 740 BC). Then God commanded Isaiah to proclaim the words that Jesus quoted here. Just like the churches today, that church heard “with the sense hearing and definitely not comprehend,” and they saw God’s works among them, but their hearts did not choose to truly perceive them with gratitude and love for their Creator. For the delusions and lies of their teachers choked the life out of God’s truths in the minds of their spirits, or made their hearts hard and calloused. Now the church of Israel was only able to love their own flesh, but no other entity, neither in heaven nor on earth. And, when God did speak to them, whether it was directly to their elect spirits or through the true prophets like Isaiah, they intentionally closed the eyes and ears of their spirits to Him, “lest they see with the eyes and hear with the ears and comprehend with the heart and might turn back” to their just and loving God. However, in the context of all of Isaiah’s prophecies, and in the context of all the other Old Covenant Messianic prophecies, God then declared, “I will heal them.” For God promised to send them a healing Messiah, who would be “God with them,” that is, their uncreated, almighty Spirit of their Creator dwelling among them in a body of flesh. And this Messiah would proclaim truth to the priesthood of Israel, to all its natural-born Jewish elect and to all its adopted Gentile elect. By His sacrifice as their sin offering, this Messiah would grant them all a new kind of relationship with Page 935
Himself, through the New Covenant which He would make with them, through His sure promises of that covenant, which He Himself would personally fulfill through the works of His very own hands.
Of course, Jesus disciples knew that Isaiah’s prophecy, about God healing the hardness of Israel, would not be fulfilled until His second advent. They knew that, for now, Jesus had come to establish a kingdom which was prophesied to grow until the end times were completed. So Jesus, at this time, came to be the King of a small fraction of elect spirits in His true priesthood of Israel. But Jesus, our God, would surely heal all the remnant belonging to physical Israel when He came again, to serve as the King of the entire earth, which would occur after this Messiah cast out Satan and his entire world order, out from the material earth. So, after quoting this prophecy from Isaiah, Jesus comforted His faithful few core disciples, whose spirits remained untainted by doubts, which the lies of false elders seeded in other elect souls. For Jesus had more thoroughly taught those core disciples to stop judging by superficial appearances manipulated by cunning deceivers, all designed to defame Him. They judged rightly, based on realities. To these, whom God purified and strengthened, Jesus spoke of true joy: “Yet the eyes belonging to you are blessed, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.”
God the Father had indeed blessed those few apostles, by healing their elect spirits of very much blindness and deafness, of the same kinds of callousness suffered by most of the elect on earth. And Jesus healed those few although the prophesied time for the healing of the entire true Israel, together with majority of Gentile elect on earth, would not be done for another two millennia. His Holy Spirit healed them as an ever-growing seed of Israel’s New Covenant relationship with their God, which was to be planted on the day of the Pentecost. Since that day, countless other elect souls have been healed too. God gave their elect spirits eyes to see and ears to hear, so they too would understand at least some aspects of His truth, so they could love in a just and God-like way, then nullify the works of the devil and build up God’s kingdom of compassionate, redeeming justice, where God’s will is done on earth as it is in heaven. Of course, most of these awakened elect were not recorded in the humanistic history books that glorified human gods. Yet they have been the true light of the world.
Still, the healing of all the remnant of Israel and the Gentile elect will not occur until that seed of the few apostles grows to fill the whole earth, until the elect are ready to replace Satan’s world order. So, yes, a remnant of awakened elect throughout history have been very blessed, more than most realize, even though most spent their entire lives being slandered and persecuted, often unto death. Despite their hardships, Jesus told them: “For I truly reason with you disciples, that many prophets and just people longed to see what you see. And they did not see. Also, they longed to hear what you hear.
And they did not hear.” Before Jesus came, all the true prophets, and all the other “just” elect souls in Israel and among the Gentiles, wanted and needed spirits with eyes to see and ears to hear. Still, only a tiny remnant were separated unto God during their lives on earth, so they could understand the just kind of love that God’s wise words could work in and through His people. Even the most gifted in the Old Covenant times lacked the depth of genuine knowledge and wisdom Jesus gave to His core disciples. Then Jesus granted these few disciples more than they thought possible, when He sent them His Holy Spirit, after He died and rose again, after they gathered in prayer on that day of the Pentecost long ago. Since this knowledge and wisdom preserves and saves life, all the elect in all times before that day had grievously yearned for it. Yet none received this treasure as abundantly as they did, this truth which is more precious than gold. However, all the elect now possess access to it.
The Parable of Elect Types
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wisdom. The vast majority of His followers were the elect, since very few non-elect ever bothered to come and hear Jesus. But now the deceptive plots of the Evangelicals had damaged the faith of most of His elect disciples and His truth. And there were a few non-elect in the crowds too, sent by the devil, who came only to attack and sabotage Jesus’ words and works. Yet Jesus did not bother to speak about them in this parable, because none of them were really listening. Thus, this parable, like the rest of Scriptures, was for the education of the elect in the crowds, who had been drawn to Jesus.
Jesus gave this parable to warn the majority of elect, represented by the first three types of soil, in whom He sowed the seeds of truth. For the beliefs, thoughts and ways of their flesh were causing their spirits to become fruitless. Their infantile spirits lacked an ability to express love justly through their flesh, and the wisdom to manage the thinking in their unruly minds of flesh. Satan’s world order was stealing love and justice from their spirits, by hindering the growth of God’s truth in their hearts, by forcing the eyes of their spirits to remain shut through irrational fears, so they could not see God’s created spiritual and physical realities. Because their false churches taught and trained these elect souls to perceive all matters of life and faith only through the eyes of their flesh, just like the non-elect do, those elect also ignored truth and abused God’s words for carnal purposes, just like the non-elect do. So the majority of God’s elect, who all possessed a potential ability to love, were inwardly dying, being devoured as the owned livestock of devils and their human children. This is why Jesus illustrated four kinds of ground which received the seeds of God’s truth. If a skilled and diligent gardener redeemed the three kinds of unproductive soils, they too could bear good crops.
With the works of thee Husbandman in their hearts, the unrepentant elect souls could also repent into the truth, into an abundantly fruitful lives that multiplied truth through love, for an eternal harvest, to feed God’s kingdom and themselves, both on earth and forever in heaven above. But the first truth those elect spirits needed to receive was an hones awareness of the current condition of their hearts.
This was His parable: “Behold, the Sowing One went out to sow seed. Then, while in the process of sowing it, [there were] indeed those which each fell near the road. So the arriving birds devoured them. Yet others each fell upon the rocky places, not having much soil. And soon each seed spouted because [each] did not have deep soil. So the sun rose up. Having been scorched, and because [each]
did not take root, each was dried up. Still others each fell upon the thorns, and the thorns grew and choked them. Lastly, others each fell upon the beautiful soil and each bore grain, one even a hundred, but one sixty or one thirty. The one having ears hear!” (Mat. 13:3b-9, from: Ἰδοὺ ἐξῆλθεν ὁ
σπείρων τοῦ σπείρειν. καὶ ἐν τῷ σπείρειν αὐτὸν ἃ μὲν ἔπεσεν παρὰ τὴν ὁδόν, καὶ ἐλθόντα τὰ πετεινὰ
κατέφαγεν αὐτά. ἄλλα δὲ ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ τὰ πετρώδη ὅπου οὐκ εἶχεν γῆν πολλήν, καὶ εὐθέως ἐξανέτειλεν
διὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν βάθος γῆς, ἡλίου δὲ ἀνατείλαντος ἐκαυματίσθη καὶ διὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν ῥίζαν ἐξηράνθη.
ἄλλα δὲ ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ τὰς ἀκάνθας, καὶ ἀνέβησαν αἱ ἄκανθαι καὶ ἔπνιξαν αὐτά. ἄλλα δὲ ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ τὴν
γῆν τὴν καλὴν καὶ ἐδίδου καρπόν, ὃ μὲν ἑκατὸν ὃ δὲ ἑξήκοντα ὃ δὲ τριάκοντα. ὁ ἔχων ὦτα ἀκουέτω, SBLGNT). So here Jesus called the elect to repent, since He ended this parable with this command,
“The one having ears hear!” Since the only ones with spirits that are capable of hearing the truth are the elect, this entire parable was addressed to them. Now He commanded all the elect to fully repent.
After this, Jesus gathered together a group of His faithful disciples, all who had not been affected by the deception which the Satanic Evangelicals engineered that morning, through Jesus’ mother and brothers. To these, Jesus explained why He spoke to the recently deceived crowds in parables. It was because, by this time, a number of His disciples had left the crowd, after seeing how His family had come to betray Him. These ones were completely duped by the incident, and had assumed that Jesus, their God, was a fake, then stopped following Him. Still, most disciples remained in the crowd that day. However, other than His core disciples, to whom Jesus explained this parable, the majority were Page 937
hesitant about fully trusting Jesus. And that is why, in this parable, Jesus illustrated the reasons for them falling away or becoming hesitant to trust Him, as well as how His core disciples had remained faithful. This was His explanation of that parable’s true meaning, granted only to His core disciples:
“Therefore, you [disciples] hear the parable of the One having sowed. The evil one comes to everyone hearing the reasoning of the kingdom, yet not comprehending, and plucks up the sowed seed in one’s heart. This is the [seed] having been sown near the road. Then the [seed]
having been sown upon the rocky place, this is the one hearing the reasoning and is soon receiving it with joy. Yet, it does not take root in oneself, but is for that time. So, after tribulation or persecution happens, on account of the reasoning, one is soon made faithless.
Now the one having been sown with the thistles, this is the one hearing the reasoning, and the distractions of this age, as well as the delusions of riches, are choking the reasoning. Then one becomes fruitless. Yet the one having been sown upon the beautiful soil, this is the one hearing the reasoning and comprehending, which then bears grain, even this one a hundred, or that sixty, or that thirty” (Mat. 13:18-23, from: Ὑμεῖς οὖν ἀκούσατε τὴν παραβολὴν τοῦ
σπείραντος. παντὸς ἀκούοντος τὸν λόγον τῆς βασιλείας καὶ μὴ συνιέντος, ἔρχεται ὁ πονηρὸς
καὶ ἁρπάζει τὸ ἐσπαρμένον ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ· οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ παρὰ τὴν ὁδὸν σπαρείς. ὁ δὲ
ἐπὶ τὰ πετρώδη σπαρείς, οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τὸν λόγον ἀκούων καὶ εὐθὺς μετὰ χαρᾶς λαμβάνων
αὐτόν, οὐκ ἔχει δὲ ῥίζαν ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἀλλὰ πρόσκαιρός ἐστιν, γενομένης δὲ θλίψεως ἢ διωγμοῦ
διὰ τὸν λόγον εὐθὺς σκανδαλίζεται. ὁ δὲ εἰς τὰς ἀκάνθας σπαρείς, οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τὸν λόγον
ἀκούων, καὶ ἡ μέριμνα τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου καὶ ἡ ἀπάτη τοῦ πλούτου συμπνίγει τὸν λόγον, καὶ
ἄκαρπος γίνεται. ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν καλὴν γῆν σπαρείς, οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τὸν λόγον ἀκούων καὶ
συνιείς, ὃς δὴ καρποφορεῖ καὶ ποιεῖ ὃ μὲν ἑκατὸν ὃ δὲ ἑξήκοντα ὃ δὲ τριάκοντα, SBLGNT).
So here Jesus was saying that each individual elect soul is like a patch of ground, upon whom God sows the seed of truth. Naturally, there are many different kinds elect souls. But seeds of truth fall on all. None are left without seeds of truth. None have an excuse. For the Sower sows abundant seed, so He may gather an abundant harvest. Everything spiritual and physical that God created on earth reveals His truths about both good and evil, even about His attributes. All nature and all history exposes good and evil. And now almost everyone has access to His revelations personally granted to His priesthood of Israel, that is, the Bible. His true priesthood is not like the secretive cults, who all sparingly sow a few carefully guarded weed seeds at a time, in the hearts of carefully selected and like-minded lovers of lies. Rather, God is wise, and knows that he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. So God’s large and generous hands spread great quantities of His truths everywhere, upon all the elect lives existing on earth. Yet God’s enemies have sabotaged many of those fertile fields.
Now the first and most common kind of elect hearts are those hardened by the trampling citizens of Satan’s world order, and some are even paved with solid stone. These learn to survive according to principles and rules which focus solely on thoughts from the mind of flesh. And most in the world order learn to blindly follow those who command this trampling, those who say they bring order by demanding that all others must always adhere to their exploitative whims. So these elect remain too exhausted and afraid to put in all the effort required to comprehend the truth. Since Jesus teaches a completely different, far more complex, natural, just and loving way of life, it would cause them to be rejected by all their familiar surroundings. So most of these elect think it is better that their hearts remain hard and calloused, unwilling to hear the truth. They see their trampling as a gift, since this hardness helps them cope with the ruthless exploiters they must endure daily, in silent subjugation.
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never spend their precious time or effort to find out whether or not something is true. All are kept far too busy being trampled, abused and exploited to have any time or energy left-over to make an honest and diligent search of the real truth. Since they serve the elite human gods for so many hours every day, with not enough pay to take a Sabbath day’s rest in the service of God, and are constantly stepped on by corrupted governing officials and greedy fake pastors, and since their human lords have fed them a diet of tainted waste which was not good enough for their dogs, these elect do not possess enough spiritual strength to weigh, test and purify any kind of the real truth. Of course, when God created them as infants, their spirits were as soft as even the most beautiful and fertile soils, able to willingly grow a bountiful crop of God’s truths. But, by the time they mature and come of age, after being stomped on for years, it is almost impossible for truth to penetrate their hearts. So, if they hear real truth from God’s Word, or see real truth in God’s creations, the demonic spirits who rule their lives in Satan’s world order, as well as the children of those devils (the human gods that falsely claim to own them), stride up to them, whip them for their insolence, and snatch that truth from their spirits. The minds of their spirits seldom has a full day in which truth can sprout. And they become too hard of heart to every let those sprouts take root. Even their own families and communities, with many elect who are suffering from the same kind of trampling, will allow those demons to devour that truth, and keep it from sprouting in their hearts. Then all the non-elect spirits, of both demons and their human children, can never digest any of that truth themselves. So those wicked ones will snatch it, swallow it, then excrete it whole, leaving it to rot in their dark, barren nesting places. Due to all of this, the trampled elect cannot follow Jesus. If this kind of elect soul meets the real Jesus, he or she turns around and walks away, thinking God is liar, and remains trampled until the flesh dies.
The only solution for these kinds of elect souls is the destruction of the paths and roads leading to Satan’s world order and hell, as well as all the non-elect spirits who continuously build them. Jesus must plow and harrow that hardened ground on the trampled trail until it becomes humbled and soft soil. And the stone-hard systems which pave the roads also must be broken up and hauled away to the bottomless pit, where they can be dumped and never seen again. For the only paths and roads the elect actually need are the straight and narrow ways that God created in the beginning, where they can walk safely, without stumbling. All those myriads of excess paths and roads to serve Satan’s vile kingdom are not necessary at all. And allowing them to exist will cause the trampling to begin all over again, even with that devil’s troops of oppressors and heavy war machines coming to steal lives.
The demonically influencing spirits, both the ruthless demons and their children—all who designed, built and perpetuated the systems that trample elect souls and steal their seeds of truth—must be removed. Only the good environments for growth in elect spirits are needed, the kind produced by Jesus’ Holy Spirit. And, since the beginning, He has personally build them on local levels, as we also saw in the mid-first-century apostolic churches. Such environments have been partially granted to a few groups of elect souls throughout history, and to a few churches and communities since then. But eliminating the trampling of elect souls will only begin on a world-wide scale when the era of the sixth seal begins, when God casts the devil’s entire world order into chaos, and causes a great revival to occur. This will revive many of the hardened elect souls. After this, the seventh-seal events will crush the last remnant of Satan’s world order, and Jesus will return to cast out Satan himself, along with all his demons and spirit children. Then Jesus shall rule the earth, and all the trampled elect souls will be softened by the plows of God, able grow His truths and bear fruits of love and justice.
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will be able to grow. For a road’s trampled clay soil takes years to fully recover, to become a soft, evenly textured medium full of organic matter, able to retain living waters and produce high yields.
The second most common kind of elect are those suffering from deep underlying and unresolved fears, often accompanied by anger issues, since fears cause anger. These elect souls were compared to the rocky ground, with many large stones beneath the shallow soil, often only an inch or two beneath the surface. These rocks cannot be seen, and the scant layer of soil can be easily worked with a hoe or plow. A little labour of love will prepare it enough for the seeds to germinate, although the tools might sometimes strike the unforgiving rocks, and possibly break the blades of truth that try to cultivate there. So the only effective solution for bearing a good crop, for the healing of that rocky ground, is to dig up each and every stone, with a personally wielded shovel held by our strong God.
And this takes much time and effort. For He must dig right down to the base of each stone, reach under it, pull it out, and drag it to the edge of the field. Then those stones will be used to build a wall which defines the borders of that field and helps the field focus on the particular kind of crop it is growing in each season’s generation. If this is not done, the seeds planted above the underlying rocks shall sprout. They may even germinate faster than the seeds in deeper soil. For shallow ground above a rock will warm faster, since heat does not dissipate quickly from non-conducting stone, not in the same way it can by the evaporation of moisture from the soil of deeper ground. And stony ground can collect more moisture during a rainfall, for a time, since water cannot drain down through the impermeable stone. Thus, all this extra moisture and warmth speeds up the sprouting of the seeds, in almost the same way that shallow greenhouse seed trays, placed on heat mats, enhance germination.
However, if stones are left below the shallow soil, they will not allow roots to grow through them.
So a seedling’s roots will hit the hard rock and try to grow sideways, not down. This will keep the roots near the surface, which dries out quickly when the sun shines. The roots will not reach the moisture remaining deep below the surface. On top of this, the plants growing nearby will also spread their roots in that shallow soil, and tangle their roots with one another, where all will compete to suck up the moisture and nutrients of that shallow soil. Thus, in the heat of the day, that damper and warmer shallow earth will dry out more quickly, both because of the dense mesh of competing roots soaking up its moisture and because the surface layer soil becomes very hot very fast, often something like 120° F (50° C) whenever the air temperature reaches only about 80° F (27° C). So all the seedling, which cannot obtain moisture from deeper and cooler soil, will soon dry out and die.
Likewise, if the Holy Spirit of God does not remove the fears and the rage from the hearts and souls of the elect, they may quickly and easily receive the truth. And, since their lives are so plagued with those fears, as well as greatly sabotaged by their anger issues, they often receive that truth with a far greater joy than other elect souls. However, it will not be long before their inner fears and anger will dry up and kill that truth, since their fears and anger will not allow truth to take deep root in their hearts. If their spirits do not trust God enough to let Him remove their fears and anger, if their spirits will not place the earthly survival and eternal destinies of both themselves and their loved ones into God’s capable hands, if they do not trust in God and in His truths with saving faith, then all of the truth they might receive will be dried up by the delusions and lies of their irrational fears, as well as by their angry frustration of being powerless to overcome the illusive (and non-existent) causes of their fears. But only that truth is able to build up a spirit’s faith in God. And faith grows into love for God and His creations. Thus, they are caught in a trap. If their hearts do not possess the faith to let go of their fears and anger, their fears and anger will destroy their lives, by never allowing them to build up enough faith to let God remove those fears and that anger. Then they will never be able to freely and spontaneously love God or anyone else. They will always guard their hearts, protect it Page 940
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from non-existent causes of harm or loss, even to the point where they no longer have anything of real value left in their lives, nothing that is worth guarding. And, at that point, God may stop this endless cycle. When this kind of elect soul realizes that only Jesus can remove their stones, they will find just enough faith to let go of some fears and some anger. This will allow Jesus to build up a little more faith in the minds of their spirits, resulting in them letting go of more fears and more healing.
We often see elect souls who are deeply cut and wounded by lies, almost unto death, who have lost what they cherished most, usually through delusions they trusted in. These elect may turn to the truth of God with zeal, and in great joy. Yet they remain joyful only for a season. That zeal dissipates and fades away as the stones of fear and anger in their hearts overheat and dry out the sprouting truth their spirits. For those kinds of elect refuse to let God’s love, or anyone’s love, send deep roots into their lives, lest that love exposes and removes the rock-hard scars of past hurts, which is all they now trust in for their survival. Those previously injured elect become cynical and somewhat paranoid.
They trust no one enough to let their spirits make covenants of love. And the minds of their spirits hold every spiritual or moral truth with suspicion, which means they cannot grow love, since love requires the living waters of truth to sink deep into their hearts. This also means that they refuse to place faith in the strong arms of their loving God, cannot trust Him to lift the fears and anger out of their hearts, to clear away the distrusting and defending doubts they themselves scattered in their own hearts, just beneath the surface of the shallow soil they allow for intercourse with other people.
Many of these kinds of elect souls reason that their fear and anger have served them well, made them stronger and better than the others, more driven and capable than the rest, even able to sprout seeds of truth into growing organisms faster than the other elect. So they cling to their stones, try not to even let anyone know that those stones are actually hidden beneath the surface, then refuse to allow God or anyone else to remove them if those stones are discovered. Yet, they only appear to be just like the awakened, loving and just elect during the winter seasons, when life is dormant, covered in snow and silent. But, in every growing season, when seeds are planted and the sun’s heat withers the life out of the seeds planted in their stony hearts, their barrenness is exposed. For, when the thawed ground receives the sun’s heat, as well as wind and storms, their shallow ground dries out. Their thin layer of soil is also often blown away or washed away, revealing the bare rocks below. Then God’s plowing and hoeing, to prepare and soften the humbled soil, or to rid it of choking weeds, cannot be done in their ground. Only a light scraping and loosing of the soil with hand tools held by human gardeners can be used on surface soil of their hearts, since their spirits forbid all of God’s more deeply penetrating instruments. They will not risk being exposed to any tribulation and persecution, which God employs to cultivate our spirits, to cause deeper fertility in our hearts, so His useful seeds of truth can grow deeper roots. So all those elect with rocky ground become empty, unfruitful souls.
Yet we must be careful not to judge against those elect brothers and sisters with stony ground, but rather work beside Jesus to comfort them and make them aware of their folly, so they will no longer trust in those stones. We lead them to Jesus and repentance, so Jesus will take the stones from their hearts. For, if Jesus removes the stones from their hearts, they will eventually become as fertile and productive as the elect with deep and fertile hearts. At first, as their fears and anger are being pulled out and set on the borders of their lives, there will not be too much fertility, since very little organic matter and a smaller number of living soil organisms in their lives. Their shallow topsoil will be mixed with very much barren subsoil beneath it. So they will only be able to produce a meagre crop.
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growing seeds, so the crops will grow better each season. It may take years before the roots of crops will be as productive as the Owner desires. However, His plans for a lives of joyful love in eternal fields of elect spirits stretch infinitely into the future, and the loss of earthly years or decades or even centuries is not too grievous for Him to bear. Nor are those years of healing on earth too much for His elect children to bear, once their eyes open and peer into their heavenly homeland. A patience grows in those with eyes to see, once they know that Jesus will complete His works inside them on that final day, then gather their perfected hearts into their everlasting homes within New Jerusalem.
Yes, Jesus heals the mind of the spirit through a long and tedious process, and makes it able to grow the seeds of truth into deeply rooted love over a period of many earthly years. In the meantime, the mind of flesh will still lack the skills that allow the healing spirit to adequately express love through its flesh, at least not in the way some of the more deeply humbled and fertile grounds of other elect hearts can. The mind of flesh will still possess harmful patterns of thought, and habitually react to circumstance in the ways it was trained by Satan’s world order. It will instinctively manage most of the more challenging situations in the same foolish and destructive ways it learned in its youth, and try to solve life’s problems in the same old forceful and ignorant ways it did previously. However, the elect spirit will increase in fertility each day, will more quickly recognize when its flesh is doing such things, then repent and better manage its body of flesh. The counter-productive thought patterns will many earthly years with much godly sorrow and countless times of repentance, with numerous prayers for God to undo the damage one has done, if not on earth then on the day we all meet at the gates of heaven. In fact, not even one infantile elect spirit who has ever lived on earth, or ever will live on earth, has completed this healing and maturing process. For literally all were appointed to complete this process during the long judgment day, before all ascend together into their homeland.
Now let us move on to the other kinds of elect souls. There are many elect with good, soft, deep and fertile soil which has been fully softened and humbled by God’s plow, and without any stones to hinder the growing seeds of truth. So these elect are able to produce an abundant harvest of just, responsible, God-like love in their lives. Their hearts are always ready and willing to serve as the perfect medium for producing enough useful fruits of their spirits to overflow the granaries. But this kind of elect soul is not actually “superior” to the hardened or stony elect. Yes, they are the most cherished by the elect in the true priesthood of God, because they are reliably loving and easy to love in return. However, this kind of elect is not useful for all the types of works that need to be done by God through His church. Thus, God created the other kinds of elect too, for different purposes on earth and in His eternal realm, and our heavenly Father loves all kinds equally, without preference or prejudice. Furthermore, not all the elect created with a deep, fertile hearts actually do produce a good crop for their Owner. In fact, some of these produce no more good grain than the hard or stony ones.
This brings us to the third kind of elect soul mentioned in this parable of Jesus (Mat. 13:22). It may seem good for an elect soul to receive a life that has not been trampled or scarred to make it hard or shallow. Unfortunately, those openly loving and humble elect grow up in Satan’s world order, where the non-elect inundate them with lies and delusions. And the seeds of these lies and delusions grow extremely well in the trusting fertile hearts of these kinds of elect, like weeds. So those weeds will frequently become thick enough to choke out God’s good seeds of truth. Now, of course, all the Owner’s fields on earth have some weeds growing in them. But the only way farmers can reduce the number of weeds, organically, is by using various methods of fallowing the fields. For farmers have no control over the weeds in their crops during the growing season. They cannot pluck out weeds by hand, since they would need to trample on the good grain to get to the weeds, and, as they pulled out the weed roots tangled up with the roots of the good grain, they would also severely damage or pull Page 942
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out their good grain too. Therefore, the Owner lets the weeds grow together with the good crop until the harvest. Or, in some patches, if the weeds grow thick enough to overtake and choke out the good seeds altogether, He might scythe or hoe down that patch, to kill the weeds before they go to seed, which also kills the good crop there. For, if He allowed those weeds to go to seed, an even larger, choking patch of weeds would appear the next year. Then, by the end of the sixth year, weed patches would become so numerous, large and thick, that the field could not produce enough for an adequate harvest, no matter how deep and fertile the soil might be. So farmers had to fallow the ground, to suppress the weeds, every seventh year. God will not plant any seeds of truth during certain planned and ordained fallow seasons. Instead, our Owner may even repeatedly plow down the weeds, leaving the entire field barren. Entire generations of elect have experienced a life without a harvest, since God did not teach them any truths. Instead, God had repeatedly plowed down the lies and delusions grown within their complacency, so that the next generation would be able to grow a good crop of His truth in their hearts, with far fewer weeds of Satan’s lies and delusions to choke out those truths.
Here Jesus actually specified that an elect heart’s ability to bear fruit might be choked out by one particular kind of weed, by “thistles.” And thistles are one of the worst of weeds. For they grow very deep tap roots, often more than six feet (two metres) down into the soil. And, when the bottom of this tap root is left in the soil, even under six or eight inches of soil, it will grow again. Or, when the plowing buries a severed part of the thistle, that part grows again. So plowing can actually double or triple the number of thorny, hardy thistles which cannot be handled without protection for the hands and which choke out the good seeds. On top of this, each thistle is capable of producing more than a hundred thousand seeds. So the only way of controlling thistles was to repeatedly cut them down before they produce seeds. If a farmer repeatedly cuts off the growth of thistles, just above ground level, their roots will eventually use up all the nutrients in them, weaken and die. But, as farmers scythe down the thistles, they cannot avoid cutting down the good crop plants growing among them as well. And we should realize that cutting down thistles was an undesirable task. For farmers wore sandals in those days, which gave their feet no protection from the thorns of thistles. Then they girded their loins while they worked, which exposed their bare legs to the thorns. Also, none could afford gloves to protect their hands. So, when Jesus said thistles were kinds of weeds that choked out the good crops, the people in the crowd, from this agrarian society, would immediately realize the miserable state of this kind of elect soul, as well as how much God Himself would regret having to deal with the lies and delusions within those kinds of elect hearts. When His Holy Spirit must cut down the thorny lies and delusions in His beloved elect children, over and over again, while even destroying all of the truth He planted too, it is never a pleasant task. Now we see the deep-rooted, thorny thistles of lies and delusions growing in countless elect hearts today, being destroyed with many truths pertaining to justice and love. We see lies of ruthless revenge choking out the truth of wise righteousness, which the elect should pursue, or delusions about sex choking out the truth about family structures. Delusions of selfish ambition, lusts for wealth and power, are now promoted by parents and societies among the elect, though they destroy truth and wisdom in the spirit, and pervert every kind of judgment. And cutting down all such lies is very difficult and painful for God and us.
Jesus said, “Now the one having been sown with the thistles, this is the one hearing the reasoning [of truth], and the distractions of this age, as well as the delusions of riches, are choking the reasoning.
Then one becomes fruitless.” This is heart breaking. For this kind of elect soul is “normal,” able to become a hundred percent fruitful, yet produces no fruit of love from the truth sown in their lives.
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often causes their elect siblings to become hard from their trampling, or become a rocky from the stones they throw at one another, from the slander they cast upon their elect brothers and sisters. For they send their own elect children out to be spiritually trampled by deceivers, whom those deluded elect souls trust, esteem and follow, then invite into their homes. Or these “normal” elect souls, with the hearts of deep and fertile soil, might marry and have a family, then get divorced, since nothing but weeds grow in them, and they care only about careers and money. And all their bickering and lies litter the hearts of their own elect children like huge and heavy stones. These fertile elect cannot grow love from truth. All love is choked out of their hearts. So God cuts down the love they have spurned, together with their thorns. They die a fruitless existence, and their lives were fallow ground.
Yet God loves His “normal” and potentially fruitful elect children who are wasting potential gifts He gave them. It is not through hate, nor even with indifference towards them, that He scythes down their lives, together with all the thistles of their lies and delusions. For our loving and holy God is obligated to remove the unloving, unholy and unreal through His love for them and for those they sin against, either through their lusts, greed or apathy. Because He loves their eternal spirits, He must cut down their careers and wealth, their selfish ambitions, so He can grant their spirits a chance to start over—this time growing seeds of truth, the spiritual and physical realities pertaining to God and all life existing around them, all that is required to build love. Yet many refuse to learn the lessons God offers for their own eternal good, and for the good of all whom their lives touch. For they see how Satan’s children “succeed” in the world order, and want the same kind of empty, futile rewards for their own flesh. They suppress the voice of their own Father’s Holy Spirit calling to their spirits, and let their minds of flesh silence any objections their spirits may have against those merciless pursuits.
Most elect have let their flesh take their spirits captive and rule over their lives. So, whenever God cuts down the thistles of flesh-pleasing distractions, selfish ambitions and lusts for success in Satan’s kingdom, they ignore God’s intent. They learn nothing. Instead, they let their flesh pick itself up to pursue those unnatural and noxious inventions of man-made and demon-made darkness all over again. They set their lusty, arrogant, greedy eyes of flesh upon the ruthless, destroying rewards of the devil’s hierarchies, which oppress their own children and siblings. And, since the only way to obtain those rewards is to let their hearts grow the thorny lies and delusions from Satan, they allow those toxic thistles to sprout and grow in them, until God must destroy their lives again to save the others.
But not all the “normal” and fertile hearts of the elect grow more weeds than grain. Some are very fruitful. The fourth kind of soil always starts out as one of the other three kinds of soil. It is the kind that learned the truth and repented into it, so it could build an abundant life with good crops of just love, to benefit and feed everyone and everything their lives touch. These are the elect whom God has worked well upon. If they were trampled and hardened, He has plowed their hearts season after season, mixing in more organic fertility each time. Their Father and oldest Brother patiently and diligently dug out the stones beneath the surface and dragged them to the borders of their field, so those crop-destroying rocks could serve a good and beautiful purpose, serving them and others. God repeatedly cut down the weeds before they could produce seeds and freed them from painful thistles.
When new ground is “broken” for agricultural purposes, the weeds, even the unwanted indigenous species of trees, are removed. Then the ground is plowed until there are no weeds left. If there are any useless roads crossing the farmland, any pavement it may have is torn off and hauled away. Then the clay beneath is worked into a fertile medium for plant growth. Sometimes, if composted organic material cannot be worked into the soil, it is used to cover and smother weeds, laid over the untilled or hardened ground. Then a digging fork is periodically used to help the decaying organic material seep deeper into the soil, to make it soft, rich and fertile up to a good depth. At the same time, all the Page 944
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large rocks are heaved out of the soil, dragged to where a helpful permanent structure can be built with them. So all three previous kinds of unfruitful soils can be transformed into God’s good, fruitful kind of soil, and become Christ’s true church, His real Israel. An elect soul becomes “the one hearing the reasoning of the truth and comprehending, which then bears grain, even this one a hundred, or that sixty, or that thirty.” These people of God possess spirits that make eternal and unconditional covenants of love, built on pure truth alone—not only internal covenants with God, but also with the other elect souls Jesus gathers into their lives. For He sows seeds of reasoning in truth about Himself and about all the others, even about His physical creations, inside the good soil of the repentant elect.
This fourth and last kind of elect are characterized by the kind of knowledge and wisdom necessary to build up love. We recognize them by how they grow love from acknowledged and rightly applied realities which God sows in their hearts. We know them by the way that responsible, diligent, just and equitable actions of God-like love spontaneously flow from their hearts, as their spirits mature and reach for heaven. When we see the good, beneficial, healthy fruits of their lives, which always spiritually and physically nurture other souls, as well as how their spirits are always willing to bind with other elect spirits in unconditional and eternal covenants of love, even how they shine the light of their God Jesus from their faces, we know we have found a true citizens of God’s eternal Israel.
As the Holy Spirit of Jesus casts seeds of truth upon their fertile hearts, those God-given insights will grow useful fruits for the spirits and personal lives of other elect souls. All that these deep, enriched elect souls will say and do is rooted in realities, able to sprout and grow into love. They multiply God’s love, even a hundredfold. Yes, some grow a love that is merely sixty or thirty times as much of God’s pure radiant light sown in them, due to their somewhat hindering flesh. Still, all life on earth rejoices in the great spiritual wealth of their fruits. And they will become like the most fruitful on the last day. These lesser producers will not be deficient in joy, since God alone grants the ability to bear fruit, and He is determined to complete and perfect literally all His elect children by the end of that day. None of His equally beloved will have shame, nor an inferior status, when they go home.
We all need to become this fourth kind of elect soul, and gather together with them. For this is the kind that worships the Creator in their spirits and in truth, who esteems, emulates and serves Him according to His will. And the loving fellowship of this kind is His true priesthood of Israel. The elect can only accomplish the true, just, loving works of our Messiah by labouring together with Him and this kind of elect souls. The nullifying of Satan’s psychopathic and deadly works, so we then build up God’s just and equitable kingdom, can only be done by the cooperating and coordinated members of His true body serving His creations through His one mind. And only one kind of elect soul is capable of that kind of fruitful harmony, the elect whom Jesus has worked into full fertility.
No other kind of elect is qualified to serve in the true priesthood of God. For all non-elect souls are saboteurs or spies sent by the enemy. Therefore, any elect whom they trample into hard ground to better serve their evil father’s kingdom, or any elect who become a dumping ground for their stones, or any elect sown with their weeds of thorny lies and delusions, cannot bear adequate crops of love for God. So our elect spirits must pray for Jesus to make us fertile and fruitful, then look for all the other repentant elect souls of His true church. So we will not find them in fake churches, among the weedy and selfishly ambitious, among the shallow with hidden stones beneath the surface, and among those who are so proud of their smooth trampled roads to hell. Rather, we call elect siblings in those places to repent toward Jesus, out of those unfruitful conditions. For we should never allow the non-elect to corrupt the worship of the elect, and destroy their works for God. And we need our repentant elect family to be called and blessed by Jesus, to survive and thrive in abundantly loving Page 945
lives on earth. If we do not become the deeply fertile ground of God, and join with His other blessed and fruitful grounds, a famine of God’s Word will perpetually plague us and all life upon this earth.
And, when we search for our deeply fertile siblings, who bear a hundredfold, we need to realize that almost none of them will be found among those whom Satan has chosen and rewarded in his unjust world order. The vast majority of these deep, rich, elect souls are marginalized by the elite of the devil’s kingdom. They are mostly the financially and politically oppressed, those who mourn, the mild and humble, always hungering and thirsting for righteousness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the builders of true peace through covenants of their loving spirits, and those being persecuted for proclaiming truth and practising just love (Mat. 5:3-10). Their failures in the destructive hierarchical systems of hellish exploiters often qualifies them as heirs of our just God, since their great trials have caused them to repent into the truth. Christ’s most blessed elect are the common folk, whom Satan’s world order despises, calls “inferior,” oppresses and enslaves. Almost none of the true elect will be found among Satan’s most favoured children, whom that devil esteems and rewards with positions in the upper classes of the pagan Roman hierarchies that he maintains. So let us realize this, and stop trying to “convert” the rich and the powerful so they will finance and empower our works. For works done through Satan’s invention of money and by the power of his kingdom are never works of God.
Almost none of the esteemed names recorded by humanists in their books of history are the names of the most fruitful elect. Humanists try to erase the existence of most elect with deep, fertile hearts, and seldom record their names alongside the psychopathic kings and murdering warriors they love so much. Almost all those found at the heads of tables in self-indulgent mansions are the non-elect, and usually the most unjust, thieving, enslaving and evil among the non-elect. The humble, just and loving elect most often remain obscure, and refuse to ever become psychopathic “leaders of men,”
who “conquer” the vulnerable, who enslave their own siblings in the family of mankind, all for their own empty glory, profit and carnal pleasures. Rather, the fruitful kind of elect soul has a spirit which wisely manages one’s own flesh, because God Himself has awakened that spirit, then taught and trained that spirit in His ways. Because such a spirit has opened ears and all its innate potential is becoming realized, that spirit not only hears the wise reasoning of God’s truth, with comprehension, but also rightly applies it. This kind of elect heart grows in the knowledge of truth daily, as Christ’s Holy Spirit continuously teaches one’s spirit, as Jesus trains this one’s spirit to react rightly to many diverse situations. Jesus grants them many difficult and costly experiences, many hardships and losses. Their Owner plows and cuts down weeds in their lives, so His sown grain might sprout into a healthy and fruitful love for His creations, especially for His elect children. Their pure, equitable and just kind of love never craves esteem from the devil’s kingdom, through the pride of loveless flesh.
The kind of love God builds in His elect always seeks a close and personal relationship with Him, and with the other elect whom He gathers into one’s life. And infantile elect human spirits do not have the capacity to truly love multitudes, since love must be built on a foundation of thorough and intimate knowledge about each one who is loved, the kind of knowledge that a spirit can grow only through much time and effort, before it can bear fruit. Since no elect spirits are granted enough time on earth to grow this kind of broad knowledge to build real love for multitudes of souls, and none possess enough strength in their earthly bodies to express that kind of love for all, those elect spirits simply serve the multitudes through their love for God. They act in a just, merciful, wise way to all the masses, and are concerned for the welfare of all, as they love and serve God. Yet none of the elect on earth will be able to truly love the masses until they receive new bodies made of a stronger spiritual substance in heaven, and only after Jesus completes and perfects them into maturity. So we are content to build small local churches, where everyone knows and loves each other, and where the Page 946
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one and only Head of our church is Jesus, where all souls are equal siblings. Yes, we also reach out to other true churches, and assist siblings there, whenever we are able. But the spheres of our lives remain small and humble, much like the lives of small children, because our spirits are little infants.
So here, in this parable, Jesus was telling the elect to stop striving to become deluded little fake gods whom Satan’s world order esteems and empowers. Rather, we must become as little children. We need to trust our Father and oldest Brother to teach and train us in the ways of His just, loving kingdom. We must let the Holy Spirit plow up the trampled and paved parts of our lives. For many wanna-be human gods are building cold, hard, dead roads to their slave camps and to worshipped enslavers upon us. They are exploiting us to build up their murderous kingdoms on earth. And they do the same in every generation. The lying fascists we see in our generations, such as Trump and Hitler, or their demonic Evangelical enablers, are trampling and paving elect hearts as we speak. So we must reject them, even imprison those who mercilessly harm and kill through their delusions and lies. We must allow the Spirit of our God to plow up and soften those roads to hell within our souls.
Then Jesus also wanted the elect to let go of hidden rocks beneath the surface of their public lives, to give their fears and anger to Him, so He can pull them out and drag them away, so they might heal and gradually gain fertility, then grow a just, pure kind of love. After God in the flesh commanded the elect to cast aside selfish ambitions, the pursuit of Satan’s invention of money, which that devil’s world order uses to suppress, oppress and control the lives of citizens in his cruel world order, He made them able to cast aside their fear of losing those empty, futile rewards of the devil. God’s children must have no part in that destructive and loveless kingdom, no reason to fear the loss of anything in that kingdom. For, when the Holy Spirit of our loving Father and oldest Brother first created this earth and the heavens, none of those things existed, and human beings were filled with the joy of abundant lives, where God provided literally all the needs of their flesh and their spirits.
Lastly, there are some elect hearts who have not been scarred by the roads Satan built to advance his kingdom, and have not become stone-hard from many wounds of demonic injustices. Some elect hearts remain soft, deep and fertile. But Jesus want these to test every word they receive and every piece of evidence they are offered. Each must diligently inquire, from honest and reliable sources, about the real truth, then cross-examine the evidence presented by those who profess to be experts, and even question the qualifications of those experts themselves. Witnesses who do not bear fruits of just and God-like love in their lives are not to be trusted. Then those who breed nothing but lies, hatred, fear, vengeance, violence and other sins must not only be distrusted, but every word they utter must be opposed, even when they deceitfully speak partial truths, since they employ that truth with evil motives and corrupt intentions. If the fertile elect, who can love in unaffected ways, do not cut down lies and delusions before they go to seed, they will produce nothing of real value for God.
Now let elect spirits repent, so they can pray for ears to hear, with the comprehension of God’s truth and wisdom. The λόγος of God is not just a “word.” Rather, this particular Greek word, especially in its ecclesiastical use referring to God’s revelations, always implies a logical ordering of meaningful words to clearly convey concepts, the “reasoning” of truth from God’s Holy Spirit, granted directly to our elect spirits. It refers to whole precepts placed in the minds of our spirits by God, in a way that bypasses our minds of flesh. A λόγος is not merely a ῥῆμα, not just a written or spoken word that can be interpreted in any way we choose, not just a sequential string of symbols which must first be absorbed figuratively in our minds of flesh, then repeated by our flesh to the minds of our spirits in the chambers of our souls, where much meaning is lost through translation from the word’s earthly language into the language of the spirit. In the context of a λόγος which comes from the very mouth of God’s Holy Spirit, it refers to a concept that directly enters the minds of our elect spirits, in a Page 947
totally accurate and entirely comprehended way. So let us repent, hear this λόγος from God, receive His wise reasoning and real truth, become the light of the world, and bear abundant fruits of love.
Mat. 13:24-30 & 36-43,
Two Human Seeds
“He set another parable before them, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away. But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also. The servants of the householder came and said to him, “Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?” He said to them, “An enemy has done this.” The servants asked him, “Do you want us to go and gather them up?” But he said, “No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, ‘First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn....’”’ (Mat. 13:24-30, WEB).
“Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to Him, saying, ‘Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.’ He answered them, ‘He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear’”
(Mat. 13:36-43, WEB).
This is a parable created by Jesus, who was with God at the beginning of time and is Yahweh God.
In this ontological story, He reveals the origins of good and evil upon the earth, and also tells us why He has not removed evil. God, who is a Spirit, first sowed good human spirits on His kingdom of the earth, and called them His “children.” But the loveless spiritual being called Satan had been chained together with his demons in this material realm, after being cast out of heaven, and was temporarily forced to remain here until he could be permanently locked in the prison of hell. So that devil was here to see God sow His good seeds on earth, then stealthily sowed his own damned human spirits among the blessed human spirits born of God. Yet none of the angels, nor any of God’s children, saw Satan sow the seeds, and did not realize bad seeds existed here until the weeds matured and exposed their true natures. For the angels and humans slept while Satan did his works of sabotage. Only God remained awake and saw the devil do this dastardly deed, which also means that God allowed Satan to do it. So now we all know there are two kinds of spirits dwelling in human flesh on earth. And we have also been told why the weeds among us will not be removed. For our God Jesus said that He chose to leave Satan’s iniquitous causes of stumbling among us because, if He sent His angels to trample the earth looking for them, then His angels would also trample His own children together with those weeds. Then, as His angels pulled out the weeds beside His good seeds, the thoroughly entangled roots of both would be removed from the earth together, killing the flesh of both at once.
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Of course, there are many obviously false interpretations of this parable, each designed to serve a particular bias of a particular false church, along with many bad translations made to accommodate each false interpretation. So now we need to diligently and carefully examine the original Greek text in its local and global context, to find the meaning that our God Jesus intended it to bear. First, we should remember how Matthew told us that Jesus gave many parables to the crowds (Mat. 13:3, Greek: ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς πολλὰ ἐν παραβολαῖς, SBLGNT). So Jesus taught this and the next two parables (13:31-33) publicly, to the crowds, and possibly other parables which Matthew did not record here. But He did not reveal the meanings of these parables to those crowds, since their spirits were not yet ready to hear the truths taught in them. For most still clung to the false doctrines taught by fake churches, especially to the popular lies and delusions of pagan Roman humanism, even “free will” lies, which the fake churches had been syncretizing with teachings from the Bible at that time.
Yet Jesus did allow some of His more awakened and faithful disciples to learn about the truths He taught through those parables. Jesus took His closest disciples aside and explained the meanings to the twelve apostles, the ones He sent out on a previous occasion, and possibly to the seventy whom He sent out later (Luke 10:1). And this private revelation would have occurred after He dismissed the crowds. For Jesus was preaching from a boat surrounded by the crowds, and it would have been too difficult to talk quietly on the boat, without being heard, while on that boat. So Jesus first gave the parables to the crowds (13:3-9, 24-33), then sent the crowds away, but His close disciples would have been asked to stay. Only the twelve, and possibly the seventy, remained. After the crowds left, He explained the parables only to those whose spirits were awake and ready to hear the meanings, likely to 12 or about 80 of the faithful, to all who were not affected by the lies of the fake churches.
Matthew specified that Jesus sent the crowds away, but asked only the twelve, and possibly some others, to come to His house for explanations and further discussions. So these walked with Him to His house nearby, in Capernaum. Once this smaller group sat down inside, they asked Jesus to explain that parable of the good seed sown with darnel seeds in the kingdom of the heavens. Then Jesus defined the figurative terms and explained it in plain language. After this Jesus also gave four more parables about His kingdom to those few disciples, in addition to the ones given to the crowds.
The obvious reason for Jesus uttering this parable about the good seed and the darnel seed is because He wanted His more spiritually mature and receptive disciples to know about the two kinds human spirits existing in the world from the beginning of time. And Jesus gave us this parable after He told us about the four kinds of elect souls sown on trampled, rocky, weedy and good soil. For He clearly wanted us to realize that not all with hardened hearts, not all with stones hidden beneath the surface, and not all who grow the choking weeds of lies and delusions, are elect souls. He wanted us to know that not all human spirits are able to repent into the sound reasoning of truth. God is only willing to sow His seeds of reasoning in the hearts of elect spirits, in those who were seeded or born of His Spirit. God does not grant truth to the spirits born of the devil, who love Satan’s darkness of self-inflating lies and delusions, who hate and reject the light of God’s created truths. Only the spirits whom the Creator sowed on earth, only elect spirits, possess an inherent ability to love, accept and comprehend His truth. But the spirits sowed by Satan possess only an inherent ability to reject, corrupt and hate God’s light of truth. Thus, Jesus’ Holy Spirit will only teach His truth to the spirits born of His spirit, not to spirits born of Satan’s spirit. Teaching the non-elect would be a waste of His love and time, much like sowing good seeds on barren ground. Because the soil of all non-elect hearts only consists of rocks and toxins, and are utterly incapable of sprouting seeds of truth, much less growing them into genuine love, God cannot save them. Thus, we cannot save them either. So, Page 949
rather than waste endless and futile efforts on trying to redeem the unredeemable, we need to seek out the elect who suffer a fruitless existence, but can grow truth into love. We must focus on them.
Now let me provide an alternative literal translation of the parable Jesus taught every soul who was with Him that day. Jesus revealed this about mankind, both to the crowds and His closest disciples:
“The kingdom of the heavens had been like an individual having sown beautiful seed in his field. Yet, in the time while the people slept, His enemy came and sowed darnel, scattered among the grain, and departed. Now, when the crop sprouted and produced seed, then even the darnel had been manifested. So the slaves of the estate’s master, having drawn near, said to him, ‘Lord, did you not sow beautifully good seed in the field? Therefore, from where does it have darnel?’ Then [the lord] began to reveal to them, ‘An enemy [of] mankind did this.’ Then the slaves reasoned with him, ‘Therefore, after having gone out [there], are you willing that we might completely gather them up?’ Yet [the lord] is revealing [his thoughts],
‘Certainly not, lest, while gathering up the darnel, you might uproot the wheat with them at the same time. You leave both to be growing together until the time of the harvest. And, in the appointed time of the harvest, I will tell the harvesters: “First, you completely gather up the darnel plants and you fully bind them into bundles, in order to thoroughly burn them.
Then you completely assemble the wheat for my grain bin”’” (Mat. 13:24b-25, from: Ὡμοιώθη ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀνθρώπῳ σπείραντι καλὸν σπέρμα ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ αὐτοῦ. ἐν
δὲ τῷ καθεύδειν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἦλθεν αὐτοῦ ὁ ἐχθρὸς καὶ ἐπέσπειρεν ζιζάνια ἀνὰ μέσον
τοῦ σίτου καὶ ἀπῆλθεν. ὅτε δὲ ἐβλάστησεν ὁ χόρτος καὶ καρπὸν ἐποίησεν, τότε ἐφάνη καὶ τὰ
ζιζάνια. προσελθόντες δὲ οἱ δοῦλοι τοῦ οἰκοδεσπότου εἶπον αὐτῷ· Κύριε, οὐχὶ καλὸν σπέρμα
ἔσπειρας ἐν τῷ σῷ ἀγρῷ; πόθεν οὖν ἔχει ζιζάνια; ὁ δὲ ἔφη αὐτοῖς· Ἐχθρὸς ἄνθρωπος τοῦτο
ἐποίησεν. οἱ δὲ δοῦλοι αὐτῷ λέγουσιν· Θέλεις οὖν ἀπελθόντες συλλέξωμεν αὐτά; ὁ δέ
φησιν· Οὔ, μήποτε συλλέγοντες τὰ ζιζάνια ἐκριζώσητε ἅμα αὐτοῖς τὸν σῖτον· ἄφετε
συναυξάνεσθαι ἀμφότερα μέχρι τοῦ θερισμοῦ· καὶ ἐν καιρῷ τοῦ θερισμοῦ ἐρῶ τοῖς
θερισταῖς· Συλλέξατε πρῶτον τὰ ζιζάνια καὶ δήσατε αὐτὰ εἰς δέσμας πρὸς τὸ κατακαῦσαι
αὐτά, τὸν δὲ σῖτον συναγάγετε εἰς τὴν ἀποθήκην μου, SBLGNT).
As every elect soul experiences life, he or she will see how some seem to be utterly incapable of acknowledging the most obvious manifestations of truth, and are not capable of truly loving anyone.
But neither are the ones who are able to truly love always able to comprehend what they clearly see with their own eyes. And many of those able to love, the elect, become full of lies and delusions that they do not have a clue about what they need to do to live abundant loving and just lives on earth, together with other elect souls, and beside the unjust, unloving non-elect. For the immature, ignorant spirits of those elect are often suppressed and oppressed, like the humanists, and assume that all have
“free will,” that terrorism is required to keep law-breakers in check, that all sinners must either suffer greatly or be painfully destroyed through revenge, as horrifying examples to other would-be sinners.
Very few elect know the real God, nor His truths revealed in nature and in the Scriptures, but believe the unnatural and unbiblical lies taught in their fake churches, by servants of Satan’s fourth kingdom.
But the awakened spirits of the elect realize that their first and foremost duty in life is to learn from God’s Spirit, to develop the wisdom to manage their flesh on earth, in a way that justly and equitably serves all God’s creations through their spirits’ love. And serving God and His creations through love will not cause spiritual harm to anyone or anything, as they limit or stop expression of their hurtful and deadly impulses of the flesh. Nor is this suppression of their own carnal desires burdensome or confining in any way, when it is done through the love of their spirits for God and His creations. In fact, this kind of just, equitable love builds inner liberty and joy, all true freedoms in life. Therefore, Page 950
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Jesus took aside only His closest disciples, only those who could rightly handle this knowledge, only those with enough humility and wisdom to refrain from making rash and destructive judgments about others. Then He more clearly explained the meanings of these parables to them, but not to the other elect in the crowd. And, in His explanation, our Creator God Jesus identified the figurative entities found in the parable about the two kinds of human seeds sown on the earth, and described how each entity interacted with Him and the others, while He also revealed the parable’s timeline:
“The one sowing the beautifully good seed is the Son of mankind. Then the field is the world order. And the beautifully good seed, these are the heirs of the kingdom. So the darnel are the heirs of the evil one, and the enemy having sown them is the devil. Now the harvest is the completion of the age, and the harvesters are angels. Therefore, in same way as the darnel is being gathered up and is being burned by fire, so too it will be in the completion of the age.
The Son of mankind will send out His angels on a mission, and they will gather up, out from His [earthly] kingdom, all those causing sin and practising lawlessness. Then they will cast them into the furnace filled with fire. The weeping and the gnashing of the teeth will be there.
Then the just ones will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one having ears is being commanded to hear!” (Mat. 13:37b-38, from: Ὁ σπείρων τὸ καλὸν σπέρμα ἐστὶν ὁ
υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου· ὁ δὲ ἀγρός ἐστιν ὁ κόσμος· τὸ δὲ καλὸν σπέρμα, οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ υἱοὶ τῆς
βασιλείας· τὰ δὲ ζιζάνιά εἰσιν οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ πονηροῦ, ὁ δὲ ἐχθρὸς ὁ σπείρας αὐτά ἐστιν ὁ
διάβολος· ὁ δὲ θερισμὸς συντέλεια αἰῶνός ἐστιν, οἱ δὲ θερισταὶ ἄγγελοί εἰσιν. ὥσπερ οὖν
συλλέγεται τὰ ζιζάνια καὶ πυρὶ καίεται, οὕτως ἔσται ἐν τῇ συντελείᾳ τοῦ αἰῶνος· ἀποστελεῖ ὁ
υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τοὺς ἀγγέλους αὐτοῦ, καὶ συλλέξουσιν ἐκ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ πάντα τὰ
σκάνδαλα καὶ τοὺς ποιοῦντας τὴν ἀνομίαν, καὶ βαλοῦσιν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν κάμινον τοῦ πυρός·
ἐκεῖ ἔσται ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων. Τότε οἱ δίκαιοι ἐκλάμψουσιν ὡς ὁ ἥλιος
ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῶν. ὁ ἔχων ὦτα ἀκουέτω, SBLGNT).
Jesus first identified the subject of this parable for the more spiritually mature disciples in His home.
He told them that this parable was about “the kingdom of the heavens.” And, once more, “heavens”
is plural. So Jesus was not only teaching about His temporary kingdom on earth, since this earth is only one of the “fields” in His kingdoms, and His earthly kingdom is temporary, ordained for total destruction at an appointed time. So here Jesus was also teaching about His eternal kingdom, His home in heaven, where angels dwell, which His heirs on earth will inherit. Then Jesus explicitly declared that the one who sowed the beautiful seed was Himself, “the Son of Mankind” (ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ
ἀνθρώπου). Next, we must notice that “the field” (ὁ ἀγρός) was “the world order” (ὁ κόσμος). That is, the Greek noun κόσμος always indicates a system, and its ecclesiastical use refers to literally all humans on earth. So, since no limiting adjectives were employed here, the scope of this parable is very broad, covering the entire existence of all people who ever lived or ever will live on the earth.
Of course, all of “the beautifully good seed” (τὸ καλὸν σπέρμα) are “the heirs of the kingdom” (οἱ
υἱοὶ τῆς βασιλείας). In other words, since the local context was about the elect on earth, this parable is also about the elect on earth, all of them. And the plural noun υἱοὶ is gender-indefinite, referring to both male and female heirs of a father’s estate. It refers to all those who will inherit the kingdom from the kingdom’s Owner, that is, all the elect children of the heavenly Father. For the Greek word υἱός was not only used as a reference to a son who was an heir of his father, but also as a reference to a daughter who was an heir of her father. Likewise, the “the darnel” seed (τὰ ζιζάνιά) were “the heirs of the evil one” (οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ πονηροῦ), including both male and female heirs. Since this “evil one” is a sower, father and, thus, a personal entity, and the darnel are human beings like the elect, that is, a people who will inherit the evil one’s kingdom. This “evil one” is obviously Satan, the “prince” of Page 951
the dark world order. Yet there once was a good “world order,” consisting only of “beautifully good”
heirs of God. But the “world order,” which the New Covenant Scriptures refer to in current times with many very negative descriptors, clearly is not that original, beautiful “world order.” Only after Jesus returns will the world order once more become beautiful, just like He created in the beginning.
In the beginning, when God created His structured, systematic human family of the world order on His temporary earth, all was beautifully good. But that was because it consisted only of His elect children. There were no non-elect souls in human society at that time, nor demonic spirits from the eternal realms. Adam and Eve dwelt in a planned garden, in a “nursery” structured to keep them safe, where even the animals within that enclave did not kill or die. Therefore, the infantile spirits of those two human beings learned very little about deeply loving their heavenly Father, their oldest Brother who walked in that garden with them, or one another. For nothing existed within that enclave to hold up in contrast with what their fleshy senses took pleasure in. All was the same. All was true, real and loving. So God’s children realized nothing about the wonders of God’s detailed craftsmanship, and ignored the massive webs of harmonious inter-connectivity evident in all His earthly creations. They did not see how the earth, and all that was upon it, manifested the attributes of God, but also warned them against characteristics which did not meet the high standards of their holy Creator. Both male and female simply assumed that all existed to serve them, without any regard for the wise thoughts and efforts of their Father and Brother, which planned and built all that their fleshy senses desired.
Yet their Father and Brother created the earth to be a training ground for those little infantile spirits of His elect, not just a nursery. God wanted the spirits of His children to grow and mature, to become even more knowledgeable, wise and loving than His greatest heavenly angels. His plan included a short time on earth, where His elect would experience both good and evil, then a long teaching time at heaven’s gate, to make them ready for the rigours of heaven, where they would serve His perfect heavenly creations beside Him. Thus, after the days of their infancy had passed, when Adam and Eve became capable of cherishing Him and one another enough to learn greater love, their heavenly Father allowed the loveless spirit of Satan into the garden, knowing this devil would cunningly tempt His children into the death of their earthly flesh. Sure enough, they believed the lie. Both the man and the woman naively sought the delusions presented to them. Both reached out for the desires of their eyes, the cravings of their flesh and the foolish pride of trusting in themselves, thinking they could control their own destinies without clinging to the counsel of God incarnate, walking in that garden with them. Neither of their spirits minded a single thought for their love of God or for the spiritual and moral covenants that each made with the other. Adam and Eve intentionally sinned.
Now the spirits of Adam and Eve would begin their real teaching and training from their Father and oldest Brother. They learned their first spiritual lesson and their spirits had become more like the Spirit of God. They began to distinguish between good and evil, saw the critical value of their spirits’
love and covenants, and realized how spiritual matters affected every aspect of their lives, including a man’s joy in the labours of his hands, and a woman’s joy of gathering children and her people into the sphere of her life. Now it was the appointed time for God to hand down His temporary world order, His entire systematic moral and spiritual structure of human society, to a subject authority, in order to continue the teaching and training of all future generations of His elect. As God ruled over all from above, a subject ruler, under His authority, would bear some influence over mankind below.
And that subject ruler, the prince of the air covering the entire earth, would provide a juxtaposition of good and evil in the world order, so all could see the obvious contrast of that ruler’s ways set against the wise, just, loving ways of God. And, although the elect kept their infants from the sight of evil, their adult spirits would learn to choose good over evil, and become ever more like their Father.
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To this day, all the elect become sinners through the same kinds of minds and bodies of flesh that Adam and Eve possessed. And the non-elect children of the devil, sown among those good seeds, sin too. Yet God gave all these sinners over to the rule of the devil for a purpose, so that the spirits of all His elect could learn to discern between good and evil, then repent into the good, so He could fully restore the relationship between their spirits and His Holy Spirit. For each restoration would increase their love for Him and one another. Of course, the entire “field” of the world order remained under God’s sole ownership. Even the chained and limited spirit of Satan himself was also owned by God.
Therefore, that devil’s authority always has been subject to the higher authority of our King, of our heavenly Father and oldest Brother, of our God. Still, that extra layer of authority over the world order has made life very difficult for the elect children of God, especially after Satan seeded his own children among them, the ones whom Jesus called “darnel” in His parable. And that darnel, after it sprouts, grows plants which look exactly like wheat. Darnel can infiltrate the wheat for almost the entire growing season without revealing its true nature, except to those with well-trained eyes. In every way, they physically look just like the beautifully good elect. But darnel seeds, which its body produces, are darker and usually smaller than the beautiful wheat. And wheat is nourishing while darnel is noxious. Furthermore, wheat can only produce good fruit by the end of the last day, but darnel can only produce bad fruit in the end. Neither can choose the kind of fruit it will produce. So Jesus wisely chose these two kinds of seeds for His parable of His field, to illustrate the differences between elect and non-elect spirits grown on earth, and the spiritual fruits that each always produces.
Then notice how, in this parable, Jesus claimed to be God. Jesus claimed that He Himself was the Sower of the beautiful seed. He was the Creator who placed all elect spirits into bodies of flesh, even all who would ever live on earth throughout history, until the harvest on the final judgment day. It is also interesting how this parable states that He placed the seeds or spirits in all the elect who will ever live on earth at once, on one day. And this doctrine is consistently taught throughout the Bible, at many times and in many ways. Adam and Eve, and all who will live until the “harvest” of the judgment day, were all sown on earth at once. So this is yet another Scripture which hints at the fact that God created all earthly time (past, present and future) at the same time, and that all earthly time exists simultaneously. But no one knew this back then, and science has only recently discovered this truth, within the last century. Only Jesus knew that all elect spirits were created from the “breath” or Spirit of the Creator God on the same “day.” Thus, with this knowledge of physics, Jesus not only claimed that His Spirit is this non-material utterly Holy Spirit of God, but also gave evidence of it.
Jesus breathed all elect spirits into bodies of flesh on earth at the same time, but also caused each individual spirit to experience an earthly life in its own “now” upon His physical creation, each in a different “time.” However, literally all spirits belong to the spiritual realm. So all spirits dwell in spiritual time alone. But time in the spiritual realm is not linear, does not progress from the past into the future, through a present “now.” Linear time on earth is an experience which the spirits of all humans, animals and plants were granted by God, within this material facsimile of both heaven and hell. Nevertheless, all time in the spiritual realm is one “now,” just as it actually is in this material creation which consists of the transformed spiritual power of God according to His will. To a spirit, time is just a collection of its own experiences and its own knowledge, and where all the states of a spirit’s own ignorance and wisdom exist at the very same time. So the material world is a temporary manifestation held within a moment of “now” in the spiritual realm, and God designed it for the teaching and training of His children, for the education of His infantile elect human spirits. On the other hand, although the material universe is temporary, it exists forever in a “moment” of non-linear time belonging to the spiritual realm. Consequently, the spirits of His elect can study every detail of Page 953
all times and all places on earth while dwelling in the spiritual realm. And they will do so, especially as they are being perfected and completed at the gates of heaven. But those human elect spirits are also existing in the spiritual realm of heaven “now,” at the same time as those spirits are confined to the experience of their earthly lives. Likewise, non-elect human spirit are existing in the spiritual realm of hell “now, during their earthly lives. If we begin to see the reality of God’s creation of the first day, which is also the last day, which is also the one day of all spiritual time, then we can begin to focus on the most important aspects of life on earth, that is, upon the spiritual love we must learn.
Jesus is the one and only Creator God, who made all physical and spiritual existence for His own good purposes. Now, considering how Jesus claimed to be the Creator God, and how this parable speaks about all the elect human beings existing in all time on earth, and how it also spoke about all three “heavens” owned by God, we know the scope of this parable is definitely not confined to a
“visible church,” as some like to say. Many churches love to point out that the reason their flocks consist of so many loveless and outright psychopathic members is because God was too weak to create a pure priesthood on earth, one true church which consisted only of just and loving elect souls.
Arrogant religious humanists, many of whom are sociopaths, prefer to ignore biblical teachings and spread false doctrines about “free will,” so their people will put up with those loveless psychopaths who preserve the incomes and power of their fake churches belonging to Satan’s world order. They want their people with give even the non-elect a chance to repent. But they never want their people to obey their God Jesus, who commanded us to abandon deliberate sinners, and prevent them from joining in our works of the church, until God chooses grant true repentance to the elect spirits who are held captive by the cunning of the devil and his children. For Jesus clearly defined the scope of this parable to include literally all human beings who have ever lived and who ever will live on the earth. Jesus not only began this parable with a statement about “the kingdom of the heavens,” which indicated all three heavens, but also spoke about all “the beautifully good seed” sown in this “field”
of the earth, the seed belonging to the Sower (ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ αὐτοῦ). This “field” includes God’s entire
“world order,” all the tribes and nations of humans on earth, including His one and only eternal priesthood of His true church. Then all of humankind was corrupted by Satan, who sowed his own noxious seeds among them, although God Himself keeps track of His elect children. And God knows which elect souls He has chosen to awaken, teach and train as the only true members of His only true priesthood on earth. God also knows that His elect heavenly angels will make no mistakes when they separate the wheat from the darnel during the harvest of the last day. Then literally all of His elect children will be brought into His true church, and serve heaven’s creations with Him forever after.
Our God Himself, Jesus, sowed the good seed in the beginning, before any human heirs of Satan existed on earth. So this parable of the field figuratively describes the entire history of mankind, starting in the days when only Adam and Eve lived on the earth, when the world order knew no sin.
Jesus began this parable with the verb ὁμοιώθη, the aorist (punctiliar) passive form of ὁμοιόω, indicating what the kingdom of the heavens “had been like at one point in past time, ” in comparison with what it was like at the time Jesus uttered this parable. This aorist implied that the “field,” His earthly kingdom, is no longer like it was in the very beginning. Back then, He sowed only beautiful seed in the world. Only a sinless Adam and sinless Eve dwelt in the garden. Both the material earth and His spiritual heaven were uncorrupted. Yes, the temporary earth, outside the Garden of Eden, did see the deaths of temporary flesh, with the eternal spirits of sinless plants and animals returning to their eternal spiritual bodies in heaven. But the humans, the only creatures on earth who were able to sin, had not yet sinned, and there were no non-elect spirits born of Satan in any humans at that time.
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Only after the human elect sinned, did God grant the devil a limited authority over the entire world order, over the systems or societies of mankind, although God refrained from granting Satan any authority over any other living creatures on earth. Then God allowed Satan to create his own human spirit-children on earth, but did not allow that devil to create non-elect spirits in any plant and animal bodies. And those loveless non-elect humans began to apply their innate ruthlessness, to gratify the lusts of their flesh. They set out to prove they were gods, the owners of the earthly properties which actually belonged to the real God. Yet they did not tend their stolen gardens nor take responsibility for their rustled animals, never in the way God commanded at the beginning of time. Nor did they love their siblings in the family of mankind. They did not tenderly care for anyone or anything they falsely claimed to possess. The non-elect were exactly like their hellish father, and only wanted to coerce other spirits into believing their lies and delusions, into bowing only before themselves, as though those pretenders were their creators and saviours. The non-elect were cruel to all elect spirits, towards the souls of humans, animals and plants. For they saw how the earthly ministry of all elect spirits was to manifest truths, to demonstrate the effects of both good and evil. And they hated all elect spirits for reminding them that they were powerless to invent their own “truths,” that truths created by God would exist forever. So those fake human gods fought for the “right” to create their own false “truths,” their own self-serving principles used to govern their own plundered properties.
So this parable of the field encompasses an “age” which began at the beginning of the earth, just before God placed the first human spirits into bodies of flesh. Then it extends throughout all the time the earth has existed. It covers the days of all humans living on earth, all the time in which Satan has ruled over sinners, both the elect and his own spirit children. This parable also refers to the future, to the “the completion of the age” (συντέλεια αἰῶνός) and “the harvest” (θερισμὸς), which obviously indicates the final judgment day, after God “burns” the material universe. For, when Jesus spoke about the “harvest,” He implied the end of all the plants on the field, both the wheat and the darnel, the end of both elect and non-elect humans. Then Jesus did not say that this “field” would be sown again. For God told us, in other Scriptures, that the judgment day will occur after this temporary
“field” of God’s earthly kingdom is destroyed, after both the earth and outer space no longer exist.
Clearly, this parable encompasses the lives of all humans on earth throughout all history. In the light of what Jesus explained in this parable, and considering all we know from all other Scriptures, Jesus was drawing a picture of the earth’s entire history, up to its end, in order to explain why some people on earth will be unloving liars and murderers, like the devil, while others possess an innate potential to become loving, honest providers of spiritual and physical life. For some spirits were sown on earth by God and others by Satan, the enemy of God and His elect children. Jesus was telling us this so we would know why some spirits are never able to repent. Some hearts cannot be transformed into a soft, rich, deep, fertile soil, free of rocks and weeds. God cannot grant some spirits an ability to grow fruits of abundant love from the seeds of His Holy Spirit’s reasoning, because some human spirits were not directly fashioned from God’s breath, as emulations of His holy Spirit. The heavenly Father only created certain chosen human spirits in His image, in the image of Jesus’ Spirit. Other human spirits originated from the spirit or breath of the devil, and were made in the image of Satan.
Of course, the elect find it difficult to tell the difference between bodies with elect spirits and bodies with non-elect spirits, because all bodies are alike, and our spirits cannot see other spirits while locked inside our opaque bodies of flesh. For God does not allow our eyes of flesh to see most spirits during our teaching and training time on earth. God will usually only let our spirits detect the condition of other spirits by observing the fruits of those other spirits, by the ways in which their spirits manifest inner motives and intentions through words and deeds of their flesh. And this makes Page 955
most of the elect difficult to identify, since so many have been trampled into hard paths which serve Satan’s world order, or are filled with impenetrable stones below the surface, or are choked with the weeds of countless delusions and lies. Most hearts of the elect become be totally fruitless for God, and resemble the lives of the non-elect. Jesus constantly reminds us of this, lest we judge falsely. He often lifts a spiritual mirror to our faces, to prove that the image we see there is a sinner like all the rest. Then He softly repeats this to our humbled spirits: “You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world [order], according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit [of Satan] who now works in [his] children of disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest” (Eph. 2:1-3, WEB). So, at the same time He reminds us that we were dead in sin, He also reminds us of our potential to live in Him again, how we can be like Him, serving all life, bearing the good fruits of His pure, just love.
Jesus gave us this parable about His field of elect and non-elect human spirits after providing the parable about the four kinds of elect, since He did not want us to be careless about identifying His elect. For we must not cast out the elect who sin, or those whose earthly lives are damaged, the elect who are left with limited abilities. For we need all the elect to do His works on earth. The elect need one another because we have so much work to do on earth, both in our own hearts and in the hearts of other elect souls. We must till, remove stones, weed, water, fertilize and endlessly protect His good seed from predators. Together, with our wise Husbandman inside us, we must also undo all the destructive works of Satan, must restore the ruins and dead zones left by His violent and vandalizing human offspring. Labouring beside Jesus in our hearts and souls, all our spirits must be of one mind and one purpose, with none left behind, to build up His just and loving kingdom on earth. Since all our works must be wise and effective, every task that bears good fruit for our heavenly Father must be guided by Jesus’ counsel and teachings in every kind of elect soul, by the guidance He freely and abundantly grants to all kinds of elect hearts, by that which He utters directly to all His elect spirits at once. So this joining of all the members into the one body of our God Jesus is essential. And, in order to identify our other elect siblings, we need to look for those bearing His good fruits, even just one single truly good fruit of God-like love. This love is the most identifiable feature of an elect spirit, since such a work can only be done effectively by an elect spirit who is being taught by God.
All our works must be enabled by God’s own mighty hands. And God only enables the spirits, souls and flesh of those He Himself created to do His works of heaven. So we must rely on our God for all our strength and all else we will need to do His works. Then we must realize that Jesus alone is able to grant growth to elect spirits, and He alone can command elect angels during the final harvest. We must remain humble, knowing we merely assist our God, the Owner of all, in all His works. We are His little children, not the owners nor the masters of anything existing on earth, even our own lives.
Furthermore, God created different kinds of elect souls in His image, some to perform certain kinds of tasks and some to do other kinds of work, much like the members of our body perform different functions for our body, some internal and some external. Therefore, if we negligently disregard the members who are not like us, then the body of Jesus will become dysfunctional on earth. If an arm proudly declares that it is the only useful and necessary member of Jesus’ body on earth, then keeps itself detached from the rest of the body, it will have no blood from the heart to nourish it, no body to counterbalance and lever its strength, no legs to carry it to the workplace. It will be nothing, just a flailing hunk of useless flesh laying on the ground, which will die and rot away. So we must ignore the false preachers who say all must become evangelists or be exactly like them. Rather, we need to Page 956
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hear Jesus and search for all the other elect souls on earth, all who do the various kinds of His good works through His kind of love. We need them all. All must labour together as His body on earth.
God’s elect children never possess the knowledge, wisdom or power to control our own earthly or eternal destinies, much less the salvation of any other living souls. For only our God brings the sun and water to His field, not us. Only our Father, through Jesus, grants the eternal attributes of all elect spirits. He decides who will be His elect children and who will be the darnel sown by the devil. Jesus alone assigns both the eternal and earthy destinies and works to each elect child, for each one’s own joy. Also, the soils, and all that is in us, both the good and the bad, originate from Him. Then the plows and that which pulls those plows, the equipment and supplies of the sowers, the sources used by those who water, and all other necessary things for growing life, were created and are now owned by our God. We merely do as He commands with what He grants to us, so we might gain our shared inheritance from Him. We do good for the entire estate we will inherit, because this is also for our own good. If we do all according to His teaching and training, all will grow abundant fruits of love from His seeds of pure truth. In His knowledge and wisdom, all shall conform to His image, led into the destined fulfilling of all our spirits’ desires. In Jesus, all the beautifully good seeds of infantile elect spirits will bear much fruit, will be satisfied with their works and filled with joy on the last day.