insert their own hell into our lives. There is no real choice in this matter. We cannot serve both God and Satan at the same time, nor build up God’s kingdom and the devil’s kingdom in the same heart.
If a church or individual thinks it is foolish and unnecessary to cut off a luring and unrepentant
“hand” or “foot,” or wants us to worship a deceiving or blind “eye” as our god and refused to let us pluck it out, we must teach that one all that God’s Word says about those sinners. Many like to think they are being rational, wise and compassionate by allowing deliberate liars and sinners to exploit and destroy others. Some even misquote Jesus by saying that we must not judge those workers of iniquity and murder. Yet those do-nothings with their controlled tempers know neither God nor the Scriptures. And they are either an immature, foolish elect souls whose spirits have not yet been awakened by Jesus, or are non-elect souls who cannot love and, therefore, cannot repent into the truth. Either way, those who refuse to judge in these matters are building up Satan’s world order and have cut themselves off from God’s just and loving kingdom. Instead of plucking out the blind or deceiving eye, they have plucked out Jesus Christ, to prevent Him from being the eye of one’s life.
“So, if your hand or your foot is causing you to lure someone into sin, cut it off and cast it from you.
It is beautifully useful for you to enter into thee life maimed or lame, rather than have two hands or two feet, to have been cast into the eternal fire. And if your eye is causing you to lure someone into sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is beautifully useful for you to enter into thee life one-eyed, rather than have two eyes, to have been cast into the hell of fire.” Although a church or individual may loose some ability to do greater works for Satan by cutting off a gangrened hand or foot, it is
“beautifully useful” (καλός) to still possess a somewhat lesser ability to do truly just and loving works for Jesus. For one small “beautifully useful” work for our Creator is infinitely better than the sum total of all the greatest works of the devil’s world order throughout history. If a church or person cuts off the help or support of a gangrened hand or foot, life in the flesh may become more difficult for a time, but the help and support of our Father and Brother will improve both our physical and our spiritual well-being. It is also infinitely more “beautifully useful” to set one’s only good eye upon our Teacher and His truth than to have two eyes that see nothing but the hopeless emptiness of Satan and his lies. And eternal heaven is also infinitely better than hiding forever in the darkness of hell.
Our goal is “to enter into thee life” (εἰς τὴν ζωὴν εἰσελθεῖν), into a particular kind of life. And here (in Mat. 18:8) Jesus referred to a biological life (ζωή), that is, to an abundant life here on earth, with bodies and souls that are filled and quickened by our spirits’ love, truth, justice and joy. For only this kind of life is “beautifully useful.” So anyone or anything that steals from this kind of life must be cut off from us, or plucked out of our lives. Yet, at the same time, Jesus continued His teaching by adding that we should, “Clearly see to it that you [disciples] do not look down on one of the least of these” (v. 10). That is, we must not judge in unjust ways. We must judge rightly, in biblical ways, by the motives and intentions of spirits, while teaching for possible repentance into the truth by the elect souls being judged. Then He gave the reason for this, because “their angels in the heavens are seeing through all things, this before the face of My Father in the heavens.” In other words, Jesus was saying that we must be careful in judging others because our heavenly Father will be watching us.
Literally all human hands, feet and eyes make mistakes and sin. But the elect hands, feet and eyes will all eventually repent away from lies and sins, into the truth, as soon as their spirits learn from Christ’s Holy Spirit. And this is why we insist that there is only one Head over literally everyone in every true church, only one sinless Teacher of every individual man, Jesus the Messiah. Only Jesus can save by causing a spirit to repent. Thus, the elders of a church are merely the eyes of that body, and others are its hands and feet. Furthermore, the body of Jesus has countless eyes, hands and feet, as well as multiples of all other organs. One medium sized local church in apostolic times usually Page 1172
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had ten or more eyes, fifty or more hands and twenty or more feet. So the many eyes would keep one another from arrogance, from thinking they were gods controlling the destinies of the other people.
All true elders in all true churches are to judge all matters of life and faith in Jesus’ name alone, as equally sinful brothers within the family of God. True elders also know that they need Jesus to teach and train their spirits as much as all their other siblings do. So an elder’s goal is never to gain some kind of manipulating power over others, or make others feel like lesser children of God. Nor will true elders ever seek any kind of revenge through their judgments. Rather, their primary goal is to teach sinners to repent into the realities God created, into the truth. And they judge others in fear and trembling before their utterly holy God, because they know that heavenly spirits see all that is in their own ignorant, sinful and infantile spirits. All our hearts think or do will be seen and heard by angels, then made known to our heavenly Father. And “with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you” (Mat. 7:2, WEB).
After teaching us to respect even those who sin and make mistakes (18:10), Jesus also taught us how to judge our hands, feet and eyes rightly, so we will know whether or not to “cut off” or “pluck out”
someone from our church or from our personal lives (see 18:15-20). But in all cases, let us realize that literally all of us are sinners, and all of us will always remain sinners while we live in bodies of flesh. No matter how much Jesus teaches and trains our spirits, we will never receive enough truth or wisdom for our infantile spirits to then completely manage our amoral, self-seeking flesh every moment of every day, to prevent ourselves from ever sinning again. To become totally sinless while dwelling in flesh on earth, our spirits would have to become omniscient, knowing everything, so we could make all decisions and judgments rightly. Also, our spirits would have to become omnipotent, so that no evil spirit could ever overpower us for even an instant. In other words, the only way to be utterly sinless is either to be taken out of this amoral body of earthly flesh, or to become the almighty and all-knowing Creator God Himself. But, since we cannot become God, we will only become totally sinless in heaven, after receiving a new spiritual body and after a very long judgment day of being taught and trained by our God Jesus Himself. Until then, we humbly admit that we are sinful.
However, Jesus grants our spirits enough teaching and training to provide us with an abundant life here on this earth. In Him, we can nullify the works of the devil and his world order, so we can then build up the kingdom of God on earth, so His just, loving will is done on earth as it is in heaven. But this kind of life is only granted to the humbled elect, to those who realize, through the teaching of our Lord Jesus, that they are destructive sinners who need Him and His people. If His true words do not utterly humiliate one’s spirit, and teach one to be humble, one cannot receive abundant life in Him. He cannot work with a dishonest and stubborn spirit that does not trust Him and His words. So He will not intercede in one’s life, nor multiply the effects of one’s very little works. If one is proud and independent, trusting no one, then one can never be taught to love in a just, merciful, forgiving and eternally covenanting way. Thus, none of the proud can enter into His New Covenant salvation.
On the final judgment day, our Judge, Jesus, will soundly rebuke and humiliate all the elect who have remained proud on earth. He will open their eyes to see how much they forfeited and forever lost during their lives on earth, how impoverished and weak they are as they stand before Him, in the bright exposing spiritual light at heaven’s gate. They will look around them at all who come to the lands of that gate with healthy spiritual bodies, well nourished and shining in the garments of loving righteousness they had received even while they lived in flesh on earth. Then those proud elect will lament bitterly over all they foolishly forfeited during their short stay on this training ground. Yet, through their great loss on earth, they will be humbled, able to be taught truth and wisdom for life.
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The proud on earth are made blind, foolish and destructive. Their stubborn hearts are handed over to the delusions they cherish, for the destruction of their flesh. For pride, by definition, cannot love the truth, since truth humiliates and humbles. Therefore, both the proud elect and the prouder non-elect are handed over to Satan to be deluded, to be cast into a dark and deadly unreality. So it is true that pride comes before a fall, possibly before eternal falling into the bottomless pit of hell. And we so often see how arrogance destroys souls. Those who take refuge in the pride of life, in the possession of superficial and meaningless physical rewards—like wealth, power, race, false religions or other self-esteeming lies of the devil—become the most destructively foolish souls in every land which allows them to indulge in those fantasies. And every humanistic nation on earth not only allows it, but greatly encourages this kind of delusional pride. Yet the awakened elect must flee from any form of pride. All who seek abundant life in God, while living in flesh on earth, must learn to be humble.
And we must also understand that the effective and biblical kind of humility is spiritual. It is a state of realization learned by the mind of an elect spirit. Although the words and behaviours of the flesh might practise to outwardly appear humble, those humble-looking souls might actually possess very arrogant spirits which trust in themselves far more than they trust in God. And even a psychopath can outwardly look humble and friendly, and pretend to be as common as the dupes that one actually despises as his or her subhuman and inferior victims. Meanwhile, the opposite is may be true. There are some elect souls who tremble at the words and presence of God, realizing how absolutely weak their spirits actually are, and how terribly prone they are to sin. But some of these have been taught by man to put on an outward show of confidence and self-reliance, although they inwardly know they are inadequate, that their spirits are ignorant and utterly incapable of saving even themselves, much less the others who rely on them. Yet their humble spirits put on an outward show of pride, as they do the necessary works of God, while their hearts desperately pray for the help of their heavenly Father and their oldest Brother. Therefore, God does help them accomplish all that is necessary to provide a just and loving life for their people. Knowing their own weakness allows God to help those inwardly humble elect. He makes all the humble into the most powerfully effective workers on earth.
But the internally proud, who cannot see how wretched, ignorant and weak their own spirits actually are, can never do any good. They take over a building that God designed, then tear out any doors and walls that slightly inconvenience them. Yet God installed those doors and walls for good reasons. For God’s HVAC system needs those doors and walls to adequately regulate air flow and temperature in the building, as well as to contain any fires His people might start. Thus, after removing those doors and walls, the proud complain that some rooms suffer the heat of hate while others remain too cold and loveless. Yet they refuse to reinstall the doors and walls according to God’s design. Eventually, a fire of sin breaks out and destroys the entire building, since it could not be contained. Then the proud curse God and slander Him, saying that His design was so bad that no one could live or work in His building, and that His faulty design also caused their church to be destroyed by fire and endangered their lives. But we must not be like those stupidly arrogant ones. Rather, we must put up with the minor inconvenience of His doors and walls in His church, and consult Him before we want to make any changes to His building at any time. We need to trust in His wisdom regarding all He designed, including the heavy steel doors of justice and the walls to prevent us from worshipping human gods.
But the worst of all are false elders, the eyes of the church who try to be human gods and cry out:
“Look here to me, not to Jesus! For I have discovered the root of all evil in the universe, all that threatens to overthrow the kingdom of the heavens and God Himself. And I found it in the secret conspiracies of demonic souls who want to show compassion to the poor, to the disabled, to sinners and to others. So run to me, urgently, or all will be lost! Give me all your money, to help me war Page 1174
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against them! Lay down your lives as my slaves, to do my bidding! Then I, even I, I the great, I the magnificent, I the wise and the powerful, I who counsel and empower the Creator Himself, will lead you against those terrible people. I, who am far more loving and merciful than God, will make the rich richer and your lives more impoverished, more painful, more anxious and more enslaved, to save you from those demonic conspirators who want equity! Worship me! For only I can save you!”
And the most amazing thing about the invariably destructive foolishness of all these wanna-be gods, who are all so obviously deluded and psychopathic, is how their dupes believe them and become even more deluded and stupid than those human gods, even as those human gods steal their freedom and their lives. And this is not merely a new phenomenon we have seen in the last century with fake preachers and their secular buddies, like Hitler, Trump and other autocrats. This is something which has been occurring throughout history. Two thousand years ago, Paul wrote this to dupes following fake preachers: “For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face” (II Cor. 11:20, WEB). Nothing has ever changed. Satan’s non-elect children come, tell dupes to fear good and embrace the kinds of evil which will cause them to suffer and die in slavery, then the dupes willingly follow those liars.
Selfish souls who do not love God’s beautiful truths of justice and equity, who rage against taking the responsibilities of freedom, who crave only the carnal rewards of money and power, have always been handed over to self-destructive delusions, which demonic spirits gladly pour into their minds of flesh. And this will never change. So, until Jesus returns, we will always see lying frauds, made in the image of Satan’s humanistic beast, rise up and lead dupes into chaos, pain and death. In that devil’s factious kingdom, there will always be wanna-be human gods telling carnally minded fools to blindly follow them into wars against other races or religions, against opposing teachings or works, against physical substances like drugs or alcohol, against a certain kinds of clothing or customs, against rival organizations or groups of siblings, or against other visually identifiable things, while all those human gods studiously avoid identifying the actual spiritual and moral causes of injustice and evil in their lands. Those human gods will repeatedly prove their total lack of knowledge and wisdom, as well as their psychopathic hearts that lead souls into self-destruction for their own profit and power. Yet their dupes will still blindly follow them into their bitter end, because God will hand all who hate His wise and beneficial truths over to inescapable delusions, for their own destruction.
Therefore, let any elect spirit who possesses even the least of God’s truths and wisdom refuse to follow those self-proclaimed human gods. Let those elect spirits worship, hear and heed the counsel of God’s just, equitable, loving Holy Spirit instead. For our God will empower us to nullify Satan’s destructive works against God’s creations, and strengthen our hands to build up His just, equitable, loving kingdom on earth. We can no longer afford to blindly follow liars, together with the many millions of their dupes, into darkness. Those obviously idiotic, hating, destructive and murdering popes, fake preachers, brutal dictators, Hitler-like murderers, Trump-like liars, and other deceivers have all come to nothing, throughout history, leaving only their legacies of darkness, slavery, torture, death and injustice. Therefore, let honest, humble elect souls admit how very stupid and lost those humanistic wanna-be fakes truly are, and how bad our world actually is, then repent into the truth.
The honest and humble know that the last thing this world needs is more human gods or “leaders.”
Rather, what we pray for is that our God Jesus might awaken, teach, train and send more elect souls into the world, so each can serve individually and independently under their one and only Head and Lord, as a body with one mind and one purpose, to nullify the works of Satan and build up the just, loving kingdom of God on earth. Our nations need their real Creator God, Jesus, who is able to personally teach and train each individual elect spirit and enable each to fulfill one’s own unique Page 1175
destiny. For none of our real problems are actually caused by bad physical things, but only by the moral and spiritual lies which foolishly handle or abuse physical things. And, whenever the spirits of the people are freed from the dark lies and delusions of demonic spirits, whenever they gain enough knowledge and wisdom to rightly handle the truth, their problems dissipate. So our real enemy is the spiritual, deluding power of demons, which enslaves all who do not love the truth. And Jesus is the source of all truth, and all the power that is able to free us. So all whom Jesus chooses to dwell in, gain the power to overcome any kind of real enemy on earth—even the power of exploiting money and the terrorism of psychopathic, greedy, self-serving dictators enslaved by their father, the devil.
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Judging to Save Siblings
“‘For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost. What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.’
“‘If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.’
“‘Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst’” (Mat. 18:11-20, WEB).
The Primary Goal of Judging is to Save the Lost
In this teaching—just after Jesus told us to cut off an evil hand or foot, and to pluck out a deceiving eye, either from our church bodies or from our personal lives—He also taught us how to judge well and rightly, so we will not judge unjustly by outward appearances alone, but with a true biblical kind of judgment that will measure intentions and motives of the spirit. And Jesus taught us that the very first and foremost objective of every right judgment—in either our churches, our courts of law or our personal lives—is to save the straying elect and to undo the works of lies and sins, to nullify the evil works of the devil. Finding ways to save sinners, and the victims of their sins, are the primary goals of all just judgments. For we must not judge in the same way that the devil’s kingdoms judge, where their elite seek revenge so they can terrorize their captive dupes into blind obedience. Exacting cruel vengeance is a sin, a work of Satan, and is never an aspect of any truly just judgment. Rather, in every judgment, we must remember Jesus’ words about the sheep who stray from the flock, and that
“it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish” (18:14).
All just judgments labour at one task above all others, teaching the truth about the deadly effects of sin, then carefully explaining how and why that sinner needs to fulfill God’s wise, just and loving ways, so that sinner might repent into the truth and build an abundant life for oneself, as well as for Page 1176
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all God’s other creations. This is what we see here, in Jesus’ teaching about our judgments. All the other aspects of a judgment, such as proving the sinner’s guilt, are secondary, although also critical.
Teaching and judging elders, as well as all the other elect, must strive to save the lost, must make room for a sinner’s spirit to wake into the truth, to repent into the truth and work towards all that must be done to build up life, to redeem as much of what has been damaged or lost through sin, as much as God allows, so the sinner may depart from this earth in peace, leaving all of one’s undone works to God and His revived people. But, since no one possesses the knowledge and wisdom to counsel any kind of sinner regarding any kind of truth, we all need the counsel of our Lord’s Holy Spirit, who also reveals His truths through the spirits of our other brothers and sisters. Only in our Messiah and God can we teach elect sinners for repentance, and must not dare to be so arrogant as to think we can make right judgments alone. A good and effective judgment needs God and His most mature disciples, those called to be teaching and judging elders, those who entirely rely on Christ’s Holy Spirit to proclaim truth to elect sinners for their repentance. And, in the end, Jesus is the only one who is able to awaken and counsel the spirits of sinners for repentance into the truth. So all true judges teach all sinners to beg Jesus for this salvation, for the opening of their spirits’ eyes and ears, for His teaching and training of their spirits, so they can repent into His forgiveness and atonement.
If a desire to save lost souls is not an inherent aspect of judgments in a church, secular court or individual relationship, then that judging is opposition to God Himself, and is not truly just. For Jesus said this is God’s will, that none of the elect who go astray should perish in sin. God created and revealed all existing spiritual and moral laws for the good of all His elect children, and He never neglects nor abandons even one of them, since literally all His laws reveal His own core attributes.
Therefore, all that is unjust and unloving stands in direct opposition to God, and even against the foundational laws that God set in every elect heart who lives within every land on earth. Since the Creator is the Owner and King of every land on earth, let no ruler or judge risk his own earthly and eternal judgment by God, by opposing the laws that God firmly embedded in every elect soul. Every government on earth is subject to God’s rule and must fulfill His spiritual laws to be counted as legal and legitimate. Thus, the goal of every lawmaker and judge in every land must be to focus first on saving lost souls who are able to repent, to lead every elect lawbreaker into the truth, by teaching their souls His truths in a way each can comprehend. All just judges are teachers of God’s fulfilled laws in Christ, all the equitable, just and loving ways of God. They only hand out penalties of His law to those who will not or cannot repent into the truth. Even then, they only punish according to the weight of the crime, while also placing the sinner’s inner intentions and motives on the other side of the scale. And maximum punishments must be reserved only for the inwardly lawless, only for the unrepentant who refuse to live in peace, who must be forced to fear the law. Maximum penalties are only for the wilfully unrepentant with the most evil intentions and the most malicious motives, never for the ignorant, the coerced, the innocently deceived or any others who unintentionally commit sin.
All must judge as God Himself judges. And God has granted us examples of how He Himself has punished one sinner severely, but barely punished another at all, then totally forgave yet another, without requiring any kind of punishment whatsoever, even though all those sinners had committed exactly the same kind of sin. For God administers His justice based on each sinner’s motives and intentions of the spirit, and determines whether or not the sinner’s spirit is heeding His teachings and rebukes. Then, if a sinner fully repents into the truth, God forgives entirely, and does not punish that soul at all. Likewise, in this teaching about judging, Jesus commands us to do as God does, so we will not be lured into sin, nor lure others into sin. Jesus taught us to protect the infantile elect spirits who were led astray, who were driven into the wilderness by wolves, and separated from their loving Page 1177
and just Shepherd, as well as from His flock. Our main priorities in every judgment is to save the lost elect, to lead their spirits to repentance. The goal of justice is never punishment and revenge.
Regarding our judgments, Jesus said: “What do you [disciples] think? If a certain man might come to have a hundred sheep and one of them might be caused to go astray, will he not abandon the ninety-nine upon the hill and have journeyed to seek the one being caused to go astray? And if he might come to have found it, most assuredly I reason with you [disciples] that he is rejoicing for it, more than for the ninety-nine not having been caused to go astray. Just so, there is not the will, in the presence of your Father over the heavens, that one of the least of these might have perished” (Mat.
18:12-14, from: τί ὑμῖν δοκεῖ; ἐὰν γένηταί τινι ἀνθρώπῳ ἑκατὸν πρόβατα καὶ πλανηθῇ ἓν ἐξ αὐτῶν, οὐχὶ ἀφήσει τὰ ἐνενήκοντα ἐννέα ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη καὶ πορευθεὶς ζητεῖ τὸ πλανώμενον; καὶ ἐὰν γένηται
εὑρεῖν αὐτό, ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι χαίρει ἐπʼ αὐτῷ μᾶλλον ἢ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐνενήκοντα ἐννέα τοῖς μὴ
πεπλανημένοις. οὕτως οὐκ ἔστιν θέλημα ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἵνα ἀπόληται
ἓν τῶν μικρῶν τούτων, SBLGNT). When Jesus said, “there is not the will, in the presence of your Father over the heavens, that one of the least of these might have perished,” He taught this to all the elect angels and all the awakened elect of His true church—to every just, loving spirit that enters into the Creator’s presence. All must desire what God Himself desires, that even the least of the elect will not perish but have eternal life, will find a just, loving, abundant life here on earth. For Jesus did not only speak about heaven above, but about the “heavens” (plural), including the skies over this earth.
One of the first things we should notice in the above quote is how Jesus spoke of a lost sheep that
“might be caused to go astray” and 99 sheep “not having been caused to go astray.” So the lost one which He spoke about was not a goat who deliberately left the shepherd and the flock. Then the other 99 did not prevent themselves from becoming lost, through their “free wills.” Rather, the one lost sheep represented an elect soul who was caused by external circumstances or by some deceiver to go astray, while the other 99 were not caused to go astray. The phrase, πλανηθῇ ἓν ἐξ αὐτῶν, uses an aorist passive subjunctive form of the verb πλανάω, and the phrase, τοῖς μὴ πεπλανημένοις, has a negative with a perfect passive participle form of the same verb. Then that verb, πλανάω, properly means: “to cause to go astray from a specific way, lead astray, cause to wander” (BDAG3). So the aorist tense of the first form indicates a past completed action of causing to go astray, the subjunctive mode indicates a possible or hypothetical action (i.e., here implying that the entity causing the action could be anyone or anything), and the passive voice indicates that the action was performed upon the subject. Then the perfect tense of the passive participle form, with the negative, indicates that the 99
other sheep never had been caused to go astray, and do not now suffer any ill effects from being caused to go astray. So we need to realize that Jesus was portraying His elect as creatures who do not naturally go astray, do not willingly leave the shepherd and their flock, unless some other entity may
cause them to wander off. But He was also implying that all the elect are prone to being caused to go astray, and a few are actually caused to go astray, through no fault of their own. But, if one elect soul is led into lies and sins, then our God Jesus will surely search for that one, and personally lead or drag that lost one back to His flock. Then this is also the mission of His chosen teaching and judging elders, whom He has called, taught, trained and sent to assist Him in all of His shepherding tasks.
Then notice how Jesus spoke about the shepherd. That is, the shepherd represented Himself, but also all of the true elders He has appointed to assist Him in His works for His church, every true pastor who serves His elect by teaching right doctrines and by justly judging in their disputes. Thus, every true teaching elder is one who searches for the lost elect, for those who have been caused to believe lies and practise sin. So a true pastor never seeks revenge against deluded sinners, through teachings and judgments in his church. And no truly legitimate elect secular judge or authority will seek any Page 1178
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kind of vengeance against lost sinners in the courts of his land. All true teaching and judging elders have spirits that stand before their almighty Father in heaven, intending to esteem and serve Him, as those whom He has made willing to do the difficult and time-consuming work of searching for and saving the lost elect souls whom Satan’s world order caused to go astray. Only this kind of just and loving shepherd, who cares about the welfare of each individual in God’s flock, is a legitimate truly called assistant of the Good Shepherd, sent by His Holy Spirit to tend, teach and judge His flock. So we must only allow this kind of pastor, secular authority or business manager to teach and judge in God’s land. All others are either inept shepherds, who grudgingly tend the flock for wages, because they cannot get another lax job requiring so little effort, or wolves who eat the flock as their prey, who scatter sheep into the wilderness, who herd starving, exploited, terrorized sheep toward death.
There are other interesting details here too. Back then, Jews would only form a new local church or synagogue if ten heads of households were willing to join together, so there could be at least ten elders to provide for all the spiritual and physical needs of the people. And, since their families had so many children and grandchildren, an average church would consist of about a hundred people. So this is the number of sheep that Jesus said “a certain man might come to have,” where that “man”
referred to our God Jesus, as well as to an elder He had appointed. For, in every local church, at least one of the heads of households would study God’s Word more than the rest, one whom God called to become the loving servant of all, the one most concerned about the spiritual and physical well-being of the people. That is, God takes a tithe or a tenth of the heads and reserves them for the task of teaching and judging. Then Jesus said that the shepherd would leave the ninety-nine other sheep
“upon the hill” when he had to find a lost sheep. And a hill was a safe place for the sheep. In those semi-arid lands, the tops of hills were more barren, the places where only grass grew. Bushes and trees mostly grew in the valleys or gullies, since the rain water flowed down the slopes into the low areas and kept them more moist. So leaving the sheep on the top of a hill enabled a shepherd to view the flock from a distance, and ensure that they were quiet and undisturbed. For, since the bushes and trees grew in the lower places, that is where the predators could hide. But shade trees also attracted the lost sheep. Although sheep do not eat the leaves of trees and bushes, like goats do, they know that those low spots are cooler on hot days and also have the tallest, greenest grass beneath the trees and bushes, perhaps even a pool of water to drink. So they are often lured to those dangerous low spots. Therefore, those low spots are the first places the shepherds go to search for their lost sheep.
Now, in the Bible and other Jewish literature, trees figuratively represented influential and powerful people, or wanna-be important people, like braggarts with self-inflated egos. And the true teaching elders did not mind humble, honest, just and loving “trees” in their local churches, since they were such trees themselves. But they always fought to keep the bad “trees” away from the flock, since the devouring wolves hid among them, and some of those “trees” were wolves themselves. So, since the bad “trees” and “bushes” could not sit on the high places of the true churches, they would normally congregate in false churches or other morally lower places. Thus, the true faithful local churches were reserved for God’s genuine teaching elders, who fed their flock with good, safe, nourishing teachings. But, occasionally, an elect member of the flock was also lured into those lower places, where the bad “trees” dwelt. So a faithful teaching elder would need to leave his flock in the high and safe place, with its good and sound teachings, to find the lost sheep in the lower places, among the false teachers and false doctrines. There the elder would stand in the way of the wolves and draw out his two-edged sword of God’s Word. This sword was not so much to kill the wolves as it was to cut the fleshy fat of lies and sins off the heart of the lost elect, to make that one’s spirit healthy and free again. Thus, after the shepherd healed that sheep, it gladly followed him back to the safe flock.
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Since Israel was an agrarian culture, Jesus’ disciples would have instantly understood what Jesus was implying here. And they would have realized that Jesus was the Good Shepherd, who was training them to become His assistant shepherds. They would soon be the teaching elders in the Messiah’s New Covenant branch of Israel, the more mature brothers of the flock, who would teach and judge the people in Jesus name, according to His will. They were to become the kinds of shepherds who would would go out to search for the lost elect who were caused to go astray. Thus, they had to be willing to enter the dangerous lower places, to search for them, to places where predators lay in wait, places like false churches, sleazy bars or elite humanistic universities, anywhere that lured the elect with a promise of taller and greener “grass.” Even if this meant that a shepherd temporarily had to leave the rest of the flock alone, in the safe environment of genuine truth, he must not abandon even one who had been led astray. He had to find the lost one, had to teach and reason with that one, had to answer hard questions about God and life to redeem that lost one. And, after Jesus taught this, the true churches did adopt and teach this principle, that not one should ever be left behind, that every individual elect, no matter how wayward or small, was to be valued enough to endanger one’s own life, so that one might be returned to the flock. Because of this teaching, the apostles faced many fake teachers and died at their hands, just to save a few of the lost elect, just as Jesus did. And now many, even in secular armies, fulfill this teaching and are not willing to allow even one to be lost.
This teaching of Jesus, like many others, has been adopted as a universal principle of humane and just practises. Like Jesus and the apostles, an individual or group is often willing to risk making the ultimate sacrifice for the benefit of an individual or minority. And they do this through the calling of God upon their elect spirits, with a full knowledge of the dangers they face. No just church or nation will allow even one of their own people to be caused to go astray or die, not without making a great effort to save that one. And the increasingly broad acceptance of this principle reveals how God’s kingdom has grown in this world throughout the past centuries. For, in all past and present divisions of Satan’s world order, human life has never been valued, but has always been treated as cheap and expendable, even innocent souls who were caused to go astray. But Satan’s world order, especially his vile religious kingdom of humanism, has been progressively loosing influence. Humanists have been willing sacrifice millions of lives for the sake of a little money and power. Sects of humanism will even delude souls into sacrificing their lives to murder as many of their own siblings as possible, for the dark and empty causes of Satan’s loveless, unjust, hierarchical systems. But now the opposite is becoming more prevalent and honourable, many sacrifices made to save just one endangered soul.
Yet think about the joy this teaching brings to the loving elect everywhere, to those who have lost a loved one to deceptions and sin, or found such deep relief and inner comfort for one who was saved.
Parents, siblings, children and friends of the rescued breath freely and laugh once more. For there is more rejoicing over one lost sheep found than over the ninety-nine who were never lost. And all of the ninety-nine others rejoice together with shepherd over that found member of their flock. Then, of all the souls and works that a loving teaching elder remembers most fondly, his best memories are of the fragile and lost figures who now share abundant life with the rest of his people, as well as his dangerous and difficult labours in seeking and bringing those confused strays back into the flock. As for the unrepentant sinners and criminals which a teaching and judging elder was forced to condemn, in order to protect his flock, they are bad memories which bring only pain, nightmares and disturbing thoughts, which hound his spirit and entire soul. So he pushes those memories aside and actively tries to forget those liars and murderers. A shepherd only wants to remember the faces of the strays weeping through repentance into the just and loving truth, and their joy in finding Christ’s ways and light. For his spirit continuously partakes in their joy, as Jesus adds more joy of the justice truly won.
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The Procedure of Just Judgments
Jesus was teaching us how to ensure justice in our judgments, so the accused, who are all weak and sinful souls like us, might actually learn enough to repent. In our Creator’s eyes, justice is about the education of eternal spirits, not about the muck and mire of filthy carnal revenge or any other petty details of the flesh, which His natural creations will either heal or end. All objective reality was designed and created to remind us that true justice has never been about using evidence, which nature soon washes away, to catch liars and sinners so we can take revenge on the potentially loving and psychopathically ruthless in exactly the same way. Justice must prove guilt, but so that it might assess motives and engage in healing and educational processes for victims and sinners. True justice never even considers any kind of punishment for revenge, or allowing elite bullying sinners to force oppressed “inferiors” to obey through terrorism. As much as God allows, our God Jesus wants every citizen of His kingdom, every teaching elder, every judging secular authority and every other individual to follow His procedures whenever addressing the accused. And the reason He insists on these procedures is to prevent us and our siblings from becoming falsely accused or trapped in sins.
So Jesus commanded each of us: “Now if your brother sins in a way known by you, go prove him to be wrong, between you and him alone. If he might hear from you, you have gained back your brother [i.e., regardless of whether the accused proves innocent and all suspicions are removed, or whether your sibling proves guilty but repents into the truths about life and God]. Yet, if he might not listen, now receive one or two joined with you, so that every spoken work might be established upon the mouth of two witnesses, or three [i.e., this is a pretrial stage, where elders confront one who is proven guilty, and where witnesses include experts in the laws and ways of God, that is, teaching and judging elders who confront the accused in a process resembling the times when the police and prosecutors reason with a sinner, before the trial begins]. Then, if he might have ignored them, speak to the universal church [i.e., conduct and complete the trial stage]. But if he might have ignored even the universal church [i.e., this refers to after the completed trial stage, after the accused has proven to be guilty beyond reasonable doubt and also remains unrepentant], he is to be to you just as the Gentile [i.e., the sinner proven guilty but refuses to repent into an acknowledgement of one’s need to provide for the equitable treatment of all one’s siblings under God’s universal “natural” laws, is to be treated as a lawless one who does not believe in true justice, as a “Gentile” who cares nothing about welfare of other siblings in the family of humankind] and as the tax collector [i.e., as an exploiter of siblings for one’s own personal gain].” (Mat. 18:15-17, from: Ἐὰν δὲ ἁμαρτήσῃ εἰς σὲ ὁ ἀδελφός σου, ὕπαγε ἔλεγξον αὐτὸν μεταξὺ σοῦ καὶ αὐτοῦ
μόνου. ἐάν σου ἀκούσῃ, ἐκέρδησας τὸν ἀδελφόν σου· ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀκούσῃ, παράλαβε μετὰ σοῦ ἔτι ἕνα
ἢ δύο, ἵνα ἐπὶ στόματος δύο μαρτύρων ἢ τριῶν σταθῇ πᾶν ῥῆμα· ἐὰν δὲ παρακούσῃ αὐτῶν, εἰπὸν τῇ
ἐκκλησίᾳ· ἐὰν δὲ καὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας παρακούσῃ, ἔστω σοι ὥσπερ ὁ ἐθνικὸς καὶ ὁ τελώνης, SBLGNT). By our day, these biblical Judaeo-Christian systems of justice have gradual replaced the old pagan justice systems throughout the entire world, indicating that the kingdom of our God Jesus has now spread over all the earth. Yet its most fierce opponents are mostly Greco-Roman churches.
So here we see a system which is very similar to the justice systems found in most of the biblically grounded democratic nations on earth, as well as in the nations who have copied their systems. And all those nations have actually derived their justice systems, albeit imperfectly, from this teaching and other interpretations of God’s Law that our God Jesus had handed down to His disciples. Now first notice how, in this teaching, Jesus employed forms of the second person singular pronoun σύ
(“you”) throughout. In both God’s Old Covenant Law and in Jesus’ teachings about that Law, this singular second-person pronoun almost always indicated that God was requiring each and every individual in His church to take personal responsibility for the fulfillment of that law or principle. He was authoritatively exhorting each individual. to ensure that this judicial procedure would occur in Page 1181
every instance where a sibling was being accused of committing some kind of sin. And this also brings us to the second most important aspect of this teaching regarding judicial procedures. For we must also acknowledge how our God Jesus also calls every accused liar or sinner our “brother,” that is, in a Greek gender-indefinite way, referring the accused as a male or female sibling in our family.
Next, keep in mind that Jesus was speaking here to His core disciples, to the future teaching elders whom He would send out into His universal New Covenant church. So this command is not one that can be practised, from its beginning to its end, by literally every disciple, although all can partake in it through their compliance and support regarding its procedures. If we consider the context of all God’s Law, which Jesus was referring to here, we see that most of the procedures here would be the responsibilities of various kinds of elders, whom we would call police, prosecutors, defenders, judges and so on, in our day. Most of the works done in these procedures would be only conducted by those possessing enough knowledge and wisdom to apply them without harming the accused, the victims of sins, themselves or their entire community. And we can also see how our God Jesus obviously preferred these procedures to be applied by elders who were His true disciples, or at least by elect spirits that had been taught and trained to be just and loving by His Holy Spirit. For these elders were to fulfill God’s laws rightly, and always through His personal authority to teach and judge through His own calling, teaching, training and sending. Of course, in our day, most of the just and loving elders who can handles such tasks have elect spirits which worship and serve the real Jesus, but their minds of flesh do not know that their spirits are doing so—since those elect define
“Christianity” in terms which the totally fake humanistic churches have defined for their minds of flesh. Nevertheless, we must judge elders by their fruits, and only allow those who possess just, equitable and loving hearts to labour in our judicial systems, for the sakes of all in our communities.
Now the Scriptures repeatedly indicate that, in God’s eyes, anyone who sins against one part of the corporate body sins against the whole body. Anyone sinning against one member of a church or community is also sinning against that entire internal and external body. And every true teaching and judging elder is duty-bound to care for the welfare of the whole church and the whole community, as a representative of God to the people and as a representative of the people to God. Therefore, every church elder and secular authority must serve God and the people by justly and lovingly confronting sin together with our God Jesus, in order to nullify the works of the devil’s children. Every church elder needs to apply the foundational principles of justice for the sakes of all. Each elect policeman, lawyer and judge must teach and judge according to God’s just and loving precepts, as each labours against the lies, sins and crimes which are destroying the body of people whom God appointed them to protect. So this teaching of Jesus must be thoroughly understood by all teaching and judging elders in the same way as our God Jesus intended them to be comprehended in those days, when the job of every Jewish teaching and judging elder included the task of judging the people according to God’s Law. And all those ancient elders had to be called, taught, trained and sent by God. All had to be prepared and equipped by God to follow these principles of justice commanded in God’s Law.
When we interpret this passage of God’s Word in context, we should realize that the prepositional phrase, εἰς σὲ, literally means “into you,” where the “you” is singular, referring to any one of the future teaching elders or those taught by them. But the preposition εἰς can mean a number of things.
So the clause, Ἐὰν δὲ ἁμαρτήσῃ εἰς σὲ ὁ ἀδελφός σου (v. 15), clearly does not mean, “Now, if your sibling might sin into you.” It actually refers to a sin “against you,” that is, against the entire sphere of your internal and external being, since the “into” aspect implies the whole of you. Also, this preposition does not limit the sin to one which is personally “against” the individual whom Jesus is addressing. Since the phrase indicates a sin within the sphere of you, it can be a sin that you heard Page 1182
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about but did not personally witness, or a sin that one did not personally experience. It can be a sin that one believes to have actually occurred through the testimony of eye witnesses or some other kinds of incontrovertible evidence. Thus, in context, εἰς σὲ actually refers to a sin “known by you.”
Here the preposition εἰς is “indicating motion into a thing or into its immediate vicinity or relation to something ... marker of a specific point of reference, for, to, with respect to, with reference to ... at, in the face of” (BDAG3), and so on. Therefore, since Jesus was teaching these disciples to become teaching elders, He was referring to sins which came to and entered their corporate body, sins that came to their attention and became known to them. Jesus was teaching them the job of being good shepherds who cared for the flock, even in way that confronted wolves and other predators who came to prey on the sheep. But not all who sin are predators, since the sheep themselves will butt and bully one another. Furthermore, even some predators who come to their flock are actually feral sheep drawn to the flock, exploiters who can be convinced to join the flock and learn its good ways.
So the first thing to do, when a teaching elder learns about a sin which affects the body, is “prove him to be wrong” or “confute” him (ἔλεγξον αὐτὸν, where ἐλέγχω means, “to scrutinize or examine carefully, bring to light, expose, set forth,” BDAG3). And everyone who truly knows God’s Law realizes that every accused one must be given the opportunity to respond to the accusation. Then all the elders must be wise enough to realize that, “He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him” (Prov. 18:17, WEB). In others words, all must keep an open mind.
So Jesus commanded His disciples to first conduct research, to carefully and thoroughly examine the testimonies and evidence, as well as the logic and reliability of all witnesses and evidence. First, in any accusation, we must ensure that a sin with genuinely wrong motives and intentions did actually occur, and that the accused seems to be the one who committed that sin. For some offences against God’s laws are not sins, because they are done in ignorance, by mistake or without any selfish and malicious motives whatsoever. And some of the accused may not be the ones who committed the sin.
Here, when Jesus taught us to perform these procedures, He was actually teaching us how to fulfill the commands of God’s Law (e.g., Deut. 19:15-21). So an elder must first diligently analyze all, then respectfully approach the accused, in private, so as not to embarrass that one, since he or she might be innocent. What seemed to be a true accusation may be based on a misinterpretation of evidence or on the faulty perspectives of witnesses, and the verity of the situation may become clearer after the accused provides his or her perspective. Every accused one must be granted an opportunity to speak freely and without fear, to defend oneself, as God’s Law commands. For none of us are omniscient, and all of us have mistakenly accused others at times, or have been falsely accused ourselves. This is also why most secular justice systems have adopted this biblical procedure taught by Jesus, where they will thoroughly analyze the evidence and interview the accused before charging them. Through the influence of God’s Word during the Reformation and 18th century revival, many western secular governing bodies abandoned their unjust pagan Roman systems. For humanistic systems of justice were cheap and dirty, and designed to serve only the elite. Thus, they would torture the accused until that one confessed, without any concern about whether or not the accused was innocent. Then they would tell the people that the accused had “proved” to guilty and could quickly and cheaply exact a brutal and psychopathic revenge against that “guilty” person. And the “crime” did not need to be a real crime either, but could be any undesirable deed which the elite artificially deemed to be a crime.
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body to “make an example of,” so the masses would fear to disobey or even question the illicit power and authority of the elite. And, once those humanistic authorities had successfully terrorized the masses into submission, they felt that “justice” had been served. Yet God has always condemned those unjust nations, because they cared nothing for the lives of their siblings in the family of humankind. Thus, God kept all those humanistic nations in a constant state of delusions and chaos, for the the destruction of their flesh. None of those barbaric humanistic nations ever became truly civilized, where every citizen and stranger in their land was treated as an equal to all the others, where each could freely recline under one’s own tree without fear. Throughout history, the only free, equitable and true civilizations that have ever existed have all practised God’s kind of equitable and loving justice. And, although the administration of God’s kind of true justice usually requires much more time, effort and cost than humanistic systems, there is no feasible alternative. Only God’s kind of justice is able to provide freedom from fear for all the people, while the violent systems of unjust Roman terrorism destroy morale and peace. So God’s true justice is always worth a greater expense.
During this first process, an accusation of sin may prove to be false, or the accused may confesses and truly repent, in a way that is accompanied by responsible fruits of repentance. In either case, God’s Law requires no punishment because, in both cases, the intentions and motives of the accused are positive, directed towards building up the community. If the accused repents, and tries to restore whatever he or she possibly can regarding that which was damaged or lost through one’s sin, then he or she can be entirely forgiven and carry on without any further penalties, bearing good fruits for the benefit of all. And one’s church or society has gained back their sibling, meaning they must restore their relationship with the accused, wether the accused was innocent or was truly repentant. For, if the accused is truly innocent or truly repentant, then love can be rebuilt on truth and trust. But, if an accused person seems guilty but refuses to repent, even after the elders teach and counsel that sinner rightly before the face of God, then the church or community must take further action. There must be further investigations, to ensure the accused is either guilty or innocent beyond reasonable doubt. For determining guilt or innocence is not a one-time and limited action, but an ongoing process that never really ends, and will also involve degrees and shades of spiritual intensions and motives that are shaped by life. Thus, even if the accused appears to be guilty, based on a substantial body of reliable evidence and testimonies, there is still a chance that the spirit is actually becoming innocent.
Unfortunately, this particular aspect of Christ’s command has failed to influence the church and the world nearly enough. There is still much work to be done by His disciples to fulfill this aspect of a just judgment, to build up the just and loving kingdom of God as well as to nullify the unjust works of Satan. For, if an accused one is found guilty, the churches and our secular justice systems seldom attempt to teach that sinner in a way which brings him or her into repentance, into the truth that can restore relationships and abundant life. Churches and secular justice systems make only the most feeble attempts to teach sinners about bearing fruits of repentance which can justly restore damages or losses to their victims, which can build up life in those who are able to love like God loves. Nor do churches and societies help victims nearly enough, when sinners do not repent or cannot provide recompense. For, in God’s eyes, the restoration of sin’s damage is not solely the responsibility of the sinner, but of the whole community. All humans are God’s property, and all share in God’s works.
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serve only the elite in artificial hierarchical structures, and provide nothing for the lower classes who have suffered the effects of sin. In fact, humanistic “justice” systems actually promote hatred and competition among their people in ways that nullify God’s justice, to maintain their inequitable distribution of goods and services. Humanistic systems actually intentionally causes harm to the already failing trust and very fragile relationships in their land, so they can divide and conquer, so they can keep the people chained as slaves of their elite. Yet, to function effectively, every church and every community requires trust and close relationships between all. And that means that we must wisely counsel sinners and restore all spiritual, emotional and physical losses of sin, to build up our churches and communities. If we refuse to do so, and follow pagan Roman ways, our whole body will suffer from the effects of lies, sins, hatred and distrust. We can no longer afford to pervert the forgiveness of truly repentant sinners, causing both the sinners and victims to suffer further loss, even in ways that harm the victims of sin more than the sinner’s original sins did. Rather, we need to hear and heed Jesus, to take up His just ways. For a perverted kind of forgiveness, or a total lack of forgiveness, are both sins that eventually destroy our people by incurring God’s wrath against us.
Remember, Jesus wanted all His teachings to be interpreted in the context of all God’s other teachings in His Word. His goal was for our spirits to learn from His Holy Spirit to fulfill His will and truly love in a just way. Therefore, our spirits call Him our Lord and do what He teaches us to do. And, when judgments must be made, we or an appropriate authority (some kind of legitimately taught and trained elder) will first approach and privately question the accused. Then, if the accused proves to be innocent, we or the authority must comfort the falsely accused one and leave him or her in peace, without allowing anyone else to falsely accuse or vilify that one. After gently and privately questioning the accused, we help the innocent accused ones maintain whole and untouched lives. We never permit bullying by any kinds of elders, not by the police, prosecutors, judges or any other kinds of authorities, experts or accusers. And all justice systems require repentance from the liars who have caused the innocent to suffer, along with fruits of repentance to restore the losses incurred by the victims of their lies. Slanderers must take responsibility for their lies, and pay for all losses, damages and security needs of the innocent ones they falsely accused. After finding an accusation to be false, the elders need to heal the people, by reversing the harm caused by both the original sin and the false accusations. It is absolutely essential to rebuild trust, reputations and relationships in the church or community, because peace and love cannot be maintained without these. Then the elders may need to find the truly guilty person, the one who actually committed the sin which the innocent one did not do. For the elders must stop the real sinner or group of sinners from continuing to cause harm and distrust in their church or community. The process of restorative justice must begin all over again, with a further examination of evidence and a private conversation with each of the accused.
We need to see how humanistic justice systems in churches and secular governments always fail God and the people, since they practise injustice by neglecting the humanity and needs of both the sinners and the victims of sin. For their justice systems follow demonic humanistic principles by seeking only revenge, and only so that the elite in their hierarchical organizations can rule through terrorism.
Therefore, those humanistic systems do nothing for the whole church or community, and promote nothing but more hatred, distrust, lovelessness, fear, oppression, chaos and further injustice. Instead of working to nullify evil and its effects, instead of healing broken sinners and their victims, instead of teaching a sinner to repent into the truth and bear fruits to help their former victims, humanists do the opposite. But God’s ways, as taught here by Jesus, do nullify evil and its effects, heal repentant sinners, heal victims, heal whole communities and overcome evil with good. The only time God Page 1185
requires punishments are for deliberate sinners who do not repent, and then only punishments which are equivalent to the crime, such as an eye for an eye, but never any terrorism levels of punishments.
Throughout history, and to this very day, we have all been conditioned to believe that humanistic kinds of torture and dehumanization are necessary to maintain order in a community. When we see sinners lie, steal, sexually exploit, use violence or commit murder, we automatically assume that the only way to deal with them is to terrorize them into submission. But does this terrorism actually serve our community in the best way possible, since it makes us all slaves to fear? No! In reality, terrorism only serves the goals of the elite in our community, the same elite who have enough power and employ enough lawyers to allow them to sin in any ways they desire, with complete impunity.
Therefore, we must no longer allow unbiblical trials for sinners, which force even the innocent to plead guilty because they cannot afford adequate representation to prover their innocence. And those humanistic justice systems also totally ignore the victims of the sins, so their systems can focus all their efforts, resources and funds on working vengeance against a perceived sinner, whether or not that sinner actually committed the crime. Humanists spend millions on facilities, equipment and manpower to catch and tortuously imprison those whom they deem to be guilty, even though half of them are innocent. They design prisons to be dehumanizing, to be places where the worst of the psychopaths are rewarded most. Then some even let the rich use inmates as slaves, and exploit those inmates for a profit, though half are either innocent or could easily repent into a good life. Instead of using incarceration as an opportunity to further evaluate the accused, or to find our if any have been falsely accused, or to determine which are able to be taught and trained to repent, humanists destroy all the accused. To humanists, guilt, innocence and the ability to repent mean nothing, since inmates are seldom the elite, but are worthless to the rich and powerful, and are therefore totally expendable.
Also, since humanists do not ever have truly just trials, but grant the powerful the right to sin in any ways they choose, or allow the wealthy to purchase freedom, everyone they accuse is always badly harmed, whether or not the accused ones are innocent, whether or not the accused ones could build up a good and beneficial life with a little help from their siblings in humankind. In the humanistic systems, every accused one must take on a heavy debt to defend oneself against an accusation, then become a virtual slave of the elite to pay off that debt. And, if an innocent accused person does not have enough assets to cover that debt, he or she must plead guilty to a sin that he or she did not commit, then become an even more dehumanized slave in a prison system. So the main purpose of humanistic so-called “justice” systems is to make slaves of people for the sakes of the elite, and is not concerned about the welfare of accused, whether or not the accused is truly guilty of committing a sin, nor about the welfare of the victims and the whole community. For it is a system designed by the unjust slave societies of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. But the Creator God’s system of justice, which has been revealed through nature since the beginning of time, is truly just in all ways.
God’s kind of justice was not only revealed in the Bible, but also in His creations. Both the effects of evil and the effects of loving justice are made evident in nature. And all human spirits are capable of learning to discern between good and evil, between justice and injustice. In fact, this is the one and only attribute which differentiates humans from animals and all other creations of God. Therefore, since the beginning of human existence on earth, the just and loving precepts of God have always been known to all men. And there have always been a few groups or societies who have been just.
There have always been a few equitable, fair, just and forgiving democracies on this earth, although Satan was also granted the right to take sinners as his slaves to serve his kingdom of the world order.
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Our God Jesus has been awakening elect spirits since the beginning of time, and has now come to establish His ever-growing New Covenant church on earth. So He has been disseminating His kind of loving justice throughout the earth, but more rapidly every year of earth’s existence, to build up His kingdom and make it ready for His return. However, at the same time, Satan’s ultimate religion of his most effective spiritual and moral degradation has also been spreading throughout the world.
And that devil’s humanistic religious kingdom of the Roman beast is also about to become blatantly manifest, so that God can destroy all its demonic influences on earth. Furthermore, since the human gods governing those humanistic hierarchical systems are mostly psychopaths, and psychopaths usually transfer all the blame for their failures upon others, by deviously framing the just, or even by using their own loyal dupes as scapegoats, their so-called “justice systems” will never produce any real satisfaction and unity among their own people. Satan’s world order remains highly factious and very unstable. Since they take revenge on innocent souls as much as upon the guilty, and never even attempt to heal the wounds of sin, Satan’s world order is growing weaker every year. But God’s kingdom does produce satisfaction among the people, not only among the elect, but also among the non-elect, since the non-elect can still gain enough carnal rewards in God’s kingdom to be content.
Therefore, the elect, all whose spirits possess a potential ability to love, need to reject humanistic false churches and fill our governing bodies with awakened elect souls, to build up God’s just and loving kingdom and to nullify the works of Satan’s unjust world order. We can no longer rely on the lying human gods who preach that ruthless will save our economy through a “fiscally responsible”
worship of the demon Mammon. Nor can we rely on the deceiving human gods who say it is just and loving to allow more sins to be legal, though all those sins exploit others. Both kinds of humanistic factions have always conveniently forgotten that many of those whom their justice systems convict are innocent, and the many of those who are actually guilty, consist of some elect souls who able to repent into the truth, if they are wisely taught and helped. So only less than half of those whom they torture in their unjust vengeance systems are actually guilty non-elect souls who are incapable of repenting. But a truly just system must never torture and dehumanize them either, only simply stop them from causing any further harm, and evaluate their ability to live efficaciously within the rest of the community. For unjust torture and dehumanization transforms non-elect sinners into much worse criminals than they were initially. So humanistic churches and courts work for Satan, and build his unjust kingdom by punishing the innocent, by denying an opportunity for sinners to repent, and by causing unrepentant sinners to become worse. For, in reality, they hate God and despise true justice.
Now the first principle that our God Jesus taught was for us to speak privately with each individual accused person, to work for that one’s good, with the hope that we might “have gained back” our brother or sister, either through proving their innocence or through their repentance. And we must make our first attempt in private, to avoid further loss to the accused and to our whole body. For we may prove the accusation to be false, or may be able to correct a lying sin with the real truth. Even if we find that the accused is indeed guilty, our primary goal should be to bring that sinner back into a life built on truth, through repentance. Jesus commanded us to bring a sinning sibling, an equal member of our body, a part of our church or societal family, back into a restored relationship with the rest of us, so that sinner can enter into an abundant life of love and spiritual fruitfulness, with inner satisfaction and joy. And Jesus did not simply tell us to cause a sinner to become just another
“productive citizen” in Satan’s world order, one who mindlessly performs a job to gain rewards for the flesh alone, in an empty, godless life where one’s only pleasure is food, shelter and a little carnal entertainment. If an accused soul did commit a sin, we are to teach that one about life and faith. And, together with a truly repentant sinner, we are to do the works of restoring and rebuilding all that was Page 1187
damaged or lost through sin, for the sakes of the victim, the sinner and the whole community. We need to help a repentant sinner live a good life, as we also heal the effects of sins upon the victims.
We must counsel a sinner regarding God, love, justice, anger management, substance abuse or whatever else might be necessary, that is, if that one’s spirit is sincere about repentance. And we will always need to help a repentant sinner bear fruits of repentance, so he or she can help the community restore what was lost or damaged, for the victim or victims of sin. All must overcome evil with good.
These concepts are taught throughout the Scriptures, in both the Old and New Testaments. The Old Covenant writings mostly conveyed these truths through the examples God set for us, and not so much through direct teachings. Then the New Covenant writings also taught these principles through the examples set by our God Jesus, but also through many of His direct teachings as well. Either way, God clearly call us, in all the judgments we make regarding the sins and crimes of ourselves and others, to prioritize the restoration of all that was lost through sin, to help the victims of sin and turn the sinner away from sin through repentance into the truth. God’s Law commanded: “You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him” (Lev. 19:17, WEB). Then our God Jesus came to fulfill this law of God in us and through us.
So God’s Law prohibited hatred from the heart. That is, God forbade spiritual hatred, which is far worse than mere emotional hatred from a mind of flesh, such as through irrational anger. For hatred in the mind of flesh can pass away in a moment, but hatred in the mind of the spirit can last forever.
Also, we need to realize that spiritual hatred is not always expressed through the words and actions of the flesh. Rather, the spirit’s hatred is most often expressed through apathy, by not caring about the welfare of others, by not doing the good we know we should do, or by refusing to take action against sin even when one has the time, energy and resources to do so. And this inner apathy is a sin, since it actually participates in sin by enabling sin. When a humanistic justice system does not care about the elite sinning with impunity, or the needs of victims, or how the innocent are condemned with the guilty, or how our communities are deprived of beneficial members through its injustice, that apathy enables the sins of the worst of criminals and the sins of its own humanistic religion. So the apathetic are just as guilty of the sins committed against the innocent as the actual perpetrators of those crimes. But genuine, God-like, just love always takes action and actively rebukes sin, because even the sins of loved ones will harm others, and will also deaden the souls in the community by an ever-increasing distrust among them, as well as allow deluded sinners to remain unrepentant. Sin steals abundant life by stealing truth, trust and love from everyone it touches, including the sinner.
Therefore, we confront sinners and speak the truth against their sins through our love for all, or call qualified elders to do so for us. For we want to save our beloved siblings from the destroying effects of sin. And we know full well, from our own experiences with sins, that all this is true. We know that letting sin grow like a cancer in the bodies of our churches and societies will cause ever-increasing inner pain, coldness and lovelessness, then the physical destruction of all. For sin leads to hatred and more sin. Therefore, God’s Law tells us: “Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins” (James 5:19-20, WEB). If the truth is accepted by an elect spirit with true repentance, God will fully forgive that one’s sins, with no condemnation nor any requirement to pay any penalty. Instead, that repentant sinner’s personal relation with God will be restored because of the atonement which Jesus purchased. Then God will cover over the sins with a blanket of loving, just, equitable righteousness worked by the repentant one through God’s own power and grace. And God Himself causes this repentance, through His direct teaching of truth to a sinner’s spirit. Still, remember that God uses His children to do His works, if they heed His call.
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But humanistic churches and secular courts want only to prove whether or not someone is guilty, so they can take revenge on those who dared to disturb the exploitation practised by their elite human gods. To the humanists, forgiveness is merely a delusion, and a vengeful punishment of flesh for sins caused by spiritual motives, intentions or apathy is always necessary. To humanists, the delusion of forgiveness can only be achieved if one prays a magic prayer with a robed priest and by emotionally accepting a figurative kind of forgiveness. But their elite human gods still demand their fleshy vengeance, in order to terrorize their inferior dupes into submission, since they do not rule through justice, but through carnal fear alone. Therefore, all of the fake humanistic churches will hand over a
“forgiven sinner” to their humanistic vengeance systems, to be punished by their rich and powerful human gods. And truly repentant sinners have no right to be declared innocent through the complete change of their motives and intentions, through their repentance into the truth. To humanists, there is no way to avoid the vengeful physical punishments by the elite, because those exploiting leaches who demand revenge are deemed to be necessary for the functioning of their unjust class systems in their artificial hierarchies. Only those deemed to be “inferior,” those doing the essential works of life in their humanistic systems, are considered to be expendable, not any of the elite bullying parasites.
In church and secular humanistic systems, if the accused is merely an exploited subhuman—such as a poorer person, a visible minority, or one who professes a different creed—then that one must be automatically deemed guilty, before any evidence is presented. Humanists actually hate the biblical concept of being treated as innocent until proven to be guilty and unrepentant. And it is the duty of every patriotic member of a humanistic secular society, or every faithful member of a humanistic fake church, to invent, believe and incessantly repeat slanderous lies about the inferior accused one, in order to encourage violence and the severe punishment of the accused. This is essential in every humanistic society or church, because they need maintain the power of terrorism to oppress the masses into submission. And any lie will serve this purpose. No real truth is necessary. So all of the humanistic vengeance systems continuously stimulate hatred through lies, then threaten and torture souls until they “confess” those lies. For fear is the only fuel that their churches and societies can possibly run on. Without terrorism to force blind submission to their lies, the elite in their hierarchies would have no power at all, since those criminal psychopaths possess no actual value in any way, not a thing that benefits the people, but are mere useless fools who have stolen all they have ever gained.
So humanistic justice systems do not really care whether or not an accused person is innocent, only whether or not they have someone to punish severely, so they can maintain fear and submission among their duped inferiors. And humanists will always condemn, shun, punish, persecute or murder innocent souls, then justify all this by inventing false testimonies or lying about the evidence. Then they silence the accused, and do not allow that one any kind of real defence. For they only accuse those whom they deem to be the most lowly classes of people, never their own thoroughly guilty and criminal elite. Humanists never grant the accused an appropriate and adequate counsel for their own defence, although they allow the most wealthy of the lower classes to buy one, since that is good for the economy. Then humanists make up all kinds of excuses to avoid God’s command to provide actual justice and equity, since the last thing they want is for their land to be free from the oppression of the elite classes in their demonic hierarchies. Thus, humanistic churches and secular governments will declare that their elite must remain privileged and untaxed, in ways that will not allow them to afford true justice for all. Then they incessantly slander and rail against all the biblical principles involving justice and equity, declaring that it is economically impossible, since it would “steal” a little of Satan’s invention of money from the rich who steal it from the poor. But they are all liars.
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Therefore, almost all of the churches in our day faithfully serve Satan by practising that devil’s ultimate religion of humanism, which he formed and perfected through the four pagan kingdoms of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. For each of those churches invent a humanistic kind of a fake Jesus, a different one for each faction of their divisive denominations. Then each will use unjust humanistic methods to make false judgments and enforce so-called “church discipline,” while declaring that they are administering that demonic injustice in Jesus’ name. And, before the 18th century revival, those humanistic churches never simply expelled those whom they made judgments against, although this was the maximum penalty that Jesus and the apostles allowed for any acts of church discipline. Rather, both the humanistic Roman Catholic and humanistic Protestant churches tortured anyone who dared to offend their elite human gods, or murdered them in the most painful ways possible, so they could terrorize their dupes into submission. And the only reason those humanistic churches stopped torturing and murdering was because the majority began to believe in the biblical principles of justice. For there were many elect who sacrificed their lives to teach the
“inferior” lower classes some biblical truths. And many elect began to believe those truths, then forced the elite human gods in churches to stop terrorizing the people. Nevertheless, humanistic churches have not actually repented from their humanistic ways. They have always continued to slander and falsely judge all who threaten their illicit incomes and power. And humanistic churches especially hate the equitable, just and loving souls who serve the real Jesus in the same way that the real prophets and the real apostles did, since today’s humanistic churches are merely more modern versions of the ancient hypocritical humanistic Jewish church that falsely condemned and crucified Jesus. So they still practise the same kind of fear mongering, and still try to murder the innocent who oppose them, but now in somewhat more sophisticated and indirect ways than they could get away with doing in previous centuries. Otherwise, not much has changed since the day Jesus faced them.
Furthermore, in our day, even secular justice systems have adopted many biblical principles taught by Jesus. In fact, secular justice systems are often more biblical and just than the vast majority of the humanistic churches. And this more biblical justice, in biblically democratic nations, is due to the preaching of biblical concepts of justice by God’s awakened elect too. Still, there is very much need for improvement in both the churches and secular governments, and that progress is being held back primarily by the fake humanistic churches established by Satan to serve his kingdom of the world order. For instance, churches demand more strict terrorism from their governments, with more death penalties and more brutal prisons. Then some police respond and try to appease them by arresting the most easily caught and most convenient suspects, rather than taking the time and expense to find the real guilty parties, and without further investigating to ensure they have arrested the right person. On the other hand, some of the more mature police, prosecutors and judges serve as trustworthy and just elders who temper that injustice. More spiritually awake elect policemen “police” other policemen, to ensure justice. Then more spiritually awake prosecutors and judges also intercede. But the fake humanistic churches hate these servants of Christ, and rant about how they are “soft on crime,” since they like the devil’s methods of terrorism and his discriminatory class systems, but hate God’s kind of true and restorative justice. Fake churches labour night and day to ensure that their justice systems remain unjust, adversarial, warped and humanistic, that they employ unjust revenge to provide the elite with more power to terrorize and oppress the “inferior” masses. They do nothing to right any wrongs or teach sinners for repentance, nothing for the redemption of lives, including their own. All that humanistic churches desire is to eliminate the justice, equity and love of Jesus from their land.
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lawyers that all the other accused souls can access. There must be no discrimination in judgments for either the rich or the poor. Only deliberate and unrepentant sinners, like dangerous psychopaths, should have anything to fear from our justice systems, since that is the only kind of person that faces a maximum penalty. But all the other accused, all the innocent and all the truly repentant, should fear nothing more than necessary counselling, and possibly a partial restriction or limitation of some freedoms. For true justice has only three possible outcomes: (1) release through proof of innocence, with some recompense for one’s loss of time or other injuries; (2) proof of guilt, but with release through an honest confession of sins and one’s repentance into the truth, possibly with some restrictions and limitations to provide right teaching and training, and enough time to prove that the repentance is genuine; or (3) proof of guilt, together with proof of wrong motives and intentions that one refuses to abandon, which forces the court to make that unrepentant intentional offender pay a just penalty, equal weight to the crime, since this kind only stops sinning if sin becomes too costly.
After the proving the guilt of the accused, the police should arrest that person with as little violence as possible. Then an older policeman, who take the role of a teaching and judging elder, should help the accused in a number of ways, especially by further investigating to prove or disprove the charges against the accused. Then, if the elder policeman finds one to be guilty, he must teach the truth about the bad effects of the sin committed, and about how the sinner needs to structure his or her life in a more fulfilling way. The goal of justice is to provide for a sinner’s repentance, reconciliation and redemption. True justice helps a sinner bear the “fruits of repentance” as well, wisely helps a sinner participate in restoring whatever the victim lost, without further offending or harming the victim. For true justice rebuilds whatever sin tore down or damaged, and provides for the needs of the victim or the deceased victim’s loved ones. This is what God’s economic laws commanded, and placed a great burden upon the wealthy, forcing them to provide all they could to eliminate poverty and injustice, even to the point where some had to live modestly, keeping only what they needed, like all the rest.
Counselling elders and a government’s department of justice should assist the works of the policing elders, with various kinds of spiritual, moral, emotional, educational, medical and logistical help.
Above all, the policing elders need to understand the reasons for the laws, how they protect all from injustice and fear. Prosecutors and judges are responsible for overseeing the care of victims and the victimizers alike, with ongoing evaluations of the unrepentant sinners, providing teachings for those who might want to repent. Then policing elders, who work first and most directly with the sinners, can use victim support services in ways to help sinners provide appropriate fruits of repentance and restore what was taken from their victims, wisely, without further upsetting victims, with the goal of building up peace and trust in the community. To restructure a repentant sinner’s life, the policing elder will also require a thorough understanding of each sinner’s physical, emotional and spiritual attributes and circumstances, past emotional baggage, strengths, weaknesses and so on. And, to do that, the policing elder will need to consult with other experienced, wise and well-trained workers.
Then those workers must talk with each sinner for extended periods of time, possibly also visit the sinner’s family and friends, to learn more about the sinner and address dysfunctional relationships.
Medical, psychological and aptitude tests may need to be done, to assess and address any physical, emotional or cognitive issues. Types of medical treatments, therapy, diets, counselling, education and so on may be necessary for the sinner as well as for the victims. Whatever is needed to restore the victims and repentant sinners back to loving, just, free and abundant lives should be provided for all, since it is invariably far more costly, both in financial and spiritual terms, to abandon souls to sin.
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must become what modern humanists might call democratic socialists, but what God calls righteous, loving and wise. Our God Jesus came to define His kingdom on earth, and man should not attempt to redefine it in any other way, especially not through the precepts of Satan’s religion of humanism. To put it simply, all in the kingdom of God must respect the equality of all other human beings, and take whatever responsibilities God made each able to carry for the sake of all His living creations. So, in God’s kingdom, there are no human gods oppressing other supposedly inferior human beings, then exploiting everyone and everything around them. Rather, the “greatest” within His kingdom must be the servants of all. The goal of every subject kingdom within God’s kingdom is to lovingly, equitably and justly provide for the needs of all. The goal is never to make the rich richer, so they can possess more power to enslave and devour the poor, in the way the Roman Catholics, Evangelicals and other fake humanistic churches seem to teach. The societal duties of all the elect involve serving God by serving His creations in a just, equitable, honest, wise and loving way according to God’s will alone.
Of course, humanists will argue that it is unjust and even evil to set truly repentant sinners free, and not punish them at all. For all humanists believe that the execution of sinners, or their torture in Satanically inspired prisons, is necessary to maintain “justice.” But humanists only believe this because they define “justice” as “revenge,” as the effective terrorism of subhuman inferiors for the pleasure of their elite classes. However, we must not believe them. Let the elect consider how the true Creator God revealed His attributes and ways in all His creations, together with an infinite array of warnings about the effects of failing to follow His ways. Then this one God also revealed Himself and His ways more explicitly to those whom we call His true prophets or apostles, who wrote all His teachings down in the Scriptures, in a book which God has preserved for us to this day. And, although humanists try to distort those revelations in nature and in the Scriptures, it is very plain and obvious to all honest and loving elect souls on earth that neither God’s creations nor God’s Word has ever defined justice in the same way as the humanists do. In reality, the most committed and faithful humanists have all been liars and murderers, just like their father was from the beginning. So all the humanistic concepts of justice are always entirely opposed to the real God’s teachings about justice.
God’s saving power has been disseminating biblical precepts throughout the earth for about two millenniums now, including His New Covenant doctrines defining equity and justice. Eventually, Christian democracies formed, to rid some lands of the psychopathic wanna-be human gods who claimed impunity from all laws. Now many nations insist that all citizens are equal under the law, that all must fulfill the requirements of a minimal set of natural laws, those which demand just and equitable behaviours toward other siblings in the family of humankind. Now, in some nations, even the most powerful wanna-be human gods can no longer exploit, enslave and murder according to their own whims. And biblical justice reforms have also brought an end to slavery, more equitable punishments based on God’s “eye-for-an-eye” principle, the requirement to prove guilt and allow for the defence of the accused in a court which functions according to God’s Law, parole systems for convicted sinners who show signs of repentance through “good behaviour,” the necessity to provide for the needs of prison inmates because we are to even “love our enemies,” as well as countless other reforms based on the teachings of God. Naturally, humanists lie and try to claim all these good and just things are their own inventions. But, in reality, humanists violently opposed all of them, because all are based upon the words of God. And God has actually been teaching these biblical principles to the elect since the beginning of time, through His creations. All these truths existed long before the Bible was written, although God did not reveal them as explicitly and directly through nature as He did through His Law and His Messiah. So our God Jesus came to expound upon God’s Law, which He revealed through Moses, and has also granted us His own Holy Spirit, to teach and train our Page 1192
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spirits to fulfill His Law. Thus, it is now time to reject Satan’s religion of humanism and conform our churches and nations to the truly just and loving ways of our Creator. We must no longer allow systems of terrorism, which falsely claim to do God’s work. We must never oppress and persecute anyone who actually has no truly evil motives nor intentions, such as abortionists, homosexuals or anyone else. Now we must become just. Now we must judge each individual rightly, as Jesus did.
God did not allow either His Old Covenant or His New Covenant priesthood of Israel to judge those outside the church in the same way as those inside His church. No Gentiles were ever to be judged according to the spiritual requirements of His priesthood that our God’s placed upon the elect whom He had awakened, taught, trained and empowered to meet those requirements. Rather, God’s Old Covenant Law and His fulfilling New Covenant Law stated that His priesthood of Israel could only judge those outside of His true church according to His spiritual and moral laws which were most obviously revealed through His natural creations, such as His prohibitions against forms of murder, sexual exploitation, theft, lying and loveless greed. Only those whom He chose and equipped for His priesthood were to fulfill the laws of His priesthood. God only requires the others, all the “Gentiles,”
to fulfill a minimal set of “natural laws” represented by the last six of the Ten Commandments. And even those orders of laws had to be trimmed down to accommodate the peculiar practises of various individuals and cultures that were not causing harm through sins without evil motives and intentions.
Remember, God commanded Israel to provide for the freedom and well-being of Gentiles in their land, although all those Gentiles were idolaters, and most routinely practised birth control, abortions, homosexuality and orgies. The only burdens which God’s priesthood and secular government of Israel were to place on those Gentiles were things like a relatively small tax and a subset of natural laws prohibiting violent rebellions, murder, rape, enslaving Israelites, theft and other obvious crimes.
So most Gentiles suffered far more from the financial and legal burdens placed on them by their own greedy little lying pagan rulers than from Israel. Likewise, since the day our God Jesus rose from the dead to become the King of all the earth, He still expects all secular governments to require only the same kinds of minimum burdens to be placed on those He has not yet brought into His church. No laws of any nation must extend beyond a small subset of God’s natural laws, just enough to keep peace in the land. And this very limited subset of truth is all that any court of law must require a criminal to repent into, in order to avoid punishment. For God alone is the Saviour of all individuals and nations, not men. Therefore, let no man attempt to force the people to believe in the real God, nor in any other god. There must be freedom of conscience and freedom of religion everywhere on God’s property of the earth, so God may save without hindrance, by teaching His own chosen spirits.
Clearly, the real Creator God is extremely “liberal,” more than my own conservative Western North American cultural tastes of my flesh prefer. I have lived my entire life in Alberta, where a full 5% of all its citizens were KKK members at one time, where false churches lined all the streets, and where no one dared to utter even one word about Jesus Christ’s true New Covenant salvation. But those fake churches have never been able to entirely eliminate God’s own biblical policies of providing for the needs of all, along with His equitable and unbiased principles of justice which fully forgive truly repentant criminals. For those liars could never force God out of His own lands, nor the humble elect souls He placed in it. So, in spite of all the works of fake churches to establish the rule of human gods over inferior masses, by making the rich richer and the poor poorer, Alberta still has some hope for the future, although there surely will be hell to pay for all the evil our fake churches have done.
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and heed God took time to begin and mature, often decades. For the demonic spiritual influence of false churches distracted them from God’s saving works upon their spirits. Nevertheless, God chose to break down the barriers of the devil’s religious world order and speak to some of His elect, just as He has in every land throughout this New Covenant age. And no power on earth, even Satan and all his minions, can possibly stop Jesus from continuing to do this until the end of the material universe.
So the times are always changing. God’s kingdom is ever advancing and Satan’s prime religion of humanism is dying from a thousand cuts. For the double-edged Sword of God’s Word is very sharp and actively responds to the wise will of our King, both defensively and offensively against the blows of the wicked. In these end times, none on earth will be able to make their nations “great again,” like the unjust, lying, deluded and barbaric slave societies of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. Humanistic fake churches, along with their secular human gods of their fascist or communist slave societies, will keep on striving against God’s just kingdom. And they might win a few battles here and there. But Jesus has already won the war, here in Alberta and around the world. So they will soon all need to entrench under a Roman dictator called the beast in a few years. Then Jesus shall return in His body, with His angels, to wipe all of those unrepentant non-elect spirits from the earth.
More than ever before, the elect have access to bodies of evidence proving that God’s just ways have always produced more freedoms, greater productivity and increasing peace in every body of people that has practised them. From the beginning of time, every just and equitable body of people that has upheld God’s spiritual principle of serving and valuing all human beings equally, has prospered and has provided more joy for its people than any system which Satan’s world order has raised up. And this is why the devil’s slave societies have always tried to destroy the places that faithfully practise God’s ways, because humanists can only spread their lies and delusions by the sword. Satan’s kingdom can never win through an honest dissemination of truth and wise reasoning, since the light of truth and wisdom always penetrates the darkness of its own lies and delusions, exposing and burning away every concept designed to usurp the throne of our Creator. So humanistic despots always avoid any forums where any real truth and wisdom can be proclaimed, and slander all of those forums as “fake news,” while they cause their dupes to fear anything other than their own lies.
Here in Alberta, and around the world, we now see how the fake churches are warring against God in the most desperate ways, mostly as violent fascists, since they know their end draws near. They are attacking God’s just and equitable ways with more venom than in some previous decades, because God is now shining more of His light than He has in previous decades, even in ways that effectively dethrone their wanna-be human gods. In other words, those frauds are making a last stand for Satan’s Roman kingdom, with its oppressive hierarchies that made their most ignorant psychopathic gods
“great again.” They fight for “the good old days,” when the devil’s most deluded elite slaves could terrorize and exploit the “inferior” masses. But humanists cannot maintain their inequitable, unjust class systems if they do not first cause factions within their oppressed majority. So they first weaken and divide the majority with lies and delusions, and slander various identifiable groups who threaten their systems of oppressive terrorism. They might say that all those with a certain kind of physical characteristic in God’s one and only family of all humankind are enemies of “civilization,” “law,”
“order,” and “families.” Humanists attribute all the causes of evil on earth to those with a different skin colour, religion, creed, language, culture or petty practises of the flesh. Just like their hellish father, they transfer their own blame for their own evil effects, for tragedies they themselves caused, upon others, to convince their dupes to hate and persecute them. They often even declare that their unjust oppression and murdering of those innocent groups is God’s work of “salvation” for the elite.
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So their lies make themselves feel “justified” when they war against God and His ways. But the real God Himself is not deceived, and continues to condemn and destroy Satan’s world order for their unrepentant intensional sins. Then God pours more truth and wisdom into this world every year. So all those Roman humanists become more guilty in God’s eyes every year, and more worthy of His wrath. As God’s Light increasingly exposes their lies and sins, their practise of lies and sins becomes more obviously intentional and more clearly done with evil motives. Thus, God’s just and equitable justice is able to condemn them more each year. Meanwhile, the elect begin to see the innocent motives and intentions of “Gentiles” better every year. God reveals how falsely condemned groups were victims of humanistic injustice more each year. We discover how many of the abortionists, homosexuals, racial groups, immigrants, practitioners of “outsider religions,” opponents of fake church doctrines and other artificially designated “enemies” of God are actually loving elect siblings, and some have been far more faithful to God’s subset of natural laws than the members of those fake humanistic churches. For some have done more genuine good through real love than them, and have also been more honest about the realities God created in history than those fake churches. So now we only judge individuals, not artificial categories of people. And we judge rightly, through each one’s motives and intentions of the spirit. For God is separating the elect from the non-elect everywhere on earth, into a dichotomy that is more easily and instantly recognizable every day. We can now discern between loving, just, equitable spirits and unloving, unjust, humanistic spirits better than ever before.
Fake churches love to vilify an integrated, harmonious, balanced and fulfilled interpretation of God’s Laws and precepts. Many even slander the right interpretations by Jesus and the apostles, calling them “lawlessness,” simply because God’s fulfilled laws condemn and oppose the unjust laws of those humanists. For God’s equitable love and justice prohibit humanists from ruling through the use of terrorism, and this is the only way that demons and their human slaves know how to rule. Thus, since God makes it impossible for humanists to rule over their hierarchical systems, they must war against God and His ways. And they need to fight God with lies, since the truth is always warring for God, because all truths originated from God. So the humanists slander God in whatever ways they can, and hypocritically call Him hypocritical. For instance, they point out how God’s fulfilled Law might sometimes require a few temporary or permanent restraints or limitations on some sinners. So humanists claim that these rationally necessary restrictions on certain freedoms are either unjust and cruel, or else not nearly harsh and terrorizing enough to produce what they like to call “real justice.”
But, if humanists demand that their elite should be able to sin against people with impunity, and even murder whomever they desire, are they not the ones who are unjust and cruel? Then, if they say that the restrictions God places on sinners are not harsh enough to terrorize the people into submission for the sakes of their elite exploiters, so those elite can more easily maintain “law and order” for their own benefit, are they not hypocritical? But God tells us that even a repentant sinner will often possess some dangerous weaknesses. Thus, God may require His servants to separate that sinner from the “camp” of the rest of His people until those weaknesses are overcome, or possibly even forever, if those weaknesses are dangerous and cannot be overcome. But that separation must be as humane as possible, since we are not allowed to torture our siblings within the family of humankind.
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ignorance or impulsivity may still cause him or her to fall back into damaging behaviours too easily.
So they will keep that sinner inside the facility a little longer. For some recently repentant sinners may still be extremely vulnerable to external pressures, which will drag him or her right back into sin. Elders must consider this during their judgments, even for the repentant sinners. The judging elders must give the weak ones a time apart from the rest of God’s people, and provide them with the necessary teaching and training to prepare them for life outside, with the rest, and strengthen those sinners until they can overcome temptations and build a restored life. We must keep some repentant sinners in more structured and supervised places for a time, possibly in wisely administered prisons, for their own good and for the sakes of the people. Yet we need to make those places into helpful, educational and hopeful environments for the elect sinners who have already shown signs of true repentance or who might possibly repent in the future. We also need to provide places that separate the elect inmates from the more dangerous and wilfully unrepentant inmates, especially psychopaths.
We must tear down Roman prison systems, were the most psychopathic inmates terrorize the other inmates, and psychopathic wardens are hired to administer that terrorism for those ruling inmates.
If a repentant sinner is taught and trained to live his or her life through equitable and just love, in a truly fulfilling and joyful way, then both that criminal and the whole of the community will benefit from this process of God’s kind of restorative justice. And this is exactly what Jesus was teaching in this passage (i.e., in Mat. 18:10-20). Our God Jesus provided us with a brief overview of the process of judgments, as taught in the Old Covenant Law. He was telling us how to apply genuine, equitable and loving justice, in ways that truly fulfill God’s Law. And these procedures are to be practised by the family of humankind on every level, by each nuclear family, extended family, tribe, community and nation. With this system of justice: (1) the primary goal is the restoration of love, order and relationships in the lives of the sinner, victim and entire community; (2) all decisions consider the motives and intensions of each unique individual sinner and victim, then acknowledges that every individual’s sin will always negatively affect the whole community; and (3) the entire corporate body bears responsibility for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the victims and sinners, in order to save itself, in order to build up that body as a part of the just kingdom of God on earth.
God requires every body of people to provide for all the needs of every individual within it. And this means that a just society can never be capitalistic, communistic nor fascist, can never be built on the religious doctrines of humanism. For all flavours of humanistic states allow human gods to exploit others, and usually through Satan’s invention of money. That is, most humanistic states are economic hierarchies, where the elite oppress and control the masses through the use of money. In almost every humanistic corporate body, there is a very steep and tall hierarchy, where a one or a few of the most evil, deceptive and ruthless souls rule over all the others, where only about ten percent benefit the most from the injustice of its chosen despot or oligarchy, where another ten percent are allowed to live relatively good physical lives in empty carnality, and where all others serve as dehumanized slaves, labouring for the profit of the elite ten percent. Only equitable biblical democracies, where the people choose only the teaching elders whom God Himself has chosen, whom God reveals by the good fruits of those elders, can possibly become just, loving bodies, where all benefit from all.
If we carefully examine this teaching of Jesus in the light of all the other Scriptures that He revealed through the spirits of His prophets and apostles, we soon realize that our God Jesus requires this procedure in every judgment that a teaching elder, secular judge or individual might make. For the goal of every judgment must be: “If he might hear from you, you have gained back your brother.”
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own delusions and lies that cause sin), then a teaching elder will need other teaching elders to help him confront the sinner. So, if the sinner is found to be guilty and “he might not listen” to the truth, thus, does not repent into the truth, Jesus instructed the teaching elder to “now receive one or two joined with you, so that every spoken work might be established upon the mouth of two witnesses, or three.” This part of the judgment process is also performed outside of the church or courtroom, and the process is kept private at this point, out of the public eye. However, other teaching elders are necessary because the original teaching elder was not able to speak the truth in a way that reached the sinner’s heart, or the sinner may not yet be ready to hear it, or may not ever be able to hear it.
So, as previously mentioned, the elder who first privately confronted the sinner, or perhaps the policeman from a secular justice system, may need others to help him reach the sinner’s heart. For it may still be possible that the sinner has an elect spirit, and that the sinner is able to be brought back into the family of the corporate body. With two or three other counsellors—with teaching elders from the church or, in a secular system, with other wise and loving police, prosecutors, judges or other spiritually and morally mature people—the heart of the sinner might respond to the truth. For Jesus here indicated that this establishing of the truth was the purpose of God’s law which states:
“One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins.
At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses [which includes the testimonies about physical evidence], shall a matter be established” (Deut. 19:15, WEB). So Jesus was interpreting this law of God in a way that not only required two or more witnesses (or expertly interpreted pieces of evidence) to prove guilt, but also required two or more teaching elders to instruct the sinner about the realities related to the sin, in the hope that the established truth would lead the sinner to repentance and life. For establishing the truth is not for the teaching elders, but for the sinner’s sake.
To the very end of the judgment process, and even for some time after that, a principal goal of every judgment is to gain back the sinning brother or sister, to return that sinner to the kind of just, loving, abundant kind of life that the one Creator God offers to all His people. Even if a sinner does not truly repent in the final stage of the judgment process, and the church or secular court publicly sentences the stubborn and unrepentant sinner to some kind of punishment, that sinner must still have true, godly teachings made available to him or her. And, if the death penalty is awarded for something like an unrepentant, intentional and malicious murder, that death penalty must be delayed for at least a few months or a year, to ensure that every opportunity for the sinner’s spirit to repent is provided to him or her, and to allow for an opportunity to prove that the accused is innocent. The punishment of a sin is the last resort, and is only used to deter the lawless non-elect from committing the same kind of sin. But God’s kind of redeeming, restoring and right justice is always our first priority. For we do not want to practise injustice, lest God curse our land and cast it into self-destructive delusions. And capital punishment is no longer required if true repentance is found. True justice allows even the repentant murderer to live, and helps that one build a new life. For instance, God forgave multiple intentional murders done by David, when God found true repentance in him. Then God sent a true prophet to lead David back into abundant life. If God grants a sinner repentance into the truth, we must not oppose God by denying the forgiveness which God has granted him or her. Rather, the process of redeeming that sinner into true life must begin, albeit often with monitoring to ensure that the sinner has true repentance from the spirit, that the repentance is not just a liar’s attempt to avoid punishment for a sin or crime. In God’s Law, there is no such thing as forgiveness which makes the sinner pay the penalty for the crime. God’s kind of forgiveness nullifies the need for any penalties.
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Rather, he must “now receive one or two joined with” him. For Jesus commanded this to each of His core disciples who would be future teaching elders: παράλαβε μετὰ σοῦ ἔτι ἕνα ἢ δύο. Here we see an aorist imperative form of παραλαμβάνω, which means, “to take into close association” (BDAG3).
So Jesus did not tell the teaching elder or secular worker who initially confronted the sinner, to then walk away from the sinner. Instead, the one who originally confronted the sinner was to join with one or two other workers, so the original worker would have help to teach and counsel the sinner.
And, since this is what Jesus actually commanded for processes of judgment, then we must realize that our God Jesus wants a good number of teaching elders in every church body, or multiple mature and caring policemen in every community. Otherwise, the caseload of each elder or policeman would soon become too great and unbearable. No one man could possibly provide the quantity or quality of personally tailored teaching and counsel required for each sinner. And to provide an adequate number of qualified elders, police, counsellors, judges and other caregivers in every corporate body, it also means that every church and community must be continuously educating everyone in their entire body. For, if good teachings become scarce, few will grow wise in the body, and few will be able to serve as true teaching elders or wise, compassionate, just and loving secular servants. And only if there are enough true teaching elders and spiritually mature secular workers will the amount of sin in a corporate body be kept to a minimum. Thus, every corporate body must guard the truth against corrupting and nullifying lies, so a larger number of its members may become mature enough to serve as wise elders who handle the needs of true justice and redeem loss from sin.
If there is a “famine” of genuine truth and wisdom in a church or a society, and its people become careless, vain and ignorant, there will be too few qualified teaching elders. There will never be enough to adequately and rightly labour in even the first step of the just judgment process. And there certainly will be too few to provide even more wise, just men and women for the second procedure of a just judgment. Then the third procedure in every true judgment, which is a fair trial, will not be possible either, since there will be no qualified judges and jurors, no members of the corporate body who are spiritually and morally wise enough to rightly judge the intentions, motives and weight of the crime or sin that the accused brother or sister is said to have committed. Instead, the corporate body will only consist of other sinners who cannot discern between their right and left hands, mere selfish, self-seeking, self-indulgent reprobates who need to be taught into repentance themselves. So every church and secular body must carefully guard themselves from lies and delusions at all times, and constantly engage in educational opportunities to learn spiritual, moral and loving wisdom. If they do not, true justice will become impossible to maintain. And, if a corporate body no longer can provide true justice for literally all its members, that entire body will live in hell and destroy itself.
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repented into the truth. That is, if the sinner seems guilty and will not repent, then no “deal” can be made to eliminate or lessen the punishment, and there must be a public trial. Specifically, Jesus said:
“Then, if [the sinner or criminal] might have ignored them, speak to [elders and relevant members of] the universal church.” That is, the ecclesiastical definition of the noun ἐκκλησία here referred to all the
“people with shared belief” (BDAG3), as many of the just people in the corporate body who live by the just and loving principles taught by God. These must heed a call to assemble, in order to hear the evidence and the accused one, then make a judgment. And, when Jesus said this, He would have been referring to a group consisting of any members of the church of Israel throughout the world, but especially to the spiritually mature who recognized Him as their Messiah. This noun never referred to a local church, but to the broader public, yet only to members of the public who are spiritually and morally mature enough to discern between good and evil, only those who knew that God’s ways and laws were critical for the building up of justice, equity, freedom and love for the people in their land.
In context, we know this is true, because the very next teaching of Jesus was a command regarding the results of the judgment made by the ἐκκλησία: “But if he [i.e., the accused] might have ignored even the universal church [i.e., ἐκκλησία], he [i.e., the unrepentant sinner who is found guilty] is to be to you
[i.e., this pronoun is singular, referring to each individual member of the ἐκκλησία who judged the unrepentant sinner]
just as the Gentile [i.e., referring to one who does not acknowledge the wisdom or usefulness of even the most basic natural laws] and the tax collector [i.e., as one who exploits others for personal gain, because he rejects God and His ways].” This command of Jesus implies a judgment by a sizable group of mature, knowledgeable members of the ἐκκλησία, by those possessing enough wisdom to provide a sound judgment. Such a group of peers in the church or community must be called to hear the testimonies and evidence for and against the accused. And it implies far more, since Christ’s condition here states that, if the accused proves guilty, yet “ignored even the universal church (ἐκκλησία),” and did not repent, then the church elders or secular justice system should allow that sinner to remain in his or her delusions, albeit provide further opportunities for repentance into the truth. Therefore, if the original helpers or counsellors of the accused may stop counselling and helping the accused after the public trial, and allow some form of punishment which is equivalent to the crime, as a deterrent, to discourage that lawless one, and others like that one, from committing that sin again. Jesus clearly implied that the group of church members and elders who assembled and conducted the public trial, were to begin by teaching and reasoning with the accused. The condition indicates that this group from the ἐκκλησία
must to try to persuade anyone found to be guilty to repent into the truth. Thus, their primary task was not simply to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused, but to strive to gain back their sinning brother or sister, to return the sinner to the corporate body, so that sinner might then build up a just, free and loving life, an abundant life. But, if the sinner did not repent, then that sinner was to be treated like an outsider, like a stubborn enemy or parasite, like a destroyer of true love and justice.
Therefore, in this third procedure, in the public trial of the sinner or criminal, there should not be merely a jury of peers passively sitting and hearing the accused. Of course, there must be order in every assembly. However, considering the context of how public trials were conducted by the devout Jews in those days, this jury was to consist of spiritually mature souls who would interact with the accused. Naturally, each would need to speak in turn, with a synagogue “president” or chairperson fairly and patiently keeping order. But the jury, and even some from the audience, would be allowed to ask questions or make comments. Still, those called to participate would need to be qualified, through teaching and training, to ask the right kinds of questions, then provide truly wise and right teachings to the accused. So everyone in this ἐκκλησία must be properly vetted and carefully chosen, so the ignorant and biased will not sit among them. For the redemption of the sinner is to be their Page 1199
highest priority, and this public trial should not be done merely to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused. Yes, before attempting to redeem a sinner, the group will need to hear the testimonies and evidence, as well as from the accused, then make a decision about that one’s guilt or innocence.
However, if the accused proves to be guilty beyond reasonable doubt, the jury must also try to gain an understanding of the sinner’s intentions and motives, the thoughts causing one to commit the sin.
Then the jury must teach and counsel the sinner, try to lead that sinner into repentance. And, if the sinner eventually does repent, the church or justice system can then work with the sinner to build a new life, full of love for the people in the sphere of his or her life. Only if the sinner will stubbornly remain unrepentant, after receiving teachings and counsel from the ἐκκλησία, and continues to cling to the darkness of his or her own lies and delusions, should the church or justice system abandon that sinner to his or her own delusions and folly. Then the only recourse is to sentence the sinner to a punishment equal to the weight of the sin committed, where the weight of the crime will be seen as worse and heavier if there were worse bad intentions and motives, possibly requiring the maximum penalty for the crime. For, to the utterly lawless, physical punishment is the only deterrent to crime.
So, as you can see, some churches and some secular governments have begun to hear and practise these teachings from our God Jesus. But remember, these commands and teachings of our just God Jesus have often been corrupted and neglected. We do not always see true, pure justice worked by our churches and secular justice systems, although we have seen more of it during the past couple of centuries. Yet His kind of justice benefits everyone in every kind of corporate body, since it develops trust, freedoms, cooperation and love everywhere it is practised. And every governing entity in every nation, state, province and city is actually a servant of God (θεοῦ διάκονός, Rom. 13:4). Therefore, every governing entity of every kind must obey God, their Owner, and provide true justice for all their people, equitably and through their loving service of the people. All the resources belonging to the whole corporate body of people is placed under its care, so that all individual members will be equitably fed and cared for, and so that true justice is administered for all. And all governing officials were also called “God’s ministers” or religious servants (λειτουργοὶ θεοῦ, Rom. 13:6). So every man or woman working in a governing body is duty-bound to serve God by serving His creations in the just, equitable and loving way that their Creator and Owner demands. And any governing officials who do not rightly serve God are illegitimate, are pretenders who must be cast out of those serving positions. Then the managerial and judging government workers need to teach a minimum subset of God’s natural laws and ways, to provide a compassionate and equitable structure for the body, so all might live in the freedom to trust and love others, the kind of freedom which takes responsibility for the welfare of all the others, even for the animals and plants of God’s creation, through love for God.
Thus, there are basically two kinds of governments and two kinds of churches. There is a just, loving kind, which is a part of God’s kingdom. And there is an unjust, loveless kind, which is a part of the devil’s world order. And each government or church is headed in either one direction or the other. So none are static. None have ever become steadfastly all good or all evil. All are moving up or down, oscillating from one direction to the other. But what we need are churches and governments that are watchful, guarding themselves against any movements towards humanistic oppression and injustice, always turning the movement of the body towards the just, equitable, free and loving ways of God.
In recent centuries, secular governments have been adopting some of Christ’s teachings regarding justice, and rejecting the demonic Roman religion of humanism, which Satan designed as his ultimate system to work ruthless injustice within his world order. Even before the Reformation and 18th century revival, we saw an advancement of justice in many lands. But now we see the right of the accused to have legal counsel, the forgiveness of sinners through parole systems, as well as the Page 1200
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justice of welfare and health care systems, along many other just biblical works by governments, even for animals. But, as God advances His just kingdom on earth, Satan is striking at the heart of it, by attacking God’s earthly priesthood, which God speaks through. And the devil has been very good at deceiving the churches, at turning them into his own Satanic priesthood which wars against Jesus.
Since the second century, most churches have been fake and have preached some form of demonic, psychopathic humanism. Some even supported the worst prototypes of the coming Antichrist, and have promoted fascism, communism, capitalism and other sub-systems of Satan’s world order.
Churches have even worked to promote and extol the virtues of psychopaths like Hitler, Trump, Marx, Lennon, Mao Zedong, Ayn Rand (Alice O'Connor) and many others. Satan has also caused most churches to support unjust and often violent acts of terrorism against other races, against their own brothers and sisters who are just like themselves. They unjustly terrorize abortionists, instead of doing the good and loving works of God to help spiritually and physically troubled women who become pregnant. Then they unjustly work violence against those whom God Himself has handed over to inordinate sexual preferences, who cannot ever be changed by human wills. Instead of working against the root cause of sexual differences, such as humanistic materialism, with its cold injustice and the worship of human beings, the church promotes those evils, then blames the sexually immoral for God’s decree which causes those effects. Worst of all, instead of simply proclaiming and practising the truth, while leaving unbelievers and sinners to our God Jesus for each one’s own personal salvation, the heads of fake churches appoint themselves to be the saving gods of all human beings. So those vain, wanna-be gods try to usurp God’s authority over all, even as their fake churches become unjust, ignorant, vile, wretched, harmful, ruthless, evil, duped slaves of Satan.
Nevertheless, Jesus is still continuously saving the elect throughout the world, by directly teaching and training their spirits to know and practise His just, loving ways. So Satan and his minions can raise up all the fake churches and spiritual prostitutes they desire, but will never succeed in stopping our God Jesus from building up just His kingdom on earth. Jesus and His faithful elect disciples will destroy the works of the devil, more and more as the season of Satan’s world order draws to an end.
Then there will be one final attempt by the devil to take over the earthly kingdom of God, when that losing and frightened demon named Satan sends his own messiah, the “beast,” filled with his spirit, to try to conquer the whole world by force and kill all the elect. Yet Jesus will grant that beast a mere seven years to wag his deceiving tongue, in a way that finally accomplishes the full dichotomization of the elect from the non-elect. By the end of those seven years, every elect will flee from the beast, and from his fake churches. So the beast will burn his fake churches, after they become superfluous, after they are no longer able to deceive, trap and enslave the elect. In a rage, the devil will destroy his own precious tool he made to corrupt the world. Satan will burn his fake churches just before Jesus comes to destroy his beast and his entire kingdom. Then Jesus will appear in a body of flesh to us once again. And His power will cast Satan, with all his minions, out of material existence. Then Jesus will physically dwell in Jerusalem for more than a thousand years, so He might justly rule over the world that He will fully restore, so His just kingdom of God will advance and grow on the earth.
The Effects of God’s Justice
The works of God’s justice on the earth, to nullify the works of the devil and build up His just and loving kingdom, are done through His awakened, faithful elect children. For the reason God created the temporary earth, then cast Satan and other loveless spirits upon it, was to train elect spirits. And, since God is the one who ultimately works this kind of justice through His elect, it will conquer all.
No entity on earth or in heaven can stop God’s omniscient, omnipotent will from upholding justice.
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The problem is that most elect refuse to walk according to the thoughts of their spirits, and do not allow the Holy Spirit of Jesus to counsel, teach, train, guard and empower their spirits. It is because so very many elect walk only according to their minds of flesh, to gratify the desires that the devil continuously stirs up in their brains of flesh, that we see very little of God’s kind of pure, loving justice on earth. For most elect are caught in a trap of delusions, lured into seeking only the rewards offered by Satan’s kingdom of the world order. Then, of course, the non-elect children of the devil love only the darkness of lies and delusions, because they want to think they are gods who control their own destinies, and possibly the lives of some other siblings too, virtually enslaving them in an empty, marginal existence where they will be worked to death. When it comes to receiving rewards from the devil’s unjust world order, Satan’s children have no desire for anything else. Therefore, the non-elect always have a great advantage over God’s elect children in the unjust world order, in terms of acquiring Satan’s invention of money and illicit power in his artificial hierarchical systems. In all demonically designed kingdoms, all must appease the devil and strive for rewards of the flesh. And all the elite must pursue delusional carnal pride, with the selfish ambition of becoming a useless and unjust ruler in Satan’s fake hierarchical systems, so one can be worshipped as a fake god. Since the elect can never worship Satan as well as the non-elect can, but all rewards in his kingdom depend on how much his citizens worship him, Satan will obviously always reward his own evil children most.
On the other hand, Satan’s kingdom of sinners is factious, weak and tenuous, void of any real power.
No matter how much the devil’s little subject military, business and religious kingdoms put on a show of physical power, to terrorize their victims, they are actually mere fragile, dry, stick men in costumes. And Satan’s entire world order, with all the little subject kingdoms within it, is a subject kingdom itself, which has no power to resist the High King ruling over all. Our King and God Jesus created and maintains all creations, and all are subject to the effects of the laws He designed into all His creations. So, as Satan’s kingdoms oppose God’s spiritual, moral, equitable and loving justice, the effects of that disobedience will inevitably destroy them. For none can resist either His physical or spiritual laws which He designed into all His creations. If some think they are free from God’s laws of gravity, and expect to hover in the air as they walk off a cliff, the reality of God’s law will tell them otherwise. Likewise, if some think they are free from God’s immutable spiritual and moral laws, and expect to prosper through evil, God’s law will immediately begin to destroy them from the inside out. Every unjust family or society causes itself to perish. Of course, Satan’s subject kingdoms sacrifice others to pay for the effects of their sins, to keep themselves physically alive in their sins.
And some evil nations have even found enough victims to keep themselves alive for centuries. But, eventually, their oppressed, murdered and plundered slaves all die or rebel. Then those evil nations must pay for their own sins, and end up dying horrible deaths, usually while murdering one another.
God bears the power to wipe out whole kingdoms, even the entire universe, with a mere word. So Satan, together with all his fallen angels and all his human children, tremble before the real Creator God. And, whenever God awakens His elect, so they begin to serve His kingdom instead of Satan’s world order, a shift towards loving justice is inevitable and cannot be stopped. For the omniscient, omnipotent God and His immutable laws will ensure that His justice shall succeed. Furthermore, no citizen in Satan’s world order is truly faithful, because each is an unjust liar and traitor like their own hellish father. So this unfaithfulness causes much infighting, many factions and a great weakness in Satan’s kingdoms. Of course, all the non-elect spontaneously serve their unholy, unloving, unfaithful and erratic father, like slavish puppets. So all will sometimes unite against a spiritual threat, such as against a powerful moral truth or against a people who uphold it. But that unity is also fragile, weak and temporary. Meanwhile, their psychopathic father always uses “competition” to harden the hearts Page 1202
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of his children against one another, and loves to pit one child against the other, even to the death. So this practice also aggravates their divisions under his autocratic rule. And, with all of this striving against one another, the non-elect have no time to ever produce enough to provide for the needs of their own flesh. Thus, they must enslave and pillage to provide for their own needs. But God’s kind of loving and equitable justice stops them from exploiting and murdering others to provide for their own needs. Consequently, when God brings His justice into a land, the wicked either hide or perish.
With the help of Satan’s ability to delude, the non-elect have been able to lead most elect children of God into traps which enslave them in the same way as those non-elect are also enslaved by their evil father. Just as the father of the non-elect deceives them into working for all kinds of futile lies, he also deceives the elect into labouring for those same futile lies, but as slaves of his non-elect. And this is why we see so much injustice in this world. Since most elect are trapped in the darkness of those demonic delusions, they blindly labour in fear and bondage for the world order, and neglect God’s kingdom. For the elect slaves are not only taught to trust the lies of their non-elect owners, but also the lies of the demons who own those non-elect. Most fake churches and governments seek the counsel of demon gods like Mammon—the psychopathic god of money, soul-emptying careers and ruthless exploitation, where the focus rests on funding instruments and agents of war, so the non-elect can plunder and murder more efficiently, and so their military power can help them bind the poor in slavery. This demon Mammon teaches them to gain power through theft, bribery and life-crushing extortion, then builds up an inordinate esteem for the criminally minded rich. Then many non-elect also worship Nebo, the god of “academics,” conspiracy theories, paranoia, manipulating authorities and experts who promote lies through false reasoning. Then most of the world order loves the hedonistic god Baal, with his lusty female counterpart, Asherah, who both promote selfish and exploitative kinds of sex, who pervert natural sexual attractions into money and power within Satan’s kingdoms. Demons of all kinds distract the masses away from an abundant life of love by falsely promising the fulfillment of fleshy lusts—not just twisted sexual desires, but also arrogant delusions of power, or sometimes merely an escape into the dark carnal delusions granted by the abuse of alcohol and drugs, along with many other types of soul-deadening carnal gratifications.
But the solution to all this world-destroying injustice is not to war against the rewards offered by the demonic and human spirits, nor to brutally threaten the citizens of the devil’s world order with unjust pain or death if they pursue those rewards. For our goal is to eliminate the causes of dark and unjust delusions, to disarm and bind the spirits who feed the strong delusions to human minds. The power behind all injustice is the spirit of Satan, together with the spirits of his host of demons. And those spirits are not limited by earthly time and space, like human spirits. Those evil spirits can put whole concepts into human minds of flesh, instantly, and can simultaneously affect millions of human minds, because earthly time and space does not limit them. Thus, human spirits, bound in earthly time and space until their training time has ended, possess absolutely no ability nor power to war against those demonic spirits, not even against one of the weakest demons. The only power that can limit and bind demonic spirits is the Spirit of God, although God can also use the powers of His own heavenly angels against them as well. Thus, we ultimately require a very close, personal and fully restored relationship with our God Jesus before we can truly overcome evil and its deadly effects.
If we try to use the devil’s tactic of terrorism to “maintain order” in our churches or societies, if we threaten the souls deceived by the lies of the devil with pain or even death, that will only keep us enslaved by Satan, and working to build up his unjust world order. For injustice thrives through false piety which focuses solely upon physical behaviours and the supposedly “evil” creations of God, like alcohol or drugs. An attempt to serve for the good of God’s people through an ever-increasing Page 1203
number of ever-harsher man-made laws, which are all unjustly enforced through ruthless terrorism, is futile, and only harms everyone in the land, even the elite human gods who make and enforce those unlawful laws. And this hypocrisy is the essence of all fake religions established by Satan himself. To actually produce a truly just and loving church or society, we must step back from the stupid impulses of our angry brains of flesh and allow our spirits to seek the just, loving, equitable and wise counsel of our God Jesus, who demands that we fulfill God’s laws requiring biblical trials that take into account the motives and intentions of all the sinners and victims. Then we must provide for the physical and spiritual needs of even our worst human enemies, with far more limitations and restraints for the unrepentant than for the repentant. And we must present a free and unrestricted access to the truth, through teaching elders, to all the elect spirits who might seek it.
The humanistic method of focusing our supposedly “free will” on personally denying demonically influenced desires of the flesh is itself an obsession with those same desires of flesh. In reality, it is merely a focus on the will of the mind of flesh upon the flesh, in a way that distracts the mind of flesh away from the thoughts of the mind of the spirit. It is still a focus on the devil and his rewards, and is utterly incapable of building up any real love and faith in God, because this kind of genuine love and faith can only exist in the minds of elect spirits, and are never attributes of the flesh. The hedonist—who indulges in every twisted desire of the flesh which the devil might seed into his brain of flesh—is exactly the same citizen of hell as the devout stoic who religiously condemns all of it.
The self-indulgent one is exactly the same as the one who fasts frequently, remains celibate and lives a cold, minimalistic existence in order to deny himself all carnal pleasures. For both the hedonist and the devout stoic focus only on things of the flesh, and ultimately upon self. Neither is ever walking according to the mind of an elect spirit and growing into a close relationship with the Spirit of God.
The sole way to overcome the unjust works of Satan’s world order is to walk according to one’s own elect spirit, while letting one’s own elect spirit carefully heed, guard and apply the the teachings from God’s Spirit, which is the Holy Spirit of Jesus. Jesus must become the only Head of each and every male who has been granted an adequate level of discernment between good and evil (i.e., which includes most awakened and well-taught men over the age of about twenty). Only those kinds of men, whose spirits possess a bright and broad open channel between their spirits and God above, can be used by God to build a free and just structure for their families and communities, where the entire environment they build is according to the design which Jesus teaches and trains them to comprehend and practise, according to God’s ways which seek the full development of each individual’s destiny, where each man, woman and child builds up love and finds God’s true calling.
Certainly, there is no way for human beings to bind or defeat any of the demonic spirits that Satan sends to enslave both the elect and non-elect. For demons have the power to delude the minds in all human souls. And God Himself may choose to hand over the elect to Satan for this very purpose, to be deluded by him, as a punishment, if those elect continuously and stubbornly refuse to hear and love the truths which Jesus teaches to their spirits. God employs Satan on earth, and will indeed hand over some of the elect to him, to begin the destruction of their flesh, since God will not allow any of His little children to become ruthless fools who live only for their temporary flesh. God will surely and severely discipline His children who destroy others through their focus on the flesh. He will let the devil delude them and lead them toward their own physical destruction, until their spirits learn to admit the stupidity of living only for things of the flesh. And, hopefully, many of these carnal elect will learn this lesson before their flesh dies. Then He will gladly awaken their spirits, so they might repent into the truth. But, whether He awakens one during one’s life on earth, or at heaven’s gates after one’s flesh dies, the elect will be saved. So our earthly task is to let our spirits hear His Holy Page 1204
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Spirit, lest we lose any of His spiritual rewards of love and abundant life on earth. And these very valuable rewards are given to all who do the little works He assigns each minute, hour and day. As our spirits learn His just, loving ways, and submit to His training, which teaches how to rightly apply His truths in loving wisdom, our spirits receive many invaluable gifts of eternal gold, silver and gems. Then, as we do our little works, Jesus Himself handles the demons, who heartily laugh at the impotence of our weak and infantile spirits. Jesus will cast those limited, bound and chained demons into chaos, scatter them far from us, crush their fortified walls of delusions, and disarm their armies.
After providing us with a brief teaching about how to make just and truly biblical judgments, this is what Jesus taught to the entire body of those disciples, whom Jesus was going to appoint to become teaching elders in the New Covenant branch of His priesthood: “Most assuredly I reason with you
[disciples]: As many of whomever you [disciples] might have bound upon the earth, will be having been bound in heaven in the past, with the effect of causing your current binding [of the unrepentant soul, in condemnation for one’s sin or crime]. And as many of whomever you [disciples] might have freed upon the earth, will be having been freed in heaven in the past, with the effect of causing your current freeing [of the repentant soul, from the condemnation for one’s sin or crime]. Again, I assuredly reason with you [disciples]: Whenever two from among you might have gathered together upon the earth, regarding any kind of matter [requiring a judgment], regarding whomever they ask [to be judged], it will be caused for them by My Father in the heavens. For, where two or three are having been gathered in My name, with this effect, there I am in the midst of them” (Mat. 18:18-20, from: ἀμὴν
λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅσα ἐὰν δήσητε ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἔσται δεδεμένα ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ὅσα ἐὰν λύσητε ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
ἔσται λελυμένα ἐν οὐρανῷ. Πάλιν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι ἐὰν δύο συμφωνήσωσιν ἐξ ὑμῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
περὶ παντὸς πράγματος οὗ ἐὰν αἰτήσωνται, γενήσεται αὐτοῖς παρὰ τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς.
οὗ γάρ εἰσιν δύο ἢ τρεῖς συνηγμένοι εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν ὄνομα, ἐκεῖ εἰμι ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν, SBLGNT).
Many try to misinterpret this teaching of Jesus, so they can justify doctrines invented by men in their false churches. But it is a plain and obvious fact that Jesus used several periphrastic constructions here, to emphasize the aspects of His verbs. So grammar, and the context of all God has ever taught us throughout His Word, forces us to conclude that Jesus was here reminding His future teaching elders that their heavenly Father’s power and will would cause them to make all their critical judgments upon the earth, that God Himself would make their judgments right, wise and just, then cause their judgments to be effective and irresistible. Beyond any possible doubt, Jesus certainly was not telling us that the Platonic so-called “free wills” of church “shepherds” would sternly and despotically rule over the actions of the heavenly God in a way which would esteem those men more highly than God Himself. Of course, that is what fake humanistic “shepherds” want us to believe, especially the popes, cardinals, bishops and priests of the Platonic Roman Catholic church. But Platonism, and humanism in general, is the prime religion invented by Satan to deceive souls in his unjust world order, and is the devil’s principal weapon against Jesus and against His New Covenant salvation for the elect. So there is never any compatibility between humanism and true faith in God.
Therefore, leaving aside humanistic biases, we should examine the original Greek words of Jesus. In the first place, we need to recognize the context of this teaching. It was about making judgments that would either condemn unrepentant sinners and criminals, or free repentant sinners and criminals from the condemnation, guilt and penalties of their sins and crimes. For it is, in context, a conclusion to Jesus’ teaching about judging sinners rightly, according to God’s Law. Then, in verse 18, two of the grammatical constructions are much like those found in Matthew 16:19. That is, here we find two future, perfect, passive periphrastic constructions. So the future tense of the linking verb (ἔσται) indicates that Jesus is referring to their future judgments, which will either bind or free sinners. Then Page 1205
the two participles (δεδεμένα and λελυμένα) are theological passives, referring to the actions of God
and, in context, more specifically to the acts of their “Father in the heavens.” Both are also in the perfect tense. So, with the future linking verb, these perfect participles indicate that God, at some time in the past, will have already made the very same judgments that these disciples will make in the future. And, since the Greek perfect tense always emphasizes the effect or result of the verb’s action, especially in a periphrastic construction, Jesus was clearly emphasizing that the disciples’
future judgments will be the effects or results of God having already made those judgments, in the past, before they would make those judgments. So Jesus taught that their heavenly Father would first make judgments to either bind or free sinners, then cause those disciples to reiterate their Father’s judgments upon the earth. Thus, the Father of their spirits would make His judgments through them.
Then the phrase, ὅσα ἐὰν, would mean “as many as/of whomever.” And, of course, the participles were forms of δέω (“to bind, put in bonds or bondage”) and λύω (“loosen, unbind, free”). Thus, although it is difficult to make an idiomatic English translation of verse 18, since English simply has no equivalent tenses or ways of expressing them, it can be translated something like this: “Most assuredly I reason with you [disciples]: As many of whomever you [disciples] might have bound upon the earth, will be having been bound in heaven in the past, with the effect of causing your current binding [of the unrepentant one in condemnation for one’s sin or crime]. And as many of whomever you [disciples] might have freed upon the earth, will be having been freed in heaven in the past, with the effect of causing your current freeing [of the repentant one from any condemnation for sins or crimes].”
But Jesus did not stop there. He went on to reinforce this concept of God administering His own judgments through them, and told His core disciples and future teaching elders how God will do this:
“Again, I assuredly reason with you [disciples]: Whenever two from among you might have gathered together upon the earth, regarding any kind of matter [requiring a judgment], regarding whomever they ask [to be judged], it will be caused for them by My Father in the heavens.” First, look at how Jesus specifically told them that this was “regarding any kind of matter [requiring a judgment], regarding whomever they ask [to be judged].” That is, the noun πρᾶγμα, in this context of teaching them how to make right judgments, refers to “a matter of contention, dispute, lawsuit” (BDAG3), or, in this instance, to “a matter of judging a sinner.” And this judgment would be “regarding whomever they ask [to be judged]” (οὗ ἐὰν αἰτήσωνται). Now, since th is is about a requested j udgment and, in this context, all the Jewish people of that time would always go to their teaching elders to request every kind of judgment, this statement by Jesus actually proves that He was teaching and training these twelve core disciples to become teaching elders. Historians know, with all certainty, that the procedures for this kind of judgment (vv. 15-17), which either bind or free a sinner (v. 18), was a primary duty of teaching elders alone (i.e., in those days, teaching elders were also the judges and binding arbitrators in all criminal and civil cases within their communities). But, in our day, because mature policemen, prosecutors and judges now do the work of teaching elders, all these teachings of Jesus also apply to them. Furthermore, this means that we must choose our teaching elders, police, prosecutors and judges wisely, so all their judgments will be just and originate from God, to build up God’s kingdom. If we do not choose those whom God Himself chose and taught, if we do not vet out all who lack genuine evidence of awakened elect spirits being taught and trained by God, then many or most of our teaching elders, police, prosecutors and judges will make far too many unjust judgments, even Satanic judgments, and they will build up Satan’s kingdom, not God’s kingdom.
The relative pronoun in the phrase, οὗ ἐὰν αἰτήσωνται (see v. 19), seems to be a genitive of simple apposition, since it immediately follows after and modifies the genitive noun πράγματος. So this phrase, with the conditional particle and the third person plural aorist subjunctive verb, would mean, Page 1206
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“regarding whomever they ask [to be judged].” Since the third person verb in this phrase does not refer to the disciples, whom Jesus directly addressed using second person plural pronouns, we know that the antecedent of “they,” in this phrase, refers to the people of the community. Therefore, this statement of Jesus proves that He was teaching His core disciples to be just teaching elders of His people, those to whom the people would go to ask for judgments to be made, regarding those caught committing sins or crimes in their communities. But also notice how, before Jesus said this, He also stated: “Whenever two from among you might have gathered together upon the earth, regarding any kind of matter [requiring a judgment] ...” So Jesus here required judgments to be made by two or more teaching elders. And we see this historically. Every local true church formed by the apostles had two or more teaching elders who knew God’s fulfilled Law, who could make right judgments.
Neither God’s Law, which Jesus came to fulfill in us and through us, nor any relevant teachings in God’s Word, ever allows for any kind of cultic, Roman-like, authority to rule over any local church, nor over His universal church, nor over any governed body formed according to God’s Word and will. Rather than human gods ruling over His people, God always demanded that He alone must rule over all the people everywhere. As for the human judges and administers which God chooses and sends to the people, God has always desired that they humbly serve Him, as His servants who remain faithful to Him and do His just, loving works for His people, and for the rest of His creations. God alone is the Head of Israel. God is always to be Israel’s only true High Priest, King, Lawmaker and ultimate Judge, for both the Jews and Gentiles in His eternal priesthood and in His kingdoms both on earth and in heaven. Then, as His priesthood of Israel would mature, in all His spiritual and moral ways, so they became better able to administer His just love rightly throughout the earth, His Word prophesied that they would serve Him for the freeing benefit of the entire earth. This is why God rebuked Israel when they rejected Him as their only King, when they wanted a human king like themselves, a biased sinner with unjust judgments (see I Sam. 8:4-7). For God knew that Israel was not yet able to elect church elders, nor even human administrators and judges of secular affairs, from those whom He had chosen for them, from the men whom God made manifest among them through good fruits of wisdom, justice and love, from the men with elect spirits that most faithfully served the real God. Instead, the people always chose elders, administrators and judges who flattered them in their sins, who falsely promised the greatest rewards for their amoral or even immoral flesh. Nor did the people rebuke priests who walked according to their own “free wills,” but let those wicked pretenders enter God’s presence by their own volition. Thus, God Himself killed them (Lev. 10:1-2).
Now we need to return to reality, and realize that all human beings have infantile spirits which must rely on God alone, for all knowledge, wisdom and justice, for all components of true and God-like love. And, to do this, we must first choose only the teaching elders and judges whom God has chosen for us, those whose spirits manifest the just, wise love that Jesus Himself has taught and trained us to apply, in our service of Him and His creation. Then, even as we do this, we must also understand that all the elect, even the most spiritually mature, are easily distracted from realities, then led into lies and delusions. So it is always best to have two or more complementary and God-chosen elders to try every case, where each one’s weakness is covered by the strengths of another, so one might rebuke and correct the other, if the other errs. Then we must provide judges and appeal courts, to whom the accused can seek a correction of false judgments, just as God instructed Moses to do. God wanted judges for groups of ten, fifty, a hundred and a thousand men, as well as the
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Law (e.g., Deut. 1:15-17). In other words, God has never and never will allow any man or group of men to become a head over His people, because God remains their one and only Head and Judge.
Here it is clear that Jesus wanted at least two of His future teaching elders to judge every case that the people brought before them. And, like all disciples, those two judges had to compliment one another. That is, in those days, the disciples were sent out in pairs or in groups, almost never alone as authoritative individuals. Then, in each pair or group, one had to be strong in an area where the other was weak. Likewise, each judging and teaching elder had to possess different and complementary perspectives, since each one’s spirit would spontaneously focus upon certain laws and attributes of God more than upon His other laws and attributes. Thus, if one judge perceived one aspect of God’s Law wrongly, this might be overcome by the stronger eyes of another judge regarding that particular aspect. If two or more judges were indeed called, taught and trained by the Holy Spirit of God in Jesus, and both humbly made a diligent and prayerful inquiries and judgments, after candidly discussing the case, both would eventually come to a full agreement and the same verdict. If both judges were committed to serving Jesus alone, both would agree on how to restore what was lost or damaged for the victim, and both would “bind” an unrepentant sinner or “free” a repentant sinner.
The two or more judges would, if they were humble of spirit and faithful to Jesus, would always end up agreeing, because of what our God Jesus promised. For Jesus assured them and promised that, if their spirits heeded His teachings to their spirits, then their judgment “will be caused for them by My Father in the heavens.” Here Jesus used a third person singular future form of the verb γίνομαι, to indicate what “will come into existence,” or “will be caused.” The dative plural pronoun (αὐτοῖς) after the verb indicates that the verb’s action will be “for them.” And, after this pronoun, the preposition παρά, with its genitive object, served as a “marker of one who originates or directs, from” (BDAG3). So Jesus was promising these future teaching elders that their judgments will
“originate from” or be “directed by” their “Father in the heavens.” And He again used the plural, referring to all three “heavens.” Their Father is not only above them in the spiritual realm, but also with them on earth. And He shall reveal the truth to their spirits, so they could make just judgments.
Lastly, Jesus encouraged them with these words: “For, where two or three are having been gathered in My name, with this effect, there I am in the midst of them.” Whenever two or three teaching elders may be gathered and called to make a judgment, and they gather through faith in the name of Jesus, they will see “this effect.” That is, their judgment will be caused by their heavenly Father. And we must not forget this part of the statement, the words, “with this effect.” For here Jesus used a perfect tense verbal construction. Since the perfect tense emphasizes the effect or result implied by the context, Jesus was referring to the effect indicated in the statement He made before this. He was making a reference to the “effect” of God causing their judgments. And Jesus was speaking in Greek here, just as He always did whenever He spoke privately to His disciples. Therefore, no part of His teaching here (i.e, in vv. 18-20) would have been a Greek translation of Aramaic. If it was a Greek translation of Aramaic, then some periphrastic constructions might sometimes be superfluous. But Jesus spoke in Greek, because He was speaking privately to His disciples, from verse 3 to verse 20.
Thus, in verse 20, He would have deliberately used that perfect, passive, periphrastic construction (εἰσιν ... συνηγμένοι), in order to emphasize the aspect, to focuses on the effect of the verb’s action.
So, in verse 20, the theological passive indicated that God Himself would gather together two or more of these future teaching elders, to make a judgment. And we know this is a theological passive because they were to be gathered in the name of Jesus, who is their God. That is, if they were being gathered in His name, they were being gathered according to His will and by His command, as well as through His power and authority. In addition, it means they would be gathered for His purposes, Page 1208
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not their own purposes, nor the purposes of any entity except Him. Then His use of the perfect tense was to emphasize the effects over the action itself. And, in context, these effects clearly refer to having their judgments “caused for them by [their] Father in the heavens.” So Jesus taught that, whenever they see this effect of God the Father causing them to make just judgments, it will be because He is in the midst of them. For, if the Father of their spirits is in the midst of them, causing their right judgments, Jesus will be in the midst of them at the same time, because Jesus and the Father are one. That is, here Jesus was once more claiming to be one with Yahweh God Himself.
Now look again at how Jesus stated: “where two or three are having been gathered together into My name” (οὗ ... εἰσιν δύο ἢ τρεῖς συνηγμένοι εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν ὄνομα). First let me repeat, the passive verb indicates that the two or three teaching elders “are having been gathered together” by God. Also, the context makes it clear that God gathers these teaching elders for the purpose of judging in criminal and civil matters, where all their judgments ultimately will also be judged by Him, their Owner and God. Then the preposition (εἰς) indicates a movement towards and into the “name” (will, command, purpose, power, love) of Jesus. Therefore, Jesus was actually saying that God Himself grants these just and adept judging elders to the people. Then we must remember that, in God’s Word, all higher-level church and secular government administrators, all who judge according to the spiritual/moral laws that God created upon the earth, are duty-bound servants of God, whom the Law tells us to choose or elect from those whom God called, taught, trained and raised up to be teaching elders. So this is another Scripture which teaches about God’s loving and sometimes disciplinary interference in the affairs of human beings, even in the affairs of entire nations. Especially after the world has now received access to the truth which He revealed through His priesthood of Israel, God will either: (1) Gather many just, loving teaching elders for the people in a land, if the land has a core of elect souls who heed God. And, as we see in Scriptures like Genesis 18:23-33, this core can consist of even a tiny minority that loves God and His truths, far less than a few percent of the entire population. If God finds a core of elect men willing to hear and heed Him, He will raise up effective and authoritative teaching judges who rule according to what His Holy Spirit has taught and called their elect human spirits to uphold. Then God’s own power will uphold those judgments in their church or in their land. For, Jesus has the power to cause men to make right judgments, whether or not the minds of flesh in those men consciously know His name and His Word. And the almighty God will empower their just judgments. For God bears the power to sway human hearts and minds, so they will support just judgments.
(2) Or God will discipline a stubborn body, whose elect members do not love the truth of His words, and hand that entire body over to Satan. Then that devil will be permitted to delude them all for their own physical destruction. Of course, God will still send some truly just and loving teaching elders to them, to make repentance available to them, just as God did for the land of Canaan for about four hundred years before He destroyed most of them, or just as God did for the apostates in Israel before His destroyed them. But, if the elect do not love the just and equitable truths of God, then treat those servants of God just like they treated Jesus and the prophets, He will destroy the entire body. God may even give a body time to repent after He has allowed them to kill His true teaching elders, whom He called, taught, trained and sent to them. But, if the people do not repent, but falsely justify themselves for their own condemnation, God will let Satan further delude them and complete their utter destruction.
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direction that the spirits of the people are heading. And, when we judge, we must ask ourselves, “Are the people heading towards a love of God’s just truth or towards a love of the lie?” Yet, at the present time, almost all churches and nations seem to be steering themselves toward a love of many lies, and seek unjust systems such as fascist dictatorships. Therefore, since they hate God’s just and loving truths, they also hate God. Almost every church in our land despises God, and most of the elect in them do not know their right hand from their left, nor care to find out the difference. Justice means nothing to them, only the gratification of their fleshy desires. Consequently, God has handed almost every church over to Satan, to be deluded in ways that will cause their own physical destruction, although the elect who are trapped among them will be saved on the judgment day. So, if some of the elect can still pray from their spirits, can diligently and faithfully hear any teachings from the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus, then also heed His call to do works for the training of their spirits, let them do so. If any elect man can still call Jesus his one and only Head, and never call any other man nor any other entity his head, neither on earth or in heaven, let him do so. If any elect woman can give her spirit over to only the works of the true servants of God, and keep her spirit from doing the works that build up Satan’s kingdom, let her do so. For our churches and lands are heading toward certain destruction through the deluding of the devil, into unjust, ruthless, cruel, racist, evil lies.
The time of false churches still exists, those whom Jesus warned us about, the churches that falsely come in God’s name to kill God’s appointed elect. And the visible, world-wide, true church has not yet been formed through the one true revival prophesied in the Revelation. Yet we have seen how God has often gathered together a few somewhat faithful elect souls to judge for Him in some lands, to nullify works of the devil through their spirits’ faithful works in Christ. Then, upon the ruins of Satan’s works, those elect have built up the just love of God’s kingdom, making the fulfilled laws of God in Christ accepted and cherished there, and even throughout the world. And those elect, who were most often of low status and with very limited power in Satan’s world order when they taught and practised the truths of God’s loving, just, fulfilled laws, were always a very small percentage of the population, usually far less than one percent. Yet their works bore great and lasting fruits through the will and power of God, although, at times, through the sacrifice of their own lives. Then, after their flesh died, their full and wealthy spirits flew to the gates of heaven, still wide awake. But the spirits of the elect who did not love the truth throughout their lives now sleep lethargically after death, weak and impoverished. Those beaten-down, abused and malnourished elect will need much painful healing, together with much spiritual food and drink, to revive on the final day of judgment.