Another thing we notice here is how Jesus knew this donkey and its foal belonged to someone who believed in Him, to some awakened and loving elect soul who would be very glad to lend his donkey to the Messiah. For it would be very hard for the owner, or any of his loving neighbours, to let two total strangers take the precious donkeys. In those days, the average person’s ability to purchase a donkey could be compared to a poor North American person’s ability to buy an automobile. Donkeys were very expensive, especially the female donkeys able to produce a foal! Not only this, but many owners of donkeys loved them very much. Those donkeys were their loyal and intelligent friends.
So an average man would never let two strangers take his beloved and costly donkeys, unless he truly loved Jesus, and the two strangers told him that Jesus needed them. Now Jesus may have seen that donkey and her foal in the distance. So that may have been how He knew they were standing there. But how did Jesus know the colt had never been ridden (Mark 11:2; Luke 19:30), unless He was the omniscient God! Second, how did Jesus know the donkeys’ owner was a believer who loved Him enough to lend his donkeys to Him? Jesus told His two disciples that, if anyone spoke to them about taking the donkeys, they should simply reason that He had a “needful use for them.” So Jesus fully expected the owner to let Him borrow the donkeys. And Jesus’ flesh likely did not know the donkeys’ owner. Yet His Spirit must have known the very thoughts of that owner’s heart! The only way Jesus could have known the owner would lend Him those donkeys is if Jesus’ Spirit was thee omniscient God Himself. This is what all four Gospels clearly implied in their accounts of this event.
Then Matthew quoted Zechariah 9:9, citing that prophecy as the reason Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey (Mat. 21:4-5). John also quoted that verse from Zechariah, but John said the disciples only realized why Jesus rode the donkey’s foal much later, after He ascended into heaven (John 12:15-16). Either way, one of the reasons Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey was to fulfill Zechariah’s prophecy. Chapter nine of Zechariah was the beginning of his second book, written in about 486 BC, and mostly contained a series of end-time prophecies. And he prophesied about both the first and second advents of the Messiah. After prophesying about Israel immediately before the Messiah would come the second time, about when He would arrive in His glory (9:1-8), Zechariah then inserted an almost totally contradictory prophecy about the Messiah’s first advent (9:9). So this Page 1314
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prophet began by telling us about the Messiah’s destruction of the wicked, then declared: “Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey”
(Zech. 9:9, WEB). After this, Zechariah once more began to describe how the Messiah would cut off (kill) the wicked of the world, yet bring peace to the nations of the world. So he then continued to prophesy about the Messiah’s second coming. So verse 9, about the mild Saviour Messiah, seems to contradict his prophecies about the Messiah’s vengeance and destruction in the surrounding verses.
In verse nine, Zechariah was obviously prophesying about the King (Hebrew = mehlek), which clearly refers to the Messiah of the last days. But the last days have proved to encompass a couple of millennia. Those last days were to include the time the Messiah came to save us, then culminate in a about four decades called the end times. We know this because Zechariah prophesied that this King would come to Jerusalem (also called Zion) to offer us a great “salvation” (Hebrew = yahshah,
“deliverance, salvation”). Consequently, we know the King the Zechariah referred to was definitely the promised Messiah, the One whom Jeremiah previously prophesied about, the One who would bring God’s New Covenant salvation to Israel. Zechariah also said this Messiah would be righteous or just (Hebrew = tsaddeek), even in His judgments against the wicked. So He surely would justly forgive all the truly repentant among the people of the world, although most would not repent and He would need to destroy those wilful evildoers. But the part of this verse which contradicts all the other things Zechariah wrote about Him are his words describing this conquering Messiah and King as: “a just and righteous One, having salvation, Him [being] poor/lowly/humble/afflicted/wretched
[ awnee], riding upon a donkey, upon a foal colt (male offspring) of a female donkey.” Zechariah was prophesying that the people of Jerusalem would shout with great rejoicing for a lowly, afflicted Man.
Nothing else in Zechariah’s prophecy, except verse nine, even hinted that the conquering, destroying Messiah and King was also poor, lowly and afflicted. Rather, all Zechariah’s other prophecies implied that this Messiah was one and the same Person as Yahweh, the almighty Creator and God who would judge, condemn and destroy the wicked. Therefore, we are forced to logically conclude that Zechariah 9:9 must have been prophesying about the Messiah’s first advent. After all, that verse prophesied that the Messiah would come to Jerusalem in a poor, lowly and afflicted state, riding on a donkey, which indicated that this King came to offer terms of peace and salvation to His people, and that He was indicating a contractual obligation to refrain from killing His enemies. We can also assume that the time described in verse nine would need to occur long before His massive deeds of judgment, destruction and slaughter, which He would inflict on His enemies, even upon Jerusalem.
Matthew and John were right. When our God Jesus asked for those donkeys, He did it to fulfill the revelation of this event that He prophesied about through Zechariah. Then John quoted Zechariah 9:9
in this way: “Be not afraid, daughter of Zion. Look, your King is coming, sitting upon a colt of a donkey” (John 12:15, from: Μὴ φοβοῦ, θυγάτηρ Σιών· ἰδοὺ ὁ βασιλεύς σου ἔρχεται, καθήμενος ἐπὶ
πῶλον ὄνου, SBLGNT). Then John told us, “At first, the disciples did not understand these thing about Him. But, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were having been effectively written concerning Him and they did these things for Him” (John 12:16, ALT). Yet Matthew wrote: “So this had been done to cause the effect that it should be fulfilling the [written]
word through the prophet saying, ‘Tell the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your King comes to you, humble and ascending upon a female donkey, even upon a colt, the male offspring of a beast of burden”’” (Mat. 21:4-5, from: Τοῦτο δὲ γέγονεν ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος·
Εἴπατε τῇ θυγατρὶ Σιών· Ἰδοὺ ὁ βασιλεύς σου ἔρχεταί σοι πραῢς καὶ ἐπιβεβηκὼς ἐπὶ ὄνον καὶ ἐπὶ
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πῶλον υἱὸν ὑποζυγίου, SBLGNT). So Matthew did not quote Zechariah correctly. Instead, it looks like he badly paraphrased the Hebrew text, simply recording what he remembered from the text.
Also, Matthew’s quote from Zechariah inadvertently suggests that Jesus rode both the female donkey and the colt. Clearly, we can conclude two things: Matthew knew very little about donkeys and he only vaguely remembered the text. But Zechariah’s original prophecy, as well as the words of both Luke and John, confirm that Jesus rode the male colt, not the female donkey. Thus, since Matthew did not really know which donkey Jesus actually rode, only that He rode one of them, he, in his confusion, possibly made the quote from Zechariah 9:9 intentionally ambiguous. And this may be why some, to this day, still envision Jesus riding the mother donkey with a tiny foal trailing behind.
Still, Matthew made the main point, that Jesus indeed fulfilled Zechariah’s prophesy about the first advent of the Messiah. Of course, Matthew did not tell us that a king would only ride a donkey up to a conquered city if he came in peace, without malice, with an implied promise to allow his enemies to live, to negotiate a friendly surrender and accept all who would remain faithful, often even with an offer to make all who surrendered into full citizens of his kingdom. But Matthew did not need to teach this, since everyone knew it already. Then this is exactly what Jesus did that day. Jesus rode to Jerusalem, a city He had spiritually conquered with the truth about God, to accept the repentant as full citizens of His true and eternal Israel. This first advent of the Creator God, the almighty Spirit dwelling in a body and mind of flesh, had one purpose. And that purpose was to initiate the promises of His New Covenant with His one and only priesthood on earth, with the true church of Israel. Not only this but, just as Israel consisted of many races of people from the beginning, and incorporated many races of Egyptian slaves during the time of Moses, so too would Jesus gather many more races of the elect into His New Covenant branch of Israel, from that day on. For God has always sought spiritual heirs of His promises to Abraham, not the mere sinful bodies of flesh physically descended from Abraham’s flesh. Many rabbis taught that the Messiah would come to destroy their enemies, so they might receive self-indulgent wealth and power from Him, as an elite race ruling the earth. But they did not realize that this was a totally foreign, demonic and pagan concept, not from God’s Word.
Meanwhile, Jesus, the real God, was fulfilling what His revealed words of the Bible actually said.
And the prophecies of Scriptures declared that the Messiah, Israel’s eternal King and High Priest, would come the first time as a lowly, humble, suffering King, riding on a donkey, to make peace with us, even to sacrifice His body in a painful death for us, so He might then be able to gather His loving elect into His kingdom. Jesus came to be “pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on Him; and by His wounds we are healed” (Is. 53:5, WEB). The reason our King humbly rode to the city of God’s presence was so that He would “justify many by the knowledge of Himself; and He will bear their iniquities” (Is. 53:11, WEB). Jesus entered Jerusalem and handed His body of flesh over to God’s enemies because His salvation for us required Him to have “poured out His soul to death, and [to be] numbered with the transgressors; yet He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors” (Is. 53:12, WEB). At His first advent, “the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them”
(Luke 9:56, WEB). By this coming, Jesus “is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through Him, seeing that He lives forever to make intercession for them” (Heb. 7:25, WEB).
After the two disciples brought the donkeys to Jesus, Matthew tells us that the twelve threw their garments on them. Since it was spring, and it was obviously a nice day with warm weather, they likely piled all their outer garments on the well-trained female donkey. For their cloaks were heavy and carrying those garments themselves would restrict their freedom of movement. Also, all their outer garments had large pockets, filled with useful items, likely even wrapped portions of food. So Page 1316
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they actually weighed quite a bit. Still, they always had to carry those garments with them, even in this warm weather, since they used them as blankets when the slept during the night. Thus, Matthew was right about them putting their garments, and possibly a few of their bags, on the mother donkey too. Probably, only one disciple put his garment on the colt, to use as a saddle blanket for Jesus. Or Jesus may have done that for Himself. Then Luke said the disciples “caused Jesus to mount” the colt (Luke 19:35, ἐπεβίβασαν τὸν Ἰησοῦν). But Jesus was only about 33 years old and very healthy. So they likely did not lift Him onto the colt. Rather, they would have merely held the halter as Jesus raised Himself onto the donkey’s back. And, for those who know horses and donkeys, this was a fascinating thing. For, if that colt did not want Jesus on his back, there is no way the disciples could have helped Jesus get on his back, and no way Jesus could have stayed on his back. So this is quite amazing. Jesus’ Spirit communicated directly with the spirit of the totally untrained colt to calm him.
Unlike Mark and Luke, who told us that Jesus sat on the colt, Matthew again remained unclear by referring to both donkeys at once, and told us, “He sat up over them” (Mat. 21:7, ἐπεκάθισεν ἐπάνω
αὐτῶν). This is confusing, and some have even asked if Jesus sat on both donkeys at the same time.
He did not. This was simply Matthew’s way of saying that he did not know one donkey from the other, but that Jesus sat on one of the two. It means Matthew did not know which one Jesus sat on, since he could not tell a male from a female donkey, nor an older donkey from a younger donkey.
Matthew then tells us, “A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road” (Mat. 21:8, WEB, cf., Mark 11:8; Luke 19:36). Back in those days, the outer garment or cloak was a very precious and costly item, since it took many hours to make the thread then weave the thread, all by hand, into the wide and long garment. Thus, the vast majority of people could afford to buy only one cloak, which they used for years, until it was too worn out to wear any longer. At the same time, the cloak told much about a person, since it indicated one’s tribe, religious beliefs, economic condition, occupation, status and so on. Thus, when many people of all kinds threw their garments on the road, where Jesus was riding the donkey, they were indicating that He was above them all and that all they owned would be used solely for His benefit.
Long before this, the people of Israel also cast their garments under the feet of Jehu, when God sent His prophets to anoint him as the new king of Israel (II Kings 9:13). And they did this because they hoped Jehu would save them, by killing the current wicked and ruthless king and queen, who made their lives miserable. And, perhaps, some of the people in Jerusalem were expecting Jesus to do something similar, to kill the psychopathic Romans and their puppet rulers in Israel, so they could live in peace. But Jesus had come to give them peace with God, to restore their relationship with their heavenly Father, which had been broken by their greed, violence, pride and other sins. This first entrance into Jerusalem was not to destroy their human enemies, but to crush a much bigger enemy, to annihilate the deluding power of Satan over their lives. Only much later would Jesus come again to slaughter their human enslavers, oppressors and tormentors. As for the palm branches they cast on the road, those were always a sign of God’s benevolence toward them. God commanded them to take branches off the trees and rejoice in the bounty of His providence during the feast of the tabernacles.
For that feast took place every fall, in September or October, to give thanks for God keeping them alive and well in their tents during their exodus from slavery in Egypt (see Lev. 23:33-43). But, by this time in Israel, that feast was also associated with the coming of the Messiah, although with His second and triumphant advent. So when the people cast branches on the road, even at this time in early spring (March or April), it also suggested that they were thanking God for this Saviour, this Messiah and King who would all the Jews in their promised land. They expected Jesus to save them by destroying their enemies, by eliminating Rome’s oppressive rule through His victorious warfare.
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Therefore, when Jesus saw them casting their garments and palm branches on the road, He was not likely pleased with it. He knew what they were thinking in their hearts, and fully realized that their thoughts did not truly will to see God’s will done on earth as it is done in heaven. So, for Jesus, this was a sober entrance into Jerusalem, yet still a happy occasion, a time to lovingly embrace all this energetic laughing and rejoicing of His people, while He pondered the great spiritual cost and the future losses of lives. Although He knew His body would soon face a tortuous death, to free them from the sins of their flesh, from the sins allowed by their infantile spirits, their festive mood likely did please Him. Our God Jesus probably enjoyed their enjoyment, as God the Father does. And He also knew He was about to provide their hearts with a far greater opportunity to feast and celebrate exuberantly, even forever in their heavenly home. Still, Jesus also realized how easily their foolish minds of flesh would be led astray by self-important deceivers, who would drag them into death and destruction. He knew that most of His elect siblings who were dancing in the street this day would abandon Him and His teachings, to follow wilful wanna-be gods, who would march them into a bloody and futile war against their psychopathic Roman invaders, ending their lives in hellish deaths.
So, while His disciples felt only the glorious day’s excitement and vain hopes, Jesus sat on His donkey with deeply troubling but compassionate thoughts, loving the love they gave to God and Him, yet knowing their “faith,” for the most part, consisted of mere temporary emotions hyped up in their minds of flesh, an ecstasy which would soon fade or transform into hate. Most of their infantile spirits knew nothing about who He actually was, nor what He came to do for their inner and eternal lives. The only thing most of their hearts held onto were very superficial hopes for the prosperity of their flesh, all based on lies of rabbis. Even His own core disciples seemed to fall into this trap. So Jesus was truly alone. He had no one who comprehended the thoughts of His grieving heart and soul.
While Jesus was studying His people, as He rode that donkey, Matthew told us, “Then the throngs going before Him and those following [as disciples] were shouting out, exclaiming, ‘Save now, by the Son of David. “The one coming in the name of the Lord [is] remaining well-praised [by God].”
Save now in the highest [of God’s] places’” (Mat. 21:9, from: οἱ δὲ ὄχλοι οἱ προάγοντες αὐτὸν καὶ οἱ
ἀκολουθοῦντες ἔκραζον λέγοντες· Ὡσαννὰ τῷ υἱῷ Δαυίδ· Εὐλογημένος ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἐν ὀνόματι
κυρίου· Ὡσαννὰ ἐν τοῖς ὑψίστοις, SBLGNT). Part of this verse is a quote from the Septuagint’s version of Psalm 118:26 (but is called Psalm 117 in the Septuagint). Yet the word Hosanna (Ὡσαννὰ) in this Greek text is a Hebrew word from Psalm 118:25, and means “save now,” or something like,
“cause us to live well and in peace now.” And, since these were not commonly memorized words, it seems that one individual might have started calling out these words, and then the crowd joined in.
Mark recorded a slightly different version of this: “Then those going before and those following [as disciples] were shouting out, ‘Save now! “The one coming in the name of the Lord [is] remaining well-praised [by God].” The coming kingdom of our father David [is] remaining well-praised [by God]. Save now in the highest [of God’s] places’” (Mark 11:9-10, from: καὶ οἱ προάγοντες καὶ οἱ
ἀκολουθοῦντες ἔκραζον· Ὡσαννά· Εὐλογημένος ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου· Εὐλογημένη ἡ
ἐρχομένη βασιλεία τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν Δαυίδ· Ὡσαννὰ ἐν τοῖς ὑψίστοις, SBLGNT). This version (of what the people were shouting) most clearly indicates that the people wanted Jesus, their Messiah, to restore the “kingdom of our father David,” presumably by a war to destroy their Roman oppressors.
Then Luke wrote: “So, as His drawing near to the descent of the Mount of Olives now [occurred], absolutely all the multitude of the disciples began rejoicing, to praise God with a great noise about all of those miracles which they saw, reasoning, ‘“The King coming in the name of the Lord [is]
remaining well-praised.” Peace in heaven and glory in [God’s] highest places’” (Luke 19:37-38, from: ἐγγίζοντος δὲ αὐτοῦ ἤδη πρὸς τῇ καταβάσει τοῦ Ὄρους τῶν Ἐλαιῶν ἤρξαντο ἅπαν τὸ πλῆθος
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τῶν μαθητῶν χαίροντες αἰνεῖν τὸν θεὸν φωνῇ μεγάλῃ περὶ πασῶν ὧν εἶδον δυνάμεων, λέγοντες·
Εὐλογημένος ὁ ἐρχόμενος βασιλεὺς ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου· ἐν οὐρανῷ εἰρήνη καὶ δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις, SBLGNT). So Luke mentioned that they quoted Psalm 118:26 from the Septuagint, but did not say the crowds shouted the Hebrew word “Hosanna.” This was likely because he was writing for Gentile readers. However, notice how Luke did specify that these throngs all considered themselves to be disciples of Jesus, since he called them all, “the multitude of disciples” (τὸ πλῆθος τῶν μαθητῶν).
Lastly, look at the account written by John, a man of deep love and understanding, who recorded this in his old age. First John said the crowds were shouting, “Hosanna! ‘The one coming in the name of the Lord [is] remaining well-praised [by God],’ even the King of Israel!” (John 12:13b, from: Ὡσαννά, εὐλογημένος ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου, καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, SBLGNT). Yet, after explaining how the apostles later remembered and fully understood Zechariah’s prophecy about the Messiah’s first advent in humility and affliction, John wrote: “The crowd having been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him out of the dead, were therefore testifying.
Because of this, the crowd also went to meet with Him, because they heard this [about] Him, [the one] to have effectively made the sign” (John 12:17-18, from: ἐμαρτύρει οὖν ὁ ὄχλος ὁ ὢν μετʼ
αὐτοῦ ὅτε τὸν Λάζαρον ἐφώνησεν ἐκ τοῦ μνημείου καὶ ἤγειρεν αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν. διὰ τοῦτο καὶ
ὑπήντησεν αὐτῷ ὁ ὄχλος ὅτι ἤκουσαν τοῦτο αὐτὸν πεποιηκέναι τὸ σημεῖον, SBLGNT). John reflected upon this Triumphal Entry of Jesus many times, and concluded that the only reason the crowds were shouting “Save now!” (Hosanna) was because they heard that Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. Since Jesus performed the sign of raising someone from the dead, they assumed He was the “King” who would raise Israel from its figurative “death” of being conquered by Rome.
That is, John was implying that the crowds were not sincerely seeking God’s true New Covenant salvation, but wanted only a physical salvation from their murderers, from the psychopathic Romans.
So, in all the Gospels, we see a picture of thousands of people, who had gathered from all parts of Judah, Galilee and the Diaspora for the Passover feast in Jerusalem. Many of these Jews were told about Jesus’ miracles and heard some of His teachings. So thousands, perhaps half of the Jews in Jerusalem, with many Gentile proselytes besides, began to call themselves disciples of this great Teacher, Prophet, High Priest and King. And most expected Him to “save now,” but with a salvation which conquered and subjugated the Roman Empire, so Israel might be established as an elite race ruling over the entire world, since many rabbis taught them this kind of nonsense. Because most of the eschatological doctrines of the time proclaimed that the Messiah would be a King whose main purpose was to destroy their enemies, in order to make them wealthy and powerful, they only wanted this kind of King. Very few actually wanted the kind of King which the true prophets wrote about, a King who fulfilled God’s Law in them and through them, who brought justice and love to all lands.
Sadly, this materialistic kind of hope for a carnal salvation still persists among devout Jews today, due to false teachings of rabbis. And it is in all humanistic so-called “Christian” churches too. Yet, although Jews have never believed in things like creating conspiracies to take over the world, neither in any economic, political nor military way, this belief, that God will make them a ruling race, has always caused much trouble and persecution, for them. And that same kind of materialistic hope in God has also caused much trouble for the humanistic Muslims in modern Israel as well. For it prompts others to grow paranoid of those religious ambitions to grasp the rewards of Satan’s carnal world order. It stirs up a reaction which murders and oppresses, even though most of the people who believe those lies are simply just and peaceful people. That hope, for God or a Messiah to physically conquer the entire world and make them an elite race, has resulted in deadly animosity for the last two millenniums. And all of it was definitely because of a belief in false eschatological doctrines.
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By examining recent history, we can see how the Romans and other Gentile nations felt about the materialistic hope of the Jews, to become oppressing elite overlords. For a false hope in their rabbis false exegesis of Messianic prophecies caused Russian paranoia in the 19th century, which led to the pogroms that murdered, plundered and displaced millions of Jews. It also allowed Russia to believe antisemitic propaganda like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which they published in 1903. And that Russian propaganda was plagiarized from a French antisemitic book published in 1864, a book which the Russian rulers and the elite had read and believed. So the Russians used these lies to justify their pogroms against the Jews, and they believed those lies because the Jews believed the lies of their rabbis. Therefore, as always, lies begat lies, until death and destruction reigned over all.
Both sides had their own psychopathic slanderers who invented complete fiction solely to breed hatred against others, so they could murder those others and plunder their possessions. And the dirty little minions of Hitler and Trump, as well as of the extreme right-wing Jews in Israel, still promote those very same kinds of lies to this very day, with exactly the same results of death and destruction.
But Jews, neither as a race nor as a religion, have never actually conspired to take over the world, and never will. For, as we see in all their literature, they wait for their Messiah to do that. Jews will never even think about trying to conquer the world, not until their Messiah comes, and not until all the Jews recognize and willingly follow Him as their true Messiah. So it is a complete and utterly stupid, paranoid myth which declares that the Jews are now attempting such a thing. Yes, just like the people of every race on earth (assuming some still believe in such a thing as “races” of people), there will always be some evil souls in it, even outright psychopaths. But, generally, I have found fewer evil souls and psychopaths among the Jews, fewer than there are among most other races. In fact, in my personal experience, the races with the most evil, ignorant, unjust, ruthless and worthless parasites and psychopaths seem to be the white Aryan races. So, if Aryans want to practice eugenics, and rid the world of “inferior races,” they definitely will need to start by eliminating their own race.
But the point made in all four Gospels, when the Passover crowds began to shout “Hosanna!” (“Save now!”) and quoted a verse from the 118th Psalm, was that the majority thought their Messiah had come to bring them a physical salvation through carnal warfare against Gentiles. Yet look at the words from this Psalm. They were actually a prayer which literally says: “I pra
y, Yahweh, howosiah
na [‘save now’ or ‘Hosanna’]. I pra
y, Yahweh, haslihah na [‘advance our well-being and peace now’]” (Ps.
118:25). So, when the multitudes shouted “Hosanna!” to Jesus at His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, they were shouting a collective prayer, and to God the Father, asking Him to save them from their oppressors through the agency of the Messiah, “by the Son of David” (τῷ υἱῷ Δαυίδ). Yet, did they know who their real oppressors were? It seems they all were praying for God to deliver Israel from the Romans. But the Romans were not the only deceivers leading their hearts and minds into dark dungeons of lies and delusions, away from God and His life for their souls. Most of their own beloved rabbis did so too. And the physical swords of Rome were only a minor threat to their freedom, compared to the lies of Rome and the lies of their fake rabbis. So Jesus heard their prayers, but our God Jesus actually came to free them from their real oppressors, from the liars who enslaved both their spirits and flesh. Jesus came to rescue them from the great Deluder Satan and his minions.
In the original Hebrew text, the clause the crowds quoted from the Septuagint actually and literally says: “Blessed [in a way where God approves and helps one] [is] He who comes in the name of Yahweh. We have blessed [in a way where we approve and help] You from the house of Yahweh” (Ps. 118:26). But these crowds only quoted the first clause, and in Greek, saying: “The one coming in the name of the Lord [is] remaining well-praised [by God].” That Greek text began with the word, Εὐλογημένος, which is an anarthrous nominative perfect passive participle form of εὐλογέω, indicating that it is the Page 1320
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subject predicate after a linking verb and emphasizing the effects, results or lasting consequences of the action. Thus, it means, “remaining blessed [in a way where God praises and helps one].” So, by quoting only first clause, they implied that they were now fulfilling the second clause through their actions that day. For they were glorifying their Messiah from just below “the house of Yahweh,” which is God’s temple in Jerusalem, and while walking toward it, to enter it. So they were offering Him their praises and help “from the house of Yahweh,” thus, physically fulfilling the meaning of the second clause of that verse. But were they really fulfilling it? Were they helping Jesus in His work to undo the works of Satan in their hearts and minds, to cast out all lies and delusions from their own souls?
Jesus, watching all their zealous fervour expressed for Him, knew the hearts of His people. He saw how their infantile spirits had been taken captive by lies and delusions appealing to their lusty, proud and selfish minds of flesh. He knew most of these souls lived petty and futile existences in Satan’s ruthless world order, serving the human gods who routinely sacrificed them and their children to tortuous deaths, just to gain a few digits of that devil’s intrinsically worthless currency, or to descend just one more step down the inverted pyramid of the world order’s hierarchy. And Jesus also saw that demonic spirit, with his troupes of fallen angels, raging in their chains at the bottom of that inverted pyramid, calling the people to them. Every word those demons spoke was lie, luring souls ever lower into their darkness, tempting with false promises of wealth and power, if only they would descend into the “higher status” positions of their psychopathic world order. Jesus saw how these people still believed those lies and refused to stay with Him in the bright light of heaven’s reality above. They all focused their whole attention on what lay below them, in that pit of the world order. None looked up to the genuine creations of God, nor to their God, who created and maintained all. But Jesus came to change all that. After His death and resurrection, He would send His Holy Self into many elect hearts, to awaken their spirits, to open their eyes to His pure truth, so they might build love in joy.
This Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem was, on the surface, glorious. It was like seeing the gold and glitter of a magnificent false church. But the apostles had been filled with the Holy Spirit of Jesus by the time they wrote about this event. For they all wrote about it long after the Pentecost, many years after Jesus ascended into heaven and sent His Spirit into their hearts. Their Teacher and Counsellor had, by that time, been teaching and training their spirits for decades. So, by then, they saw what Jesus saw that day. And that is why, when we look carefully at this event, the way it was recorded in the Gospels, we can see very ominous elements within the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Yet, at the same time, we also see how Jesus brought us true hope and the glory of God on that day, the good words of blessings and help from the almighty Creator. That event was like seeing a few loving, believing elect truly praying in a grand cathedral of a fake church. For we find, within the context and between the written words, an eternal salvation for our lives, even a great salvation which will surely free us from our delusions, lies and sins, from the death that has taken hold of our souls. So, beneath this physical Triumphal Entry, there was a genuine Triumphal Entry.
Humanistic Churches Oppose Christ’s Rule
Then there was one more thing happening in the background, while Jesus was riding toward the Golden Gate. Luke, after interviewing eye witnesses, told us: “And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, ‘Teacher [of life and faith], admonish Your disciples!’” (Luke 19:39, ALT). So those evangelicals were offended by the crowds of Christ’s disciples who called Him their long-awaited Messiah, disgusted at how the crowds assumed Jesus was the one whom the prophets had commanded Israel to heed as their King, to even worship as Immanuel, their God walking in a body of flesh among them. More than any other sects of the church in that day, those evangelicals, the Page 1321
Pharisees, were teaching false eschatological doctrines, saying that the Messiah would come to make Jews into an elite, wealthy and powerful people who would oppress all the Gentiles in a very Greco-Roman way. They were just like the racist, Trump-following and self-entitled evangelicals of our day. Almost none of those evangelicals back then wanted to actually become the true priesthood of God, and serve all others, even the Gentiles, as Jesus did. Yet this is what God’s Word actually told them the Messiah would do when He came. Rather, these evangelicals commanded their God Jesus to stop the people from esteeming Him, to tell everyone to maintain the status quo of esteeming them instead, as human gods ruling over God, over all God said and did, and over all of God’s creations.
But those ancient evangelicals were not the only ones offended. For our God Jesus was also offended by the thoughts of these crowds. Still, Jesus did not condemn their correct assumption that He was indeed their Messiah. And Jesus certainly was not going to tell them, “Go home and worship your false religious and political leaders as human gods, in the way they tell you to worship them.” Jesus was precognizant of that crowd’s worldly desire to be “saved” from Rome, and Jesus hated that selfish inclination in their hearts. Yet Jesus came to teach them that the only way to be truly saved from Rome was to let His very Spirit purge the minds of their spirits and flesh from all delusions and lies belonging to that fourth kingdom of the devil, to Rome, and to those from every other institution in Satan’s world order, even their own false churches. Only after Jesus nullified the works of Satan in them, could they begin to build His Father’s loving and just kingdom on earth, a place to live in peace. First Jesus had to grant their spirits a true freedom from Rome, before He could give them physical freedom from Rome. For, while they believed in the lies and delusions of the devil’s world order, their enslavement by either humanistic Gentile or humanistic Jewish wanna-be gods would amount to the same thing. Since all wanna-be human gods are lying puppets of Satan, all would keep them chained in dungeons of spiritual darkness, and all would oppress them. Now, at the present time, their souls were utterly bound and enslaved by such human gods, through the humanistic propaganda of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, but also through their own Jewish human gods, by their own religious leaders. Therefore, even if Jesus drove out all their Gentile oppressors from the land of Israel, their spirits would remain firmly bound under Satanic yokes, as slaves. Yet very few of the Jews in that crown saw this reality. Almost none in that crowd realized how much they actually needed a real salvation of their spirits, freeing them from all lies and delusions. No one needed a bloody military conquest that left all bound in the same chains which bound them now.
Thus, Jesus refused to obey the evangelicals’ command. Jesus did not rebuke the crowds of His disciples for speaking the truth about their God, Messiah and King, nor admonish them for praising their true God more than their false teachers of self-destructive lies. For someone had to shout the truth that Jesus is their Messiah, King and eternal High Priest, from every street in Israel. Only He was their Saviour who came to gather all elect souls into eternal homes prepared for them from the beginning of time. So Jesus told those evangelicals: “I reason with you that, if these will remain silent, the stones will cry out” (Luke 19:40, from: Λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι ἐὰν οὗτοι σιωπήσουσιν, οἱ λίθοι
κράξουσιν, SBLGNT). And, to the Jews, “the stones” often referred to the Ten Commandments, since God wrote them upon two stone tablets, as a summary of all His laws and ways. Thus, Jesus may have also been alluding to how God’s Law testifies that He is their sinless God and Saviour.
Still, after a some decades, those evangelicals finally did manage to snuff our Israel’s hope in their Messiah Jesus, even as God’s Law cried out praises for Jesus, attesting to His righteous love. And those stones also screamed out warnings against the vile, divisive hypocrisy of those evangelicals.
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within His priesthood of Israel. But Jesus is God’s real presence among His priesthood of Israel. So, in AD 70, after the evangelicals removed Jesus from Israel, God took His temple away from them.
God’s Law condemned their war against Him so severely that He actually called Rome to scatter that Roman-like Pharisaic religion of human worship into the wind, and destroyed the temple which they abused for their own vain glory. Yet those evangelicals never learned to be careful about who and what they silenced. So both Jewish and Gentile evangelicals still try to silence God and His truth.
Knowing that the evangelicals would soon succeed in their attempt to silence the remnant of Israel who trusted in their Messiah, and the hardness of their hearts, Jesus wept as He was approaching Jerusalem. But Jesus also knew this hardness had been ordained by His Father, in order to advance the proclamation of His salvation among elect Gentiles throughout the world during the next two millenniums. And Jesus was one with the Father. So Jesus Himself had hardened their hearts, for a purpose and only for a time, so all the Gentile elect, every spirit destined to belong to His eternal church in heavenly Jerusalem, might eventually enter it. The Jews of the Old Covenant church had to remain hardened, for now, in the same way all human hearts become hardened by their own flesh.
All elect spirits are born infantile. So all elect spirits succumb to the wills of their flesh, and grow empty, as their lives are being managed entirely by their self-serving minds of flesh. And, since the minds of flesh belonging to these Jews thought far more about keeping their physically oriented traditions of men, but seldom allowed their spirits to think about keeping God’s ways of justice and love, they remained hard of heart. However, as this hardness of Old Covenant Israel manifested as a cheap copy of the darkness in Satan’s pagan world order, it would make the little sparks of light in the New Covenant Israel seem so much brighter. Therefore, the Gentile elect would see that light more readily and would be drawn to it, through an innate attraction to it. And, over the centuries, as the brightness of the New Covenant truths grew stronger throughout the world, it would compel more and more Gentile elect toward it. In the end, even all the Gentile elect shall enter that light.
Because the flesh covets or envies, God had to stir up rivalry through envy between Old Covenant Jews and New Covenant Jews. Because some walked according to the flesh while claiming to be spiritual, God left them to envy the spiritual growth and treasures of those whose spirits truly did worship God and walked according to their spirits. As Jesus’ Spirit taught the New Covenant Jews to live by His training of their spirits and actually fulfill His Law, as they also gathered Gentile elect into their sect of Israel, this enraged the carnal Old Covenant Jews. In particular, the Jews of the Old Covenant envied their love, which fulfilled God’s promise that Israel would be God’s priesthood ministering to all the nations of the earth. The true apostolic church literally and actually became all that the New Covenant prophecies described, and fulfilled all God had promised to Abraham as well.
Of course, the Old Covenant Jews rejected the New Covenant Jews, and God in them, since those disciples of Jesus were bringing Gentiles into Israel. And the Old Covenant Jews would even envy the Gentiles brought into Israel, since those Gentiles were becoming true spiritual sons of Abraham, as those Gentiles began to fulfill God’s Law through Jesus, even in ways surpassing the fleshy kind of ritual righteousness practised by those Old Covenant Jews. Of course, the truths of God grow like trees, that is, slowly, solidly and very large. But the indigenous weeds of Satan’s world order, the lies and delusions sown by demons, grow very fast, spread millions of seeds and die quickly. So all of those weeds soon overtook the saplings of truth, covering them but not killing them. That is, the New Covenant church was soon overshadowed by fake humanistic churches, which were exactly like the Jewish humanistic synagogues that falsely claimed to worship God according to the Old Covenant Law. And both kinds of fake Israels hated the true New Covenant worshippers and the Messiah’s Gospel, which caused elect souls to fulfill God’s Law through just love. So both kinds of Page 1323
humanistic false churches have persecuted Jesus and His awakened elect to this day, throughout the last two millennia. Yet the New Covenant salvation has not been stopped. It has effectively fulfilled God’s Law and proclaimed the true fulfilling of God’s Law throughout that time, in ways that have been eroding and nullifying humanistic precepts more and more every year. Jesus has altered the perceptions of good and evil, or justice and injustice, or love and hate, in every part of the earth.
Finally a time will come when the New Covenant Israel will see their Messiah approaching. And, by then, all the Gentile elect will have been gathered into Israel by Jesus. But the devil’s beast also will rise up at that time, as a secular humanist who looks much like Old Covenant Jews. So the horror of that mirror reflecting their own souls, exposing their pagan Roman traditions which they assumed to be from God, will shatter the Jews’ perception of themselves. Then their contrite hearts will cast aside those delusions and see that Jesus is their Messiah, like their brothers did in Israel when Jesus sent them out on a mission to establish His New Covenant church. Then only one branch of Israel will exist, the New Covenant branch in Jesus. Yet, until then, they will sin and die. Thus, Jesus wept.
Pondering all this, Jesus told the city of Jerusalem: “If you knew, on this day, even you, things pertaining to peace [with God]. Yet now it is hidden from your sight, how the days will come upon you, and your enemies will cast a rampart around you, and will surround you, and constrain you on every side. Then they will cut you down, even your children in you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone in you. Had you not known the appointed time of your supervisory visitation instead of this!”
(Luke 19:42-44, from: Εἰ ἔγνως ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ καὶ σὺ τὰ πρὸς εἰρήνην—νῦν δὲ ἐκρύβη ἀπὸ
ὀφθαλμῶν σου. ὅτι ἥξουσιν ἡμέραι ἐπὶ σὲ καὶ παρεμβαλοῦσιν οἱ ἐχθροί σου χάρακά σοι καὶ
περικυκλώσουσίν σε καὶ συνέξουσίν σε πάντοθεν, καὶ ἐδαφιοῦσίν σε καὶ τὰ τέκνα σου ἐν σοί, καὶ
οὐκ ἀφήσουσιν λίθον ἐπὶ λίθον ἐν σοί, ἀνθʼ ὧν οὐκ ἔγνως τὸν καιρὸν τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς σου, SBLGNT).
But the heavenly Father of Old Covenant Israel did not yet allow them to know “the appointed time”
of their “supervisory visitation” by their Teacher and God, by their Messiah, Jesus. For, as I often like to reiterate: “a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and so all Israel will be saved [in the future end times]. Even as it is written, ‘There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and H
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ill turn away ungodliness from Jacob ’” (Rom. 11:25b-26, WEB).
So God has never rejected and replaced the Old Covenant church of Israel. God simply prevented the spirits of many elect Jews from trusting in Jesus, and will continue to do so until the “appointed time” of His second advent, so all the Gentile elect can enter His one and only priesthood first. But the first to be served are not always the first among the servers appointed for God’s priesthood, nor always those who serve best, in the way our God Jesus serves. God made His New Covenant with that eternal church of Israel, with a serving priesthood He created through just one serving priest, Abraham. So Israel was appointed to do explicitly spiritual works of God in the world. Therefore, all the New Covenant promises remain for Israel alone, yet also for the Gentiles He gathers into Israel, to serve Him. Still, not all servants obey. But also, not all who disobey are cast out of the house of the Owner, especially since that Owner knows how to address all grievances, seeing into the hearts of all His servants, and can change their minds at any time. God carefully created and chose all His servants, and made no mistakes in His choices. So all His disobeying chosen servants will, in the end, rightly serve in the loving way He serves. Thus, God rebukes the Gentiles grafted into Israel, if they reject the natural Jews. And God will tell those antisemitic liars why He rebukes them. God will proclaim His omniscience and omnipotence, which means that He is unable to make wrong choices.
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these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
For God has shut up all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all” (Rom. 11:29-32, WEB).
God allows disobedience, so His chosen children might learn the terrible consequences of not being like Him, the bad effects of not serving justly and equitably through love. God will prove, to their spirits, the stark contrast between His ways of serving and all the other ways. Almost the entire Old Covenant church of Israel had become corrupted by the humanistic doctrines of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, during their captivity since the sixth century BC. And most of the known world had been vanquished by humanistic delusions and lies as well. Then, after the apostles died, the New Covenant church fell into this corruption too. But Jesus and the apostles knew the prophecies about the last days, stating that all Israel, including their New Covenant churches, would fall into that kind of disobedience. For the kingdom of the beast must also spread throughout the earth. Thus, Israel would remain in darkness until the great revival, during the era of the sixth seal. Jesus even told us that, by the end times, churches would murder true elect believers, and do this through the delusion that their crimes were done in the name of God. All who placed the name of God upon themselves, through their own human wills, and not through God’s election, are humanists, by definition. And all humanists are enemies of God, both the religious and secular humanists. And all those humanistic churches have thoroughly insulated themselves in dark little cocoons, hiding from every truth, not only from the truths of God’s Word, but even from honest, pure, true observations of God’s good creations through genuine science. They now only believe what their self-indulgent flesh wants to believe, nothing more. They censure all truth, while they sacrifice all their possessions, even their lives, for the lies which feed their covetous, selfish, entitled, sinful flesh. But the elect Jews and elect Gentiles see this, see how they are citizens of Satan’s world order. So they are repulsed by their evil.
At the same time, as the world grows darker, elect hearts crave God’s just and loving light more than ever. The elect grow more hungry and thirsty, since the food required by their spirits cannot grow in darkness, and the flowing streams of the Spirit’s living water freeze in the cold, if no Son-light will warm the land. But the devil’s world order only offers them frozen dirt to eat, albeit beautifully wrapped in shiny, golden tin foil, as though it were a delicacy of great value. Thus, the elect find no nourishing truth anywhere, nothing to satisfy their honest, loving elect spirits. They see nothing that is worth purchasing from the devil’s world order, although it heavily markets its carnal wares, with so much zeal and noise that the elect are constantly harassed by its aggressive salesmen, by all of its brightly coloured advertisements, and by its falsely sincere pleas of carnival barkers competing to grab their attention. Nor can the elect look to churches for the real truth, since churches are merely shallower humanistic organizations belonging to Satan’s world order. None of the churches today have any real prophets, evangelists or teaching elders. All merely hire marketers, advertisers and salesmen, all trained by mentors from Satan’s world order. So where will all the hungry and thirsty elect Gentiles go to obtain real food for their souls, and clean living waters to quench their spirits?
All will soon be forced to go to Jesus Himself, and to Him alone. Now, instead of seeking fake human gods, who are actually dirty little vain hypocrites, elect Gentiles will seek the Teacher who speaks directly to their spirits. Jesus will become the only Head Teacher of all. And this is why Jesus caused the Old Covenant humanistic church to remain disobedient. Although the Jewish elect were granted a mind of flesh which is often more suitable for serving God, a flesh that can more easily be rebuked, humbled and subjugated by their spirits, so they could serve God better, their spirits were not allowed to serve Jesus and fulfill their potential. For Jesus did not want Gentiles to take Jews as their human heads. Satan’s world order, literally all that devil’s hierarchical systems, trained Gentiles to esteem and serve human gods. But Jesus does not allow any of His brothers and sisters to worship Page 1325
any human gods, neither His Gentile elect nor His Jewish elect. Therefore, Jesus had to bring all the Gentile elect into His true Israel of the New Covenant first, so all their hearts will be taught directly by Him alone, so He alone could write His Law upon their hearts and minds. Then, once He became their one and only Head, He would wake the spirits of His elect remnant in Old Covenant Israel. And that will occur just before His second advent. So, as we near that end, which is His goal, all the forms of humanism are exposing themselves for what they truly are, and making themselves odious to the Gentile true elect. The humanistic churches, and all other institutions of the world order, can no longer hide their futile, empty lies behind a veneer of glossy, golden, tin foil. For Jesus is coming.
God had to harden the hearts of His Old Covenant branch of His church until the end times. First God had to thoroughly expose the world order, just as He has been doing until now. But, in times past, the elect could only look upon the advertisements of the devil, thinking those lies were true.
And, at first, only the elite non-elect in Satan’s world order could receive the shiny packets of dirt that Satan gave as a reward for the best of lies and the most ruthless of deeds. Meanwhile, the true elect were suppressed and kept in poverty, longing for those fake rewards from a distance, but never able to taste that dirt. So, with their inability to clearly see and taste Satan’s rewards, they imagined them to be great and wonderful, and wanted to gain what Satan and his elite minions had. For they did not know those rewards were fakes, and had no means of getting that dirt wrapped in shiny foil.
Thus, Satan kept the elect deceived and subservient, promising that they too might receive his dirt, if only they bowed before him and the human gods he raised up for them. That demon even raised a few of their lowly up to the ranks of the elite, the few gullible elect who proved to be murderous and deceptive enough for such a promotion. So this gave the oppressed elect a false hope. It caused them to trust and obey the devil, dreaming of a day when they or their children might be promoted too. Yet Jesus has also worked in the world against those demonic hierarchies, until many elect actually got the devil’s wares, and saw what they really were. Now, naturally, all the non-elect, throughout the centuries, have glorified the excellence of the gold-foil-wrapped dirt, which Satan paid them for their slanderous lies and evil works. And, to them, that dirt was a nourishing delicacy, since all of them are worms at heart, and dirt is their preferred food. But, when the elect finally gained access to those shiny packets of dirt, and pealed back the golden foil, discovering that they were mere dirt, they all began to become extremely disillusioned with Satan’s world order. So they started to lose faith in Satan’s hierarchical institutions of the world order, since the only rewards they could receive from them was foil-wrapped dirt. And now many elect are looking elsewhere for spiritual sustenance.
At first, the Gentile elect flocked to all kinds of false religions. Some found the humanistic Judaism of Jesus’ day, which sprinkled their foil-wrapped dirt with grains of sugar, to make it sweeter. Not only this, but the humanistic Jews used different colours of tin foil. Every sect of their fake churches wrapped its own dirt in a different hue of shiny foil. Then, after Jesus established His one true church of Israel, humanists of many kinds drove it underground, forcing the true church to operate invisibly throughout the earth. And, for centuries, those humanistic fake “Christian” churches did the same as the humanistic Jewish churches. They offered various hues of foil-wrapped dirt to the elect, but only gave their biggest and shiniest packets of dirt to their elite, just as Satan’s secular world order did from the beginning. But, as Jesus gave His elect a greater access to those shiny packets, even to those eaten by their elite, and the elect peeled back the foil, only to find exactly the same dirt that Satan’s secular world order offered them, they became shocked and disappointed. And now, in our day, the elect have been discovering the sham of both the secular and religious humanists. So most of the elect are abandoning both the secular and church hierarchies, since neither offers them anything worth the trouble of enslaving themselves to their human gods, nothing that is worth the Page 1326
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spilling their own blood to obtain. And now the elect have nowhere else to go except to the real Jesus and His true kingdom on earth. God’s kingdom is the only place where they will find no marketers, no advertisers and no salesmen, since absolutely nothing is sold there. Instead, all the sustenance, drink, clothing and shelter in His kingdom are the products of freely offered labours by God and His servants, and Jesus distribute all according to each individual’s needs and desires of the heart. So all the elect can feast on fulfilling love made of nourishing truth, drink pure living waters flowing freely from Christ’s Spirit, and lay down to rest in the warm light of God’s ever-present glory from heaven.
Very soon, no honest, awakened elect soul is going to seek refuge and sustenance in the humanistic synagogues of the Jews, nor in any humanistic so-called “Christian” churches. For all those false churches will prove themselves to be the property of Satan’s world order, and esteemed members of the devil’s favourite religion, humanism. Soon a genuine revival will occur, where countless elect spirits will be sealed with the mark of God. Both Jews and Gentiles will become true disciples of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. Then, as Jesus’ Holy Spirit teaches and trains their spirits to fulfill all the loving and just purposes of His Law, every elect soul still remaining alive will be called out of the fake, so-called “Christian” churches, into Christ’s true church of Israel. And all the elect Jews left on earth will join them. Just as Jesus returns, all the remnant of true Israel will trust in Jesus, our God.
In the meantime, after seeing the masses of disciples following and praising Jesus, the humanistic heads of the Jewish evangelicals proclaimed to their power-hungry fellow-plotters: “You people are discerning how you certainly are not gaining any advantage. Look, the world has abandoned [us to go] after Him!” (John 12:19, ALT). John, a friend of men within that demonic hierarchy, had heard what they said and recorded their words, in order to clearly expose the selfish ambitions of those men. For, as the people began to follow Jesus, those religious deceivers were losing their power and influence over their dupes, as well as much of their illicit income. They had tried very hard to serve their lord Satan, and told the best lies they could possibly invent to slander that sinless Messiah. Yet Jesus cast off their lies like chaff off His sleeves, proving them to be hypocrites with every response He made. Now, each day, Jesus drew more loving souls to Him, because He was feeding their spirits with healthy truths, and was compassionately granting them countless miracles through His love for them. So how could those liars compete? How could they enslave the people while Jesus was so effectively freeing them? And this Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, with many thousands revealing their hope in His salvation, was the last straw. Now those fake churches had to physically kill Him.
Mat. 21:12-17,
Money Versus God
“Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
He said to them, ‘It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer,” but you have made it a den of robbers!’
“The blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, ‘Hosanna to the son of David!’ they were indignant, and said to Him, ‘Do you hear what these are saying?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Yes. Did you never read,
“Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?”’ He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there” (Mat. 21:12-17, WEB).
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Now Matthew and Luke seemed to indicate that Jesus cast out the money changers and the sellers of temple sacrifices on the very day of His Triumphal Entry, as soon as He entered the temple’s court of the Gentiles through the Golden Gate. For that gate led straight into that temple courtyard. But Mark said Jesus entered the temple grounds, looked around, then left, since it was late (Mark 11:11). Then he told us that Jesus cast out those exploiters the next day, after spending the night in Bethany (Mark 11:12-19). So all the synoptic Gospels say Jesus entered the temple courtyard on the day of His Triumphal Entry. But not all seem to agree that Jesus cast out the money changers that day. Then, in the other Gospel, John, another eye witness, did not mention anything about Jesus casting out the money changers, and focused only on His teachings after He entered Jerusalem. Yet John had also written about how Jesus cast out the money changers and peddlers of sacrificial animals previously, near the beginning of His ministry (John 2:13-16). So that previous event implies that Jesus always remained zealously committed to keeping that part of the temple, the Gentile’s place of prayer, free from the tyranny of money. Thus, we can assume that Jesus likely would have routinely driven out all those self-serving business men whenever He visited the temple, as soon as He arrived, including the very day of His Triumphal Entry. For, to the Messiah, to our God in a human body, casting them out was always necessary. And the huge crowds of devout Jews, who all believed that money was an affront to God and to God’s just ways, were with Jesus that day. Thus, Jesus would have wanted to reinforce the biblical teaching that it is never acceptable to commercialize a relationship with God.
All the crowds of Jews, from everywhere in Judah, Galilee and the Diaspora, were expecting Jesus to do the works of a holy King sent by God, a King who is God. And one of those works would be to cleanse the temple grounds of all the exploiters who tried to make a profit from the sincere prayers and worship of elect souls. Such a King would need to keep all places of prayer free from Satan’s vile invention of money, and from all greedy slaves of the demon Mammon. For the money changers had likely bribed corrupt temple officers to let them exchange coins for a profit, although that place was supposed to be solely dedicated to prayer, to the teachings of God’s Word and acts of worship.
Likewise, those who sold the “unblemished” animals for the sacrifices likely would need to be officially “certified” by bribed temple officials, who would then make up the excuse that they needed to allow the sale of those animals to ensure that no defective ones were sacrificed. But the real reason those temple official would have allowed such a thing was to get a cut of the profits from the merchants, who were exploiting the people by charging highly inflated prices for those officially
“certified” sacrifices. They forced the people to buy their expensive sacrificial animals, although God, throughout all previous history, had allowed His people to raise their own sheep, goats and cattle for the temple sacrifices, or let them purchase the animals from local farmers at reasonable prices. Only after corrupt temple officials took over, did everyone need to pay much more for those animals, and provide a healthy profit for both the “licensed” sellers and the bribed temple officials who gave them the “right” to sell their livestock in the temple grounds. In fact, God also made provisions for the poor, and allowed them to catch a couple of pigeons or doves as their sacrifices, by using simple snares and traps which they could construct from free scrap materials within a few minutes. So those doves or pigeons would cost absolutely nothing. Yet now the poor also had to buy even the sacrificial doves and pigeons from the merchants in the temple grounds, and at a high price.
For the temple officials established that rule for their marketplace, which corrupted the Gentile’s place of prayer. Now sellers and the temple officials could made a good profit even from those who lacked enough to buy food for their families, causing great hardships for impoverished elect souls.
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from the poor, and cheapened God’s name among all the devout souls entering God’s presence at that temple. Thus, some might conclude that Mark was wrong when he said Jesus entered the temple grounds, looked around, saw those exploiters there, then went back to the house of His friends in Bethany to rest, because it was late and He was a little tired. However, just because Mark did not tell us that Jesus cast out those exploiters on the day of His Triumphal Entry, it does not mean that Mark denied that Jesus did it on that day. Mark had heard reports about Jesus’ Triumphal Entry from eye witnesses and told us the information he received from them. But did they tell Mark about the way Jesus cleared the temple on that day? Or did Mark pay attention if they did tell him? As he wrote his own Gospel, did he simply became confused about the order of the events? We can be sure that Jesus did clear the temple on the day of His Triumphal Entry, since Matthew, an eye-witness of the events on that day, told us Jesus did so on that day. Matthew gave us first hand historical information. Then Luke, although he was reporting what he heard from others, like Mark did, appeared to have learned the correct sequence of events too. So we know Jesus cast out the money changers on the day He made His Triumphal Entry. However, just because Mark said that Jesus cast those exploiters out of the temple on the next day, but Matthew and Luke did not, we cannot assume Mark was wrong.
It is possible that Mark simply not know that Jesus would routinely took a few minutes to cast out the money changers and those who sold sacrifices, even every time He entered the temple grounds.
For it was light and fast work to knock over a few tables and open a few animal pens. Jesus likely did so when He arrived on the day of His Triumphal Entry, then did it again the next day. For the Passover season was a “hot market” for temple sacrifices. So the merchants and the corrupt temple officials did not want to miss the business opportunity, and probably spent several hours during the previous night to set up again all that Jesus previously tore down. Thus, when Mark said Jesus left the temple when He grew tired, as evening approached, this is likely what Jesus did, after casting out the merchants and after teaching the people for some time. For Jesus began His Triumphal Entry in the mourning, and likely arrived before noon. So Mark did not account for most of the hours which occurred between the time Jesus arrived and the time He left. And, during that time, Jesus did not merely look around like a tourist, since He had been to the temple often, throughout His life, and never went just to see the sights. Rather, Jesus almost certainly remained busy doing God’s works, such as casting out the money changers and the sellers of sacrificial animals. Then Jesus walked among the people, teaching them and healing the infirmed. Although Mark does not mention any of this, a lack of evidence can never prove anything, only weakly imply things. And it is highly likely that those money changers and sellers returned the next day, just before Jesus also returned to the temple. So Mark and Matthew may have both been correct. Jesus likely did drive the merchants out of the temple grounds on the day of His Triumphal Entry, them also did so again the very next day.
Actually, it seems most likely that Jesus drove out those exploiters of the poor every time He entered the temple grounds. But the writers of the Gospels often generalized events, to shorten the narrative, and did not always tell us about every time Jesus taught the same teaching or performed the same deed. This was a common practice in those days, since paper and ink were expensive. All they wrote had to be brief. And, knowing that their written documents would be read aloud to most believers who could not afford to buy a copy, meant they tried to be extra brief. Thus, a Gospel writer might only mentioned how Jesus cleansed the temple once, although Jesus did it every time He entered the temple. For only one account was needed to get the point across, that God absolutely forbids any kind of commercialization of our faith. Matthew and Luke mentioned how Jesus cast out the money changers and sellers from the temple on the day of His Triumphal Entry, to illustrate how Jesus did this as the accepted Messiah, as Israel’s King and eternal High Priest. But they would not bother to Page 1329
repeat a similar story about how Jesus also did it previously, or again on the very next day. But Mark wrote about how Jesus did it on the next day, likely because he was using second-hand information and did not know Jesus did the same thing previously. Yet it seems obvious that Jesus would do so every time He saw the money changers and sellers of sacrificial animals corrupt His Father’s house.
I repeat, it is almost certain that Jesus would have routinely driven out the bribing merchants who profaned the temple grounds, who slandered God’s name by stealing profits from the worship of God’s elect. For those salesmen and the bribed temple officials committed sins of the first three orders, directly in front of God’s presence at the temple. Money changers and sellers of sacrifices, along with the greedy temple officials who sold them permission to be there and took a cut of their illicit profits, broke all three of God’s most critical and highest priority laws, did the worst of sins by intentionally committing offences against the first three of God’s archetypal Ten Commandments: 1. They chose to steal from worshippers of God through a carnal desire or falsely perceived need for money, while ignoring God’s will and commands. Thus, their souls heeded the evil counsel of the demon Mammon and his greedy slaves, rather than the commands of God. So they broke the first and foremost laws of God, the first-order laws represented by the first of the Ten Commandments. That is, they placed Mammon above the real God in their hearts, put the will of money above the will of God whenever they made their decisions about all matters of life and faith. Yet God requires His people to forbid other gods to rule over their thoughts. None but He, thee Creator God, is able to counsel rightly. His Spirit must be heeded, since only His words are true and wise, able to work justice and peace in all lives.
2. These money men, salesmen, priests and temple officials all assumed that their own petty livelihood and the functioning of the temple required more money. They all worshipped that money as their personal saviour, even though it was gleaned through illicit practices in the temple grounds. They were all actually esteeming and serving that money as the only god who could maintain life for them and for the temple itself. So this definitely was a form of idol worship, and they clearly broke the second-order laws of God. They did, in fact, make money into an idol and worshipped it, placing more faith in money than in the God of Israel.
They perceived money as a far more powerful and necessary god than the real God Himself.
3. All these thieves esteemed the authority and power behind the name of Mammon, even as they either ignored or hated those who countered them through the authority and power of God’s name. And they did this within God’s own temple, in the place where God promised to maintain His presence among His people. They treated God’s words like worthless advice from a distrusted source, even as the counsel of their enemy. They took the words of God in vain, thus treating God’s name, authority and power as meaningless incidentals which their spirits rejected and refused to esteem. And, as they showed this kind of contempt for God’s words, they proved their utter disdain for God Himself. Yet, at the same time, they claimed to lead the church, to be the wise ones guiding all into God’s service. These thieves came to the people of the earth “in the name of God.” Therefore, they were thoroughly slandering God’s good name, by making Gentiles and Jews think God was a thief, just like them. So all those money changers, sellers of sacrifices and priests who allowed the others to steal from God’s elect in the temple grounds were thoroughly breaking all the third-order laws of God.
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and bodies of flesh. And God ordained that the laws of the first three orders should be our highest priority, more critical for our welfare than the other seven orders of laws (represented by the seven archetypal laws listed below them in the Ten Commandments). For those who break the laws of the first three orders invariably break the other seven orders of God’s Law. If men make decisions by the counsel of gods who are not the true God, then they worship idols and take God’s name in vain. So they will also invariably dishonour their heavenly Father, together with their biological and spiritual parents in their community’s family, then murder, commit spiritual and physical adultery, steal, lie and covet Satan’s rewards. Thus, none of these will ever enter into God’s eternal Sabbath rest either.
Jesus clearly saw how the money changers, sellers of “officially approved” sacrifices, and the temple
“authorities” who shared in their guilt, should be cast out of the temple, where His presence and the presence of His Father dwelt among His people. So Jesus would never hesitate to knock down their tables full of Satan’s currency, scattering those coins on the ground where they could be suitably trampled under His people’s feet. Jesus casually broke apart the slender wooden bars of bird cages to free the captive pigeons and doves, so the poor could freely catch some for their temple sacrifices, so those financially burdened souls could make atonement in repentance and restore their relationships with God. For Jesus loved the poor, and honoured them more than the rich. Jesus calmly opened the gates of the pens holding the sacrificial sheep, goats and cattle, since they all belonged to God alone.
Then His people might lead some to slaughter, releasing their spirits into heaven, so they could all feast on their flesh together, in gratitude to their Creator. Then all those feasting might think on how those sinless creatures represented His own freely offered sacrifice for their sins, and understand how He soon would provide a feast of truth for their redeemed spirits. In spite of their loud threats to throw Him in jail and sue Him, Jesus took the time to carefully construct a solid whip, made from lead ropes used for livestock, so He could firmly and painfully drive out those “entrepreneurs,” who inflicted spiritual suffering on even the poorest and most vulnerable of His people. Every time He saw them in the temple, Jesus would have driven out all of those wilful sinners from God’s presence.
And this brings us to another topic. Whenever Jesus did this, His disciples were with Him. This did not only include the twelve, those He was training to become teaching elders, but also thousand of other Jews who came to Him, who all approved of everything Jesus said and did. So thousands of disciples were legally complicit in Jesus’ actions against those officially authorized money changers and sellers of temple sacrifices, as well as against the temple officials who authorized them to commit their sins. And this is likely why the authorities did not touch Jesus whenever He drove those sinners from the temple grounds. In fact, literally hundreds of thousands of Jews in Judah and throughout the world absolutely hated those sinful practices of extorting money from those who came to worship God. Yet very few dared to raise a hand against those wilful, greedy sinners who were committing those offences against God, because illicit temple authorities, who falsely claimed to bear God’s authority, would call their temple police to arrest and punish them. So some devout Jews may have uttered a few respectful objections to the corrupt priests and authorities who allowed these sins. Yet most did not even do that much, since they knew their voices would fall on deaf ears.
Nevertheless, although those hundreds of thousands often dreamed of doing what Jesus actually did every time He entered those temple grounds, none dared to carry out the inner desires which God Himself placed in their hearts. All feared the consequences of that kind of “civil disobedience,” since it would surely incur the wrath of the psychopathic wanna-be human gods illicitly ruling over them.
If they rebelled against those fake rulers, they knew that those usurpers of God’s authority would be able to convince their deceived dupes to round them up and punish them, or even murder them. But Jesus knew the universal laws of God perfectly, since He created them all in the beginning, based on Page 1331
His own attributes and desires, as the Owner of the universe. And God’s laws took precedence over any laws or regulations made by men, especially bad laws which caused spiritual or physical harm to others in sinful and unjust ways. So, although Jesus, our God in a body of a man, never disobeyed good laws created by men, He gave us an example of how we are duty-bound to break the bad laws created by men. Jesus demands that His loving, just, equitable laws and ways must take absolute priority over all human laws and regulations that oppose His own laws and ways. So every nation on earth must allow its citizens to protest and even practise “civil disobedience” against all bad laws, regulations, ordinances, precepts, traditions or practices which promote injustice, inequity or lies.
Of course, Satan and his psychopathic wanna-be gods, together with their dupes, take this to mean that they are allowed to violently protest good laws and truth, in order to promote their own evil injustice, racism, fascism and other demonic desires. And, in every free and just nation on earth, the devil is always very busy calling his most devious liars to conspire against God and God’s will, to take advantage of God’s laws which require free speech and the right to protest. Satan and his most enslaved minions are always able to convince all the most sin-filled, ignorant, insecure and weak souls in a land to choose evil over good, to cause chaos and hurt or murder the innocent. Then that devil incites his dupes into rage against God’s laws, against any precepts requiring them to take responsibility for the health and well-being of their own siblings in humankind, and even causes those fools to die a stupid, senseless death for their demonic lies and delusions. For those dupes are brainwashed to belief they are fighting for the “freedom” to be chained, enslaved, beaten and worked to death by their human gods, to be exploited to death by those who murder their own children. So their flesh feels the need to utterly destroy every semblance of justice and equity, to ensure that none have a right to choose the servants of the people whom God chose for them, that none will vote for the thoroughly vetted honest, just, equitable souls who will do the works of administering God’s true justice in their lands. But, lest we forget, God also expects us to overcome their evil with good, and overturn their lies with the truth, so we might rescue the spirits of the elect who have been trapped among Satan’s citizens. Every land is to make just laws, laws which not only provide for the real freedoms and needs of the people, but can also dutifully undo the works of Satan and his dupes.
Yes, Jesus exemplified and demanded “civil disobedience” against all injustice and against those who wilfully perpetrate injustice. Jesus was showing His elect how they must get rid of bad laws and regulations, as well as the illicit authorities causing spiritual and physical harm to the innocent, even if we need to apply some physical force and violence. But, although God demands that governments must suppress lies and liars who cause harm, especially those who suppress the truth and oppress the innocent, we must not become terrorists like those puppets of Satan. We must nullify the works of the devil through wisdom and His kind of loving justice, to avoid causing harm to the innocent who are trapped by the evil ones. So all governments must pay for all court cases, and provide lawyers or experts in the law to defend those accused of crimes. All governments should also pay for lawsuits to help slandered souls defend themselves against liars, or to recover losses from injustices practised against them, even against the injustices of their own government. And all must be granted an equal representation, so the wealthy or powerful liars cannot hire the best lawyers so they can sue the poor and voiceless who tell the truth. Only governments that actively silence liars, and finance law suits against liars through public funds, are just governments. For God’s Law required Levitical priests and secular courts to freely provide justice for all, regarding every possible kind of offence or sin.
Also notice how Jesus, the first time He drove out the money changers and sellers of sacrifices, He merely made a whip, likely from the livestock ropes, and used this to drive out the wicked (see John 2:14-17). And, although Matthew did not mention it here (i.e., in Mat. 21:12-13), Jesus likely made a Page 1332
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similar whip at that time too, and probably every time He cleared those kinds of blasphemers out of the temple. Yet Jesus only ever used only a whip of cords, never a sword, never any excessive force.
Jesus only applied the amount of force required for the task. Thus, we must also do the same. We must restrain ourselves, and apply only the minimum amount of force required to maintain justice.
It is Satan’s kingdom which rules through terrorism, through brutal and excessive penalties for sins or crimes, even for undesired acts which are neither sins nor crimes. Only the devil’s children force their equal siblings of humankind into a slavish compliance, and coerce them to serve their selfish and unjust whims through the use of ruthless violence. Only psychopaths strive to create a false and unjust “justice system” to “make examples” of those who inconvenience them and other elite human gods. Only evil souls call revenge a form of justice, then hand out increasingly extreme penalties for relatively minor crimes. The devil’s servants think justice requires penalties which far exceed the weights of the sins or crimes, to make the people fear to disobey. But real justice seeks repentance, and the restoration of losses, above all else. So true justice teaches, hopes to educate the sinners and criminals who may have elect spirits, with genuine spiritual and physical truths, so they might then repent into those truths. God’s kind of justice never seeks revenge, never punishes with a penalty that exceeds the weight of the sin or crime. A penalty equal to the motives and intentions of unrepentant sinners or criminals, but never exceeding the maximum penalty that God allows, is enough of a deterrent. And God never gave penalties which punished the poor more than the rich, such as fines which the poor find impossible to pay but the rich can easily pay. True justice balances the welfare of all in wisdom, and first strives to straighten the crooked, fix the broken and heal the sick. Then, only as a last resort for the stubbornly unrepentant, does God allow us hand out any punishments.
We must understand that every aspect of true justice and morality is entirely spiritual. All true and loving justice considers the motives and intentions of the spirit regarding whatever the accused one might say or do through one’s body of flesh. Although just spirits also consider the needs of the flesh, all their right judgments, according to the will of God, examine the conditions of the spirit above all else. Literally all the most beneficial, fruitful and wise acts of justice on earth, every good deed done throughout all history, has always been worked by spirits who diligently sought their Creator God’s counsel and carefully heeded it, by labouring for that justice solely through the love of their spirits. For no true justice can ever be worked through the mind and body of flesh, since the flesh is entirely amoral. No just solution can every be derived through the schemes derived in a mind of flesh. The flesh only seeks to benefit itself, and cares nothing about real justice. So all attempts to obtain justice through the flesh always and invariably end up causing far more injustice than justice.
The more that decision-making authorities strive to build justice systems through carnal means, such as by increasing financial and physical threats, the more their systems will become unjust, until the lives of all their people spiral down into a dark, chaotic, oppressive, senseless, unjust and deadly hell. We have often seen carnal systems attempt to apply spiritual principles, to make themselves better than they would have been otherwise. We have all seen carnally minded humanistic nations develop cheap and dirty little facsimiles of a biblical democracy, but without ensuring that the people will only vote for thoroughly vetted administrators, only for the just and loving souls whom God has clearly chosen for them. Instead, those humanists let obvious servants of Satan run for offices, even exploitative, lying criminals like Hitler or Trump. Consequently, those criminals deceive the people with many lies, much flattery, promises of fleshy benefits and delusions about needing them to save them from non-existent threats. So those criminals become elected officials who serve only their own carnal whims, and exploit the people to death. Then we also see nations establish court systems which supposedly allow every accused soul a “fair trial.” Yet their trials give the rich and powerful Page 1333
elite the opportunity to hire the best of liars, whom the legal system allows to become lawyers and representatives of justice. So those elite can use the courts to their own advantage, to get away with murder. Meanwhile, the poor cannot afford to hire a lawyer who will be truly committed to working for their welfare. So, if the poor are guilty, they have no opportunity to repent, cooperate and work out a plan to restore the losses they caused and reenter society without causing further harm. And, if the poor are innocent, they must often plead guilty simply because they cannot afford a good lawyer nor a proper investigation. So, even if the flesh applies good spiritual principles, it will fail to be just.
To be like Jesus, even to be complicit with the justice of His kind of “civil disobedience” which nullifies the works of evil-doers, our spirits must learn to hear and heed His Holy Spirit. Then we also need to let our taught and trained spirits manage our brains and bodies of flesh wisely, for His good and loving purposes. This not only means that we must hear God’s spiritual truths about justice from His Law, but also must be taught and trained to know how, when, where, why and to whom we should apply each of His laws, including His laws about freeing the truly repentant. This is essential because there are ruthless psychopaths everywhere, who must be stopped, as well as elect siblings everywhere, who must be rescued from those psychopaths. And, throughout most of history, most people have been so gullible and ignorant that they have not been able to discern between their own right and left hands, much less between a charming psychopath and a true servant of the real God.
Then we must concern ourselves with the task of exposing physical truths and realities, while we also strive to disseminate a good understanding of the benefits derived from upholding spiritual and moral truths, so we can administer true justice for all, so all may grow love and live in peace, free from lies and liars. We cannot let our minds of flesh rule over our lives, taking our spirits captive and causing unjust harm or even deaths. Yes, our elect spirits must also use our minds and bodies of flesh, sometimes even with force, but only as the obedient servants of our spirits, as our spirits serve Jesus according to His will. Flesh must be the spirit’s servant. And literally all forms of genuine love and wisdom are spiritual, are formed in our elect spirits, then expressed by our spirits through our flesh. True justice can only be worked by our spirits. So we must never allow our flesh to interfere with loving justice. Before doing anything, we must take the time to calm the anger of our flesh, turn our spirits toward Jesus, then let His Holy Spirit teach, counsel and reason with our discipled spirits.
Look at the words that Jesus caused Matthew to choose when He wrote about this event, when he told us how God in the flesh cleared the corruption out of the temple: “Then Jesus entered into the temple [grounds], and cast out all those [who were both] selling and marketing in the temple
[grounds]. Then He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling pigeons. Also, He reasoned with them, ‘It was irrevocably written: “My house will be called a house of prayer.” Yet you people made it a cavern of thieves!’” (Mat. 21:12-13, from: Καὶ εἰσῆλθεν Ἰησοῦς
εἰς τὸ ἱερόν, καὶ ἐξέβαλεν πάντας τοὺς πωλοῦντας καὶ ἀγοράζοντας ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ καὶ τὰς τραπέζας τῶν
κολλυβιστῶν κατέστρεψεν καὶ τὰς καθέδρας τῶν πωλούντων τὰς περιστεράς, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς·
Γέγραπται· Ὁ οἶκός μου οἶκος προσευχῆς κληθήσεται, ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτὸν ποιεῖτε σπήλαιον λῃστῶν, SBLGNT). Jesus began by stopping the worst of the exploiters, the money changers and those who sold pigeons to the poor. But our Creator God drove out all who commercialized religion. And He did this for one reason, because His people must respect the temple as the place where His presence resided among His priesthood, among all He appointed to serve the world in His name. This was His house, a place that Yahweh chose to make into His personal home, a fortresses of justice, equity, truth and love, a refuge of compassion, hospitality and providence. The temple took in the poor, hungry, thirsty, inadequately clothed, sick, disabled and injured, then provided food, drink, clothing, Page 1334
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shelter and healing for them—just as Jesus did. For “the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.” This is what the temple was for, not to steal Satan’s currency from all!
God’s temple must be a sanctuary and hospital, a just protector guarding the elect from sins and crimes, an entirely free and loving shelter for their souls. The temple grounds had no roof, remained always open to receive blessings from the heavens above. And it had many gates, so the elect could flee into it from the four corners of the earth. Likewise, the entire land of Israel was to be the same, since God created it as the land of His priesthood, who was to serve the earth in His name. And, if anyone comes in the name of Yahweh Jesus, as His disciple who conforms to His way of life, that one’s own body and life must be a temple of God as well. And the gatherings of His true disciples, His true churches, are never dark little “cavern of thieves,” like almost all churches are today. For the real Jesus never allows greedy little exploiters to enter the gates of His home, to exploit his family members and his visiting friends. What true elect child of the heavenly Father would want ruthless strangers to rule over their homes, in the way those corrupt priests and their covetous merchants had been ruling over the temple when our God Jesus arrived there? As they continuously stole from the people, they made their worship and their lives into an impoverished, slavish hell! And now the disciples of Hitler and Trump, who lie and call themselves “Christians,” want the same, since they are like their father, thee liar and murderer, and even destroy themselves. But the real God hates when Satanic exploiters enter the gates of His personal home. Likewise, all children of the heavenly Father also hate when thieves enter their homes, or the homes of siblings, since they are God’s home.
Now we need to realize that none of those money changers and sellers of sacrificial pigeons would have ever called themselves “thieves.” Nor would any of the fake priests—who partook in those thefts by granting those thieves permission to sell there, and by taking a cut of the money they stole from God and His people—admit that they profaned the temple in this way because they hated God and warred against Him. For they were liars, and sons of thee Liar. All had built up their lucrative businesses over the years, through hard work, and had duly obeyed all the temple regulations which the corrupt temple officials placed upon them. So they thought they had proved themselves to be good, devout, law-abiding Jews who had earned “every cent” they had ever robbed from God and His people. Yet the indisputable fact remains that they were actually stealing “every cent” they made, both from the people and from God Himself. There was absolutely nothing legitimate about anything they did in the temple grounds. So our God Jesus justly and correctly judged them to be “thieves,”
mere criminals. All deserved to be tried and, if they did not truly repent into the truth, all should have been sentenced to a just penalty. And Jesus did grant them a fair trial, when His honest priests and people continuously objected to the presence of those thieves in the temple, a just trial which lasted for many years. Yet the unjust maintained their rule over Israel and the temple, aided by the power of pagan Rome. So the trial was over. God’s judgment had been revealed. But none repented and none bore the fruits of repentance, by paying back every cent of all they had ever stolen. Yet, even now, Jesus did not require a penalty for these thieve, since He knew that many had committed those thefts in complete ignorance. So he merely drove them out and gave them several decades to repent, until about AD 70. And we are sure that many did repent during that time, although most of them did not.
The fake priests and false temple officials, who gathered those thieves into the temple grounds for a cut of their profits, who convinced them to commit thefts against God and His people, would bear the greatest guilt. Although many of their hired thugs will be held accountable for their sins on the judgment day, the elect among them will repent into the truth by then, and will be forgiven. But most of the priests and temple officials will not be so fortunate, since they committed far worse sins. The Page 1335
priests and temple officials took on the responsibility of serving God and His people. And they all had full access to God’s Word, even to God Himself. So what excuse will they bring on that last day?
How can those who knew God’s teachings and laws, who all heard true and just exegeses of God’s words as they debated with God’s truly chosen servants in their councils, ever hope to truly justify the way they caused God’s people to pay for the exchange of the money which they had come to offer for the works of God? How will they and their gang of thieves prove that they had a right to take money-exchanging fees for themselves? And how will those priests and officials explain why they had to demand such excessive prices for sacrificial animals, and take a cut of those profits for themselves, even as their greed hindered God’s people from praying and meditating upon how the sacrificial deaths of sinless animals symbolized the restoration of their relationships with God, as souls sought forgiveness for their sins? And how would those wilfully ignorant priests answer for the way they took away the only kind of sacrifice which God allowed for those without money, how they forced the poor to pay for the birds they required to atone for their sins, with money they did not have? What defence will those supposed experts in God’s Law, those fake servants of God, give to their Judge, for the way they denied the poorest souls in their land the only kind of sacrifice and prayer available to them? And what will they say to God about how they took away the place where the Gentiles were allowed to pray, transforming it into a marketplace which served only Satan’s world order? When God reminds them that He created Israel as His priesthood to serve the Gentiles of the world, how will they answer? Will those liars be able to convince God that His Law is wrong?
God commanded that all the works done by His priests in His name should be done for Him alone, never for the demon Mammon, and according to His will alone, not according to the wills of greedy little bureaucrats. Levitical priests were to serve Yahweh by labouring for the benefit of His people on the earth, and for the rest of His creations. Their one and only inheritance was to be God Himself, and their only reward on earth was to be the joy of planting, watering, growing and harvesting crops of truth, justice and love together with their diligently serving God. Yahweh left no earthly thing to be called their own. All satisfaction and gratification for their souls was to come from seeing His good kingdom fulfilling His righteous purposes throughout the earth, but especially within Israel.
God’s Law also demanded that His people must strive to ensure that none among them would ever become so poor that they suffered a lack of food, drink, adequate clothing, shelter, education and all they required to do the works God called them to do. Then these priests, who brought the exploiting money changers and sacrifice sellers into God’s presence, had been divinely appointed to remind their brothers and sisters of their duty to care for the needy. So those priests and temple officials, with their duty as the elders who oversaw, judged and enforced the equitable distribution of goods and services in their land, became the most culpable in God’s eyes, whenever the people did not respect the rights of the poor. If the people allowed the poor to suffer needlessly in their land, the first ones God blamed and punished were those priests. Yet these greedy priests filled their busy days with the demanding tasks of stealing from the meagre livelihoods, prayers and trust of God’s people, even from the poorest of souls, so they and their gang of thieves could gain wealth and a material inheritance for themselves. Therefore, those priests and temple officials would be rewarded in hell.
Now notice the TSKS construction (i.e., consisting of an article which has a root of τ + a substantive
+ καὶ + substantive) in Matthew 21:12: πάντας τοὺς πωλοῦντας καὶ ἀγοράζοντας ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ (“all those [who were both] selling and marketing in the temple”). The first substantive is a present (durative) participle and a form of the verb πωλέω. This refers to those who were doing the actual work of “offering [things] for sale,” those doing the various tasks involved in “selling.” These would include all the workers at the booths. The second substantive in this TSKS construction is a present Page 1336
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(durative) participle and a form of the verb ἀγοράζω, which literally means, “those going to the market,” but generally referred to “those buying” or “those redeeming” or exchanging one thing for another, such as money for goods or services. And this second substantive would include all those merchants who purchased their rights to exchange money or sell sacrifices on the temple grounds, that is, from temple officials. And both participles are united in a TSKS construction, as one group.
In other words, both kinds of people described by the participles this TSKS construction existed in a relationship as one and the same people. So the ones called the ἀγοράζοντας would have referred to the owners of those booths, as well as those working for those bosses. And the ἀγοράζοντας would have also included the bosses of those booth owners, who were the temple priests. For it was the priests who gave those booth owners permission to transform the Gentiles’ place of prayer into a marketplace, even in the presence of Yahweh God, who promised to hear the prayers of the Gentiles in those temple grounds. And the entrepreneurs would never be allowed to sell any goods or services there if they had not purchased the right to do so from those priests. So those priests were clearly and overtly aiding and abetting that blasphemy against God committed by the booth owners. Then this authority to either prevent or allow that blasphemy made those priests the most guilty in God’s eyes.
Yet the booth owners were almost as condemned by God as those priests, since it was those owners who intentionally sought permission to commit that blasphemy. Then their employees shared the guilt of those booth owners. But their common workers were less guilty, since they were somewhat coerced into working at those booths, in order to earn a wage that could provide necessities for their families and themselves. Still, those common workers should have looked for a job that was less offensive to God, and remained guilty. Lastly, the πωλοῦντας, those who were purchasing the services of the money changers and buying the temple sacrifices, were also guilty of this blasphemy against God. For they put up with all this and did not join forces to protest against it, nor do much of anything else to stop it. And, ultimately, criminals like those priests and booth owners can only get away with their crimes if the people allow them to do so. Of course, the purchasers were less guilty than even the workers at those booths. Yet those who bought those goods and services there still shared in the guilt. For we must realize that even the most well-armed, powerful dictators on earth cannot possibly rise to power if all the people unite against them. Therefore, if the people were truly faithful to God, they would have united in the one mind of God to nullify those works of the devil.
So which of all these guilty parties in this crime did our wise God Jesus cast out of the marketplace?
Well, Jesus could not cast out the priests, who were the worst of the criminals involved in that crime of blasphemy, since those priests were the lawmakers of the temple and in charge of the temple police. Nor could Jesus cast out the booth owners, since most were wealthy business men, and likely sitting in their plush homes while their employees did all the work at their businesses. Then Jesus did not cast out the πωλοῦντας, none of those paying to exchange money or buy the animal sacrifices, since they were basically dupes coerced into accepting the perpetration of those crimes, and the principal victims of those thefts. Jesus only whipped and violently cast out workers at the booths in the temple grounds. For those workers were the critical enablers of the both the booth owners and the priests, as well as the only existing link between the worst of the criminals and all their victims.
Now we might think this is unjust, because our wise God Jesus did not immediately punish those false priests and booth owners, none of the most guilty parties in this massive crime. However, when Jesus stopped the workers from selling illicit goods and services in the temple, the devout Jews who always hated those criminal practises would have been encouraged to stand up against them. So the victims of those crimes would begin to unite in opposition to those crimes. And, since Jesus was repeatedly casting out the workers at those booths, His light whippings and His humiliating public Page 1337
rebukes against their crimes would surely cause many of them to more carefully and fervently examine themselves. So some would admit their guilt, then repent into a more godly life. And many more would quit, to seek less controversial employment elsewhere. Furthermore, it would become increasingly difficult for the booth owners to find honest and reliable employees, since the stigma of being condemned by that extremely popular religious Teacher, Jesus, would drive most of the better employees away. Thus, those entrepreneurs would be forced to hire far more dishonest and less reliable employees, to replace the better ones. Then they would incur greater losses than before, mostly due to their less-reliable employees, but also from the damages Jesus caused to their booths.
Thus, those business owners would need to reevaluate and rethink their plans to provide goods and services in the temple grounds. But, if those businesses began to pull away from those financial opportunities provided by the priests, those priests would need to charge lower fees for the rights to set up booths in the temple grounds, and might even need to abandon their greedy little schemes altogether. After all this, the encouraged devout might then begin to make all those corrupt priests and scrupulous business owners take responsibility for their crimes, by requiring them to give an account before the courts in their land. And, even if those courts refused to heed the demands of God and the devout, God would surely complete the due punishment of those priests and owners in hell.
So it seems that Jesus may have been just and wise in dealing with the exploitative crimes of those priests and booth owners, and that He worked the most amount of good with the least amount of damages or losses to the least guilty. For Jesus could have sent His multitudes of disciples, and even leagues of angels, to slaughter all those corrupt priests, all the owners of those criminal enterprises, all of their employees and all the people who willingly enabled those crimes by purchasing their illicit good and services. But, instead, Jesus patiently and diligently did the hard work of cutting off the link between the worst of the criminals and their victims, by casting out the workers at the booths and by disabling their ability to provide their illicit goods and services. Then Jesus’ very light punishment of the workers, where their public humiliation pained them far more than His soft whip of cords, would have been enough to cause the elect among them to repent. Then Jesus’ repeated actions of casting out those workers and damaging their booths, in His forceful but life-preserving
“civil disobedience,” would have also stirred the loving elect in Israel to take up their responsibilities to God, and oppose the works of the devil in the temple grounds. And this technique of dealing with criminal gangs has been applied by just societies for two millennia, although much more since the 16th century Reformation and 18th century “Great Awakening” in England and America. It is always best to begin nullifying the devil’s works by first breaking the link between the criminals and their victims, with the least amount of force possible, while encouraging the people to stop enabling those crimes. Then this will not only stop the immediate crimes and begin an indirect punishment of the worst criminals, but also initiate the building up of God’s just, equitable, wise and loving kingdom, to replace the gangsters’ kingdom, and eventually cause the worst criminals to face justice as well.
But our God Jesus justly condemned all the sellers and marketers as “thieves” (i.e., the noun λῃστής
means, “robber, highwayman, bandit,” BDAG3). Then He expelled them from the temple, from fellowship with Israel and out of the priesthood of God’s church. Mark also told us this, “And He was not leaving [them] alone, lest anyone might have carried goods through the temple” (Mark 11:16, from: καὶ οὐκ ἤφιεν ἵνα τις διενέγκῃ σκεῦος διὰ τοῦ ἱεροῦ, SBLGNT). So Jesus did not even allow those sellers and marketers to pick up the money He scattered on the ground, nor gather up the sacrificial animals He released into the courtyard. Jesus left all that money and all those animals for the people to pick up and take for themselves. This was His penalty Jesus for those thieves, for their crime of stealing from God and from His people, especially from the poor, to whom God allowed a Page 1338
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free sacrifice of two trapped pigeons. Although Jesus could have demanded them to pay for all they stole in the past too, plus an additional twenty percent, Jesus did not require them to pay that steeper penalty, due to the partial ignorance of those booth owners and their workers, since that ignorance made their motives and intensions less evil. But this loss was still a fairly hefty penalty, nonetheless.
And it would encourage those ruthless business owners to be more careful about their practises in the future. Thus, when Jesus made them pay this penalty, and publicly humiliated them by expelling them from His church of Israel, He set us an example for us all to follow, with many implications.
So, when Jesus cast out the money-exchangers and sellers of sacrifices from the temple, He wanted us to realize that our Creator God condemns all forms of exploitation, not only because it is theft, but also because it often ends in starvation and death, making it a form of murder. The God who ordered all physical and spiritual existence requires us to oppose theft, privately and as corporate bodies. We must nullify any works of human beings which steal the God-given stewardship and destinies from His people. We need to correct or punish any individual, organization or system which forces people to pay inflated prices for goods and services or anything more than a reasonable and fair price, nor let anyone force others to pay for what they could easily obtain for free, or with a little bit of effort.
Our God Jesus condemned thefts in His church, especially by the Aaronic teaching and judging elders called to serve in His temple, to whom He forbade the accumulation of any kind of financial or material inheritance, who were to be His most humbled and loving representatives to the rest of Israel and the world. And He appointed as those Aaronic priests to be counsellors of all authorities, including those in secular governments. For neither His church nor any other authority on God’s green earth must ever steal from the stewardship He grants to others, because that is stealing from God Himself. None should be allowed to exploit, extort or steal, especially from the poor. Through the acts of cleansing the temple, Jesus also wanted us to know that God forbids all kinds of bribery to decision-making authorities, any payment for the right to sin with impunity, as well as every kind of exploitative monopoly, all price gouging, all price fixing and many the other fraudulent practises.
Furthermore, since our God Jesus expelled the workers at those illicit businesses from the church, it implies that God forbids true Jews or true Christians from taking jobs in any businesses that exploit people. And, of course, no member of God’s true church of Israel must ever own an exploitative business of any kind. Anyone in the Old or New Covenant branches of His one church, if they steal from His creations, must either repent or be expelled. Likewise, if a church allows a pastor or church member to exploit others, especially through the peddling of false religion, and even more especially if they target the poor or vulnerable, then that church must be a fake church belonging to Satan’s world order. So every elect soul must shun that church, to worship God within the spirit and in truth.
Our eye witness, Matthew, told us that, after casting the thieves from the temple, the blind and lame came to Jesus. And Jesus healed them. From this, we can conclude that Jesus did not clear out the temple in a blind rage. Rather, He must have done so calmly and methodically, through His love for the people. Jesus may have even laughed when He heard the protests of the “respectable” thieves trying to justify their robbery, while they threatened Him with an arrest by the temple police and a prison sentence, or a lawsuit through the temple’s corrupt courts. Jesus seems to have been in a very good mood, or the vulnerable blind and lame would not have come to Him immediately after He drove out that criminal gang of sellers and marketers. If Jesus had been frothing at the teeth, if He had been acting like an enraged warrior in the heat of battle, those weakened voices would not have dared to approach Him. Rather, they would have kept their distance, in the same way they stood as far away as possible from pagan warriors, hoping those violent psychopaths would not notice their existence. Yet these very marginalized folk walked straight up to Jesus, asking Him to heal them.
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But there were some who shared the rage of the expelled thieves, who had just lost all their goods to the public. The co-conspirators of those robbers, the priests who falsely legitimized their thefts, the
“upstanding” men whom the people were duped into trusting, definitely did not like any of that justice, truth, love for the people, and love for God which Jesus exemplified for us that day. Matthew recorded this about them and Jesus: “Yet the chief priests and [biblical] scholars, after seeing what He did, as well as the children crying out in the temple and proclaiming, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David,’ were indignant. Then they said to Him, ‘Are you hearing what these are proclaiming?’ So Jesus reasoned with them, ‘Yes. Did you people never read that [David prayed], “Out of the mouth of toddlers and nursing infants You thoroughly restored praise [i.e., this prayer from Ps. 8:1-2 indicates that God caused infants to praise His name so it would silence His enemies]”’” (Mat. 21:15-16, from: ἰδόντες δὲ οἱ
ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς τὰ θαυμάσια ἃ ἐποίησεν καὶ τοὺς παῖδας τοὺς κράζοντας ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ καὶ
λέγοντας· Ὡσαννὰ τῷ υἱῷ Δαυίδ ἠγανάκτησαν καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ· Ἀκούεις τί οὗτοι λέγουσιν; ὁ δὲ
Ἰησοῦς λέγει αὐτοῖς· Ναί. οὐδέποτε ἀνέγνωτε ὅτι Ἐκ στόματος νηπίων καὶ θηλαζόντων κατηρτίσω
αἶνον;, SBLGNT). Consequently, by quoting this familiar passage from Psalm 8:2, Jesus was clearly implying that: (1) He is Yahweh, God, since this psalm referred to infants thoroughly restoring praise to Yahweh, and (2) God restored praise to Jesus in order to silence those chief priests and biblical scholars, because they were God’s enemies who slandered Him by letting thieves steal in His name.
Needless to say, these implications did not sit well with those self-exalting, arrogant hypocrites, who seemed very proud of the way they were able to steal from God and from God’s people, even from within God’s own house. For those men had convinced themselves, and a good many dupes, that they were stealing “for the sake of God,” even that their thefts were “holy,” “sanctified by God.” In their little dark minds of flesh, they felt that our God Jesus, not them, had blasphemed God, as they demanded that Jesus must worship them as higher gods than God Himself, and bow before them with reverend esteem, to serve their whims. And now these wanna-be god felt that the people were being “duped” by the immutable truths of justice which Jesus was teaching them straight from God’s own Word. The Aaronic priests were furious with Jesus, for teaching the Bible without allowing for all of their wise “corrections” of those Scriptures, which were actually their judgments against God.
To them, when Jesus refused to acknowledge them as human gods who had earned the right to rule over God, it was blasphemy. And, because of the real biblical truths Jesus taught the people, many of those people were refusing to let those human gods dictate ruthless and self-serving commands to them. Some of the poor and infirmed, whom those priests considered to be dirty, worthless and totally inferior human livestock, stopped bowing and obeying their orders, and even rebuked them as equals, treating them like fellow sinners requiring repentance. So now those priests felt that they had to permanently silence Jesus, lest they lose their income from their exploitation of the poor.. Now this was becoming a real crisis, a national emergency. Since Jesus threatened their stolen incomes, all Israel must die with them! Even all their human livestock must be sacrificed to save their money and power. For, to them, money is sacred and must be rescued at any cost to human lives. All these thieves now sadly realized, in their tiny wicked hearts, that they were being “forced” to commit
“righteous” and “holy” murders “for God.” And first, they had to destroy the sinless body of their Messiah and God, Jesus. Once they did this, they could easily torture His thousands of followers into submission, or else murder and plunder them, so they could restore their losses of power and money.
We know they wanted to murder Jesus because Mark told us. Mark found out what they were saying among themselves from some of the eye witnesses he interviewed. So this was the reaction of those temple authorities to Jesus: “Thus the chief priests and the [biblical] scholars heard [the little children calling out Hosanna]. Then they were seeking how they might completely destroy [Jesus]. For they Page 1340
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were fearing Him, since all the multitude was being amazed by the teaching [about life and faith]
from Him” (Mark 11:18, from: καὶ ἤκουσαν οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς, καὶ ἐζήτουν πῶς αὐτὸν
ἀπολέσωσιν· ἐφοβοῦντο γὰρ αὐτόν, πᾶς γὰρ ὁ ὄχλος ἐξεπλήσσετο ἐπὶ τῇ διδαχῇ αὐτοῦ, SBLGNT).
So the elite “leaders” of the false churches were extremely offended when they heard even the little children crying out “Hosanna” [“Save now”] to Jesus. Why? I repeat, we must realize that every great and highly esteemed religious “leader” sits near to the very bottom of an inverted pyramid, mere inches above Satan and his demons. That is, fake religious “leaders” are the devil’s favourite sons, and he exalts them almost to the lowest point in his upside-down hierarchy called the world order. For the demons, who sit a little below them, always infect the minds of their religious liars with an incurable spiritual disease. That is, their hellish father and his fallen angels fill the minds of flesh in all those fake religious “leaders” with dark, confused, stubborn delusions of grandeur and selfish ambition. Then, when this disease consumes all their thoughts, they begin to think they are human gods. Soon the stupidest and most psychopathic among them will also believe that they alone can “save” the world, but only if they can terrorize all the inferior and worthless masses, until those dupes completely submit to all their whims. For, although all these “leaders” are incapable wretches, possessing only the ability to cause destruction and death, the demons make each believe that the economic, military and physical survival of the entire world depends on them alone, and only if each fulfills his own vile, twisted, immoral, ignorant, greedy, dictatorial, power-hungry, self-serving, self-aggrandizing, unjust, murderous will. Each Satanic “leader” believes that, if his will is not done on earth, the entire earth will crumble into chaos and death, since he alone is the god who holds it all together. Unfortunately, the opposite is always true. God alone maintains the earth and all upon it, and they are the enemies of God. And, in fact, the more those vile “leaders” gain power over the people, the more they murder and destroy them. So they are also the enemies of the people too.
Even though the devil’s appointed “leaders” and “saviours” continuously lie in ways where each proves his own words to be false, then they entirely contradict one another as well, they remain steadfastly confident that they are the only truly rational beings in the world, the only ones able to rescue the lowly masses. So they promise all that they will build them a “utopia,” if everyone will bow to them and serve their whims, a prosperous land which they will rule with their own “iron fists.” And they think, by making the “sacrifice” of slavishly labouring for their own profit and power, they are doing “the little people” a great service, as they force them kiss their feet. All these worthless parasites feel very noble as they do their self-serving “sacrificial” works for Satan. All feel as though they suffer more than any other martyrs, as they “bravely” endure the hard labours of torturing and murdering the potential rivals to their personal power. Although they repeatedly prove to be the greatest leaches in the land, incapable of any truly good works, more useless than all the others, they somehow maintain their huge, delusional and psychopathic egos. And all insist that they should be worshipped, that they alone deserve to be esteemed above all the others, that their every whim should be served through a blind and totally submissive loyalty to their magnificent glory.
The chief priests and biblical scholars who opposed Jesus were Satan’s chosen “leaders” of that devil’s religious institutions in the world order, and much like the Roman secular “leaders.” They were just like the religious leaders of our day, the ones who promote Hitler and Trump. All such religious “leaders” are faithful slaves belonging to demons, calling all to join them at the bottom of their pit in the world order’s dark depths. Now some may think most people would be too intelligent and rational to follow such fools into utter destruction. Yet God hands over those who do not love the truths of His just and loving teachings, to demons, for the deluding of their minds of flesh. So there are millions of stupid, bitter, hate-filled and irrational souls who are willing to passionately Page 1341
follow and bow before those slaves of Satan. Even many spiritually immature and ignorant elect souls get caught in their webs of deceit. Still, most of the carnal and apathetic elect find enough love and justice in their spirits to reject those lies from Satan. Nevertheless, those worldly elect often keep themselves so busy with their selfish pursuits that they do not have time to search for the real truth required to save their children and themselves. Thus, the devil’s psychopathic non-elect despots will take that opportunity to conquer entire nations. It is always the apathy of the elect which grants the servants of Satan the ability to seize power, not the power of that devil himself. Only if God’s elect remain carnal and silent, can Satan’s children build up their own unrestricted power. Then the devil’s heirs can happily murder, rape and plunder the elect with total impunity, as well as their other dupes.
And only then do those carnal, apathetic elect begin to wake up and realize that every semblance of justice, life and love has been stolen from them. Only then do the foolish elect sheep open their eyes and realize that Satan duped them and their children to death, for the glory of his evil kingdom. And, if they will not labour for the devil’s kingdom, the non-elect will drag them to their slaughterhouse.
That disease, which deludes the worst of the non-elect into believing they are gods and they must rule over an insignificant, expendable, “little people,” caused those chief priests and scholars of the fake church to become enraged by the justice and truth that our God Jesus brought to us. For they became incensed when even the small, powerless children began to cry out, “Save now!” How could gods like them ignore and tolerate even those mere babes, since they were asking their God Jesus for His genuine salvation, instead of begging them to be “saved” by serving them as their abused slaves?
Those priests and scholars offered those people the freedom of choice, to either worship them or die a torturous death. So how could this great benevolent offer from the highest of human gods possibly be refused by those little brats? What did those subhuman low-lives want!? How dare they worship the Creator God instead of them! How dare they want to treated like human beings with rights, in the way their God Jesus treated them! How could they ever believe they were equals with their elite human gods, whom Satan himself exalted to the lowest depths of his inverted pyramid! These priests and scholars also realized that, if even the little children shouted praises to the real God, then their parents must believe in Jesus, and must be talking about Him in their own homes, claiming that He will save them. It meant that their dupes, and even their next generation of slaves, would no longer rely on them for salvation, but begin to place faith in the real God. The people they owned would no longer believe their lies, but begin to believe the truths of God, and enter the reality of the spiritual ways of God, possibly even build up the just, loving kingdom of God where they could not rule. And that would be a total disaster for wanna-be human gods everywhere. For human gods would not only lose their lucrative systems of defrauding the people, but also lose their power to manipulate those dupes into doing all their dirty works for them! For none of those human gods were able to do any legitimate work for an income. Fraud was everything to them! It was their entire identity and only sense of self-worth. And, if they did do honest work, their father in hell would soon abandon them.
This is why Mark told us, “Then they were seeking how they might completely destroy Him. For they were fearing Him, since all the multitude were being amazed by the teaching about life and faith from Him.” Here we see that the reason they became furious was because they lost their power to deceive the people. For now this Jesus was teaching the people real biblical truths about life and faith. So these fake religious “leaders” were terrified that Jesus might actually save those lost souls which they worked so hard to deceive. And it was this fear which made them angry, this fear which incited murderous thoughts in them. For those human gods were actually the most manipulated of all the fools in that land, the most mindless and slavish of all souls dwelling in the devil’s world order.
So Satan easily filled them with fears based on their delusions, and led them into sins like murder.
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Of course, as puppets of Satan, those priests and Bible scholars actually knew nothing about God’s intended meanings of His words. So they did not yet realize how Jesus was going to eternally save His elect, by personally teaching and training their spirits. For these priests and scholars wanted nothing to do with the spiritual truths of God. They all preferred their own invented carnal darkness to the immutable created truths of God. All were all living in the utterly black darkness of their hellish father’s lies and delusions, in windowless dungeons where the only forms they could see were the even darker shapes of demons. So they communed only with those darkest figures, and called them their messengers of light. Since the features of their darker darkness could be so clearly seen within the less-dark darkness of their God-created minds of flesh, and they could distinguish the demons from the somewhat brighter background of earthly realities, they believed they were angels.
And, since those arrogant, self-important wanna-be gods spent their entire lives censoring and trampling down every glimmer or spark of real light, not one was able to discern how Jesus was going to truly and forever save all of His elect. Instead, they assumed Jesus would raise up an army to torture and murder them, since that is what they always did when they had to “save” the people.
The only perception of “justice” held by those “leaders” of the false church was a pagan one. All felt that justice could only be worked through acts of violence and revenge, through works of terrorism which would force their horrified “inferiors” to blindly obey their destructive human wills. And this is why their stupid instincts were to murder Jesus. They were thinking that, by murdering the flesh of the Messiah, they would stop Him from raising up a torturing and murdering army, and prevent Him from establishing a Roman-like Jewish empire that would over all the world. But they did not realize that all the empires they knew and feared, such as Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, were spiritual kingdoms ruled by the spirit of Satan, built on the foundation of the deceiving humanistic doctrines pertaining to a slavish life and blind faith. And our God Jesus was the enemy of all such kingdoms.
So Jesus actually came to build the spiritual kingdom of God, upon a foundation of the truths He taught to free all, into just, equitable, loving lives. Consequently, killing Jesus would stop nothing, since the Holy Spirit of God in Jesus could not be killed, and His truths could not be extinguished.
Still, those puppets of Satan persisted and, together with the like-minded Roman psychopaths, those fake priests and lying Bible scholars hoped to murder Jesus in the most vengeful and painful way possible, to make His rebellion against them into a terrifying example, to frighten the people enough that they would once more bow before them. Since those priests and scholars lived solely by the devil’s laws, and acknowledged no other laws, they had to rule by lies and murder, by terrorizing the people into submission. And they could not possibly imagine the way in which Jesus was now going to free His elect brothers and sisters from their enslaving lies, by fulfilling all of God’s Law in them.
On that very Passover day, Jesus was about to start gradually building up His kingdom on earth, by making the final and real sin sacrifice for them, the one which their animal sacrifices symbolized.
This would restore their relationship with God, and allow His Holy Spirit to write His just, loving ways upon the minds of elect spirits. In time, Jesus’ works would entirely sanctify their hearts and lives, forever separating those elect from the non-elect, and purchase their freedom from all of the spiritually awakened demonic despots on earth. In the end, Jesus would prevent the elect from ever becoming enslaved again by Satan’s world order. Then He would eternally save them into heaven.
Within days of that Passover day, Jesus would provide an irrevocable and everlasting salvation for literally all the elect who ever existed or ever will exist, an assurance that all will be safely gathered into their eternal heavenly homes. And Jesus would do all this through His death and resurrection, which those blind servants of Satan would inadvertently cause through their lust for personal power.
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elect sins, which would be plainly manifested by the scars upon His hands and feet, He would claim His right to send His own Holy Spirit of God into His elect. Then no entity in heaven, nor anywhere else, would ever be able to accuse Him of aiding and abetting the sins of His elect. For, through the blows that His utterly sinless body took, and His body’s tortuous death on the cross, He fully paid for all their sins. So none would be able to object to His Spirit entering their hearts. Thus, Jesus would begin to dwell with many elect spirits, teaching truths and training their spirits to apply those truths.
But those chief priests and biblical scholars all understood that they were rapidly losing their control over their dupes. So they did the only thing they knew how to do, lie and murder. Yet, in their haste to stop the freedom Jesus provided, so they might rule over the people instead of God, these fools actually assisted in the true salvation which Jesus was bringing to His people. Those wanna-be gods thought their acts of terrorism against Jesus and His disciples would force the people to bow before them again. And they assumed that murdering Jesus would prevent Him from nullifying their power.
For they wrongly assumed Jesus would seek power through sinful acts of terrorism, since all their other rivals, all the fake messiahs who had risen up in the past, had also striven to rule Israel and the world through terrorism. Thus, they grossly underestimated Jesus. And none could comprehend that God’s salvation was impossible to achieve through an unrestrained bloodied, ruthless torture and oppressive violence. So none realized that God does not rule through terrorism, and never will. Even when God did suppress evil, He did so justly. For He sent His prophets and His other true servants to warn the wicked first, often years or even centuries before His judgments punished them. And, by doing this, God took the time to weigh the evidence in public, before He acting against those rebels, revealing their false motives and evil intentions to His people, lest they join with those sinners. Then God only handed out punishments that were equal to the weights of their crimes, only an eye for an eye and a life for a life. And God usually handed over criminals to other other criminals for their punishment, such as when He gave Israel over to their wicked allies in Assyria and Babylon. Then it was their allies, whom they preferred more than God, who tortured and murdered them. But God Himself never tortured or murdered anyone, nor did He ever command His true servants to do so.
Now I know some humanists will say, “But God eternally tortures souls in hell!” But, as usual, this is just another humanistic lie designed to justify their own use of torture. For the Bible teaches us that God’s eternal punishment in hell, even for the worst of torturing murderers, is a gift to them. For He grants them the only kind of eternal home suitable for their loveless souls. Their home in hell only seems to be a terrifying and horrifying penalty to the eyes of the elect. But to the demons and to the human non-elect, hell is infinitely preferable to God’s home in heaven. For, to a bird that freely flies in the daylight skies, being force to forever dwell in a pit of darkness and filth would indeed be the worst of penalties. But, to a cockroach, a dark and slimy pit like is a great gift, the home it truly desires. Likewise, God grants hell to the demons and all their non-elect children because hell is the only place where they will have the right to wallow in their most cherished passions, that is, in an immeasurable quantity of their own beloved darkness of delusions and lies, in all they greedily grasped and treasured while dwelling on the earth. God created hell to be the most comfortable and suitable home for demons and the non-elect, the best home they could ever hope to have. Of course, in hell, our just God cannot allow them the right to practise their destructive delusions and lies upon His good creations. Therefore, God keeps literally all His good creations out of hell. So, since those evil spirits will have nothing to exploit in hell, it will frustrate their destructive desires to do evil, and torture their very souls forever. Still, it is they who will torture themselves. God will not touch them.
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over the people. And, like all humanists, the only way these self-proclaimed human gods could think of stopping Jesus and the masses following Him, was through terrorism, by publicly executing their leader as an “example” to the masses, so those masses would bow to them instead of God. But Jesus, as our God, wanted to save His elect by dwelling in their very hearts, so His Holy Spirit could teach and train their spirits more effectively. And, to do that, our God first had to pay the just penalty for their sins. Otherwise, even Satan himself could honestly accuse God of unjustly favouring His elect children. If God did not pay the just penalty for their sins, He could not work inside them. Nor could God even allow His elect to repent and learn His ways on the judgment day, so they could become fit to enter heaven. For there can be no acceptable repentance if there are no fruits of repentance with it, including the equitable payment for one’s sins. And the only just payment for sins causing death, for sins causing the separation of life from life, is separation from the Source of life. That is, a life that had not caused death had to die, then rise into life again, for sinners. And only God could do that!
So Jesus would become the Saviour by allowing sinners to take the sinless life of His body, in the place of elect bodies of the Father’s sinful elect children. Then He would raise His body back into life, so those elect could partake in His death and resurrection vicariously through Him. This would allow His elect to repent, either on earth or at heaven’s gates on the last day, freed from sin. As for the non-elect, who loved darkness and could never repent into the truth, these would be freed from God’s light and life, which ceaselessly penetrated every corner of heaven. Those loveless ones could flee into their beloved darkness of hell. Nevertheless, it would be those loveless non-elect Jews, and their Roman siblings, whom Jesus would use to procure the saving sacrifice for His elect. Because literally all of His elect caused death through their sins, even through their apathy and legal thefts, Jesus had to die in the flesh. So who on earth should shed His sinless blood, if not those non-elect who already had the blood of innocent souls on their hands? Then, by the power of the Creator’s life in Him, Jesus would rise again in the flesh, so His elect could be saved through His death and life.
Now some elect might still wonder why Jesus had to die for their sins, then rise again to gather them into a new life. For some may still believe the lie that they are not murderers, and that they have surely made payments for all their little sins, by good works which more than paid for the losses they caused through sin. A rich man, who stole bread from the poor, will naturally think this can be repaid by donating some bread to the poor. But stealing bread from a starving child can cause the death of that child, and God will call that murder. And donating bread to the poor, after one has collected interest and profits from the bread one originally stole, long after the child died, will not bring the child back to life. Nor can that donation of bread, as a small part of the profits made from the theft, and only to purchase a profitable goodwill from the public, be considered a full repayment of that theft. The only just penalty for initially stealing that bread which took life from a starving child is an eternal separation from God’s living creations on earth and in heaven. That sin requires eternity in hell. Yet literally all the elect partake in sins like stealing life from children, and from many of their other brother and sisters, either through their apathy, negligence or direct theft. All have caused the deaths of God’s living creations in one way or another, even by simply not saying nor doing what is right and just, or by allowing the wicked to cause deaths. All partook in murder. Thus, our God came in a sinless body of flesh to receive the tortuous, deadly blows of the devil himself, to die in a public way that Satan and his minions desired, to satisfy even their cruel demands for an equitable justice.
Satan and his human minions would get exactly what they wanted. They would indeed be able to murder the body of God and they could, for a time, cling to their power over the people. But, by gaining what they so urgently lusted after during their very short lives in the flesh, they lost their entire war against God. For, on the day they stole the breath from Jesus’ body, all the elect, in all past Page 1345
and future times on earth, received the right to have Jesus intercede for them during their lives on earth, as well as on the judgment day. On that tortuous cross of the Greco-Roman humanists, who who practised the core religion of Satan, Jesus silenced every objection they or the devil could ever make, regarding His right to save His Father’s elect children. For, although all the elect sinned in ways deserving eternal hell, Jesus named every one of them as His benefactors, when He allowed His flesh to suffer and die on behalf of them. Each of their names had been indelibly written in His book before the beginning of time. Then Jesus cited literally all those names as the ones for whom He paid the devil’s demanded penalty, allowed all to die only once for any number of sins they had committed. So Jesus used that law to grant His free gift of salvation to all elect souls, and paid for all their sins, all that all committed throughout their lives, with His one death on the cross. So now even the devil cannot justly deny Jesus the right to save all His elect siblings from literally all their sins.
Then Jesus’ body of flesh would also rose from the dead, and lives even now. Thus, all elect bear the right to rise into a new life after the death of their old lives of sin. And now Jesus Himself, in His transformed body above, and in His soon-to-be returning earthly body, lives to teach and train His elect brothers and sisters for life in heaven. So, after all of His younger siblings stand in transfigured spiritual bodies at the gates of heaven, on their last day of existence outside of heaven, Jesus will be among all, in His resurrected body. And He will bear the right to teach and rebuke all His siblings on that day. Because of His death and resurrection, Jesus can correct and reason with all, until all repent into the blessed truths which their spirits inherently craved since birth. Because His body rose from the dead, He lives to walk with us and teach us forever. He, our God, still carries His right to call us His holy family. Remaining in a body like our bodies, Jesus is able to counsel us, until He makes us all fit and ready to labour forever with Him in heaven, to prepare each for the joyful works He has predestined each of us to do. Every loss and every gain our spirits experience on earth will be used to our advantage, to illustrate the great contrast between God’s truth and Satan’s lies, so His beloved might clearly see the immeasurable value of our Father’s effective, reasonable wisdom and the utter destructiveness of the devil’s foolishness. Finally, with our spirits’ eyes and ears fully opened on that day, we will embrace the whole of the transcendent love in our heavenly Father and Brother. Then our grateful hearts will pour out rivers of love for Him, in volumes even angels cannot comprehend.
When that day was done, Matthew tells us, “And, after leaving them behind, He departed out of the city [of Jerusalem], into Bethany, and lodged there” (Mat. 21:17). For Jesus had friends like Lazarus, Mary and Martha in Bethany, who would provide food, drink and a place to sleep on the floor of their small home. So Jesus and His twelve core disciples were more than content to stay there, rather than sleep in the fields, at least until it became too dangerous for them. Only on the night He was to be arrested and murdered, would He and His disciples sleep out in the open fields below the Mount of Olives, to protect His friends from the harm that the temple police might cause when they came.
Until the enemies of God came to torture and kill His bodily life, Jesus kept Himself busy with the proclamation of His New Covenant salvation for Israel, and the training of His twelve to become teaching elders. Scriptures tell us: “Then Jesus was continuously teaching [about life and faith] daily in the temple [grounds]. Yet the chief priests and the [biblical] scholars were seeking to destroy Him.
Still, these authorities over the people also were not finding anything they might accomplish. For the people hung onto absolutely everything [they were] hearing from Him” (Luke 19:47-48, from: Καὶ
ἦν διδάσκων τὸ καθʼ ἡμέραν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ· οἱ δὲ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς ἐζήτουν αὐτὸν ἀπολέσαι
καὶ οἱ πρῶτοι τοῦ λαοῦ, καὶ οὐχ εὕρισκον τὸ τί ποιήσωσιν, ὁ λαὸς γὰρ ἅπας ἐξεκρέματο αὐτοῦ
ἀκούων, SBLGNT). So the chief priests (the authorities in charge of licensing the peddlers in the temple, who stole from God and His people), together with the biblical scholars (who had falsely Page 1346
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justified those thefts from God and His people), diligently and responsibly strove to uphold Satan’s world order, and to protect their power, along with their right to commit their sins for a profit. They questioned Jesus often and, much like the elect, also listened intently to every syllable the Messiah uttered. But they were paying close attention to Jesus’ words for a different reason, to find some little truth they could twist into a big lie, so they could poison the minds of the people against Jesus. They required some kind of delusion and pretense to make the people think they were obligated to torture and murder the human flesh being used by God’s Spirit. For, if their murder did not seem legitimate in the eyes of the people, whom they enslaved and abused in God’s name, might walk away from their slavery, and take their money with them. If the people realized they were lying, and rejected them, they would be mere nothings, with no power nor money to artificially inflate their vain egos.
Of course, those ancient authorities were simply doing exactly what today’s false churches, fascists and propagandists are constantly striving to do, to find deceiving ways to legitimately beat, scourge and drive nails through the true body of Christ on earth, through the true elect who are awakened enough to do God’s just, equitable, loving will on earth. Then they too want to commit their lying and murders with total impunity. So they also hire scholars and rhetoricians to justify themselves.
And, just like the right-wing politicians and fake churches in our day, those ancient chief priests and biblical scholars did manage to invent lies that were actually effective enough to poison the hearts of huge crowds, who all helped them torture and murder the sinless body of their God, who all partook in their crimes. So those liars thought they had succeeded, just like the liars of our day often think they have succeeded, such as when some of those liars managed to elect Trump and His like-minded criminals to the highest offices of their land. However, although those psychopaths stopped the body of Jesus from “continuously teaching about life and faith daily in the temple grounds,” they could never stop the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus from “continuously teaching about life and faith daily”
to the spirits of His elect throughout history. In fact, by murdering His body of flesh, those chief priests of Satan actually enabled our God Jesus to forever teach even deeper truths about love and faith directly to the spirits of His elect siblings. For Jesus rose from the dead and carried on teaching us to fulfill all His New Covenant, more effectively than He could have through His body of flesh.
Mat. 21:18-22,
Jesus Will Free Us
“Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, ‘Let there be no fruit from you forever!’ Immediately the fig tree withered away. When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, ‘How did the fig tree immediately wither away?’
“Jesus answered them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, “Be taken up and cast into the sea,” it would be done. All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive’” (Mat. 21:18-22, WEB).
To His Jewish disciples, this was an ominous sign. For the Jews often used trees as symbols of authorities, and figs as symbols of sweet blessings. So the withering of a fruitless fig tree would have indicated that an authority which was supposed to provide sweet blessings for their people would soon be struck down, and would never be able to bear any blessings for anyone ever again. Then, since this occurred immediately after the priests and Bible scholars had been warring against Jesus, it implied that this withering and everlasting fruitlessness would be the destiny of the Old Covenant Page 1347