Jewish churches, especially the Pharisees (i.e., the Orthodox or Evangelical Jews), from now on. Not only this, but the curse of their Messiah and God would also come upon all who opposed the true and awakened disciples of Jesus too. For the prayers of His faithful disciples, when aligned with the will of God, would wither every self-serving and fruitless religious authority, and cast every solid mountain of illicit secular authority into the sea. His disciples would nullify the works of the devil.
To begin with, although this fig tree must have been “owned” someone who had been watering and fertilizing it, Jesus and His apostles did have the legal right to step onto that man’s land and pick some of its fruit to eat. For God’s Law gave everyone this right (e.g., Deut. 23:24-25). No land, nor any fruits of the land, could possibly be owned in a way that denied others a share of it. Literally all lands and all that is upon all lands belongs to God alone. Thus, Jesus definitely was not trespassing nor stealing. Jesus was simply doing what God’s authoritative Law allowed Him to do, on God’s lands and to the trees which God allowed His temporary stewards to tend. And that Law is to be the basis for all laws of all lands on God’s earth. Therefore, since Jesus gave us this example of how we should be able to pick fruit on a stranger’s property, and since He came to fulfill God’s Law, not to nullify it, we oppose Roman laws claiming to “protect” the “rights” of personal property by allowing
“owners” to shoot “trespassers,” or even fines against those who “trespass” with no malicious intent.
Now, we need to understand this story in its context. On the previous day, Jesus drove the robbing money changers and sellers of sacrificial animals out of the temple, and would do so again this day.
Because Jesus was doing this, the principal authorities of the church—those who authorized those thefts within the temple grounds and assuredly also took a cut of those illicit funds—were now vengefully striving to find some way of permanently silencing Jesus. That is, they were plotting to murder the body of their God, but in a way that would seem legal and legitimate in the eyes of the public. Yet, back in reality, God required all authorities, especially the chief priests and biblical scholars, to serve as just and loving teaching and judging elders of Israel, for the good of His people, to bless them. God commanded those same authorities to feed His truths and wisdom to the spirits of His people, to both Jews and Gentiles. Then God also commanded them to teach those same truths to proven sinners in just trials, so those sinners might receive an opportunity to repent into God’s truths.
But, instead of doing all this, those chief priests and biblical scholars served only themselves. Yes, they gladly took the respect that God’s true teaching and judging elders should receive, although they rejected the humility God instills in His true servants, by adding unwarranted levels of power and esteem to their positions, along with ego-inflating titles and clerical robes indicating their status in religious hierarchies. But they took even more than that from God and His people. They stole the things God forbade them to receive, while forcing others to esteem them as gods and providing them with nothing of real value. None were loving and humble, like Moses, who never exalted himself above his brothers with titles of esteem. And God also forbade them to exploit their brothers for their own selfish purposes. Yet all strove to do this, in their lucrative “careers” driven by selfish ambition.
God commanded all teaching elders, all priests and all teachers of His Word, to equitably serve His people like loving older brothers who laboured only for the good of their siblings. God demanded that they dedicate their lives to feeding the spirits of His people. Yet those chief priests and scholars were like fruit trees with the lushest leaves possible, making it very easy for everyone to identify them as trees God created to provide good fruit. All could see, by their external robes and titles, that they bore the offices of priests and biblical teachers, as those whom God appointed to serve Him as authoritative teaching and judging elders. Yet, at the same time, they never taught nor judged anyone according to God’s will, according to God’s interpretations and applications of His own words in the Scriptures. Those elders were like trees who bore many leaves to feed themselves, but never bore a Page 1348
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single fruit to feed any of God’s other creations. Therefore, on His way to the temple that mourning, Jesus was likely intentionally looking for a healthy but fruitless fig tree growing somewhere near the foot of the Mount of Olives. And it was quite common for a fig tree to be well-watered and well-fertilized with nitrogen, with the kind of plant food required to produce very lush leaves. But many fig tree owners did not provide enough of the other nutrients required for flowering and bearing fruit (i.e., if these fig trees had the nutrients required to flower, they would bear fruit too, since these trees were self-pollinating, did not need other fig trees for cross-pollination). So, after finding one, Jesus used it as an example of what He, the God of Israel, would do to those fruitless teaching and judging elders from the fake church, and all their complicit dupes who enabled and partook in their crimes.
Now, even before Jesus’ heart led Him toward that particular fig tree, the Spirit of God in Jesus knew that tree had born no fruit, only many green leaves. And God Himself predestined that fruitless fig tree to exist in that very spot, solely for those purposes of Jesus. God put it there so that Jesus could use it to clearly illustrate the consequences of pretending to be God’s servants in God’s church. Jesus wanted to show His twelve disciples, those whom He was training to be teaching elders for His New Covenant branch of Israel, how their God is able to quickly and totally wither away the lives of lying pretenders. And the twelve learned that lesson well. For, while those apostles lived, they effectively kept all pretenders out of the New Covenant church. And the next generation of apostles, like Paul, Luke, Mark, Barnabas and others, did so as well. But, after those apostles died, the third generation forgot this lesson from our God Jesus. So, by the end of the first century, pretenders were strutting in all of the churches, eloquently deceiving the people with their delusional and self-serving rhetoric.
So, today, we must once again learn the lesson Jesus taught us here. And first notice how it says that Jesus “hungered” (ἐπείνασεν). This is key. For Jesus did not search for every fruitless tree He could find, to destroy it. Rather, Jesus went only to one particular tree, and solely because He hungered. So His physical hunger seemed to represent His Spirit’s hunger for loving justice within the body of His church. Then, after coming to and cursing only one particular fruitless fig tree, without searching for others like it, Jesus appeared to be indicating that He will not seek out the pretenders, to destroy all of them. Jesus will only destroy a pretender who prevents Him from satisfying His own hunger. And Jesus hungers and thirsts after righteousness. Jesus feeds on good works, like bringing elect souls into the light of truth or feeding the poor. For instance, after Jesus fed truth to a Samaritan woman at a well, the disciples asked Him to eat their physical food with them. But, although His flesh had eaten nothing, He told them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about” (John 4:32, WEB). For Jesus’ Spirit fed on feeding truth to that woman’s spirit. And all elect spirits are like that Spirit of God in Jesus, since all are made in His image. All elect spirits feed by feeding others. That is an eternal principle which will never change. But, if Jesus curses only the pretenders who directly interfere with the gratification of His own hunger, then Jesus will curse any pretender who inhibit or interfere with the true teachings and other good works of His true elect within His body on earth.
Jesus “hungered” in a way that could only be truly gratified by Him gathering all of His Father’s elect into the reality of His created spiritual and physical kingdom. And, to satisfy this kind of hunger, the spirits of His elect brothers and sisters had to stop going to fruitless trees. Sure, those fake preachers looked outwardly lush and healthy, since they boasted many accolades of men and impressive titles. Yet those men provided the people with absolutely no good fruit in the harvest season. When death or severe trials came, those men were never able to brighten elect souls with satisfying hope or faith in real truths. Sure, some might eat the young leaves from those trees, those not made bland and tasteless by long weathering in the prince of the air surrounding them. For, even if God’s Word is preached by insincere, self-serving souls, it is still God’s Word, while it is fresh and Page 1349
has not been overly corrupted through incessant reiterations of lies. The Scriptures can provide some nourishment when they are first heard, until those words becomes thoroughly abused excuses for the sins of the pretenders. But, what the elect really need are the good fruits of God’s intended meanings of His words, which His true servants bear. For God grants much more nutrition and energy through that fruit than He does through the leaves. So His people occasionally ate the leaves, but far more eagerly waited for the arrival of the sweet ripened fruits in their appointed times, and rejoiced in the God-given feast upon its nutrients together, so all could grow in their love for Him and one another.
Of course, some will make up all kinds of reasons to vilify Jesus for killing a perfectly innocent fig tree. Some might say this tree could have been too young to bear fruit and, if Jesus let it grow longer, it might have born fruit. But, just like God’s elect, figs can bear fruit even when they are very young, and Jesus would have not judged the tree unjustly. Others might reason that Jesus could not have expected the fig tree to bear fruit at that time of the year, since He came to when the Passover began.
So, because the Passover begins in March or April, and the first figs are harvested in June, they say the fig tree could not have provided figs before Jesus caused it to wither and die. But it takes two months for a fig blossom to ripen into a sweet fruit. And this fig tree clearly did not even show any signs of producing blossoms, since it had nothing but leaves. If it was blooming, or growing buds to produce blossoms, and making an attempt to bear fruit, Jesus would have let it live. Also, the Jewish lunar calendar was not always correctly adjusted. So it is possible that the Passover occurred later that year (possibly in May or even June?). And we know that the fig tree would at least have some blossoms, if not some ripening fruit, by the time that particular Passover occurred in AD 26. So let us focus on the point Jesus was making here. Jesus was not indicating the time to harvest figs, but
symbolized how the power of God would curse and wither a fruitless pretender in His church of Israel, if that pretender dared to interfere with God’s hunger to feed His body of His beloved elect.
Jesus commanded that fruitless tree: “May a fruit no longer come out of you, forever!” (Mat. 21:19a, from: Μηκέτι ἐκ σοῦ καρπὸς γένηται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, SBLGNT). Then Matthew, an actual eyewitness of this event, told us: “And the fig tree was immediately withered away” (Mat. 21:19b, from: καὶ
ἐξηράνθη παραχρῆμα ἡ συκῆ, SBLGNT). The passive aorist here (ἐξηράνθη) suggests that the fig tree had been caused to complete the action of withering away, very soon after Jesus spoke, that Jesus had caused it to entirely shrivel up. So this completed act of withering meant that it dried up and permanently died, far sooner than anyone thought possible. This is what Jesus can do to the fruitless false preachers who dare to interfere with the elect in His church. And God will do even worse to those who dare to bear toxic fruits. The lives of those pretenders will end very quickly.
Then, with direct implications regarding the fruitless church “leaders,” Jesus taught His twelve shocked disciples, those He predestined to become teaching elders in His New Covenant church:
“Assuredly I reason with you [disciples], if you might steadfastly keep faith and your thoughts might not be divided with internal conflicts, you will not only do this to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and be cast into the sea,’ it will come to pass” (Mat. 21:21-22, from: Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐὰν ἔχητε πίστιν καὶ μὴ διακριθῆτε, οὐ μόνον τὸ τῆς συκῆς ποιήσετε, ἀλλὰ κἂν τῷ
ὄρει τούτῳ εἴπητε· Ἄρθητι καὶ βλήθητι εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, γενήσεται· καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἂν αἰτήσητε ἐν
τῇ προσευχῇ πιστεύοντες λήμψεσθε, SBLGNT). Of course, as always, Jesus was not implying that our own power can do such things. For He was speaking to His disciples, who taught and worked all their miracles in His name, through His instructions to their spirits and through His power. So His power would wither “fig trees” for them. And “this mountain,” where that fig tree grew, was the Mount of Olives, which was a well-known burial site, as well as a Jewish place of prayer, but also the border separating the temple of God’s presence from the rest of the world, where the Gentiles Page 1350
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ruled. So Jesus was drawing an analogy. In the Scriptures and other Jewish writings, authorities and
“leaders” were figuratively called “trees,” or sometimes “pillars” (which are stone facsimiles of trees). Then both religious and physical kingdoms were often figuratively likened to “mountains.”
So here Jesus was saying that, if His disciples trusted in Him and in His words, then asked Him to wither an interfering fruitless church “leader” (represented by that fig tree), or even asked Him to cast out and drown an entire false religious or secular organization, kingdom or empire (represented by the mountain) in the sea of all humankind, and they asked for such things according the heavenly Father’s will, He would do them. And He will do all this through their faith in Him and in His words.
True faith hears and heeds God. And faith in the truths, wisdom and loving justice of God only seeks to nullify the works and some workers of the devil, only calls on their God to destroy a fruitless false
“leader” after God tells one’s spirit to ask Him to do so. If an elect spirit bears true faith, that spirit will seek the counsel of Jesus, so they might know His will. Then, after understanding God’s will, the spirit will ask for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. For all that opposes God’s will usually vexes an elect spirit, once that spirit clearly sees how much harm and death that opposition causes, once that spirit experiences how lies and delusions of deceivers enslave, wound and kill their beloved brothers and sisters. And this inner vexing, which is produced according to God’s will, is what causes the elect to pray for the withering of pretenders and the drowning of unjust kingdoms.
So, since Jesus was calling them to pray for such things, Jesus also implied that it was His will to destroy pretenders, as He did to that tree, even anyone who dared to teach meaningless nonsense in His true church. And it is also His will to cause the removal and utter destruction of any kingdom which dared to block the path of His true church. This is what declared here. God will nullify the works of the devil, and will work through us to undo the works of evil authorities and kingdoms.
Jesus employed a third class and “more probable future” conditional statement here (in 21:21-22).
So He was declaring that, if a condition is met, the action in the apodosis definitely will occur. And, since Jesus is our almighty God who prefaced this conditional with the phrase, “Assuredly I reason with you” (Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν), He positively asserted all this in the most certain terms possible, that the action in the apodosis absolutely will occur if His stated condition is met. This condition began with a present (durative) active subjunctive form of ἔχω, to indicate the possible ongoing action of
“having” or “keeping” faith. Since He was speaking to His disciples, He was talking about a kind of biblical, steadfast and permanent faith, that is, a spirit’s trust, placing all its confidence in God and in God’s words. Jesus clearly was not telling them to psych up the emotions in their minds of flesh, so they could “feel” the same kind of fake faith that evangelical exploiters want their deluded people to feel, so they can more easily rob them of money and to get them to serve their nefarious purposes.
Only the kind of faith which gradually grows directly in the minds of our spirits can actually worship God, in the way God wants to be lovingly and willingly esteemed and served, in truth. And, if any elect spirit wants to walk in this kind of true through true biblical faith, making steadfast progress in God’s teaching and training, that one must not allow one’s mind of flesh to interfere with thoughts in the mind of one’s spirit. Rather, one must let God’s Holy Spirit rule as the Lord of one’s spirit, then let one’s spirit rule as the lord of one’s whole mind and body of flesh. So, when Jesus taught us, He indicated how His disciples must not allow their minds of flesh to dictate the thoughts in their souls, how they must not let their flesh heed the demands of Satan’s world order that to let one’s flesh rule over the thoughts of one’s soul, in order to confuse and suppress the thoughts of their elect spirits. So Jesus used the phrase, μὴ διακριθῆτε, which has an aorist passive subjunctive form of διακρίνω, a verb which means: “differentiate by separating, separate, arrange ... conclude that there is a difference, make a distinction, differentiate ... evaluate by paying careful attention to, evaluate, Page 1351
judge ... be at variance ... dispute ... be uncertain, be at odds with oneself, doubt, waver” (BDAG3).
Here the negative with the passive subjunctive aorist indicates that one should never allow the mind of one’s spirit to be differentiated against, evaluated and disputed by one’s self-serving mind of flesh.
So, in the context of all that Jesus and the Scriptures taught, Jesus was not talking here about the kind of “doubt” which false churches talk about. He was not saying, “I’ll play more stirring music and get you to jump around until you can more thoroughly stir up the most base lusts and emotions in your minds of flesh, until you totally blank out all the thoughts in your soul, until you become stupid enough to believe every lie I tell you, without any doubts.” For Jesus was not a pagan kind of religious guru, and did not manipulate anyone with active forms of meditation. Rather, Jesus was our God and telling His disciples that our elect spirits must exert and maintain managerial control over our thoughts in our souls. The more rational and loving minds of our spirits must wisely and rightly monitor all that enters our souls, and refuse to let our self-serving, egotistical minds of amoral flesh interfere with the truths from our God’s Spirit, as He teaches and guides the minds of our spirits.
Whenever our two minds meet in the chambers of our souls, the steadfast, eternal, just and loving minds of our elect spirits must often tell the minds of our flesh to shut up and listen to what Jesus is teaching us, to what Jesus is training us to do for the good of His people in His kingdom. And we must never heed the demands from our minds of flesh, which cry out: “But we would rather do what the fake preachers say, since they make us feel like gods and feed our egos with so many flattering delusions! Not only that, but what they tell us to do is much easier than what God calls us to do! So we should just listen to our carnal instincts and fulfill our lusts, so we can be happy, even if it causes the ruthless destruction of others and our own lives. For the gratification of flesh is all we live for!”
When our minds of flesh hear what Christ’s Holy Spirit of God has been teaching to our spirits, our flesh immediately begins to dispute those truths within the chambers of our souls. Our flesh argues against our spirits, making the case that we must judiciously separate our worship of God from the physical needs and desires of the flesh. It wants to make a distinction and differentiate between what belongs to God and what belongs to the flesh, so that it can ignore the calling of God to love others, so we will not need to love them as much as we love ourselves. The flesh is always at odds with the truths of God taught to our elect spirits, always arrogantly declaring itself to be the wisest judge, the only mind able to correctly evaluate the God-trained thinking of our elect spirits. But we must not give into the flesh, must not let the flesh take our spirits captive, whenever these internal conflicts arise in our souls. Or, if our spirits surrender to our flesh, we must recover as soon as we are able.
Life, and all our most treasured eternal inner joys of life, originate through our works of serving our loving God, through our expressed love for Him, and can only be fulfilled when our elect spirits willingly serve Him in pure truth alone. In fact, if we might discover that we have acted upon a lie or delusion, it crushes our very hearts, makes us deeply depressed and full of godly sorrow, because our elect spirits realize that they have separated themselves from their source of life and joy, from God.
Then our spirits eagerly want to repent into the truth, so we can serve God rightly and wisely. Thus, to gain inner joy, it is utterly impossible to separate the physical and spiritual aspects of life. For all that our flesh says and does also bears spiritual motives, intentions and consequences. And our God literally owns everything, even our spirits and souls. So there is absolutely nothing in life which can belong to us. Therefore, all arguments from our minds of flesh are idiotic, based on nothing but lies.
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destinies that our Father irrevocably assigned to each of our spirits in the moments He created them, then we need to hear, trust and believe the words of our God, who came to us in Jesus’ body of flesh.
Yes, many fruitless deceivers will come to convince our minds of flesh that gratifying carnal lusts alone can make us “happy,” and that the flesh bears a right to do so. And most of those puppets of demons will also tell us that we only have one mind, then define it as our mind of flesh, so that we will forget about the minds of our spirits. But those liars come only to steal life from us. Those inept children of Satan can do nothing useful for themselves or anyone else. So they try to enslave us and transform our worship of God into a worship of them. They need the productive ones to labour for them, to provide for their flesh, since they are incapable of providing for themselves. And they serve only their own lusts, while ruthlessly sacrificing our lives, as we bow to them in our unholy worship of them. Because those wanna-be human gods kill us for their pleasure, Jesus made us a promise, in no uncertain terms: If our spirits trust in His love, power and words, and if our spirits do not let our amoral, self-serving, egotistical minds of flesh confound and nullify His truths and promises in our souls, through senseless inner conflicts and lying disputations, He will hear our prayers. For God is self-reliant and independent, not needing nor wanting slaves. He lives only to serve His creations. He lives to love and serve us for our good. Therefore, let us trust Him to overcome the devil’s fruitless liars, even if He must totally destroy them. And none of those religious or secular deceivers can stop our God from destroying them. So we learn to pray to God, to trust in Him and His words, instead of our flesh. He will silence every lying “leader” and all the kingdoms which send those fruitless ones.
Now let me tell you, through what I have learned from our God Jesus, that every time I have had to come against a psychopath, I have had to do two things: (1) My spirit had to stand against that liar’s lies, to speak the truth in love, to others and to myself, then do the works that God called my spirit to do, including works which undo the works of the devil. My spirit had to rise up, take control of my flesh, heed the Holy Spirit’s whisperings in my heart, then use my own feeble mind of flesh and my inept body to work beside Jesus, all to the best of my weak and infantile abilities. This kind of true faith in Jesus, which lacks any faith in oneself, is always required to partake in our older Brother’s works against Satan. And we need this same kind of faith to build up God’s loving earthly kingdom.
Jesus demands that our spirits must be taught and trained to love in the same way He loves. And He can only teach and train our infantile, ignorant, fearful and unwise spirits to be like His Holy Spirit if our spirits actually trust Him, then willingly do the training works of our heavenly Father, together with Him, to the best of our faulty and insignificant abilities. For the whole reason God created us with infantile spirits, then placed our spirits in very limiting bodies of flesh on an earth, where He created and allowed His enemies bear some limited power, was so that He could teach and train our infantile spirits to love Him as we labour together with Him, as well as learn to hate all that is not according to His just and loving will. And, (2) the second thing our God Jesus requires is that we withdraw at times, to let Him do His works alone. For all of us are actually inept. And, although God loves us to work and learn beside Him, there are times when our “helping” God becomes more of a hindrance to Him than a help. So, when some works need to be done in ways that are too wise and too complex for us to handle, He asks us to step back and let Him do those works. I know the only reason He calls us to work beside Him is to train my infantile spirit. So Jesus sometimes basically wants us to hide from those psychopaths, to work at building up our own inner lives, and resources required to provide for the needs of His kingdom, until He completes the destruction of His enemy.
Yes, I know this sounds strange. But God has indeed destroyed some unrepentant, relentless enemies of mine. When men, and in some cases women, rose up to oppose the works of God that I was doing, even my inept and seemingly little works, God destroyed them. Whenever my heart knew that I had Page 1353
to say or do a right, just and loving work for God, whenever my spirit was steadfastly certain that God called me to say or do that work, it could not be stopped. Even when I was an ignorant teenager, and knew we had to do certain insignificant works of God, a few sacrificial deeds of giving to the needy, we heard that an elder in the church said this was “evil,” since it did not “teach” the needy a supposedly “important lesson” of learning to “provide for themselves” and be “independent.” For that businessman exploited those desperate for work, to labour for his own profit. But we did not listen to that elder and did those works anyway, though we were young and without a voice in the church. Now it seems that, lest that man corrupt us with his lies, God suddenly made that very strong man sick, when he tried to stop our little works for God. Yet he did not repent. So he died in few weeks. Such things have occurred several times in my life, although my works for God are not that great nor special, although I still remain immature and ignorant. For God is indeed a mighty God.
Now I know that we, the elect, are all messy in our thoughts and ways. We often think we are doing the works of God when we are actually working against God. We sometimes think we are preaching the truth when we are proclaiming lies or mere partial truths, in ways that serve only the liars. While on this earth, the minds of our spirits are weak and infantile, while the minds of our flesh are so inept that they are utterly useless, in terms of understanding and serving God. Yet our elect spirits can and do hear our God at times, since the Holy Spirit of Jesus actually calls to our elect spirits without ceasing. So there are times when the elect simply know that they must do a certain work for God, through a just and holy kind of love. But, whenever this certainty of faith takes hold of our spirits, our minds of flesh will argue against that calling of God, using every lie they can possibly invent, since God’s callings require the kinds of works which inconvenience or outright endanger the flesh.
Still, whenever our spirits overcome our protesting flesh and snuff out its lies, so we can do those works for God, while demanding that our flesh must dutifully serve our spirits, Jesus stands with us.
Once we begin to “steadfastly keep faith,” and no longer allow lies from our minds of flesh to cause our thoughts in the chambers of our souls to “be divided,” there is nothing left to stop Jesus from accomplishing the works He chooses to do through us. Even if a lying soul has money, power and the backing of a large kingdom, but tries to oppose our works for God, Jesus will complete our good works. Even our larger, collective and multi-generational works will be completed. For I know that I am working with countless thousands of other elect souls to prepare God’s people for the end times, although I don’t expect to live long enough to see those days. And most of those other elect, who are working unconsciously with me, but beside me in our God Jesus, also will not live to see our works completed. Likewise, all the prophets and apostles worked for our same purpose, and even willingly laid down their lives for that work, so Jesus might return to a true and fulfilled earthly kingdom on His appointed day. And none of us trust in ourselves, only in God. For we all know that we know very little of God’s infinite truths yet, that our spirits remain infantile, no matter how much all of us put together have learned while in this flesh. And we know that all our works utterly depend on Him.
Yet, because of the God-given and steadfast faith which the Holy Spirit of Jesus builds up in our spirits, our spirits labour on, without allowing the protests of our flesh to stop us, commanding our flesh to submit to the will of God. For all our spirits know, with all certainty, that every tiny work which will need to be done before His return will be done well and thoroughly. For, although all of us are inept, Jesus, our omnipotent God, possesses no ability to fail. Jesus, who used His enemies to freely provide us with a certain victory over our own sins and eternal death, who transforms the plots of the wicked into the greatest good works this world could possibly imagine, is immeasurably and unstoppably powerful. Our God Jesus alone holds all spiritual and physical existence together. He alone created and causes it all to be reality. So absolutely nothing in His creations can hinder Him.
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Now we need to leave behind the fruitless fig trees, who want us to focus only upon things of the flesh, who teach us to think solely with our minds of flesh. They are always very busy telling us to psych up our minds of flesh, so we might believe their lying nonsense. And they are always warning us to cast out all our spirits’ protesting truths and reasoning from the chambers of our souls, so we might only heed and worship them, instead of our real God. Then they diligently provide our flesh with all kinds of stimulation, all kinds of motivational rhetoric and emotional music, to distract our minds of flesh from the words and concepts which Jesus is teaching directly to our spirits. They also work very hard to transform God’s true words into lies, and will even say this very Scripture means that, if we screw up enough fake faith in the minds of our flesh, then the power of our own “free wills” and our spoken words of deluded “faith” can wither a physical fig tree or move a large physical mountain, whether or not God wills such a thing to be done. They lie, and tell us that all is done according to our own wills of the flesh, according to the fears, anger, hatred and lusts of our own flesh. But we need to realize that God rules all, then worship Him in our spirits and in truth.
Jesus ended this teaching by indicating that the fruitless fig trees and mountains would be destroyed by His power and His will. He would do such works according to the faith that He Himself grants to our spirits. First Jesus shall teach and train our spirits, until we grow faith, until our elect spirits can clearly hear, trust and heed His Spirit, just as He was doing for those disciples, for three years prior to this event. Then, when our spirits know His will, even with all certainty and with full control over our protesting flesh in our souls, we will pray for His help, just like those disciples did throughout their lives. And whenever He answers our prayers, with an assurance that we must do His works, we will do them in His name. Yet our spirits can only do this after we rebuke and silence the self-serving lies and protests of our flesh, after we learn to ignore the arguments which the flesh makes through its fears, anger, resentment, frustrated lusts, vengeful hatred, greed and lazy apathy. Once our elect spirits wrestle control over our flesh, to manage our flesh for God’s purposes, we can pray for His power to do His will on earth as it is done in heaven. For, after telling us that fruitless trees will wither to death and mountains will be cast into the sea, Jesus declared, “And all things, whatever you disciples might ask in prayers of petition, while continuously trusting [in Me], you will receive”
(Mat. 21:22, from: καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἂν αἰτήσητε ἐν τῇ προσευχῇ πιστεύοντες λήμψεσθε, SBLGNT).
Considering this statement, Jesus clearly and obviously was not saying that a psyched up kind of
“faith” in the mind of flesh will be able to force its own selfish will to be done, or that the flesh can get more money and power to serve its own carnal lusts by willing such things to be done through some kind of carnal “free will” and “faith power.” In our day, the vast majority of mass-media preachers teach this kind of fleshy, fake “faith,” and often quote verse 21. But they take it out of its context and lie about what our God Jesus intended that verse to actually mean. They twist His words in a way that entirely nullifies the words in verse 22. Then they brag about the great power of their psyched up “faith” in their own minds of flesh, how it provided them with self-indulgent wealth. Yet literally all their wealth actually came through their psychopathic exploitation of their own people.
In reality, Jesus never taught us that their kind of carnal “faith” has power. All faith is completely powerless, whether it is true or false, whether it comes from the mind of the spirit or from the mind of flesh. For literally all physical energy and all spiritual power is God’s power worked according to His will. And our resurrected and living Jesus is our almighty Creator and God, who cares for us. So He hears every cry from our spirits. Then His own power will grant our eternal spirits whatever we might ask Him according to His will. And whatever might be according to His will shall always be for the eternal spiritual good of His creations. Although our God also helps our bodies of flesh, the only reason He will bless our flesh is to grow truth and love in our spirits. God’s primary concern is Page 1355
for our spirits, which will forever be with Him. For God is a Spirit. Yes, His love for our spirits may, at times, overflow into benefits for our very temporary flesh. But, if any flesh refuses to labour as a faithful servant of its elect spirit, whom God created to manage it, God can kill that flesh. Thus, if the famous preachers proclaim that the flesh can get whatever it wants, by psyching up its mind to believe it will get it, and tell us to serve the flesh, not the spirit, it might kill us. And, since Satan’s goal is to distract our flesh so our flesh ignores our spirits, those preachers serve Satan and are trying to kill us. Those false preachers are the fruitless fig trees that Jesus shall wither, and their religious kingdoms are the mountains He shall cast into the sea. Even now, Jesus assures our spirits that He will surely do so at the appointed time, when He destroys the Great Harlot and her other daughters.
But Jesus has also destroyed fake preachers and their carnal kingdoms at various times throughout history. Remember, just the day before this, Jesus looked upon the fake evangelical preachers and their wicked little flesh-oriented kingdom established in Jerusalem, and wept. He lamented over the way they stubbornly clung to lies and delusions which served only the covetousness of their flesh, or the vengeance desired by their flesh, or their pride of the flesh. None actually wanted real peace with God in their hearts. So God handed them all over to their cherished lies and delusions. Jesus hid the way of peace from their minds and allowed their worshipped Satan to delude them, because they did not love the truths of God. Then that devil lead them all into complete destruction by AD 70. So, about 40 years before Jerusalem was surrounded and destroyed by Rome, Jesus already knew that those fake preachers would lead their deceived people and their kingdom into that destruction (Luke 19:41-44). For Jesus did hear the cries of His New Covenant elect servants against those fruitless trees who were persecuting them, and against their mountains, their kingdoms which ruthlessly exploited His people. Then Jesus annihilated other fake preachers and their kingdoms throughout history, when they dared to oppose and suppress the truth and the awakened elect He sent to them.
Remember, if there was ever a time in history when the elect needed true faith in Jesus and in His words, it is now. And, if there ever was a time in history when the greatest number of fruitless trees grow rich foliage, on mountains so large that they shade entire nations in darkness, it is now. Then we must also realize that those false preachers are almost all non-elect souls, and some are true psychopaths with spirits awakened by Satan. Most of those fakes are not elect souls who have been deceived, although a few are. The fact is that almost all big-name false preachers are extremely destructive and care nothing about how much pain and death they have indirectly and directly caused, and never will have any godly sorrow leading to repentance. They have no inner conscience about the needless and immeasurable suffering, poverty, loss of freedom, war and death they cause just to become personally wealthy. So now it is time for the true elect to: (1) silence our minds of flesh, so our one and only Head can teach and train our spirits; (2) learn from Jesus to do His true works through just love in our spirits; (3) learn to build up His loving and just kingdom on earth, so His will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven; (4) learn to labour beside Jesus in His works of undoing the devil’s works; (5) pray for Jesus to wither more fruitless trees, as well as to cast more mountains into the sea, whenever they try to stop Him from gratifying His hunger for righteousness; (6) learn to worship God in our spirits, and entirely within the sphere of His genuine spiritual and physical truths; and (7) seek true fellowship by working together in a mutual love for our God Jesus.
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You this authority?’ Jesus answered them, ‘I also will ask you one question which, if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things: The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?’
“They reasoned with themselves, saying, ‘If we say, “From heaven,” He will ask us, “Why then did you not believe him?” But if we say, “From men,” we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.’ They answered Jesus, and said, ‘We don’t know.’
“He also said to them, ‘Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, “Son, go work today in my vineyard.” He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went. He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, “I go, sir,” but he didn’t go.
Which of the two did the will of his father?’ They said to Him, ‘The first.’
“Jesus said to them, ‘Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of
righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
“‘Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country. When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit. The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way. But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, “They will respect my son.” But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, “This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.” So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?’
“They told him, ‘He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.’
“Jesus said to them, ‘Did you never read in the Scriptures, “The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes”? Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.’
“When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they perceived that He spoke about them. When they sought to seize Him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered Him to be a prophet” (Mat. 21:23-46, WEB).
So Jesus had just cast out the merchants from a large courtyard in the temple grounds, from the area created for the Gentile proselytes to pray. For Jesus refused to allow the sin of transforming God’s dwelling place on earth into a marketplace dedicated to the worship of Satan’s invention of money.
As for the priests who gave those merchants permission to sell goods and services in the temple, to exploit the poor, they displayed a total disregard for God’s Law and a complete lack of concern for the spiritual welfare of the Gentiles, although God had also called those priests of Israel to serve the entire world, including those Gentiles. And those temple authorities sinned even worse than those merchants who stole from God’s people in the temple, since those priests permitted this blasphemy for a cut of the profits, then hired false Bible scholars to justify their sins through devious distortions Page 1357
of God’s Word. Now, due to the financial losses caused by Jesus, as well as the public humiliation of Jesus publicly exposing their hypocrisy, those priests and scholars wanted revenge. So some of those religious authorities tried to publicly humiliate Jesus, to point out how Jesus broke the rules created by the supposed church leaders whom God appointed to rule over the temple. For they believed they were ordained by God and had to be obeyed, even if the Scriptures proved them to be unjust sinners.
But, were those authorities really ordained by God? And did they actually bear the right to disobey and even nullify the words of God? Well, God’s Law stated that all authorities must be chosen by the people, but only from those whom God chose for His people. In other words, the people must vet all their decision-making authorities, all of their religious and secular authorities (i.e., the Hebrew word mehlek, in Deut. 17:14-20, indicated a sphere of authority of any kind, large or small, religious or secular, and that sphere included God’s servant who taught and made decisions for the people). Then God went on to describe what He meant by those whom He chose for them. God defined His chosen one as man who is not greedy and self-serving, not driven by the lusts of his flesh. That man must strive to remember and observe the teachings of God, take the counsel of faithful priests of God and refuse to esteem or exalt himself above his siblings in the family of humankind, because he fears God and humbles himself before God. And all this also means that he must submit to the judgments of God, even in the just courts which God establishes in His land, in the same way that every other person in God’s kingdom must also submit to God’s Law. For God’s Law clearly states that no one is above the Law. God commanded this to all His people in all the earth: “You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favouritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbour in righteousness” (Lev. 19:15, WEB). So any man born into the Levitical priesthood might serve as a temple priest, but only if that man’s just, loving life proves him to be God’s choice.
Consequently, just because those temple authorities were Levites, even sons of Aaron, it did not mean that they were actually chosen by God and granted legitimate authority by God. For they had worked their way into those positions of authority through devious acts of selfish ambition, through lies and back-stabbing, not by proving they had awakened elect spirits which willingly and joyfully submitted to God. And, even if they had been originally chosen by God, but later became corrupted and disobeyed God, then even attempted to nullify God’s intended meanings of His words, those priests would have lost their right to exert any authority over anyone, and would be subject to the judgments of God’s just courts against them. For all “great” men, all authorities, must be judged in the same way as everyone else. And we must remember how God rejected Saul, whom God chose as the first secular authority over Israel, and how God even killed Saul, because Saul became arrogant and refused to repent from his many sins. Thus, when those blaspheming priests and scholars asked Jesus why He had the authority to oppose their blasphemy of allowing merchants into the Gentile’s place of prayer, Jesus acted like one of their equal brothers in Israel, since literally all their brothers in God’s church had the right to judge them. Then Jesus pointed out that they had no authority to do any of the sins they did in God’s name. For even John the baptizer, whom all the people accepted as a true prophet serving God, declared that those kinds of unrepentant religious teachers and judges were a “brood of vipers,” not the children of God, not true spiritual heirs of Abraham (Mat. 3:7-10).
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did receive God’s legitimate authority and help, whenever that just and loving elect one judged and acted according to the will of God and fulfilled His Law. That is, God and His Law held authority over all. Israel lived under the rule of God and His Law, not under the authority of wanna-be human gods. Yet all of those arrogant temple authorities and scholars then played ignorant, just as the most guilty often do when they are caught in their crimes. They pretended that they did not know whether or not John the baptizer was a true prophet. For none wanted to admit that John was right, and none wanted to repent. None wanted to lose their illicit authority and the stolen income derived from it. So they did not confess their sins nor repent, did not hand over their responsibilities to the men whom God had chosen to fulfill them, and did not admit that Jesus cast out the merchants by the authority of God and God’s Law. Thus, Jesus forced them to either publicly admit John was right or run away.
Jesus’ Answer to a Slandering Trap
Here Matthew hints that Jesus also expelled the money changers and sellers of sacrifices from the temple on that day, on the day after His Triumphal Entry, just as Mark told us (Mark 11:11-19). For these chief priests and teaching elders approached Jesus on the day after His Triumphal Entry, and asked Him why He did a certain deed which required a high level of religious authority to carry out.
Matthew wrote that it was on that the priests and elders interrupted Jesus’ teachings, on the next day, to ask Him: “In what kind of decision-making authority are You doing these things?” (Mat. 21:23b).
But this timeline is not certain, since Mark wrote that it was the third day when they asked Jesus this question (day 1 ends in Mark 11:11, day 2 in 11:19 and day 3 begins in 11:20, which is the day Mark said the priests, scribes and elders asked Jesus this question, see 11:27-33). Then Luke did not even seem to specify any particular day, and simply recorded that the priests and scribes asked Jesus this question “in one of the days” (ἐν μιᾷ τῶν ἡμερῶν, Luke 20:1). But Mark and Luke were not there when this occurred, and received all their information from the eye witnesses they interviewed. So it seems that their sources did not remember the day when the religious authorities came to Jesus, and we should more heavily rely on Matthew’s account, which also suggests that Jesus had cast out the merchants from the temple every time He entered the temple, since this question implies that He did.
In this question, the present tense of the verb used by the chief priests and elders indicates that they were angry about Jesus doing something on that very day. And, of course, they were not asking Jesus to tell them who had authorized Him to teach in the court of the Gentiles. After all, they cared very little about who taught there, since they let almost any fool teach almost anything there. So there is only one logical reason for them officially assembling to confront Jesus at that particular time. They assembled as an official delegation for the purpose of asking Jesus why He somehow thought that He possessed enough authority to perform an unspecified task at that time, a deed which required a significant amount of authority to carry it out. And the only reason they would ask this question is if Jesus did a deed which greatly angered them by overruling their own coveted authority. But the only actions that would enrage them enough to gather their judges (i.e., elders) against Jesus, would be if Jesus had once more cast out their personally appointed robbers from the Gentiles’ place of prayer. It is definitely implied here that Jesus cast those thieves out of the temple again, on the day after His Triumphal Entry, just as He did on the previous day. Of course, they might have approached Jesus because He did it on the previous day. But, if they did, they would have explained why they came to ask Him this question, and would have specified which deed they were referring to. But they did not specify the action requiring authority. So this implies that they approached Him immediately after He cast out the merchants. Those temple authorities had likely calmed the cast-out thieves the night Page 1359
before, and assured them that they could indeed continue to steal from the poor on the very next day.
Then those thieves cleaned up the mess and set up their booths again. Yet Jesus expelled them again.
And notice the other implications here: (1) those temple authorities arrogantly assumed that they possessed the authority to bully their brothers in God’s family, to even demand answers from other rabbis like Jesus, who was an extremely popular Teacher in Israel, not to mention that thousands of Jews called Jesus their Messiah and God; (2) those religious authorities confidently assumed that their judgments were so right that they should not be questioned; (3) their question assumed that Jesus sinned grievously, since they gathered a whole group of authorities to publicly accuse Him of that great crime; (4) those elders treated Jesus like a criminal, tried to disgrace and dehumanize Him in public, thus judged Him in the same way as the pagan Roman psychopaths, with a presumption of guilt before even bothering to hear and cross-examine witnesses in a fair trial. Thus, Jesus now had to answer those false assumptions implied by those liars, which they so carefully designed to slander and trap Him. For, if Jesus simply ignored them, the people would assume that He could not answer those liars, and that their lies were true. For God had awakened and opened the eyes of the spirits in very few people at that time, so only a few could expose those lies with truth and rational reasoning.
These chief priests thought that only they had the right to determine which dupes would or would not be exploited in God’s name, in the temple grounds which they thought they owned. They acted like they had a right to administer whatever injustice they deemed expedient for their own personal purposes, and as though they alone could define what was to be called “justice.” Then they brought their personally chosen biblical scholars and teaching elders with them, men bearing man-made titles and accolades, to whom they granted their illicit official authority to nullify God’s Word, but only in the ways they authorized them to corrupt it. For these puppets in Satan’s world order needed to eloquently justify their thefts and other sins with twisted Scriptures, to keep their dupes from seeing that they were fakes, not real servants of God. Since those priests were making a good commission from the thefts in God’s temple (a percentage from that which their hired thieves stole from the poor and all God’s other children), those religious authorities now demanded that Jesus tell them how He could possibly think He had the authority to uphold God’s Law, to do this loving, just and right deed of stopping their thieves from stealing the life and livelihood of the poor on their personal property, in the temple which they owned. For these authorities believed they were “realists,” and “knew” the temple belonged to them, not to God. They “knew” that only humans held authority, not God, and that all human gods possessed the right to abuse “inferior” souls in whatever ways they chose, within the hierarchies established by elite human gods. Thus, not even God had any right to question them.
But Jesus saw that these deluded deceivers had a bit of a problem. These priests, biblical scholars and teaching elders were not quite able to thoroughly convince literally all the people that they were right and that God was wrong. Not everyone in Israel was entirely confident that the ruthless sins of these authorities were done according to God’s will, especially since God’s own words and laws had always thoroughly condemned those kinds of sins. Those illegitimate authorities were discovering the timeless truth that, “you can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time” (quote from the prohibitionists, 1886, an English paraphrase of a French quote written by Jacques Abbadie, 1684). Yet this unfortunate reality was never a major obstacle to Satan’s psychopathic children, since their daddy taught them his standard method of dealing with it: (1) torture, kill and terrorize the people, until most survivors reluctantly agree with every approved lie; (2) censor or destroy any truth that distracts souls from the darkness of the official delusions; and (3) continuously seek out all who refuse to submit to the authority they stole from God, then brutally murder them in public, to further terrorize the masses into submission.
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It was that third law of Satan which that devil graciously upheld for these preferred children, and his faithful sons were dutifully striving to fulfill it here, at this time. That is, to please Satan, their evil creator and false god, these priests strove, with their whole hearts, to obey his dictatorial command to murder this unsubmissive Teacher of the truth. And this is also why these priests brought so many elders with them. For those corrupt teaching elders were also judges of the people. So the priests had hoped to cause Jesus to answer their questions with words that those judging elders could twist into a damning condemnation of Him. If they could transform Jesus’ words into a wicked lie, they might rile up their dupes against Him. Then their hand-picked teaching elders could conduct a mock trial, right then and there, proclaim their God Jesus to be a criminal worthy of death, and execute His sinless body of flesh in those crowded temple grounds. Furthermore, by doing so publicly, the priests would also gain an opportunity to demonstrate how they possessed God’s authority as true priests.
Those fake priests and their lying little justifiers thought they could demonstrate their own: (1) faith, by outwardly appearing to be zealous for God and His words, even though their only real faith was their complete trust in their own god-like ability to force their wills upon others through their “wise”
deceptions and terrorism; (2) hope, by publicly and falsely declaring that their heart’s desire was to see God’s just and loving will done on earth, just as it is in heaven, even though they actually wanted to see Satan’s will done on earth, just as it is in hell; and (3) charity, as they pretended to selflessly serve God and His people by performing their “heart-breaking” and difficult task of executing a living human being, even a Jewish “brother,” in order to protect their flock’s beloved, beleaguered souls from Jesus, even though this murder only served themselves, and they were willing to commit any atrocity against God and His people in order to charitably bestow more money and power upon themselves. The beauty of this sham was that the majority of the people were far too spiritually ignorant or broken to see through their propagandizing deception. So they knew they could murder Jesus with total impunity, if Jesus would cooperate by uttering a word they could use against Him.
However, Jesus realized they were trying to trap Him. For it was obvious that they had specifically designed this question to force Him to claim that He cast those thieves out of the temple through the authority of God and God’s Law. But, if Jesus made this claim, those church “leaders” would counter by quoting the Scriptures in a way that convinced the people that only they had been appointed by God to bear authority over the temple, since they were Levitical and Aaronic priests, but Jesus was not. Now these priests knew that Jesus was not like them, that is, they knew Jesus would never tell a lie. So they thought He would need to admit that He did this deed through God’s authority. Then, after Jesus told the truth, they could accuse Him of blasphemy. For they had the priestly robes and titles to prove that only they possessed the authority of God, that they were the only authorities God appointed to rule over the temple. Of course, this was a lie, since God never allows any unrepentant, criminally minded souls to serve in His name, and forbids such sinners to serve Him as any kind of spiritual or secular authorities whatsoever. Still, the vast majority of the Jews were too deceived and too irrational to realize this fact. So these false church “leaders” would have been able to easily convince the vast majority of them that Jesus was lying when He claimed to bear God’s authority when He committed “civil disobedience” against their great “official” authority.
Still, Jesus simply had to answer all the false assumptions and slander that those priests intentionally built into their question, for the sakes of the elect within that crowd, for the good of the deceived elect hearing those liars. Although Jesus knew their demanding inquisition was a trap, the Spirit of life in Jesus was our holy, loving and honest God. So He was not going to allow slander and false accusations to go without a response, even if it was a trap. But, instead of responding in the way they expected, Jesus simply asked them an honest question which would publicly force those arrogant Page 1361
authorities to demonstrate their ability to judge rightly, right in front of the crowds staring at them, and before the eyes of God Himself. If they could not or would not answer His honest and simple question, those priests and scholars would prove to all that they were incapable of judging even the best of God’s servants or even the most basic truths rightly. Therefore, they would prove that they had not been appointed by God, who teaches and trains the spirits of all whom He appoints to all spiritual and secular positions of authority. If they proved incapable of that judgment, they would prove that they were not authorities whom God chose for His people, but were pretenders, who had no right to make any decisions for God’s people. Any wrong answer to Jesus’ simple question, or a refusal to answer it, or any distraction from the question, would conclusively prove that God had definitely not appointed them as priests and teaching elders. Their own words would prove that they were fake priests and fake judges, who possessed no real authority to demand answers from anyone.
And there was one other big catch to the question Jesus asked them. If they answered correctly, then Jesus could use their answer to His question as a His answer to their loaded question, in a way that would nullify their slandering inferences and force them to withdraw from their attack against Him.
For, if those false authorities acknowledged that another common Jewish man was able to act in accordance with God’s will and in God’s authority against them, then so could any brother in Israel, including Jesus. However, if they gave a wrong answer, the true elect in Israel would never again trust them, and their fake authority would crumble. And, if they refused to answer, or obscured their response with confusing rhetoric, they might still maintain their positions of power for a time, but would instantly lose much of their influence over the people. For a refusal to answer or an indirect response designed to hide their evil motives, would cause Israel’s true elect to lose trust in them. The most reputable, respected, honest, faithful, loving members of the church would place them and their blind supporters on probation, and constantly suspect their motives from then on, only allowing them to teach and judge conditionally, but also feel free to point out when they were lying or had sinned.
Jesus’ brilliant response to their trap was this: “I also will request one rational word from you [priests and elders], which, if you might reason with Me, I also will reason with you, about what kind of decision-making authority I am doing these things. The baptism of John, from where was it, [was it]
originating out of heaven or originating out of human beings?” (Mat. 21:24b-25a, from: Ἐρωτήσω
ὑμᾶς κἀγὼ λόγον ἕνα, ὃν ἐὰν εἴπητέ μοι κἀγὼ ὑμῖν ἐρῶ ἐν ποίᾳ ἐξουσίᾳ ταῦτα ποιῶ· τὸ βάπτισμα τὸ
Ἰωάννου πόθεν ἦν; ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἢ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων;, SBLGNT). With the words Jesus used here, He was implying that their question did not require a simple answer. Jesus was suggesting that He could not merely answer with “one rational word” (λόγον ἕνα), that is, by simply saying His authority came from God. Rather, to adequately respond to their question, it required a discussion involving some complex reasoning. For, to begin with, they obviously needed to learn a sound and biblical teaching about the definition of the word “authority.” After all, they had adopted a pagan Roman definition of
“authority.” They thought their “authority” gave them the power to demand whatever the lusts of their flesh desired from their “inferiors,” that their “inferiors” were obligated to serve them. But, in reality, God’s timeless, eternal and irrevocable definition of “authority” referred to a God-given duty and responsibility to serve one’s equal siblings, to labour for their good, by making decisions and judgments according to God’s just and loving will. All true authorities are servants of God and His people. So, if these priests and scholars actually did truly want to know the kind of “decision-making authority” (ἐξουσία) in which Jesus performed His just deed of driving thieves out of God’s temple, they would first need to correct their false assumptions and accept God’s unalterable definition of true authority found in the Scriptures. And, once they understood God’s definition of authority, they Page 1362
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would also need to immediately take off the robes which identified them as priests and elders, then confess that they were fakes, so they could sit at Jesus’ feet, as His disciples, to learn from their God.
Naturally, since the most “authoritative” men among these church “leaders” were sons of Satan, they definitely preferred the darkness of their lies and delusions about “authority.” So none were willing to actually sit down and have a well-reasoned conversation about the truths found in God’s Word and in God’s physical creations. All they really wanted from Jesus was some kind of physical utterance which they could twist into a malignant lie, which they could use to destroy this threat to their own demonic, pagan kind of “authority.” Jesus knew all this. But Jesus also knew that thousands of Jews were now standing around them, even Jews from the far reaches of the Diaspora. Therefore, if these highly esteemed authorities in the world’s one and only temple of God said or did anything unjust or ungodly, every devout Jew in the entire world would soon hear about it. Consequently, those fake priests and elders had to keep those masses deceived, lest those dupes discover the truth and remove them from their profitable positions of authority. And, since this crowd contained many honest elect souls who thoroughly knew God’s Law, those fakes were forced to pretend they were conducting a fair trial and judgment against Jesus. Their “inferiors” forced them to let Jesus give His own defence against their thinly and inadequately disguised accusations implied within their slanderous question.
Thus, Jesus could actually implicitly define the word “authority” in the question He gave to those fake authorities, without being struck down for what those pagan Jews would call “insubordination.”
Knowing that the crowds would not allow those fake and pagan “authorities” kill Him right in front of them, just for asking a simple question, Jesus could load that question with as many implications and He desired. So Jesus essentially asked those pretending authorities to define the authority of a lowly Jew who dressed in the most humble rags and never took any titles or positions of authority, a highly revered Jewish peasant in the wilderness called John the Baptizer. By what “authority” did John counsel sinners and baptize the repentant, as an authorized servant of God who administered God’s own cleansing and forgiveness of their sins? Was it through “authority” originating from God, or through their kind of fake pagan Roman kind of “authority,” which originated from Satanically corrupted human beings? If John’s authority was from human beings, then none of the cleansing and forgiveness proclaimed through his mouth was valid. But, if John’s words and works originated from God, then all those sinners were truly cleansed and forgiven by God Himself, even in a way where the relationship between their spirits and God’s Spirit had been fully restored. So this was indeed a critical question for all the devout Jews in that crowd, and deserved a clear and definitive response.
Yet none of these fake priests and false judges, whom John called a “brood of vipers,” were willing to answer their Messiah and God, since all loved the darkness of pagan lies about fake authority, and hated the bright light of God’s truth. Yet Jesus was forcing them to either expose their own darkness or depart in silent humiliation, whimpering with their long, proud clerical robes fearfully tucked between their legs. For if they admitted John’s baptism originated from God, they would also need to admit that John’s prophecies, which identified Jesus as the Messiah, were true and from God as well.
Jesus put those power-hungry, murderous, little pretenders in a very tight spot. Of course, to them, all truths that exposed their evil motives and intentions were “fake news.” Meanwhile all the lies that stroked their egos or profited them in any way were the only genuine “truths.” In their minds, there could be no such thing as objective realities, no such things as “absolute truths.” The only things they ever acknowledged as realities were the lies and delusions which rewarded them with illicit power and pleasures. So, when they debated how to answer Jesus in front of the crowds, they did not bother to discuss any relevant evidence, realities or facts. For all that was utterly meaningless to them. All they were seeking was the most politically expedient response to Jesus. How could they Page 1363
possibly answer this question in a way that would leave them in the most advantageous position, so they could maintain the power they stole from God? “They reasoned with themselves, saying, ‘If we say, “From heaven,” He will ask us, “Why then did you not believe him?” But if we say, “From men,” we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.’ They answered Jesus, and said, ‘We don’t know’” (Mat. 21:25b-27a, WEB). That answer would lose them the trust of those who loved their godly brother John, but it was the most politically astute reply possible. And, to this very day, the disciples of fake priests and false elders have been saying the same thing, whenever they are asked difficult questions about biblical prophecies regarding the Messiah. They simply pretend to be very humble and say, “I, as an extremely honest and lowly servant of God, have not yet received the answer to that profound, deep and eternal question. So, like all the greatest of the wise men in past history, I do not know.” Even today, they still try to disguise the fact that they are lying to the people.
In reality, those church “leaders” had non-elect spirits. All their trembling souls knew full-well that the authority of John’s counsel, teachings, baptisms and prophecies originated directly from God.
That is why they hated John, vehemently opposed him, but also feared him. For John’s just and honest truths severely threatened their fake authority. And, if John did not directly affect their power and money, they would have left him alone. As long as their power and money were safe, the fact that John was sent by God would have been totally irrelevant to them. Then all they would have to do was avoid any mention of John. They could have simply and earnestly preached: “At all cost, our beloved brothers and sisters, let us never argue about John and his divisive teachings. For we must love one another. But, since there is conflict, we are forced to censure John’s teachings, and expel those who repeat them, lest they cause sad, terrible and evil divisions in the church. And surely John was far too spiritual to be of any earthly good, and took God’s words far too literally? So now let all who love God and His holy church remain complacent, content with our wiser, far more ambiguous and totally empty teachings, so the holy church will functions according to status quo. Be safe and serve only us, to keep the most blessed peace and unity of God’s most holy church. Be as subservient as slaves to us, just as God Himself desires, to preserve love. And now, pass our collection plate!”
The truths John spoke caused the elect to think more clearly and take God’s side against hypocrisy, lies, delusions and overt corruption. It caused the elect to seek out genuine God-like love and true justice. But the justice and love accepted by those elect spirits, for the sakes of the people and all the rest of God’s creations, entirely nullified the corrupt power of those self-serving “leaders.” Thus, all those religious authorities actually hated John. Still, it was difficult or even impossible to counter all the biblical truths John spoke, not while so many Jews trusted him. So it was absolutely necessary for those “leaders” to totally avoid the topic of John and his truths, as much as possible. For the sake of their power and money, they had to keep “peace and unity” among their dupes. Yet Jesus now put them on the spot again, demanding that they reveal whether or not they sided with John and his God, or with the liars and their hellish father who murdered John. And any politically expedient response, even an attempt to remain ambiguous, would endanger their reputations. If they did not praise John, it would anger those who loved John and his God. If they slandered John, it might please their non-elect brothers who hated God too, but also drive away the most reputable elect in the land, and all who truly loved God. Their best option was the safe route, to pretend that they were too spiritually lowly to know whether or not God had sent John. Yet even this would lose political points with both the elect and the non-elect, then allow Jesus to seize the upper hand. It would let Jesus gain more trust from even their own enslaved elect dupes, because Jesus obviously sided with God’s prophet, while of those priests and scholars could never commit to any side, or any truth, or to God Himself.
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Those power-hungry religious “leaders” could not even let themselves publicly pretend to endorse the truths John taught, since doing so would permanently alienate their non-elect supporters and co-conspirators in their churches. Nor could those deceivers dare to denounce John and call him a liar sent by the devil, in an attempt to turn their deceived elect dupes away from his truths. For, although those liars longed to slander John, in order to protect their illicit incomes and positions in the church, that would immediately cause a backlash from crowds of honest elect souls who loved John. Then all those reputable, trusted elect would start countering the lies of those priests and scholars, with all the evidence they collected, and with rightly handled Scriptures, in public. Then, since truth is far more persistent than lies, those truths would forever expose those frauds as ruthless servants of the devil.
John had publicly preached far too long, too honestly, too correctly and too clearly about God’s Word, then sealed his prophecies and godly testimonies into a publicly revered and cherished state through his martyrdom. So now those religious deceivers could neither endorse nor oppose John’s words. For the elect would never believe their lies about John being a liar. If they declared John’s true, just and loving words to be “fake news,” the elect would recoil in shock and angrily reject them. Then those “leaders” would lose many of their duped elect slaves. And that would be a great loss, since their captive elect dupes provided almost everything truly essential for their daily needs and pleasures. Yes, their non-elect disciples, their fellow sons of hell, were treasured co-conspirators, critical in aiding and abetting their exploitations, thefts, violence and murders. Those other non-elect psychopaths were extremely useful to those fake priests, and deserved all the greatest rewards and all their highest accolades. Nevertheless, their entire kingdom would collapse if their elect slaves left them. For none but those elect possessed the ability to provide the essentials of life through their honest labours. Thus, those parasites could not afford to lose them! So, when Jesus asked them this question, about whether or not John the baptizer came from God, those fakes had to avoid any kind of response to that question. They were forced to accept defeat, and let Jesus walk away unharmed, for now. They realized that they had to regroup, take the time to devise some flattering lies to regain the confidence of their elect dupes, then diligently devise another plot to murder their God’s flesh.
I know it is tedious and seems unnecessary to point out all these obvious facts, but church “leaders”
have been obscuring and nullifying these clear implications so often and for so long that they have blinded many elect. Since so many elect cannot see these truths, indicated by the Gospel accounts of this event, I feel a need to spell them out clearly and in detail, to awaken the perceptions of the elect once more. For this is a lesson we need today, since our churches are also fakes. When those devout-looking church “leaders” pretended to be humble, in their clerical robes specifically designed to boast about their stolen authority, then tilted their heads down in a pretended prayer for God’s answer to this question, but declared, “We remain unknowing” (Οὐκ οἴδαμεν), they lied. For they all knew that the real Creator God had called, taught, trained and sent John. And they also knew that Jesus had thwarted their devious plans once more. Jesus won again. Then they began to wonder how this could happen to them. For they thought they were born and bred with a legal and godly right to exploit their siblings. So they actually believed that God should be helping them to commit all their psychopathic crimes. And their preferred god, Satan, did help them in the past, since the real God let their god do so, since the people of their land did not love the truth and God handed them over to delusions. Yet the real God now seemed to always let this Jesus foil all their plans. Now Jesus was powerfully and legitimately denying them their “right” to lie, even their “right” to twist God’s Word into a lie, so they could serve Satan by brutally murdering Him in public, with impunity. So now their god Satan had failed them. Now it would be exponentially more difficult to preserve their supposedly God-given, inherited right to abuse their “holy” authority for their own personal profits.
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They knew this was coming. Still, Jesus’ response must have painfully pierced their wicked, proud, tiny hearts. As soon as they lied about not possessing any knowledge regarding John the Baptizer, Jesus said, “So I Myself am not reasoning with you [chief priests and elders], about what kind of decision-making authority I am doing these things” (Mat. 21:27b, from: Οὐδὲ ἐγὼ λέγω ὑμῖν ἐν ποίᾳ
ἐξουσίᾳ ταῦτα ποιῶ, SBLGNT). There was no way out. Either they had to take a side, concerning the divine authority and truths of John, or suffer this temporary defeat. And this temporary humiliation was far better than immediately forfeiting the trust of a huge portion of their dupes, with a massive future and irreparable division soon to follow. But, although Jesus was finished with them, knowing that it is impossible to reason with those lovers of darkness, Jesus fully intended to continue His own teachings about those fake authorities. Now Jesus was going to reason with the elect souls who had gathered around Him. In two short parables, Jesus was going to show His elect exactly who the fake church and secular “leaders” actually were, as well as how to justly and prudently respond to their illicit “authority.” Then, soon, after His death and resurrection, their fake “leadership” would begin to crumble, until the elect completely ignored them, like meaningless background noises in the church and in the secular world. For that is exactly what those non-elect souls should be to us all.
The Two Parables
Jesus’ first parable was for both the temple authorities and His disciples. In it, He rebuked those authorities for pretending to obey their heavenly Father, while only serving their own flesh. But, at the same time, Jesus also taught His disciples how to recognize the confused, lost and temporarily rebellious elect, who will soon serve God and do His works together with us. For we need them, and can only accomplish God’s works if we labour together with those elect siblings. We can only build just love by labouring together with all our fellow citizens of God’s earthly kingdom. And we can only become of one mind, striving for His purposes alone, with the elect who are able to share our goals and aspirations, since the non-elect and their deceived elect dupes invariably oppose God’s intended purposes. Although some of our elect siblings may not yet consciously know Jesus or His Word, we must learn to recognize that their spirits are being taught and trained to love in the just ways of God. The Holy Spirit of Jesus is creating an inner conscience in the minds of their spirits.
We need to understand that Jesus will gather all those unconscious, awakened, loving, just, honest, trusting elect souls into His priesthood of His true church at His appointed times, although many of those elect do not yet wear Jesus’ name on their flesh. In the meantime, their elect spirits are indeed awake enough to see many truths, and will choose to work with us in God’s service. We need to know this. For, if we allow ourselves to work together with those unconscious elect, and allow them to serve with us in decision-making roles, God’s loving, just, equitable will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven. But we need to choose only the most loving and just elect souls as our teachers of life and faith, as judges in the spiritual matters of recovering the losses of sin, as governing servants who benefit all God’s creations, as managers helping labourers remain healthy and motivated, or as the organizers who take care of logistics. For only the conscious and unconscious elect will humbly and honestly serve God’s kingdom, with spirits that trust, hear and heed the voice of God’s Holy Spirit.
No one can rightly serve God in any task, and certainly not as decision-making authorities, in either God’s secular properties or in His true church, unless God chooses, teaches and trains one to do so.
But God never chooses, teaches and trains pretenders. Thus, we must not choose pretenders either, only those whom God chooses, only those He makes able to do His just, loving works. So, first, we must choose to work only with awakened elect souls in our churches, with the true members, with those whom Jesus actually calls, teaches, trains and sends to labour with us in His true priesthood of Page 1366
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Israel. And we must especially look to Jesus for our choices, from among ourselves, of those whom He has chosen for the tasks of teaching and judging. But, for our works in the secular world, we must also labour with the unconscious elect, those whose spirits are being taught by Jesus to love in just and equitable ways, but whose minds of flesh do not yet acknowledge the name of Jesus, even as their spirits see Jesus and speak with Him daily. For there are many of these. And, potentially, even more than half the population of this world might become these kinds of the elect. So here Jesus taught us how to recognize the elect with awakened spirits, not by their words but by their works.
We need to elect only God’s chosen elect for positions of authority in our churches and in all secular governments on God’s property of the earth. For God’s Law commands us to choose only those He has chosen. And no man has the power to bear authority over his siblings, unless God’s power works through him, as he is heeding and serving our just and loving God. So, before we allow anyone to take any kind of office that bears power and decision-making authority, we must first thoroughly vet that one, to ensure that his power is not “originating from men,” but is “originating from God.” We must ensure that the authority is an elect soul manifesting all the signs of a true, loving, wise and just citizen in God’s kingdom, someone whom God has called, taught, trained and sent to do the job well.
Every teaching and judging elder in our churches must be a genuine awakened elect servant whom Jesus has called and sent to do that job, and who consciously recognizes that Jesus is the one who is saving his soul. All elders in our churches must humbly acknowledge Jesus as the one and only Head of every man, then serve all as equal brothers to all. But all our secular authorities do not need to be awakened elect souls who consciously acknowledge that Jesus is their Saviour and Lord. For Jesus also teaches and trains many elect spirits to be honest, just and loving, yet allows their souls to remain unaware of His identity, as He labours upon their spirits. There are countless elect souls whom Jesus has not yet gathered into His true church, into His serving priesthood of Israel. And we need to ensure that every secular authority is an elect soul, with a loving, honest, just spirit that will actually hear and heed God’s Holy Spirit. All elected secular authorities must possess a sound, just, honest and loving “inner conscience” or “moral compass.” All secular authorities of all kinds must be awakened elect souls, either from within the true church or from the elect who do not yet know Jesus by name, who will also “do by nature the things of [God’s] Law” and “are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of [God’s] Law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them” (Rom. 2:14-15, WEB).
Now remember the context of these two parables. Jesus was standing in front of the chief priests and judging elders when He uttered these two parables. The context is the event where Jesus told those official church authorities that He had absolutely no obligation to answer any of their questions. So the context of both parables clearly implies that those men actually had no legitimate authority in the church. For, if their authority was legitimately from God, then our God Jesus would have recognized them as His appointed servants and would have helped them in their services for His creations. But our God’s parables clearly identified them as fake authorities, then warned His people of the earth to shun them. Obviously, these parables indicate that those men possessed: (1) no real authority under God to judge any acts of “civil disobedience” and (2) had no authority to demand any response from anyone they falsely accused of being false teachers. And, since Jesus is our example in all matters of life and faith, these parables also indicate that all of us have a right, under God, to denounce every false judge and all man-made lies which oppose God’s laws, by which He judges the whole earth.
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us that the only kinds of authorities we should heed are those who faithfully serve the just, loving will of our heavenly Father. Of course, we do not demand the same standards for the secular world as we do in our churches. But we do demand that even secular authorities must uphold God’s core principles of justice and labour for the good of all, demanding that all must take responsibility for their actions, including the rich and powerful. Since all belong to God alone, everyone in every land must ensure that those who are granted any kind of decision-making authority must be men who will fulfill God’s Law according to His revealed will. And God’s will was always harmoniously revealed in all His creations from the beginning, and now through Scriptures. So no land has any excuse for letting unjust authorities rule over them. Then the church, the keepers of God’s Word, has no excuse for allowing psychopathic non-elect to rule over those whom their priesthood is appointed to serve.
That is, if we look at history, we see that God has always used His infinite power to help mere tiny minorities of His faithful, honest, just and loving elect souls overcome the wicked majorities in their lands. At times, God does this by removing those elect minorities from those wicked lands, so He might destroy those lands, in the same way He commanded Lot’s family to flee from the stubborn and unrepentant land of Sodom (Gen. 18:16 to 19:29). Yet, at other times, God’s power causes some lands to accept the truths proclaimed by His tiny minorities of faithful elect. This is how God’s teachings about democracies, justice and love have become so widespread. Thus, if God allows any church or secular corporate body to choose an unjust authority to rule over them, it means that God has judged those people, found their spirits to lack love for the truth, saw no repentance into the truth among them, and has handed them over to delusions, which leads ot destruction. Since all their evil authorities can only gain the kind of power which “originates from man,” those authorities can only remain in power as long as the people grant them that power. Therefore, God justly judges against all the people in any corporate body ruled by unjust authorities, because all actively and intentionally rejected His truth, power and authority when they chose evil authorities for themselves. And, if any of those corporate bodies had any faithful elect in them, those evil authorities would not have been elected. For God is always faithful. So He will always call, teach, train and send His own just, loving and true servants to save every church, governing body or organization which loves Him and is willing to accept His true servant, even to all individuals who are willing to return to Him and His just, loving ways. So all badly governed churches and states have intentionally rejected those whom God chose for them, and their people deliberately choose the lying, carnal despots sent by the devil.
If a greedy and self-indulgent people choose flattering and self-serving liars to do managerial and administrative tasks affecting them, rather than just and loving servants chosen by God, they reject God Himself, not just those servants sent by God. So God will not teach the elect who willingly remain among those people. For the illicit powers they have chosen will persecute the elect who learn about love and justice from God, and censor truths out of their corporate body. If a people will not love the truths God manifests in His creations and in His Word, not even the elect among them will be able to loving serve them and work true justice for those people. If a people only want to gratify the desires of their flesh, the elect spirits among them will become just as empty, loveless and vain as the non-elect. A people who feed on the darkness of lies and delusions vomited out of the mouths of wanna-be human gods, rather than the food God grants, will eventually painfully perish from a famine of moral and spiritual truths. Then the propaganda, which makes them faithful to lies and delusions, will cause them to reject any of the future servants sent by God to save them, since they will love and cling to Satan’s flattering, deceiving psychopaths, who lure them with rewards of the flesh into sin and destruction. And that love for them and their lies will cause God to justly hand them over to more lies and delusions, until they utterly destroy themselves. Thus, if we see either a Page 1368
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church or government led by Satan’s psychopathic servants, we cannot join them, but seek to nullify the works of the devil done by them, then also strive to rescue any of the elect trapped among them.
We do not want Satan’s servants to oppress us and our children. And the only way to gain God’s kind of justice and love is by learning to apply His truths with wisdom. To avoid our own self-destruction through works of Satan’s servants, the elect must allow their spirits to be taught and trained by God, and to stop letting their minds of flesh suppress their spirits, so they can greedily lust after the carnal rewards Satan falsely promises them. Our elect souls must seek first God’s Kingdom and His loving righteousness, so He can grant us all our physical and spiritual needs as well (Mat. 6:33). We need to search out and recognize the truth, and those who speak the truth. We need to acknowledge all that is
“originating from heaven,” but cast out all the lies and delusions “originating from human beings.”
We cannot grant decision-making authority to anyone who contemptuously ignores truths regarding justice and love. God has continuously manifested those truths throughout history for our good. So let us find and apply them. Let us now serve Jesus, work beside Him in His earthly kingdom. With Him, we must undo works of the devil, to build up loving justice on the rock foundation of truths.
The first step in delivering ourselves from unjust authorities is found in this little parable. That is, we need to first gain the ability to recognize the people whom we should be working beside, to build up our God’s just and loving kingdom on earth. We need to find those who have elect spirits which are inherently able to love, who inwardly desire truth and want to do God’s will. But those people are never the “official authorities” whom Satan raises up as his “leaders” in his very steep hierarchies of his murderous, unjust world order. For, in his kingdom, that devil grants most of his autocratic power and money to his most psychopathic children, to those who are most like himself. Satan, like all of those psychopaths, favours only a few of his children, only those who flatter and emulate him the most. Since he was a liar and murderer from the beginning, he only takes the time to indoctrinate and enslave the most lying and murderous of his children. Satan only promotes his most deceptive and inwardly evil offspring to positions of authority in his world order. And this is why Jesus, and all His younger siblings, the elect who are all equally loved by their heavenly Father, do not recognize those
“leaders” as their true siblings, and reject their illicit authority. Rather, all the elect inwardly know that only Jesus can be the Head of every man, and that all hierarchies of men are evil. Then the most awakened elect prefer the company of God’s servants, who labour for the good of all, who do works that truly benefit the lives of their siblings and the rest of God’s creations. They seek the reward of becoming the salt of the earth and the light of the world, to become like their loving, just God Jesus.
But, of course, to find those who do God’s will on earth, we must first be able to recognize what is God’s will and what is not. We must know what to look for, before we can look for it manifesting in others. For how can we tell who does God’s works, according to His will, who also knows and loves the real truths originating from God, if we do not know and love those truths ourselves, and are not able to God’s works ourselves? When Jesus gave this parable, He instructed His disciples to judge others by their works, not by their words. For it was the rebellious son who said “no” to his father but went out and actually did his father’s will, not the flattering son who said “yes” but did nothing.
So, to comprehend this parable, we must first become a true disciples of our God Jesus, who rose from the dead and now lives to teach and train our spirits. If He chose us to be His disciples, and we are now learning His truths, then applying those truths by doing His works, we can truly benefit from this parable. Then we will not work with fake authorities in the institutions of Satan’s world order, neither in the devil’s false churches nor in his corrupted secular organizations. Rather than joining those liars—who falsely claim to serve our heavenly Father but do nothing for Him, whose loveless spirits are parasites that steal the resources our Father provides, who cause nothing but loss, Page 1369
failures and deaths, who unjustly oppress and murder the true servants who expose their lies—we must reject them and nullify any power they possess. Then we must find and work with those who lovingly labour with equitable justice, no matter what their words and outward appearances may be.
The Parable of the Two Sons
The first thing Jesus uttered here was an introduction to both parables. And it was a command from Him, our God, disguised as a question: “Now what do you [people] think?” (Mat. 21:28, from: Τί δὲ
ὑμῖν δοκεῖ;, SBLGNT). Now Jesus uttered this comment before the faces of both the illicit temple authorities and His elect disciples. So here Jesus commanded both those church authorities and His own disciples to hear and understand what He was about to teach in these parables. That is, our God, Jesus, was commanding every kind of person to meditate upon the meanings of these two parables.
His first parable was about “a person” who “was having two children” (ἄνθρωπος εἶχεν τέκνα δύο).
That person represented God the Father, and the two children were the two kinds of people living on His earth. As we see in other Scriptures, those two kinds would be the elect and the non-elect, and both kinds knew and responded to the commands of the heavenly Father, but each reacted in totally different ways The first child acted in the way all the elect interact with their heavenly Father while dwelling in bodies of flesh: “After approaching the first, he said, ‘Child, go! You work today in the vineyard.’ Yet, having responded, [the child] said, ‘I will not!’ Then later, after becoming regretful,
[the child] went out” (Mat. 21:28b-29, from: προσελθὼν τῷ πρώτῳ εἶπεν· Τέκνον, ὕπαγε σήμερον
ἐργάζου ἐν τῷ ἀμπελῶνι. ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν· Οὐ θέλω· ὕστερον δὲ μεταμεληθεὶς ἀπῆλθεν, SBLGNT). Literally all elect souls in all history have always been like this first child, and always will be, as long as they possess minds of flesh. Whenever their Father’s Spirit commands their hearts to do His loving, just works in His fruitful kingdom, their first reaction comes from their self-serving minds of flesh. And their dull, immature, untaught elect spirits do not respond well enough, nor soon enough, to counter that reaction from their flesh. Yet their spirits later reason through what their flesh said or did, and realize that it was very wrong. So, as soon as their spirits regret their selfish reaction, those spirits take control of their lives and manage their flesh rightly, according to inner commands heard from their heavenly Father. So they pick themselves up and go out to do their Father’s works.
As you can clearly see, this first child was rude, but honest with the Father. That first child said, out loud and for all the world to hear, “I will not!” That child’s flesh did not feel like getting up and leaving the cool house to labour in the hot sun. So that one openly expressed those feelings in front of the Father and the other siblings, not caring what anyone thought of him or her. That child openly expressed exactly what he or she felt, and did not make any pretense about being a “good” child. But the spirit in the heart of that child was good, and wise enough to know that, if the vineyard work was left undone, the entire estate would suffer in the future. So the first child’s spirit, through love for the Father, the entire family and one’s own self, did choose to rise up and work in their family vineyard.
Yet notice how the parent, representing our heavenly Father, also approached the second child, who represented all the non-elect on the earth, and told that one to work in the vineyard too. This clearly implies that God also commands the non-elect to do His works in His vineyard, which is His earthly kingdom—although this would not include His priesthood of His church of Israel established through Abraham, since that only consists of awakened elect. Rather, the works in the vineyard refer to general good works for all people and all God’s creations on earth. Thus, God is equitable, and gives the same opportunities to all. Now some may not think that working in hot sun, to tend the Father’s vineyard, is an opportunity. But the Father Himself is always labouring there, all day and every day. And that is where He teaches and trains His children to do all the works of His kingdom, Page 1370
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for the good of all. So only those who labour together with Him, in His vineyard, will ever learn to adequately handle their responsibilities in His kingdom. Only those working with God will be able to make just and beneficial decisions and judgments for His kingdom, through the same kind of wise love that is in their heavenly Father, the kind of love which is firmly grounded on truth alone. None but those who actually go out to serve in the vineyard, together with their heavenly Father, will be able to become fully qualified to serve as decision-making “authorities” in His kingdom, since only they will learn to handle truths wisely, then lovingly, justly and effectively serve everyone and everything in His kingdom. Also, only the children who either directly tend the vines, or indirectly serve that vineyard by bringing water and doing other works, will become the heirs of the Father’s eternal kingdom, since our Father refuses to leave His kingdom to anyone that is not able to care for it well and responsibly. This includes literally all the elect. Yet God will gather all His elect, without even one exception, into His vineyard at the gates of heaven, to teach and train them all, so all will be able to do His works. All His elect will be perfected and completed in the end. All will become His church of Israel, and serve Him—if not now on earth, then on the last day at the gates of heaven.
Then Jesus said: “After approaching the second [child], [the father] said the same thing in the same way. Yet, having responded, [the child] said, ‘I myself [am doing so], sir!’ And [the child] did not go out” (Mat. 21:31, προσελθὼν δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ εἶπεν ὡσαύτως· ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν· Ἐγώ, κύριε· καὶ
οὐκ ἀπῆλθεν, SBLGNT). Here the pronoun (Ἐγώ) implies an emphatic affirmation. This child was enthusiastically declaring that he or she certainly would do what the Father asked. Then this child even added a respectful title, “sir” (κύριε), in a way that the first rude child did not. So we see how the first child was open and honest with the Father, like a child who knew the Father very well. But the second child was far more formal and distanced from the Father, yet clearly trying to appease the Father, or to fool the Father into thinking he or she was indeed a “good” child, worthy of praise, and one to whom the Father should grant power and authority, as His preferred heir. But that nice second child never went out to labour in the Father’s vineyard. And, since this second child’s answer was so immediate and perfect, it seemed that giving this kind of outwardly respectful but deceiving answer was that one’s automatic and habitual practise. It implies that the second child always tried to flatter and deceive the Father, as well as the other siblings in the household. And that immediate, falsely enthusiastic and fake respectful response surely would have fooled some of the other siblings in the house. But, since the Father actually went out to the vineyard with His obedient siblings, to do the works of their fruitful kingdom, those other obedient siblings would have soon realized that this second child was merely a liar, since he would not have been seen among them throughout the day.
So this is another reason for us to actually go out to work in our Father’s vineyard of His church on earth, to water and fertilize the fruits of love, hope and faith, to ensure that all life grows well in light of the truth brightly stimulating its foliage. This is a good reason go out to prune off the fruitless suckers from the vines, so the remaining branches will receive enough energy to produce abundant fruit. Yes, all these tasks require careful observation, judgment, skill and hard physical labour in the wearying and mind-numbing heat of the day. But, if we are not out in the field doing all this, how will we notice when our devious, self-serving siblings are not out there too, together with us. If we are not labouring in the vineyard ourselves, beside our Father who trains our spirits, we too may be fooled by eloquent lies and flattery of deceivers, as they pretend to be respectful, good and obedient children of the Father. Then those practised liars might get us to believe other lies as well. For those kinds of liars always like to tell us that they are the preferred and esteemed heirs of our Father, who bear His authority over us. Those deceivers may tell us to obey their self-serving commands, by telling us that the Father will grow angry with us if we do not do what His supposedly preferred son Page 1371
tells us to do. And many sibling will believe those liars, since they are not out in the vineyard with the Father and with us. Many will fear those lying siblings enough to obey them, until they find out that the Father found it necessary to cut those liars out of His will, and that those liars not His heirs.
Far too many of our disobedient siblings greatly admire those nice, polite, respectful siblings who are merely practised liars, who are even more disobedient than they are themselves. And, since they are not in vineyards and apprenticing with their Father, they cannot see the anger of the Father against those disobedient, polite liars. But, if we actually get up to work in the field beside our Father, we will see how much our Father truly loves us, and greatly prefers our company. Then we will also find out how our Father never makes one sibling into the master of another. So, when those liars declare that they alone are the preferred children of our Father, to whom the Father has granted all authority and power, and try to lord it over us, we will laugh at them, confront them and demand their repentance. Then, if they do not repent, we will go to our Father, and He will command us to give them their just reward. Our Father may even grab those liars by their ears and cast those fakes out of His kingdom. Either they will share in works of His kingdom, which are always made very light with the hands of many siblings, or else they will need to leave this earth and go home to hell.
The households of kings and powerful estate owners often had children like these two. And their lying, disobedient children had the potential to severely harm or even kill their other children, as well as their other beloved subjects or servants. If a king or estate owner spoiled his own children, and gave those foolish children unwarranted power over others in their estates, everything would begin to fall apart. So decisions made by kings and powerful people, regarding their children, always bore extremely serious consequences. Fathers had to make right and wise decisions regarding their heirs, and heed the counsel of trusted advisors. And kings and estate owners in Israel often asked fake chief priests, lying scholars and deceiving false elders for advise about how they should judge their children. But God-appointed elders would remind them of the common Jewish and biblical maxim that they should judge their children according to their works, not by their words. Likewise, our God Jesus also taught this maxim here, in this parable. And Jesus also taught this same truth in different ways, such as when He taught us, “By their fruits you will know them” (Mat. 7:16a, WEB).
Since almost all Jews agreed that we should judge our children, and everyone else, by the good and godly affects of their words and deeds, and not by how nice their words sound nor by mere outward appearances, Jesus was condemning those hypocritical church authorities when He bluntly asked them: “Which, out of the two, did the will of the father?” (Mat. 21:31a, from: τίς ἐκ τῶν δύο
ἐποίησεν τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός;, SBLGNT). They knew Jesus used the self-serving second child to represent them, and all the highly esteemed church “leaders” like them. For all their eloquent words sounded respectful and devout, but none actually did any real works for the Father. So, while they stood in front of that Jewish crowd, they could only give one right answer to Jesus’ question, since all those Jews there knew that God required everyone to judge rightly, based on the realities of what people actually accomplished for God, not based on their mere religious rhetoric. Therefore, these
“authorities” were forced to admit that only the first, rude, rebellious child actually did the Father’s will. They also knew that our heavenly Father, the Owner of the entire earth and the church of Israel, the only true Owner the “house” they liked to call their temple, only grants His authority and power to the first kind of child, who actually does God’s will. God only entrusts His authority in His temple to His serving heirs. So, if they were not that kind of heir, they had no real authority in God’s temple.
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God, the only ones to whom God had granted all decision-making authority and power. But all who actually laboured beside their heavenly Father in His vineyard knew that these men were lying fakes.
All who actually laboured in the works of their heavenly Father, all who cared for the poor, the sick, the homeless, the immigrant strangers and the spiritually needy, clearly saw how those “leaders” of the church were not working together with them in their heavenly Father’s vineyard. And all the awakened spirits of those labouring elect continuously heard their Father’s counsel. So they all knew their Father’s very unflattering opinion of those hypocrites. They knew those liars had never been the favourites of their honest, just and loving Father. Rather than being favourites who could lord it over their siblings, those elegantly robed, self-esteeming, self-serving, flattering, abusive deceivers were actually the kinds of people whom God severely punishes, and might even cast out into hell.
So, likely very loudly, in front of the crowd gathered there, Jesus addressed and denounced those highly esteemed church authorities, declaring: “Assuredly I reason with you [chief priests and elders], that the tax collectors and prostitutes are leading the way for you into the kingdom of God.
For John came to you [priests and elders] in the way of justice and you did not place your trust upon him. Yet the tax collectors and the prostitutes placed their trust upon him. Then you, after seeing
[them repent], did not later become regretful, in order to trust him” (Mat. 21:31c-32, from: Ἀμὴν
λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι οἱ τελῶναι καὶ αἱ πόρναι προάγουσιν ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ. ἦλθεν γὰρ
Ἰωάννης πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐν ὁδῷ δικαιοσύνης, καὶ οὐκ ἐπιστεύσατε αὐτῷ· οἱ δὲ τελῶναι καὶ αἱ πόρναι
ἐπίστευσαν αὐτῷ· ὑμεῖς δὲ ἰδόντες οὐδὲ μετεμελήθητε ὕστερον τοῦ πιστεῦσαι αὐτῷ, SBLGNT).
Now, when John the baptizer first began to prophesy and preach, many priests, biblical scholars and judging elders may have been too busy to trek out into the wilderness to hear him. So, back then, they had a bit of an excuse for not fully placing their trust in him and in his words from God. Yet, within a couple of years, all the church “leaders” clearly saw how the words and works of John effectively and permanently transformed the lives of countless sinners. John’s counsel and baptisms caused thousands of souls to receive God’s full forgiveness, in a way that restored a close and right relationship with God, resulting in them pursuing abundantly fruitful lives of love. And this kind of teaching for repentance into God’s truth was to be the primary work of God’s church, the work of all God’s appointed stewards serving in His church. So, after seeing this, all true servants of God made it their highest priority to go out to hear John proclaim the truth. Seeing God do such great works in the church and in their land through God’s prophet, John, caused many to make it their first and foremost responsibility to hear John. This was especially true because God’s Word prophesied that, about this time in history, He would send a prophet to prepare His people for His own advent in a body of human flesh, as their Messiah. God prophesied that He would send a mortal man to utter His very words, the counsel of the Creator God Himself, to gather His people of Israel into repentance.
So, after the true priests and elders began to see all these prophecies begin to be fulfilled through John, any who had not yet gone out to hear John, felt a deep, abiding regret in their souls. Then their spirits’ godly sorrow, over failing to hear and trust this true prophet of God, led them into true and godly repentance. It turned their spirits toward all the truths uttered by John, including John’s clear testimony that Jesus was their Messiah. And, in fact, many truly elect priests and elders, both those who went out to hear John and those who believed John’s testimonies from a distance, put their faith in faith in Jesus and the truths He taught. Yet these particular priests, scholars and elders did not trust John and felt no regret for their failure to hear him. For they were not the elect and could not repent.
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that none recognized John as the prophesied prophet coming with Elijah’s spirit, whom God Himself had sent to prepare His people of Israel for the advent of their Messiah. Even after seeing how John’s words and works transformed sinners into God’s most faithful servants, into the Father’s beloved children, whom He laboured beside, none of these church “leaders” repented into the truths uttered by John. This meant that all of these chief priests, biblical scholars and judging elders were fakes.
Not one of these “leaders” were awakened elect children of God and, therefore, not one was even a member of the true church of Israel. So, if none were members of the church, certainly none could be “authorities” in the church. And, considering how they actively opposed justice and truly loving works of God, they were not even qualified to hold any secular positions of authority either. Since none served God in any real way whatsoever, but served only Satan instead, they were only qualified to do the kinds of manual tasks which could not cause any harm to anyone or anything, but never the kinds of tasks which might affect the lives of others. They might be able to make physical things which could be inspected before being used by the people, but nothing like food that others eat, lest they spit in or poison that food. They might be able to hoe the ground, but not sow the seeds or care for animals, lest they sow badly and ruin the necessary crops, or lest they might abuse the animals.
Whenever we find people like these men, the very last thing we should ever do is grant them any kind of authority, privilege, money, esteem or favour. Rather, we need to refuse to acknowledge their right to possess any influence, in the same way Jesus did. For, if we grant them any kind of power or influence over other people or God’s creations, they will surely abuse it and cause harm to someone or something. Such people always destroy other lives, either directly or through wilful neglect. And they never truly benefit other lives. For, since their spirits are completely unloving, they have no ability to do good. So we must not even let them pretend to be good. For even their “free” gifts are never truly free, but are debts which accumulate interest at inflated rates, and are forms of theft. All their “love” is demanding and highly conditional, never unconditional from a just and true spirit. So they reserve all their “love” for either their most subservient slaves or for their co-conspirators. That is, they only make false relationships which allow them to personally benefit from others, in a selfish and usually material way. But, as soon as a relationship no longer benefits them, their fake “love”
vanishes, and often transforms into a vengeful hatred. Or, if anyone gets in the way of their own self-indulgent desires or ambitions, they will try to destroy that one, usually in the most painful way possible. On the other hand, they will only seek revenge if their cowardly hearts can get away with it, if they can avoid any kind of personal loss to their vile selves. For they think that no one, even God, has any right to make them accountable for their own sins and crimes. They feel that they are above all laws and rules, since all laws and rules are only for “inferiors,” but they are “superiors,”
who bear the right to commit any crimes or sins with total impunity. These are the kinds of people those priests and scholars were, the kinds that Jesus mocked and later sent into the depths of hell.
The opposite of those parasites were the repentant elect, some of whom were previously extorting tax collectors and exploiting prostitutes. But Jesus, our omniscient God, knew their hearts, because He created their spirits in His own image. Jesus realized that those sinful elect simply had been doing whatever they could to survive in the empty darkness of Satan’s world order. And they were inwardly dead until they found the truths of God’s loving, just, fulfilled Law preached by John. As they heard this truth, their humiliated, dehumanized spirits rejoiced in God’s bright light, drinking in God’s forgiveness with thirsty hearts, so they could finally rest in their Saviour’s cleansing Sabbath for all eternity. Now their elect spirits knew their heavenly Father at last, and the way home. And this was no fiction. For they did bear real fruits of genuine repentance, and our God Jesus recognized this transformation as a certain fact. So, by the simple, plain, humble reality of their regenerated souls, in Page 1374
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the presence and blessings of God, those former tax collectors and prostitutes became true “leaders”
in the church of Israel, enthusiastically begging all to go to Jesus, as John did. These true servants of God were nothing like those false priests, fake biblical scholars, lying elders and “pastors” from the pseudo-churches established by Satan. For these repentant souls offered no carefully crafted words nor public displays of charity. Rather, these repentant sinners led by example. These formerly empty souls demonstrated the fullness of God’s power and love, then actually laboured in their Father’s vineyard, as guiding lights for the world, with many brothers and sisters following behind them.
They showed the way to many other elect sinners, who loved them and followed them back to God.
This is what our God Jesus is looking for, repentant souls who know full-well that they are weak and have always been gathering the wages of sin, yet long to escape that trap. Jesus only wants those who realize they are totally and utterly incapable of productively serving God, except through the sufficiency provided by God’s own power and love, as they place all the faith of their elect spirits in His continuous teaching and training. Jesus calls elect sinners upon His earth, and wakes their spirits to serve in His priesthood of Israel, to be like the true prophets and apostles, who were all just like the repentant extortioners and exploiters, or worse. For all the true prophets and apostles knew full well that they themselves were great sinners. After their souls were exposed to the hard light of God’s judgment, which rebuked their souls with painfully burning truths, the prophets and apostles realized that they were even worse than any of the extorting tax collectors and exploiting prostitutes.
It was the repentant extortioners and exploiters whom Jesus represented with the first child in the parable of the vineyard owner’s two sons. For those former tax collectors and prostitutes bore the genuine fruits of true repentance, and later went out into the Father’s vineyard, to lovingly labour for the good of His kingdom. Only the repentant thieves and destroyed lives partook in serving all that the Father’s diligent heirs will inherit. But the Father and our oldest Brother disinherited all the self-righteous church pretenders, and everyone else who enabled the financial oppression, hierarchies and other laws of Satan’s world order. Here Jesus soundly rebuked, shamed and utterly condemned those who were like the polite, deviously respectful and hypocritical second son in that parable. For that second son represented the “great,” self-esteeming, arrogant, selfishly ambitious, self-serving and entitled “leaders,” especially the religious deceivers who strutted through God’s house in their prestigious clerical robes to display their stolen, illegitimate authority. And the elite of Satan’s world order, who endorsed them and granted them that authority, clearly did not choose those men from the ones God had chosen for His people. Thus, their authority was not from God. And all whom God chose could see the evidence, and realized that those men were false authorities, since they abused their power and threatened their siblings, just to make themselves feel like gods. They all proved they were fakes, that they had no right to any power or influence, but earned only condemnation.
Always remember, our God Jesus esteemed only His beloved repentant sinners. For only those with humbled, loving souls can faithfully serve God’s family, making the elect feel welcome and safe in God’s house. God only chooses the repentant who will lovingly serve His creations as His true heirs.
The Parable of the Vineyard Owner
Matthew was the only apostle who recorded Jesus’ first parable about the two sons of a vineyard owner. And it was obviously about the two kinds of people living on earth: (1) The son who rudely refused to work in the fields of their father’s estate represented God’s elect children, who are all trapped in sins and lies while they dwell in the flesh. Yet notice how their spirits were so familiar with their heavenly Father, that they even dared to answer Him rebelliously, like spoiled children.
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repent and go out to labour beside their Father in His kingdom. (2) The appeasing son who always said “yes,” but never sincerely, represented the loveless and selfishly ambitious non-elect children of the devil, who often pretend to highly esteem and honour the Father, yet only labour for themselves.
Then, almost immediately after that first parable (Mat. 21:28-31), Jesus provided a second parable of a vineyard owner, who obviously also represented God the Father (Mat. 21:33-40). And Jesus clearly intended this second parable to be a companion to the first parable. But His disciples seemed to remember and cherish this second parable that more than the first. For we find this second parable in all three synoptic Gospels (see also Mark 12:1-12, Luke 20:9-19), which indicates its popularity in the apostolic church and among the disciples who first heard it. But why did the other apostles not record the first parable in the other two historical, chronological Gospels about our Messiah Jesus?
Well, first of all, we need to realize that Mark and Luke were writing for a Gentile audience, and all the Gentiles were steeped in humanistic philosophies which did not acknowledge that human spirits were born with inherent attributes from one of two fathers, either from God or Satan. In fact, those Gentiles of the Roman Empire did not even begin to acknowledge the biblical definition of human spirits. That is, those Gentiles did not recognize that each human spirit had its own mind and will, or that each one’s mind of flesh possessed a separate mind and will. Rather, Gentiles were taught that everyone possessed only one mind, and that each individual created one’s own will in that one mind.
Therefore, Gentiles did not believe there were people, among both their physical enemies and among themselves, who were either: (1) the elect children of God bearing the potential to become loving and just, as well as (2) the non-elect children of Satan bearing the potential become ruthless and unjust psychopaths. Consequently, Gentiles followed their own self-exalting psychopaths into wars so they could indiscriminately torture and murder all their physically identified enemies, without ever making any distinctions between the elect and non-elect among their enemies, and without recognizing the fact that the psychopaths among themselves were their own worst enemies, since their own psychopaths were lying to them and leading them into the most unjust sins they could possibly commit. The Gentiles did not see that the real war they had to fight was between the loving and just kingdom of God and Satan’s unjust world order, not between the physical factions that the selfishly ambitious psychopaths carved for themselves within the destructive kingdom of the devil.
Because Mark and Luke wrote to the earliest of the Gentile converts withing the New Covenant branch of Christ’s church of Israel, to novice believers who had to be gradually made aware of the complex doctrines regarding the dichotomy existing within all people groups on earth, those two apostles had to reveal the teachings about the differences between the elect and the non-elect very carefully, and one small step at a time. As for the Jewish disciples of Jesus, Mark and Luke would have assumed that the message of the closely related first parable was so obvious to them that there would be no need to repeat it. But, if they did this, they were wrong. For all the Jews of the first century were being Hellenized, thoroughly indoctrinated and brain-washed by all the humanistic teachings of Satan’s core fourth religious kingdom, called Rome. Even in those ancient Roman times, many Jews tried to suppress the fact that elect and non-elect human spirits dwelt in God’s earthly kingdom throughout the entire earth. And this truth was especially hated by the Romans back then and to this very day. Yet the truths which Jesus taught in that first parable remain absolutely critical to the right and complete understanding of this second parable, as well as to our inward and right comprehension of Christ’s salvation. So both parables need to be preached throughout all time.
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garments of overt sinners, such as the tax collectors and prostitutes who are slaves labouring for the unjust, extorting, exploiting enemy kingdom of Satan. For the elect must be careful to rescue those enslaved elect from their bondage, and must never destroy them together with the psychopaths who have enslaved them. Then all elect must also be careful to avoid being deceived by the ruthless non-elect, who pretend to be human gods and usurp God’s own headship of His own church, whose devout-sounding lies lure the elect into sin, who dress up as polite, friendly “leaders” of the church, who proclaim that they are God’s “anointed” servants appointed to rule over God’s one church and even over all God’s secular governments. We must learn to discern between the two rightly, and choose only the elect servants whom God chooses for us, for the managerial functions required for all ministries performed by all our churches and all secular governments. Then we must obey God’s command to forbid non-elect pretenders to establish a psychopathic theocracy over all any land on earth, over both the unconscious elect and the non-elect within God’s earthly kingdoms. For our God lives and remains the one and only King ruling over all the earth, thus forbids any human individual or group to usurp His authority over all, and will convert His true elect through His own power and love at His own appointed times, and condemns all who try to do so through Roman violence and terrorism. Otherwise, if we allow the non-elect to gain power and influence in our churches or in our secular governments, that brood of Satan will cause divisions and destructive injustice among us all.
Jesus gave us this second parable to illustrate what had happened in His church of Israel, after it allowed non-elect souls to serve His people as their false priests, scholars and elders. Those fakes had beaten and killed God’s true servants, and now attempted to steal the ownership of God’s own church, which God symbolically represented with a vineyard. Those thieving fakes thought they were gods who could overcome the real God, then usurp His almighty authority over His church, by murdering God’s human servants, as well as the Father’s only divine Heir to the throne of His eternal kingdom. Of course, the non-elect could only kill the flesh of that divine Heir’s body, and only in a very temporary way, for a mere three days, before that omnipotent God in a human body decided to raise His flesh up again, to walk among the living human masses on earth. And that divine Heir only chose to allow those non-elect Jewish and Roman children of the devil to murder His body so He could use His flesh as a sacrifice that purchased the plenary freedom from sins of the flesh, for all of His elect, along with a restoration of their relationship with their God during their lives in the flesh and when all the elect would face His judgment teachings during their last day outside their heavenly homes. But non-elect Jews and Gentiles could never overcome that Heir’s Spirit of God in His flesh.
Clearly, in this second parable, the vineyard owner represented God the Father. Then that owner’s only Heir obviously had to be the Messiah, who the Old Covenant prophecies described as the one God dwelling in a human body of flesh, within Yahweh’s priesthood of Israel on earth. And those prophecies also declared that this Messiah would bear the power to raise His body from the dead, in order to rule over all the earth as the King of kings, and forever as the perfectly whole and healthy eternal High Priest over His church of Israel. Still, in this second parable, Jesus only illustrated one of the aspects of His salvation works, that work which would cause God to destroy the usurping power of those who were attempting to steal His authority over His priesthood of Israel, and even how God the Father would plan to execute all those non-elect pretenders in His church someday. In addition to this, Jesus also described the negative effects of His elect allowing the non-elect to seize control of His priesthood, of the church He created to serve the world for its good. Jesus wanted us to realize why we must learn the lesson of His first parable, which only Matthew recorded for us. We must not be fooled by the flatting, empty lies of deceivers, but rightly choose whom we work beside in His productive vineyard of His church. In this second parable, Jesus did not describe how the one Page 1377
and only Heir of the heavenly Father would rise from the dead. But that was only because Jesus wanted us to focus upon the fact that He planned to crush the power of the pretenders, and send them into an eternal death in hell. Therefore, His elect siblings must never partake in the sins of those lying and loveless pretenders, lest they share in the condemnation of their sins by aiding and abetting those thieves. And, over the past two millennia, God has been eroding the power of those usurpers of His ownership. So the day of their demise is swiftly approaching, and the elect must flee from them.
We must not let the non-elect try to steal God’s church of Israel from Him. Rather, we must learn to wisely obey the commands of our Lord and oldest Brother. And He commanded us: “Completely
forsake them! They are blind guides of the blind. So if a blind one might be guiding a blind one, both will fall into a pit” (Mat. 15:14, from: ἄφετε αὐτούς· τυφλοί εἰσιν ὁδηγοί τυφλῶν· τυφλὸς δὲ
τυφλὸν ἐὰν ὁδηγῇ, ἀμφότεροι εἰς βόθυνον πεσοῦνται, SBLGNT). Our calling from God is to obey this command, and forsake any false leader who does not cherish and follow the just and loving ways of God. We are “not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a
person. For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside [of the church]? Don’t you judge those who are within [the church]? But those who are outside, God judges. ‘ Put away the
wicked man from among yourselves’” (I Cor. 5:11-13, WEB). This is God’s command to all of us!
So we can see here how God clearly stated that His true church must never attempt to establish a theocracy on earth. And He also told us why. It is because His one true church must never judge
“those who are outside” of His true church. For only the Creator God is the King of the earth, who will judge all those who remain outside of His priesthood of His church, and only at His appointed time in history, that is, when He returns to us in His body of human flesh. In the meantime, only the King of all the earth can judge the non-believers upon the earth, then separate the unconscious elect from the non-elect. Only our King is able to determine which elect will hear and believe His one true Gospel of salvation and will be gathered into His one true church on earth, and which elect will be gathered into His eternal church of Israel on the judgment day, only after the deaths of their flesh.
Furthermore, God’s command in the above Scripture indicates that it does not matter whether or not the one who is causing harm and divisions in His true church has an elect or non-elect spirit. For He told us to expel every sinner who intentionally proclaims lies against Him, whether that one is a deluded elect soul or an inwardly malicious child of the devil. For, if we also expel an elect one who is a thoroughly deceived intentional sinner who stubbornly refuses to repent into the truth, it simply means that we will “deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the [elect]
spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus” (I Cor. 5:5, WEB). And it is our almighty God who will save that elect one’s spirit, not any of us. After all, no human spirit bears the power to save anyone, not even oneself. Only our God Jesus is the Saviour of all. Thus, on the judgment day, Jesus will save literally all the elect spirits who have ever existed on the earth. And literally all the elect are sinners while they live in flesh on earth. So all require His salvation, and all their spirits can only be saved by Jesus’ Holy Spirit. Only the non-elect—whose spirits love only the darkness of their own preferred lies and delusions, who hate any light which exposes the true nature of the sins which their loveless spirits intentionally commit—can go to hell. But none of the non-elect go to hell because we expelled them from God’s church. For no human being, neither in the church nor outside of it, is ever granted the power or authority to eternally judge the inherent attributes created within any other spirit. Only God Himself can do that. Therefore, none by God can send a spirit to heaven or to hell.
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labour at God’s works beside their other elect siblings, and only beside those chosen by God, only with those spirits being taught and trained by our God Jesus to do His works, whose awakened elect spirits willingly serve God. For God only works beside and empowers the spirits He calls, teaches, trains and sends to do His works. But, if any of His servants, either in the church or in the secular governments, becomes proud and sinful, He first rebukes that one, just as He sent His true servants to rebuke Saul, when that king sinned, though Saul was God’s elect and originally taught by God’s Holy Spirit. Yet, Saul did not heed those rebukes and chose to heed Satan, for the rewards of that devil’s world order. So God replaced Saul with David, and called all Israel to choose David as their new king. Then all who chose to aid and abet Saul instead of David, all who served Saul after God chose David, perished with Saul. Likewise, if we see any servant of God stubbornly cling to lies and sins, we must expel that one from the church or from the government, then choose the one God has chosen for us. Whenever God chooses to replace an unrepentant servant, we must heed God, even if it will cause some suffering and loss. For following those God rejected will bring utter destruction.
We must learn to recognize and oppose the lies of Satan’s children, and leave the deceived to God’s wrath, if they do not repent. We must never join them, no matter how much their illicit authorities promise to reward us, if we bow to them. For those kinds of liars want to replace God’s just, loving ways with their own self-serving rules and laws. All Satan’s chosen wanna-be gods make many false claims, like Korah and his dupes did in the days of Moses (Num. 16:1-50). All try to deceive us into choosing them as our decision-making authorities. And ignorant masses are often fooled by them.
Look at how the church of Israel, although they knew about Korah, blindly served the devil’s chosen chief priests, Bible scholars, church elders and Roman governing officials in the days when Jesus walked among us. So few had learned how God’s chosen servant Moses overcame Korah, nor how the countless other deceiving despots ruled over them for their own destruction. Thus, early in the first century, Israel chose to be ruled by liars who tried to usurp God’s authority over them, “leaders”
who murdered the body of our God Jesus. Therefore, God allowed those unrepentant souls to follow the self-serving delusions of those “leaders,” following them into their own deaths by AD 70. And, in our day, the most ignorant and ungodly still follow men like Korah into their own destruction, men like Hitler and Trump. So it is imperative to learn all that God taught us, when the selfishly ambitious Korah tried to steal authority from God, and from the true servants God chose for Israel.
Look at how many fools Korah convinced with his lies, even with his obvious lie that Moses and Aaron were dictators, although Moses repeatedly proved to be God’s humblest servant in all Israel, even as Moses and Aaron diligently sacrificed all their time and strength to seek God’s truth and blessings for those people. In reality, it was clearly Korah and his thugs who wanted to be dictators.
And that desire is often found in psychopaths, who always accuse others of the evil they possess in their own hearts. But God, through His chosen servants, Moses and Aaron, suppressed the selfish ambitions and lies of Korah and those dupes, by diligently serving God and proclaiming the truths God taught to them. So that self-important Korah and his power-hungry minions decided to attack God and His servant Moses, through lies designed to stir up rebellion. Korah told the people that he came to “liberate” them from Moses, much like Hitler, Putin, Trump and other psychopaths have done in our day. Korah promised to “free” them from the straw men he created in his own deceiving, deluded, demonic imagination. Korah invented dark delusions about God and God’s servants, about those whom God sent to actually free them from real bondage and slavery in Egypt, and to liberate them from all other despots in those lands, as well as from oppressive superstitions and lies. Yet the utopia Korah offered was actually slavery in his own oppressive dictatorship, and merely the great
“opportunity” to become bound in the chains of his many lies, like sheep being led to the slaughter.
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Yet Moses knew his heavenly Father well, and the true Creator God revealed realities to Moses’
spirit. So God warned Moses about Korah and his band of thugs, how they wanted to usurp His power and authority over His priesthood of His true church. But God did not command Moses to raise up an army to war against Korah, to use bloodied swords to stop Korah from trying to steal God’s almighty authority, which God administered through His chosen servants. Instead, God told Moses to pray again, and seek His counsel. Then God asked Moses to separate those who loved Him and His chosen servants, to make these ones stand apart from Korah, divided from Korah’s greedy little power-grubbing thugs, and even remove all their possessions from all that belonged to Korah’s gang. For God condemned the slightest sign of condoning those false shepherds, all who partook in their sins. God wanted to divide and dichotomize the people, and called His elect to clearly choose which side their spirits would embrace. Once God’s faithful obeyed Him, He opened the earth and the depths of hell swallowed Korah and his most loyal thugs alive, along with all their possessions.
Then God granted Korah’s supporters one night to repent, after witnessing God’s mighty wrath. And the next day, God sent a plague to kill the thousands who remained unrepentant. Let us remember this lesson about Korah, and how God has repeated this lesson countless times in history. We need to beware of the selfishly ambitious psychopaths who lead their dupes into death and destruction. For the ignorant and loveless keep on repeating that same mistake, and so few realize that there will always be inevitable terrible effects from replacing the chosen of God with the chosen of the devil.
Now, perhaps, no one told Mark and Luke about the first parable, since both had to rely solely upon what the eye-witnesses told them. It is possible that Mark and Luke did not know that Jesus had first delineated between the two different kinds of human children dwelling in God’s earthly kingdom.
And that might be the only reason they did not record it. But, fortunately, Matthew was there with Jesus when He told both parables, as an eye-witnesses of the event. And Matthew realized that the first parable informed the interpretation of the second, that the first was a critical introduction to the second. Matthew knew enough to provide an accurate account of both, because Jesus deliberately bound both together. For Jesus made both about thee Vineyard Owner, who is our God. Jesus had a good reason for teaching us the first parable about the two kinds of children dwelling on earth, and how our Father calls both kinds to labour for His vineyard of the earth. And Jesus wanted His elect to realize that He is calling all of them to do His works on earth, to fulfill all the spiritual and moral truths He gave us through His true church. For all God’s teachings are essential to the physical and spiritual functioning of every aspect in everyone’s collective and individual existences on the earth.
Thus, all the elect must maintain the purity and strength of God’s true church of Israel, which serves and counsels the entire world. And the elect must do this by heeding God and allowing His power to work through them, through His church, for the sake of His entire vineyard. Then Jesus gave us His second parable, telling us how the non-elect children, the soon-to-be disinherited liars, are trying to steal the Father’s vineyard through violence and murder, because they want to use the produce from His vineyard for their own selfish purposes. That kind of ruthless child knows the Father’s people rely on His vineyard as their principal source of income, for their survival. The non-elect know the people need all to be just and honest, lest many die. Yet they do not care how many of their siblings must perish in their attempts to gratify the carnal desires of their flesh. So they will try to steal the Father’s earthly kingdom, regardless of how much death and destruction they inevitably cause for the rest of us. That is why the elect must learn to function in the almighty power of our Creator God, so we can overcome the attempts of Satan’s chosen psychopaths to steal God’s lands which feed us.
Jesus first warned us about the devious pretenders on this earth, especially those who falsely claim to be members of the Father’s household of the church, which stands within His vineyard of the earth.
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For Jesus knew their game, and their ruthless goals. Jesus knew why the non-elect were lying, why they were pretending to obey and respect the Father. Jesus knew those fake priests and scholars were attempting to usurp the Father’s just, equitable, loving authority over His kingdom. And, above all, Jesus knew that those selfishly ambitious religious leaders wanted to take over Hi church because they desired Satan’s rewards, the same carnal bribes the devil offers to his chosen secular authorities which he illicitly inserted into secular governments. For Satan owns all illicit religious and secular authorities, and both are one people, no matter how factious those back-stabbing non-elect might be.
In reality, all the income and prosperity of a nation relies on God’s priesthood. Every land has some kind of religion or religious philosophy that guides its secular rulers in literally all matters pertaining to justice and in the way their land functions. And the priesthood of the land’s religion stimulates all the hope, trust and love of the people in the kingdom. The religion’s priests guide the spirits in the souls of everyone in the land, from the least to the greatest, regarding all spiritual, moral and legal matters. Priests shape all world views, perspectives and behaviours. Thus, the priests affect all of the people taught by them. A land’s priests cause their trusting people to labour for the authorities which those priests endorse, either Satan’s chosen “leaders” of God’s chosen servants. The priests of the state religion exert the ultimate influence over literally everything in the land; over all laws, justice systems, police, military, businesses, public works, private works and, of course, the state’s religious institutions. And this is why Satan calls so many of his non-elect children into religion, so that devil might “weaponize” religion for his evil purposes, to nullify God’s wise, just, loving influence over the people and build up his own hellish kingdom on earth. And, whether a land claims to be religious or not, it is indeed religious. Then there are basically only two main religions in the world today. One is humanism, which can be either theistic or secular. And the other is the Judaeo-Christian religion, which is often practised unconsciously by those who desire God-like love, truth, equity and justice.
Naturally, the greatest threat to the devil and his abused, enslaved kingdom is the true church of the real Creator God, both God’s Old and New Covenant branches of His ancient priesthood. For even many of Satan’s own non-elect children realize they they will remain free, safe and well-fed through God’s just, equitable, wise and loving governance of their land. Even psychopaths realize that God’s ways can benefit their earthly lives far more than the ruthless, murdering, untrustworthy, inequitable, self-destructive ways of their lying father in hell. So many non-elect will choose to side with the servants chosen by God. And this is one advantage of maintaining the trust of the people as a true, honest, diligent, compassionate, just servant of God, although the devil and his faithful dupes will always try to slander God’s faithful servants. Yet this is also why so many psychopathic servants of Satan also pretend to be God’s chosen servants, although their spiritual fruits expose their hypocrisy.
So every nation has lawmakers and decision making authorities who either come from God or from Satan. Then Satan’s chosen governing authorities use lies and cheating to their advantage. But this inevitably results in a breakdown of their systems and society. Then God’s chosen decision-making authorities use truth, justice and love to maintain trust and the support of the people. And this will inevitably result in a free, stable and equitable society, which God’s personal power sustains. Yet both kinds require a religion with a priesthood to serve as the foundation for all they think and do. So authorities may be choose the religion of secular humanism, with money-worshipping economists and atheistic philosophers as their priests. Or they may choose a form of theistic humanism, such as fake Christianity, fake Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or some other form. And some of these may have people who are actually aware of spirits and the spiritual space-time continuum, which may make that land either a little better or a little worse than the others. However, what every place Page 1381
actually needs is pure, biblical Christianity, where elect spirits grow a deep, personal relationship with the Spirit of the living Creator’s Spirit, so that He might teach and train those spirits to love.
God is indeed faithful. He is willing to send His spiritually awakened, honest, just, equitable, wise, and loving elect servants to do His works in His lands and in His true church. Our Father shall teach and train willing elect spirits to be like Him, then choose some to serve Him though His church and others to serve Him as His secular authorities. But the bitter spirit of Satan will also send his most faithful and selfishly ambitious liars into the Father’s house, into the church, to deceive God’s elect children. The devil is always trying to lead us to believe that his own liars bear the heavenly Father’s authority to rule over us, although those lazy little psychopaths never go out to do the selfless works of serving in God’s vineyard of the world. Rather, those lying parasites send their own faithful thugs to terrorize their siblings into blind obedience. Thus, the vineyard is neglected and wastes away, as the Father’s will is totally ignored. Meanwhile, the liars find a comfortable place to sit and demand to be served by those who should work in the vineyard. And, since nothing useful and productive is done in the vineyard, since the principal income and productivity of the Father’s kingdom is stolen from the oppressed siblings, they begin to die. Soon even the liars pretending own and control the Father’s entire kingdom destroy everyone and everything. So they themselves perish in the rubble.
The first work of the enslaved children of the devil, as they strive to usurp God’s just, loving rule over a people, is to create a fake religion in their land. For they must lay a fake foundation to set their lies and crimes upon, so they can falsely justify their words and deeds. And, since the worship of human beings is Satan’s most cherished and effective false religion, most of that devil’s power-hungry, selfish children choose humanism as the religion they employ to deceive the people. After all, like their own lying father Satan, that devil’s non-elect children also want to be worshipped as gods. So, in most lands where psychopathic rulers rise up, their first priority is to fully nullify the Father’s ownership of His true priesthood in His kingdom, or any influence from it, so they can replace its love, truth and justice with the lies of their own fake religion, so the people will unjustly serve only those psychopaths. Then the chosen of Satan can get away with any and every kind of lie, delusion and deception they can possibly invent. So most of the devil’s power granted to those self-serving psychopaths is used to promote a fake religion, especially Satan’s most preferred forms of humanism. For, once Satan and his abused, enslaved children rule over the beliefs of the people, they can manipulate their behaviours and seize all their strength and productivity for themselves. If they can control the hearts of all the people, they rule their entire souls, and the people become their own trembling slaves. Then those psychopaths can invent their own laws based on their own unjust and self-serving spiritual morals and principles. And, if the people of the land are trained to think only with their selfish minds of flesh, while suppressing all input from their spirits, they will never learn to love God’s wise, just, equitable, loving ways. Then, since the people do not love the truth, God will hand them over to all the delusions and propaganda of Satan’s children, for their destruction.
This is why Jesus began His second parable by telling us how our heavenly Father created His church of Israel and His vineyard. Jesus taught us: “A person has been an estate owner who planted a vineyard and put a separating barrier around it. Then he dug a winepress in it and constructed a watchman’s tower. Yet he leased it to husbandmen and journeyed abroad” (Mat. 21:33b, from: Ἄνθρωπος ἦν οἰκοδεσπότης ὅστις ἐφύτευσεν ἀμπελῶνα καὶ φραγμὸν αὐτῷ περιέθηκεν καὶ ὤρυξεν
ἐν αὐτῷ ληνὸν καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν πύργον, καὶ ἐξέδετο αὐτὸν γεωργοῖς, καὶ ἀπεδήμησεν, SBLGNT).
The context indicates that this parable’s “estate owner” (οἰκοδεσπότης) is our eternally living God, the Creator of all existence. And, in context, the linking verb ἦν, the only past form of εἰμί, indicates that God was the Estate Owner in the past, and still remains the true owner now, to this very day.
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And God’s estate includes heaven above, as well as the entire universe, not just the planet earth. But, in the past, God planted a vineyard on this earth, a field where the fruit of the vine, with the spirit of truth in it, could grow and thrive. Then God “put a separating barrier around it” (φραγμὸν αὐτῷ
περιέθηκεν), an atmosphere around the earth, to keep it distinct and apart from the rest of His estate.