So the vineyard must represent the entire earth, while His house in it must be His church, His true priesthood of Israel. For God has always kept His church of Israel apart and sanctified from the rest of the world, dedicated to His purposes alone. But all His children in His house must also go out into the world, to labour for the Father’s estate. Then the “winepress” (ληνός) represents the works of the church to make wine for the people, which symbolically bears the Spirit of God within it. So the winepress and its wine represents how God’s true church teaches God’s ways and laws, as well as makes judgments according to those just and wise truths. For God’s truths and wisdom require the labour of His awakened elect, to diligently press those truths out of the vessels of His Word and out of the varieties of lessons illustrated in His creations. Finally, the “watchman’s tower” (πύργος) symbolizes the high priest and the Aaronic priesthood, whom God sent to guard the truths growing from the vines of God’s people. But those were only symbols themselves, now replace by the true eternal High Priest, the Messiah Jesus, and His true royal priesthood of His faithful elect disciples.
Of course, it takes a long time to grow productive vines. It also takes time to build walls, a good winepress and a solid watchtower. So it took God many years from the day He planted the earth until He created His house from one solitary priest descended from Seth, by the name of Abraham (c.
2100 BC). And it was many years after that, beginning in the days of Moses (c. 1450 BC), before God established walls, a winepress and a tower in His vineyard. But, when God completed all this, He did not remain in His house, in His temple for the people of Israel. God walked out of His temple into the vineyard, in a body of human flesh, just as He once walked with Abraham upon the earth (see Gen. 18). Then He left His vineyard and His house of Israel (in about AD 28), taking His temple with Him (in about AD 70). God left His vineyard to be tended by a chosen nation of His subjects, by criminal renters called Rome. He “leased it to husbandmen and journeyed abroad” (ἐξέδετο αὐτὸν
γεωργοῖς, καὶ ἀπεδήμησεν). Yet notice that our heavenly Father did not transfer the ownership of His church and vineyard to Rome. For God made His covenants with His children, with His sons, with the elect like Abraham and Israel. Only they were to inherit His entire estate, and He merely “leased”
it to Rome. The verb ἐκδίδωμι means “let out for hire, lease [something]” (BDAG3). It can also refer to giving some servant the temporary stewardship over something. Either way, the one who leases or grants a temporary stewardship still retains the full ownership of the property, not the renter or the steward. And that owner bears the right to expel the renters or remove that stewardship at any time.
After granting the stewardship of His church and vineyard to the religious kingdom of Rome, God allowed the devil to send false prophets and fake priests to test the faithfulness of His children, in the same way we use fire to test and purify metals. Just as God tested His servant Job in the days of Abraham (Job 1:8-12), God also tested Israel, for the training of their spirits. And to this day, God continues to “test them, whether they will walk in [His] law, or not” (Ex. 16:4, WEB), so “that His fear may be before [them], that [they] won’t sin” (Ex. 20:20, WEB). Yet His Old Covenant church, and now His New Covenant branch of Israel, failed to produce good and pure metal through this testing. For they have always preferred the slag of flattering lies to the ringing metal of God’s truth.
So God’s house rejected purity for themselves. Whenever God sent fires to test them, such as the psychopathic criminal gangs of Assyria, Babylon and Rome, His church chose to cast out God’s chosen servants and, instead, chose those who pretended to be a messengers of light. Israel always wanted to become dupes who worshipped loveless pretenders. And, to this day, the vast majority of Page 1383
the pagan stewards of the vineyard have only ever allowed the people and the church to follow the destructive, unjust, selfish ways of Satan, never the wise, just and loving ways of God. So, whenever testing fires touch either the Old or New Covenant branches of the church, very little precious metal, if any, has ever humbly settled to the bottoms of the crucibles in the furnace. But there are always tons of useless slag proudly filling them. Or, rather than mix metaphors like this, let me use the analogy Jesus did. The Roman husbandmen, whom God left to lease His precious vineyard, have always been thieves and murderers who have either persecuted or thoroughly corrupted His church.
Jesus described those husbandmen, to whom the heavenly Father lent His vineyard, as thugs. So, in context, Jesus was saying that the Romans were enemies of God, as well as all the Hellenized or Romanized chief priests, scholars and teaching elders in His Father’s church. And it was Rome, as well as Rome’s corrupted church, who were trying to murder God’s Son Jesus, as well as all of His prophets and apostles. For, in this context, Jesus said this about them: “Now when the season of the fruits drew near, [the owner of the vineyard] sent his slaves on a mission to the husbandmen, to receive his fruits. And the husbandmen, after taking his slaves, they indeed scourged one, they also killed another, then they stoned another. Again, he sent other slaves on a mission, more than the first ones, and they did the same to them. So he later sent his son on a mission, reasoning, ‘They will be respectful with my son.’ Yet, after seeing the son, the husbandmen said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come! We might kill him and have his inheritance.’ So, after taking him, they cast [him] out of the vineyard and killed [him]” (Mat. 21:34-39, from: ὅτε δὲ ἤγγισεν ὁ καιρὸς τῶν καρπῶν, ἀπέστειλεν τοὺς δούλους αὐτοῦ πρὸς τοὺς γεωργοὺς λαβεῖν τοὺς καρποὺς αὐτοῦ. καὶ λαβόντες οἱ
γεωργοὶ τοὺς δούλους αὐτοῦ ὃν μὲν ἔδειραν, ὃν δὲ ἀπέκτειναν, ὃν δὲ ἐλιθοβόλησαν. πάλιν
ἀπέστειλεν ἄλλους δούλους πλείονας τῶν πρώτων, καὶ ἐποίησαν αὐτοῖς ὡσαύτως. ὕστερον δὲ
ἀπέστειλεν πρὸς αὐτοὺς τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ λέγων· Ἐντραπήσονται τὸν υἱόν μου. οἱ δὲ γεωργοὶ ἰδόντες
τὸν υἱὸν εἶπον ἐν ἑαυτοῖς· Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ κληρονόμος· δεῦτε ἀποκτείνωμεν αὐτὸν καὶ σχῶμεν τὴν
κληρονομίαν αὐτοῦ· καὶ λαβόντες αὐτὸν ἐξέβαλον ἔξω τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος καὶ ἀπέκτειναν, SBLGNT).
Our heavenly Father has often sent His called, taught and trained prophets and apostles on missions to both His Old and New Covenant branches of His church. And the sole mission of those He sent was to gather the fruits of the few elect spirits who truly worshipped Him. The only rent our Father required from Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and the church of Israel was that small part which the spirits of His faithful remnant produced from His vineyard, when they spent just a seventh of their days serving Him “in all goodness and righteousness and truth” (Eph. 5:9, WEB), doing His works of “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control” (Gal. 5:22-23, WEB). And God never demanded more than they could give, since He knew their weaknesses and needs. Because our Father never desires nor needs anything for Himself, the only reason He asked for that small portion of the fruits from elect spirits was so that He could use them to provide for the necessary goods and services that His creations failed to gain for themselves. Yet those criminal renters refused to grant God even that much, and kept literally everything for their selfish pleasures.
If our spirits willingly give our heavenly Father His due portion of spiritual fruits that we harvest as His true church, He will return countless blessings for us, then guard our churches and nations from the psychopathic liars sent by the devil. Our good Father will even grant us permanent ownership of our own eternal homes, along with everything else our spirits have truly desired. If we give fruits of just love to Him, He will offer our souls the inner joy and peace that cannot come from any source but Him. This is what the elect gain, simply by being faithful workers in His vineyard. And all this is what we stand to lose, if we stubbornly resist the Holy Spirit of the Father and His Son, if we side Page 1384
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with the criminal renters of God’s vineyard. And criminal Rome will never listen to the Heir of the Father’s throne, nor ever repent into His truths. Thus, Rome will surely fall to His almighty wrath.
Nevertheless, throughout history, the selfishly ambitious brood of Satan have continuously crept into our churches and the governing ministries of God’s lands. And those liars have always been able to convince God’s children to worship them instead of God. Then those despots seize all the time, strength and fruits produced by the elect, refusing to give any to God, their Owner. For all of those arrogant fools want to be esteemed and served more than the real loving God. Amazing as it might seem, the vast majority of elect hearts have always believed the liars sent by the prince of darkness, but have seldom believed their own heavenly Father, who never lies. And most elect learn to never tolerate their elect siblings who know their Father well, who speak His unflattering truth against their deluded flesh. They only “bear with a man, if he brings [them] into bondage, if he devours [them], if he takes [them] captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes [them] on the face” (II Cor. 11:20, WEB).
It is astounding how stupid, blind and deaf we can be, even in our old age! If a greedy, empty, selfish little fool coaxes us with a few flattering false promises, and calls us to become his good and useful slaves, we bow at his feet, to serve him and fulfill his dark delusions. Our spirits are so immature that we almost always let our amoral flesh throw ourselves below the feet of monsters, and zealously cry out, “I hear and obey my lord and my god!” I do not think any other spirits that God created in heaven or on earth have ever been as infantile, gullible and stupid as elect human spirits. And this is why so many psychopaths gain power in our churches and nations, even though all those despots are inept, incapable wretches who could not survive a day without a good number of elect souls catering to all their needs and evil whims. But, if God wakes up enough elect, and makes them wise enough to recognize and rebuke the cunning lies of the non-elect, not one psychopath would gain any power or influence in the world. If even a small remnant of elect truly worshipped God, if a tiny minority of elect served Jesus as their only Head Teacher, all false religions, cults, dictatorships, criminal gangs, exploiting organizations, oppressing armies and unjust systems would collapse. For all of the devil’s children are loveless, incapable of courageously standing together for any cause. All are factious, tearing one another apart, stabbing each other in the back. So they cannot overcome us, if we unite in our love of Jesus and His truths, labouring in the ways of His one mind for His causes and survival.
Now look at how Jesus, our all-knowing God, gave us only one reason for the criminal stewards of our Father’s vineyard deciding to murder His Son Jesus. The only reason that the fake church and Roman Empire— who are both institutions of Satan’s world order and both vanguards of that devil’s kingdom—wanted to murder Jesus so they could cling to their illicit power over God’s people and God’s lands, so they could steal from God for their own profits. Their greedy non-elect spirits said to themselves, “We might kill Him and have His inheritance” (Mat. 21:38, ALT). Mark also wrote that Jesus cited only one reason, because those thieves thought to themselves: “We should completely destroy Him, and the inheritance will be ours” (Mark 12:7, from: ἀποκτείνωμεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἡμῶν
ἔσται ἡ κληρονομία, SBLGNT). Likewise, Luke reported that Jesus knew their only purpose for murdering Him was because they thought to themselves: “We should completely destroy Him, so that the inheritance might become ours” (Luke 20:14, from: ἀποκτείνωμεν αὐτόν, ἵνα ἡμῶν γένηται
ἡ κληρονομία, SBLGNT). So, if we want to understand why humanists and fake churches reject the real Jesus and try to nullify the truths He taught, we must realize that it is primarily because of their lust for power and their greed. The only real reason for so much injustice and evil in this world is because psychopaths want to be gods who own all people and all the rest of the earth instead of the real Creator God. Of course, the thinking of these non-elect, their perception of the Owner and the Son, even their perceptions of themselves and earth, is dark, irrational and stupid. But the delusion of Page 1385
becoming gods who can own all God’s creations, so they can control and dictate every aspect of all, as well as steal every ounce of productivity for themselves, has enslaved the minds of their spirits.
A compulsion to become gods, who own God’s people and God’s creations, drives every thought and every motive originating from the spirits of the non-elect. Satan, all the fallen angels, and all of the devil’s human children, have spirits that cannot help but focus solely on becoming gods who own, dictate, control and receive self-serving profits from God’s property. And there is no other motive for any of their words and deeds flowing from their hearts, not one other factor that drives their inner intentions. Because all non-elect spirits are loveless, they cannot love God and cannot love anyone or anything in God’s spiritual or physical creations. So literally all of them are only able to focus on themselves, where each strives to become a god ruling over one’s own destiny, while also seeking to gain the ownership of as many people and things as that spirit can obtain to build its own kingdom.
In reality, there actually is a Spirit that designed and created both the spiritual and physical realms.
And no created spirit is able to create anything from its own spiritual substance and power in the same way that Creator Spirit did. So literally all created beings are subject to the will of the one Creator Spirit, depend entirely upon His will and His creations to exist. Unless God lends His power and other creations to a spirit, that spirit cannot survive. So everything we say and do actually originates from God and is maintained by God’s will and power in real time, in time which always remains relative to His thoughts and His will. Therefore, all must always belongs to God alone, and nothing can exist unless God exerts His maintaining ownership of it. Even our own spirits and bodies come from Him and depend solely upon Him for every detail of all that we ever experience.
Since spirits cannot think or remain in existence without God’s power continuously providing them with the ability to think and exist, a spirit cannot actually own anything, not in a way where one can do whatever one wants with that thing. For God must first grant one stewardship over something, then allow one to do something with His property, before one can do anything with it. And God will only allow one to do anything with it through His permission. Then God can take that thing away from one at any time. Certainly, our flesh cannot breath or exist if God does not permit it. And God is able to remove both our spirits and our flesh whenever He wills. But nothing can limit our God in this same way. God alone decides what will exist and for how long, with none who can oppose Him.
Yet God has attributes that are much like the core and inherent attributes of elect spirits, since God created elect spirits in His image. Therefore, we can know Him and even develop a relationship with Him. In fact, that is why God created elect spirits in His image, so He could grow deep and personal relationships with them. So what is God like? Well, first of all, we know He is loving because He created the elect in His image so that He could have children to love. Then we know He is steadfast, since He planned and created the heavens and the earth in a way where they must steadfastly follow His established laws, and they have done so from the very beginning. Even the miracles He chose to perform seem to have been ordained from the beginning, to serve the purposes of His original plan.
So what was God’s plan for this earth and material universe? For one thing, the spiritually awake know that their spirits entered this earth as extremely infantile and ignorant entities, and were barely able to open their eyes until much later in life. And awakened elect spirits also know that God’s own Spirit has been continuously using their earthly experiences, past and present, to teach and train their spirits, so they might know Him and His ways better each day. Therefore, we must conclude that our Father must have created this earth as a training ground for the eternal infantile elect spirits of His beloved children. Furthermore, God seems to even have a purpose for non-elect spirits, including Satan himself. All the fallen angels and the human non-elect spirits born of them also serve God, but Page 1386
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by simply being what they are, in order to purify elect spirits, like ore containing precious metal is tested in a furnace. God uses the wicked to temper elect spirits, to strengthen their love for their Father and for all His just ways. Therefore, God will not alter His omniscient predestination for all material existence, but will let both the elect and non-elect spirits exist there during the times He has wisely appointed, until His good and loving purposes are fulfilled. Then each spirit on earth will also exist eternally, as He does. The elect spirits will be with Him in His eternal home forever, while the non-elect spirits will be cast into the darkness of their own self-made delusions, in their own home.
So here we all are, living spirits in dying bodies of flesh on earth. And everything living on earth has a spirit, even bacteria. For the life in all living things is worked by the thoughts and wills of eternal spirits, although some spirits may quicken multiple entities at once, while other spirits spark life in only one entity at a time. And all spirits of life, except the non-elect spirits, were created to dwell in heaven for all eternity, in a time without entropy. The only difference is that every plant and animal spirit is able to see heaven, and actually be in the spiritual realm above while it dwells in flesh upon the earth. But not every elect human spirit is able to see heaven above. Then the non-elect spirits of humans and fallen angels already exist in hell, although vert few of them can see themselves there.
Nevertheless, once the non-elect are locked in hell, with no ability to see outside of hell, they shall all possess their own spirits entirely, to do whatever they want, just as they always desired. And they will also fully own all their beloved darkness of all the lies and delusions they had carefully crafted throughout their existence on earth. Then they will be able create even more darkness for themselves and own it all. At last, the non-elect will become gods of their own destinies, and their only motive for existing will be fulfilled. Yet they will never be able to create any other living spirits or things for themselves, since God will no longer lend them His power to do that. For God will also exist in hell, to maintain the existence of those non-elect spirits and limit their power. Thus, the non-elect spirits will be gods of nothing but themselves, and spend eternity longing to steal lives and things from God, to gratify the desires of their lies and delusions. But, since God will never again lend any of His good creations to them, they will crave what they can never receive again. So all will eternally weep for themselves, gnashing their teeth in a futile rage against God, simply because God will justly deny them any ability to become the psychopathic exploiters that their dupes allowed them to be on earth.
But here is the point. Since our heavenly Father predestines all things as our loving Father, He also predestined some elect to know the truth and act upon it. Throughout history, many elect spirits have heard and understood truths from God, as many as they could bear in the societies that limited them.
More and more truths were revealed in time, and now we draw near to the completion of revelations for the teaching and training of God’s beloved elect children on earth. And that completion will occur about a thousand years after our God returns to the earth in His body of human flesh. So His Holy Spirit is currently beginning to review and reveal the whole truth, more truth than He has ever revealed before, yet in ways that our infantile elect spirits can now fully comprehend. Of course, as He reveals more truth, it also means there will be more resistance from the liars born of Satan, more wars and persecutions from them. It means more separating and dividing, as lovers of light part from the lovers of darkness. But, as this dichotomization process spreads throughout the children of every nation and tribe on earth, our elect siblings will awaken to the sound of Christ’s Holy Spirit and no longer allow deluded psychopaths to rule over them, neither in the churches nor in their own lands.
Now, when we look back at the early church, we see men like Moses, who truly loved his heavenly Father. Yet Moses did not often affectionately call God his Father. And this may be because, even though his elect spirit clearly began to know his Father and comprehend truths, he did not yet know the fullness of either. No man can, not while living in a mortal body. We can begin to ask questions Page 1387
and seek answers. Then the Holy Spirit of Jesus will grant layer after layer of truth to our rational and loving minds of our elect spirits, ever deeper and more integrated explanations of the Scriptures and God’s creations. And our Father will choose some to learn this, while He chooses others to learn that, so we might learn much together as a people of God. Then His Spirit will train one to do this, and another to do that, so all will work together in His name for the benefit of all. Yet Moses could not yet grasp all the love of God in the mind of his spirit, not like he could when his spirit had been taken up to the gates of heaven, where he now waits for us. Then, after that last day, when all the elect who ever lived have learned how love and express love for our Father, how to fulfill God’s Law in a complete and perfect way, our brother Moses will descend into Jerusalem together with us all.
Yes, Moses learned much about loving the Father and His family when the Holy Spirit of Jesus was revealing His Law to him. He not only glimpsed the utter holiness of God, but also saw how his heavenly Father hated the selfish, arrogant, evil delusions of men, and how those inner lies destroyed their souls. Moses completely understood why His beloved God and Father forbade all those evils, in all His negative laws, in the prohibitions of His Law. And Moses even knew some of the positives, the contrapositions of those negatives, the ways of a just and loving life that the Father desired for all His children. Moses knew that a Messiah, a great Prophet, would someday teach those positives to His elect and make them able to enter their Father’s eternal Sabbath rest, even while they lived on earth. Yet Moses always seemed to be confused about the way forward, into the true promised land.
Moses seemed to know that none could enter heaven by not doing what God deemed to be negative.
We all needed to somehow do what God called positive, and become like God in our hearts and minds, before we could enter His eternal promised land. And after Moses struck a rock through his anger over the shallowness and stupidity of God’s people, through his own shallowness and stupidity of his flesh, God forbade him to enter the physical promised land of Israel with those stupid people, who did not comprehend much of anything about God or life. But this “punishment” led the spirit of Moses to a truth. Now he saw that the flesh of men cannot know God, who is a Spirit, even the Spirit whose unlimited power makes all material existence seem real to men, for the purpose of teaching and training elect spirits. So Moses quietly climbed a mountain and left the earth. Moses did not set a foot in the physical promised land, as a sign of this. For now he knew that a better land awaited him.
But now our God came in a body of flesh, as the greatest of all prophets. For all true prophets speak and write according to the commands that God’s Spirit grants to their infantile human spirits, though their human spirits barely comprehend the depths of what God’s Spirit is telling them. But Jesus did not have an infantile human spirit learning from God. Rather, the Spirit maintaining the life of Jesus’
flesh was God’s wise Spirit. So now God Himself came to tell us how to fulfill the positive aspects of His prohibition against all forms of spiritual and physical murder, how to heal and build up life in other human beings and in all His creation. Now our God Jesus has come so we might completely understand how to truly fulfill His Law, which had formerly been expressed mostly as prohibitions, as negatives which merely told us what not to do, although the fulfilling of God’s required us to know what to do and how to do it, according to His just and loving will. So, as the centuries have rolled by, each generation of the elect have received a greater opportunity to know, comprehend and truly fulfill God’s Law, as disciples of Jesus. Thus, the elect will soon begin to fulfill God’s Law, in ways that no longer allow any deceiving psychopaths to rule over them, neither in the church nor in any of the governing ministries serving their nations. And this is the predestined goal we are looking for now, in all lands throughout the earth. We wait for Jesus to physically return, to make it happen.
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will then enable us to build up His just and loving kingdom on earth. And Jesus will call us to strive for God’s genuine kingdom, where no human being bears any kind of authority and influence, but where our only Head is our just and loving God and Brother, Jesus, whose Holy Spirit personally guides and counsels every individual elect man. For none but Jesus is well-able to irresistibly convict every elect spirit “about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment” (John 16:8, WEB). The Spirit of Jesus can enter every man’s heart and reveal every wrong word or deed he has done, to prepare his soul for repentance through godly sorrow. Jesus is able to teach each elect man what his spirit and flesh must do, in order to fulfill just love, so he can repent into that truth. And only Jesus can expose the spirits of his co-workers to him, so that man will know some of those who will be with him in heaven after the last day, as well as some who will not be. Jesus’ Holy Spirit can break open a path of light shining directly from heaven into the mind of His infantile elect spirit, in a way that only elect men can know, so he can then build a sound structure of truth and love for his wife and family, so he can work together with God’s elect family to build up God’s entire kingdom on earth.
But being a true disciple of Jesus means that our entire lives will be involved in a war that we did not want and did not start. It means that the eager armies of Satan’s world order will attack us. And they want to kill, enslave and plunder all we gain in Christ. For they all want to be gods who replace the authority and power of the real humble God who serves us for our good without ceasing. They want us to serve them, to enable their self-destructive delusions, and steal for them. Thus, for the sake of all other human beings, even for the sakes of those deluded enemies who war for their own self-destructive delusions, all the disciples of Jesus must become warriors who fight effectively, with the deadly and far more powerful weapons of His Holy Spirit, wielded by our elect human spirits. Only on rare occasions will we need to take up physical weapons, the kinds used by Satan’s kingdom, and only when the elect empower non-elect psychopaths, by granting them authority and resources. And, since so many deceived elect do just this, we will see some guns and physical deaths, but hopefully not too much. With psychopaths ruling over much of this earth, we are all left to live humiliating and wretched lives in the flesh, until we can stop them. Yet this does not mean that we will always need to be wretched, nor always need physical weapons to stop the oppressing and enslaving done by the psychopaths. For, if the elect spirits directly pray to the real Jesus, and worship their true Father in their spirits and in pure truth, His power alone will drive out the non-elect from their churches and out of all the governing positions of their land. For God bears the power to turn the armies of the enemy against themselves, to destroy themselves. So our principal weapon is our spirit’s true prayer.
In the same way the non-elect have deceived the elect throughout history, they still deceive the elect in our day as well. So the majority of the elect remain deluded, always eagerly pursuing the physical and false types of salvation offered by fake saviours, who promise them “liberty,” “freedom” and
“prosperity,” if they will only esteem and worship their own enslavers as their gods. And most elect do not realize that their unfaithfulness to God does no one any good, neither the elect or non-elect.
As long as they condone, worship and empower non-elect wanna-be gods, God cannot help them. At the present time, their deluded minds of flesh think they need those psychopaths for their survival, and follow them out of expediency, to prevent their bodies from suffering displeasure or want. But, if their spirits were true disciples of the real Jesus, if they let their elect spirits walk by the counsel of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, they would find inner freedom, full of loving joy, and might save their flesh too.
So what is about to happen to those fake “leaders” who falsely claim to own God’s church and God’s lands, who rise out of Satan’s world order and are always trying to murder Christ’s resurrected body of His true church? Jesus asked those fake church “leaders” this same question: “Therefore, when the lord of the vineyard might come, what will he do to those husbandmen?” (Mat. 21:40, from: ὅταν
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οὖν ἔλθῃ ὁ κύριος τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος, τί ποιήσει τοῖς γεωργοῖς ἐκείνοις;, SBLGNT). Now those false priests, lying Bible scholars and deceiving elders, together with all the Romans who judged unjustly, knew they were the thieving and murdering “husbandmen” in this parable, and that God was the only true Owner of His eternal priesthood of Israel, as well as all the lands on earth. Then their dark spirits also realized that Jesus was the only true Heir of God’s throne over all the world, and the one true High Priest of their church, the “son” of the owner in this parable, the Son they would murder.
Yet those lying thieves had to keep up appearances, had to maintain their power which they were trying to steal from God. They had to continue to convince the people that the only effective and God-ordained solution to all their problems was to worship them, and blindly serve them by obeying all their psychopathic commands, by helping them brutally terrorize their siblings in the family of humankind through merciless violence. Those murdering liars also had to maintain their false image as “servants of God,” by telling the people that, as much as their sensitive souls hated to do it, they simply had to torture their inferiors until they blindly submitted to their godly authority, and murder all who still refused to submit with horrifyingly painful deaths, since they had to make an example of them, lest the ignorant masses might forget to bow to them. However, Jesus saw through all these lies, and His true disciples also began to realize they were lying too. Therefore, those liars could not tell Jesus that their answer to His question was to give those vile “husbandmen” one more chance, since Jesus knew they would never be able to humbly repent. And, since they themselves had never given even the truly repentant sinners a second chance, but ruled all through merciless violence, they could not possibly embarrass themselves in from of their dupes by saying that the vineyard Owner should give those unrepentant thieves another chance. They had to admit that God must kill them.
So, in front of all the people standing in this place, where God promised to always maintain His own presence, those lying thieves declared, in their own psychopathic way: “He will evilly destroy those evil ones and he will give the vineyard to other husbandmen, whomever will give him the fruits in their season” (Mat. 21:41, from: Κακοὺς κακῶς ἀπολέσει αὐτούς, καὶ τὸν ἀμπελῶνα ἐκδώσεται
ἄλλοις γεωργοῖς, οἵτινες ἀποδώσουσιν αὐτῷ τοὺς καρποὺς ἐν τοῖς καιροῖς αὐτῶν, SBLGNT). These thieves of God’s name and authority had to confess that God, the Owner of the church, must take back what rightfully belonged to Him alone. Yet they said that God “will evilly destroy” (κακῶς
ἀπολέσει) those evil husbandmen who tried to steal the vineyard owner’s property. For they knew they were the evil husbandmen in this parable. Yet they also wanted to portray themselves as good, and their destruction as an “evil” deed that God would do, not as a just punishment for those who beat and killed God’s true servants and His true Heir. Now, in Luke’s Gospel, it said that those fake church “leaders” simply stated: “He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and he will give the vineyard to others” (Luke 20:16a, from: ἐλεύσεται καὶ ἀπολέσει τοὺς γεωργοὺς τούτους, καὶ δώσει
τὸν ἀμπελῶνα ἄλλοις, SBLGNT). So Luke left out the part about how the vineyard owner “will evilly destroy those evil ones,” since Luke knew God never did anything evil or unjust. And God did indeed destroy those thieving church “leaders.” God caused all of them to die. Thus, all will surely be dragged to the gates of heaven, where most of their eternal souls will be condemned to hell. God will cast most out of His kingdom forever, into their beloved darkness for eternity. And Jesus’ face revealed that this was to be an unavoidable certainty. “So, after hearing [it], they said, ‘It possibly might not happen’” (Luke 20:16b, from: ἀκούσαντες δὲ εἶπαν· Μὴ γένοιτο., SBLGNT). But it did!
Just as all the fake church “leaders” of the past have died, so too will all who are now alive. And, in the same way those fake “leaders” of the ancient church sealed their own eternal fates in hell through their lies about God and His words, as well as through their murdering of innocent souls and their thefts from God’s creations, all today’s fake church “leaders” have sealed their fates in exactly the Page 1390
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same ways. So they hope “it possibly might not happen.” But the words of our God Jesus assure us that it definitely will happen. God surely will destroy all the unrepentant mega-church and mass-media preachers of our day, in hell for all eternity. We know because we are disciples who believe in Jesus and in His words. Since our God Jesus told us they will be destroyed, it certainly will happen.
Then there will also be a time when our God Jesus returns to earth, to judge all who live upon the earth, when “He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and he will give the vineyard to others.”
Time on earth is a strange, small thing. All past, present and future exist at once, as one moment of the non-linear time in the spiritual realm. And that spiritual time never knows the ravages of entropy.
Nothing in the spiritual space-time continuum ever dissipates into nothing. Here on earth, all of its physical life will die, since the earth is the birthplace of countless spirits, even all the children born in the image of God. Therefore, all these spirits here pass through this earthly time time into eternity, into already existing eternal homes now prepared for them. On earth, their spirits can only see now, although all that was and will be stands in that one moment of the now too, unalterably behind and before them, yet all within their spirits’ consciousness of the spiritual moment of now. Bound by flesh, the eyes of their spirits must follow the arrow of earthly time, fixed on the present alone. Flesh is just a blinder focusing them on the present, so their spirits can experience nothing else, until God casts that flesh off of those spirits. Therefore, right now, all we need for our flesh is the air, water, nourishment and comforts it requires, not ever any delusions of being able to exert power over God’s creations through an impossible concept of owning it. Rather than those delusions, our eternal spirits need to grow mature, must learn to love in a just way, just like God loves. For now, this is all we need for an abundant life, and now is literally all that we have while our spirits dwell upon the earth.
When human life casts off its flesh, like all spirits on earth must, the motives and intentions within each human spirit must be judged by the Creator, unlike any of the other spirits born in flesh upon the earth. For human spirits were granted the capacity to take responsibility for God’s creatures and tend the garden of the earth. And elect human spirits, created in God’s loving image, also possess an innate ability to build up life, in ways that other living souls on earth cannot, or else destroy life in ways that others cannot. So all human spirits, both the elect and non-elect, must give an account for their motives and intentions in what their spirits did on earth, although their physical actions will mean nothing, since God Himself allows or denies all human actions. Before God, who sees inside all, our spirits must face all we did or did not intend to do, and all our motives for all we did or even attempted to do. We will need to honeslty confess our love or lack of love for the lives that we needed to built up, or failed to help through wilful negligence, or unjustly tore down. And none will be able to lie before the piercing eyes of our Judge. Only human spirits must face this judgment, regarding how each loved or did not love. Every predestined life who built up any of the love that Jesus taught and trained to their spirits to acknowledge, will be granted it as a treasure that each can take with them into heaven and possess forever, as a keepsake of the eternal joy they found on earth.
But all the dark lies and delusions others used to steal from God, all who robbed the lives of God’s creations for their own carnal pleasures, all who ignored and therefore hated God, will be left with nothing but those dark lies and delusions, as their only possessions in a bottomless pit of empty hell.
Since all is predestined, this may not seem fair. Yet we must consider how this birth of our spirits takes place. First of all, the sum total of our spirits’ inherited attributes does not consist only of the propensities and potential characteristics granted at conception. Rather, our heavenly Father also grants all elect spirits growth upon this training ground of the earth, sometimes more growth for a period of many days in the flesh, but sometimes less, possibly even a death in the womb, before even being born. This depends on the kind of job He has appointed for us in our heavenly homeland. Then Page 1391
the same goes for the children of Satan, although the non-elect grow evil intentions and motives in their spirits. All human spirits are granted very real bodies of flesh on a very real earth for this one purpose, to grow, to develop the spiritual motives and intentions of their spirits. And this is surely real because this entire material space-time continuum is the transformed spiritual power of the one God. And His spiritual power is very real, even the most real reality existing. Thus, because all our spirits are limited to seeing the present alone, all spirits must think towards the future and learn from the past. As our spirits move along God’s appointed and predestined arrow of time, our spirits are taught and trained. So the inherent potentials of each spirit awake, become actual skills and abilities during our lives on earth. For elect human spirits, there will also be a long last day for teaching and training, to become completed and perfected. But spirits of animals and plants do not need this, since their spirits are created almost complete from the beginning, and it is God’s elect who will labour with God to perfect them in the works they will do in heaven. Then the human spirits created by the devil will not require any teaching time outside of heaven, because every moment they spend apart from hell only increases the quantity of their dark lies and delusions owned by their spirits. Then all their lies grown in them make their existence in the dark void more ungratifying and more painful.
So, for human spirits, it is usually not enough to be conceived in the womb of the earth. With the exception of some elect spirits who die young and require only the teaching and training they will receive at heaven’s gate, most other human spirits need the time God grants them on this earth, to develop the potential of what the inherent “genes” of their spirits provide. Just as a baby becomes more than one living cell in the womb, so do our spirits become more than the “genetic” components of what our heavenly Father created in our spirits, as we pass through linear time on earth. As our flesh forces us to focus on the present, created from the past and leading into the future, our spirits learn new intentions and motives from the past, to help us make right decisions in the future, though all that future already exists in this earthly present, just as all the past still exists in the earthly now.
So, while we are on the earth, on this training ground, all that our spirits learn from the past, and all the decisions our spirits will make in the future, according to the lessons we learned in the past, are critical to becoming all we shall be when we go to our eternal spiritual homes. And elect spirits must often learn much before they will be able to work beside their heavenly Father and their oldest Brother, as well as with their entire family of elect siblings in heaven. So all spirits on earth, except the non-elect brood of Satan, should cherish this great gift of life on earth, and use it to their full advantage, letting Jesus teach and train their spirits as much as possible. For elect spirits born on earth can learn and grow much before entering heaven. Yet angels and other elect spirits created in heaven have never been allowed to grow in the womb of the earth, because they were complete and whole from their beginnings. There are countless living entities in heaven who will never experience life on earth, who will never be able to actually feel the difference between what is of God and what is not of God. Thus, their love for God and their love for His truths can never grow as much as our love can. So elect human spirits, who were all born with a greater ability to experience their Father’s will than the animals on earth and the angels in heaven, who will also be thoroughly completed and perfected on the judgment day through a review of their earthly experiences, are the most fortunate of all created spirits. For our elect spirits were created in His image and will become just like Him.
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end for each earthly life at its appointed time. During this earthly time that each receives, each truth gained will build a solid foundation. And, upon that foundation of truths, our spirits will construct our love for God and for His creations, which will become our eternal spiritual treasures in heaven.
So here, in each elect soul’s personal present time, each one’s spirit expresses what it has learned, so others in their personal present times might ponder what they experience from that one, then judge it and perhaps turn to Jesus. Then their spirits might trust the teachings of our God Jesus too, so their elect spirits might also learn and grow. Although all past and future earthly times are actually only one moment of spiritual time, where there is no arrow of time and which is not linear, all elect spirits learn from whatever occurs in earthly time. Although all future earthly time has already happened at the beginning, when God put all earthly time into one spiritual moment, our spirits progressively learn during earthly time, and grow more each day as our spirits experience the very real arrow of earthly time that His power enforces upon our spirits. Then, at our appointed times, through the right or wrong decisions we made, our earthly bodies will die. But death will grant all the elect one more complete day at the gates of heaven, before they are born into maturity at their eternal homes. And, on that last day, certainly by the end of that day, all will see how they had been created to be exactly what they were at that spiritual moment, when they entered the gates of heaven. For their entire earthly lives were just one moment of time in that spiritual space-time continuum, and that spiritual
“continuum” is not a progressive flow of time, has no arrow of time. Of course, none of us can fully comprehend all this while living on earth. But we will soon see how our spirits dwell in a reality that has its beginning and its end existing at the same time, and how earthly time was actually the same.
On earth, we personally feel the dehumanizing blows of attempted and accomplished murder, and far too many sins that are much worse than that, even the deliberate blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Sins of others and sins of our own have wounded our minds and bodies of flesh with deep permanent scars. But all that pain will stop after our flesh is gone. And through it all, our spirits gained spiritual gold, silver and precious gems. For we love and are loved. So the wounds of temporary flesh were a small price to pay. This love was the reason for our short lives on earth. We live in these failing and damaged brains and bodies flesh, which we shall soon cast aside, to train our elect spirits for loving works which shall fulfill our spirits’ desires and destinies, for the day when we will be born in new bodies at home, in bodies which shall be whole and healed to perfection, and never feel pain again.
This is what Jesus was telling us, over and over again, throughout the entire time He walked with us in a body of flesh like ours. He came as our King who made just laws and ways for all lands, as the Great Prophet who uttered the very words of God’s heart, and as our eternal High Priest to counsel His disciples with pure wisdom, to build up just love in them. And, as our High Priest, Jesus made the one final sacrifice that nailed our lifetimes of sins to His own cross, gave our sins a death that no heavenly nor earthly entity can revive. Then He raised His sinless body from the dead, and raised our sin-free bodies of flesh too, so we can now live to learn just love and walk with Him forever. Now our spirits can trek forward, toward our home—which is actually close to us at all times, though it often seems far in this timeline of flesh, while our spirits must remain bound in it for a short season.
His Just Love Will Rule the Earth
So the fake priests, lying biblical scholars and unjust judges admitted that the true Owner should come with the sword to restore justice in His vineyard community, by eliminating the unrepentant thieves and merciless murderers. And all those religious fraud knew the thieves of the parable’s vineyard represented them, since they had slaughtered honest servants of God sent to them, and were now about to murder the body of true High Priest and Messiah sent by God, the unique Son of God.
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So, although they would never admit they were trying to steal God’s church from Him, Jesus told them: “You men never read in the Scriptures, ‘A stone which those now building rejected, this has been intentionally put into the head of the corner. This is caused by the Lord, and it is wondrous in our eyes.’ Because of this, I reason with you [men] that the kingdom of God will be lifted away from you and will be given to an identifiable group of people continuously bearing her fruits. And the one who fell upon the stone, this one will be altogether broken to pieces. Yet the one upon whom it might fall, it will grind him into powder” (Mat. 21:42-44, from: Οὐδέποτε ἀνέγνωτε ἐν ταῖς γραφαῖς· Λίθον
ὃν ἀπεδοκίμασαν οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες οὗτος ἐγενήθη εἰς κεφαλὴν γωνίας· παρὰ κυρίου ἐγένετο αὕτη, καὶ ἔστιν θαυμαστὴ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ἡμῶν; διὰ τοῦτο λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι ἀρθήσεται ἀφʼ ὑμῶν ἡ βασιλεία
τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ δοθήσεται ἔθνει ποιοῦντι τοὺς καρποὺς αὐτῆς. Καὶ ὁ πεσὼν ἐπὶ τὸν λίθον τοῦτον
συνθλασθήσεται· ἐφʼ ὃν δʼ ἂν πέσῃ λικμήσει αὐτόν, SBLGNT). Here Jesus was clearly giving us an infallible prophecy, declaring this will surely occur when He returns to judge all survivors on earth.
To understand this, we must realize who Jesus was speaking about. Without this context, we cannot comprehend this ominous prophecy of our God. First, we need to understand that Jesus spoke these threatening words to the chief priests, to worldly and ambitious physical descendants of Aaron who had usurped God’s authority over His own temple, who wrestled faith out of the hands of the people, who caused the people to worship them instead of God. These frauds were in charge of assigning tasks to the other Levitical priests, but employed that priesthood to serve their own unjust purposes, not God’s purposes. They had criminally abused the entire church of Israel in extremely toxic ways.
Jesus was also addressing esteemed Bible scholars in Jerusalem, the most trusted authoritative Jewish teachers of life and faith in all the world. But these were not all the most honest and wise of the scholars, only the professors of doctrines endorsed by other fraudulent scholars. But the most loving and true scholars had all been expelled because they opposed the lying administrators of the Jewish schools. For there was no free speech in those schools. And that lack of freedom allowed the most cunning and selfishly ambitious liars to take over those schools. Thus, the principal reason that the church “leaders” brought these supposed “experts” to their public confrontation with their God Jesus, was to help them justify their false interpretations of God’s Word, in the ways they designed to deceive the people. They needed fake experts to convince the people that they should believe their religious lies and false doctrines. And all these deceiving scholars were well-trained in homiletics, very skilled in looking confident, friendly, helpful and wise, though they sought to enslave souls.
Lastly, Jesus was speaking to the teaching and judging elders, but only the authorities who served as the dupes of the chief priests, only those whom those frauds owned and had illicitly inserted into the higher positions of authority. For those elders seemed to walk behind the chief priests and did their bidding. And the chief priests obviously had commanded those corrupt puppet elders to make falsely condemning judgments against Jesus. Thus, they judged Jesus unjustly and with extreme prejudice, not through a fair trial which heard reliable and cross-examined witnesses, not basing judgments solely on evidence, not through a godly consideration of the accused one’s motives and intentions.
So Jesus was proclaiming this prophecy in front of all these biased frauds in the temple, before the illicit “leadership” of a church which falsely claimed to be God’s true church of Israel, and in front of every kind of fake “authority” those chief priests had placed at the top of their own fake religious hierarchy. This was an organization established by Satan through his human minions, not the real Israel, not the Jewish elect whom God loved, not the spiritual children of Abraham whose hearts truly trusted the words of God. These liars would be destroyed by God, and not by men, because all of them hated God. As for the lesser authorities and the common Jews who thought they had no choice but to obey those higher authorities, they too were guilty, since they aided and abetted the Page 1394
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crimes of those chief frauds. But those lesser authorities and common Jews did so through total ignorance, just like the elect Gentiles who had aided and abetted Satan’s psychopaths in the Roman Empire. All those lesser Jews were enslaved by lies, and only very loosely united against their God, solely by the half baked conspiracy theories invented by their fake and illicit authorities. So those lesser Jews would be subject to a lesser judgment, based on their lesser motives and intentions. But, in reality, the highest illicit authorities could bear no power if those lesser ones had recognized that only God can be the final Authority, Lawmaker and Judge over all human beings and all that exists.
Therefore, literally the entire leadership of that church was guilty and condemned by God, because literally all had willingly and deliberately partaken in countless crimes of theft from God and His people. All those illicit “leaders” had wilfully murdered innocent souls who exposed their hypocrisy, by proclaiming false teachings and unjust judgments against them. And all sinned in far worse ways too, by deliberately trespassing against the first five orders of God’s laws. Then, to maintain their illicit power and incomes, they all refused to repent whenever their lies and sins were confronted by honest witnesses. For they all loved Satan’s rewards, which their hellish father gave for building up his unjust kingdom on earth. None cared for the eternal reward of love founded on truth. So all those frauds laboured like slaves, weary day after sleepless night, to maintain their despotic and unjust system of fake religion. And, yes, those who esteemed and served those wanna-be human gods were also guilty, since they aided and abetted their crimes. Many Jews shared in God’s just and necessary condemnation, because they kept those fake authorities in power. By esteeming and serving those fake authorities, they had worshipped those human idols instead of God. Knowing they were to have no other gods but God, they bowed before those men as their final authorities in all matters of life and faith. And that was, by the definition of God in His Word, the sin of idolatry. Yet many of those common Jews could actually love in a just and God-like way. Many were able to repent into the truth and be forgiven, to restore their relationship with Yahweh God, since they acted in total ignorance through deception. And their spirits were actually willing to repent into the truth, once they heard it.
So God’s church of Israel had been usurped by fakes, who were almost as bad as the fakes in the Roman Catholic church or other psychopathic Roman-like Protestant heretics throughout history, although not as bad as some of the religious fakes we see in false churches today. Of course, those who worship religious liars in our day cannot find as much of an excuse for doing so, since all have free access to the Scriptures, and to honest servants of God who testify about the truth. And they even have secular scientists who have revealed the irreducible complexity, harmony and wisdom of God’s creations, which reveal His attributes of wisdom and omnipotence. But the people supporting those fake priests back then had none of this, until Jesus came to them. And not all had a chance to hear Jesus either, nor an opportunity to read His words in a Bible they could afford. So the deceived of the past often made themselves almost as guilty as the sons of the devil “leading” them, although not as guilty as those upholding the murderous Roman church and other false churches of our day.
So those fake religious leaders, and the idolaters who placed blind faith in them, had surely earned their own condemnation, although the deceived followers of those chief liars did not deserve nearly as much condemnation as the enemies of Jesus in today’s churches. For very few Jews in that ancient fake church were actively and consciously building up Satan’s kingdom of his psychopathic beast, unlike today’s ruthless fake churches, who consciously support the prototypes of the devil’s beast, who worship mindless, blind psychopaths like Hitler, Trump and Putin, who put them into power.
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the truths taught by their Messiah, whose contrite hearts began to worship the real God instead of the fake gods invented by their false churches. Jesus assured them that, although He would first submit to death until He chose to raise up His body of flesh into life again, He was surely coming to judge and destroy all His unrepentant enemies, all who continuously attempt to steal His church and His creations. Yet the power of His enemies has only grown throughout the centuries, and their ability to deceive has advanced their unjust causes even more. So why did God allow this? God has let them get away with all this because He is just, and will not judge the earth until it is ready to be judged.
The earth will not be ready to be judged until the wicked have proved their wilful refusal to repent into the real and readily accessible truth, and until the elect have had a genuine opportunity to repent into that same truth. God will not judge the earth until He divides the elect from the non-elect, until those who love the injustice of Satan’s world order are exposed, so the elect can part from them and worship their Father, the Creator God. Therefore, while the wicked have been lying, our just God, at the very same time, has been revealing ever more spiritual and moral truths, every moment of each passing millennium. Our God Jesus has been exposing truths about Himself and His ways, even through our empirical observations of His creations in the true sciences. So, in our day, we have almost reached the point where the earth is left without any excuse for disbelief, without any delusions to cause any hatred of God. Now God has thoroughly exposed the sources of injustice.
Certainly, at the very least, no one alive can no longer find even the slightest reason to worship any human beings, since all the previously hidden attributes of human selfishness, sinfulness and pure stupidity are now broadcast from the rooftops, for all who are willing to hear. With all God reveals, He has left all without excuse, with no possible way to justify any wanna-be god’s lies, murderous ambitions, dark delusions and injustice. Yes, many still believe and worship lying psychopaths, then raise them into positions of power over themselves. Yet, as they worship those fake authorities, they not only heap up damnation upon their own greedy, empty souls, but even more of God’s wrath upon their lying human idols. And, since those lies and sins are more exposed than they ever have in the past, but the liars possess less power to falsely justify their crimes than they ever had in all history, the non-elect feel more anxious. As a consequence, those non-elect resort to using even greater violence and terror to gain and maintain power. But, at the same time, the righteous loving precepts of God can also be learned and embraced by all with willing ears too. Thus, this world is externally and rapidly growing worse, but also better, as we approach the day of Christ’s return. And we will soon see both an extreme physical destruction of the earth as well as the restoring spiritual wonders of God, in greater measures than we have ever experienced throughout history. After the elect and non-elect have been separated, Jesus will come with His justice, against the evil and for His elect.
In all this chaos, death, pain and destruction, we can now see three levels of blame. The suffering, unjust deaths and inequity of this world have been almost exclusively caused by all the self-serving, ignorant and extremely evil wanna-be gods whom the people chose for themselves. By the deliberate actions of these worshipped “leaders” against God and against God’s just ways, as well as by their wilful negligence in failing to provide for the health and welfare of God’s people, the entire world has almost been permanently ruined, and barely able to sustain life. So the people are confused, angry and stupidly reacting to all this, often in ways that provide even more power to the destroying puppets of the devil. Many have no hope, only rage. Many will not look to the Redeemer who can restore all, but insist on esteeming and serving the very human gods who are killing them and their children. Thus, many remain guilty and will be condemned. But their human gods, who ruthlessly deceive and exploit them, are far more guilty and will be condemned far more than their followers.
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Illicit human powers, in the secular governing bodies and false churches of our land, will trip upon the Rock of the Messiah when He returns, and “will be altogether broken to pieces.” Yet God has created His church of Israel’s true priesthood to counsel all nations and their secular authorities. And God has been laying the groundwork of truth and His just ways throughout the earth, preparing for the day when He will revive His church in a visible, effective, influential form. Then some nations will indeed turn to them for counsel, and will bring true justice to their lands, so their people can live and love in peace. But, when fakes take over the religion and philosophies of other lands, through a false moral and spiritual counsel which serves only their own flesh, they will starve and poison all the vital organs of their own corporate body. When they rob a land of God’s truth, they steal away its heart and soul. As they cause their people to choose psychopaths as the authorities over them, they sentence their nations to death. Thus, the priests of fake religion are the most guilty and condemned of all. Those nice, friendly priests who false claim to bring God’s counsel to governments and to the people will be crushed more than the secular despots who rely on them, and more than any of their dupes. Religious fakes will be first to be judged and destroyed at Christ’s return. He “will grind them into powder,” casting their souls into the darkest and most fragmented lies and delusions of hell for all eternity. For it is their darkest darkness which hides our Lord’s brightest and most beneficial light.
The fake priests of this world are the worst souls on all the earth. So God will condemn and punish them the most. Then Jesus will destroy all the illicit and unjust judges of every kind, in all governing bodies, businesses and “leadership” capacities. Lastly, the “powerless” people, who chose to worship human beings instead of God, will be condemned—if their spirits refuse to fully repent into truth and justice through God-like love, to save God’s children and themselves. It does not matter how much power and authority the brood of Satan might think they have stolen from God, since it is all a mere delusion. In reality, all the abusive “leaders” on earth will surely cower on the judgment day and die the second death. For not one truly owned anything, never in a way that could make “their property”
subject to their own wills, never in the way that God truly owns all. Thus, our loving, honest, wise and almighty God laughs at their petty little impotent threats, and will turn His wrath against them with irresistible power, until their spirits are forced to flee into the darkness of their eternal homes.
There always will be this indisputable fact shining over all the earth, “that the kingdom of God will be lifted away from” all fake priests and illicit authorities. Then Jesus will grant His priesthood and His entire earth “to an identifiable group of people continuously bearing her fruits,” to a world-wide
“nation” of loving and just elect souls. The only ones to whom Jesus will grant any authority, will be His faithful disciples. And the people of all nations will elect only thoroughly vetted elders to teach and judge them, only loving servants of the people, only the men whom God has chosen to do His works according to His will. All priests and judges will have elect spirits bearing “just and God-like love; inwardly calm joy; peace with God; strength to endure difficulties; wise goodness; beneficial virtue; trust in God’s words, power and love; gentle mildness; and the ability of one’s own spirit to make the critical decisions of life according to the counsel of Jesus’ Spirit” (Gal. 5:22-23, from: ἀγάπη, χαρά, εἰρήνη, μακροθυμία, χρηστότης, ἀγαθωσύνη, πίστις, πραΰτης, ἐγκράτεια, SBLGNT).
To drive this point home, Jesus quoted from a Messianic Psalm. Psalm 118 begins with a prayer and an exhortation, pleading with God to open the eyes of His people so they might see His loving, wise, just truths. At the same time, the psalmist begs his brothers and sisters, in the church of his land, to open their hearts with gratitude, to see how life on earth, in spite of its hardship and death, is full of God’s just kind of love. The soul of this psalmist wanted all to see God as he did, to thank their heavenly Father for providing overflowing rivers and seas of this most precious of all treasures, His plenteous and unlimited light, even enough for all His people to freely give and receive. Then He Page 1397
scolded Israel for not recognizing this, exhorting them: “Let Israel now say that His loving kindness endures forever” (Ps. 118:2, WEB). For this gift of being able to love will never be taken from them.
That psalmist went on to testify that we all can personally approach the almighty Creator God, and He will personally answer each of us, using His power to free our spirits and provide for our souls.
For this psalmist himself experienced this kind of relationship with the God of heaven and earth. So he knew that all the elect on earth can find it too. Then he concludes, “I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” (Ps. 118:5, WEB). Yes, men and demons may be granted a temporary power to kill his temporary body of flesh, and send his spirit home to his Father above. But they can do nothing to his spirit, nor to the treasures of love within it. If his flesh is in pain, it might shut down the counsel of his spirit in his chamber of the soul, for a time. Yet his spirit itself cannot be touched by any entity on earth or in heaven, since it is firmly guarded by his omniscient, omnipotent God. Thus, whether his flesh lives or dies, his spirit continuously asserts: “Yahweh is on my side, among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me” (Ps. 118:7, WEB). The other elect, even the angels of heaven, were on God’s side, just as he was on God’s side. Consequently, any work that God has sent him to do would be completed in the end. There was no chance of failure, only victory.
By these honest testimonies and teachings, he wanted the people of God’s priesthood in the church of Israel to realize and believe, “It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man”
(Ps. 118:8, WEB). After this, the psalmist began another prophecy, words of our God Jesus in future times, and quoted Him saying this: “All the nations surrounded Me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off” (Ps. 118:10, WEB). During the Messiah’s first advent, both the false Israel and Satan’s world order, even that devil’s fourth kingdom of the Roman Empire, surrounded Jesus, to murder His flesh. But He rose from the dead, lives now, is building up His kingdom on earth. And He will soon return to cut off His enemies in death, then nullify all their evil works, lies and dark delusions.
Jesus sent a message to the devil and all the minions of that enemy. With His bodily resurrection and ascension into the spiritual realm, He sat upon His throne as the High King over all existence, as a fully glorified co-regent with His Father and His Holy Spirit, as the one and only Creator God. And this prophecy spoke volumes. With certainty, our Messiah proclaimed: “I will not die, but live,and inscribe God’s works” (Ps. 118:17), even upon the whole earth. Although the Father would punish the Messiah severely as a payment for His people’s sins, with the torturous death of His body, His loving Father would not allow His Holy Spirit in that body to be separated from the one God in hell.
Rather, Jesus would rise to carve God’s works into His earthly kingdom, even in a way that would inscribe the just and loving fulfillment of His own Law upon all the spirits of all His elect siblings, ultimately to completion and perfection. For, on the last day, all will enter “the gate of Yahweh” into the new Jerusalem, where each one’s eternal home shall wait with all its inner comforts, enjoyable foods and specialized tools for each one’s predestined occupation. This is the salvation of our God.
Our God and Messiah irrevocably grants this salvation to each of us. But false churches, working in conjunction with Satan’s world order, have all cast out and murdered Jesus. They reject and despise the first and foremost stone laid down by God, the marking stone, from which the places of all God’s elect are measured and fitted, the example and guide for every individual member of God’s city on earth. But He rose again. “The Stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.
This is Yahweh’s doing. It is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!” (Ps. 118:22-24, WEB). His resurrection was ordained from the beginning of created earthly time, for our benefit, as an essential aspect of gathering elect spirits into heaven.
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Now the chief priests, Bible scholars and teaching elders, whom Jesus was addressing that day, had all heard the words of this Psalm. And all had dreamed up various kinds of self-serving meanings for its words. Yet not one had actually understood these Scriptures. None of their spirits examined this Psalm with the intent of finding God’s true and intended meaning, the interpretation that God gave to these words when He revealed them to the spirit of this psalmist. Thus, none had ever even begun to see how its rebukes, particularly the part about God’s enemies rejecting His chief corner stone, were for them. Nor did they realize that the temple of God represented the body of the Messiah, where the Spirit of God would reside on the earth. And now they were plotting to murder God in a body of human flesh, who was represented by the very same stone temple in which they were standing. None of these fake religious leaders could comprehend how the Messiah came to save the spirits of all His elect siblings on earth, nor how Jesus was building His temple with them. These “great” men were totally incapable of conceiving how this anointed and sinless Heir of God’s eternal throne came to mark the position of every other stone being laid, as He built up the corporate body of God’s living temple for the new Jerusalem in heaven. However, when they heard these words from the mouth of their God Jesus, and saw the wrath in His eyes, their spirits could not help but realize that He was surely referring to them. They had rejected the cornerstone of God’s temple, and as God’s enemies.
Of course, awake elect spirits also see anger in the eyes of Jesus. And, when the elect see His anger, they also tremble, but only because their love for Him cannot bear to offend Him. Yet elect spirits never fear His abandonment or that He will harm their spirits, no matter what they may say or do, although He might chastise them if they hurt others. And, since the love and life of their spirits originates from Him, they are becoming like Him. So, since He serves and never harms even the least of His creation’s spirits, the awakened elect also want to serve His creations and do not want to hurt or upset His Holy Spirit, whom their spirits love, trust, honour, esteem and emulate. Naturally, their flesh often rejects and despises Him, when it is not checked by their spirits. Then even their infantile spirits sometimes have little tantrums as well. Still, all elect spirits truly get to know their heavenly Father and Brother as they grow older, whether or not they know Him by name. Literally all elect spirits who have ever existed all over the world become familiar with His unconditional, completely steadfast and just love. And this is why His principles of true justice and love have all become universal, and are found in all parts of the world throughout history, because they are always recognized by the elect. Yet their love for Him, which grows from conception, and their inherent desire to be like Him, also makes them terrified of becoming unlike Him, or upsetting His utterly holy, just, loving heart, and causes their spirits to fear injustice and a lack of love in themselves.
Therefore, if an elect soul stands before our God Jesus, hearing His angry words burn away every lie and delusion created by their flesh, in the same way those “leaders” of the church stood before Him that day, the elect one would immediately flee to a private place for prayer to seek repentance into Christ’s truth, with the deepest godly sorrow a spirit can possibly experience. And this is one of the fruits of the spirit revealing election, one of the ways we know when we have found an elect brother or sister. But look at the reaction of these highly esteemed “leaders” of the church, who pretended to be sanctified for God’s service, who lied when they said they served God’s purposes: “Then the chief priests and Pharisees, after hearing His parables, knew that He was now reasoning about them. And, seeking to seize Him, they became afraid of the crowd, since [the crowd] took Him for a prophet”
(Mat. 21:45-46, from: Καὶ ἀκούσαντες οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι τὰς παραβολὰς αὐτοῦ ἔγνωσαν
ὅτι περὶ αὐτῶν λέγει· καὶ ζητοῦντες αὐτὸν κρατῆσαι ἐφοβήθησαν τοὺς ὄχλους, ἐπεὶ εἰς προφήτην
αὐτὸν εἶχον, SBLGNT). So these fake spiritual guides and most trusted servants of the church of Israel displayed none of the attributes of the elect, only selfish, arrogant, vengeful attributes of the Page 1399
non-elect children of the devil. They knew what Jesus meant as He reasoned with the people, but did not even begin to repent into that truth. Instead, they continued to plot against the one and only Heir of the vineyard. Furthermore, although Jesus had just finished quoting the psalm that famously spoke about how God’s elect should not fear men, the only reason these cowards stopped trying to seize Jesus was because they feared men, but not God. If they were true servants of God and were doing God’s real works, why did they fear the people of God’s priesthood, who all knew God’s just Law?
These testified historical facts prove the obvious. Regardless of how eloquently those churchy men uttered empty words of fake praise for God and quoted His words, they actually hated both God and His words. No matter how much trust and esteem they cunningly stole from the people, in reality, they were not worthy of any of it. For they were the non-elect children of Satan, sent as his spies and saboteurs into the church of Israel. They adeptly pretended to be God’s faithful servants, but only so they might dupe God’s elect into worshipping them, as they robbed them of their faith in the real God and in His real truths. And their pride in their clerical robes, which indicated their positions in their hierarchies established by Satan, may have fooled many, but they could not fool our God Jesus.
Now you may wonder how the priesthood of Israel could look around them, see the poverty and the injustice in their church and in their land, then continue to follow those clearly loveless, ruthless and unjust “leaders” of their church. How could the see the fruits of dehumanizing oppression coming from the spirits of those men and still think they were servants of God? But we must remember that these psychopaths always transferred the blame for their own sins to the innocent, while they also projected their own crimes upon those who were trying to save their victims from destruction. Thus, they called our infinitely wise and honest Jesus the deceiver who was leading them all into loss and destruction. They falsely claimed that Jesus was the one corrupting them and ruining their church, although it had actually been those self-destructive, foolish liars and their fathers all along, since their only ambition was to get the people to worship them, instead of God. That is, those deceivers were exactly like the vast majority of church “leaders” throughout history, and almost as bad as the church “leaders” are today. None of their hearts had the Creator God’s invisible seal pressed upon it.
Nevertheless, all the prophecies of the Bible will come to pass in the predestined future. Our God, who cannot lie and cannot possible fail, will ensure that His kingdom on earth “will be lifted away from [the wanna-be gods] and will be given to an identifiable group of people continuously bearing her fruits.” A world-wide church of elect, whose spirits learn to hear the counsel of Christ’s Holy Spirit, are being raised up to establish just love in this world. Jesus is now teaching and training each elect spirit, just as He has done from the day He ascended into heaven. But the days are coming, and have now arrived, when the multitudes of elect siblings begin to recognize the name of that inner voice. All elect will consciously know it is Jesus who is guiding the spirits in their hearts and souls.
All will soon see the sixth seal’s world-wide earthquakes, with meteors striking the earth, and the end times pour out God’s wrath upon the devil’s fourth kingdom of Rome. Then, because the Holy Spirit of Jesus will awaken and revive their elect spirits, all will repent. In the end, Jesus will return, in a body of flesh like ours, to stop the worship of human gods, so all His creations will be freed to do God’s loving and just will on earth, as it is done in heaven, until He will take all home with Him.
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A Kingdom of Common Folk
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those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come. Again he sent out other servants, saying, “Tell those who are invited, ‘Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!’” But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
“‘When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, “The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy. Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.” Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
“‘But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing, and he said to him, “Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?” He was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, “Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.” For many are called, but few chosen.’” (Mat. 22:1-14, WEB).
Jesus had turned away from the fake church “leaders” and began to address the loving elect souls of Israel, those who were not the “leaders,” those who were not wealthy nor powerful wanna-be gods.
Jesus addressed the common folk, both the good and the bad, all whose elect spirits had come to see this forgiver of sins who healed their spirits and flesh. For Jesus wanted these ones to know how the kingdom of God functioned. They needed to realize why Satan’s world order had rejected them, had not let them receive his rewards of wealth and power, like that devil’s elite did. It was because God chooses only those willing to wear His free garments of righteousness, those whose spirits carefully heed His personal teaching and training for repentance into the truth. And such are not Satan’s elite.
Here it is clearly implied that this King gave each soul at the top of Satan’s hierarchy a chance to repent, although all preferred to receive the material rewards of the flesh over the spiritual food that their Messianic King offered to them. So none of those elite were worthy of life, and all were taken away. Only the common folk came and proved themselves worthy of life. Yet, among all those who loved the King, a pretender was found. Each one attending His Son’s wedding feast put on a new garment of loving righteousness, the only kind fit for wearing in His presence. Most cast off their old soiled rags of compromise and sin, which they wore to survive in this world, and gladly covered their shame with His new garments. And, to be sure, their old garments were dirty rags, since this King summoned only the common people to His wedding, those labouring or resting near the roads stretching throughout His land, “both bad and good.” That is, He gathered the most lowly. And, in those days, a fine garment, fit for the king’s presence, cost what an average working man would earn over a period of a years. Consequently, the wise, just, generous King did not expect any of these poorer souls to own a “wedding garment” like that, when He called them to His royal palace. So, He must have freely given a new garment, of suitable worth and beauty, to each individual after they entered His personal estate. And each would have been also granted an opportunity to bath and make oneself presentable. For this was a very special occasion, which this King desired more than all else.
So how could this King later find a man who would not wear His gift of that costly clothing? This man seemed to be one who did not value the chance to become loving and just, one who preferred to gain Satan’s rewards. And we are not told what he did with that new and very expensive garment the King gave him. He have sold it, though it was purchased with the high price of sinless blood shed on Page 1401
a cross. That man was content to wear his own old and filthy clothes, the same garments he wore when he was called. And he somehow thought these would be good enough for that King and the King’s only Heir, whose blood purchased that new garment. So this man had no love nor respect for either the true King or His chosen Heir. This King hater represented those who did not repent into a new life, who saw no personal value in expressing loving righteousness through trust. This kind of man preferred the money he could get by selling his own righteous, the carnal rewards of the world order, rather than the just love which the fine wedding garment symbolized. So this made that King extremely angry. Thus, instead of receiving a life of ease and esteem in the dark world order, God gave that man bonds of sin, then cast his inner being into the utter darkness of his selfish delusions.
The Unworthy Self-Called
Now remember, Jesus began by declaring that this parable would describe what “the kingdom of the heavens” (ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν) would be like. So, again, the plural word “heavens” meant that His parable described the way in which God ruled both His temporary creation of the earth and His eternal spiritual realm. This parable would tell us what God’s character and inner attributes were like, how He hated those who took from His kingdom to serve their own selfish purposes but were not willing to sacrifice even one day to serve His purposes. Clearly, in this parable, the King is God, the King’s Son is Jesus. So the wedding feast was to celebrate the fulfilling of all the prophecies about the Messiah coming to join with His bride. And, of course, His bride is the church of Israel.
Jesus had arrived to guide, guard and fulfill the lives of His serving priesthood, which He created through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. His headship over the church of Israel was like a marriage, and the invitations to the wedding feast represented His first advent, when He became the only eternal High Priest of Israel, when He announced that the voice of God’s Holy Spirit would now personally teach and train the spirits of His elect. Jesus had inherited the throne of God’s Kingdom, had become the King over all the earth, and would now require a bride to stand by His side. When that bride was taken, He would begin His rule. Therefore, He announced His wedding to all His subject authorities.
Now, at first, God “sent his slaves on a mission, to call the called ones for the wedding” (Mat. 22:3, from: ἀπέστειλεν τοὺς δούλους αὐτοῦ καλέσαι τοὺς κεκλημένους εἰς τοὺς γάμους, SBLGNT). These
“slaves” of the parable’s king represented many of the faithful prophets and teachers of God’s Word and Law in the Old Covenant Scriptures, including John the baptizer. They also included many of God’s faithful prophets and elders sent out in New Covenant times, elect spirits who knew Jesus as their only Head and Lord, as the only Owner of their lives. All these true “slaves” of God refused worship human gods more than the one Creator God. The souls of these “slaves” heeded their only God as their only Owner and Lord. These “slaves” spoke the truths that their beloved God told their spirits to testify about, to their neighbours. They were the honest elect, who saw the injustice in their lands, who realized there was a far better reason to live than the hope of status and carnal rewards offered by the devil’s world order. Then, of course, the unworthy “called ones” here were all those who falsely claimed to be servants of God—all the self-righteous “leaders” of fake churches, all who worshipped those “leaders,” and all of society’s ruling elders, all who judged and made laws in the name of God, all who were granted His authority—but who actually served only themselves instead.
Now notice how Jesus said “the called ones ... were not willing to come” (τοὺς κεκλημένους ... οὐκ
ἤθελον ἐλθεῖν). Here Jesus used the durative imperfect tense of θέλω, rather than an aorist form. And He did this to indicate that their will to avoid the king’s wedding feast was continuous and ongoing, a persistent unwillingness. These souls had never loved their King and God, and cared nothing for His only Heir of heaven and earth. Yet these were the “called ones,” the kind of people expected to Page 1402
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attend the King’s wedding feast. In other words, all these “called ones” held some kind of claim to positions of influence and authority in His kingdom. All had been “called” to serve God, the King, either as teaching and judging elders in His church or to a secular ministry which carried some form of managerial authority over the King’s people and lands. These “called ones” were representatives of the King, appointed to serve His land in His name. Yet they were not willing to rejoice with the King when His Son’s Holy Spirit was made available to all, through the sacrificial works of His Son, for the wondrous eternal marriage of Him with His church. God repeatedly sent His faithful slaves to call those self-proclaimed servants of God. Yet all repeatedly refused to acknowledge His authority.
As the King sent His faithful slaves a second time, He told them to give those unwilling ministers a message: “Tell the called ones, ‘Look, my early meal was prepared and is now ready to be eaten. My bull and the fattened animals have been slain with much meat provided. Even all [is] prepared. Come for the wedding!’” (Mat. 22:4, from: Εἴπατε τοῖς κεκλημένοις· Ἰδοὺ τὸ ἄριστόν μου ἡτοίμακα, οἱ
ταῦροί μου καὶ τὰ σιτιστὰ τεθυμένα, καὶ πάντα ἕτοιμα· δεῦτε εἰς τοὺς γάμους, SBLGNT). Jesus was talking about a royal wedding celebration which lasted many days. And, since the day that our King, our God, first called those pretending to serve as His priesthood and as His administrators of justice, many days had passed, the wedding had already occurred and the feast had already begun. The first meal or breakfast (ἄριστον) had been prepared by then, on the day after the Son had consummated the marriage, and was now ready (as indicated by the perfect tense of ἑτοιμάζω). Yet none of those pretenders were there. The ceremonial bull, which was sacrificed for the sins that the appointed priests may have brought upon the people, a sacrifice to establish peace with God, and a restored relationship with Him, had been slaughtered too (Lev. 4:3-12). Fattened livestock had already been butchered for the feasting day as well, and was now curing in the storage rooms. All was prepared for this wedding feast, when the Heir would announce His policies to His subject rulers. All the gifts of our Father and oldest Brother, gifts of God’s Holy Spirit, were available for these people, waiting to be consumed, to nourish them and become a part of them. Yet not one came to receive any of it.
So the days of waiting for the appointed subject rulers to come, after the invitations were sent, would represent the time after Jesus had ratified the New Covenant with His blood, and after He rose from the dead to inherit the Father’s kingdom. And the day of the first meal or breakfast was the first day after the marriage had been consummated through the coming revival during the sixth seal’s era, when the bride has begun to serve with the Heir on His throne. So the second calling of the “called ones” represented the times after the final great revival, just before God’s wrath would destroy the entire world order. “Yet, after paying no regard [to the king’s message], they departed, where each of some [returned] into his own land, each of others [embarked] upon his business, but the rest violently seized his slaves and killed them” (Mat. 22:5-6, from: οἱ δὲ ἀμελήσαντες ἀπῆλθον, ὃς μὲν
εἰς τὸν ἴδιον ἀγρόν, ὃς δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν ἐμπορίαν αὐτοῦ· οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ κρατήσαντες τοὺς δούλους αὐτοῦ
ὕβρισαν καὶ ἀπέκτειναν, SBLGNT). This will be exactly what will happen after the great revival, during the era of the seventh seal. Jesus sent His Holy Spirit into His faithful elect on that day of the Pentecost. But the church of Israel and secular governments disregarded the Son of God. Fake New Covenant churches rose up to do the same. And the governing authorities in all lands and in all businesses on earth did likewise. All cared nothing for the High King and His Heir. All these deluded souls wanted to be the owners of God’s lands and profit from their businesses, even at the expense of God’s people and creations, whom they ruthlessly exploited. All believed that they alone should be worshipped as gods of God’s property, which God gave them stewardship over. All tried to usurp the authority of the true Owner. Therefore, in the end times, the King will call them just one last time.
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Yet the day will come when our High King acts against those whom He had granted positions of influence and power over His people and His lands, since they disdained His generosity and good will toward them. “Now the king was caused emotional turmoil and dispatched His soldiers. He killed those murderers and burned their city” (Mat. 22:7, from: ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς ὠργίσθη, καὶ πέμψας
τὰ στρατεύματα αὐτοῦ ἀπώλεσεν τοὺς φονεῖς ἐκείνους καὶ τὴν πόλιν αὐτῶν ἐνέπρησεν, SBLGNT).
Actually, our King has repeatedly expressed His wrath against the selfish subject rulers of His lands throughout the past two millenniums; to every fake church, to every cult, to every despot who ever raised a sword against the honest souls opposing his lies, to every greedy soul who has robbed or exploited God’s people and lands. But, although their hatred of God and His ways has caused them to murder God’s faithful servants, God has not yet completely annihilated them all. But make no mistake, that time is surely coming. God will send His earthly and heavenly soldiers to destroy them all and will burn their corrupt kingdoms. The four horsemen of the first four seals in the Revelation to John are only some of His soldiers, and have been punishing the wicked for twenty centuries. And the time of the fifth seal, when authorities murder souls in God’s true church of Israel, was opened in about the fifteenth century, and their murdering increased exponentially in the 20th century. So His wrath increased. Thus, the sixth seal, with a world-wide earthquake and meteors striking all over the earth, will soon initiate His revival of purity in His church. And, very soon after that, God’s wrath will pour out upon the devil’s world order, during the brief days of the seventh seal, and will surely complete its utter destruction on the day Jesus returns to us. Then the survivors will be gathered into His wedding feast, into a celebration of His loving righteousness which shall finally pervade the earth. And that celebration will last a very long earthly time, even for more than a thousand years.
Our just and loving God and King, who owns us, shall eternally destroy anyone pretending to own us, and now forbids anyone to treat us as their own property. For our Owner teaches and trains all His people to be free, wants all to learn to apply the good, loving truths He whispers in our hearts, so we all might find and fulfill the inner calling He created each individual to seek. And He does not want any of us to steal His universally granted freedom from anyone. Because His earth is a training ground for His elect children, there always will be some non-elect souls who try to steal our freedom commanded by our King. And they will succeed, if we let them, if we do not go to our Kind and do what He tells our spirits to do. Yet our King will patiently delay His wrath against those usurpers of His authority, whenever His people permit those liars to rule over them. However, our God Jesus will not always hold back His rage against those enslavers and exploiters, nor their enablers. And His wrath shall fall heaviest upon the fake priests who lead us into errors and sins, who abuse His name for their own profit and pleasure. For God knows those pretenders continuously lie about Him and His faithful slaves, then even murder His messengers who come to us in order to do His good, just, loving works. And the motive for those murders is simply because they do not want His works to interfere with their selfish plans. But, since our Owner loves His created slaves enough to adopt them as His children, and He wants all His beloved slaves to learn how to be free—to develop every inherent propensity and skill He gave each at birth, so each one’s spirit may become loving in a just, unconditional way, in the way He loves—He will utterly destroy all who try to prevent His works in the spirits of His slaves. He will command all His resources in all His lands to be employed for this purpose. He allows no one under His heaven the right to steal His children. None can own anyone.
Since our loving, just, equitable, omniscient and omnipotent God strictly forbids anyone to bear any kind of self-serving ownership and authority over anyone or anything, it is everyone’s duty to apply all one says and does for His just, loving purposes alone. As His slaves, all we do must be done as good stewards of His property. As His owned slaves, we bear no right to take any more for ourselves Page 1404
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than He has equitably granted to all. This means that any administrative tasks that His stewards will do for Him are all spiritual and moral. So all must equitably serve the freedom, justice and love that the heart of our Owner and God has granted to all. Likewise, the same equity applies to all physical things administered. Each must give all one’s excess to all, and each must equitably receive all that each requires for life, including all each needs to fulfill the ministry and calling of God in one’s life.
So we must never esteem, emulate, serve and love any human being. We must never worship a created being more than our God, who personally and continuously teaches and trains us to justly love in the same way He loves. Since our God is the Father of our spirits, as well as the Owner of our bodies and all else, our spirits owe a great debt of love to Him, reaching far beyond anything that our flesh is obligated to repay, although even our flesh owes God a massive debt for its creation and maintenance. Furthermore, since our Father is a Spirit, and literally all material creations are His spiritual powers working to accomplish the ultimate purposes of His eternal and spiritual kingdom, we also need to use all His material creations for His ultimate spiritual purposes. And, because His ultimate spiritual purpose is to teach the spirits of His elect children to love in the same just and unconditional way that He loves, so we will then be freed to do our own loving wills in heaven, our ultimate purpose to learn to love. Then it is the purposes of God’s “soldiers,” some of whom are heavenly angels sent to administer God’s wrath, sent to destroy all who seek only their own profit and pleasure, all selfish exploiters, liars and murderers of their siblings, all who ignore God’s will.
First God wants all the elect spirits on earth to know they are infantile, weak and ignorant, prone to errors and misconceptions, desperately needing to continuously learn from our good, wise and loving Father and oldest Brother. And our King also wants our minds of flesh to bear the aptitude of a faithful slave who fears the wrath of its Owner, who submits to its Owner at all times. This means that God wants our bodies of flesh to begin by submitting to the elect human spirits in them. For God gave elect human spirits stewardship over their bodies, to manage their flesh for His own wise, just and loving purposes. Then our elect spirits must listen for the teachings of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, and submit to Him with trust, placing all their faith in His love and in the counsel He grants to us all.
So all human influencers and authorities, especially in the priesthood He appointed to counsel all secular authorities regarding His spiritual and moral laws and ways, must be chosen from the human souls whom He Himself has personally chosen to teach and train for those purposes. For all priests who represent God when they teach and judge must first know God’s will before they can counsel others and make decisions according to His will. Literally all human influencers and authorities must have spirits that are true disciples of our God Jesus, spirits learning to love in the same just ways that our God loves. These are the only ones that our God’s fulfilled and written Law allows us to choose as our influencers and authorities. But His disciples never choose Him. Rather, our God and Teacher always chooses every individual who becomes His disciple. And He bears the authority to own every body, soul and spirit He chooses to become His disciple. Therefore, His owned chosen disciples do not choose to be or stop being His disciples. Nor can anyone else choose to make one into a disciple of God, and none are ever able stop a true disciple of God from learning from God. Likewise, if God chooses to teach and train an elect spirit to love in a just way, but He only reveals His truths to that disciple’s spirit, while He also decides to refrain from revealing His biblical name, no one bears any authority to reject the calling and sending of that one by our God Jesus. We can only judge anyone by the fruits of one’s spirit, by one’s expressions of just love, not by the name that one cannot know as the Source and Teacher of all the truths one’s spirit has learned. Therefore, whenever we see a just, loving and honest spirit in one whom God has made qualified for a task of serving His land and people as His secular servant, we must choose that one to serve in that position, as a brother who is Page 1405
equal to all of our other elect brothers and sisters. We tolerate the fact that our brother might be just another elect sinner confused by the false priests of secular humanism, by the fake elders within Churchianity, Islam, Buddhism or other false religions, although we will discuss concepts of truth, justice and love with him, and mention the name of our Teacher, hoping that his elect spirit might be granted a knowledge of that truth. Yet we also realize that God will never stop choosing, teaching and sending the elect spirits of His children to serve us, just because deceivers have confused them.
Every disciple of God must choose only those who bear God’s good fruits of the spirit for every kind of ministry that involves making authoritative decisions. All such positions must be filled by those who prove to be the ones God has chosen to serve us. And each man’s work in that ministry must be aware of his very limited ability to make decisions in any matters of life and faith. For his infantile spirit dwells in a body of slavish flesh on earth. That one must understand that there are many other equally limited souls whom God has chosen to perform many kinds of works for His own kingdom, and all those other disciples are equally fallible, but are learning different specialized areas of skill and knowledge, so all can perform different tasks which serve God’s people and creations. So every true manager sent by God will consult with many other equal disciples, and learn from them, so he might be able to make right decisions and do God’s will. Every servant whom God Himself chooses for each influential or managerial position in His kingdom must realize that he knows far too little to be a god, that he must work together with all his other brothers and sisters to be truly effective in the teaching and judging that he must do for God, so he and God’s family can remain free to love and be loved. He must know that no equal sibling should ever personally fear him, but only fear the power of God’s wrath against the unloving and unjust. And it is God’s power which he administers, and only in God’s name, only according to God’s will, commands and authority. Also, it will only be through his personal love for his equal siblings that others will never be afraid to tell him the truth.
The Truly Called
Since the king in Jesus’ parable represented our High King and heavenly Father, we also find out that God will be doing something else while his soldiers are destroying the self-indulgent “called ones”
who rejected and usurped his authority. For the parable’s king was doing what our heavenly Father has been doing since He sent Jesus to gather us into His New Covenant salvation. “At that time, he said to his slaves, ‘On the one hand, the wedding [celebration] is prepared. On the other hand, the called ones were never worthy. Therefore, go out upon the open places of the roads and whomever you [slaves] might find, call for [them, so they might then choose to enter] into the wedding
[celebration]’” (Mat. 22:8-9, from: τότε λέγει τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ· Ὁ μὲν γάμος ἕτοιμός ἐστιν, οἱ δὲ
κεκλημένοι οὐκ ἦσαν ἄξιοι· πορεύεσθε οὖν ἐπὶ τὰς διεξόδους τῶν ὁδῶν, καὶ ὅσους ἐὰν εὕρητε
καλέσατε εἰς τοὺς γάμους, SBLGNT). Here the adverb τότε indicates that the king was speaking to his slaves “at that time,” as he was sending out soldiers to destroy those who rejected His calling.
The present tense linking verb (ἐστιν) suggests that the wedding feast, with all its spiritual gifts and benefits, “is” ready right now, and remains readily available to all. Then the context of the past tense linking verb (ἦσαν), which is always imperfect, still seems to imply that the “called ones” became unworthy in the past, with continuous or ongoing effects of remaining unworthy at the present time.
That is, they proved unworthy in the past and remain unworthy of His salvation now, to this day.
Next, look at how the king sent those whom Jesus called his “slaves,” to do this far more important task of choosing and calling people to attend the wedding, as well as how this king reasoned with His slaves. Rather than sending soldiers to invite guests, or even commanders of his armies, the king in Jesus’ parable assigned this far greater task to slaves. A δοῦλος is literally a “slave,” whose life is Page 1406
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not his own. The lives of thee King’s slaves are owned by Him alone, and can never be owned by any other entity in heaven or on earth. So slaves are humble souls, who possess nothing of their own, who realize their only reason for living is to fulfill the will of their worshipped Creator and God, as stewards of His property. They understand that they have absolutely no right to make anyone serve them, and were never granted any right to pursue selfish ambitions, covetous desires or their own self-indulgent lusts. And, in reality, although God loves and serves all living entities, all are slaves, the owned property of their Creator. So the only purpose of all life is to serve God’s purposes, to accomplish only what is right, just, equitable and loving, according to all the realities created and maintained by their just, loving Owner, as well as to nullify all the unjust works of God’s enemies.
Now look at how our King, Owner and God reasoned with His slaves. But, in Satan’s world order, pretending human gods never speak to their illegally enslaved brothers and sisters in that way. For the deluded minds of those wretched parasites somehow deem those slaves to be their inferiors, even though those “inferiors” do all the essential and superior works in their lands. Usurpers of God’s influence and authority hide their selfish, criminal reasons for commanding their stolen souls to serve them. But our true Owner honestly reasons with us, His slaves, for we are becoming His heirs.
To illustrate how God reasons with us, Jesus used the particles μέν and δέ, which contrasted two clauses and gave those slaves the king’s reason for sending them on His mission. That is, their Owner told them: “On the one hand,” the wedding feast was now ready, but not enjoyed by anyone.
Then He reasoned: “On the other hand,” all the “called ones,” who should have gladly attended His feast, to enjoy His counsel and ask for the wisdom to better serve His kingdom, were never worthy of His feast nor His counsel. Thus, our King explained the reasons to His slaves, why He was sending them out into gathering places along the roads of His lands. They had to go out and find new
“called ones,” the kinds of people who would be worthy to attend His wedding feast, the kinds that would actually do the works of serving His people and His lands, and would heed His wise counsel.
The first reason for the King requiring new “called ones” was because He was not willing to waste the costly salvation He prepared through His Son. Back then, when a king held a wedding feast for His chosen heir to the throne, it was an important occasion for the entire kingdom, critical to its very survival. For, just like today, the least sign of weakness in a kingdom was an invitation for invaders to take over that land, killing, plundering and burning throughout. So a king was not simply worried about wasting the cost of the food and the other physical preparations. Rather, the good king did not want to waste the cost of research, planning and other resources spent on building a better future for the people of his kingdom, for the progress he was now going to reveal and grant to his “called ones.” Throughout the days or even weeks of the wedding celebration, the king was going to advise all the influencers and administrators in his land about all that needed to be done for the good of His people. And now those irresponsible bearers of responsibility took his gentleness for granted and began to abuse and even kill His beloved people. So the king wanted His slaves to realize what they saw with their own eyes, how all of his current “called ones” had ignored, shunned and betrayed not only their King, but their people as well. All ignored His wise and just authority over His people and His lands, and betrayed the people, selling the lives and welfare of the people for their own profits.
God’s slaves of Israel and the world had witnessed the total betrayal of their priests and the secular governing officials. Those appointed to serve them were exploiting them to death for self-indulgent purposes. And this abuse of their authority continues to this day, throughout the world. Now we realize that the parable’s king represents God. Thus, God would have been reading the signs of their betrayal for many years before they refused to attend His wedding feast. God knew beforehand that the “called ones” of the world order would betray Him. Their lack of respect for Him, though He Page 1407
gave them all they needed to live, was not a surprise. Our God always knew that those who wormed their way into positions of authority took him for granted, just to exploit His people and property. So His call to His wedding feast must have been to test them, to see who was faithful. But all failed it.
Then this parable’s King revealed His solution to these problems. Because God made a “wedding feast” to provide for the future of His kingdom, but all the current “called ones” were completely unworthy and incapable of carrying out His plans, our King then commanded his slaves: “Therefore, go out upon the open places of the roads and whomever you might find, call for, into the wedding celebration.” Here the King was clearly telling His slaves to gather a particular kind of people. The King required empathetic and inwardly worthy ones to attend His wedding feast. We know this since the King had just finished pointing out to His slaves that all the previously “called ones” were “not worthy.” His explanation of why the previous “called ones” had to be replaced indicated to His slaves that He now wanted them to find truly worthy “called ones,” to replace those unworthy ones.
Now the King wanted the kind of men who would hear and heed His counsel, to manage the affairs of His earthy kingdom according to His wise, just and loving will. And, when Jesus uttered this parable about the King’s slaves calling worthy souls his wedding celebration, He assumed that His listeners knew what a first-century royal wedding of the Heir involved. And the people hearing His parable did know, although most in our day do not. So understanding ancient royal weddings which appointed heirs as a new kings over kingdoms is essential to comprehend what Jesus was teaching us through this parable. To understand what Jesus figuratively taught here, we must know this context: 1. Royal weddings definitely were not mere celebrations, not parties solely dedicated to having a good time. Rather, royal weddings were very important meetings, where some stayed with the king for days, weeks or months at a time. They were actually assemblies of the land’s influencers and administrators, occasions to solidify the unity and effectiveness of all those managing the king’s lands. They were occasions when all the king’s wisest, most powerful servants reported to him, discussed progress and the problems regarding every aspect of his kingdom, and where the king’s managers sought his judgments and counsel about everything.
2. A royal wedding was also when the king’s heir became the new co-regent or ruler, when he took on the role of a counsellor, judge and decision-making authority who began to officially serve in the king’s name. It was when the king designated his chosen heir, and when all the managers of his father’s kingdom witnessed the heir’s approval by the king, so the lords of the land could get know the new king over time, and learn to respect him. And this would hopefully prevent quarrels and rebellions after the old king handed his throne over to his heir.
Although kings gradually increased the responsibilities of heirs to the throne as they grew older, the wedding was the best time for a king to proclaim his chosen heir. For the heir’s marriage signalled a completion of his readiness to take the responsibility, since the heir now learn to provide a moral structure for his own wife and family, which would prepare him to care for the kingdom’s family in the same way. Furthermore, every heir to the throne needed a wise wife who would speak candidly to him, as his equal, as a companion who would watch and hear the people, who would see their troubles and inform him about their needs.
3. Lastly, a royal wedding was a time for the king to hear and reevaluate the influencers and managers of his people, and judge their use of resources in his kingdom. The king would ask them about the good and bad reports heard from the people, find out their reasoning for all they did, or ask why they had neglected to do certain things. At the wedding, some might be Page 1408
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fired or demoted, some might be appointed to new positions or promoted, and some might be jailed for corruption or neglect of duty. Some might even be executed for extreme crimes.
Therefore, when this parable’s king rejected all the former managers in his kingdom, because they were self-indulgent wretches who cared nothing for the welfare of the people, that king was seeking new managers who would take responsibility and would show respect for chief lawmaker and judge of those people. So he commanded his slaves to go out and find loving and just men. Everyone who heard this parable realized that the king, who represented God, was actually commanding his slaves to seek out a certain kind of people, the kind that could be “called for, into the wedding celebration,”
the kind that would be the new influencers and administrators in his just, free kingdom. As we see in the reasoning of the King with his slaves, He was sending them out on a mission to replace the previous “called ones,” all previous priests and secular authorities, all who ignored His authority, all who perverted His counsel or usurped His authority or broke His laws, all who exploited His people.
Clearly, this parable’s marriage of the king’s son represented Jesus fulfilling His New Covenant promise by wedding the true church of Israel, who will be prepared for Him in the revival of the sixth seal’s era (see Rev. 6:12 to 7:17; 19:7-10). Jesus had become the prophesied true Heir of God’s kingdom at His birth in a body of flesh, since His Spirit of life in His body is the one God and King of all existence. But when He returns to His perfected bride of Israel will be the figurative day when all the world will officially recognize Him as their only King. Only then will all the nations heed Him as the Prophet uttering the very words of God with all God’s authority. Then all will know He is mankind’s oldest Brother who will forever serve as their beloved High Priest, as the trusted Guide of their Father’s church. Then Jesus will over all God’s subject kingdoms on earth. This parable’s feast symbolized the day when Jesus would become the only Judge who could ratify all the laws of all the lands on earth, who would make all final decisions in all legal matters for all people. So the kind of people whom His slaves were to call into the wedding feast, which would occur on the day Jesus physically returned to us, would need to be faithful servants of the King, the kind who would rightly represent Him and the Father, the kind who recognized the authority which the Father’s Heir shall receive on His wedding day. That is, after God’s wrath pours out upon the fake religious “leaders”
and corrupt secular authorities of the earth, the only survivors left on earth will be the just, loving elect. And God will choose new priests and authorities from the most loving and righteous of them.
This also means that the slaves He will send out on that critical mission to select His new priests and authorities will need to be very special, wise and trusted servants. Since God will entrust these slaves with this extremely important mission, essential for the survival of His just, loving kingdom, these slaves will all need to be wise and well-trained men. So, of course, the slaves in this parable refer to the evangelists sent by God in end times, after He destroys the self-indulgent and irresponsible lords in Satan’s world order. Of course, He sent out apostles, evangelists and other elders from the true first-century church, then many other loving and honest souls to teach the genuine truths of God throughout history. But the appointed time for Jesus to rule the world has not yet come, and His people have never become able to rule together with Him, not at any previous time in all history.
Therefore, we are looking forward to a future time, to a future revival, when His bride will become ready to “marry” Him. We will require a truly great biblical revival, where all the spirits of the elect taken into His true church of Israel have been awakened, called, taught, trained and equipped with the kind of fulfilled righteous love that their King Himself applies for the benefit of His people. We are waiting for the era of the sixth seal, when God will mark the hearts of His chosen ones with His seal of approval and ownership. And, if anyone wants to know who those true “slaves” of God will be, that one will not find their names and deeds in history books written by worshippers of human Page 1409
gods. For all those humanistic minions pretending to be the “called ones” have ignored the loving, honest, true slaves of God, or killed them. And all have paid far more attention to other pretenders who were “not worthy” of being “called ones.” But all of history’s trusted, wise slaves of the real God were humble folk, who loved God and His just ways, who spoke His revealed truths and, by those truths, called elect souls into Christ’s New Covenant wedding feast. Added to those slaves were God’s heavenly angels. For Jesus also sends them to call us into His New Covenant salvation.
I repeat, the slaves in this parable represented the slaves of God. And those slaves were nothing like the blindly obedient, subservient, ignorant kinds of slaves that the usurpers of God’s kingship love to gather around themselves. Rather, those are the kind of slaves whose elect spirits sit as counsellors beside the one and only eternal King of heaven and earth, the kind who dine with the Owner of all mankind, in His personal chambers, in His spiritual realm above. In this parable, Jesus described how God will send out true prophets and elders, who teach His truly intended meanings of His words, faithful slaves who call elect souls into God’s service, not the kind who want siblings to serve them. All true slaves of God know God well. And this is how they will be able to recognize the just, loving souls who are able to serve as priests of God’s true church, or faithfully perform secular tasks of administering justice and judgments in God’s name. Yet all these humble slaves, who know God’s will and attributes, are hated by the self-serving wanna-be gods, because those deluded despots first hated God and all God’s created realities which expose them as worthless and “unworthy ones.” All who truly serve thee King of heaven and earth, as His trusted slaves, are those Jesus described here:
“I no longer reason with you as slaves, because the slave does not understand what his Lord is doing for him. So I effectively reasoned with you as friends, because all that I heard from My Father I made known to you [disciples]. You [disciples] did not choose Me for yourselves, but I Myself chose you [disciples] for Myself. And I appointed you [disciples], so that you might be going out, and might be producing a fruit, and the fruit from you might continuously endure. [I chose and appointed you disciples] so that whatever you might ask the Father in My name, He might grant to you. I am personally giving you instructions about these things so that you [disciples] might love one another. If the world order hates you
[disciples], realize that it hated Me first, before you, [and still bears the ongoing effect of holding on to that hatred of Me]” (John 15:15-18, from: οὐκέτι λέγω ὑμᾶς δούλους, ὅτι ὁ
δοῦλος οὐκ οἶδεν τί ποιεῖ αὐτοῦ ὁ κύριος· ὑμᾶς δὲ εἴρηκα φίλους, ὅτι πάντα ἃ ἤκουσα παρὰ
τοῦ πατρός μου ἐγνώρισα ὑμῖν. οὐχ ὑμεῖς με ἐξελέξασθε, ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ ἐξελεξάμην ὑμᾶς, καὶ
ἔθηκα ὑμᾶς ἵνα ὑμεῖς ὑπάγητε καὶ καρπὸν φέρητε καὶ ὁ καρπὸς ὑμῶν μένῃ, ἵνα ὅ τι ἂν
αἰτήσητε τὸν πατέρα ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί μου δῷ ὑμῖν. ταῦτα ἐντέλλομαι ὑμῖν ἵνα ἀγαπᾶτε
ἀλλήλους. Εἰ ὁ κόσμος ὑμᾶς μισεῖ, γινώσκετε ὅτι ἐμὲ πρῶτον ὑμῶν μεμίσηκεν, SBLGNT).
The slaves in this parable will be sent out to bear “a fruit” (καρπὸν), a work that “might continuously endure” (μένῃ, durative present subjunctive form of μένω). And, when Jesus used the subjunctive forms of verbs in the above Scripture (John 15:16), it was not an exhortation, but indicated the fact that His will and power would surely cause His disciples to bear this most precious fruit. For all they might ask the almighty Father in His name would be granted to them, so they would produce this one fruit, the building of God’s kingdom on earth. The reason Jesus used hypothetical subjunctives here was because He knew that not all His disciples would receive the words He spoke. Not all the disciples hearing Him would bear that one eternal fruit. For there was a false disciple among them, a child of the devil, who longed to see a human despot rule the earth in Satan’s name. Judas was a thief and a puppet of the devil, who wanted to serve himself at the expense of his own siblings’ lives. Still, Page 1410
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all the true disciples of Jesus would always possess the ear of their heavenly Father, the King of all existence. All true disciples will always be the cherished friends of Jesus, who is one with the Father.
Now notice, in this parable, how Jesus declared that the faithful slaves of this king would be very successful in their mission: “Then, after departing into the roads, these slaves gathered together all whom they found, treating both the worthless and usefully good equally. Then the wedding [feast]
had been filled, [with] guests reclining at the tables” (Mat. 22:10, from: καὶ ἐξελθόντες οἱ δοῦλοι
ἐκεῖνοι εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς συνήγαγον πάντας οὓς εὗρον, πονηρούς τε καὶ ἀγαθούς· καὶ ἐπλήσθη ὁ γάμος
ἀνακειμένων, SBLGNT). The most interesting part of this description is found in the phrase Jesus intentionally used to describe the wedding guests chosen by the king’s slaves. Keep in mind that these people, who were found in the “open spaces” or meeting places beside the roads winding throughout the kingdom, obviously represented the new “called ones,” who replaced the previous
“called ones.” Jesus was telling us about the future members of His true New Covenant church after the great revival and His return to rule the earth, as well as the secular authorities He will choose to replace those who proved themselves to be “unworthy.” Yet Jesus described these new church members and secular authorities with the words, “the worthless and usefully good” (πονηρούς τε καὶ
ἀγαθούς). And Jesus intentionally use the particles, τε καὶ, to join the plural, substantified adjectives πονηρούς (those who are “morally or socially worthless,” BDAG3) and ἀγαθούς (those who are
“meeting a relatively high standard of quality ... of worth and merit,” BDAG3). Yet this combination of the two particles, τε καὶ, is a “marker of connection between coordinate nonsequential items ...
connecting concepts, usually of the same kind or corresponding as opposites” (BDAG3). In other words, both the ones called πονηρούς and the ones called ἀγαθούς were connected as “coordinate”
parts of the same body of people, and were equal, “nonsequential.” Both kinds were the same kind within the new priestly and governing body Jesus was establishing for His New Covenant kingdom.
Here Jesus was saying that the trusted, wise and well-trained slaves of God the Father were “treating both the worthless and usefully good equally.” The true elders of God did not differentiate between the souls whom society had branded as “morally or socially worthless,” and those whom even the world order deemed to be “of worth and merit.” God’s true servants did not judge superficially, by outward appearances. They could not care less about what the current “unworthy ones” thought about those whom they were told to choose for positions in the High King’s priesthood and for the positions of management in God’s just and loving kingdom. All these faithful slaves cared about was the potential each individual’s spirit possessed, their latent or realized ability to justly love others.
God’s slaves, His true elders and prophets, will chose only the souls who would be able to serve His people through their spirits’ unconditional love, in an equitable, unbiased way, based solely upon the realities their spirits saw and understood, based on the truths God revealed in His Word and in His creations, while rejecting the lies and delusions they heard from deceivers. Whether or not the minions of pretenders perceived these truly loving ones to be “worthless” or “usefully good,” was totally irrelevant to them. For they were striving to find a people who would be deemed “worthy” by God alone, who always judges rightly by the motives of the heart, never by outward appearances.
Now, in the parable, wise slaves of the King were sent out on their mission to find truly worthy
“called ones” who would rightly serve the free, just and loving kingdom. For most officials in the priesthood and secular government proved to be completely “unworthy.” So it would take some time to gather and brief those wise and trusted slaves, before they could be sent out to find good, honest and loving replacements for those “unworthy” ones. And, before those slaves departed, “soldiers” of the King, our God, would have already been sent to execute the “unworthy” ones, to enforce a just sentence for their selfish crimes. Yet it would also take some much time for the soldiers to complete Page 1411
their mission of administering justice. For God, our good King, would not want them to destroy the wicked without a biblical and just trial that would be transparent to all the people. God will never sentence anyone for crimes without due process and without His people seeing exactly why the guilty deserve their punishment. So the soldiers had to take the exploiting criminals to trusted judges first, who would expose their intentions, motives and the natures of their crimes, who would then teach the people how their crimes worked evil, and what had to be done to restore all that those criminals had stolen, lost or destroyed. Thus, in order for the “soldiers” or policemen of the King to administer true justice, it would have required much time, especially the tasks of presenting and explaining evidence to educate the people. And, if it was not done properly, then the people would become susceptible to liars and their conspiracy theories. For the supporters of those criminals would try to cause the people to distrust their judges, and go back to trusting their former lords who were exploiting them. Clearly, this King did not do all this in just a day. Rather, it took a long time.
Furthermore, additional time would be required to train the new recruits who replaced the unworthy former priests and secular governing authorities. The King’s slaves not only had to seek new “called ones,” but also had to teach and train them to serve the King responsibly. And those slaves even had to find places to do this secretly, since many of the old “unworthy ones” would have still remained in charge of the churches and governing bodies while they did this, and would have violently opposed the preparing and equipping of their replacements. While those criminal lords were still plundering God’s land and people for selfish gain, they would have used all their power to destroy those whom the King chose to replace them. So, as we read about what the King did before the wedding feast, we must realize that the actual feast must have been planned for months or even years in advance. And this seems right, because those ancient wedding feasts actually did take months or years of planning.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that God did send His wise slaves out to find worthy replacements for the “unworthy ones.” And, clearly, God did not send His most capable, well-trained and discerning slaves to interview and call the same kinds of people that He was replacing. So we can be sure that the kinds of priests and secular authorities whom Jesus will choose when He returns, will be nothing like the kinds we now see in Satan’s unjust world order. He will send His best slaves to another kind of people, a humble people, the elect who are found in the markets and in common meeting places scattered throughout His kingdom. For Jesus implied that the “unworthy” former lords had forced many elect souls into humble circumstances, into poverty and into the periphery of their centres of power. It suggests that those whom God’s slaves would find “worthy” would be those who fled from the injustices and inequities of their corrupt churches and governments. Then we also need to realize that our King Jesus must already have started teaching and training those humble folk who will soon replace the arrogant exploiters here now. For the signs of His world-wide dichotomization of the elect and non-elect has begun, so the time of His wrath is rapidly approaching, when He will judge, punish and replace all those former lords. Thus, His slaves must have already been sent and have come to examine and select souls, even from our current generations. At this present time, His slaves have come to teach and train some elect in the secret places of their hearts, so these will be ready to replace the self-indulgent, exploiting priests and governing servants who have rebelled against God.
Our King’s slaves went to find and call elect souls who had become destitute and desperate, who could find no one to effectively help them or their loved ones, since the “unworthy ones” destroyed all of the King’s effective judicial, educational, medical and welfare systems in the land. Thus, some of those beleaguered elect, in order to survive, had likely done things which severely damaged their reputations. As a result, the vengeful minions of the fake church “leaders” and the pretending secular rulers had likely labelled them as “worthless” degenerates. Yet those humbled elect sinners still Page 1412
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possessed a potential to truly love in the just, equitable and wise way that their King desired. So some of these “worthless” ones would be chosen by those slaves, regardless of what Satan’s world order thought of them. Meanwhile, other elect may have been granted more opportunities to develop their potential to love in a just and God-like way. And those elect may have been admired by some of those who benefited from their good works, even by some unjust priests and secular authorities.
So most would call those kinds of elect “usefully good,” although those elect would also have been fearfully marginalized by the lords in Satan’s kingdom, lest the people choose them as “leaders”
instead. And God’s slaves would seek out these kinds of humbled elect souls as well. So God’s wise slaves would have actually treated both kinds of elect the same, since they judged all by their hearts.
Now, although the King sent out His best slaves for this mission of finding worthy replacements for the former “called ones,” those slaves themselves knew they were extremely fallible and “unworthy”
of their Owner. Some would even realize that they had committed sins against the first four orders of the King’s laws, and murdered through wilful negligence as well, then fell into other cringe-worthy sins daily. So some were continuously repenting as the chiefest of all sinners (I Tim. 1:15). Yet they had all proved to be firmly grounded in created realities, and were seldom fooled by the delusions and lies of the “unworthy ones.” Nor did they judge by the external appearances of wealth, poverty, race, family lineage, language, education, status, titles, cultural norms or anything else. For they did not judge by the superficial criteria that the “unworthy ones” made such a big fuss about. In fact, the High King chose them specifically because they only sought to find out what was in the hearts of the people, and judged solely by spiritual fruits manifested in real life. This is why their just, wise King sent those particular slaves out on this mission, to find worthy ones to replace the “unworthy ones.”
Because these best of the High King’s slaves could discern the intentions and motives of human hearts well, although not perfectly, the King trusted them to “treat both the worthless and usefully good equally.” Only this kind of slave could find truly worthy replacements for the “unworthy ones.”
For these particular slaves proved to be most like the King Himself, and like His only Heir. But both the King and His one-of-a-kind Son always judged rightly, because both were one, and both were able to see all that was in the spirits whom they judged. Both could clearly see a spirit’s potential to learn their wise, just, loving ways, a spirit’s desire to do their will, a spirit’s love which sought to benefit His creations. And the King, through His Son, had also chosen these slaves while they were still sinners. While those slaves were foolish, ignorant destroyers of life, the Son, who is one with His Father, took them in. That Son taught His wisdom, justice and love to those slaves, who had been humiliated by sins, and had done so for decades, diligently correcting their hearts with careful words every time they made mistakes. The Heir to the throne had patiently trained them in all that pertained to the King’s priesthood and government. So, by now, the very heart of the Father and the Son was extremely familiar to those slaves. And those slaves did not know or love anyone on earth or in heaven as much as that King and His Heir. Thus, with the help of the almighty King and His Son, their mission would be accomplished. Jesus told us that the King’s banqueting hall, the city of Jerusalem on earth, would be filled with worthy “called ones.” Therefore, it will be, at His return.
A Cheater in His New Administration
Now, as previously mentioned, the slaves of the King were not perfect judges of human hearts.
Therefore, they would have left some of the more worthy ones behind, in the open places of the King’s roads. However, all those would be found later, by the perfect Son Himself. Also, some of those whom the slaves chose as the new “called ones” would not have had elect hearts, and those slaves would have chosen them solely because they were very good pretenders. Yet those non-elect Page 1413
would have been utterly incapable of administering any kind of just and loving priestly or secular authority in the King’s name. Therefore, the all-seeing King now came to inspect those whom His slaves chose as His new spiritual and secular elders for the people of His kingdom. The day arrived for the King to correct any errors made by His slaves, as well as to confirm all their right choices.
“So the king, after entering to look closely at the guests reclining at the tables, saw there a person not having put a wedding garment on himself [and currently wearing his old garment]. Then he said to him, ‘Comrade, how did you enter here not having a wedding garment?’ Yet that one was speechless.
Then the king said to the household slaves, ‘After binding his feet and hands, throw him out, into the outer darkness. The weeping and the gnashing of the teeth will be there. For many are called ones, yet few chosen ones” (Mat. 22:11-14, from: εἰσελθὼν δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς θεάσασθαι τοὺς ἀνακειμένους
εἶδεν ἐκεῖ ἄνθρωπον οὐκ ἐνδεδυμένον ἔνδυμα γάμου· καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ· Ἑταῖρε, πῶς εἰσῆλθες ὧδε μὴ
ἔχων ἔνδυμα γάμου; ὁ δὲ ἐφιμώθη. τότε ὁ βασιλεὺς εἶπεν τοῖς διακόνοις· Δήσαντες αὐτοῦ πόδας καὶ
χεῖρας ἐκβάλετε αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον· ἐκεῖ ἔσται ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν
ὀδόντων. πολλοὶ γάρ εἰσιν κλητοὶ ὀλίγοι δὲ ἐκλεκτοί, SBLGNT). Now, when Jesus said this, His Jewish audience, who knew the Scriptures, would see how this king made a wise and right judgment against the man who was not wearing a wedding garment. They saw nothing harsh or unjust about what this king did. But most Gentiles have not understood, since they do not realize that this king, who represented God, was judging far more than simply the kind of garment worn by that person.
First notice how the king saw someone “not having put a wedding garment on himself and currently wearing his old garment” (οὐκ ἐνδεδυμένον ἔνδυμα γάμου). The perfect middle form of ἐνδύω
indicates that this person did not put on the wedding garment in the past, with the result that he was now wearing his old garment, the same garment he was wearing when he was called to the king’s palace. Then the king spoke to him, saying, “Comrade, how did you enter here not having a wedding garment?” (Ἑταῖρε, πῶς εἰσῆλθες ὧδε μὴ ἔχων ἔνδυμα γάμου;). Clearly, this king saw no reason for anyone to enter his dining hall without a wedding garment, although he knew his slaves had called mostly the poorer people from the streets of his kingdom. Since only the upper class could afford to purchase a wedding garment suitable for a royal wedding, this king’s assumption proves that he must have freely granted wedding garments to all attending his feast. And, because this king obviously represented God, Jesus was portraying him as a king of infinite wealth, who could easily afford to freely give such garments to all who were chosen to replace the previous “chosen ones.” Thus, this king could not believe that his servants ran out of garments, or that they could not find one to fit this man. So how was there any legitimate reason for this man to be lacking a garment? And the man himself could not give any reason for not wearing a wedding garment. So his silence actually spoke volumes. Clearly, his inability to answer the king meant that he had been offered a wedding garment, and had even accepted that very expensive item. Otherwise, he would have said that he had not been offered one, or would have told the king why he could not accept such a generous offer. Since this man did not respond to the king’s question, he had obviously received the expensive garment, and liked folded it neatly among his other belongings. Yet he did not wear it to the feast lest it might be stained by food or wine. So he clearly did not wear it so he could later sell it, or had already sold it.
Consequently, the king realized this man was greedy, and sought personal financial gain far more than benefits for the king’s people and lands. The king hired well-paid workers to make those very expensive clothes, which stimulated his economy. But this king did not give expensive garments to the new chosen ones for their personal profit or pride. Rather, the only reason the king gave them to these chosen ones was because they were the new priests and secular officials who would serve him, by teaching his people about his ways or by administering justice. As the new priests and managers Page 1414
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of his land, they needed suitable garments to indicate their appointed roles. For, back then, clothing indicated one’s character, occupation, status, and more. Yet this man wanted to sell his garment. As a
“called one,” this suggested that he would also sell his office to the highest bidder. It meant this man would take bribes instead of freely serving the people, because he only served his own wallet and his own self-indulgent desires, just like the “unworthy ones” the king had just removed. And, since this man acted just like those “unworthy ones,” the king sent his soldiers to eliminate him too. This king was not going to allow more “unworthy ones” to hold any influential or authoritative positions in his kingdom ever again. And now, if we want to truly understand this parable, we must not only realize this, but also comprehend the Messianic implications of this king’s free gift of wedding garments.
When the devout Jews, who knew their Bible well, heard Jesus speak about a figurative king, they immediately recognized that He was talking about God, because all priests and rabbis taught that God was the only true High King of Israel and of all creations. For, when God had revealed His Law and the Ten Commandments to Israel and to the world, God did so in the same way that mortal kings provided their laws and a prioritized summary of their laws to their people. Thus, Yahweh God was informing them that He alone is their Lawmaker and King. They also knew that Samuel and other prophets proclaimed Yahweh to be the only King of kings, the only authoritative Lawmaker of Israel and the world. Then the prophets told them how God would cause them to fulfill His laws, how He would write His Law on their hearts and in their minds. So God’s power would personally teach and train each of them to be righteous, just and loving, like Himself. All this would be done by God’s power alone, granted to each individual as a free, unmerited and unearned gift from their High King.
And, since this gift of righteousness would transform them into new persons, it would be as though He would clothe their spirits with new garments, to indicate their new inner character, new purposes in life, new status before God, and an entirely new life altogether. Thus, as those devout Jews heard about the new garments in this parable, even wedding garments signifying the marriage of God with His church of Israel, they would have remembered the Scriptures. All would have associated these wedding garments with the salvation that their King and God would freely grant them, with the New Covenant salvation which the prophets said they would freely receive from their promised Messiah.
For instance, we find a references to the garments granted by the Messiah, Israel’s King, in chapter 61 of Isaiah. And Isaiah was a favourite prophet of most devout Jews, partly because he revealed so much about their Saviour, the Messiah. So most were very familiar with chapter 61, where Isaiah said the Messiah was anointed to proclaim good tidings to the poor and heal the brokenhearted, to bring liberty and freedom, to comfort and console the mourning ones. Then, earlier in His ministry, Jesus openly claimed to be the “anointed One” whom Isaiah spoke about (Luke 4:18-19). And all the Jews hearing this parable would have recalled this fact, and how Isaiah also said that this Messiah will grant them “the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness” (Is. 61:3, WEB). So the garments of the Messiah were associated with the attribute of righteousness or justice. And these spiritual garments also meant that they “shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men will call you the ministers of our God” (Is. 61:6, WEB). Then each will say:
“I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, H
e has covered me with the robe of righteousness , as a B ridegroom decks
Himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring out; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring out before all the nations” (Is. 61:10-11, WEB). Thus, all devout Jews knew this is why Jesus spoke about wedding garments in this parable about thee King.
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