Jesus came to begin the process of releasing truth upon truth into the world, so His Holy Spirit might grow the just, God-like kind of love in His elect younger brothers and sisters. For His kind of true love can only thrive in the medium of truth. Therefore, although we are now living in an era of earth’s history when the most effective and abundant lies of humanism are corrupting every square inch of this world, we are also alive when God’s most effective and abundant truths, the best ever seen on earth, shine into the devil’s darkness, overcoming and exposing the fallacies of humanism.
As the power of deluding lies increased, so also has the overcoming power of God’s revealed truths.
So this is what Jesus was teaching His disciples, the truths of equity, justice and love they needed to build up His kingdom on earth. And these truths oppose every principle taught by Satan’s religion of humanism. Thus, the Father’s elect children must never believe nor practise any of the principles of humanism, but believe and practise only the truths we hear from the Holy Spirit of Jesus. And Jesus will confirm all His truths to our spirits. So our spirits will believe His truths through hard empirical evidence. We will trust in His Spirit’s interpretations of His Word because all of it will be seen by our spirits in His physical and spiritual creations, because all will experience the verification of those truths in their own personal earthly lives. For God left no truth unsubstantiated by evidence on earth.
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must never esteem and serve ourselves or other people, must never worship a human god in the way all humanists do. Literally all true elect disciples of our God Jesus should never call any human being by any title that esteems them as a teacher of knowledge and wisdom regarding any matters of life and faith. For “one is the Teacher [of life and faith] for you disciples, but all you disciples are
siblings.” In Greek, a grammatically male noun is often gender inclusive or gender indefinite. And the word ἀδελφοί (in Mat. 23:8) is such a noun. So that noun refers to all male and all female true disciples of Jesus, that is, to all true Christians. All awakened elect spirits who heed the Holy Spirit of Jesus, whether those elect spirits dwell in male or female bodies on earth, are equal “siblings” in the family of God, all bearing equal access to their one and only authoritative Teacher, Jesus, through His Holy Spirit. Jesus is the only Head Teacher of every individual elect spirit, the sole and final authority regarding the interpretation of literally all biblical knowledge and wisdom, all that each elect spirit will ever learn from His Word and through experiences on earth. Thus, no human can ever have any spiritual authority over another’s life and faith, no right nor ability to teach, judge or rule over the conscience, beliefs or principles within the mind of any spirit in any other true believer.
Of course, disciples discuss whatever Jesus teaches them, and share His truths with one another, passing on some knowledge and wisdom to other just and loving spirits. So all perform the act of
“teaching” at times. But some older men will eventually learn a larger body of truths from the Teacher of all disciples, and harmonize them into a functioning spiritual organism, with the highest priority parts reiterated for maximum comprehension. Jesus calls some older men who naturally take up the responsibility of teaching, because they do it most effectively, in ways that benefit their equal siblings more than others can. For Jesus created their spirits to become His faculty assistants, with an ability to prepare their siblings for their personal callings from their Owner and Lord, so each can find joy and inner satisfaction in serving Him. God calls, teaches and trains some men throughout their lives, until they grow older, then sends these older men to His awakened elect so those men can lead all the others to Him, so other elect spirits can learn to hear His counsel. These elders help others better understand what His Holy Spirit is personally teaching to their spirits, and wash away confusion caused by lies taught to their minds of flesh by Satan’s world order, so all hear only Jesus.
All disciples use their understanding of Christ’s truths, or what they think they know, to assess and judge the teachings and behaviours of others. But the mere acts of teaching an judging cannot ever make a disciple into a teaching and judging elder appointed by our God Jesus, into a man who only teaches what Jesus Himself tells him to teach, who only makes his most critical judgments according to the commands of Jesus’ Holy Spirit to his own spirit. And nothing truly good can come from one who teaches and judges in his own name, or in some other human name, according to human wills.
None but those who teach and judge in Jesus’ name, according to Jesus’ will, can provide His elect brothers and sisters with real truths of great value. And mere acts of teaching and judging, even if those teachings and judgments do come from Jesus, can never make anyone into thee authoritative Teacher and Judge ruling over all matters of life and faith. No human on earth or in heaven is able to claim that he should be worshipped like a god, that he should be blindly believed and served as though he was somehow superior to his other elect siblings, who were all created in God’s image and through His equitable love. Only God’s Spirit in Jesus can be thee Teacher of life and faith, able to rightly judge and correct all errors in all knowledge and wisdom. Infantile human sinners are all merely much younger brothers and sisters of Jesus. The most any human can ever be is His faculty assistant, who leads all his equal brothers and sisters to Jesus, and always relies only upon Jesus.
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he has assisted the one Teacher, Jesus. And no teaching elder can teach truths directly to elect spirits in the way Jesus’ Holy Spirit is able to personally teach them. Rather, all elders can only speak through mouths of flesh, in the constantly evolving and imprecise earthly languages created by the flesh for the flesh, and in languages that are not known by all minds of flesh. Thus, minds of flesh will often misinterpret the words of those imprecise languages, and pass on those misinterpretations to the minds of their own spirits, as well as to other spirits. As a result, although communications from the mind of flesh to the mind of the spirit in the chamber of soul is immediately translated into a precise, universal, spiritual language, the spirit will, nevertheless, often receives false information from its mind of flesh, even if an elder did provide the genuine truth to the flesh through an earthly language. Furthermore, spirits of novice disciples may not have learned the basics before they hear a more advanced doctrine from an elder. So that new disciple may make wrong assumptions about that more complex teaching, through an incorrect or confused understanding of foundational concepts.
The very spirits of all true disciples of Jesus need to learn the basics of life and faith directly from Jesus’ Holy Spirit before they can learn advanced truths from Him. And His teaching is a very long iterative process, requiring many years to reinforce and harmonize the knowledge each receives from Him, until each can finally begin to develop a little wisdom. And even this wisdom is merely an extremely limited ability to rightly apply some knowledge. No human can even begin to become truly and effectively wise while living in flesh on earth, not even after a hundred years of intensive teaching and training directly by Jesus’ Holy Spirit. So the most that any elect disciple can ever become, even the most wise elder, is a novice. And no novice is ever able to rightly apply all truths perfectly, not until they learn this directly from Jesus on the last day outside of heaven. Only on the judgment day at the gates of heaven will we clearly see how His countless and sometimes seemingly unrelated principles all effectively harmonize, how all work together to produce perfectly wise and beneficial effects. And novices tend to speculate about the application of a few fundamentals they know, then come to some very wrong conclusions. Even the most experienced disciples, the faculty assistants of Jesus, often make huge and destructive mistakes. For, I repeat, while on earth, all elect spirits remain mere infantile novices. Thus, none can teach rightly, never in ways that consistently result in truly wise judgments and conclusions. No human flesh that has ever lived on earth was ever granted infallibility in his teachings and judgments, except Jesus. So Jesus’ disciples can discuss and teach what they learn. And more mature disciples can even be quite helpful. But being a disciple is not being a teacher, and no disciple can ever be thee one and only authoritative Teacher and Judge.
Then consider how all elect have at least two fathers. A father of flesh is human, a mere spiritual infant who is never much older than his children, not at all when we consider the nature of earthly time and spiritual eternity. Even a father with a thousand more years of experience than his children cannot be much more knowledgeable and wise than them, and may be even less, if he wasted his years in self-indulgence, allowing his spirit to ignore the one true Teacher throughout his life. Also, just because our biological father shared genetic material with our biological mother to produce our flesh, neither that man nor that woman may have served God as the true parents He chose to nurture and teach our the flesh. Our biological parents are simply those whom God chose in order to provide the genetic propensities of our flesh. Then the older men and women who truly care about our well-being, who try to build a good framework and solid foundation for our lives, who provide for and guard our own unique physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual attributes, these are our only true parents of our flesh, and we all usually have multiple fathers and mothers. But we can have only one true parent of our spirits, only one who teaches and trains the minds of our spirits, only one who speaks directly to our spirits. All elect souls have the same Father of our spirits, and the one father of Page 1490
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all non-elect spirits is the psychopathic, selfish and totally unloving devil. Now, since the one and only empathetic, sacrificial source of all the spiritual, unconditional and just love we will ever give or receive is thee Creator God, our spirits need to heed Him, carefully and diligently. Because the Father who gave “birth” to all true disciples of Jesus, even to literally all the elect spirits who do not yet know His name, we can only trust Him to teach us how to live well, as members of His family.
This Father of literally all elect spirits is continuously teaching and training every individual elect spirit. Our God and heavenly Father is constantly building a solid foundation of truth within all elect spirits, the basis for each and every individual elect spirit’s thoughts and beliefs. Then this Father of our spirits is also erecting walls of impenetrable stone upon that foundation, set between beams of everlasting lasting steel, an indestructible framework of invincible, eternal, just and God-like love.
But not all elect spirits, while in bodies of flesh, will open the doors of their hearts and souls to allow Him inside. And He seldom forces His children to obey His will, since He wants them to become willingly and spontaneously eager to do His loving, wise, beneficial will for all His creations. So, for a time, He lets some shut the doors of their hearts and souls in His face. So these elect do not receive His works that build a foundation of truth in the minds of their spirits, with love beautifully rising out of their hearts. Consequently, there is not much inside those elect, just the empty hole He formed in their spirits at birth, an unrealized potential place where He shall eventually build His foundation of truth. But other elect let their heavenly Father build a part of His foundation of knowledge and wisdom, then allow Him to lay the everlasting rocks of love for temple walls upon that foundation.
While the elect live in easily manipulated flesh on earth, the spiritual lies of humanism and other demonic religions have caused some of their spirits to think the biblical heavenly Father is a tyrant.
For other religions want their elect dupes to fear Him. False religions have always told elect minds of flesh lies about the one Creator God to prevent the elect from receiving His truths in their hearts and souls, which also keeps the elect from doing good works and building up God’s just and loving kingdom on earth. False religions focus upon rituals and actions of the flesh to cause elect spirits to ignore and even flee from the Holy Spirit of their Father, to convince their flesh that they will lose carnal pleasures and comforts if they worship the real God, and may not even physically survive.
The devil and his minions pretend to be God’s servants in His Old and New Covenant branches of His church, so they can deceive those elect into thinking that only they can provide for all the needs of their flesh. Then those fake servants of God also tell the elect that a despotic heavenly god will kill them if they do not follow their rituals of the flesh, that a god guards physical actions with great care and zeal, so much that He is willing to kill flesh to keep those exploiting priests in power on the earth, through their control over those rituals. In other words, false religions might claim to be moral and spiritual, but are completely carnal and harm elect spirits far more than they can ever help them.
Yes, the real Creator God can and does cause harm to our temporary flesh, since our flesh is not as real as our spirits. If the flesh of the elect gets in the way of God’s good and eternal spiritual works for their spirits, the Father of their spirits will use all His omnipotent power to ensure that the spirits of those elect repent into the truth, and begin to build their lives in just and loving ways. For our Father is primarily concerned about the sound health and education of our eternal spirits, even at the expense of our temporary flesh. I know that I repeat this often, but I do this because the elect need to know this, to understand what life on earth is about. For life has trials and suffering, but God is not always against their flesh. God does not hate the flesh He created for the purpose of teaching and training our spirits, and does not seek only to destroy it. Many elect spirits believe this lie, because most humanistic churches teach the doctrines of Middle Platonism. But, in reality, our Father in heaven loves to provide all that our flesh needs, as long as it benefits the prosperity of our spirits.
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To counter the lies of humanistic influences, especially Platonism, the Father of the elect chose to become a Teacher walking among them in a body of human flesh. God came to us so His Holy Spirit could knock upon the doors of our hearts, sometimes even very loudly, with all His mighty authority.
Nevertheless, He seldom breaks down the doors of our hearts, although He certainly bears the power to do so. For God works carefully and wisely to shape the wills of our spirits, and never wants to injure or crush our wills. Yes, our Father is indeed very angry about the lies that cause His children so much loss. But His wrath is only against our deceivers who prevent the infantile spirits of His beloved children from believing and repenting into the truth. The Creator Spirit never seems to be as angry with His foolish children as He is with the demons and their non-elect children, since He knows our spirits are not yet mature enough to recognize and resist their lies. So the Holy Spirit of Jesus is determined to stand knocking at the doors of our elect hearts, protesting lies, calling for our elect spirits to hear the truth from Him, until our spirits willingly open our doors to Him. Then we will also learn how He created our flesh to serve our spirits, and that His spiritual ways actually benefit our physical lives too. In fact, His spiritual truths save all flesh from certain destruction, even the lives of the non-elect, as well as the dying plant and animal life being exploited by humanists.
The lost and carnal elect scattered throughout the earth, if they allow their spirits to listen, are always able to hear Jesus continuously, boldly and often loudly knocking at the doors of their hearts. In silent moments alone, elect spirits will become aware of His teachings about justice and love. And, throughout their lives on earth, their souls will see proof that Satan and his minions, even all the priests of humanism, have been lying to them. Even their flesh cannot help but observe that the religion of humanism has only ever caused growing losses and death, for their flesh and for all God’s other creations. For God designed all flesh to thrive according to His truths, although every body of flesh will die and release its eternal spirit at its appointed time. But, when humanists oppose the truths of God, many more bodies of flesh die, although those times of evil were predestined as well.
Satan designed all his religions to cause the maximum amount of loss and death, and his perfected religion of humanism has surpassed all his previous religions. No religion on earth has ever caused as much death and destruction as humanism, especially the atheistic secular humanism of capitalism, communism and fascism, but not excluding the theistic humanism of Rome, the Roman Catholics and Muslims. On the other hand, nothing has benefited and extended life on earth more than the true, biblical religion of Judaism and Christianity, whose doctrines have promoted love for neighbours and even for enemies, abolished slavery, increased care and compassion for the poor, established welfare and health care systems, insisted upon the sharing of truths by demanding education for all, invented concepts of equality and true democracy, then even taught that we must all tend the garden of the earth and take responsibility for all the animals upon it. Literally every concept deemed right and good for humankind and the entire earth originated from God, especially through His Scriptures.
So the elect witness how the Father of their spirits brings them abundant, growing spiritual and even physical life, a life filled with inner peace and love, accompanied by a long and enjoyed lifespan of their flesh. Yet humanism uses religious, political and economic lies to make all flesh fear that all God’s proven truths are a delusion, a trick to deceive them, and must not only be distrusted, but even opposed with violence and murder. So countless minds of flesh, even elect flesh, now cling to those humanistic delusions and lies, even though they have, throughout history, always proven to be false and entirely destructive, and are afraid to examine those lies in bright light of God’s Holy Spirit. For humanism convince them, through more lies, that all truth is “fake news” which they must not allow their ears to even hear, much less rationally assess that truth in their souls. Humanism tells them that it is always best to remain terrified of any realities they might witness, and only believe the words Page 1492
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that come from the continuously lying mouths of their elite human gods. For the priests of humanism tell them, “It is best to remain subservient, as abused and exploited slaves, letting your elite owners graciously grant you an occasional stale crust of bread. For it is utterly insane to risk losing that stale crust of bread by heeding the voice of the real God, since He will crush the thieving systems of your human gods, free all slaves, and cause even the elite to face justice, even as equal siblings to the rest of you. Then how will you get your stale crusts of bread? Then you will all starve and die painfully.”
Of course, none of those humanists will ever point out how many societies, even from the beginning of time, lived according to the biblical principles which God revealed in His natural creations. Many places, existing as far back as anthropologists have been able to discover, and among the nations of indigenous people in North America before Europeans destroyed them, had developed equitable justice systems in what we might call democracies, which also cared for their poor and the infirmed.
Yet humanists ignore this, and simply point out how their enslaved people will not get stale crusts of bread if their exploiting human gods can no longer abuse them. Humanists dare not tell their people how much better, more free and more loving their lives could be if they lived by the truths of God.
There has been only one time in all history when God’s own Holy Spirit dwelt in a human body born of a woman. And that Man was the only one to whom our heavenly Father has ever granted literally all authority to teach, train and judge, to make all final decisions about that is rightly and justly required for the well-being of His people and His kingdom on earth. So, if we honestly, diligently, carefully and analytically study the teachings of that Man, of Jesus, we will find that His teachings are more rational, harmonious, effective and beneficial to all life on earth than all the other teachings by all the other human beings who have ever lived or ever will live. In fact, there is no one to even compare with Jesus. And I say this after reading many religious and philosophical writings. Surely the Creator God actually did visit us in the body of Jesus, and came to rule as the Teacher and Judge of all existence. So our spirits can trust Jesus’ real Holy Spirit to govern us all rightly, wisely and through just love. If we learn to trust the real Jesus, we will also trust our Father, who sent Jesus.
And our heavenly Father is actually the only real Father that the elect should ever fully trust, since He alone is able to provide all that a spirit needs for life on earth and throughout eternity. In fact, He is the Father of all human fathers, and provides for all their physical and spiritual needs, so that our human fathers can then provide for our needs. Therefore, we never need to cling to the humanists who claim to be our fathers and providers. Those men are lying in their vain attempts to save their incomes and the status of their own flesh. Then the stale crusts of bread they feed to their slaves are also worthless. Now let us trust the words which Jesus’ Spirit speaks to our spirits, by which we can undo the evil works of humanism, and also employ to build up God’s kingdom of just love on earth.
Who else do we need to esteem and serve, other than the Father of our elect spirits, who came to us within the body of a Man, to serve us as our oldest Brother and Teacher? No human is worthy of any kind of worship except that Man. Only Jesus is one with our Father, who is the almighty Spirit that created, owns, rules over and maintains all spiritual and physical entities. So only Jesus is able to teach our spirits to be like our Father. No infantile and foolish human being, full of misconceptions and delusions, is qualified to serve as our teacher, much less as a highly esteemed and served god, trusted to make laws and judge us. How can we trust immature, selfish sinners to know and practise what is physically and spiritually beneficial for all life on earth? What ignorant humans would dare to claim final authority over the lives and faiths of any other ignorant humans anywhere on earth?
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ignorant and foolish infants, there will never be even one human being who becomes wise enough to serve us as our most highly worshipped god, as the creator of all our laws and policies. None but our God Jesus has proved wise enough to create truly beneficial laws and practises for all humans, even for all life on earth. Yes, some of Jesus’ disciples learned enough from Jesus to make some better judgments, better than most others. But those men based all their judgments on what Jesus taught to them, and Jesus only endorsed their judgments with His power when they made those decisions in His name, that is, according to His will and commands to their spirits. But absolutely none of them possessed any ability to invent even the least truths for themselves. No human is capable of teaching other elect spirits to rightly and wisely manage their minds and bodies of flesh, then do God’s will, not unless that one’s spirit is taught, trained, sent and commanded by the Holy Spirit of Jesus. Any who presume to be gods that can make laws which govern the lives and faiths of others, even if they have elect spirits, will end up destroying their own lives and the lives of others, including the lives of their own children and loved ones. No one who ever existed or will exist, except Jesus, can teach and train elect spirits to love well, to make just, equitable and beneficial judgments within His kingdom.
Satan’s invention of the religion of humanism strives to remove the influence of the Father and Jesus from the lives of the elect, by capturing their minds of flesh, by making their souls focus solely upon human authorities and human gods, upon deluded spiritual fathers and teachers, and by denying their infantile spirits any time or opportunity to learn from their heavenly Father through the Holy Spirit of their oldest Brother. Humanists silence the voice of elect spirits whenever they raise protests in the chambers of their souls, against the lies believed by their minds of flesh. With an intense focus on materialism and physical traditions, coupled with severe physical persecutions, humanists can keep elect spirits from ever even considering that anything they learn from God is true. And Satan took many centuries to perfect his religion of humanism in this world, conditioning his brainwashed non-elect children through a process which made them adept at practising its deceptions. So now the non-elect can easily stop elect spirits from hearing Christ’s Holy spirit. And this is why the elect can never seem to nullify the lies and the works of the devil in their lands, why they so often fail to build up God’s just, loving kingdom here on earth. And Satan’s world order covets those elect, as the most productive of all their dehumanized slaves. For only the elect can provide all that humanists require to maintain their demonic kingdoms. So humanists fight hard to keep their elect captives enslaved.
The devil and the most psychopathic of his heirs know, with all certainty, that their earthly kingdoms cannot survive without the enslaved elect. They all realize that only God’s mercy for the elect held captive among them will keep them alive, safe from the devastating bombs of God’s wrath. Those humanists practise the war crime of using innocent civilians as human shields, to prevent God from sending droughts, floods, famines and other forms of devastation which would cause the collapse of their evil little kingdoms that they stole from God. Yet none want to give up their money and illicit power. None want to surrender into lawful and just lives, where all can be free, alive and able to love without limitations. None even consider that it would be better to stop their wars against God, and repent from their murdering, raping and thieving ways. They all prefer total self-annihilation, and the deaths of countless innocents, to a just and loving life. And that is exactly what they shall soon earn for themselves, although God is now working to separate His elect out from those humanists first.
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the people and all the other forms of life on earth. Only the elect in Jesus can become the lights of the world, the moral uplifters of the masses, who enable all necessary works to be done. But this is precisely why Satan has always needed to enslave the elect, and why he had to invent the religion of humanism to accomplish this. For the elect began to see through that devil’s other more primitive demonic religions, and began to reject them too easily. However, through the more subtle practises of humanism, that devil and his toadies could trick the elect to thinking and acting solely through their minds of flesh, even while they thought they were worshipping God through the physical and formulaic traditions of fake churches. Humanism could cause the flesh to trust the teachings and judgments of worshipped fake elders, whom demons appointed and empowered. With humanism, even the most stupid psychopath could enslave and force the elect to serve him for his own nefarious and self-indulgent purposes. If the elect are thoroughly duped by humanism, they no longer even try to nullify evil works, and refuse to build up God’s kingdom on earth, to replace Satan’s hierarchies.
But Jesus has also been working on earth, throughout history and all over the world. Through His Holy Spirit’s power to teach and train elect spirits, even many elect spirits who do not know Him by name, Jesus has exposed many truths that cannot ever be removed from the earth. From the days of Adam, but far more powerfully and frequently since the day Jesus released His Holy Spirit upon the elect on the day of the Pentecost, Jesus has even enabled the flesh of the elect to recognize some of the truths and realities in God’s creation, and begin to comprehend the words uttered from God’s Word. Jesus has awakened and allowed some elect spirits, so they now comprehend some of His truths and put them into practise. Jesus has never allowed all elect souls become too dehumanized and terrorized to recognize and proclaim the truths He gave to the world. Rather, Jesus caused many elect spirits to sit up and take notice of the spiritual realities existing all around them. He made those elect begin to see that the esteemed human teachers and fathers appointed by Satan are wrong, that those human gods were lying or too deluded to see the spiritual and physical realities around them.
So, throughout the history of humanistic influences, even from the days of Babylon, some elect spirits began to turn away from humanism. Those few began to hear the Holy Spirit of their heavenly Father and Brother, who had long since “found” them, who had been speaking to their spirits since birth. Then, as their true Father and oldest Brother began to teach and train their spirits, their lives changed. Their words and deeds began to “show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them” (Rom. 2:15, WEB). These few actually started to share the works of Jesus, to undo the works of the devil and build up God’s loving, truly just kingdom on earth, where their Father’s beneficial and wise will is done on earth as it is in heaven. For not only did these elect lose all their confidence and faith in the human gods appointed by Satan, but they also lost all faith in their own ability to save themselves. Now they were humbled. They saw that they were all children, all infants who relied on their heavenly Father and their oldest Brother. They understood that they could not survive without God’s Holy Spirit ruling over their equal brothers and sisters in the family of God, so all beneficial works could be done through their own cooperation with their other siblings. They also found that, only through the will of their Father and Brother, could God’s creations unite as one.
In the end, God will awaken the spirits of literally all the elect on earth, so all will recognize and love the genuine and uncorrupted name of Jesus—and reject the fake “Jesus” of the false humanistic churches. Then, once the Holy Spirit of Jesus teaches and trains their spirits a little, they will never again be able to worship a human god, nor call any other human being by a title of esteem: “But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your Teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers. Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. Neither be called masters, Page 1495
for one is your master, the Christ. But he who is greatest among you will be your servant” (Mat.
23:8-11, WEB). Therefore, call no human being by a title such as “Rabbi,” “Pastor,” “Doctor,”
“Reverend,” “Honorable” or “Lord,” nor invent any other esteeming lie about any equal sibling.
A time is coming when all the elect will know and serve only our God Jesus, and all the non-elect will either perish or fear to do their evil works in His presence. Then the elect will never again worship human flesh—at least not without very painful rebukes from their spirits’ inner consciences, and not without the minds of their elect spirits loudly protesting that abomination. For their elect spirits will learn that only their oldest Brother is able to rightly, justly and lovingly serve in any and every teaching and judging role, to save them and all their loved ones. Jesus alone can serve as the authoritative, judging, and teaching Elder of any man. So their spirits will never again call anyone by a title like “Father” or “Pope,” will never again trust a sinful infantile man to build the foundation and framework of their lives. For all the equal elect siblings have only one Father who can do that!
Now remember, in opposition to the humanistic principles which always establish hierarchies of supposedly “superior” human gods ruling over the lives of their supposedly “inferior” worshippers, Jesus did indeed forbid us to call any man by any title which even suggests that he is a καθηγητής.
Now it is true that, outside of this context, the BDAG3 defines καθηγητής as a general reference to a
“teacher,” to one who provides καθήγησις (“rule, principle ... instruction,” BDAG3). But in the context of this command from our God Jesus, we were forbidden to esteem the fakes who “sat down upon the seat of Moses” (i.e., Mat. 23:2 was the beginning of this discourse). For God’s Law had reserved that seat for His own chosen elders alone. That is, only those whom God had taught and trained to be honest, just, equitable and loving could sit upon it, to teach and judge for the good of the people, to free them from slavery to human gods, just as God appointed Moses to free His people from slavery in Egypt. Yet the fakes sitting on that seat during the days when Jesus walked among His priesthood of Israel, the teaching and judging elder who sat there were “binding and adding heavy burdens on the shoulders of the people.” They did the opposite, and enslaved God’s people.
In context, Jesus was speaking against the kind of humanistic false teachers and judges who wore pretentious clerical clothing and religious trinkets to make a big show of their piety and authority, the kind who loved to be called by titles of esteem, who demanded far more respect than their equal siblings. Also, just two verses before His prohibition in verse 10, Jesus had already forbidden His disciples to be called a “teacher of life and faith” (διδάσκαλος). Thus, in verse 10, Jesus was not using this noun, καθηγητής, to merely prohibit His disciples from calling anyone a “teacher” or
“instructor” of any kind, although He was doing that too. Rather, Jesus was forbidding them to call anyone by any kind of title that might esteem that one above any other equal siblings in the family of humankind. Jesus forbade us to show greater honour, respect or esteem to any person offering any kind of moral instruction, since that is actually spiritual instruction. We are not to award any kind of title to anyone claiming that one’s words bear authority over anyone else’s life or faith, especially not to anyone claiming to have a right to be a moral/spiritual counsellor or guide to any other person or persons. And the reason Jesus gave for this prohibition was “because your instructing spiritual and moral Guide is one, the Messiah, but you all are brothers” (Mat. 23:8b). This leaves no room for anyone, even an apostle, to be esteemed as an “instructing spiritual and moral guide” except Jesus.
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His true disciples from ever calling any other human being by any possible title of esteem and authority. Our God, King, High Priest, Prophet, Head Teacher and only authoritative Counsellor has declared that literally all human beings are equal brothers and sisters. And, by proclaiming this clear prohibition, our God Jesus commanded us to reject literally all the core principles that are taught by the religion and philosophy of humanism. Instead, through our love for one another, our God Jesus wants us to serve one another, to the best of our God-given abilities, through all that His Holy Spirit teaches to our human spirits. For we all possess extremely foolish, ignorant and infantile spirits that are, therefore, incapable of teaching anyone or judging anything in any true and right way. Only if a man proves to be God’s obedient assistant teacher and judge, proves to be chosen and appointed by God to serve us, proves to have an elect spirit which hears and heeds the Spirit of the Creator, proves to be inwardly honest, just, humble, equitable and loving in all he says and does for the people, can we trust that equal brother to serve God’s people and lands in a position requiring decision-making authority. And we should immediately remove him from that position if he stops doing God’s will.
The elect in our day desperately need to humbly acknowledge that any kind of authority to teach and judge, as a servant or assistant to our God Jesus, should only be granted to those do so through the just, equitable, compassionate, loving counsel of Jesus granted to their elect spirits. For all moral and spiritual teachings and judgments actually require the knowledge and wisdom of complete and total omniscience. And, since God alone is omniscient, but never has and never will grant omniscience to any human spirit while it dwells in flesh, no person who lives here on earth can ever bear authority to judge according to one’s own will. Rather, all human authorities must teach and judge according to God’s will. We must be ruled by the fulfilled laws of our Creator, which only Jesus can teach to our spirits. Yes, vetted older and experienced individuals, who prove to be adequately taught, trained and sent by Jesus, can teach and judge in some matters, in humble ways that accept correction from their equal siblings, and especially from God Himself—that is, if they actually realize their own severe limitations as human beings and fear God, if they continuously seek God’s counsel to guide them whenever they teach or judge other human beings, and as long as they willingly admit to and spontaneously repent from all their wrong teachings and judgments. For Jesus taught that we must never blindly trust any other equal human being as an authoritative teacher and judge over us all.
In conclusion, every true teaching and judging elder of every kind, in every gathering of Christ’s true disciples and in every secular position of governing authority, must acknowledge, teach and judge according to the liberating, equitable, just, beneficial doctrines of God, by all the truths God has revealed in His creations and in His Word. And every elder who does the “greatest” works of God, who has learned to teach the truest words, and who makes the wisest decisions and judgments, is one who has willingly become a virtual household slave (διάκονος) to the Owner of the family estate and all the people in it. The best human teacher and judge is the one who lovingly serves God’s family in His church of Israel, and God’s children in the rest of His kingdom, without demanding any rights or privileges for himself, other than the modest necessities required to do his job. Every true elder sent by God worries more about the spiritual and physical welfare of God’s people than about himself. So he never wants to be served and esteemed by others. Rather, his heart only desires to effectively serve his Father and his oldest Brother, by serving his beloved siblings in all humankind, and all the other living creations in God’s lands. And, like a slave, he will do all his works as freely as possible, in the same free, unconditional, equitable, just, wise, spiritually and physically fruitful way that his Father and Brother does. For his Father, the King, and his siblings, always provide for his real needs.
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true disciples begin to learn how to love, God gathers them into His true church and jealously guards that church, every individual in it, all who worship Him in their spirits and in genuine truth. Jesus only steps away from false churches, and refuses to guard those corrupting institutions. Because they do not love the truth and, therefore, do not love Him—since they despise Him and love an imagined god created by men on a foundation of lies about Him—Jesus hands them over Satan’s deluding and destroying power. But, when Jesus Himself awakens some elect, then creates a true church and guards it, “whoever will elevate oneself will be humiliated” by His just, wise judgments against that one. At the same time, “whoever humiliates oneself will be elevated” by Him, through His power, counsel, comfort, teaching and training for that one’s spirit. Jesus Himself manages and provides for the spiritual or physical works of each loving disciple, for the teachings or judgments of a true elder.
Mat. 23:13-39,
Woes for Fake Churches
During this somewhat lengthy discourse, Jesus spoke through His Spirit as the voice of Yahweh, the one God, and continued His justified condemnation of the false scholars and fake evangelicals who stole into His church of Israel. And His just judgments against them assured their hearts that each and every one of them would personally spend the rest of eternity in the dark, empty, vacuum of hell, with absolutely nothing but the darkness of their own carefully nurtured lies and very irrationally self-justified delusions to both comfort and torment them forever. After all, these ambitious men, who climbed all the way to the bottom of their religious hierarchies in Satan’s world order, had been lying and murdering all their lives. They had enslaved and destroyed countless innocent lives, all to gain profits, power and pleasures for themselves. Then they washed their hands and walked away from their sins, as well as from the suffering and death they caused for equal siblings in humankind, smiling all the while, knowing that they controlled the courts of men, so that no human judge would dare to hold them accountable for their lies and sins, not while they kept the justice system corrupt.
Our God Jesus, while walking among us in a body of human flesh, proclaimed eight “woes” against those religious deceivers, whom Satan sent to sabotage the Creator’s priesthood of Israel and other people belonging to God. But all these proclamations of doom did not only apply to the false elders who had infiltrated God’s church back then. All the fakes who have crept into both the Old and New Covenant branches of His church since then, up to this day, will know His wrath as well. So the first thing we need to do is look at the Greek word which is usually translated as the English word “woe.”
The Greek word used here is a particle, οὐαί, possibly of Hebrew origin, which the BDAG3 defines as an: “interjection denoting pain or displeasure, woe, alas ... a state of intense hardship or distress.”
But that technical and mostly secular definition does not cover that word’s area of meaning in this context, where Jesus used it as a theological term. Yes, it is certain that our God Jesus declared that these biblical scholars and evangelicals—who proudly called themselves the leaders and owners of God’s priesthood of Israel, and thus usurped God’s leadership and ownership—would surely receive pain, displeasure, hardship and distress, just as the BDAG3 definition suggests. However, οὐαί was uttered in our God’s infallible and completely just judgment of these fake church “leaders,” based on His Spirit’s omniscient knowledge of every false and self-serving motive and intention within their human spirits. Therefore, this word, οὐαί, implies an inescapable and eternal condemnation by our God Jesus. It suggests their omniscient and omnipotent Judge had already determined the final and everlasting sentence for their crimes. Our God saw how there was absolutely no possibility that their spirits would ever willingly repent into His truth, so they could never be forgiven so they could enter a restored relationship with Him. The way Jesus pronounced these woes upon them meant that their Page 1498
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spirits were recognized as the non-elect children of the devil. It meant their spirits’ father, Satan, had taught and trained them to misinterpret and wrongly apply God’s Word, and that demon was the only god they trusted. Satan and his demons made those liars very effective, extremely adept at nullifying and corrupting every last syllable of the Scriptures. Then the minds of their spirits rejoiced in this gift from their father. They enjoyed this skill, being able to deceive and manipulate innocent souls, causing them to serve their own egocentric purposes. Yet not one will ever escape God’s judgment.
Now I say that our God Jesus gave eight woes of eternal condemnation against all of the religious scholars and evangelicals who dared to nullify His Law and teachings, in an attempt to usurp His loving authority over His church of Israel. But many reduce this to seven woes, to the number of perfection and completion. Some leave out Matthew 23:14—the woe condemning these hypocrites for devouring widows’ houses and making long prayers as a show of piety. Of course, this verse was not included in some of the earliest Greek manuscripts of Matthew’s Gospel, including the important fourth-century texts of the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus. And, when it was included in later Byzantine texts, as well as in the Majority Text, the order of the 13th and 14th verses were reversed (verse 14 is 13 and 13 is 14). Yet the condemnation of this second woe (the deleted v.14) is found in Mark’s summary of what Jesus proclaimed against the Pharisaic scribes that day (12:40), and Mark likely wrote his Gospel before Matthew, in the mid-first century. Also, in Luke’s summary of this same event, written about AD 60, he mentioned how Jesus condemned them for devouring widows’
houses and false piety (Luke 20:47). So all three synoptic Gospels were written in the first century, and two mention this deleted woe, but Matthew’s Gospel was the most reliable eye-witness account.
Yet, why would Matthew, who wrote his Gospel after Mark and Luke, omit this woe, since it was the only condemning remark of Jesus that both Mark and Luke bothered to report in their own Gospels?
This deleted woe (v. 14) seems as though it must have been originally included in Matthew’s Gospel.
And it is also found in a few other early references to Matthew’s Gospel, such as a second-century Greek witness, Diatessaron of Tation. So we find that Mark, Luke and other early witnesses, who all predate the third-century influence of Origen (a Platonic theologian and scholar who was sensitive to accusations of living off of the charity of women) all included this condemnation for exploiting the charity of widows and acts of fake piety. The earlier witnesses included this woe, and the apostolic church did forbid religious scholars from taking advantage of lonely widows by pretending to be pious. Then, in the eighth and last woe against these church “leaders,” Jesus spoke about how those deceivers filled up of the measure of their guilt. So our God’s last woe seemed to be a little different from the previous seven, and more of a conclusion or summation of all their guilt derived from their sins described in the first seven woes. Thus, Jesus probably did utter seven woes against the church hypocrites, a perfect and complete number of woes, signifying their total depravity and inescapable judgment. Then, after the finality of seven condemnations, in His eighth woe (starting in verse 29), Jesus proclaimed that their guilt was inescapable, to indicate how they had perfected and completed their own condemnation. This pattern of seven condemnations and a conclusion seems to be more balanced and biblical, a kind that His Jewish disciples and audience would be most familiar with.
Furthermore, when Mark and Luke summarized and shortened their account of how Jesus judged and condemned those evangelical scholars, who were all teaching and judging elders in the church, they likely mentioned only the first of Jesus’ woes. It seems to have been a tradition, due to the great expense of ink and paper, for an writer to mention only the first item on a list whenever he referred to an entire list which his readers knew from other sources. So Mark and Luke probably wrote down only Jesus’ first woe, to remind their readers about the entire list of eight woes against fake church elders, a list already known and often referred to within the apostolic church. Given what is known Page 1499
about the times of the apostles, this is not only possible but highly likely. Thus, when Mark and Luke wrote about what Jesus said that day, based on what they heard from eye-witnesses, they kept it very brief. They only recorded the first of the eight woes, as a reference to all eight woes. Then, if they later had an opportunity to verbally preach, they could easily expound on those other seven “woes”
which Jesus proclaimed that day, that is, if anyone asked about them. Thus, the Majority Text may have been correct in this instance. There is reasonable evidence that verse 14 did indeed exist, and that it was the first of the eight woes (i.e., verse 14 was likely originally verse 13, and verse 13 likely was the second “woe”). And, whether that verse existed in chapter 23 of Matthew’s Gospel or not, it was surely and definitely a real teaching and judgment from Jesus. Therefore, I will include it here.
The First Woe
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation” (Mat.
23:13, WEB).
It is one thing for a common person to live an evil and self-centred life, lying and cheating one’s way to get ahead or to obtain pleasures of the flesh, especially if one at least tries not to harm the most vulnerable innocent souls whom one encounters in the process. In that case, one will certainly face rebuke on the last day, but not necessarily eternal hell. For, since even the elect are sinners, trapped in flesh that is never “good enough” for worldly hierarchies, who bear unreliable minds and inner characters, who lack life-skills and love-skills, who require extensive support to be even tolerable to others, those elect spirits are able to repent into the truths of abundant life and be forgiven on the last day, then restored to a right relationship with the Father and Brother of one’s spirit. If one’s sins are simply according to the will and mind of flesh, but one’s spirit never commits any intentional and unforgivable sins against God’s Holy Spirit, because one’s spirit bears a spark of just love within it, God is well-able to redeem that one. However, it is quite another thing for a person to pretend to be a faithful servant of God, in order to deliberately pervert God’s teachings of truth in ways that publicly slander His holy name, constantly striving to undo God’s works in His church and earthly kingdom for personal gain and status, always replacing God’s words and works with Satan’s words and works.
If any man wants to become a teaching and judging elder in any kind Judaeo-Christian denomination or non-denominational fake church, although Yahweh Jesus has never chosen, called, taught, trained and sent that one to serve as any kind of priest in His true church, in His real priesthood of Israel, then that man deserves eternal condemnation. For all who claim to be teaching and judging elders
“will receive a greater condemnation and sentence” when our God Jesus judges their lying words and sinful deeds (see: μεῖζον κρίμα λημψόμεθα, James 3:1). If a fake elder’s spirit is an unloving non-elect offspring of the most unholy and God-hating spirit of the devil, and was sent to devour the resources which vulnerable souls require for survival, while making a big show of piety so one can gain status in Satan’s religions of the world order, then God will definitely cast that wretch into hell.
The High King and Judge of all living souls throughout history was clearly suggesting everlasting consequences when He declared: “Woe to you, scholars and evangelicals, hypocrites, because you are entirely consuming the houses of women without husbands and, to hide false motives, [are]
making prayers long. Due to this, you will receive a greater sentence of judgment” (Mat. 23:13/14, from: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι, ὑποκριταί, ὅτι κατεσθίετε τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν, καὶ
προφάσει μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι· διὰ τοῦτο λήψεσθε περισσότερον κρίμα). In this context, the word κρίμα clearly refers to a final verdict of our God Jesus, the eternal sentence He will award on the judgment day, after their very brief lives on earth. And this “greater sentence of judgment” these Page 1500
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ruthless exploiters from false churches will receive shall be eternity in the same utter darkness of lies and delusions that their spirits invented for their benefits, and cherished, during their lives on earth.
Can you imagine their torment in hell, as their darkened spiritual bodies, dressed in filthy garments stained with the rotting spiritual sins they committed on earth, look up with arrogant piety from the lowest depths of hell, lower than the most brutal murderers and rapists. For they intentionally and repeatedly broke God’s laws of the first three orders, every day and in every way, to blaspheme God’s utterly holy Spirit. So their delusions of piety will be like a thousand living spears penetrating their eternal bodies, twisting to maximize their pain. Yet, with more lies to themselves, they will boldly raise their voices and command God to grant them a fake heaven, where they can continue to serve as esteemed influencers among weak and gullible dupes, and also enjoy a far greater artificial superiority than they had illicitly gained on earth, with stupid worshippers catering to their whims.
But, of course, those dishonest Bible scholars and lying evangelicals will not desire the real heaven, since its light will be far too bright and exposing for them, leaving none with the ability to deceive, nor to be deceived by their own convincing rhetoric and fake compassion. So, when those liars find themselves in hell, God will forever utterly ignore all of their self-indulgent prayers, just as He did while they lived on earth. And, once they land in hell, they will never again have any people nor resources from God’s creations to cunningly manipulate, in order to pretend that God answers and even highly favours their prayers. On top of this, even their father, the devil writhing a few inches below them, will also have nothing to abuse in ways that bring glory through pretended ownership to himself or to his children. The answer of empty silence will be all they will ever receive from that day on. Yet they will never repent and cast off their spirits’ most beloved, carefully crafted and self-serving delusions of religious superiority. For those were their chief possessions, the sole defining attributes of their eternal spirits and souls. Then, through their love for that inner darkness, they will not stop praying in vain, commanding God to grant them their wicked desires, and some will even make those arrogant formulaic prayers “in the name of Jesus!” In fact, those dark ones will pray louder each day, with the minds of their spirits desperately spinning out of control, unable to find any possibility of relief from all the humiliating, degrading nothingness they stand within. Thus, it will not take long before they are screaming in frustrated agony, tormented by the fact that God proved them to be less than those they conned and looked down upon as inferior spirits and sinners.
Compare the fate of those religious non-elect to the fates of the more common non-religious non-elect. Most non-elect sinners never even think about of becoming gods ruling over God, never in a way that Satan and his most favoured religious psychopaths do. Now we need to realize that Satan seeks to usurp the real God’s throne over all the earth, and nullify His works in this training ground for His elect children. Thus, since all the earth is blessed and survives solely by God’s words and works through His taught and trained elect in His true New and Old Covenant churches, that devil is forced to send his most evil and cunning liars and murderers into those true churches, to corrupt the elect in them and to capture as many as possible, to make them slaves in his fake churches. For the devil must destroy the truths and love of those elect, in order to facilitate the destruction of the earth.
So it is because God’s priesthood of true Israel is God’s gift to all the earth that Satan must send his lying Bible scholars and fake evangelicals into Judaeo-Christian churches, lest God rule all the earth.
To prevent the whole earth from being ruled through truths of loving justice, Satan’s highly favoured brood of religious liars must falsely preach and sin in God’s name. They need their own wills to be done, instead of God’s will. They ultimately want to enslave or destroy God, so they can make self-serving laws and precepts, so they can dictate their own wills and have all God’s creations worship them instead of God. For they crave inestimable esteem and want to be blindly obeyed, in ways that Page 1501
God could be, potentially, although the real God serves all and has never even begun to desire such things for Himself. But, since these liars can never destroy their Creator, nor subjugate Him in any way, they all live wretched, frustrated and empty lives, where all they say and do is in vain and will soon be forgotten, no matter how much they strive to keep their lies eternal. Then, after all of these wanna-be gods fall into the lowest depths of hell, lower than the worst of the common non-religious psychopaths, their religious pride, which blasphemed God’s Holy Spirit and even tried to subjugate other citizens of hell, will cause those most despised of all non-elect spirits to suffer more than all the rest. Nor will the other non-elect spirits and their vile father spare those worst ones any of the pain they will be able to inflict on them. Therefore, their agony in hell will be “greater” than them.
Some may think this punishment is far too harsh for such nice priests and pastors. But do not think those fakes do not deserve the deepest and worst place in hell. For all were virtual psychopaths who deliberately pretended to be servants of God, who knew they were lying to manipulate the people, all for their own glory, pride, esteem and financial gain. This is what Jesus meant when He told us they
“are entirely consuming the houses of women lacking husbands and, to hide false motives, [are]
making prayers long.” When Jesus said this, He used a present tense verb and participle, to indicate how they did this in a durative, continuous, ongoing and deliberate manner. In context, we need to conclude this. Those Bible scholars were the teaching and judging elders who not only stole the sole means of survival from the most vulnerable members of their societies, but also enabled others to do so as well. For those elders were consulted in the making and enforcement of all laws and precepts governing both the churches and the secular souls in Israel, as well as far beyond its borders. Thus, those nice church elders were directly and indirectly responsible for the unjust suffering and deaths of countless innocent lives. They cared absolutely nothing for the welfare of their siblings, neither in the priestly family of God nor in their family of humankind. They willingly sacrificed the pain and lives of innocent souls for personal gain, merely for more worldly esteem and money in their wallets.
And now let me also warn you about the the misleading wording of this “woe,” in most translations.
The BDAG3 defines the word χήρα as “a woman whose husband has died , widow.” However, that definition is highly inaccurate and entirely culturally motivated. For it assumes a Roman and modern definition of “husband,” a cultural view of marriage which did not exist among the Jews or the first-century Christians. To biblical Jews and Christians, any slave or free woman taken by a man to live with him, to share her body with him in the same home, became his wife. To have sexual relations with any woman implied a marriage covenant, whether or not the families of the man and woman had made a written or verbal marriage contract before the cohabitation occurred. And no type of church endorsement or record of the marriage, nor any official government sanctioning of the marriage, nor a formal or informal ceremony, nor any other requirement was ever necessary. Once a man began to share a home with a woman, in a situation involving mutually consenting sexual relations, he declared himself to be her husband and she declared herself to be his wife, even if God Himself had not witnessed and ratified a marriage covenant of faithful love between the spirits of the two spouses. Even if God did not recognize it to be a true marriage yet, they were married in the eyes of the Jews. For God’s true church knew that, if marriage required anything more than a simple agreement between a man and a woman, both the Old and New Covenant branches of the church would need to condemn the marriages of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and all four of his wives, as well as many other elect souls in God’s priesthood. If anything other than an act of sharing life in the flesh was required, most of God’s elect were “living in sin.”
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related to women bereft of husbands according to this biblical definition of a marriage. So, when our God Jesus used the word χήρα, He was actually referring to any woman who had been living with a man but now lacked a man to take care of her, that is, to any woman that had been either widowed, divorced or abandoned by a man whom she relied upon to provide her with the daily needs of herself and her children. This included any female slave or hired servant who was raped, then sold or cast out by her master, since that man had sinned against God’s Law, since a man who slept with a slave or hired servant was legally required to treat her as his wife, and could no longer treat her as a slave or as a hired servant. Also, in those days, the vast majority women were seldom even allowed to earn enough to provide for themselves, much less for their children. An average woman’s work was not valued, and she was not paid enough to afford the food, clothing and shelter she needed to survive, much less enough to provide for her children too. And we should also realize that many men also abandoned pregnant women, or a woman together with all of her children. Thus, almost all women without husbands became extremely poor, utterly desperate for help of all kinds, socially isolated, lonely, anxious, afraid, unable to defend themselves against most physical or spiritual threats and vulnerable in every way. Consequently, they were easy targets for abusers, eagerly willing to believe any friendly liar, gullible and easily duped. So psychopaths found them ripe for their exploitations.
Now Jesus here mentioned how these Bible scholars and evangelicals “are entirely consuming the houses of women lacking husbands.” Here He used a present indicative form of the verb κατεσθίω, which means, “to eat up ravenously, eat up, consume, devour, swallow ... to destroy utterly ... to waste ... to rob: τὰς οἰκίας τῶν χηρῶν, eat up widows’ houses, i.e. appropriate them in an unethical manner” (BDAG3). And that is exactly what they did, in many ways, directly or indirectly. For they made regulations which virtually made a woman into her husband’s possession, much like pagan Roman humanists often did to women. So, instead of having a beloved, contributing companion in the home, a man would own and rule over a silent female slave whom he called his wife, because he purchased her without money. Then fake elders also enabled husbands to divorce their wives for any reason whatsoever, by reciting a few words a few times. And, if they were gracious, some might also take a few minutes to write a brief note declaring that she was divorced, so she could survive by finding a new abusive husband. But, if a husband was a psychopath, he may not even do that much, and his pastor did not require him to do that. For, since a man could have more than one wife, while a woman could not have more than one husband, a man did not need a divorce to marry his mistress.
Thus, a cruel husband could divorce his wife and take pleasure in watching her, and his unwanted children with her, suffer and starve until the day they died. Or a more wealthy man might take a second wife and keep his other wife to do the household chores, or to give him forced sex when his preferred wife was unavailable. Furthermore, if a woman was a widow, or abandoned, or divorced and granted a certificate of divorce, she was basically forced to marry again, since the evangelicals did not provide for her needs, not without many strings attached. And it was the church which had ensured that a “woman’s work” was never valued, so that all devout women would always remain entirely dependent on their husbands, like owned slaves. It was the church that made women totally subservient to even the most cruel, worthless, wretched, unloving and godless husbands. Thus, these fake elders, and all their evangelical minions, coerced women without husbands to marry a husband who could then completely control literally all she possessed, in the same way Romans held the right to plunder the possessions of a conquered enemy and enslaves him or her. To these pastors and their churches, women existed solely to be exploited by men, without a right to become true companions of their husbands. Those pastors laboured long and hard to prevent the spirits of husbands and wives from making the true marriage covenants required by God’s Law. For they hated God and His ways.
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In addition to all this, many of these pastors loved to see devout and suitably demoralized women walk into their church—not only the rich ones, but also the poor ones. For even poor women could be exploited, conned into cleaning the church building, making all the preparations for their self-indulgent feasts, cooking meals for their esteemed pastors on weekdays, and so on. Then, naturally, devout women did all this willingly, thinking they were serving God, although they were actually serving Satan’s kingdom. The pastors could also trick the rich women into “serving God” by giving their money to their pastors and the church. Even the less devout rich women, if they were lonely enough, could be persuaded to give money, either to gain some kind of recognition or to acquire a few social connections. But one thing was certain, women without husbands were far easier to dupe than women with husbands, since the husbands belonging to those fake churches were humanists too, and demanded that their wives spend all their time serving them. Husbands often interfered with the exploitation of dehumanized evangelical women by their pastors. Therefore, teaching and judging elders, as well as all their enabling flock of evangelicals, were indeed ravenously devouring the houses and other possessions of women whom they kept dependent, subservient and oppressed.
But not only did the evangelical pastors and their flocks exploit the most vulnerable members of their society, they also did so through intentional deception. They wanted their dupes to believe that they were devout “servants of God,” and that any gifts to them were a gifts to God Himself. So they conditioned their dupes to give to them as they would to the Creator God, then serve them as they would serve God. In other words, those fake priests and lying pastors were exactly like almost all the humanistic Judaeo-Christian priests and pastors in history, up to this very day. They were portraying themselves as human gods who should be worshipped by their dupes, rather than as equal brothers.
Now, in context, the present tense participle form of προσεύχομαι was durative, indicting an ongoing and deliberate making of prayers, in a way described by an adverbial form of μακρός (“long”) and by a dative form of πρόφασις (in a “falsely alleged motive, pretext, ostensible reason, excuse ... with false motives ... In reality they have other interests ... For a pretext, for appearance’ sake ... under the pretext that, pretending that,” BDAG3). So these evangelical pastors and their flocks made long prayers through false motives, as “a pretext, for appearance’ sake.” They pretended to be pious so they might be respected and esteemed in their religious communities. And this is always a danger.
For judgments based solely on outward or superficial criteria, merely according to pretended words and deeds, and not according to the fruits of their spirits, disobeys God and leads to death. Then the evil who are falsely judged to be good can do far more harm than the good falsely judged to be evil.
Those fake religious guides and their false churches directly and indirectly caused extreme physical, mental and spiritual suffering and deaths, for thousands of women and children, as well as for men who truly knew and loved God, for anyone who dared to oppose their deceiving words and deeds.
The ruthless, exploitative kingdom of Satan remained safe and secure under their guard, since they used merciless violence to terrorize any elect souls who might question their illicit authority, and to force their false interpretations of God’s Word upon other churches and secular governing bodies. To gain rewards of money and power, so they could feed the lusts of their flesh, desires of their eyes and delusions of pride, those fake priests and pastors sacrificed uncountable innocent lives to themselves.
Since they were willing to do anything to gratify their selfish ambitions, or for a little cash, their total lack of an inner conscience was more than willing to commit any kind of injustice. Then, to deceive the people into thinking they were doing all this evil in God’s name, they would replace every truth found in Scriptures with a lie that better served their pursuit of personal gain. So these pious-looking priests and pastors, who seemed so “nice” while talking with their faithful dupes, did clearly deserve this eternal “woe,” this final judgment of condemnation from our God Jesus. And, although some of Page 1504
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these sons of the devil were too timid to get their own hands dirty, by directly exploiting vulnerable women, they partook in those crimes indirectly. For they taught the doctrines which enabled those sins and promoted the false preachers who did directly exploit those women. Those fake elders also refused to proclaim the just and loving truths of God. Therefore, even the fakes who outwardly kept their hands “clean” clearly earned hell too, by aiding and abetting sins and through sins of omission.
Today we see many humanistic priests and pastors who dare not teach politically dangerous truths, nor say anything against other preachers who exploit the vulnerable. They neither do their duty of feeding the spirits of their people nor warn them about the wolves coming to devour them. Those enablers of evil, with their filthy hearts and outwardly washed hands of flesh, prevent God’s elect from receiving inner liberty, personal freedom, joy in the heart, peace with God and an abundant life of just, pure love, while they dwelt on earth. Instead, they hand the elect over to the enemy, for the destruction of their lives. So even the “good” and “nice” ones deserve severe condemnation. Then surely the ravenous wolves, who do the actual dirty works of slaughtering God’s flock, deserve the lowest and darkest pit of hell for their intentional sins of carefully crafted lies and murdering deeds.
All these fake representatives of God have definitely earned “a greater sentence of judgment,” the lowest depths of hell, even more than serial murderers deserve it. For these liars about God and His words are indeed worse than any irreligious sinners, and are actually far more like their father, the devil. For, like Satan, they pretend to come in God’s name, declaring that they serve God’s will, so they can trick souls into trusting them. Then they use that trust to slander God’s attributes and deny His life-saving truths. In time, they even con their captives into worshipping themselves as gods instead of the real God, and get their dupes to place more faith in them and their words than they do in the real God. Those fake “servants of God” lure even the elect into the worship of idols formed by the very malleable clay of their false doctrines, then paint those cheap little idols with various hues of flattering lies, false promises and conditional love until they form exact images of themselves. So they plunge souls into the inwardly destructive sin of idolatry, dupe them into bowing before and serving false gods who command them to commit self-serving sins of spiritual adultery and murder.
This first woe condemned exploitative teaching and judging elders, as well as their blindly loyal disciples, for all their sins against the first four orders of God’s Law. Here Jesus alluded to the ways in which these fakes, through their self-serving and arrogant pretense of religion, would: (1) make themselves into gods above God, then make all their major decisions based on what their own carnal wills desire, but never according to God’s will; (2) fashion false images of themselves then worship those idols, and cause others to worship them too; (3) take God’s name in vain by severely abusing His name, by teaching false doctrines or doing unjust works in His name; and (4) forfeit rest in God’s eternal Sabbath, solely because they want to do works of selfish ambition every day of the week, but especially during their meetings in local churches on the Sabbath day. So this first woe, if all its implications are understood, was the most condemning woe for the worst of sins. Then the next six woes expounded on this first one, while the eighth woe summarily reiterated their full guilt.
The Second Woe
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter” (Mat. 23:14, WEB).
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closing the door to the kingdom of the heavens before the faces of the people. For you yourselves are not entering, nor letting the ones entering to enter” (Mat. 23:14, from: ὐαὶ δὲ ὑμῖν, γραμματεῖς καὶ
Φαρισαῖοι ὑποκριταί, ὅτι κλείετε τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ὑμεῖς γὰρ
οὐκ εἰσέρχεσθε, οὐδὲ τοὺς εἰσερχομένους ἀφίετε εἰσελθεῖν, SBLGNT). Once more, Jesus spoke of
“the kingdom of the heavens” (plural), referring to His eternal homeland for elect spirits, but also His earthly kingdom of righteousness, peace and joy in just love, served by His priesthood of Israel, by His awakened elect children. And Jesus used a present tense form of the verb κλείω, to indicate that these elders of the church, and their evangelical disciples, were continuously trying to close the door to God’s kingdom, in an ongoing and, therefore, deliberate way. For these fake servants of God had no intention of stepping across the borders into either God’s earthly or heavenly kingdoms, and they certainly did not want their exploited elect dupes to enter God’s realm, into safety and freedom.
Now, before continuing, let me repeat a story about a relevant experience. In my twenties, I decided that I needed to learn much more about God’s Word. So I registered for classes at a Baptist Bible college. In one of my courses on Corinthians, a female child in her late teens had been reading chapter 11 of First Corinthians, where Paul’s elect spirit wrote, through the counsel of God’s Holy Spirit, this wisdom: “Because of this, the woman is obligated to have decision-making authority upon the head, on account of the angels” (I Cor. 11:10, from: διὰ τοῦτο ὀφείλει ἡ γυνὴ ἐξουσίαν
ἔχειν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς διὰ τοὺς ἀγγέλους, SBLGNT). And, in context, the act of placing a sign of
“decision-making authority upon the head” was indicated by a present passive form of the verb κατακαλύπτω, as well as by its cognates (vv. 5-7). As an ecclesiastical term, the present passive form of κατακαλύπτω indicated that a woman should begin to cover her head with something, such as a cloth, veil or hat. And, in practise, Jewish rabbis accepted even a tiny piece of cloth, a couple square inches, pinned in the hair at the back of the head. For it was merely a sign that the woman knew how much she required moral and spiritual input from external sources, to develop a godly structure in her life. For women bear a far greater ability to adapt to their environments and to the people they dwell with, much more than men do. But this adaptability makes for very little stability. So women often find themselves without a moral and spiritual anchor, and tossed to and fro by the winds of false doctrines. Thus, elect women, whose spirits care about truth and love, tend to build an inner solidity from the loving examples, counsel and guidance of a father or husband, then also from the biblical teachings of other faithful and God-fearing men, like church elders. And, when I took that class, I saw how the young woman, who trusted I Corinthians 11:10, decided to wear a hat that day.
Now I doubt that particular female child had yet realized all the implications of that Scripture. Still, after studying it, her spirit felt that she should wear a hat of some kind. For she did sincerely want to please God, and did not want to offend God’s heavenly messengers, the angels. This was clearly her motive for wearing that common kind of hat to class (I can’t remember exactly, but it was likely just a cheap baseball cap, with nothing offensive written on it). Now, like most teachers at that Bible college, the classroom instructor was a friendly and very likeable man, who took the time to answer questions, even while walking in the hallways or when students walked into his office. He was a typical Evangelical of the 70s, always ensuring that his language and behaviour met the standards of his church and college. But, within minutes of entering the room on that day, he saw that young women wearing her hat. Then his countenance immediately changed. With obvious but controlled anger, he lowered his voice to sound authoritarian, pointed to the girl and growled, “Take off that stupid hat!” Then he declared something like: “I will not have that kind of thing in this classroom!”
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church scholars. And he also seemed to be upset about the way in which this intelligent and faithful young Christian woman dared to read ahead and believe God’s Word in a way that he did not tell her to believe it. Yet what harm could it do if someone took God’s Word literally, in a way where it may cause her to meditate on the reasons and meanings of that Scripture, in a way that may even help her understand and cope with her difficult life in the flesh? And that teacher did not act in ignorance. For he knew exactly what the verse taught, since he was teaching the course on Corinthians. So why did he not let this young woman do what her heart believed to be true and the fulfilling of that Scripture?
This young woman clearly desired something missing in her life, some deeper directing influence that would alleviate the confusion and often defeating challenges to her faith, something to remind her that a solid foundation would prevent her spirit from drifting into despair as she was confronted by soul-wrenching contradictions in her home and everywhere she went. Yet these evangelicals had a political agenda, and were never going to let God’s agenda interfere with it. Of course, this was not the first incident where teachers in that Bible college clearly opposed teachings from God’s Word, in order to shove their own questionable beliefs down the throats of their younger disciples—usually in a friendly way, if possible, with effective sales techniques to “handle” and manipulate them, yet in threatening ways as well, when necessary, such as when genuine truths from God confronted any of their political and income-earning beliefs. I had witnessed countless compromises regarding God’s Word from those Bible scholars—some that might be tolerated as alternative interpretations, but also many that directly nullified Scriptures, or added totally unacceptable and unintended meanings to His teachings. Now, when I started attending the college, I thought, since all humans are sinners, although the spirits of those teachers did not seem to actually trust and put confidence in either God or His words, I might still learn something from them. But, after all I heard and saw, I realized that they were actually striving to crush genuine faith in God and in His Word, that they punished true faith, that they wanted to instill faith only in themselves and in their denominations. So, after sitting for a long time on the grass behind a building to pray, I realized the real purpose of their classes was to indoctrinate, not to teach. And, to truly learn my God’s Word, I had to go directly to my God, for His instructions, counsel and training. For that chapter also said “the head of every man is Christ” (I Cor. 11:3). Only Jesus is my “Head Teacher.” Yes, I could read the works of those men and other scholars, to glean what I could. But I must let Jesus sort out and expose their errors even as I did so.
So I left that Evangelical college, and went to study God’s Word with Jesus alone, with my God, Teacher and Saviour. And, after decades of experiencing the results of that decision, I thank God that I did leave that college. Then, after another 30 years, I left behind all humanistic churches, so I might find a closer and more spiritual fellowship with God and His truly elect children. In time, I no longer sought any human being to be my head, nor the head of anyone else in Christ’s true church. Only Jesus can be the Head of all. This is what all the elect truly need. For my own life has been difficult, with a controlling, wilful, self-centred father who constantly threatened to slander, destroy and even physically beat or kill me, my mother and my siblings. On top of that man’s unrelenting threats, the churches I attended, even from the age of about ten or eleven, provided nothing of real inner value, simply contradicting political manipulations, never biblical truths, wisdom, guidance, solid love or the true Gospel of salvation. And some pastors were like my father, trying to lure souls into a blind, mindless, worshipful submission. After four decades of serving churches, all I ever found was the religion of humanism. Humanism was practised by all pastors and churches, by evangelical and mainline churches alike. All the priests and pastors strove to build careers, to grab more lucrative and powerful positions in the delusional hierarchies created by their carnal institutions, so they could be esteemed and served as human gods. No one seemed to even want true salvation and life in Christ.
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So, according to the counsel of God’s Holy Spirit to my spirit, I abandoned those humanists. And God did not allow me to “set up” my own “biblically correct” humanistic church either. With a voice of deadly warning in my soul, God forbade such a thing. Always, He made me greatly fear becoming a man whom some might call “pastor.” For there can be no human pastor of any man, none but Jesus Himself. Only Jesus is able to be a Good Shepherd, Head Teacher, High Priest, Prophet. Only Jesus can teach God’s words according to God’s own interpretations, as our almighty King, as our truly effective Saviour, as our worshipped God, with the loving Father in Him, to provide real meaning, advice, structure, purpose and abundant life to each elect spirit born of His Holy Spirit. And, if none but our God Jesus can be the authoritative Judge and Teacher of literally all members in both His Old and New Covenant branches of His church, in His priesthood of Israel, then anyone else who claims to be an authoritative judge or a teacher in any church is a fraud, a liar attempting to usurp God’s role and God’s rule over His priests in His priesthood. Likewise, any church that accepts such a one as their authoritative judge or teacher, any church that calls any human being by any title such as “Rabbi,” “Pastor” or “Father,” must be a false church. No other logical conclusion can be made.
So, is it a little sin or a big sin if a man allows other siblings to address him with a title like “pastor”
or “rabbi”? Well, look at the effects resulting from the esteem, respect, trust and confidence of the people who call men by those titles. All those humanistic churches have become a strongholds for con men, exploiters, political leaches and other criminals. Then consider how all who esteem, serve and place all their faith in those men, and in their words, are committing a sin that God’s Word calls idolatry, since God’s Law defines that as the worship of those men. But all the members of God’s one and only true church never worship idols. Rather, the awakened elect spirits that Jesus gathers into His true Israel learn to place all their faith in God and in His words. So not only are those fake priests, pastors, teachers and rabbis teaching a false doctrine about calling sinful men by esteeming titles, but they are actually attempting to usurp God’s sovereignty over His elect children. They are trying to replace the real Creator God with themselves. And surely that is a very big, evil, ugly sin!
Any church which suggests that its final authority over all matters of life and faith is a mortal man or a group of men, and that our God Jesus grants them that authority, is a fake humanistic church. It is neither biblical nor worthy of any trust at all. The words of its human gods will almost never align with God’s consistent, rational, harmonious words, primarily because the words of an infantile and sinful human being can never be truly consistent, rational and harmonious. In fact, every priest or pastor in every humanistic church will usually contradict himself within two sentences. And each pastor’s doctrines and reasoning will definitely and always contradicts other pastors in the same hierarchical structure of his own local church or denomination. Thus, which of their words can any person trust? If any human spirit possesses even a semblance of honesty and rational reasoning, it will flee from almost all churches existing today, and count them as institutions of Satan’s kingdom.
If anyone is going to believe the words of any man, then they had better take the time to ensure that words they believe were actually spoken in God’s name, according to the will and commands of God. And the only way we can do this is by allowing our spirits to hear an affirmation of those words directly from the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus, who is always near and ready to edit all we hear from others, ready to approve of and expound upon truths, or else delete and warn against lies.
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the fruits of love, peace, freedom, justice and equity. And truly godly societies cooperate and live in harmony with an orderly structure, without any class systems or steep hierarchies. Whenever we have seen societies practise God’s laws and ways, love thrives. But the words of those humanistic priests and pastors have only ever produced confusion, contradicting irrationality, bullying inequity, chaotic injustice, ruthless exploitation, violent oppression, brutal slavery and hatred, both in their churches as well as in the secular governments and institutions influenced by them. All historic and current realities prove that we must never trust those humanistic “leaders” or their churches. Reality proves that none of those humanistic authorities were ever called, taught, trained and sent by Jesus.
If our spirits are honest, we must confess that our spirits witness the same kind of hypocrisy in the vast majority of churches as we do in the secular world, and often worse. Therefore, our elect spirits know, with all certainty, that the vast majority of priests and pastors in those humanistic churches are either non-elect pretenders or else extremely immature and very deceived elect siblings. If our spirits are awake at all, we cannot possibly come to any other rational conclusion. If our hearts and souls honestly judge the fruits of those teaching and judging elders, we know they are all fakes. Thus, the real Creator God is not the god ruling the hearts and minds of those nice priests or pastors. Although there are likely many elect captives found in their nice churches, the impressive structures of their grand buildings, with raised alters and orderly rows of pews designed for the subjugated worship of a man on a raised platform, are accomplishing more harm than good for those deceived elect slaves.
At the same time, we also see how those priests and pastors make their churches fiercely loyal to themselves and to their invented heavenly gods. Yet their fake heavenly gods are definitely opposed to the real God, and to most of God’s created realities and truths, even to the real God’s eternal principles and laws of just, equitable love built on the foundation of all His created realities. So the gods whom those churches faithfully worship and serve are actually enemies of the real God. The gods those men created and blasphemously named “Yahweh,” “Lord,” “Creator” or “Jesus,” are all either demons or do not exist at all. Therefore, anyone who worships those human gods and their invented idols will not learn to love the truth and, consequently, will be handed over to delusions. In fact, all who places blind faith in those false gods will be led into a war against the real God, and will practise lies and sins in direct opposition to the actual Creator’s beneficial, just and loving truths. For the words and deeds of those pastors and churches war against God and His truths as the worst of hypocrites, since all they say and do is said and done falsely in God’s name. Then most of them try to justify their lies and evil deeds by saying, “My lies and sins simply mean I am human, but do not expose me as a hypocrite.” And this would be true if we saw those men truly repent into the real truths of God. But we never see even a hint of repentance into real truths, nor even a slight twinge of godly sorrow over the pains and deaths they have caused. All we ever see is how they all continue to deliberately war against God, how they lie and sin in God’s name, how they keep on falsely claiming to be authoritative elders sent by God, then try to steal God’s authority over all.
Yet those nice fake priests and pastors, together with their scholars and prominent church members, somehow think they are good people, pillars of their communities, and far better than the murdering, fornicating gang members dwelling outside of their insulated suburban neighbourhoods. However, God thinks they are the worst human beings in all the world. For gang members war against other human sinners. But those hierarchical churches directly war against the real Creator God Himself.
Criminal gangs ignore God, but humanistic churches labour night and day to slander the utterly holy God. Even the most vicious gangs will seldom bother to deliberately twist God’s words. Yet those fake churches intentionally nullify His saving truths, then add nefarious meanings to His words in the Bible, in ways that lead entire nations into cruel sins against innocent souls. The masses who are Page 1509
influenced by those humanistic churches convince their secular governments to commit criminal negligence which destroys and kills millions of lives, or fight in wars against the innocent. Those false churches do all this and more, on a daily basis. But criminal gangs are merely symptoms of the corruption caused by both theistic and secular branches of humanism, especially by fake churches.
And nice churchy people definitely do not lead souls to our God Jesus, nor into His true biblical kind of salvation. Rather, they lead souls to their priests and pastors, whom they worship through their esteem and service, through the money and time they give to them. So they worship human gods and the many, varied and distinctly different heavenly gods invented by those human gods. But they do not worship the real God, because they do not esteem Him, do not serve Him according to His will, nor place any faith in Him and in His actual words. But true biblical salvation is through faith in God and in His words. For God’s Word defines eternal salvation as a personal work of God, as His act of teaching a chosen individual about Himself, then training each one to fulfill His just and loving Law.
Clearly, God’s teaching and training of His chosen spirits can only be accomplished if that one’s spirit trusts in Him and in His words. After all, no teacher cannot benefit anyone if his disciple’s soul does not trust him. So God’s salvation requires the faith of our spirits, even our whole souls. And God defines this saving faith as a trust which spontaneously arises within the spirit He is saving. For only spontaneous faith is sincere and not forced in any way. Thus, to be spontaneous, saving faith must originate from a spirit’s inherent attraction to the truths that God’s Spirit is teaching, and must be believed through an innate propensity to hear and heed that truth. Yet humanistic churches preach a different kind of saving faith which seeks merely a forensic salvation. They tell their people to use their supposedly “free will” to command God to save them, just because one’s mind of flesh decided to emotionally and physically utter a “Sinner’s prayer,” or submit one’s body of flesh to a physical ritual. So humanistic churches offer a fake salvation accomplished by the contrived and wilful works of the flesh, and never offer the spontaneous salvation accomplished by the works of God. And those humanistic churches actually lead souls away from the real God and His genuine salvation, by their obsessive focus on the wills and works of the flesh, instead of upon the works of Jesus’ Holy Spirit upon spontaneously believing human elect spirits. And they love to claim that their church saves souls. Yet God alone is able to save. Every spirit knows that only God can do whatever He wills to do in His own name, and only Jesus did all His works in His own name because He is God. But the authorities of literally all other names, either on earth or in heaven, possess no power to do anything in their own names, since all are subject to authority of Jesus’ name. So no other name can ever save anyone, cannot ever deliver any human elect spirit into one’s everlasting heavenly home. Thus, we can all safely reject all humanistic churches as utterly useless fakes. All that we now need to find out is why those fake churches intentionally lead souls away from the real God and from His salvation.
We know our God Jesus saves us into His abundant life of just love, to prepare us for our eternal lives in heaven, by teaching and training our spirits to know and rightly apply His truths. Thus, since humanistic priests and pastors work very long hours and labour so very hard to intentionally feed lies and delusions to their people, to deliberately prevent them from finding God and His real salvation, they must have some kind of motivation to do all this, especially with the zeal most seem to have for this kind of destructive and evil work. Otherwise, as we have observed in other non-elect souls, they would remain quite lazy and do nothing at all. If the non-elect do not have selfish reasons to say or do something, they generally sit around leaching off of others. So what is are the selfish motives of those fake priests and pastors, as well as the selfish motives of their most loyal church members?
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elect soul would ever willingly enter the artificially manufactured humanistic churches, unless they were duped or coerced into doing so. Nor would any elect ever put up with dark and unjust secular empires of deluding and self-serving liars, not if those elect could easily find God and His truths, if they could readily find a way to enter God’s real, bright, just, equitable kingdom on earth, where they could live abundant lives. So those fake priests and pastors, together with their exploiting and enslaving humanistic churches, must deliberately try to prevent the the elect from knowing the real God, and from receiving His true salvation. Otherwise, those humanists could never deceive and enslave any of the very useful elect, which would mean that their humanistic churches, and even the humanistic governments of their lands, would soon have no one to do necessary works, then perish.
Both theistic and secular humanists need to stop the real God from saving the elect, to prevent God from building up His true, just, equitable and loving kingdom on earth through His elect. Humanists need to dumb-down the elect and own them, to force the elect to serve them instead of God. Of course, overcoming God is actually impossible. God’s truths rain upon the green earth, quenching the thirst of the elect, no matter what humanists might do. But humanists keep on trying, and God allows them some successes, so He can use them to cause His elect children to love Him and His truths all the more. So God lets those fake theistic and secular humanists lie, cheat, bribe, cajole, fear-monger, terrorize, coerce and entrap many elect. And the non-elect cannot stop warring against God and stealing the elect, since they need the elect to provide for their necessities. They must take the elect captive and keep them stupid in order to survive. If the truths of God awakened and built up the life of the elect, humanists would lose any of their very useful elect slaves, who are the only truly productive members of their criminal societies. Thus, humanist would murder God Himself, just to prevent the loss of their elect slaves. Since their little illicit kingdoms would perish without the elect, the humanists must build their pretty and pious looking fake churches, to lure in and trap the elect.
Only the elect bear the potential to learn from God to speak and act from honest spirits through genuine love. And even the worst fake churches cannot stop God from teaching and training His elect to love. Even Satan himself can prevent God from teaching His elect children to love. But the devil and his minions never really want to completely eliminate love in the elect, since that love is the only thing which makes those elect into such good, honest, useful, hard-working slaves. So, God willing, the devil uses his non-elect children to cause great interference and confusion, to severely hinder the inner growth of the elect, yet not eliminate it completely. And this is where Satan’s most effective deluding religion of humanism comes in. Satan and his minions can use their humanistic fake churches to draw in the elect who seek God and truth, then fill those elect with artificial fears and anxieties until they turn to the lies of the false churches in desperation. With a few twisted truths here and there, behold, those humanists are soon able to steal away their faith in God and make them utterly dependent upon the devil’s puppet human wanna-be gods and, thus, upon that demon himself.
Satan uses his fake humanistic churches to surreptitiously slip chains around elect necks of the elect and enslave them. Then the secular siblings of the priests and pastors in those fake churches can use the love of those elect to provide for all of the needs of Satan’s kingdom of the world order. And the fake churches can also boast, “Look at how good we are! See the loving good works that our own members do!” Then, by applying these bragging rights, other elect souls trust those religious frauds, enter their fake churches and become thoroughly trapped by them. And none of the elect would serve those liars and donate to them if those deceivers did not have some duped elect to use as bait, to lure in new elect dupes. So the non-elect humanists not only need their enslaved elect to do their works, but to trap other elect souls. This is why Satan’s kingdom spends so much time and effort in playing religious games, and why that devil creates so many fake churches. Satan’s kingdom must do much Page 1511
false preaching in God’s name to gain elect slaves for its own survival. Yet, at the same time, he must use those fake churches to stop the elect from knowing God and His salvation. This is why there are so many false churches who are “closing the door to the kingdom of the heavens before the faces of the people,” and busily selling their religions which lock the elect out of God’s kingdom.
However, these acts of deception, all that false preaching in God’s own name, definitely will not be considered to be small and insignificant sins by God. Yes, humanistic priests, pastors and churches are nice to their co-conspirators, just like murdering gang members are nice to their co-conspirators.
But that kind of niceness, that charming, welcoming friendliness, which is also practised by the devil and all cunning deceivers, is not a godly virtue. And God will never approve of superficial qualities like that, for God always judges by the motives and intentions of the spirit in the heart. I assure you, God only judges by the real love in a spirit. But, if God judges by the heart, should we be judging by mere outward appearances, such as by how welcoming their words and smiles might be towards us?
Or should we judge them by the actual fruits of their spirits? It is not a mere misdemeanour to usurp the role and rule of our God, Judge and Head Teacher. It is not a minor sin to substitute a sinful and spiritually infantile human lord for Jesus, to place saving faith in weak and inept wanna-be human gods instead of Yahweh God, who walked among us in Jesus’ human body. Those liars try to turn the elect away from their God and His salvation, so they can exploit God’s loving, just, honest, diligent, beneficial and useful elect, so they can prevent God’s power from working through His children to undo their evil works, and stop God’s elect from building up His just and loving kingdom to replace their unjust kingdoms. So all those nice humanistic priests and pastors commit a very demonic sin.
Am I wrong? Can anyone tell me that those human gods of those humanistic churches are actually teaching truth, and that they proclaim a biblical salvation, the genuine Gospel of Jesus the Christ?
Well, consider how those pastor evangelize. Each one offers a different brand of salvation, and do so solely to benefit each one’s own income, status and power in a particular subject kingdom within Satan’s world order. Surely we can see how each one’s salvation message differs and contradicts the salvation offered by the other, both in substance and practise. But the real God always had only one salvation, an inner work done by Himself. Yahweh God only ever consistently proclaimed one kind of saving work, which is His teaching and training of human spirits to fulfill His loving laws and ways. This is the one and only harmonious Gospel of salvation which has been prophesied from the days of Abraham until now. So, since all their saving gospels differ from this one and only Gospel found throughout God’s Word, and their humanistic gospels teach us to place our faith in human pastors or in ourselves, rather than entirely in God Himself, all those other gospels must be wrong.
All their evangelism to promote faith in human gods is a religion created by the devil, then perfected in four different demonic empires over period spanning hundreds of years, until it became effective enough to deceive even the elect, for a time. The humanism taught and practised by those churches has absolutely nothing to do with true biblical Judaism or Christianity. In fact, the very last thing any of those fake priests, pastors and churches really want is for the elect to learn about true Christianity.
If Jesus worked His genuine truths into the hearts and minds of His elect, it would produce love, an understanding of justice, equitable works and all kinds of other benefits in their lives. Then all this truth and love would severely weaken the potency of every selfish ambition and greedy desire in the hearts of those humanistic fake priests and pastors. Then, if Jesus gathered His awakened elect into His true New Covenant church of Israel, which is headed and led only by Himself, that true church would expose the lies and delusions of fake humanistic churches, and make it very difficult for them to dupe anyone except their other non-elect siblings. And an empire that consists of nothing but the dishonest, self-seeking, back-stabbing non-elect can possibly survive very long. Satan’s world order Page 1512
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needs to exploit at least some duped and enslaved elect souls, to maintain its existence in God’s property of the physical world. So fake Judaeo-Christian churches are extremely important to Satan, and that devil often appoints his most adept and psychopathic deceivers and enslavers to do the evil works of those fake humanistic churches. For God will not allow Satan to murder all the elect. And, if that devil let some of the surviving elect go to Jesus, He would call them into His true church, then empower those elect to build up His just and loving kingdom on earth. And, since all the elect would be attracted to that true church and God’s earthly kingdom, there would be no elect left for Satan’s kingdom to exploit and enslave. Thus, the devil’s fake religious kingdoms would collapse, and the religious sons of Satan would have nothing left to live for. Shortly after that, that devil’s entire world order would also disintegrate into dust, since it would have no useful slaves, but consist of only the lying, cheating, self-indulgent and useless non-elect, stabbing each other in the back for selfish gain.
If the exploited and marginalized elect abandoned the fake churches, if they sought the genuine truth and love of Jesus for their salvation, if they allowed their spirits to be taught by Jesus, and trained to effectively practise His love through true wisdom, then Satan’s unjust, exploitative religious systems, as well as all his secular judicial, economic, military and political hierarchies, would perish. Then the elect would rejoice as they entered God’s loving, true and wisely just church and kingdom on earth, with its loving, equitable and spiritually gratifying fellowship. This is why fake churches so quickly and violently oppose the truth, why they so zealously persecute and murder God’s true elders and prophets, why they feel such an urgent need to slander God, and also why they tried to murder the body of God when He walked among us. For, if they let real servants of God speak the truth, and all their duped and abused elect slaves in their fake churches actually left them to enter the kingdom of God, then those false pastors and churches would lose all the money and free labour they obtain from those elect. Soon after that, all their corrupting spiritual and moral influences upon their secular governments and the people would dissipate into thin air, leaving Satan’s world order without any fake moral ground to stand on. And, without a fake moral foundation, all hierarchies and systems of the devil would fall. For those false ethical principles, which esteem and serve human gods, are the only things preventing their collapse. Thus, even Satan’s secular world order needs false churches to slander the real God and His kingdom, in ways that frighten the elect away from Jesus, to prevent the elect from entering His true church and His just kingdom, to trick the elect into serving them instead.
Yes, right here on this earth, our Creator God, while walking among us in a body of human flesh, clearly did accuse those nice church elders and Bible scholars of “closing the door to the kingdom of the heavens before the faces of the people.” Then He used the Greek word γάρ to indicate their reason for preventing God’s elect from entering His earthly and His spiritual kingdoms. Jesus told those fake pastors why they were always deliberately slamming the door shut to God’s salvation and to His abundant life of just love, why they censored the people so much that their faces could not even peer through that door to catch a glimpse of God’s just and loving kingdom. Our God Jesus told those outwardly friendly and highly respected spiritual and moral guides: “For you yourselves are not entering, nor letting the ones entering to enter.” In other words, those “leaders” of the evangelical church did not have nor want the true salvation of God, never possessed even an inkling of a desire for God’s true justice, equity, peace, joy and love. For those non-elect souls abhorred the idea of spending an eternity in the bright, exposing light of God’s heaven above. Furthermore, if God’s real, honest, uncompromising, just and loving kingdom did exist on earth, just as it did in heaven, it would soon become impossible for them to manipulate and control their people in ways would only benefit themselves, for their own status, power, profit and self-indulgent pleasures. The light of God’s true kingdom on earth would expose every doctrinal lie, pious pretense, deception of false Page 1513
reasoning, technique of subjugating inferiors, strategy to shift blame to the innocent, as well as all their other diligently peddled lies and delusions. God would call His elect to neutralize their entire arsenal of destructive weapons. And, without all their darkness, they would be left utterly powerless and penniless, recognized as the mere useless nothings they actually were. So the truth had to be stopped, no matter what it might cost in terms of innocent lives, and even if all their dupes had to suffer agonizing pains and deaths, but as long as it never personally cost them anything, of course.
If we rightly understand exactly what Jesus declared here, about these trusted pillars of that deeply religious community, our God actually proclaimed that they were “not entering” what He called “the kingdom of the heavens.” And “heavens” was plural. So here Jesus declared that our omniscient and omnipotent God was not going to let those deceivers, who lied about Him to His Father’s children in His priesthood of Israel, to enter either His earthly kingdom or His heavenly kingdom. Our God was never going to see those self-serving fakes repent into His true church on earth, nor into any kind of earthly secular community based on the teaching of His New Covenant priesthood, much less into His utterly holy eternal home. In other words, Jesus declared that those nice elders of the church had non-elect spirits, spirits which were incapable of genuine repentance into the truth, spirits that had no ability to justly love, but rather loved the darkness of their lies and delusions far more than the truth.
The Third Woe
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves” (Mat. 23:15, WEB).
Yes, it is true. These “scribe and Pharisees” were indeed evangelicals, identical in spirit and faith to the evangelicals we see today. For they too evangelized, even throughout the known world, falsely claiming to “save” souls, as they were actually striving to trap the bodies and minds of the elect in their slave camps, so that they, as human gods called “rabbis” and “pastors,” could become the owners and task masters of those elect. They cajoled, deceived, bribed and even terrorized both Jews and Gentiles into their chains, into following rule upon exploiting rule, precept upon subjugating precept, law upon fake carnal law. These were modern evangelicals, declaring that all the Scriptures were inerrant words of God, while nullifying them all; even that all matters of life and faith must be based on the Scriptures, while actually basing all matters of life and faith on their own financial and hierarchical ambitions; and that the Messiah was to be God incarnate, while they tried to murder the real Messiah. They said God will save Israel when the Messiah fulfills all God’s promises found in His New Covenant, even as they strove to replace God with human gods. They felt obligated to proclaim this Messianic Gospel of spiritual salvation to everyone, including the Gentiles, while they did all they could to save their own flesh by keeping elect spirits away from His salvation. Naturally, these Pharisees, who are now called Orthodox Jews, had to modify their beliefs throughout history, to compete against other evangelical and mainline churches of fake Israels. Yet they were indeed the chief evangelical denomination during Christ’s ministry on earth, the fathers of today’s evangelicals.
So, did these frauds realize how damning Jesus’ accusation actually was? Did they understand that this was a sentence of eternal hell made by our immutable, almighty, just, honest and omniscient God Jesus, who knew all the malice they hid in their hearts, even all the secrets that their spirits kept from their own minds of flesh? The answer is both yes and no. For evangelicals were and still are very offended whenever God calls them sons or heirs of Gehenna (i.e., children of hell or of Satan).
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actually know they are sons of Satan and merely citizens of his unjust world order, who will go to that devil’s home, to a perpetually burning, bottomless garbage dump like Gehenna, but called hell.
All spirits that hate God’s light and His holy spiritual works of love, who bitterly lie against them, have awakened non-elect spirits. Those kinds of sour and dark spirits, which intentionally blaspheme Christ’s Holy Spirit on a daily basis, actually realize that they are born of Satan and are created in his image, as his heirs of hell. So, while their evangelical flesh rages against Jesus’ true accusations, the minds of their spirits actually smirk in agreement, like psychopaths do when accused of evil. For their deceiving hearts take pride in how they can effectively manipulate the supposedly stupid and inferior masses, since they all have deemed themselves to be superior to them. In fact, whenever these chief church corrupters gather for a cozy little celebration of their self-indulgent victories, they smugly boast about their great power to con the gullible masses. And those Pharisaic rabbis would have done this frequently during the days of Jesus’ first advent, in exactly the same way that all the prominent fake scholars and pastors of the evangelical and mainline churches do today. Then, during those boasting sessions, in the same way false churches do now, those ancient Pharisees would also award esteeming accolades to the best deceivers, to a few who excelled at deluding, manipulating and enslaving the most dupes in the most effective manner. For those awards provoked one another into a carnally covetous jealousy, which can motivate non-elect kinds of spirits into striving harder.
Yet the non-elect spirits of those elite religious human gods will not smirk after their very short earthly lives end, when their eternal spirits inherit nothing but their own empty, dark delusions and lies, when they must forever fall through the empty darkness of a bottomless pit. Once they no longer have anyone or anything to exploit for their own pleasures and esteem, their smirks will never again emerge from the inner egos of their supposedly superior and god-like spirits. And this woe of our God Jesus eternally condemns them, as an immutable sentence that He, thee God, shall never nullify. He will never acquit them of His guilty verdict. Nor can they ever appeal His sentence, since it comes from from the Supreme Judge of their souls, from the highest court in all existence. Neither will their spirits even be able to commit suicide, to end their own eternal existence and escape into nothingness, freed from their own self-made torment of their beloved lies and delusions. For God alone bears the power to create or uncreate spirits, and had to make all His spiritual creations eternal, since time in the spiritual realm is not linear, but exists without a beginning or an end, and must be eternal. Yet our Creator had to allow the existence of loveless non-elect spirits on earth, so He might wisely employ them in His teaching and training of His elect. Therefore, once all those non-elect human spirits, together with all the demonic spirits, complete their works in this temporary universe, and indirectly cause the elect to draw closer to their heavenly Father with a true understanding, those non-elect will receive their coveted reward, eternity trapped in their own beloved lies and delusions.
Thus, to this day, our God Jesus still warns: “Woe to you Bible scholars and evangelicals, hypocrites, because you people are going throughout the sea and dry land to make one convert, and whenever it might have happened, you people are making him twice an heir of hell as yourselves” (Mat. 23:15, from: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι ὑποκριταί, ὅτι περιάγετε τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ τὴν ξηρὰν
ποιῆσαι ἕνα προσήλυτον, καὶ ὅταν γένηται ποιεῖτε αὐτὸν υἱὸν γεέννης διπλότερον ὑμῶν, SBLGNT).
The present and durative form of the verb περιάγω suggests that these evangelicals continuously
“travel about in various directions” (BDAG3), journeying great distances across the sea and along many roads, evangelizing to gain converts. Then, of course, this kind of work costs money. So the fake churches cunningly call it “God’s work” and guilt duped audiences into donating large sums to support it, as their fake “apostles” or “missionaries” diligently labour at these supposed “works of God,” but while those fake evangelists also protect and please their own flesh in comfortable shelters Page 1515
apart from the dupes the came to deceive. Then the most prominent of those lying evangelicals, who loved the anonymity of travelling to places where no one knew how evil they truly were, make tidy profits from their “missions,” and gleefully learn even more financially rewarding tricks from those foreign parts of Satan’s world order, as they enjoy luxuries in those far-off lands, with all all their expenses paid. However, there are also some human gods ruling over fake church denominations which are very stingy and cheap, who only sent out the most expendable inferiors on those missions, abandoning them to difficult and even dangerous situations, since those most elite human gods find such austerity measures necessary to maintain their own personal short-term financial and political benefits at home, even though a larger budget for the welfare, health care, education and providence for their own fake missionaries would actually benefit their church more in the long term. Still, the most senior church officials are able to send junior deceivers on missions by luring them with the promise of adventure, blessings for doing fake “works of God,” a temporary status as human gods over the foreigners they dupe, future promotions in their fake churches, and other rewards for their egos and their flesh, especially the promises of future financial remunerations after they return from the “mission field.” Yes, many of these latter kinds of lesser “evangelists” might die during their poorly supported missions, and never gain a chance to reap any carnal rewards. But this is a sacrifice that their “superiors” are willing to make, for the opportunity of growing the the size and, therefore, incomes of their fake religious kingdoms. Then they provide cheap but highly esteeming funerals for their inferiors who die on the “mission field,” with more lies that even call them “martyrs for God.”
Naturally, most of the adventurous younger “missionaries” sent out by humanistic fake churches are gullible enough to actually believe they doing God’s works, even though they are all taught the most obvious lies about God’s Word, as well as homiletical principles which tell them how to peddle their dark and artificial church culture to pagans, and even to the supposedly “backsliding” Christians and Jews, but never how to honestly exegete the Scriptures and proclaim those truths to others in ways those people can truly comprehend. For the spirits of some young evangelists are extremely infantile and do not yet know enough real truth to realize what they are doing, how their works actually serve only Satan, not the real God. So their missionary works for their fake churches will sometimes wake up and educate the elect spirits among them. As a result, although of the chosen young missionaries are non-elect and soon mature into the most cunning deceivers in the religious games of enslaving souls, a few of young missionaries, those with elect spirits, become either: (1) the most disgruntled and bitter of all churchy souls, rejecting all organized religion, or (2) reformers who see exactly how unjust and hypocritical their churches actually are. But the latter, the elect spirits who realize that their false churches sin horribly, most often remain foolish enough to seek “reform” in their own false churches, which entirely belong to the devil and are impossible to redeem in any way. So they never make any real spiritual progress. Nevertheless, God does cause a few elect spirits among them to wake up enough to honestly pray to Him, and let their spirits receive His teaching and training.
Consequently, fake elders in humanistic, pseudo-biblical, “Jewish” and “Christian” evangelical types of churches, have indeed caused horrifying suffering and death everywhere on earth, through their political, financial and cultural evangelism and through colonialism. And, in doing so, they have managed to slander God and corrupt the teachings of His Word far more than they have glorified God and spread His Word to other nations. Nevertheless, God has used their deadly hypocrisy to advance His just and loving kingdom on earth, by keeping His awakened elect outside of those fake churches, or by opening the eyes of elect members and missionaries from those fake churches, so that they then repented into the truths of God. Each century after Jesus completed His mission for the salvation of His elect siblings, a few of His elect, even some sent by fake churches, discovered that Page 1516
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their elect spirits hungered for the truths which those fake churches suppressed. More elect learned real truths directly from God in every generation, then steadfastly stood upon those truths, broadcast them to the ends of the earth, and left subsequent generations of elect to resolutely build upon those truths. These elect spirits are dedicated to Christ’s work of nullifying Satan’s works, have become the main opponents of dictators. These elect have been abolitionists, defenders of justice, and the salt wages of the earth. They do the works of constructing God’s just, equitable, loving kingdom, as His true priesthood, then serve, advise and influence God’s true secular governing servants in all lands.
So the evangelists who teach Satan’s religion of humanism have been working hard to build their unjust and self-destructive kingdoms, through fake elders and false churches, then also corrupted all other religions, and became evangelizing priests of secular humanism in those religions too. But the true elect evangelists, those actually taught and sent by our God Jesus, also went out into the world, seeking elect siblings to labour with them, to build up God’s just and fruitful kingdom on earth. And, although Satan’s evangelists cheat and lie, then oppress and terrorize through the use of their hellish father’s invention of money, as well as through that devil’s military and political might, they have never been able to conquer and keep any of God’s property of the earth. For their empires always remain divided, where one faction’s purposes work against the other, until they destroy themselves.
The first humanistic empire was Babylon. And Babylon was originally a faction of the Assyrian empire, which separated from it and destroyed it. Since then, all humanistic empires have remained fractured and divided against one another. In fact, all demonic kingdoms from the beginning have been fragmented, since even all the demons serving Satan are always warring against one another.
As one wanna-be god rises up to oppress all the other wanna-be gods, there are always some who rebel through their own selfish ambitions. On top of all this, their kingdoms are always cursed by the almighty God, and suffer many woes that He casts upon them, to trouble and divide them even more.
So, in the end, Jesus Christ’s own true evangelists will win, and His just kingdom of awakened elect will fill the entire earth, providing freedom through a just, equitable, loving, abundant life for all souls on the earth, without a single servant of Satan left to sabotage or destroy that life. Just before Jesus returns to this planet in a body of flesh again, there will be the great revival, when He begins to wake all the elect on earth. Then He will establish His one true church, and personally rule over each individual man’s spirit. After this, whole nations will become just and loving. But those end times will also judge Satan’s world order. For the appointed time of Satan on earth is drawing to a close, and his spirit will soon be cast off the earth, into hell, together with all his other fallen angels and his most favoured human psychopaths. Then there will be no power to delude souls, no malignant and destructive moral or spiritual lies to consume human minds of flesh and empty hearts. The only resistance to the Messiah’s rule over our lives will be the weak and selfish impulses of our own flesh, which our matured elect spirits shall easily overcome. For Jesus will be the Teacher of us all.
The Fourth Woe
“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? [You say,] ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it. He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by Him who was living in it. He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by Him who sits on it” (Mat. 23:16-22, WEB).
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First notice how Jesus emphatically declared that the “greater” person or thing is always that which
“sanctifies.” The person or thing which separates and appoints someone or something else to be used exclusively for God’s purposes is “greater” than that which has been sanctified. So the alter, which sanctifies all that lies upon it, is greater than whatever is on it. And God’s temple, which sanctifies all the people, gold and other things in it, is greater than all in it. But, in the end, “the one currently dwelling in it” (ἐν τῷ κατοικοῦντι αὐτόν), that is, God who dwells in that temple, is greater than the temple itself, since God is the one who sanctifies that temple. This is a simple, obvious truth, a very clear principle that even a small child can understand. Yet it is surprising how so many educated and intelligent adults find ways to ignore or forget this fact, once they turn their focus to gold, costly gifts, themselves and the words of their fake human gods. Therefore, we really should study this.
First let me begin by pointing out that the frequent use of oaths throughout history became popular in churches and governments through the humanistic doctrines about a supposed “free will.” And all these false “free will” teachings were borrowed from the pagan religion of Middle Platonism, which is the most popular sect of humanism preached by most churches since the second century. Making an oath became a serious matter among false churches, and necessary in determining who those fake churches should torture and murder. For those who swore an oath of submission to their lies were spared, while all others were handed over to professional killers. In their eyes, a creed, or any words uttered by mouths of flesh through emotions roused in minds of flesh (which they called “free will”), determined one’s standing in the church. They somehow believed that God Himself would eternally judge every individual according to one’s sincere oaths to live by that creed, emotionally. Since they had so much great faith in human gods, and in the power of their flesh, they believed that sounds spoken in carnally emotional oaths or formal vows, especially if witnessed by other human sinners, could eternally save or damn one’s soul. They even thought mere impulsive oaths could force God to accept one into heaven, no matter how much one’s spirit opposed the real God and His words, as long as one kept faith in the power of one’s own words of the flesh, through a supposed “free will.”
Of course, this kind of thinking involves an extremely low perception of God. The human gods who ruled those fake churches forced their “inferiors” to take an oath which portrayed God as an inferior slave to all church authorities, and to see God as one who does not possess a will of His own. So these oaths also required extremely high and lofty views of the elite priests and pastors who ruled over their demonic church hierarchies. For every member, upon pain of death, had to swear an oath stating that one shall place far more faith in those infantile, wretched, irrational, weak and sinful creations of God than one will ever place in God Himself. The human gods that owned those fake churches required everyone’s entire soul to be powerfully overcome by all their thoroughly ludicrous delusions. And no one must ever mention how it seemed utterly insane to think that God, who had designed and created all reality, is so stupid and weak that He depends entirely upon the self-serving, self-contracting and utterly foolish human beings who had purchased or stolen headship over God’s church. How could the nonsensical inventions of men be the basis for all God’s judgments? And how could God possess absolutely no power to personally speak to individual human spirits Himself, or how could God lack the wisdom to alter or manipulate human behaviours and choices? Also, why would God let human church authorities practise lies and injustice, if those churches were actually His true churches, if those churches were actually created by God? All of these good questions could be silenced and washed away from “inferior” minds through an oath of total loyalty to a human god.
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and deeds, and that all whom they sentenced deserved the maximum penalties they handed out, which were usually far worse than any maximum biblical penalties. But, if everyone was always entirely accountable for the maximum penalties pertaining to every offence, that would mean that everyone deliberately committed all those offences with purely malicious motives and intentions, and that all knew all truths, but all refused to repent into those truths. It meant that everyone would need to possess all the knowledge and all the wisdom to deliberately make their choices to commit those offences, then also refused to repent into the truths they already knew. For those churches allowed no mercy for errors of ignorance, deceptions, manipulations, weaknesses or anything else.
And those churches also refused to teach anyone about why their offences were wrong, nor allowed anyone any opportunity to understand, accept and repent into those truths. So, clearly, all of those humanistic churches assumed that literally everyone was omniscient and omnipotent, although the human gods ruling those churches somehow believed they were more omniscient and omnipotent.
Throughout history, God has always judged souls according to the minds of their spirits, by the motives and intentions of their spirits when they committed offences. And, if one’s mind of the spirit did know the just, equitable and loving ways of God, and unintentionally harmed the innocent, God taught them the truth, told them why they were doing what was wrong, then gave them time to fully repent into those truths He taught. If their spirits did repent, there was no penalty. If they did not repent, God punished them, but less if they remained incapable of understanding the truth or too weak to resist temptations, or if they were coerced, deceived or manipulated into committing the sin or offence. But, if they sinned for selfish reasons alone, with full knowledge of how their sin could harm others, God condemned and punished them much more severely. Every time we saw how the mind of someone’s spirit knew God and strove to do His will, how one’s heart desired justice and equity through love, and how that one repented into a knowledge of who, what, when and why God’s ways could benefit His people and His other creations, we also saw how God forgave all the sins of that person. God has always overlooked the weaknesses, failures and ignorance of the repentant elect, then gathered them all to Himself, into a restored and fulfilling family relationship. God has always blessed repentant spirits. And, because God always judges in this way, all elect spirits in all history, all who were all created in His image, have also desired and felt compelled to judge in this same way. For His Holy Spirit’s counsel, given directly to their spirits, always teaches all to do this.
But the religion of humanism worships human gods, such as a dictator who might suddenly declare that he now hates green garments. Then, if a man enters that dictator’s presence, but did not hear that the king now hates green garments, so he wore his best green cloak, the humanists would think it is perfectly just for that dictator to command that man to be immediately tortured to death, without any kind of trial. For humanists assume that all people are omniscient, and always make fully informed decisions, through a magic personal power of “free will,” which allows all to overcome every possible kind of ignorance, manipulation, deception and coercion. And this magic “free will” power makes all liable to a maximum penalty for all their choices which their human gods judge against.
Furthermore, all humanists assume that the only way to suppress unwanted behaviours must be by terrorizing the people owned by their elite human gods, by threatening them with the most horrible and painful punishments possible. Then the reason the people believe in terrorism as the only way to maintain “law and order,” the kind which oppresses and steals human lives, is because their elite gods teach that it is the only way. And their highest elite gods teach this because they are ambitious psychopaths, and psychopaths know that the only way to restrain them is by threats of extreme physical violence or death. So, since the “greatest” and most psychopathic fake elders and their false churches assume all this, they vehemently deny that God will only judge us according to the motives Page 1519
and intentions of hearts and souls, then dismiss excuses of ignorance, deception, manipulation or coercion. Rather, humanistic churches demand verbal and written oaths or vows that are enforceable without evidence and without a fair trial. They want signed contracts and covenants that they can use against the lower classes in their hierarchies, without needed to differentiate between truths and lies, right and wrong, or good and evil. They want nice and simple ways of condemning and suppressing.
Humanistic judges somehow believe that all the “bad” decisions made by a subjugated minds of the lower classes, by minds that have been deliberately manipulated, deceived and coerced by cunning lies and artificial environments, can make vows through a fictitious “free will,” then be punished for any and every failure to fulfill those vows. Then the humanistic judges, who are usually much worse than the ones they judge, assume that all offences are done through an omniscient understanding of all wisdom and knowledge, in a way which makes all offenders subject to maximum penalties under the law. Yes, through biblical influences, some humanists now have a minimum penalty too, and will afford a little mercy for extenuating circumstances. But humanists still insist that terrorism is the only feasible means of maintaining their kinds of unjust “law and order.” But now we must use threats as a last resort, while primarily focusing on maintaining just courts that teach offenders to repent into better choices, if possible, then strive to restore losses incurred by victims of offences.
I repeat, the spirits of some offenders possess inherent attributes that give them strong propensities, especially strong desires to love in just, equitable and God-like ways. And these can be taught the truths of God, then repent into those truths. Of course, there are also other offenders with non-elect spirits, whose only innate propensities are to lie and even murder, to achieve selfish ambitions and become their own gods. And it is those selfish, lawless and outright evil motives and intentions of the non-elect which are required to enforce penalties, even maximum penalties, under God’s Law.
But, if good teaching and judging elders are able to penetrate the lies, manipulations, coercions and environmental prison walls which cause the elect to sin, so they can repent into abundant, just and loving lives over time and with much assistance, then these works of redemption must be done for the administration of God’s kind of justice. And these works of justice seldom involve terrorism.
Humanistic churches think their secular authorities must hold everyone accountable for every choice made, since they all believe that God lacks a mind, will and, therefore, the knowledge and wisdom to judge anyone. For, when they look around them, they see only the injustice of their humanistic gods.
And, when they look in the Bible, they see how God sent His own body of flesh to teach about the New Covenant salvation involving the personal teaching and training of elect spirits, then passively dying in that flesh, to rescue His elect from all punishments related to their lies and sins. Yet that Bible never sees God use threats against those elect, only against lying and murdering oppressors and enslavers. Thus, humanists assume that God is mindless and weak, that God appointed the much greater human gods in Satan’s world order to administer proper “justice” through terrorism. So those church and secular humanists choose the most extreme maximum penalties for all offences, in ways that inflict the maximum pain, and casually administer those same penalties to everyone, without ever taking the time to judge each individual according to that one’s heart, though God demands that we must do so. Consequently, with their extremely stupid and low opinions of God, and with their stupid and unjust opinions of other people, those humanists always slander God and nullify His Law.
deemed guilty. And they usually punished an ignorant, irrational and coerced sinner much more than Yes, threats are sometimes necessary. There are some people that require us to use terrorism against them, who coerce us into issuing severe physical threats, then make us carry out those threats, even with deadly force at times. There are actually occasions when terrorism is the only appropriate tool for maintaining God’s just laws, for the well-being of people and God’s creations—although God Page 1520
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also set maximum penalties for all lies and sins, which we should never even threaten to exceed. For there are indeed non-elect spirits in some human beings among us, and some non-elect spirits even have been awakened by their hellish father, who taught and trained their loveless spirits to become outright psychopathic, who sends those wretches out to either directly murder the innocent or else to indirectly kill them through unjust financial and political means. And those psychopaths, as well as their sleeping non-elect siblings in the family of Satan, are never able to repent into the truth, and will never practise justice, not without being forced to do so through threats of severe punishment.
Then we must realize that psychopaths always seek positions of power and extreme wealth, because psychopaths innately desire only one thing, to become gods. So, if we ever allow a psychopath to gain power or wealth, that one will invariably use it to ruthlessly gain more power and wealth. And, if psychopaths gain power and wealth, they will know that their lies and crimes harm or kill others, yet will continue to deliberately lie and commit crimes through malice of forethought, through very punishable intentions and motives, unless the people use God’s just laws and punishments to stop their lies and sins, unless we enforce equitable justice in our lands and we restore the losses incurred by those lies and sins. This is why God’s Law demands that all justice systems on earth must enforce His just laws equitably, without respect for the rich and powerful, in exactly the same way for the poorest and least powerful as we do for the most wealthy and powerful kings. Yet the humanists bitterly oppose these just and equitable ways of God. For their elite classes of non-elect human gods insist that laws must never be enforced against any rich and powerful individuals like themselves, and that their elite kings must be granted total impunity from all laws, so their despots will even be allowed to murder innocent souls in broad daylight on “fifth avenue,” without ever being indicted and charged for their lies and crimes. Then these unjust and inequitable are esteemed and served by the fake elders of false churches because they too are humanists. False churches side with all such inequitable and unjust principles, and demand that justice must focus solely upon the revenge that their elite human gods crave and receive through the extreme penalties of unjust terrorism. Fake churches support the psychopathic elite, as spiritual prostitutes dedicated to pleasuring the demonic secular humanistic psychopaths, because they are humanists, because they are not true Christians nor true Jews. Throughout history, up to this very day, false churches have supported and upheld the very same inequitable and unjust traditions practised by the rabbis who opposed Jesus during His first earthly advent, because pagan Roman humanists, not God, created and established those churches.
Next, we also need to understand what Jesus said here in the context of how the truly elect Jews interpreted and perceived the symbolic physical temple, and how they related this to the human body of their incarnate God, the Messiah. To the most devout and biblically knowledgeable Jews, God’s earlier tabernacle in the wilderness, which was copied by God’s stone temple in Jerusalem, was carefully designed to become the “dwelling place of God” on earth. The temple’s symbolic pattern and layout originated from God, through His revelations to Moses. And, since it was to be the place where God’s presence would reside on earth, and within His world-wide priesthood of Israel, it was meant to represent the Person of God, even the kind of relationship they would experience with the Creator God when He came to them in a body of human flesh. Therefore, the temple represented the Messiah, since the Scriptures prophesied that the Messiah would be God in a body of human flesh.
We should also remember that, in those days, there had not yet been any bitter and deadly conflicts between the false humanistic institutions of pretending Old and New Covenant fake churches. Thus, in those days, the majority of the Jews still believed that the Messiah would be God incarnate, that God’s Spirit would come to them while dwelling in a human body of a man. Consequently, the walls surrounding the temple would have represented God’s body of flesh, that is, the body of Israel’s Page 1521
promised Messiah. Then the temple grounds would have represented His inner flesh, with an alter as His physical heart. Then the main building in the temple grounds, with its two adjoining chambers, would have symbolized the Messiah’s soul, where His mind of flesh and the mind of His Spirit would communicate with one another, to produce all the words and actions expressed by the Messiah through His body of flesh. Through this entire body, our God, the Messiah, would share the fruits of all His labours with His family of Israel, and all others gathered into the sphere of His life.
Furthermore, God’s entire true church of Israel was also called His “body,” which He created to serve the rest of the world, as His ears to hear them, as His mouth to counsel them, as His hands to help them, and as His feet to walk among them. Therefore, the temple grounds also represented the true priesthood of God. Therefore, like the royal Aaronic priesthood, everyone entering the temple grounds had to be purified and sanctified through a completed repentance for their atonement, for the restoration of each one’s relationship to God. In other words, each had to be ready to serve as God’s true priest, a genuine representative of Him to the people and as a representative of the world’s people before the presence of God. Each had to be in the presence of His Holy Spirit, which resided within the innermost chamber of the main temple building, within the heart and soul of God’s body.
Furthermore, only one entrance led into the main temple building. There was only one entrance to the presence of the Creator God, who is a non-material Spirit. Then, once a priest entered His heart and soul, a perfect and complete light shone from a lamp with seven chambers, in the holy chamber representing God’s mind of flesh in the Messiah. And that outer chamber also provided bread for the souls of His loving and faithful priests, which their bodies of flesh enjoyed while immersed in the scent of His holiness made by burning incense. However, until the Messiah came, an opaque curtain hid the inner character and attributes of God’s Spirit, although it could be glimpsed by a human high priest every year and was thoroughly described by the laws of Moses. Then, when God actually came to Israel and to the world in a body of flesh, that curtain was torn open, and the ability of our human spirits to directly commune with God’s own Spirit has remained unhindered ever since then.
Until God’s Spirit could justly forgive the sins of His people through His sinless bodily sacrifice, so that He could atone for and justify His relationship with their forensically cleansed souls, then begin to personally teach and train their spirits to fulfill His ways, the temple curtain had to stand. That curtain, which prevented His priests from peering into His inner sanctuary of the Holy of Holies, had to indicate that the infantile and sinning spirits of His elect must not yet see His Holy Spirit, lest His light and truth might entirely overwhelm their hearts, then cause their spirits to leave their flesh too soon. Until their Messiah provided the means for His Spirit to dwell in their hearts with their spirits, to mature their spirits over time in their flesh on earth, God had to veil His Holy Spirit from Israel.
Yet, even then, throughout the Old Covenant times, God would periodically choose a witness to see His Spirit, the essence of His Being, represented by the Ark of the Covenant. And that ark held two copies of the brief summary of God’s Law, which we might call the “Ten Commandments.” One of those two was God’s own copy, while the other was a copy for His priesthood of Israel. However, both were identical, since the elect were created in God’s image and would love in exactly the same way that He loves. So both copies rested in the ark, which lay in the spiritual half of the symbolic
“soul” of the Messiah’s symbolic body called God’s temple. And the High Priest of Israel would see that ark once a year, to remind him of the prophesy that God and the body of His true priesthood would someday become one in mind and purpose, through the Messiah. His true priesthood of Israel would eventually become loving and just, in exactly the same way Yahweh is loving and just, after Israel’s Messiah completed His initial works of salvation for all His elect. After the Messiah had completed His acceptable sacrifice, to provide atonement for all His elect on earth, a lengthy process Page 1522
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would begin, where His true disciples of His true priesthood shall build up His kingdom on the earth, until all God’s elect begin to fulfill all His laws in a just and loving way, in the same way God does.
That box sitting in the Holy of Holies was called the “Ark of the Covenant” because it contained the promises of God’s covenant with Israel. But it did not represent God’s temporary Old Covenant with Israel, since that covenant only revealed a shadowy outline of God’s laws and ways, which even the best in His priesthood did not and could not fully comprehend, then corrupted and broke every day of their lives. So, in reality, God gave them that ark to remind them of His first eternal covenant with Abraham, and the Messiah’s coming New Covenant which would begin to fulfill His covenant with Abraham, and continue to build upon it until the training of His elect children on earth finally ended.
That Ark of the Covenant, representing the Holy Spirit of God in the body of the Messiah, also contained reminders of God’s judgments and works for Israel. When the High Priest looked upon that ark once a year, and the people thought about its contents, they remembered when God served them as their Father, Protector and Shepherd. So the symbol of God’s Holy Spirit, in that inner room called the Holy of Holies, not only represented all the attributes of God, but all the memories of God in the mind of His Spirit. And His Spirit exists outside of His creations of time. So those memories are actually what God is now working for His people, and will work for them in all time. God will always be their loving Father, Protector and Shepherd. So this ark symbolized all that His priesthood of Israel should remember about God Himself, that is, about His attributes and His love for them.
Yet the the Holy of Holies, representing the presence of the Spirit called God within the soul of the Messiah, was also an extension of the outer room, of the room called the Holy Place, since the body of our God, the Messiah, has only one soul. Thus, after our Messiah came, no curtain could divide that room. Nothing would prevent us from seeing His whole soul. We would truly know all of God.
Keeping in mind what the temple represented, and how humanistic delusions made fake churches think their human wills could somehow fulfill oaths, like gods, look again at the words of this woe from Jesus. Observe how Jesus calls them “blind guides” for teaching His people to live by oaths:
“Woe to you people, blind guides, those reasoning, ‘Whoever might have sworn an oath
[which is to be] as inviolable as the temple, it is nothing. But whoever might have sworn an oath [which is to be] as inviolable as the gold of the temple, that one is under obligation [to fulfill that oath].’ Stupid and blind ones! For what is greater, the gold or the temple which sanctifies the gold? Also [you reason], ‘Whoever might have sworn an oath [which is to be]
as inviolable as the alter, it is nothing. But whoever might have sworn an oath [which is to be] as inviolable as the gift which [is] upon it, is under obligation [to fulfill that oath].’ Blind ones! For what is greater, the gift or the alter which sanctifies the gift? Therefore, the one having made an oath [which is to be] as inviolable as the alter is being bound by an oath
[which is to be] as inviolable as it, and as faithful as all which [is to be] upon it. And the one having made an oath [which is to be] as inviolable as the temple is being bound by an oath as inviolable as it and as inviolable as He who dwells in it. Also, the one having made an oath
[which is to be] as inviolable as heaven is being bound by an oath [which is to be] as inviolable as the throne of God and as inviolable as He who is sitting upon it” (Mat. 23:16-22, from: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, ὁδηγοὶ τυφλοὶ οἱ λέγοντες· Ὃς ἂν ὀμόσῃ ἐν τῷ ναῷ, οὐδέν ἐστιν, ὃς δʼ
ἂν ὀμόσῃ ἐν τῷ χρυσῷ τοῦ ναοῦ ὀφείλει. μωροὶ καὶ τυφλοί, τίς γὰρ μείζων ἐστίν, ὁ χρυσὸς ἢ
ὁ ναὸς ὁ ἁγιάσας τὸν χρυσόν; καί· Ὃς ἂν ὀμόσῃ ἐν τῷ θυσιαστηρίῳ, οὐδέν ἐστιν, ὃς δʼ ἂν
ὀμόσῃ ἐν τῷ δώρῳ τῷ ἐπάνω αὐτοῦ ὀφείλει. τυφλοί, τί γὰρ μεῖζον, τὸ δῶρον ἢ τὸ
θυσιαστήριον τὸ ἁγιάζον τὸ δῶρον; ὁ οὖν ὀμόσας ἐν τῷ θυσιαστηρίῳ ὀμνύει ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ ἐν
πᾶσι τοῖς ἐπάνω αὐτοῦ· καὶ ὁ ὀμόσας ἐν τῷ ναῷ ὀμνύει ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ ἐν τῷ κατοικοῦντι
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αὐτόν· καὶ ὁ ὀμόσας ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ὀμνύει ἐν τῷ θρόνῳ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἐν τῷ καθημένῳ ἐπάνω
αὐτοῦ, SBLGNT). [Note: When a Jew swore an oath or made a vow “in” (ἐν) someone or something, it meant that the oath or vow was “in” the sphere of all the characteristics or attributes of that person or thing. So one’s words had to bear the same fidelity, steadfastness and veracity as that person or thing. If an oath or vow was made “in” a holy person or thing, it was “as inviolable as” that holy person or thing “in” which it was made, and one became a vile sinner if one broke it. Thus, a Jew made one’s most binding oaths and vows
“in” the most sacred persons or things. This would make it a form of slander against that person or thing if one carelessly or unfaithfully failed to fulfill the oath or vow. And this kind of slander or blasphemy against any holy person or sacred thing was punishable by death.]
Now, according to those evangelicals, if someone made an oath “in” (ἐν) the holy temple, in which God dwelt among His people of Israel as their Messiah, that oath was considered worthless. To them, that oath was “nothing” (οὐδείς). Thus, all of the characteristics and attributes of both the oath and the temple were “nothing” to them, and anyone who made such an oath was not bound by it. Or, if an oath was made “in” the sacred altar, which represented the heart within God’s body called the Messiah, including all the Messiah revealed to His priesthood of Israel and all mankind, even His eternal salvation, was also “nothing,” and the oath was not binding. They were saying that anyone who made an oath “as inviolable as” the temple or altar made a worthless oath, because neither the temple nor the altar were “inviolable,” were not holy enough to prevent anyone from violating them.
So those evangelicals taught that neither the temple nor its altar were entirely sacred, not totally and utterly separated and set aside by God’s own will and power from all common and profane purposes.
They were saying that neither the temple nor the altar were entirely free from lies and sins. This also implied that the Messiah, whom the temple and altar represented, were not free from lies and sins.
Yet the Messiah was prophesied to be Immanuel, God dwelling among mankind in a body of human flesh. So, although those evangelicals would never admit it openly, their Yahweh God was not free from lies and sins. Their spirits had actually invented and worshipped a fake “Yahweh” who was a liar and sinner like themselves. Those “blind guides” were not able to see that any lies and sins in all that the temple or altar represented would make that liar or sinner unholy, but could never make the sacred temple or the alter any less holy. For anyone or anything truly holy remains holy by the power of the omnipotent God, and nothing common or sinful touching that holy person or thing can ever possibly overcome its holiness. For darkness cannot “shine” into light, although light can shine into darkness and destroy that darkness. Thus, Jesus declared that any oath made “as inviolable as” the temple or its altar was the same as making an oath “as inviolable as” heaven itself. And an oath “as inviolable as” heaven was “as inviolable as” God’s throne in heaven, even “as inviolable as” God upon it. For the temple, alter, heaven, God’s throne and God Himself are all utterly holy, all fully separated and set apart from the common or profane, and all are dedicated solely to His purposes.
Thus, here we also see how these teaching and judging elders, or Bible scholars considered the temple and altar to be “nothing” (οὐδείς), in comparison to the temple’s gold and the gifts placed on the alter. And their reasoning was obviously influenced by the fact that both the gold in the temple and the gifts of sacrificial animals placed on the altar were very costly. Both gold and the flawless sacrificial animals could be evaluated in terms of Satan’s own invention of enslaving currency. To these self-professed gods of the false churches, gold was not just a mineral that God created for practical purposes, as a malleable, inert and highly conductive material to be used in making things necessary for the survival of mankind. Rather, the blind and deluded eyes of those religious fakes saw gold as their own property, and the property of their demonic father in hell, as the chief currency Page 1524
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in that devil’s kingdom of the world order, as the means of purchasing and controlling human lives or God’s other creations, as principal tool they could employ to coerce others into serving them for their own self-indulgent pleasures. To them, symbolic places of worship for elect spirits could never be as valuable as gold, and murdering for gold was a “holy” right of all kings and authorities. It was also impossible for their dark little minds to comprehend that all those sacrificial animals placed on the altar also had spirits of life created by God, which returned to God after the death of their flesh.
Rather, this brood of Satan thought animal sacrifices were acts of giving their father’s invention of money back to him, in a way which caused them financial pain and a loss of selfish pleasures they could have otherwise purchased with that money spent on those animals. And they felt obligated to cause themselves this loss because their god, Satan, demanded a payment, as a condition to gain his favour and carnal rewards. If they sacrificed money to him, he would reward them with more money.
So the deluded and demonic world view of those evangelicals was exposed by their teachings about the greater value of gold and gifts for the altar. Those fakes placed all their faith in Satan’s power to control financial rewards in his ruthless and unjust world order, and faith in that devil’s spiritual principles governing the enslaved behaviours and exploitative morals taught within it. They believed in Satan’s dark, deluded, deceiving economic, political and unjust justice systems, in the precepts of the devil’s religion of humanism. And remember how they forced the people to purchase their gifts for the altar from a marketplace they set up in the temple grounds, where marketers were controlled by the temple authorities, by those same “blind guides.” So those marketers extorted money from the people through the permission of those fake elders, who gave the temple authorities a cut of their profits. Thus, by profiting from the blasphemous sales of sacrifices in God’s dwelling place, the false priests and evangelicals partook in that crime. For they caused greedy sinners to sell in the temple, then used the spiritual representations of the Messiah’s final sin sacrifice for their own gain. Yet none of these sins could make the temple or altar any less holy, nor cause awakened elect spirits to stop esteeming and serving the real God. Nevertheless, Jesus stopped that sin and forbade the deaf ears of those fake religious “leaders” from further defiling the temple, the symbol of His sinless body, soul and Spirit, although those “blind guides” hated Him, their God. Yet their time of destruction had not arrived. So those non-elect deceivers continued to preach the false doctrines of their evil world view to Israel, to God’s priesthood, whom God created to serve all mankind. And they do so to this day.