Now we can see how the figurative vessel here represents the heart, which stores up all that Jesus’
Holy Spirit imparts to them. And the oil in the heart consists of gifts from His Spirit. This is what the wise, prudent and rational churches, who heed the words of Jesus, who realize that every aspect of New Covenant salvation is worked by God Himself, take with them. These churches also served Him in pragmatic ways, albeit often in less humanly organized, in more humble and personal ways.
For their churches simply recognized those whom Jesus chose to receive their good works, then assisted them with all the other members of their local body. They worked as one people belonging to one Owner and Lord, to produce a strong and effective unified body where not one part could be easily broken, since each was surrounded and protected by all the other parts. The works of the true churches were done by zealous, willing souls, who did their works through love, and only as fast or as slow as Jesus enabled each to do them, so each individual lamp shone according to its own God-given capacity in joy. But foolish and false churches, who did not serve Jesus and did not care about building an abundant life filled with love, who did not go out to find and heal the lost sheep of His flock, possessed only enough oil to make their light shine long enough to look the part of a church, only as much as they needed for the hour. So those foolish ones ran out of oil and their lamps died out before the Bridegroom came. And, since greeting Him with unlit lamps was a declaration that He is not welcome, that no love for Him burned within them, they simply had to carry fully lit lamps.
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Now look at what Jesus told us about those foolish churches running out of the oil of God’s salvation as the time of darkness grew too long: “The foolish and heedless said to the rational and prudent ones, ‘Give some of your oil to us, because our lamps are being extinguished!’ Yet the rational and prudent were responding, reasoning, ‘Never! It definitely is not enough for us and for you. Instead, go to the merchants and buy [some] for yourselves.’” The rational and prudent churches did not have enough oil for both themselves and the others. For one thing, the oil from the Holy Spirit in their hearts was very costly, paid for by the blood, sweat and tears each expended during one’s personal teaching and training times with Jesus. For another thing, each received only as much as the Teacher allotted to each one personally. And He granted only enough to last through the long hours until He, the Bridegroom, would come. Furthermore, this was not the kind of oil that could be given to others.
The oil of a spirit’s unique blessings from Jesus’ Holy Spirit is a very personal and nontransferable gift. All serve Jesus by doing the specific good works He appropriately assigns to each individual.
And He assigns those works according to each one’s God-given attributes and inner desires, which He Himself created in each one, then also shaped in each one. So Jesus presses out a portion of His oil of gladness from the personal works of love done by each individual, and gives it to the one who actually does those works. And Jesus does not allow this to be transferred to another spirit by the wills of His disciples, although He Himself can and doe transfers some each individual’s joys to all.
Rational and prudent churches know this. Only foolish and heedless churches think that spiritual joy can be granted to them by those who obtained the oil of inner gladness through their own works, since those false churches assume that all their own personal works are done by their human god and, thus, all the whole church owned by their human god shares in the effects of all their works. Of course, this would be true, if their god was Jesus, not a self-esteeming human sinner. But, no, the personal works of Jesus in individuals can only be shared with others through Jesus’ will alone.
Humanists think their “free wills” control all spiritual and physical things, that they hold the power to distribute the gifts of God according to their own wills of the flesh. So all those empty and dark churches assume that, if the true churches declare that those false churches also partook in their good works, then those false churches will be able to enter the wedding feast with them. But those false churches cannot gain the personal teaching and training of the Holy Spirit from anyone except the real Jesus. And Jesus’ Holy Spirit, who is God Himself, is the only one who decides to whom He will grant gifts. Our Teacher is the only one who is able to determine whom He will teach and call His disciples. Furthermore, our Bridegroom is the only one who decides whom He will allow into His wedding feast. So false churches cannot become partners with true churches, then share in their rewards, through their own supposedly “free wills.” And the true churches, even if they were willing to share, had no right nor ability to pass on God’s personal gifts to others. They could not give their oil to the foolish and heedless churches even if they tried. So the foolish had to go to the merchants.
There are many merchants who sell the kind of olive oil in this parable. Every elect child of God, even the lost and sleeping elect, sell that oil. And even the poorest of the elect have a little to sell, since that oil is our God Jesus, who is near all the elect, always whispering to their spirits, teaching each one how love in a just, equitable and wise way. Jesus is training all the elect to love even their enemies, by treating them fairly and justly providing them with adequate food, clothing and shelter, by doing good works even for them, much less all others whom He brings into the spheres of their lives. All whom the elect effectively serve are served through Jesus’ works in them and are, thus, served in His name, according to His will, command and authority. So all are the sellers of His oil.
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that we can purchase love when the darkness of lies and sins comes. We need to purchase the oil of Jesus’ Holy Spirit while He is manifesting His truth and light through His elect children, in times of free speech in the marketplaces. For, when the night of dictators oppressing the truth will empty the marketplace. And we must not wake and frighten those merchants in the middle of the night, after their beleaguered souls have finally laid to rest the day’s heavy burdens and they have taken respite in slumber. To be prepared for His arrival, the wise and prudent churches must do the due diligence of purchasing the oil of the Holy Spirit when the marketplace is open, and bring as much of it home to their hearts as they possibly can, so they might burn their lamps brightly throughout the night.
Yet these foolish and heedless churches went out in the midst of the night to gain the oil of inner gladness. Thus, they would mostly encounter very angry merchants at that time of night, who would take much time to wake, dress and come to the door. Those who found some elect would need to take the time to convince them to sell a little oil. But, even before any could receive an ounce, it would be too late. For the Bridegroom had come within that very hour. And, when He did, none of those merchants would have any need for the currency of physically good works offered by those foolish and heedless churches. For when the Bridegroom arrived, He was going to flood the world with His freely granted great wealth of the purest heavenly gold, on that very day. So, at this time of the night, their efforts would be futile, and delay them so much that they would not be able to greet the Bridegroom at all. Then that wedding feast, where all hoped to meet their own husbands, where all hoped begin the rest of their lives, would shut its doors. So they forfeited their entire futures, everything they desired and worked to obtain throughout their lives, through their selfish and foolish negligence. All those foolish ones spent more time preparing their makeup and outer garments, to look pretty for the people at the feast, than they did in preparing what was truly needed to get in.
We need to understand that Jesus used olive oil in lamps as a symbol of our inner joy, which we receive from Him during our training sessions, where we heed and serve Him. And we need to remember that the lamp in the Holy Place of God’s temple, at that time, also burned olive oil, and had to shine continuously (e.g., Ex. 27:20). That stone temple represented the body of God, when He would come to us as the Messiah. Then that lamp was a symbol of the light of truth always shining in the presence of God, inside Jesus, and never going out. Therefore, all who enter His presence must come in the truth, in the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Then we should realize how the Jews memorized passages of the Scriptures like this one: “Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness.
T herefore God, your God, has anointed You with the oi
l of gladness above Your fellows ” (Ps. 45:7,
WEB). This is a Messianic psalm, which calls the Messiah “God,” as it is also mention how the God of God will anoint Him. And it clearly attributes the “oil of gladness” to the Messiah’s “equity” and to His love for “righteousness,” as well as to His hatred of “wickedness.” This psalm tells us why the God of this Messiah God anointed Him with olive oil, to make His face shine with the outwardly manifested gladness of His Spirit in His holy, righteous, equitable heart. The heavenly Father gave the Messiah inner joy through His just, equitable Spirit’s righteous, equitable, good works for all.
Another Messianic passage Jews often memorized in those days is this: “The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on Me; because Yahweh has anointed Me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that He may be glorified” (Is. 61:1-3, WEB). The Messiah Page 1664
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here gives those who mourn and grieve the “oil of joy.” And He must first possess this joy within Himself, if He is able to give it to others. So where did the Messiah get that “oil of joy” from? He was joyful because He did good works, such as preaching to the lowly, binding the wounds of the brokenhearted with hope, proclaiming that captive slaves would be freed, and even warning the wicked that God’s vengeance would soon come upon them. For God Himself find His own joy in His own expressions of His own love. And we were made in His image. Then He gives this “oil of joy” to all who also partook in His good works. Those who received this joy were those whom God planted as “trees of righteousness,” and the righteous are those who do just, equitable good works for God’s glory. Jesus, and Jews of the day, always associated inner joy with the good works of God’s faithful servants. In fact, Jesus later did this in this same chapter, when He spoke about the joy of His servants due to their well-done works (Mat. 25:21,23). Those faithfully serving God will receive the
“oil of joy,” though they may mourn and grieve as they are labouring in tribulations of the end times.
So the righteousness of God’s servants who faithfully do His works, because Jesus’ Holy Spirit is teaching them how to love and sending them out to do those works for the training of their spirits, must be what Jesus figuratively represented by the “olive oil” in this parable. Their joy from the Holy Spirit of God is His “anointing,” and the fuel which their lamps use to shine truth’s light. Thus, we know that the rational and prudent local churches, which will be only about half of all the local churches who will be waiting for the return of Jesus in the end times, shall continue to do Christ’s equitable, just and loving works throughout those end times. And Jesus symbolically represented their hearts, where their spirits dwell, with the “vessels” that those five virgins took with them, the vessels filled with the “oil of gladness” manufactured by God’s Spirit. But the other half of the local churches had lamps that went out. They withdrew from good works, thinking they must only take care of themselves, and that they did not have enough to care for any outsiders in those extremely troubled times. That is what Jesus seems to have figuratively referred to as the foolish and heedless virgins not taking olive oil with them in their vessels. The inner joy received through good works of the true churches helped them to continue to burn as lights in the dark world. Those loving works filled their vessels the oil gladness. But false churches had none and, when they most needed this oil, it was too late. After they heard the cry announcing Christ’s coming, it was too late to get that oil.
So now we might ask when the cry about His advent will occur during the end times, and why will that time be too late for the five false churches to repent. Why was there no time for the five foolish and heedless virgins to go out and purchase more olive oil? And what will those false local churches forfeit because they were so foolish and heedless? Let’s start with the time of the cry. In this parable, the cry occurred “during the delay of the bridegroom,” after the ten virgins “all became drowsy and slept,” and it came from somewhere in “the midst of the night.” Jesus, who is obviously the Bridegroom here, will delay His advent for 40 years, or for one generation, after the great revival, which is called the end times. And He will do this for a purpose, to give time for all His elect to repent, to wake from their spiritual sleep, to rise up and serve Him. During those end times, Jesus will progressively destroy the institutions of Satan’s world order, and the entire world order will belong to the devil’s fourth kingdom of Roman humanism by then. So, as the elect see God’s wrath fall upon the Satan’s kingdom, it will wake up most elect who remain enslaved by Satan’s religious kingdom of humanism. Yet some will remain asleep in the mother of all false humanistic churches, since they will be deceived by lies telling them that they are serving Jesus, though they are warring against Him. So Jesus will not destroy that great false church and her harlot daughters until shortly after He calls all elect souls to come out of her (Rev. 18:4). In the meantime, true churches will swell with new converts, from all religions and nations, ever more as the day of Christ’s return approaches.
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So, in this parable, we know the Bridegroom’s arrival will be at least 40 years, possibly more, after the revival of His true universal church of Israel at the very beginning of the end times. And it must not occur until He has commanded all the elect to come out of the great prostitute church. Also, since the ten virgins slumbered, we know all the churches will have become very weary by that time, after enduring the darkest and worst tribulations in history, until the late hours of the end time, until just before the dawn of His advent. Thus, the Bridegroom will come so late that there will be no time to repent, at the very end of the seven-year rule of Satan’s beast, which ends the moment Jesus returns.
Just when all the churches grow so weary that they begin to nod off in slumber, Jesus will return to complete the annihilation of the beast, along with all of that evil ruler’s kingdom and all the non-elect in the world. So the cry in this parable would represent what will occur at the very end of the beast’s seven-year reign, a few weeks or months after the call for the elect to come out of the false church. So some elect will count down the number of days prophesied by Daniel (the 1,288 to 1,290
days from the time the beast committed the abomination causing desolation). Then, when 1,288 days have passed, they will cry out, “Look, the Bridegroom! Go out for the meeting of Him!” That is, they will be saying the day of His second advent is immanent, within a few days or even that day.
The churches who know the biblical prophecies well shall tell everyone when it is time to rise up to welcome Him, and ready their lamps of light, for He will assign missions of joy and restoration to all. So the prudent and rational churches will brighten their outlook with the oil of joy they received through the good works they have already done for others, and go out to greet their Lord and God, Jesus. Then, when He actually sets foot in Jerusalem, He will grant a mission to each faithful local church and individual. But, in those few days before His return, foolish and heedless churches will realize that their own lack of good works and unfaithfulness has left them empty, without any light to shine as a sign of welcoming for the Bridegroom. And it will be too late. They might run out to purchase some oil of joy, by doing good works for a day or two, but will never be able to gain true joy before He returns. For they will be doing those good works as an obligation, not as a calling of Jesus to each one’s own spirit. As a consequence, they will be shut out of the wedding feast on the day He arrives, and will not be granted any part in the missions He assigns to faithful local churches and individuals within His true priesthood serving the world. Most in those false churches will not even be allowed to live on earth during the millennium of Jesus justly and lovingly ruling over the nations. Yes, some elect individuals in them might be spared, along with the other surviving elect who had not repented until the day of His return. A few might live and learn to fill their lives with purpose and direction, by faithfully serving Jesus and heeding His Holy Spirit whenever He speaks to their spirits. But most will perish with the armies of the beast and the other non-elect on earth.
When Jesus returns, the faithful, prudent and rational churches will directly communicate with Him, will enter His wedding feast in Jerusalem on that day. Not all will spiritually attend the celebration of His return. Some of the deceived elect will weep in godly sorrow, which will lead them to spiritual repentance. But His Holy Spirit will eventually pour into all their hearts as well, in a powerful and magnificent way, in a way they have never experienced. Then—just as the true and faithful churches encouraged each and every wakened elect believer to heed the teachings and counsel of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, as well as exemplified and helped each to do all the works of training that Jesus assigned to each individual, according to each one’s God-given attributes, longings and calling—so too will our Lord and God Jesus assign each true church a particular mission within His earthly kingdom. For His new priesthood of Israel will guide and counsel every level of government in every land, just as the Levitical priesthood was called to do for the secular authorities in the land of Israel during the Old Covenant times. Every true local and regional church will be an important part of His kingdom.
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But false churches, even though elect may be in them and they might be the kinds of churches who will wait for His second advent, will not enter into the celebrations of the priestly elect. Since they walked according to their minds of flesh, His Holy Spirit did not teach and train their spirits. So they will not be ready for Jesus, and He will not assign any missions to them for His kingdom. The elect in them will not perish like the worshippers of the beast, nor like the non-elect in all the earth. Yet, even if those surviving elect physically go to the wedding party in Jerusalem, and talk to the called ones, to the awakened elect there, those who faithfully serve Jesus, will tell the elect from the false churches: “With all certainty, I reason with you, I did not know you [and do not want to know you].”
Yes, the faithful elect, because their spirits were taught and trained by Jesus, will say the same thing to the surviving unfaithful elect that Jesus previously said to the false churches at His second advent.
For the false churches of those surviving elect left them empty and useless, unable to work together with any of the faithful elect, incapable of handling even the simplest tasks in Jesus’ truly just and loving kingdom. In fact, all those elect from false churches learned was how to corrupt and sabotage the words and works of Jesus and His faithful servants. And, until they unlearn all they learned from those false churches, no one involved in the restoration and building up of God’s earthly kingdom will want anything to do with them. Until those reprobates are true disciples, they will be pariahs.
Look at what Jesus will tell the false churches as He returns: “With all certainty, I reason with you, I did not know you [and do not want to know you]” (Mat. 25:12, from: Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, οὐκ οἶδα
ὑμᾶς, SBLGNT). Here Jesus used the particle ἀμήν to indicate absolute certainty. Then, in context, He used the verb λέγω in a way which indicated He was attempting to make them fully understand His words, and that He was reasoning with them. Lastly, the verb οἶδα always suggests some kind of an afterthought or retained concept. So Jesus will tell the survivors from false churches that He most definitely lacks any personal familiarity and spiritual bond with them, and imply that He also does not yet even want to know them. And His faithful disciples say the same thing too. For, although the false churches will have taught those unfaithful surviving elect a few right doctrines, and they had even waited with anticipation for Jesus’ second advent, the false doctrines of those fake churches had made them into practising enemies of God and His true priesthood of Israel. Jesus used the adjective μωρός three times to indicate their foolish, short-sighted ways, as well as their refusal to heed His Holy Spirit. Their ignorant ways, which their false churches justified as necessary for their own self-preservation, will make those elect odious to all who are striving to build up love, justice, equity and even the physical restoration of the world. And those works of building will be the pure joy of the faithful, as each effectively does what they were born to do. Those works will be the wealth and great reward of the true disciples of Jesus. But those unfaithful elect will have forfeited this reward received by the faithful. For every hour and pound of physical sacrifice the prudent, rational, heeding churches made for Jesus, He will grant them a hundred times as much in spiritual blessings, even a great gift that rapidly multiplies its rewards in the future. Thus, to spare themselves a little material loss, the foolish and heedless churches will have lost more than they could recover in their lifetimes.
God’s kingdom on earth and in heaven has always been like this. Inner spiritual gain is multiplied into more gain. But, when a soul pursues outer material gain for the flesh, its rewards are only loss for both the spirit and the flesh. “Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life
[for the benefit of God and His creations] preserves it” (Luke 17:33, WEB). God’s training ground for His elect spirits on earth is like a womb, a dark place of inner growth, where we learn to love and prefer God’s ways. Even plant and animal spirits learn this here. So, to forfeit and waste that inner growth is to suffer great loss, and means that one lives a purposeless and empty life. There is a God and He is a Spirit, not flesh. His eternal home is a far more real and eternal spiritual realm, a far more solid Page 1667
space-time continuum which has no death nor decay, where no evil is allowed. God created heaven to manifest only His attributes and desires, so it is a place where they can be only building up and ever growing abundant life. Thus, if the earthly body of an elect human spirit dies, that spirit will go to the gates of heaven for judgment, for the perfecting and completing of one’s eduction in God’s loving ways. And those who learned much on earth, will multiply that knowledge and wisdom at the same rate as those who learned little. So how will those who learned little ever become as useful as those who learned much? Then, since our useful works are our rewards of joy, who will be richer?
It is sad to see the elect who are not eagerly pursuing spiritual rewards on earth. Their lives are so empty and void of inner joy. They are so spiritually impoverished and sickly, no matter how wealthy and healthy they are physically. Then, when Jesus returns, or when they go to the judgment day, those carnal elect will look like a premature birth, too small and helpless to do anything for oneself, much less for other spirits. And their growth will never catch up to the others. If Jesus returns before some elect leave their false churches, their spirits will be too small and helpless to do any good for themselves, much less for God’s kingdom. Thus, although those elect will remain alive with all the other surviving elect upon the earth, their infantile spirits will merely begin their growth into a true maturity, and none will be able to serve Jesus in just, equitable ways through love. So those elect will not be recognized as contributing members of God’s true priesthood of Israel, and the door to His church will be shut to them. Elect souls remaining in false churches will not labour beside Jesus until long after the wedding feast, until their spirits learn His loving wisdom. Consequently, Jesus told His disciples: “Be watchful and alert, because you people do not know the day nor the hour.”
As individuals, we each can do only a little, but every little part contributes to a massive whole. God made His elect to be one in mind and purpose, to work together, as many living cells in His one body on earth. And no elect individual can thrive or even survive alone, without the body. Consider how a fit and healthy individual can do, at the very most, about 24 hours of efficient work per week. And those hours will require an additional 6 to 8 hours of breaks to rest and collect one’s thoughts between them. So that comes to a total of 30 hours required to do efficient works. But no one will be able to consistently do 24 hours of efficient work every week of the year. Very few will ever do 24
hours of efficient work in any week of any year in their entire lives. Then one can add another 24
hours of inefficient types of works, mostly physical works which do not require much thinking or effort. And these too will require breaks. So that a total will also be about another 30 hours, where a large part of it (between 14 to 20 hours) will be used to cook meals, if one does this for oneself, and the rest of those hours likely will be used for cleaning, shopping, personal hygiene and other chores.
Also, during the week, one will need about 56 hours of sleep, evenly distributed at about 8 hours per day, to maintain physical, emotional and mental health. Now, since a week has only 168 hours, this means that one is left with only about 52 hours per week, or less than 7.5 hours per day, to build up relationships with God, other human beings and God’s other creations. And developing those deeper relationships is essential, since we need to learn about, understand and cooperate with God and others to do anything truly useful and to fulfill our covenants of love with them. Our spirits require much time to focus our awareness upon our loved ones, and there is no way to speed up that building process, no way to make it more efficient through any physical means, since it is a spiritual process.
The point is that we, as individuals, are only capable of doing very few truly useful works and can only love in very limited ways. In fact, only a rare healthy and well-trained individual can do enough to keep oneself alive and safe, tentatively and for a short time, much less help others who are not as healthy or well-trained. So we all need to work together in perfect harmony, with one mind and for the one purpose of accomplishing the massive amounts of critical works that this world needs in Page 1668
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order to survive. And there is only one way to do that. The one and only way we will ever be able to build up a thriving, just, equitable, safe community, where all can live abundant lives, is through the system God created in the beginning. It is the only system God designed to provide all that we need.
And all other systems are either inferior or outright destructive. Nothing else will be able to save us.
So what is God’s system? First, the God who created and now shapes our elect spirits, while He also holds the material universe together for our spirits’ education, must become the only Head Teacher and Owner of every individual, the only Lord determining the purpose He made each one to fulfill.
Then each individual elect spirit must seek to fulfill that purpose by being personally taught and trained by Him alone, although He may use agents, like His other disciples, to do accomplish this work inside us, as well as instruments like the Bible and illustrations from His natural creations.
Then, according to His Law and His other teachings, one in ten men must be set aside, when he is older and well-taught, to focus more of his works upon helping the other nine and their families build up the spiritual and moral structures of their lives, and manage their daily activities in the most loving, just and beneficial way possible. In other words, Jesus will raise up a teaching and judging elder or patriarch in the group of ten cooperating families, with absolutely no authority over anyone, but with an ability to reason, teach, prove what is best by example, then influence the group to exert peer pressure on anyone who causes harm. Among these ten elders, God will choose a tithe that He will grant a deeper understanding of His will and His ways, one with deep compassion, experience and knowledge of human behaviours and needs. So each of these will be elders of a hundred. He will spend time discussing matters of faith and life with the other nine elders of ten, ensuring that they do their works rightly, justly, equitably and lovingly. Then, if anyone feels that an elder of ten is wrong about anything, that one can go to the elder of a hundred for intervention and help. Finally, Jesus will choose a tithe from the elders of a hundred, the men whom He has most deeply taught and most carefully trained. And these elders of a thousand will spend their time learning and teaching about the most difficult matters of faith and the worst problems facing their communities. And, if anyone is not satisfied with teachings and judgments of an elder of a hundred, that one can go to an elder of a thousand. And, since the open hearts of these elders of thousands will discern the individual skills and gifts of their people, they will also come together to organize the works of their communities, to accomplish the larger projects that need to be done for the good of all. And that is it. There will be no need for hierarchies of authorities, only these servants of the people who are chosen and guided by our Lord Jesus, who will all be helped directly by their people, working in harmony with them all.
When Jesus returns, there will be this system, nothing more. There will be no borders of nations, no presidents, prime ministers or authorities of any kinds. For the regional elders of thousands will know and lovingly organize their people in ways that accomplish all that is necessary. Nor will there be any humanistic judges and police forces. For the people will police themselves according to the teachings of God revealed by His Holy Spirit, as well as in His Word and in His creations, which the elders of all kinds will confirm. And, when multiple elders of thousands work together, they will be able to overcome even the worst of problems or build the largest of projects. Then, if the elders of thousands cannot do something, those elders can go directly to Jesus for His help. And Jesus will mobilize the entire world to do what is needed, or use His almighty power to do it for the world.
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exist, and cannot be manufactured by any created entities. For all laws of justice, love and the ways of nature are immutable spiritual principles which God created in the very beginning. All the ways which produce the most beneficial effects in the most efficient ways for all creations originated from the attributes and the inner counsel of God. Therefore, no living entity can become an independent human god bearing the knowledge and power to dictate the ways and lives of so-called “inferiors” in a man-made hierarchy. There can be only one Creator with one harmonious omniscient omnipotence.
All humans are born and grow to adulthood through the labours of other people, who nurture, protect and educate them. God has invariably linked every individual together with the rest of human kind, and none can survive without the help of others. No human is born with a knowledge of all the basic principles required for the survival of one’s own flesh, nor the strength to survive alone. All must first be fed, clothed, housed, educated and protected, then provided necessary tools and resources, which all comes from other human beings, from God’s natural creations, and ultimately from God Himself. Then one’s spirit cannot grow without other spirits teaching it to love and be loved, without the lessons of other human spirits and ultimately God Himself. Thus, God has put all human beings into families, and God created all elect souls on earth to be His own just, equitable, wise, loving family. All churches, businesses, communities, states, provinces and nations are merely families that work together, all with one heavenly Father and one oldest Brother as their Head. Then our Father and oldest Brother Jesus serve as Teachers of wise and immutable spiritual principles that we all need to know in order to survive and thrive, both here on the training ground of this earth and in our homes in heaven. God has never been and never will be the creator of dysfunctional humanistic families ruled by terrorizing elite who pretend to be mighty gods of hierarchies. Rather God is very personal, the one in whom we confide, the only one who knows the most inner secrets of our hearts.
So humanity is a family of God, and we were never meant to form groups of individuals through a delusion of “free will” so we can conquer, plunder, oppress and enslave other groups of individuals.
Every truly awakened elect Christian knows this indisputable fact. And the only home we can ever find on this earth is our extended family, where we are all forever bound together by the covenants of love that our eternal spirits make with one another. So no mansion made of earthly materials can ever be called a home for us, since a house is a building, not a home. God defined our home as our family, as the people who love us and are loved by us. Thus, if a fire is burning down our house, we save our people in it, since those people are our home. And, because our families are eternal human spirits bound together by eternal love for one another, all with the same eternal, loving and beloved Father and oldest Brother of our spirits, our family is also eternal. Therefore, while we live upon this earth in temporary bodies of flesh, the only kind of riches we pursue are spiritual. The treasures of our spirits are components of love we have for our family, including a foundation of truth to build our love upon, with much just and equitable wisdom to make our love solid and able to stand. It is our heavenly Father in Jesus who creates this love in our spirits, by teaching and training our spirits, by demonstrating His wise love for us, and by providing all that we need build up this love inside us.
So we must not take this responsibility as a family of God lightly. From the beginning, we have been the family of humankind. And, until Jesus returns, we will be the family of a nation, the family of a state or province, the family of a community, the family of a business, the family of a local or regional church and also parts of a nuclear and extended family bound by blood. And we can never overcome any of our biggest problems, nor successfully complete any of our most needed works as individuals ruled by deluded human gods. Literally all we need for our survival must be worked by us as a family heeding the wise counsel our eternal, omniscient Father. All of our biggest problems need our entire family of mankind, counselled by our Father and oldest Brother, to overcome them.
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Then all of our most necessary works also need our entire family of humankind to successfully maintain them, through the wisdom and resources of our Father. God ordained this from the beginning. His law of the family, with Him as the Father of fathers, is immutable, and will forever define His kingdom on earth and in heaven. Then we must remember that our Father binds us to Himself, in our oldest Brother, by providing us with the counsel of all His teachings, through His Holy Spirit’s exhortations, comforts, rebukes, encouragements and other whisperings into the ears of our spirits. Our heavenly Father, who is in Jesus, serves as a personal Priest to us, to restore our relationships with Him and His relationship with us. Likewise, He teaches and trains some of us to become His priests, and He once formed a family of priests within the family of humankind, which He called Israel. Just as a nuclear family can bind together an entire extended family or tribe, this one priesthood binds together the entire family of humankind. His true church provides counselling and restores relationships between the families in all the earth, as well as between all souls and God.
Consequently, we cannot treat our works in a local or regional church lightly. A church must remain faithful to God, firmly built upon the Rock of genuine truth, who is Jesus, our God. For we have an enemy who is always seeking to destroy our family, even the entire family of humankind, and all that is in our Father’s earthly kingdom. This enemy, Satan, uses his prime religion of humanism to nullify love and delude infantile, foolish and destructive human beings into thinking they are gods who can rule over their own siblings, treating them as inferiors, perceiving them as less valuable than inanimate things like gold. If a church sides with Satan, and embraces the humanistic religion of Satan’s four kingdoms, it becomes an enemy of God, and definitely does not have anything to do with God’s true priesthood, because it has not loved the truths from God. Humanistic churches hate God, as a blind destroyers of God’s kingdom, as liars and murderers working against the family of humankind. So all the awakened elect must ensure that Jesus remains their one and only Head, and labour with only the other elect souls who do the same. They must choose their fellowship, letting their one and only Head call them and join them together, in one mind and in one purpose, to serve as His true priests. Then all in a true church must maintain faithfulness to their one Head, and to His words. If Jesus does not create and maintain a church, then it is not His church. And now the time of the end draws near. So, if you are not in a true church, the door will be shut to you when He comes.
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“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey. Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two. But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
“Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.’ His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.’ His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.
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You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter. I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’ But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away. Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth’” (Mat. 25:14-30, WEB).
Jesus began this parable with the words, Ὥσπερ γὰρ (“For [it is] just like ...”). So Jesus did not make a direct reference to “the kingdom of the heavens” here, like He did in the previous parable. Yet He was clearly continuing His teaching about His judgments that He will make when He returns to the earth in the end times. Now, in the previous parable, He illustrated how He would judge two kinds of churches that claimed to belong to His kingdom, how He would treat both the faithful and unfaithful evangelical churches in particular on the day of His second advent. But, in this parable, He told us how He will judge individuals claiming to belong to His kingdom, by their motives and perceptions.
In the first parable, since all the churches waited for His return, He was focusing on the Bible-based churches, on the evangelical churches that were either faithful or unfaithful. But in this parable, He includes the non-elect with the elect among all who claim to belong to His Bible-based churches. In this parable, And here Jesus defined an array of different individuals, albeit only three, telling us that each possessed unique attributes and various degrees of inherent abilities to serve Him and His household. Those three types were the most wise and faithful, the average and the least. But those three include everyone claiming to be members of His priesthood, since all are either more or less wise and faithful, and some are pretenders who are neither wise nor faithful. Yet Jesus implied here that He was talking about many slaves in the household of His universal church on earth, even all in it. Still, He only gave examples of how He would judge three who remained alive by the time He returned to His earthly kingdom, after His long absence. For all who claim membership in His New Covenant priesthood of Israel fit somewhere between the first and last category, and all will be judged as He judged these three. Everyone in evangelical churches, all who claim to believe that His Word is their final authority in all matters of life and faith, will give an account to Jesus, just as those three did. Thus, the three kinds in those evangelical churches also seem to be: (1) the fully awakened elect, (2) the partially or fully sleeping elect and (3) the non-elect pretenders. Jesus will return to judge all the surviving evangelicals just as He judged these three. Then, on the judgment day after the earth ends, He will judge them again, with every other human being who ever existed on earth.
This parable also portrays three distinct periods of time: (1) the time of Jesus’ first advent, before He ascended into heaven; (2) the time Jesus remains in heaven; and (3) the time of His parousia, when He will return to judge all individuals, churches and nations. So we can begin by looking at what Jesus told us that He did before He ascended: “He called His own slaves and handed over His existing [wealth] to them. Then He gave five talents to this one, but two to that one, yet one to the other, to each according to one’s own ability” (Mat. 25:14b-15a, from: ἐκάλεσεν τοὺς ἰδίους δούλους
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three mentioned were simply examples of how He distributed His wealth to each according to each one’s ability. And this Lord or Owner clearly did not want His wealth to sit safely in a vault, idle, but desired activity through it, even if it meant risking the loss of some. Furthermore, we can see that this Owner deliberately sent His slaves out to gain experience in life, by taking responsibility for all His liquid assets. Thus, this Lord clearly trusted and cared for all, and was advancing their education.
Obviously, this estate owner is Jesus Himself, and He gave us a parable about “His own slaves”
(τοὺς ἰδίους δούλους), only the kind of people who belong to His earthly estate or kingdom, the kind He calls to Himself. And our God Jesus “handed over His existing wealth” (παρέδωκεν ... τὰ
ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ) to them. God has always been handing over His wealth of truth and wisdom to His people, throughout history, but especially after He sent them His Holy Spirit, which we have all had access to since the day of the Pentecost two millenniums ago. Therefore, because Jesus handed over all His existing eternal spiritual wealth of truth and wisdom exclusively to His disciples in the New Covenant branch of Israel before He ascended, and only to those who trusted and placed their confidence in His words, we can conclude that these slaves do not represent the secular people, those belonging to other religions, those claim to serve human gods or other gods. Here Jesus only refers to active members of His Bible-believing New Covenant branch of His universal church of Israel.
Here Jesus was talking about “His own slaves,” disciples who serve Him by using His wealth of His truth and wisdom. He is not speaking about secular people, nor about individuals attending any of the overtly humanistic churches. For the people in those churches do not believe that the Bible is the infallible and inerrant Word of God, and do not use it in the ways Jesus spoke about here. Thus, He was not talking about the people in the churches that serve only human gods and, therefore, do not serve Him. Rather, here Jesus was only talking about the people to whom He has granted His wealth of His kingdom, those to whom He gives His truth and wisdom of His kingdom, the kind of people whom He expects to diligently and effectively use His truth, “each according to one’s own ability.”
So every individual, among all whom we might call evangelicals, is gifted with at least some great amount of wealth from our God Jesus during this time that He has gone on His journey. And this gift is a kind of a test, designed to educate us, to hone our abilities, as well as reveal our own inner love and faithfulness to Him and the others in His kingdom. But now look again at how He handed over His existing wealth to “each according to one’s own ability.” First notice how Jesus said He would personally hand these talents over to each one. Jesus shall not appoint any popes or pastors to hand out wisdom and assign missions to His disciples. He clearly stated that He would personally do all this for each and every one, and that He would only assign His missions according to the abilities of each unique individual. He was talking about using the wealth of the truth and wisdom that He will personally reveal to each one individually, for a mission of building up His earthly kingdom. For He alone possesses, controls and is able to reveals His powerful truth and wisdom, as much as each spirit bears the inherent spiritual ability to effectively use it for Him and His kingdom. So He handed over five talents to the most loving and effective spirit He created to serve Him. And one talent was no small sum. A talent was a middle-class man’s gross earnings for his entire life-time, and more than enough to very comfortably feed, clothe and house a large family for more than forty years.
Thus, Jesus was saying that, while He is away and teaching His disciples through His Holy Spirit, some awakened elect will be granted enormous amounts of truth and wisdom. But even the one with five talents is not granted all that Jesus owns, since the five talents are only a small portion of the Lord’s total wealth. And we do not know how many other slaves are also granted that same amount of heavenly wealth, only that at least one will be, and that the minimum amount He gives to any one individual will be one talent. Judging by the grammar, this parable implied that He has great wealth Page 1673
and distributes it to a large number of slaves. So we can assume that the five talents are only a tiny fraction of His total wealth, and that He grants an equivalent amount to many other awakened elect disciples as well. Then He also gives vast wealth to the novice elect. And the Lord even gives one talent to a slave who represents the non-elect, to the slaves who hate Him, yet choose to remain in His household of the church. (That is, God’s Law forbade His people to return a runaway slave to his master. So this slave, who hated the Lord, could have left at any time, if he wanted to, but he could not take the money with him, since that would be theft. Yet he likely chose to stay because the outside world was not as kind as his Lord, and that slave felt far more safe and secure where he was.) And we also see how our Lord grants His vast wealth of truth and wisdom in stewardship, that is, not to spend as we want, in self-indulgence, but for the benefit of everyone in His household, to serve His kingdom. Yet He grants huge sums of this spiritual gold to all, since one or two talents should not be disdained. Now the ones granted two talents represent unawakened elect or newly wakened novice elect, since their spirits possessed less ability to effectively apply any more of His truth and wisdom than that. And, since Jesus assigns His missions to “each according to one’s own ability,”
and also expects to receive from “each according to one’s own ability,” there will be some granted three or four talents as well. But the examples Jesus gave only included the maximum, the minimum for an elect individual and the amount give to the non-elect. And, although it is our omnipotent and omniscient Jesus who makes each one able, we can conclude that the one given two talents was not yet fully taught and trained by Him. But surely the slave granted only the absolute minimum of one talent, a lifetime’s wage, had to be the non-elect, who avoided the teachings of his Lord, but would gain some truth and wisdom from hearing His words and by simply observing the lives and works of his Lord and the Lord’s people. Since literally everyone on earth is granted access to Christ’s truth and wisdom written in His creation, and many also hear the words of the Bible, this non-elect slave did receive one full talent. And this non-elect slave continued to dwell in God’s church solely for his own benefit, due to the family, business or political connections which provided for all of his needs.
So Jesus, during the time of His first advent, drew us a picture of His New Covenant branch of Israel throughout history, until the day of His return. Just before He died on the cross, rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, He would personally grant all the individuals in His New Covenant church a huge sum of His heavenly wealth. And He knew each one personally, all who were alive in that generation and all who would live in all future generations, since all past and future time is one time, and the Creator who dwells outside of time sees the future as clearly as He sees the present.
In this parable, Jesus was speaking about the mature awakened elect, the less mature elect and the non-elect, all who enter what some might call the “visible” church, all who claim to belong to the earthly body of His serving disciples. And all the elect in that church strove to walk according to His teachings, to increase the spiritual wealth of His earthly estate. But the non-elect one did not actually care about or inwardly belong to His household. So he not only refused to apply the spiritual wealth he obtained for the good of God’s just, equitable, loving kingdom, but hid it, so no one else could possibly use it to benefit the household or anyone in it. And hiding tools that are useful for others is a form of sabotage, since it inhibits the full functioning of good for the benefit of others. And it is also a form of theft, since it steals what might have been gained by others from them. Therefore, the slave who hid his one talent, although he eventually returned it to his Lord, proved to be the Lord’s enemy.
Yet the Lord will return and judge all. The Lord is not dead in a foreign land, as that wicked slave had hoped. Rather, the Lord is risen and very much alive in a land where the spirits of His other slaves can even write Him letters and receive replies through prayers. So, when He comes back, and even through His faithful servants before He returns, He will cast out all the non-elect from His true Page 1674
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New Covenant church. So now let each elect disciple build up and increase the spiritual wealth of His kingdom, and multiply the truth and wisdom of His kind of just, equitable love everywhere on earth. For He did not grant each of us these talents for each one’s personal and self-indulgent gain.
In this parable, we know that the vast wealth each receives is to be used strictly for the purpose of increasing the wealth of our Lord’s estate. And He will indeed judge us by what we do with the knowledge that He teaches to our spirits, and regarding the way we apply that knowledge through the training missions He assigned to us. Remember, Jesus told us that He will personally assign each disciple a mission in life, and in a way that no other equal slave can assign to anyone. Nor can any other slave interfere with the Lord’s mission assigned to each. Jesus left each slave’s stewardship entirely in that slave’s own hands, not subject to any kind of decision-making authority held by any other slave. Each was literally allowed to make whatever decisions one chose to make, regarding the use of that wealth given to each. On top of all this, all were granted missions “according to each one’s ability” (κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν δύναμιν). In context, the noun δύναμις clearly means: “potential for functioning in some way ... ability to carry out something, ability, capability” (BDAG3). So Jesus assigns each individual a mission and purpose in life, each according to the inherent potential or realized abilities which He Himself created and shaped within each. And this has nothing to do with physical abilities, only one’s spiritual capabilities, which He carefully develops in each by teaching and training each one’s spirit throughout life. Yes, we use our flesh to express the spiritual desires of love for our God and our people, in truth and wisdom. But only the spiritual is profitable to our Lord and to His kingdom. And, if Jesus personally chooses our life-missions based on spiritual abilities, we are not chosen according to physical merits, not by race, family bloodlines, accolades of men, degrees from Bible colleges, church ordination, vows or oaths, fame or any other criteria churches use in choosing people for missions. We all do the only the missions Jesus created each of us to do.
Jesus told us what would occur during His absence from the earth, which has now lasted for almost two heavenly days, or almost two thousand years of earthly time. “Then He went on a journey. The one having received the five talents immediately departed, having worked with them and gaining another five. In the same way, the one [having received] the two [talents] gained another two. Yet the one having received the one [talent] departed, dug the earth and hid the silver belonging to His Lord”
(Mat. 25:15b-18, from: καὶ ἀπεδήμησεν. εὐθέως πορευθεὶς ὁ τὰ πέντε τάλαντα λαβὼν ἠργάσατο ἐν
αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐκέρδησεν ἄλλα πέντε· ὡσαύτως ὁ τὰ δύο ἐκέρδησεν ἄλλα δύο· ὁ δὲ τὸ ἓν λαβὼν
ἀπελθὼν ὤρυξεν γῆν καὶ ἔκρυψεν τὸ ἀργύριον τοῦ κυρίου αὐτοῦ, SBLGNT). So our God Jesus told us that the more mature elect soul and the less mature elect soul both went to work immediately, with eagerness and joy, knowing they finally had access to resources that would allow them to carry out their plans for worthwhile and worthy projects that could provide for the household of Christ.
With the currency of heaven, with the talents of foundational truth used to build love, the elect went out to purchase all they needed to do profitable works, and soon doubled that wealth. In then end, each held twice as much truth and wisdom. Both the mature and immature increased the worth of their Owner’s estate by “having worked with” the wealth of truth and wisdom each had received.
Here Jesus used the verb ἠργάσατο, which is the aorist indicative form of ἐργάζομαι (“to engage in activity that involves effort, work,” BDAG3). Then the preposition ἐν is here used as a “marker introducing means or instrument, with” (BDAG3). So it indicates that these two elect ones worked with Christ’s wealth, by purchasing necessary equipment, resources and services, all they required to do their works. This implies that the mature awakened elect, whose spirits fully and consciously love Jesus and cherish Him as their Lord, are like those who receive five talents, since He not only grants them truth from His creation, with His counsel to interpret it, but also from His Word, through His Page 1675
own personal teaching and training. Jesus helps their spirits discover the real and intended meaning of His words, grants them the wisdom to effectively apply truths about life and faith. Their spirits are renewed through His works in them, as though He has quickened their entire inner beings. So, in Him, their inner drive is strong and they more actively labour to apply their received truths until they double what they received. They are the most able in His household. But even less mature elect spirits receive the counsel of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, the truths revealed in His creations, although they might not be quite as consciously aware of it. So even they are twice as able as the non-elect, and will do their works in the same way as the mature elect. They too use the currency of heaven to fund their profitable works, which double what they received, to build up God’s just, loving household.
All the elect bear an obligation to multiply the truth and wisdom God grants us. And the only way we can do this is through hard labour. We must reason truths through to logical conclusions, do much research to find the attributes and origins of each truth, piece together and harmonize truths until we build up connections revealing deeper wisdom and learn how to live those truths. We simply cannot remain like the non-elect, who are granted all the spiritual and physical truths manifested in God’s creation, yet never desire them, nor seek God’s help in their interpretations, since they only want and love the lies and delusions they invent for themselves, and refuse to trust the Creator. They want no light to shine on their simplistic and irrational beliefs, lest it complicates their lives with the truth needed to build up and heal the unloved lives surrounding them. When they see rational, complex and interwoven spiritual and moral truths, they bury them in the dirt of their lies. For they want the truth to be hidden far from them, and hate the burden of heavenly silver weighing down their selfish activities. So, as both the mature and immature elect work with the truth to gain more, the non-elect work to gratify their own delusions and gain more fleshy pleasures, by leaching life from all others.
“Now, after much time, the Lord of those slaves comes and raises up a word together with them.
And, after drawing near, the having received the five talents brought out another five talents saying,
‘Lord, You handed over five talents to me. Look, I gained another five talents.’ His Lord said to him,
‘Well [done]! [You are a] usefully good and faithful slave. You have been faithful over a few things.
I will appoint you over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord” (Mat. 25:19-21, from: μετὰ δὲ
πολὺν χρόνον ἔρχεται ὁ κύριος τῶν δούλων ἐκείνων καὶ συναίρει λόγον μετʼ αὐτῶν καὶ προσελθὼν
ὁ τὰ πέντε τάλαντα λαβὼν προσήνεγκεν ἄλλα πέντε τάλαντα λέγων· Κύριε, πέντε τάλαντά μοι
παρέδωκας· ἴδε ἄλλα πέντε τάλαντα ἐκέρδησα. ἔφη αὐτῷ ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ· Εὖ, δοῦλε ἀγαθὲ καὶ
πιστέ, ἐπὶ ὀλίγα ἦς πιστός, ἐπὶ πολλῶν σε καταστήσω· εἴσελθε εἰς τὴν χαρὰν τοῦ κυρίου σου, SBLGNT). First, notice how our God Jesus told us that He would not return until “after much time”
(μετὰ δὲ πολὺν χρόνον). And “much time” is a relative term. Still, it implies a long time, and it can be thousands of years, especially when we consider how a day of spiritual time is likened to a thousand earthly years. So, in our day, after “much time” has passed since Jesus ascended, we are still waiting for His return. But all awakened elect souls at His second coming will be recognized and all will be rewarded by Him. True Christians, who labour for the benefit of God’s true kingdom on earth, who work with His gifts of truth and wisdom to build up loving justice, will be granted a blessed reward of even more work to do for His kingdom. For their service to His people, and to all His other creations, is their most cherished and joy-filling treasure, the only reward their hearts ever desire, just as lovingly serving them is the joy of their Lord and God, and the only reward He seeks.
But what about the elect who do not consciously know Jesus? Surely they too can be represented by the slave who received only two talents. There are many elect on earth who have never heard about the real Jesus or His genuine Gospel of salvation, but who “do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the law written in their Page 1676
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hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them” (Rom. 2:14-15, WEB). Those whom Jesus gives two talents must include these elect too, since these elect are almost always siding with true elect in His true church, once they hear the truths and wise reasoning of those awakened elect. So, in this way, those sleeping elect, who do the works of God “by nature,” spontaneously through the inherent desires God created in their spirits, are joined to God’s household. because their hearts serve the purposes of the household’s Owner.
Many elect will not know that Jesus is saving them throughout their lives, by His Holy Spirit’s works of writing of His Law upon their hearts and in their minds. And, as Jeremiah prophesied (31:33), if anyone has “the work of the law written in their hearts,” that work must be personally performed by the Creator God Himself, and Jeremiah defines it as the work of His salvation through the Messiah.
And Jesus told us that all those granted only two talents did indeed do works with them, until they too doubled what He had given them stewardship over. Jesus fulfilled His Law in them and through those two-talent slaves, causing them to labour in just, equitable, loving ways for His people and for His other creations, all based upon the truths He revealed and interpreted for their spirits. That which will be given to the mature awakened elect will be given to the sleeping elect as well. And not one of His elect will forfeit His reward. Literally all the elect will hear exactly the same words coming from Jesus when He returns: “Well [done]! [You are a] usefully good and faithful slave. You have been faithful over a few things. I will appoint you over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord”
(Mat. 5:23, from: Εὖ, δοῦλε ἀγαθὲ καὶ πιστέ, ἐπὶ ὀλίγα ἦς πιστός, ἐπὶ πολλῶν σε καταστήσω·
εἴσελθε εἰς τὴν χαρὰν τοῦ κυρίου σου, SBLGNT). For, on the day Jesus returns, all the elect on earth will recognize that Jesus is indeed the Creator God who has been guiding and upholding their spirits.
Now notice how the slave who was granted only one talent was the last to come, although this slave obviously represented the non-elect who lounge their lives away in evangelical churches. And, from biblical prophecies, we know those non-elect will be the first to be judged and destroyed on the day of Christ’s second coming. So why did Jesus, in this parable, say that this worthless slave came last?
And why did Jesus spend more of His precious time and words talking about that clearly selfish and self-serving slave than He did about the other two “usefully good and faithful” slaves? Well, for one thing, although our God Jesus provides equitably for all dwelling in His churches and in His world, He places the non-elect, who steal life from others and benefit no one but themselves, last on His list of those He prefers to speak with. And the non-elect know this. So they avoid any contact with Him for as long as they can. Secondly, Jesus’ parable was designed to help us recognize the non-elect in our Bible-based churches, so we will not allow them to partake in our works. For they will weigh down our loads and impede our progress, or even sabotage our deeds, just to make a little carnal gain for their own flesh. Jesus wanted us to know who they are, so we can expel them from our churches.
“Now, after approaching, the one having received one talent with no profit also said: ‘Lord, I knew that You are a harsh person, reaping in places where you did not sow and gathering from sources you did dispatch. And having been afraid, after departing, I hid your talent in the earth. Look, you have what [is] yours’” (Mat. 25:24-25, from: προσελθὼν δὲ καὶ ὁ τὸ ἓν τάλαντον εἰληφὼς εἶπεν· Κύριε, ἔγνων σε ὅτι σκληρὸς εἶ ἄνθρωπος, θερίζων ὅπου οὐκ ἔσπειρας καὶ συνάγων ὅθεν οὐ διεσκόρπισας·
καὶ φοβηθεὶς ἀπελθὼν ἔκρυψα τὸ τάλαντόν σου ἐν τῇ γῇ· ἴδε ἔχεις τὸ σόν, SBLGNT). First, notice how this slave uttered more words than the others, because he wanted to make excuses for himself, and because he wanted to falsely accuse his good, generous Lord, who gave him complete freedom to do whatever kind of works he desired with that money. Like most of the non-elect, this one also transferred his own faults and sins over to the innocent, and lied in a way that attempted to make others think the innocent one was guilty of what he himself was guilty of being and doing. So this Page 1677
wicked slave claimed that his Lord was wicked and harsh, a Lord who stole gain which He did not earn or deserve. But it was actually that slave himself who had been receiving all his food, clothing and shelter from the Lord’s estate, but did not work like the other slaves to provide for it. And it was his Lord who had taught, trained and laboured beside those other slaves to provide all of that food, clothing and shelter which this lazy slave enjoyed. So, was it not very “wicked and harsh” for that slave to falsely accuse his hard-working, generous and loving Lord of being what he was himself?
Wickedness and harshness are two very common attributes shared by almost all of the non-elect. So almost all of them also like to accuse their enemies of being wicked and harsh, to distract their dupes away from the fact that they are far more wicked and harsh than their enemies. For instance, Hitler and Trump constantly accused the just and the kind of being wicked and harsh, although both of them were far more wicked and harsh than anyone could think possible. So, in this parable, Jesus was illustrating how the non-elect stealing into our churches will (1) make up false excuses for their failures and (2) falsely accuse others of bearing their own evil attributes, and falsely blame others for their own failures, will slander the innocent in an attempt to transfer the blame for their own sins and failures away from themselves, onto the innocent. Yet those whom the non-elect falsely accuse are sometimes firmly grounded in reality, and are not easily deceived. So they know who to blame. The gaslighting and slandering of the innocent is a primary tool of Satan and his children. But many elect are aware of those tactics, and have experienced them all their lives. And the Owner of our earthly kingdom has seen those same foolish deceptions applied since the beginning of time. So Jesus expects us to recognize those lies, and all who are actually “wicked and harsh” deceivers who reap what they do not sow and gather from sources they do not dispatch. They transfer their attributes upon us and our Lord, trying to make us feel guilty. But we must never fall for those kinds of lies.
Jesus wants us to respond to those liars in the same way He will at His return and on the judgment day. And He told that gaslighting slave: “Wicked slave! And slothful! You thought in the past that I harvest in places where I did not sow and I gather from sources I did not dispatch. Therefore, it was necessary for you to cast My silver to the money lenders and, after I came, I should properly receive what [is] mine, together with interest. Thus, you people take away the talent from him and give [it]
to the one having ten talents. For, to all those having [useful good and faithfulness in them], it will be given and it will be great abundance. Yet, for the one not having [useful good and faithfulness in one], even what he has will be taken away from him. And you people cast out the useless slave, into the outer darkness. The weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there” (Mat. 25:26-30, from: Πονηρὲ δοῦλε
καὶ ὀκνηρέ, ᾔδεις ὅτι θερίζω ὅπου οὐκ ἔσπειρα καὶ συνάγω ὅθεν οὐ διεσκόρπισα; ἔδει σε οὖν βαλεῖν
τὰ ἀργύριά μου τοῖς τραπεζίταις, καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐγὼ ἐκομισάμην ἂν τὸ ἐμὸν σὺν τόκῳ. ἄρατε οὖν ἀπʼ
αὐτοῦ τὸ τάλαντον καὶ δότε τῷ ἔχοντι τὰ δέκα τάλαντα· τῷ γὰρ ἔχοντι παντὶ δοθήσεται καὶ
περισσευθήσεται· τοῦ δὲ μὴ ἔχοντος καὶ ὃ ἔχει ἀρθήσεται ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ. καὶ τὸν ἀχρεῖον δοῦλον
ἐκβάλετε εἰς τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον· ἐκεῖ ἔσται ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων, SBLGNT).
Here Jesus used the verb ᾔδεις, a past tense of οἶδα, which usually functions as an aorist but is actually the pluperfect tense, but it still indicates that the “effects” of “knowing” or “thinking” were in the past. So here Jesus was pointing out how this Lord in the parable used this slave’s gaslighting and excuses against him. This Lord reasoned that, since this slave thought his Lord was so “harsh” in the past, even at the time he received his talent, then his fear of his Lord should have caused him to at least try and gather a little interest from the huge sum given to him, by lending it out through the money-lenders. This would have been the easiest thing he could possibly do. Yet this slave would not even take a short walk to the marketplace and hand it over to a reputable lender who would pay him a small percentage of interest. And that would have even been easier than searching for a good Page 1678
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hiding spot and digging a hole to hide his sack of coins. Yet that slave chose to do the more difficult task of finding a hiding place and digging a hole to bury the money, just to spite his Lord. He physically laboured at digging a pit, vengefully buried the silver in it, and carefully covered the pit in a way where no one would suspect that anything had been buried there. He did all this so his Lord would get nothing more than what his Lord gave to him. For this slave was thinking he could slander his returning Lord, in order to make his Lord feel unworthy, so his Lord might then apologize for His nonexistent harshness and try to restore His relationship with that slave, by giving him more gifts and privileges. But his plan backfired, and his Lord saw through his lies. Then the Lord punished the slave for his wicked plot, as well as for his laziness, since that slave was relying on fraud to get what he wanted, instead of doing any honest works. So, in the end, the slave lost everything he ever had.
The very least that any self-centred and lazy non-elect soul can do, while they live in God’s earthly kingdom, and while they must rely on the resources that God’s green earth provides, is hand over whatever good things God grants them, give their excess to the workers who can use those things effectively. And, if they are too lazy to form some kind of business plan and labour to multiply what God gave them, lending it to others is actually even easier than burying their God-given gifts. Then, by lending what God grants them, will benefit themselves as well as everyone else. Yet the non-elect tend to think to themselves, “If I lie, plot, steal and murder, I can gain much more for myself than the others have. Yes, it will destroy everyone and everything around me. And my evil will contribute to the death of the entire earth, together with all the other wicked souls like me. But what do I care? I will gain pleasures for my flesh in the meantime!” Throughout history, we have seen how the wicked think this way, destroying God’s people and lands around them. Rome was a huge gang of very wicked and lazy slaves of God, deluded criminals who went out to gaslight, lie, plunder, enslave and murder, so their loveless carcasses of flesh could gain a few self-indulgent pleasures. Since then, we have seen plenty of other Roman individuals and gangs like them; Facists, Communists, Capitalists and so on. All could just as easily do good for all, but choose to do evil for the sake of personal gain.
Since a talent was a life-time’s wage for an average and unhindered working man, the talents in this parable seem to represent the lives that God gives to each of us. The mature awakened elect receive an equivalent of five lifetimes of fulfilling love and joy; the less mature elect receive at least two; and the non-elect receive one. Then, as the elect serve God according to fervour of their spirits in their hearts, they double the quantity of life, love, wisdom and truth inside their hearts. And, when Jesus returns, as well as on the judgment day, Jesus will let them keep all of the inner life He gave them, as well as all of the additional inner life they built up on earth. Then the mature elect, who had all been persecuted by the non-elect, will also receive whatever gifts of love and joy that God had granted to their non-elect persecutors. But, since the non-elect do nothing with God’s gift of life, since their loveless spirits bury all the love they receive from others in the dirt of their filthy lies, so they can use that life and love as a means of defrauding others for their own personal gain, while they forfeit all the potential joy of labouring for God’s kingdom, Jesus will take away every ounce of that life He gave them on the earth, then cast them into the outer darkness of hell. There they can forever plot evil in endless futility, always frustrated, gnashing their teeth and weeping in self-pity.
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separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
“Then the King will tell those on His right hand, ‘Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry, and you gave Me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave Me drink. I was a stranger, and you took Me in. I was naked, and you clothed Me. I was sick, and you visited Me. I was in prison, and you came to Me.’ Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You; or thirsty, and give You a drink? When did we see You as a stranger, and take You in; or naked, and clothe You? When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.’
“Then He will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and you didn’t give Me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger, and you didn’t take Me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit Me.’
Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help You?’ Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to Me.’ These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” (Mat. 25:31-46, WEB).
There are many hidden elect on this earth, appearing as common sinners, although their spirits had been created with an inherent ability to truly love in a just, God-like way. And our God Jesus called the worst of these sleeping elect sinners, “the least of My brothers.” Also, by the way, when Jesus used the Greek plural noun “brothers” (ἀδελφῶν), in a context including all kinds of people like this, He meant that noun to be gender indefinite, referring to both His male and female siblings. So here Jesus was saying that all with spirits that expressed mercy and compassion towards strangers, whom they did not recognize as their siblings in the human family of God, directly served Him, our God and King. And their esteem for the least of His sibling, together with the serving of those elect in His earthly body, is actually the biblical definition of true worship in the whole sphere of one’s spirit and in truth. The actions of their spirits in their hearts proved that those who served “the least” were true worshippers of God. Therefore, the one Creator of all accepted these as His people, whom He would cherish as His own children. But the spirits lacking mercy and compassion for “the least of these,”
proved themselves to be the enemies of God. Those ruthless ones hated God so much that they did not care if His body suffered hunger, thirst, homelessness, inadequate clothing, sickness and prison.
So it was after Jesus spoke about His second coming, when He would judge all the earth and all the individuals upon it, that He taught about His judgment at the gates of heaven, when He would ascend a second time from the earth, and take all of humanity with Him. At that time, He will judge all the human beings who ever lived on the earth. And Jesus began His description with these words:
“Now whenever the Son of mankind might have gone in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit upon His throne of glory. Even all the groupings of people will be led together before His face and He will divide them from one another, just as the shepherd divides the sheep from the goats.” (Mat. 25:31-33, from: Ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐν τῇ δόξῃ αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντες οἱ
ἄγγελοι μετʼ αὐτοῦ, τότε καθίσει ἐπὶ θρόνου δόξης αὐτοῦ· καὶ συναχθήσονται ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ
πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, καὶ ἀφορίσει αὐτοὺς ἀπʼ ἀλλήλων, ὥσπερ ὁ ποιμὴν ἀφορίζει τὰ πρόβατα ἀπὸ τῶν
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this refers to the judgment day, after the earth ends, when He receive “glory,” the good opinion of all His elect angels and all the living spirits He created for heaven’s lands, especially from His siblings.
Jesus will begin by judging the hearts of all. The elect who were capable of mercy and compassion through the love in their spirits, that is, the elect, will be separated from the ruthless, that is, from the non-elect. Then He will have His angels herd those loveless ones into hell. So the first few minutes of that last day at the gates of heaven will leave only the elect standing on those shores, before the gates. And this is one small aspect of judgment, separating the redeemable from the unredeemable.
But it is easiest part, and the most labour intensive aspect of judging is yet to come. For the biblical kind of judging involves teaching the truth in a way where the redeemable sinners can truly gain a good understanding of the truth, so their spirits might then repent into that truth. Therefore, the real beginning of the judgment day will begin after the hearts of all human beings are judged to be either capable of loving or incapable of loving. And there will be a kind of oneness involving this ability to love, since they shall all be gathered together at the right hand side of our God’s glorified body like sheep, since sheep prefer to gather together with one another, and do not like to be alone for long.
We must also remember that this final judgment day at the gates of heaven began with yet another stage, with almost infinite warnings, public declarations of God’s Law and a sort of pretrial. From the days Adam, when God first created His children with an awareness of good and evil, God had continuously revealed knowledge and wisdom to them, through His natural creations and also by His words spoken to various minds of flesh in those called prophets or seers. He told them all how blessings could be received by following His just and loving ways, as well as how curses would fall upon those who did not practise those ways. All nature wrote truths about good and evil, in every detail and everywhere men looked. But few paid any attention to any of this, and all of them sinned.
Then God Himself came to live an entire lifetime among His creation of human beings, to teach them His ways in words all could comprehend. And His Holy Spirit, which previously spoke only to the ears of flesh, came to dwell in the chambers of human hearts and souls at that time as well. So, for a long season, humankind heard the truth in the languages known by their flesh, as the Messiah’s teachings spread throughout the world. Yet Satan’s world order resisted that truth, and his kingdom murdered even more than it had before. The earth grew worse and better, both at the same time. So, after the people became almost completely dichotomized into those who cherished the truth and those who warred against it, Jesus came to judge those living on earth. His judgment at His second advent cast His enemies from the earth, into the skies of the spiritual realm, into a holding cell. So there they would be forced to await sentencing, after His summary judgment of the relevant facts. In the meantime, His millennial rule on earth would prove that the wicked had no excuse for all of their unjust ways and all the inequities they enforced through their hierarchical societies of superiors ruling over inferiors, with the oppression of their financial and military systems. The equity, justice and love throughout the earth during that millennium would demonstrate that even infantile human spirits can live on earth according to the ways of God. So the earth’s judgment, with its millennium of His rule on earth during the end times, followed by the judgment day at the gates of heaven, will be two consecutive days of one process. Through these two days, Jesus will prove all that needs to be proven, then cast the non-elect into hell, before He will perfect His elect for their eternal home.
Other Scriptures may hint at how His earthly judgment, His millennial rule and the judgment day at heaven’s gates are one process. But it is presented more clearly in the parables found in the 24th and 25th chapters of Matthew’s Gospel. For Jesus told us that all the angels will be with Him when He leaves the earth. And, of course, He is referring to the elect angels who serve Him. So, before those angels can leave the earth with Him, they must have come down into this temporary material earth at Page 1681
some point in time, some in the beginning and some when Jesus returned. For Jesus will surely bring some His angels with Him to the earth, to serve Him when He destroys all the non-elect, as well as in the subsequent teaching and training of all elect survivors during the millennium of His rule on earth. Then these angels will also help Him on the final judgment day as well, basically doing the same tasks. After having witnessed the sins of Satan and his loveless non-elect offspring, those angels will zealously cast those murderers into hell. Then they will enthusiastically work with Jesus as He judges the elect, as He teaches and trains them for heaven. Then Jesus tied both the judgment on earth and the judgment at the gates of heaven together when He said He would leave the earth in
“glory” and go to His heavenly judgment seat “of glory.” Both His earthly judgements and those at the gates of heaven share the same “glory.” And this refers to a biblical kind of glory, involving the good opinion of all His wise and loving beings that He created to dwell in heaven. It is not a Greco-Roman kind of “glory,” not involving self-adulation, ego and glitzy magnificence. Rather, to Jesus, the word “glory” (δόξα) indicated that both judgments would be so just, equitable, right and truly loving that both will receive a good opinion from God and from all just, loving spirits in heaven.
Also, we should not forget that, after Jesus judges the wicked earth with tribulations far worse than anyone had ever experienced since the beginning, and after He has ruled for a thousand years in a peace that restores all good on earth, He will then allow the devil to return for a brief time. Jesus will once more let Satan sow the spirits of his psychopathic children in human bodies on earth once more, in a people living in the lands called Gog and Magog (Rev. 20:7-9; cf., Ezek. 38:1 to 39:29).
So Jesus will grant the non-elect an opportunity to dwell on a fully restored earth, where all are well-fed and all live an abundant life, full of love, peace and joy. Yet, although not one person on earth will lack anything that could possibly be desired by their flesh, and all that is upon the earth will be as perfect as it can be for the flesh, all of those non-elect will want more. So their loveless souls will fashion weapons for themselves, so they can murder and plunder the innocent who have never done them any harm, who have always treated them justly through love. After that, if any might think that the non-elect might be pacified simply by giving them what they want, or possibly redeemed through some kind of behavioural modification in an environment conducive to a more beneficial lifestyle, they will be conclusively proved wrong. Thus, Jesus will demonstrate that He is fully justified in His judgments against the loveless demons and their equally ruthless human children, who all want to be gods bearing the power of life and death over the living creations owned by the real God. And, when all in heaven and on earth realize that the non-elect can never be satisfied, no matter how perfect life is, the power of Jesus Himself will destroy Gog and Magog with plagues, and ultimately with a final consuming fire, representing the spiritual fires of hell. By the time all the non-elect human spirits are cast into hell on the final judgment day, not one living creature will shed a single tear for any of them. All their faces will be forgotten, and their nameless masses will disappear into an eternal void.
So why are all these judgments so integrally joined together, as one process which casts out the non-elect, then completes and perfects all the elect children of the Father? Scriptures tell us that the end-time judgments on earth, with His millennium rule ending in His judgments against Gog and Magog, followed by His judgments on the last day at the gates of heaven, are all necessary to fulfill God’s biblical process of judgment, to ensure that all His elect know that He makes just judgments. For God must prove that the condemned were harbouring evil spiritual motives and intentions, as well as prove them to be unredeemable, incapable of repenting. Then He must prove that the elect are able to love in ways that produce justice and equity, through good motives and intentions, before He can even begin the process of teaching and training their spirits for their full repentance into the truth.
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The time that elect and non-elect spirits spend in bodies of flesh on earth will prove the essence of those spirits. Yes, all will sin, due to the stupid amorality of their brains of flesh. Yet literally all the elect, due to the innate attributes put in their spirits when God created them in His image, will love at least a little, enough to express some mercy and compassion at times through their flesh. All will bear a propensity to do what is right in God’s eyes, and all will do right at various times in their lives. It may be merely giving some water, food, clothing or housing to the needy, through right motives and intentions of heart, because they cannot bear to see their siblings suffer. But the non-elect will have no love in them, and only show mercy and compassion for political reasons, for their own personal gain, through empty and wicked motives and intentions, like purchasing good will.
And let me repeat, a spiritual day with God is as a thousand years (II Peter 3:8). So, the judgment day with our God Jesus will be equivalent to a thousand years. After Jesus takes a moment to justly sentence those He proved to be loveless, and tosses them all into their eternal home of hell, He will spend more personal time with us than we could have ever had on the distracting, interrupting earth, no matter how long we might have lived there. Jesus will take the time to thoroughly complete and perfect us. Together with the awakened elect that had been brought to those gates immediately after their flesh died, and with His myriads of angels, Jesus will walk with us in that blissful land of more real reality, where time flows only as fast as our thoughts, where no external pressures bear down on us. And He will continue to teach and train our spirits in the same way His Holy Spirit did on earth, but without the need for any discipline of the flesh. For our new spiritual bodies will not be amoral, like our flesh is on earth. Our new heavenly bodies will be fully compliant with our elect spirits and with all His laws of heavenly nature. Then all the elect survivors of the millennium, which He brings with Him, as well as all the deceased elect in history, even all who had been sleeping in the skies, will be together as one family. So, when all are purified at the end of that long day, the gates of heaven will open and we will all descend together into the New Jerusalem. And each will live and labour in the eternal lands that our spirits know so well, but could not quite reach while we dwelt in flesh on earth. Finally, we will go home, where we can do the works of joy that will satisfy our souls.
In this parable, when Jesus spoke about the Son of humankind coming in “glory,” He was referring to some time after the thousand years of His rule on earth, when He ascends to the gates of heaven.
When Jesus “might have gone” (ἔλθῃ) from the earth, transfigured into His glorious spiritual body again, and has also granted new spiritual bodies to all who ever lived throughout all history, to all who were raised in the second resurrection and to all who remained alive on earth at the end, the last day outside of heaven will begin. And that judgment day, which will be equivalent to a thousand earthly years, shall be more fruitful for heaven’s purposes than the whole of earthly time. For He must have predestined all this, since the prophecies told us about this thousands of years in advance.
Thus, since God planned and predestined this judgment day for His elect, its purpose is wise and will make sense of all that every elect soul ever experienced upon the earth. All the finishing work that His younger siblings require after their foundations were laid on earth, and after their exteriors were constructed, will be completed to perfection on that day. The temporary scaffolding of the flesh will have been torn down and the interior works shall be carefully crafted, until Jesus can install all the beautiful furnishings and the all the fine-tuned equipment for their eternal occupations in heaven.
If we cast aside all the humanistic false teachings about a Roman-like judgment, and think in terms of a biblical kind of judgment process (where the primary goal of God’s justice is to teach and train sinners who are able to repent), we begin to understand His whole process. We start to see why God predestined the judging the wicked earth during the plagues of the end times, His subsequent stay on earth for a millennium, then His need to take the equivalent of another thousand years to judge His Page 1683
elect at the gates of heaven. To teach all the surviving elect at His second advent, as well as all those He brings with Him at the first resurrection, He will need to prove all the facts about all who have ever lived on earth. And He must do that on the earth, where those realities occurred. Then those of His disciples who learn all this can share this knowledge with the rest during that last day at the gates of heaven. All will learn about the true meaning of His revelations in the Scriptures and in His creations, while they live with Him on the earth for a thousand years. All will grow wiser and more capable of counselling, as they are being trained in the right application of His truths as they serve Him on earth. Then these elect will ascend with Him to assist in His works with all the other elect.
At the gates of heaven, the elect who lived with Jesus during the millennium will meet the loving elect who died throughout history, but did not sleep in the skies, like the lost and carnal elect did.
These elect who stayed awake at the gates, including people like Abraham, the prophets and the disciples, will not be among those whom Jesus took with Him during the first resurrection. Yet they will have been well-taught at those gates, where they had remained awake with Him during the unfolding of history and His millennial rule on earth, until returned to heaven’s gates to begin that judgment day. So, there will be countless well-taught elect souls at those gates on that last day, too many teaching and judging elders to count, and all will have learned His ways of truth, wisdom and love better than anyone on earth ever has in history. So a large body of truly adept elders, all in new spiritual bodies that fully obey their spirits, will be gathered with Jesus at the gates of heaven at the very start of the judgment day. Shortly after this, Jesus will command His angels to gather all the remaining elect and non-elect humans who ever lived on earth, all that He left to sleep in the skies.
Angels will collect all the sleeping souls drifting above the vast heavenly realm and bring them to the gates of heaven. Of course, since Jesus fully knows all their spirits and souls—literally all their inner thoughts, motives and intentions—it will not take long to judge the non-elect. That part of the day will take less than a heavenly minute. Then the rest of that very long heavenly day will be spent teaching and training the awakened lost elect, until all willingly and fervently repent into the truths, wisdom and love of our God Jesus through joyful epiphanies. Our oldest Brother will personally do this teaching and training for each one, as He promised for His New Covenant salvation. However, Jesus will also use qualified agents, the trained elders, to help with His teaching and training, just as He did at His first advent, and just as He does now on earth. And, yes, some agents will also be His angels. Yet angels do not truly know what human elect spirits, who were all created in God’s image, actually think and feel. Angels do not know what it is like to live on earth in vulnerable flesh, among both good and evil, among both beauty and horror, feeling both love and hate. Only Jesus and other humans can know what a human heart experiences here. So, during that very long judgment day, the principal agents Jesus will use for the purpose of teaching and training the sleeping elect, gathered from all history, will be His awakened elect, all whom He taught and trained during His millennium on earth and throughout history at heaven’s gate. For some of those elect had been waiting and learning at heaven’s gate for hundreds or even thousands of earthly years. Then some of these will have gone with Jesus to the earth during the first resurrection, and were educated both at heaven’s gate and during the millennium on earth, to serve as the elders of thousands Jesus on that last day.
In this parable (Mat. 25:31-46), Jesus then provided a brief outline of the introductory speech He will give to that massive gathering of all human souls who ever lived on earth, after all the sheep and goats have been separated. And, just as our spirits now hear His Holy Spirit personally speaking to our spirits, instantly revealing complex concepts in a way that is impossible to do with any language of the flesh, Jesus will tell each one exactly why He placed that one either at His right side or at His wrong side. He will instantly reveal His reasons for causing each one to stand where that one is left Page 1684
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standing, and even provide hard evidence to prove His choices, with very specific examples of each one’s love or each one’s lovelessness. In an instant, their minds of their spirits will recall all they had done, and why. No matter how much all might have been confused by lying rhetoric on earth, all will know who they truly are at that moment, since all their spirits already knew this truth while they had lived on earth, whether their spirits admitted it or not. But, for the sake of brevity, those specifics are generalized in this parable. Nevertheless, we should understand that our God Jesus knows our spirits in our hearts, whether or not a spirit possesses the potential to truly love in a just and God-like way.
Some of the elect on the right side of Jesus will not know why He put them there, since they were such horrible sinners while they lived on earth. Yet He will tell them: “Come, those praised of My Father. Inherit a kingdom having been prepared and now standing ready for you from the foundation of the world. For I hungered and you people gave food to Me, I thirsted and you people gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you people gave Me hospitality [i.e., in those day, this included companionship and the needs of the flesh], inadequately dressed and you people clothed Me, weakened and you people relieved Me, I was in a [spiritual or physical] prison and you people came to Me” (Mat. 25:34-36, from: Δεῦτε, οἱ εὐλογημένοι τοῦ πατρός μου, κληρονομήσατε τὴν ἡτοιμασμένην ὑμῖν βασιλείαν ἀπὸ
καταβολῆς κόσμου. ἐπείνασα γὰρ καὶ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν, ἐδίψησα καὶ ἐποτίσατέ με, ξένος ἤμην
καὶ συνηγάγετέ με, γυμνὸς καὶ περιεβάλετέ με, ἠσθένησα καὶ ἐπεσκέψασθέ με, ἐν φυλακῇ ἤμην καὶ
ἤλθατε πρός με, SBLGNT). So here we see that Jesus did not choose these souls because they were so outwardly righteous, nor because they took sacraments, nor because they recited a creed or prayer, nor for any other reasons that churches now associate with salvation. Jesus did not judge them by adding up their good merits and subtracting bad merits for their sins. Rather, our heavenly Father praised them, and Jesus chose them for heaven, solely because their spirits innately desired to love and serve Jesus, then put those desires into action at least one time during their lives, through the right inner motives and intentions of their spirits. The elect are the elect solely because they can love.
This welcome into eternal heaven will surprise many elect, since they did not consider themselves to be Christians. Most ignored or even despised most churches, especially humanistic fake churches.
But the almighty God Jesus shall also condemn those churches as well. So Jesus did not choose any of them for any of the hypocritical political, financial, selfish reasons that fake churches choose their gullible members. Jesus chose them for His own reasons, then called those sinners “the righteous”
(οἱ δίκαιοι), according to the will of the Father. And, when these elect saw Jesus, they knew He was
“the real thing,” the One whom their spirits had searched for all their lives, before they eagerly followed the angels to His right side. Yet none remembered seeing Jesus during their lives on earth, although His Spirit spoke to their spirits all their lives. “Then the righteous will be responding to Him, saying: ‘Lord, when did we see You hungering and feed [You], or thirsting and give drink?
Also, when did we see You, a Stranger, and provide hospitality, or inadequately clothes and clothe
[You]? Or when did we see you weakened or imprisoned and we came to You?” (Mat. 25:37-39, from: τότε ἀποκριθήσονται αὐτῷ οἱ δίκαιοι λέγοντες· Κύριε, πότε σε εἴδομεν πεινῶντα καὶ
ἐθρέψαμεν, ἢ διψῶντα καὶ ἐποτίσαμεν; πότε δέ σε εἴδομεν ξένον καὶ συνηγάγομεν, ἢ γυμνὸν καὶ
περιεβάλομεν; πότε δέ σε εἴδομεν ἀσθενοῦντα ἢ ἐν φυλακῇ καὶ ἤλθομεν πρός σε;, SBLGNT).
Yes, all these elect, acting spontaneously through the wills of their spirits, through pure motives and intentions, did indeed give food, drink, clothing, shelter, and compassionate hospitality to at least some immigrants, strangers and the needy. All had offered comfort, provisions and help to at least some of the infirmed and disabled, or to at least some of those locked in physical, mental or spiritual prisons. And all did these things through the love sparked within their spirits. Also, all those whom their love served were also standing somewhere here, at the gates of heaven, near them, either to the Page 1685
right or left of Jesus. Yet none of those were Jesus, whom they now clearly saw standing in front of them. Yet Jesus’ Spirit certainly was there every time their love served someone, beside or even inside those whom they served, as well as inside those loving elect during every moment of their lives. And Jesus was also the voice rebuking and correcting those elect while they were sinning.
So, at that moment, Jesus will open their eyes to see His Spirit standing in each place where they did those good works on earth, through the love of their spirits. Then He will tell them, “Most certainly I reason with you, according to whatever you people did for any of the least of My siblings, you did for Me” (Mat. 25:40, from: Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐφʼ ὅσον ἐποιήσατε ἑνὶ τούτων τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου τῶν
ἐλαχίστων, ἐμοὶ ἐποιήσατε., SBLGNT). And notice how Jesus chose them because of “whatever
[they] did for any of the least of My siblings” (ὅσον ἐποιήσατε ἑνὶ τούτων τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου τῶν
ἐλαχίστων). So He will not choose them for the large number of good works they did, but even for a single “whatever” they did. And He will not choose anyone for doing good works for all, but merely for “any” of His elect siblings in the family of God. Nor will He choose any because their fictitious
“free will” chose Him, but only because their spirits loved some few people sometimes. All of the elect, all who belong to any religion, creed, class, race, gender or other worldly condition of the flesh, are the brothers and sisters of Jesus. All belong to one and the same family of God. All elect spirits are the children born of the same Father, created in His image. And Jesus’ love for all will empathize with all, will feel every good or bad thing done to any one of us, even all done to or for those considered to be the “least” in the eyes of Satan’s world order. After all, even the most sinful and “least” in the eyes of God, while they live in the flesh on this earth, has been predestined to be perfected and completed on the judgment day, together with literally all the other elect. All become spiritual jewels in heaven, worth more than can be expressed in earthly words. Therefore, even now, while they live on earth, each is seen for all of one’s future potential, not for what one is in the flesh.
Meanwhile, the angels will have forcefully herded the non-elect to the left side of Jesus, the place nearest to the pit of hell. There they will all push and shove one another like goats, bleating protests to the angels like, “I will stand where I want to stand!” or “How dare you treat me like this! Do you know who I am?” and “I am not going to stand next to a low life like that!” Then Jesus will utter His final words to them: “Go away from Me, those having been cursed and remaining damned, into the eternal fire having been prepared for the devil and his angels, and is now where they dwell as a result. For I hungered and you people did not give food to Me; I thirsted and you people did not give Me drink; I was a stranger and and you people did not give Me hospitality, inadequately clothed and you people did not clothe Me, weakened and in prison, yet you people did not visit Me” (Mat. 25:41-43, from: Πορεύεσθε ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ οἱ κατηραμένοι εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον τὸ ἡτοιμασμένον τῷ διαβόλῳ
καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις αὐτοῦ. ἐπείνασα γὰρ καὶ οὐκ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν, ἐδίψησα καὶ οὐκ ἐποτίσατέ με, ξένος ἤμην καὶ οὐ συνηγάγετέ με, γυμνὸς καὶ οὐ περιεβάλετέ με, ἀσθενὴς καὶ ἐν φυλακῇ καὶ οὐκ
ἐπεσκέψασθέ με, SBLGNT). Again, notice that Jesus did not condemn these cursed non-elect for their many sins. Instead, Jesus only condemned the source or root cause of all their sins. For the reason they sinned so much was because they were loveless, because their spirits did not cherish the lives of their siblings in humankind—nor even any plant, animal or angelic spirit in God’s creation.
This is the curse for Satan and the fallen angels who follow him, for all spirits created without the attribute of love. For all in God’s kingdom revolves around God-like love, and the main attribute of God’s Spirit is love. And, by the term “love,” the Scriptures do not mean emotions of the flesh, but spiritual compulsion. Thus, all spirits that lack any potential to grow this inwardly compelling love in them will be cast out of His eternal kingdom’s vast homelands, into another spiritual realm where their lovelessness can no longer harm anyone or anything good. Now we know that God let the devil Page 1686
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create human spirits in his own loveless image, and scatter them on the earth. And, since literally all good morals and laws are based on the principles of love for God and love for others, the non-elect human children of Satan were all inwardly lawless, and lacked an inner conscience, had no laws of God written upon the minds of their spirits. Thus, all the non-elect lied and sinned against the loving ways of God. None did anything in their entire lives through any kind of love from their spirits. And all knew they were evil, even while they lived on earth, but did consider evil to be undesirable. Yet most non-elect, while on their way to eternal hell, will be dumbfounded by Jesus’ harsh accusations.
Even as they stand in the exposing light of God at those gates in that spiritual land, those non-elect will be shocked that our God Jesus accused them of doing nothing for Him. For many of them gave money to churches who proclaimed His name, so their names would be respected and esteemed. And many ensured that they only sinned against human beings, not against God Himself, lest God might curse them and take away their money and power. In fact, some of them even ensured that they would only torture and murder other obvious criminals, not the innocent, although did oppress and destroy the innocent for financial gain (but that was only business, nothing personal). Thus, many of those non-elect could not understand why Jesus was sending them to hell, just because they did not do the listed loving works for Him. For they too had never seen this Jesus among them on the earth.
Many of the religious non-elect will even consider themselves to be very good law-abiding souls, leaders in their churches. And these will be the most surprised that the loving Jesus will say that they did not serve Him, or that their lack of service to Him has anything to do with their salvation. For those church-goers believed Jesus was God, and openly confessed His name, even though they did treat God like a vending machine who enforced arbitrary rules. So, since their flesh did not break His rules in public, and did not commit adultery, and even enjoyed bullying and murdering adulterers and other “sinners,” they believed they had surely earned a little real estate in heaven. For, by their own calculations, they had a positive balance of “legal” credits, after adding up their good merits accumulated through grudging physical obedience to His ordinances, then subtracted the minor little bad merits earned by deliberately breaking some of God’s lesser interfering precepts. Not counting the insignificant sins they committed through loopholes they diligently found in God’s laws, which God could not legally hold against them, they were some of the best citizens in all of Satan’s world order, outstanding contributing members. So, based on their own calculations, they deserved eternity in a physical, earth-like paradise. Of course, some religious non-elect hated this merit system. So they will invent a different system to justify themselves, and commanded God to obey it and grant them their fair share of rewards. But all of these religious non-elect will basically imagine that heaven consists of unbridled physical pleasures which can be obtained through forensic means, like studiously performing the right sacraments in the right ways, or by allowing a professional salvation expert to lead them through a “Sinner’s Pray.” Since the Bible said heaven could not be earned by good works, most will assume that a ticket into heaven is gained by legal rites performed by them.
Now, naturally, not all the lawless non-elect human gods will be religious Christians or Jews. Like the elect, many non-elect will belong to other religions, and a minority will claim to be various kinds of atheists or agnostics as well. And demonic spirits will have even convinced some of their spirits to continuously lie to their minds of flesh, to tell their flesh that there is no evidence to prove the existence of God or any other eternal spirits, so they can free their flesh to live entirely for its its own lusts. And, while on earth, those whimpering liars, who were all slaves of demon lords, took great pride in this obviously unscientific, irrational kind of thinking, calling themselves the only truly scientific and rational thinkers on earth. Then they set out to persecute true scientists and truly rational souls. So literally none of those wanna-be gods had ever even imagined they would be Page 1687
condemned for lack love. To them, love for God or for others, or any concern and care expressed through their bodies of flesh, was only a delusion, and only useful to maintain pragmatic social cooperation, but otherwise impractical and a waste of time. So, when they meet God on that day at heaven’s gate, their spirits—which actually knew they and God’s Spirit existed all along—will still maintain the lie that they are gods who are far more scientific and rational than He who designed, created and maintained all spiritual and physical existence. And, when Jesus sentences them to hell, they will all say to themselves, “Typical! This stupid God judges irrationally and unjustly! If only He would bow before me, my genius could make this heaven into a truly efficient and profitable place.”
So, in this summary of Christ’s reasons for sending the loveless to hell, we begin to realize that many of the theological teachings of the religious non-elect, including their concepts of salvation and heaven, are wrong. For the only reason Jesus will send them to hell is because they did not love. And here, nor anywhere else in the Scriptures, salvation into heaven is entirely defined by love. God’s Word never allows salvation by any other criteria. God always defines salvation as His work, not a work of man, and tells us that His work of salvation writes His Law upon our hearts, then defines His Law as love for Him and our neighbours. So, by God’s definition of salvation, there really is no substantive difference between the atheistic and religious non-elect. On top of all this, we can assume that both the atheistic and religious non-elect would definitely have bowed and scraped the floor with their filthy carcasses if they, while on earth, saw Jesus appear before them in the same bright, warm, magnificent visage He will bear on that judgment day. Upon recognizing Him, all would help Him in any way they could, either to earn a place in a false perception of heaven that each imagined in one’s own wicked heart, or through a fear that He might destroy their flesh for any kind of disobedience. Yet none would do anything for Him to earn a chance to enter the real heaven, only a non-existing and very self-indulgent kind of heaven invented by their minds of flesh. Nor would any do anything for Jesus if He came disguised as a poor man, or immigrant. And this is why Jesus had never came openly to them, to ask them to do anything for Him, lest they would do it based on a lie they convinced themselves to believe. This is why Jesus hid in or behind His elect.
Our God Jesus never tricks anyone into doing anything based on a false promise of a false heaven, and He also made the real heaven a place that can never be earned. Heaven is simply where loving spirits dwell together in an abundant life of continuously building up love and inner growth. And all those loving spirits were created by Him with inherent attributes of love, which He then shaped. So it is for a good reason that Jesus never openly manifests Himself to any of them. He never wants their loveless souls to serve Him under false pretenses. All that Jesus ever demands from the non-elect is to allow His elect children to serve Him. And, if they do this, He will not punish their flesh.
Our God Jesus has always granted both His elect and the non-elect all that their flesh needs for a comfortable life on earth. His rain and sunshine on earth provides all they require for a cooperative and lawfully enjoyable life of the flesh. Still, the non-elect want more, and want to be gods who rule over life and death, so they refuse to leave the elect alone, and do not live harmless existences on earth, under the fear of laws that are beneficial for all. And, even if the elect forced the non-elect to be lawful, those loveless non-elect would still go to hell. For all loveless souls would hate to spend even a few moments in the real heaven, since life in God’s homeland involves constant labours of love, and builds upon the purest realities or truths. Since all non-elect spirits do works only through their spirits’ selfish impulses, and hate any truths that expose or nullify their personally preferred lies and delusions, they would all find the real heaven to be far worse than their home in hell. All the non-elect want to do is destroy places that do God’s will, including places like heaven, since all of them want to be gods and think that, if they cannot be the gods of something, it must be destroyed.
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“But,” some might reason, “even the worst psychopathic popes, preachers, Nazis, Islamic terrorists and religious despots want to go to heaven. Therefore, God is cruel and unjust to throw anyone into hell for all eternity!” I repeat again, not one non-elect spirit has ever wanted to go to God’s real heaven, and none ever will! The non-elect are thoroughly deluded, and many religious ones imagine heaven to be a place where all the creatures of heaven, including God Himself, will serve them. But not one non-elect spirit has ever wanted to spend eternity in a place where he or she can lovingly serve all the living spiritual creatures of heaven, in the same loving, just way that God does. So the non-elect heart with religious delusions may want to go to a particular kind of fictional heaven, one that has been dreamed up in one’s own imagination. Then some non-religious non-elect may delude themselves into thinking their spirits will end with their flesh, and they will not need to face any kind of eternal existence after their earthly lives of financially, sexually and emotionally pillaging and exploiting their siblings in humankind and the rest of God’s creations. Nevertheless, although most of their spirits never take the time to admit it, all their spirits know they are eternal creations made of a substance that cannot cease to exist, and they will indeed spend eternity somewhere. And all the non-elect know their eternal home will be dark and empty, void of all the Creator’s good creations, including all His spiritual light of truth. They inwardly know their only possible eternal home is hell.
After all humans shed their material perceptions of earthly flesh, and all become living spirits in bodies made of spiritual substances, Jesus will permit all the non-elect to keep the darkness of lies and delusions which they created and highly cherished on earth. Since their loveless spirits spent so very much time and effort in building, guarding and nurturing those lies and delusions, they will be the only rewards they will receive. And some lies and delusions will be concepts of fake heavens, dreamed up by the religious non-elect. Thus, those religious non-elect will be very offended by Jesus when He sentences them to eternal hell, especially the deceased popes and pastors from humanistic mainline and evangelical churches. Those will not repent, however. Instead, they will be puzzled, wondering how their brilliant, god-like minds could have possibly omitted some kind of technical detail from their extensive systematic theological works regarding the way in which salvation can be earned from their imagined, tiny, insignificant, subservient, creator god whom they thought they had controlled and commanded with their god-like superiority. Thus, they will certainly be offended and very defensive when they see the real Jesus herding them into the same pen with the worst of all the other criminal sinners. Instead of repenting into the truth, they will be rebuking and trying to correct the errors of Jesus, whom they will forever consider to be an evil, “communist,” unjust, stupid God.
Now those liars all thought, in their own dishonest minds, that salvation was indeed through works of the flesh, such as sacraments or “Sinner’s Prayers” performed by wills of the flesh. And they all knew that Plato and Aristotle could not possibly be wrong, because they proved, beyond a shadow of doubt in their biased minds, that everything Jesus said was wrong. So they still will not quite grasp what little technical error Jesus was citing as the reason for sending them to hell. It had something to do with works done by the flesh, just as they suspected! But here Jesus accused them of ignoring His own suffering in the flesh. Yet they knew they had never seen any weak, wimpy little blond-haired, lamb-like, gullible male in glowing white clothing with a shining halo above his head, who needed food, water, clothing or anything else from them. Nor had they seen a middle eastern type of a man in need, one who looked like this Man claiming to be the real Jesus. But, if they ever did, they they surely would have helped such a great Man. So, like defence lawyers, they will ask Jesus: “Lord, when did we see You hungering or thirsting or a stranger or inadequately clothed or weakened or in prison, and did not do works of service for You?” (Mat. 25:44, from: Κύριε, πότε σε εἴδομεν
πεινῶντα ἢ διψῶντα ἢ ξένον ἢ γυμνὸν ἢ ἀσθενῆ ἢ ἐν φυλακῇ καὶ οὐ διηκονήσαμέν σοι;, SBLGNT).
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“Then He will respond to them, carefully choosing His words: ‘Most certainly I reason with you, according to what you people did not do for any of the least of these, you did not do for Me” (Mat.
25:45, from: τότε ἀποκριθήσεται αὐτοῖς λέγων· Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐφʼ ὅσον οὐκ ἐποιήσατε ἑνὶ
τούτων τῶν ἐλαχίστων, οὐδὲ ἐμοὶ ἐποιήσατε, SBLGNT). But this will not begin to convince them.
All those religious exploiters will do, when they hear this, is turn this just accusation against their just Judge. They will simply think their sly Accuser is deviously claiming that they did not alleviate His suffering by proxy, that they “supposedly” did not help Him when they did not help His needy representatives. And they will justify themselves by declaring that it was impossible to know that their unjust cruelty, which was absolutely necessary to save the financial stability of their “holy”
churches and their lucrative positions within them, made victims of those agents sent by this Judge.
So they were completely innocent. Even after exposing their crimes, they will not know what Jesus meant, and continue to justify their selfish ambitions which trampled the poor and the righteous. For most will believe the Platonic doctrines of “free will,” and blame the poor for their poverty in the rigged economic systems they built, in the terrorizing and fear-mongering societies they built to benefit only the elite in their artificial hierarchies. And even the humanistic Calvinists among them will believe in the worship of human gods above God. None will confess that God alone shapes the inherently loving spirits of His own children, born in His image, through His training ground of life on earth. So none will truly understand that the Creator lives through His elect children, suffers in their sufferings, closely melds with their hearts and souls enough to be one with them. None of the non-elect will realize that all they did to or did for God’s elect is also done to or for God Himself.
Consequently, here we also find out why God hides Himself from the non-elect, although He merely covers Himself with a very thin and quite transparent fog, since it does not take much for Him to not be noticed by those who are never looking for Him. Although nature itself, all the vastness of the material continuum, and especially His complex genius of biological life, blatantly exposes the very mind and face of God, these offspring of that worst liar and murderer almost never see God, since their eyes are blinded with a thick veil of selfishness, designed to filter out the light of humble love and truth shining from every pore of their Creator. Although they all saw the love and hate from the spirits of humans, angels, animals and plants, they let their father, the devil, confuse the minds of their spirits, until they denied all that they plainly saw with their own inner eyes. Thus, they were not able to piece together this evidence, not even with the skill of a two-year-old child, never enough to reason through the eternal principles of justice revealed by the Creator’s Spirit. With all this truth surrounding them, God granted their enslaved spirits the “freedom” to delude themselves, enough to actually believe that God and all his creations bowed to their wills, although these almighty human gods obviously were enslaved by demons and other human deluders, and were even forced to bow to all the petty demands of their own sexual parts, stomachs and other organs of their worshipped flesh.
Those non-elect never wanted the real God, nor any of the multiple kinds of light found in every corner of His creations. Thus, God had to create a tiny part of the eternal spiritual realm specifically built for their loveless spirits, a place lacking any exposing light. And all those non-elect human and angelic spirits will prefer to dwell there forever, since they will never want to abandon their loveless lies. All they will ever desire are the fictional worlds they created for themselves, artificial kingdoms where all functions according to their own wills, built with ethereal bricks of each non-elect spirit’s own beloved lies and delusions. Only these non-existing, personally designed, inner kingdoms can ever be “loved” by them, in a way which they serve with sacrifice and passion. Yet each one’s own self-contradicting world will forever clash with every other non-elect soul’s fake world. Thus, God cannot put even one grain of His created reality in hell. Otherwise each would eternally war against Page 1690
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all the others, striving to “own” that grain of reality for oneself, claiming the right of a high god to rule over it, forcing all others to worship oneself. Thus, their eternal home cannot contain even one speck of reality made by God. Hell must be utterly empty, so each non-elect soul can forever serve one’s own world of lies and delusions without competition, yet without ever succeeding in any of one’s own efforts, since no self-created kingdom can have a foundation of any reality to stand upon.
Thus, all the non-elect will imagine themselves to the gods of their own worlds in hell, with not one ray of light to expose and destroy those lies and delusions. Yet none will ever be able to own a single real thing to rule over, nothing to exploit and abuse, nothing to make themselves feel like gods. So the frustration of never being able to accomplish one’s own will shall cause the eternal weeping and gnashing of their teeth. Then, since hell is a place of nothing, it will actually be very small, a tiny droplet in God’s infinitely vast home of the spiritual realm. But, as a floating sphere, spinning perpetually, it will be bottomless, where each insignificantly tiny non-elect spirit can flee to its centre, forever striving to escape from the hated light of the bright heavens surrounding it. This will be God’s mercy for the non-elect, granting them their beloved lies in a tiny hell, since they are small vacuums requiring no space for their imaginary kingdoms with literally nothing substantial in them.
“And these will go off into eternal retribution, yet the equitably just into eternal life” (Mat. 25:46, from: καὶ ἀπελεύσονται οὗτοι εἰς κόλασιν αἰώνιον, οἱ δὲ δίκαιοι εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον, SBLGNT). On that final day, standing at the gates of the two eternal homelands, both the non-elect and the elect will see one another for the last time. The inner natures of all will be exposed, and each will very clearly see the core spiritual attributes of all the others, all the propensities belonging to all who ever lived on the earth throughout history. With unhindered minds of their spirits, quickened into spiritual bodies, all will instantly see and fully assess the billions of other human souls gathered there, with an unimaginable processing speed that can only be achieved by spirits. Each will truly know literally all who ever dwelt in human flesh. To the left of Jesus, the dark and grimy colours and shapes of spirits will be far more ugly and disgusting than they seemed to be on earth, starkly contrasting against the natural beauty found at heaven’s gates. All of the infinitely more solid and gleaming realities of the spiritual realm will enable elect spirits to make a perfectly just and accurate assessments of the non-elect standing on the other side, and any previous delusions they ever had, regarding those loveless souls, will vanish from their minds. Then the non-elect, even many who thought they owned some of the elect, will see their former “properties” shining in tall, upright bodies robed in priestly white garments of loving righteousness, while they remain in the filthy spiritual rags each wove for oneself on earth. So the non-elect will stare in hate-filled disgust at the elect, and at one another. But that will be a healing moment for many elect, a full realization that their covenants of love offered to some of those non-elect could have never been ratified, as they once hoped, since those non-elect were incapable of building any kind of love on a foundation of real truth. And the elect will realize, as they joyfully peer around them, that it is now possible to build true and eternal love covenants with Jesus and these myriads of other truly elect souls around them. So the elect will turn away from the bleating non-elect falling into the gates of hell, to carry on the works of building abundant life.
After only a few moments at those gates, the non-elect will forever depart from the elect, without a single tear shed by the elect. But, once the non-elect have been herded into hell, that day will have only begun, for the elect. For the elect will be taught and trained until their light shines as brightly as their oldest Brother. Then, at the end of the day, all shall descend from the gates into their eternal and true homes, where all will forever serve the beloved creatures of heaven’s lands beside their Brother and Father. For infinite ages, all will grow abundant love and life, full of joy in their effective works.
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The Gospel Participants
“When Jesus had finished all these words, He said to His disciples, ‘You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.’
“Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill Him. But they said, ‘Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.’
“Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to Him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table. But when His disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, ‘Why this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.’
“However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, ‘Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for Me. For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have Me. For in pouring this ointment on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial. Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her’” (Mat. 26:1-13, WEB).
When the Creator God came to us in a body of earthly flesh, as our Brother, He knew His mission was not to only teach and train His younger siblings, as He was doing for all the elect since Adam.
For now His sinless body had to suffer and die for the sins of all His elect siblings, in order to silence their accusers on the judgment day, and to remove the worst Accuser’s right to enslave them, in that devil’s unjust world order. Because Jesus’ flesh was sinless and not worthy of death, He was able to sacrifice His body on behalf of as many as He named, and He named every elect soul that ever lived or would live. He chose to die for the entire lifetimes of sins committed by all the elect in history, and could do this because one death paid the demanded price for an unlimited number of sins. And, by the end of the judgment day, literally all the elect will repent into the truth, away from all their lies, delusions and other sins, so all could receive Jesus’ vicarious payment made in their names, with a right to be completely forgiven and gain a total restoration of their relationship with God.
Jesus also rose from the dead, so His Holy Spirit could teach and train the spirits of repentant elect sinners, even in a more personal, inward and effective way than He had ever done before, since His death removed walls against sinners and tore down the curtain separating them from their holy God.
This is the Gospel of the prophesied New Covenant salvation by the Messiah, which the ceremonial laws of the Old Covenant pointed to and foretold. Then, in this chapter (26), Matthew named the principal kinds of agents involved in the Messiah’s saving works: (1) His current disciples, those who partook in the Passover feast which prophesied and celebrated Israel’s deliverance from slavery to lies, delusions, sins and sinners; (2) the proponents of false religion, whom Satan appointed to trap the elect in slavery throughout history, whom Jesus used to cause the death of His flesh; and (3) one woman, who represented all His future disciples in all history, even all the sleeping elect whom He has not yet brought into His priesthood of Israel, but will enter His heavenly New Covenant church, all who do good works solely because He eternally buried all their sins in His tomb before He rose from the dead on the third day. All these partook in His Gospel works, and still do them to this day.
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The Works of His Current Disciples
Because Matthew’s Gospel had already revealed enough information about Jesus’ fallible disciples, this scribe now focused solely on what Jesus said to them: “You [disciples] know that in about two days the Passover occurs, and the Son of mankind is being handed over, in order to have been crucified” (Mat. 26:2, from: Οἴδατε ὅτι μετὰ δύο ἡμέρας τὸ πάσχα γίνεται, καὶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
παραδίδοται εἰς τὸ σταυρωθῆναι, SBLGNT). On the surface, this does not seem as though Jesus was saying much of anything profound. However, His intent was to have His Jewish disciples think about the Passover and the timing of the days in which His ministry coincided with it, to realize how the Passover symbolized and prophesied about His crucifixion for them. Of course, it is difficult for Gentiles to pick up on the meaning of His exhortation here. But, after a lifetime of experiencing an orderly practice of God’s Passover Seder, His Jewish disciples knew He was asking them to more fully comprehend the way in which the timing and execution of His works for the salvation of God’s elect children related to the Passover celebration. And we can assume they did this, in a correct, wise and very fruitful way. Now Jesus also wants His disciples to do the same today, for their own good.
Jesus likely said this to His disciples on a Tuesday evening, not long before sunset. And the Passover Seder would begin just after sunset on Thursday, since the Jewish Friday of the 14th of Nisan would begin after sunset (i.e., biblical Jewish days begin at sunset, not at midnight). That Thursday seems to have been May 6, AD 28, that is, if we project our current Gregorian calendar all the way back to that day. So the Jewish Friday started at sunset on Thursday and ended at sunset the next day. And it was this Jewish Friday, not a Roman Friday, which witnessed the most important event that had ever happened or ever will happen, the world’s most beneficial event for humankind since the creation. It is our most cherished day for all eternity. Just an hour before Friday’s sunset, Jesus’ body died on a cross to purchase His New Covenant salvation for literally all of God’s elect children in all history.
After three years of being taught by Jesus, His twelve core Jewish disciples began to grasp the magnitude of that approaching day. All knew, by heart, the orderly presentation of the Passover Seder, with its readings from Scripture, prayers and symbolic foods, like the sacrificed lamb, three loaves of unleavened bread and its other elements. So, when Jesus said He was “being handed over in order to have been crucified,” which would occur on the first day of the Passover, they realized He was telling them how He was going to fulfill the prophecies of God’s Passover laws, and that this present time, just a few days before that deliverance from slavery to lies and sins, was the beginning of a long and sacred era in the spiritual history of the world, the beginning of all future months in all history (Ex. 12:2), the first of the last days. Jesus is the reality of the symbolic Passover’s sacrificial lamb, who came to Jerusalem on the 10th of Nisan (Abib), where He dwelt for three days, so He may then nourish, strengthen and deliver the world’s family of elect from God’s just wrath against sins, as the Saviour for all the elect who ever lived or would live. The works of Jesus during the salvation week occurred in this order, on these days (but remember that the dates from our Gregorian calendar, regarding this week of Christ’s crucifixion, require adjustments that are not always made correctly):
• Monday, 10th of Nisan, Mat. 21:1-17: Jesus made His triumphal entrance into the temple on this day (May 3rd in AD 28, on our Gregorian calendar), in the morning, before that day ended at sunset. And, in the Passover laws, God commanded: “Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month [called Nisan/Abib], they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’
houses, a lamb for a household; and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
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Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening’” (Ex.
12:3-6, WEB). On this 10th of Nisan, Jesus came to the symbolic earthly home of all God’s elect children who ever lived on earth and ever will live here. That is, He came to Jerusalem, to the earthly city representing the real eternal Jerusalem of heaven, the home of all the elect after they die. And He remained there, as their Passover Lamb, until the 14th day of the month. Then He, sinless and without moral defect among both the sheep and goats in that earthly city, was sacrificially slaughtered in public, even before “the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.” Now the symbolic
Passover animal sacrifice had to be slaughter on the 13th of Nisan, before the 14th day began at sunset, in order to allow time to skin it and prepare the meat inside their homes for the Passover meal, the supper symbolizing their deliverance from slavery to sin and sinners. Yet Jesus was killed before sunset on the 14th day. Yet there is no contradiction here, since God’s Law said “you shall keep it until the fourteenth day,”
not until the 13th day. Jesus needed to die on the 14th day, as will be discussed below.
• Tuesday, 11th of Nisan, Mat. 21:18 to 26:5: Jesus taught His disciples on this day (from sunset on May 3rd until sunset on May 4th). Then He ended that day by making the statement quoted above (Mat. 26:2), in which He exhorted His disciples to ponder and comprehend the significance of the Passover, as a prophecy of His saving works.
• Wednesday, 12th of Nisan, Mat. 26:6-16: After the sun set, this day (from sunset on May 4th until sunset on May 5th) began with an event that, when interpreted according to the parable Jesus had just taught (Mat. 25:31-46), indicated how the sleeping elect of the future would serve Him and would be saved by Him. For, in the evening, at the very beginning of the Jewish Wednesday, Mary poured costly perfume on Jesus’ head and feet, to prepare Him for burial. That is, she did a good work for Jesus, one that indicated how she received His death on the cross for her own forgiveness and for her eternal salvation. And she did this deed straight from the spirit in her heart, without any conscious knowledge of His death and its spiritual implications. On the other hand, later in the same day, likely during the daylight hours, before this day ended at sunset, a non-elect false disciple also did an evil deed straight from his heart. Judas Iscariot made his plans to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver that day. Meanwhile, Jesus continued to teach His true disciples on this day, until the day His body died.
• Thursday, 13th of Nisan, Mat. 26:17-19: On this day (sunset on May 5th until sunset on May 6th), Jesus and His disciples made their preparations for the Passover meal.
• Friday, 14th of Nisan, Mat. 26:20 to Mat. 27:66: After sunset, this first day of the Passover week began (sunset on May 6th until sunset on May 7th). During the first part of that day, after the sunset, Jesus shared the Passover meal with His disciples. Then, before next sunset ended that day, the flesh of Jesus died on a cross, and His disciples hastily carried His body into a nearby tomb. This day was also a “preparation day,”
the day in which Jews prepared for the Saturday Sabbath, before it began at sunset.
• Saturday, 15th of Nisan: This particular Sabbath (from sundown on May 7th to sundown on May 8th), was a more holy Sabbath, because it occurred during the
Passover week. So no devout Jew would dare to do any work nor travel on this day.