the purest, most consistent and most valuable of revelations from God. But there are also many other truths from God revealed throughout history, all around the world. His elect have received spiritual bits and pieces of God’s physical and spiritual truths everywhere on earth, then acted upon them or even wrote them down. And all His revelations to human beings are always consistent, effective and entirely harmonious. Nevertheless, the minds of flesh in most humans will silence their own spirits, and this is usually because their flesh becomes obsessed with the pursuit of its own needs and wants, then ignores the needs of their spirits. Furthermore, most of those perceived needs of their flesh are unreal, merely delusions. Most falsely perceive certain things to be “needs” of their flesh solely because liars told their minds of flesh that they “needed” those things. Liars control the flesh and suppress the spirits of the people for selfish purposes, by convincing them that they “need” money, status and other things of Satan’s world order. So humans, but not any other living creatures, make evil laws for themselves, sometimes laws designed by demonic spirits who hate God. Only humans will follow and enforce evil laws that destroy the lives of even their own siblings in humankind, as well as other life, in senseless and deluded ways which oppose the loving, just will of their Creator.
Only human beings can do evil, can have malignant and murderous motives and intentions in their spirits, either by willingly complying with evil precepts or by ignoring and refusing to oppose evil.
And most of those evil motives, intentions and deeds arise in them through language, through lies.
Considering all this, look at how the Roman humanists reacted to our God Jesus on that day long ago: “Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus from [the rogue council] into the Praetorium.
They gathered the whole cohort to Him [i.e., a cohort was about 480 men, which would be most of the soldiers stationed at the barracks in the palace grounds next to Pilate’s residence]. And, after disrobing Him, they put a scarlet military robe on Him. After braiding a wreath out of thorns, they also placed [it] upon His head and a reed in His right hand. After kneeling in front of Him, they even mocked Him, saying,
‘Rejoice, King of the Jews!’ And they spat toward Him. They took the reed and were striking [Him]
on His head” (Mat. 27:27-30, from: Τότε οἱ στρατιῶται τοῦ ἡγεμόνος παραλαβόντες τὸν Ἰησοῦν εἰς
τὸ πραιτώριον συνήγαγον ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ὅλην τὴν σπεῖραν. καὶ ἐκδύσαντες αὐτὸν χλαμύδα κοκκίνην
περιέθηκαν αὐτῷ, καὶ πλέξαντες στέφανον ἐξ ἀκανθῶν ἐπέθηκαν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ
κάλαμον ἐν τῇ δεξιᾷ αὐτοῦ, καὶ γονυπετήσαντες ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ ἐνέπαιξαν αὐτῷ λέγοντες· Χαῖρε, βασιλεῦ τῶν Ἰουδαίων, καὶ ἐμπτύσαντες εἰς αὐτὸν ἔλαβον τὸν κάλαμον καὶ ἔτυπτον εἰς τὴν κεφαλὴν
αὐτοῦ, SBLGNT). So, like the Jewish soldiers, the Roman soldiers also entertained themselves by mocking and beating Jesus. And they did this specifically because Jesus was so greatly loved and respected by most Jews, because Jesus was the Messianic King of Israel, and only hope of their deliverance from Roman oppression. Since Rome misunderstood and hated the God-fearing Jews, as well as the truly just and loving ways of their God, and felt vastly superior to Jews and all their other siblings in humankind, they wanted to crush all Jewish hopes and kings. At the same time, it was evident that Rome feared the Jews, because they sent out their entire cohort of soldiers with Jesus.
So, were all these Roman soldiers evil, the non-elect children of the devil? Did none have elect spirits born of God? Actually, although all their actions were evil and psychopathic, there were likely some elect souls among them, a few elect Gentiles partaking in those sins, even laughing at the pain of Jesus with the rest of them. Yes, those leading and prompting those offences against God and His creations were mostly the non-elect, and only the non-elect would inwardly enjoy this injustice, on a spiritual level, since it would make their spirits feel like gods ruling over the fates of other human beings. And the power of a Roman soldier over life and death would indeed appeal to the non-elect more than it would to the elect. However, the lying propaganda of Rome could be very convincing and highly deluding. Consequently, the lies told by crafty politicians and recruiters, and promises of Page 1826
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a financially rewarding citizenship, lured many elect into ranks of these Roman policemen and soldiers, especially their lies about patriotism and upholding order and justice through terrorism. On the other other hand, Rome did also keep some peace and did provide some practical services and an infrastructure for the people too. Thus, many elect, even with prompting from some elect parents, would have joined the Roman army, although Rome was established by and exclusively served Satan, as that devil’s fourth religious kingdom. And those elect were taught to completely suppress their spirits and the truth, so they could blindly commit such sins. Rome diligently trained them to walk solely according to the flesh, and make a good impression on the lords of Satan’s kingdom.
Only in the quiet times, when elect souls could hear the truths shouted by their imprisoned spirits through the walls and locked doors of their hearts, did elect soldiers feel the horrors of the evil they had done. And, if God’s Holy Spirit unlocked some of their hearts, to set their elect spirits free, then taught their spirits with His quiet calm voice, then those elect soldiers finally repented into His truth.
But, on that day, the soldiers of Satan’s fourth spiritual kingdom believed all the humanistic lies from all the religious philosophers of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. So they took the human body of our God into the palace grounds, into the Praetorium, where those cowards could escape from any interference by any truths that any elect souls might utter outside of the palace walls. They were
“safe” from truth there, “free’ to slavishly perform the works of the devil like mindless automatons, through entirely manipulated minds of flesh. And both the minds of flesh and the minds of spirits belonging to the much weaker non-elect soldiers were completely enslaved by the spirit of their demon lords enthroned in the chambers of their souls. Then, to build unity, those non-elect soldiers called all the others to partake in those sins. For Satan commanded all to equally share in the guilt.
After all, guilt was their lord’s strongest chain that bound his troops together in his war against God.
For Satan knew that, if one fell to the justice of God, all must fall with him. By sharing the crimes and the guilt, all had to continue to serve that devil together, and forever. Otherwise all would need to face justice together for the same sins. Thus, all demonic, Roman-like criminal gangs have always employed this method of sharing guilt, to prevent their enslaved thugs from ever leaving their ranks.
So, with their shared guilt of these sins, and many previous sins, as well as due to many threats, the elect among the Roman soldiers acted just like the non-elect soldiers and mocked their Creator God, who dwelt in the body of Jesus. The only difference between the elect and non-elect soldiers was that the spirits of the non-elect truly loved the delusion of ruling over the pain and bodily life of God Himself. There was nothing more empowering to them than the illusion of conquering God, of trying to make God beg for mercy. But elect spirits are able to see that our God in Jesus was intentionally letting the devil and his minions believe those delusions. For God in Jesus did not let His mind and body of flesh beg for mercy before them. Instead, Jesus deliberately allowed His body to be flayed, ripped apart, tortured and dehumanized by those fools. Still, through their fears and ignorance, all elect soldiers kept their spirits suppressed and silent, so they could get on with the works that their enslaving lords demanded. For their lords insisted on being worshipped as a soldier’s highest god.
Now also notice how these Roman humanists publicly flayed Jesus, with a whip designed to tear the skin off His back. And Rome did this in front of other secular Romans—although a few fake Jewish authorities, who were Rome’s humanistic Jewish siblings, and who wanted to murder Jesus in order to preserve their illicit income and power, likely witnessed this as well. But we see that, although Rome also appeased the blood-lust of a few Jewish theistic humanists, they primarily mocked our God in private, inside their thoroughly Roman Praetorium, where most non-Roman, Jewish, theistic humanists could not see it. And this has always been a strategy of secular humanists. The last thing secular humanists want is to be transparent, to reveal their lies and evil deeds. So they hide their Page 1827
irrational and unjust enmity against God, even from other humanists, to prevent other humanists from gaining information which can be used against them. For humanists are extremely factious, and they know other selfishly ambitious humanists will use their lies and sins to condemn them, to cause divisions, so those other humanists can hypocritically claim to “love” God and condemn the same kinds of lies and sins committed by other humanists which they commit themselves. And humanists use this same strategy to this day. For instance, Trump and his MAGA crowd are secular humanists who hate and mock God and His truths whenever they can, but privately, for their own pleasure and profit. Yet they will also take great pains to appease the fake evangelicals and other false churches in public. All God-hating “leaders” of Satan’s kingdom have always kept their war against God and His justice private and hidden throughout history, to prevent their useful religious dupes from rebelling.
Then look at the way in which those secular humanists chose to mock our God in the body of Jesus.
First they removed His robe and replaced it with another. Actually, it was Herod Antipas who did this (see Luke 23:11), while visiting Pilate and staying in that palace during the Passover feast. Of course, the robe Jesus normally wore was a typical Jewish garment, the kind that traditionally indicated the character, attributes and occupation of its wearer. It was the kind of robe worn by a Jewish teaching and judging elder, even the same kind of robe which the true teaching and judging King of Israel would have worn, since a biblical Jewish king is simply another kind of teaching and judging elder. But Rome hated biblical Jewish elders who faithfully served the people in a way that built up God’s kind of kingdom. So Herod and the other Romans replaced the Jewish robe of Jesus, with the kind worn by Roman kings, a scarlet military robe, possibly even the robe of the former Roman king of Israel, Herod the Great. Then they placed a wreath on Jesus’ head, the kind that a Greco-Roman kings wore as a symbols of victory and power, the kind worn by the pagan god, Apollo. However, the wreath they gave Jesus was not woven from the soft real or golden laurel (bay) leaves, like Roman kings wore. Rather, they gave Jesus a wreath of long, sharp thorns which pierced through the flesh on His forehead and scalp. Then they placed a common reed in His hand, to represent the sceptre of a Roman king. And the reason they transformed Jesus from a biblical kind of King into a inferior semblance of a Roman king was because Roman kings are delusions. They had to see Jesus as a sham Roman king because they knew a true King from God is impossible to mock.
In order to mock Jesus, these Romans had to compare apples to apples, because they knew that this High King from God was not one of their self-absorbed, delusional, psychopathic kinds of kings, and those Roman soldiers instinctively wanted to mock the illicit and demonic Roman kinds of kinds of kings, the kinds of kings who made them suffer and die for stupid, self-indulgent reasons. And these Roman soldiers had only ever experienced the ways of psychopathic Roman kings. This is why they wanted to compare Jesus to them, so they could mock the senseless failings of their ruthless despots.
Yet Jesus was nothing like the Roman kings, nothing like the kind of Messiah desired by the fake humanistic Jews. Instead, Jesus was always a wise, just, loving, biblical kind of King, the kind who condemned and nullified the works of lying, demonic, despotic Roman kings. But dressing Jesus in the likeness of an evil little Roman king allowed those soldiers to get revenge on a surrogate Roman king. And the Roman lords knew this was necessary to keep up the morale of their brutalized troops.
We should also realize that humanists possess absolutely no capacity to find anything worthy of mocking and punishing in any of their truly loving and just victims, like Jesus. So when they torture and kill their innocent victims, they imagine them to be evil. And props help them imagine this. So they needed props for Jesus to wear, so they could more easily pretend that He was one of their evil little Roman kings. Since Jesus was the most loving and just Man who ever lived in a body of flesh, they had to first transform Him into a “straw man” representing the type of pagan king they were Page 1828
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most familiar with, the kind they hated most, the kind who made those soldiers suffer, die and murder the innocent for the most stupid reasons imaginable. They had to put Jesus in Roman royal garments so they could mock the obvious delusional and demonic failures of their own Roman kings. So they did not really mock Jesus, but actually mocked Roman kings who lied, cheated, stole, murdered, exploited and enslaved, yet still somehow demanded to be worshipped as almighty gods.
In order to mock our loving and just God Jesus, they had to create a fake image, a false perception of Him, something they could compare to their own delusional images of the human and mythical kings they bowed before and worshipped as gods. When they pretended to kneel before Jesus, they were actually pointing out how Jesus seemed to have no power to terrorize them into submission, like all their Roman kings did—although Jesus had the power to make all kings and all creatures on earth bow before Him, if He wanted that. When those Romans sarcastically jeered, “Rejoice, King of the Jews,” they were declaring: “You have absolutely no military victories, but our gloriously ruthless Roman kings have mercilessly slaughtered and subjugated countless innocent souls.” For Roman kings were proud of their psychopathy, and even taught their young children that the murdering of the innocent was a noble sport and the glory of Satan’s fourth kingdom. Then those Romans spat at Jesus and used the mock sceptre to strike Him on the head, as if to say, “If you were a real Roman king, we would receive the death penalty for this. But you are too weak to do anything against us!”
Still, the fact remains, the real Creator and God in a body of flesh, the genuine King of Israel and of the entire world, was, is and never will be anything like a worshipped human god-king from Satan’s world order. Our God and King is almost the complete opposite of kings now ruling in the devil’s fourth kingdom of Rome. So, by mocking their King Jesus in this way, in their fantasies about how a Roman king should be mocked, they illustrated how Jesus was nothing like their unjust psychopathic Roman kings. They did not insult Jesus. In fact, their “straw man” arguments, which portrayed Jesus as a Roman type of king, so they could mock His failure to be one, simply emphasized the fact that Jesus came to be a priestly, wise, teaching, judging, loving and biblical kind of King. And Jesus will indeed come as the world’s High King one day, with the power to condemn, kill and eternally punish all Roman-like kings, all wanna-be human gods whom those Roman soldiers so highly esteemed and diligently served, yet hated at the same time. By making a “straw man” of Jesus, by transforming Jesus into a cheap and dirty little image of a Roman king, so they could mock Him by comparing Him to a despotic, psychopathic, Roman king, those soldiers merely proved their own inability to escape from being abused and exploited by their Roman kings. By making a Roman-like “straw man” of our God Jesus, they also proved their ignorance about life, truth, wisdom, love and all that makes life worth living. They provided concrete evidence of their own deep delusional irrationality.
Likewise, humanists have always been making a “straw man” of God, and proving the same things about themselves, throughout history. First, secular humanists say that, if a God truly exists, then He would surely make them financially successful, so they could all live according to our carnal Roman standards and freely exploit all “other kinds” of people. Then they say, if there was a Creator God, all of them, as human gods, would be able to manipulate Him. If there was a God, they would be able to call on Him to help them torture and kill “enemies,” whom they unjustly judged to be vastly inferior to their superior selves. If a God existed, then He would severely punish any who bruised their fragile egos, and crush the power of any who inhibited their self-indulgence or hindered their selfish ambitions. But, since secular humanists cannot find any evidence of an easily manipulated
“straw man” Creator made in their own images, who serves their carnal interests and provides them with psychopathic revenge against their enemies, they “rationally” conclude that God does not exist.
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But the invention of a “straw man” god, created in the likeness of their own foolish, evil, destructive human gods of the devil’s world order, is not the kind of god that could ever create and maintain any kind of stable and harmonious existence of any kind. If a creator god was anything like any of their vile Roman gods, the whole of creation, both the material and spiritual realms, would instantly collapse, due to that god’s contradicting and totally inconsistent application of power. So it is a good thing that the “straw man” god of secular humanists does not actually exist. But the biblical kind of God does exist. And even the awakened non-elect spirits of humanistic psychopaths know it, since even they are not able to mock and hate the real biblical God, and they would never need to build a straw-man-god if they could honestly mock the real God, or if the real God did not actually exist.
Still, humanistic gods force their slaves to build a straw-man-god, to convince their dupes that their human gods are right, but the real God is wrong. They must get their minions to mock a false image of the real God, to keep up morale while their inferiors worship them, even as those destructive and failing human gods exploit and devour those dupes through their selfish ambitions and greed. Duped slaves must remain deluded enough to think they need human gods to survive. But all those human gods want to do is toss them a few bread crumbs, just enough to survive and keep on working in their slave camps. So those human gods need to distract their dupes away from the real God, from the God who created all things and gives all equitably to all. Human gods need to give their blind and abused slaves a “straw man” image of themselves, then call that idol by the name of the real God, so their victims can vent their frustrations on it, so their dupes can feel emotions of the flesh which delude them into thinking they have received revenge against their oppressors, so they can be pacified by fake justice. Exploiters need a straw-man-god to appease their duped victims, to prevent their victims from worshipping the truly just God. It is for their own political and financial survival.
These Roman soldiers felt compelled to lie to themselves, by making a “straw man” of Jesus and mocking it. Herod wanted them to hate a fake failed version of a Roman king, so they might then delude themselves into thinking this biblical Jewish King was vastly inferior to their Roman kings.
The Roman rulers encouraged them to torture Jesus to death, for the crime of being wise, just, loving and sinless, for not being like their exploiting Roman kings. “And, after they mocked Him, they took the military cloak off of Him and put His clothes on Him. Then they led Him away in order to crucify [Him]. So, while departing, they found a Cyrenian person by the name of Simon. They compelled this one into service, so that he might carry His cross. And, after coming to a place being called Golgotha, which is translated ‘Place of a Skull,’ they gave Him wine to drink, with bile having been thoroughly mixed in [for pain relief]. And, after tasting [it], He was not willing to drink. So, after crucifying Him, they divided His clothing. Casting lots and reclining, they guarded Him there. Also, they put up, above His head, His accusation, having been written: ‘This is Jesus, the King of the Jews’” (Mat. 27:31-37, from: καὶ ὅτε ἐνέπαιξαν αὐτῷ, ἐξέδυσαν αὐτὸν τὴν χλαμύδα καὶ ἐνέδυσαν
αὐτὸν τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπήγαγον αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ σταυρῶσαι. Ἐξερχόμενοι δὲ εὗρον ἄνθρωπον
Κυρηναῖον ὀνόματι Σίμωνα· τοῦτον ἠγγάρευσαν ἵνα ἄρῃ τὸν σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ. Καὶ ἐλθόντες εἰς
τόπον λεγόμενον Γολγοθᾶ, ὅ ἐστιν Κρανίου Τόπος λεγόμενος, ἔδωκαν αὐτῷ πιεῖν οἶνον μετὰ χολῆς
μεμιγμένον· καὶ γευσάμενος οὐκ ἠθέλησεν πιεῖν. σταυρώσαντες δὲ αὐτὸν διεμερίσαντο τὰ ἱμάτια
αὐτοῦ βάλλοντες κλῆρον, καὶ καθήμενοι ἐτήρουν αὐτὸν ἐκεῖ. καὶ ἐπέθηκαν ἐπάνω τῆς κεφαλῆς
αὐτοῦ τὴν αἰτίαν αὐτοῦ γεγραμμένην· Οὗτός ἐστιν Ἰησοῦς ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων, SBLGNT).
John, like Matthew, was there when they crucified Jesus. So he also provided an account of how the Roman soldiers crucified Jesus: “And, bearing the cross for Himself, He went out into the [location]
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Pilate also wrote a title and placed [it] upon the cross. So it was having been written and displayed,
‘Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews.’ Therefore, many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. Also, it was written in Hebrew, Latin [and] Greek. Thus, the chief priests of the Jews reasoned with Pilate, ‘Please do not write “The King of the Jews,” but rather that He said, “I am King of the Jews.”’ Pilate responded, ‘What I wrote [with my intentions], I wrote [with my intentions].’ Then, when the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took His garments and made four parts, a part to each soldier, plus the inner tunic. But the inner tunic was without a seam, woven from the beginning through the whole. Therefore, they said to one another, ‘We should not tear it, but rather cast lots regarding it, whose it will be,’ so that the Scripture might be fulfilled—the one saying, ‘They distributed My clothing for themselves, and they cast a dice for My garment’ [Ps.
22:18, quoted from Septuagint]—even accordingly the soldiers did these things” (John 19:17-24, ALT).
Now Jesus’ body was severely weakened after being flayed with a whip of cords and by beatings from the Roman soldiers, as well as from being on His feet all night and also being beaten by Jewish thugs hired by the humanistic high priests and elders from the immoral, self-serving, greedy, violent political wing of the Sanhedrin. So Jesus was carrying His cross—or, actually, the cross-beam for His crucifixion—when He left the Praetorium with two insurrectionists that were sentenced to die beside Him. Then His body collapsed along the way. Thus, since Roman soldiers had the right to command non-Roman citizens to carry any burden for a mile, and Jesus’ body was too weak to carry the cross Himself, the Roman soldiers grabbed the first non-citizen they saw and commanded him to carry that cross to the crucifixion site, less than a mile away. That man was named Simon, likely a Jew visiting Jerusalem for the Passover feast, and came from the large Jewish population in the Roman city and province of Cyrene, on the north coast of Africa, in what is now Libya. And, since Matthew named this man, he most likely later became a Christian who was well-known in the apostolic church, and to Matthew in particular. While walking with Jesus, he may have witnessed the power of God within the Messiah’s weakened flesh, then learned more about Him from the disciples.
Now, if Annas, the high priest, had dragged the young apostle John with him to the secular trial of Jesus, then John would have watched as Pilate ordered his soldiers to escort Jesus through the gate of the Praetorium, carrying His cross, to the place of execution. But, while John was with Annas, he would not have seen how Jesus later fell under the weight of the heavy beam. And John would not have witnessed how the Romans made Simon carry the cross for Jesus. Only Matthew and the other nine faithful disciples, who were following Jesus, would have seen this. Yet John did witness the crucifixion. After Annas dismissed him, John likely ran to the crucifixion site, arriving just moments after the much slower procession of Jesus and the Roman guards had reached the site themselves.
For it would only take young John a few minutes to get there, since Golgotha was just around the corner from the west gate of the Praetorium (a few yards off the road skirting the city walls, about half way to the northern city limits), likely where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre stands today.
Like most crimes done by humanists throughout the centuries, there was nothing inspiring, holy, just or beautiful about that physical crucifixion. However, it is inspiring, holy, just and beautiful to see how the love of God’s Holy Spirit endured that brutal, dehumanizing death of His flesh, to bear the extreme pain, dehumanization and shame of all the lies and sins that our flesh causes for others and for ourselves throughout our lives. And Jesus willingly stumbled to His death wearing the simple, plain garments of a teaching and judging elder, the kind of garments that God ordained the biblical King of kings to wear. For those humanists had removed the expensive garments of a psychopathic Roman king, which they previously put on to mock Him, and likely divided them among some of Page 1831
their underpaid soldiers who argued about them. So our God Jesus walked to His death as a proper biblical kind of King, as one who sacrificially serves His people through a wise application of truth.
These Roman soldiers themselves would have long since grown accustomed to torturing and murdering innocent souls. For the Roman religion and culture trains insensitivity and a lack of empathy from birth. So all those soldiers became numb and mindless, without feelings about the pain and death of others or themselves. And, to them, justice was anything which advanced the glory of their demonic and unjust elite human gods who were busily stabbing one another in the back to gain control of their hierarchical empire. Since Rome’s glory came through soldiers blindly obeying orders to torture and murder the innocent, and their human gods had to terrorize their victims into submission, these soldiers thought nothing of this simple task of crucifying Jesus. Most had no pangs of an inner conscience, since the spiritual good and evil taught through God’s creations or His Word meant absolutely nothing to them. These Roman soldiers simply went out to do a normal task, and torturing those three men to death was no more odious to them than their duty to take out the trash.
But first, likely due to the demands of offended Jews, those Roman soldiers had been commanded to offer their victims the customary pain killer, wine mixed with bile. Then, when Jesus refused to drink it, they would have simply shrugged and continued to diligently perform their duty of nailing the base of Jesus’ hands to the wooden beam, the one He and Simon had carried there. Then two or three soldiers would likely lift the beam, with the body attached, about a foot or two above their heads, up to a recess or dado previously cut into a large upright timber, a beam sunk a few feet into the ground with firmly tamped fill dirt around it, to keep it erect. Then the soldiers would have nailed His feet to the downward slope of a right-triangle made of wood. This would cause Jesus to feel excruciating pain every time He needed to lift His body up to prevent Himself from suffocating to death. For, with all His weight on His splayed arms, His chest muscles could not expand, so He could breath.
Thus, with every breath, Jesus had to push down on the nails in His feet and pull down on the nails in His hands to lift His body enough to take a breath. So each breath inflicted indescribable pain. Yet His body would breath through reflex actions, to keep itself alive, and there was no way to stop that breathing and the resulting pain until His body passed out from a loss of blood. Consequently, this method of murdering a victim was perfectly engineered by Roman psychopaths to produce the most torturous kind of death imaginable. And Rome reserved this kind of death for runaway slaves or non-Roman insurrectionists, to terrorize their other conquered and exploited souls into total submission.
Consequently, consider these facts: (1) Rome was the fourth kingdom of Satan, the devil’s ultimate belief system designed to oppose God and God’s just, equitable, loving ways; (2) crucifixion and other forms of tortuous death were intentionally designed by Rome to terrorize their enslaved and
“inferior” non-citizen siblings in the family of humankind, to terrorize the “inferiors” who did not bow low enough to their “superior” foolishness, greed and lusts of their flesh, to totally subjugate those captive siblings to their lies and sins; (3) elect spirits possess an inherently loving and just nature, and can never become true citizens Satan’s world order, much less of Satan’s favourite Roman religious kingdom, but always remain captives or slaves within it; (4) every time Jesus’
enemies tried to kill Him, His power was able to stop them, until Jesus and the heavenly Father decided the time was right; and (5) Jesus therefore deliberately chose to die at that time and in this particular way, by Roman crucifixion, in the way that Satan’s fourth Roman kingdom reserved solely for rebelling captives and slaves, the kind of death that Rome only allowed for those who were not Roman citizens. Realizing all this, we discover a little more about the real purpose of Jesus’ death.
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only for the elect, only for those who can never be true citizens of Satan’s kingdom of the world order, and certainly not true citizens of Rome. Since Rome only allowed slaves and non-citizens to live if they submitted to their lies and sins, Jesus even died only for the elect whose spirits were not able to believe Rome’s lies and willingly submit to its sins, although their flesh could suppress their spirits and pretend to obey. Jesus chose to die by a tortuous Roman death for all the elect, who are all sinners. So Jesus also died for the elect trapped in the lies and sins of Satan’s world order, for those who were never able to inwardly become citizens of the devil’s kingdom, but were held captive or enslaved by it, even for the captive elect in Satan’s favourite sect, who lived by faith in his secular religious teaching of Roman humanism. Furthermore, since the flesh of Jesus died vicariously for all the elect, then the flesh of the sinful elect captives and slaves also died with His flesh on that cross.
Thus, if all the elect vicariously died on a cross designed to terrorize Roman slaves and non-citizens into complete submission, then Roman humanism, either in its fake churches or in its illicit secular authorities, has nothing left to use as a threat against those elect, no form of terrorism which they can use to cause elect minds of flesh to suppress their spirits into submission. Now there is nothing that Satan’s kingdom of the world order, nor any of his “great” humanistic sects, can do in a spiritually legal way, to get elect spirits to submit. Yes, as sinners, the elect once legally belonged to the devil and his kingdom, so Satan could do what pleased with them. And God’s wrath would not touch that devil, nor his kingdom, because God always obeys His own spiritual laws. But now our God Jesus legally purchased the sinful lives of literally all His elect, and paid the full price for them. Since Jesus is the King of kings, who committed no lie nor any sin in His entire life, Jesus could not be killed as a slave or non-citizen. Since Jesus actually owned Satan and Satan’s entire kingdom, Jesus was far more than any citizen, and certainly was not a slave. So, when Jewish and Roman humanists murdered Jesus on a cross for slaves and noncitizens of Roman humanism, Jesus then gained the right to claim His own death as a just payment for the execution of freedom-seeking slaves and noncitizens. When Jesus died, He could claim that death in the place of whomever He chose, so that any slave or non-citizen could be freed into His kingdom, which owns all other kingdoms. Since He paid the full amount owed by bond-servants of the devil, the devil no longer has any legal right to enslave them. Furthermore, since all of a bondservant’s debt, a trillion lifetimes worth or just a day’s worth, ends with the slave’s death, Jesus can legally claim to have paid all the debts of all the elect. So now, if the devil and his citizens cause one of His elect to suffer even a small bruise, it will provide a valid reason for God to avenge that purchased elect soul, and to inflict His just punishment upon that devil and his minions. For Satan has lost any right to the elect after Jesus paid for their lives on His cross.
This spiritually legal difference means everything! So we need to understand it. So let us start to comprehend it from the beginning. First, we need to realize that God’s Law bears complete authority, in both the material universe and the spiritual realm. And, since God never opposes Himself nor any of His wise laws, then nothing in either the physical or spiritual realm is able to oppose the almighty God’s laws either, not without God’s permissive and conditional will warning of bad consequences.
Next, remember how God cast the chained and limited spirits of Satan and his demons down into His temporary creation of the material world, then awarded them a kingdom consisting of all intentional sinners there. So, after doing this, God could not go back on His own words and defile Himself. But doing all this within His temporary material creation was part of His plan. For God created all His children, all elect human spirits, as weak little infants on the earth. And He did this so they would all learn to need and love Him more, and cherish His ways more, through their earthly experiences in the presence of both good and evil. Their heavenly Father wisely causes them to contrast His just and loving ways with the infinite number of inferior ways that are not His ways, with the less just Page 1833
and unloving ways of the devil. For the Father of the elect does not want His children to simply know His Law through a database written upon their minds, like robots do. Nor did God want His children to lack discernment and judgment regarding good and evil, in the way all earthly animals and heavenly creatures knew Him. Yes, the Father of the elect would also write His wisdom and truths upon the hearts and minds of His elect heirs, even in a far more full and plenary way. But He would only do this after each had personally experienced a unique array of good and evil on earth.
In the Creating Spirit’s plan, His elect children would dwell in flesh on earth for an appointed time, so they might truly know both good and evil. Then He would purify them all, when He brought them all together on a last day at heaven’s gates, before He led His family into the eternal home He had created for them from the beginning. In the meantime, while they lived on earth, He would begin to teach and train them in His ways, by writing some of His laws upon their hearts and minds. Yet He would not complete this process until He removed them all from their flesh, from material existence.
For the Father of all elect humans created in His image desires all of them to be gathered as one family on that last day, together with Him and their Father. Then He also decreed another aspect.
The last aspect of His plan for the lives of His chosen children on this earth is to demonstrate the effectiveness of all His wise, just and loving ways the He created upon the earth. And God chose to provide the ultimate proof of this at the end of the predestined time allotted to material existence, during the millennium before He ended earthly time, after lies and sins had destroyed most of the earth. And God chose to wait until mankind almost destroyed itself to emphasize that His ways are superior, and that His power can restore all things in even the most dire circumstances. He reserved a season in which He Himself shall rule over the earth, a time of rightness, joy and peace, where love will be allowed to grow upon the nutrients of truth, so love might bloom and bear its beautiful fruit.
That season, lasting over a millennium, shall silence all who had ever claimed that life on earth cannot be lived according to God’s ways. For there are demons and humans who spread the lie that life on earth is, by nature, unjust, chaotic, cruel and lacks the opportunity for anyone to effectively walk according to God’s ways. Many falsely declare that a biblical kind of life can only be lived in the mythical realm of heaven. But, after a thousand years of practising God’s ways on earth, after the success of God’s learning, wise, just and loving elect on earth for a full millennium, no human nor demonic spirit will ever again be able to accuse God of forcing them to lie or sin during life on earth.
This is why God’s plan included these two seasons, a beginning, when Satan was allowed to rule over all elect and non-elect human sinners, then a very short end, after all non-elect spirits will be cast off the earth and God Himself, in an earthly body of flesh, rules over all the elect remaining on earth. However, God also ordained a season between the beginning and the end, a transitional time, when Satan’s kingdom no longer had any right to rule over the elect, when the elect have been freed, although Satan shall be allowed to rule his kingdom of non-elect spirits during this time upon earth.
The transitional time is now. Many elect spirits are currently passing through a predestined time of the material universe with either a potential ability to choose God’s truth and ways, or a partially realized ability to do so. The minds of elect spirits can now openly and boldly speak in the chambers of their souls, and learn to effectively rule over their minds of temporary flesh, to manage their own lives according to the teaching and training of Jesus. The death of Jesus’ body made it possible for His elect spirits to personally hear the teachings of God’s truth, within their hearts and souls, because His resurrection also made it possible for Him to teach His ways to their spirits. His Holy Spirit of God can now justly enter their sinful heart and souls through His payment on the cross, so He can now speak directly to their elect spirits. Now God can personally teach and train elect spirits, and Page 1834
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can lead those spirits into believing in His truths, even the elect who do not yet know His name. So the elect can become truly just and choose equitable justice through the love He puts in their spirits.
And, in the name of our God Jesus, through the authority and power of our heavenly Father, the elect who consciously know the salvation of the real Jesus can undo works of Satan’s kingdom, as they build up God’s just and loving kingdom on earth. For they are His serving priesthood of Israel, whom God grants the power to those works in His name. Meanwhile, the terrorism employed by the devil’s kingdom, especially by his fourth Roman kingdom currently ruling most of the earth, lost its right to take the awakened elect captive. So, once God lends them His unbreakable sword of truth and wisdom, as well as His almighty power, they can accomplish His will on earth, in the same way His will is done in heaven. And, although elect spirits have not gone to Jesus for His full salvation, this victory in the Messiah Jesus is what we have been witnessing for two millenniums now on earth.
From the day Jesus died on the cross, the entire world, we have seen an increase in the power and number of works of God through His elect—even in places where elect never had a chance to hear even one word of either the Old or New Covenant Scriptures, or in places where Roman Catholics and other false churches forbade the preaching of biblical truths. Everywhere on earth we have seen the eroding of power in Satan’s kingdom, with violent reaction to the constant strengthening of God’s Law and truths on earth. Genuine truth and justice escaped into the world, making God’s kind of love possible for the elect, and many elect seized that opportunity. God’s kingdom has grown consistently into a vast, bright, solid mountain that will soon crush Satan’s kingdom. And Satan’s kingdom is fighting back with every lie and sin they can possibly muster. Soon, just before Jesus returns, that devil will become incarnate, in a human body called “the beast,” as a demonic messiah who will try to save his kingdom from annihilation. Yet Satan will fail. Jesus will return to cast both him and all his minions from the earth. In the meantime, the elect are still receiving the opportunity to learn the best and most deeply experiential kind of love for God and His creations, built upon a foundation of perfect truths personally taught to their spirits by the Creator God’s own Holy Spirit.
So, when our God and Messiah chose to sacrifice His body’s life in a Roman death reserved for noncitizens and slaves, we should remember how He exposed Rome’s demonic delusions. On that day, Jesus made that massive empire look pathetic, and proved that their artificially induced order and civility was actually an uncivilized chaotic mess run by ignoble and extremely stupid elite human gods. Our God Jesus even demonstrated how the pride of Satan’s fourth Roman kingdom, the brutalized and abused soldiers whom Rome’s elite entirely depended upon to maintain their power, were mere lowly thugs who shamefully stole the bloodied rags Jesus wore. This revealed more about the filthy little hearts and minds of Rome’s self-proclaimed human gods than just about anything else. Rome’s terrorists, its police force and army, was its primary tool for gaining and guarding their delusional power and wealth. The elite desperately needed those soldiers to do all their dirty little murdering and psychopathic deeds for them. They made those men into human weapons, into pure psychopaths like themselves. Rome, more than any previous nation, perfected the art of transforming humans into ruthless, mindless minions who obeyed without question or hesitation. Yet that Roman tool of enslavement, plundering and wealth-making for those demonic elite were themselves just a pathetic bunch of easily bribed, greedy, immoral wretches looking for a few bucks to buy a few more drinks and a few moments of pleasure in filthy little brothels. The “glory” of Rome was all a sham.
To begin with, Rome would not allow their soldiers to marry, lest they might learn to love and care for others. Then they grossly underpaid the ordinary soldiers, but highly esteemed and financially rewarded the most blindly loyal, cunning and merciless among them. So, eventually, all became willing to murder for any scrap of booty, as well as take bribes and extort through violence, as a Page 1835
supplement to their low pay. All were willing to brutally suppress Rome’s victims, in the most dishonourable and deceitful ways imaginable, to gain money and praise from their Roman lords, and possibly a promotion. Above all, the Roman elite ensured that their uniformed, nameless, soulless troops remained as physically exhausted as possible. They physically and emotionally whipped them, kept them moving on long marches from one place to another, with packs weighing up to a hundred pounds, until they became machines who cared for no one and no place. And the constant artificially incited battles, for one vain and meaningless cause after another, kept them all inwardly numb, lonely, disoriented and inwardly lost, which made them more easily manipulated, easier to transform into mindless machines. Then, if any soldier showed any sign of any compassion or had any pang of conscience, it was called insubordination and weakness, then received a very painful penalty or the sentences of death. Thus, Rome conditioned the spirits of their soldiers to become so suppressed that those spirits dared not allow any godly thoughts into the chambers of their souls, lest those thoughts might interfere with the sadistic deeds they did entirely for the glory of Rome’s elites.
This is why Jesus prayed, “Father, forgive them. For they have never realized what they are doing”
(Luke 23:34, ALT), even as those Roman soldiers crucified Him, and while they cast dice below His feet, trying to win His well-worn rags. Of course, those soldiers could sell those pieces of used cloth for a penny or two. Yet their whole focus of their wretched lives at the time was set upon the chance to win that tiny little prize. They ignored all the stupidity of the injustice they had worked for their Roman lords, whom they were forced to worship as gods. For the chance to gain a little more of the devil’s invention of money was all they could now think about, nothing more. Those glorious Roman soldiers, the greatest warriors in the world at the time, proved to be pathetic, wretched, desperate and delusional little men, cowering before the artificial power of the devil’s inventions of terrorism and money. They became mindless minions of the Roman elite, and had long-since lost all that defines the life of human beings. They forfeited their spirits’ freedom and power, all deeper thought or moral judgment, to be mindless, grovelling slaves of the filthy Roman elite and a demon called Mammon.
Then all four Gospels tell us that the “accusation” which the governor wrote above the cross of Jesus was simply this: “the King of the Jews.” Now Romans would generally place some kind of real accusation on a cross, such as “rebellious slave” or “insurrectionist.” And they wanted it read to their slaves and subjugated non-citizens, in the native languages of all those exploited masses. For they wanted those “inferiors” to pass by and learn to fear this fate for themselves, if they dared to do what Rome had written on those signs. However, being a king was never a threat to Rome, not any kind of crime. In fact, there were many kings of many cities and provinces in the Roman Empire, and most were highly esteemed, since they made peace with Rome, or pledged allegiance to her. For the kings of foreign lands were usually very useful to Rome, since those kings knew their local people and the customs of those lands, which enabled Rome to more effectively abuse and exploit their people. For instance, Herod the Great was a king of the Jews, but a king who loved and bowed before Rome, even so subserviently that Rome tolerated every kind of crime he committed, even the murder of Roman citizens. Thus, when Pilate merely wrote that Jesus was “the King of the Jews,” it definitely was not an accusation and did not provide any kind of terrorizing deterrent for anyone. It was a mere statement which did not imply anything negative in the eyes of most Jews, although it was a slur and a very offensive accusation in the blinded eyes of Pilate and the other antisemitic secular humanists.
Pilate was a man who thoroughly bought into the psychopathic Roman culture and its religious doctrines of secular humanism. So he naturally and spiritually hated biblical teachings about “love,”
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taught about. Meanwhile, all those fake church leaders standing there that day were actually mere wanna-be Roman pagans, just as driven by selfish ambitions and greed as all the Gentiles in the empire. Because of the fake Jewishness of those wanna-be secular humanists, Pilate despised them.
Yes, Pilate also hated this biblical kind of King, this Jesus. Yet, at the same time, Pilate respected Jesus, since Jesus was the only Jew who actually remained consistently faithful to Jewish teachings.
Since Jesus was the least hypocritical of all the Jews, Pilate recognized that Jesus truly was the King of the Jews, certainly more like a biblically Jewish king than any of the elite Jew he knew. So Pilate intentionally wrote that Jesus was “the King of the Jews” (as the perfect forms of the verb γράφω
imply in John 19:22). Of course, history reveals that the actions of Pilate, during his rule over Judea, were always extremely arrogant and antisemitic, always purely psychopathic and Roman. So Pilate almost certainly had other motives for writing this “accusation” as well. Namely. Pilate would have wanted to provoke the resentment of the hypocritical Jewish priests and pastors, whom he detested, by emphasizing that Jesus was the real “King of the Jews,” especially since they were coercing him into doing their dirty work. Those Jews often killed innocent souls, and Pilate never interfered with their murdering. But this Jesus was too popular to stone to death on the back roads. So they needed Pilate to do it for them. Yet Pilate was savvy enough to know that those Jewish judges would then lie about this, would then claim that Rome murdered this clearly innocent and loving man, Jesus. Those trusted council members would soon tell their people: “We are very sorry, but there was nothing we could do to stop the mighty Romans from crucifying Jesus, especially since they did it on a Passover Sabbath.” So Pilate wrote this non-accusation of Jesus to mock those lying hypocrites. Nevertheless, Pilate also proclaimed Jesus as the “King of the Jews” since he perceived Jesus to be their true King.
Even psychopaths can see when someone is pure and God-like. They fear, then try to slander and destroy those honest souls, lest those righteous ones might speak the truth to expose their lies and hinder their evil deeds. So both Pilate and those rogue council members knew Jesus was the most pure, God-like and honest man they ever met. And both kinds of psychopaths realized that Jesus could cause serious trouble for them. Thus, although Pilate tried to set Jesus free, he was most likely doing so because he thought Jesus would cause more trouble for his fake Jewish siblings born of the same hellish father, more than any kind of trouble for himself. After all, Pilate’s spies reported all the kinds of trouble Jesus caused for the false church and their exploitative leaders. But his spies never found any of Jesus’ words or deeds threatening to Rome, and Jesus even encouraged the Jews to pay Roman taxes, to “give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.” Still, Pilate ended up conspiring to murder Jesus, together with the humanistic Jews, and in the name of Rome, just in case this “King of the Jews” might prove to be a future threat, and because those powerful humanistic fake Jews coerced him into cooperating. However, as Pilate’s last spiteful act in this conspiracy, he jabbed at the painful wound Jesus had inflicted upon those fake Jewish priests and false Jewish pastors, by proclaiming that Jesus to be their true King, now hanging on a Roman cross. And, when the fake church reacted in protest, pointing out that he wrote a statement of fact, not an accusation, Pilate stood firm upon his declaration about Jesus (John 19:20-22). Pilate intentionally exposed the lie those false Jews were feeding to their people. Yes, Jesus was their real King, Messiah and God, the Promised One of Israel, and even all those secular and falsely Jewish psychopaths knew it. Yet, do the elect also realize this?
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devils. Since Jesus is the real King over all existence, the King over all kings, the sole Owner of every living spirit, no human nor demonic spirit has any right to oppose His will, and all authorities who do so are illicit authorities. Furthermore, all who falsely claim to teach, judge or prophesy in Jesus’ name, or in the name of God, are doubly guilty of treason, worthy of the harshest penalties.
For they not only lie and commit crimes against His people and properties, but also against Him. In many cases, they even slander or blaspheme the Holy Spirit of God Himself, of Jesus. Therefore, many are committing unforgivable sins, as awakened spirits born of the devil. So now let the elect beware. For, in our day, there are many Hitlers, Trumps and false preachers committing blasphemies against our King’s Holy Spirit, in their faithful service of Satan’s kingdom. But all those destroyers will meet the same physical and eternal fates. So we must not partake in their lies, sins and fates. Let elect spirits now learn truth and wisdom directly from the mouth of our King Jesus, and serve Him.
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“Then there were two robbers crucified with Him, one on His right hand and one on the left.
Those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads, and saying, ‘You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!’ Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said, ‘He saved others, but He can’t save Himself. If He is the King of Israel, let Him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in Him. He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now, if He wants Him; for He said, “I am the Son of God.”’ The robbers also who were crucified with Him cast on Him the same reproach” (Mat. 27:38-44, WEB).
There have always been two kinds of insurrectionists: (1) the more popular kind, who try to replace the current deceiving and exploiting human gods oppressing the people, by becoming their new evil human gods; and (2) the ordinary people who succumb to lies, then violence, but with spirits actually seeking true justice and equity for their people. And Matthew wrote: “Then two insurrectionists were being crucified together with Him, one from the places to the right and one from the places to the left” (Mat. 27:38, from: Τότε σταυροῦνται σὺν αὐτῷ δύο λῃσταί, εἷς ἐκ δεξιῶν καὶ εἷς ἐξ εὐωνύμων, SBLGNT). Here the noun λῃστής can refer to a “revolutionary, insurrectionist, guerrilla” (BDAG3).
And we know Jesus was crucified with two other insurrectionists because: (1) Rome crucified only insurrectionists who were not Roman citizens, not mere thieves, and (2) the false Jews accused Jesus of being a King who was rebelling against Rome, which is why He too was being crucified with the two other men. Then from the other Gospels, we see how there was one of each kind being crucified beside Jesus, on either side. And the first kind was cursed, but the second kind found his way to God.
Now Mark began his record of this event by telling us that both insurrectionists taunted Jesus with insults and “reviled Him” (ὠνείδιζον αὐτόν), but only after hearing the chief priests, Jewish scholars and others mocking Him, and while Jesus remained silent (Mark 15:29-32). So the minds of flesh in both insurrectionists, in their weakened states, were influenced by ignorant liars and did not hear the voice of God speaking to their spirits at that time. But as a few tortuous hours passed, both of those insurrectionists witnessed how the disciples and the mother of Jesus loved Jesus, then also saw how much Jesus loved them, even caring for their welfare while in His extreme pain on the cross. At one point, Jesus, as the oldest son and Head of His family, even appointed His youngest disciple, John, to take over His role and become the new provider for His biological mother, Mary. For Mary now believed that her Son, Jesus, was the Messiah, and was following Him, together with His disciples, Page 1838
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serving Him together with her sister and Mary of Magdalene. And His mother could not return to her home in Capernaum, since her other sons did not yet believe Jesus was the Messiah (John 19:25-27).
Now most of Jesus’ disciples were paying attention to Him alone, and did not notice how the other two crucified men had been watching Jesus and them. Yet it is certain that those two insurrectionists were staring at Jesus and the crowd around Him at that time. For what else could they do, since both were likely left utterly alone, without anyone to comfort them in their hours of painful death. After all, how could their families and friends come to them, since the Roman soldiers and spies would then accuse those family members and friends of partaking in the crimes of those crucified men? Yet one of Jesus’ disciples saw how those other two insurrectionists had been observing and reacting to Jesus, and to the weeping souls surrounding Him, which indicated that Jesus was innocent. We know that one eye-witness Luke interviewed, one of Jesus’ disciples there that day, watched those two men and told Luke: “So one of those criminals who had been hanged slandered Him, was reasoning, ‘Are You not the Messiah? Save Yourself and us!’ Yet the other had responded, rebuking him. He was saying, ‘You do not fear God, since you are in the same condemnation. And we justly indeed! For we are receiving the due rewards of [the crimes] we committed. Yet this one practised nothing harmful.’
And he was reasoning, ‘Jesus, remember me when You arrive in Your kingdom.’ Then He said to him, ‘Surely I reason with you, this day, with Me, you will be in paradise” (Luke 23:39-43, ALT).
So one of the insurrectionists believed the humanistic teachings of the false priests, fake pastors and Romanized Jewish scholars. Thus, he thought the promised Messiah would need to be exactly like a Roman king. That criminal wanted a psychopathic Messiah, who would slaughter, terrorize and enslave the Gentiles, so the Jews could become the new elite human gods ruling over the oppressed pagan masses. And he obviously reasoned that, if Jesus was the Messiah and King of Israel, He would save Himself and all other Jews, even the Jews who did Satan’s works on earth, as the devil’s evil children, then torture to death all those Romans who dared to insult Him by trying to kill Him on a cross. Therefore, in his mind, since Jesus did not do what a psychopathic Roman-like Jewish king would have done, he “logically” concluded that Jesus was not the Messiah. And this humanistic insurrectionist could not possibly see how his reasoning could be faulty in any way whatsoever. He could never understand how the true God and Messiah would willingly sacrifice His body of flesh on a pagan Roman cross, in order to free both elect Jews and elect Gentiles from all lies and sins, and especially from the demonic kind of humanistic lies and sins practised by himself and fake churches.
But the other insurrectionist had obviously read the Scriptures, then heard God’s Spirit whisper His own true interpretations to his own human spirit. For this other criminal did not believe what the humanistic “leaders” of the false churches taught, but interpreted Messianic prophecies rightly. This other violent insurrectionist knew what Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 proclaimed about the Messiah, how His flesh had to die, to rescue Israel and the world from lies and sins. So he rebuked the slander of the humanistic insurrectionist. In his statements reflecting on how insurrectionists like themselves actually deserved to die on a cross, that second insurrectionist proved his repentance. For he was now proclaiming that salvation can never be achieved by physical acts of war, by men who exalt themselves as human gods, who delude themselves into believing they are able to rule over their own destinies and the lives of other human souls, by working false justice through terrorism, by committing violent crimes against their own siblings from humankind. Then, some time later, after internally and externally painful introspection and prayer, this other insurrectionist turned to Jesus and asked for His salvation, as though he knew Jesus was God. For, as a Jew, that man on the cross knew, with all certainty, that only God could do what his particular words asked Jesus to do for him.
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That other insurrectionist asked, “Jesus, remember me when You arrive in Your kingdom.” First of all, this Jewish man was addressing Jesus when he called God’s kingdom “Your kingdom.” And no Jew would dare to call God’s kingdom the sole property of another human being, not unless that one believed that the Spirit of life in that other human being was God Himself. Thus, he was addressing Jesus as his God, who had come to Israel in a body of human flesh, just the biblical prophecies said Yahweh God would come to them. This criminal recognized Jesus as the true, biblical Messiah. And, when this man on the cross slowing and painfully breathed out the words, “remember me when You arrive in Your kingdom,” he was dying, but believed that Jesus could save his eternal spirit after he died. He asked Jesus to remember how he repented from the lies that caused his violent crimes, how he confessed them, turned towards the truth, and paid the price of justice for his grievous sins. He was asking his God, Jesus, to forgive his sins through his repentance, and save him into heaven, into the eternal and more real realm that Jesus had created and owns. And Jesus knew he was saying all this. For Jesus did not respond to this man as to a defeated insurrectionist, but as the forgiving God.
Even in excruciating pain, where every breath for every word involved a tortuous pull upon His nailed hands and a push upon His nailed feet, Jesus sacrificed His last few moments on earth to tell that lonely and abandoned violent criminal: “Surely I reason with you, this day, with Me, you will be in paradise.” Therefore, Jesus here affirmed that He was now going to heaven, where He would sit on His throne of judgment. Here Jesus acknowledged that the place which this dying man called
“Your kingdom” was “paradise,” was the place we usually call “heaven.” And Jesus proclaimed that He was indeed going there that very day. Then Jesus also announce that He would also take that other repentant sinner into heaven too. Yet none but God had the right to accept or reject a spirit’s entrance into heaven. So here Jesus confirmed that heaven was His own personal kingdom, that He was able to enter heaven through His own personal will, because He is God, because the Creator’s Holy Spirit did indeed dwell in His body of flesh. Then Jesus declared that He held all authority and power over heaven, because He claimed to have already judged and acquitted that criminal of all the sins he had ever committed during his entire lifetime, since Jesus had claimed that this sinner would enter heaven with Him. All this included actions which none but God could do. Thus, when Jesus spoke these words, He clearly and deliberately claimed to be God, the Owner and Judge of heaven.
But, when Jesus spoke to that repentant criminal, He used only singular forms of “you,” both in a personal pronoun and in a verb (i.e., σοι and ἔσῃ). Therefore, Jesus did not include the other insurrectionist in this promise. We are forced to conclude that the eternal spirit of the insurrectionist on the other side would not enter paradise with Jesus that day, since Jesus deliberately excluded that other man from this promise, even as that other man was listening to this conversation. However, we must not stand with those who make themselves into the God and Judge of all men, who arrogantly state that other insurrectionist went to hell. From what we can tell from his words, that other man likely did go to hell, but we can never know for sure. For we cannot tell whether or not that other man had an elect or non-elect spirit. All we can tell is that the insurrectionist who repented must have had a loving and awake elect spirit, and therefore went directly to the gates of heaven. But the other insurrectionist was sent to sleep in the “skies” of heaven until the angels would be sent to wake him and take him to be judged on the final day. And only that judgment, by Jesus, would determine the motives and intentions of his spirit, then either send him to hell or prepare him for life in heaven.
We need to interpret all this in the light of all the other Scriptures. And, from God’s Word, we know that literally all human beings must first go to the judgment day at the gates of heaven after they die (i.e., all except the “beast” of the end times, who is Satan incarnate, who will be sent directly into the spiritual realm of hell, even as his flesh remains alive on earth). Then literally all the elect, among all Page 1840
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the humans who ever lived on earth, including those sent to sleep in heaven’s “skies,” will be taught and trained during the judgment day, until all are perfected and completed, so all may enter into the new Jerusalem, that is, into heaven proper. All all the elect will do so together, all at one time, after Jesus has finished judging them all, by personally teaching, training and purifying them all. So the
“paradise” which Jesus spoke about is not heaven proper, but refers to the gates of heaven, where His judgment of teaching and training will take place, to prepare the elect for heaven proper, to complete and perfect them. Jesus was actually saying this repentant insurrectionist would join Him there, at the gates of heaven, as one of the awakened elect now dwelling there. Yet not all the elect shall go there directly. Many elect souls shall sleep with the non-elect sinners until the appointed time of judgment, until God dissolves the material universe. Only the truly loving elect, with spirits that have heard and heeded the Holy Spirit of God, shall remain awake and walk there, until then.
Therefore, we cannot conclude that the other insurrectionist went to hell. God’s Word does not allow us to do that. For only our God Jesus is the Judge of all human beings. And no human being bears the knowledge, right or authority to judge the eternal fate of anyone. So, on the final day, Jesus just might find something good within that deluded humanist sinner hanging on the other cross. Jesus may see an elect spirit in him, that which He had created in the man at the beginning. Thus, when Jesus judges the majority of human beings, all whom He left to sleep in the skies above heaven until that last day, He might complete and perfect that unrepentant soul, so he will be able to enter heaven proper, together with the rest of the elect. On the other hand, he might be herded into hell with the multitudes of the non-elect at the beginning of that last day. We simply do not know. Nevertheless, there is one thing we definitely can conclude from those words Jesus spoke to the repentant sinner on the cross. We know that some elect will remain awake and together with Jesus in “paradise,” at the gates of heaven, from the very moment their flesh dies, until the end of the judgment day. Also, we can surmise that only humbled, honest and truly repentant elect, who confess that Jesus is indeed their God and Saviour, just like that repentant insurrectionist did, will go directly into that paradise.
Literally all the elect are twisted, perverted, broken and truly sinful. Yet some of us can admit it and learn to love a little, even in a just, equitable and God-like way, so we can go directly to paradise after death. But we also see that many others are just like the unrepentant humanist hanging on the other cross. Just as Matthew, an eye-witness of this event, wrote: “So those travelling by slandered Him, wagging their heads and reasoning, ‘The one tearing down the temple and building [it] up in three days, save Yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!’ Likewise also, the chief priests, mocking with the [biblical] scholars and elders, reasoned, ‘He saved others. He has no power to save Himself. He is “King of Israel.” Let Him descend now from the cross and we will place our trust upon Him. He had been thoroughly convinced about God. Now let Him rescue Him if He wills. For He said that, “I am the Son of God”’” (Mat. 27:39-43, from: οἱ δὲ παραπορευόμενοι
ἐβλασφήμουν αὐτὸν κινοῦντες τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν καὶ λέγοντες· Ὁ καταλύων τὸν ναὸν καὶ ἐν τρισὶν
ἡμέραις οἰκοδομῶν, σῶσον σεαυτόν· εἰ υἱὸς εἶ τοῦ θεοῦ, κατάβηθι ἀπὸ τοῦ σταυροῦ. ὁμοίως καὶ οἱ
ἀρχιερεῖς ἐμπαίζοντες μετὰ τῶν γραμματέων καὶ πρεσβυτέρων ἔλεγον· Ἄλλους ἔσωσεν, ἑαυτὸν οὐ
δύναται σῶσαι· βασιλεὺς Ἰσραήλ ἐστιν, καταβάτω νῦν ἀπὸ τοῦ σταυροῦ καὶ πιστεύσομεν ἐπʼ αὐτόν.
πέποιθεν ἐπὶ τὸν θεόν, ῥυσάσθω νῦν εἰ θέλει αὐτόν· εἶπεν γὰρ ὅτι Θεοῦ εἰμι υἱός, SBLGNT).
Most of the Jews passing by that day were humanists from the false church of Israel, and exactly like the fake “Christians” following Hitler and Trump in our day. They too worshipped false images of a humanistic heavenly god, fashioned in their own minds. Each imagined a simple idol for themselves, one whose thoughts were less complex than those of a cockroach. And, although they were utterly incapable of comprehending the reasoning and behaviours of a common cockroach, much less other Page 1841
human beings, they were very confident that they could precisely predict and fully analyze all the thoughts of the real Creator God, since they believed that their less-than-a-cockroach idol was the real Creator God. They all assumed that God, coming to them in a body of flesh, would not allow Himself to die on a cross, but would become a dictator who would exalt them into positions of esteem, wealth and authority over their own siblings in humankind. Consequently, they mocked their God when He did come to them and willingly died on a pagan Roman cross, by submitting to the malignant wills of their fake church’s chief idolaters. Because their worshipped idols and human gods totally ignored the prophecies of God’s Word, about Yahweh’s body of flesh dying to pay the devil’s demanded ransom for their spiritual freedom from captivity as sinners, they ignored these critical prophecies about the Messiah as well. For such concepts were far too complex and would interfere with their materialistic lusts and lives, with their foolish humanistic religion. Then they also rejected this biblical Messiah and King because they wanted a ruthless, unjust, Roman kind of king to rule over all of the world, one who would empower them to exploit, oppress, enslave and murder their own siblings within humankind. So they hated this genuine Messiah, their true King and God.
But our God Jesus carried on with His mission, nonetheless. For the infinite array of delusions and lies believed by Satan’s children did not matter to God. Jesus needed to sacrifice His body of flesh in the tortuous death that Satan’s fourth kingdom of Rome reserved for non-citizens and slaves, for all who rebelled against the wills of demons and human gods, whom those humanists esteemed and served. Jesus ignored those ignorant idol worshippers, who loved their countless false idols, their simplistic inanimate gods which each falsely named Yahweh—just as their ancestors did with the golden calf they forced Joshua to make in the days of Moses. And many of these same idolaters would also perish on a Roman cross or by a Roman sword, in the same way the idolaters did in the days of Moses, or in days of the Assyrians and Babylonians. For the Rome they served, the devil’s fourth kingdom they emulated, would soon turn against them. Their beloved ways of oppression, exploitation, murder and bigotry would utterly destroy their temple and their entire land within that generation. Yet Jesus’ work on the cross would endure for all time, even into all of heaven’s eternity.
This Jesus, their Messiah and Creator God, would indeed tear down the temple of His body, and the stone temple too. After they tore His body with barbed whips and crucified Him, the Spirit of God ceased giving life to that body, and His flesh did indeed perish. Yet our God Jesus also built up the temple of His body again, on the third day. Still, many of those humanists remained faithful to the simplistic fake idols they imagined for themselves, and refused to believe that Jesus raised His body from the dead. For those idol worshippers were unwilling to acknowledge the wisdom and power of their complex God, or any of His words recorded by His faithful servants, the prophecies, who said the Messiah would live after He died, that His destroyed temple would live to proclaim God’s truths in His congregation throughout the world. And their strong faith in their unbelief was very confident, since human gods—their false priests, lying biblical scholars and self-serving elders—reinforced their faithlessness to God, as well as their faithfulness to their imagined idols and their “leadership.”
To this day, humanistic priests, scholars and pastors insist that God saves others, but has no power to save Himself. For they imagine themselves to be great, wise and powerful human gods who need to defend their simplistic, weak and powerless idols whom they call by names like “Yahweh,” “God,”
or “Jesus.” So they draw their swords and murder honest souls who trust in the true, complex, wise, almighty Creator God, the first to name Himself Yahweh and Jesus. The “leaders” of false churches lie, censor and suppress the truth. They cheat and commit fraud, exploit and steal from the poor, hate and slander strangers, oppress and enslave their siblings, war against and murder the innocent, and break every law of God that Jesus came to fulfill in us and through us. And they do all this in the Page 1842
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name of their idols, whom they falsely call “God,” even while claiming that they are defending God, because they think God is to weak to defend Himself. For their hellish father commands their weak and enslaved wills to do all this, so that God’s name will be blasphemed in all the world. Yet none of these fakes will ever take the time to learn complex truths and wisdom from the real Creator God, so they can overcome evil with good, by nullifying the lies and works of Satan and build up God’s true kingdom on earth, by speaking truth and wisely applying truth through love in their spirits. Most do not want to do what the real God enjoins them to do, since they love the lies which will put money in their pockets, advance their careers and status, and delude their minds with egocentric self-worship.
Those “leaders” of fake churches promote their lies with entertaining shows, professional music, well-trained singers, carefully crafted humour and tear-jerking rhetoric. And the real God uses none of these flesh-oriented methods to teach any of His real truths and wisdom to the spirits of His true elect, because the true Creator God focuses on our spirits not on the emotions of our flesh. And the real God seeks our spirits’ godly sorrow over the delusions of our flesh, so our spirits might repent into the truth and gain eternal inner joy. So, when we see these entertainers and extremely effective flatterers use God’s spiritual Word to invoke emotions of the flesh so their people will believe their lies about our other siblings in the family of humankind, we know their sins will lead to a deep hell.
It is amazing how those self-proclaimed human gods can turn the attention of their audiences so completely towards delusions of the flesh, and so entirely away from spiritual truths and wisdom. In fact, some can even hold their people spell-bound for half an hour at at time, and some are even able to do so for longer periods of time. Nevertheless, their sole purpose is to pretend they are doing a spiritual work with their carnal practises, to convince their dupes that they are esteeming and serving God with their carefully interwoven lies and appeals to egos of flesh. And this falsely spiritual kind of fake worship must use God’s names and many religious terms to disguise their worship of their own selves. The pretense necessarily involves the worship of their invented little idols, and frequent repeating of words like“god,” “lord,” “king” and so on. Yet it all this pretense is a worse mockery of the real God than that of those fake chief priests, humanistic Bible scholars and false pastors, on that day long ago, as they mocked Jesus on the cross with a taunting jeer, “Save Yourself King of Israel.”
Well, since the life-giving Spirit in Jesus is actually the real Creator God, He did save Himself, but only according to His own predestined timing and plan, on the third day. For Jesus was not going to let those blaspheming, vain, wanna-be human gods tell Him when and how He should save Himself.
Yet all of the same kinds of liars today remain just as confident that Jesus will return when they say He should return, but certainly will not “descend now from the cross” to judge them, as He did to that generation of liars long ago. As they destroy themselves, their people and their lands, today’s fake pastors somehow think they will survive and prosper in Satan’s world order, and will gain even more of the devil’s invention of oppressing wealth and power when Jesus returns. But they too will die and face the consequences of their unbelief, lies and sins, just like those ancient Jewish liars did when Rome destroyed them and their land in about AD 70. Also, even if Jesus did perform a miracle, like descending from the cross, so He could please those liars but abandon all the elect to the lies and sins of Satan’s world order, so He could lead those psychopathic church “leaders” to a victory over their secular humanist brothers, those fakes still would not “place their trust upon Him.” For our God Jesus would never stop serving the poor whom those liars exploit and enslave. He would continue to help the strangers whom they slander and kill, the innocent whom they murder, and even His natural creations which they falsely claim to own and destroy for a quick and dirty profit. Since Jesus is wise, good and loving, those unwise, evil and unloving souls could never place any real faith in Him.
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Those false teachers of the fake church spoke three truths, to convince their people to believe their self-serving lies: (1) They admitted that Jesus was indeed the “King of Israel,” but only to trick Israel into hating and rejecting Him as their true Messiah and King; (2) They confessed that Jesus “had been thoroughly convinced about God,” that Jesus knew the will of God and His laws, but they said this to deceive their people into thinking Jesus did not know anything about God, and that they alone actually knew the laws and will of God; (3) And they also rightly testified that Jesus had claimed to be God, who came to them in a body of flesh as God incarnate, thee “Son of God,” but only so they could place an emphasis on their false doctrine that the Spirit of God is too powerful, and therefore not powerful enough, to dwell in a fragile body of human flesh. Then the supposed servants of God, the self-proclaimed experts on God and His Word, said: “Now let [God] rescue Him if He wills.”
Thus, by arrogantly granting the weak and needy Creator God their almighty permission to rescue Jesus, if the little God’s will dared to defy their greater human wills, those esteemed teachers and judges clearly proved to themselves and their dupes that they were mightier than the Creator God and the Creator God condemned Jesus as a blasphemous sinner. Of course, all this was just another dark delusion in their own irrational minds. And when the Creator God chose to rescue His own body of flesh from the grave, but according to His own timing—after He paid the full price for our sins and after He fulfilled the prophecy of Jonah—they still did not believe. So their pompous little declaration merely revealed that they they were not the gods of God, and that they knew absolutely nothing about God’s Word, nor anything about the real Creator God Himself. For the real Creator God had always taught that He would come in a body of human flesh, to save the elect Jews in His true priesthood of Israel, as well as all the elect Gentile spiritual heirs of a Gentile named Abraham.
God’s Word explicitly stated that He would do all this saving by sacrificing His own sinless body of flesh in death, in order to pay for lifetimes of sins, so all the spirits of His elect might enter into a New Covenant relationship with Him—so He could then personally teach and train each elect spirit until all knew Him, loved Him and began to fulfill His intended meanings of His laws. Thus, if those liars did know God’s Word and God’s will, they would have never provoked God by commanding Him to take Jesus down from the cross, to prove the impossible remote possibility that they had been wrong to condemn Him. Those fake teachers of Scriptures actually thought that, if Jesus truly was God incarnate and He rightly taught God’s Word, as Israel’s genuine Messiah and King, then God would obey their command and remove Jesus from that cross, fully healed and restored. And, if God did not obey their arrogant little command, then it would prove that either: (1) God agreed with their great omniscient judgments against Jesus, or (2) God did not actually exist. But those humanists could never imagine, in their vain little deluded minds, that a real God might not obey their vile, self-serving wills. In their minds, the Creator God is just a domesticated pet who belongs to and obeys human gods, like a trained dog who instantly sicks their enemies whenever they command it, or instantly brings them sacks of money and titles of esteem whenever they say “fetch.” For all humanists are such tremendously poor spellers that they can never differentiate between words like
“god” and “dog.” And the egos of humanists are so great that they become entirely irrational. So those human gods could not reason that other possible courses of action were also possible. They did not understand that, perhaps, they might not be the gods of God, but God might be the God of them, and they were but mere deluded, powerless, manipulated fools. To them, it was unthinkable that God might allow His own body of flesh to die for the sins of the world’s elect, as His Word prophesied.
By ignoring the lies and taunts of the “leaders” and dupes in the fake church, and remaining true to His mission of dying on a cross from Satan’s fourth kingdom, Jesus provided solid evidence of His full and plenary knowledge of the Scriptures. On that cross, Jesus demonstrated that He was indeed Page 1844
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the true Messiah, King and God of Israel. More than all His miracles of healing, raising the dead and commanding terrified demonic spirits to bow to Him in full submission, His death fulfilled the clear Messianic prophecies of the Bible, providing a convincing proof of our faith in Him as our Saviour from the destructive deceptions, delusions and compelling sins of the devil’s world order. We only needed one more work from the true Messiah, so He could complete His prophesied salvation. We required His body of God to rise from the dead, so that His Holy Spirit could then personally teach and train our spirits, even as our spirits still dwelt in the flesh that He had sanctified by His death.
Mat. 27:45-54,
The Works in His Death
“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?’ That is, ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?’ Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, ‘This Man is calling Elijah.’ Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink. The rest said, ‘Let Him be.
Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save Him.’ Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up His Spirit.
“Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split. The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many. Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, ‘Truly this was the Son of God’” (Mat. 27:45-54, WEB).
So the dupes of the false churches remained deluded, since they somehow expected God to send Elijah to rescue Jesus from dying on the cross, but could not see how His death was prophesied and absolutely necessary for their own salvation. For they had memorized the Scriptures which said that the “Suffering Servant,” whom Isaiah himself had identified as the Messiah and their God, had to die for their iniquities. They also memorized Psalm 22, which described the Messiah’s death on the cross in great detail. And they actually thought that memorizing those Scriptures was enough to save them from hell, even though they did not even begin to understand or believe those Scriptures. Then they saw their God in a body of flesh commit suicide, as He “yielded up His Spirit” from His body of flesh. They saw the moment that the Saviour of all the elect in the world chose to fulfill the first aspect of His salvation, by allowing His sinless body of flesh to fall lifeless and dead on the cross.
Now, as Jesus worked His death, He gave us miraculous signs. And He quoted the first verse of Psalm 22 in the Hebrew language, just as a Rabbi would do if He wanted His disciples to recite the rest of the Psalm out loud. These were the final hours of His earthly natural life and ministry, so the mind of His flesh cried out in a painful lament. Matthew, an eye witness, told us: “Now, from the sixth hour, darkness happened upon all the land, until the ninth hour. Yet, about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ [or an English transliteration may be: ‘Eli, Eli, lamah azabtani?’]. This means, ‘My God, My God, for what reason did You leave Me behind?’ So some, having stood and watched there, after hearing [this], were reasoning that this One is calling for Elijah. And immediately, after running and taking a sponge filled with sour wine, then placing [it] on a reed, one of them gave [it] for Him to drink. But the rest said, ‘Leave [Him]. We should see if Elijah is coming, [if he] will be saving Him.’ So Jesus again cried out with a loud voice. He laid Page 1845
aside [His] Spirit” (Mat. 27:45-50, from: Ἀπὸ δὲ ἕκτης ὥρας σκότος ἐγένετο ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἕως
ὥρας ἐνάτης. περὶ δὲ τὴν ἐνάτην ὥραν ἀνεβόησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς φωνῇ μεγάλῃ λέγων· Ἠλὶ ἠλὶ λεμὰ
σαβαχθάνι; τοῦτʼ ἔστιν· Θεέ μου θεέ μου, ἱνατί με ἐγκατέλιπες; τινὲς δὲ τῶν ἐκεῖ ἑστηκότων
ἀκούσαντες ἔλεγον ὅτι Ἠλίαν φωνεῖ οὗτος. καὶ εὐθέως δραμὼν εἷς ἐξ αὐτῶν καὶ λαβὼν σπόγγον
πλήσας τε ὄξους καὶ περιθεὶς καλάμῳ ἐπότιζεν αὐτόν. οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ ἔλεγον· Ἄφες ἴδωμεν εἰ ἔρχεται
Ἠλίας σώσων αὐτόν. ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς πάλιν κράξας φωνῇ μεγάλῃ ἀφῆκεν τὸ πνεῦμα, SBLGNT).
Matthew was writing before the temple was destroyed in AD 70. So he, like Mark and Luke, used the local Jewish reckoning of time, meaning that the sixth hour referred to the hour between eleven in the morning and noon. Then the ninth hour indicated the hour between two and three o’clock in the afternoon. Therefore, darkness covered the land during this brightest part of the day, likely due to very dark clouds without rain. But the darkness ceased by the beginning of the ninth hour. So, by the wording here, some may assume that it was dark for a three hours. However, if it was dark from sometime near the end of the sixth hour until just before the ninth hour began, then it remained dark for less than two hours. For it only includes a part of the sixth hour, the whole of the seventh hour, plus a part of the eighth hour, and became light again by the ninth hour. And the same is true with the reckoning of days. The Jewish term “three days and three nights” indicated any parts of the first and third days, plus the whole day between. So it could be any amount of time between 24 and 72 hours.
Regardless, it was Jesus who caused this darkness, up to the moment of His death, then restored the light again within the ninth hour, as a sign to His disciples. So it seemed to be a sign that they would be without His presence for parts of three periods of time. That is, Jesus related the parts of the three hours to the parts of the “three days and three nights” in which His body would remain in the tomb.
Then, before Jesus body died, He cried out twice. Now, the first time He cried out, He loudly quoted the first clause of Psalm 22. And He was clearly addressing His disciples standing there. Yet, when a rabbi did such a thing, it was usually a signal that he wanted His disciples to recite that Scripture, and to do so in the language He was speaking. Of course we know that, during His earthly ministry, Jesus served us primarily as our Teacher or Rabbi. Thus, He would have very often led His disciples, especially the twelve, in many Bible studies. And Jesus surely taught them about Psalm 22, carefully explaining the truths and wisdom found there, and expounding on the nuances of meaning indicated by the original Hebrew language. Then, just as rabbis have always done for students who do not know Hebrew, Jesus would have helped them memorize that psalm in Hebrew, so they could more easily recall all that He taught them about the true and intended meanings of the very words that God’s Holy Spirit stirred the prophets to write for Israel and the world. Also, whenever they had some spare time, Jesus would likely loudly call out the first verse, expecting His disciples to recite the entire psalm in Hebrew, while also recalling the true meaning and implications of that psalm.
So—just before He died, within the time of darkness that seemed to represent the time He would remain in the tomb—Jesus seemed to want all His disciples to recite Psalm 22 in its original Hebrew language and meditate upon it true meaning. But what does this psalm mean? What did Jesus tell His disciples to remember while His body remained in the tomb? We must know this, since we are His disciples too. Psalm 22 is a Messianic prophecy, where David, an ancestor of Jesus’ body, personally felt and described the agony of the Messiah during His bodily death, as well as His resurrection from the dead. The first 18 verses prophesy about the Messiah’s death. Then the last 13 verses are about how God answers His prayer and raises His body from the dead, so He can continue to serve God.
Psalm 22 begins with the Messiah’s body being left behind, abandoned or forsaken. Jesus quoted the first verse: “My God, My God, for what reason did You leave Me behind?” This indicates what the Messiah’s mind and body of flesh were saying to His Spirit, who is God. For Matthew then tells us, Page 1846
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“He laid aside [His] Spirit.” So Jesus’ body of flesh “laid aside” the Spirit of God, which gave His body life. Then His body of flesh was asking that Spirit of God, “For what reason did You leave Me behind?” Why did the Spirit of God in the Messiah, the Spirit which gave life to that body, remove Himself forsake His body of flesh? Why did the Spirit of God command His flesh to release its grasp on His Spirit which kept it alive and conscious? Well, both this Psalm and Isaiah explained the reason. The Spirit of life in Jesus had to leave His flesh behind in death as a sinless sacrifice for our sins. And keep in mind that the Spirit of life in Jesus is the whole of God. So the voice that cried out came from Jesus’ mind of flesh, speaking from Jesus’ soul, was asking why God, the Spirit giving that body life, was now forsaking it, allowing it to die. Yes, His mind of flesh was told the reason.
Yet it still asked, since it is impossible for amoral flesh to comprehend this kind of spiritual reason.
Now look at the rest of this psalm Jesus wanted His disciples to remember. In this prophesied death of the Messiah, it declared that He would be treated like “a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people” (Ps. 22:6, WEB). Likewise, it also prophesied, “All those who see Me mock me. They insult Me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying, ‘He trusts in Yahweh; let Him deliver Him. Let Him rescue Him, since He delights in Him’” (vv. 7-8, WEB). Then this prophecy about the Messiah’s death ends with these words: “I am poured out like water. All My bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within Me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of My mouth. You have brought Me into the dust of death.
For dogs have surrounded Me. A company of evildoers have enclosed Me. They have pierced My hands and feet. I can count all of My bones. They look and stare at Me. They divide My garments among them. They cast lots for My clothing” (vv. 14-18, WEB). All this was fulfilled on that day.
Literally all these details, prophesied more than a thousand years before Jesus was crucified, were fulfilled on that Passover day in AD 28. Here David very accurately described the extremely ignoble manner of death which He, the Messiah, endured that day, a death which Rome reserved for those whom they “reproached,” “despised” and dehumanized, then killed like “worms” on a fishing hook, as though those human souls were “not men” whom God’s justice shall avenge. Then David’s psalm quoted the chief priests, Jewish pastors and their minions, all those haters of God who mocked Jesus and wagged their heads at Him, although David wrote the meaning of their Greek words in Hebrew:
“He trusts in Yahweh; let Him deliver Him. Let Him rescue Him, since He delights in Him.” Then David somehow revealed precisely what Jesus felt while dying on a Roman cross, as though David’s own body actually experienced that death. And this psalm did indeed prophesy that the Messiah would be “brought into the dust of death” by the “evildoers” who “pierced His hands and feet,” as
“they divided His garments among them” and “cast lots for His clothing.” Matthew and the other disciples witnessed these events with their eyes, this death that God predestined in the beginning.
So Jesus, by quoting the first verse of this psalm, wanted His disciples to recite the whole Psalm, so they would remember that He was ordained to die on the cross, exactly in this prophesied way. Yet, even more importantly, Jesus was telling His disciples to remember the psalm’s conclusion. For the psalm also prophesied that the Messiah would pray for God to deliver His life from the “sword,”
meaning from the authorities bearing the right to use the sword for war and executions. And the psalm also seemed to call those authorities “the power of the dog,” which indicates a Gentile power and authority (see v. 20). So the psalm implied that the Messiah would die by the will of a Gentile authority, and the Messiah wanted God to deliver Him from them after He had been “brought into the dust of death,” that is, after He was dead and buried in the dust of the ground. Then this psalm prophesied that God answered the Messiah’s prayer (v. 21b). So the psalm prophesied that, after the Messiah’s death and burial in the dust, that same Messiah would later live to declare God’s name Page 1847
throughout the earth, to all who seek and fear God. That same Messiah would rise to live again, to proclaim: “Of you comes My praise in the great assembly. I will pay My vows before those who fear Him. The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after Him. Let your hearts live forever. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before You. For the kingdom is Yahweh’s. He is the ruler over the nations”
(Ps. 22:25-28, WEB). Thus, the death of the Messiah would occur for the good of God-fearing souls in all lands upon the earth, and for all time, because God would raise the Messiah to life again, so He would be able to preach to all who respected God, all who seek His truths for their own deliverance.
David ended the psalm with these words: “With abundance on earth, all will eat and worship before Him. All who go down to the dust, even he who cannot keep himself alive, will bow before Him. An offspring will serve Him. It will be told about the Lord to the next generation. They will come and show His righteousness to a people who will be born, because He had done [this]” (Ps. 22:29-31, ALT). Keep in mind here, in verses 22 to 31, that David is actually telling us that the Messiah will preach after He rises from the dead. So, after His resurrection, the Holy Spirit of God in Jesus will personally teach all these things to each God-fearing elect soul on earth, and train each one how to fulfill God’s laws and ways, how to rightly “serve” Him, in a way that would fulfill all of God’s New Covenant promises outlined by Isaiah’s prophecies a few hundred years later. All will learn to work His righteous kind of love for all. Each will serve Yahweh and Jesus Himself, since this passage does not distinguish between Yahweh and the Messianic King. Jesus will do this even for the deceased, for those “who go down to the dust.” Even the elect who died in the past will learn to bow before Yahweh and Jesus on the final judgment day. And all future generations will be told about the Lord, about the Messiah too, how He died on a cross and rose from the dead. This Messianic psalm clearly prophesied a great hope for all past, present and future elect in all history, even until the earth’s end.
However, not all the Jews standing there that day were Jesus’ disciples, and some had no knowledge of Hebrew. Consequently, some mistook the first Hebrew words of Psalm 22, “Eli, Eli,” as a call for Elijah. For, to the Greek-speaking Jews, those from Galilee and from the diaspora for the Passover celebration, the Hebrew word (“eli”) sounds exactly like the vocative form of the Greek version of Elijah’s proper name (Ἡλί, pronounced “eli,” with a long “e/a” and long “i,” is the vocative form of Ἡλίας). “So some, having stood and watched there, after hearing [this], were reasoning that this One is calling for Elijah. And immediately, after running and taking a sponge filled with sour wine, then placing [it] on a reed, one of them gave [it] for Him to drink. But the rest said, ‘Leave [Him]. We should see if Elijah is coming, [if he] will be saving Him.’” Because some thought Jesus called out for Elijah, and because the prophecies of Scripture said Elijah would come to prepare the way for their Messiah, these Greek-speaking Jews were excited. They hoped Elijah would ride in on a white horse, down from heaven, followed by an invincible army, to rescue Jesus and destroy the entire Roman army, including all the elect Gentiles among them. They had seen Jesus perform great miracles and wonders. So now they wanted yet another sign from God, and watched the skies for a heavenly deliverance, like the chariots of fire that struck the Syrian army blind in the days of Elisha (II Kings 6:15-23). But that deliverance merely made their enemies into their captives, which God later set free. And now they preferred the kind of salvation which slaughtered the pagan Assyrian soldiers of Sennacherib in Isaiah’s day (II Kings 19:35). Yet, needless to say, our God Jesus chose to do neither kind on that day. For the elect of the world needed God’s truth and wisdom, not heavenly armies which took captive or slaughtered the Romans. A time of judgment and wrath would come, but after the teaching and training by His Holy Spirit had separated and sanctified the elect, after His New Covenant salvation had taught all His Jewish and Gentile elect to flee from Satan’s world order.
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Jesus wet His lips, tongue and throat with the sour wine they gave Him. “So Jesus again cried out with a loud voice.” And after this, “He laid aside His Spirit.” That is, Jesus’ body of flesh released its clinging grasp on the Spirit of God in it, and allowed itself to die. But Matthew did not tell us what Jesus said when He cried out the second time, after Jesus had quoted the first verse of Psalm 22.
Matthew was there. So he heard His words, but did not report them. Why did Matthew not tell us what Jesus said? We know Jesus’ last words from the other Gospels. They were in Greek, and Jesus said: “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit. It has been accomplished with this good result”
(Luke 23:46 and John 19:30, ALT). Luke must have discovered Jesus’ last words (i.e., the first part, with His declaration to the Father) from another eye-witness whom he had interviewed. Then John was also an eye witness of Jesus’ death, and wrote down only the final sentence uttered by Jesus in His final prayer. Yet Matthew did not reveal anything that Jesus “cried out with a loud voice.” Why did Matthew refuse to tell us what Jesus shouted? Also, Mark found a witness who said Jesus cried out just before He let His body die, but likewise did not record His words. And we are sure Mark wrote his Gospel first. Then Luke wrote his a few years later, followed by Matthew’s Gospel a few years after that. And all these three wrote their Gospels before the temple’s destruction in AD 70.
Then John wrote his Gospel in the late 80s or early 90s. Also, Matthew wrote to a Jewish audience while the other three Gospels were written for Gentile believers. Thus, the audiences and times of the four Gospels do not indicate why Luke recorded the first sentence of Jesus’ last words, while neglecting to write down the second, or why John, the eye-witness who wrote his Gospel last, at the end of the first century and for a Gentile audience, did not record the first sentence, only the second.
To understand why the Gospel writers seemed reluctant to record all of the very last words of Jesus spoken before His death and resurrection, we need to understand the way that Jews and Gentiles highly esteemed the last words of a dying person, which is a custom some still carry to this day. Last words were considered to be legally binding and almost infallible, sometimes even prophetic. Of all the words a person spoke in life, one’s very last words were considered to be the most important. So we can see, from the start, that the apostles, who had all been thoroughly taught by Jesus and by His Holy Spirit before they wrote their Gospels, obviously did not like that superstition. Next, we also need to comprehend how Jewish enemies of Jesus would have twisted and abused the first sentence of Jesus’ last words. During His ministry, Jesus claimed to be the true Messiah, and the Scriptures prophesied that the Messiah would be God incarnate. So, since the Bible also taught that God was one God, many Jews foolishly thought that God could only be in one place at one time, and could only speak to them as one Person, within His own creation of time and space. Yes, they also believed God could know all things, and have all power. But those Jews somehow insisted that God had to exist within the same limitations as their own human bodies and spirits, and could be only speak as one Person at a time and in physical space. Therefore, when Jesus said He committed His Spirit to the heavenly Father, they surely would have taken His last words as positive proof that, in the very end, Jesus admitted, with His infallible dying words, that He was not God, and, therefore, that He was not the Messiah. Of course, the apostles saw the irrational reasoning behind this, and knew that God, who is a Spirit, was not subject to the physical limitations of time and space. But the apostles also had to prevent their enemies from using lies, superstitions, conspiracy theories and the like as ammunition in their war against the real God. And, if they revealed the last words of Jesus, they would need to endure endless babbling tripe from those illogical and unreasoning Jewish hypocrites, who refused to hear truth or reasoning based on the Scriptures. And Jesus’ last words were not nearly as critical for their elect brothers and sisters to know as the His teaching before and after His death.
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The disciples of Jesus, especially the well-taught elders called apostles, realized that Jewish enemies of Jesus, those proclaiming “God is one” like a pagan magical mantra, were hypocrites, and far too blind to realize what they claiming about God, that it was actually vile and blasphemous. For they were actually claiming that God did not really create the first day on earth, nor the material universe surrounding the earth. Rather, they were claiming that the material universe created God, then took God captive and limited God to being one Person at one time in one small amount of personal space.
But, if God created all physical and spiritual realities, then God clearly must have preexisted before all. So God, who is a Spirit, cannot possibly be limited by His temporary creations of material time and space, nor by any energy defining the dimensions of a body in that space-time continuum. Nor could God even be subject to the non-linear time and space of the eternal and far less limiting realm consisting entirely of spiritual energy, and without laws of entropy. The real God, who created these realms, could easily limit Himself within the times and laws of His material and spiritual creations, for any amounts of time, but only while also existing completely outside those times and laws at the same time. Logically, the real God must always exists outside and apart from time, and He is the only timeless Entity. God alone is without a beginning or end, without any defining space or energy.
If the real God preexisted all, then He still exists as the same immutable God He was before He created all. So, if He previously existed outside of all created time, space and energy, then He must still exist outside of all created material and spiritual time, space and energy. Consequently, the real God could never be limited by any kind of time, space or energy, neither on the temporary earth nor in His eternal heaven. Logically, this also means that the real God is perfectly able to relate to His creations, both on earth and in heaven, as any number of Persons He chooses to be, where all those Persons of the one and only Creator God exist simultaneously, all at the same time, even while He also remains ubiquitous within all of His creations. Of course, all the Persons which God chose to be would be harmoniously one too, and all His Persons would possess exactly the same mind, thoughts and attributes, because God is one and can only ever be one. All need be one Spirit existing outside of all His created times and spaces. Then we, His creations, would need to relate to each Person of God differently, because each Person of God relates to us differently. For God chose to speak to our spirits as our Father who builds the spiritual structure of our eternal lives, as our oldest Brother who teaches and trains our spirits about the Father’s ways, and as our Counsellor dwelling in our hearts.
The only logical way that a god could actually be bound by time and space, in a way where that god is always limited to an existence as only one person, forcing that god to relate to all other entities on earth and in heaven as only one entity with one voice, would be if that god was a created god. For such a god cannot be the real Creator God. Only false gods need to submit to the same limitations of time and space that all created spirits and bodies are forced to endure. Thus, all the Jews who cry out
“God is one!” and insist that God is bound to the same limitations as false gods—even while God’s own words proclaim Him to be a Spirit who speaks to us as our Father, our Brother and the Holy Spirit—are warring against the real Creator God. Then those irrational fools, who worship a false god, do the works of their false god, by murdering those who speak the truth against them. Those Jews are actually pagan idolaters, who created a fake god in their own minds and hate the real God.
Of course, no one is able to reason with those who create their own fake realities in their own minds, who hate the light and violently defend the darkness of their own beloved delusions and lies. That kind only ever wants to destroy the light which threatens to expose their cherished delusions. They strive to safely hide their created gods of money and power from truth, as well as their other stick-men and sock puppets manipulated by human hands in the shadows. Thus, the apostles did not want to make any attempt to reason with them. Trying to do so would be throwing the pearls of Jesus’ last Page 1850
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words to those swine, to be trampled under their feet. But let the elect realize that, before His death, Jesus did commit His Spirit of God to the care of another Person of God, to His heavenly Father, since both are one. And, because Jesus said and did this, He was saying that the one and only Creator God would continue to relate to elect human souls on earth, both as their Brother and Father, for the eternal salvation of their spirits created in His image. In other words, although Jesus’ body was given over to death, His works on earth for the salvation of His people certainly would be fully completed.
This brings us to that very last sentence uttered by Jesus, the one John recorded. In Greek, that entire sentence was encapsulated in just one verb, the perfect passive indicative third person singular form of τελέω. And what was so odd about Jesus saying this was the fact that this form of that verb (τετέλεσται) was the victory cry used by Greek-speaking Roman soldiers of the time. Whenever they vanquished an enemy, and could then enjoy the plunder and rewards of their victory, they would all join in loudly chanting, “Τετέλεσται!” For, to them, this form of that verb meant, “The battle has been fully completed and finished, with current and ongoing results and effects that are very good,”
or simply, “It has been accomplished with this good result.” Everyone in east knew that this was a Roman victory cry. So why did our God Jesus, the promised Jewish Messiah and King of Israel, choose to utter that pagan Roman victory cry as His very last word before His body died? Well, His disciples, to whom He had thoroughly taught the end-time prophecies, knew why, although many other Jews did not. His disciples knew the prophecies of Daniel, that Rome was the fourth religious, anti-God kingdom of Satan, the purest evil in the devil’s kingdom of the world order. And this is why Jesus chose to die on a Roman cross, to pay Satan’s ransom and set His elect free from the delusions, lies and resulting sins of that devil’s world order, especially from the bondage of that demon’s fourth kingdom. So the moment Jesus’ body died, and that ransom had been paid in full for every elect soul in all past history and in all the future, for every elect sinner whom Jesus named in the beginning, at creation, long before His utterly sinless flesh died, Jesus gave the Roman victory cry against Rome, to indicated His complete victory, with the freedom of the elect as a result. What could be a better last word for our God and King, as He celebrated His total victory over Satan and his prized fourth kingdom? Surely Rome’s victory cry, shouted as they chained their slaves, was the only appropriate cry against them, by the King who conquered them, as He was freeing His elect siblings from them.
Yet this Roman victory cry could also be misconstrued by the Jewish enemies of God. Although Jesus used it to proclaim His final victory over Satan’s kingdom, and over Rome in particular, to cause rejoicing in the elect who would receive the spoils of His victory directly from His Holy Spirit, those God-haters would not see it as such. Rather, they would all mock His victory cry, and claim that He lost His battle against Rome, because His body died, and because they also refuse to believe in the biblical New Covenant salvation of elect spirits, nor in the resurrection of Jesus to become the Teacher who works that salvation. Those Jews would continue to claim that Rome won that battle, even to this day. They were exactly like Trump supporters who continue to claim that he won the election which he lost. For those humanistic false Jews inwardly loved Satan’s fourth kingdom, although most railed against it. And they proved their love of Rome by their continuous ambitions and hopes to emulate Rome. They all wanted to live by unjust Roman-based laws of terrorism, so they could oppress exploited “inferiors.” And they all loved Satan’s invention of money, with its financial systems that proved very useful in maintaining their power to starve and destroy those who did not bow before them. In essence, every last one of those Jewish enemies of Jesus actually adored and served that devil’s religion of Roman humanism, since each could falsely claim to be one’s own god ruling one’s own destiny, even a god of those one could subjugate through lies or even violence.
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Thus, all of Jesus’ true disciples witnessed the death of His body on that cross, and all heard what He cried out in a loud voice just before His Spirit left His body of flesh to die. Yet two of the Gospels did not record those last words, and the other two Gospels each told us only one part of what Jesus actually said, and each seemed to intentionally neglect to mention the other part. It also appears that all four Gospels edited out at least some of His last words for “political” reasons—so they would not need to engage in the futile exercise of lengthy debates with false Jews, who would use their crafty rhetoric to slander Jesus. All seemed to know that those humanistic Jews would never even think of considering the reasons for the last words of Jesus, what they truly were. So they omitted the words.
Then the events after Jesus’ sinless body of flesh died on that cross immediately proved His last words to be true. Matthew, an honest and God-fearing Jewish eye-witness of the bodily death of Jesus, who was also dwelling in Jerusalem at the time of that day’s events, told us: “And look, the curtain covering the door of the temple divided into two, from the top all the way to the bottom.
Then the earth shook and the rocks cracked. Even the tombs were opened and many bodies of the sanctified ones, those having been permanently put to rest, were raised up. The people having come out of the tombs also entered into the holy city after His resurrection, and they were plainly seen by many. So the centurion and those guarding Jesus with him, after seeing the earthquake and the things happening, became very afraid, saying, ‘Truly this was a son of a god’” (Mat. 27:51-54, from: καὶ
ἰδοὺ τὸ καταπέτασμα τοῦ ναοῦ ἐσχίσθη ἀπʼ ἄνωθεν ἕως κάτω εἰς δύο, καὶ ἡ γῆ ἐσείσθη, καὶ αἱ
πέτραι ἐσχίσθησαν, καὶ τὰ μνημεῖα ἀνεῴχθησαν καὶ πολλὰ σώματα τῶν κεκοιμημένων ἁγίων
ἠγέρθησαν, καὶ ἐξελθόντες ἐκ τῶν μνημείων μετὰ τὴν ἔγερσιν αὐτοῦ εἰσῆλθον εἰς τὴν ἁγίαν πόλιν
καὶ ἐνεφανίσθησαν πολλοῖς. Ὁ δὲ ἑκατόνταρχος καὶ οἱ μετʼ αὐτοῦ τηροῦντες τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἰδόντες τὸν
σεισμὸν καὶ τὰ γενόμενα ἐφοβήθησαν σφόδρα λέγοντες· Ἀληθῶς θεοῦ υἱὸς ἦν οὗτος, SBLGNT).
So the war-hardened Roman centurion and his soldiers had witnessed the extremely unusual sight of a crowd lovingly worshipping this condemned criminal named Jesus, although few had ever came to support any of the others they crucified, lest those supporters might also come under suspicion as partakers in the crucified criminal’s crimes. And, after darkness had covered the land for more than two hours previously, those Romans then experienced a powerful earthquake, at the very moment Jesus released His last breath. So the darkness had cleared away, just as Jesus’ body died in the ninth hour, but this light was accompanied by a quake, and the epicentre of that quake must have been in the Jewish temple, since it tore open the curtain between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies, where God’s Spirit resided. Thus, these pagan soldiers began to think Jesus must have been some kind of a god from their Roman pantheon. But they should have been even far more afraid than they were of their pagan gods, since they had just crucified the Son of the one and only Creator God who ruled over all the demons worshipped by pagan Rome. On behalf of Rome, those soldiers tortured and murdered the body in whom the Creator’s Spirit dwelt. So, from then on, humanistic precepts of Satan, the foundation of their fourth kingdom, would begin to erode. Rome’s end began. It would slowly deteriorate until Jesus returned to utterly destroy it, and kill all its true citizens upon the earth.
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worse than any of the sins committed against His people or His other creations. After all, the sins directly against God always cause the sins against His creations. Conversely, fulfilling the laws of the first four orders always results in fulfilling the laws of last six orders, and the whole of His Law.
Therefore, because that false church deliberately broke all God’s laws of the first four orders, God’s wrath would fall on them far faster and heavier than it would upon pagan Rome. For Rome had only intentionally broken God’s laws of the last six orders, and unintentionally broke the laws of the first four orders, through complete ignorance. Only the false church knew God’s Law, yet intentionally broke the first four orders of His laws by: (1) basing their decisions on the wills of foreign gods like Mammon and their wanna-be human gods; (2) by deliberately fashioning doctrines which falsely entitled those foreign gods to worship; (3) by taking God’s name in vain, since they taught those same false doctrines as though they were proclaiming them through His authority; and (4) by refusing to enter into the atonement of God, which restored communion with Him, so their spirits could dwell in the eternal Sabbath rest of God’s acceptance. Those fake Jews did all these crimes.
Clearly, those fake Jews preferred other gods before God. They held other gods in much greater esteem than the one Creator God, and heeded only those man-made idols. Also, that false church consciously emulated and served Satan’s invention of currency, as well as human gods in their own man-made hierarchies designed to oppress “inferiors.” Like all Roman humanists, those priest and scholars in that rogue Jewish council imagined themselves to be the gods of their own fates and their own independent providers of all their own needs, without acknowledging or being grateful for the foundational works of providence done by God and by His exploited elect children. Thus, those fools bowed before and worshipped man-made images and delusions, rather than the unseen and real God Himself. Furthermore, the false church took the name of their God in vain, by lying about Him and His words, by inventing false doctrines, then called those carnal dreams and other imaginings the teachings or even “prophecies” of God. And all those false teachings and fake prophecies in His name severely slandered God’s good name over all the earth. On top of all this, that false church also refused to rest in the trust of the true God, then kept everyone else from entering into God’s eternal Sabbath rest too. Instead, they deliberately heaped up man-invented rule upon rule, to transform God’s Sabbath into an odious labour that esteemed only themselves and other human gods, instead of the real God. And they did all this as God’s Word lay open before them, to blaspheme His Spirit.
Because they intentionally committed all these sins of the first four orders, God decided to let the ones they hated the most, but also those whom they emulated the most, destroy them. God chose to let Rome crush that humanistic false Jewish church, that subject kingdom in Rome. Within a century, Rome slaughtered most of that false church, destroyed their temple headquarters, and enslaved many of their survivors. Then Rome continued to persecute that false church throughout history, and still remains antisemitic to this day, since psychopaths hold grudges forever. But let elect Jews trapped in that false church, and elect Gentiles trapped in the rest of Satan’s fourth kingdom, realize that God never inflicts His punishment on evil churches and nations through a Roman kind of revenge. For the Satanic and Roman kind of revenge seeks to repay evil with evil, even the kind of evil which they themselves caused or had no ability to prevent. But God has always had an ability to prevent all evil, and only allows the evil which is required to teach spirits His ways. So the only reason God punishes evil is to provide His warning rebukes, as a call for His elect to repent. And God grants His elect in a fake church, and the elect in all of Rome’s subject kingdoms, time to repent. So let the elect repent, after seeing the curtain over the door to the temple’s Holy of Holies prophetically ripped open by an earthquake, even at the moment of Jesus’ death; or after seeing a resurrection of the dead elect at that same time as well; or after seeing their Messiah rise from the dead within three Page 1853
days; or after hearing His honest, gentle, loving disciples preach the true Gospel and explain the biblical prophecies about the Messiah’s first advent; or after centuries of seeing the grievous lies of fake churches and the fourth kingdom repeatedly exposed. For He will never repay evil with evil.
Yet many still doubt the words of our honest, faithful Matthew. Those who were not with Jesus, nor in Jerusalem on that day, refuse to believe Matthew’s historical account of how the curtain, covering the entrance to the Holy of Holies, tore apart from top to bottom. They say there was no earthquake, no resurrection of the God-sanctified dead elect who lived by true faith in God, and no resurrection of Jesus either. In fact, some even claim that Jesus did not die on the cross. They insist that Jesus actually lived through that torture He was subjected to (which is physically impossible), and was not pierced with a Roman spear after He died. For they love Satan’s fourth kingdom, and human gods in it, enough to make themselves into human gods while denying that Jesus is God. They imagine a story in which Jesus died a natural death, after raising a family. For they want to portray Jesus as an ordinary man like themselves, while also extolling their own superiority as human gods, while they claim to be far more rational and wise than those who do believe the Gospels of the honest disciples.
Laying aside all that irrational nonsense, based entirely upon speculations and their own imagined proofs supported by a total lack of evidence, we should more closely examine the record of events written by the honest servants of God. Then we can believe what they wrote, and even refute those liars with genuine archaeological evidence too, since it always confirms the details found in biblical accounts and never contradicts anything recorded in them. First, think of how the primary work of the prophesied Messiah was to establish a New Covenant relationship between His priesthood of Israel and the true Creator God. Then also notice how, before Israel’s Old Covenant relationship with God began, God never asked any of His faithful servants to build Him a temple, no place where He promised to maintain His presence or allow His people access to His counsel. For, up to the days of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, all His solitary priests descended from Seth, simply worshipped the ubiquitous, omnipresent, invisible Creator from wherever they stood, and needed no temple, nor any kind of man-made image to worship as a representation of the one true Creator. Likewise, all the judging elders and prophets in Jacob’s family priesthood did the same, up to the day God made His temporary Old Covenant with them through Moses. Then, in the days of Moses, God commanded His family of priests in Israel to construct a tent, in which He would symbolically dwell with them.
For more than four centuries, that portable tent (sometimes called a tabernacle), moved wherever God wanted it to move, but always among His priesthood of Israel, both as they travelled in the wilderness and in different places within the promised land He granted to them forever. But God told Moses that He would choose one particular place for that tabernacle, in their promised land, and that place would forever be the one and only place where that tabernacle or tent could stand. And only in the days of David was that chosen place found. So David set the tabernacle in that spot. After this, God called David’s son, Solomon, to replace that tent with a stone building, to indicate that this was the permanent place He had forever chose to reveal His presence on earth, until the earth ended.
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and teach the earth from His one chosen place on earth, where no image of Himself was ever allowed to exist. Furthermore, all kings, teaching priests and judging officials in His land were to have no final authority over His people, since He alone would be their one and only High King and High Priest for all eternity. All others in Israel, including the king, were to serve God as His humble representatives before all the people on earth, that is, as His priests. All were to faithfully serve Him, by justly and lovingly serving His creations, according to His revealed laws and ways. “For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies” (Mal. 2:7, WEB). Therefore, God’s true church of Israel was never to be anything like the current or ancient Greco-Romans, nor like the Babylonians and Persians whom Satan raised up to form the religious, moral and spiritual hell of Greece and Rome. Nor was His priesthood to be like Egyptians, Sumerians, Assyrians, Chinese, East Indians, Mayans or Incas.
All the vile, filthy, criminal hierarchies in history were characterized by massive buildings dedicated to demonic and usually murderous gods, especially gods of war, as well as to the glory of oppressive elite psychopaths ruling over inferiors and dehumanized slaves. Then they used those structures to entertain themselves with the torture and murder of their own siblings in the family of humankind, as well as for orgies with exploited slaves whom they terrorized into submission. And their arrogant massive stone structures, built by the blood and toil of enslaved siblings, still scar the landscapes of the earth to this day. However, all the lesser cultures, the more just ones which did not murder, rape, enslave or terrorize, all those which provided the most freedom and the greatest opportunities for their people to love in a just, noble and God-like way, were called foolish and uncivilized, extremely primitive, especially if they did not develop an oppressive financial system for themselves. But those better, more just, more equitable and more biblical cultures did not scar the lands of this earth with vain temples dedicated to demonic and human gods. Many left no trace of their existence on earth.
So the most of the biblical cultures on earth, and therefore the most of the truly civilized cultures on earth, lived like God’s true priesthood of Israel did when they wandered through the wilderness for 40 years with Moses. Then the rest of those biblical and truly civilized people lived like Israel did up to the days of Samuel, after God gave them modest stone houses in the promised land, but where not even their leaders and high priests had houses any bigger than the houses of the rest of the people, and while God’s temple was a mere tent. But then the people rebelled and demanded a king like their pagan enemies had. So God told Samuel to let them have a human king, because they rejected God as their only King (I Sam. 8:4-9,19-22) and desired a life like those belonging to Satan’s perverted world order. God then allowed His priesthood of Israel to begin their long march into destruction, as they made themselves just like the pagan nations. But, after Israel experienced the folly of their first vain and abusive king, Saul, God gave them a chance to repent. God used their second king, David, together with the other prophets, to teach Israel to worship Him in truth through their spirits. Then God allowed Israel to build a permanent stone temple, by the hands of Israel’s chosen secular ruler who did not have the blood of murder upon his hands. Solomon, a wise man whom God chose to serve as His subject king over His priesthood’s kingdom, built that stone temple on the very spot He chose to make His presence and His counsel available to His priesthood of Israel, over a threshing floor, since the elect of Israel would forever be thrashed out of the useless chaff of the unbelievers surrounding them. God would meet with His true priests there, always striking off the chaff of carnal vanities. But both Solomon and his church soon rebelled, because they wanted to be like the pagans in Satan’s world order, like the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks and Romans.
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with a heavy curtain over the door in the wall, to separated these two rooms and prevent the priests who served in the outer room from peering into the inner room. The outer room would be where God’s priesthood came to meet with their God. But the inner room would where the very presence of the invisible Spirit of our one Creator God would reside, although He is also everywhere all at once.
In other words, God promised to hear and respond to any words that passed through the curtain, into to the inner room. The Creator God, from within that inner room, would judge the words or deeds occurring on the other side of that curtain, all that was said or done in the outer room, in the temple courtyard, in all of the promised land, and in all the world. God promised to weigh all words and all deeds against His Law. On the one hand, if any righteous, just and loving words or deeds entered that inner room, in a way which truly fulfilled God’s will and His intentions revealed in His Law, He would bless those words or deeds, and those who said or did them. He would provide all those godly souls requested in their humble, honest and faithful prayers. God would cause loving and righteous deeds done to bear much good fruit. Conversely, God would curse deliberate lies and sins, anything intentionally said or done in opposition to His intended meaning of His Law, or even kill the sinners.
Thus, the outer room of that temple was very holy, since it was set apart solely for God’s chosen and appointed priests, for those who knew His Law best, to represent the people in prayers to God, and to represent God by repeating God’s words to the people. The outer room was reserved for the truly awakened priestly elect, for those whom God made able to speak directly with Him, for those made honest, just and loving by His power and according to His will. Only these could pray directly to God’s ear, on behalf of the righteous or against the unjust, through the curtain before the inner room.
But the inner room was far more holy, the most holy place in the universe, the Holy of Holies. For the Creator God promised to always place His seeing and hearing presence in that room, that He would always judge the words and deeds of all who entered there, even forever. So none could enter that inner room except the high priest, who was the symbol of Israel’s sinless Messiah. And that man had to wear a head covering, to demonstrate that He was merely a symbol, not the real Messiah. For their Messiah was prophesied to be God incarnate, the Spirit of God dwelling in a human body, a Man who would walk among His priesthood, just He walked with Adam and Eve in the garden. So, because God commanded that heavy curtain to block the entrance to the inner room, and forbade His entire priesthood of Israel from entering it, except one man serving a symbol of Himself as the Messiah, no one on earth, except that symbol of the Messiah, could ever experience His presence in that place. His Old Covenant Law strictly commanded a curtain to be placed between Him and them, to veil His personal presence and hide His attributes. And even when God came to Israel in the body of Jesus, His presence remained hidden from most of Israel, until God chose to tear apart the curtain.
So why did the utterly holy God veil Himself, hide His attributes from His priesthood during the Old Covenant times? Well, actually, God did this from the beginning, from the days after Adam and Eve sinned. And God has never stopped hiding His full presence and attributes from human beings. But, on the day Jesus’ flesh died on the cross, God began to reveal His presence to some elect. For the utterly holy God can only allow a deliberate sinner to stand in His holy presence if: (1) the lifetime of that sinner’s sins have been paid in full, and (2) if the sinner can be fully justified. So His death on the cross paid for the lifetimes of sins committed by elect sinners. Then, for a full, true and entirely acceptable justification, a sinner must find a sinless, reliable and truly wise advocate who will take up the responsibility of infallibly assuring the sinner’s plenary teaching and training, until the sinner becomes a perfectly just, loving person, even as utterly holy as God Himself. Therefore, the one and only justification that God can ever accept is a predestined holiness worked by His own power, Page 1856
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wisdom and authority. The advocate we need for our justification has to be God Himself, after the payment for our entire lifetimes of sins has been paid. That advocate must be a true Person of God.
Now, since each earthly lifetime of sins in the flesh had to be paid with a totally sinless life of flesh, God’s body had to die on each elect individual’s behalf, and also had to name each individual, so that each could claim to have died vicariously on that cross where the body of Jesus died. And, since a body of flesh can only die once, regardless of how many sins it dies for, Jesus only had to die once for all the lifetimes of all the sins committed by all the elect who would exist in all history, after He chose and named them all. But, logically, since a sinner can only die for one’s own sins, but not for the sins of others, the one who died for the sins of all the elect in history had to be sinless from birth to death. Only one who did not die for one’s own sins could die for a sinner. And, since all humans have infantile spirits, which causes all to sin, even all the elect whose spirits were made in God’s image, then none with human spirits can ever be qualified to die for the sins of any others. So God’s own mature Spirit, whose motives and intentions are always pure and holy, had to be be the life-giving Spirit in a human body on earth, in order to provide a sinless sacrificial body of human flesh.
Then every sinner named by Jesus also requires a full justification for the payment of one’s entire lifetime of sins. For, even if someone else pays for a criminal’s sins, a just court will refuse to accept that just payment, unless that court has also been assured that, once once they free that criminal into their land, that criminal will never sin again. Likewise, our just God will not free anyone into His heavenly lands unless that sinner has also been taught and trained to the point where that sinner will never sin again. In other words, to free a sinner into heaven, there must not only be a just payment for that one’s lifetime of sins, but also a valid reason to set that sinner free into heaven. And that valid reason is called the sinner’s justification, which our God Jesus fulfills according to His promises of His saving New Covenant, namely that He Himself will personally teach and train each and every sinner whom He named as He died on that cross. And our God Jesus has both the power and ability to complete that process of teaching and training, through His judgments on the last day.
According to His own laws and ways, our God Jesus absolutely needs to justify His reasons for setting elect sinners free in heaven’s sinless lands, before any can be freed into heaven’s lands. And Jesus does this by assuring our heavenly Father that each and every elect soul will be perfectly and completely taught and trained in the ways of truly loving and just righteousness before any of us shall set even one foot in heaven. But that Teacher and Trainer of our elect spirits would need to be perfectly wise, knowledgeable, pure, holy, honest, faithful and loving, as well as firmly and utterly committed to the duty of transforming all the elect into fully loving, just and holy persons. For, any failure to make anyone fit for life in our Father’s utterly holy home would necessarily bar that one from entering heaven, possibly for all eternity. But this means that Jesus is the one able to do this. As our God, Jesus is the only one able to provide each elect individual with 24/7 access to Himself. And only Jesus has lived as a human being, so only He can empathize with us. Jesus is the only perfect Teacher qualified and able to do this kind of teaching and training of our spirits, both while we live on earth and during the last day at the gates of heaven. No one but our God incarnate, our Messiah, could be our perfect judging and teaching King, which is why He raised His body from the dead.
Next, we might also consider how all empirical observations of God’s material creations, of this physical universe, conclusively prove that the entire history of the earth was created all at once, all at one time, but in a dimension of time which is not like time in the material space-time continuum, in some kind of moment within a non-linear spiritual time. It is evident that all material past and future exists as one moment, as one “now,” and that this “now” moment exists outside of every “now” in the material space-time continuum. For each of us, every day and all day, is a different time line, Page 1857
where each individual exists in a timeline that is relatively in the future or in the past to every other individual. That is, if each of us had an extremely precise clock attached to us at birth, all those clocks would be out of sync, as some travelled faster and some travelled slower along the dimension of physical time, assuming that all those clocks functioned perfectly throughout all lives. Yet, experientially, it seems that, if one individual exists in a time which is out of sync with another, interactions between the two should be distorted. The one existing in the future should have to wait for the words and actions of one existing in the past to catch up with him. Yet this is never what actually happens, even when the difference in earthly time might be as great as half of a second.
This seems to suggest that earthly time does not actually pass from moment to moment, as we feel it does. It means that there seems to be no actual movement of time within the material universe, but only a perceived experience of time passing, while we feel as though we are living in flesh on earth.
But, in reality, the only way we could possibly perceive the experience of time passing on earth must be because a different form of time is passing while our true beings actually dwell in a non-material or spiritual realm. For it must be the eyes of a non-material or spiritual body which provides our perspectives of material time and space. Our perspectives of material existence, and our individual thoughts based on them, must be outside observations and thoughts in minds that are not material.
Because each living entity exists on a slightly different material timeline, yet all perceive the others smoothly, as though all are on the same timeline, then our perspectives exist outside of the material timeline. And the material space-time continuum itself resides within that non-material or spiritual space-time continuum where our non-material or spiritual thoughts and perspectives exist. To me, this seems to be the one and only way we can all experience this earthly time together, though each exists at a different time. A part of each us is actually a living entity within a non-material or spiritual realm of existence. A non-linear form of time must exist in a spiritual realm, since it is not on earth.
We know this due to Einstein’s theory of relativity, which explains time as a mere dimension of this material universe, and gravity as a warping of that dimension of time, where all energy, all matter, and all movements or events due to gravity and other causes in this universe are simply relative to one’s perspective in the dimensions of space and time. So each of our perspectives seems to be moving through the three dimensions of space, and through the fourth dimension of time, but while space and time exist as a static whole or entirety, where nothing actually moves at all. But all this must be embedded in a more real non-material or spiritual reality. There must be more than just these four material dimensions, since each one’s perspective travels through these four dimensions on a different path and on a different timeline. And each perspective must actually outside of material space and time. The eyes of each one’s unique perspective seem to be trapped and focused upon a static multidimensional material space-time continuum, forced to move through physical existence.
And the eyes perceiving physical existence must belong to an entity existing outside that material space-time continuum, in a place which is far more real and not static, with many more dimensions.
So each perspective sees an action involving material energy and matter moving through material time and space. But one will perceive it as a past event, although that event is actually just a series of alterations created at the beginning of time, where each change in position is placed along a static line of time, but where that entire line of time existed from the beginning. Then another individual will perceive that same event in the future, since the eyes of that other one’s spiritual body is being moved through material existence along a different path, and sees a different line of time. Then the perspectives of those two spiritual entities may be caused to cross paths and experience events of their own material bodies belonging to one another. But material space-time itself is not moving, and only the perspectives of those spiritual beings are moving through a static, unchanging material time Page 1858
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and space. Or rather, the eyes of those spiritual beings are being moved through material existence by a Spirit who created both the material and spiritual existences for His purposes, where all events in both realms are very real, even the expansion of the material space-time continuum along a line of the fourth dimension, but where that material existence is merely one large, multidimensional and inalterable reality temporarily existing within some kind of greater non-material, spiritual existence.
Not being a physicist, nor a genius, all this speculation may be wrong, possibly even the ignorant ramblings of a fool. Nevertheless, I am a biased fool who has experienced the existence of spiritual realities. And it seems to me that all honest empirical observations of material existence, with all the scientific measurements of space and time, have exhaustively documented and proven aspects of these speculations. Thus, we can conclude that this material universe, which we perceive and seem to experience daily, is a very real creation of God, which severely limits us for a time. But that earthly time must ultimately be a non-material time perceived by our non-material selves. It implies that a spiritual time and our own spirits exist, and our experiences on earth are not occurring in an earthly timeline, but in a spiritual timeline. And, ultimately, the spiritual, non-linear time is what we are actually experiencing as “real time,” where all earthly time is relative to each spirit’s experience.
Then the last day of judgment at the gates of heaven will be completely and perfectly controlled and predestined by God in that spiritual “real time” too. Therefore, all the lives of all the elect, all who partook in Jesus’ vicarious death through His will to name them, are predestined to become utterly holy through His works on that last day. It means all the elect not only had their lifetimes of sins paid in full by the death of Jesus’ body on the cross, but literally all the elect are already fully justified through that death, because Jesus will complete and perfect them all on the last day. Jesus, who is our judging and teaching High King of heaven and earth, took the responsibility to fully accomplish all that is needed to pay for our lifetimes of sins, and to make our spirits utterly holy, ready and fit to enter heaven. And He did all this from the beginning of an earthly time which is one moment in spiritual time, not a contiguous series of moments. Our Creator God Jesus predestined our full justification. And it is only because Jesus is our God that He is able to do all this, able to make His unbreakable New Covenant promise so long ago, before any of it came to pass. From the beginning, God made an oath that He would transform literally all elect sinners into holy beings, to justify all.
So here we are, the elect predestined to be fully justified and able to enter our Father’s home in the eternal realm. In the meantime, what we experience as a contiguous series of “nows” until the day we die. All is not what it appears to be, but all we perceive and experience in earthly time is for a very real purpose, which is to teach and train our spirits for heaven. That is, the careful observation of God’s creation, which we call true science, has proven that the “arrow of time” experienced by all life, where past experiences are remembered and the future is unknown, cannot actually exist, except by perspectives of non-material spirits. For all the past and all the future is one moment, existing all at the same time. Also, today’s individual lives exist in different times, in different “nows,” some in past times and some in future times. Science has proved that a person who often travels much, even vast distances on jets or possibly even into outer space, exists in a past time, relative to a person who seldom goes anywhere. We know this as a fact, from measured observations of extremely accurate atomic clocks. Yet that person living in the past can sit down at a table with a person living in the future, so both can talk, eat and drink with one another, to create a series of “nows” for both of them, where all their “nows” are both in the future and in the past at the same time. That is, the person in the future and the one in the past are experiencing fully simultaneous and interconnected “arrows of time,” but at different times in the histories of their own personal lives within the material universe.
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Now, since our physical brains are simply matter in this material space-time continuum, consisting of energy moving through space on a static timeline, and simply form a block of past and future time existing simultaneously, we are forced to logically conclude that it is not our minds of flesh which are perceiving the series of “nows” in this “the arrow of time.” Rather, another mind perceives all in each life, a mind existing outside of this material universe, a mind that is not subject to the material space-time continuum. It must be the minds of our spirits, which exist in the spiritual space-time continuum, that actually experience this arrow of time. Elect human spirits experience the arrow of time for a good reason, for the teaching and training of their infantile spirits, to prepare them for their eternally enjoyed purposes at home in heaven. Thus, all that really matters in life are the spiritual gains one makes, that is, how each spirit learns to love in a just, God-like way—albeit this spiritual love is expressed through real flesh. Likewise, all plant and animal spirits are being taught and trained through earthly lives too, but without the possibility of sinning, and thus, without a need to be further taught and trained during a judgment at the gates of heaven. Then the non-elect human and demonic spirits placed on earth are being taught and trained in darkness, for their home in hell.
When we begin to see the reality of all this, and know that literally all events in the past and future of the earth have been predestined from the beginning by the Creator God, for the teaching and training of spirits, we must realize that literally every existing entity and literally every event occurring on earth is produced by God’s spiritual power, which He has transformed into material energy for a limited and appointed material time. And all time, space, energy and matter, even to the ends of the universe, are in one tiny moment. Absolutely nothing in this universe is any consequential “distance”
from any individual spirit. If two spirits love one another, and each spirit’s physical body is at the other end of the universe, they are right next to one another, in spiritual time and space. In fact, if God allowed and predestined it, both could physically come together at any material place at the same time, so He could create a new series of “nows” a new “arrow of time” for each. Likewise, the Creator’s Spirit is right next to each one right “now,” and each can create a series of “nows” with Him at any time. In other words, literally all material existence, every entity and every event we shall ever experience, is a predestined miracle worked by God for the teaching and training of our spirits. Thus, literally anything God causes us to pray for, that is, absolutely any common or totally miraculous thing God calls our spirits to request from Him, according to His will, shall be granted to us, and actually has already been granted to us in the future, which already exists “now.” It will be granted, but already is granted, for the teaching and training of spirits belonging to us and to others.
Consequently, I believe in miracles, due to true science and all that my spirit rationally reasons in the chamber of my soul. Therefore, when I see how honest Matthew reported that God ripped open the curtain over the door to His presence in the inner chamber of temple, as a proclamation of His free New Covenant access to Himself for all His elect children, I believe it. I also believe “the earth shook and the rocks cracked” at the moment the body of Jesus died. For the veil between the earthly and the heavenly realms tore open. The place where God revealed Himself to earthly lives, after casting off its barrier, would indeed shake material existence. God gave this as a sign of His new relationship with His elect, in the sight of elect spirits, so they perceive the spiritual glory and power in Him. Furthermore, to illustrate to His elect children that earthly time, energy and space remain firmly under His own sovereign rule, it was suitable and even necessary that the faithful servants of God from earth’s past would be fully restored in body and soul at that time. All those raised then would have had awake, loving, just spirits that went straight to the gates of heaven after their flesh died. These would not have had spirits that were sent to sleep in heaven’s skies until the judgment day, but elect souls who longed to see the day that God would allow elect spirits to peer into heaven.
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It surely was true that, “Even the tombs were opened and many bodies of the sanctified ones, those having been permanently put to rest, were raised up. The people having come out of the tombs also entered into the holy city after His resurrection, and they were plainly seen by many.” For our infantile spirits need to be taught that earthly time is real, but it is merely a tool for the teaching and training of our eternal spirits. And, therefore, we cannot die. No living creature can die. Every spirit remains eternally extant, and none of the elect on earth shall ever even sleep in Sheol. Then the elect whose spirits know our God Jesus, whose spirits are consciously being taught and trained by His Holy Spirit, by the Spirit of our God, so we might serve as His priests in His name, as His body on earth, will remain awake after death, able to see and intercede in the affairs of those living in flesh on earth. And all the deceased awakened elect of the past still live and still serve our God Jesus, even better and more than they did on earth. All are still with us, labouring to do His loving will for all.
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“Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving Him. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple came. This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up. Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed. Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary [i.e., the mother of James and John], sitting opposite the tomb.
“Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate, saying, ‘Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while He was still alive: “After three days I will rise again.” Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps His disciples come at night and steal Him away, and tell the people, “He is risen from the dead;” and the last deception will be worse than the first.’ Pilate said to them, ‘You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.’ So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone” (Mat. 27:55-66, WEB).
Women were more concerned about the cleansing and wrapping of the body, as well as placing perfumes and spices on the decaying corpse, to mask its scent. Women did most of that kind of work in those days. The men were more concerned about preserving the dignity of the dead, since they had to uplift the spirits of the surviving family and friends. Thus, the men made the religious, legal and financial arrangements, all that was necessary to bury the deceased in a manner worthy of that one’s words and deeds throughout life. But there were plenty of women who loved Jesus too, all standing behind the crowd that day, both older experienced women, who buried many loved ones before, as well as younger women, able to help with physical tasks. Then there were also many men standing below that cross of Jesus, faithful disciples, including Joseph of Arimathaea, a wealthy member of the same Sanhedrin council from which the non-elect members came to plot the murder Jesus (see Mark 15:43; Luke 23:50). But Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, a good and just man. And, although he did not consent to the murder of Jesus (Luke 23:51), like that council’s wicked secret quorum did, he also could not stop it. So, after Jesus breathed His last breath, and as soon as he saw a Roman spear pierce Jesus (John 19:34), Joseph took a few minutes to run south, around the corner to Pilate’s palace, and asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Since it was only about the 10th hour by then (about Page 1861