Sunday, August 28, 2022

All for One?

Those who adore the Son of man as the Son of God miss, perhaps, a point of the Doctrine they would be better worth noting well: Jesus of Nazareth never says unequivocally about himself: "I am the Son of God;" and the spirits which said this of him he called unclean. When dealing with "Satan," and "the devil" about his own pedigree, perhaps he-- exactly as Moses before him-- offered a derivative deviation.

Moses' own pedigree is false altogether; and of all the wrestling of 'temptation' between Jesus and "the devil/ Satan," in the wilderness, the match is entirely over the words of Moses; who Jesus himself says perverted the law, "For the hardness of [Jewry's] heart [Mark 10:5b]." Notice: Jesus would later say, "45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. 46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words [John 5:45- 47]?" What about being vouched for by the accuser Moses, who couldn't tell the truth about who his own progenitors were, makes Jesus credible?

In "the Revelation of Jesus Christ," John goes on to imply this accusatory function of Moses' makes him at least akin to the "dragon" of Revelation 12: "9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night [Revelation 12:9 & 10]."

So, who but the accuser Moses could it have been 'tempting' Jesus in the wilderness? and why did Jesus adjure all who called him "the Son of God"-- including his own disciples-- that they should not repeat that thing? According to the angel Gabriel, Jesus' father is-- not God, mind you-- but David; and his kingdom is-- not the universe-- but "the house of Jacob:"

"26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. 28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. 29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. 31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end [Luke 1:26- 33]."

Likewise note this: David, Jesus' father, as per the angel Gabriel-- like Moses before him, and Solomon and Jesus after-- answers to the apostle Paul's description of "that man of sin... the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God [2 Thessalonians 2:3e & 4]." All speak well of David, as they do of the "son of David, preacher in Jerusalem," Solomon; and of the "Son of David," Jesus Christ. Jesus himself warned of all such as himself and his fathers David and Moses as "false prophets," saying, "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets [Luke 6:26]."

But, as Moses built a tabernacle of shittim wood, so David-- as Solomon after him-- thought a 'Central Bank'- style temple a more amenable dwelling prepared for God than the hearts of the people; and David-- as Moses before him, and his son after, and, presumably, Jesus forever-- "sat on the throne of the LORD [1 Chronicles 29:23a]," as God. According to the apostle Paul, "[God] hath made [Jesus, the man of sin] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him [2 Corinthians 5:21]." How maketh sin righteousness? Why was he not rather made repentance?

Where is Jesus of Nazareth right now? Contemporary scholarship says he waits, at the right hand of the power in heaven-- with all power in heaven and in earth delivered unto him-- to gather the sons of God to the "marriage supper of the Lamb," but what saith his own words? In explaining the "parable of the tares of the field," Jesus describes his own role in the eschaton as being the gatherer and disposer of the wicked, thusly: 

"40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear [Matthew 13:40 - 43]." While Revelation 14 says, "The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb [Revelation 14:10]." Is the place Jesus prepares for you not the lake of fire?

As Moses was "instead of God [Exodus 4:16c]," so David-- and his son, Jesus-- is (and are) "as God, as the angel of the LORD before them [Zechariah 12:8c & d]," not only in the 'prophecy' of Zechariah, but also in the eyes of the Philistine king of Gath [1 Samuel 29:9], and in Joab's 'flattery' of the "sweet psalmist" of Israel sent by word of the 'wise woman of Tekoa's [2 Samuel 14:2:17 & 20]' mouth. None of them is, however, God; and the only 'God' they seem aware of is a plastic- banana counterfeit, who himself seems unaware of, or in denial about, God.

Jesus himself tells on his father in the most well- known verse in the canon: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life [John 3:16]," implying "that as many as would not worship [Jesus Christ] should be killed [Revelation 13:15c]." Whose sons these: "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy [Job 38:7]" mentioned in the oldest book of the canon? Why is the name of the only bona- fide "Son of the morning" mentioned anywhere in the 'Holy Bible'-- Lucifer-- the most maligned name in the 'Holy Bible?'

What kind of 'God' has one son? In the case of Jesus' father: a cockroach, with an evil eye, running from the light of Lucifer, according to scripture and common sense. "If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness [Matthew 6:23c & d]," oh, 'God!'

Sunday, August 14, 2022

Behold the Hypocritical Homewrecker

Is Jesus of Nazareth a hypocrite? Would it matter if he is? Those who follow him care little or nothing for his words; they would much rather drink his blood and eat his flesh than hear his words; they would rather sin and believe in him than repent and believe in themselves. Nonetheless– in spite of the fact that it will only make more enemies for me to so say– I must confess, in respect of his words, Jesus Christ must be a hypocrite.

How is a family formed? Is it by man's device? Can a man and woman build a family of their own desire, simply by wishing it into existence while they copulate hopefully together? Does it not require God's cooperation to bring children into their life? "The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD [Proverbs 16:33]." How much more are the elements which make a family the disposition of God to ascertain?

The truth is, Jesus Christ is– by his own admission– a curse. According to Matthew, Jesus Christ said, "34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household [Matthew 10:34- 36]." Behold the homewrecker.

This curse is foretold by Malachi in the final word of the Old Testament canon. Malachi wrote, "5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse [Malachi 4:5 & 6]."

We know Jesus Christ is this curse, inasmuch as he said, (immediately following the passage from Matthew 10 cited above) "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me [Matthew 10:37]."

This last citation from Matthew is problematic. Should we disdain the namasté encountered in the countenances we may behold for fear of offending someone we've never met? How could "God [who] is love [1 John 4:8b]" be satisfied therewith? "God is a spirit [John 4:24a];" not a dead man's name. Again, John writes, "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen [1John 4:20]?" Is a curse a "perfect gift [James 1:17a]?" If so, to whose children: God's? or the devil's? To the point:

Jesus Christ, by his own admission, came to destroy families. Does this not make a hypocrite of him? It was none other than Jesus Christ, after all, who said, "What therefore God hath joined together [families being one such thing], let not [the Son of] man put asunder [Mark 10:4- 9]." What, but a hypocrite, could he be?