Author: eejoseph

Destroying the evidence

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Whether is it a religious authority or a civic authority the practice of destroying the evidence is well-known. The Judean puppet king, Herod, turned his ire against the followers of Christ, and had James executed.

About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. Acts 12:1

He killed James the brother of John with the sword, Acts 12:2

and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread. Acts 12:3

Roman power allied to local authority

Peter was in custody, guarded by sixteen Roman soldiers. When he could not be found the day after his imprisonment, the obvious triumph of divine power, and specificaly, Messianic prerogative, was too obvious to be allowed to spread. Sixteen men knew that they it was not due to their lack of military diligence that Peter was awol. The rapid spread of the narrative of the Church as told to them by Peter and the complete ignorance of the soldiers constituted a massive commendation of Peter’s God.

And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

Acts 12:4

Peter’s testimony and Herod’s folly

Now when day came, there was no little disturbance among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.

Acts 12:18

Peter was free and thought what he had experienced was vision, and even when the believers saw him standing before them he gestured to them to not be loud about it. Had he not done so the believers may have started loud shouts of praise. Having told the church what had happened Peter asked them to tell James and the other apostles what had happened, then he departed to another undiaclosed place.

Herod, ever aware of his public image, ordered a search for Peter, then he examined the soldiers. Remember, two soldiers had Peter between them, and the other 14 would have been stationed along the way from the cell to the prison’s outer gate(s). The answers they gave to Herod were such that he ordered them killed.

And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there.

Acts 12:19

Violence and murder are the signs of love lost. Let us not put it past the alliances of our times to try to silence the voice of gladness. The campaign to empower the state with so-called religious powers will fail to recognize the common decency of neighbourly love, and in doing so will trample on the divine standard and commit murder. This will not be a new thing. Paul is an exmple of homicidal intents towards the followers of Christ.

Criminal and sinful heroes dominate

Worms of their own creation are eating out the vital organs of life in the western democracies. All that is left of the autocracies and religious republics are whited tombs. The hollowed out jurisprudence and the corruption of law and order in the service of the rich and infleuntial are the proper allies of the skeletons of the innocent people who have fallen by the sword. Crowds cheering on obvious immorality and idolizing violent overthrow of government can never be synonymous with Christian doctrine or practice. The politcal spin and religious silence are proceeding exactly as predicted. Christian nation, like templar Judaism and levitical Christianity, are desolations. The elect know the facts; they are not sucked in by the drama which the media wants to pass off as truth.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matt 23:27-28

Scrotum-free scotus

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There you have it: worse than the Sanhedrin that allowed the chairman to have Paul punched in the face for asserting his personal experience as to the exercise of his conscience.  The Supreme Court of the United States.  Its conservative majority is insensitive, spineless, misogynist,  homicidal and despise the poor.

Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, “Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day.” (Acts 23:1, NASB)



Paul raises the question of his conscience when his response to Christ makes the Jewish people question his commitment to Moses and the patriarchs under levitical system, showing us that the conscience can be counted upon to bring a person to see what God sees. 

Conscience


sun+eido,  συνειδω,  signifies co-seeing, and if we consider it in the process of human intellectual activity we must say that this consciousness must take place before we CONFESS, which itself also establishes the meaning of homologeo, I SAY THE SAME as God. 



In this regard we must also say that there is no way that Christ could have taken the side of Moses, merely follow the prophets, or submit to the elders and their traditions when the practice and the beliefs of his contemporaries could be shown to be askance.




A few examples of erroneous belief and practice addressed by the Lord Messiah Yeshua should give life to the priority of the conscience over the community’s interests.


Christ’s Consciousness 



Christ is not allowed by his own dignity as God to follow his contemporaries with their beliefs about the resurrection.



But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God: (Matthew 22:31, NASB)



A veil on the mind



“But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;” (2 Corinthians 3:15, NASB)


But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions,” (Matthew 12:3, NASB)


“Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?” (Matthew 12:5, NASB)

The supreme Court of the United States has no clothes, no balls, no shame, and little intelligence.  All they have prevailed to demonstrate is the defunct theory about their Israel clone delusion that is prevalent in the evangelical movement and the Vatican.  Church, mosque, or synagogue have never run any government with any lasting advance in civic society, and they never will, no matter how convincing the rhetoric or viral slogans they drum up.