By Anna Von Reitz
This post is for the Christians in the group, a rumination on where we have
gone wrong for so long. All my other friends may wish to read and think about
these things also, for the Christian faith is not the only one subject to
corruption....
So here's what I am thinking this Good Friday:
For a Christian, this is the most solemn, most thought-provoking, most
painful day in the entire year. We once again confront our sins in the shadow
cast by His cross and must ask ourselves---- could I pick up my cross and follow
Him?
Could I, for the cause of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, do what has to be
done even now? Sight unseen? Job description and extent of suffering unknown?
On faith?
A friend sent me a greeting early this morning, wishing me "peace"--- and I
realized that despite many, many sacrifices and much suffering at every hand, I
do have peace---peace which does indeed defy all understanding. I sleep like a
rock and do not stir. I rise up refreshed. No anxiety troubles me.
I know that I am doing all I can to guard and feed His sheep and His goats,
and to keep the peace, and see to the fruition of His Mission which started so
long ago---- to wrest the world from the jaws of Satan, and finally see the
literal establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
It may come as a Big Surprise (the word "apocalypse" implies exactly this
sort of denouement) but the incorporated churches have not only failed to help
bring about this result, they have actively promoted the opposite outcome. They
have been buying and selling Baptismal Certificates and conscripting the new
"souls" as chattel owned by their organizations, pledged to pay for their
debts.
If you can imagine anything more repugnant than this betrayal of the very
meaning of Christian baptism--- I can't. I am sitting here this Good Friday
afternoon, communing with my Lord and I am horrified. My very blood runs cold.
All these fancy church houses made of stone and all these people running to
them for guidance and help, all betrayed, all for nothing, white-washed tombs
and dens of iniquities built by gangs intent on serving themselves.
I want you all to understand that when Jesus told you to remember him when
you ate bread and drank wine, He meant it literally. He wanted to be part of
your day to day lives, not some figurine on a mantelpiece, not some remote
"Christ" veiled by mysteries and recalled once or twice a year. He was giving
up His life for you. That's why it was important and is important, that you make
Him part of yours.
Mahatma Gandhi once said ---and I paraphrase--- that he loved our Jesus but
not our Christians. It was a telling point, that what has come forth from
these churches has been a rotten fruit, a mockery, an endless parade of men who
have done anything and everything but sincerely devote themselves to the
imitation of Jesus and the realization of Heaven on Earth.
They've been far too busy robbing and cheating and defrauding and setting
themselves up in positions of authority over others, doing precisely what He
accused the lawyers of-----not entering the Kingdom themselves, and not allowing
others to enter, either.
And so we find the money changers and the Synagogue of Satan alive and well
snagging down billions of dollars and harnessing billions of souls to pay their
bills---- not for the glory of our Father, not for the salvation of the Earth,
not for the good of Mankind---but for their own glory, that they might parade
around and palm themselves off as righteous men and pillars of the
community.
They stand up on Sunday morning instead of teaching us to obey the Sabbath
our Father commanded, and exhort us to do good works while they wallow in every
kind of evil themselves, even to perverting the meaning of baptism and making it
into a commercial contract, even to obscuring the meaning of communion and
making it into something to buy and sell-- and for them to arbitrate who can and
cannot commune with our Lord?
Are we so deluded? So afraid?
Truly, I say to you this day, that whoever keeps Jesus close in their
hearts and who remembers Him day to day in their most homely moments, and who
does the work He commanded us to do, they are His brothers and His sisters and
they will not be forgotten. Truly, those who love Him, have His presence and
His power in their lives---- a power to transform themselves and to transform
this world into a paradise: the Kingdom of Heaven.
Rise up, all of you who hear my Voice, and do justice, kindness, and make
yourselves a living sacrifice to serve Him truly and love Him dearly. Let it no
longer be words mumbled in the dark, or guilt or fear spurring you on. Come out
of the tombs of Babylon and into the fresh wind and light of Heaven.
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From the Passion according to St. John:
ReplyDeletePilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me. Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation, and the chief priests, have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done? Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be, delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence. Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I should give testimony to the truth: every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice.
Pilate saith to him: What is truth?