THE FIRST MOCK TRIAL
Jesus was “indicted” when the mob confronted Him in the Kidron
Valley but they were aware that the Law was harsh and precise in Judea. The testimony
against Jesus must have at least two witnesses according to Mosaic Law, as is
written, “At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is
worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not
be put to death” (Deut 17:6). There were no credible witnesses among the
mob, so they took Jesus to Caiaphas, the high priest, to conduct the trial. That
mock trial was much like the Ku Klux Klan “Judge Lynch.” Caiaphas, in this case,
was the lynching judge. That is not to say that Jesus would be hung by the neck
from a tree until dead but yet suffer death on a tree; “The God of our fathers
raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree” (Acts 5:30). Note that it
was the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses who they would lynch.
Most people think of a Man suffering death for mankind.
However, God Himself in all three substances suffered death but only His flesh would
die. Caiaphas was playing God as he judged God, but one man’s testimony would
not be enough. How many witnesses have there been testifying against God? “All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). Whenever anyone
sins it is as if they are crucifying Jesus, and for those Christians who
forsake Jesus, it is as if crucifying Him all over again (Heb 6:6).
Satan in Judas had created a mob for the love of money.
Power and prestige coincide with wealth. When Judas formed the mob, the
Spiritual Deep State was formed. Henceforth, Satan would again leave mankind to
his own devices, and he stepped aside. He required others to do his dirty deeds
because God will not allow Satan to murder faithful people (Job 1:12). Like Job
before Him, there was a “hedge” about Jesus; His Father would be with Him in
this tribulation. God glorified Job before Satan, millennium before, when He
said, “There is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man” (Job
1:8). God would allow Job great tribulation to test His faith. Job could have sinned
but did not. The Spiritual Deep State was active with Job, but God kept Job
from the demonic lynch mob with that hedge of safety.
There was none like Jesus in the earth; He was a perfect and
upright man. That premise was to be tested. Caiaphas knew of Job’s trial. He
was about to conduct the same. Just as Job could have succumbed to the demonic
mob, Jesus could have as well. God allowed Job to be tested and now it was His
Son’s turn. With Job, God put a hedge about him. With Jesus, no hedge was in
sight but the Father had an invisible one. Jesus seemed on His own; that
His own Father had forsaken Him (Mat 27:46). “Where is my hedge of protection?”
Jesus was wondering. Satan was in Judas until Jesus was taken to Pontius
Pilate. He seemed to have left the mob, procured some ground, and was going
about his business until he too agonized.
Jesus agonized about mankind. Judas agonized over himself.
Judas’s flesh was used in the plot to destroy Jesus. Judas, somehow, allowed
sin to enter in, and once God vacated the soul of Judas, Satan was able to
enter it. As the treasurer for the apostles, the love of money had caused him
to abandon Jesus. Of all the apostles, Judas knew that Jesus would be crucified
for his sin but sinned anyway. Judas would have known about Jesus’s sacrifice
beforehand but failed to trust in Him. Judas betrayed Jesus, but not as a
Christian because he had not been redeemed. Judas, like the others, had never
received the Holy Spirit, and none of them would until after Jesus ascended. It
was mankind who betrayed Jesus, not spiritual men.
Judas served his purpose. He organized the vigilante group. Any
“Grand Wizard” would have been proud of the “Kleagle” Judas. Unfortunately, “Grand
Dragon” Caiaphas had seen Judas only as a useful tool. Once Judas had fulfilled
his purpose, he no longer had utility. For a short time between Judas’s death
and Jesus’s, Satan again wondered to and fro, seeking another man to imbue.
Perhaps he had his eye on Jesus! That was not to be because Satan had already
experienced crucifixion of sorts and would not be able to experience it twice.
The mob arrested Jesus. He was assumed to be guilty. Remembering
that “presumptuous sin” is pretending to be who you are not Jesus had not
sinned. He IS God. It is tempting for people to say, “was God” and so
forth, or “Jesus and God” but that is duplicity. Everyone must
understand that God suffered death on the Cross. His Flesh was hung on
the “tree,” His Soul was inhabited by the Holy Spirit, and the Father suffered
with His Flesh and human emotions. When people saw Jesus crucified, it was God
they were looking at. They finally saw God face to face, and it would not be a
pleasant sight for his disciples.
With the trip to Caiaphas, the Deep State was exposed. It
was religious people all along. It was a spiritual problem that people had. His
own people disowned Him and were about to humiliate Him. Great leaders always
have their own who denigrate them. Jesus was rejected by His own community, and
now by His own religion. Soon, He would see that His own family was not with
Him spiritually (Mat 12:48). Indeed, Jesus had come to bring peace on earth,
but it turned out to be dissension. Everyone argued, Is He really God? It
was the case, the world against God, and it still is. The Spiritual Deep
State is still endeavoring to kill Jesus. In recent days, Antifa has admitted
that they are out to get God. How can they do that? Is God not dead to them?
They get to God through the Church.
Why can abortion clinics remain open during the pandemic and
churches considered non-essential? Because the Deep State is not out to get
Judas; they are out to get God. Thus, the enemy of the Invisible Empire (the
Deep Spiritual State) is the Church and the Church must die for them to gain.
God put a hedge around Paradise that the undeserving cannot
enter. Libertas put a “wall” around the Church, not so that the
government cannot get in, but the Jesus cannot get out. Who do people worship
the most? Lady Liberty! Even Christians put more emphasis on civil liberty than
spiritual freedom. Christians should not be afraid of statues as the heathens are,
but must understand that Lady Liberty represents Lucifer. God did not
fear idols of stone, but He hated the idea behind them. Liberty is not a bad
idea but liberty unless from God is damning.
Peter witnessed the mock trial before Caiaphas.
59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, 61 And said, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’” (Mat 26:59-61)
Jesus implied that, but the false witnesses misunderstood.
Jesus was referring to Himself as the Temple of God. It was He who would
destroy the Temple, but by that He meant to submit to His own death. The Jews
thought that Jesus would destroy their temple which the Romans finally did in
70 A.D. It seems that they thought Jesus had an alliance with Rome, and perhaps
with Pilate. The false witnesses were not lying; they just failed to understand
their own religion. The prophets had prophesied of this time, and as always,
Jews failed to understand the Word. People’s problems are usually because of misunderstanding. Misunderstanding is the technique of Satan. People even misunderstand who he
is, as they misunderstand who God IS.
The world, and even the Church, is full of false prophets to
this day. Why does the liberal church focus on social justice rather than
divine justice? Because they misunderstand. They listen to the inner voices put
there by demons; voices that misconstrue truth. Preachers who join the vigilante
mob are not seeking Divine Justice, but civil disobedience. They err, and by
doing so, crucify Jesus anew.
The modern church is the spiritual “Deep State.” Frankly,
discerning Christians would be better off at the head of the mob than misled by
the mob. Judas knew his sin. The leaders of the mob know theirs. Those behind
the mob fail to understand their grievous sin. They are deluded, as is written:
17 I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. (Rom 16:17-18)
Division is contrary to God’s Will. If those who consider
themselves Christians join the mob, they are not serving God. In Jesus day, it
was the false testimony of naïve people that divided the people. Unfortunately,
most were beguiled because the multitudes wanted Jesus crucified. The division today is not quite so specific.
Now the people are divided by gender, race, political ideology, geography, and
even profession. The Deep State uses the tactics of Satan for their purposes.
Socialism is based on division. It puts division between those
who live off labor and those who labor. It puts division between those who farm
and those who manufacture. It puts division between families and between
martial partners. Socialism divides people anyway they can! Always divided and
parried out are the Jews and Christians. In the end, the mark of the Beast,
666, will divide God’s people from Satan’s when he enters another “Judas” and
rules the world as a God and king.
Socialism has an invisible class as well. They are the socialist
state; the only class to benefit from socialism. The philosophers and educators
become the elite, and just as in the book, Animal Farm, the pigs rule
the farm instead of the farmer. For instance, Stalin was the “beast” that arose
against the farmers and became the Generalissimo of the Farm (The Greater Soviet).
Who benefitted from Russian socialism? The “pigs” that moved into the “farmers’”
homes. In that case, those “farmers” had been the Russian grandees (nobility).
The socialist pigs lived like nobility while the peasants worked on farms and
the proles worked in factories. Who gained from socialism? The new class they
created to replace the old. The Russians returned to tsarism so gradually that
it was not even perceived!
Jesus was accused of blasphemy. He admitted that He was (and
still is) the Son of God; that He was All-powerful. The high priest asked, “What
further need have we for witnesses?” Jesus had admitted the truth. He testified
against Himself. “Truth” is powerful. The truth of Jesus is what set all men
free, even those who aimed to kill Him. They had not needed reliable witnesses
anyway because they were so intense in their narrative that proof would mean
little. The crowd answered, “He deserves death” (Mat 26:66). No, He did not. They
deserved death, and so do all sinners! What happened next? “Then did they spit
in his face and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their
hands” (Mat 26:57).
Peter saw the persecution. The mob had impeached and
impeccable Man!
The Deep State always does that. Trump was indicted by the
media mob, and then Congress had their way with Him. The only witnesses against
Trump witnessed falsely. In the case of Donald Trump, the “Grand Dragon” that
time was Nancy Pelosi. Just as Peter, a member of Jesus’s party of Christians, Mitt
Romney was the “Peter” in the High Priestess’s mock trial.
The 2020 impeachment of Donald J. Trump can be compared well
with Roland Freisler’s mock trial of Hitler’s accused assassins. The big difference
is that the German plot was to diminish “Satan” and the Democrat plot was to
diminish a good but imperfect man and elevate the demon lady herself, Hillary Clinton. In fact, the strategy against the President
is in harmony with the strategy against Jesus since Jesus came to “drain the
spiritual swamp.”
(picture credit: Roland Freisler; https://ww2gravestone.com/people/freisler-roland/)
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