SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - JUDGING

THE JUDGE

  An old Jewish proverb, from the Word of God is, “If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.” (Prov 25:20-21). Jesus was the perceived enemy of the Jewish establishment. If the scribes, Pharisees, and the others had been as religious as they claimed, then what should they have done with Jesus? Give Him water to drink and bread to eat. Instead what was it they did to Him? “They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.” (Mat 27:34). What did they give Jesus to eat? Nothing. Tradition has it that criminals receive a last meal. That tradition is ancient, is not the law but by grace, and is based on Jesus’s “Last Supper” (Walsh 2014).

  There is no evidence that Jesus ate at His Last Supper. He gave it to “them” (them being the apostles); they ate but Jesus did not. Jesus would fast until he suffered death. Jesus deserved to eat, but instead he gave the apostles bread to eat and “water” to drink in the form of wine. True to His word, He did not eat nor drink to suffer death. He died thirsty and hungry.

  At the Last Supper, Jesus satisfied the hunger and thirst of the apostles, but His death would be the body and blood that would eventually satisfy their hunger and thirst. We never think of it that way, but Jesus heaped coals of fire on their heads by nourishing them, but His “reward” was death. How so? The apostles could have stopped the mob out to kill Jesus. How could they have done that? If they had had enough faith, they could have moved mountains, and as easily cooled the crowd who were after Jesus.

  The apostles, if it had not been for the grace of Jesus, would have been condemned. Most were comfortable, except for John, away from the mob that they feared would kill them as well. The Last Supper was not only to remember Jesus, His Purpose, and His death; but also to remind mankind that all are guilty. Judas was obvious because he held the “smoking gun” but by not at least praying they would have shown their willingness to save God from death! While Jesus was agonizing what was about to happen to Him for the sake of mankind, the apostles were fast asleep.

  Peter, probably feeling guilty, cut off the ear of one of the members of the mob, but violence was not the Way of Jesus. What should have Peter and the other apostles done to that member of the mob? “Give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink.” Instead Peter attacked the man. Perhaps if they had welcomed the mob with love and charity, the mob would not have condemned Jesus to death. That is speculation, but it is also scriptural. It was God’s Will that Jesus die, but Jesus because His Flesh was about to suffer, dreaded death just as any man would. He asked God if His “cup” (purpose) could pass to another, but it could not. God’s own Flesh had to die for efficacy.

How could the mob be defeated? Charity and love would have condemned them and either metaphorically, or reality, God could have destroyed the mob by fire. Instead the manner of the mob was typical — they were out for blood, and no blood would suffice but the blood of the most innocent Man to ever live. God judges by fire. In the end, sinful men will die but suffer by fire and brimstone in Hell. It is not the place of men to judge harshly, as it is written, “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment… in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour (Lev 19:15).

  The manner is not that anyone not judge, but in righteousness they shall judge. That is not contradictory to what Jesus said, “Judge not, that ye be not judged” (Mat 7:1) because Jesus clarified that, “with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” People should judge as they would want to be judged; that is righteous judgment. Furthermore, it is written: 

³⁶ Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. ³⁷ Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven (Luke 6:36-37)

  People must not judge others harshly; to the extent that the accused is to condemn. Why is that? Because Jesus would be judged harshly. The mob hated the grace that would flow so freely from Jesus when He excused their actions by saying that they did not know what they are doing (the mob and His executioners). However, because Jesus gave them “bread to eat and water to drink” in the form of His Body and Blood, His grace would “heap hot coals on their heads.” The consequence of their ignorance is death in Hell. They caused their own souls to burn!

  Years ago, a mob of people killed several members of an Amish church. Grace is what the Amish church did for those who murdered their members. Rather than judging harshly against those who murdered the innocent Amish, they forgave them of their sins. They understood Jesus and His Way and did what Jesus would do. Rather than attacking the “English” community for the wrongs of the few, they showed grace. They did not burn the cities of those that were against them, let alone a stupid thing like burning their own settlements. Crazy people do irrational things, and those of the Amish church were rational.

  Now for current events. The mob of the left are that crazy and their type of law is irrational! Cities are burning and stores are looted because a black man suffered injustice. George Floyd, an innocent man died, not that he was righteous but apparently, he was judged unfairly by the man who stood on him, and allegedly suffocated him. In fairness, before the officer is condemned, “righteous judgment” is based on facts and not emotions. My first emotion was to “crucify” the officer and those who stood idly by while the travesty occurred. The other officers were like the “apostles” who could have stopped Jesus’s death. The crowd who watched, and who could have intervened, are akin to those in the crowd at Jesus’s death who could have at least asked Pilate for mercy, or even physically stopped the cruelty. All of them are guilty!

  Furthermore, for His death, Jesus didn’t blame Pilate as much as those behind the plot. The Jewish government and religion had just laws but unjust application of them. They did their will; not God’s Will even though they knew it. Those who plotted Jesus’s death should have understood from their own faith that Jesus was who He said He is, and that is God in the Flesh. The point is that killing a person is more than stepping on them but living in a milieu of cruelty. The Jewish officials had a practice of harsh judgment. That is evident from scripture. The Jewish people allowed that to happen. They could have depended on God more than the Sanhedrin (their clerical governors) or Roman Law (secular government).

  Righteous governments are those that not only have the law but follow the tenets of all the laws without respect to persons. Justice, to be fair, must be colorblind and not a respecter of persons. The law must apply equally to everyone. With the current EEO statutes and affirmative action, and the double-jeopardy of federal civil rights legislation, the justice system is out of balance. All lives, according to scripture, does matter, including the lives of black men and women. Even the lives of unborn black children should matter to Christians. Well-meaning liberals who do not know what they are doing have created an institution that creates division and furthers discontent.

  What the motives of the alleged perpetrator in the George Floyd death may be is not known. Perhaps he was overzealous, or perhaps he was a hater. To judge fairly, the man should not be prejudged because no one would want that type of vigilante-type justice for themselves. The mob has already tried and convicted the alleged murderer. By burning cities and trying to kill policemen and even the President, they are nothing more than a chaotic group of sinful people who are “doing what is right in their own eyes” (Jud 17:6) when there was no government to stop them. Base sin amounts to men doing what they think is right without regard to what is right. The members of the mob who are burning cities and creating a Hell on Earth are judging harshly with great condemnation. That is not their role but belongs only to God and the legitimate justice system.

  Those who take the law into their own hands and wreak havoc on civilization are like the mob who condemned Jesus to die although he had not been proven guilty of any crime. Jesus died merely because He Is God and claimed that to be true. Now the mob is judging the American way by attacking the persons and property of innocent people. How can punishing the innocent balance the scales of justice? That is irrational because that is not true justice. The mob that condemned Jesus is like “Judge Lynch” that judged the blacks and their white allies. They had their own manner of indictment, forensics, selection of witnesses, conviction, and punishment by death. The mob in all the major American cities are just a diverse group as evil as the KKK who also were doing what they perceived as right.

  Who puts the thought into the heads of the people of the mob? Is it God’s Purpose for them to do evil on behalf of justice? Their actions are driven by Satanic influences. Of course, liberal churches do not believe in demons or Satan, so they blame the oppressors. In this case, they judge who the oppressors are; they are thought to be the ones who follow civil law. They claim that the minorities are the oppressed when the actual law is just the opposite and puts justice on the side of the minority.

Perhaps the officer was resentful for two systems of justice. That is no excuse, but many people want justice for all, and of equal fairness. Perhaps liberal politicians have ignorantly created a system that creates division and unfairness, all in the name of good intentions.

  The good intentions of the Jewish people with Jesus was to rally to the cause of their true Messiah by ridding the world of this man posing as Him. The intent of the Jewish authorities was protecting their own civil and religious authority. Unbalanced systems of government exist in America for those same reasons: (1) the people have good intentions and (2) the politicians want power. Who truly believes that the Democrats care about Mr. Floyd? Who really thinks that the mob that kills the unborn and attacks their own citizens care about Mr. Floyd’s death?

  What is it that the mob wants? They want another form of government. They fail to understand that their attacks on civilization is not their ideas but are planned and carried out by someone behind the scenes. What is worse, they don’t even ask who is the driving force that coordinates their activities. They have the herd mentality, and fail to realize that they are mere tools (fools) of those with motives.

If you rallied for a cause, would you not care who was organizing the rally? Before any rational person risks jailtime or even death for a cause, should they not wonder whose cause it is? Who wants them to burn cities and attack the police, soldiers, and civilians? Does God want that? How about the Devil? Is that not his M.O.? Satan is the author of chaos and God of order. Whose will is it that the mob judge and implement inequitable justice? Certainly not God’s Will!

  Those who are with the mob, casting the fire or not, are accomplices. They are as guilty as those who stood by and watch Jesus die. The governors, mayors, and other officials are more guilty than the actual mob because they, as the Jewish authorities long ago, created a system that incites people to riot. Who had the greater sin in the death of Jesus? The Jewish authorities. Who has the greater sin in today’s mob? The liberal politicians of the big city “plantations” that Democrats still build. They claim to protect the itinerant helpers in the crime fields of the big cities, but all the while, the blacks remain in bondage to a system left over from ante-bellum days and still uses them for the big city mayors and such to remain masters of their domains.

  The apostles heaped fire on Jesus’s head. They were sinners as well, and Jesus died for their sins as well. Even Christians who support today’s mob activity are guilty of the crimes committed by the mob. If you sit in your lazy chair right now and see this as justice for the oppressed, then you are not on God’s side. You “eat” with Jesus, but all the while, you condemn the Lord by your failure to discern good from evil. True Christians would test everything to scripture. Nowhere did Jesus even suggest that people take the law into their own hands or judge harshly. The Christian who supports the mob is a bench-warmer who loses the game without even playing in the game (obviously a metaphor).

  Christians should not be concerned with the oppressed as much as the deceived. Once deception is overcome, oppression may end. Perhaps there is a conspiracy for mob justice. Perhaps there is an antichrist directing it all. My worry is that the same Satan who entered the Serpent and Judas, is still  alive and raging. People do his will and fail to understand who is behind it all. The director of the mob is ultimately Satan, but again; liberal Christians do not believe in Satan. Perhaps that is their problem. Perhaps they are easily deceived because they fail to believe in the Deceiver. Perhaps they fail to even believe in God!

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