The Law killed Jesus. But He broke no Laws, neither the Law of God nor the law of Caesar: “Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him” (John 19:4). On the other hand, the Jews responded in anger, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God” (John 19:7).
Throughout the Old Testament, the Jews made themselves out
to be gods. That was the original sin of Adam, and Satan in the Serpent said it
first: “Ye shall be as gods” [i] or
more precisely translated “as God.” Why did he know that? Because that was his
own aspiration! [ii]
And there they were, Adam’s kind accusing Jesus of their
sins. In fact, crucifying Jesus was them acting as if they are God because only
God has authority over life and death. They accused Jesus of exactly what they
were doing!
Jesus told the truth. The truth is that Jesus IS God!
Pilate saw that and so did Longinus who said, “Truly this was the Son of God” [iii]
Somehow the blood and water from the Messiah persuaded the soldier who pieced him.
Perhaps he sensed the virtue that had gone out of Jesus in the Blood and Water;
enough Virtue to heal the nations… all the people of the world who ever lived.
He may have felt the Good Will of God canceling out the ill will of people. The
centurion grasped the meaning of love when he saw that Jesus should have
hated them all but died in love for them. His Good Will was that none should
perish [iv]
and he gave himself to death so that others need not die.
Again, what is love? Good Will toward God and men. For
Jesus, it is “Good Will toward the Father and men.” [v]
Goodness is “virtue.” Jesus felt virtue gone from Him when
he healed the woman with the blood issue. [vi]
Sinners have a blood issue as well. They have the DNA of the Wicked One. [vii]
The “tares” are the evil DNA in their blood. They had mutated by spiritual
devolution from Cain to blind Lamech to Canaan to Ishmael to Esau and onward to
Judas who had Satan in him. Good will had devolved until everyone but Jesus had
the DNA of the Wicked One, even including Mary, for none are without sin… no
not one! [viii]
Why then was the Law required? For all were sinners and the
Law is for wrongdoers. There was no Law back in the Garden because all were
without sin. Thy did have free will to do as they pleased, but they knew only
good and were virtuous. Virtue had gone out of God unto Adam and from Adam to Eve.
God took inert matter, and “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7).
Generation of mankind (Genesis) was God breathing life and
sharing His Virtue with His creature. Then Adam did the same when, “And the rib
(sic; or life from the side of Adam), which the Lord God had taken from man,
made He a woman, and brought her unto the man” (Gen 2:22). It was not a “rib”
at all, but Adam shared virtue from his side. God flowed His Virtue to Adam
and Adam to Eve.
With only Virtue in the Garden, there was no knowledge of
evil. Thusly, there are two kinds of man — righteous and unrighteous — and two
kinds of knowledge — good and evil. “Good” was at one time in their DNA from
God. Then along came Satan in the Serpent who knew Eve.
Cain was of the Wicked One [ix]
and he knew evil. Adam and Eve were shielded from the Law with coats of skin [x] but
neither Cain nor Abel had coats. Abel was righteous. He was perhaps the Son of
God and Eve. He was born to save Cain from sin, but Cain murdered his “savior”
just as Cain’s kind would murder their Savior.
Cain needed a Coat from the Lamb of God. Abel brought that “coat”
to sacrifice for the nature of Cain. Rather than have a new nature, Cain
rebelled. He “wandered” (the meaning of his name) from God and Paradise until
he perished near but not on the Holy Mountain. Without a coat from God to
protect him from the Wicked One, Cain would need laws to do that.
Abel had been his brother’s keeper, but Cain denied being
his brother’s keeper. [xi] Unlike
Adam, who was to dress and keep the Garden (of Living Souls), Cain was not a
keeper of souls. He was the opposite; he endeavored to perish the living soul
of Abel but even failed that: “The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me
from the ground” (Gen 4:10) and it was still crying out in apostolic times!
Cain had murdered the flesh of Abel but was unable to kill his soul. Cain
should fear God who can kill both the body and the soul in Hell. [xii]
Why is the Law necessary? Cain killed Abel because he hated his
brother. In that
love” is Good Will, then hatred is ill will, and anyone with ill
will toward another is a murderer: “The voice of thy brother's blood crieth
unto me from the ground” (1 John 3:15).
If Cain had found grace, then he too would have on the Lamb
of God. He found no grace because he was not like Adam because he was not of
Adam. Adam found grace; Jesus was there all the time in Spirit. But the Son of
God, Abel, was there in the Flesh, but Cain did not find him to be of God! Cain
killed the Son of God and Cain’s kind killed Jesus, the Son of God. Jesus
died for what reason? Jesus declared that:
I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. (1 John 2:13)
Cain failed to overcome the Wicked One who was in him. That was known from
the beginning! Abel would help Cain overcome the Wicked One, but Cain murdered
him. Is that not what happened at the crucifixion of Jesus? “Abel” cried out
from the ground when the Blood of Jesus was spilled. That blood overcame the Wicked
One. Cain would have needed to do nothing but allow Abel’s sacrifice to atone
for his wrathful nature that was inherited from his “father the Devil.” [xiii]
The “adopted” sons of God overcome the Wicked One because they have known
the Father. When they saw Jesus, they saw the Father, and they also had out on “Coats”
provided by the Lamb of God when the Holy Ghost left Jesus and came down on those
whose image was as Jesus. Jesus regenerated Adam on the Cross when Blood and
Water from His side sprinkled on Adam in his tomb below — in the “Place of Adam’s
Skull.” [1]
It is to be noted, that “Cain” was in Gehenna at the Potter’s
Field. The “blood” of Cain cried out and filled the body of Judas as Satan was
in them both. Cain could have been redeemed along with his ‘adopted” father,
Adam, but genetically he remained of the Wicked One.
By killing himself, Judas who “raised Cain” blasphemed the
Holy Ghost of Jesus just as Cain had the sacrifice of Abel. Judas took the Name
of God in vain, thinking his self-righteous works was enough to save himself. The
blood of Judas would not suffice. It was no more effective than the grain from
Cain because salvation is only by blood, and specifically, only the blood of Jesus!
[xiv]
Without the Holy Spirit (coats from sacrificed lambs) to
protect sinful men of Cain’s kind, only the Law would do so. The Law would keep
them safe until Jesus came with His Flesh to cover the sins of the
Wicked One. The Law is for Evil Ones; not for righteous ones. Scripture is the
Last Will and Testament of God to His heirs. [2]
The first Law in the Garden of Eden was not a command. It
was a warning that there are wages for sin. The “wages” are deaths for sinners.
[xv] “Wages”
are what is deserved for works. Works are unnecessary to enter unto Paradise
but by the Way of the Tree of Life — Jesus. [xvi]
The Law is the heavy hand of cherubim to keep the Way to that “Tree.” The
Decalogue (The Ten Commandments) kept the Way until Jesus came to stand-in for
the cherubim. He looked at the Law much differently than the cherubim. It is
the same Law but expressed differently:
“Master, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said unto him, “Thou shalt love (agapeo) the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love (agapeo) thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Mat 2:36-40)
They were the same commandments but expressed as love, specifically agape-type
love. The Greatest Commandment summarized “Sayings” 1-4 of the Decalogue. The
second Commandments summarized “Sayings” 5-10 of the Decalogue. The Decalogue
(Ten Words of the Logos, Jesus) are a list of ten “Good Wills” for God
and man. For instance, “Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord in vain” is Good
Will toward God. [xvii]
“Thou shalt not steal” [xviii]
is good will toward others. In other words, the Decalogue is a list of sharing the
Virtues of God; ones that breaths life from God unto others! The Great
Commission is sharing the love, or good will toward men.
What was the sin of Cain? “Thou shalt not covet… any thing that is thy
neighbour's.” [xix]
God looked highly at Abel’s offering but rejected Cain’s. Cain coveted the grace
that Abel obtained from God, but he received no grace because of his attitude.
Because he, by the law of primogentiture, would deserve Adam’s and God’s
blessing, but by grace Abel got his blessing, is sort of a prelude to almost
all cases of that in scripture (for instance Jacob over Esau and Isaac over Ishmael).
Good Will was Abel’s attitude toward Cain, Adam, and God. Ill
will was Cain’s attitude toward Abel, Adam, and God.
Cain had to have laws to contain his arrogance and animosity that he had
inherited from the Wicked One. Because sinners are “tares” of the Wicked One, Cain’s
kind still needed Laws until Jesus came, then God would provide “coats”
made from His Holy Ghost — the Spirit of the Lamb of God. He fulfilled the Law
because His death and Virtue was enough to cover the Law.
With that said, the Decalogue is no longer considered Law, but it remains
God’s Will to obtain the prize of inheritance of which Paul wrote. [xx]
The unconverted need the Law that they may obtain, but the righteous do not
need the Law. Of course, the Law can never attain, but that is deception from
the Evil One. Only love (Good Wil) can deliver the prize of salvation.
How is it known that the Holy Ghost covers a Christian? Their nature changes.
No longer do they need the Law because their desire is to please Jesus. The Decalogue
does that. Like any good father, God is pleased when He, His Son, and His creatures
are looked on with good will. The Decalogue is not a list of restrictions but purveyance
of Good Will transferred from God to His “children” when they are born again.
Since love is good will from God unto us and shared with others (The Great
Commission), then hatred is ill will toward God and others. Ironically,
Judas had no ill will toward God, but good will toward money. In effect, ill
will is also usury – oppressing others for personal gain. Jews were noted for
loving their Jewish “brothers” but using their Gentile “brothers” for gain. Why
have Jews been hated ever since Shem was chosen? Because of jealousy from the
DNA of Cain.
Why were the Semites inclined to sin? They too are of the Wicked One because
of Terah, Abraham’s father. Somehow, sin got through the Abrahamic Covenant through
Hagar, the Egyptian.
So, the conclusion is that love is not an emotion but an attitude
of God’s Good Will obtained through the shedding of the Blood from God’s Son.
Likewise, neither is hatred an emotion, but the attitude that God’s Name, “Jesus,”
is for a vanity. Just what is expected from those with new natures? To take the
Name of Jesus with empathy.
The decalogue is, therefore, “Ten Ways” to empathize with God and “Six
Ways” to empathize with others. (Because love of others is also God’s Will).
Empathizing only with others (the social gospel) is not even half the
gospel. The rich man told Jesus that he did all those things. Jesus said to the
rich young man, “Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not
kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother”
and the man replied, “All these have I kept from my youth up” (Luke 18:20-21).
What was he missing? The Greatest Commandments: to love God with all his
heart, mind, soul, and strength! [xxi]
His was the social gospel. Not just some of the Commandments are necessary, but
all of them; not as Laws but a new nature of loving-kindness. Again, the
Decalogue is viewed as “Laws” by those who are criminal, or have ill will,
toward God and others, but as characteristics of virtues by those with
good will emanating from God.
Christians have liberty to sin. God is a permissive God, but if truly
children of God, they would desire to please the Father. Of course, they cannot see the Father, so they
would want to please the Son who gave His life to free the criminal minds of
Cain’s kind from sin.
Just what did Jesus do on the Cross? Of course, He suffered death and Virtue
flowed from His Flesh to Adam’s kind, but also Satan was cast out of the flesh
of Judas. That was what the Hebrews envisioned when Moses held up the “tree”
with the dead Serpent thereon. [xxii]
Can you see that Jesus did that? If you do, then you are born again with new
DNA, a new attitude, and as a child of God. [xxiii]
If the Decalogue still seems too cumbersome, then perhaps the nature of
the Beast remains intact. Taking the Lord’s Name in vain diminishes the length
of life. Therefore, it diminishes the longevity of the living soul on Earth.
Taking God’s Name vainly diminishes both Him and you. God’s “Name” died so that
you would not. Is that not a great reason to magnify the Name of God? God will
not be trivialized but is patient while we are yet sinners who need only to see
the Light. The Decalogue are great Prescriptions for Eternal Health!
(picture credit: prescriptionmaker.com)
[1]
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[2]
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[i]
Gen 3:5
[ii]
Isa 14:12-14
[iii]
Mat 27:54
[iv]
John 3:16
[v]
Luke 2:14
[vi]
Mark 5:30
[vii]
Mat 13:38
[viii]
Rom 3:12
[ix] 1
John 3:12
[x]
Gen 3:21
[xi]
Gen 4:9
[xii]
Mat 10:28
[xiii]
John 8:44
[xiv]
Acts 14:12
[xv]
Rom 6:23
[xvi]
Gen 3:24
[xvii]
Exod 20:7
[xviii]
Exod 20:15
[xix]
Exod 20:17
[xx] 1
Cor 9:24
[xxi]
Mark 12:30
[xxii]
John 3:14
[xxiii]
John 3:7
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