Yesterday the commentary was about anger with a brother without a just cause. As it turns out, it seems that Jesus was previewing their own judgment of Him with them having no cause. Today, judgment will be explored further, to wit:
KEY VERSES: 23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24 Leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. (Mat 5:23-24)
Again, let this apply to the case
of the multitude vs. Jesus. Jesus is their spiritual brother. At best,
they would be adopted of God; Paul wrote, speaking of the firstfruits of God, “Even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the
redemption of our body” (Rom 8:23).
Converts are the seed that are planted; some mature and the others do not, as is learned from the parable of the seeds:
And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. (Mark 4:15)
Those who heard and believed had
received the Gift, but Satan quickly stole the God-given Gift.
In the case of Jesus, it was Him
that bear the Gift. He gave up the Gift for his “brothers” — all who would
follow Him; “brothers” in the sense that they gave up their “father the Devil”
and came to the Father of all — the Invisible God — who adopts all that call on
His Name.
Jesus was the supernatural
child of God, having the Spirit of His Father. Everyone else were “bastard”
children of the Devil some of whom were seeking Comfort in the bosom of Jesus. [1]
The point here is that Jesus was
speaking of brothers in a spiritual sense; He was perhaps not speaking
of reprobate pagan enemies as “brothers.” As the “Last Adam” Jesus was the eldest
“brother” of all of Adam’s kind. He surely was not only speaking to only potential
Christian “brothers” in general, but possibly Himself!
Referring again to the key verse,
Jesus brought the Gift to the altar; the “altar” being the sacred Cross. There He
remembered that a brother had something against Him. There were many there who
before had not been “brothers” at all but adversaries: Pontius Pilate, the
repentant thief Dismus, and the centurion who pierced His side. Each of them
saw Jesus as God in the flesh as He shed His Blood for them. All three of them
became “brothers” as they realized that they were witnessing God in the Body of
Jesus.
Jesus remembered them as He was
dying. He said to Dismus, “Today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise” (Luke
23:43). “Today” would be soon after He gave up the Ghost because the Jewish Day
would end about fifteen minutes before dark. Jesus made it dark at the sixth
hour and it lasted until He gave up the Ghost three hours later. Dismus went to
Paradise as it was dark, not in body but in Spirit. The Gift that Jesus gave
Dismus was the Holy Ghost who accompanied the still living soul of Dismus to
Paradise.
Pilate and Longinus, the
centurion, at the very time Jesus gave up the Ghost, received the Gift. They
too would be part of the reconciliation, “There rememberest that thy brother
hath ought against thee.” Jesus remembered them because they believed that He
was God!
Jesus followed through with what
He had preached to the multitude, “Leave there thy gift before the altar and go
thy way.” Jesus left His Holy Ghost — His Gift — at the altar, and He went His
Way to the sepulcher.
What had happened in the three hours of darkness? His Spirit emerged from Him on the altar and seeded the “crop” of spiritual brothers all over the land. Jesus, without even a moon to sow under, sowed a new “crop” as the Father had done in the beginning:
6 There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. (Gen 2:6-8)
Eve was trespassed upon and she
too made a bastard child and named him “Cain.”
Adam and Eve were of the same “tubular”
(root) and were made for each other and no one else. The Devil, cleverly disguised
as another image (nahas), made all of Eve’s kind bastard children since
she was the “mother of all living” (Gen 3:20), implying that Adam was not their
father. Cain’s father was the Devil, the same as ours.
As Mark wrote, Satan (that image
in the Garden), “Taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.”
The word, “word” should be
capitalized. The “Word” as John wrote is God in the flesh, or Jesus (John
1:1-14). Satan ravaged the Garden of God once in the beginning and many times
thence. He can ravage it again to destroy the crop that Jesus sowed when He
shed His Water and Blood (1 John 5:6). The “water” was the “Living Water” the
Holy Ghost that He shed for them… the “Gift.”
The Blood that He propitiated was
for “sins that are past” (Rom 3:25) — the sins of Eve (the First Adam; not the
male Adam), for she, not Adam, was the progenitor of all the living. The Blood
of Jesus would fix Eve’s original sin — adultery — and with even another kind
of being. The Blood of Jesus had the genetics of God within it. Those genes
were the new seeds sown to improve the crop fit enough for God to harvest!
And not to forget the key verse, “First
be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.”
Jesus reconciled with all his
brothers past, present, and future. He opened the ground wherein His Blood flowed
and planted His seed to reconcile with all mankind. He fixed Eve’s sin, David’s,
Moses’s, and all the patriarchs who came before Him. Then His seed was left in
the Earth for all future generations. Indeed, God planted another Garden with
the glorious Seed of His “Son,” not in the sense of the “son” being the
offspring of the father, but having the gens (genetics) of God, the
Father.
Jesus gave His Gift directly to
Dismus and left His Seed in the earth on Earth for all mankind for all generations
in perpetuity. Dismus was engendered from God above (“born again:” John 3:7) by
His “Seed” — the Son.
Was Jesus, in the key verse,
speaking of His own (God’s) reconciliation with His creatures? Perhaps so. It
seems that the crucifixion was God’s Reconciliation with mankind, and that it
was:
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son. (Rom 5:9-10)
It was Him that was the Vine that
would produce new creatures from the husbandry of God, and they were the “branches”
who could either grow or wither (John 15:1-2).
At first glance, I was ready to
dismiss the key verse and gloss over it as an example or human reconciliation.
Reconciliation was in the Plan of God and I almost missed it!
[1] The
Dead Sea Scrolls refers to “bastards” as the mixed breed resulting from the
sons of God coupling with the daughters of men.
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