RECOGNIZING THE TRUTH - Final

(Continued from yesterday)

After delivering the man of the Gaderenes from demons, Jesus was asked to depart the area, “And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city” (Mat 9:1). After performing miracles in His hometown, although some worshipped Him, the Pharisees maligned the Man: 

³³ And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, “It was never so seen in Israel.” ³⁴ But the Pharisees said, “He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils” (Mat 9:33-34)

 Jesus had been recognized as the “son of David,” not by the Pharisees, but by two men with a certain characteristic, “And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, “Thou son of David, have mercy on us.”

In their blindness, they saw that Jesus was the true heir to the then empty throne of Judea. He was of the gens of David, and as such, even paid taxes on property in Bethlehem, the city of David. “His city” was not Bethlehem, but Capernaum, where He had lived as a child.

Capernaum is the “village of comforts” (Abarim Publications 2023) and was the city that Jesus went to for comfort after the temptations of Satan. He, however, was not well received there by the majority, so he moved on, as it is written: 

And you, Capernaum, which is exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day” (Mat 11:23) 

As it turned out, just like Sodom, evil reigned in Capernaum. There as well, demons would have ruled. Jesus was no longer welcome in that once comfortable place, or as Jesus implied, once “exalted unto heaven,” it would be “brought down.” Obviously, when compared to the vision of Lucifer of Isaiah, it was much the same: 

¹⁴ I (Lucifer) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. ¹⁵ Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isa 14:14-15)

 Jesus implied that Capernaum was the ‘city of Satan.’ It must have been full of demons! So, rather than the city of comfort, it was the city of despair!

Although the Synagogue of Satan was in Smyrna, just as the Church is an invisible institution, so is Satan’s assembly hall. Essentially any assembly of God that compromises itself with the world is a ‘Synagogue of Satan.’ Although that is usually applied to the Romanized Jews, it would still apply to the secular Christians who bring the world into the Church.

As it turned out, Jesus was recognized as the ‘King of the Jews’ but only by those two who could not see the world. How did they recognize Jesus? By His Spirit! They surely felt virtue emanating from His Person, just as the woman with the blood issue (Mat 9:20). The two blind man perceived Jesus’s virtue (Greek, dynamos) … The Dynamics that He is God.

The two blind men did not look at Jesus as the “man” but as rightful king! They cared little about His flesh but His inner Being.

Jesus had been with Satan when He was tempted, but that had not made Him a disciple of Satan! He was unwelcome in His own city because He was not a disciple of Satan, and the city could live more comfortably without Him there!

In sin is a comfortable way to live but only if Jesus is not there. The same goes in this age; take away God and life seems more comfortable, but in the end, just as Jesus said, you “shall be brought down to Hell.”

Trump said something to the effect, “They are not out to get me; they are out to get you. I am only in the way.” The same applies to Jesus; the Pharisees were not out to get Jesus, per se, they were out to get the multitude, in the sense that they wanted Capaenaum to remain the way it was — comfortable without the ‘Comforter’ there!

However, soon they would seek to kill Jesus. Why is that? Jesus said something really mean about them, to wit: Referring to both the Pharisees and Sadduccees at His Baptism, Jesus had asked, “O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” (Mat 3:7). Soon after, Jesus asked the multitude, “O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things?” (Mat 12:34).

Jesus was not speaking of that age, but their genetics (gens). He was accusing them of being ‘sons of Satan’ in that the ‘viper’ was the ‘Devil’ Lucifer, the Prince of Devils. Jesus was revealing to them that they were depraved and had the same genetics as the Wicked One. As such, they were vessels for demonic seed.

However, they had accused Jesus of the same thing! That is a technique used by the guilty; they always accuse the innocent of being what they are themselves. (That is obvious with the criminal cases of President Trump who is accused of doing what the Democrats really did.)

Now consider President Trump. Even the blind, if they look closely at the evidence, would know that he is the legitimate heir to the presidency. He deserved to win because America at that time was quite a comfortable and fair place to live. It may have been ‘Capernaum’ outwardly but inwardly, the U.S. festered; it was just another ‘Synagogue of Satan.’

It was the same with Jesus. Then came Jesus and did wonders. Rather than welcome the man, the ‘den of vipers’ drove him out by nefarious means.

The U.S. had demons within, and President Trump exposed so many demons that he became unwelcome, mostly even in his home city.

Trump called it the ‘swamp’ but it was more so a synagogue — ‘a gathering’ — of vipers. Just as the Pharisees accused Jesus of doing their own doings, so it was with the viviparous devils of the Deep State. Just as Jesus did good and was called evil, so it goes with Trump.

What had Jesus done to the Pharisees? He had only said the truth; he said mean things to them! That was not a flaw; that was the truth!

What is Trump guilty of? Saying mean things in his tweets, but only speaking the truth! Since he said those mean things, the tweets have been revealed as truth.

So, it was with Jesus. He had called the Pharisees ‘vipers’ and everywhere he went, there they were, saying deceptive things about the Savior. They indeed were ‘sons of vipers’ because of the deception that they spread. They called Jesus the ‘Prince of Devils’ but it was the Pharisees who were the devils.

The Pharisees spread misinformation — lies that seemed truths. Jesus was indeed royalty; it however was not of the house of devils — the Synagogue of Satan — but the family of King David and of the LORD GOD. Jesus was a generation of both Yahweh and David although He was accused of being Satan Himself. The accusation was that Jesus was the priest of the Synagogue of Satan, or the Devil that He had just outwitted. (I believe that the chief priest Caiaphas was the vessel for Satan when Jesus was crucified. It would be him that was “Prince of Devils’ and the Pharisees ‘devils.’)

Jesus was tried many times for His so called ‘crimes.’ Just what was the crime of Jesus? The truth. He revealed to the world how decadent it had become and that He was the valiant man that God had called to do a good work.

So, it was with Trump. Like it or not, Trump was elected President of the United States because it was the Will of God! His mission was to expose sin and to share grace. Trump revealed, and is still revealing, all the crooked and wicked things that were once done in secret that can now be done in plain view. Even the blind should be able to see the evil in our government at the present time, but they turn their heads to it in a very pharisaical manner.

Why did people vote for Biden. It was the will of God, as well. God is revealing to the world just how wicked it has become. Biden is doing his job well! Unknown to Biden, he is a ‘puppet’ on God’s string. God is revealing the ‘den of vipers’ by the ‘prince of demons’ — Biden.

Most of the public in general are still quite comfortable living in sin. Again, in sin is a comfortable way to live but not unless Jesus is out of the way. Why else were the churches closed during the pandemic while bars and strip joints remained open? Because the churches made those in charge quite uncomfortable; some of us Christians were not so blind as the others. Some, however, even in the synagogues of Satan — churches of Christ in name only — became quite comfortable staying home with Jesus out of the way!

God has a plan and a future for us! (Jer 29:11). Just as only Smokey can prevent forest fires; only you can prevent the plan and the future. God is dynamic and quite versatile at that; where it goes from here depends on you!

Jonathan Gruber, the architect of Obamacare, said that they “depended on the stupidity of the American voter” for it to become law. In all manner of things, the wicked depend on the stupidity of the multitude, or even when they are comfortable doing things the Roman way rather than by God’s. That in a nutshell was specifically the ‘Synagogue of Satan’ that John saw in his Revelation.

Most places where Jesus went were the homes of the Synagogue of Satan. They were more comfortable with laws than they were with healing.

Jesus came for the “healing of the nations” (Rev 22:2). Not that Trump is a ‘Jesus’ for he is more of a ‘David,’ but like David and the “Son of David,” Trump came to heal the nations of what ails them.

As we have learned, the world as it was once, is withering away one law at a time. By the time of the end, the mark of God will be gone, and our government will be where everyone knows your name, your economics, your interests, and even your genetics. The entire modern Church will be the ‘Synagogue of Satan’ and even those who say they are ‘Christians’ will be comfortable in them.

We must not depend on Trump to heal the nation. That would be heresy. However, just as David was a man for the times for God, whoever it is that wins the election will be because it is the Will of God.

God does not depend on the stupidity of the voters but the wisdom of those who are motivated enough to vote. What is your role in the destiny of the nation and the world? To ask God for direction for whom you vote and to encourage others to do the same.

We may never know for sure, but since the outcome was for Biden, whether by ‘stupid voters’ or by deceptive tactics — like the dead voting — the battle was still between good and evil. Whatever happens is the plan of God for us whether it be for good or for the grand finality.

Ask yourselves, "Are you comfortable in sin; are you comfortable the way things are?

God was working in those days in the person of Jesus. Is He working to this day? Is now part of the plan and a future that He has for us? If not, then why would He leave His Comforter behind for us?

(picture credit; Reuters; Maui)