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from Jesus:
If you make the effort to study this website in a little more detail,
you will find ample explanations
of how the teachings on this website are brought forth. As I explain
elsewhere [Link
1, Link
2], I am indeed the real Jesus Christ speaking through a messenger
who has volunteered to be my mouthpiece. Over the past 2,000 years,
I have had many messengers who served to bring forth teachings or visions
from me in various ways. This is nothing new, except for those who have
been bought up in an orthodox religious system that denies the possibility
that God could speak directly to and through human beings.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment on the situation
around modern Israel. Do I have a problem with Jews? I do not have a
problem which Jews in general. Jews are my brothers and sisters, as
are all other human beings on this planet, including Arabs. I am not
excluding anyone from my spiritual family, yet the importance of the
fact that I am not excluding anyone is that I am not favoring some people
over others.
The Jews respect the Torah, and it states that God is no respecter of
persons. If all Jews, in modern times and throughout the past several
millennia, would have accepted that statement and truly internalized
it, then we could have avoided much hatred and bloodshed in this world.
God created human beings in his own image and likeness. Do you seriously
believe that God created some images of himself that are better than
others? Obviously, this is not so. Therefore, the only logical conclusion
is that all human beings are of equal value in the eyes of God. Consequently,
all human beings should be of equal value in the eyes of humans. One
of the main problems you see on planet Earth is that so many people
cannot or will not adhere to this simple truth.
You have seen numerous examples of a particular group of people who
suddenly began to believe that they were somehow better than others.
In many cases this happened because people began to believe that their
religion was the only true religion, and therefore they were favored
by God over all other people. However, it has also happened for a variety
of other reasons including political ideologies, nationality or race.
If you take an honest look at history, you will see that in every single
case where a group of people have begun to feel superior to others,
it has been but a short step before these people began to believe that
the ends could justify the means. Because they were so superior to others,
they could treat others differently than they treated those of their
own kind. They could even violate the laws of God that they claimed
proved their superiority. As I explain throughout this website, the
idea that the ends can justify the means is a serpentine lie. It is
one of the primary weapons used by the dark forces of Lucifer and Satan
to enslave humankind and to create artificial human conflicts that lead
to massive atrocities.
Let me state this clearly. There never has been any group of people
who could handle the idea that they were superior to others without
starting to violate the laws of God. I sincerely doubt that any group
of people will ever be able to handle a sense of superiority. Therefore,
the only way to avoid this kind of abuse is that all human beings strive
to accept the true humility that comes from realizing that God is in
everyone and everything. When you realize this fact, you see that all
human beings should be treated as individualizations of God. God is
infinite, so how could one individualization of the infinite God be
of more value than another individualization of that infinite God? There
simply is no room for carnal value judgments in the reality of God.
With that in mind, let me return to your remarks about the fact that
the Jewish state was given to the Jews. The creation of modern Israel
was a gift from the international community to the Jewish people. Let
me state clearly that this was a gift. There was no superior reason
or obligation for the international community to give this gift. Therefore,
it would have been extremely wise of the Jewish people if they had treated
this as a gift and if they had repaid those who gave it to them by always
behaving in a Godly fashion toward their neighbors. Unfortunately, this
has not always been the case.
I believe that anyone who would take an objective look at the history
of the Jewish state will see that the Jews have not always treated their
neighbors as prescribed in their own religious scriptures. Nor have
they lived up to the standards that have become accepted in the international
community, the very standards that were used by the international community
to justify the creation of the state of Israel. If the Jews had followed
those standards, you would not have seen the amount of animosity and
hatred between Israel and its neighbors.
Sure, there would have been animosity and hatred directed at Israel.
Yet if the Jews had not responded in kind, they would have not only
maintained but greatly increased the goodwill of the international community.
Because the Jews chose to respond with violence, they have in large
measure dissipated that goodwill, and they have in fact betrayed the
trust of the international community. They have created a situation
in which few nations can support what Israel is doing, but all fear
to speak out against it because they don't want to be labeled anti-semitic.
I can assure you that the Jews in Israel have also betrayed the trust
of God and the Ascended Host. However, I have no fear of speaking out.
This problem of people violating their own religion originates from
a very subtle psychology that traps many Jews. Let me make it very clear
that I am in no way saying that all Jews are victims of this psychology
or that this applies only to Jews. Yet I am saying that most of the
Jews who have been running the state of Israel for the last several
decades have been the victims of this subtle psychology. This psychology
is based on the belief that the Jews are God's chosen people. So let
me comment on the concept that a particular group of people could be
God’s chosen people.
The fact is that throughout history several groups of people have been
chosen by God for a particular purpose and mission. These people were
given a particular religion - and they were given a dispensation and
the support of the Ascended Host - in order to bring forth that religious
teaching and incorporate it into their culture. In several cases, it
was also the hope of the Ascended Host that the religious teaching could
be spread—but only through peaceful means. The Jews were simply
one group of people who received such a dispensation. They were not
the only group of people ever to receive such a dispensation. There
have been others before them and there have been others after.
The unfortunate fact is, as I explain throughout this website, that
the relativity of the carnal mind can distort anything that we of the
Ascended Host give to human beings. This is nowhere more true than when
we give a dispensation to a particular group of people. The relativity
of the carnal mind will inevitably give rise to a value judgment that
makes people feel that because they have received some new religious
teaching, they must be favored by God. Therefore, they must be better
than other people who are not part of their race or religion. This then
inevitably leads to the abuses that I talked about earlier.
The simple fact is that when a group of people receive a special dispensation,
it is not a one-way street. The people who receive a new spiritual teaching
receive a gift from God, but that gift comes with a serious responsibility.
In other words, if people do not embody the teaching, the dispensation
and the support of the Ascended Host can and will be withdrawn.
Being chosen for a special purpose does not mean that a particular group
of people will forever be God’s chosen or favorite people. Being
chosen does not mean that you can do whatever you want because you are
God’s chosen people. Only the relativity of the carnal mind can
make people believe that God’s chosen people can get away with
violating God’s laws. Being chosen means that you have a unique
responsibility to live up to and embody the laws of God, as defined
in your religious teaching. If you do not do so, the sponsorship from
above will be withdrawn and you are no longer God's chosen people. What
I am saying here is that being God’s chosen people is something
you must earn on an ongoing basis. The idea that once a group has been
chosen by God, the members of that group will be God’s chosen
people forever is simply an illusion created by the carnal mind. It
is an attempt to reject responsibility for your situation and salvation.
So what I am telling you here is that the Jews were indeed given a special
dispensation through Moses and the exodus from Egypt. However, this
does not mean that the Jews were the only group of people ever to be
chosen by God. Neither does it mean that the Jews were better or more
important than all other human beings. For that matter, the Jews were
not better or more important than the Egyptians. However, the Jews did
receive a dispensation to bring forth a new religion, which the Egyptians
at that time were not open to bringing forth.
The simple fact is that all civilizations tend to become rigid and recalcitrant
as long as they feel they are in control. This was clearly the case
with the Egyptians. Therefore, we of the Ascended Host have often had
to turn to groups that were suppressed in order to bring forth a new
teaching. Often, only groups who feel they have nothing to lose in the
material world are open to a new spiritual teaching. This is a sad fact,
but one that we have had to work with for thousands of years. The main
problem here is that our sponsorship can give a group of people worldly
power, and they often misuse it to seek revenge or to seek more power.
So the Jews were given a special dispensation to bring forth a new monotheistic
religion. For a time, they retained their sponsorship and dispensation.
Yet because of continued abuses of the trust given to the Jews, especially
through the sense of superiority that developed as soon as the Jews
began to feel they were in control, that sponsorship was eventually
withdrawn.
My beloved hearts, the Jews were God's chosen people but they chose
not to maintain that sponsorship. Therefore, the sponsorship of the
Ascended Host was lost centuries before I appeared in Israel. That is
indeed why God sent several prophets in an attempt to awaken the people
of Israel to the need to continually earn their sponsorship. Part of
my mission in Israel was to renew the covenant between the Jews and
God by offering them a higher spiritual teaching. If a critical mass
of Jews had accepted my teaching, the sponsorship could have been renewed.
Yet let me state clearly that the spiritual teaching I brought forth
was in no way intended to be exclusively for Jews. It was truly a universal
spiritual teaching.
I appeared in Israel in order
to give the Jews an opportunity to renew their covenant with God. Need
I say that the Jews of the time chose not to renew that covenant? Nevertheless,
it is extremely important to realize that most Christians are not
correct when they reason that because the Jews rejected me, they are
somehow condemned forever—or at least until they become Christians.
This simply is not true.
We of the Ascended Host never give up on anyone. We have indeed attempted
to renew the Jewish religion through the Kabbalistic tradition. Kabbalah
was in large part sponsored by the Ascended Host as a way to renew the
Jewish religion. Even today, if a critical mass of Jews would embrace
the Kabbalah, it would be quite possible to reestablish the covenant
between the Jews and their God. However, this would still not make the
Jews God’s chosen people in an exclusive way. God simply doesn’t
grant patents to anyone, and the reason is the abuse I am describing.
Have I made myself clear? Being God's chosen people is a sponsorship
that any human being, or group of people, have the opportunity to attain.
It can be attained through adherence to the spiritual laws of God, as
they are expressed through almost any of the religions found in this
planet and even in a universal manner that is not tied to a particular
religion.
Now let me return to the situation in modern Israel. If a critical mass
of Jews would begin to adhere to the spiritual teachings brought forth
in the Kabbalah and truly abandon the belief that they are somehow God’s
chosen people and therefore better than others, the situation in the
Middle East could be changed dramatically. The main block to a peaceful
resolution is that the Jews are violating the laws of God because they
are responding in kind when they are attacked by their neighbors.
As I explained in my discourse on why Jews
and Arabs hate each other, people are blinded by their hatred and
therefore cannot see what is obvious to people who are not caught in
the maelstrom of hatred. Yet all human beings have the option to make
an effort to step outside of their own mental boxes. Indeed, doing so
is the key to positive change in any situation. If the Jews would make
such an effort, it would become obvious to them that responding with
violence only breeds more violence and hatred. If instead they would
respond with kindness, they would reestablish the trust of the international
community and this could bring forth a peaceful resolution to the conflict
in the Middle East.
Obviously, such a resolution could also be brought forth if the Arabs
decided to respond with nonviolence, as is clearly mandated in the Koran.
Yet I would like to believe that the Jews have the capacity of being
the first people to stop the violence. I would hope they would have
this capacity as a result of the persecution they have endured for thousands
of years.
You ask why the Jews can't have their own place, and you say there are
Christian and Catholic places. I wonder where those places might be?
There are nations in the world that are predominantly Christian, but
those nations are democracies and one of the basic principles of democracy
is freedom of religion. This has led to the concept of the separation
of church and state, which does not allow any particular religion to
dominate the life of a democratic nation. Neither does it allow the
government to discriminate against people who are not members of a particular
religion.
Let me remind you that it was the democratic nations in the international
community who created the state of Israel. Israel is a democracy. Therefore,
the state of Israel should not be a Jewish state. It should be a state
that is committed to the democratic principles, including freedom of
religion and nondiscrimination based on religion or race.
Finally, you ask what gives me the right to say what I say on this website.
What gives me the right is that I have conquered the carnal mind and
left behind all of the relative human viewpoints that lead to violence
and conflict. I have pledged my allegiance to the truth of God, the
living truth that can never be fit into any of the mental boxes created
by human beings. Therefore, I have a right to state truth. What gives
me that right is that I have united with the truth of God. Therefore,
I am the way the truth and the life. Join me!
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