Jesus
comments on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
Kim: Jesus, since it is the 2-year anniversary of the terrorists acts
on September 11, 2001, I would like to ask you to comment on this.
I would like to start by asking you whether these attacks were justified
in any way and whether the terrorists were rewarded in heaven, as
they believed they would be.
Jesus: The
attacks were not justified or justifiable in any way. I have already
talked about this in my comments on the
man who killed an abortion doctor. What I said there applies equally
to the terrorists. I have also talked about this in my comments on the
war in Iraq.
Let me state clearly that the terrorists have not been rewarded in heaven.
Let me also state that they have not gone to the fiery hell that many
Christians envision. Contrary to popular belief, God has no desire to
punish any soul. God desires to see every soul grow in its understanding
of life so that it can eventually, by its own free-will choosing, return
to his kingdom. This applies to both the terrorists and the victims
of the attacks. Obviously, the souls of the terrorists have more difficult
hurdles to overcome on the road to Heaven than most of their victims.
My point here is that even though these people committed atrocious acts,
God has not forever condemned them to hell. This is a fallacy perpetrated
by orthodox Christianity, and unfortunately it is a fallacy that causes
many Christians to think that they are justified in harboring feelings
of anger or even hatred towards the terrorists.
Did I not say, “Judge not, lest ye be judged?” Did I not
say to forgive seventy times seven? Did I not say to love your enemies?
Oh yes, I am aware that most people feel that certain acts are so evil
that they somehow neutralize my commands. Yet I must tell you that the
very idea that because another human being has violated the laws of
God, it is now justified that you too violate the laws of God, this
very idea is the reason why the terrorist attacks occurred in the first
place.
I must tell you that the terrorists who flew the planes were not evil
people. They were very confused and unbalanced people who had allowed
certain evil people to manipulate them into a state of fanaticism and
extremism. Unfortunately, many Americans, including many Christians,
have also allowed themselves to be manipulated into a state of extremism
in terms of how this nation should respond to the terrorist acts.
They are driven by fear, anger or even a desire for revenge. This is
not in accordance with the laws of God or with my commands. If you harbor
anger or hatred towards your fellow man, you are not only hurting yourself,
you are also feeding your energy to the dark forces who are the originators
of all wars on this planet.
I have to say that I am a bit shocked. I think many Americans
will feel that your remarks are insensitive to the many people who
lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks.
I understand that they will.
Nevertheless, I must speak the truth. I hope these people will recognize
that I feel nothing but compassion for the victims and their families.
I have no other desire but to see them comforted and to see them move
into a positive spiral that leads to increased spiritual growth.
Yet you must understand that I have been appointed by God as the savior
of humankind. It is my mission to save every soul on planet Earth. Although
many people will fail to understand or accept this, it is my great love
and desire to save every soul, including the many souls who do not belong
to a Christian religion and who are not likely to ever join a Christian
religion.
As I state throughout this website,
there is more than one true religion. So the popular Christian belief
that only those who are Christians will be saved is simply an illusion.
And this illusion has led some Christians to develop a certain insensitivity
towards those of other religions. And after the terrorist attacks, some
Christians have developed an insensitivity towards their brothers and
sisters who belong to the true religion of Islam.
I must tell these people that although I feel their pain, I am right
now also feeling the pain of thousands of people in Iraq who have lost
loved ones in the recent war. I also feel the pain of the many people
who were killed in this war, and I have personally been assisting many
of these souls in trying to heal themselves from the pain of seeing
their lives cut short. I have been trying to help them move on with
their spiritual path. I have assisted many souls of Iraqis who have
been Muslims all of their lives. Contrary to human beings on Earth,
I do not make human judgments and my love is not conditional.
After the attacks, many people were asking themselves, "How
could God let this happen?" What would you say to them?
One of the main messages
on this website is that people need to wake up and realize that God
has not created most of the conditions currently found on this planet.
God has not created the anger and hatred between different groups of
people that has turned the Earth into a powder keg in which the slightest
spark will set off an explosion.
People have created these conditions by allowing themselves to engage
in anger and hatred and thereby letting their emotional energies create
vortexes of energy that suck them into an endless spiral of anger leading
to hatred and hatred leading to violence and violence leading to more
hatred and so on and so forth for what in human terms seems like an
eternity.
God did not let the terrorist attacks happen. Human beings created the
conditions that brought about these attacks. I understand that many
Americans were shocked by the attacks. Yet I must tell you that it was
not only the anger and hatred in the Arab world that led to the attacks.
Americans themselves are partly responsible for feeding the downward
spiral of anger, hatred and violence.
Therefore, although this will be an unpopular message, I must tell you
that Americans were partly responsible for bringing this calamity upon
themselves. I must also tell you, as I stated in my talk about the separation
of church and state, that unless a critical mass of Americans change
course and begin to embody the true inner path to Christhood, there
will be other calamities coming upon this nation.
There is a popular belief in America that this nation could not possibly
do anything wrong and that God would not allow anything really bad to
happen to this nation. The terrorist attacks in 2001 should have been
the wake-up call that caused Americans to grow out of this illusion.
It is not that God wants to punish America. We of the Ascended Host
have a great love for America. In fact many of us have given our Light
and guidance to sponsor America as a bastion for freedom for the entire
planet.
Yet we have also seen that Americans have taken our sponsorship for
granted and have used our Light to create a society based on greed,
a quest for wealth, power and control that in itself has created a downward
spiral that threatens to suck this nation into a collapse. This collapse
will not be God's punishment but a result of the fact that Americans
are systematically violating the laws of God and therefore punishing
themselves.
Let me state clearly that there are two conditions which have made America
vulnerable to these attacks. As I said elsewhere, America has created
a rent in the spiritual protection of this nation and that is what allowed
the terrorist attacks to occur. This rent in the garment, the spiritual
garment of this nation, was created by two factors.
- One factor is the undeniable
fact that the United States has a fascination with violence that goes
back for generations. Few nations have, in recent history, seen as
much violence as the United States. No nation has glorified violence
through its entertainment industry as America has. This has led to
a deplorable condition in which many young Americans have been programmed
to respond with anger and violence to many situations that do not
warrant such extreme measures. In fact, many Americans have, through
the entertainment industry, been programmed to believe that in certain
circumstances the only option or the only efficient option is to respond
with violence. This is what has been driving this nation since the
terrorist attacks occurred.
- The other factor is something
that most Americans simply do not understand because they have been
deliberately misinformed by their own media. As I said, we of the
Ascended Host have given spiritual sponsorship to America. Our desire
was that America should export the principles of freedom and democracy
to the world.
Instead, America has to a large degree turned itself into an exporter
of capitalist exploitation of other nations and peoples. America has
exported its goods and has often used its military might to allow
its big corporations to exploit other nations. At the same time America
has, and again through the entertainment industry, exported a capitalist
culture which is in direct opposition to the spiritual principles
of freedom and democracy that are the very foundation for the growth
and continued survival of this nation. This has been done by huge
corporations that have no respect for spiritual principles, for the
American nation or for the American people. Yet the American people
and the American government have allowed themselves to become pawns
in a game for global domination and control.
Most Americans will deny
this, yet they simply do not understand what is happening. However,
many people in other nations clearly see what is happening and that
is why you see such of widespread anger against America. Most Americans
do not understand this anger, yet if they were willing to take an unbiased
look in the mirror, they would understand why the anger started.
I am not thereby saying that this anger is in any way justified. The
fact that America has wronged other nations does not justify the anger
and hatred because there are better ways to deal with the situation.
Likewise, I must make it very clear that no matter what America has
done to other nations, it does not justify that people take their anger
into a state of fanaticism in which they believe that the end can justify
the means.
I must also add here that many people, and many of them live in the
Islamic world, are not really angry at America. These people are simply
consumed by anger and hatred, and America has become the scapegoat.
Nevertheless, if America had not been exporting its particular version
of capitalism, it would not have been such a convenient scapegoat. I
will also say that there are some people who hate the light in America
and want to either steal or destroy that light. Nevertheless, if America
had been using the spiritual Light as intended by the Ascended Host,
such people would have found very little support even in the most extremist
Islamic groups.
It sounds like you are saying that America should not have
responded to the attacks with violence. If that is what you are saying,
then how should America have responded?
I am indeed saying that America
should not have responded to the attacks with violence.
How should America have responded? America claims to be a Christian
nation. If you love me, keep my commandments. What was my foremost commandment?
It was to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It was
to turn the other cheek.
Wait, wait I realize the truth in what you are saying, but
most Americans seem to feel that responding with non-violence would
simply have encouraged the terrorists and invited more attacks?
So are these people thinking
that what America has done for the past two years has not encouraged
terrorism and has not invited more attacks?
I think most Americans can see that the attacks were fueled by fanaticism
and that the fanaticism springs from anger against America. I realize
that many Americans do not understand this anger and think it is not
justified. Yet in this context it does not matter whether the anger
is justified. What matters is that the anger exists and that it is the
anger which leads to fanaticism which then leads to terrorist attacks.
So is it not obvious that anything you do to fuel the anger will fail
to diminish the risk for future attacks? Is it not obvious that responding
with violence, especially violence against Muslim nations, will not
help make America safer?
What America has done over the past two years is to create an explosive
situation that could very well end up in an uncontrollable confrontation
between Christian and Muslim nations. If this were indeed to happen,
you could see a third world-wide war before anyone had time to stop
it.
I for one did not support the Christian crusades against the Muslims
during the Middle Ages. And I for one have no desire to see a modern
version of this deplorable scenario caused by religious fanaticism and
extremism on both sides.
It is a simple fact that violence will never diminish violence. Two
wrongs will never make a right. The ends will never justify the means.
Simply take a look at what is happening today between Israel and the
Palestinians. An act of violence from one side leads to cries for revenge
from the other side and these cries release a retaliatory strike. The
retaliatory strike leads to more hatred from the other side which leads
to another retaliatory strike. And this has now been going on for thousands
of years between various groups in the Middle East, but especially between
Jews and Arabs.
It is amazing to me that people can think that doing the same thing
for thousands of years will somehow produce a solution tomorrow. If
people have responded with violence for thousands of years, and we still
do not have peace, how can they believe that peace will somehow come
from continued violence? Or is it simply that these people are so overwhelmed
by the spirals of hatred, which they have created, that they are no
longer able to think?
One of the more popular scenarios in American movies is the hero who
is by nature a peaceful person and just wants to live his life without
bothering anyone. Now the bad guys move into the scene and keep attacking
the hero until he finally reaches the breaking point, whips out his
gun and shoots all the bad guys. The underlying message in such movies
is that you can only turn the other cheek for so long and then you must
resolve the crisis through violence. This is a fallacy.
Yet this is the message that the American government, including the
president himself, has embraced after the terrorist attacks. After the
attacks occurred, your president decided that he was going to use all
of the resources available to him to “get the people responsible.”
There are two problems with this line of reasoning. The first one is
that America, as I explained earlier, is not simply the peaceful giant
who leaves everyone else alone. America is somewhat of a bully in the
world-wide neighborhood.
However, what is truly wrong with this line of reasoning is that it
is completely against the true teachings of Jesus Christ. Did I not
say to forgive seventy times seven? Did I not say to turn the other
cheek? Did I specify conditions under which it was acceptable to stop
turning the other cheek and instead kill the person who slaps you in
the face? I am not aware that I outlined such conditions, but perhaps
the American government, and some among the American clergy, can explain
to me how these conditions somehow crept into the culture of a nation
which calls itself a Christian nation.
I am Jesus Christ, and I am not the touchy-feely Savior that so many
modern Christians have made me out to be. I am come for the judgment
of the forces of darkness that for thousands of years have attempted
to destroy God’s plan for this planet. I am here to wage a spiritual
warfare against these forces so that they will be removed from this
planet and we can finally bring God's kingdom to Earth.
Yet I must tell you that this spiritual warfare will not be fought by
killing other human beings, no matter what these people have done to
you. The spiritual warfare that I am talking about is a warfare to remove
the fear, anger and hatred that fuels the forces of darkness and enables
them to control human beings. This warfare takes place primarily in
the psyche of individual human beings and in the collective consciousness
of humankind. It also takes place at planes of existence that are beyond
the sight of most human beings.
Anger and hatred cannot be removed by adding more anger and hatred.
Anger and hatred can be removed only by bringing the perfect love that
casts out all fear, the fear that is the true cause of anger and hatred.
I am come to deliver God's people on this Earth. I am come to deliver
them from the forces of darkness, but I cannot deliver people against
their free will. Before I can deliver people, they must be willing to
make the free-will decision to give up the fear, the anger and the hatred
that makes them easy prey for the forces of darkness. If you harbor
fear, anger and hatred, then the Prince of this world has something
in you, and he will use it to control you.
I assume you are not saying that America shouldn't take measures
to defend itself against future attacks?
No, obviously America has
a right to defend itself. However, there is a fine line between defending
yourself and becoming an aggressor, and currently the American government
is on the wrong side of that line.
After the attacks, the American government had a unique opportunity.
America was widely seen as a victim. If Americans had been willing to
do some soul-searching and to take an honest look at why there is such
anger against America, then the American government could have started
an entirely new era in international cooperation and good will amongst
free and democratic nations.
This was a once-in-a-millennia opportunity for creating a positive spiral
that could have done more to further the cause of freedom and democracy
than any other single factor. I am sad to say that the American government
systematically squandered this opportunity by acting as the hero in
a bad action movie.
We now have a situation where America is no longer seen as a victim
but as a bully. And this view is not unjustified. Instead of encouraging
international cooperation, America has encouraged international hostility.
This has in fact done more to help the terrorists than virtually anything
else could have done. For each of the terrorists that have supposedly
been captured and killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, there are 20 more
ready to join their ranks. The vortexes of anger and hatred over the
Middle East have been reinforced many times over, and people find it
increasingly difficult to avoid being sucked into them. This is a lesson
that has also been clearly demonstrated in the ongoing hostility between
Jews and Arabs.
Terrorism is a guerrilla movement. I understand that there are nations
that harbor terrorists. Yet going after these nations instead of going
after the terrorists themselves will only aggravate the situation.
The simple equation is that a nation state cannot effectively fight
guerrilla warfare by using conventional forces. If you attempt to use
such forces to fight a guerrilla warfare, your only chance of being
effective is to turn yourself into a totalitarian nation which has no
respect for freedom and human rights and which is prepared to violate
these rights without restraint. This will destroy America as a bastion
for freedom and cause this nation to lose its spiritual sponsorship.
Therefore, the only effective way to fight terrorism is to remove the
support of the terrorists. To fight terrorism, remove the anger that
fuels it.
If America had been willing to change its culture and foreign policy
so that it was no longer dominated by greed but was brought into alignment
with the principles of Christ, the principle of treating your brother
as you would have him treat you, then America could have created a positive
spiral. The terrorist attacks could have become the catalyst for a worldwide
movement towards greater freedom and cooperation. Instead, the American
nation has created a downward spiral whereby violence leads to hatred
and hatred leads to more violence. Given the propensity of human beings
to respond with violence, even I cannot tell how far this will go before
people finally wake up and decide to abandon violence and seek a peaceful
solution, a spiritual solution.
I realize this is a shocking message. Yet after two years of mourning,
America should be ready to look beyond its own sorrow and anger and
listen to the advice of the Prince of Peace.
So you are saying that America has not been willing to do
the soul-searching necessary to learn from the 9/11 attacks?
Everything that happens to
you, as an individual and as a nation, is an opportunity to learn something
about yourself. If you make wise use of the opportunity, you will grow.
If you ignore the opportunity, or fail to understand the real message,
you are likely to stagnate.
Planet Earth is a schoolroom. Everything that happens carries a message.
If you correctly interpret the message, any event can be used as an
opportunity for growth. So far America as a nation has not been willing
to look for the true message behind the terrorist attacks. America has
not been willing to look in the mirror.
I am not thereby condoning the attacks. I am simply saying that they
do represent an opportunity for soul-searching and growth. This process
started to happen immediately following the attacks, but it was never
carried through. It is, however, never too late to stand in front of
the mirror and ask, “God, what do you want me to learn from this.
Jesus, what do you want me to learn from this?” Ask and you shall
receive an answer.
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