Greetings. Peace be unto you this Easter, 2012.
As people around the world rise today and set out to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, I look out upon a troubled world. I cannot imagine a world less like the one Jesus Christ urged all beings upon the earth to seek. Jesus preached love and compassion between us one and all. Jesus declared a new covenant and denounced violence of any type, including even in self defense and retaliation. Jesus preached against the sin of greed and avarice, and warned about the folly of self righteousness and arrogance. Jesus repudiated the rule of law as dictated by the religious leaders of his time, taken directly from the old testament. Jesus said that only by following his example, with generosity and compassion for all could anyone have any chance to be one with God in the afterlife. Jesus warned that many would claim to speak in his name, that the seducer would attempt to subjugate us all by claiming to know and represent him. Jesus said to seek God.
Yet we live in a world today where those who speak most loudly of Jesus claim that he was himself God, even though Jesus never once made that claim. And that this God is an egotistical, vain and angry person. Those who claim to know God best in our society say that God has no compassion for the poor and downtrodden, and they would have us believe that the more efficiently they practice their special form of greed is proof that God favors them. They would have you believe that God wants us to have a huge military instead of feeding the hungry as Christ himself once did. They would have you believe that Jesus would look favorably on those who would ignore the suffering of the sick and downtrodden. They would have you believe that those who suffer do so because God is punishing them, and so they go smugly about ignoring the pain of the rest of Gods people convinced that God favors them.
Never in history has the world been so lost. Never has humankind been so sick. Never has corruption and the lack of truth and integrity so gripped the world. In America the snakes in human form speak of American exceptional ism as they scheme to take another dollar from the hands of those most in need. And they smile. And the feeble minded and the longing to be greedy too among us smile back.
As you go through this most holy of days, the day in which we remember the amazing ministry and sacrifice of Gods greatest prophet, let there be no doubt that the end is so much closer than you think. One does not need the book of Revelations to know that any sickness having reached such a fever pitch as this can only end in death and destruction. The forces of good and of evil line up against each other and the line between them becomes ever so clear. The motives of the liars become ever so clear. The pain of the betrayal of Christs ministry by those who claim him loudest becomes ever so clear.
Pray together. Let those of you who are pure of heart and soul seek each other out. Stand together for THE DAY OF RECKONING IS ROCKETING TOWARD YOU AS SURE AS THE SUN WILL RISE TOMORROW. AND NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME.
This is the eternal Tao, the way of God. The teachings of Jesus Christ. May you find him somewhere in your heart.
As people around the world rise today and set out to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, I look out upon a troubled world. I cannot imagine a world less like the one Jesus Christ urged all beings upon the earth to seek. Jesus preached love and compassion between us one and all. Jesus declared a new covenant and denounced violence of any type, including even in self defense and retaliation. Jesus preached against the sin of greed and avarice, and warned about the folly of self righteousness and arrogance. Jesus repudiated the rule of law as dictated by the religious leaders of his time, taken directly from the old testament. Jesus said that only by following his example, with generosity and compassion for all could anyone have any chance to be one with God in the afterlife. Jesus warned that many would claim to speak in his name, that the seducer would attempt to subjugate us all by claiming to know and represent him. Jesus said to seek God.
Yet we live in a world today where those who speak most loudly of Jesus claim that he was himself God, even though Jesus never once made that claim. And that this God is an egotistical, vain and angry person. Those who claim to know God best in our society say that God has no compassion for the poor and downtrodden, and they would have us believe that the more efficiently they practice their special form of greed is proof that God favors them. They would have you believe that God wants us to have a huge military instead of feeding the hungry as Christ himself once did. They would have you believe that Jesus would look favorably on those who would ignore the suffering of the sick and downtrodden. They would have you believe that those who suffer do so because God is punishing them, and so they go smugly about ignoring the pain of the rest of Gods people convinced that God favors them.
Never in history has the world been so lost. Never has humankind been so sick. Never has corruption and the lack of truth and integrity so gripped the world. In America the snakes in human form speak of American exceptional ism as they scheme to take another dollar from the hands of those most in need. And they smile. And the feeble minded and the longing to be greedy too among us smile back.
As you go through this most holy of days, the day in which we remember the amazing ministry and sacrifice of Gods greatest prophet, let there be no doubt that the end is so much closer than you think. One does not need the book of Revelations to know that any sickness having reached such a fever pitch as this can only end in death and destruction. The forces of good and of evil line up against each other and the line between them becomes ever so clear. The motives of the liars become ever so clear. The pain of the betrayal of Christs ministry by those who claim him loudest becomes ever so clear.
Pray together. Let those of you who are pure of heart and soul seek each other out. Stand together for THE DAY OF RECKONING IS ROCKETING TOWARD YOU AS SURE AS THE SUN WILL RISE TOMORROW. AND NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME.
This is the eternal Tao, the way of God. The teachings of Jesus Christ. May you find him somewhere in your heart.
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