The
Jews did not crucify Jesus, the fanatics did!
Exposing the intrinsic evil of
Religious Fanaticism
Demonstrating who crucified Jesus: The
Religious Fanatics of His day and Not all Jews
and
Explaining the meaning of the
Crucifixion of the Mystical Body of Christ
Originally published in 1997
"The
personal struggle to try to live up to the Legitimate Teachings of
one's Faith is
not fanaticism. Fanaticism is irrational and incoherent religiosity."
m de P
PURPOSE
The primary purpose of this document is to illustrate the dangers of
fanaticism, identify its signs and suggest how to
counteract it. A secondary purpose is to clearly identify who were
really responsible for the crucifixion of Our Lord
Jesus Christ as well as the meaning of the 'Crucifixion of the Mystical
Body of Christ'.
Once the responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus is clearly
established, we must make an effort to truly and
effectively eradicate the unjust stigma which the Jews have been
carrying for nearly 2,000 years of Christendom. A
stigma which has been used over and over again to abuse the people from
which our Savior and our much venerated Mother
sprung forth.
INTRODUCTION
Even in the field of science sometimes, the "forest cannot be seen for
the trees". In such cases, to be able to "see the
forest" we must take some steps back – as many as are needed – and look
at the overall panorama. Only then we will begin
to discern the emerging patterns, so that the "forest" comes into sharp
focus.
For example – The key message that we may discern from an overview of
the Sacred Scriptures is that God has provided for
mankind the means for its redemption – the Messiah, the Christ. He is
the key. A corresponding key message is that the
evil one, finally manifesting himself as the False Messiah, the False
Christ (1),
will fight against the redemption plan until the very end.
For Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, the overall message is the
same. However, the disagreement is over the timing of
the Messiah: whether His coming will be His 'First' or His 'Second'.
Because of the "trees of disagreement" we fail to
see the "forest of urgency".
Our beloved Heavenly Father Willed that the information handed down to
us could be correctly interpreted by those
expecting the Second Coming of the Messiah, just as well as by those
still expecting His First Coming. If we then pay
attention to the overall picture, the "forest of urgency" will come
into full focus.
Please Note:
Since the primary audience of this document is
composed of Christians, we will pursue the path that addresses the
Second Coming of the Messiah, and the Crucifixion of
His Mystical Body.
BACKGROUND
All Christian pastors agree that there will be a Second Coming.
However, most act as if it will occur in some very
distant future. As illogical as it may sound, such an attitude makes
sense since the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is
the result of our failure to carry out what He came to teach us in the
First Coming.
If we had fulfilled our responsibility, the Day of the Lord would not
be "terrible" [Malachi , Chapters 1 through
4] and no one wants to assume the responsibility of a failed
Evangelization.
Those who believe themselves to be the Evangelizers and those who claim
to be followers of Christ have failed – and
their state of denial increases in proportion to the level of their
corruption. Of psychological necessity, the reality
of the Second Coming of Christ is buried deeper and deeper in their
subconscious. The nearer the time of the Second
Coming is, the more vehemently they deny its approach.
Not everyone in Christendom denies the proximity of the Second Coming,
however. Among those who are aware of the urgency
of these times are people who, inspired by legitimate Marian Apparitions
(2), experienced
a conversion of heart and started a prayerful
life. However, for many of these people, their prayer life soon became
mechanical and empty of its life-giving spiritual
component. They become self righteous, without realizing that their
mechanical rituals have replaced the true union with
the Saving Power of the Messiah and, that, in effect, they have
separated themselves from Him. (3)
To many the Messiah has become one more automatic dispenser of
"favors"; just like a vending machine. One does "this"
and He does "that". They do not realize that He allows [1Kings
22:13-23] this false sense of security to exist as part of the
Mystery of Iniquity – as the stage is being set
to separate the wheat from the chaff.
DETAILS
and DEVELOPMENT
About the Second Coming
Many well intentioned people think that the Antichrist, the False
Christ (1),
will come announcing with trumpets and cymbals that he is the False
Christ. This is as unrealistic as to expect creditors to knowingly
accept counterfeit money in payment of one's debts.
Just as the wolf deceives most by passing himself as a lamb (4),
the thorn bush deceives most by impersonating a fig tree.
How then can those who are waiting for the Bridegroom in all sincerity
be sure of which is the fig tree [Matthew
24:32-34] which signals the coming of our beloved Lord Jesus
Christ?
The principle of parallelism will help in the identification of that
crucial fig tree since the
events associated with the First Coming are parallel to those of the
Second
Coming.
For example, in the era of His Second Coming His Mystical Body must be
crucified (5),
just like His Physical Body was after His First Coming. The same
principle demands a third manifestation of Elijah to prepare the way
for His return. (The second manifestation having
been John the Baptist [Rev. 11:3-6; Malachi 3:1-2, etc.])
A crucial question arises then: Who makes up this Mystical Body?
The answer: Those who strive
in all sincerity to live the Word of God
are the members of His Mystical Body, regardless of the monotheistic
Faith they may profess.
At the First Coming, the Chosen People changed from being exclusively
the descendants of Abraham to encompass all
humanity. Similarly today, no single Religion may claim that its
members are the exclusive components of the Mystical
Body of Christ.
He who listens to the Word of God – Jesus Christ – assimilates It and
lives It, thus allows the Word to "become flesh"
again in his own body. Therefore, all who try to live His Word and
succeed in some measure, become real and tangible
members of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Word Incarnate, in the
measure they have tried and not in the measure they
have succeeded.
About the Responsibility for the
Crucifixion of Jesus
At the time when Our Lord Jesus Christ walked among us there were
basically five categories of people:
(1) The Roman
Imperial rulers;
(2) The
established Church of that time with the Elders,
Priests, Pharisees, Scribes, etc. steeped in high profiled, restrictive
and elaborate man-made rituals which, by then,
had become devoid of any real connection with God. This was the way
Judaism was practiced after the Babylonian
exile;
(3) The Essenes
and Samaritans who mostly adhered to the Judaism
practiced before the Babylonian exile.
(4) The sinners
– prostitutes, tax collectors, etc.; and
(5) The masses,
whose loyalty, like today, could be easily
swayed because they did not have a firm anchor: the knowledge of God.
Meditating on the Holy Scriptures one can see that:
(a) Imperial
Rome was not threatened by Jesus Christ – He was
willing to give Caesar what was Caesar's. In spite of Pilate's evil
reputation, he made a great effort to avoid
crucifying Our Lord. He, a pagan, even proclaimed Jesus Christ as the
King of the Jews with a rustic sign on the Cross;
a sign which he would not change in spite of the insistence of the
Religious Leaders.
(b) Jesus
frequently used the Samaritans as examples for
charitable behavior [Luke 17:16 and 10:33] and clearly
used the Essene calendar
which was the one used before the Babylonian exile.
(c) The
established sinners of then, like most of today, when
they heard the true Word of God were moved to conversion. There is no
record of a prostitute or a tax collector trying
to harm Our Lord for calling all to conversion.
(d) The masses,
like they still do, wanted their physical
ailments healed and their empty stomachs filled. They favored Our Lord
until they were incited against Him.
That leaves one single group; the most unlikely one...
(e) The
insecure, dictatorial, ritual laden and arrogant
elements within the Religious Ruling Class of the time – the leaders of
the post Babylonian exile Judaism.
Neither the Romans, nor the sinners, nor the Jewish population at
large, nor the levelheaded elements within the
Religious Ruling Class caused the crucifixion of Our Lord.
His crucifixion was caused precisely by the controlling fanatic
elements within the Religious Ruling Class of the time.
They were violating every Divine Teaching, in spite of claiming to have
been charged to serve God and proclaiming that
they were doing so. Just as most high profile Christian leaders of
today do.
Our Lord pointed this out many times to them. They were not willing to
give God what was God's: Obedience and Loyalty.
They had their own agenda to fulfill instead. These religious fanatics
were no different than those who masterminded and
fueled the Inquisition from the very Chair of St. Peter.
CONCLUSION
How will the Crucifixion of the Mystical Body of Christ come about? It
will manifest itself as a brutal persecution of
the true people of God.
The key to the understanding this document is the realization that a
saint is not made overnight (7)
and that people have to be helped with love and compassion in this
journey. Sin, is sin and cannot be justified. That is not negotiable;
however, we must emulate the father of the
prodigal son: "...his father saw
him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his
neck and kissed him" [Luke 15:20]
We are already seeing all the parallels to the environment that led to
the First Coming and the Crucifixion of His
Physical Body. For example...
(a) The Roman
Empire equivalent of today, which are the
governments of some of the most Industrialized Nations of the world
(i.e. members of the European Union), are attempting
to lead the people back to a more compassionate, thus, socialized
oriented society, one step at a time. Mistakes are
made and errors are being committed because they lack the necessary
spiritual formation and, by attempting to be
compassionate, they become enablers to sin.
(b) Hardened
sinners, young and old alike, are most attentive to
the Word of God when is
delivered without duplicity. They are thirsting
for it, yet, they will not enter a House of Worship. Why? Duplicity
reigns in most Houses of Worship.
(c) The masses,
as long as they are fed and
think that they are being healed, go along with whomever is
dispensing
the temporal conveniences, including the psychosomatic conveniences.
(d) Some
elements among the Religious Rulers of today, be they
Christians, Muslems, or Jews, are themselves fanning the flames of anti
religion by their obstinate
and fanatical intransigence. This intransigence takes the form
of
demanding instant sainthood from those who have become lost –
precisely as the result of the abysmal failures of
organized religion (any
organized religion).
It is imperative that we open
our spiritual eyes and see how close we are
(8) to the
Crucifixion of the Mystical Body of Christ.
No one can stop it, for it is written in Scripture and it must come to
pass. However, in our hands rest the power to
reduce the suffering (9)
by helping our brethren in the journey
"home" to the Father. The pathway to the Kingdom of God is paved with
love, compassion and charity, and not with
intransigence and condemnation.
H.H. John XXIII clearly reminded the world of the right path and what
to avoid when he said:
"Our
daily, unavoidable and indispensable duty leads
us step by step towards a more perfect resemblance with Jesus
Christ.
We cannot do this in any other way, by facile enthusiasm, or by a fanaticism
which, even if innocent, is always harmful."
Sin, is sin and it is not negotiable, but we must love the lost sheep
back home. The way of love is the only way to
bring the sheep safely home to God.
NOTES
(1) The False Christ Has
Been Identified -
It May Now Have a Face and a Name
(2) Legitimate
Marian
Apparitions - We Have Been
Warned by The Virgin Mary
(3) They have separated
themselves from Him:
"Many
will say to me in that day Lord, Lord,
have we not prophesied in that name... and in thy name done many
wonderful works? And then I will profess unto them, I
never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." [Matthew
7:22-23]
As the grinding of the teeth starts they may hear the echo of "You never learned what I meant by": "I
will have Mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the
righteous, but sinners to repentance." [Matthew 9:13]
(4) Wolves In Sheep's Clothing
(5) The
Gates of the Nether
World Will Not Prevail
Against the Church - However, Some Transitory Conditions Do Apply
(6) The Real Timing of
Jesus' Last Passover,
His Crucifixion and Burial
(7) There
is no need to despair
- Don't ever give up
- You are not expected to become a saint instantaneously
(8) The
Socio-Political Condition
of the World - The Time
Is Indeed Ripe For The Apocalypse
(9) Redemptive
suffering and the
meaning of Pain is the
megaphone that God uses to assist the deaf in hearing Him
En Español: Los judíos no crucificaron a Jesús, ¡fueron
los fanáticos!
Originally issued only for
Worldwide Ecclesiastical Distribution on December 8, 1997. Texas, U.S.A.
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