THE MEANING OF EASTER By Seye Aluko

Society

Jesus Christ is misconstrued and misunderstood! Christ’s attitude to worship that purports to honor him today would probably be like His attitude to the money-changers in Jerusalem: And Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves And he taught saying into them, is it not written my house be called of all nations the house of prayer? But ye have made it a den of thieves (Mark 11:15-17).

It would be simplistic to assume that the Jewish institutions (such as The Sanhedrim, the Sadducees, the Pharisees etc.) which faced Christ with hatred and finally engineered His death through a flawed, suspect and highly controversial crucifixion, would suddenly love Christ, and become the enlightened body, even the founders of modern movements, willing to propagate the same teachings of Christ who they so brutally crucified! What has happened to the erstwhile detractors of Christ? They are people who close their ears and eyes to any teaching that sounds different to what they have imbibed, as a threat to their power and hold over men! Many of these ancient Jewish groups might be assumed to be still perpetrating their penchant for controlling men and crowds in a modern time, and in a contemporary guise.




A large body of the tenets hitherto mentioned which profess to be the cornerstone of “belief” of many orthodox “groups,” is grievously suspect! The most vexatious belief that has widespread credence is the philosophy of Christ’s vicarious sacrifice at Calvary which states that Christ died on the cross so that the sins of men could be “washed away!”

Why should anyone believe that Christ was meant to live for thirty three years, die on a cross, and that this “crucifixion” would “reconcile” man with Almighty God? How can God set on trial One He Himself equipped to bring enlightenment to men? Which other religious bodies canvas such a pitiless fate for its adepts and prophets, that such would be “sacrificed” so that such men would be “saved” by such a sacrifice? The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is an event of great disservice and disgrace to the human race!

The humanitarian breakthroughs and influence of the churches are in spite of (and not because of) their tenets of faith, many of which bear glaring contradictions!

Christ was killed, not so as to effect reconciliation with Almighty God. He was killed because of envy and rivalry, because the priests feared him, because the people were astonished at his doctrine, and not because he was destined to die at the age of thirty-three years!

Who in the present age will have the audacity and authority to overturn the moneychanger’s tables, and cast out those who sell doves? Who is given the mandate similar to that of Jeremiah: See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant (Jeremiah 1:10)?

For over ninety years a Revelation of Truth has existed on the face of this earth, which casts out the tables and chairs of the money-changers of deceit! It casts its incandescent searchlight to dismantle error in complacent religious thought, as this is widespread. This Revelation of Truth is The Grail Message (also titled “In the Light of Truth”) which has been translated into over twenty of the world’s leading languages. The author of this world-shaking work (in book form) is Abd-ru-shin. The existence of this Revelation of Truth and the necessity for every seeking human being to become aware of its contents cannot be over-emphasized!

And the scribes and chief priests heard (what Christ had done) and sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him because all the people were astonished at his doctrine (Mark 11:18-19). It is as if modern day scribes and chief priests had heard what Abd-ru-shin had proclaimed and published, and they sought how they might destroy him, for they feared him because all the people were astonished at his doctrine!

Would it not have benefited all men if Christ has lived longer? Abd-ru-shin clarifies that it was criminal (and not uplifting) to have laid hands upon the Person of Jesus Christ! It was spiritual effrontery to have nailed Him to a cross! We stand accused for this barbarous act of the crucifixion!

Pontius Pilate himself stated: I am innocent of the blood of this just person: See ye to it (Matthew 27:24)? Remember! (Pilate washed his hands before the multitude)!

Pilate’s word: See ye to it, it means: “I have no hand in this matter, you do as you please!” If Pontius Pilate, a non-Jew, could clamour for the life of Jesus “the just man,” and yet you (I, etc.) as (Christians) or as an institution (church) can declare that the gory crucifixion at Calvary was “necessary” then See ye to it!

If you (I, etc.) as bible scholars read (that): Judas repented when he saw that Christ was condemned and cast down the thirty pieces of silver in the temple (Matthew 27: 3& 5) and yet you (I, etc.) glorify the crucifixion as a welcome event when even Judas himself repented of it, then See ye to it!




If you (I, etc.) build institutions – churches, cathedrals etc. yet read that: The chief-priests took the returned silver pieces, and said, it is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood, and yet you (I, etc.) embrace a philosophy, and erect a scaffolding of faith based on this same flawed philosophy (Matth. 27: 375) then See ye to it!

If you and I read that at the crucifixion of Christ, Darkness descended over Golgotha, and that there were earthquakes, and that the great curtain that screened the Holy of Holies in the Temple at Jerusalem was torn from top to bottom, and yet we construe these clear acts and manifestations of Darkness to be the approval and acclamation of the Light, then See Ye to it!

From the controversial crucifixion of Christ, to the rending of the curtain of the “Holy of Holies” to the purported “physical” resurrection of Christ’s body into the “skies” Abd-ru-shin authoritatively points out what can and cannot be!

But the Grail Message is entire! Its explanations are not devoted to Jesus Christ alone! Its lectures however clarify the inaccuracies in thought and fact about Christ. Abd-ru-shin advises that Jesus Christ was not meant to die aged thirty-three years. In fact Jesus Christ was not “meant” to be crucified at all!

In a set of illuminating lectures (which include): The Redeemer. Cast all Your Guilt upon Him, The Crucifixion of the Son of God and the Lord’s Supper, Come Down from The Cross, This is My Body! This is my blood! The Resurrection of Christ’s Physical Body. The Son of Man, I am the Resurrection and the Life, No, Man Cometh to the Father but by Me, Abd-ru-shin shows how the notion of Almighty God having His own Son crucified is counter to all logic, contrary to Almighty Divine Nature, and depicts God as arbitrary, bloodthirsty and even crude!

(Abd-ru-shin’s) word: “Neither was the death on the cross a necessary sacrifice, but a murder a dastardly crime! Christ certainly did not come to this earth with the intention of letting himself be crucified: Neither does redemption lie in the crucifixion. His violent death, in the form at the time used by the Romans to execute people, was not in itself the redemption, nor did it bring redemption. It atoned for none of mankind’s guilt liberated them from nothing, but burdened them still more with a dastardly murder” (The Crucifixion of The Son of God and The Lord’s Prayer), The Composite Edition of The Grail Message pgs. 434 – 435 (excerpted).

The Grail Message is awesome! It shows how a man should conduct himself in the complexity of the modern times! Abd-ru-shin is acerbic acidic and even severe! However even in this severity, the greatest love is evinced in the purport of the magnitude of his revelations, and with the Grail Message the voice of Pilate also again firmly rings out again in remonstrance “See Ye to it!”

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