Why do Christians not name their children Judas Is Cariot? Is it because they know he betrayed the Lord Jesus and, thereby , helped his enemies to murder him? But why should this make Christians to hate Judas, since Christianity teaches that Jesus came to die for man’s sins, and someone must kill him, anyway, for those sins to be washed away by His Blood? In my view, it is either the Christian perception of Judas Iscariot as a vilian is correct, or the Christian hypothesis of the Mission of Jesus to get Himself killed before God could forgive human sins is a grave misteaching.
The Lord Himself and Judas Iscariot do not leave us in want of the right answers to these questions if we overcome spiritual indolence can think deeply and clearly.
We have the third possibility for clearer and deeper thinking in this season of Easter in the stigmata experiences of some people known as STIGMATISTS who live in different places on earth
JESUS HINTS
On at least three occasions, the Lord gave clear hints that he had not come to the Earth to die for the sins of anyone or for the sins of humanity. One of the hints was given IN THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD. In this parable, the vineyard represented the earth. The Owner of the Vineyard was the Almighty Father, Creator and Ruler of all the Worlds. The labourers in the vineyard constituted humanity. The servants the owner of the vineyard sent to the labourers were the prophets the Almighty Father over millennia sent to humanity to educate them about His unbending WILL and the approaching END OF TIME. Each time the Messengers came, the labourers (humanity) despised them or killed them. Finally, the owner of the vineyard decided to send his son, (The Lord Jesus). The Creator’s aim in this last option , was not that His Son be slain, so He, the Almighty Father, would then be so disposed to wiping away the sins of humanity. Were this so, Jesus would have contradicted that purpose when He repeatedly said only fufillment of the Divine will was the “passport” to paradise. Did He not also teach about THE LAW OF SOWING AND REAPING? Can anyone sow rice and reap beans? Did he not warn that sins against the Father and Son will be forgiven, but those against the Holy Spirit would not? How many Christians in routineness and in deep seriousness examine these statements? If the mission of Jesus was to come and pack sins away from the earth, do we ever wonder where he packed them to? In paradise, where no filth exists, or to the abode of the Almighty Father, which is all holiness? If Jesus repeatedly hinted that He had not come to die for the sins of anyone , are we saying He was contradicting The father who needed his blood to be shed before he would forgive sins? The truth is that Jesus never contradicted the Father. He repeatedly informed us that
“MY FATHER AND I ARE ONE.” ” NO ONE GOES TO THE FATHER BUT THROUGH ME”… “IAM THE LIGHT AND THE WAY TO THE FATHER.”
MORE PROOF
If we need more proof that Jesus did not come to die for sins, let us quickly hurry to the last supper Jesus had with his TWELVE DISCIPLES. The atmosphere had been tense in town earlier that day. The Romans were still colonial masters of the Jews.
They were brutal. Roman soldiers were everywhere. The Jews had been long praying for the coming of a “Messiah” who would deliver them from political bondage. With His Teachings, Jesus had touched and stirred many souls. His listeners had come to recognise many wrong teachings in their old faith. In the place of AN EYE FOR AN EYE,He preached love and forgiveness. In place of the bondage of the Sabbath, He preached that man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for man. He quietened the Pharisees and the Saducees. And with the miracles, he placed a stamp on His Divine Authority. The Jews saw in him not only a Messiah against the Jewish ruling class, but also , against the Roman Overlords.
THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER of that year meant different things to different people. The religious leaders, the Sahedrin, saw it as yet another event to remind the Jews of their enslavement in Egypt and escape from slavery, and ,through this, to re-unite the populace with their Creator and with themselves in the onward search for freedom from the Romans. Finally, it would be an opportunity to deal with the JESUS QUESTION. Jesus had continually troubled their leadership with His Teachings which were becoming increasingly popular. For Judas is cariot, the Passover held another meaning. He had not been happy that he was not in the INNER CAUCUS of Disciples…Peter, James and John. Envy and vaulting ambition troubled his soul. Judas wanted to be in the inner caucus, and he sought to exploit the popularity of Jesus for political gain and recognition. It was possible that Judas had not inwardly matured enough like Peter to recognise the mission of Jesus to be sublime and not earthly as such. He thought that if he capitalised on the popularity of Jesus at THE PASSOVER and he succeeded in making him proclaimed by the populace as THE KING OF THE JEWS, he , Judas, would occupy a more respectable position than Peter ,James and John in the inner CAUCUS of Jesus. Thus, he plotted with the Generals of the Jewish Resistance Army to have Jesus so declared in the temple. As a forerunner to these events, Judas organised what in today’s Nigerian newspaper language , we would call a MAMMOTH CROWD FOR THE TRIUMPHANT ENTRY OF JESUS INTO JERUSALEM. In the temple, Judas expected Jesus to declare himself KING OF THE JEWS and, backed by the resistance Army, set off a popular revolution that would chase away the Romans. But Jesus disappointed all earthly expectations when, instead of that declaration, He preached THE BROTHERHOOD OF ALL MEN when He declared that MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD.
Inwardly, Judas crashed, and the Jews were disappointed. But Lucifer, the Antichrist who has tried since when Jesus was born to destroy His Mission, encouraged Judas to move on. So, he thought he could get the Sanhedrin , the enemy of Jesus to indirectly do the job. It was difficult for the Sanhedrin to identify Jesus among his disciples and arrest him on charges of trying to topple the Roman Colonial government. Judas promised to do that for a bribe of 30 shekels . His belief was that Jesus would summon The Heavenly Host to his defence, overcome his arresters and rouse the populace to his support.
THE LAST SUPPER
At the last supper, Jesus read the mind of Judas and remarked to the twelve: “ONE OF YOU WILL BETRAY ME.” To Judas, Jesus specifically made a statement which indicates that he had not come to die for sins. He said it would have been better for Judas to not have been born so that he would not do what he was planning to do. Again, Jesus told Judas that Judas , having been born, it would have been better for a heavy material to be tied around his neck so that he would drown if he was thrown in a river, all, in love, to prevent him from doing what he was planning to do.
These were weighty statements which indicate that Judas was on a wrong course.
With the arrest of Jesus following his betrayal by Judas and no visible intervention by the Heavenly Hosts in the course of unfolding events, Judas went into depression , tried to return the bribe of 30 shekels he took to betray his Lord . The priests rejected the money. He threw it in the temple and went away to buy a field where he hung himself. Days after, the moose Haven loosened, his body fell headlong , his head split and his intestines burst out. Did he, thereby , not inform the future congregation of Christians that he did wrong? Has the church, also, thereby not been right to refuse to cannonise Judas Iscariot as a saint who helped Jesus to die for the remission of the sins of mankind? Then, how does the church still uphold teachings of the sanhedrin that Jesus came to die for sins? Could this teaching be one of the changes POPE FRANCIS says he intends to make in the editing of THE BIBLE? Do Christians who still believe the Blood of Jesus has washed their sins away not hear that, during the crucifixion, the sun declined to shine, a windstorm broke, thunder and earthquake struck, all in protest of the slaying of the Son of God?
If the curtain in the Holy of Holies was torn into shreds by unseen hands to declare termination of the convenant with God, was this not a sign that the Almighty Father forbade the murder of His son?Earlier, did Jesus Himself, love personification, not plead for forgiveness for his assailants? Why do they have to be forgiven if they were doing the right thing? If Lucifer taught the Sanhedrin what soothing lie to tell an angry populace, namely that Jesus came to wash them clean of their sins, through his murder, why must the church still preach this today as gospel truth ? The church preaches that God is PERFECTION. We know anything perfect never changes. So, God never changes. If in the beginning, he commanded that “Thou shall not kill”, Why would he change to order or permit the killing of Jesus? Are we saying he is not a perfect, but ever changing God?
THE REVEALATION
IN THE BOOK OF REVEALATIONS we are offered one more help to not believe that Jesus came to die for sins when we are told: BEHOLD THOSE WHO HAVE WASHED THEMSELVES IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB: “THOSE WHO HAVE WASHED THEMSELVES” means no one else washed them. By extension, it means everyone will pay for his or her sins. Why is there such suffering and disease on earth today, if all sins have been washed off? And why did Jesus promise that the spirit of truth would come after He , Jesus had gone , “to reprove the world of sins and to proclaim the judgement? What judgement if sins have been washed away? During Easter season, strange things happen to some Christians which the church is yet to understand or appreciate in its full ramifications. Some of these people develop on their bodies wound marks of the crucified Jesus on the cross. Some are flogged by unseen persons . Some speak ancient language which some language experts who studied then said may have been spoken in Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified.
About 400 such cases have been documented globally. The first case was at. Francis Assisis in 1224. He was said to have spent some time in contemplation of the passion of Jesus , upon which he had a vision for seraphims and of Jesus and His wound marks. On his own body, too, appeared those marks in approximate areas in hands, feet, side and head.
Controversies trail the stigmata phenomenon. Some of its critics say they are self induced. Some others believe they are mere medical conditions known as hemathridosis which occur under stress when blood is routed to some parts of the body. There have been claims as well of hypnotic inducements. Yet another criticism borders on inexactitude of the wound marks. For while the general impression passed down the generations by the Bible is that the crucifixion nails were given into the wrists and ankles of Jesus, the stigmata of some stigmatists are in their palms and feet.
Incidentally, all the stigmatists are Catholics. Maybe that is because the other churches do not know what to make of this phenomenon. The Catholic Church believes they are specially blessed persons and celebrates them. Thus, Catholics and perhaps sprinklings of other Christians travel to Rome every Easter to pray before stigmatists , believing their requests will receive express replies. In England, a 24 year old man who beheld these signs on his body declared himself THE SON OF GOD but was promptly brought before the Archbishop of Canterbury and thereafter prosecuted for heresy. A Nigerian stigmatist who lived in Owerri often experienced flogging by unseen persons and attracted to huge crowds around her before she was taken to Rome. Stigmata then comes with such pain that medications worsen, suggesting to the admirers of stigmatists that the stigmatists are trying to bury blessings of the Most High and the intercession any agents they are meant to be. Few people do wonder, though, why a merciful, just and loving God would heap pain on some of his creatures before he would answer the prayers or, rather , petitions of other creatures.
Deep thinking leads us to see in this human worship of stigmatists a sonorous Luciferan music similar in idea and object to the belief that Jesus came to die for the sins of humanity. Many stigmatists and their worshippers scarcely recognise that these marks are borne by people who were among the murderers and scoffers of Jesus, to remind them of their misdeeds against His person and mission as the Judgement approaches. We may say: But he forgave them on the cross! We should wonder : Did they deserve his forgiveness? May they all, like many of us, have not continued to nail Him on the cross as minions of the Antichrist, Lucifer? If one sin is forgiven, can the propensity to kill which can bear more fruits?
The proposition that stigmata is a stigma of guilt on some of the murderers of Jesus fits the statement of Jesus that that venomous generation of His time would not “pass away” until his statements regarding the LAST JUDGEMENT had “come to pass”. Since the last judgement has not come to pass and several generations have been born and have died, we can infer that they “passed away”while the statements of Jesus did not come to pass. In other words, we can infer that the prophesy of Jesus failed to “come to pass”. But , as Christians, can we infer or believe this? No. We must give Jesus the honour of perfection to understand what is going on. What is going on is REINCARNATION. The generations which died kept returning in physical forms and in different places, sometimes in different genders , such as THERESE NEWMAN of KONEREUTH, the scoffing thief on the left side on the cross, to give them yet other opportunities to redeem their guilt. Again, Lucifer, the Antichrist, has misled the church to mislead the poor souls like us in critical need of redemption . Unless you study church history, you would not know that emperor Nero, a tool of Lucifer, literally single handedly forced Pope Justinian at the episcopical Conference of Constantinople to remove the knowledge of REINCARNATION from Christian teachings. Pope Justinian was neither man enough nor Pope enough during that encounter with political power. Nero put him under house arrest if he would not endorse the “anathemas”. The anathemas were what Nero , the political overlord wanted pope Justinian the representative of St Peter to expunge from Christian beliefs. Bishops from eastern Europe staged a walk out and went home .Justinian resisted but caved in when Nero threatened to depose him. Thanks to Stephen Lampe in his THE CHRISTIAN AND REINCARNATION where some of the details of this portion of church history can be read. In this book, too, are references on the validity of reincarnation which the early Christian father’s could not remove from the Bible under pressure from Nero. Do we know if Nero and Justinian are among the stigmatists?
The bottom line is that stigmata gives us fresh proof of the reality of reincarnation, for those generations have not passed away but have merely been changing their human forms and geographic locations. When it is said that IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MAN TO DIE BUT ONCE AND AFTER THAT THE JUDGEMENT, the reference is to spiritual death, the death which comes with the disintegration of the material spheres(the earth and the heaven being cast away), not physical death. Does the Bible not report persons who died and were recalled to earth life? Finally, in summary, stigmata and other evidence admonish THE FIVE WISE VIRGINS among us with oil in the lamps of their souls, that is human spirits who are still inwardly alive, not slumbering, asleep or indolent, that Jesus did not come to die for the sins of humanity, that He was murdered by the minions of Lucifer, that everyone would account for his or her sins.
Femi Kusa
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