Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. (First Corinthians 13:1)
Jesus was a good man. Jesus was a nice man. He was considerate, respectful, helpful, kind, pleasant. He was a teacher, a preacher, and a prophet. As the Son of God, He had the power from the Father to do anything He wanted to do and no one could stop Him. Yet the Lord restrained His divinity and maintained His humanity during His time on earth, limiting Himself by submitting Himself to the will the Father in Heaven. (And by the way, Jesus is also a King.)
Wherever Jesus went and in all of His teachings and healings, He was welcomed and well-received by the people. No one through rocks at Him, no one chased Him out of town, and no one asked Him to arise and leave their homes. In fact, no one had anything negative to say against Jesus. No one had a charge to file against Him with either the religious establishment, nor with the Roman government, for even Roman soldiers had no problem with Jesus.
Had Jesus been campaigning for the Office of the President of Israel, for example, whom do you think would have won the election? Jesus would have had a landslide victory. Therefore, to crucify Jesus did not make any sense to the people of Israel, nor to many people in Jerusalem. The Lord's crucifixion to many people was a total surprise, and perhaps many were stunned and shocked to see or know that Jesus was executed.
So then, we arrive at a conflict of interest, for there were others in Israel who did not see eye-to-eye with Jesus, nor with the people who had no fault with him.
Please remember this: Satan knew Jesus. Satan knew the Son of God and where He was from. Satan also knew the Lord's ambition.
Satan is the god of this world as well as the prince of the power of the air as well as the Prince of darkness. This world we live in is Satan's domain, by virtue of Adam's defeat in the Garden of Eden.
Jesus was now in Satan's arena, Satan's world, Satan's playground and sandbox, and Satan did not like it! Satan has spiritual influence even though Satan is invisible, and, while the human mind is subject to receive invisible influence from God, the human mind is also subject to receive invisible influence from Satan.
Therefore, it should be clearly understood that there were people in Israel who were under Satan's influence: namely, the scribes and Pharisees as well as other people, which we will see as the Watchers.
The Watchers did not care about Jesus, nor did they agree with the Lord's message. The Light of the world was in this world and the Light of Christ was shining on the sins of people. The Light was exposing their evil minds and hearts. They resisted the Light and were submissive to the Prince of darkness, and they had to extinguish the Light.
Therefore the Watchers went about to find fault with Jesus. They followed Him, they stood in shadows, and sent spies to gather information. They had to be careful because Jesus was accepted by many, many people, and they did not want to draw attention to themselves that would indicate that they were up to something. They were sly, they were sneaky. They needed facts to support their legal claim. They met in secrecy to compare notes as well as to manufacture charges.
The Watchers was not a small group. There were more people involved than the scribes and Pharisees and Sanhedrin. To bring down Christ was not a small matter. In the minds of the underworld of crime, Jesus was a big "hit". They had to "cover their tracks" and eliminate trails of evidence that would lead back to the people who did not want to be known. They had to have people in certain places to make their plan work to their benefit. They had to have a "fall guy"---someone to take the rap, the blame. They had to have people in certain places to justify the cruicifixion of Christ in order to make it appear that this was a legal process for execution and not a public lynching. They had to hide their crime.
Thus they watched from windows to see if Jesus would mow His grass on the Sabbath. To see if the Lord would help a homeless puppy to find its home on the Sabbath. They contested and questioned the words of the Lord at every opportunity. They argued instead of debated: for they could not debate with Christ because He had the sharpest mind in the universe. Thus they needled Him with verbal darts, with silly questions, and mixed with the attitude to get Jesus to lose His cool, or to erupt in a fit of anger, or even to curse. They did not want Jesus to influence people with his teachings and sermons. They wanted Jesus to go away because He was gaining ground in both power and popularity, which the Watchers was losing. The Watchers had the power and the control over people and they wanted to keep it that way. Satan has power and control over people and the devil wants to keep it that way. So this Jesus had to go, for Jesus was a problem for the rich, the powerful, and the corrupt: and Satan stood to lose souls for hell if Jesus was not eliminated.
Even after the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord, the Watchers continued their evil ways by turning their power on the disciples and the apostles. Jesus had been killed; now they went after the Lord's messengers and killed them also.
Over the past two thousand years, the Watchers have been perpetually active throughout the world to try to put an end to the message of Christ by taking down the messengers. They have killed millions of Christians in an effort to stop Christ from being preached throughout the world, and they are not finished yet.
If you are a Christian today, you can expect the Watchers to watch you, to spy on you, to mock you, laugh at you, belittle your belief in Christ, your belief in the Bible, and your belief in the return of the Lord. You can expect people to shoot you with verbal barbs and darts to prick your position with Christ, laugh at you, and even mock you.
Today, if you take a stand to do a work for the Lord, you can expect repercussions and retaliations for your conviction: from people you know and know best: from your family, your friends, and even people you meet later. People will look to find fault with you. For the Watchers are part of the army of Satan, and it is their nature to find fault, criticise, and condemn.
Jesus used the words hypocrites and vipers when addressing people like the Watchers.
Hypocrites: an outward appearance of being sparking clean, but internally they are bad to the bone.
Vipers: because they are snakes.
The Watchers are all over the world today, included in families, communities, and also in churches and religious institutions. They are people in love with religion, but not in love with the Lord. They are sounding brass and tinking cymbals because they are void of the love of God.
The Watchers are deceived people and they are also masters of deception. If you listen to these silver-tongue brutes, they have the persuasive power to convince you that Jesus: is still on the cross.
The Watchers are snakes. They are sneaky, they are sly, they are quick, and they like to bite. They enjoy injecting their fangs in the messengers of Christ. It thrills them to criticise, condemn, ridicule, judge,gossip, find fault, and mock the children of the Most High God. Their behaviour is exactly like their daddy, Satan, and their venom is evil. Unless they come to know Christ, they will continue to reflect the characteristics of their habitat.
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5: 20)
Jesus was a good man. Jesus was a nice man. He was considerate, respectful, helpful, kind, pleasant. He was a teacher, a preacher, and a prophet. As the Son of God, He had the power from the Father to do anything He wanted to do and no one could stop Him. Yet the Lord restrained His divinity and maintained His humanity during His time on earth, limiting Himself by submitting Himself to the will the Father in Heaven. (And by the way, Jesus is also a King.)
Wherever Jesus went and in all of His teachings and healings, He was welcomed and well-received by the people. No one through rocks at Him, no one chased Him out of town, and no one asked Him to arise and leave their homes. In fact, no one had anything negative to say against Jesus. No one had a charge to file against Him with either the religious establishment, nor with the Roman government, for even Roman soldiers had no problem with Jesus.
Had Jesus been campaigning for the Office of the President of Israel, for example, whom do you think would have won the election? Jesus would have had a landslide victory. Therefore, to crucify Jesus did not make any sense to the people of Israel, nor to many people in Jerusalem. The Lord's crucifixion to many people was a total surprise, and perhaps many were stunned and shocked to see or know that Jesus was executed.
So then, we arrive at a conflict of interest, for there were others in Israel who did not see eye-to-eye with Jesus, nor with the people who had no fault with him.
Please remember this: Satan knew Jesus. Satan knew the Son of God and where He was from. Satan also knew the Lord's ambition.
Satan is the god of this world as well as the prince of the power of the air as well as the Prince of darkness. This world we live in is Satan's domain, by virtue of Adam's defeat in the Garden of Eden.
Jesus was now in Satan's arena, Satan's world, Satan's playground and sandbox, and Satan did not like it! Satan has spiritual influence even though Satan is invisible, and, while the human mind is subject to receive invisible influence from God, the human mind is also subject to receive invisible influence from Satan.
Therefore, it should be clearly understood that there were people in Israel who were under Satan's influence: namely, the scribes and Pharisees as well as other people, which we will see as the Watchers.
The Watchers did not care about Jesus, nor did they agree with the Lord's message. The Light of the world was in this world and the Light of Christ was shining on the sins of people. The Light was exposing their evil minds and hearts. They resisted the Light and were submissive to the Prince of darkness, and they had to extinguish the Light.
Therefore the Watchers went about to find fault with Jesus. They followed Him, they stood in shadows, and sent spies to gather information. They had to be careful because Jesus was accepted by many, many people, and they did not want to draw attention to themselves that would indicate that they were up to something. They were sly, they were sneaky. They needed facts to support their legal claim. They met in secrecy to compare notes as well as to manufacture charges.
The Watchers was not a small group. There were more people involved than the scribes and Pharisees and Sanhedrin. To bring down Christ was not a small matter. In the minds of the underworld of crime, Jesus was a big "hit". They had to "cover their tracks" and eliminate trails of evidence that would lead back to the people who did not want to be known. They had to have people in certain places to make their plan work to their benefit. They had to have a "fall guy"---someone to take the rap, the blame. They had to have people in certain places to justify the cruicifixion of Christ in order to make it appear that this was a legal process for execution and not a public lynching. They had to hide their crime.
Thus they watched from windows to see if Jesus would mow His grass on the Sabbath. To see if the Lord would help a homeless puppy to find its home on the Sabbath. They contested and questioned the words of the Lord at every opportunity. They argued instead of debated: for they could not debate with Christ because He had the sharpest mind in the universe. Thus they needled Him with verbal darts, with silly questions, and mixed with the attitude to get Jesus to lose His cool, or to erupt in a fit of anger, or even to curse. They did not want Jesus to influence people with his teachings and sermons. They wanted Jesus to go away because He was gaining ground in both power and popularity, which the Watchers was losing. The Watchers had the power and the control over people and they wanted to keep it that way. Satan has power and control over people and the devil wants to keep it that way. So this Jesus had to go, for Jesus was a problem for the rich, the powerful, and the corrupt: and Satan stood to lose souls for hell if Jesus was not eliminated.
Even after the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord, the Watchers continued their evil ways by turning their power on the disciples and the apostles. Jesus had been killed; now they went after the Lord's messengers and killed them also.
Over the past two thousand years, the Watchers have been perpetually active throughout the world to try to put an end to the message of Christ by taking down the messengers. They have killed millions of Christians in an effort to stop Christ from being preached throughout the world, and they are not finished yet.
If you are a Christian today, you can expect the Watchers to watch you, to spy on you, to mock you, laugh at you, belittle your belief in Christ, your belief in the Bible, and your belief in the return of the Lord. You can expect people to shoot you with verbal barbs and darts to prick your position with Christ, laugh at you, and even mock you.
Today, if you take a stand to do a work for the Lord, you can expect repercussions and retaliations for your conviction: from people you know and know best: from your family, your friends, and even people you meet later. People will look to find fault with you. For the Watchers are part of the army of Satan, and it is their nature to find fault, criticise, and condemn.
Jesus used the words hypocrites and vipers when addressing people like the Watchers.
Hypocrites: an outward appearance of being sparking clean, but internally they are bad to the bone.
Vipers: because they are snakes.
The Watchers are all over the world today, included in families, communities, and also in churches and religious institutions. They are people in love with religion, but not in love with the Lord. They are sounding brass and tinking cymbals because they are void of the love of God.
The Watchers are deceived people and they are also masters of deception. If you listen to these silver-tongue brutes, they have the persuasive power to convince you that Jesus: is still on the cross.
The Watchers are snakes. They are sneaky, they are sly, they are quick, and they like to bite. They enjoy injecting their fangs in the messengers of Christ. It thrills them to criticise, condemn, ridicule, judge,gossip, find fault, and mock the children of the Most High God. Their behaviour is exactly like their daddy, Satan, and their venom is evil. Unless they come to know Christ, they will continue to reflect the characteristics of their habitat.
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5: 20)
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