MAY 2008 | ARTICLE |
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BLESSED ARE THE PERSECUTED |
To find fault with and accuse others are the net outcome of the forbidden fruit that blinded our inner eye by opening the ‘eye of nakedness’, eventuating in building a fortress of hiding ourselves within because we exhibit our innocence or inability which harness the instincts that control man after the great fall of epic magnitude. Adam, the law- receiver and protector, accused Eve, the complementing executer of the law, and she in turn threw all the blame to the serpent, the catalytic agent of the drama of the Eden paradise lost. It was a great loss to mankind to violate the first commandment of God, and that rebellious shame is reflected in the exposition of sex in open, even if the modernity claims the equality of man and woman. There is no equality for anything in this animal world of predatory instincts, the pinnacle of which is man, other than treating man and woman as equal in the eyes of the secular law.
There are various forms of persecutions, such as: discrimination and tortures on the basis of gender, religion, fights between the sects of the same religion or church, minority rights, politics, patriotism, distribution of wealth and job opportunities, betrayals, spying and espionage, terrorism and sabotage, and many other types. Our concern here is with regards to the preaching of the Christian gospels that uses only the weapon of non-violence. In the modern context, the family and the secular system are of greater importance for building up a conducive system under the therapy of non-violence. We can neither take up the offensive weapons, nor can we become the pawns of exterminating techniques and brutalities of the oppressors. We should, therefore, carve out a way under the present social and secular system for training the present generation as to how to face the monstrosities of the irreligious pattern of life that has to face the man of perdition soon.
Man and woman have never been equal, nor is there any man equal with another man in his mental and physical prowess, despite both man and woman are equal because their appearance comes closer as they are created in the image of God. Man is created in the image of God who finished His work on the cross of Calvary. The cross is his image because stretching out his hands on both sides makes him a cross; thus he has to carry the cross of sufferings that the Creator perfected it on the cross of Golgotha. It is bitter and painful; the signal for giving a bitter drink at the last moment to Christ finds its culmination in sight also. Jesus finished His life on this plane of betrayal with a ‘loud cry’ that he started at the manger together with the starving animals. There is no proof that He was given with any food during the ordeal between the Last Supper and the bitter drink which he denied on the cross. Jesus’ last food in this world was His own body, the last supper, that He shared it with His disciples. Sufferings and denial of food is the outcome of eating the forbidden fruit. Adam’s tasting the fruit of Sheol is ended up in tasting the bitter drink that He refused to drink, but cut a channel that led Jesus to the Hades where the ‘fruit tasters’ huddled up in the gnashing of their teeth.
Beatitudes: Persecutions: Distress and tensions tell upon differently from individual to individual, depending on the inner and physical constitution of the sufferer. Jesus’ kiths and kins assumed that He was insane, and those His enemies dubbed Him as a duplicate of Beelzebub who wanted to dynamite the Jewish hierarchy, the reason for them to, some how, get rid of Him. We can make armchair comments about tortures and their pros and cons, yet it is not easy to face them in our flimsy and momentary impulsive emotional dastardliness. Though the Son of Man who became Incarnate to save mankind, He said that He overcame the world and its sufferings, Jn.16: 33; yet whispered at the last moment that trapped Him to His enemies, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me…”, Mt.26: 39. He was overwhelmed by the agony of His physical and mental sufferings because the sufferings of any kind are beyond our imagination and our boundary. To accept the pang of crucifixion that bring a slow and anguishing death in the raw flesh and at the state of immobility on the cross is hard to ponder over the totality of pain and agony. This could be the worst form of torturing an individual; the main reason is that the victim is not able, making excruciating pain.
Various forms of tortures and sufferings: Religion is another façade that slaughtered countless prophets and messiahs who liberated us from the sloth of sin and sinful mode of life; Jesus is the only one who bought salvation for the soul at the expense of His own blood that is shed by His own children. There is no animal ungrateful like man who sometimes betrays his own father or mother for the sake of earthly gain and power. Tamed animals are loyal to their masters, but look at Judas who was plucked out of his earthly miseries and put in charge of the finance portfolio. ‘You too, Brutus’ is the higher qualifications of that ‘prince of perdition’. Betrayal was the first treachery that we imbibed from the forbidden fruit, a chain of three betrayals: Adam’s betrayal of God and Eve, Eve’s betrayal of Adam and the serpent. Selfishness is the only common language that is common to man. Justification of our actions that cast blame on others is the reason for self-worship which lead to megalomania and utter tragedy at the end. The paradox of creating man in God’s image and becoming a devil by the taste of the fruit of attraction make man as a rare and complex animal. Man is a personified god and at the same time reflects as a devil. Selfishness that eliminates pure love and showing ingratitude that breed apathy destroy the element of Godly love from man. Momentary pleasure and thrill of the flesh make him forget all the good relationship that he owes to others in immeasurable quantity. An ungrateful man lives in fool’s paradise that makes him an incarnation of self-conceit. Such people are never straight-forward and humble. There are 6 billion people in the world; each one of them is a world of his own.
Modern Perplexities: Pre-marital relationship: Tortures and persecutions in family life have devastated all our sacramental values once we used to cultivate and find consolation with. Divorce, sexual deviations, abortion and adultery are the net outcomes of modern definition of equality. The dating marriage that cut the throat of religious marriage segregated the sexually sub-standard ones to get indulge in same-sex marriage and other profligacy, resulting in from sexual impotence to spiritual impotence. Dating that cave into the disappearance of man’s maleness and woman’s natural humility that is the source of bringing up and fostering family life has really created a monstrous world of atrocities because man is no more in his normal senses that sheds love and mercy all around, because family became a den of woman’s whimsicality. Sex purity is the mother of all goodly things in life; if that is molested once, it triggers into the unchartered ocean of vices that the custodian, devil, takes advantage of. Kama, the blind sex impulse, is the catalytic agent for all other iniquities.
The lax dating life that closes the gulf between the sacred complementing roles or functions of man and woman create a haven of mono sex culture, same-sex relationship that even is unheard among the animal kingdom, embracing all forms of sex promiscuities and amorousness. This is one of the potential reasons for the death of religions and family and civic values. Are animals a better species than the humans that even mates with its female ones, but not the animals, when they are pregnant?
The root cause of all modern problems is the invincible congenital maladies that conflagrate the globe of Cain. I mean congenital problems that include the time of conception and the thinking processes and moods of those specific moments, pre-natal and post-natal conditions of the mind and body; this so-called equality lead us into a state of social anarchy. The innocence of children is due to their sexual purity, despite there are genetic traits of lying and stealing tendency surfaces at times. Mass killing has become a passion that man enjoys in his lunatic states of the present insane world of all the forms of sex and drug mafias. Losing the virginity of our thought, mind and body at the expense of derailing the virginity of our character is the recipe for our disaster. What dating has done is exchanging their Nature-given manliness and humility to one another that works like a boomerang is the curse for most of our problems of today. In St.Peter’s definition, he portrays “woman as the weaker sex”, 1.Pet.3: 7. Now there is no separate identity for man and woman; each claims that one is equal and potent in every other way of life.
Though illicit sex that adulterates the soul and body is the triggering force for all other vices, the pure nuptial pleasure is also the source of the strength and health of our existence after the fall in procreating the species, just as the egg is a perfect food, but when it is rotten it works like a poison. All great men, like warriors, philosophers, religious stalwarts and politicians, of the world are proven to be of sexually high potentially-driven people. If one has to enjoy sex and high life later, one has to control sex in one’s adolescent stage that leads to marriage later. In other words, sex restraint is the vital force that builds our health and character that throw us into a land of bliss. Sex control at any stage in life is the dynamo that recharges into a new life; fasting season is a recipe for washing our body and spirit that potentates our life.
War of the sexes: Thirst for power: Ruling over others is a predatory instinct of animality, the reason for the same is: “it is better to reign in hell than serve in heaven”. There are many kinds of wars, though the most conflagrating latest one is the sex war, the tentacles of which suck the blood of each individual and the web of the society at large.
Territorial ambition: Wealth amassment: Religious fanaticism: Herod, the king of the Jews, grabbed the position by bribing the Roman Caesar, despite he was of the Edomite blood. Pilate, the Roman Governor, realized that the heavenly Lamb as innocent, yet failed in his duty of protecting the Saviour from the hands of the malefactors, because his covetable job and position was important in his life. The Jewish religious sects that fought for their supremacy found that Jesus was a stumbling- block for their misdemeanors. The high priest validated his creed that it was better for one man to die for the sake of the majority. This world is only meant for the scoundrels and the mediocre that oscillates between the two extremes, just for fishing in troubled waters.
Torments: God sends His special messengers for redirecting the derailed majority from time to time, so that He wants a remnant to be saved at the end of the day. Persecutions either bodily or mentally are extremely painful and unbearable, yet for the Kingdom of God some forgo the pleasures and ephemeral glory that dash through the torments inflicted by the crowd belonging to spiritual anarchy. All the prophets and apostles carried the yoke of afflictions that was inflicted by the common mass that has no feeling of affection or mercy; all the tortured ones dreamt for a life of Heavenly Jerusalem and wait in procession in the mid-air, so that we also queue up for the procession for the Last Judgement. It is bitterly painful to pass through the clouds that the clouts create and laughing about; they don’t realize now that they will be tortured eternally by the dark fiends, once when they are in their hands after this sojourn. Fools don’t learn from the wise, whereas the ordinary become wise by seeing the foolhardy acrobatics of religious groundlings. Don’t torture others because we also will be tortured, unless repented and absolved, million times than we have made the injuries on others.
Satan made a gleeful laughter and left the scene, thinking that he had nailed Jesus on the cross and defeated Him, but the everlasting truth is that it was the devil that was in effect nailed down on the cross, overturning the antique bond that stood against mankind with its legal demands, Col.2: 14. A trinity of power-mongers, Pilate, Herod and Chiapas, is there to chase and augment the woes of the faithful at all times. This will multiply at the end of the time because of the haunting of Satan on everyone in an ever-increasing degree with the help of the triune autocrats that control the globe, Eph.6.10-24. We should know that we are the citizens of a luminous, alien nation of another solar system. When there are persecutions, think that they are the necessary tools in weaving the white garment of incorruption, therefore, rejoice in the Lord. Those who suffer for the chaste faith and righteousness will have a reward in the next life, not for ones who do wrongs and suffer.
We also become witnesses of experiencing that the divine or moral law that is undercurrent in everything in this plane also that the torturers too will be the victims of brutal tortures now or later. Jesus’ prayer, “Forgive them because they do not know what they are doing” is not for a simple show; really they didn’t understand the mystery of His passion and death due to their utter spiritual darkness. Truly we have to pray for our persecutors, as they are eclipsed by the spiritual blindness that is the result of a life of humanism, bohemianism, atheism, religious extremism, materialism, and being the darling children of deluxe life of high flying super life of modern Machiavellianism. Pray for the persecutors for their ignorance and fanaticism that betray their pure conscience. Pray for the persecuted, bashed and raped ones who are crying for help during the final hour of technological darkness that blackens the sun and the moon and the stars. Passive or stoic suffering is not the method of the acceptance of the torturing; we have a duty to make them realize them that they are engaged in dirty malevolent works; hence a sort of reaction is needed like Jesus calling Herod a fox and His other retorting means for trapping them. Let the light of true understanding brighten their life.
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