CHAPTER 9
The Hope
At the time when these last lines were written, the war between United States / Iraq had been finished since several months, and a self-styled “democracy” have been set up in this country, but what can we emphasize some?
By did a demonstration of their military power the United States obtain the discounted effect? Did fanaticism decrease? Did the rivalries become blurred? Was God of Love glorified?
As many questions which we will not answer directly in these last pages, because we would be likely to draw some the too hasty conclusions, as radical as those of the philosophers that we somewhat observed.
A thing is certain, we have to deplore that all the people engaged in this conflict, cry a lot of dead who were not always more responsible than others in this circumstances. The error of these unhappy was to often only be at the bad place at the bad time. Only fundamentalism religious, author of so many persecutions, go out again victorious. In Iraq and in all the adjoining countries the Islamism heightening is to up several tones, raising obviously its hatred towards God's people, Israel. Across the Atlantic the carnal presumption of exterminators of “ Axis of Evil”, get worse. France as for it seems to carry on at one's own pace with all his social conflicts in which each one claims the best share of the cake. The current problem of our structure is not indeed the structure itself, but well the way in which we employ it, with all our lack of integrity. This is why this form of mutual aid, if charitable in itself, could become a trap for ourselves, because being addressed to users of which logic is still deprived of a true self-fulfillments.
We can thus reassure us, if nobody among us is really good, nobody is not really bad, and in the sure hands of God is any thing. The day of the crucifixion of Jesus and until His resurrection, the enemy thought to get the victory and was delighted. Today he believes capacity to do in the same way, in pretending to be unaware of that God prepared a seventh day both for France and for the United States and so much of other nations, but especially for Israel. The precursory signs of it, will be the arrival of the Spirit of Christ on Israel, and undoubtedly the French and the Americans will start to understand then, God does not want discriminations between us. We can believe in it, not as a prophecy, but because of our confidence in God who works today to establish the good sense in the man.
All Christian nations arrive today at a form of impasse in their political outlets, because we must use each one as a model of the other, in order to arrive at balance. The French must turn to God, the Americans and the English, must seek God through an image closer to a French balance. God already prepared in advance everything for us all, let's hope that each one comes toward that God prepared for him!
The blessings to come are certainly more encouraging, even if they do not pass without a real will of each one, and undoubtedly also by many recessions necessary for the richest countries. In the name of which futility, God he would prefer a human more than another, a people more than another, the northern hemisphere more than southern hemisphere, if each one in His works were identically in Jesus?
(Matthew 10.39) He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.//
That we be men or nation, God cannot be outdone by us. The one, who will agree to lose its carnal attitudes, will already be blessed by peace in its heart, consequently direct of the fruits of the labor to which the Holy Spirit of God will have led it. If there were however only this dimension, such of the universal psychotherapists, we could believe to have announced here all the “method” necessary to our rise towards God.
It would be there an human dimension most pretentious, because that would be to forget the Grace of God who wants to bless us all, beyond our capacities to make His will. The true intelligence will thus show us always, the need that can't be ignored for awaiting us to the Grace of God for our nation, and ourselves in any time, any place and any circumstance.
Since our creation, no marked improvement came to modify our psychological construction, and we compose according to our current possibilities. Our antiquated mode of construction is the source of all human misery, reason for which the “Return of Jesus” will be the greatest revolution that will exist in favor of humanity.
Each one thus wants to live the remainder of its days and its eternity at His sides, but was not this already the case of the Rich person, in front of the Poor Lazarus who was holding in the Abraham's bosom. The abyss that exists between the hell and paradise, is identical to that which separates the world from the flesh and that of the Holy Spirit of God, and will not return we more there. An identical abyss still separates the world from today and of tomorrow; it is the arrival of Antichrist preceding the return of Christ. (Revelation 12-9/10) And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him. And a great voice in heaven came to my ears, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because he who says evil against our brothers before our God day and night is forced down.//
Just like Christ prepares her reign, Satan prepares to involve a maximum among us with his fall. If our Hope is thus in long term to gain the war and to belong to the tomorrow world, we must not lose sight of fact only the victory over the seduction that will precede, this one must be our first aim today. If not, it would be started to delight us about the future big day, without us to trouble about what will lead us to possible battle.
As we noticed through the seven Churches of Revelation, we will not have had all the same attitude, and some of those who will be at the sides of Jesus will have always carry on at their own pace, far from the religious conflicts, such Pontius Pilate. It will not act for that of tepid ones, because the tepid ones believed to be saved in God by their works. No! They will be simple people who will have remained true and right without being noisy, as if they did not know Jesus, but who will be entered in His works and not in vain speeches.
In this example, we look too often the work of Pontius Pilate like the work of a coward in his only cowardice, by forgetting that this non-Jew gave an opinion in favor of Jesus without being diverted. Simon Pierre, to whom Jesus told to the Cross: “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church”, disavowed Jesus three times, but this pagan did not do it.
This is why the blessing of the return of Jesus, will not necessarily come from the circle since which we await him, and will not be recognized more from religious extremists milieus than He was when Jesus came as “a suffering Messiah”.
The “world”, i.e. the external people to the religious systems, will perceive it possibly more easily than the others. A share of them will be able to make the difference, just like Pilate could make the distinction between the attitudes of the High Priest who would have due to represent the Jew law, and Jesus whom he recognized publicly as King of the Jews in his writings. (John 19-17/22) And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.
And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.//
We will not interpret this text beyond what it is given to us to know of it, but for that he stood up to the Great Priest not to turn in derision his writings, it is that the thing was not made by cowardice. To reposition the context in a current situation, it would be say a prefect or a general, who stand up to the Pope. His words were therefore, according to all probabilities, marked with a point of dislike and nausea due to his impotence of persuasion in the Romaine function that he occupied. This answer was thus directed against the religious attitude and not towards Jesus, because he had known to make the difference between the “TRUTH” and the simple external attitude.
God did not allow that Pilate can check the religious machination, so that Jesus can come to achieve all His work of redemption for us all, but He used this man kept away from the religious systems, to address to each one this message: “You can say that it is a criminal, for me he is the best of enters you all, the only worthy one to be a King among you”. This is why the sin of this man, was less large than that of those whom delivered Him, like Jesus says it in (John 19-11) Jesus answered, You could have no power at all against me, except it were given you from above: therefore he that delivered me to you has the greater sin.//
We strongly find this attitude in the character of a great number of French, who refuse to follow some religion that it is, by the assimilation that they do of those with corrupted systems. A great part among them internally keeps the conviction of a higher truth in Jesus-Christ, compared with that to which the Christian world testifies to them by its endless competitions or extremism. They have a presentiment of another dimension, but then say not to want to be concerned with God, whereas it is in this “presentiment” that God is being for them, and of whom they get their perspicacity.
Even if it is hundred times more enriching by heart, to see God acting in all His works, perhaps they are not completely wrong, since Jesus said in (Matthew 24-23/27) Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him; For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.
See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about. If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it. Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.//
The heart of the man is home of Spirit of God. It's better therefore to work in the secrecy of our heart in the communion of the Holy Spirit of God, than to run after the misleading illusions to be recognized by men, even if it means to lose us before God.
The image of the sin of Pilate, in front of the one of the religious leaders, the sin of a great number will be thus less than the one of those who say to represent Him. It is a little like France, many say themselves distant from God, although they received the image of Jesus in their heart. Holy Spirit is perhaps nearest of them, than some do say it? They keep away themselves from any religious conflict, this is why these only little speak, even if some reckless take care instead of them. After this long time at the desert, Moses was in this case, reason for which God placed Aaron at his sides. It will be perhaps the case of certain French? The floods of words that our denominational competitions generate, contrary with the words even of Jesus, are they really in God? Then… This is why before this period of Antichrist, God will allow that much be somewhat far away from the churches, because they would be assembled, not to become better, but to become worse. God wants to appear to each one of us in a personal approach of heart in heart with the Holy Spirit, which leads to the plenitude of the soul. We must lose our haughtiness of Christians who believe themselves always more ahead than all others, whereas it is only question of our carnal weakness which moves away us from God. God does not invite us to be right from each other, but to love us one another. Jesus even said: By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples!The hope that we must preciously preserve at the bottom of our heart, is to be able to hold firm in front of the attacks of the enemy. This firmness Jesus expressed it faced with all the religious system of this time, and therefore, confronted with the same difficulties, we will be able to hold firm if we place all our confidence in him and not in systems builds by the hand of the man.
Our hope of peace must not make us forget this concession of humanistic peace that the enemy will put in front of us. We will not have anything to fear tomorrow, if our life of today can result in: (Revelation 12-11) And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb 1 and the word of their witness 2; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death 3.//
1) The blood of Jesus covers the sins of which we repent.
2) Our life is an open book of the testimony of the action of God in us.
3) Our death is in our will to remove primitive logic from our flesh of all our reactions, to the profit of the one of the Holy Spirit of God.
Happiness beyond any intelligence exists, and it is this happiness, which God reserves to us. Let's hope that nobody deprives himself of this hope. The hope of a better day, whom one certain Jesus, Son of God, came to work for us, so that we are delighted for always with Him.
To Him: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, be all Glory, at the centuries of the Centuries! Amen!
List biblical references
Chapter 1 – Was I worse than others? Page
John 3-1/10 Now there was among the Pharisees a man 11
Chapter 3 – Were they worse than other?
1 Samuel 8-1/9 Now when Samuel was old, he made his 43
Exodus 32-1/8 And when the people saw that Moses 47
Isaiah 9 – 6/7 For to us a child has come, to us 54
John 3-14/18 As the snake was lifted up by Moses in 55
Chapter 5 - The flesh, the war!
Matthew 10-28/31 And have no fear of those who put to 97
Luke 7-26/28 But what did you go out to see? a prophet 102
Romans3-27/31 What reason, then, is there for pride? 105
James 2-19 You have the belief that God is one, and 108
Hebrews 11-6 And without faith it is not possible to 108
Hebrews 10-1/18 For the law having a shadow of good 109
1 Peter 3-18/22 Because Christ once went through 113
John 8-42/45 Jesus said to them, If God was your 115
Acts 1-1/9 I have given an earlier account, O 116
Acts 2-1/13) And when the day of Pentecost was come, 117
Mark 11-22/26 And Jesus, answering, said to them, Have 120
Genesis 3-1/5 Now the snake was wiser than any beast 120
Matthew 12-43/45 But the unclean spirit, when he is 122
Matthew 23-1/4 Then Jesus said to the people and to 123
Matthew 7-15/23 Be on the watch for false prophets 131
Acts 8-18/22 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit 131
Chapter 7 - The God's people sanctification
Matthew 10-34/39 Do not have the thought that I have 135
Matthew 5-43/48 You have knowledge that it was said, 137
Matthew 6-9/15 Let this then be your prayer: Our Father 137
Ephesians 5-25 Husbands, have love for your wives, even 139
Matthew 22-1/14 And Jesus answered and spoke to them 139
Matthew 24-37/44 as were the days of Noah, so will be 141
Revelation 3-14/22 And to the angel of the church in 143
James 3-5/10 Even so the tongue is a small part of the 155
Matthew 26-52 Then says Jesus to him, Put up your 158
Revelation 1-1/6 John to the seven churches which 163
Hebrews 12-7/11 It is for your training that you 169
John 14-6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, 170
Matthew 13-36/43 Then he went away from the people, 171
Chapter 8 - The way of the nations
Luke 16-19/31 Now there was a certain man of great 177
Exodus 20-7 You shall not take the name of the LORD 192
Ezekiel 18-21/22 But if the evil-doer, turning away 195
Deuteronomy 7-9 Be certain, then, that the Lord 195
Hebrew 8-8/13 For, protesting against them, he says, 195
Chapter 9 - Hope