As I listened in to the conversation
between the Jesus and the Sadducees, I started to get nauseous and felt my stomach grow sick. Just when I thought there was nothing worse than a Pharisee, and his self-righteousness, I learned about a hollow man who was held up by an external cast of total falsehood! The Sadducees had to be the most repulsive kind of human beings! They lived in the Temple and worshipped God through false testimony and unrighteous lies. Their favorite way to worship was by making sacrifice, offering innocent animals, but not their own hearts. Laying down their life on the Altar of God, would never have even entered their minds. Their religion was so thick that it coated their cold hearts, and their swollen minds created thoughts of a mucousy kind. The Sadducees only adhered to the written form of law - they did not believe in the living Breathe of God! They did not accept that a soul would live after death, and they did not believe in angels, spirits or the resurrection from the dead. It makes me wonder if they even read the written Word of God that they so adamantly stood on. It’s not even possible to wholeheartedly believe that you can have intimacy with God if you’ve never truly experienced the full presence of Him. It is true, Holy Spirit can be witnessed by everyone, and anyone, because He is found in all of creation. Holy Spirit is alive and well - He is the writer of the Old and the New Testament. And He is the author of most of my poems, although there are times when I some of my thoughts come from myself. In fact, He helped to write “The Spirit of God,” - a short poem I had written on April 14 of 2020. The Spirit showed me that He has existed from the very beginning of time. He hovered over the waters of the earth. Holy Spirit has always been with us, because He is the breath of all creation! He has the power to resurrect the dead, and He has the power to do as He says. And while He lived in the Temple at that time, He clearly did not descend upon the men who said that they served Him. I mean how is it possible not to believe in angels, when Daniel says that the angel Gabriel came to visit Him? And what about the angels that came to Father Abraham right before the evil men tried to rape them in the town of Sodom where Lot lived? These Sadducees were definitely evil men! Their false theology even makes the Pharisees look good! If we think our Supreme Court is bad, can you imagine what the Sanhedrin must have been? The judging seats of the Israelites were comprised of 70 Pharisees and Sadducees, not like our nine that sit on the Supreme Court. The corruption must have been devastating! God certainly has perfect timing. He picked exactly the right time to intervene. If the temple had not been destroyed. If Jesus has not come when He did, I can only imagine where we would be. Political and socio-economic power invaded the Temple of God, through marketplace men who were driven by worldly intent. Instead of the love of God being delivered to others through them; to the widows and the orphans, and the poor and oppressed; these religious men put nails of despair right through them. Isn’t that what we see today, Wicked men falling into the hands of lobbyists - who bribe the people’s representatives with their own self-interests. Instead of living under “In God we trust” - the God haters want to take our God out of the Supreme Court! I knew it was only matter of time, since He has already been removed from the public schools. What then? What do you think will happen if we remove God from our halls? What kind of government do you think we will have? If we walk away from God, He will abandon us to do as we will! Read Romans 1 - it will give you a good look of what is to come! There is no man on earth worthy to take the seat of Jesus! There is no man righteous enough to deliver justice for all of us! The body of Christ is called to take care of the poor, the government was never meant to do that at all! The body of Christ is called to put an end to racial oppression! We aren’t called to sit back and let this happen! We are supposed to be an example to men; we are to set the tone for what is accepted! Instead we turn our back on sin, and we use the word "love" to accept what is wrong! We allow division based on the color of skin, or what side of town we live in! Yet we permit abortion, domestic violence and the dissolution of marriage! We say yes to changing one’s sex and no to teaching the an identity based in God! The Church is being wrung out! God is not pleased with what we have done! Yet, He is giving us another shot - the stem must stand up! If we do not stand up and speak out, He will abandon us, and we will rot! Think about the amount of religious men, who walked inside the Temple Mount. The men who went to offer sacrifice but didn’t allow the lame man to come in. He sat on the steps of the Beautiful Gate, where he was placed to beg for treats, but not once was he invited in to be healed from his illness. It wasn’t until the disciples came and offered Him the only thing they had that he found freedom. Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.” Acts 3:6-7 Luke 20: 27 to 40 says, “There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, and they asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.” And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” I love this! Jesus responded to their question with proof of the resurrection of the dead! And then He tops it off with referring to resurrected men as equal to angels, as sons of God! And then He ties it all back to the the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” Ha! They no longer dared to ask him any question. They saw that He had just shut them down by refuting the very things they believed in. Then Jesus presented them with a question, “Why is it that they say that the Messiah is David’s son? For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, “The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son?” Of course none of them could answer Him! If David's dead son rose again, then there would have to be a resurrection! And what did they call the Sons of God? They are angels, are they not? Their minds were closed to who God is - this is why they could not answer Him. There was no room for revelation! Then with the crowded listening, He said to his disciples, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will be severely punished.” Luke 20:46-47 So in the end what I have learned is that Sadducees were even worse than Pharisees! And all of them are self-righteous, religious men have no idea who Jesus is! Jesus warned His disciples not to listen to them, but instead to follow Him! He warned them of their shamelessness; and told them to be sober-minded. In this hour, we have to be careful. The witching hour has begun. Watch diligently for wolves in sheep’s clothing! Do not mingle words with the dead, because it will only lead to sticky entanglement. Be careful of religious falsehood, instead look to the Spirit of Truth. October will bring many tricks and treats; be careful what your spirit eats. Submission of hearts in the Lord our God is the only way to stay away from it. Do not turn your head from side to side. Do not pay attention to all the lies. Do not grow weary when "all else fails," because the Lord's justice will prevail. In God We Trust MUST be written into your hearts; society may take Him off of our walls; society may take Him out of our halls; society may take Him out of our schools; but the Lord knows what is written in your hearts. And that, my friend, is what counts. God administers a just justice, and in the end everyone will stand before Him. Decide for yourself who you will serve. Satan is the price of this world and his primary objective is tempt the flesh to do as it wants. But when Jesus enters a pliable heart, the Temple of God is made within. Holy Spirit is the only One who can transform us from the inside out. He is the One who helps us with temptation. So in this witching hour, I stand on the Word of God, Jesus Christ himself, who makes intercession for men - and I ask Him to wrap his covering of protection around His beautiful bride, the remnant who is being wrung out.
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