God does not bless America
Time for a new reality of the Christ
In the beginning there was a Word, it
was “go”, shortly
thereafter the war began! There probably shouldn’t be any self
proclaimed
Christian alive who doesn’t know that he/she is engaged in the war
between
heaven and hell everyday. But it seems that not many are aware of the
full
scope of this battle, or how it appears in the world around us. Our
great
Crusades are more subtle and silent, happening inside of us instead of
out. We
are currently in the midst of a great battle and not many seem to
notice. Have
we become so comfortable with the Christ’s forgiveness? That we seem to
think
he will forgive us for anything and everything we do? He will. But he
also told
us in Ga:6:7: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man
soweth,
that shall he also reap. Ga:6:5: For every man shall bear his own
burden. We
seem to have lost sight of the original purpose. This is due to several
factors
I shall attempt to illuminate with this essay.
To begin with, there seems to be little
reflection upon the
truth of the word. All throughout the bible we are reminded to be ever
vigilant, to be not tempted or discouraged by evil. Indeed I believe a
great
many saints recognize this but fail to act upon it. It could be you
spend too
much time letting other people read the bible to you rather than read
it for yourself,
meditating on what you’ve read, and then seeking to practice it. Or you
read,
but you are caught up in a world that is slowly but consistently
shifting into
grey every issue that used to be clearly defined in black and white.
Suddenly we
are confronted by the face of the seemingly innocent pleading for
equality, the
equality of sin. They mean us no harm, but they feel that the nature of
sin
they care to engage in is permissible under the concept of freedom America
offers. I also think that a great many of us have become complacent in
the
knowledge that we are already forgiven for our sins. We figure that as
long as
we adhere to the rules of the physical world we live in we are good.
The
difference here is between laws based in the flesh versus laws based in
the
spirit. Understandably, it is just as easy to say that the reason the
grey
encroaches upon us, is because of the absence of Esoteric study and
teaching by
the church, throughout the course of church history, low these last two
thousand years. The study of Esoterica is critical to helping the
individual
arrive at a perspective that becomes contrary to arbitrariness.
Understanding
the workings of the universe and ones place in it!
I sat this morning watching a TV pastor
preach to his
congregation. He spoke about the second coming of the Christ,
encouraging his
flock to be prepared for the “Rapture”. He made it sound as if he
expected, or
wanted his flock to expect to be among the “lifted up” when the rapture
occurred. That’s rather presumptuous, if not a bit vain for any Pastor.
Time for
a reality check folks! If you are internet capable, simply call up a
Google
search for “Christian Churches
in America”.
When I did it I got back 1,140,000 hits. Now granted not all of those
were
actual churches, as not all of the churches in America
have established web presences. Here’s the trick, if there were only
144,000
churches in America
that would mean only one person from every church stands a chance of
being
“called up” with the Lord in the Rapture. Realistically we know there
are more,
there are just as many if not more in every country on this planet.
Which
means, realistically, that about one tenth of a member of your church
might
potentially get “called up” in the Rapture. Think that’s going to be
you, or
maybe your pastor? This notion should send a shiver up your spine, both
as you
contemplate the scope of Christianity on the planet, and your potential
for
being around for the tribulation. I’m not saying this to discourage
you. Only
to say it may not be a bad time to deepen ones commitment to wisdom and
love in
the way of the Christ.
Most of us like to imagine the
spiritual world as an
invisible intangible environment where we simply cast our hopes and
aspirations, and with luck we fair favorably. This is not the case. I
look
around at America
and what I see happening is a crisis of faith. I read a Time Article
from the
week of December 22, talking about the Lost Gospels of Christ and how
people
were looking for something more than what they’ve been getting. We are
a
different people today than we were five hundred years ago, or even two
thousand. I know my journey to the Christ was not an easy one. I needed
tangible proof that the spirit world existed. This even after I had
given my
life to Christ! What I needed was to understand “why”, faith alone was
not
enough. I did indeed get my answer, because god is patient with us, and
it
desires to connect with us as much, if not more than we desire to
connect with
it. I think the nature of the connection becomes the issue for most
people
today because we live in a culture based so deeply in materialism that
it makes
it hard for us to believe in the invisible. This is where the church
has failed
us.
A key notion to understanding the
nature of the war we have
been caught up in, is gaining a true understanding of the nature of the
world
and us in it. Modern materialism repeatedly reminds us that if we can’t
see it,
or measure it, it must not be there. A key difference between us and
the Christian
of the first century AD, is that materialism as we know it today did
not exist
then. If you study the metaphoric content of mythology, you see that
ancient
peoples based their entire life on the world of spirit that surrounded
them in
nature and the heavens. As time has passed and we have evolved into the
machine
age, the church has gone from being a building imbued with living
spirit, to a
building made simply of brick and stone. Machines have drawn us away
from
seeing the world as spirit born, to seeing it as nothing more than a
complex
sequence of chemical reactions. Thus, our perception of spirit has been
compromised by our technological progress, a changing of our
perception. In
order to lead a truly spiritual life we must individually build a
bridge to a
world we cannot see. Faith becomes a key element in that structure.
Faith is the antidote of fear.
I can testify that this process takes
time, but most
importantly it takes change on our part. We have further to go within
ourselves
than that Christian did in the first century AD. Today we think
materialism
means that we get sucked into the gratuitous acquisition of stuff. I
know
people who think that by not having an attachment to stuff that they
are more
spiritual. When in all actuality to be trapped in materialism means you
cannot
see yourself outside of your physical body. To put that another way,
you must
begin to see yourself as a spiritual being connected to the cosmos, not
just in
your body, but in the scope of the entirety of human endeavor through
every act
of your free will. You must see the entirety of human history as the
reflection
of the struggle of one individual. And you must begin to let go of the
world of
sense that we rely on to our undoing. You cannot begin to build your
bridge if
you rely solely on your five physical senses. This is where we must,
for the
moment, leave the restrictive physical concept of historic
Christianity. This
is indeed the impulse behind our search for something more. This was
indeed the
point at which I left the physical Christianity in search of something
more. My
answers came from the realm of Esoterica.
One key to being a Christian in today’s
modern world is to
do some research into the history of Christianity. If you remember that
we have
been engaged in spiritual warfare ever since Eve convinced Adam to eat
the
apple. Then you’ve got to consider the notion that in 2000 years, the
inner nature
of the church could be compromised. One key point of evidence for this
is how
in 1870 the Pope declared the order of Papal Infallibility. Which in
essence
meant that the Pope had positioned himself between God and Us, and
everything
he declared as church law, God would automatically support. Case in
point, the
way the church handled the whole affair of child molestation by pastors
in the
church. The Pope initially presumed to keep the matter under the
jurisdiction
of the church, where the church would mete out punishment for the
crimes,
rather than turning the said Pastor’s over to civil authorities.
Eventually
they gave in only because of the public outcry but initially the Pope
presumed
to keep it a church affair. Now understandably, not all Christians are
Catholic. But what you have to understand is that the book you know as
the
bible, in most cases, contains material that has been censored and
controlled by the Catholic
Church for the past 2000 years. Religious history concerning doctrine
and the bible is long and bloody.
The Pope frequently dispatched armies to destroy any concepts of
Christianity
that were contrary to the position of the church. Especially in the
realm of
Esoterica!
Esoterica stems from the Latin prefix
“eso” which means
internal. Modern Christianity today is referred to as Exoteric, meaning
external, as it focuses on the physical life of Jesus of Nazareth.
Esoteric
Christianity tells the story of the Christ being that came down to
posess Jesus of Nazareth in the river Jordan. Esoteric Christianity
tells
the spiritual mission of the Christ. Jesus was a man, the Christ was a
divine
spirit that inhabited his body during the baptism,
and died on the cross in an act of cosmic love that will literally echo
within
our very souls for eternity. The Church of old took great pains to
eliminate
anyone who pursued esoteric Christianity. Especially after the 8th
Ecumenical
Council of Constantinople in 870 AD. When the
Church
denounced the teaching of Spirit! Eliminating western humanity’s
exposure to
esoteric Christianity, and splitting the Church into Western and
Eastern
Orthodox. Throughout history groups daring to study and teach doctrines
of esoteric
spiritual knowledge were eventually eliminated. The Templars, Cathars,
Rosicrucians
and a few others met their end for this very reason. I’ve said all this
to say,
that if the western Christian had been exposed to esoteric knowledge,
life in America
today would be very different.
God may bless individual American’s
based on the course of
their personal lives. But the point is that for a modern day Christian
to
believe he or she has the right to justify violence or murder for any
reason
and feel forgiven or even justified in the eyes of god is pure
blasphemy. The
enemy has made certain that the entire process of western civilization
has been
borne on violence. We have been trained generation after generation,
that
violence is the end of all conflict. Not recognizing that at that point
in time
where the incident at Golgotha occurred we were
given
the answer to change the future. Love! Here we are 2000 years after
that
incident and we seem to have missed it. No where in the Commandment
“thou shalt
not kill” is the word “except”, or even “but”. If Christ does not
condone
murder for any reason, why would a modern day American Christian
imagine “God
Blesses America’s”
war of aggression? Because without doubt, it is a war of aggression!
Always has
been! The Christ told us so, and we continued to use it as an excuse
like
nothing ever changed. If you were a real Christian, the moment George
Bush
attached the notion of God condoning his war of aggression, you should
have
been furious. Such an abomination to the Holy Spirit was his act. If it
gave
you a sense of great pride, then believe that you worship another god
before
the Christ. Such has ever been the curse of Mankind’s vanity. The point
of that
matter being, our good “Shepard’s” were long ago replaced by wolves in
“Shepard’s”
clothing. Their sole intention throughout history has been to lead your
soul
right into hell. Look around you, we’re getting closer, not long now,
just one
quiet little act of violation at a time, blurring the line between Good
and
Evil, with an ever growing concept of grey. If your eyes weren’t
blinded by the
being you worship before the Christ, you would see the elite as what
they are.
A group of self-interested individuals who have only ever been set on
elevating
themselves at the expense of our innocence.
No! I’m afraid God does not bless America,
but Satan does. America
has just been another enterprise of the world’s elite. America is the
graveyard of the native American who lived here for at least 20,000
years
before Western civilization got here and killed him. America
was built with the profits of a colonial drug trade. America
was built with the tears and anguish of tortured slaves, most of whom
were just
murdered when they were no longer necessary. For most of its history it
has
proudly darkened its heart with the blight of racism. In its vanity and
pride,
it has fallen prey to an ever darkening global expression via an elite
corps of
individuals who have successfully usurped its concept of democracy.
Replacing
it with a hidden plutocracy bent on sucking every ounce of life from
its soul,
then casting it aside. If you recollect, Nazi Germany was also a
predominantly Christian
nation. Do you believe that God blessed them? They were infected by the
same
racist scourge creeping into the heart of America.
These Super villains have performed all manner of atrocity’s in the
name of America,
but for their own private interests. Be warned! This false house of god
is
falling. If we had followed the teachings of the Christ 2000 years ago,
violence would be a rare thing today. When we learn to overcome our
differences
with love, we will change the potential of all future incidents of
conflict.
But until then, be ye not deceived or diverted by the worship of false
gods
into believing God blesses violence in any form for any reason. To that
notion
there can be no compromise. Peace unto you.
Dale G. Cox
3-11-04
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