Similarly, Satan's minions want to give to those who are suffering a cheap variation of Satan's third temptation which was "the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence." [3] This cheap variation consists of the calling of the nations of the world to provide for those who are refugees, poor, homeless and so on. In exchange, those having received some meager assistance, a decent meal now and then, would then bow to all the comforts of the world that Satan owns. (It is noteworthy that many who are well-to-do also bow to what Satan has to offer them--some even sell their souls for what they think they can get in return.)
For those who are unable to see through the façade of (Satanic) goodwill and generosity will nevertheless see the Godless (secular) version of a cure for suffering, and find it to be laudably humanitarian. Little wonder Bergolio has his many fans, just as Satan has its throngs of followers self-congratulating themselves while they commit yet-to-be-classified-by-the-Catholic Church sins of secularism and Godless (Satan's) charity (offer of goods without heart that is usually combined with an ulterior motive or two).
In the same way that this Vatican would not want anyone to suffer by calling on nations to help the needy, it would have protested loudly knowing that Jesus would be crucified, and would demand that He not suffer. Had Christ not ordered Satan to leave Him, Satan would have intervened just as this Vatican would have intervened to prevent Christ from suffering, bleeding and dying and thereby stopping His subsequent resurrection, and as a result man could never die to eternal life because it was by the death and resurrection of Christ that man was saved from eternal death and by the suffering of Christ and the flow Christ's blood that man is able to be cleansed of his Original Sin and its endless variations.
Before continuing, it would be appropriate to take a fresh look at Judas Iscariot. There are those who believe that Satan had entered Judas Iscariot and as a result, he betrayed Christ. If, according to this entry's theory above, Satan had entered Judas Iscariot, then he would not have identified Christ by a kiss but rather would have escorted Christ away from the soldiers so that He could not fulfill God's Will. But Judas Iscariot did betray Christ with a kiss. Therefore, for the theory to work, this would have to be the conclusion: rather than Satan entering Judas causing him to betray Christ, Judas betrayed Christ out of his own accord, driven by his greedy desire for thirty pieces of silver. Greed is a temptation that Satan has put out there for man to embrace. Satan does not have time to enter every man in order for man to accept its seemingly endless temptations and betray Christ, since it is smart enough to give man enough of them that man will answer Satan's beck and call, willingly and happily, by falling into any one or a variety of of Satan's temptations.
Back to this entry's theory, one that seems awfully harsh, almost heartless, uncaring of those who are most in need of help. In the Judgment of Nation parable, quoted in part below, are the words of Christ without paragraphs numbers and references [4]:
Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’
Then the righteous will answer him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?’
And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’
Indeed, man ought to take care of one another. Based on this blogger's reading, this parable applies to each nation, the source of power in every society, in that every one of them ought to treat its people in a way so that they would not hunger, thirst, be rejected, left on the street without proper clothing and shelter and without health care. And even though there would still be people who would be incarcerated, they ought not to be treated like animals, but with compassion and be visited instead, whether or not those in prison were rightfully convicted, for both the criminal and the wrongfully convicted need someone, preferably a true representative of Christ, to help the former to repent and return to God and the latter to understand and empathize fully with Christ since Christ Himself was unjustly accused, convicted, tortured and put to death.
In other words, this parable talked about what each nation ought to do in the first place, to prevent mass suffering and exodus with refugees wandering the globe without a home, not what needs to be done to fix a mess on the back end, created by not having adhered to words of Christ.
What the parable says is as important as what it does not. The absence of words in the parable asking other nations to interfere with the internal affairs of other nations that had accumulated certain weapons of mass destruction and had not treated its people well is painfully clear. To then provide underhanded assistance to activists, i.e., to help organize a community of protesters, causing civil unrest and then bombing them is surely not called for, because it is not for man but for the king in the parable to judge. Quoted below without paragraph numbers and reference show the absence of such words in the parable [5]:
Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.’
Then they will answer and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?’
He will answer them, ‘Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.’
And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.
When man under Satan's influence become judge and executioner, the result leads to more suffering than before the meddlesome actions, including bombings [5], [6]. And it is this suffering that Satan's minions want to end by asking those nations that had created the mess in the first place to fix. The cycle of introduction to suffering and amelioration of suffering thus begins, and is repeated over the course of human existence: bomb a nation gratuitously then give cheap, inadequate and temporary assistance to its people. Promises of aids are similar to promises of Satan. They sound good and appear decent at first but in the end they do not last and are worthless. The pains of loss, of feeling lost and of emptiness seem endless. Not even a fraction of a degree can such pains be alleviated by humanitarian calls for secular and monetary assistance; they can only be lifted by God. When God is asked to assist through supplication, suffering turns into grace as the person's compassion deepens at the same time the person's spirit is being lifted. That is the mark of God's cure: something good comes out of it, but when Satan and Satan's minions produce a "cure," suffering is preserved, if not exacerbated.
In conclusion, as soon as man submits to Satan in exchange for the false promise of the world's kingdoms (modern translation: un-Godly religious influences, political powers and military might), unending suffering ensues.
[1] http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/4 at 9.
[2] Ibid at 10.
[3] Ibid at 8.
[4] http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/25 at 34-40.
[5] From a February 10, 2016, article: "The five-year-old war in Syria has claimed 470,000 lives, according to new research that almost doubles previous estimates about the human cost of the conflict.
"The Guardian reported details of a report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, due to be launched in Beirut on Thursday, that says life expectancy in Syria has dropped to just 55.4 years. Before the conflict Syrians could expect to live to the age of 70." See http://time.com/4216896/death-toll-syria-war-470000/
[6] From a March 30, 2017, article, quoted without hyperlinks: "The number of refugees who have fled Syria for neighbouring countries has topped five million people for the first time since the civil war began six years ago, according to the UN’s refugee agency.
"Half of Syria’s 22 million population has been uprooted by a conflict that has now lasted longer than the second world war, the figures released by the UNHCR show, with 6.3 million people who are still inside the country’s borders forced from their homes." See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/30/syrian-refugee-number-passes-5m-mark-un-reveals
No comments:
Post a Comment