It’s time to look at Justice and Love to the Ancient Ones. Remember, the ancient ones created our species. We had a lot to learn. Justice was important to the ancient ones, so they wanted us to share the same feeling about it. But justice, by itself, can be just as brutal as a world with no justice. And so, the ancient ones also taught us about love. But, it was a slow process.
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As a reminder, justice came up as an issue early on in our existence.
The ancient ones warned the first of our kind about something. Something that had dire consequences if they engaged in a certain activity. There was plenty of food in this special garden where they lived. However, they were warned about one particular tree. The ancient one called Father told them, in their own language from that time, that if they ate from this one tree, they would “die die”.
For more on that event, and especially on “die die”, please see The Problem of Free Will
“you-are-free-to-eat-from-any-tree-in-the-garden”
The first time justice was needed.
Well, they were tricked into eating from that tree. And found out the consequences were real. The first two of our kind were removed from the paradise garden. They were no longer immortal. And they suffered because of what they did.
Truth be told, we still suffer because of what they did. But lest anyone think that decision by the ancient ones was unjust, consider this. There isn’t one of us that would have acted differently in that situation. Sure, some might have held out longer before eating from that tree. And some would have succumbed even faster. But let there be no doubt, each of us would have given in at some point. So justice was served, and is still being served. And it is fair.
To this day, we still call it “The Eden Incident”, since that was the name of the Garden.
Love, before and after The Eden Incident.
Yes, many of us look back and believe we wouldn’t be tricked. Even though the ancient ones tell us in no uncertain terms that we would fail as well. That no one, except the one called the Son, is able to avoid the trap.
And maybe that’s why we have such a hard time with justice. At least justice from the ancient ones. Of course, if someone does something wrong here in our world, with our system of justice, we want them to pay! Well, maybe not if it’s us or someone we care about. Then it’s seemingly OK to avoid justice if at all possible, and use almost any means.
Maybe it’s ironic. Or a paradox. Possibly paradoxically ironic. But it’s that very kind of behavior that should tell us the ancient ones are in fact correct. Every one of us succumbs to the evil one who tricked the first of our species. So why do we think we are any different from them, when in fact, our own lives today are no better? Every time we try to escape justice, whether it’s from our own legal system or from the ancient ones, we are falling for a lie from the evil one!
Speaking of which, when it comes to the ancient ones, our feelings are even more odd than for our own legal system. We know, or at least we’re told by the ancient ones, that they know everything about us. Even our thoughts. Even one of the old-timers wrote about that. in fact, he welcomed the thought that the ancient ones knew everything about him.
Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
Ps 139:1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.
Ps 139:2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
Ps 139:3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Ps 139:4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.
Ps 139:5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
Ps 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
Ps 139:7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
Ps 139:8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
Ps 139:9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
Ps 139:10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
Ps 139:11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
Ps 139:12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
Ps 139:13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Ps 139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Ps 139:15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
Ps 139:16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
Ps 139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Ps 139:18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.
Ps 139:19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
Ps 139:20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
Ps 139:21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?
Ps 139:22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
Ps 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Ps 139:24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
This old-timer, David, knew that the best thing was to realize that the ancient ones searching him was good. That justice was good. He also knew that the ancient ones were also all about love. And so, he knew that this combination of justice and love was best. And wanted to know where he stood with them.
His belief was all the more shocking when we realize that this old-timer, David, murdered someone! And the ancient ones sent someone to let David know that they were well aware of what happened. Further, that justice needed to be carried out. The others of our species involved below are: Nathan, who was sent by the ancient ones to speak to David about the murder he committed. Saul, a prior king before David, who tried to kill David but was saved by the ancient ones. The God of Israel, an ancient one ( see the trinity from Part 1 to read about the trinity of the ancient ones. Uriah, the one David murdered, by sending commands that led to his certain death. Bathsheba, Uriah’s wife, whom David committed adultery with, leading up to this whole soap-opera style mess.
Nathan Rebukes David
11:1; 12:29-31 pp — 1Ch 20:1-3
2Sa 12:1 The LORD sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, 3 but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.
2Sa 12:4 “Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.”
2Sa 12:5 David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die! 6 He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.”
2Sa 12:7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. 9 Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
2Sa 12:11 “This is what the LORD says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. 12 You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’ ”
2Sa 12:13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.”
Nathan replied, “The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. 14 But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the LORD show utter contempt, the son born to you will die.”
2Sa 12:15 After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill. 16 David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and went into his house and spent the nights lying on the ground. 17 The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.
2Sa 12:18 On the seventh day the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, we spoke to David but he would not listen to us. How can we tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”
2Sa 12:19 David noticed that his servants were whispering among themselves and he realized the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” he asked.
“Yes,” they replied, “he is dead.”
2Sa 12:20 Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate.
2Sa 12:21 His servants asked him, “Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!”
2Sa 12:22 He answered, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let the child live.’ 23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
2Sa 12:24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The LORD loved him; 25 and because the LORD loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah.
2Sa 12:26 Meanwhile Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal citadel. 27 Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, “I have fought against Rabbah and taken its water supply. 28 Now muster the rest of the troops and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will take the city, and it will be named after me.”
2Sa 12:29 So David mustered the entire army and went to Rabbah, and attacked and captured it. 30 He took the crown from the head of their king—its weight was a talent of gold, and it was set with precious stones—and it was placed on David’s head. He took a great quantity of plunder from the city 31 and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking. He did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
Amazing, isn’t it? Unbelievable? And yet, true.
Complete knowledge, justice and love
We just read about two of the old-timers, Saul and David. Saul was king. The ancient ones took his kingdom from him and gave it to David. Here’s a bit about what happened.
Samuel Rebukes Saul
1Sa 13:1 Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty- two years.
1Sa 13:2 Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand were with him at Micmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.
1Sa 13:3 Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul had the trumpet blown throughout the land and said, “Let the Hebrews hear!” 4 So all Israel heard the news: “Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel has become a stench to the Philistines.” And the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.
1Sa 13:5 The Philistines assembled to fight Israel, with three thousand chariots, six thousand charioteers, and soldiers as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven. 6 When the men of Israel saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns. 7 Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.
Saul remained at Gilgal, and all the troops with him were quaking with fear. 8 He waited seven days, the time set by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and Saul’s men began to scatter. 9 So he said, “Bring me the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings.’” And Saul offered up the burnt offering. 10 Just as he finished making the offering, Samuel arrived, and Saul went out to greet him.
1Sa 13:11 “What have you done?” asked Samuel.
Saul replied, “When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Micmash, 12 I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the LORD’S favor.’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.”
1Sa 13:13 “You acted foolishly,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time. 14 But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him leader of his people, because you have not kept the LORD’S command.”
1Sa 13:15 Then Samuel left Gilgal and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin, and Saul counted the men who were with him. They numbered about six hundred.
Did you catch this part?
1Sa 13:13 “You acted foolishly,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time. 14 But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him leader of his people, because you have not kept the LORD’S command.”
Samuel told Saul he was foolish. He ignored the command of the ancient one. If he listened, Saul, and his descendants, could have been kings forever. But he didn’t. So the next king was someone who the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him leader of his people. Guess who that next king was. It was none other than the old-timer David, who we just read about.
Yes, these words from Samuel came before the adultery and subsequent murder we read about. But remember this. The ancient ones knew everything. Everything that happened in the past. Everything happening at any given moment in our time. And everything that was going to happen. Ever. Therefore, it’s with that knowledge that the ancient one said David was someone after his own heart.
All of this, and so much more, shows that justice and love are extremely important to the Ancient Ones. Further, it shows why their justice and love should be appreciated, sought out, and honored by us.
Justice and love? Or justice without love?
There are some among those of our species known as the doubters who don’t believe this combination of justice and love is true. We’re going to look at another event that the doubters consider justice without love. And they might even deny the justice part. Some call it the ancient ones being mean, brutal, and much worse. Let’s see what happened in this incident, commonly known as “The Flood”.
The Flood
Ge 6:1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
Ge 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
Ge 6:5 The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
Ge 6:9 This is the account of Noah.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Ge 6:11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. 16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
Ge 6:22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Ge 7:1 The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made. ”
Ge 7:5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
Ge 7:6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
Ge 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Ge 7:13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. 14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
Ge 7:17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. 21 Every living thing that moved on the earth perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
Ge 7:24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
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There are some among the doubters who claim The Flood incident was impossible. That there wasn’t enough water for anything close to it could happen. But in recent years, our scientists have determined that it was, in fact, very much possible. That there was plenty of water for The Flood to occur. 1You can read about what our scientists found in Was there really enough water to flood the earth?
Was there truly no justice involved here? Actually, there was a need for justice. A great need.
Ge 6:11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
This was way back in the early days. Not that long after The Beginning. And things were absolutely awful. The ancient ones were going to pretty much start over. But this time with the old-timer called Noah. And with his family. And yet, for those who know our sacred history, it didn’t take long for even Noah’s family to do evil. IT all sounds so much like the aforementioned discussion of how every single one of us will be taken in by the evil one and will turn against the ancient ones. We just don’t learn.
When the doubters say the ancient ones were unfair, to put it mildly, they are just wrong. Throughout our sacred history texts, we see the same thing, over and over. As time went on, the consequences were never again as total as they were with The Flood incident. But justice demands consequences.
And in the case of the flood, there most certainly was love from the ancient ones as well. They could have just wiped out everything. Period. End of discussion. Actually, quite literally, that would have meant no discussion, because neither you nor I would be here now. For that matter, there wouldn’t be a “here” or a “now”, unless the ancient ones showed some love and allowed our kind to even still be around!
Justice and Love as taught by the ancient one called the Son
There’s another thing the doubters either forget, or probably don’t know about justice and love from the ancient ones. “The Law”, as it was known by the old-timers, was considered to be a system of rules and punishments for breaking the rules. They used to call these things commandments and laws for the rules, and sacrifices for some of the punishments. On top of that, bad things would happen if the sacrifices weren’t carried out.
But the old-timers of our species missed the point. It turned into a system of do wrong, make a sacrifice, rinse and repeat. That was never the goal of the ancient ones. The old-timers, as we see in our sacred history texts, never got it. Towards the end of the old-times, the ancient ones sent someone to make this clear.
It would take too long to explain all the historical references, and it’s really this one statement I want to focus on, so I included only this one line, along with the reference to the sacred history texts.
Israel Unrepentant
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Hos 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
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Yeah – it wasn’t supposed to be: do wrong and make a sacrifice. It was supposed to be don’t do wrong in the first place! The goal was to do the right thing, not the wrong thing. Then a sacrifice wouldn’t be necessary.
Us new-comers aren’t any different from the old-timers
But even after the ancient one known as Hosea gave these words from the ancient ones, the old-timers didn’t get it. How do we know? Because more than 700 of our years later, the ancient one called the Son told us so.
Here’s what the ancient one called the Son said during his brief visit to our world. By the way, Matthew is one of the twelve insiders that traveled with the one called the Son, and who were tasked to continue his revolution when he returned “home”. If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, or if you forgot, it’s this revolution that we’re all involved in now. So what follows is of the utmost importance.
The Calling of Matthew – Matthew
9:9-13 pp — Mk 2:14-17; Lk 5:27-32
Mt 9:9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
Mt 9:10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?”
Mt 9:12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
There it is, in red and white. The English translation of our sacred “new-history” texts. It’s a clear reminder of what Hosea said 700+ years before. And here we are, two thousand years after the one called the Son reminded us – and we still don’t get it right!
Conclusion – On this rock Part 2 – Justice and Love to the Ancient Ones
Not only do we not get it right, but we also fight the importance of even getting it right!
We do the wrong things. Oftentimes, we don’t even know, and I mean truly don’t know, that the things we do are wrong! That’s how little some of us who call ourselves “followers of the one called the Son” even care about what he taught us. We don’t even know the difference between right and wrong.
And then, too many of us, when we do recognize that we’ve done something wrong, we deny it. Or we come up with excuses why we had to do it. Some even say, I accept responsibility for my actions, and then have the gall to think that acceptance is more than enough to avoid any consequences and feel like forgiveness isn’t needed.
Think about this. The one called the Son died for us! He died so we could not have to deal with the impossible task of living under the same Law as the old-timers. And from what we read in the sacred historical texts of the old-timers, compare them to the world we live in, it often feels like we care less about the one called the Son that the old-timers cared about the one called Father!
It’s depressing. So depressing. Out of incredible love, the one called the Son died for us. And too many of us who are followers of the one called the Son, don’t hardly appreciate it at all. Some of us, not at all. But still, the ancient ones love us.
And so, through their combination of justice and love, we, the followers, have been given the task of letting others know about the ancient ones, and especially about the sacrifice of the one called the Son.
The Great Commission
Mt 28:16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Yes, that was originally for eleven of Jesus’ insiders. Of course, it excluded the traitor. But now, it’s for all of us that follow the one called the Son. But I wonder, just how much of what the one called the Son taught can we really teach? It’s hard to teach something we don’t really believe. And when we so actively fight against the love and justice of the ancient ones, then how much of what’s written do we really believe?
Furthermore, there’s the passage from the sacred new-history texts.
Salt and Light
Mt 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
Mt 5:14 “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”
The salt reference is tough to understand these days Salt has little importance beyond food seasoning now. And for many of us, for health reasons we try to use other herbs and spices to avoid salt. But back in the old days, this was clearly referring to followers of the ancient ones who weren’t really following.
The more obvious one for us today is the light on a hill. Actually, lights are so bright today, it’s pretty much a light anywhere. People see the lights. What the one called the Son said here is that people see our “light”, meaning the way we live our life. He said if we truly follow him, people will notice.
But the thing is, if we proclaim we follow him, but act differently, people notice that too. When we let people know we follow the one called the Son, but we live nothing like what He taught us, then many people get a wrong impression of the one called the Son.
For today’s topic, when we fight against the justice of our legal system, people notice that. And when we fight against the love and justice of the ancient ones, people notice that too. Eventually, we can, and surely do, cause people to believe like the doubters. To believe that the love and justice of the ancient ones is nothing but lies. And yet, as we just saw, it’s incredibly important to the ancient ones. And has been ever since The Beginning, as evidenced by the Eden Incident, The Flood, David’s adultery and subsequent commission of murder, and so many others incidents.
Surely, if we truly are followers of the one called the Son, we can do better.
In the next installment, we look at freedom of choice, including why choice and love are so important and intertwined with the ancient ones.
For more on the “Eden Incident” and the meaning of “die die” in the ancient scripts, please see Why were Adam and Eve kicked out of the Garden of Eden?, Free Will in the Garden of Eden, and The “knowledge of evil” versus “actual evil”.
Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay
Footnotes
- 1You can read about what our scientists found in Was there really enough water to flood the earth?