If we are convinced that God is perfect and that perfection excludes arbitrary actions, then we must know that everything or every being that issued and issues out of perfection cannot change or become imperfect unless that being is given free will, which can be abused in the Material Realms.
In His perfection, out of His Will, God issued ten commandments to humanity, one of which is “Thou shall not kill.” Is it then possible that He would afterward authorize that His son be killed for any reason? Would such a decision be consistent with His perfection, and can one then still say that He is perfect? Does it not make Him arbitrary and imperfect? Saying something today and going against it tomorrow while still punishing people who go against it smacks of imperfection. One who makes laws, breaks them, and insists that people must obey them is far removed from perfection. But God is Eternally Perfect!
Some people may now say that He is God and can do anything. Really? A God who goes against His own laws? It is clearly impossible for God to sin. Some may still say that it was prophesied that Jesus would come to be killed to save the world from sin. Is prophecy then greater than the words or commandments of God, commandments that issued out of perfection?
Does prophecy bear the weight of the word of God? What do we understand by prophecy? Is it not perceiving, seeing, and speaking about upcoming events that people weaved for themselves, worked out in the Laws of God that govern Creation, which are returning to the weavers, and which can change, i.e., not happen as perceived or prophesied if conditions prevalent change?
Since the Divine Will penetrates and permeates everything that exists, It has a complete survey of every smallest event in the gigantic work of Creation, and we call this Omniscience and Omnipresence. Out of Omniscience the Creator sends guidance to His Creatures in many helpful ways at times when they are in danger of derailing, and this guidance may reach us through prophets, called and gifted ones, created ones and in the most critical periods for our survival, God also sent His direct Envoys in the Son of God Jesus and the Son of Man Imanuel.
Thus, genuine prophets are a small link in the chain of guidance and help to humanity. Prophecies are granted from above, but this guidance is based on the perception of the direction in which the fate of individuals, peoples, nations, and civilizations is heading. A prophecy, therefore, is not an imposition, and if those for whom it is intended respond as intended, the prophecies change. Therefore, prophecies are predicated on human behavior that precedes them and are influenced by human response to them.
The picture of the consequences arising in the Laws of Creation from human choices in the Material Spheres as our part of the Universe approached its turning point portended doom. Humanity, encumbered by their free will that had gone wrong, with an intellect almost fully subject to Lucifer’s leading, could no longer find the path out of the darkness by themselves, and in His Love, the Creator had to intervene to send us help!
At this critical stage, the only help that can still oppose the darkness had to come from God Himself, from a height above Lucifer, the force behind the failure. As a great act of Love, God sent a part out of His Unsubstantiality as an emergency act of Love. Humanity on earth was prepared for this event especially through the Jews, the people with the highest level of spiritual maturity at the time, who had been strictly guided through many called ones and prophets and amongst whom the Son of God was to incarnate.
The most relevant prophecy on which most people today base their wrong assumptions is that of Isaiah (53:1-6). 1“Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely, he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (ESV)
Yet a closer look at that prophecy bears out the fact that the prophecy was predicated on human free will. From verse 4, we read that he had to bear our griefs and sorrows, the consequences of our transgression. Yet we did not appreciate Him but regarded Him as punished by God; in other words, we assumed that his suffering was the Will of God.
Verses 5 and 6 confirm that He was pierced because of our transgressions and crushed because of our iniquities. He was not crucified for our sins to wash them away but because we have sinned by rejecting and denying Him. If we had not rejected Him and accused Him, who came directly from God, as blaspheming against God, we would not have crucified Him. The great sacrifice of dying was the key to granting us healing and peace, i.e., by His death, He put a seal on His mission, ensuring that His Mission brings us conviction.
Having granted us free will, God, in keeping with the perfection of His Laws in Creation, does not interfere directly with any expressions of human free will. We are free to decide the course of every event with our free will then as now, but will always also remain subject to the consequences arising thereby in the perfect Laws of God in Creation. Omniscience and Perfection allowed the weight of our sins to burden Jesus, but this in no way meant that our perfect Creator sanctioned the death of Jesus, as can be seen from many details in the records of Christ’s mission.
Yes, the prophets, particularly the great messianic prophet Isaiah, foresaw the great sins of the world and how they kept increasing; they saw great darkness opposing whatever was good and saw how it would oppose the light issuing from Jesus. A world that was groaning under the darkness and yearning for the Light but with the majority of humanity, especially amongst the priests, the ruling class, and the well-to-do, preoccupied by material goals, driven by greed and lust for power and relevance, envy hatred and jealousy, They saw how human standing at the time will affect the work of Jesus, leading to His murder, and prophesied it.
If these foreseen conditions had changed, Jesus would not have been murdered and would still have fulfilled His mission! Seeking persons would have recognized him, followed His word, done what he taught, and been saved. Instead, He now had to fulfill his mission in the worst possible conditions, largely rejected, without a nest or hole to hide in and literally nowhere to lay His head. He was persecuted and finally tortured and murdered as they had murdered many other servants of God sent before Him.
The proud but often unsound amongst Christians believe that Christ was sent just for them, regarding Him even as their property to command, as the eternal sacrificial lamb whose blood ever again cleanses them whenever they sin. Thus, they evoke His blood and His death whenever they are in difficulty or have sinned and feel estranged from God. Their idea of God is limited to that of a wise, Fatherly figure they can relate with arbitrarily.
This gives the majority of them a false sense of fulfillment, of being protected, and of deep self-satisfaction. This, however, is often only a superficial feeling, fostered and enhanced by the mode of worship in some churches. This produces a feeling similar to the ecstasy induced by taking drugs of addiction or, at another level, to the feeling induced by conditioning to heavy music. This is no different from the ecstasy developed by pagan worshippers of idols, usually under the influence of drugs, a background of similar heavy music, or the degradation of blood sacrifices.
Christ did not come to die on the cross so that His blood would wash away our sins! Certainly, He did not come as an eternal blood sacrifice to be invoked by people to satisfy their whims. It is indeed a great sacrifice of Love for God to send a part of His essence to take up the imperfect human body and experience our sins and sorrows. It also was and remains a great sacrifice for our salvation that He accepted death on the cross, as demanded by humanity.
Under the domination of the intellect, a tool predominantly under the influence of Lucifer, human vanity demanded this sacrifice to satisfy their ego. In the twisted logic of the intellect, they felt that they were serving God and that He who came from God, with the Word of Truth that can only come from God, was the blasphemer.
Jesus came to save the world and did fulfill. He saved the earth in many more ways than is apparent. He anchored the Light, which was His essence in the darkness, preventing the premature disintegration of the earth. He carefully sowed the Word of Truth and the Light in the soul of those who could understand and linked those who are able to open to it, to the consciousness of the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives, i.e., He baptized them with the Holy Spirit and with Fire.
He gave us the Word from God, which was His essence, and thus saved those who recognized him, believed his teachings, and followed them. Anyone who now recognizes Jesus as part of God must do what He taught to be saved. Recognizing Jesus means accepting the Word and living It! Salvation lies in His word, not in His death.
Apart from putting a seal on His Mission, His death also made the doubting many to recognize Him even at the last minute. It is recorded that on the death of His body, with the events that followed, some came to the profound recognition that “truly this man is the Son of God,” and this made it possible for them to repent and start doing what He taught. In addition, He anchored the great forgiveness that brought us peace and the possibility to still find forgiveness for the great tragedy of murdering the Envoy of God.
But only doing what He taught will save those who are convinced of His personality as the Son of God! Salvation lies only in the Word! The greatest gift of Jesus to human beings striving for salvation is the promise of the coming of the Son of Man before the end, another incarnation from Divine Unsubstantiaility that will once more extend salvation in the Word to us.
Therefore, as the Son of God admonished, we must remain alert and intuitively awake for the coming and the time of the Son of Man.
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