Our paragraph topic is: (Their persecution of religion) Part 12.
The pronouncement of judgment continues upon the Scribes and the Pharisees of the crimes they have committed against the just. The list of the blood they have spilt is long. Yet that list can only include those evils they have done during their lifetime. God speaks of the blood that was shed long before they were born and how that blood will be accounted to their list of crimes. How can this be? How is it that the Scribes and the Pharisees are responsible for those evils before they were born, before they were conceived, at the beginning of the history of mankind?
God speaks beyond the physical to the spiritual evil that is within them. He speaks to the evil that has taken over the Scribes and the Pharisees to posses them to do the murders. He speaks to Satan's minions. They are the ones who will suffer the wrath and the judgment for the blood that has been shed since the beginning of time. He tells them upon their heads will come all the just blood shed on the earth: "From the blood of Abel the just unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias."
What gives life to the body? Is it the blood that pumps through our veins? is it the heart that pumps the blood through the veins to all parts of the body such that if it stops life ceases to exists? Or is it the electrical impulses that comes from the brain that tells the heart to pump the blood, that tells our muscles to work, that causes our eyes to see, that allows us to feel sensations and taste food? What gives life to the body? In all of this is it the soul that comes from God that starts the entire process of life as we know it that allows us to experience reality.
We live through the experience of life. We have knowledge of the world around us. We explore it. We dissect it. We seek to know it and control it to make it our own. But this is life for us, this is how we come into this world and how we will leave it. We are given a history and a reality that tells us there is good and there is evil in our experience. We can choose either to know as our own. Where does that take us? We are led to search for a deeper knowledge of either experience which will reinforce our belief systems of who we are and who we will become. We will either have good experiences or evil experiences and produce lifestyles that result from those.
Christ came that we might know the truth of who we are in him. He came that we would see, that we would hear, that we would have real life experiences to follow. His was the way of enlightenment, the way of knowledge, the way of belief, the way of hope and faith, that opens the doors to a new way of life. He came to show us that we are not just the physical but also the spiritual. He also let us know that there is also the real evil that wants to posses and lead us astray.
God is ever-living. He is the God of the living and not of the dead and we have the opportunity to live beyond the flesh if we believe. Call upon Christ and he will come. Believe in Christ and he will hear. Open your heart to Christ and he will fill it with his love.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
The pronouncement of judgment continues upon the Scribes and the Pharisees of the crimes they have committed against the just. The list of the blood they have spilt is long. Yet that list can only include those evils they have done during their lifetime. God speaks of the blood that was shed long before they were born and how that blood will be accounted to their list of crimes. How can this be? How is it that the Scribes and the Pharisees are responsible for those evils before they were born, before they were conceived, at the beginning of the history of mankind?
God speaks beyond the physical to the spiritual evil that is within them. He speaks to the evil that has taken over the Scribes and the Pharisees to posses them to do the murders. He speaks to Satan's minions. They are the ones who will suffer the wrath and the judgment for the blood that has been shed since the beginning of time. He tells them upon their heads will come all the just blood shed on the earth: "From the blood of Abel the just unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias."
What gives life to the body? Is it the blood that pumps through our veins? is it the heart that pumps the blood through the veins to all parts of the body such that if it stops life ceases to exists? Or is it the electrical impulses that comes from the brain that tells the heart to pump the blood, that tells our muscles to work, that causes our eyes to see, that allows us to feel sensations and taste food? What gives life to the body? In all of this is it the soul that comes from God that starts the entire process of life as we know it that allows us to experience reality.
We live through the experience of life. We have knowledge of the world around us. We explore it. We dissect it. We seek to know it and control it to make it our own. But this is life for us, this is how we come into this world and how we will leave it. We are given a history and a reality that tells us there is good and there is evil in our experience. We can choose either to know as our own. Where does that take us? We are led to search for a deeper knowledge of either experience which will reinforce our belief systems of who we are and who we will become. We will either have good experiences or evil experiences and produce lifestyles that result from those.
Christ came that we might know the truth of who we are in him. He came that we would see, that we would hear, that we would have real life experiences to follow. His was the way of enlightenment, the way of knowledge, the way of belief, the way of hope and faith, that opens the doors to a new way of life. He came to show us that we are not just the physical but also the spiritual. He also let us know that there is also the real evil that wants to posses and lead us astray.
God is ever-living. He is the God of the living and not of the dead and we have the opportunity to live beyond the flesh if we believe. Call upon Christ and he will come. Believe in Christ and he will hear. Open your heart to Christ and he will fill it with his love.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
