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Do not think that I came to bring peace on Earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.”
Matthew10:34-39
12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all of them who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Matthew 21:12-13
15 Now it was the governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd. 16 At that time they had a well-known prisoner whose name was Jesus Barabbas. 17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?” 18 For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
19 While Pilate was sitting on the judge’s seat, his wife sent him this message: “Don’t have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him.”
20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
21 “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor.
“Barabbas,” they answered.
22 “What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked.
They all answered, “Crucify him!”
23 “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate.
But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”
25 All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”
26 Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
Matthew 27:15-26
6 Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the people requested. 7 A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. 8 The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
9 “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate, 10 knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
12 “What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” Pilate asked them.
13 “Crucify him!” they shouted.
14 “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate.
But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
15 Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
Mark 15:6-15
13 Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people, 14 and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was inciting the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence and have found no basis for your charges against him. 15 Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us; as you can see, he has done nothing to deserve death. Therefore, I will punish him and then release him.”
18 With one voice they cried out, “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!” 19
20 Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again. 21 But they kept shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”
22 For the third time he spoke to them: “Why? What crime has this man committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him.”
23 But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and their shouts prevailed. 24 So Pilate decided to grant their demand. 25 He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will.
Luke 23:13-25
☼ Pilate calls everyone together, chief priests, rulers and people.
☼ He proclaims that the people have brought him Jesus bar-Abbas because he is the criminal responsible for an uprising in Rome.
☼ Jesus was treated and hailed as a King of Jews in Rome, and he also strongly believed that by capturing Jerusalem from the Romans, God would send a miracle to free his chosen people.
☼ Roman law declares that anyone who claims to be a King is a seditionist. Barabbas was also labeled a seditionist, and both are revolutionary leaders. The only logical solution is that they were the same person.
☼ Barabbas was a nickname given to Jesus by his followers because of his proclivity to introduce himself as bar-Abbas or "son of the Father."
☼ The Roman investigation turned up the name, Barabbas, as the leader of the Rebellion. "Jesus, bar-Abbas", or Jesus, son of the Father, who was simply called Barabbas among the revolutionary circles. Those circles were the followers of Jesus of Nazareth.
☼ Pilate was not a good man, as many believe. The Romans eventually had to remove him from power due to callousness, greed and cruelty in such excess that it brought shame to Rome itself. Why then is he portrayed as a good man who is fultily tried to stack the deck in Jesus Christ's favor?
☼ The Romans would never have released a seditionist. Though there may have been a sympathetic release of past small-time revolutionaries by officials, to say that Herrod himself would be lenient on a condemned prisoner comitting seditious acts, backed by followers that would today be described as independent terrorist cells is laughable at best.
☼ The Romans and the Moneychangers share a common interest in light of this evidence. The Romans are after Barabbas, Revolutionary Leader, because he is leading a revolution, and the Moneychangers are after Jesus of Nazareth, King of Jews, because he has challenged their usury and greed. The chief priests are after Jesus "bar-Abbas" "son of the Father" because he has cost them kickbacks, bribes, and exposed their false piety.
☼ This is where Pilate does the dirty work called for by the trinity of evil. He decieves the people, with the help of some well placed help in the crowd and clever wordplay.
☼ He brings up Jesus of Nazareth and asks the crowd who he shall release. Pilate asks the crowd, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?” ( Matthew 27:17)
☼ His wife, knowing full-well Pilate's intentions, sent a letter to Pilate stating, "Don’t have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him.”
☼ Thus we expose Pilate's plan. The crowd screams for their savior, "Barabbas", son of the Father. They scream for Jesus Christ, and in choosing condemn Barabbas, the enemy of Rome, to death by crucifixion.
☼ The only thing that Pilate asked in order to act on the will of the people was that they disperse. They did, and Pilate completed the plan by killing Jesus Christ.
☼ Jesus Christ, being both persons, is thus judge in a twisted form of double jeapordy that works out to his death either way. The Moneychangers had executed their plan perfectly, and the rest of the terrorists were rounded up and crucified next to Jesus soon after.
☼ Jesus had asked the tax collector Levi, at work in his tax booth in Capernaum, to quit his post.
☼ Jesus also appears to have influenced Zacchaeus, "a chief tax collector" in Jericho, which is in Pilate's tax jurisdiction, to resign.
☼ Pilate's main question to Jesus was whether he considered himself to be the King of the Jews, and thus a political threat.
☼ Mark in the NIV translation states: "Are you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate. "It is as you say," Jesus replied. However, quite a number of other translations render Jesus' reply as variations of the phrase: "Thou sayest it."(King James Version, Mark 15:2); "So you say." (Good News Bible, Mark 15:2). Whatever degree of confirmation modern interpreters would derive from this answer of Jesus, according to the New Testament, it was not enough for Pilate to view Jesus as a real political threat.
☼ Following the Roman custom, Pilate ordered a sign posted above Jesus on the cross stating "Jesus of Nazareth, The King of the Jews" to give public notice of the legal charge against him for his crucifixion. The chief priests protested that the public charge on the sign should read that Jesus claimed to be King of the Jews. Pilate refused to change the posted charge, saying "What I have written, I have written." This may have been to emphasize Rome's supremacy in crucifying a Jewish king; it is likely, though, that Pilate was quite irritated by the fact that the Jewish leaders had used him as a marionette and thus compelled him to sentence Jesus to death contrary to his own will (according to Matthew 27:19, even Pilate's wife spoke to him on Jesus' behalf).
Rat on a Sinking Ship
☼ Economic World War One, You are the Enemy: Much like the housing bubble and collapse seen right after Caesar's assassination, the implosion has forced families from their homes. For sale signs pop up in communities like a cancer. The derivatives bubble has only just begun.
Until 1980, the total household debt had not reached $2 trillion. Today, total outstanding houshold debt exceeds $14 trillion. We are witnessing the beginnings of the Contemporary Weimar Republic.
This is Economic World War One.
Instead of people spending their money every hour, they have already spent it all. They are complacent and content debtor slaves, with the illusion of wealth because their bank accounts have a positive balance.
☼ Colossal Money Expansion, the Calm Before the Storm: Federal Spending is almost 18 time higher than it was back in 1970. Barack Obama has proposed a budget that will increase U.S. Spending to 5.6 trillion in 2021. If that data were placed on a graph, it would be a near vertical line compared to the nations' history.
The truth of the matter is, when the government increases spending, it is merely wordplay for either increased taxes, or expansion of the money supply. Stright out of the same playbook, the Moneychangers control the issuance of credit and currency. The plays are well known.
They are the ability to openly print and gain first use of fiat currencies that carry a hidden tax of inflation, a fractional reserve banking system backed by itself, use artificial scarcity and bubbles to sieze wealth, and change laws and regulations to make their pyramid scheme legal. Much like the half-shekel being used to extract wealth in the name of the Temple of Jerusalem, modern fiat currencies are the medium of outright theft today.
Now that we are wholly dependent as an entire world on the well being of a fiat currency, the bankers are prepared to collapse it, crashing bubbles like gold. Once those markets are bought for pennies on the dollar and the entire worlds wealth siphoned off, the Moneychangers will rule supreme over Mother Earth and proclaim themselves God.
☼ Trounced my Liberty, and gave me DEBT: The US national debt is set to top 15 trillion dollars. That is over 14 times larger than it was in 1980. The projected federal budget deficit for this year will be a record 1.6 trillion dollars. If history is doomed to be repeated, we will see a massive contraction of the money supply after the spending spree that has been Quantitative Easing 1, 2, 3 & Beyond.
Much like Caesarian times, there will be a total collapse of all markets and a siphoning of wealth.
The Obama Administration has recently come out and admitted that it views the Food Stamp Program as a form of stimulus, a new stimulus is set to be announced in September 2011, and the expanding wars in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Libya as well as future wars with China, Syria, Egypt, India all work under the same Broken Window Fallacy, and are designed to filter wealth through the hands of the banking cartel.
☼ Usury, Inflation, Debt, War - Dues ex Machina: The chains that strangle a nation are insidious. Privatized control of the issuance of currency and credit is the key to the Moneychangers current bid for world domination.
This plan involves taking the wealth a man earns through his labor and skimming it until there is only enough left for him to survive. Every time he uses the system it siphons his wealth until there is only a crushing debt over his head turning him into an eternal indentured servant of the banking cartel.
These aren't just your average ATM fees. It took 200 years to amass the first trillion dollars of government debt. It took 10 months to add the last. However, the frightening reality is that this parasite is only truly abhorrent in its final hour. We could print endless money and never default on our debts, but we would be required to digitize all currency to accomodate the incredible amount of money needed to buy basic necessities.
The most overt symptom of this disease is the constant obliteration of any wealth any but the megarich could attain through unimaginable inflation. In the Weimar Republic, wages were paid every hour and then people rushed to spend their money as quickly as possible, buying anything they could. Shopkeepers tried to keep their shops closed, but the government forced them to open. A loaf of bread which cost 29 pfennigs in 1913, cost 1200 marks by summer 1923 and 428,000,000,000 marks by November 1923.
In a world where industry standardization is the key to efficiency, politicians cry out for raising the taxes paid per household, invent new taxes, raising the debt ceiling, and expanding the money supply. If the government were as cost efficient as any other industry or workplace, we would be cutting costs instead of increasing them.
Perpetual Wars are the calling card of the banking cartel. A brief examination of the largest bankers in history will reveal a clear connection between the Moneychangers and both sides of every major war that did not involve conquering territory. All of these shackles chain a man to the slavery of debt.
☼ Downgrade Credit, Upgraded Crisis: If we continue on the current spending spree, the cost of interest payments on our new debt alone would skyrocket from 25% of GDP to 68% of GDP.
Now that the US has had its AAA Credit Rating downgraded, with threats of future downgrades, these figures are probably tame at best. What we must remember is that this was always the plan.
The debt is created out of nothing and the usury charged is criminal. We are witnessing the sucking of a vile beast at our arteries. It will numb us with pretty words and a reassuring voice so that we can not react until we are spasming in death throes.
☼ Bankocalypse, Total US Debt Staggering: Total consumer, government (both inter and outer), and business debt has grown well over $50 trillion, $20 trillion in the last ten years alone.
Always remember that Gold is the money of kings, Silver is the money of gentleman, Barter is the money of the poor, and DEBT is the money of SLAVES. With a GDP of only $15 trillion projected for FY 2011 ( Though let's be honest, those numbers are optimistic ), it is ultimately impossible to pay this debt off, ever.
☼ The Smoking Gun: Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, the value of the U.S. dollar has declined by over 95 percent. The Federal Reserve was founded largely to combat inflation.
Looking back before the Federal Reserve siezed control of the money supply, anyone who was concerned about rapid inflation would appear insane. That pales in comparison to the magnitude of inflation that has occurred since the US left the Gold Standard in the 1970's. It is very clear to see that the Federal Reserve is the final arm in the banking cartels machine. It is the overseer and master to the majority of the machines.
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."
Mario Savio
Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964
"If God did not want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep."
Calvera,
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Originally posted by daggyz
If our spirit is redeeemd, and God is our Father then wat power do we really have?
And your chasing the meaning of the moneychnagers ????!!!
Originally posted by daggyz
Nothing about jesus' life here on earth mattered. As long as remained on earth, we had nothing.
All of Jesus life was for the purpose of his death.
It's not the Jesus of Matthew we follow, because he is dead. We are following the risen Christ in all his power. Every Christian who understands this has everything Christ has.
He is the risen Son of God. If we are his brothers in the spirit, then our spirits are gods too. As God is spirit and he calls us sons, what are we...humans?? No. We are off the godkind inside our humankind until we die and then we are just godkind. If our spirit is redeeemd, and God is our Father then wat power do we really have?
And your chasing the meaning of the moneychnagers ????!!!
☼ Bankocalypse, Total US Debt Staggering: Total consumer, government (both inter and outer), and business debt has grown well over $50 trillion, $20 trillion in the last ten years alone.
Always remember that Gold is the money of kings, Silver is the money of gentleman, Barter is the money of the poor, and DEBT is the money of SLAVES. With a GDP of only $15 trillion projected for FY 2011 ( Though let's be honest, those numbers are optimistic ), it is ultimately impossible to pay this debt off, ever.