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THE TRIAL OF JESUS CHRIST IS SUBJECT WHICH IS LITTLE UNDERSTOOD, as also are the events which preceded it. It necessarily involves the study of the Jewish soul, its nature, its attitude, its legal processes and its political activities. It must be understood that they have continued to identify themselves with a world revolution, and with strategies for the destruction of Christianity with the same intensity, and the same avid desire for its crushing, as they demonstrated in the days of Christ’s ministry.

Before we move into the panorama of these events, and on through the patterns of the Scriptures, there are certain things we must know about Palestine in the time of Christ.

During the ministry of the man Christ Jesus, the embodiment of God, Messiah, the King, was moving among His people, speaking, proclaiming, opening the eyes of the blind, unstopping the ears of the deaf; performing miracles, so that, even Rome, in its casual first approach to His ministry, testified too, by their procurator in the city of Jerusalem and by the many envoys they sent over to investigate these matters in the land of Palestine.

The fact remains that what remained a mystery, even to Rome, was the hatred and the animosity of official Jewry in Palestine, against a man, who, by their records and all that they had been able to glean as they searched the land of Palestine, had been to do good to those who needed His healing hand, and to speak words that would give spiritual life and hope to a people. In all this Rome’s verdict was: “We see no reason why there is such animosity against this individual.”

THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE WORLD ORDER has moved in and caused great problems in the nations of God’s Kingdom. The strategies that are involved in the Scriptures, were one of keeping the people strong and powerful and keeping the people Blessed of God, alert and free. In order to do this they had to dwell alone and stay with their own kind of people.

Matthew 15:13…”Ye are the salt of the earth, and if the salt hath lost its savour, where then will be saltiness? It is good for nothing, then but to be cast out and trodden under the foot of men. Ye are the light of the world and a city that sits on a hill cannot be hid. Neither does a man light a candle and put it under a bushel, but he puts the light where it can be seen, and gives light unto the whole house.”

“YE ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH, BUT THE SALT HATH LOST ITS SAVOUR.”

There is a direct relationship of this passage to the processes of that time, for the gathering of salt was big business in Palestine at the time of the Christ. In fact, they set out even to cross the Sahara in search of salt, and Sahara means ‘salt sea’, which is actually the great sea of sand where camels were ships carrying salt over the great desert to areas on the other side where salt was quite priceless. So here in Palestine they began to mix the salt with phosphate or Benzinite or with plain earth, and the salt thus wouldn’t be as salty, or lose its savour. Now the Jew’s were here in Palestine at the time of Jesus and they instituted this mixing of earth with the salt until there was not much savour left in it.

WE TURN IN OUR THINKING THIS AFTERNOON TO THE PATTERNS OF EVENTS that surround us at the climax of the year. And as we move into a new year, we think of the words of Ecclesiastics where the prophet tells us that there is a time for everything. Under this pattern, we note that the MOST HIGH GOD, with initiative and vision, has made a declaration thru the prophets; “To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.” There is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up. There is even a time to kill and a time to heal, a time for love and a time for hate, a time for war and a time for Peace.

And the MOST HIGH GOD MAKING THESE DECLARATIONS IS NOT JUST SPEAKING TO MAKE ALL INCLUSIVE TO MAKE ALL PATTERNS OF OPERATIONS. BUT HE IS TALKING OF THE REALIZATION THAT IN PATTERNS AND IN MEASURES, THAT THERE IS A REASON FOR THESE THINGS. AND THUS, THERE IS ALWAYS A TIME FOUND FOR IT. And in the measures of time, we are talking about the areas in which events happen. It is not exactly a substance, but it is a dimension of events. And when we talk about four dimensions, then one of those dimensions is a pattern of time as well. People waste a lot of time. And in this manner, they do not accomplish a lot of objectives that they should in the period of time allotted to them in the period of time in which they live. At other times, it does not take a lot of time to redeem a lot of time that has been wasted.

THE REAPING OF THE WHIRLWIND is of course one of the results of having sown to the wind. In having permitted our enemy to come into our land and sow his evil. But we a great nation of the Household of the Most High have come a long way even carrying the weight of the enemy. But one thing about America, and the people who have made this nation great is that the people came from the nations of Europe, for all of the nations of Europe have contributed to the structure of the Household of your nation. When Isaiah said: ‘Woe to the nation of the Outstretched Wings of the Eagle’. 18:1; he was talking about the destiny of this nation under the symbol of the outstretched wings of the eagle.

He knew we would be a powerful nation, and that we would carry the destiny of the House of Manasseh. That it would be established, and that we had moved out of the House of Joseph, out of Anglo Saxondom. That our language and our background had come from inside of Britain, but yet we were to enclose many, many people of the whole House of Israel. And that these would come from Europe, the same people that had made Europe strong, who were also of the Nations of Israel. But here would be a prophetic destiny fulfilled, for here in one place would be a gathering together of these people of Israel. They had a great common denominator in that they were of one race, and they were Christian. There was no nation of Europe which was not Christian, from whence these people came. There was nothing in the way of development of the society which God had ordained, that this nation would provide. From the days of our founding fathers as they came for freedom of religion, and for the opportunity to expand and to develop a great nation, they came with the realization that although this was a wilderness, that they were to come, and that God would guide their destiny.

WE TURN TONIGHT TO THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS AND FIND THESE WORDS: “Thy Father of Glory may give unto you the Spirit of Wisdom and the revelation of knowledge of Him. That the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, ye may know what is the hope of His Calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power unto us who believe according to the working of his mighty power.” Thus we have an area of Spiritual enlightening, a Spiritual understanding that goes unto the household of God, unto the Children of his calling.

We have cited to you before that God had made it very clear concerning his calling and his revelations, and we read here again that God reveals them unto us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches out all the thing of God. Yeah, the deep things of God. For what a man knoweth of the things of man saith the Spirit which is in him, even of the things of God knoweth no man but by the Spirit. We have not received the spirit which is of the world. We have received the spirit which is of God. This is important because the world since it cannot understand the mysteries of the things of God, is being led today by the Spirit of the offspring of Lucifer for a final assault upon the Kingdom of God.