According to the New Testament and the chronicles of the historian Josephus, during the time of Jesus, the Pharisees, who were the ruling class in Jewish society, developed an elaborate pay-to-pray system. A half shekel admission price was required to partake in the Passover service, and the money changers were stationed outside the temple to collect this fee and sell cattle, sheep, and doves that would make the ultimate sacrifice, so humans could get right with God. In the only instance in the Gospels where Jesus showed anger, he reportedly took out a whip, overturned the moneychanger’s tables, and scattered their coins. We can only imagine what Jesus would say today when the moneychangers are no longer stationed outside the temples but have, instead, set up toll booths in front of just about every commodity that once contributed-for free-to life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. How big a whip would Christ use, for example, within the board room of a company that declares it’s intention to wholly and completely own all the worlds food seeds? And how severely would Christ chastise Americans, 83% of whom profess to be Christian, for not even blinking an eye over such outrage against common rights of all humanity? From the book Spontaneous Evolution, by Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:40:02 +0000
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