26/20/2025

We all know that we are unique beings in a Universe that is vast beyond our comprehension.

In the first mass-reading for today Moses is inspired to proclaim that to be known by God is the envy of all who have not been favoured in the same way as have the Israelites. They are known and cherished by IAMIAM to the extent that they are having the rules for living holy lives revealed even as Moses speaks to them.

The historical nations who will dispute the territorial claims of the interloping Jews will not have the support of IAMIAM who will demonstrate through the Jews that he is the only God. All the others who were worshiped are only human names of the non-existent products of the imaginations of the "non-chosen" people.

The Jews, however, prove themselves to be incapable of compliance with the essence of what is revealed to them and become just as other Middle-East nations, pawns in the human power struggles between the great Empires that grew out of the fertility of the lands watered by the Nile and Tigres/Euphrates.

Moses was something greater than all Mesopotamian and Egyptian Emperors but the great civilizations of the Middle-East did not become the vassals of IAMIAM or the Temple in Jerusalem. It was the pagan "gods" of Greece and Rome that devoured the Temples of the Middle East.

As we read the scriptures we always have to remember that it is the whole of the Bible that is speaking to us. Jesus' "there is something greater than Moses here" was triggered in my mind by today's  confirmation of the place that "The Law of Moses" must play in our lives.

There is nothing greater that we can do during our lives than know and obey the Lord. We have had the final revelation made to us and yet our world is getting farther and farther away from the will of God for his people. The Jews who had had the first revelations made to them had lost the spiritual link to the Eternity of IAMIAM, who reveals through Jesus that he is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, that was symbolised by the Law and Temple. 

 Jesus has filtered out and purified by his blood the accretions that we use to  block out his grace. He has made the "once for all" sacrifice but the institutional churches, just as the Jews, have not been able to separate themselves from the things of this world and the result is, although spread throughout the whole world, a Christianity whose teaching is largely ignored. 

Jesus declared before all the "chosen people" and directly to all worldly power in the person of Roman Governor Pontius Pilate. "My kingdom is not of this world". There has never been a time since then when we have acted in "our times" as if we believed him.