What did they want from Jesus? What did they want Him to say that He wasn’t saying?
Why did they torture Jesus? What was the REASON for the first ever spiritual inquisition? And why kill Him? After all, He had healed all manner of sickness, made the blind see, and even raised dead bodies back to life. Why did they not recognize the Messiah of the Torah?; because He was not like them. He did not conform to the wishes of “their” Torah, nor did He bow to the pressure to deny He was the Son of God.
*The term Inquisition comes from Medieval Latin “inquisitio”, which referred to any court process that was based on Roman law. (*found that interesting)
They were accusing Jesus of heresy for going against their “canonized scriptures” which were called the “Torah.” He was equating Himself with the God of their Torah. And they despised Him for it.
The Sanhedrin had a preconceived picture of their Torah’s Messiah, and Jesus Christ did not fit the mold. He was TELLING them they were wrong for teaching the children of God that His Father was vengeful! He was TELLING them that they were wrong about EVERYTHING they believed, and what they were teaching was now obsolete! A new and improved way of looking at the world was at hand. . . But they continued their processional march to hell, in their black draped clothes and long depressed faces, never even asking; Is all this even real? Did God really do this to us?
Their self imposed generational beliefs in the Torah kept them from going within and seeking out the Kingdom that was within them. This Kingdom of God is the mind. The mind is the portal by which we reach God. Death is a portal to nothing. Nothing is reached in death. Death is continuous ignorance.
When the Sanhedrin interrogated Jesus they were not looking for truth but for an argument. Their starting premise was the Torah, and His starting premise was that they were gods!
They were hell bent on proving Him wrong although they had no proof. Their proof He was wrong was their blind belief in the Torah. They “believed” the Torah over truth OR their “holy books” over the Messiahs’ teachings.
Their holy book taught as most did, that total peace of mind and eternal joy are always in the future. Jesus Christ was teaching the Pharisees, Sadducees and anyone else who choose to listen, that He would prove His teachings worked, if they would make an attempt to LOVE everyone and everything His Father created.
There was no love in the way the Sanhedrin treated Jesus Christ. The Sanhedrin were determined to be right at the cost of their own eternal happiness. Why do we insist on being right about the “after-life”? Is in not because we have been taught generationally by our ancestors, whom we trusted, to be afraid of God.
The fear of God and lack of trust in His eternal generosity has produced a world of frightened children of God, pretending to be helpless. We are not helpless. Far from it.
Jesus Christ during His torture and subsequent crucifixion was SHOWING HIS DISCIPLES the type of commitment He was looking for, under far less extreme circumstances.
He was SHOWING HIS DISCIPLES that the power of unconditional forgiveness heals even death. He was not teaching them about an after death anything. He knew as you will come to know, that both heaven and hell are states of consciousness. One created by God, heaven; and the other made-up by the “devil”, hell.
Hell is fear. Fear is the belief that we are separated from God.
When the belief in the separation is healed, the consciousness as God created it returns to awareness. Peace-eternal, is our divine inheritance. This awareness is a heavenly state of being that surpasses all intellectual understanding.
To receive the Atonement and heaven we must release hell OR, “fear” to the Holy Spirit for correction. He corrects our errors by SHOWING us they were never real. Jesus Christ ATONED for EVERYTHING you are afraid of now, OR will be in the future. Nothing you fear, NOT EVEN DEATH can touch the disciple of Jesus Christ who decides to love his neighbor as himself. The REASON simply stated is that you and your neighbor are One in the eyes of God. This Oneness is experienced when forgiveness is complete. Forgiveness is complete when you have allowed the Holy Spirit to correct all your judgments on how things should be.
When everything is perfect all the time, without past or future thoughts intruding upon the present moment whatsoever, forgiveness is complete and heaven is realized, first in glimpses. The veil of fear is a feeble attempt by the ego to hide the Kingdom of heaven from the disciple.
God did not “Create” pain, suffering, sickness or death. These are all idols before Him. Sickness is an attempt by the mind to keep you believing that the body is eternally real. The body was not made in love. Love can use the body to prove eternal life to you if you will release all the demands that you make on it for it’s comfort, protection or enjoyment, and turn All your body needs over to the Holy Spirit.
Needs to the ego are lessons in love for the Holy Spirit. Leave all your “preconceived needs” to Him and NOT ONE will go unmet. Faith is requisite for entrance into heaven, because you never left. . .
