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 The Sacrifice of Redemption
that Jesus Brought “The Scapegoat”
Today’s church authorities speak of the “sacrifice of redemption” that Jesus brought. Supposedly Jesus took upon Himself past, present and future sins, and suffered on the cross for them. The Catechism of the Catholic Church reads at No. 605: “There is not, never has been, and never will be a single human being for whom Christ did not suffer” (Synod of Quiercy, 853: Densinger 624). Who saw to it that He suffer? Did Jesus take up the cross voluntarily or was He driven to the cross by the people whom the priests had incited?
Both “Christian” churches offer misinformation about redemption through the Christ of God when Jesus spoke the “It Is Finished” on the cross. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Jesus accomplished the substitution of the suffering Servant, who “makes himself an offering for sin,” when “he bore the sin of many,” and who “shall make many to be accounted righteous,” for “he shall bear their iniquities.” (Is. 53:10-12) Jesus atoned for our faults and made satisfaction for our sins to the Father. (No. 615)
In the Creed of the Protestant-Lutheran Church, Martin Luther even writes that He alone “is the lamb of God which bears the sins of the world,” Jn. 1:29 and “the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” Is. 53:6, item: “since all have sinned … they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood” etc., Rom. 3:23-25.
And since such must be believed and cannot be attained by any work, law, nor merit, nor be grasped by us, therefore it is clear and certain that it is such belief alone that will make us righteous … (Martin Luther, at Schmallkaldener, II, art. 1)
The Church Father Ambrosius writes: For because all the world became guilty, therefore he has taken sin from all the world. (Apologie IV)
People today rely on logic, so let us think logically here. God cannot have anything mysterious, because He is, in everything, the revelation; His law is the logos and therefore logical.
If Jesus, the Christ, had “taken the sin from all the world,” and had thus cancelled sin, the soul burden of human beings – then why is the world, humanity, so different from this, often showing in itself the most iniquitous of sins? Why then is Earth and nature not the paradise, the Being of heaven, that the Christians seek to pray down to the Earth in the Lord’s Prayer?
And what really happened? Jesus, the Christ, tells us in His divine revelations at this time. With the words on the cross “It Is Finished” a part of His spiritual heritage, the part power of the divine primordial power, called the Redeemer-light (also called the Redeemer-spark), flowed into all burdened souls.
In This Is My Word we read for example:
Although the light of salvation, the redemption, shines in all souls, nevertheless only the one who purifies his soul and also keeps it pure becomes perfect. My Redeemer-deed did not wipe out the sins of this world, the sins of all souls and men. It is the power and the source of power for all those who repent and no longer sin. Redemption is the support of the soul and the protection from the dissolution of the soul. It is also the light on the path to the heart of God. … Merely believing in Me, the Redeemer of all souls and men, does not bring about the purity of soul and person. (p. 889)
No one comes to the Father in the heavens but through Me, the Son of God and Co-Regent of the heavens, who became the Redeemer of all souls and men. (p. 852)
But the Church, elevating itself to the “bringer of salvation,” taught and teaches: Only those who are reborn in Christ through the sacrament of baptism receive the benefit of His sacrifice. The Church in this manner seeks to act like a sieve that will let only their sheep pass through.
Although he died for all (II Cor. 5:15), not everybody receives the benefit of his death, but only those who are given share in what his suffering brought. (Neuner-Ross, Der Glaube der Kirche, 12th ed. 1986, No. 793 [The Belief of the Church])
This share human beings gain through baptism:
…for through this rebirth they are given, by virtue of the benefit of his suffering, the mercy by which they become virtuous. (No. 793)
Instrumental cause is the sacrament of baptism, that is the sacrament of faith, without which no one becomes righteous. (No. 799)
Instead of leading the believers to Christ, the Church has bound and continues to bind the believers to itself through sacraments such as baptism and others, dispensed by priests who were supposedly appointed by Jesus. But Jesus was opposed to priesthood. He said: But you are not to be called Rabbi. (Mt. 23:8) He never elevated Himself to the priesthood.
Reading of the “sacrifice of redemption” and of Jesus taking all the sins of humanity upon himself, I am reminded of the sin offering in the third Book of Moses, Leviticus:
The Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the Lord and died; and the Lord said to Moses, ‘Tell Aaron your brother not to come at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is upon the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
But thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. He shall put on the holy linen coat, and shall have the linen breeches on his body, be girded with the linen girdle, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and then put them on. And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
And Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house. Then he shall take the two goats, and set them before the Lord at the door of the tent of meeting; and Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Aza´zel. And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord, and offer it as a sin offering; but the goat on which the lot fell for Aza´zel shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Aza´zel. Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house; he shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself …’ (Lev. 16:1-11)
In the Commentary of the German Jerusalem Bible it says:
Aza´zel is the name for a demon who, according to the belief of the ancient Hebrews and Canaanites, dwelt in the desert, the unfertile land in which God did not do his work of fertilization … Note that the animal is not sacrificed to the demon but that the “scapegoat” carries the sins of the people to the desert, where Aza´zel dwells. The transfer of sins and rite of atonement take place “before the Lord,” mediated by the priest. Thus, the cult of Yahweh takes an old folk custom, but it is transformed and purified. (note 16a)
Consider the blasphemy of it! The goat “for Aza´zel” should be “presented live before the Lord to serve as atonement, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Aza´zel.” But the law of cause and effect, as mentioned before, was known in the Old Testament, the law that Jesus, the Christ, called “sowing and reaping.” God certainly taught it through every prophet. For, in the end, without knowledge of this fundamental law, no one can finally recognize his guilt and become free from it. It will also hardly be possible to understand that God loves him and that He is just. Thus, everyone should have known that people will reap what they sow. This harvest no one can take away from them.
The “old folk custom” using a scapegoat among the people of God, who, after all, had received the Ten Commandments from God, is in my opinion even worse than comparable practices among pagan peoples done out of ignorance. And with astonishment we read that such a custom was “purified” when taken up by the cult of Yahweh.
The poor animal, the scapegoat, alone in the desert! But the animal cannot burden itself. People however can, by performing or participating in this old custom – but purified, of course! And anyone who takes action against his neighbor or his second neighbor, the animal, will encounter the same or similar thing.
May the one who has ears to hear, listen. And the one who has a heart for Christ, our Redeemer, will orient himself to John: Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues ... (Rev. 18:4)
According to “Moses,” God Himself set up the priests. But Jesus said: I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me. (Jn. 14:6) And He said, ... the Kingdom of God is in the midst of you. (Lk. 17:21)
And: If any one keeps my word, he will never see death. (Jn. 8:51)
And: Follow me. (Mt. 4:19)
Again we hear from Jesus that He, who is one with the Father, is the way, and the truth, and the life, and that no one comes to the Father but through Him. This means that we do not need church authorities and external churches; we should orient ourselves to the teaching of Jesus, the Christ, and walk in His footsteps.
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