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Chapter 43
Jesus Christ - September 14, 1986


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1986
Inspired in
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

43  Jesus Christ - September 14, 1986

Vol. 29 No. 43 - Jesus Christ - September 14, 1986
Conclave of the Friends of Christ
VI
"Let Us Live to Make Men Free"

     To the sons and daughters of God I AM come. The spirit of my message this Eastertide is embodied in the words "Let us live to make men free."1

     Thus, in that day two thousand years ago, I did not summon the twelve legions of angels from my Father,2 for I would indeed submit to that will and to that interior Light and Calling. Thus, the descent of the LORD God. Thus, the I AM in me did stand and does still stand.

     Now, as the conqueror of Death and Hell, I stand in your midst and before this altar, beloved. And I have summoned this day my twelve legions. And they do stand on the twelve points of the circle of fire of the solar ring. And they march with legions of Light, beloved.

     Going forward from the flame of the ark of the covenant, they move outward in all directions. And they march, robed in white, for freedom - freedom for all people under God. And they march, and as they march they trample down the barriers of bigotry and prejudice, of tyranny and darkness.

     Beloved, the legions of white fire, the legions from the LORD God Almighty do march to the four corners of the earth. And as they march, hatred and war are beneath their feet, and the earth receives the new day of the Spirit of the Resurrection.

     Lo, I AM come! And I AM the Resurrection and the Life of God's freedom in you now! In this renewed joy of freedom, I AM come, beloved. I welcome you to my heart. (Won't you be seated.)

     All over the world I am remembered this day. And I AM the Resurrection and the Life. Would to God people would make the connection between this point of the spiritual fire of the resurrection on this day and the day-to-day problems which beset them. Yet they bear the burden as a yoke of karma and do not understand their hearts as the open door of my entering in to turn back the tide of all dissension in Christendom, all dissension worldwide and the clouding of the eye and the mind concerning the issues of war and peace: and therefore I AM come for the injection of Light3 into the economies and social systems of the nations.

     Therefore, I tell you, beloved, I stand in the profound belief and in the power of Almighty God that while any man or woman or child remain enslaved to any thing, be it fear itself, then the whole earth is not free to expand this living Spirit of the Resurrection.

     Why did we, John the Baptist and I, therefore challenge those fallen angels in the midst of the people4 - indeed the seed of the wicked who came to put out the Light of the Eternal Christos in their hearts? We came that you might arrive to this day, your day of days, now, lo, these two thousand years, when you could stand in the central fire of your own Christhood and in the fullness of the resurrection flame - fearless before every woe and threatening woe of tyrants who would come to take from you the breath fragrant of the Holy Spirit - claim the right to express yourself in and through God and by Love unto each and every one of my little ones who are received in this hour.

     O beloved, receive me now in my Second Coming. My heart has never been more full with joy - with burden upon the Light that is come to the earth and with sorrow upon the burdens that yet are borne by my own. Feel, then, my heart and spirit in this day, beloved, and know that I cannot rest and my disciples here and throughout the world cannot rest while there is torment of life and desecration.

     Beloved ones, let the whole earth feel the sacred fire in this hour of my coming. For there was in that hour of the crucifixion the quaking of the earth,5 and so it does come again. And it comes again because I AM6 crucified in the hearts of millions who are the victims of systems East and West - political, social, economic, and religious.

     They are victims, then, of a fanaticism and that which they have always believed, which does not become more believable or more right for its repetition. But they have been born and they will die in the belief system that tells them they are condemned to sin, sinfulness, and the appellation of sinner.

     Beloved hearts, the earth can no longer stand to reel and to succumb to Darkness because of the missing Light of individual Christhood in every son and daughter of God. Let these little ones, then, know and be known as my own. Let the fervor of the Light in you and the profound concern which you receive from my aura this day fire you with a determination to set life free!

     Let us live, then, to set all life free. Let us live to make life free. And truly it is done through the alchemy of the Holy Spirit and the violet flame, as you have been taught.

     I tell you, beloved, legions of Light of The Faithful and True and The Word7 that I AM THAT I AM do march around the planet. And yet, from the moment of the soul's awakening to the moment of the full infiring8 of that Christhood that is fearless before the Evil that is abroad in the land, there must be a path of discipleship, the tutoring of the heart, and the coming to be that fearlessness flame positioned before no matter what will assail life in all of its fullness and its joy.

     For death is a creeping and crawling thing that assumes itself into the mind with decrepitude and old age that ought not to be, for the fires of the Holy Spirit and the crystal clear water of Life are available from that Presence of God with you. You need not be bowed down nor be subservient to the ways of the flesh and this world and therefore be divested of that sacred fire and no longer able to transmit it to those who are helpless and burdened.

     I say, ye all are healers in my name. Ye all are instruments of the Holy Ghost in small ways and great. Oh, be fearless to proclaim my name!

     So many devout Christians today feel my heart and proclaim my name but know not the power of the spoken Word or the dynamic decree, nor have they been taught that it is the duty of every follower of that Universal Christ who I AM to challenge and to make war against the hordes of Darkness and possessing demons - yea, to wrestle with these spirits of Antichrist. Thus, religion has become watered down with no goal, no striving, no sense of the need for purification or the possibility that the stream of consciousness itself may become that crystal clear sacred fire from above.

     Beloved of my heart, therefore they rest in mediocrity. And they are lulled to sleep by gospel songs when people are dying and children are violated and the minds of the youth are not crystal clear and an entire nation, from its military complex to advanced technology to every system, is compromised by the use of drugs and alcohol and the clouding of the minds with nicotine.

     Are these such old subjects? And do you characterize me and my Messenger now as being the old-time Christian's stumping? Well, I tell you, beloved hearts, these things may be old but they have never been finished. They have never been put to the torch. And so it continues. And people preach and sing of the coming kingdom and my descent. Wherefore have they prepared me room, beloved?

     You can no longer rest easy, for I come to disturb you this day! I come in the very midst of your celebration and I say, Your cup of joy may be full - now I give to you my cup of sorrow. For I am indeed sorrowful in this hour at the miscarriage of my message and [that there are] so few who have the courage or even the slightest desire to challenge the entire momentum of world ignorance as to the reason for my coming.

     Beloved, I will press in upon you. I will come after you! I will not leave you alone until you tarry in my heart and become that instrument for me who is sharper than the two-edged sword9 and incisive and will not fear to become that fool for Christ10 - will not fear to go forth and give life and live to make men truly free from all of the brainwashing and the burdens that are upon them by a system that is the same as it was on Atlantis and Lemuria in the last days, the same as it was in Rome. The people think they are free today, and they are not free. At least then they knew that they were not free.

     Beloved hearts, as I have said, unless you command me to be gone from you, I will come! I will be the one who unveils that which is beneath the threshold of awareness. I will show you those things which you do not want to see because in seeing them you must change your life and go forth as the prophets of old who must keep moving lest they be seized by the false prophets and the seed of the wicked.

     I will make your life come, then, under the aegis of true Christhood and the true understanding of what it means to enter in. And I will take you not into the high mountain of the devil, but I will take you into the etheric octave. And I will show you those things that are being borne, grievous conditions, individual by individual upon this planet.

     And I will show you the legions of archangels, the holy angels. And I will open the door and show you Death and Hell and torment. And I will show you the consequences of the denial of Christ in one of the least of these the brethren.11 And I will show you that there is good reason to fear by those who attack freedom of religion in America, who deny God and challenge anyone's right, great or small, to proclaim my Word and to give it the fullest emanation of my heart!

     My heart is full this day and says: In the name of the Father, enough is enough! Let all the world now be flooded with angelic hosts. Let the way be cleared! Let the highways be opened for the reaching of the poor and those who have no recourse save to the heart of my Mother in Central and South America in these poor nations.

     Who will deliver them? We will send this Messenger, but it is not enough. Millions are waiting for the Truth. Millions must be wrested from the doctrine of the false pastors who themselves refuse to enter into the fire of the Holy Ghost and refuse to take up the judgment of the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the scribes and the high priests and the fallen ones who in turn bring judgment each and every time the individual rises to the perception "Lo, I AM the Son of God!"

     For this cause they judged me worthy to be put to death. So you must be willing to be so judged.

     Lo! I AM that Son of God in you this day if you will have me. And this is the Church Universal and Triumphant. And if you do not come here seeking a mighty revolution of consciousness and way of life, I say, there are a multitude of churches down the highways with their signs, with their beckonings. Go to them! For I will preserve this place for my revolution. And I tell you, were it not so that some would receive me in the fullness of my fire, that some would proclaim my message of the casting of the moneychangers out of the temple,12 I should weep this day and fairly quit the planet until someone would rise again!

     I must have my home in Bethany. I must have my place in the hearts of those who are not dismayed when millions upon millions of Christians refuse to move forward into this hour of the challenging of tyrants and to make the sacrifice necessary to do so.

     Beloved ones, why are not the faithful facing this question of freedom of religion worldwide? Why must they persecute others who come in my name when I did instruct my disciples long ago that those who come preaching in my name must be left alone - I will deal with them.

     Where you hear my name spoken, I AM there. And if you consider they have false doctrine, trust me, as you say you do. For I AM the Spirit of God working in their midst. And I will lead them into all Truth13 - not to destroy14 but to transform, to transfigure, and to resurrect. This is the message of my coming.

     How can anyone consider the destruction of any man's religion, even as punishment, as they have so devised in their meetings - "We will show them!" Beloved ones, they do not believe in the Spirit of the Resurrection. They do not believe that I can resurrect those who have gone out of the way of the true Divine Doctrine to that point of eternal Life within my heart, their heart.

     Where the name of Jesus Christ is spoken and preached, there I AM in the midst thereof! And I take command. And I AM in control. And I AM THAT I AM. And I do not need those who profess my name to go about judging and condemning and slaying others because they think they are out of the way and perhaps even the followers of the fallen ones.

     Beloved, it is written, "In the twinkling of an eye, the last trump shall sound."15 And we do hold that power of the dissolution of Evil even in the very minds of millions. And when the LORD God, the beloved Father, shall decree it, so the Son shall come and in his own way by sacred fire he will purge those who deny the fullest Presence of his own, my own.

     Beloved ones, how can anyone know that his doctrine is pure and perfect - seeing as to the tampering with records and scriptures and sayings? Beloved, how can anyone be so certain - except through an abject fear that without certainty of doctrine his life, then, may have to face the consequences of action?

     James gave my message when he said, "Faith without works is dead."16 This they have denied also. Beloved ones, it is written, "Every man shall be judged according to his works."17 And the meaning of this is according to his karma, according to the causes he has set in motion in his life.

     Beloved ones, the false doctrine of the Pharisees would wipe out all of this and proclaim everyone saved regardless of the record in the Book of Life. There is a Book of Life. And the record of every man is written therein. And until there be resolution by sacred fire, by this Spirit of the Resurrection, there cannot be eternal Life!

     This is the meaning of this day - that the power of the Resurrection is able to raise you from dead works and false doctrine and to free you from your fear to see and know the whole Truth.

     I AM come. And I enter every church that is called Christian this day. And I plant there a purging fire - a purging fire, I say, of the Holy Spirit. Let all be purged, then, of the foul spirits and demons, impostors of my name and of my Father and of my Holy Spirit!

     And the sword of the mighty angel with that flaming sword18 does go before this Messenger. For I tell you, these demons on the astral plane, they howl in this hour. They howl and they howl again. And therefore they rear themselves against this cause and this mouthpiece and against your own freedom of speech and freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

     Understand this, beloved - that the power of my Word comes forth through you, each and every one of my disciples. And that Word is a two-edged sword. And it does pierce the veil of ignorance and error and these possessing entities! I tell you, Elohim of God come in this hour in answer to your perpetual prayer - and mighty archangels. And there is a purging of the planet of hordes of Darkness in every corner of every nation.

     O beloved, rejoice. For the hosts of Light are at work this day in my name to cast now the false doctrines out of the temple and to give the choice to every pastor, minister, priest, rabbi, and servant of the Most High to come now under his own vine and fig tree,19 to receive, then, the Teachings that have been lost that are found again in my name and which I preach to you in this hour.

     Let the I AM THAT I AM be the power of the Almighty One in this hour, for there is truly a dividing of the way. And this springtide of 1986 is once again that power of the resurrection flame that does divide the way, that does clear, then, that time and space for souls to enter in now to the mighty Work of the ages.

     Beloved ones, if you have ever desired salvation in God, truly from the depths of your soul accept me this day as the open door to that path of discipleship. Let me lead you as the World Teacher and show you the saints of heaven and the Ascended Masters and angelic hosts and hierarchies of Light who were known by the apostle Paul and John and whose vision I gave to Origen and whose presence was known from Enoch in the beginning.

     Beloved ones, this is the Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood and of the saints robed in white!20 It cannot be denied. Let those who are true followers of God therefore become one in this communion of saints which I proclaim this day.

     And I draw a mighty circle around this Mystical Body of God on earth as in heaven. And I tell you, from this day forward the systems, the buildings, the establishments based on the false doctrine of the fallen ones' denial of that Christhood of every son and daughter of God shall go down! I proclaim it! I deliver that judgment! For when the cup of the LORD Christ is filled to the brim with sorrow, it is then that the Day of Vengeance of our God is come.21

     Let those who have sought to take these little ones out of the way of the path to my heart know, for I have spoken it and I speak it this day - I hold you accountable in the Day of Judgment for your misdeeds. I hold you accountable in this hour! And I say, You shall not pass! You shall not pass! You shall not pass, neither into my heart nor into my Father's kingdom. For you have denied me on earth in these my little ones. Therefore, I will deny you before my Father.22

     It is the day of the pouring out, then, of the vials of the last plagues.23 This planetary initiation comes in cycles, beloved. So you know of the turning of the worlds and the descending of the Dark Cycle of mankind's karma.24

     In this hour, then, of the cycles turning, in that karma descending there is come, then, the edict of the LORD God of the selective, the discriminatory judgment by the Universal Mind of God in Christ of those individuals who have stood for centuries and aeons as the block to the direct contact of every child of God with his own heart.

     Beloved ones, those who have stood in the way of my person in Church and State, those individuals responsible for the omissions of my Teaching, each and every one of them that decry the application of the abundant Life for every individual in the economies of the nations - those who deny the true doctrine point by point across the board of life - they are singled out this day, even as the mighty angel did single out in Egypt those who would be called to the judgment, and the Death Angel did pass over the house of the true Israelites and they were not touched.25

     The loss, then, of the firstborn son, beloved, is the judgment of the offspring of the carnal mind that decrees tyranny and totalitarianism, whether in education or in private life or by any means on this planet.

     Let the forces of World Communism go down! And let the forces of World Capitalism and the moneychangers who support these systems of East and West know that it is the hour of the binding of these beasts and of the whole conglomerate of the false hierarchy that gives to them their power.26

     Let them know that Christ is in the earth in the hearts of the few who have received me totally, without confining my outreach or my Light, and that my Presence in the hearts of my own everywhere is sounding the death knell once and for all to these established so-called governments of the nations that milk the people and subject them to the lies of the state and the supergods.

     Beloved ones, according to the will of the Father and its implementation in your own hearts, know, then, that the judgment is given - that I, Jesus, take up now my revolution within the heart of this Messenger and every other one upon earth who will receive me. For the LORD is no respecter of persons.27

     Thus, I will enter where I AM welcomed!28 And by the Holy Spirit I say unto you, Receive me and do not disappoint me and do not go back to your old squabbling and bickering and absorption with material things. The question of the survival of the human spirit is at stake now! Believe me if you do not know it for yourselves - the survival of the human spirit is on the line. Leave off all of "these things" and go and feed my sheep!29 It is my message.

     And they have fed to them social systems and human comforts, which obviously are of a necessity when people are hungry and need to be clothed. And it is commendable. But they have not gone any farther, for they have feared this challenge of Evil, face to face. I tell you, if you would rescue the human spirit, you must be prepared to wrestle with the forces of Hell.

     Beloved ones, this is the calling of the apostles. May all of you rise and seize that mantle of the apostle in this, your day. For it is a day of infamy yet across the earth. And I am not satisfied with that which has been done in the name of Christianity. Indeed, I am ashamed that my name is called up in the defense of the systems of deviltry and devil worship and idolatry that are across the land!

     Beloved, I AM free. I AM a free Son of God who may speak through a free Messenger who has nothing to lose. For there is only Life and Life universal and triumphant. And all else we have already surrendered and long ago put aside.

     Therefore, come. Come ye into this communion now. Come ye into this communion now. Come ye, my beloved, for I would serve you, then, this Communion of my new Body and my new Blood - my New Covenant,30 beloved. And the New Covenant is the oneness, person by person, of our hearts.

     Beloved of the Light of God that never fails, prepare this Communion, for I would serve my own. And I would impart to you again and again the promise of my coming. You must test me! You must use this fire! You must no longer present yourself in the old mold.

     Therefore I ask you to meditate now upon this victory of my message and to realize that the battle has only begun and Armageddon awaits the victors in the field. Conquering heroes, come, then, heroines of God, and realize that though all the world may condemn you for this level of fanaticism so-called that I bring, it is the Spirit of Almighty God that has become dead in the land for those false pastors who fear to unleash the true lightning of the Holy Ghost and to strip, then, the earth of these dark hordes.

     O beloved, stand fast and see how - see how, beloved, they have all gone after the way of the Moloch31 of human greed and sensuality and abortion and defense of those unclean things that are not lawful with God and therefore in sympathy with the devils incarnate who have led the children of Light astray in all manner of perversion and uncleanness of spirit.

     Beloved ones, these things ought not to be supported by my Church! Therefore, I reject that church, that body, that organization, that priest or pastor who does champion the rights of the fallen ones to lead the children of God out of the way of perfect Love!

     In the perfect Love of our union, I speak to you. And I AM forever, forever and forever the fire infolding itself.32 And do not think that when you are out of the way I do not withdraw from you. I AM far from you when you refuse to receive me as I AM! If you desire me to love you as you are, then I say, love me as I AM and do not create of me a false god fashioned after all manner of agreement with your lower desires of the status quo.

     Beloved ones, materialism is a god that must come down! Communism is a god that must come down! Let it be so. For my angels obey the Word of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and my Mother. And the Word is spoken physically and therefore the judgment is physical. Watch and pray that ye be found in the place of the Most High God when it shall come to pass.

     I have said I came not to bring peace but a sword.33 Thus, I bear the sword this day. Where is the painting of me that shows me with my sword? Yet the word is written, and it cannot be denied, that I come with the sword.

     I have sent the sword of my Word! Now know that this sword goes forth with my Electronic Presence for the binding of the seed of the wicked and, moreover, their conspiracies and philosophies that have become part of the fabric of world consciousness in fields of education, psychology, religion, and political thought.

     My sword is a purging sword! It is a blinding Light! And it is all-consuming.

     O world, know that I AM come this day! And I will not leave you alone. And if need be, I come, then, as the tormentor of your spirits until they are purged by fire and the Holy Ghost - and until you, by free will, elect to serve your God as I indeed serve my own.

     Let every man's Mighty I AM Presence now become the Lawgiver and Judge. Descend, O sacred fire of the I AM Presence! I, the Mediator, step aside that those reprobate ones may not claim my mantle or my presence for the mitigation of their evil ways.

     So I have spoken it! So it is done! In the holy name of the Ancient of Days, I proclaim it and I AM your Jesus the Christ forever. [standing ovation]

     Let us receive our beloved Jesus and sing to him as the ConqueringHero. Following this song, Jesus will bless the students of Central and South America who are at Camelot. They may move toward the altar now.

     Jesus' Blessing of the Students of Central and South America

     Now before this congregation and all of America and all the world, I, Jesus, receive my own and accept their presence as the offering of the souls of millions who know not of my coming nor my message through this Messenger.

     They have come. They have sacrificed. They represent the poor throughout Latin America, who, beloved, are the subject of the vying of the systems of World Communism which would claim them - or the systems of capitalism which would claim them.

     I say to you, I, Jesus, enter in and I claim them for the communion of saints, for the Great White Brotherhood. I claim them for the victory of the sacred fire, for God-freedom in the earth.

     Beloved, hear me, for these souls are worthy. And therefore, let us open the gates of the temple. Let them be received. Let them be educated. Let them receive the light of the path of their true calling! They are my own. They belong to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

     Beloved ones, receive, then, these humble hearts who are victors in the Spirit, as I receive them. And let us see the unity and the unification of this hemisphere. And let us know that the entire hemisphere from the North to the South Pole must be, then, that margent of world freedom and world Christhood that does manifest the seventh age and the violet flame of my Father, Saint Germain.

     Therefore, beloved, I say, Let those who covet the lives and the spirits of these know today: You shall not stand! You shall not stand, for they shall rise up and they shall proclaim me truly as I AM! And they shall know my Divine Doctrine, for they are not the ignorant masses but they understand by the fire of my Holy Spirit in them.

     Therefore, beloved, behold the assignment. Behold the multitudes who await. For they can receive this Bread of Life, even the stone that the builders have rejected, even the chief cornerstone, beloved.34

     Therefore, my legions surround them and accompany them and set up the bastions of freedom. And I say to you in America and in this government and this House of Representatives and in this people, you who have denied aid and support and joining brother and brother in that rescue of Light and the overturning of these moneychangers of World Communism35 - you, I say, are judged this day!

     And let the cause of freedom throughout the land, even their land, be espoused by every American. And let the fire of the heart know that the shedding of blood for the remission of sins, whether on the cross or the battlefield of life, is the requirement for the defense of freedom. And those who give of their Light-essence and their hearts shall have everlasting Life. And those who deny these this aid in the hour of their crucifixion shall give answer to the LORD God Almighty!

     I have said it. I proclaim it. And I seal them and all Lightbearers whom they represent. Let it be done, then, according to my true apostles.

     In the name of my Father, I send you. I send you in this hour, O people of Light from the south. Go now and preach the Word and open the doors of hearts such as your own.

     I AM your abiding brother saving you for everlasting Life forever.

     "The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."

     This dictation by Jesus Christ was delivered through the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Easter Sunday, March 30, 1986, during the 5-day Easter conference, Conclave of the Friends of Christ, held at Camelot, Los Angeles County, California, USA.


Footnotes:

1 "Let us live to make men free," from verse 5 of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe, who wrote, "Let us die to make men free."
2 Matt. 26:53.
3 the Christ Consciousness
4 See "Accounts in the Four Gospels on the Confrontation of Antichrist by John the Baptist and Jesus," in 1979 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 22, no. 27, p. 164; and Archangel Gabriel, Mysteries of the Holy Grail, Summit University Press, pp. 197-210.
5 Matt. 27:51-54.
6 the I AM Presence is crucified
7 Rev. 19:11-16.
8 obsolete variation of enfiring, Oxford English Dictionary
9 Heb. 4:12; Rev. 1:16.
10 I Cor. 4:10.
11 Matt. 25:40-46.
12 Mark 11:15-17.
13 John 16:13.
14 Matt. 5:17.
15 I Cor. 15:52.
16 James 2:14-26.
17 Judgment according to works. Ps. 62:12; Prov. 24:12; Jer. 17:10; 32:19; Matt. 16:27; Rom. 2:5-11; Rev. 2:23; 20:12, 13; 22:12.
18 Gen. 3:24.
19 Vine and fig tree. I Kings 4:25; Mic. 4:4; Zech. 3:10. The vine is the Holy Christ Self, the fig tree is the I AM Presence and the causal body bearing the fruits of God consciousness through good works.
20 Saints robed in white. Rev. 3:4, 5; 4:4; 6:9-11; 7:9, 13, 14; 15:6; 19:7, 8, 14.
21 Isa. 34; 61:2; 63:4-6; Jer. 46:10.
22 Matt. 10:33; Luke 12:9.
23 Rev. 15:1, 5-8; 16.
24 See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Vials of the Seven Last Plagues: The Judgments of Almighty God Delivered by the Seven Archangels, Summit University Press. For more on the Dark Cycle, see 1986 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 29, no. 23, p. 217, n. 3.
25 Exod. 12:1-13, 21-23, 26, 27.
26 Rev. 13.
27 Acts 10:34; Rom. 2:11; Deut. 10:17.
28 where the I AM Presence is welcomed
29 John 21:15-17.
30 The New Covenant. Jer. 31:33, 34; Matt. 26:26-29; Mark 14:22-25; Heb. 8:6-13; 9:11-15; 10:16, 17.
31 Moloch. Ancient Semitic deity to whom children were offered as a propitiatory sacrifice by their parents (see Lev. 18:21; 20:2-5; II Kings 23:10; Jer. 32:35; Amos 5:26; Acts 7:43); a tyrannical power propitiated by human subservience.
32 Ezek. 1:4.
33 Matt. 10:34.
34 Stone that the builders rejected. Ps. 118:22; Isa. 28:16; Matt. 21:42, 44; Acts 4:10-12; I Pet. 2:5-8.
35 Aid to the contras. On March 20, 1986, 10 days prior to Jesus' dictation, the House of Representatives denied President Reagan's request for $100 million in aid for the contras - the anti-Communist rebel force seeking to overthrow the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Three months later, on June 25, the House reversed its earlier rejection and approved a similar package of $100 million in military and humanitarian aid. Since the disclosure in 1984 of direct CIA involvement in the contras' mining of 3 Nicaraguan ports, Congress had granted only humanitarian assistance, totaling $27 million.