From: andronicus451@gmail.com   
      
   John 8   
   3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery;   
   and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Master, this   
   woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law   
   commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 6 This they   
   said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.   
      
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   We see here Jesus brought before a heavy decision: will he disobey the   
   Law of Moses or will he participate in an unjust and impartial punishment?   
      
   Why was the sentence of the Pharisees unjust?   
      
   They picked on a small, probably poor, insignificant adulteress. But their   
   very queen by the word of John the Baptist was living in an open and   
   willful act of adultery having married her husband's brother. Not only   
   that, but she murdered John the Baptist by proxy and through a scheme,   
   causing him to be beheaded.   
      
   The Pharisees did not want to mess with a powerful adulteress, they   
   had no intention to end up like John the Baptist, so they selected a   
   small, insignificant, scapegoated adulteress whose punishment was   
   to serve as example and to enforce the fear of the Law of Moses.   
      
   But Jesus saw through all that: remember that only the adulteress   
   was brought to be stoned - she did not commit adultery alone and   
   by herself - she must have had a partner. The Law of Moses demands   
   that both the man and woman caught in adultery be stoned   
   (Leviticus 20:10).   
      
   Jesus did not dispute the political order nor had he demanded that   
   the man be brought to be stoned, too. No, his reply to the situation   
   was far more universal and transcendental: he said that he who is   
   without sin cast the first stone.   
      
   The crowds stood there with the woman caught in the act (obviously   
   not alone if it was adultery) and the power emanating from Jesus   
   started transforming the woman and the crowds. They started   
   dropping their stones intended to kill the woman and leave, starting   
   from the eldest.   
      
   Jesus saw this woman and he knew that very soon he will die for her   
   and her sin - so that she might live. Faced with this unconditional,   
   transforming love beyond death, she has found something her lover   
   craving only her physical body and the thrill of the forbidden pleasure   
   could never have given.   
      
   Jesus told her: "Neither do I condemn you! Go and sin no more!"   
      
   Why is this? Did Jesus approve of adultery by being lenient towards   
   her? Should he given her three Holy Fathers at least?   
      
   But the Lord knew her heart and that she was transformed in that   
   contact with the living Son of Man. She no longer craved for the   
   puddle water in the "broken cistern that cannot hold water" of   
   sexual pleasures. Maybe she just wanted to stop when she was caught   
   in the first place - this is favoured Satan's scheme to encourage sin   
   and then act as the protector of holiness and purity just when someone   
   decided to quit!   
      
   Jesus also had the gift to see what was in people's hearts (John 2:24),   
   so he saw in the woman's heart that she would sin no more. That's   
   why he could be so confident in love, while the Pharisees had to keep   
   the population in fear of death by stoning if they broke the Law of Moses.   
      
   Note that here Satan inspired Pharisees to act in defence of morality   
   and against sin! Is that so odd? We know that the spirit defying Son of Man   
   was Satan, so how could he be against sin and against adultery?   
      
   This mystery is telling us that over the millennia Satan has learned   
   the Law of Moses very well, to the tiniest yota, and made it very complicated   
   to understand adding thousands of Pharisee's rules and commandments,   
   while abolishing the very Ten Commandments (i.e. "Honour thy father and   
   mother" was abolished if the allowance for parents was given as a holy gift   
   to the synagogue and the profit of the Pharisees.)   
      
   The Pharisee said: "Who among the priests and rulers believed in this   
   man? But those crowds that knoweth not the Law, this is accursed!"   
   He failed to notice that the poor condition of the nation was his failure   
   to bring the Law of Moses and faith in God to the poor and the needy.   
   He was preoccupied with self-importance and social meetings with   
   the rich class and the rulers, missing his purpose right until he   
   probably joined those condemning innocent Jesus to death.   
   For Jesus's only fault was that he made people believe that they   
   can have salvation of God, food and healing for free.   
      
   Satan's primary goal is not to stop sin or even sexual immorality but   
   to separate men and women from God Creator. This is best done   
   by guilt and condemnation, as in the case of adulteress. Had she been   
   stoned, she would believe that God through the Law of Moses had   
   rejected her for good.   
      
   Jesus turned that into the opposite - the adulteress repented and   
   went into the Kingdom of Heaven, while the Pharisees condemned   
   very Messiah for the blasphemy he did not commit.   
      
   As Jesus knew that he is going to pay the ultimate price for this woman's   
   mistake, he said to her: "Go and sin no more!" The account for sin had been   
   paid soon enough, and the Cosmic scales of Justice were again balanced,   
   in a mysterious way unrevealed to mankind.   
      
   Jesus on the cross had undergone the suffering required for this sinning   
   woman to become holy again and enter the Kingdom of Heaven, by his   
   unconditional, transcendental love and her faith in him.   
      
   Why is the love transcendental - because it was nothing like the passion   
   she received from her partner in adultery. Having felt this love, she stopped   
   craving for the former.   
      
   Unfortunately, we do not meet Jesus in person these days, not until his   
   Second Coming. We can also only strive to reach the perfection of the Son   
   of Man, but we will never be conceived by the Holy Spirit, born by a virgin   
   and lived our lives without the tiniest sin.   
      
   in the LORD   
   Amen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)