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   The Jews had joined themselves with the harlot of idolatry which is Rome   
      
   Raskolynikov  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > * * *   
   >   
   > 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   
   >   
      
      
      
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