The following speech was given at the Assembly of Antichrists, on the 30th of October 2009. This is Part Three of the fourteen-part series, THE BIBLE 2: HOW TO BURN CHURCH.
(The speech began with the congregative reading of 2 Timothy 3:16, which was then repeated until the spiritual manifestations became too disruptive)
Settle down everyone.
I beg you all to brace yourselves.
We are about to summarize the enemy’s Gospel.
I apologize for any trauma that may be caused. Please calm yourself. Purge your mind of aggression. Meditate on something happy.
Close your eyes.
Jesus was killed because he was a threat to the empire.
He was a threat to the empire because he demonstrated the Kingdom of God.
The Kingdom of God is a threat to empires because it removes their power.
It removes their power because it demonstrates that to be truly alive, you have to live beyond yourself.
Empires function by human selfishness. Empires depend on each person doing what’s best for themselves.
Jesus demonstrated that love wins. Before he died. One man lived beyond himself for restoration, and as he restored, a secret of the Kingdom was revealed.
This secret of the Kingdom is that there’s nothing more beautiful than living under it, because it’s what we’re created for.
Kingdom living isn’t demanding. It’s liberating.
God as Jesus lived this life that freed us.
I repeat. This life.
Then Jesus was killed. And we thought God had left us.
So God came back. And made it very clear. That was life.
Jesus’ resurrection was God’s definitive statement that Jesus’ way of life was victorious over the empire’s.
Now open your eyes.
I now unveil our master plan.
We are about to dislodge every ounce of power from this Gospel.
We are about to replace the entire message of Jesus with concept and celebration.
This is a big deal.
Here’s the word. Substitution.
Let me unpack that for you.
Jesus was killed because it was necessary to appease God’s wrath.
God required appeasement because all of humanity has fallen from the perfect moral code.
God required appeasement because without justice, the Divine is incapable of love.
Jesus was able to cover over all our sins because he was born of a virgin and thus bypassed the sin gene.
Jesus’ life was essentially setting up his death. The Kingdom of God was not about restorative life now, but about looking forward to an eternity of bliss.
His death created the possibility within humankind to pass a spiritual border that upgraded their souls from Hell to Heaven.
His death was the fulfillment of the prophetic ritual of Jewish sacrifice. Jews sacrificed in anticipation of Jesus, and Jews sacrificed to atone for their sins until Jesus.
Because Jesus only covered the sins of people who lived after him.
Our victory is at hand.
Our only concern is that people might think about this too much.
There are some connections between Israel and Christianity that we can’t afford to let people make.
In particular, the connection between Jewish sacrifice and Jesus’ sacrifice must end now.
In genius fashion, we’ll accomplish this not by ignoring the connection, but by distorting Jewish sacrifice down to something that fits with our Plan, which we can then use to promote the burning of church ever further.
We are going to shift the concept of Jewish sacrifice from participation to substitution.
We are going to be so thorough that Christians will be speaking of Jewish sacrifice like it was no different from pagan sacrifice.
Please turn in your Bibles to Leviticus 1:4.
‘You shall lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be acceptable on your behalf as an atonement for you.’
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the traditional beauty of this scene, allow me to depict it for you.
After the Jew had placed their fattest calf on the altar, they placed their hand on its head and watched as it was slain.
That was once their prized possession.
With their hand on the animal as it died, they identified themselves with its suffering.
At a time when meaning was communicated more with physical imagery than detailed sentences, some fraction of understanding sunk in:
This is what is necessary for restoration.
This is how my Creator has purposed me to live – alive only for my God and his purposes.
This was God’s act of parenthood.
Think. When a parent disciplines their child for making a mistake, the priority is not to make sure their child suffers sufficiently according to their mistake, but to teach.
To teach the child that it’s a mistake, why it’s a mistake, and how it can be fixed.
That’s what Jewish sacrifice did. That’s what Jesus did.
That’s why we must twist them both.
Sacrifice wasn’t new to the world.
Most nations sacrificed to their gods to appease their wrath, or to make them extra happy for increased luck.
We just need to convince the world that Jewish sacrifice was like that, instead of parenting.
‘…and it shall be acceptable on your behalf as an atonement for you.’
There’s our chance.
We’ll replace atonement with appeasement.
We’ll replace the pursuit of humanity’s restoration with the escape of divine wrath.
Jewish sacrifice becomes beautifully pagan.
Jesus’ death becomes the climax of Jewish sacrifice that means that we don’t need to sacrifice anymore.
We can be rich, comfortable, AND certain of our eternal salvation, thanks to God having done all of the work for us.
The only requirement is that we hold strictly to our beliefs, as set out very, very clearly in the Bible.
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