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February 28th, 2007
Santa Cruz, California
Received by FAB
I am here, Jesus.
We see you think very highly of the Judas channelings - and so
do we. But there is one passage that has perplexed you, and I would
like to comment on it now. It is in the channeling called "Communication
and Mediumship," dated August 20, 2001. The passage reads:
"We [Celestial Angels and higher spirits] live in a world
where justice finds no room, it is a world of love, either the love
of man, or the Divine Love, but love and justice have nothing in
common. Justice is a human invention. God is not justice. He is
Love. If you don't understand this, you cannot comprehend God."
Judas and I have talked about this passage, as we knew it
could easily be misinterpreted. So finally now, we have
the chance to set the record straight, so that Judas'
meaning be made clear.
First, let me outline your own feelings and perceptions.
For you, with the blood of the Jewish prophets in your
veins, there is nothing more natural than the idea of
justice, which runs as a beautiful theme throughout Jewish
thought down through the ages.
The Mosaic laws were designed to implement this justice to
the Israelite society. And then the idea of justice spread
to the Gentile nations in the Jewish mind, so that many
Jews, particularly in the last two centuries, found
themselves irresistibly attracted to issues of universal
justice and righteousness. And you channeled Moses as
saying that he foresaw a Jewish leader who would have an
advanced sense of righteousness and who would also bring
redemption.
Yes, I myself did have this burning sense of
righteousness. Indeed, Judas channels that I was impelled
to speak out against the abuses of the Temple because of
this righteousness. So it seems to you that there is a
contradiction within the Judas channelings themselves.
Now you must understand that Judas was not implying at all
that justice is a bad thing. Indeed, the basic law of
sowing and reaping would imply that it is only fair that
we get what's coming to us based on our actions and words.
In your recent channelings about the unfolding of God's
Plan, I spoke about how poorer countries will receive
fairer treatment on the part of the richer countries. This
is certainly part of any sense of justice - or, in other
words, fairness.
To say, "God is not justice. God is Love," is simply
to
repeat what you already know - that the Covenant of the
New Heart, meaning the New Birth of the soul, makes
unnecessary the laws of the Torah. But this does not mean
to imply that God does not deal fairly with humanity, for
God always is working toward the betterment of His
children.
Take, for example, one of your favorite parables of mine,
the Parable of the Prodigal Son. The dutiful son gets
angry because he feels his brother does not deserve such
lavish treatment, when he himself has always worked so
hard. But the father's way of thinking is different. He
feels that his erring son was lost, and now is found,
regardless of the faithfulness of his brother.
Do you see where I am leading you? In the Mosaic code,
there is "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."
Granted, this eventually came to mean a monetary payment.
(The original meaning was not so - it originally was in
the spirit of retaliation.) Some educated Jews have
pointed to this fact to mitigate the severity of the
concept.
But even with this softened approach, the logic is still
of the earthplane. By this logic, the Prodigal Son could
never have received the treatment his father gave him,
since it was not technically deserved.
Now let me comment on the ideas that trouble you - "love
and justice have nothing in common. Justice is a human
invention. God is not justice. He is Love." For you, to
say that God is not justice tears at the essence of your
view of God, who, to you, is the embodiment, the principle
of justice.
Now let me shift to your future mission in the world. You
have been led to believe that you will effect change in
the world by moving hearts. Well, this is not justice - it
is Love. So can you not see that Judas is articulating the
same thing? If you were to operate strictly by justice,
then evil would be repaid with evil. But that is not the
Creator's way.
But then, you argue, what about the law of sowing and
reaping? Isn't that what justice is all about, that people
get what they deserve, for good or ill? Well, yes, this is
true. In God's economy, people always eventually reap what
they sow. This is a Divine law that will never change.
But it is not justice essentially by which God reigns in
the affairs of humanity - it is, instead, what you call in
English mercy. And mercy is really at the heart of Love.
The key idea for you to understand is the method you would
like to use. You have learned not to demonize anybody,
since everybody is equally loved by God. And you have
adopted Martin Luther King's view, that only love and not
hate can conquer hate. If you were seeing strictly through
the eyes of justice, you could not possibly have been
given this greater insight.
And may I remind you that Dr. King derived this insight
from my teachings.
What has confused you is that you thought Judas' comments
were negating the idea that fairness, or justice, should
prevail. Any sane, sensible approach to my teachings must
admit that fairness and fair play are essential attributes
of God's Will toward humanity, that a good life is
rewarded with a happy afterlife, and an evil life suffers
the consequence of darkness and suffering.
But God's conception of His beloved children goes way
beyond this admitted fact. It seeks to lift the dark,
unhappy spirits out of their dilemma into a place of light
and happiness - in other words, God's Love overshadows the
unfortunate ones, and is waiting patiently for their
turning to repentance.
This is something that is alien to the Mosaic idea of the
Torah. It is true that Talmudic thinkers wanted enemies to
be friends, but what I revealed goes so much deeper. I
taught that the vilest sinner was equally loved by God.
Jewish thought could not go this far. No, you may search
the Torah and the Talmud, and you will not find the type
of Love that I taught and exemplified, even though there
were leanings in that direction.
You never heard the idea, "love and justice have nothing
in common." Being a Jew, the two concepts have always been
wedded in your mind. Now your mind is opening up to a
different way of seeing. The distortion you had is that
you thought the idea presented is that God is not in favor
of justice, when the truth of the matter is that He
Himself created the law of sowing and reaping, which is
the essence of the principle of justice.
No, Judas was in no way denying justice. Yes, he does call
it "a human invention." He is referring here to the
limited earthplane way that justice is administered, as
opposed to the justice of God, which is the law of sowing
and reaping. But even here, though God created this
unchanging law, His great Heart of Love is constantly
going out to humanity, patiently waiting for them to
partake of the Banquet of the Celestial Kingdom in the New
Birth of the soul.
So you see, there was unclarity over the use of the word
"justice," and Judas himself realized that this might
cause problems.
Now you are thinking, doesn't the law of sowing and
reaping also reflect God's Will? Well, see it as a cause
and effect rather than strictly God's Will. If you put
sugar in water, the water will taste sweet. This is the
working of a natural law. If a person does evil, that
person will reap the evil he or she has sown. This is a
psychological and moral law. What is unclear in your mind
is this fact, that the Creator had to set up this
all-embracing law to preserve the harmony of humanity's
universe. But above and beyond this is His Heart of Love,
which is always burning, and yearning for all to come into
the sheepfold to enjoy the green pastures and the Living
Waters of the Divine Love.
So love and justice are two separate realities. And human
justice is a third reality that often even contradicts
God's Will.
When Judas said, "God is not justice. He is Love," he
was
referring to the essence of what God is, not an angry
bearded man (as Orthodox Christianity has depicted him),
dispensing rewards and punishments, but the Love principle
itself. But in His wisdom, God saw that both laws [sowing
and reaping, and the law of Love] must work, until the
former becomes swallowed up by the latter.
I acknowledge that Judas' comments can strike one as
inaccurate and even untrue, until one is willing to get
beyond earthplane language to uncover what I was
privileged to disclose to humanity for the first time -
that there is no sin that God will not forgive, and that
God desires all to experience the Love flowing from the
Creator, in the way that I revealed, the New Birth of the
soul, achieved through earnest prayer and faith.
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