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[2] ”Only the servants' work, being work for wages and
reward from the world, you should henceforth perform
neither on a normal week day and just as little on a
Sabbath.”
Why?
“Because from now on, every day shall be a Sabbath (rest from
worldly employment/ slavery) and every Sabbath a full work
day [of love]!”
Now, if we did the two (charity and stop from serving human
employers) what is the Lord’s comment?
He said,
“In this, My friend, you now have a complete rule on how you
are to serve God in the future!”1
Every time I went to the mall and waited on the cashier to finish
my purchase, I see her suddenly in my mind multiplied into
thousands of young women as well as men in the country whose
prime time (from age 15 or even earlier up 30 years old) is being
used up in a kind of repeated work on a daily basis which will not
help them stand on their own!
Their New Covenant confines the child, pupil and student into an
education system where they are not allowed to develop their
God-given talent or strength to develop to the point of it
becoming their source of income, not just tool of service, but
above all, a thriving enterprise and a source of wealth, thus, at
the material level as well, they become ABLE CHRISTIANS – that
is, able to feed the hungry, able to quench the thirsty, able to
clothe the naked, able to shelter the homeless, able to treat and
heal the sick, able to liberate the prisoners of any type.
When done in the spirit of brotherly love, the effects and impact
would be tremendous. There would be great abundance in both
motivation, gratitude and production, as the workers do their
work with love and happiness and great expectation that as they
give their best, they would increase their mastery and expertise
which they can use later when they will be on their own!
This was the beauty inside the Old Covenant ordinance of the
Sabbatical Year… and I wonder why the New Covenanters have
rejected this outright, like a smelly carcass, and in its stead,
adopted the systems of this world, allowing the worldly system of
usurious collateral-sequestering, land-grabbing system of
banking and lending to supplant the merciful system of cancelling
debts/ forgiving loans every 7th year!
[2] ”Only the servants' work, being work for wages and reward
from the world, you should henceforth perform neither on a
normal week day and just as little on a Sabbath
(NOTE: Stop both business and employment because it is
selfishness by both employee and employer).
“Because from now on, every day shall be a Sabbath (rest from
worldly employment/ slavery) and every Sabbath a full work
day [of love]!
We did not know all these past centuries and decades that He
meant the meaning of the Sabbath which is this: ”Only the
servants' work, being work for wages and reward from the world,
[in other words, employment] you should henceforth perform
neither on a normal week day and just as little on a Sabbath”.
This, in other words, the thing He meant when He said, “I will give
you rest. Carry My yoke for My yoke is easy and My burden is
light.”
***
The first of the seven Seals in Revelation 6, refers to the white
horse, which stands for the imposter teacher or teaching
institution, e.g., church. She is the Mystery Babylon the Great and
her churches as spiritual schools and her secular schools.
The next thing that resulted is the third seal which is the
measuring of everything so that more would go to the few rich
and less would be the share of the masses.
“And the angel opened the third seal and I saw a pale horse and
a person carrying meters, rulers, measuring sticks and bundy
clock to measure (read: control) water, electricity, time, salary,
etc. to ensure that more would go to the few and less to the
many.” This is capitalism! The greed-led type of capitalism, not
the enlightened type.
This is operating on perverted 666 love which is: 600fold love for
Self + only 60fold love for neighbor and a token 6fold love for
God as hypocrisy, e.g., walking on one’s knees from entrance to
the altar so the people would vote for him in the coming election,
giving big donations to the church and seeing to it that it was
announced the next Sunday mass, etc.
Now, Christians of this world, where are you? What type of New
Covenant that you have? It is not the New Covenant of Christ. For
the components of Christ Covenant are all improvement, not
degeneration or a deteriorated version of the Old Covenant. In
His Sermon of the Mount (Matthew 5 to 7), Christ is clear that the
Old Covenant are improved, its good features expounded,
expanded, not cancelled, not removed.
For examples: the Ten Commandments which are more external
in nature, are deepened, including the thought and feeling
aspects, instead of the acts alone; hence, the sin of murder which
was an act in the Old Covenant era is now defined as also
attitude, e.g., in the form of anger, etc. Also the sin or crime of
adultery is deepened to include the feeling of lust towards a
woman not your wife.
If you finish reading the Sermon of the Mount, you will see that
the Old Covenant laws or practices or ordinances were not
outrightly scraped out, but instead, were improved, or revised to
be more suitable and practical to the current time.
Dear brother and sister, let each one be reminded that in the first
week of creation, see Genesis 1, our Creator-Father made it very
clear: “Let us make man after our own image (characteristics)
and after our own likeness (functions) so that they would not rule
over their fellowman but rule over resources: birds in the air, fish
in the sea, animals and plants in the dry land. It was not meant to
be people management type of business. We are not to manage
people, but love them as our equal – as brothers and sisters who
deserve their freedom of their life and time – to be free or have
the chance to pursue what they want in life – to pursue their
dreams.
If we hire them, it means we control their time, we own their
time, and they would be forced or confined to spend their lifetime
instead to help us attain our dreams, thereby, leaving them no
more time or opportunity to attain their own dreams.
***
So today’s formula of poverty = present education = employees
in government = government increases taxes to pay the
increasing number of government employees!
For Jesus says, You shall know a tree (church or teacher) by its
fruits. So, if our fruits is enslavement and slavery (aka
employment), are we sure we have true Christianity?
***
So which is?
Answer: We are not to reject one in favor of the other, but apply
each in the right time, that is, give fish (alms, dole outs) to those
who cannot fish, e.g., the disabled, the elderly, the young
children, the weak women, etc, but also when it is concerning
able men and women, or youth, we are to teach them how to fish
(that is, empower them with education, skills, machine,
equipment, technology and capital, in order for them to stand on
their own feet.
May this not be the case. Let the “teach the able how to fish” so
that they, and no longer the government, will feed their weak
members in their families.
So be it!
***
***
In this connection, we continue to inform and enlighten the
President of crucial issues so he can expand his compassion to
other equally important areas in life.
***
How to let the cows multiply the nutrients inside a leaf they eat
by 6 times!
Who among our young graduates knows how to make free feeds
which are very abundant so that our farmers will no longer buy
commercial feeds?
Who among our kids know how to make organic fertilizers so that
our farmers and families will no longer buy expensive and
destructive commercial chemical fertilizers?
Who has the skill? Who has all the skills to manage the whole
Ecosystem so that instead of dying, or being slaughtered, our
cows, goats et al will thrive and help produce a great abundance
of fertilizer (in liquid, solid and gas forms), milk, healing and
health?
Who has the skill to mobilize the butterflies, the worms, the
earthworms, the birds, the bees, the microbes to work as a whole
team to bring mankind a great endless abundance?
***
I grew in a world of employment... in a system that makes
employment its main part… in a school system that churns
employees year after year after… semester after semester after
semester.
So, since everyone is OK with it, I also thought it is godly.
I became more suspicious of this familiar bedfellow called
employment when I joined the Wellness industry that keeps
telling us: “If you stay as employee, whose dream are you helping
get achieved: yours or your boss’?”
The more I become suspicious when I went home, moved by what
my Wellness lecturer just told us, and began computing the
salary vis-à-vis the income our baker made for us. It turned out to
be this: P350 for herself and P15,000.00 for us… everyday! She
makes as many as 10 birthday cakes for us… everyday.
I came in wild wonderment why God is telling us in Deuteronomy
15, thus: “In 6 years you hire, but at the 7th year, release your
employees (the word used is “slaves”) and send them with
sheep, goats, etc (equivalent to today’s capital, machinery,
equipment, tools, et.al).
It is clear that God wants us to empower our employees and free
them from employment where 90% of their income goes to their
employer!
It led me to question: Was Jesus not referring to ‘employment’
(aka slavery) to the government or company when He said,
‘Come to Me those of you who are heavily laden and burden, for
My yoke is easy and My burden is light.’
Until recently when I read Jesus’ correct true teaching about
Sabbath rest, to wit: