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What a stupid, stupid thing to get all holier than thou about.
But that's kind of the "lure" of religion, isn't it, dear one (peace, luv!)? The whole "this class is better than that class" clergy/laity, priest/layman, shaman/regular guy thing? People LOVE that muck, LOVE looking at/up to other MEN. Rather than looking up to and at... indeed, not allowing their gaze to LEAVE... the face of the Copper Serpent - the HOLY One of Israel and Holy Spirit, JAHESHUA, the Chosen One of JAH (MischaJAH).
They love it in their religion. They love it in their politics. They love it in their academia. They love it in their science. They LOVE the human hierarchy that says there are those who are "better" than others, in some way, size, shape, and form. In spite of the TRUTH that ALL age and eventually die, that aging, sickness, and death does not discriminate among them.
Such "betterments" are based on THIS world, though. I mean, even Israel wasn't anything special in particular - ABRAHAM was, though, through whom that nation received IT'S blessing... but not because he was smarter, richer, more pious, etc., at least, not that HE thought so. It was simply because he was OBEDIENT. And not in a "slave" kind of way ("Do this or I'll..."), but obedient out of LOVE... and FAITH. Love for the One who spoke to him and faith in that One that what he was telling Abraham was TRUE and would occur just as that One said it would. Abraham LISTENED... and obeyed... to "the preserving alive of his household." Like Noah. He did what he was told because he was TOLD
in order to BENEFIT himself/his household. NOT because there was some benefit to JAH.
No one can be/make themselves "better" than anyone else. However, the opposite is not the same: some... most... can make THEMSELVES "lesser" than others... by their DISOBEDIENCE. By that, I mean, they won't inherit the kingdom. But whose fault is that? Not the fault of those who WILL inherit it; indeed, such ones makes themselves "lesser" (in regard to others) and so become the "greatest" in the Household of God.
But those who make themselves GREATER, who seat THEMSELVES in the "seat of Moses," or even in the seat of the wise... rather than taking the LOWLY seat... make themselves "lesser".
He that is least is greatest among those of the Household of God. And so, those so-called "anointed" of the WTBTS who, for decades, looked down upon others, perhaps even "shut up the kingdom of the heavens" for others... or aligned with/condoned the doing so by others... will find themselves in the least place, if not cast out into the darkness altogether.
I hope all
here really grasp the truth... and need... to keep THEIR faces toward the Copper Serpent raised up by JAH... and not on anyone else. Including on me. Particularly on me. Because I can't myself, let alone anyone else. I can only tell you dear ones about the One who can... and will, if you turn to him.
Peace to you and to your dear household!
YSSFS of Christ,
Shel