Congregations of Blasphemers
by Pastor Mark Downey
June 29, 2014
Scripture Reading: Matthew 12:31-32
In the 1st century AD Jesus was born into the world where the timing and location had to be perfect for Him to fulfill His divine destiny. Judean culture at that time had a great expectation for the prophesied Messiah in anticipation of being delivered from the Roman occupation of what comprised the territories of ancient Israel. Our people had to wait over 700 years for the prophesied Messiah of Isaiah 53. Likewise, the Second Coming is a long wait and Israel would again be under a beastly occupation. But, when the Anointed of God finally came 2000 years ago with His Plan of Deliverance, the people of the land refused to acknowledge the authority He brought with Him. The Pharisees were among the people who did not approve of Jesus; Christ was not behaving in the manner they expected the Messiah to behave in. Christ was not validating the religious establishment; the commonplace everyday blasphemies of the good old boys club; nor was He submitting himself to peer psychology whereby He was the clay and the people were the Potter. He just didn't play the game of the orthodoxies of error that had become the matrix of society. We feel the same rejection in Christian Identity, because we don't fit in to most congregations out there.
And I have to wonder, is it any different today with Pharisees behind the pulpits of America, indicting those who function in the power of God with the same kind of inane disdain. How dare you implicate Jesus having a racial message. And yet we come for the same lost sheep of the house of Israel that Jesus Christ said He came for (Mt. 15:24). The Pharisees within Identity and without in judeo-churchianity can say all manner of evil against me and other Bible believing Christian Israelites falsely, but when they perjure the authority of my witness or misrepresent testimony of our brethren with outright lies, they have blasphemed the spirit of one's calling from God. Perjury is the deliberate falsification of the facts under oath. So if one calls themselves a Christian, they are automatically sworn to tell the truth; otherwise they commit the sin of bearing false witness. Are we not oath-bound to the God of Israel? If they did it to Christ, they will do it to His followers. Jesus said, “If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you” John 15:18. I tend to believe that our detractor's problem is not with us, but with God. The Disciples of Christ had the same problem of people becoming Christians for the wrong reasons.