THE MESSIAH AND ITS RELIGION

 

THE MESSIAH AND ITS RELIGION.

The teachings of Jesus Christ, as example for all mankind, of course  has no rival, the evidence of his religión is divine, due to comming from God All Migthy. Other religions come from men, that have not an origin different from any other man, but as Jesus is the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, that has taken flesh, is real God and real man, lets remenber that all the revelation contained in the Old Testament is the preparation of his comming to earth, being his preence among us the will of God Father, that allows his son to come to us with the powers to save  and give us the opportunity of salvation. Therefore his teachings, his Religion, with its Institutions, Sacraments, and the Authority given to his Church and Hierarchy, present us his salvation purposes, and his claims of reverence, obedience, imitation, and fervent love.

 

The more we contemplate Chist´s Gospels the more we shall be impressed with its genuiness and reality the Evangelists bear the marks of truth beyond all other historians. They set before us the most extraordinary being who ever appeared on earth. They never speak for themselves, they manifest only one deep venerationfor for their Master.

 

In their discourse they show the character of Christ, wich could not have etered the thougths of man, they simply could not have been imagined, therefore it has to be acknowledged its divine origin. His teachings, and let me just name one of them, due its great importance, and could not have any previous indication is:  the Trinity of God, Three Persons in one single Divinity. The force of this argument should transport us to a dimention in Christ´s Revelation, over any other religious knowledgment.

 

Among all nations, the jewish was the most marked, they realy felt that no other nation in the world had more wrigths than them to be the leaders in all senses, and that they should dominate over the roman and other empires, everywhere, every time, and were waiting the Messiah that was to come soon, acording to Revelation. What they expected was a leader that would be the kind of powerfull King, as had been David and Salomon, and would banish the roman occupation, creating a powerful army, the hatred occupant,  with its idolatrous goverment, tax collection, was regarded as the intruder to be overcomed and after, to be a conquered state by them.

 

In effect the Messiah came, but it was absolutely different from what the majorty was expecting, He was not the person to fulfill their expectations of dominion, his teachings were unexpected by the majority, he teached: Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, love and forgive your enemies, lay down treasures of earth and lay them up in heaven, seek charity and love, and so on.

 

Among this singular people, appeared Jesus of Nazareth, his first words were, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”. Many, the majority of them could not beleive that Jesus was the Messiah, never the less we find many thronged by Him and surrounding Him, listening carefully to his teachings and marvelled by his miracles, in curing and resucitating. Never a Word about Rome, conquest, or domination. Instead the Glories of God and the long expected kingdom of heaven.

Instead of  war and victory, He commands his heares to love, to forgive, to bless their enemies, he spaks of peace, proclaiming the happyness and eternity of the incorruptible inmortal life as the true end of their being,  honoring the kingdom from wich He comes.

 

Jesus Christ as a child and a  Young human person grew up as any other among his community and Heard the opinions that the jewish people handeled at that time, burning with one passion, “to overtrow the roman dominion”. And we see in Him, the escape from any influence of that society. We find Him untouched by those feelings, and surrounded by the teaching of a mother and a father that were influenced only by the law of Moses, and were close, very and conscious of its commandments. This is an other proof of the veracity of his predication, that came directly from God, no human interventios was in his life, that as a carpenter before and after the death of Saint Joseph, consisted in working with its hands. Away from the bitter abhorrence of the people with wich He must have dealt with.

 

The religión that He taught, was the continuation of the previous Revelation, from this is that the difference of testaments, old and new, exist. But the enormous difference  is in what the profets inpired from the Spirit of God taugth to regular men, and the Summit of his Revelation done by his own Son, due to the great importance for our salvation, and the unmeasurable love of God to mankind, for THY wants all men to go to heaven for eternity, but leaving the possibility to our  freedom, it is each one of us who decides wether to live according to Gods will, or not.

 

We should know as much of Jesus and the Holy Virgin, in order to know them as well as posible, love them, since we cannot love what we do not know, and we will be  able to love them more if we know them better, and get their help to reach the kind of life that will assure our salvation, pray to them, for their help, since by ourselves alone we cannot.

 

Prepared by Jorge Casas.