God Bless all who love the unshakable truth of our loving Creator.
        NOT GUILTY!          By  Dr. Wesley
A. Swift-----3-28-64 Tonight we will discuss
the most famous trial in history - and the verdict was, Not guilty! Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â If we turn back the pages of history
to the time of Jesus and His ministry, we learn that the people who had control
of the land of Palestine, that is, in the areas around Jerusalem, were the
priests in the Temple at Jerusalem. This form of government had been
established when Ezra and Nehemiah returned from the Babylonian captivity and rebuilt
the Temple, and they established the priesthood of Israel once again in the
city of Jerusalem, a theocracy in which the laws of God and the Word of God and
the priests of God in the house of Levi would govern the people. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â However, out of the Isle of Pergamos,
out of the areas of apostasy had come a people who had no part nor lot in this
matter, but who, by chicanery, had gained control of the Sanhedrin. They were
known as Sadducees. They did not believe in the resurrection, did not believe
in any of the patterns of inspiration or any of the oral Word of God, and they
only held to the written Word because they had to have some foundation on which
to base the twisted and perverted patterns of their law. But they contested the
Word of God and completely changed it as they wrote their Talmud. And because they had falsely declared that
they were Pharisees, when they were not, they had managed to gain control of
the Sanhedrin. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Sanhedrin consisted of 83 men
during the time of Christ's trial. These 83 men were selected according to the
number of Pharisees or Sadducees that were living in the province, the
Sadducees by deception had gained control of the Temple. They had previously
elected Annas as high priest, but at this time, Caiaphas, his son-in-law was
the high priest. During this period the
Canaanites, and the apostates who were not of the house of God at all were in
control of the Temple. These people and
those like them were known as Jews. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â One of the most important things for
people to understand is that the language of the New Testament which deals with
these people is not very clear, because the Jews helped to translate the
Scriptures and they helped to confuse it as much as possible and consequently,
people think that Jews were the people of Judah and Benjamin, that they were
the proper children of Israel, and that the priests in the Temple were the
proper sons of the priests, even though Jesus spoke quite differently about
them. During Christ’s ministry,
the majority in the Sanhedrin were not of the house of Israel and did not want
any of the prophecies of Israel to be fulfilled. When the message of Isaiah came forth that there would be a
Messiah, and that He would be the everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace
and in the Incarnate God, the Sadducees pooh-poohed the idea. Actually, of course, the mysterious doctrine
of the Sadducees was the worship of Lucifer.Â
Moreover, they knew that the philosophy proclaimed by Isaiah would
replace their false doctrines unless they succeeded in destroying the
philosophy of truth. So they exerted
constant pressure against the true philosophy and very, very few true priests
of Israel that had descended from Levi were even left in the local synagogues
and the local temples. The masters of
the Temple in Jerusalem even changed the name of the local temples to
synagogue, which was totally wrong, because "gogue" (or Gog) was an
offshoot of Asia and was a name applied to the areas of the Russias, and the
Russian steppes. And "syna,†from which the word synod is derived, refers
to an assembly. So when they say synagogue they mean an assembly of Gogites.
But considering the racial background of the Shamah Pharisees (the false
Pharisees) and the Sadducees, who controlled the Temple in Jerusalem at that
time, you can understand why they changed the name of the temples of Israel to
synagogues. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The word Gog indicates where they came
from and suggests that they were related to or were descended from the Mongol
Khazars who also originated in central Asia.Â
It is reasonable to assume that certain ancestors of the Sadducees and
false Pharisees had migrated from central Asia into Babylonia, and some of
their descendants later accompanied the Israelites who returned to Jerusalem
after the Babylonian captivity. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mongol Khazars are the acknowledged
ancestors of the majority of modern Jews, as the result of a nationwide
conversion to Judaism, in the 8th century A, D., of the people in the Asiatic
kingdom of Khazaria, who later migrated into eastern Europe. In ancient times the Mongol Khazars were
recognized as a fierce, brutal and exceedingly evil, barbaric people. And the
Khazars were related to the Mongol hordes under Genghis Khan and other Asiatic
leaders that for centuries waged more or less continuous warfare against the
White population of eastern Europe.Â
These Mongol Khazars, or Gogites, are the traditional enemies of White
Christian civilization. They are the
implacable foes of all Christians today, just as they were in the days of
Christ. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Most Bible students are familiar with
tile references to Gog and Magog, and the words Meshech and Tubal, that are
found in the 38th chapter of Ezekiel, and they generally agree that Gog and
Magog refer to China and Mongolia, that Meshech means Moscow, and Tubal means
Tobolsk. Â Moscow and Tobolsk are two
cities that are even today located in the Soviet Union. These are the forces, we are told in
Ezekiel, that will come in the last days against" . . . the land of
unwalled villages . . . (and) them that
are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having
neither bars nor gates" (Ezekiel 38: 11). Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â In the event some of you might think
that these forces will only come against the present abortive state of Israel,
let me remind you that every city and town in that part of the Middle East is
like an armed fortification and is completely surrounded by gun emplacements,
anti-aircraft batteries, and every
conceivable instrument for the waging of war.Â
Modern Israel is not a land of unwalled villages and the Israeli are not
at rest, neither do they dwell safely in that land which they stole from the
Arabs. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The forces of Mongolians and Chinese
from Moscow and Tobolsk will come against" . . . the land of unwalled
villages . . . (and) them that are at
rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
bars nor gates" - such as the United States of America, for example - “to
take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places
that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the
nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the
land" (Ezekiel 38: 12). This
refers to the cities and towns of the U.S.A. and other nominally Christian
nations" . . . that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling
without walls, and having neither bars nor gates." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It is also an interesting fact that in
the Lamsa translation of the Bible (which is the Holy Bible from the Peshitta,
the Authorized Bible of the Church of the East), Ezekiel 38: 2 is rendered:
"Son of Man, set your face against China, and against the land of
Mongolia, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him . . .
" We have been told by the Word of God that in these last days the nations
of God's kingdom will be attacked by the Soviet Union and Red China, and if our
leaders in Washington had any intelligence, or even read the Scriptures, they
would know this and prepare for it, but instead, they prefer to believe the
beguiling words of the enemy, which are, "peace, peace" - when there
is no peace. Ezekiel 13: 10 says,
"Because, even because they have seduced My people, saying, Peace; and
there was no peace . . . "           So we learn that synagogue is a proper
name for an assembly of Jews, but is a totally false designation when applied
to Israelites or Christians. When the people of Israel had control of their
government, their places of worship were called temples. But when these Asiatic
pagans, these Gogites, gained control, they changed the names of the places of
worship from temples to synagogues. But we know that a synagogue is just an
assembly of evil, pagan Asiatics, or Gogites. That is the way it was in the
time of Christ, and that is the way it is now. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â We discover, as we go through the Book
of John, that Jesus during His ministry knew that these Jews were no part of
Israel, and He often spoke to His disciples about them and referred to them as
descendants of Lucifer. They had come to the earth in the aftermath of an era
of catastrophe, when the fallen angel Lucifer and his hosts were cast to earth,
and thereafter mongrelized with the races of earth. They produced an unassimilable people, and Cain was even one of
these people, and his descendants were Canaanites, and of course they were
apostates and totally evil. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jesus says in the sixth chapter of
John as He talks to His disciples, "You know, I have chosen you twelve and
one of you is a devil, and He spoke of Judas Iscariot," who was a Jew and
a devil and it was he that should betray Him.Â
And it says, "After these words, Jesus walked in Galilee, for He
could not walk among Jewry because the Jews sought to kill Him."           I want you to think on this now. In the sixth chapter of John, we are told
that Jesus had to walk in Galilee because He couldn't walk among Jewry, because
the Jews sought to kill Him. So, early in His ministry and while He was
preaching and speaking, the Jews, headed by the high priests and their cohorts,
were trying to kill Jesus. Now mind you, they had no charges against Him except
that He was in their way, they were envious of Him and they wanted to kill Him.
So we note that when the Jews went down to the feast, they were looking for
Jesus because they wanted to stone Him, and we are told that no man dared speak
openly of Him. The people of Galilee came to the feast, but none dared speak
openly of Jesus. Why? It says,
"for fear of the Jews." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Any Bible student, reading the Book of
John, can readily understand that the people of Galilee, where Christ came
from, were not Jews: and they were afraid to discuss Jesus for fear of the
Jews, because of the animosity of the Jewish people. And so as we turn through the areas of Scripture, we read that
the Jews were always standing by, to accuse Jesus. As we come into the eighth chapter of the Book of John, we see
these Jews standing by and speaking out against Jesus, and these are the words
that Jesus spoke unto them in the Temple.Â
He said, "Now I am going to go My way and you are going to seek
after Me, but you are not going to find Me; because where I go, not one of you
can come." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Jews looked at one another and
they said, "Where could He go that we could not come?"Â They could go almost anywhere, and they said
again, "Where could He go that we could not come? Would He kill himself?
or what would He do?" Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jesus said to them, "You are from
beneath, and I am from above; you are of this world, but I am not of this
world. I am the Lord from heaven while you are of the earth, and you are the
offspring of Lucifer." This is what He told them: "You are from
beneath, the nether world," - and the word is translated "nether
world." - "You are from beneath, and I am from above." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â We are also told that as Jesus was
talking with the disciples, again the Jews crowded around. And again Jesus denounced them, because they
were seeking to conspire against Him, and He said, "Ye are of your father
the devil, the lusts of your father ye will do." They said. "We have
one father, even God." “No," He said,Â
"if God were your father, you would receive Me. Ye are of your father the devil. I am not your brother and I do not teach
brotherhood. I teach the fatherhood of
God and God's children. But you are the
children of the devil, you are of another outfit." Jesus looked at them and said, “The reason
you cannot understand My words is because you can’t hear My voice, you don't
have any Spiritual capacity toÂ
understand what I say." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Then they sought all the more to trap
Jesus, and they said, "He is a devil." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jesus said "Verily I Say unto you,
before Abraham was, I am."Â And
then Jesus had to hide himself in the Temple because the Jews took up stones to
stone Him. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â So again we have the evidence of their
evil natures, in their taking up stones to stone Jesus. And so it goes on, that as Jesus was
teaching, again they came before Him and He said, "Ye shall seek Me but
you are not going to find Me. Whither I
go are not going to be able to come."           Then said the Jews, “Now just where is
it that He is going to go? What it is He talking about? He says that He can go where we can't find
Him. Is He going to go to the dispersed among the nations? That is one place we can't go. We are not allowed to go to the cities of
Ephraim. He is going to go to the cities of Ephraim?â€Â Do you know where the
cities of Ephraim were? They were the
cities of the British Isles. Did you
knew that when Jeremiah went into Ireland and took Teah Tephi, the daughter of
Zedekiah, over there and married her to the king of Ireland, he also exposed
the strategy of these evil Jews, and no Jew was allowed Ireland, Scotland or
Wales until long after the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ? No Jews were allowed in these lands or in
England, and this was one thing the Jews knew.Â
They said, "Where is He going? Is He going into the cities of
Ephraim? Is He going unto the dispersed
among the nations?''Â So they knew where
Israel was, and they knew that they were not Israel. They said, "Maybe that is the place He is talking about,
where we can't go, because of the laws they have there.''Â When Jeremiah drove all the snakes out of
Ireland and was referred to as Saint Patrick, it was the Jews that he drove out
- and it would be a good thing if we drove them out, too. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Jews in Jerusalem did not understand
what Jesus meant when He said, ''Whither I go ye cannot come, far you are from
beneath, from the nether world, and I am from above."Â As we move through the Book of John, again
it says, "And they took up stones to stone Him."Â Later we find Jesus talking to His
disciples, and He talks about the fact that,Â
"I and the Father are one.â€Â
Again the Jews took up stones to stone Him.  I am reading just now the book of John. Everywhere, we find they tried to kill Him,
they plotted against Him, they took up stones to stone Him, they sent soldiers
to seize Him. Caiaphas was the high
priest at that time, and he said, “Do you not know that I have sent these
soldiers out to take Jesus, and they say they can’t take Him because they are
afraid of the people who have been so stirred by His message that they are
ready to follow Him.â€Â Then Caiaphas
said, “I am going to tell you fellows something: you don’t know anything at
all. If we don’t kill this Man, we are
going to lose control of this nation.Â
The Romans who are the tribe of Gad will come in and take our place, the
children of God which are the dispersed will return and take our
positions.â€Â You see, these Jews were
afraid that the true Israelites would return and force them out of their
positions of power and authority. So
they said, “We have got to kill Jesus.â€Â
And from that day on, it tells you here in the Book of John, the entire
council of the Sadducees and these high priests took counsel how they could put
Christ to death. No Sanhedrin had met. The council of the Sanhedrin, of the 83, was
the Great Sanhedrin. The Lesser
Sanhedrin was the council of 23, which took care of small crimes and small
disputations. But all major crimes, such
as blasphemy or the violation of the laws of God, and such crimes as carried a
death penalty, had to be handled by the Great Sanhedrin, the 83. There had been no meeting of the Great
Sanhedrin, nor had Christ been condemned to death. It was a conspiracy of the Sadducees of the Temple, the people
known as the Jews in that day. And so
as we see this situation developing, we can well recognize that they were
plotting how they might put Jesus to death.Â
When we consider the
conditions that preceded the trial of Christ, we discover that the Jews had
gathered their Jewish soldiers and had sent them out, (not Roman soldiers, but
Jewish soldiers) to seize Christ in the garden. When they sent out their Jew soldiers, they did not know exactly
where Christ would be, but they had hired one of their own agents, Judas
Iscariot, who was an Anti-Defamation League agent of his day, to go out and
find Christ and betray Him to them for thirty pieces of silver. And when they
had brought Christ in, first they brought Him before Annas who had been the
high priest in a previous year, but who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who
was the high priest that year. So we
read in the Scripture that Jesus was brought before Annas the high priest, and
we are told that Annas (who was still called the high priest) had Jesus brought
before him, and the chief priests took counsel together how they might obtain
witnesses against Jesus. They brought Jesus before Annas the high
priest, and they brought before Him false witnesses, many false witnesses who
testified and gave false testimony against Him, but they could not agree with
one another. Their stories were
conflicting because their testimonies were false. Now when they called this
assembly, Annas said, "We need an hour or so to gather the Great Sanhedrin
together, and Caiaphas who is the high priest this year will sit on the
Sanhedrin, but until he arrives in the judgment hall, I will handle the
interrogation of Jesus with the help of the high priests who are here with
me."Â And so the word was sent out,
but only to the Sadducees, for the Pharisees were never notified. For your information, the real Pharisees
believed in the laws of God, the laws of Moses, and they believed in the
resurrection. They were true Israelites
of Judah and Benjamin. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â And so while this was going on,
Barnabas, who was a young boy of about fourteen, (who later traveled with the
Apostle Paul across the continent of Europe), noted that a gathering was being
assembled. He crept in to see what was
going on and he found they were gathering the Sanhedrin, but those present were
all Sadducees, and so he ran to warn Gamaliel.Â
Gamaliel was a great theological student and a true Pharisee, and he sat
in the Sanhedrin, as did Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, who were also great
theological students and real Pharisees. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â When Barabbas knocked at the door of
Gamaliel, he said, "The Sanhedrin is meeting tonight. They are calling the Sanhedrin, but
there are no Pharisees gathering
there."           Gamaliel said, “I will rush down and
see what is going on while you go after the rabbi Nicodemus, because we must
see what is transpiring.†And so it was that
Barnabas ran to get Nicodemus while Gamaliel went to the court of Annas. As he walked in, the Sanhedrin was already
listening to various false witnesses, and he said, "What is going on? Why are
we assembling in this council chamber?" Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Temple priests said, "We are
assembling the Sanhedrin for Caiaphas." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Soon afterwards, Nicodemus came rushing
in and asked, "What are we as sembling for?" The high priest said,
"The Sanhedrin is meeting before Caiaphas tonight." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Nicodemus said, "The Sanhedrin
cannot meet at night." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â According to the laws of God, even in
the pattern of the Mishnah, the Sanhedrin could not meet at night. The
Sanhedrin had to meet in the daytime. The Sanhedrin had to issue a warrant for
the arrest of a prisoner charged with a capital crime. The warrant had to be served. The prisoner had to be brought in. He had to
have the charges of the warrant read before him in the court. He had to have a
full day to gather together his witnesses.Â
And then, after the presentation of the witnesses and after the hearing
of the charges, a day was left for the deliberation of the high priests. Then on the fifth day the high priest came
forth and officially laid the charge.Â
If a rebuttal was to be made, it had to be done on the sixth day. But if
there was to be a rebuttal, the proceedings had to be continued to the
following week for the judgment, for the next day would be the Sabbath. But regardless of when the Sabbath day would
occur, the proceedings were still spaced over the same number of days. Then upon the eighth day, judgment could be
pronounced. But no Sanhedrin could meet
and make a judgment regarding any serious offense in less than eight days. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â When Nicodemus came into the judgment
hall, he protested when he found that the Jews were buffeting Jesus, slapping
and pushing Him around, and demanding all kinds of statements concerning His
identity. Caiaphas was now seated upon the judgment seat, but the Sanhedrin did
not have 83 members present. There were
only about 40 members there, and of the few that had come Nicodemus and
Gamaliel were the only Pharisees present. And so as Caiaphas called the court
to order, some of them asked, "What are we doing here? What is this
assembly for?" Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Caiaphas said, "It is the
Sanhedrin and we sit in judgment upon this Man." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Nicodemus said, "The Sanhedrin
cannot sit at night." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Then Caiaphas turned to the scribe and
asked, "How readest thou?" Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The scribe said, "I must concur
with the rabbi Nicodemus, the Sanhedrin cannot meet at night." Caiaphas then said, “We
will then call this an interrogation of a dangerous and blasphemous criminal.†Gamaliel got up and said,
"How can we call this Man blasphemous?Â
We have not heard the charges.Â
We have heard no witnesses.†Caiaphas said, “I shall
call witnesses.â€Â And then he called in
the false witnesses. But Nicodemus spoke up and
said, “I want all of these witnesses taken out of this place, and I want them
brought back in one at a time and bear their testimony, lest they hear one
another and match their stories."Â Â
The scribe said, “I must
concur with the rabbi Nicodemus.â€Â And
so they sent out the witnesses. Then they brought in one
false witness after another. One of
them said, “He said He would tear this Temple down and build it up in three
days.â€Â Another made other charges. And they said all kinds of things that Jesus
was supposed to have said, but they all crossed one another up, and none of
them told the same story. So Nicodemus
called on the assembly to throw out the false witnesses, for they were like
those who had required them to testify: they were just a bunch of consummate
liars.   Caiaphas
was very angry with Nicodemus and threatened to throw him out of the Sanhedrin,
and the word of Caiaphas was law throughout the land of Palestine. Then Caiaphas turned to Jesus and said, “Art
Thou supposedly the Messiah, the embodied One?†Jesus said "Thou hast
said it.†Caiaphas again asked, “Art
Thou the Christ?â€Â   Jesus answered, “I am; and
one of these days you are going to see the Son of man coming with the scepter
hand of power in the heavens, and you are going to remember." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The priests screamed and the high
priest tore his robes, and some of them buffeted and smote Jesus and spat in His
face. Others blindfolded Him and hit
Him, right and left across His face, and they said, "Now prophesy who hit
you. Who hit you?" Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Nicodemus said. "We can't hit a
man, we are not allowed to strike a man, we cannot do any of these things
without a proper judgment. This proceeding has no legal standing, this is an
illegal court, this is not a court of Israel." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The priests said, "Hold thy
tongue." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Nicodemus said, "I walk out of
this room and shall never return to this Sanhedrin again; nor shall it be a
Sanhedrin long, for I go to gather the Pharisees."Â And he walked out. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Then Gamaliel said, "I shall also
leave, for there is no justice here, and there is nothing right about this
assembly."Â So Nicodemus and
Gamaliel walked out of the assembly together, and then hurried to gather the
Pharisees who they knew would be coming into Jerusalem because of the Passover,
and they would be coming in, in a matter of 24 hours. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â So the Jews plotted how they would put
Christ to death. They said,
"Morning is now approaching and we want to get all of this over with
before the Passover begins. Therefore, let us take Jesus to the hall of
judgment, let us take Him to Pontius Pilate. Let's let Rome judge Him. Let's
let Rome crucify Him."Â And so they
took Jesus before Pontius Pilate.           Now this was a unique situation. When they took Jesus before Pontius Pilate,
they led Him from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment. It was early, but they themselves went not into the judgment
hall, because to do so would defile them and they would not be able to eat at
the Passover. When Pilate went out to
see them, he said, "What accusation bring you against this Man?" They said, "If He
were not a malefactor, we would not have brought Him before you.â€Â Now, while in that phony hearing before
Caiaphas, the Jews had constantly accused Jesus of blasphemy. They had said,
"You, being a Man, make yourself God," but they were without any
spiritual capacities and could not understand the truth.           Jesus had said, “I speak the truth,
but you can't understand it because you have no spiritual capacity." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â But now, with subtlety, the Jews had
come before a legal court of law. They had come before a magistrate of Rome and
they didn't charge Christ with blasphemy in this court. They now charged Christ
with sedition. This is always the way
of these scurvy Jews, as we shall show you.Â
They charged Christ with sedition and said, "if He were not a
malefactor, we would not have brought Him before you. This Man is guilty of
sedition. He stirs up the people. He goes from one end of Galilee to the other,
stirring the Jews up against Rome." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Then Pontius Pilate said, "Let
Him then be brought before me in the judgment hall."Â And so we look at the great praetorium and
the judgement hall of Caesar and we see the proconsul of Rome seated on the
judgment seat, and we see Christ being brought into that hall. The high priest had
assigned soldiers of the Jews the proconsul to lead Jesus into the judgment
hall. There on either side stood the
soldiers of Rome, who had been rudely awakened and gathered early in the
morning. There on either side stood one
of the standards of each and every company that Rome had in the field. There
were about sixty great banners. These
banners were circle disks with golden eagles on either side. They lined the corridor of the judgment
hall, and anyone coming in, passed between these standards of Rome. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â We have the records of the scribe
Nicodemus who tells us what happened when the Jewish soldiers brought Jesus
before Pontius Pilate. It was a very strange thing, and one that struck fear
into the heart of Pontius Pilate and of those who watched; for as they brought
Jesus into the praetorium and before the judgment seat of Pontius Pilate, each
and every one of those standards of Rome dipped to the floor before Jesus. The
Jews cried out, "Behold, Rome is saluting Jesus, Rome is saluting
Jesus!" Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pontius Pilate was very much
perplexed, and he ordered Jesus to be taken out of the room. And then Pilate ordered Him to be brought
back in, and he ordered also that the standards be held firm. He said, "I
do not want them lowered." And so it was that as Jesus came in, the men
could not hold the standards upright, as they dipped again before Jesus. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pontius Pilate listened as the Jews cried
out, "Behold, Pontius Pilate permits the standards of Rome to be dipped
unto this Man Jesus." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pontius Pilate said, "I do not
think this is true. I will put two
strong men on each standard, and we will bring Him in again." And when
Jesus was brought once more down the corridor, the standards dipped like bows,
bending before the power of the Man that was being accused by the Jews. And the
Jews cried out all the more. Pontius
Pilate then turned to the Jews and said, "Now I will tell you what we
shall do. I will place you holding these standards, and we shall bring this Man
in once more and if you permit them to dip, I will crucify every one of
you." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Then the Jews cried out and said,
"No, we are not willing to have this test. We don't want this test." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pontius Pilate then said to the Jews,
"What accusation bring ye against this Man?" Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â They said. "He moves up and down
the country, stirring the people against Rome." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Then Pontius Pilate said, "I will
take Him out and interrogate Him." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pilate then turned to Jesus and said,
"Come out with me behind the judgment hall, for I would like to talk with
you."Â After he took Jesus out of
the hall, Pilate said to Him, "I used to have men watching you and
listening to you. I have heard nothing except of the miracles that you
performed or the words that you spoke, which were words of peace."Â He said, "I do not find any of their
accusations necessarily true. Were you an advocate of the overthrow of Rome, or
did you ever advocate the breaking down of the power of Rome?" Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jesus replied, "I said nothing
about taking control at this time. My kingdom is not of this era."Â We find here, in the Book of John, that He
said to Pontius Pilate, "My kingdom is not of this era. If My kingdom were
now, My servants would fight, and the kingdom would not be given to the
Jews."Â And He said again, "My
kingdom is not of this era." "Well," Pontius
Pilate said, "that is good enough for me. You have no opposition to
Rome." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Then he returned to the Jews and said,
"This Man is not guilty. I do not find Him guilty as charged." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Jews then cried out, "Look, if
the Man were not guilty, we would not have brought Him before you. Therefore we
demand that you crucify Him, that you put Him to death. This Man is a Galilean,
He is not one of us, He is not a Jew." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â "O," Pontius Pilate said,
"so he is a Galilean. Well, it happens that your Jewish king of Galilee is
now in Jerusalem. We will send Him before Herod."           So Jesus was taken before Herod. Herod who was a Jewish king, was rather
smart. He and the other Jews wanted
Rome to crucify Christ. They didn't want to do it themselves. They would not
want the masses of the people, coming to the Passover, to find out the truth.
And so Herod interrogated Jesus. He put a robe upon Him, he put a crown of
thorns on His head, he scourged Him, but he sent Him back to Pilate. Pontius
Pilate again said to Jesus, "What am I going to do with you?'' Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jesus said, "You can only do that
which is written, for you can't do anything except power be given unto
you." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Then Pontius Pilate said, "I have
power to let you go or I have power to put you to death." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jesus said, "You have no power
except that which is given unto you. And therefore you must perform the task
which is written, for you will have to proclaim the truth." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Then Pontius Pilate turned and said,
"What is truth?" and Jesus answered him with a Royal Arch answer as
to what truth was. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â I want you to know what transpired,
for Pontius Pilate was a Druid. He was a Basque, raised in Spain. He had
graduated from a Druid university in London. He had been through the highest
patterns of Masonry and Royal Arch: and when Jesus answered him, He answered
him as only a master could answer.Â
Pontius Pilate looked in amazement and he said, "You are not
guilty. I know now, You are not guilty. No one reaching Your exalted height
could be guilty†- and Nicodemus tells us of the immediate change that came
over Pontius Pilate. And so he went out and said again, "This Man is not
guilty!†          Then the Jews said, "Aha, you are
no friend of Caesar. If you don't
crucify this Man, you are no friend of Caesar, for this Man makes himself a
king: this Man makes himself greater than Caesar. If you are Caesar's friend, you will have Him crucified. If not, we are going to complain to Caesar,
we are going to stir up trouble."Â
Now came the operation of pressure.Â
Now came the design against the public servant. Now came a demonstration of how Jewry works
its way around, and how it is tied in with emperors and with kings and with
powerful government, and how it would even bring false charges against the
governor, because its way is false and there is no truth or honesty in Jewry. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pontius Pilate walked back to Jesus
and said, ''I want to let you go, but I
don't knew what to do. I don't know how to get around these people and what
charges they are going to carry to Rome.Â
I don’t know what to do. I am
not going to crucify you, I will not do that.†          Jesus said, "You are going to have
to do as it is written." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pontius
Pilate said, “How is it written?†          Jesus answered, "That I shall be
crucified. You are going to have to
deliver Me over to them.†Pontius Pilate said,
"But I don't want to." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Then Jesus said, "You are going to
have to do this. Therefore do exactly as it is written, for it is not going to be laid to your charge.
You do what is written." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pontius Pilate came out again and said,
“I don’t find this Man guilty. I would
release Barabbas, who has held up your caravans, who has robbed your trains,
whom you hate because he has hurt your pocketbooks - or I would release
Jesus. Now, which one will you have me
release?†They said, "Release
Barabbas." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pontius Pilate said, "The Man
Jesus is not guilty.†But the Jews cried,
"Crucify Him! We don't care whether He is guilty or not. Crucify Him! His blood be on us and upon our
children.†- and no more bloody people on the face of the earth have ever
lived. Nor will they ever get rid of
the blood of Jesus Christ, which they brought down upon themselves and upon the
heads of their offspring. So Pontius Pilate called
for water. And as the basin of water was brought before him, he washed his
hands of the guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. And he turned Christ over to the Jews, but
the Jews said, “We can't crucify Him.Â
We can’t do it, because we need Romans to crucify Him." So Romans were assigned to
the task, who took Christ up the hill to Golgotha, and Romans drove in the
spikes. And it was of Romans that Jesus
said, when He looked down on the Roman soldiers who were caught in the dilemma,
"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."           Just think of that verdict. Three times the judge declared, "Not
guilty."Â Three times he declared,
"This Man is not guilty and there is no sedition, there is no evidence of
treason. There is nothing except that
evil people desire His death; and now, even in this hour when I pronounce Him
not guilty, and I am the magistrate, you say, blood be upon us and our
children, crucify Him, crucify Him, crucify Him.â€Â The mob of Jews screamed and shouted, "Crucify Him!" -
So the body of God was crucified. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â I want to call to your attention, that
out of this pattern of "not guilty," we are to note that the Jews,
after the resurrection of Christ and His ascension into heaven, then brought
their attack against the church. The Apostle Paul, whose name had been Saul and
who had come, as you know, from Tarsus, and he didn't know Christ or anything
about Him, but had been appointed by the Jews to captain their armies. Paul says, in the 16th chapter of the Book
of Acts, "I was given the command and I was given papers, to go to
Damascus, to gather up the Christians, to throw them in Jail. I was also given
orders to gather the Christians and stone them when they professed
Christ."Â You see, in Paul's time,
the high priests were still putting out the commands of death, and without
trial and without a court hearing, and Jewish armies were putting Christians to
death.           They have never changed. We could go down through the years and trace
their persecutions, their machinations, their chicanery, and show how, by means
of Genghis Khan, they brought the Mongol hordes in to crush Christian
civilization. And when this was done,
God alone brought death to Genghis Khan and saved Christian civilization in
Europe from the conspiracy of Jewry. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â When they raised their hand to give
life again unto the same beast out of Asia, the hordes of political Zionism and
New York Jewry spawned the Russian Revolution, captured and liquidated the Czar
and took over inside of the Soviet Union.Â
And I want you to know that the majority of those commissars that sat on
the People’s Court were Jews. I want
you to know from evidence given by Captain Schuyler, who was one of the
investigators for the United States Government Secret Service, that most of the
prosecutors were Jews. (Ed. Note: In the National Archives of the United
States is the report from Captain Montgomery Schuyler, dated June 9, 1919,
which states that . . . at that time there were 384 ‘commissars’ (in the Soviet
Union), and of this number more than 300 were Jews, of which number 264 had
come to Russia from the United States since the downfall of the Imperial
Government.) Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Did you know that, in the Soviet Union,
17 million Christians were put to death before magistrates and by the
prosecution of Jewish persecutors who hated the gospel of Christ? They hated Christians the same as their
forefathers had hated Christ and had hated its origin  Almost two thousand years had passed and the Red Revolution came
along to demonstrate all of the evil and all of the malice in the hearts of
Jewry - and they adhered to a constant design.Â
They do it today. They do it
everywhere, where the red ‘hammer-and-sickle’ flag flies. They brought false
accusations then, they bring false charges now. They charge a person, they
bring false witnesses, they bring great mandates of action, they demand you
sign confessions and they may liquidate you. They torture you and they put you
to death. They put to death that many Christians in Russia. They also went into
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and did the same thing there. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania constantly had
Jewish judges and Jewish prosecutors. The men of those countries were carried
away in oxcarts, and they were transported to the mines in Siberia, and out
onto the steppes, to work. Those that
did not die of freezing or starvation were tortured and shot, while Mongolians
were placed in their homes to mongrelize their families. So the countenances of
the people of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been changed. These nations have been destroyed,
mongrelized, and the people have been blackened because organized Jewry with
false witnesses brought their charges. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Jews carry their design against the
heart of Christian civilization. The United States of America is one of the
great nations in God's kingdom. It has been one of the greatest nations, from
the day that God planted and prepared it for the occupation of His people, unto
this hour. But organized Jewry have
moved in. By illegal immigration and by
subversive alterations in our immigration laws, they have swarmed into this
country. They gained control of the economy and then started to pack the courts.
And I tell you that there is no justice in Jewish courts. More than that, with
their power in all areas of information and instruction and with the power of
their finance, they gained control in our Government until today the United
States Government has whole areas of Socialism and Communism, even in the
agencies which are supposed to support the policies of justice. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â There are judges that sit upon the
courts that are controlled entirely by the power of the Jewish press and purse.
They charge patriots, who love America and want to weed out Communism, with all
kinds of false charges. They gather the patriots, they bring false charges of
gun possession; and then, when the patriot wants to defend himself, he can't
bring his witnesses into court. His
attorneys are told, "We will hold you in contempt if you
object."Â And they, roughshod,
sentence American patriots one after another.Â
This is going on today, right here in the United States, because there
is absolutely no truth in Jewry and they serve a lie. They called for the death of Christ when He was not guilty,
saying finally, "His blood be upon us."Â And they are calling for the death of Christian patriots in
Christian civilization today. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Concerning World War II, there are
many things that people do not know. For instance, inside of Germany, the Jews
wanted to gain power and control. The fact is that Germany had voted an
economic system that would be run by Germans and would provide money, interest
free, and would not permit the borrowing of the money from Jewry. Jewry
therefore could not operate their loan system, so they formed an underground
and they started to liquidate the burgomasters and public men of Germany. They
injected cyanide in the milk bottles on the porches, and they boast of this in
their book called ‘Haggadah.’ They tell
how they murdered the Germans because they were such a terrible people; and
this was before the war, before their alleged persecution, before their lying
tale of "six million." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â So again we see that they will do the
same thing in our time. They move in as the assassins. They also move in with false patterns of
justice, they gain control of the courts, and they utilize this against the
patriots of the land. And so it is, in your own country, in your own land, they
strive against the children of the kingdom. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Back in World War II, when the Jews had
gotten the White people of the world to battling one another and Christian
nations fighting Christian nations, some patriotic Americans saw the power of
Jewry and they put out their pamphlets that said, "We don't want to be
drawn into this thing, this is a Jewish conspiracy." Then the United
States Government prepared a bunch of indictments and charged these American
citizens with sedition. Amongst all of those Americans charged with sedition
there was the possibility that one or two of them could have been agents of a
foreign power, but this was never established.Â
Great preachers and patriots, great Americans were gathered together,
and a sedition trial was held, while the newspapers and radio, controlled by
the enemy, came out with all kinds of statements that were filled with lies,
and the Government prosecuted these people and held them in prison. They would
get but on bail, and then be put back in again. The Government hounded these
people for one and a half years as the proceedings dragged on and on. Then it was postponed when God suddenly took
the life of the judge. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Since God had removed the judge, it was
declared a mistrial, because, after so long a time, the many witnesses could
not be brought together again and some were no longer alive. Those people that were
charged with sedition were eventually saved by an act of God. But I want you to know that there is no
justice in these sons of Lucifer, who act the same today as they did then, and
of whom Jesus said "If I tell you the truth, ye cannot understand it.†And so it is that they are
still pushing their evil with utmost energy this very hour. They stand, with press, radio and
television, behind the biggest propaganda stories or all time. The world
communist program can promote anything over television or radio. They can put out anything they like, over
the pulpits of the world, by the National Council of Churches, because again
the Sanhedrin, sitting in the background, is in control of a terrible design to
wreck vengeance on the Christian church and destroy it. But I want you to know
that the Christian church shall rise, people who make up the kingdom of God
shall rise, and God will sound His voice before His army, and there shall come
out of it a tremendous army of the Most High God. And they shall be joined with the armies of heaven, and the
vindication of God will descend upon these evil doers. And one of these days, there is not going to
be one of them left, because they will be placed in the constellation of Ara,
and not one of them will remain anywhere on this earth. "Not guilty! "
was the verdict, and their cry has been, “His blood be upon us and our
children.â€Â Servants cannot expect that
they are going to be treated better than their masters, and likewise, children
will be treated no better than their progenitors. So His blood will be upon
their children. The Jews do the work of the deadly force. They operate as lawyers, they operate as
doctors, they operate as pharmacists. They carry out their design. They will
poison, they will liquidate, they will cut and mutilate. They will destroy. And
this, my friends, is a part of their design. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â God is going to quicken the
responsibility of Christians, that they will stand up against apostasy. One of
these days, no one that will not recognize that Jesus is the Christ will be
allowed a license for a profession in the United States of America. That day will come. And I tell you, when this nation becomes the
nation of the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ, only Christians will be
allowed as citizens within this nation, to carry out their practice, or to do
the work which God has called them to do.Â
Then we are going to know the deliverance which God has promised, and
every knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to proclaim that Christ is
God, and people are going to sing, "Hallelujah! " with true meaning,
for once in their lives. End of sermon.
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