John the evangelist uses the word world meaning a way of living ruled by Satan, daily implemented through the humanity’s trainings. Jesus tries to sharpen in His disciples the awareness that, having chosen to follow and love Him, they do not belong anymore to the world’s training, and therefore the world will not recognize them anymore as its products. Jesus explains that it is in the order of things, it has to be considered normal, absolutely normal, that the training’s system does not recognize, does not love and protect what it does not recognize as its own, as its product. Jesus does not say that this is right, but He states that it is perfectly aligned with the training’s system which cannot but consider hostile Jesus’ and the Gospel’s disciples, and befriend the system’s subjects, the subdued children of power. The one who gets deeply shocked and frustrated when the system persecutes God’s prophets, chasing away at once the ones who are trying to serve God’s kingdom, blocks the way of those men and women who live for the true wellbeing of man, and, at the same time, demonstrates that he has not yet understood how much the system is far from God and how much God is far from the human training’s system. The one who gets shocked by how the world tries to eliminate and slaughter God’s servants, somehow justifies evil, Satan’s world and his system. It is as if he is not able to see and accept how evil and mortal the system, the world and the way in which Satan persuaded us to live are. The one who does not understand that for God’s servants persecution is normal, absolutely normal, is convinced that there is something vital and good to be saved in the human training’s system, managed by the strong powers. How could moral trainings’ system, cultural submission, political power and banks’ hegemony not hate with all their strength the ones who do not belong to them, who do not serve them and who they do not recognize as their product? The system hates who do not belong to it, it hates and persecutes them. The Greek verb for persecute, diòko, mostly indicates, in the gospels, a fast and rapacious chase aiming to catch someone or something, hunting with the determination and the aim to destroy. Diòko indicates pressing, taking away space and life, it is a movement aimed to harass at any costs. The one who humbly tries to follow Jesus and His Word, needs to be normally ready and always quietly prepared to persecution. For this reason he has to make his face as hard as rock and he cannot, absolutely, take into account others’ approval or the weight of others’ expectations and human reputation, otherwise it means that he is not aware of who has chosen him and who he chose. For Jesus’ disciple the greatest enemy is the illusory choice of serving God with the intention, even unconscious, to change the world’s system, the Evil’s training. This is the most lethal inner poison that any Jesus’ disciple can swallow in his inner dialogue. This terrible and most poisonous deception manifests itself in the unconscious desire to be appreciated by others, in the necessity for the respect and the favour of the ones who have the power, in the approval and applause of institutions, in the support of hierarchy.
The one who decides to serve God here on earth needs to know that it is not right and desirable, but rather normal, to not be understood, accepted, comforted, supported, welcomed, embraced. The one who decides to serve God, in the presence of the power’s satanic training, needs to know that he will always be fought, hindered, betrayed, teased, blocked, censored, excluded, somehow envied, pushed away and eliminated. The one who decides to serve God, in the presence of the power’s satanic training, also needs to know that he will always be loved by the children of God, helped by the angels, cuddled by the divine grace in every moment, always and perfectly protected by Mary, the great Mother. Even the one who decides to serve the training’s system and the prince of this world, the Evil angel, needs to know something: it takes a second to catch a tiger, but to really hold onto it, ah, it takes a completely different strength. Imprisoning John the Submerger and than beheading him only took a second to the powerful of his time. Enchaining, teasing and mocking Jesus took only a second. Slandering, accusing, taking Him to trial and crucifying Him only took a second. But then, when the omnipotence’s drunkenness wore out, who had the strength to bear the energy generated by those actions?
It is not a question of blackmailing, or of making someone pay dearly, nor is about divine wrath, it is simply the dominant rule of action-reaction. The one who serves God needs to know that it is normal to be persecuted, but the persecutor needs to know that the energy very easily generated in persecuting, will come back erasing him from the book of life so that not even a trace, a memory will be left.
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