GRM 53.6-7
The Gospel as revealed to me
Quotation
«Listen, Israel! Deuteronomy states: “You are to appoint judges and scribes at all the gates… and they must administer an impartial judgement to the people. You must be impartial; you must take no bribes, for a bribe blinds wise men’s eyes and jeopardises the cause of the just. Strict justice must be your ideal, so that you may live in rightful possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving you”.
Listen, Israel. Deuteronomy states: “The priests and scribes and the whole of the tribe of Levi shall have no share or inheritance with Israel, because they must live on the foods offered to Yahweh and on His dues; they shall have no inheritance among their brothers, because Yahweh will be their inheritance”.
Listen, Israel. Deuteronomy states: “You must not lend on interest to your brother, whether the lack be of money or food or anything else. You may demand interest on a loan of a foreigner; you will lend without interest to your brother whatever he needs”.
The Lord said that.
But now you see that in Israel judgements are administered without justice for the poor. They are not inclined to justice, but they are partial with the rich, and to be poor, to be of the common people means to be oppressed. How can the people say: “Our judges are just” when they see that only the mighty ones are respected and satisfied, whereas the poor have no one who will listen to them? How can the people respect the Lord, when they see that the Lord is not respected by those who should respect Him more than everyone else? Does he who infringes the Lord’s commandment respect Him? Why then do the priests in Israel possess property and accept bribes from tax-collectors and sinners, who make them offerings to obtain their favours, while they accept gifts to fill their coffers?
God is the inheritance of His priests. He, the Father of Israel, is more than a Father to them and provides them with food, as it is just. But not more than what is just. He did not promise money and possessions to His servants of the sanctuary. In eternal life, they will possess Heaven for their justice, as Moses, Elijah, Jacob and Abraham will, but in this world they must have but a linen garment and a diadem of incorruptible gold: purity and charity, and their bodies must be subject to their souls, which are to be subject to the true God, and their bodies are not to be masters over their souls and against God.
I have been asked on what authority I do this. And on what authority do they violate God’s command and allow in the shade of the sacred walls usury on their brothers of Israel, who have come to obey the divine command? I have been asked from what school I come and I replied: “From God’s school” Yes, Israel, I have come from and I will take you back to that holy and immutable school.
53.7
He who wants to know the Light, the Truth, the Way, he who wants to hear once again the voice of God speaking to his people, let him come to Me. You followed Moses through the deserts, Israel. Follow Me, because I shall lead you through a far worse desert, to the true blessed Land. At God’s command, I will draw you to it, across an open sea. I will cure you of all evils lifting up My Sign.
The time of Grace has come. The Prophets expected it and died waiting for it. The Prophets prophesied it and died in that hope. The just have dreamt of it and died comforted by that dream. It is now here.
Come. “The Lord is about to judge His people and have mercy on His servants”, as He promised through Moses.»
Detail
Context: Jesus has just purified Temple for the first time.
Annotation
Book of Deuteronomy
Deut 16:18-20: In all the cities which the Lord your God gives you, you shall appoint judges and scribes over your tribes; they shall judge the people in righteous judgments. You shall not deviate from the right, you shall not act with partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for the bribe blinds the wise and compromises the cause of the righteous. You shall seek justice and nothing but justice, so that you may live and possess the land given to you by the Lord your God.
Dt 18, 1-2 : he Levite priests, the whole tribe of Levi, will have no share or inheritance with Israel: they will feed on the sacrifices by fire offered to the Lord, and on his patrimony. This tribe will have no inheritance among its brethren, but the Lord will be its inheritance, as he has said to it.
Dt 23, 19-20 : You shall never bring into the House of the Lord your God, to pay any vow, the earnings of a prostitute or the wages of a "dog", for both are an abomination to the Lord your God. You shall not make your brother any loan at interest: money, food or anything else that might earn interest.