CHARLO, New Brunswick, April 8, 2024 – On the day they lead the sacred cow to slaughter, who receives their sacrifice when, knowing that Jesus is the Messiah, they still reject him?

When the great silence reaches from the heavens to the earth because there’s no more joy in Heaven over one sinner who repents, who receives their prayers when, knowing that Jesus is the Messiah, they still reject him?

Who responds to their cries of “Help me!”, “Save me!”, “Give me!”, “Give me more!”?

Who comforts them with illusions of love?

Who promises them the world, only upon delivery to snap open a trapdoor beneath them?

It is he whose hand guides the sacrifice and taunts the prayerful, he who cannot love because he cannot receive Love, though he comes to them as their champion and provider, their smooth-talking Angel of Light.

Love is not love if it doesn’t come from God. God does not bless sin; he exposes sin and gives the sinner time to repent, until time’s up.

Not everything that is called love is love.

Not everyone who claims to worship God is worshiping God.

When Jesus said that he and God are one, he meant that he was fully aligned and united with God’s will, which is what it means to be one with another. He did not mean that he was God. Jesus is not God: He is God’s Messiah. You cannot worship God without accepting Jesus as your Messiah. You cannot have one without the other. You cannot have God without Jesus.

So, who is it that you’re worshiping when you lead the sacred cow to slaughter? Who receives your sacrifice? Whose hand guides you? Who drinks the blood and rolls in the ashes? Who builds the temple and sits on the throne? It is not God, it is not his Messiah, though he may claim to be both.

On the day of the great slaughter, when the silence reaches from Heaven to Earth, you will know.