Christ: an Analogy for Good Friday Meditation

By Dr Robert H. Countess (former Army Chaplain)

According to the New Testament documents, Passover Week Friday was the day Jesus was crucified as

1) a simple Roman execution;
2) a hate crime and show trial by evil Jewish leaders - but not the masses; and
3) a theological event of universal soteriological significance in the plan of God for redemption.

However, the events of the night prior must be considered in order to gain valuable perspective.

After Jesus celebrated the Passover meal in the Upper Room and Judas the Treasurer had departed for his opportunistic Thirty Pieces of Silver [a large sum then], the group walked to the Garden of Gethsemane [perhaps as beautiful as Hatcher Mountain] where Jesus prayed and the disciples all fell asleep. Then Judas came leading a group of armed soldiery and policemen large enough perhaps to frighten a Saddam Hussein.

[One might recall the five officers who came to arrest the pacifist Ernst Zündel on February 5th, 2003 armed and one even with a flak vest.]

Judas came forward and placed his evil kiss on Jesus' cheek and the personal betrayal for Geld was done.

We read that the red-haired [Catholic "first Pope"] fisherman Peter pulled a sword and attacked the High Priest's bond slave Malchus [John 18:10] but was so poorly trained in violent combat that he only cut off the right ear - which Jesus healed on the spot [Luke 22:51]. At this point, the Disciples fled for their lives. The High Priest's vigilantes then bound Jesus [leg irons?] and led him to the rich Palace of Annas, father-in-law to High Priest Caiaphas. Annas had been High Priest but he had still the enormous influence of the office without now occupying it; plus he "contributed", shall we say, large sums of money to "friends" in the Roman government of Jerusalem. Power, money, influence, and family members in high government circles? What a more proper first stop for this threat to national security, Jesus, than Annas' place of residence and business?

Immense capital flowed from the Temple precincts into Annas' coffers. Little wonder that Jesus was so hated for His onslaught [see John 2:13f] into these for-profit chambers, upturning tables and scattering the Jewish filthy lucre and rope whipping the money changers who, Jesus was convinced, had turned Jehovah's house into "a den of thieves"!

The Roman soldiers had their orders to take Jesus to Annas' place, no doubt having gotten some shekels to grease the path. The often whispered "Jewish Power" by timid Gentiles of our own day is nothing new, it seems, since the hated and pagan Romans themselves yielded to Jewish Power and, of course, as always, money in sufficient quantities to make it all seem appropriate.

High Priest Caiaphas was already His implacable enemy but now became His accuser and judge. Around Caiaphas were--like those around Saddam--large numbers in his service, fearful to cross him lest they experience some "difficulty" in life and employment. There's nothing like the corrupt use of power by corrupt religious leaders!

A hastily gathered ad hoc meeting of Priests and Elders, Sanhedrinists, Lawyers, and Scribes appeared that pre-Passover evening. A regular meeting of this "Supreme Court" would never have been held on Passover or Passover Eve itself, but so great a threat to the vested interests of Jewry did Jesus appear to be that they came and stayed to effect their "Privat-mord" as one scholar put it in his Geschichte des Judenthums [19th century]. This "private murder" was not the routine result of a normally held Great Sanhedrin and its full 71 members for whom the hated Romans allowed full authority over religious matters except capital punishment itself - left only to the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate. And since Jesus basically refused to offer a defense for Himself - since He came to die as Messiah - the gathered authorities resorted to distortion of His message and then, in the end, to lying and bribed [oh the power of money over conscience to many people!] false witnesses who gave their "eyewitness" testimonies which largely contradicted each other. Jews are not alone among two-legged sentient air-suckers [my term for homo sapiens] in giving false, alleged "eyewitness" testimony, but they may well be unique in being the most successful as an identifiable group in employing it in the past and--since World War Two - now in the present in so-called "testi-lying" on behalf of the Holocaust Industry.

Perhaps the Great Sanhedrin chief prosecutor even insisted upon "judicial notice" that Jesus had committed all sorts of felonies that made him a threat to national security? Why not? May be that Nuremberg jurisprudence had ample precedent for its own nefarious methods to convict and condemn in 1945-6.The final "evidence" to support judicial condemnation came, however, when Jesus finally spoke to High Priest Caiaphas and admitted to being "the Christ, the Son of God" [Matthew 26:63-4]. We read that Caiaphas tore his outer robe as a display of hearing blasphemy [vs. 65], announcing with a loud voice that the trouble maker was obviously worthy of death. At this, the standers-by began to spit in Jesus' face and to beat Him and taunt Him with commands to engage in fortune telling such as "Who hit you?"

Of major interest for this present essay is Matthew 27:15f. The text states that there was a tradition associated with the Passover wherein Governor Pontius Pilate would allow the crowd to select the release of a prisoner scheduled for execution. Now, if the Sanhedrinist authorities could redirect the crowd's general empathy for Jesus away from Jesus and toward the felon and real national security threat, Bar-Abbas [Hebrew & Aramaic "son of the father"], then they could succeed in having the hated Roman Governor himself execute Jesus and they could blame - that is, relieve themselves of personal and legal responsibility - Pilate for the execution.

To this end, the priestly agitators shouted out to Pilate, "Release Bar-Abbas!" Perhaps some "walking around" money flowed to certain loud-voiced men in the crowd to shout louder and incessantly, "Release to us Bar-Abbas!" In due time - how long, the text does not say - Pilate gave in to the masses' clamor for the release of a real felon and in his place the crucifixion of the preacher of love and peace, Jesus the Messiah. How pleased the Sanhedrinists must have felt if, as they might have thought: "We finally are about to be rid of this pest, this bacillus, and we can thank the crowd and Governor Pilate for doing the dirty work." I have found in Talmud study that Talmudic Jews routinely seek not to obey the law of God in the Torah, but rather to circumnavigate around the law after the experts have diluted it or complicated it or nullified it with countless inferential and/or implied details so burdensome that a sane person would conclude: Who cares? What is the purpose after all? God is not the goal, but human striving for self-recognition. Can anyone actually obey what the Talmudists have created and now call Halachoth?

Finally, we come to the analogy of Ernst Zündel in his solitary confinement in the Niagara Falls, Ontario detention center.

If the evil movers and shakers and string pullers behind Ernst's continued imprisonment with no granting of bail in sight - the Canadian Jewish Congress and its brother organizations there and the Anti-Defamation League in the USA - had been given Pilate's choice on Good Friday 2003, I believe they would have behaved with the same insane reasoning and emotion of the rabble in Pilate's presence.

Let us say that "Pilate" in 2003 would have offered the felon Irv Rubin [former Jewish Defense League Director] to the crowd, a notorious criminal and street bully and firebomber extraordinaire, I believe the CJC would bribe the masses to shout for the release of Irv and to "crucify" Ernst Zündel.

If our contemporary "Pilate" were to offer one of several Jewish hatemongers such as Elie Wiesel or Abe Foxman or Edgar Bronfman to the babbling, gaggling, cackling crowd of circumcised and uncircumcised riffraff, the flotsam and jetsam of big city Toronto in place of Ernst Zündel, I believe the CJC and its supporters would immediately raise shouts of "Release to us Elie or Abe or Edgar and Crucify Ernst!"

I have met Elie Wiesel. I have met Irv Rubin. Believe me, Ernst Zundel is no Elie Wiesel. Ernst Zündel is no Irv Rubin. Ernst holds strong opinions about history and society and life and Zionism and Freemasonry, but he promotes no hatred for those who disagree with him.

The CJC is unified in its hatred of Ernst Zündel. The CJC is unified in its hatred of Jesus Christ. The CJC is unified in its irrational support for Jewish Supremacy and the State of Israel and the ethnic-cleansing of the Semito-Palestinians [my term]. The CJC is unified in opposing bail for Ernst Zündel at any price and at any time. The CJC fears Ernst Zündel, but not because he has a gun in his hand, but rather a pencil stub and continues to write and promote the open discussion of the Holocaust Industry's Holo-hoax upon Germans and all Gentiles and upon ignorant Jews themselves.

The CJC is right to fear Ernst Zündel's stubby pencil and is right to fear his wife's Zundelsite and is right to fear the Internet in general, since - as Germar Rudolf put it - "Internet macht frei!"

Robert H. Countess, Ph.D.

boblbpinc@earthlink.net

Huntsville, Alabama