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Like the Essenes of his own time,
Yehoshua too regarded all possessions
as a threat to true piety.

"NO ONE CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS;
FOR EITHER HE WILL HATE THE ONE AND LOVE THE OTHER, OR HE WILL BE DEVOTED TO THE ONE
AND DESPISE THE OTHER? YOU CAN'T SERVE 'G D'
AND MAMMON"
{Matai 6:24}!

The dualism of this saying is Essene in outlook:
the Essenes endeavored
"to love everything that he has chosen, to hate everything that he has repudiated, to keep far from evil, and cleave to all good works!"

Between good and evil there is eternal enmity,
and so also between the sons of light and the sons of darkness, between "g d" and Belial, the devil! Yeshua could not accept this attitude. He did not embrace Essene theology,
but only certain social aspects of their philosophy of life.
Therefore, the two masters who figure in his saying are not
"G d" and the devil, Belial,
but
"g d" and 'mammon'!
In the original the Aramaic
MANNONA
{Hebrew
MAMMON
means
"possession"!
According to Yeshu,
possessions are an obstacle to virtue.
"Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of "G d""
in Mark 10:24-25. For both the Essenes and 'JC',
poverty, humility, purity, and unsophisticated simplicity of heart were the essential religious virtues ...
Yeshua and the Essenes thought that in the very near divine future,
the social outcasts and oppressed would become the preferred,
'for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,"
and
'those who mourn will be comforted!'

Yehoshua certainly did not mean for us to give a sentimental slant to these sayings,
as the immidiately following "woes," addressed to the "rich," the "satiated," and "those who laugh"
prove in Lucky Luke 6:24-26! These people will have sorrow and weep when the end comes.
Now for the first time, because of the Dead Sea Scrolls, we can understand the phrase
"the poor in spirit!"
It was a title of honor among the Essenes.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit: over them "G d's Spirit" is hovering!
These are the poor to whom the Holy Spirit is given. In one passage from the Essene hymnbook
{1QH 18:14-15} the anonymous author thanks "g d" for having appointed him preacher of his grace!
He is destined
"to proclaim to the
MEEK
the multitude of
Thine mercies and to let them that
are of contrite spirit
hear salvation from his everlasting
source, and to them
THAT MOURN
everlasting joy!"

These correspond to "the meek," "the poor
in spirit," and "those who mourn" of the first three beatitutes of Yeshu.

JE KUNT JE
MIN OF MEER VOORSTELLEN
WAT DE GEVOLGEN ZIJN VAN ZO'N BLIJDE BOODSCHAP
AAN STEEDS MEER ARME MENSEN DIE VRESELIJK LIJDEN ONDER VERDRUKKING,
WERKLOOSHEID, ZIEKTE & HONGERSNOOD,
CRISES, STEEDS MEER DAKLOOSHEID,
AFSCHUWELIJKE WREEDHEID
& GROOT ONRECHT
JAAR op
JAAR!