Mankind was, and is, divided into two groups. Some of us want to live in Jerusalem. Others prefer Babylon. In Today’s Reading, Isaiah, 12:1-6, the prophet speaks of those who chose to return to the City of God:
“On that day they will sing this song in the land of Judah:
‘A strong city have we;
he sets up walls and ramparts to protect us.
Open up the gates
to let in a nation that is just,
one that keeps faith.
A nation of firm purpose you keep in peace;
in peace, for its trust in You.’
Trust in the LORD forever!
For the LORD is an eternal Rock.
He humbles those in high places,
and the lofty city he brings down;
He tumbles it to the ground,
levels it with the dust.
It is trampled underfoot by the needy,
by the footsteps of the poor.”
Isaiah was not just speaking to His time. His words tell us today that those whose faith brings them to The Loving Programmer are saved. To help on the journey, many use the Catholic Fundamentalism approach: “God can program in enough dimensions to produce energies and particles. He wrote The Creation Program, in which He compiled His energies and particles into systems and beings.”
He programmed and downloaded Programming Assistants (known in the Iron Age as the Hierarchy of Angels). They downloaded all that there is, along with each human program, within The Creation Program.”
His Operating Instructions are clear. He has “opened up the gates to let in a nation that is just, one that keeps faith”. At that time, those Jews who were faithful and obedient enough to leave Babylon and go to Jerusalem were that nation. They returned to salvation and to His love and protection.
There are still two kinds of people. One group moves on to the impregnable City of God. The other remains in Babylon.
When we break through the old, out-of-date Iron Age vocabularies, we realize that God’s reality is especially clear to those who consider Him with our words. He is The Loving Programmer of all there is.
As we move closer to Him, those who stay in Babylon seek every reason to justify their decision. The more they justify the idolization of themselves, the farther they take themselves from His love and protection.
The once-lofty buildings of old Babylon are gone. Only ruins remain. In the world’s new Babylons, tall towers scrape the sky. Our choice of where we’ll spend the days before our Judgment is clear.
It is always ours to make.
