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<h1><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Gates of Heaven: A Modern Pastor Seeks Entry</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">A Drama &nbsp; &nbsp;[See animated version on YouTube -<a href="http://youtu.be/9nKtB8cORSY"> part 1</a> and final<a href="http://youtu.be/5tvFMG1mick"> part 2</a>. REVIEW:&nbsp;"I just wanted to say thanks for your recent studies. The animation on 'Modern Pastor Seeks Entry' really keeps a person captivated. Amazing! An absolutely brilliant study." Doug N. July 31, 2011.]</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The mist swirled around the pearly gates of heaven. The receiving line of all who called Jesus "Lord" was long. The processing continued each hour. Many souls rejoiced at the verdict. However, as Jesus said "Many who call me Lord, Lord" will in "no &nbsp;wise enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matt. 7:21; Luke 6:46.) So the screening process had to go on one by one.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">A modern pastor came to the place where Jesus sat. Our Lord's garments shined brilliant white. His face was noble and His eyes piercing. Jesus turned to the pastor, and called him forward:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Mr. A please step forward."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Yes, my Lord."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Not everyone who calls me Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven, you know that?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Yes, my Lord."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "You taught the word for 29 years before you departed your family."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Yes, my Lord"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "You taught your congregation to tithe, did you not?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Yes, my Lord"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Good."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">With a sigh, Mr. A released the worry he had begun to feel. He thought Jesus was going to be criticizing him. This opening question seemed to relieve that pressure.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Did you give 2/3 of it to widows and orphans as prescribed in the Law every third year, and the rest of the time it was to be used for a festival celebration everyone enjoyed, including the tither?" [See our link to<a href="/images/stories/Lessons/es%20app%20on%20tithing.pdf"> PDF</a>]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "I never knew that."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "You mean you <em>never wanted to know that</em>, did you?" Jesus said in absolute chagrin. Jesus turned to the pastor, and with that same spirit He exhibited at the money-exchangers at the temple doors, Jesus said: "As a pastor, did you not read Micah<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Micah%202&amp;version=ASV"> 2:8</a> where it says the Levite priests were '<strong><em>robbing widows and orphans</em></strong>' for taking more than their share -- the Levites' 1/3 share every third year? So because you must have read that, then would it not have been crucial for you to find out who was the intended recipient and their appropriate share of the true tithe? But you never did investigate that, did you? You instead made <em><strong>self-serving assumptions of what a Levitical priest received</strong></em>, made yourself such a priest in your own mind (but not by Law given from above) and then you took<em><strong> all what belonged to the widows and orphans</strong></em>, right?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "I am at a loss for words, my Lord."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Are you not then a robber in the manner you read the tithe to your benefit?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Yes, Lord Jesus but I was foolish. I never thought the requirement that the tithe go to widows and orphans really had to be strictly followed."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Let's move on to the next issue. What did you teach about the rest of my Law?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "That it had been done away in the era of Grace. It was nailed to a cross. It no longer binds the wife of Christ whose first husband has died, that you as God died on the cross, dissolving our bonds to the Law of Israel's first husband." (Romans 7:1-7). [See this <a href="/recommendedreading/167-romans-7-a-major-incongruity.html">link</a> for Paulinist view of Romans 7:1-7.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "So you believe Yahweh, the first husband of Israel, died on the cross when I died? But when I resurrected, you believe somewhow I still was God but no longer represented this same Yahweh. You therefore believe my resurrection did not revive the bonds to the Law of Yahweh because somehow I am God without representing Yahweh, my Father, any longer. I am supposedly now the only living God to whom a Christian is betrothed. By your logic, the Father and His law is supposedly justifiably ignored. However, I came to direct you to the Father, not declare Him and His Law dead."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus was clealry frustrated at these words, amazed any God-fearing person could accept that Jesus' death represented the death of the first husband (Yahweh), thereby dissolving the Law permanently to God's wife (Israel), as taught by Paul in Romans 7:1-7. So Jesus continued with more vigor:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"Do you really believe I represent a new husband distinct from the first husband of Israel, and after the resurrection I no longer represented Yahweh? I can only conclude you must think I am a God somehow distinct from Yahweh. Did I not tell you the Father dwells in ME! And the LOGOS I spoke was not mine but the Father's who sent Me. [John <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%2014:10&amp;version=ASV">14:10</a>.] But you believed my death signified the death of the husband God while my resurrection supposedly did not revive the original husband -- Yahweh, and that's why you believe the Law has remained abrogated. What foolish lessons you swallowed without questioning them!"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus finally said in total exasperation: "Where did you get such bizarre ideas that I could be a God you could marry apart from the Father's indwelling in ME? And thus marrying me would not reconnect you to the Law given by the Father to Moses?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "But Brother Paul says so in Romans 7:1-7." Yet, the Pastor could not argue with Jesus, so added: "However, now that you ask the question, it does seem a very odd logic to me."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "You should have thought about that earlier. There are no second-chances at this point." Jesus looked away in disgust. Then Jesus continued: "But let's move on.&nbsp;You have read my words many times, did you not?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Yes."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Who did I say would be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A was immediately nervous. There were two references, but one was embarassing and the other not.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A answered: "Well, once you said the greatest among you is the servant of all." (Matt. <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/23-11.htm">23:11</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "I did say that. What else did I say about who is the greatest?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Well, you said that the greatest among men would be those who taught others to follow and obey the Law given Moses by God." (Matt. 5:17-19)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "But you just told me that other than tithing, you taught men not to follow and obey the Law given Moses by Yahweh, right?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "I cannot lie to you Lord, but only offer excuses."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "There are no excuses here. You will be judged by every word that comes out of your mouth. I have another question. What was my criticism of the Pharisees about tithing? You were called by men a minister, so do you remember the words?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "You said the Pharisees were good about the lesser command of tithing but were ignoring the more important commands about justice, mercy and faith in the Law." (Matt. 23:23).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "And you taught tithing, but that nothing else in the Law was any longer valid, right?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "I cannot lie to you Lord. Yes."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "And thus you taught the same doctrine of the Pharisees which I condemned?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Yes, I must confess."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Upon whom did you rely if not me then for a doctrine identical to the Pharisees whom I condemned for teaching exactly as you did?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Paul, the Apostle."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Wasn't Paul a Pharisee?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Yes, at one time."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Not at one time. After his Damascus encounter. Do you remember what he said that proves that?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Now that you mention it, Paul did say after his conversion, "I am a Pharisee" in the present tense to a large crowd. [Acts <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%2023:6&amp;version=ASV">23:6</a>.]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Yes after the Damascus encounter, Paul remained a Pharisee. And thus<em><strong> you couldn't figure it out that you were following a Pharisee</strong></em> in teaching the very thing I condemned about the Pharisees' teaching in my Gospel carried by my apostle Matthew? [Matt. 23:23] Are you seriously telling me<strong><em> you couldn't figure out that Paul was an apostle of the Pharisees in teaching you the same doctrine I condemned coming from the Pharisees</em></strong>?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A could not answer. He was now in severe grief.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "One further question. In Bible school, did you not learn Paul's name in Latin meant 'Least'?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">[See Farrar,&nbsp;<em>The Life and Work of St. Paul </em>(E.P. Dutton, 1880) at&nbsp;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Nx5VAAAAMAAJ&amp;dq=paulus%20means%20least&amp;pg=PA200#v=onepage&amp;q=paulus%20means%20least&amp;f=false">200</a>;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://jfb.biblecommenter.com/1_corinthians/15.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a>]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Yes."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Did you not ever remember my words about whom would be called "least" by those in the kingdom of heaven?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "I did wonder at the time I learned Paul's name meant LEAST. But I kind of blocked it out of my mind. The thought was so horrible."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Explain yourself."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "I did remember your words:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">'Whoever therefore may loose one of these commands -- the least -- and may teach men so,&nbsp;<strong>least</strong> he shall be&nbsp;<em><strong>called in the reign of the heavens</strong></em>, but whoever may do and may teach&nbsp;<em>them</em>, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.&nbsp;&nbsp;(Matt.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:19&amp;version=YLT">5:19</a>, YLT.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "What did that make you think about who would be called LEAST by those in the kingdom of heaven?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Well, that you said the anti-law teacher would be called "LEAST" by those in the kingdom of the heavens. It did cross my mind you meant Paul, but then I could not figure out why you chose him in Acts as an apostle."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Mr. A., you did not read Acts carefully enough. Where in any portion of Acts [chs. 2, 22, 26] did the <strong><em>Blinding Light</em></strong> figure whom Paul met and thought was myself ever say Paul would be an apostle? You won't find it Sir. That voice said Paul would be a witness. And more than once I said there are only twelve apostles to sit on twelve thrones to judge the 12 tribes. (Matt. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt.%2019:28&amp;version=ASV">19:28</a>; Rev. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rev.%2021:14&amp;version=ASV">21:14</a>.) You just were not listening to Me. You have no excuse."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "I guess I did not read carefully enough."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "It was never a matter of care. It was a matter of will, whether you wished to follow Me or another voice who contradicted Me. And all along you knew I point blank called him out as the LEAST, and condemned him as Matthew, my Apostle, remembered under inspiration. [Matt. 5:19.] But you refused to listen to Me on the very identical point that you followed the LEAST ONE. On the Law itself."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "I realize now I have no excuse."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "One more question. What does the Hebrew word for Lucifer mean?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A: "Let me think. <strong><em>Blinding light</em></strong>. [See this <a href="/recommendedreading/223-who-is-the-blinding-angel-of-light.html">link</a>.] Yes, that's it. Oh my gosh...."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus: "Now you figured it out. A bit too late."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus paused, His eyes glaring in disdain at Mr. A. Jesus then continued:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"I am done here. Your own words condemn you. You admit you taught tithing but I found you did so in a self-serving manner that robbed widows and orphans. As to the rest of the Law, you told your congregation to ignore these commands from Yahweh despite my telling you this was a doctrine of the Pharisees leading people to condemnation. I even told you the anti-Law teacher's name -- the LEAST -- in Greek Paulos and in Latin Paulus. It was obvious to you as you taught the Word. But you blinded yourself. And your blindness prevented you from figuring out Paul was a Pharisee in the very mold I condemned. You thus became not a teacher of greatness but a blind teacher leading the blind into a pit. Because as I also instructed that the one who leads a believer in Me to be ensnared in sin would be happier being thrown in the deep pit of the sea than to face the judgment which I will now give, please brace yourself."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">A piece of paper was handed by Jesus to the heavenly bailiff who then had the verdict read out loud by the heavenly court clerk:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mr. A is hereby consigned to the deepest darkest corner of hell in the greatest heat. This is the punishment for any one who taught others to reject the words of Messiah, Son of God, and who instead taught in its place the doctrines of a Pharissee, the doctrines of a mere man.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The pastor wept. The guards of heaven then took him down to a road which in turn led to steps downward into a grey funnel of cloud and smoke. And he disappeared from the sight of the occupants of heaven.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">But at the same time, Jesus's rulings continued, and the many "who <strong><em>do the commands of God</em></strong>" were given "the<strong><em> right</em></strong> to enter the New Jerusalem," as Jesus' Revelation to John explained. (Rev. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rev.%2022:14&amp;version=KJV">22:14</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The pastor could hear the Hosannahs of Heaven far above him as he slowly walked down the steps toward Hell. The heat and smoke from perpetual fires grew until it was utterly black with smoke and a scorching heat in every direction.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The pastor could only ask himself why he ever trusted a Pharisee at odds with the words of the Lord Jesus. &nbsp;As years progressed, this was the question that constantly nagged him. And yet he could find no answer. The true pain of hell, he learned, is not its heat. Not its smoky darkness. Instead, the agony of hell was the realization that you easily could have seen the truth but you wilfully suppressed it to follow someone else other than Jesus.</span></p>
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