1. The defect.
Short in stature. The lack of knowledge due to man’s fallen nature and the fact that it was difficult to learn the way of salvation were the obstacle to man’s efforts to see Christ and save his soul. Both are gifts of grace from God which man cannot attain by his mere human efforts.
The crowd. Add to the above is the whole worldly environment that, not only does not teach knowledge but also imposes errors on man…..we have here a scenario that is impossible to overcome.
While the short in stature was the state of human nature, the crowd is completely under the control of the devil, allowed by God to test the children of men. It is a battle with principalities, with devils with angelic natures. The illusions and deceptions the devils bring is so overwhelming that even believers would fall if God does not shorten the days.
2. The defect as it exist in the world today. This state of affairs exist in the world today so it will be easy to describe it.
The crowd, symbolizing the world, is formed this way: First, the crowd desires to do its own will though knowing God’s Will. We have here the first seeds of Democracy; to insist on the will of the majority completely disregarding the Will of God. The idea of ‘rights’ is man’s attempts to raise his fist against God.
Secondly; with this initial act of pride, man loves himself and, as a consequence, hate God.
Thirdly: loving himself and hating God (since you will love one and hate the other) he descends to the level of the senses (the fruit is nice to the taste and pleasant to the eyes.) He, now, loves only sensible things and chose to make with his own hands his heaven here on earth. He believes he can do it.
Fourthly; but to satisfy his senses and concupiscence, he needs lots of money. Thus he develops the love of money which is the root of all evil. This is called covetousness, the vice that enabled Satan to enter Judas.
Fifthly; Satan possess man’s soul and begins to rule the whole man. Possess by Satan who is the father of lies, he begins to lie. His very breath is all lying.
Sixthly; as St. Thomas wrote; the punishment in being in the state of sin is that man easily falls into the next sin, and to the next sin and to the next sin. So they fall into all kinds of sex perversions and finally commits murder. Symbolized by Cain who killed his own brother, this crowd will kill their own children, will kill the aged, will kill anybody for no reason…..except for the fact that they are now spiritually possessed by Satan. Now, in complete union with Satan they are destined to go to hell.
At this stage every aspect of their lives and activities are contaminated with the stench of evil. Their very breath is evil. They are not contented in doing great evils; they force others to do evil under pain of murdering them.
3. The defect as it exist in the Church today.
The whole world is the ‘crowd.’ It has become worse because just by itself evil becomes worse without any effort to make it worse. It is automatic. The U.S. and Europe are the best example of of ‘the decline of civilization.’ They think only of money; look at their world wide financial meetings. They betray their own countrymen, they lie and continuously declare war on hapless nations.
Like Zachaeus, the Church had been short in stature in that she shows much ignorance of the teachings of Christ. We do not have to go far to see this state of affairs. The Church, led by Pope Francis would rather do what it wants, like Eve, rather than do what God wants as proposed in Scriptures. As punishment the Church had descended down to the natural level.
Pope Francis had not given any spiritual teachings since his election. Not one of his writings is spiritual. They are all in the natural level. His latest ‘Amoris Laetitia’ is pure adultery. His ‘Vultum’ is pure socialization. His ‘Laudato’ is very bad science to please the U.N. All his writings and speeches are essentially doing his own will in completely disobedience to the written Word of God. Just like Eve.
He had lied in saying ‘you can have Charity without first having Faith.’ He had lied that ‘unbelievers can go to heaven.’ He had lied that ‘all religions are pleasing to God.’ He had murdered many souls with his wrong teachings. To encourage adulterers to receive Holy Communion is double murder.
Pope Francis have certainly joined the club of George Soros in the program of causing chaos in the world because that is the way to earn more money. Pope Francis told the youth at World Youth day, precisely, to ‘mess up the world.’
Just look at the e-mails of Pope Francis’ favorite cardinal advisers. No different from the latest Wikileaks releases. The Church which was supposed to be in the world but not of the world, had become ‘the crowd’ in the world.
We live in a situation where we cannot see the face of Christ; because as of late, the Encyclicals and the Motu Propios are garbage. And the Church had become like the ‘crowd’ that completely blocks our view of Christ because she has become identical to sin. So what do we do?
4. Climb up the sycamore tree.
To climb the tree means to view the world from a bird’s eye view. This means Repentance, i.e. setting oneself apart from the rest of sinful men by knowing your own sins, be sorry for those sins, have a purpose of amendment and make restitution for those sins. Repentance will make a soul different from the rest of men who are by nature sinners. Repentance will make him stand out, like climbing a sycamore tree.
For a rich man like Zachaeus to stand out among men because of his repentance would be an occasion of pride. Sort of, ‘I am better than this or that man. Sounds familiar? So it was necessary for Christ to call him down to humility. The command of Christ for him to come down is the Gospel’s way of showing that Christ gave him the grace of humility. This virtue is supernatural and can only be given by Christ.
5. Come down the tree.
Humility is the gift Christ gave Zachaeus for his repentance. Repentance must show worthy fruits. Because he had this virtue, this enabled him to go home, give one half of his possession to the poor and the other half, he used to repay those whom he defrauded.
The virtue of humility enabled him to give up his possessions; not the other way around. It is not that he gave up his possession and that made him humble. No. The young rich man in another parable could not go home, sell all his things and give it to the poor, because he was not given the virtue of humility. Why?
St. Thomas wrote that he had not repented properly as seen in his own words
6. Salvation had come to this house. This is the declaration gave to a whole household where the father of the family alone had gone through the proper steps o salvation.
7. Eve’s sin was her attempt to start her own religion with her own personal morality. It was not her bright idea. It was a suggestion from the devil. The new world order is a man made paradise here on earth, ruled by a few rich men spiritually possessed by the devil, just like Judas. Ruling the world as tyrants, they will kill billions to make the population ‘sustainable economically’ and they entertain the remaining few with sexual perversions, as can already be read in the news.
The one world religion is a man made religion on earth; a heretical combination of contradicting religion where all are required to set aside their gods to accept a common god. Reject the true God and the only other choice is Lucifer.
Both the new world order and the one world religion are authored by Lucifer who wanted to be like God and have his own church, own religion and own kingdom. This heretical tendency condemned as early as the 1900 can only have Lucifer as its god and Lucifer as its president.
With a world without Faith and will, therefore, believe in their ignorance anything, this is a scenario that if there is a God He would certainly say ‘Enough is enough!’
A nation who in their international magazine will announce that a candidate is already President even before the election even begins, ……this nation cannot go lower. How about a Church who declares Pope someone who does not have a single sign he is elected by God.