hen someone is invaded by Satan, he loses all spiritual support and
inspiration. Trust in God, as well as a sense of gratitude to Him,
is lost. One begins to see everything through human eyes. Mary did
not help Jesus with the wedding he desired. She even opposed it.
This was the direct reason that Jesus could not receive his bride,
and could not become the True Parent; and this forced him to go the
way of the cross.
Jesus' words to Mary during the wedding at Cana, "Oh
woman, what have you to do with me?" (John 2:4), reveal a
reproachful heart to a mother who helped in the weddings of others
but neglected to help Jesus receive his bride, the most important
requirement of the Providence. With this perspective, now we can
understand why Jesus asked, "Who is my mother, and who are my
brothers?" (Matthew 12:48)
Faced with the opposition of Mary, Zechariah,
Elizabeth, and finally John the Baptist, Jesus gave up hope for
their protection as he sought to fulfill his mission. Therefore,
Jesus left his home in search of a new spiritual foundation to
restart the Providence of Salvation.
Now without a family and household, Jesus lamented,
"foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of
man has nowhere to lay his head." (Matthew 8:20) With his family
level foundation lost, Jesus sought to replace it. That was his
three-year course.
Mary was supposed to bring Jesus and John the
Baptist into unity, which would signify Cain and Abel becoming one.
That was Mary's mission. John was in the Cain position and Jesus was
in the position of God's son. But we know what has actually
happened. Did they unite into one? No, they failed to do that. If
Mary had achieved that, certainly Jesus would not have had to die.
He would have gone on victoriously to complete his mission. But he
did not. Instead he was crucified and there came into being the
division of the world into left and right. That means throughout the
world, Cain and Abel continued to be separated. Cain's religion,
Islam, and the Abel religion, Christianity, have fought many times.
Leah and Rachel should have become one, and Mary was supposed to do
the same. But Leah and Rachel did not unite, and that was the origin
of the division of Israel into ten tribes and two tribes, and this
also was the very origin of Islam.
Jesus' family tree was simple; he did not have too
many relatives. Jesus was a stepson, not a legitimate first son.
Mary should not have lived with Joseph. We know so little about
that, but look back 2,000 years and imagine. They should have kept
this as a closely guarded secret amongst themselves. But someone
knew, and talked. "Oh, you are keeping your wife, who gave birth to
an illegitimate child." Do you think this didn't spread all around
their family and clan? Yes; they could not erase that information.
No matter what Jesus said or claimed to be, they all knew that he
was an illegitimate child. How could God make an illegitimate child
the Messiah?
We should also consider the influence that Joseph
and Mary's relationship had on Jesus. Mary had to restore the
positions of Eve and Tamar through indemnity, so she should have
remained as only the fiancée of Joseph. Providentially, they could
not be husband and wife. It was God's desire that they not have
sexual relations either before or after Jesus' birth. Joseph still
loved Mary after Jesus was born, but Mary should have wanted to
separate from Joseph to raise Jesus as the Son of God.
But the real circumstances did not make this easy to
do. Even though Mary's original mind told her that she should not do
so, she had sexual relations with Joseph. They had children, which
was a repetition of Eve's mistake. With this condition, Satan
invaded them. With the exception of Jesus, everyone who should have
protected Jesus came under the dominion of Satan: his father, his
mother, his Abel-type brothers (John the Baptist and his
brothers) and his Cain-type brothers (the children of
Joseph).
