THE GOAL OF FILIPINOS – TO BE A SERPENT WHILE REMAINING A DOVE

THE GOAL OF FILIPINOS – TO BE A SERPENT WHILE REMAINING A DOVE

Jehovah-Jesus, our true Creator, God, Father and Savior, created and begot us with a goal in mind.

What is that goal?

It is written in Genesis 1: “Let us make man after our own likeness and image.” That refers both to form (appearance) and character.

In the aspect of character, we shall be His image – replica – therefore, sons and daughters.

But already with Adam, the goal of character was hindered was hindered, even frustrated, even lost, when Adam and Eve, by their decision disobeyed God. There was an obstacle to attain the goal “Let us make man and the woman after our own image – our replica.”

What is that obstacle? Answer: The bad character – the character of disobedience. And this character of disobedience worsened and worsened as the centuries rolled by until by the time of Noah, Father Jehovah lamented: “I regret that I have made man.” He had to destroy a vast number of them through a flood. Only 8 souls were saved from it, including Noah.

What’s the message? The goal of character was frustrated. Man, by his own volition, did not pursue to become the image – the replica of God. The Old Testament records show that instead of becoming nobler, holier, more righteous, man had instead become more and more degenerate, more wicked, more vile.

So degenerate was the state of man down to which he had fallen from the glory (high standards) of God that it required Him to come down, took a human flesh, became human – Jesus Christ – to save man from the steady downhill of degeneration, deterioration and decay.

Jesus had to intervene or else the original and unchanged goal would never be attained. The goal of character.

What is that goal of character? What kind of image? What character traits? What qualities?

Answer: Throughout the Bible and other Holy Scriptures, God’s 7 Holy Traits (oftentimes called the ‘Seven Spirits’ of God) are described. These are: Love, Wisdom, Will, Order, Earnest, Patience and Meekness/Compassion. Please take note that these are the basic traits and as such, these can be and are ‘mixed’ to make up other traits like diligence which is a compound trait, composed of more than one trait. If we dissect the trait of diligence, we can find the basic traits of love, wisdom, will, earnest, patience, compassion, etc. For what is man diligent? Because he has love – because he loves himself and some people, for whose sake he is works diligently, so he can provide for them and make them alive and happy. In the compound trait of diligence, there is often the trait of wisdom, which is often learned along the way, while at work. Man, during work, keeps on learning more and more. So, he grows in knowledge, he grows in wisdom, the more he works.

Strong is the will in a person who works than in a lazy or coward person. Also strong is the trait or spirit of earnestness in a diligent person. So is his patience as he waits for the fruit of his labor. Oftentimes, strong is his compassion towards the ones he loves. As a matter of fact, this last or 7th trait of pity towards his loved ones is often the stronger feeling he has which prods him to work harder for those he loves.

So, like the 7 colors of the rainbow (red, yellow, orange, green, blue, indigo, violet) which an artist can combine into many colors, and like the 7 basic tunes of music (do, ri, me, fa, so, la, ti) which a musician can combine into many songs, the 7 basic spirit of God can be combined into many more positive, good traits, which we may call compound traits.

Our first goal, however, is to acquire the 7 basic traits of our Father. If we have them, the next task is the balancing or proper mixing, exactly like what the painter does with colors and what a musician does with the notes.

Correct mixture – or proper balancing – is the essence of education – of experience, of training, of guidance, of mentoring. It is the main task of the educators. The parents and other older members of the family and society are tasked to be the educators of the children.

In God’s writings which are for teaching purposes, balancing is an important objective. As a matter of fact, BALANCE is one of the most important purposes why the Lord came as Teacher and Savior. He came to teach us how to balance the 7 traits of God. And He came to us to save us from imbalance.

You will comprehend this very important point as we near completion of this article.

Lucifer is a classic case of imbalance. He lost much amount of meekness which the Bible also calls innocence, blamelessness, which should have tempered his great wisdom. And because he allowed great amount of meekness to be drained, so to speak, off his heart, he became very proud as a result and his great wisdom became an arrogant wisdom, no longer meek wisdom! What is an arrogant wisdom? It is high intelligence or, to use current terminology, great I.Q. with an equal measure of arrogance; it is brilliance without corresponding meekness-compassion for the poor.

To lose just one of these 7 compulsory pillars of character is already a cause of one’s fall. For in the case of Lucifer, when he lost the 7th trait, his other good traits ceased to be a virtue. His wisdom ceased to be a virtue when he became arrogant-rebellious, using such wisdom to oppose God, instead of to do His will.

Most people are not really the devil that you imagine them to be. Even Lucifer is not all evil. As a matter of fact, Jesus encouraged us to become like him? Like him?! Yes, when He said, “Be wise as a serpent” (Matthew 10:16). Lucifer is the foremost serpent. He is the leader of all serpents. So, when Jesus uttered that statement, He was alluding to Lucifer and we can paraphrase His statement thus: “Be wise as Lucifer”!

“And become evil as he is!” you might hurry to suggest.

My answer: No, we can’t be like him if we take note of the second half of Jesus’ statement: “and [at the same time] be blameless [innocent, meek] as a dove.”

We should not view the whole statement: “Be wise as a serpent and blameless like a dove” (Matthew 10:16).

That is our character goal. That is our purpose of coming here on earth. That is what Jehovah meant when He declared His purpose for creating us: “Let us make man after our own likeness and image.”

We are to become both wise and blameless.

Synonyms of blameless are: humility, meekness, gentleness, innocence, sinlessness; mercy, kindness, compassion, charity – different manifestations of the same spirit of love for God and neighbor. It is the opposite of pride.

Our character goal is to become both a serpent and a dove, in their positive traits, namely: wisdom and meekness.

Of course, we are not to acquire the naughty and deceptive cleverness (which is wisdom turned bad) of the serpent which is the result of wisdom lacking in meekness-humility.

As what I had said, wisdom minus meekness-humility equals malicious wisdom – evil wisdom – arrogant wisdom - wisdom used for rebellion and destructive purposes.

We need to temper wisdom with meek and humble love which is very great in a dove.

Aside from Lucifer, we can also see the evil effects of wisdom devoid of meek and selfless love among great, wise, and powerful nations like the USA.

Wisdom or knowledge which is the sharpening of the mind, is their strength and their obsession, to the point of neglecting or even spurning the development of the heart in meek, compassionate love for the fellowman.

What is the result of America’s too much emphasis on knowledge or wisdom? She has neglected to care for the poor nations. In her hurry to use wisdom to accumulate riches, she did not and does not know that she is sucking the nations to death! She is causing the earth to dry up: she leads the advanced countries in cutting the forests which serve as a crucial link between the clouds and underground aquifer (water tank). She leads the industrialized countries in making this planet into a big greenhouse where the heat is trapped above our heads and could not escape farther to the outer space. That is why our planet is getting warm and the climate hotter which dries up the land and farm – destroying our crops, causing hunger.

To state it in a simpler way: subtract/decrease water, add/increase heat = drought & famine!

That is the result of America’s pursuit of what Jesus said “Be wise as a serpent” but forgetting/neglecting the other half of the command “and be meek as a dove.” The meekness of the dove would have led America to be true in her compassion and concern for others. A few decades ago, there was that amount of brotherly love – that compassion – that charity in the heart of America. But sadly, it was lost along the way. It dried up too. What she has now is “investment charity” – a kind of charity that is performed in order to get something better and greater in return or to sustain control of some existing advantages, rights and privileges. It is a selfish charity. Yes, sort of merciless charity. Yes, you can see that in her economic aids; she does not give grants or aids to the Philippines unless it will benefit her as well. Look at the aids in the form of roads and bridges, which are the last in our list of priorities and needs. Why did the USA as well as other donor nations insist to give us aids in the form of roads and bridges? So was can have a good ride going to places where our loved ones live or work? Not necessarily. For foremost in her mind is to make sure that her multi-national companies like Unilever, Procter & Gamble, her mining corporations, her executives, etc. will have a safe and smooth road to travel!

You couldn’t hear of America giving the Filipinos the real kind of gifts that can make them strong, independent, prosperous, and no longer roam around the world looking for the worst kind of work that only the slaves of the bygone days were made to do.

Even their own brad of Christianity – it is no longer selfless Christianity, but a Christianity full of the self – selfish motive, more of the self. And often in the end, it is the American interests that prevailed.

I have yet to see an America that does not destroy our forests, which act has destroyed our natural water system; dried our aquifers (underground water tanks), dried up our springs, dried up our waterfalls, dried up our rivers, dried up our fields and farms, destroyed our agriculture, caused drought and famine (hunger) among the vast majority of the people. I have yet to see an America who does not fatly pay their Filipino counterparts to cut our forests and who does not make those who destroy our environment rich.

I have yet to see an America who does not sell, insist, impose and outwit our farmers into using chemical fertilizers that are killing the natural system of fertility built by God in the soil. I never have seen an America that helped – that aided – us to make our farm sustainable. The result of her chemical products to our farm is: death of the soil, diminishing returns (yields), and diseases among animals and humans!

I have yet to see an America who does not do business at the expense of others. I want to see an America who does business that empowers and sustains others in a long-term basis, not “sweet today but bitter in the long run”.

I have not seen an America that is not concerned of oil profit. I do not see an America who put air freshness over and above oil interest. What I see is an America who does business with fossil fuel (oil) that pollutes our air – oil that, when burned as gasoline, releases countless of bad elements in the air that makes cigarette smoke even more dangerous to non-smokers – oil whose smoke covers (envelopes) the earth’s atmosphere and traps huge amount of heat emitted from the earth (the accumulated and trapped heat causing what they call “global warming”).

I have not seen an America who was not greedily marketing the fossil fuel that, aside from enveloping the lower atmosphere of the planet, is also depleting, destroying, replacing, creating hole in the upper ozone layer. And this ozone hole or ozone thinning is allowing the hot ultra-violet rays (UVRs) of the sun to enter the earth directly in huge volume, instead of being sieved and turned mild (in the form of milder Gamma Rays) first by the ozone layer.

The hot UVRs hit the oceans which boil in time, producing whirlwind, tornados, storms, typhoons, hurricanes – different names of the same thing. The UVRs hit the forest and you get wildfires. The UVRs hit the residences and you get hot air through the air-conditioning and fans, suffocating people inside windowless rooms, especially the elderly.

The global warming phenomenon prevents heat from escaping; so it adds heat to the earth. The ozone depletion lets the sun’s UVRs to enter the earth in large volumes. So, what we see is a process which adds more heat from the sun while at the same time prevents any heat from escaping the earth. Net effect: the planet Earth gets hotter and hotter.

Both global warming and ozone depletion make the our home earth hotter and hotter everyday.

One farmer in the tropical Philippines told me that the time has truly changed over the past, or within just, 3 or 4 decades (30 – 40 years). He said that before, farmers can work in the open field during the 10 am to 3 pm hours. Minus hour of lunch and rest, that is a total of 4 hours – to the farmer, 4 very precious hours.

It is the time farmers have lost everyday. And if you sum it up, how many total of hours have been lost in 40 years? Precious hours which could have been spent making farms, repairing farms, replenishing farms, restoring the fertility of the farms, planting fruit trees, etc.

How many precious hours? That’s 57,600 hours per farmer. Multiply that by 5 million farmers = 288,000,000,000 hours lost!

I think that you would not disagree with me if I say that such a huge loss of productive hours is a big contributing factor to the present poverty of the people here in the Philippines as well as in other nations of similar experience.

Of course, loss of hours due to gambling or vice is the same to it! Hours should be spent for productive purposes.

Another thing that we should realize about this hot “thing” is that this hot thing is not only robbing us of precious hours but also is killing our plants and trees! Countless of plants and trees were not able to grow because of heat and the dryness of the soil that resulted from this heat. This too has contributed largely to our poverty.

So, the money-making activity of the misguided Americans et al that makes our planet hotter and hotter is not a good Christian act. The business of making our
Earth overhot is making a lot of peoples all around the world poor and hungry and sick and dying because this shortsighted act has destroyed the ecological balance of the earth which in the past made food abundant!

You see, what started to be wisdom has become a shortsighted act. In this case, wisdom has turned into foolishness!

And that is what has happened to America et al who pursued wisdom apart from meek love!

To America, the message from the Lord now is: Seek ye first meek love and you will have your now-destructive wisdom turned from vice into virtue.

The prevailing weakness of the descendants of Jacob-Israel is guilelessness or innocence. For already with their patriarch Jacob-Israel, the spirit of deceptiveness, betrayal and covetousness was present. Jacob-Israel exercised deceptiveness and betrayal towards his twin brother Esau twice to covet and grab two things: the blessings and the birthright for the firstborn.

It is the problem with the situation which often happens in this earth where one is knowing and the other is ignorant. In the case of the twin Esau and Jacob, it was Jacob who understood more deeply and appreciated much the value of spiritual blessings and the birthright; Jacob realized that they were spiritual powers, powers of the mind and heart that he and his future descendants could use to attain prosperity and greatness. Esau, the naïve or negligent in this story, failed to appreciate their value and future implications, and was too willing to exchange one with a mere porridge! Read the interesting story in Genesis 25:19-34 & 27:1-46.

Here, we can safely surmise that it was Jacob who was the brighter brother who understood the value of things and saw the opportunities behind them. The Americans et al, the modern descendants of patriarch Jacob, are still carrying this trait – this intelligence – this ability to understand the usefulness of things. So, they were the first ones who understood the value of minerals; they were the first ones who mined our land. When, we, like Esau, woke up to realize our naivety and lament our loss, it was to be late, or even too late! The Americans et al have already ravished our lands, turned the mined portions into widening deserts!

And so we complained, we are angry. We are getting angrier because, in addition to the permanent loss of plant and animal life in these places, volumes of poisonous chemicals used in mining operations have sipped into our water tables/sources which provide us with the drinking water and large amount of these chemicals have flowed through the rivers into the seawaters where the fishes and other marine animals live. In the end, it is we who imbibe the poisonous chemicals like mercury inside the fish. In the end, it is us who got sick, who contracted cancers. It is our children who got deformed, if they ever could manage to survive the chemicals that got inside their mother’s wombs and breasts.

In the case of Jacob and Americans et al, there is a big lack of “doveness” and too much “serpertine” traits.

In the part of Esau and third world nations, it is too much naivety or ignorance or even innocence that give the intelligent ones the opportunity to short-change us!

Let our equally naïve brothers in Africa take note of this!

In the balance which the Lord Jesus Christ had given us or taught us, there are two important sides or ends: wisdom and meek love.

Wisdom is represented by the serpent, while meekness is represented by the dove.

For those who are already wise or wiser like the Americans et al, the prescription of Jesus Christ, if we paraphrase His original statement and make it suit the specific condition is: BE YOU MEEK AS THE DOVE, NOT JUST WISE AS THE SERPENT.

Whereas, to us, Filipinos, Africans and others, who are lacking in intelligence, but possessing more in innocence or guilelessness, the advice should be understood us: BE YOU ALSO WISE, NOT JUST INNOCENT.

Realize that we are not to throw away our innocence-blamelessness-meekness, which made us lovable as a people, like the lovability of a little child, of a lamb, and of a dove. Behold, my negrito, Negroes, negroid and brown brothers all over the womb, give ear to my advice: NEVER, NEVER, NEVER LOSE OUR INNOCENCE IN EXCHANGE FOR ‘WISDOM’!

The law of Christ stands: “Remain blameless/gentle as a dove, as you pursue wisdom.”

We are not to give up our innocence. What we are to give up is only the ignorant part of such innocence!

Do you get me? Innocence and ignorance can be separated by adding wisdom to the brain of the dove or love or child or lamb or country girl or negroid man!

Innocence and ignorance are two different things, two strange bedfellows who should not have been together in the first place. Their long-time company has resulted to millions of country girls lured to the illegal flesh trade and turned them into prostitutes. The long-time marriage of innocence and ignorance has led to the exploitation of the third world countries by the shrewder people from China, Japan, America, et al.

Gentleness-meekness-innocence-compassion is a main trait of the heart; while wisdom is the property of the mind.

Many see us, Filipinos and our brother negroid-brownish peoples as a combination of the good desirable side of the 7th trait: humility, gentleness, meekness, innocence; compassion, kindness, hospitality, and the likes – different manifestations of the same 7th spiritual attribute.

But the bad side of innocence, if wisdom is lacking or absent, is: ignorance, naivety, gullibility, being easily deceived, being easily exploited, used, abused and oppressed, etc.

You don’t have to put a question mark on that statement. It has been our lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggg time experience, as a Filipino people!!!!! It is what has been done to our innocent wives and daughters for a very lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That your doubt is out of order and becomes my reason why I also call you naïve!

Better agree that we proceed to the next step we should take from here on. What is our direction in this most important education – character development?

The direction of Filipinos

I have been telling and urging our countrymen for years already that as a nation and as individuals, our direction should be: To acquire wisdom to balance our innocence – to copy the serpent in wisdom while we remain dove in our hearts.

Yes, mind development. Mental cultivation. But we should do that not to displace nor to supplant the innocence or gentleness of the dove; for I tell you, if I were to choose between the two, I would rather remain a dove not matter if I am gullible and exploited, rather than to become a hawk like the USA. I would rather be the victim than the victimizer!

Now, the USA et al are the victimizer, and we, the victims. But we know how painful it is to be the victims, the exploited, the betrayed, the used, the abused, the oppressed, the slaves, the DH, the “care-givers,” oh so good-sounding synonyms of slavery!

If we listen to our Lord Jesus Christ, the message is now very clear, after our exhaustive discussion and analysis of our unfortunate situation and lot of life – the message is clear: REMAIN GENTLE AS A DOVE, EVEN IMPROVING – REFINING SUCH GENTLENESS, BY ADDING WISDOM TO IT TO REMOVE IGNORANCE THAT MADE THE INNOCENT GULLIBLE!

Jesus is our model. He is gentle as a dove but not ignorant and gullible! He is very wise – very intelligent. That’s our idol! The perfect example!

I am now losing time though not space, so, may I hasten to conclude this article in this way by giving you a caution: NOT WORLDLY WISDOM BUT GODLY WISDOM IS WHAT JESUS MEANT WHEN HE URGED US TO “BE WISE AS A SERPENT”. These two types of wisdom are differentiated from each other in James 3:13-18. The effects or results or fruits are very helpful to us in determining what kind of wisdom is it.

Knowledge can be differentiated from wisdom in a way. Knowledge is about the material world and there is also knowledge about the spiritual world. Now, wisdom is in how these knowledge is acquired and/or used. If you acquire knowledge in the wrong manner, then, it is not wisdom. And if you use knowledge in the wrong harmful manner, then, that too is not wisdom. Therefore, wisdom can simply be described as the right acquisition and use of knowledge.

So, beware of the materialistic and spiritless/ unspiritual knowledge that today’s schools, colleges, and universities are conveying to you in a subtle way along with the scientific-academic, intellectual knowledge that the classroom teacher is giving you. Beware of the spirit of the age – the attitude of lust, greed, pride that is flowing in society today. It is so dangerous because it kills the original gentleness and compassion of the heart, and makes you harmful to others.

I cannot overemphasize that point that worldly knowledge carries an evil attitude if you are not careful that can spoil your heart. It is the attitude of lust, greed and pride. When these trio-attitude occupies your heart, then you will proceed to use the intelligence or knowledge in your mind for selfish purposes. That will lead you to wickedness, unrighteousness.

So, if you go to school to with the expressed purpose of acquiring material scientific-academic knowledge, do not accept the evil attitude of lust, greed and pride that the schools or society give you as bonus. Reject the bonus. Get only the scientific-academic knowledge as much as it can be used in the context of divine love for God, neighbor and self.

Lastly, may I tell you a key – a secret to perfect wisdom. What is that key? It is the Law of God which says, “You shall love God your Father above all and your neighbor as yourself.”

With a little reflection, you can find out that loving all – God, neighbor and self – is very wise; it is the strategy to make all forces for us, not against us. The Americans loved only their own selves and now, she is witnessing that the nations as well as God are turning against her! She is losing the support of God and the peoples whom she had oppressed and short-changed!

Please take note and never forget that TRUE WISDOM IS NOT SEPARATE FROM ALL-ENCOMPASSING LOVE; THE TWO GO TOGHETHER. THEY ARE INSEPARABLE.

Read again the Law of Divine Love and you will see more clearly that true wisdom is inherent or built in to it. In other word, WISDOM IS FOUND IN DIVINE LOVE expressed by the Law of God. There in God’s law, you will find both love and wisdom in perfect cooperation and harmony. All that is needed is your faith and faithfulness in it - to live by it and see the blessed results.

THE LAW OF ALL-ENCOMPASSING LOVE IS VERY WISE!

Alas, for America, she has destroyed the balance between love for God, love for neighbor and love for self by giving to self 600fold love, 60fold love for neighbor or less, and worse, only 6fold or less love for God!?

Result: perverted 666!

The correct balance should be, according to the Lord Jesus Christ: 600fold love for God + 60fold love for the neighbor + 6fold humble love for Self. That is the perfect 666!

Let all of you, naïve negroid peoples and innocent country girls, be wiser in this, while retaining the innocence of the child, the dove and the lamb.

Then, you will have attained the true goal of life – the true purpose of your being here on earth, namely: to become wise as a serpent while remaining blameless as a dove!

May you see the vision of God fulfilled in you – that vision that was in His mind and heart when He declared, “LET US MAKE MAN OUR REPLICA”!

Why is balance important? Balance is important because without wisdom, for example, innocence or gentleness becomes ignorant and subject to abuse, and exploitation, as what has happened to third world peoples; and it will also result to oppression and betrayal as what the Negroid peoples suffered from the hands of the Europeans and Americans who are represent the other side of imbalance: shrewd but lacking compassion for their poor naïve fellowmen.

That is how important it is for naïve Negroid race to balance their gentleness with wisdom, so they will no longer be outwitted!

And the need balance wisdom with merciful love (a.k.a. gentleness, compassion) is important to the “wiser” nations otherwise their wisdom will turn worldly and selfish, hence, biased, unfair, and so foolish and destructive in the eyes of those it makes into victims and casualties.

To summarize, the tasks of education are two:
1. The larger goal is: Acquisition of the 7 Basic Spiritual Attributes or Traits or Qualities of God;
2. Their proper mixture – their balance.


What is the way or means to these? Or what is the first steps?

According to the teachings of the Lord, here are the steps to follow for a speedy acquisition of prefect Character which is needed for our entry in God’s holy kingdom:

Step 1: we have to focus first in one: the 7th trait. This last or 7th trait is humility, the state of open mind and teachable heart. If we have this, then, it will be easy for the rest of the 7 traits to enter our minds and hearts.

Step 2: pursue the first two: love and wisdom. As we have learned of the Lord’s teaching, we must be wise as a serpent and at the same time blameless as a dove. And here is the magic: if you have first the 7th trait in your heart, then, the love which you will next acquire is mixed with gentleness or mercy, hence, it will not be selfish love but merciful love, gentle love!

So, what the Lord was really saying was: Acquire wisdom as the serpent and the humble-merciful love of a dove. It is the 7th spirit (mercy, humility) mixed to the 1st spirit (love).

Take note as well that without the 7th spirit, the first spirit will be subject to become selfish, merciless, proud. So the 7th is an important ingredient to temper and balance the 1st.

Finally, it is the same as saying: Balance your love for self with the love for God and neighbor. And you will have perfection.

If you still have a hard time understanding it, it will be your practice of God’s law of Love that will make you comprehend both love and wisdom and the whole of God’s 7 Spiritual attributes, leading to your perfection.

In your journey towards that perfection, I say, VON VOYAGE and God bless.

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