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Caiaphas Then… and Now

March 29, 2013 by Gerard M. Nadal

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During the singing of the passion today I sat and contemplated something I’d heard a thousand times and never really gave much thought: St. John tells us it was Caiaphas the High Priest who first floated the idea to the Jewish people the advantage of having one man die for the people. Immediately a thousand pro-choice arguments along similar lines crowded in on me.

Caiaphas was the High Priest, the mediator between God and man, the one who offered animal sacrifice for the remission of the people’s sins, for the Mercy of God. Somewhere along the way Caiaphas lost his faith in God, and he eventually became no better than the Canaanite priests who offered human sacrifice to appease the gods. Caiaphas would offer a man to the Romans, and in so doing he would elevate Caesar above the one true God of the universe.

For Caiaphas, Caesar alone had the power to save and deliver, and he would be offered a human sacrifice in exchange by God’s High Priest. That’s stunning.

The complete perversion and implosion of the priesthood. The God who delivered Israel repeatedly, who blessed Israel abundantly was abandoned by his own High Priest.

Why?

It’s easy to cast stones at old Caiaphas. He’s the villain of today’s narrative, but he’s also pretty tame by today’s standard. In truth, we’ve eclipsed Caiaphas long ago.

The main reason(s) for sacrificing the most innocent of our age have much to do with Caiaphas’ theme of blood sacrifice for material benefit. In the inner-city the narrative is that babies keep girls from becoming all they can be, that they hold girls back from completing education. With 20 million dead Black babies in 40 years, the Ivy League colleges ought to have annexes in Harlem, Watts, and Detroit.

Better the babies should die, that the mothers might live.

However, the truth is that these centers of slaughter are more violent, squalid, and desperately poor than ever before. That’s the real payout from blood sacrifice of humans.

Today’s high priest in the White House has ordained through his healthcare plan that people at age 75 or older may not receive cancer treatments or pacemakers if the physicians can’t guarantee at least five more years of quality life. Such rationing also saves quite a bit of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and government pension benefits for a nation that is dead broke.

Better for them to die that the nation might live.

Caiaphas let Satan lead him into the death cult mentality, and we have followed suit. Thirty-seven years after Caiaphas sold out, the Temple in Jerusalem was leveled by those same Romans to whom Jesus was offered as a peace offering. Thirty-seven years after the embrace of legalized abortion (beginning in New York) we were saddled with a president who has torn down the pillars of American society.

That’s the price of embracing human sacrifice to appease Satan and his lies.

That’s the price of turning one’s back on God.

False gods have a nasty way of enslaving their followers, as Americans are beginning to learn.

But Easter’s coming…

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Posted in Abortion, Lent | Tagged Caiaphas | 5 Comments

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  1. on March 29, 2013 at 6:22 PM Marvin

    Insightful and inspiring post. I’m grateful for devout Catholics in America who have stood their ground. God bless you and your households!


  2. on March 30, 2013 at 3:26 AM Robert Pressler

    Heart breaking and so true. Destruction awaits those who defy God. The U.S. must repent of the sin of abortion.


  3. on March 30, 2013 at 10:50 AM Stephen Whiting

    Omigoodness, Dr. G…this is an amazingly perceptive analysis. I’ve never even come close to making a connection like this, but your analogy SO fits. Even such a similar timeline. Evil simply begets evil, and human sacrifice simply begets destruction. A powerful contemplation, and just one more reminder of how truly fallen we really are. Thank you!

    And yes, by the grace of our Lord, Easter comes…


  4. on March 30, 2013 at 3:12 PM matt25

    Challenging thoughts along lines I had never considered.


  5. on March 31, 2013 at 3:26 AM Steve

    Excellent and “on point” IMHO.



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