“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” (Jesus in John 14:18)

by Brian Shilhavy

In the 14th chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament portion of the Bible, we have the historical record of some of Jesus’s last words to his closest disciples, and they are some of the most intimate words Jesus spoke to them, just hours before he was to be arrested and ultimately executed.

The chapter starts out this way:

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” (John 14:1-3)

Then in verse 18 Jesus says:

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. (John 14:18)

The word “orphan” which literally means without parents, appears only in this verse and one other verse in the entire New Testament, in the book of James:

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. (James 1:27)

In the Greek Old Testament portion of the Bible, the word “orphan” is used 44 times, most often in the book of Deuteronomy which contains the Law of Moses, and how to deal with children who were without parents, as orphans.

But the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ were not literal orphans, as far as we know. Peter and his brother Andrew had a father who ran a fishing business in the Sea of Galilee, and John with his brother James also had parents, including a mother (Matthew 20:20).

So why did Jesus refer to them as potential “orphans” after he left them?

The answer is actually very clear in the teachings of Jesus, because to follow Jesus as one of his disciples meant leaving behind biological families. These were Jesus’s closest disciples, and they gave up everything to follow Jesus, including their careers and biological families, for the sake of the Kingdom of God.

Jesus looked around and said to his disciples,

“How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again,

“Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other,

“Who then can be saved?”

Jesus looked at them and said,

“With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”

Peter said to him,

“We have left everything to follow you!”

“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied,

“no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life.

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.” (Mark 10:23-31)

This is a message that is crystal clear in the New Testament scriptures, and the teachings of Jesus, but don’t expect to hear this teaching in Christianity, which teaches almost the opposite: to have a high regard and be devoted to one’s biological family members.

This is what Jesus taught:

Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law– a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. – Jesus (Matthew 10:34-38)

For those of you still in the Christian cult, when is the last time your pastor or other religious leader preached or taught on “The Enemies in Your Own Household“?

When I used to be in Christianity, I never once heard a message like that. Instead, Christian organizations such as “Focus on the Family” and others make $billions in revenue every year promoting their false views on “the family.” See:

The Concept of the American Christian Family is a Myth and is NOT Found Anywhere in the Bible

In these words of Jesus during the last hours with his closest disciples, he was preparing them for his physical death and his departure from this world, and they were afraid of a future without him.

So Jesus reassures them that he will NOT leave them as orphans.

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.”

Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said,

“But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”

Jesus replied,

“If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

He who does not love me will not obey my teaching.

These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. All this I have spoken while still with you.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives.

Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming.

He has no hold on me, but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.” (John 14:18-31)

There is so much truth in this chapter, as well as in the next chapter, chapter 15 of John’s gospel in the New Testament. Christianity has corrupted much of this teaching with false doctrines (teachings of men), such as the false teaching of the “trinity”, the idea that there are three persons in the “Godhead”.

But those false teachings are beyond the scope of this article.

The main message of Jesus in these verses that is most relevant to today’s culture in the U.S., is that to be an outcast from one’s family, to be excluded from the churches and other religious institutions because of our faith and obedience to Jesus, is to stand with Jesus Christ in Truth, the same as the New Testament believers.

Orphans are only orphans until they are adopted into a new family, and throughout the New Testament God’s relationship to the believers of Jesus Christ is constantly referred to as “adoption.”

Taking “orphans” who have lost their biological families and other relationships for the sake of Christ, and adopting them into God’s family, is the ONLY way of entering into the Kingdom of God.

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. (Ephesians 1:4-8)

This new family we are adopted into is a family with spiritual ties, as opposed to physical family ties, as the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ, is now available to all true believers, the “sons of God”.

Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.

For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.

And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. (Romans 8:12-17)

Did you notice what Paul wrote in verse 17 of this beautiful chapter 8 in the book of Romans? To be a son of God in God’s family, automatically means that we share in Christ’s sufferings.

This is in stark contrast to American Christianity, which is mainly a “prosperity gospel” free of sufferings, at least in theory.

Jesus knew this truth, and he knew that after he died the physical death to break the curse of Adam and Eve that kept humanity enslaved to Satan, that his Spirit would be poured out to his disciples on the day of Pentecost, and that they would no longer be “servants”, but his friends.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Now remain in my love.

If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business.

Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last.

Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other. (John 15:9-17)

Our love for Jesus and our fellow friends who are sons of God, adopted by him out of our biological families, must exceed and be a higher priority than our love for our natural families through birth or marriage.

This is an indisputable truth taught by Jesus and the New Testament believers, but it is mostly absent in the teachings of the Christianity Cult.

And let’s not forget that these words of Jesus in John chapter 14 and 15 which were spoken to his closest disciples, were all men who were ethnic Jews.

The Jews were taught that they were saved by their ethnicity, with Abraham as their “father”. Jesus totally refuted that, especially in John chapter 8, where he stated that the Jews who rejected him served their “father” the “Devil.”

It is within this context that we can understand what Jesus was really stating when he said:

And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. (Matthew 23:9)

No earthy father, including Abraham, can bring about salvation. Only through spiritual adoption can we become a child of God, and a friend of Jesus Christ, our spiritual big brother.

This message is heavy on my heart today for all of you who are victims of child sex trafficking, because the #1 pipeline for child sex trafficking in the United States is the nation’s foster care and adoption programs in Child Welfare.

And the largest sponsors of this pedophile network are Christian Churches, as they twist the meaning of “orphan” to use it as a justification to traffick children. See:

Christian Churches Redefine the Meaning of “Orphan” to Justify Participating in Child Trafficking

Jesus views these churches as “Synagogues of Satan,” and they will reap what they have sown.

They claim to follow Jesus just as the Satanic Jews of Jesus’s days claimed to follow Abraham, and Moses.

But Jesus made it clear that they did not know God, and the same is true today of Christians who actually serve their father, Satan.

Jesus, NOT Christianity, is our only hope to be adopted as orphans, and become part of God’s family as his child.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?

But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns?

Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:22-39)

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