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Yeshua in turn had made a break from Yohanan, but he had not yet revealed this. With something of an inside track to the thoughts of Bat-El he knew the one the Yehudim called  Yahweh really had no human enemies and  little desire to  settle affairs  in that rough neighborhood of Earth. Yeshua saw how the Romans dominated society with the willing participation of the priesthood and the scribes. The Temple was now a kind of central clearing house for power, and he knew there was no possibility of overthrowing that system or starting a popular revolution that would. What Yeshua could do instead was teach anyone  who listened how to  build a new kind of society from the  ground up. He could teach them how to nullify the power of the priests and scribes and Pharisees to exclude. In the Kingdom of  God there  would always be  a place where the excluded ones could land on their feet.

Yeshua knew he could never destroy the  domination system, only expose the scapegoating mechanism that lay at the root. He knew it would cost his life in the process because  those who relied on the flow of  power and  the markers that  went with  it, the money, would protect that flow  at all costs. But Yeshua could not bring himself  to condemn  anyone  who was  trapped in  the sickness that was the Roman system. Not the emperor in Rome, not the Tetrarch who had arrested  Yohanan, and especially  not the lowest component in the machine, a tax collector named Mattiyahu who had come to see him heal and teach.

With Mattiyahu looking on Yeshua  healed a 'leper'  and ordered him to make a gift to the priest in the temple of God according to the Mosaic Law, but he was saddened by  the case because the man only had psoriasis and was  not infectious in any  way, yet the priests have required him to live in solitude.

Yeshua told the crowd, "A man had two sons. He told one, 'Go and work in the  vineyard today.'  At  first his  son refused,  but thought better of it and went.  The man said the same to another son, who replied, 'I will go, sir'  but he did not. Which of the two was  the faithful son?  "Likewise your Father in  Kemen told you the Children of Israel are to be a priestly people, a light to the Gentiles. But do you make the rule of  God present with your active participation? No! You pay lip service, and wait for God to overthrow your occupiers with violence!"

Mattiyahu was moved by all  that he saw  Yeshua say and  do. He drew near and  said,  'Teacher, let  it be  that  you and  your disciples recline at table in my house, for I would hear more."

Yeshua accepted, but Barthulumawus said, "Master, everyone knows this is a tax collector and a sinner!"