Hello World:
I am really trying to conclude this recent subject on Israel, but I had to split the last post to make this one; because that last post was eight pages long. So, I really do not want individual posts to be that long. Ideally, I would prefer to have posts at around two to three pages in length.
Last time I was finishing up talking about Spiritual Israel. One of the last sentences I said from the previous post was that Spiritual Israel consist of both present day natural Jews and Gentles who have, SPECIFICALLY under God's new covenant, accepted Jesus. These present day Jews are considered to be called Messianic Jews. In a moment I will go into how Jews and Gentiles goes from natural to spiritual.
This Spiritual Israel also consist of Jews of the Old Testament who had faith in the promise. This Spiritual Israel of born again Jews and Gentiles takes precedent over modern day natural Israel, who deny Jesus Christ, the Son, altogether.
That group is called Spiritual Israel, because they are born again spiritually, and to worship and serve God, a person or people has to do it in their spirit. Like Jesus said, God is a Spirit, and we must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.
To elaborate further on being born again spiritually, to sincerely worship and serve God and be in the kingdom of God IN ETERNITY, a man has to be spiritually born again. So, this is not a natural and temporary situation. Under the Old Covenant of the Old Testament, part of being a Jew and being in covenant with God was for males to be physically circumcised on the 8th day after they were born.
However, TODAY, because of the fulfillment of Jesus' sacrifice, to be in covenant with God, men and women has to be circumcised in the heart. By this there is a spiritual change or cutting and washing away of a sinful life from Adam inside of the person by believing and accepting the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
I have scriptures to reference in regards to the above paragraphs.
Romans Chapter 2: Verse 28; For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:"
Verse 29; "But he is a Jew which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not of the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."
Also, Romans Chapter 9: Verse 6; "Not as though the Word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are in Israel:"
Verse 7; "Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called."
Verse 25; "As he saith also Osee(or the book of Hosea 2:23), I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved which was not my beloved."
Verse 26; "And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God."
Verse 27; "Esaias(Isaiah 10:22-23) also crieth concerning Israel, though the number of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a REMNANT shall be saved."
So, those above scriptures speak for themselves, they speak for God and they speak for His CHOSEN.
Some other important points I want to bring up. Yes, there are prophecies against Persia or Iran, and Arab countries who come against Israel and God's future plans for Israel. However, that depends on which Israel you are talking about. Again, for modern day Israel to have victory over their enemies they have to stop being in rebellion against Yahweh, God.
Second point in relation to the above point, GOD ALREADY HAS ENOUGH PEOPLE FROM SPIRITUAL ISRAEL TO POSSESS THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND THE PROMISES GIVEN TO ABRAHAM and promises all the way through the book of Revelation. Out of the current modern day nation of Israel, we know for sure according to scriptures in Revelation, that at least 144,000 Jews will accept Jesus during the Great Tribulation Period.
In terms of getting in trouble for persecuting or harming Jews or Israel, if anyone persecutes or harms any of God's believers, whether they are Jews or Gentiles, those persecutors will be in trouble with God. People are cursed when they commit acts of evil against ANYONE who accepted Jesus Christ. So, for many people out there it is not just Jews to be worried about. You should not be committing acts of evil against anyone.
There is too much instigating and warmonging by preachers that is political and NOT OF GOD! Whatever will go down in the Middle East between Iran, Israel and the Arab countries, God still has an invitation to save Iranians and Arabs too. All Iranians DO NOT have to perish in eternity. All Arabs DO NOT have to perish in eternity either. Yahweh, God, loves Iranians and Yahweh, God, loves Arabs.
If there are some Iranians who will believe and sincerely call on Jesus, Jesus will save them; and if there are some Arabs who believe and sincerely call on Jesus, Jesus will save them too, and they will be born again. Jesus is the Messiah of all races of people who will believe.
Again, Israel is not excused from accepting Jesus Christ. If modern-day Israel want to have God's promises and be in God's kingdom, Israel as a nation must make the choice to become born again just like every other believer and follower of Christ.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Yet Again Israel Or Jews Not Excused
Hello World:
This is the third post installment on Israel not being excused from accepting Jesus. I want to pick up on some thing from the last post where I referenced several verses from Galatians Chapter 3. Once again, I want to re-interate here, that I am really on the nation of modern day or current Israel; but by NO means am I trying to be hateful to Israel or to Jews. Okay!
Just about every time someone says something bad about Israel they are labeled anti-semitic, or a racist hater of Jews. That is not always the case. I do NOT consider myself to be anti-semitic. Some media groups and some people who may read these posts may call me that.
Let me put it this way, I am not under pressure from anybody to be politically correct. It is better to be called anti-Semitic, than to be called anti-God or antichrist. Given the choices to be with the Jews and Modern day Israel, or to be with Jesus and God, I choose Jesus and God every time!
I will NOT choose Israel or the Jewish nation over Jesus Christ! I will NOT promote Israel over Jesus Christ! Why are you, the preachers, who supposed to be christians, promoting something or a group that is blatantly ANTICHRIST??? To all you preachers out there, I would not be so quick to cuddle up with a nation of people who outright rejects Jesus Christ.
If you are against Jesus Christ and against God, then you are against me and I WILL be against you, because I have Jesus Christ, the Son, and I have the Father; and me, Jesus Christ and the Father are together on the same side.
I am just going to preach and teach the truth, that many of today's preachers ignore. Look, it is very important that each and every person accept Jesus Christ, that includes every Jew. Is the history that God had with Israel important? Yes. Are the Jewish feast important? I believe so. However, your history and your feast and your religious formalities does not save you. It is Jesus Christ that saves.
Jesus said in St. Matthew Chapter 23: Verse 37; "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"
Basically Jesus is saying how Israel who resided in Jerusalem over time have killed and rejected prophets of God. Israel have rejected people whom God sent to help them. I want to add, are you not responsible for allowing the killing of our Lord and Savior by the Romans, to go unchallenged? I know it was God's plan for Jesus our Lord, but you Israel did not even attempt to try to do anything to stop His crucifixion.
You still reject Him at the time of this post. Israel as a nation over centuries, both Biblical and modern, have time after time rebelled against God. It should also be noted that some of those Palestinians who have been pushed out of Israeli settlements and SOME who have been killed by Israelis are and were christian.
When Jesus in St. John was talking to Nicodemus A RULING JEWISH PHARISEE at that time, a very religious man, and Jesus was telling him ye or a man must be born again or he can not see the kingdom of God; Jesus did NOT say, oh yeah, by the way, each and every man must be born again, except a Jew or those from Israel. You guys from Israel are excused from this part of God's plan. WRONG!!!
Paul also said, ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Paul also did NOT say, Oh yeah, by the way, all have sinned and come short but Israel. ALL means everybody. Remember, I mentioned in previous posts the scripture that Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life, NO MAN cometh to the Father but by me." Jesus did NOT say no man cometh to the Father, but by me, unless you are a Jew or Israel.
Again, as I mentioned before Israel has the right to exist as a nation by God, and Israel should live in peace. However, in reality, every nation has the right to exist and every nation if they respect others should have peace. Not just Israel, but Mexico, Angola and how about Taiwan. I mean that is a no brainer.
God wants to help modern-day Israel, but Israel has to make the choice to depend on Yahweh and not depend on the United States or themselves. Let me say that the United States and other countries should be allies with Israel, but Israel needs to be closer to God than any other country and that is not the current case.
I will say more in the next post about how God wants to help modern-day Israel, and what really could end up happening to Israel and about their land for the future. All in All everybody should be peaceful under God. Of course that is not the case yet, but will be.
Two good things concerning the nation of Israel as a whole, and I want to be brief with this, is that one, after the fall of Adam and the ensuing chaos and rebellion against Yahweh, God, on earth, God re-established communication and a relationship with man through Israel being smart enough to listen and receive God at that time. That was important. Secondly, God was able to use Israel as a bloodline by which the Messiah, Jesus, came from. That also was very important.
However, now that the Messiah, Jesus Christ who is God's way, has come and many have accepted Him, God now has a NEW and larger group of chosen people who are called Spiritual Israel. Spiritual Israel consist of both natural Jews and Gentiles who have, SPECIFICALLY under God's new covenant, accepted Jesus. I am going to have to stop here and come back with a fourth installment on this subject.
This is the third post installment on Israel not being excused from accepting Jesus. I want to pick up on some thing from the last post where I referenced several verses from Galatians Chapter 3. Once again, I want to re-interate here, that I am really on the nation of modern day or current Israel; but by NO means am I trying to be hateful to Israel or to Jews. Okay!
Just about every time someone says something bad about Israel they are labeled anti-semitic, or a racist hater of Jews. That is not always the case. I do NOT consider myself to be anti-semitic. Some media groups and some people who may read these posts may call me that.
Let me put it this way, I am not under pressure from anybody to be politically correct. It is better to be called anti-Semitic, than to be called anti-God or antichrist. Given the choices to be with the Jews and Modern day Israel, or to be with Jesus and God, I choose Jesus and God every time!
I will NOT choose Israel or the Jewish nation over Jesus Christ! I will NOT promote Israel over Jesus Christ! Why are you, the preachers, who supposed to be christians, promoting something or a group that is blatantly ANTICHRIST??? To all you preachers out there, I would not be so quick to cuddle up with a nation of people who outright rejects Jesus Christ.
If you are against Jesus Christ and against God, then you are against me and I WILL be against you, because I have Jesus Christ, the Son, and I have the Father; and me, Jesus Christ and the Father are together on the same side.
I am just going to preach and teach the truth, that many of today's preachers ignore. Look, it is very important that each and every person accept Jesus Christ, that includes every Jew. Is the history that God had with Israel important? Yes. Are the Jewish feast important? I believe so. However, your history and your feast and your religious formalities does not save you. It is Jesus Christ that saves.
Jesus said in St. Matthew Chapter 23: Verse 37; "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"
Basically Jesus is saying how Israel who resided in Jerusalem over time have killed and rejected prophets of God. Israel have rejected people whom God sent to help them. I want to add, are you not responsible for allowing the killing of our Lord and Savior by the Romans, to go unchallenged? I know it was God's plan for Jesus our Lord, but you Israel did not even attempt to try to do anything to stop His crucifixion.
You still reject Him at the time of this post. Israel as a nation over centuries, both Biblical and modern, have time after time rebelled against God. It should also be noted that some of those Palestinians who have been pushed out of Israeli settlements and SOME who have been killed by Israelis are and were christian.
When Jesus in St. John was talking to Nicodemus A RULING JEWISH PHARISEE at that time, a very religious man, and Jesus was telling him ye or a man must be born again or he can not see the kingdom of God; Jesus did NOT say, oh yeah, by the way, each and every man must be born again, except a Jew or those from Israel. You guys from Israel are excused from this part of God's plan. WRONG!!!
Paul also said, ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Paul also did NOT say, Oh yeah, by the way, all have sinned and come short but Israel. ALL means everybody. Remember, I mentioned in previous posts the scripture that Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life, NO MAN cometh to the Father but by me." Jesus did NOT say no man cometh to the Father, but by me, unless you are a Jew or Israel.
Again, as I mentioned before Israel has the right to exist as a nation by God, and Israel should live in peace. However, in reality, every nation has the right to exist and every nation if they respect others should have peace. Not just Israel, but Mexico, Angola and how about Taiwan. I mean that is a no brainer.
God wants to help modern-day Israel, but Israel has to make the choice to depend on Yahweh and not depend on the United States or themselves. Let me say that the United States and other countries should be allies with Israel, but Israel needs to be closer to God than any other country and that is not the current case.
I will say more in the next post about how God wants to help modern-day Israel, and what really could end up happening to Israel and about their land for the future. All in All everybody should be peaceful under God. Of course that is not the case yet, but will be.
Two good things concerning the nation of Israel as a whole, and I want to be brief with this, is that one, after the fall of Adam and the ensuing chaos and rebellion against Yahweh, God, on earth, God re-established communication and a relationship with man through Israel being smart enough to listen and receive God at that time. That was important. Secondly, God was able to use Israel as a bloodline by which the Messiah, Jesus, came from. That also was very important.
However, now that the Messiah, Jesus Christ who is God's way, has come and many have accepted Him, God now has a NEW and larger group of chosen people who are called Spiritual Israel. Spiritual Israel consist of both natural Jews and Gentiles who have, SPECIFICALLY under God's new covenant, accepted Jesus. I am going to have to stop here and come back with a fourth installment on this subject.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Israel Or Jews Still Not Excused
Hello World:
Let me say at the start here, even though I am ripping the modern-day nation of Israel at this time frame, I do want Israel to succeed in first getting saved through Jesus Christ and being right with God; and I also want to them to succeed in their existence with peace.
I know I really have a sharp two-edged sword here, so to speak. Speaking of which I want to rip Iran and Admadinejad a little bit. You know Iran, every time you all have a national rally you do NOT have to say bad things about Israel or America. When you all do that, it only causes more tension.
I think sometimes, emphasis on SOMETIMES, you all should be able to rally your country to promote your own country's history, successes, future and unity. In other words, can you guys have a national rally that is positive towards Iran, and not focusing on Israel for a change. Everybody knows you both do not get along, but we do not have to hear about it every week either.
I am rumbling along here as the Lord is leading me, and my system goes down. As you can see I am back now. By the way, that is NOT Blogger's fault, it is on my end. I want to briefly say my equipment from my Internet Service Provider is kind of getting out-dated. I still use dial-up, and do not have high speed broadband.
Alot of internet companies, including Blogger, are constantly upgrading. So, I am saying this here in this post, there is the possibility I could be frozen out from continuing to blog here at some point because of a lack of upgrade. Because of the kind of electronic hardware I have, I can not upgrade. At this point I am not sure about getting better hardware because I am unsure about the long-term future of me blogging.
This blog should still be here with what I have posted already, but me continuing to blog live, so to speak, long-term is a status uncertain. With that, I have to weigh the cost of whether it would be worth buying better hardware. So, we will see.
I did not plan to mention that yet, until I was just bounced offline, because my Internet provider was having "technical difficulties", which is beyond my control. Again, that was NOT Blogger's fault. I remember when I first started a few years back when that would happen, I would have to remember and retype everything God spoke to me about all over again. Now, I am thankful Blogger has the automatic or real-time save as you type feature.
Okay, I was grilling Iran before the interruption. Basically, Iran you all need to sometimes focus on taking care of your own business and not be so distracted by what Israel or America are saying and doing. You want to be aware and watchful of them, but in some of those rallies and speeches you should ignore them. You do not have to always mention them or mention them by name.
You should strengthen your ties with MOTHER RUSSIA. Russia is the great equalizer in the Middle East, when it comes to Israel and America against Iran. If MOTHER RUSSIA decides it is in their best interest to MILITARILY protect Iran; America and Israel can label and call Russia all the bad names in the book they want, but I believe they would think twice and even three, four or five times before they strike Iran.
With that said above, Israel should not be militarily pre-emptive striking Iran or any other country on the basis of "what might happen" in the future, or what "appears to be". You better make sure, because people can end up dying unnecessarily on the basis of lies.
If everybody tones down their rhetoric, ultimatums and demands from all sides, then a threat will not exist, because there will not be a need to use nuclear bombs whether a country has them or is about to get them or not. They will not have the need to use them, because no one is talking smack. Understand!
In terms of bad rhetoric, that also includes the pro-Israeli western media outlets, and pro-Israeli western tele-evangelist and preachers. There is more I wanted to say about Israel and God's plans with Jesus. I have to come back on this subject of Israel not being excused from Jesus in a third post next.
Let me say at the start here, even though I am ripping the modern-day nation of Israel at this time frame, I do want Israel to succeed in first getting saved through Jesus Christ and being right with God; and I also want to them to succeed in their existence with peace.
I know I really have a sharp two-edged sword here, so to speak. Speaking of which I want to rip Iran and Admadinejad a little bit. You know Iran, every time you all have a national rally you do NOT have to say bad things about Israel or America. When you all do that, it only causes more tension.
I think sometimes, emphasis on SOMETIMES, you all should be able to rally your country to promote your own country's history, successes, future and unity. In other words, can you guys have a national rally that is positive towards Iran, and not focusing on Israel for a change. Everybody knows you both do not get along, but we do not have to hear about it every week either.
I am rumbling along here as the Lord is leading me, and my system goes down. As you can see I am back now. By the way, that is NOT Blogger's fault, it is on my end. I want to briefly say my equipment from my Internet Service Provider is kind of getting out-dated. I still use dial-up, and do not have high speed broadband.
Alot of internet companies, including Blogger, are constantly upgrading. So, I am saying this here in this post, there is the possibility I could be frozen out from continuing to blog here at some point because of a lack of upgrade. Because of the kind of electronic hardware I have, I can not upgrade. At this point I am not sure about getting better hardware because I am unsure about the long-term future of me blogging.
This blog should still be here with what I have posted already, but me continuing to blog live, so to speak, long-term is a status uncertain. With that, I have to weigh the cost of whether it would be worth buying better hardware. So, we will see.
I did not plan to mention that yet, until I was just bounced offline, because my Internet provider was having "technical difficulties", which is beyond my control. Again, that was NOT Blogger's fault. I remember when I first started a few years back when that would happen, I would have to remember and retype everything God spoke to me about all over again. Now, I am thankful Blogger has the automatic or real-time save as you type feature.
Okay, I was grilling Iran before the interruption. Basically, Iran you all need to sometimes focus on taking care of your own business and not be so distracted by what Israel or America are saying and doing. You want to be aware and watchful of them, but in some of those rallies and speeches you should ignore them. You do not have to always mention them or mention them by name.
You should strengthen your ties with MOTHER RUSSIA. Russia is the great equalizer in the Middle East, when it comes to Israel and America against Iran. If MOTHER RUSSIA decides it is in their best interest to MILITARILY protect Iran; America and Israel can label and call Russia all the bad names in the book they want, but I believe they would think twice and even three, four or five times before they strike Iran.
With that said above, Israel should not be militarily pre-emptive striking Iran or any other country on the basis of "what might happen" in the future, or what "appears to be". You better make sure, because people can end up dying unnecessarily on the basis of lies.
If everybody tones down their rhetoric, ultimatums and demands from all sides, then a threat will not exist, because there will not be a need to use nuclear bombs whether a country has them or is about to get them or not. They will not have the need to use them, because no one is talking smack. Understand!
In terms of bad rhetoric, that also includes the pro-Israeli western media outlets, and pro-Israeli western tele-evangelist and preachers. There is more I wanted to say about Israel and God's plans with Jesus. I have to come back on this subject of Israel not being excused from Jesus in a third post next.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Israel Or Jews Not Excused
Hello World:
Fairly recently I did a post discussing the unbelief of modern-day Israel towards Jesus and I had a series talking about Iran that just ended. Well, I want to do some follow up on Israel and mention a little bit more on Iran in here. It looks like the follow up here will be at least two posts for sure and maybe three.
I am trying to get away from dwelling on Israel's problems so much and not get sucked in by preachers who are off base, because really it is Israel's or the Jews who have a problem with God in not accepting Jesus. So, no matter how I agree or disagree with other preachers and teachers on modern-day Israel's position with God, IN TERMS OF THE LONG TERM OF ETERNITY, it is Israel who has to get their act together, NOT me or others who have accepted God's plan through Jesus Christ. I believe I will continue to mention things about Israel and other countries, anyways, as I continue to post in the future.
Scripture Reference St. John Chapter 4: Verse 21; "Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father."
Verse 22; "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews."
23) "BUT the hour cometh and NOW is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him."
24) "God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
What Jesus was saying in those above scriptures are very important to all His believers and followers. I mentioned in the recent post on Israel that many preachers and teachers reverence Israel way too much. Preachers act like it is a mandate that ALL reverence and fear Israel, and that Israel determines what God will do in prophetic events such as the Rapture.
Preachers act like Israel can do no wrong, and it is a sin to speak against Israel; and no matter what, we or everybody better support Israel regardless of how they behave; because God chose Israel as His people and made a covenant with Israel; and the Bible said they that bless Israel shall be blessed and they that curse Israel shall be cursed. Now what I want to do is explain, mildly, why much of that is half truth or not completely true and I will continue to show scriptures here as solid evidence.
In that recent post about nonbelieving Jews I already established from the Word of God that this modern-day Israel whom is referred to by preachers is a nation and people of liars and antichrist. This is according to 1 John Chapter 2: Verse 22. For that reason alone I can end this post, because the point to make is there. However, I want to disect and show clearly specific falsehoods preached out there about Israel.
Let me re-introduce that there are two Israels. There is a natural Israel and a spiritual Israel. This is where the scriptures I gave at the beginning with Jesus talking about Spirit and Truth come in at. Natural Israel was established through Abraham's seed from Isaac. Now it is important to note that God made a covenant of everlasting blessings with Abraham BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS A JEW. Abraham when God called him and chose his seed was technically a GENTILE.
The scripture that most preachers like to preach about blessings and cursings does not refer to the nation of Israel ONLY, but to all who are justified by faith in God like Abraham; and more specifcally, you must be justifed by faith in Jesus Christ. Now, again, I am talking about the natural modern-day nation of Israel and not the few portion of Jews who accepted Jesus, or Israel of the OLD TESTAMENT; in which many died in faith of the promise of Jesus and will inherit.
Those scriptures on those who bless and curse Israel starts from Genesis Chapter 12: Verse 2 where God is talking to Abram or soon to be changed to Abraham as follows;
Verse 2; "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing."
Verse 3; And I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed."
Technically, even though we know that God's covenant with Abraham is through Isaac, those scriptures does NOT mention Israel in them. Also, according to my Dake's Bible that is the only place in the Bible that promise of God is SPECIFICALLY mentioned. The reason for that, is that those scriptures refer to more than just the natural nation of Israel. Those above scriptures of Genesis 12: 2-3, refer to ALL BELIEVERS who have faith in Jesus for eternal salvation, like Abraham had faith in God.
Scripture Reference Galatians Chapter 3: verse 6; "Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
Verse 7; " know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham."
Verse 16; "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ."
Verse 26; "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."
Verse 27; "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."
Verse 28; "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
Verse 29; "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
The Lord spoke to me that in addition to the promise to Abraham and his seed in Genesis Chapter 12: verses 2 through 3, that He, the Lord, wants me to edit in here some scriptures from St. John, that shows how He is greater than Abraham, and those who are the seed of Abraham, and have God's promise to Abraham are those who are in Him, Jesus Christ: as He was before Abraham and established Abraham, and with the Heavenly Father, established that promise to Abraham back in Genesis Chapter 12.
Scripture Reference St. John Chapter 8: Verse 57; "Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?"
Verse 58; "Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."
I want to pause here to come back in the next post, because I want to cover briefly about circumcision, worshipping in spirit and truth and Israel not being excused or given an exception away from Jesus Christ.
Fairly recently I did a post discussing the unbelief of modern-day Israel towards Jesus and I had a series talking about Iran that just ended. Well, I want to do some follow up on Israel and mention a little bit more on Iran in here. It looks like the follow up here will be at least two posts for sure and maybe three.
I am trying to get away from dwelling on Israel's problems so much and not get sucked in by preachers who are off base, because really it is Israel's or the Jews who have a problem with God in not accepting Jesus. So, no matter how I agree or disagree with other preachers and teachers on modern-day Israel's position with God, IN TERMS OF THE LONG TERM OF ETERNITY, it is Israel who has to get their act together, NOT me or others who have accepted God's plan through Jesus Christ. I believe I will continue to mention things about Israel and other countries, anyways, as I continue to post in the future.
Scripture Reference St. John Chapter 4: Verse 21; "Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father."
Verse 22; "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews."
23) "BUT the hour cometh and NOW is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him."
24) "God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
What Jesus was saying in those above scriptures are very important to all His believers and followers. I mentioned in the recent post on Israel that many preachers and teachers reverence Israel way too much. Preachers act like it is a mandate that ALL reverence and fear Israel, and that Israel determines what God will do in prophetic events such as the Rapture.
Preachers act like Israel can do no wrong, and it is a sin to speak against Israel; and no matter what, we or everybody better support Israel regardless of how they behave; because God chose Israel as His people and made a covenant with Israel; and the Bible said they that bless Israel shall be blessed and they that curse Israel shall be cursed. Now what I want to do is explain, mildly, why much of that is half truth or not completely true and I will continue to show scriptures here as solid evidence.
In that recent post about nonbelieving Jews I already established from the Word of God that this modern-day Israel whom is referred to by preachers is a nation and people of liars and antichrist. This is according to 1 John Chapter 2: Verse 22. For that reason alone I can end this post, because the point to make is there. However, I want to disect and show clearly specific falsehoods preached out there about Israel.
Let me re-introduce that there are two Israels. There is a natural Israel and a spiritual Israel. This is where the scriptures I gave at the beginning with Jesus talking about Spirit and Truth come in at. Natural Israel was established through Abraham's seed from Isaac. Now it is important to note that God made a covenant of everlasting blessings with Abraham BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS A JEW. Abraham when God called him and chose his seed was technically a GENTILE.
The scripture that most preachers like to preach about blessings and cursings does not refer to the nation of Israel ONLY, but to all who are justified by faith in God like Abraham; and more specifcally, you must be justifed by faith in Jesus Christ. Now, again, I am talking about the natural modern-day nation of Israel and not the few portion of Jews who accepted Jesus, or Israel of the OLD TESTAMENT; in which many died in faith of the promise of Jesus and will inherit.
Those scriptures on those who bless and curse Israel starts from Genesis Chapter 12: Verse 2 where God is talking to Abram or soon to be changed to Abraham as follows;
Verse 2; "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing."
Verse 3; And I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed."
Technically, even though we know that God's covenant with Abraham is through Isaac, those scriptures does NOT mention Israel in them. Also, according to my Dake's Bible that is the only place in the Bible that promise of God is SPECIFICALLY mentioned. The reason for that, is that those scriptures refer to more than just the natural nation of Israel. Those above scriptures of Genesis 12: 2-3, refer to ALL BELIEVERS who have faith in Jesus for eternal salvation, like Abraham had faith in God.
Scripture Reference Galatians Chapter 3: verse 6; "Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
Verse 7; " know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham."
Verse 16; "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ."
Verse 26; "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."
Verse 27; "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."
Verse 28; "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
Verse 29; "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
The Lord spoke to me that in addition to the promise to Abraham and his seed in Genesis Chapter 12: verses 2 through 3, that He, the Lord, wants me to edit in here some scriptures from St. John, that shows how He is greater than Abraham, and those who are the seed of Abraham, and have God's promise to Abraham are those who are in Him, Jesus Christ: as He was before Abraham and established Abraham, and with the Heavenly Father, established that promise to Abraham back in Genesis Chapter 12.
Scripture Reference St. John Chapter 8: Verse 57; "Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?"
Verse 58; "Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."
I want to pause here to come back in the next post, because I want to cover briefly about circumcision, worshipping in spirit and truth and Israel not being excused or given an exception away from Jesus Christ.
Saturday, December 05, 2009
More Irony Of Being Great
Hello World:
Continuing to question being great as referenced by Jimmy Carter on America, I mentioned that I want to list some nations and persons, in no particular order, who were great. There is a catch though. The catch is they were great at doing bad things and not good things.
Nimrod was great. Ancient Babylon was great. The UNHOLY Roman Empire was great. Goliath was great. Ancient Egypt was great. Hitler was great, and in saying that read my entire post, here, for the whole explanation. The modern city of Babylon is great.
Scripture Reference Revelation Chapter 18: Verse 2; "And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and cage of every unclean and hateful bird."
Verse 20; "Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her."
Verse 23; "And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived."
Verse 24; "And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth."
Notice in those above scriptures how God uses the term great to describe the wickedness of Babylon. God is saying that this city Babylon is great, but she is great in her spiritual fornication and delicacies in turning people away from the Most High God.
She is also great at deceiving other nations with sorcery or witchcraft; and she was great at killing and causing the bloodshed of prophets and saints of God and the slaying of many others on the earth.
So, we can see from the above that even God uses the term or word great to describe someone, but it is not a good thing always. Nimrod was used by God as a mighty hunter who stabilized relationship roles within God's creation, on earth, with people verses people and people verses animals. However, Nimrod was also great at rebelling against God, and overstepping his bounds to exalt himself and nation over God.
Goliath was great in stature and power, but also great in defying the God of Israel. The Unholy Roman Empire was great at building its empire through shedding blood of the innocents and murders of many true Christians. Hitler was a great butcher of innocent Jews. Basically, all those people and nations I mentioned were great at being or in doing the wrong things. They were great at being AGAINST God and NOT pleasing God.
In America people talk about the late President Ronald Reagan being great because he bluffed down the communist Soviet Union. However, alot of people ignore the fact that Ronald Reagan in bluffing down the Soviet Union, during that process, put his own American people lives and the Russian people lives on the line for possible DEATH BY NUCLEAR WAR. REAGAN GAMBLED WITH THE LIFE OF EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN to get the Communist Russian government to fold.
The late President Reagan was also great with policies that put low-income workers out of work, and for promoting homelessness on the map. Another way of putting it, is saying homelessness was not talked about and experienced to a worser degree until President Reagan came into office during the 1980s.
What really makes a person, people or nation great? Some people are great at lying. Some are great at destroying other people's lives. Some are great at hurting people. Others are great at cursing out people. There are others who are great at tearing up stuff.
Some people are great at being used by the devil. Some people are excellent servants of Satan. They do excellent or great work for him; "in his service" as they say. Being labelled great is not always what it seems or what people claim it to be. Being great can be ironic or an oxymoron. Those are some things to think about.
There are various meanings to being great that are bad, and we should be careful about using that term to describe something or someone as being good, when in fact they are not.
Continuing to question being great as referenced by Jimmy Carter on America, I mentioned that I want to list some nations and persons, in no particular order, who were great. There is a catch though. The catch is they were great at doing bad things and not good things.
Nimrod was great. Ancient Babylon was great. The UNHOLY Roman Empire was great. Goliath was great. Ancient Egypt was great. Hitler was great, and in saying that read my entire post, here, for the whole explanation. The modern city of Babylon is great.
Scripture Reference Revelation Chapter 18: Verse 2; "And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and cage of every unclean and hateful bird."
Verse 20; "Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her."
Verse 23; "And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived."
Verse 24; "And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth."
Notice in those above scriptures how God uses the term great to describe the wickedness of Babylon. God is saying that this city Babylon is great, but she is great in her spiritual fornication and delicacies in turning people away from the Most High God.
She is also great at deceiving other nations with sorcery or witchcraft; and she was great at killing and causing the bloodshed of prophets and saints of God and the slaying of many others on the earth.
So, we can see from the above that even God uses the term or word great to describe someone, but it is not a good thing always. Nimrod was used by God as a mighty hunter who stabilized relationship roles within God's creation, on earth, with people verses people and people verses animals. However, Nimrod was also great at rebelling against God, and overstepping his bounds to exalt himself and nation over God.
Goliath was great in stature and power, but also great in defying the God of Israel. The Unholy Roman Empire was great at building its empire through shedding blood of the innocents and murders of many true Christians. Hitler was a great butcher of innocent Jews. Basically, all those people and nations I mentioned were great at being or in doing the wrong things. They were great at being AGAINST God and NOT pleasing God.
In America people talk about the late President Ronald Reagan being great because he bluffed down the communist Soviet Union. However, alot of people ignore the fact that Ronald Reagan in bluffing down the Soviet Union, during that process, put his own American people lives and the Russian people lives on the line for possible DEATH BY NUCLEAR WAR. REAGAN GAMBLED WITH THE LIFE OF EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN to get the Communist Russian government to fold.
The late President Reagan was also great with policies that put low-income workers out of work, and for promoting homelessness on the map. Another way of putting it, is saying homelessness was not talked about and experienced to a worser degree until President Reagan came into office during the 1980s.
What really makes a person, people or nation great? Some people are great at lying. Some are great at destroying other people's lives. Some are great at hurting people. Others are great at cursing out people. There are others who are great at tearing up stuff.
Some people are great at being used by the devil. Some people are excellent servants of Satan. They do excellent or great work for him; "in his service" as they say. Being labelled great is not always what it seems or what people claim it to be. Being great can be ironic or an oxymoron. Those are some things to think about.
There are various meanings to being great that are bad, and we should be careful about using that term to describe something or someone as being good, when in fact they are not.
Extra On Jimmy Carter And The Irony Of Being Great
Hello World:
This is the second part of the previous post involving (not current) President Jimmy Carter. I previously said that Jimmy Carter is honest or many times speaks the truth. I also mentioned that he is not perfect. He is a decent human being and a decent American.
I said, I do want to raise questions about what he said about America being a great country. First, going back to what Jimmy Carter said about Whites in America not believing Obama is qualified to lead them and, also being so angry at Obama because he is Black or African-American, not quote. Basically, what Jimmy Carter said, confirms that I am NOT an idiot.
Jimmy Carter confirms everything I said about America in my post series on the 2008 U.S. Elections, and anytime I have talked about race relations in America. Jimmy Carter confirms that I know what I am talking about. Thank you Jimmy Carter.
The media, over there in America, want to ask Obama and his staff if they agree with what Jimmy Carter said, and AGAIN, Obama and his staff caved in to evil and denied Carter's remarks, trying to make it seem like Carter is the only one who has a problem and is misguided. The media in the U.S. are evil to set up such lines of questioning, and the Obama administration are stupid to compromise with the answers they gave.
Jimmy Carter was honest and told the truth in that situation, PERIOD! You, specifically, the American media need to quit acting like you are in shock and do not know what is going on in the heartland of America. In those media video reports on healthcare, I could not find one Black person out there protesting Obama's healthcare plan.
Most if not all of those people videoed in every report were a bunch of angry White people. They were REALLY angry White people. They were angry like they despise Obama. The guy has only been in office at that time for 8 months, and is trying to implement a health program to help disadvantaged people, and many angry White Americans will not even let him get started good, to see what really will happen.
His program at that time was not even fully developed and tested and most of those White people acted like Obama just killed their grandmother or something. People can disagree with Obama and should express their opinions, but many of those protestors were ridiculously angry.
He does not have the track record of implementing policies that kill people like your buddy Bush. Also, before SOME people start, Bush may not have aborted babies, but he caused the abortions of many, many other people in other parts of the world. Hypocrites!!! Many of those protestors do not hear from God; and therefore, need to shut up and give the man a chance to do something.
I am NOT saying all of this because I agree with Obama or like Obama. I do not agree with several things concerning Obama and I am not a fan of his either. However, unlike many of those White American protestors over healthcare, I do NOT hate Obama.
Now in terms of President Jimmy Carter referring America or the United States to being great. I said Jimmy Carter is a great human being and he is a good example; however, being great is not always a good thing. One of my questions is what makes America a great country? God has shown me that being great is not always synonymous with being good. A person can be great at being bad.
My dictionary defines great as beyond the average, mighty, grand, superior, excellent. Those descriptions of great sound good, could be good, but many times may NOT be good. Now God is great, and only God can be great and good together all the time.
There have been several great nations throughout human history. Depending on who you ask from any given country, people from their native country or who are current citizens of a country will say their country or nation is great. They may not be telling the truth, and it may be a part of their belief, or it could be a part of brain-washing.
Let me put it this way, every country is not great at doing good things for God and humanity. They may be great at something else, like making tar. There have also been alot of great people to walk the earth. I want to give some examples of very bad people and nations who were great. I will have to do that in the next post.
Do not mean to tease everybody on Israel. For the first time in a long while I think I will do a double post day coming up. I did not expect this, and I want to try to get the remainder of posts on Israel in this 2009 year, and not push them into the next year.
This is the second part of the previous post involving (not current) President Jimmy Carter. I previously said that Jimmy Carter is honest or many times speaks the truth. I also mentioned that he is not perfect. He is a decent human being and a decent American.
I said, I do want to raise questions about what he said about America being a great country. First, going back to what Jimmy Carter said about Whites in America not believing Obama is qualified to lead them and, also being so angry at Obama because he is Black or African-American, not quote. Basically, what Jimmy Carter said, confirms that I am NOT an idiot.
Jimmy Carter confirms everything I said about America in my post series on the 2008 U.S. Elections, and anytime I have talked about race relations in America. Jimmy Carter confirms that I know what I am talking about. Thank you Jimmy Carter.
The media, over there in America, want to ask Obama and his staff if they agree with what Jimmy Carter said, and AGAIN, Obama and his staff caved in to evil and denied Carter's remarks, trying to make it seem like Carter is the only one who has a problem and is misguided. The media in the U.S. are evil to set up such lines of questioning, and the Obama administration are stupid to compromise with the answers they gave.
Jimmy Carter was honest and told the truth in that situation, PERIOD! You, specifically, the American media need to quit acting like you are in shock and do not know what is going on in the heartland of America. In those media video reports on healthcare, I could not find one Black person out there protesting Obama's healthcare plan.
Most if not all of those people videoed in every report were a bunch of angry White people. They were REALLY angry White people. They were angry like they despise Obama. The guy has only been in office at that time for 8 months, and is trying to implement a health program to help disadvantaged people, and many angry White Americans will not even let him get started good, to see what really will happen.
His program at that time was not even fully developed and tested and most of those White people acted like Obama just killed their grandmother or something. People can disagree with Obama and should express their opinions, but many of those protestors were ridiculously angry.
He does not have the track record of implementing policies that kill people like your buddy Bush. Also, before SOME people start, Bush may not have aborted babies, but he caused the abortions of many, many other people in other parts of the world. Hypocrites!!! Many of those protestors do not hear from God; and therefore, need to shut up and give the man a chance to do something.
I am NOT saying all of this because I agree with Obama or like Obama. I do not agree with several things concerning Obama and I am not a fan of his either. However, unlike many of those White American protestors over healthcare, I do NOT hate Obama.
Now in terms of President Jimmy Carter referring America or the United States to being great. I said Jimmy Carter is a great human being and he is a good example; however, being great is not always a good thing. One of my questions is what makes America a great country? God has shown me that being great is not always synonymous with being good. A person can be great at being bad.
My dictionary defines great as beyond the average, mighty, grand, superior, excellent. Those descriptions of great sound good, could be good, but many times may NOT be good. Now God is great, and only God can be great and good together all the time.
There have been several great nations throughout human history. Depending on who you ask from any given country, people from their native country or who are current citizens of a country will say their country or nation is great. They may not be telling the truth, and it may be a part of their belief, or it could be a part of brain-washing.
Let me put it this way, every country is not great at doing good things for God and humanity. They may be great at something else, like making tar. There have also been alot of great people to walk the earth. I want to give some examples of very bad people and nations who were great. I will have to do that in the next post.
Do not mean to tease everybody on Israel. For the first time in a long while I think I will do a double post day coming up. I did not expect this, and I want to try to get the remainder of posts on Israel in this 2009 year, and not push them into the next year.
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Jimmy Carter And On Being Great
Hello World:
God immediately spoke to me this morning about doing this post and what to say. I did not plan on doing this post, but I know from asking and experience when God is speaking.
So, here I am inserting this post, between the posts on Iran and the posts on Israel. I have more to talk on Israel right around the corner. I believe I am ending the 2009 year with posts on Israel.
Okay, this subject of being great will have questions for everyone to think about, and to keep the length not too long, I will stretch this subject into two to three posts. Did anybody hear or read what U.S. President, NOT current, President Jimmy Carter said, back around the middle of September 2009, about Whites and the current U.S. President Obama?
Before I go into what was said by Carter, according to how things are done in the United States, once a person is elected to be President of the United States, even though they do not hold that office for life, they still hold that title. Also, in holding that title, they are not called former, but they are called President in present tense; even though they may not be the current President.
Now, just to paraphrase President Carter, not quote him here, Jimmy Carter said to the affect that White Americans are highly critical of and so angry with President Obama because they do not trust that he is qualified to lead the country because he is Black. To that affect, Jimmy Carter is saying that Whites do not believe that African Americans are capable of leading them or the great country.
Now, again, not specific quotes on Carter, but those words above are very similar and have the same meaning to what Jimmy Carter actually said. I could have posted the Jimmy Carter's quotes, but his quotes can be easily found if anyone looked for them online dated back, again around the middle of September 2009.
I do not think that Jimmy Carter was talking about all White people in America. In fact, Jimmy Carter is himself very White, in terms of ethnicity. Now, I do not believe I talked about Jimmy Carter hardly at all in this blog before. Let me say this about Jimmy Carter, that Jimmy Carter is one cool dude.
He is one of few people who will be honest and who many times will speak the truth about what he believes. Now, I do not agree with him on everything 100 percent like anybody else. He is not perfect. He may not have been the greatest President in U.S. history, and I would not necessarily want to go to war with him. He would not be my first choice as a partner out on a military battlefield.
However, He is very good at fighting for the poor, the oppressed and the disadvantaged. He helps fight for the causes of those in need all over the world. He is a peacemaker. He is a true christian, who has accepted Jesus Christ, who believes in and follows the true God. Again, I do not know or think that he is considered a great president, but he is a great human being.
I do want to raise questions, though, about a part of what Jimmy Carter said in terms of America being a great country. I will have to proceed to that in the next post I will squeeze in before the upcoming Israel posts.
God immediately spoke to me this morning about doing this post and what to say. I did not plan on doing this post, but I know from asking and experience when God is speaking.
So, here I am inserting this post, between the posts on Iran and the posts on Israel. I have more to talk on Israel right around the corner. I believe I am ending the 2009 year with posts on Israel.
Okay, this subject of being great will have questions for everyone to think about, and to keep the length not too long, I will stretch this subject into two to three posts. Did anybody hear or read what U.S. President, NOT current, President Jimmy Carter said, back around the middle of September 2009, about Whites and the current U.S. President Obama?
Before I go into what was said by Carter, according to how things are done in the United States, once a person is elected to be President of the United States, even though they do not hold that office for life, they still hold that title. Also, in holding that title, they are not called former, but they are called President in present tense; even though they may not be the current President.
Now, just to paraphrase President Carter, not quote him here, Jimmy Carter said to the affect that White Americans are highly critical of and so angry with President Obama because they do not trust that he is qualified to lead the country because he is Black. To that affect, Jimmy Carter is saying that Whites do not believe that African Americans are capable of leading them or the great country.
Now, again, not specific quotes on Carter, but those words above are very similar and have the same meaning to what Jimmy Carter actually said. I could have posted the Jimmy Carter's quotes, but his quotes can be easily found if anyone looked for them online dated back, again around the middle of September 2009.
I do not think that Jimmy Carter was talking about all White people in America. In fact, Jimmy Carter is himself very White, in terms of ethnicity. Now, I do not believe I talked about Jimmy Carter hardly at all in this blog before. Let me say this about Jimmy Carter, that Jimmy Carter is one cool dude.
He is one of few people who will be honest and who many times will speak the truth about what he believes. Now, I do not agree with him on everything 100 percent like anybody else. He is not perfect. He may not have been the greatest President in U.S. history, and I would not necessarily want to go to war with him. He would not be my first choice as a partner out on a military battlefield.
However, He is very good at fighting for the poor, the oppressed and the disadvantaged. He helps fight for the causes of those in need all over the world. He is a peacemaker. He is a true christian, who has accepted Jesus Christ, who believes in and follows the true God. Again, I do not know or think that he is considered a great president, but he is a great human being.
I do want to raise questions, though, about a part of what Jimmy Carter said in terms of America being a great country. I will have to proceed to that in the next post I will squeeze in before the upcoming Israel posts.
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