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Why will only a “remnant” of Israel’s children find life in the Kingdom? Why do Israel’s children remain in blindness to the Truth of their Messiah, Yeshua (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27)?
Israel’s children are blinded, they exist under the Jewish Curse, because their ancestors rejected Elohim’s eschatological plan for them concerning the Great Commission via the Gospel via their Messiah, Yeshua (Matthew 10:6; 15:24; Matthew 28:16-20). Israel’s children were foreordained to complete Yahweh’s promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:b) through their Messiah as Israel’s children were to be proselytized in the Gospel by Messiah Yeshua and fulfill the promise to be “a blessing to all the families of the Earth” (Genesis 12:3b).
Exercising their free will choice, Israel’s children opted to cling to self-righteousness through law (Romans 10) and conspired with the Roman Authorities to murder their Messiah upon a tree and demanded that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, Elohim gave Israel’s children what they desired, obsessive self-righteousness through law leading to death in Hell and their blindness and deafness to the Holy Spirit’s Truth remains to this very day; therefore, only a “remnant” of Israel’s children will escape the second-death in Hell due to unbelief (Romans 11:25; Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27).
In conclusion,
Therefore, I plead with every Jew and every Israelite who reads this to repent of their sin, shake-off the demonic lethargy, the deception, concerning their relationship with the Father through works of the Law and fully trust-believe in Yeshua as their Messiah by faith who died for them and LIVE! (Galatians 2:16). There is HOPE in Yeshua!
Paul v. Moses; Inspiration v. Ideological Prejudice; Faith v. Personal Bias; Life v. Death in Hell
Recently, I’ve received an upsurge in responses from Hebrew Roots fanatics, Jews, Israelite’s…perhaps some are adherents to Islam’s Allah (Satan masquerading as an angel of light), Christian cults and sects, who literally HATE the Apostle Paul who narrated approximately two-thirds of the New Covenant’s Scripture via inspiration of the Holy Spirit; the Epistles of Paul, a Biblical exegesis explaining the minutia, the daily applicability, of the Gospel ratified in the blood of Jesus Christ (Matthew 26:28).
It is truly mind-boggling to me how anyone who proclaims they’re a student of the Canon of Scripture, a lover of Elohim and person of faith, could even suggest the Apostle Paul is a “fraud,” a “liar,” a “false teacher.”
Consider this,
Do you not understand that every letter, jot and tittle, of the Scriptures, from “The Genesis” to the “The Revelation” are provided you by our omnipotent Elohim through the Holy Spirit?
Do you not understand that every letter, jot and tittle, of the Scriptures in the Canon are available to you because they’ve been divinely preserved and protected by the omnipotent Holy Spirit; unrelenting attacks from the demonic, the servants of Satan in the Spiritual World as well as the Natural World i.e. corrupted flesh of men seeking to nullify the veracity and promises of the Gospel?
Do you not understand that our omnipotent Creator has provided you every JOT and every TITTLE of the Scriptures so that you can know Him personally; love Him intimately; live with Him eternally?
Do you not understand that the very same omnipotent Holy Spirit who worked through Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, the minor and major prophets, the same Holy Spirit who worked through Jesus the Messiah, also worked through the Apostle Paul who was ordained by Jesus Christ our God and Creator specifically to preach the Gospel and bring the “Good News” to the Gentiles?
How demonically inspired, conflicted, confused and miserable must the mind, body, soul, of anyone professing a knowledge of and love for Elohim be the moment they “choose” to honor select sections of the Scriptures while vomiting hatred for other swaths of Scripture simply because their faulty interpretation of those Scriptures fails to comply with their corrupted ideological perspective due to an absence of faith and/or the internalization of false teaching or the Jewish Curse (Matthew 27:25; Romans 11:25)?
Divine Inspiration,
The words provided the Apostle Paul are no less inspired by the Holy Spirit than the words provided Moses and when one expresses hatred for the Apostle Paul and they proceed to despise, insult, disparage, Paul’s letters and the Gospel of Jesus Christ he preached, these apostates and servants of evil insult and blaspheme the Holy Spirit and the Spirit’s authority, omnipotence, the Holy Spirit’s obedience to the Father’s eschatological will for Time and Eternity.
If one rejects the Apostle Paul’s divinely inspired instruction in the New Covenant, how does one know that the Torah, penned by Moses in the Law Covenant, is legitimate and trustworthy?
Why is the time/date of Messiah’s 2nd-Advent, “that day,” known only by the Father? Does this fact not negate the omniscience, deity, of Messiah and the Holy Spirit?
Jesus said,
35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Matthew 24 (ESV)
Discussion,
The Father, Son, the Holy Spirit, are One-God in essence and Three-distinct Persons who are introduced as “Elohim” (Genesis 1:1); The Father, Son and Spirit are coequal in all divine attributes while order, structure, honor, is integral within the Trinity,
Father – Administrator
Son – Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge
Holy Spirit – Logistics
The Father has been granted supreme authority over “that day” as the Father has ordained that “free will” reign supreme in both the angelic and human creation; therefore, “that day” is not only subject to the Father’s volition but “that day” is fluid as a result of “free will.”
The rapidly approaching “fullness of the Gentiles” who will enter the Kingdom and trigger “that day” (Romans 11:25) is wholly subject to “free will” as the Father is patient with all not desiring that anyone perish in Hell but that all men and women come to a knowledge of the Truth and find salvation in the Son through faith (1 Timothy 2:4).
The Father, Himself, alone, knows the specific number of Gentiles who will enter the Kingdom and when that number has been fulfilled the final 3.5-years of the Tribulation Era will commence and nearing its conclusion “that day” will manifest with Messiah’s 2nd-Advent to Mount Olivette where the Nations of Russia, China, Islam/Iran (an Islamic coalition) will have gathered to commence a nuclear conflict with Israel seeking Israel’s complete demise. Messiah Jesus will rescue Israel in “that day” void any assistance, intervention, from the kings and rulers of the Earth; this victory will initiate Messiah’s Millennial Reign.
The obedience of the Son and the Spirit to the Father’s authority and His prerogative to command the supremacy of free will to govern the timing of “that day” in no way diminishes the deity and sovereignty of the Son and the Holy Spirit within the Godhead but provides for us a divine example of “faith” that we should be expressing daily in our walk with Messiah through sanctification via the Holy Spirit’s leadership as the Spirit prepares the faithful in Jesus for service in the New Jerusalem.
Eve and Satan in Eden…what did Eve actually observe and why was she so enamored by that observation and conversation?
Not sure how many times my debates with Atheists, Secular Humanists, Darwinist’, have either been initiated by or culminated in a MEME or suggestion that Eve, in Eden, communicated with a “serpent” that we identify today as a slithering, frightening, reptilian. Eve’s encounter with this “serpent” is often used by those seeking death in Hell to mock the Genesis narrative and through obfuscation seek to destroy the foundational text for all of Scripture.
The “serpent” used by the Holy Spirit in the Genesis narrative in Eden is an analogy depicting, describing in a tangible manner, the evil attributes of the Devil and has no reference to physiological appearance nor does the text suggest a reptile actually conversed with Eve; in fact, the “serpent” is not cursed to the dust of the ground until Genesis 3:14 subsequent Eve’s compromise and Adam’s obedience to Eve’s request.
The Holy Spirit, through the prophet Ezekiel, describes for you what Eve observed in Eden and why she was enamored by what she saw; also, it’s important to remember that the interaction between Eve and Satan was pre-Adamic curse and the relationship between the Spiritual Realm (Eternal) and the Physical Realm (Time) was not distorted by the curse of sin manifesting in physiological decay and atrophy.
Strong’s Hebrew,
nachash: a serpent
Original Word: נָחָשׁ Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: nachash Phonetic Spelling: (naw-khawsh’) Definition: a serpent
Christian – ignore the legalist in these forums if you desire a healthy relationship with the Father…
The Sinai Commandments, excluding the 4th, are rooted in the “natural, moral, law of conscience” (Romans 2:14-15) which has been extant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels; therefore, Sinai’s Laws are NOTHING new or novel concerning our Creator’s will for Israel or the Gentile. Sinai’s Commandments simply codify some specificity relevant to behavior for Israel’s children as these Tribes were sanctified by Yahweh for His eschatological purposes as Israel was inundated with paganism that served pagan gods; therefore, Sinai proclaimed Yahweh’s will for Israel sanctified (set apart) from these pagan tribes; Sinai defines Yahweh’s strategy to buffer the influence of paganism on a people group through whom He would bring forth His Messiah to fulfill His promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:3) and concerning eschatology, ultimately destroy the works of Satan at Golgotha (1 John 3:8b).
This nonsensical obsession with law is not healthy for the Christian as law is given for the lawless not the righteous (1 Timothy 1:9) and Christians are NOT under law but under grace (Romans 6:14) through the Spirit of Life (Romans 8:2) who walks us in obedience through a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17), not letters of sin and death (Romans 8:2) that curse and kill the soul in condemnation through defining sin void atonement (Romans 6:14; Romans 7:6; 2 Corinthians 3:4-6; Galatians 3:10; Galatians 5; Romans 3:20).
Therefore, if you are not born again by faith in Messiah Jesus and you are therefore absent the indwelling Holy Spirit…humbly repent of your sin (Mark 1:15; Acts 3:19) as defined by the Law (Romans 3:20; Romans 2:14-15); humble yourself before our Heavenly Father and confess with a sincere heart that you believe Jesus is Messiah who died to pay your sin-debt (John 3; Romans 10:9-10), receive the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) and walk by the Spirit and LIVE (Galatians 5:16).
Finally,
STOP obsessing over a Law Covenant (Hebrews 8:2) that could never save the soul from Hell or redeem the sin-nature by demanding perfection from same (James 2:10) while providing NO hope of atonement (Romans 8; 1-4; Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16). Eschew the high-minded legalist that desires to place you in bondage to self-righteousness through Law…a life of psychological turmoil and a life that culminates in the “second death” in Hell. Walk in peace with the Father through faith in Jesus as your Messiah and obedience to the Holy Spirit who sanctifies you (Romans 5:1; Galatians 5:16).
The Deity of Jesus our Messiah and the Father’s testimony under girding same, why don’t you believe?
If one does not see the necessity for Messiah’s deity they are NOT born again by the Holy Spirit; they do not possess the indwelling Holy Spirit who is the Seal and Guarantor of covenant with the Father by faith in Jesus (Ephesians 1:13-14) as the Holy Spirit is the One who teaches the necessity for Messiah’s deity and if you deny this eternal truth, the Spirit is not within you and if you’re absent the Holy Spirit you are not in covenant and therefore remain in your sin (John 8:24).
The Father has plainly told you that the Son, Jesus Christ, is God, Creator, Elohim, Deity…why do you deny the Father (1 John 2:23)?
It is written, (Hebrews 1)
1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
The Father proclaims the Son’s deity and superiority over the the angels,
8 But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”10 And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands; 11 they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment, 12 like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”
WHY DO YOU DENY WHAT THE FATHER HAS PLAINLY TOLD YOU; THIS, TO YOUR OWN SELF-DESTRUCTION IN HELL?
You’re free to deny what is plainly written and provided you in Scripture. If you deny the Deity of Jesus Christ you will not enter the Kingdom of God (John 8:24). Elohim is ONE-GOD represented in Time as three-distinct Persons…
Father – Administrator
Son – Creator-Warrior-Messiah-Judge
Holy Spirit – Logistics
These Three-distinct Persons of the Godhead are all individually identified in Scripture and all Three commune in harmony with intimacy; the Father’s authority has been completely delegated to the Son (John 3:35; Matthew 28:18) and that authority is administered within the Realm of Time by the Holy Spirit and these Three converse, communicate, coordinate, to complete the Father’s eschatological plan for Time and Eternity via the Gospel, the “battle strategy” ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10) by which Messiah Jesus has “destroyed the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b); therefore, I cannot and will NOT deny what is written but I choose to believe the Holy Spirit’s inspiration and His anointing by faith.
The Deity of Messiah – evidence of validity concerning covenant relationship – salvation…
Over the years of Scriptural debate, I’ve observed a continuous, eternally relevant, mind-boggling, theme-doctrine promulgated by Jews-Israelite’s-Christian cults-sects-Islamist’s-various other religions; that is, God is not a man nor could He ever assume flesh; therefore, Yeshua-Jesus Christ is not Deity.
Having known and loved Elohim for over 30-years at this point in my life, I’m amazed that seemingly intelligent men and women who profess knowledge of the Scriptures will deny the omnipotence of Elohim and His ability to manifest in any form and in any format He desires. Consider the following Scriptures (from “Got Questions”),
Genesis 12:7-9 – The Lord appeared to Abraham on his arrival in the land God had promised to him and his descendants.
Genesis 18:1-33 – One day, Abraham had some visitors: two angels and God Himself. He invited them to come to his home, and he and Sarah entertained them.
Genesis 32:22-30 – Jacob wrestled with what appeared to be a man, but was actually God (vv. 28-30). This may also have been a Christophany.
Exodus 3:2 – 4:17 – God appeared to Moses in the form of a burning bush, telling him exactly what He wanted him to do.
Exodus 24:9-11 – God appeared to Moses with Aaron and his sons and the seventy elders.
Deuteronomy 31:14-15 – God appeared to Moses and Joshua in the transfer of leadership to Joshua.
Job 38–42 – God answered Job out of the tempest and spoke at great length in answer to Job’s questions.
The Deity of Jesus Christ – a doctrine of redemption confirmation…
Jesus Christ, speaking to a crowd of unbelieving Jews, warned them that unless they believed He was “I AM” they would die in their sin (John 8:24; Exodus 3:14).
It is beyond my understanding how one can internalize the Truth of the Holy Spirit’s words, the words of Jesus, Himself; the words of the Father, Himself and stubbornly deny that Messiah Jesus could be any less than the fullness of deity in bodily form (John 8:58; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1); in fact, even the hardened Jews during the ministry of Jesus understood Messiah’s proclamation of deity and ultimately conspired with the Roman authorities to murder Messiah Jesus for blasphemy (John 10:33).
The divine sign that one is redeemed by faith – the Deity of Jesus Christ,
If anyone claims to be redeemed by faith in Jesus as Messiah yet they deny the Deity of Messiah Jesus, they are NOT in covenant with the Father and they therefore remain in their sin. It is the indwelling Holy Spirit that is given the redeemed in Jesus Christ as the Seal and Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father in the New Covenant (Ephesians 1:13-14) and it is the indwelling Holy Spirit who teaches, confirms, verifies, the Deity of Jesus Christ our Creator, our Messiah, our Judge; therefore, if anyone denies the Deity of Jesus Christ they do not possess the indwelling Holy Spirit and if one is absent the Holy Spirit, they are not in covenant with the Father; therefore, they remain in their sin and on the Path to the “second death” in Hell.
The Deity of Messiah Jesus and the initiation of Covenant with the Father…
IT IS NOT a divine requirement that one know, comprehend, acknowledge, Jesus as Elohim, Deity, in order to establish covenant relationship with the Father and find a pardon from death in sin and Hell but that one “believe” Jesus is Messiah who died to pay their sin-debt for them…a debt they could never pay them self – BUT – once the Holy Spirit takes up residence within the truly redeemed in Jesus Christ, they will come to a knowledge of the Truth and they will proclaim that Jesus Christ is Elohim, Deity, God, who manifest in flesh in order to provide blood atonement for the sins of the whole World (1 John 2:2) and that Jesus Christ could be nothing less than the fullness of Deity in bodily form who appeared “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b).
In closing,
Understand that the divine knowledge verifying, acknowledging, the Deity of Jesus Christ is the one tell-tale sign of confirmation that a man, woman or child has truly entered into New Covenant relationship with the Father and signals the confirmation that the Holy Spirit indwells them and is actively producing verifying “fruit” (Galatians 5).
It is the affirming knowledge that Jesus Christ is Deity that differentiates, sets-apart, the true Christian from every religion, sect, cult, in this fallen and defiled World enslaved by the Devil.
Why the “written code” (Sinai Commandments) kills without hope but the Law of the Spirit is LIFE – eternally. 2 Corinthians 3:6
The “letter kills” (the written code given Israel at Sinai) because it only defines our sin but provides no atonement for that sin…only hopelessness (Romans 3:20) because the letter, in order to attain righteousness (a right standing, covenant, with the Father) through it, demanded perfection (James 2:10) and man is under the condemnation of sin (Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12); therefore, the letter curses anyone seeking righteousness through obedience to same (Galatians 3:10). If Torah is your ticket to eternal life, you will perish in Hell (Galatians 2:16; Romans 3:20).
The Christian is not under law but under Grace (Romans 6:14) through faith in Jesus as Messiah (Romans 10:9-10); that is, the Christian does not chase letters, edicts, days, diets, but the Christian lives by the teaching, daily sanctification, of the Holy Spirit who indwells them (Romans 7:6; Ephesians 1:13-14) subsequent establishing covenant relationship (New Covenant) with the Father by faith in the Son, Jesus Christ (John 3).
Therefore, the Christian does NOT live daily chasing letters that are subjective and easily rationalized away by the sin-nature but the Christian walks by the Spirit via a redeemed conscience and the “natural, moral, law of conscience” (Romans 2:14-15), written on our heart at conception by our Creator, is enlivened through the “new creation” in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17), that redeemed conscience and the law that governs it is made alive by the indwelling Holy Spirit and the Law of the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2) is applicable, readily available, to discern every moral decision encountered by the Christian daily; therefore, the Law of the Spirit is infinitely superior to the Law of sin and death that could never save or offer hope (Romans 8:1-3).
Torah is NOT the answer to sin’s condemnation or eternal life,
If I never observed Torah, my eternal relationship with my Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, would be undeterred as I am NOT redeemed by the Law and I am not sanctified by the Law given the lawless (Romans 3:20; 1 Timothy 1:9)) but my salvation is assured by faith in the One who kept the Law for me and has imputed HIS lawful perfection, righteousness, into and over my life by faith in Him, Jesus Christ, as my Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21) and my Law is the Spirit of LIFE who indwells me and sanctifies me through my redeemed conscience via the natural law of conscience written upon my heart (Galatians 5:16; Romans 2:14-15) and my obedience to the Father’s will manifests through the presence of the Spirit’s “fruit” in my life; against same, THERE IS NO LAW (Galatians 5:22-24).
Law Obsession – a Spiritual Illness and death to the soul in Hell…
Both the Natural Law of Conscience (Romans 2:14-15) and the written code given Israel at Sinai (9 of 10) AKA “the Law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2) are given because of lawlessness to the lawless and NOT the righteous (1 Timothy 1:9) as a righteous man or woman pursues what is right and lawful and good and sustainable because they obey the Natural Law of Conscience which is eternally superior to Sinai or Moses’ 603 civil/ceremonial laws, as the Natural Law of Conscience is written upon their heart at conception, administered by the human conscience via the human genome created on Day-6; that genome created in the spiritual image of Elohim who imparted certain divine communicable attributes into the human genome for Elohim’s eschatological purposes going forward (Genesis 1:26-28).
Natural Law, New Covenant, the Holy Spirit, the “new creation,” sanctification,
It is the Natural Law of Conscience that is enlivened, made applicable with understanding, by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) working through the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) via daily sanctification; this is the promise of the New Covenant in Christ, a New Covenant established, ratified, in Messiah’s blood (Matthew 26:28) that honors the Father, NOT the written code demanding perfection from the sin-nature – a sin-nature of death that could never adequately comply to mandated perfection (James 2:10).
The eternal futility of obsession with law,
This obsession with law, the written code, is a spiritual illness that infects the heart, mind and soul of the legalist, the self-righteous hypocrite; a stale and vulgar disease. Law only defines your sin void atonement (Romans 3:20) and curses anyone who seeks righteousness (a right standing) with the Father through obedience to same (Galatians 3:10); this truism is abundantly made manifest through the self-righteousness of Jacob’s children throughout their history and continues to this very day as they have a zeal for God but NOT according to knowledge; in their wilful, stubborn, ignorance of God’s righteousness through His Messiah by faith, they seek to establish their own righteousness through self-righteousness via the Law…a “law addiction of death” (Romans 10); this, while denying the imputed righteousness of Yeshua received by faith (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Honoring the Father through faith, NOT law,
It is one’s faith, belief, in Messiah that honors the Father’s will for our life; that is, “to believe in the One He has sent” into the World to provide blood atonement for our sin (John 6:29; John 3:16).
The KEY to the Father’s heart is NOT LAW but FAITH,
Yeshua as our Messiah is “the end of the Law concerning righteousness” (Romans 10:4); in this divine statement, the Holy Spirit is telling YOU that the failures of the Law to elicit, evoke, soul-saving righteousness from the sin-nature of man has come to an end; the curse of the Law has ended for the one who “believes” as the Holy One, Jesus Christ, has come and conquered the curse of the Law for us through His sinless perfection and offers you and me HIS perfection, righteousness, in exchange for our sin IF we will simply trust-believe in Him, Jesus Christ/Yeshua, as our Messiah believing that Yeshua died for us to pay our sin-debt we could never pay our self (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Why an obsession with eternal death through Law?
Why are you allowing the obsession with that which curses, condemns, kills your soul in Hell; that is, the written code, to become an obsessive-compulsive addiction in your spiritual life when freedom, peace, assurance, perfect righteousness, is offered you by Yeshua, Jesus Christ, who came not to condemn the World through the written Law but to give you abundant life by faith in Him as your Messiah (John 3:16-19) and a life of relevant, honored, obedience manifest through the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16-23)?