A warning concerning the Allah of Islam and the Quran,

There is nothing “noble” about the Allah of Islam or the Quran as Islam’s Allah is Satan masquerading as an angel of light via the Arabic moon god (2 Corinthians 11:14) and the Quran is a plagiarized work of a 7th-Century demon possessed murdering pedophile thief named Muhammad, the ancestor of Ishmael born of adultery between Abraham and Hagar who was prophesied to be “a wild donkey of a man” (Genesis 16:12). Anyone deceived by Islam’s Allah or its false prophet, Muhammad, will perish in Hell without hope.

If you desire eternal life through the forgiveness of sin via covenant relationship with our Heavenly Father, repent, turn away from your sin and fully trust and believe in Jesus Christ as your Messiah who died to pay your sin-debt owed the Father…a debt you could never pay yourself as there is no other Way to life but through Jesus as your Messiah (John 3; John 14:6).

It is written,

10 The angel of the Lord also said to her [Hagar], “I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.” 11 And the angel of the Lord said to her,

“Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has listened to your affliction. 12 He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.” Genesis 16:10-12 (ESV)

It is written,

Isaac, alone, is the son of promise, 15 God said to Abraham, “I will change the name of Sarai, your wife, to Sarah. 16 I will bless her and give her a son, and you will be the father. She will be the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will come from her.”

17 Abraham bowed facedown on the ground and laughed. He said to himself, “Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth to a child when she is ninety?” 18 Then Abraham said to God, “Please let Ishmael be the son you promised.”

19 God said, “No, Sarah your wife will have a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him to be an agreement that continues forever with all his descendants.

20 “As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him and give him many descendants. And I will cause their numbers to grow greatly. He will be the father of twelve great leaders, and I will make him into a great nation. 21 But I will make my agreement with Isaac, the son whom Sarah will have at this same time next year.” 22 After God finished talking with Abraham, God rose and left him. Genesis 17 (NCV)

The “Ark of the Covenant” is a foreshadowing of Messiah…

1) The wood forming the body of the Ark represented Messiah’s humanity (Isaiah 53:2).

2) The gold that provides value and beauty to the Ark represented Messiah’s deity (Matthew 2:1).

3) The Mercy Seat and the two-angels atop were seen in their fulfillment as they were observed by Mary in the tomb of Jesus (John 20:12) signifying that Messiah Jesus is our Living “Mercy Seat.”

4) Aaron’s rod – a dead stick that budded to life – indicates that Messiah would die and live again through the resurrection (John 11:17-44).

5) The pot of manna represented that Messiah would be our sustenance, our “Bread of Life” from Heaven (John 6:35).

6) The Tablets of Stone etched with Elohim’s Commandments indicated that Messiah would possess the Law of God in His heart and He alone would be the fulfillment of same (Matthew 5:17).

The reality/reasoning for Hell – The “Lake of Fire”…a sincere warning…

The reality of man’s judgment for sin is in no way “vague” in the Scriptures; if your sin is not atoned for by the blood of Messiah Jesus by faith in Jesus as your Messiah, you will NOT enter the Kingdom of God (John 3); therefore, the default for your corrupted resurrected body, mind, soul, subsequent internment in Hades-Torments, is extinction, the “second death,” as there remains no place for your chosen defilement (Revelation 20:11-15).

Do not be deceived, the Father is NOT going to allow your rejection of His righteousness, His eschatological plan for Time and Eternity through the Son, Jesus Christ, to be stymied, polluted, endangered, by your rebellion. The Father has been through that scenario once and suffered unconscionably to restore holiness and righteousness to His Kingdom defiled by the very sin you covet; therefore, you will not be allowed to repeat it as nothing impure will enter His Kingdom (Revelation 21:27).

ONLY those who have received the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ by faith as atonement for their sin, their corrupted nature buffered by the new creation in Christ via the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16), will enter the Kingdom, the New Jerusalem, and live with Messiah forever (2 Corinthians 5:21; John 14:6; John 3).

Concerning those who died before Messiah’s First-Advent, where is their soul, their spirit?

Those who existed before Messiah found righteousness with Elohim just as those subsequent Messiah’s First-Advent; that is, righteousness (a right standing) with the Father was and is initiated by “faith;” that is, believing that God is true, God is real and that He will do exactly as He has promised (Hebrews 11).

Many men and women entered into covenant with the Father before Messiah; unfortunately, their sin had not received the acceptable atonement though that blood-atonement was first pictured in Genesis 3:21 and articulated subsequently in Leviticus 17:11, foreshadowed by the Levitical blood sacrifices and ultimately fulfilled by Messiah Jesus at Golgotha with the words “It is finished” (John 19:30).

Before Messiah’s blood atonement had manifest at Golgotha, those who died prior to that atonement, their spirit/soul was detained temporarily in Sheol (Hades-Greek)/Paradise (Luke 16) and while Messiah’s body laid in the tomb for three-days, Messiah, in Spirit (John 4:24), entered the region of Sheol-Paradise, preached the Gospel/liberty to them and subsequently escorted them into the Kingdom where nothing impure is permitted to exist (Ephesians 4:7-10; Revelation 21:27). These Old Testament saints had now received the imputed righteousness of Messiah over their existence by faith and were declared “not guilty” by covenant promise (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12).

Disposition of the dead today?

Those who die subsequent Messiah’s atonement for sin having trusted in Jesus Christ as their Messiah by faith during their life constrained by Time and physics (John 3), they are immediately translated into the presence of our Lord as Sheol-Paradise is now unoccupied and irrelevant (2 Corinthians 5:8).

Only Sheol-Hades/Torments (Luke 16) remains relevant; this, for all unredeemed who die not in faith, not in covenant with the Father through faith in Jesus Christ, as these are awaiting the Great White Throne Judgment of the Condemned and will receive resurrected bodies of corruption and stand for adjudication before Jesus Christ immediately subsequent His Millennial Reign; these will be adjudicated guilty for their sin, their fleshly works of unrighteousness, and die the “second death”in the Lake of Fire in nihilism (Revelation 20:11-15).

Satan, the objective of the demonic in Time; What is Satan’s objective subsequent Eden? “Diminishing Returns” – a discussion…

Humanity requires no instruction in lawlessness as lawlessness, defilement, self-destructive behavior, flows naturally from the sin-nature we’ve inherited from our father, Adam as Adam relented to the enticement of his wife as Adam’s wife relented to the enticement of Satan’s promises of endless pleasure in return for her compromise with evil (Romans 5:12).

Satan’s objective is no longer your sin but His motive is a seared conscience, an attitude of complacency that compromises with self-destructive behavior through the demonic tactic of “diminishing returns;” that is, the temporary pleasure of immoral behavior mandates progressively enhanced immoral acts in self-defilement in order to achieve the “pleasure” perceived from the previous compromise; this demonic agenda, diminishing returns, is the foundation for “addiction” and it ultimately destroys mind, body, soul in Hell.

With every compromise in the addiction to “diminishing returns” the Holy Spirit’s call to repentance and life in Messiah Jesus by faith grows incrementally, increasingly, faint and ultimately silent.

False doctrine of “Christian Perfectionism” “Sinless Perfectionism” and the teaching of Jesus? (Woman caught in Adultery, John 8:1-11). Scripture and a comment/discussion,

1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5 Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9 But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10 Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]] Emphasis (highlight) is mine: John 8:1-11 (ESV)

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Inspired text or scribal addition?

Christian comment,

Before we continue, understand that: [The earliest manuscripts do not include John 7:53–8:11.]; therefore, is the “Woman caught in adultery” inspired text or added later? The better translations bracket [John 7:53 to 8:11] to indicate their absence in our most trusted manuscripts; therefore, to base doctrine or one’s theological ideology on these verses is not practicing true Biblical wisdom.

With divine inspiration of the text questionable and in contention what is the conclusion of the matter concerning “Sinless Perfectionism?”

As long as one is encumbered with a body of sinful flesh (Romans 3:23) subject to the Adamic curse (Romans 5:12), sinless perfection is NOT possible and anyone who promotes the false doctrine of “Christian Perfectionism” or “Sinless Perfectionism” does not understand the Scriptures or the Holy Spirit who provided them.

Jesus enhanced culpability of the written code with Mens Rea (the thought life)…

Jesus, if the text is actually inspired, was not suggesting that the woman caught in adultery was to become sinless but that she was to walk away, repent, from her immoral lifestyle and pursue righteousness as grace had been provided her. Jesus would not command something that is not humanly possible; in fact, Jesus enhanced the Law of sin and death (the written code) to include mens rea (the thought life) so no longer must one physiologically engage in an act of disobedience to be culpable for sin but the mere “thought” of the sin is culpability before the Father (Matthew 5:21-28); therefore, humanity, encapsulated in sinful, condemned, flesh, will NEVER be sinless or perfect in reality and to even suggest the possibility exists is absurd and defies logic.

Though the redeemed in Jesus possess a new-nature as a result of their faith in Jesus as Lord (2 Corinthians 5:17), they are NOT sinless in mind or body or deed and that New Nature in Christ wars against the Old Nature in Adam, daily, and the internal struggle between good and evil will continue until the body of sin surrenders to death and frees the spirit that belongs to our Lord and was created in His spiritual image (Romans 7:14-25; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Genesis 1:26-28).

The ONLY “perfection” we can attain in this life constrained by Time, physics, flesh, is the IMPUTED perfection/righteousness Gifted us by faith in Jesus as Lord and being declared “not guilty” or “positionally right” with the Father by covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12; 2 Corinthians 5:21). As Christians, we are to pursue obedience to our Father’s will; this, accomplished through obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit via the redeemed conscience producing the “fruit of the Spirit” (Galatians 5) as we walk daily in the divine process of sanctification yet the struggle with evil continues…

Theologian, Reformer and Priest, Martin Luther, is quoted as saying: “You should not believe your conscience or your feelings more than the word.”

Is Luther correct? The Holy Spirit teaches a different perspective concerning the New Covenant and the redeemed conscience.

The redeemed in Jesus Christ, possessing the Holy Spirit by covenant promise, walk, discern, live, thrive, survive, through the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) seeking obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit as He enlivens the natural law written upon our heart at conception (Romans 2:14-15) and makes that law applicable to every facet of our life and accomplishes this with divine wisdom, knowledge, discernment, making the “Law of the Spirit of life” (Romans 8:2) infinitely superior to the Law of the Covenant AKA “the Law of sin and death.” Allow me to explain,

The Holy Spirit’s initial responsibility in the Realm of Time is to woo, draw, one to faith in Christ pre-salvation (John 12:32) but once covenant is established by faith in Jesus as one’s Messiah (John 3) the Holy Spirit takes-up residence within the redeemed (Ephesians 1:13-14) and begins a new work within them as the Holy Spirit enlivens the “law of conscience” (Romans 2:14-15) (law written upon our heart at conception) via the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) and methodically walks them in the Father’s will via the daily process of sanctification (Galatians 5:16).

It is the Holy Spirit’s work through the conscience of the redeemed that is an infinitely superior form of behavioral modification compared to the old Law Covenant demanding, coercing, obedience by the sin-nature (Romans 5:12) to Laws and edicts published, etched in stone and scratched upon parchment, a written code having manifest to define sin void any hope of atonement yet mandating perfection from that sinful nature inherited from Adam (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10; James 2:10; Romans 8:1+; Romans 5:12); therefore, the Law Covenant, its written code, curses anyone seeking righteousness (a right standing) with the Father through obedience to same due to the sin-nature that could never adequately comply (Galatians 3:10).

The Superiority of the Law of the Spirit of Life working through the redeemed conscience,

The Law of the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2) working through the redeemed conscience is able to divinely address every point of discernment, every moral decision, in a man or woman’s life and does so with efficiency, with rapidity and holiness; something the written law could never do as the written law, its elements defining sin, are weakened by subjectivity, indecisiveness, obfuscation by a seared or defiled conscience and ultimately culminates in failure, damnation of the soul in sin.

These failures of the “written code” defines why “letters kill but the Spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:4-6); this is why the redeemed in Jesus are “not under law (written code) but under grace” (Romans 6:14); this is why the redeemed in Jesus are not enslaved to letters but live daily by the Spirit and His teaching, tutorship, in sanctification (Romans 7:6); this is why the New Covenant of Grace established, ratified, in Messiah’s blood (Matthew 26:28), a New Covenant administered by the indwelling Holy Spirit, is infinitely, eternally, superior to the Old Covenant of Law (Hebrews 8:7); this defines the righteousness, the imputed righteousness of Jesus, “apart from the Law” made known by the Holy Spirit via the redeemed conscience (Romans 3:21; 2 Corinthians 5:21); therefore, contrary to Luther’s observations, the redeemed conscience governed by the indwelling Holy Spirit in the New Covenant is the focal point of sanctification and preparedness for service in the New Jerusalem.

“Tongues” Today?

Tongues spoken in Acts were “languages” “dialects” that the anointed spoke and/or understood without having previously studied. This spiritual gift was given as evidence for unbelieving Jews of the Holy Spirit’s work in the “New Covenant” and the gift was also given to aid in proselytizing the known World with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Tongues today are a pagan manifestation, a mimicking, of the pagan priestess at the Temple of Delphi adjacent Corinth in the First-Century where the priestess sitting atop a throne in the Temple over a burning intoxicating substance would provide oracles and often times gibberish prophecy to awaiting patrons who often left more confused than when they entered seeking enlightenment. Obviously, this pagan tongue slithered its way into the Corinthian Church creating much consternation for Paul who ultimately mandated that women be quiet in Church services; evidently, some women in the Corinthian congregation were mimicking the absurdity of the pagan priestess and interrupting Church with gibberish, oracles of prophecy, that was mislabeled as a heavenly language, unknown tongue, prophecy.

Today’s Pentecostalism and other “Churches” of Charismata teach and perform this pagan ritual under the auspices of Biblical Tongues as demonstrated in Acts; some actually teach this pagan tongue to children and as a sign of one’s “Baptism in the Holy Spirit.” Some even go as far as teaching tongues as essential for one’s salvation. This pagan nonsense glorified in certain Churches creates an atmosphere of apostasy, works salvation, doubt, fear, confusion. These “Churches” are an embarrassment to the Holy Spirit and the Kingdom of God.

Anyone who advocates for “tongues” today should be required to answer this simple question: “If tongues are extant today, why must we methodically train our missionaries in the language of the culture they will proselytize with the Gospel?”

Misplaced, unwarranted, Jewish-Israelite Pride, arrogance, emanating from Matthew 15:24,

Jewish pride and arrogance expressed: “How do you feel about the fact that Jesus Christ said He didn’t come for the gentiles and you know that you are one?” 🥺

Christian response,

Messiah came through the Tribe of Judah in order to fulfill Elohim’s promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:3b) and to complete that promise, Jesus came to the “lost sheep of Israel” (Matthew 15:24) to proselytize Jacob’s children in the New Covenant’s Gospel that would be ratified, established, in Messiah’s blood in fulfillment of Torah and specifically Leviticus 17:11 (Matthew 26:28); this was done as Jacob’s children were to be ambassadors of the “Great Commission” and through their missionary work throughout the World, every family would be blessed with the knowledge of Messiah (Matthew 28:16-20); unfortunately, Israel’s children rejected and blasphemed their Messiah; Israel’s children conspired with the Roman authorities to murder their Messiah upon a tree while exclaiming that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, the Gospel of Grace was taken from Jacob’s children and given to the Gentiles until the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom of Heaven (Romans 11:25); in fact, due to unbelief and hardness of heart, the Jewish curse, only a remnant of Israel will be saved from the second death in Hell (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27; Romans 10); therefore, no descendant of Jacob has anything to boast about and no reason to proclaim self-righteousness through Torah or heritage.

Conclusion,

If any Jew or Israelite desires life and Truth and peace with Yahweh, the Path to life remains available by faith in Yeshua as Messiah as there is no other Way for a Jew, Israelite, or Gentile, to be saved from death in Hell (Romans 5:1; John 14:6).