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Jesus was sent to Israel’s children, why are Gentiles in custody of the Gospel?

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Israel’s children were foreordained to be ministers of the New Covenant’s Gospel; hence, Messiah’s ministry to them (Matthew 15:24); unfortunately, Israel’s children rejected their Messiah; Israel’s children rejected the New Covenant’s precepts of grace through faith in Yeshua while insisting that self-righteousness through Torah Law was the path to righteousness (Romans 10:1-4); Israel’s children conspired with Rome to murder their Messiah upon a cross and demanded that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, Israel’s children were placed under judgment, blinded, while the Gospel, the New Covenant, the Great Commission, the Church, were given to the Gentile “until the fulness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom” (Matthew 23:37-39; Romans 11:25).

How do I “know” I’m saved by Jesus?

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When you are saved by faith in Jesus as your Messiah, the Holy Spirit takes up residence within you (Ephesians 1:13-14) and there is a small, still, voice that resonates as you mature in your faith that verifies in your inner man that you are a child of the Living God. YOU KNOW THAT YOU KNOW…WORDS CAN’T ADEQUATELY EXPRESS THIS ASSURANCE BUT THERE IS JOY AND PEACE IN JESUS.

Your outlook on life changes, you understand the futility of this World while the JOY and peace of Jesus encapsulates your inner being. You desire to honor the Father and do His will for your life as selfishness and temporary irrelevant pursuits, the desire for same, disappear. You are content with and thankful for what the Lord has provided you. You are a “new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17) with wisdom, discernment, that was not present before you trusted in Jesus as your Messiah. You intuitively KNOW that your Creator, Jesus our Messiah, and the Holy Spirit within you, “have your back.” You’re good, unshaken, irrespective of what life might throw at you. You have a “friend that sticks closer than a brother” in the Holy Spirit.

Finally, you have a passion, a love for the Scriptures and the knowledge and wisdom they impart.

New Covenant: Law or Grace INRE Salvation?

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No one is justified by commandment keeping, if that were possible, Jesus died in vain (Galatians 2:21).

Where you fail in your theological understanding is a lack of knowledge or awareness concerning the transitional reality of the New Testament from Law to Grace. Torah plays a very diminutive role in the New Covenant; Torah simply points its adherents to their need for a divine Intercessor as Torah only condemns void grace.

If you trust in Torah, Law, your adherence to same in order to establish New Covenant relationship with the Father, you will perish in Hell in self-righteousness as NO ONE is justified by Law Keeping (Galatians 2:16). Faith in Jesus as your Messiah is the only Path to righteousness that the Father honors concerning eternal relationship with Him (Acts 4:12).

Why read the Bible?

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Concerning those redeemed by faith in Jesus as their Messiah,

Reading Scripture with intent is like programming a computer’s hard drive…what you’re inputting into your mind and heart can be accessed by the indwelling Holy Spirit for use at the proper time, maybe many years down the road…but the information is stored and He is faithful to draw upon it when you need it. Reading the Scriptures, even if you don’t understand same at that time…is invaluable. Neglecting the Scriptures is like an operating system void information, it’s useless.

Without Torah where is law defining sin?

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Sin is defined by the spiritual law (Romans 2:14-15) that has been extant within human kind subsequent Day-6 and the spiritual law is the very same law that judged Satan of covetousness and under girded his extrication from the Kingdom. The spiritual law judged both the Adamic and Noahic generations of defilement and judgement in water LONG before Sinai and Moses.

Torah’s laws, Moses’ laws, are but a mere fraction of the comprehensive spiritual law that will be used to judge the unredeemed and that same law will be extant in the New Jerusalem as free will remains extant there as well; this, by necessity.

Torah will find relevance in the Millennial Kingdom as Jesus will receive the Kingdom denied Him at His First-Advent and a partial return to Law will manifest there as the Age of Grace will have concluded subsequent the “fullness of the Gentiles” having entered the Kingdom (Romans 11:25).

During this current “Age of Grace”…the New Covenant, as established in the blood of Messiah (Matthew 26:27-29), Torah is not in effect (Romans 6:14) but the redeemed in Jesus are under grace and their obedience is through the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14; Romans 7:6) whereby the Spirit produces divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) through the redeemed and this fruit fulfills all law; both codified and spiritual (Galatians 5:23) and this fruit actually pleases the Father and proves one to be a disciple of Jesus (John 15:8).

True Repentance: before or after Salvation by faith?

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Topic of discussion: It is a distortion of the gospel to emphasize God’s grace heavily while ignoring the need for repentance.

True, actuated, “repentance” is not possible without grace and a relationship with the Father through faith in Jesus as Messiah, why? For one to truly repent and produce divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) that validates true repentance, one must possess the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) and allow His anointing to work in their life through obedience via daily Christian sanctification; therefore, one can and should profess a “desire” to repent in conjunction with their statement of faith in Jesus as Messiah, but true, actuated, faith validating, repentance will ONLY manifest subsequent salvation; this, through the production of divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) and this fruit fulfills all law (Galatians 5:23); this fruit actually pleases the Father and proves one to be a disciple of Jesus (John 15:8).

Ignorant hater of Truth stated: [Christianity] “was founded in war you got that right. And you will always be involved in wars because your religions are cursed.”

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Our entire Creation is the resultant of a war initiated by a rebellious cherub in the Kingdom before Time began (Revelation 12; Ezekiel 28:11-15). This temporary Earth is a temporary repository for that Kingdom War as Elohim restores peace and order to the Heavenly Kingdom within the Spiritual Realm.

This is why the first main character introduced subsequent the creation of human kind is Satan (Genesis 3) and this is why a formal declaration of war between Satan and Messiah is proclaimed in Genesis 3:15 and this is why the battle strategy by which Messiah would defeat the works of Satan (death, Hell, the grave) is proclaimed in Genesis 3:21 via the shedding of innocent blood to provide human kind a gifted, imputed, robe of righteousness/covering for sin known as the Gospel of Jesus.

Messiah Jesus fulfilled these prophecies 4000-years later at Golgotha through the shedding of His innocent blood; in fact, the primary reason Messiah entered Time was “to destroy the works of Satan” (1 John 3:8b) via a Gospel that was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-9).

You were born into this WAR for a purpose and you possess the free will to chose servitude to Jesus as His warrior for good or you can choose Satan as his warrior for evil…not choosing sides is siding with Satan. I sense your anger and hostility toward Christianity…please don’t the fool of Satan and die in Hell in rebellion to our Creator’s will for your life (John 6:29).

Creator Jesus?

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It is written that Jesus is Creator in John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1.

Hebrews 1,

1God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, 2in these last days has spoken to us 👉in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, 👉through whom also He made the world.

10And,
👉“YOU, LORD, IN THE BEGINNING LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH,
👉AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS;

John 1,

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God. 3👉All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him [b]not even one thing came into being that has come into being. 4In Him was life, and the life was the Light of mankind. 5And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it.

14And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15John *testified about Him and called out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who is coming after me has proved to be my superior, because He existed before me.’” 16For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. 17For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. 18No one has seen God at any time; God the only Son, who is in the arms of the Father, He has explained Him.

Colossians 1,

The Preeminence of Christ

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 👉For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—👉all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

The Trinity: My Perspective

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I see the presence and validity of the Trinity throughout the Scriptures and my “God” is Elohim (Genesis 1:1). Elohim: a plural noun accompanied by a singular verb.

Elohim the Father – Administrator

Elohim the Son – Creator-Warrior-Messiah-Judge

Elohim the Holy Spirit – Logistics – The divine Logistical Overseer, the Dunamis, of all things eschatological.

These Three are ONE-Elohim and possess coequal deific attributes, a separate will, a unique personality, individual yet sometimes overlapping divine responsibilities within the Realm of Time and the Realm of the Spiritual. I can’t fully explain it, I can’t fully comprehend it…but there it is, the Trinity, for all to see who read with a mind and sincere heart seeking Truth.

Can a Christian follow Yeshua while ignoring Torah?

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Can a Christian follow Yeshua while ignoring the Torah?

If I never heard of Torah, as a Christian, my walk with my LORD would be unimpeded concerning the veracity/security of my salvation and New Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12); with that said, the Torah provides the Christian invaluable historical and eschatological information concerning the who, what, where, when, why, how, of Elohim’s eschatological plan for Time and humanity, including the essential foundations of faith; therefore, it’s not that a Christian “follows” Torah and it’s rules, regulations, traditions, but that the Christian’s spiritual walk would be incomplete without Torah; therefore, a Christian’s fullness of joy and understanding would be lacking due the plethora of theological knowledge that would be absent void a study of Torah, theological truths that the Holy Spirit would not be able draw upon as tools to arbitrate the redeemed conscience/provide instruction; this, as the Holy Spirit walks the redeemed Christian in daily sanctification in preparation for service in the New Jerusalem.