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Pray for Israel; Pray for Jerusalem. Eschatology unfolding…

Pray for Israel; Pray for Jerusalem. Eschatology unfolding…

Saturday, 07 October 2023, the Nation of Israel was invaded by Hamas Terrorists supported by Iran/Islam as Hamas proceeded to murder hundreds, if not thousands, of Israeli women, children, husbands, wives, grandparents, grandchildren…gunned down much like the Jews of the Holocaust, this time, by Islamist Nazis whose god is Satan.

Israel, blessed by Elohim,

A couple of decades ago, I spent some time in the Old City of Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives, Masada, the Dead Sea, Capernaum, Bethsaida, the Sea of Galilee, and I felt and appreciated the love of the Israeli people, Israeli hospitality, and I felt and internalized the hate of the Muslim-Islamist. Employed by a local government in the United States, maybe it was my demeanor, one Muslim said it was my walk…but I was followed, surveilled, through the Old City, I was pelted with fruit in the Muslim Quarter. I was scorned for my love of Israel and the Israeli people while visiting vendors in the Muslim Quarter.

I received information from the State Department to leave Israel…the threat to American citizens was too high. I did not leave but watched Israeli soldiers and police make every effort to guard against Islamist terrorism, the traffic stops, the bus inspections, the check points, the armed citizenry, the M-16’s carried over the shoulders of Israeli students and military trainees. I watched a van load of Islamists breech a gate at Jericho. I was almost arrested by Muslim security at the Eastern Gate for having trespassed in a Muslim cemetery as I prepared to climb the last 50-feet to the Gate’s base and touch the very place where my Messiah would enter the Old City of Jerusalem to initiate His Millennial Reign.

I had walked down the Mount of Olives, passed through the Kidron Valley and entered the Muslim Cemetery, tracing the footsteps that Messiah will take at His 2nd-Advent. I observed the Eastern Gate that has been walled over, closed and sealed, by Ottoman Sultan Suleiman in 1541AD with the intention of preventing Messiah Jesus from entering the Temple Mount at His return. No doubt, the Muslim cemetery that prevents access to the Eastern Gate is also an Islamist attempt to prevent Messiah’s entrance to the Temple Mount as the Islamist naively believes that no respectable Jewish Rabbi would traverse the grounds of a Muslim cemetery and defile Himself.

What is happening to Israel and the World?

First of all, understand the Islamist enemy of Israel is simply fulfilling prophecy. The hatred for Israel that is pervasive in the Middle East finds its origin in the adulterous sexual interlude between Patriarch Abraham and his servant named Hagar. This adulterous union produced the “wild donkey” of a man named Ishmael.

11 And the angel of the Lord said to her [Hagar],

“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 (ESV) (Emphasis mine)

Ishmael is the father of the Ishmaelites, a virulent enemy of Israel. The Ishmaelites are the progenitors of a 7th-Century demon possessed, nomadic, murdering, pedophile, thief, named Muhammad. Muhammad, in his demonism, plagiarized the Torah to create the Quran as Muhammad desired to proselytize the Jews in Medina with his new “religion” but the Jews and Christians rejected Muhammad which eventually led to the creation of the Islamic Caliphate that butchered via the sword many thousands of Jews and Christians until temporarily stopped in 1929.

The “Allah” of Islam,

The Allah of Islam is Satan masquerading as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14) via the Arabic moon god. Islam’s virulent hatred for Israel is demonically rooted and bolstered by Satan’s efforts to eradicate the Jewish people from the face of the Earth via Hitler’s Holocaust which initiated the “Never Again” movement by Holocaust survivors; in response, Israeli leadership initiated the rebirth of the Nation of Israel in 1948 and Israel, in the midst of Satan’s Islamic Empire, continually suffers today from Her demonically possessed and demonically motivated Islamist “neighbors.”

Israel’s struggle today,

Ultimately, what we’re observing today in Israel’s struggle to survive among Satan’s servants is the birth pangs of the Tribulation Era that will involve an alliance between Russia-China-Iran/Islam (an Islamist coalition) v. Jerusalem, Israel and a nuclear war foretold by the Holy Spirit through the major prophets Zechariah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Daniel, the Apostle John, Messiah Jesus.

The final days of the Tribulation Era will initiate Messiah’s 2nd-Advent and Messiah’s Millennial Kingdom as Jesus, alone, will rescue Israel from Her demonic adversaries and Messiah will be victorious (Revelation 5:5).

The Revelation given the Apostle John by Messiah is a brief overview of a horrific nuclear war that will soon come upon the entire World as the Apostle John, from his isolation on the Island of Patmos in 90AD, makes every attempt to describe 21st-Century battle and sophisticated armament using 1st-Century knowledge and vocabulary.

The Kingdom War in the Realm of Time,

For all intents and purposes, what we’re observing today in Israel is a physical manifestation of the Kingdom War initiated by a rebellious cherub angel before Time began, a Spiritual War that was removed from the Kingdom and placed upon this temporary Earth to be dealt with by Elohim here, apart from the Kingdom and partially constrained by Time and physics…a Spiritual War in which humanity is uniquely and intimately involved.

Jesus told us that as we observe these things coming to pass, we who are redeemed by faith in our Messiah, we are to look up and know that our redemption is drawing near (Luke 21:28-31). MARANATHA!

Do you really believe people go straight to Hell for not believing in Jesus?

Do you really believe people go straight to Hell for not believing in Jesus?

Anyone who denies Jesus as Messiah will NOT enter the Kingdom of God (John 14:6). From Adam forward, those who die rejecting Elohim by faith and those who die in the New Covenant rejecting Messiah as Lord are currently interned in Sheol-Hades/torments awaiting the Judgment of the Condemned (Luke 16; Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29).

Subsequent Messiah’s Millennial Reign, there will be a Judgment of the Condemned (Revelation 20:11-15) and those who have rejected the Father’s offer of a pardon from death in Hell due to sin will be judged and adjudicated guilty and lose both resurrected body and soul in the Lake of Fire, a place of eternal death created for the Devil and his angels (Revelation 20:10; Matthew 25:41).

We are in the midst of an unfathomable spiritual war and we have but two-options concerning our alliance…Jesus or Satan. If you choose Satan by rejecting Jesus as your Messiah, you will not be provided a place in the coming Kingdom; therefore, your resurrected mind, body, soul, must be eliminated as a participant in the Great Kingdom War…there will be no place for you, your reality will be annihilated as your defilement will NOT be permitted to enter the Kingdom…there is no place for the rebellious and arrogant (Revelation 21:27); therefore, you are commanded to choose this day whom you will serve. That choice has eternal ramifications.

Concerning those who believe Israel is exempt from Messiah as Lord and repentance is sufficient for the Father’s grace…

You can repent till your dying exhalation but unless that repentance is coupled with faith in the Messiah, believing that Messiah Jesus died for you, you will perish in Hell (John 3; John 14:6; 8:24). The Father has provided ONE STANDARD for righteousness and covenant relationship with Him…Jesus the Messiah as one’s Lord and Savior; that is, one must receive the imputed-gifted righteousness of Messiah Jesus over their life by faith in Him as their Messiah who died for them (John 3; 2 Corinthians 5:21). No one enters the Kingdom of God based on genealogy or heritage. Jew, Israelite, Gentile, must all pass through the same Portal…Jesus the Messiah by faith (Acts 4:12).

Why are Christians so obsessed with bringing Jews to Christianity?

A wayward Jew asked: “…why are Christians so obsessed with bringing Jews to Christianity?”

Christian response,

Christians don’t want the Jew or Israelite to perish in Hell and Scripture tells us that an overwhelming number of Jacob’s children will die in unbelief having rejected their Messiah and consequently die in Hell (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27); therefore, the redeemed faithful in Messiah are obligated to the Great Commission; therefore, the Christian feels the need to tell the Jew and Israelite about Messiah Yeshua that they not perish in abject spiritual ignorance; therefore, plant the seed so-to-speak.

Jacob’s children are under Judgment relevant to the Jewish Curse in response to their forefather’s demands that Messiah’s blood, His murder at Golgotha advocated – initiated by Jacob’s children, be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, Israel’s children are spiritually blind, spiritually deaf, their heart is hardened against the Truth, they are sheep being led to the slaughter by Satan; therefore, it is incumbent upon those who love Jesus Christ to tell and warn the Jew and Israelite of their precarious spiritual situation and plead with them to shake-off the bonds of spiritual lethargy and arrogance and repent of their sin, fully-sincerely believe and trust in Yeshua as Messiah and LIVE! Judaism-Torah are simply a roadmap and NOT the destination; Yeshua as Messiah by faith is the destination (Galatians 3:24-26).

Israel’s self-deception,

The obstinate religious Jew and Israelite will often cite Ezekiel 33:19 and/or Ezekiel 18:21-32 and incorrectly assume that they can repent, turn from their wicked ways, follow Yahweh’s statutes, and be saved through self-righteousness e.g. works of the Law; others, will also cite Romans 11:26 void context and incorrectly believe that “all of Israel will be saved” actually denotes the entirety of Jacob’s children will be saved from Hell due their genealogy or heritage; this too, is a lie from Hell as the Scripture is applicable to a besieged and proselytized remnant that endures the Tribulation Era, witnesses Messiah’s 2nd-Advent to Mt. Olivet and accompanies Messiah into His Millennial Kingdom; therefore, it is incumbent upon every faithful Christian to witness to the lost and Hell-bound Jew and Israelite concerning their need for Yeshua as Messiah by faith.   

Theological error existing in Judaism & Islam concerning the origin of law…

A Theological Error emanating from Judaism and other religions that do not impart life… “Law finds its genesis at Sinai with Moses via Torah” “Law finds its genesis with Allah through Muhammad via the Quran” 

The Holy Spirit tells us that where there is no law there is no sin (Romans 4:15; 5:13); therefore, how was Satan judged, adjudicated, convicted of sin i.e. covetousness and extricated from the Kingdom for that sin if the law was initiated at Sinai?

How were the Adamic and Noahic generations judged of defilement worthy of death by water save eight if there was no law prior to Sinai?

How did Elohim differentiate the righteous by faith (Hebrews 11) and the wicked by disobedience (Romans 1:18-32) prior to Sinai lest a form of law existed to provide a differentiation between good and evil?  

There is a theological error that abounds throughout Judaism and other religions that Sinai/Moses or Allah/Muhammad was the genesis of Law when Sinai is NOTHING NEW or novel but simply a fragmented codification of the moral aspects of the law of the Spirit (Romans 8:2; Romans 2:14-15) that has been relevant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels. Sinai, the Law of Moses, was given Israel for sanctification – eschatological purposes and its relevance is but a moment in Time when compared to the eternal spiritual law of the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2). 

Islam’s Allah is Satan masquerading as an angel of light via the Arabic moon god (2 Corinthians 11:14) while Muhammad is a 7th-Century demon-possessed nomadic pedophile, murdering, thief, who plagiarized the Torah to construct the Quran.  

Elohim (Genesis 1:1), the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, IS the origin of Law; this, before Time began.

Concerning the Tanakh and Jewish obsessions with same…

Concerning the Jew, Israelite and Hebrew Roots fanatic that pesters me about the Tanakh and their loyalty to same…

Jesus entered Time through the Tribe of Judah and came to a people under the Law Covenant and made every attempt to redeem those people for the Father’s eschatological plan for Time and Eternity but those people were stubborn and arrogant and clung to the Law through self-righteousness while rejecting faith and belief in their Messiah…the Tanakh failed as did Jacob’s children as are you. The Tanakh is a roadmap, not the destination. You weary me. The Judgment of Messiah against you will be righteous and dreadful.

The Deity of Messiah Jesus and your eternal destiny…

The Deity of Messiah Jesus and your eternal destiny…

The Holy Spirit, who Authored the Scriptures as presented in the Canon, could not have been more clear concerning the deity of Messiah Jesus (John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1); those who deny Messiah’s deity are absent the indwelling Holy Spirit who is the Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, those who are absent the indwelling Spirit are not redeemed by faith and therefore remain in their sin (John 3:5; John 8:24).

The one primary differentiating theological Truth between the Christian and every cult and religion of the World is the knowledge that Jesus is Elohim, our Creator – eternally “I AM” and the confession of same publically without apprehension (Matthew 16:13-20). If you do not know Jesus as Elohim, you do not know the Father or the Holy Spirit (1 John 2:23).

The unbelieving Jews during Jesus’ Earthly ministry knew the eternal import of the defic title “God’s Son” and “I AM” and sought to murder Jesus for blasphemy (John 8 ). This same mindset is prevalent today in a society inundated by “antichrists” seeking death in Hell via a false messiah they’ve created in their own image or an image of their own choosing (1 John 2:2).

Nineveh and Salvation prior to Jesus?

Question posited in a Jewish religious forum:

“Christians, how do you explain the book of Jonah and the people of Nineveh (gentiles) repenting and being saved prior to Jesus?”

Christian response,

From Adam forward, humanity was provided covenant righteousness with Elohim by faith-trust in Elohim as the One true Deity, our Creator and Sustainer; this same truism was relevant for those in Nineveh.

Messiah’s presence in Time and His work at Golgotha simply paves the path to life in Eternity in response to the prerequisite of Leviticus 17:11 which was first pictured for humanity in Genesis 3:21; that is, the shedding of innocent blood as atonement for sin. It is “faith” in Jesus as Messiah that initiates a covenant of righteousness with the Father and it is the blood of Jesus that permits entry into the Kingdom via satisfactory atonement as mandated by the Father (1 Peter 1:18-19).

Though men and women in the Old Testament found righteousness with Elohim via “faith” (Hebrews 11), their sin required atonement before entering the Kingdom, a Kingdom where “nothing impure is permitted to enter therein” (Revelation 21:27); therefore, the Old Testament saints were interned in Sheol/paradise (Hades in the Greek) awaiting Messiah’s work at Golgotha.

Subsequent Messiah’s atoning sacrifice, those who die in body having expressed faith in Messiah Jesus are now immediately translated into the presence of Elohim in a disembodied spiritual state awaiting the resurrection as modeled by Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 3:21). The imperishable resurrected body will be the eternal life form for all of redeemed humanity throughout Eternity.

Finally, it’s important to note that the people of Nineveh repented of their sin in response to Jonah’s preaching and sought righteousness through faith exhibited, validated, by their righteous efforts to eschew evil; unfortunately, much like the people of Israel, the Ninevites did not hold fast to their covenant of repentance and obedience but once again fell prey to defilement and were subsequently judged harshly for their unfaithfulness.