Amazing Scriptures!

A process of God at work in the Believer?

Romans 8:28 is one of those scriptures like John 3:16 is often quoted but little understood since mush of it is passed by in the saying?

God gives us a promise that those who mean bad for us, this could also mean other believers might actually turn out better for us and be more of a loss to them!

A good way of explaining this process, is say you wanted to leave where you where living but for another reason you could not do it yourself and your neighbours told lies to get you out thinking they were getting rid of a problem to their space? While you got moved on to something better that suited you much more than what you had been in and also the new resident that replaced you might turn out far worse for those who opposed you?

God does actually care about us and will not leave us in a place or situation that does not benefit Him!

Genesis 50:20, Acts 4:28, Romans 8:28.

By faith Alone?

The conundrum of the Reformation!

Martin Luther added in the word alone to the translation of the Holy Bible to German and English to emphasise his point in relation that only faith saves!

But the original Greek manuscripts never had the word alone, since faith was already known as the key to knowing God!

The problems for Martin Luther like or loath him was he had ninety six issues with the Roman Catholic Church, which he questioned and then had no choice but to break away from?

Faith in itself encompasses much, but the Latin translation from the Greek may have deliberately blocked this truth off, so that made the Pope infallible as the leader of the Universal Church.

Today occasionally if not commonly many new words are being added to the Bible to get a clearer meaning, one must be careful to not go beyond what is being said? Because some of this can be used to change the meanings and justify sin, since we remain fickle in our nature!

Romans 1:17, 3:28, 5:1-2, Galatians 3:11, Philippians 3:9, Hebrews 11:6-7.

Israel! Two.

Prophetic and Reality?

Where do we think Jesus will return to when He comes back?

All prophecy is based on the Messiah Jesus in relation to the events that will lead to the end of our world and the great day of Judgement! This will take place in the restored Temple o the Temple mount in Jerusalem and not as some think, Rome or some other place full of Christians?

Jesus is not just returning to gather Ekklesia, but also to restore Y’srael Basilia ot the Kingdom of Israel! Some believe this will be the establishment of the real Israel, but that has already happened so that the false messiah will be revealed!

How can we be sure of this facts, first many believers now know that we are living in the last days of the great delusion! People want to defy God on every level, they also want to undermine the teachings of the Bible and twist them to suit their own agenda!

Israel grows and its enemies are either appeased or are to be removed, the world goes with the idealistic idea of a two state solution, but there is nothing in the Holy Bible in relation to that set up!

Isaiah 10:21-22, Jeremiah 3:14, 31:8, Daniel 11:28-29, Hosea 3:5, Zechariah 8:3, Malachi 1:4, Acts 2:20, 1 Corinthians 1:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:2-4, 2 Timothy 4:8, Hebrews 10:25, 37, 2 Peter 3:4, 10, Revelation 1:10, 2:16, 19:15.

Jesus’ Return! Two.

The falling Away?

There are many different ideas in relation to the interpretation of the book of Revelation and much of it has to do with the influences of replacement theology, if believers would see Israel’s role in this then perhaps we would have some clarity?

But this will not happen with these influences and so we can only gain a limited picture of some of the essential truths, such as the great falling away of believers from the truth!

We are living in these times now, where the doctrine of love has been manipulated to run contradictory to the word of God! It is justifying lust, sexual immorality, dishonesty and the breakdown of the family!

It has been a gradual process taking place in the western-Church over the last one-hundred and fifty years, but what has come to the fore in the last seventy years is the growing hostility based on mans ideas of equality in relation to Israel.

Jeremiah 2:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Timothy 4:1-3, 2 Timothy 3:1-3, 4:3-4. John 17:12,

ISRAEL? One.

Biblical and Historical!

It would seem today the state of Israel is not the true restoration of the nation of the Hebrew peoples, because they are not living in a Holy way and not at peace with their neighbours, the Palestinians?

But no other ‘Christian nation is purely Christian in either ethic or morally, so now we come to a dilemma that we are all sinners or just some? One is using this view to draw out the hypocrisy of anti-0Semitism that has been in the Christian Church since at least the second century AD!

We cannot have it both ways, or use excuses when failing to recognise that the Jews are blinded by God so that the Gentiles might be added to the Kingdom of God! There are also many other aspects in relation to the peoples of the land and deals struck long ago, but this was not with the Philistines!

What can be said is why the so called Palestinians living under the Ottomans never developed the land to the standards of what Israel is today or was one-hundred years ago?

Ezekiel 28:25-26, Joshua 9:6-16, Matthew 9:13, Mark 2:17, Romans 11:2, 11-24, Galatians 2:17, James 4:8.

Philip and the Ethiopian! Two.

Simple Faith, Sometimes?

There are many who claim that even a child can come to know God with simple faith, but this is not possible here because something is missing?

Bias is a terrible sin, we cannot know another’s heart that is the realm of the Almighty? But there are too many today who rush to pass judgement on others because they fail not in the same way as the Judges!

There is a place to test the believer to see if they are really walking with Jesus as they claim and if not it is our responsibility to help them?

We do need to examine ourselves in relation to both Anti-Semitism and racism in the Ekklesia, along with many other issues such as disability! We need also to be ready to encourage and help each other with our issues?

Matthew 7:1-6, Acts 8:37-39, James 2:1-13.