Christian despair & Depression!

‘Not a bed of Roses?

The statement, ‘It is hard to be a believer, should not be under estimated, since many of us who are now long in the faith now the pain and costs that are involved as we progress in that race that the Apostle Paul encourages us with!

Ekklesia has much to answer to when it comes to depression, mental-illness and despair amongst believers? What was at one time referred to for missionaries is now widespread in the body, since many of us live in pluralistic societies that are hostile to Christians?

Nothing much has changed from the times of the pagan world of the early followers of the way to modern times, the world has turned back to the worship of nature and abandoned the God of the Holy Bible and many believers are starting to fall away, as we are told is to happen!

But we have a God who loves us and His son Jesus who died for us, we must run to Him and trust to endure and to press on? It is indeed very hard, but the price for us is too great to know give up or let go? Let us encourage one and another and help, pray, financials and a roof?

2 Corinthians 4:8-11, Psalm 56:2-3, Proverbs 8:10, 1 Peter 1:7, 4:12-14.

The Kingdom of Israel?

Anti-Semitism in the Ekklesia!

We here this time are dealing with some serious facts when it comes to the Christian attitude to Israel being restored as a nation and a Kingdom!

Now for over eighteen hundred years the Gentiles have enjoyed keeping Jewish believers in their Messiah down and part from that justifying slavery, and many other ideals that are to suit their own agenda of oppression?

These ideas have crossed over from the Catholic Churches to the Protestant Reformations and today to the many new Churches, from the Apostolic revival to ecumenical ideas, community types and other revivals that have been overrun by false leadership?

Jesus did not give a time for that question asked 2000 years ago, because He said, ‘He said only the Father knew! We may not accept now that the state of Israel is that restoration, but when Israel is to be restored it will have to be in the same place that it exists now?

Acts 1:6-8.

No Palestine in God’s Plan!

Restored Israel?

The New Testament, if not the Holy Bible makes no mention of a Palestinian State, with its capital in Jerusalem (Al-Khuds), despite the claims of the United Nations and the world community?

The concept of the two state solution and the idea of a road map to peace in the Middle-East all stem from the British and French carve up of the region in 1919 around the time of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, but during this joint European process, the locals were never consulted on the plans!

In 1947 the British gave up on the region, after being caught out doing almost the same thing as the Nazi’s in relation to the Jews who were fleeing the concentration camps of Poland and Germany. Meanwhile the UN gave Tel-Avis the status of an new nation Israel.

God tells us that He will restore the Kingdom of Israel and that the events leading to the false Messiah and the rebuilding of the Temple will be for that purpose and the Return of our Lord Jesus Yeshua Ha’ Adonai and the End approaches!

Acts 1:1-11, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, Ezekiel 28:6-9, 2 Timothy 3:1-3, Revelation 13:6-7.

Why are some verses Missing?

Even the KJV has it wrong when it comes to the Greek!

Our test is a series of passages found in the New Testament of the four Gospels in relation to an End time event in one being left behind. Many books and films have been made over the years for Christians in relation to the matter that is scary even for us believers?

In Luke 17:35-37, some modern translations have no verse 36 and this would correspond to the Greek text!

One did wonder why, but one reading it a couple of times, two illustrations are used for the same event one for men and the other for woman! This may upset many, but the truth is that the writer here was coming from a Jewish-Hebrew perspective and translating into Greek.

Matthew 24:23-41 (40-41), Mark 13:32-37.

‘Which Bible!

Translation is the Best or is Right?

Many of us who preach will use a modern version to get what we want to say out in modern language of today to people who do not have any understanding of anything to do with God? But when it comes to our own study we seek the basis of the King James version to get refences to Strong’s lexicon or something similar!

But a knowledge of the ability to read the Hebrew and Greek does not always make it as easy as many lay people think and this has been an ongoing problem for the last two thousand years? Since the Greek raises more options in the choice of words that can be used and many people do not fully understand this getting hot under the collar in relation to the KJV being so called adulterated when it is not!

What is more important is the application of the message that is being taught, preached or shared, by others or in our own reading and understanding of it for daily living?

Proverbs 3:2, Matthew 4:23, Mark 9:31, John 8:51, 1 Corinthians 11:23, 2 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 6:1-2, 2 John 1:9, Revelation 3:8.

What is COVID-19?

What we think we know and what we have not been Told?

One finds the whole subject worrying in relation to deaths, infections, vaccines and testing, in that much does not work and is false, while the media hype the whole matter up and governments are failing the peoples or are they?

Christians must question and not stand back believing false information, we believe what we are told that it came from China, but the same media outlets tell us that Putin is Corrupt, Trump was mentally compromised and most of this is not true?

We really have been caught out with this virus and the consequences if not state control over the population! Is this 1984 in a world stage of self inflicted conflict and old people do die of old age 77 or 101?

Hospitals are full to capacity, but many private hospitals are empty and being on the inside figures are being fudged to save under financed state aid with the slogans that mean we will not be spending anymore money on our healthcare, stay at home!

Joshua 9:3-15, 2 Samuel 13:6-14, Psalm 52:3, Malachi 3:5, Matthew 24:11, 2 Corinthians 10:4, Colossians 2:4.

Holocaust Denial and Revisionism!

Now a new revision of Parallelism?

#blm is fueling a new kind of anti-Semitism is trying to undermine the Nazi systematic murder of a race and religion from human history, over their enslavement and suffering!

Whatever we may think of the Nazi-Holocaust we must face the facts that the human mind and soul is evil and through hype, conspiracy and ideology it can rouse the masses to do unspeakable things as the Putsch of the 1920’s proved in Germany and what was attempted on the 6th January in the U.S.?

Black slavery existed for one-thousand years prior to the European arrivals and was carried out by N-African Muslims! There can be no parallels to the events of 1938-46 in occupied Nazi-Europe and the events of a false messiah and his twisted ideas!

Genocides are random acts, or they are based on ridding the other side politically as in insurrection, seen in Cambodia, China, Rwanda and Burundi an many other places on a smaller scale since?

Exodus 1:14, 5:7-11, Esther 3:8-12, Daniel 3:6, 24-26, Matthew 2:16-18, 24:5, 9-12, Acts 27:4, Revelation 6:11, 7:14.

The Magnificat! Part-Two

Upset for the world?

This song has much to say and reveal in relation to finding Salvation, but it is also upsetting for a Church that has accepted replacement theology to cut the Jewish people out of their inheritance!

There is no where in the holy Bible that says that God has given up on His own people Israel? We are all looking at the modern state of Israel and saying this is not right or possible, then look at your own so called Christian nations and Churches that have accepted sexual sin, cross-dressing, Homosexuality and filth, before you again judge the Jews for not coming up to your standards?

The New Testament is very clear in relation to the Jews being blinded, so that the Gentiles can be saved! But the Lord is returning to be the king of Israel and He will remove Satan from the restored Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, Israel and reign on the Earth for one thousand years!

Luke 1:46-55, 54-55, Psalm 98:3, 132:11-17, Zephaniah 3:14-20, Romans 11:7, 28-29, 2 Corinthians 3:14, Genesis 12:3.

We pray that you have a blessed Christmas and a happier New Year, 2021!

The Magnificat? Part-One.

Problems for Protestant Christians!

The main problem with the Song of Mary is that of her veneration by the Roman Church and other Orthodoxy, Coptic’s, Maronites, Armenian and so on?

But if these reformation ideas are explained and then excused we have a marvelous revelation of the humbleness and humility of this chosen young girl to allow the incarnate Jesus to enter into humanity!

The beginning of this song opens with exaltation to God, rather than the word praise that is used in many translation. There is an important deeper meaning to this interaction between humanity and eternity and next time we will see the problems of replacement theology that has done much damage to the misunderstandings by the commonwealth of Israel to the Jewish race?

Luke 1:46-56, Psalm 34:2-3, 102:17, 111:9, Isaiah 12:2-3, 45:25, 1 Corinthians 1:26-28, Jeremiah 10:6.

Apostle and Disciple Peter.

‘Don’t be Afraid Peter!

Jesus sums up Peter in that he was dominated by fear or himself and of others, from sinking on the water to the rooster crowing to being pulled up by Paul.

We see fear, we see zeal and weakness and we see hypocrisy a bit like us all who claim to be something that when challenged may fail to our own thorn that slows us down and that God will not remove?

It is hard to be a believer Jesus, as it was with Peter a great preacher after Pentecost that lead many to faith, the writer of two fantastic letters in the New Testament, a man that Jesus said Ekklesia would be built on and that does not mean Rome as some like to think.

Matthew 8:28, 16:18, Mark 14:72, John 21:15, Acts 2:38-40, Galatians 2:12, 1 Peter, 2 Peter.