Perseverance!

The calling of the Believer?

Suffering is now a dirty word in the Ekklesia now, because people have rights and equality and they believe that they cannot be pushed around by others, so they just sometimes have to put up with some things!

So perseverance has no meaning for many western Christians, but with all that said and done the other 90% of the world have to live with it everyday and many cannot even declare their faith or be killed for it, in other religions and in atheistic lands that refuse to tolerate anything but their own paganism?

Without suffering we cannot be tested by God to our loyalty to Him and without perseverance we cannot grow, many in the west are dry, cold, or over happy clapping, but they are lukewarm and dead!

Jude 1:17-23, Romans 9:8, Philippians 3:3, Colossians 2:7.

Weighed!

We cannot escape Him with our Excuses?

The first passage speaks about the arrogant being weighed by God in their actions and this is connected to a verse where God is ever seeing us and we cannot or ever hide from Him!

The next passage tells us that we may slip away from Him because of the things of this world dominating us and we lacking to seek help from Jesus, our Lord and Savior?

All of them prove that our intent, actions and motives will be accountable to Him and as believers what we say will be brought before Him in our accounts!

The promise of Salvation is what it is and we have to be honest and right and not think pride and other issues can be excused?

1 Samuel 2:3, Luke 21:34, Hebrews 4:12-13, James 5:5.

‘Once for All!

Jesus blood for our Failings?

The book of Hebrews is one of the most important and essential books of both the New Testament and the Holy Bible, it was a key to open the second English reformation and the verses found in Hebrews 9:25-28 changed everything with Roman Catholicism over these past five-hundred years and throughout the British Empire across the world!

One sacrifice for sin, end the idea of the Mass and the need for literal blood, since we believe in the Lords table and the remembrance until He comes again?

This truth is mentioned several times in the letters that make up the New Testament, so there can be no justification in a alternative narritive and what the sacrement means as some today persue, when it is shed for the forgiveness of our sins and nothing more than to cleanse us!

Romans 8:34, 1 Corinthians 11:24-25, Hebrews 7:25, 9:11-12, 9:26-27, 10:10, 2 Peter 3:18.

Spiritual Warfare!

What is it?

For many believers it is not a experience, but rather an everyday occurrence in that we have the ability to challenge the worlds language, with the truth of Gods words!

We do not fight flesh with their weapons, but with our sword of the Holy Spirit, who is truth to a decaying world and society around us?

Suffering is part of this spiritual package, for we have to learn and be taught by Gods power how speak at the right time and not to be undone by their trickery and wilds!

John 3:3, 19, 2 Corinthians 10:3-6, 1 Timothy 4:1-5.

Mark 16:19-20.

Sometimes its there and other times it not?

The problems lay with the early codexes and the writings, so how comes then do we have it!

It had to be added at a later point, but this is not proved either to be true or not, but what is proven is that it contains a more detailed account of Jesus being with His Disciples before His Ascension, filling in the gaps?

Some translations remove some verses in this portion, while others do not have it, but have a footnote at the bottom of the page and this can cause more confusion to the reader than a help!

Luke 24:50-53, Acts 1:6-11.

Happy New year and an peaceful eastern-Christmas to all?

The missing Piece!

To the Christmas Story?

Many believers find it hard to place Jesus circumcision in the account, because they fail to understand that Jesus also came to fulfill the Law of God and to prove that he was a total complete Jew!

We are now living iin wicked times once more with the rise of antisemitism and misguided hatred of the Jews, because of the situation in the Gaza strip and Muslim lies many are deluded in to humanitarianism and not faith!

We cannot afford to leave out the bits of the Christmas story that may upset us due to doctrine, hatred of the Jews and replacement theology, because we undermine the teaching of our own salvation?

Luke 2:22-24, Romans 3:21-32, Hebrews 4:12-13, 9:25-28, 10:10,15, 20, 26, Revelation 3:20.

Why did He Come!

What is the purpose of His Coming?

First He was the promised Messiah to the Jewish race and the nation of Israel, but later we see them rejecting Him at the cross and the resurrection!

Jesus also came to be the Savior of the Gentiles, so that they could be drafted in to the commonwealth of Israel, while the Jewish people have been blinded generally, but some will still get saved before the day of God;s coming destruction?

He came to fulfill the promises of God to Israel and to the world and this is all of the real meaning behind the events of the Christmas story, so now we have to add this into the message we may be sharing this season, with a dying world all around, offering to them truth and Hope!

Hosea 3:3-4, John 1:1-18, 2 Corinthians 3:14-16.

Who is Jesus!

Who is He really?

Do we really think that God has rejected Israel for the rights of the Palestinians or do we accept that He is the King of Israel as well as the Savior of the world!

Are we mixing politics with religion and humanism over faith or are we just hating God, through hating His race and being pretend Christians?

This is the image that many are seeing in believers today, that we justify sin and that we are for things that do not exist, so many are turning to religion with rules like Islam!

So we are left with this one passage in Luke 1:68-79.

Jehovah or Yahweh!

The right name for God?

There is an element of ignorance in translation work today, when the King James Bible, still has a place as probably the best ever and we are marking five hundred years since William Tyndale did this complete Bible in English!

But as to the present time with the restoration of Israel as a nation, many new believers want the New Testament back in Hebrew and not English, which they claim has denied Judaism and one has to agree with this from two stand points of replacement theology and also the mistranslation of the name of God?

In the Hebrew there is no letter J and we clash with words in relation to Yahweh and Elohim, Yahweh in its original has no points, thus we have YHWH and with Elohim we have a word that means two Father and Son, or God and Lord!

So on the initial conclusion what is the problem, one thinks it is just another form of antisemitism from the Calvinistic community to get back at the Jews?

Genesis 1:1, Exodus 3:14, Luke 24:35, Romans 15:4, 2 Peter 3:16.

Sodom and Egypt!

Cursed by God for their Sins?

In this passage in the Book of Revelation we have a passage that very few Christians mention in relation to the other name for Jerusalem and its bad condition of sin!

Many believers today who are pro-Israel pray for the peace of Jerusalem, without acknowledging that in the last times, when the Temple is restored their is to be a great persecution of all who follow Jesus/Yeshua, because the Jewish people under the guidance of Satan their false Messiah?

As believers and teachers of the New Testament scriptures, we must address some hard facts, that Israel is not what it seems and is as filthy in sin as the rest of the Gentile world, they maybe the people of the Book and chosen by Him as His people, but much is to occur before the end!

Romans 9:29, Hebrews 8:9, 2 Peter 2:6, Revelation 11:8.