Tamar!

Raped by her Brother and then hated by Him?

With the many translations of the Holy Bible and the many search engines the term rape is not to be found in them and in relation to this account many have implied incest, but consensual sex is not rape!

Tamar was raped and the Hebrew word here is used in the context that this young woman was over powered by her brother, Stongs H7901 Shakav.

Later on in the end of the account we have the term violated H6031 Anah, but still not raped?

It is not clear why the term rape is not used, perhaps since it was mostly men doing the translation and they ignored the emphasis to suit there own power over the woman?

2 Samuel 13:5-22, Psalm 55:20, Isaiah 24:5.

The cost of Faith!

Bearing Witness?

All believers will be challenged about our faith in Jesus, about truth, honesty and integrity and we have both a testimony and a knowledge of God and what He is doing for us!

When we think of Stephen the first martyr of the Ekklesia, we see a man who could not be out done and so out of spite and jealousy free slaves handed him over to the religious men of the day to have him stoned to death.

Many believers around the world today are being murdered for the name of Jesus, wither they practice or not, they bear the name Christian and Islam is one of the most hostile followed by all atheism nations who make excuses for truths they cannot bear to hear?

Matthew 10:15, Mark 13:9, Luke 21:13, John 15:26, Revelation 6:9-11.

The book of Revelation?

A mirror to the soul re-exploitation!

Replacement theology has lead many believers to discount the teaching of the book of Revelation as having no practical application in our modern world, but sometimes it is referred too in relation to End time events and the return of our Lord Jesus?

Otherwise the key elements of the salvation of Israel and the underlying secret slavery in society is avoided, it is a mirror of guilt in relation to service, servitude and cheap workers for clothing, medical care and a under payed work force and former imperial slavery and the lack of compensations to the survivors?

God is the only one who really knows our hearts, we may be serving Him in good faith, while hiding the secrets of prostitution, dishonesty, tax evasion and corruption, secret societies and much more!

John 9:41, Titus 3:3, Hebrews 4:13-14, 2 Peter 2:19, Revelation 7:1-8, 18:13.

To Murder.

The definition of to murder and to Kill?

In the Old Testament we have the same word translated from the Hebrew to English of kill and murder Strongs H7523 Ratzakh (Ratsach), but the context is not the same as some just allow and this is because to kill someone could be an accident or one who is a soldier is employed in war to do so. Exodus 20:13.

To murder implies intent, the legal term being Malice after thought and thus we are in sin with God for doing this. Cain is the example of getting jealous of his brother Able and allowing sin to master him and commit the first murder.

The word used here in Strongs H6865 Qum (Koom) Genesis 4:7-8.

In the New Testament we are warned that there will be no murderers in Heaven. Strongs G5406 Phoneus. Revelation 22:15.

It is important to understand these areas in the light of the ongoing situation in Israel from the 7th October to the present, that there must be a definition between terrorism and the actions of the army of a democratic nation and the right to defend the people!

We are abused, but we press On!

Mission and Leadership.

One cannot say, ‘Today that many in the western Ekklesia go through this set of circumstances in the palatial panelled homes and insurance policies, holding anti-Semitic views and much other worldly rubbish?

We wonder why we no longer have revivals and if we do, they are not what they once were! Even one hundred years ago many famous preachers pointed out the lounging of missionaries on the field on the continent of Africa and many other far flung places?

Here we are challenged by these Apostles going out to share Jesus in hostile societies and unbelieving Jews, with very little of comfort, except they had faith and the strength to trust God and in the process we have the book of acts, telling to us the growth from the Way, ‘Hedos to Ekklesia and two thousand years of continued growth.

1 Corinthians 4:11-13, 2 Corinthians 11:23, (Matthew 8:20), Lamentations 3:45.

Ascension and Return!

The way of the World?

Our societies are moving into unnatural areas of science that will allow two men to have a baby, as is reported from Japan and so we already have three way surrogate parenting which proves the human mind continues to seek out these things!

Man wants to reach the stars with a load of one hundred people at one time, Musk has failed for now but he will get there will lesser, but still enough to build on Mars and go other places?

N-Korea is making threats, the Ukraine situation could boil over along with Israel moving and taking the Temple Mount, aggravating Islam and the beginning of more than one third world war, since we humans are fickle minded?

All of this points us to the days of Noah, eating, drinking and not caring about God, in fact they were and are today side lining Him again to please themselves and so when the Lord appears it will be a dreadful time for them, but for us we will be taken up in the skies to meet Him.

With Easter past the work must continue to preach the Gospel message and teach believers our needs met and conduct kept, to see souls won and to show love to the unloved, the oppressed, the hurting as Jesus has done for us so we must do to others?

Matthew 24:38-39, Luke 17:27-30, 1 Peter 3:20-22,.

Nations Shaken!

We must never think that God will excuse Sin?

As believers we are being saved into the age of Grace and it would seem to many people it is easy to believe that God can be undermined about the sins of deviance and same sex sins, without Him pouring out His wrath?

Our world and societies are in a mess, when feelings have replace truth and reality and many people old and young are being fooled by the roaming’s of Satan to delude us from the truth as he did eve in the garden!

Turkiye and Syria have this month seen horrendous destruction from at least four major earthquakes on a NE-SW fault line that runs for hundreds of miles and the death toll could rise to one hundred thousand?

We are small to the plight of nature and so everything is small in the universe, in the created order to God, yet the Bible tells us the conditions of God coming close to His creation and we need to step back and take a check on ourselves to meet more of His criteria?

Hebrew 12:25-29, Exodus 19:18, Haggai 2:6-8, 20-22.

deliberate!

Genocide, it has not stopped and it will happen again?

Tomorrow marks European Holocaust memorial day and in the light of what is occurring in the Ukraine, much hypocrisy is masking the truth about the ethnic cleansing of Russians living in the eastern area by Ukrainians since 2008!

Something that both the United States and the European Union have ignored to justify a proxy war with Russia and continue the racial anti-Russian felling as well as anti-Semitism to Jewish businessmen worldwide, while trying to promote a new revised history of world war-II (1938-45)?

Since the Nazi holocaust, there have been as many numerous genocides, some systematic others racially based anarchy and with them millions have died over factionalism, doctrine and other and if we think they have ended, we are only fooling ourselves!

Our human condition of inherited sin proves that we cannot change our ways, even believers cannot overcome some issues in our anger and frustrations, when we let Satan have a foothold in our lives, by not fully trusting God to intervene on our behalf!

Job 18:4, Psalm 69:2, Proverbs 1:15, Matthew 5:21, Galatians 5:20, Ephesians 4:26, 1 Timothy 2:8, James 1:20.

Intrigue & Lawlessness?

End Times!

Many Christians have abandoned the fulness of this revelation to pursue the doctrine of a all loving God that accepts all and tolerates sin, but the Bible does not support this limited understanding of the creator?

On the other hand legalism has entered as a key factor of Evangelicalism and it is misleading in several areas of denying the Jewish people their promises as now defunct and that Ekklesia has replaced the Kingdom of Israel by another! Much of this stems from the German Lutheran reformation and the false ideas of several misguided concepts, that where never questioned since they would have exposed anti-Semitism that remains rife to this day.

All of these factors are reflected on to local community and society, rather than the other way around and Satan once He has a foothold on us He will not let go! The Apostle Paul writing to the early Church warned of His ways, along with Matthew/Levi and the Prophet Daniel four hundred years earlier!

Daniel 8:26, 11:21, Matthew 7:23, 23:28, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-7 (3).

End Times. Three.

Deception is Rife!

We have now come to the end of this series of three postings and we are to deal with the world (Kosmon) in deception and one could say, ‘This is already happening with a shut down to the media, cutting Russia out of the world stage and attempting to undermine China over it claim to Taiwan?

But it is a bit more serious as the Kosmon and Ekklesia has accepted the teachings, if not by force the LBGT+ movement, which is contradictory to Biblical teaching and if this has happened what is coming next?

The Book of Revelation is about many events and their order has been much in discussion by theologians for the past two thousand years, but when we take Israel out of the truth of what is in this last book, then everything Satan wants to throw at us will follow and is happening now!

Matthew 24:24, Acts 2:19-21, 1 Thessalonians 2:5-7, Revelation 16:14.