Zechariah’s Prophecy! Part-Two.

Luke 1:67-80.

The shepherds came and saw the light of the world and so did the Magi, but it would be thirty years before Israel would see their Savior and Messiah!

Prophecy is a great means to an end, but we see Isaiah and Daniel speak words that took over seventy years to come to reality!

Many believers are in the habit of making predictions like the mediums and charlatans and they lower the power of God in this age, while holding antisemitism, they wonder why God will not bring revival to their lands so look in the mirror of your mind and heart and see your filth?

Jesus came millions have believed and they continue to come while it is still the day light, because the darkness is coming much faster than ever and our fates are sealed!

Luke 11:35, Acts 26:18, Ephesians 6:12, Revelation 16:10.

Stephen!

The cost for loving Jesus?

Most of us will never have to face death for our faith in God, but many do around the world and more so during Christmas and Easter from deceived and sick people who fail to grasp the truth even about their own religions or atheism!

Many of us do face some form of intimidation, insult and attack from the world daily and it is hard at times to love these idiotic nasty people?

We can be attacked even in fellowship by our so called brothers and sisters, out of spite and jealousy, arguments boil over nothing and can lead to bitter roots something we are warned not to allow in our selves!

Stephen loved Jesus and spoke truth’s that the world could not excuse or hide from, very much as the religious men of Israel denied their Messiah, because He did not meet their standard!

This is a warning to us, that we have to try to reach His standards, knowing that we will fail and that love is one of many elements that make up the character of the Godhead under grace?

Acts 7:1-8:1, Romans 3:25, 2 Corinthians 2:7, Ephesians 4:32, Colossians 3:13, 1 John 1:9.

We hope that you can enjoy the Christmas season, even if you are isolated and that you will have a peaceful New Year?

Zechariah’s Prophecy! Part-One.

Luke 1:67-79.

We tend to over look this New Testament Prophecy, perhaps because it points to the Jewish race and to that of John, who would make a way for Jesus the Messiah to come!

But in these few verses is some invaluable lessons as to the events that were taking place in Jerusalem two thousand years ago and continue to this day in the form of anti-Semitism and even in Ekklesia by many who fail to understand what the Holy Bible is saying?

These human reactions prove that some who profess a faith, are not what they say they are, while others have been mislead into false or not fully understood teachings! Verses 69-71 sum up the connection of events past and present in the day of Jesus appearing and His role in redeeming the nation and all who believe in Him?

But those he came for rejected Him as much as many continue to so today!

Psalm 18:2-3, 132:17-18, Luke 1:32-33, Romans 9:4-5.

EVIL! One.

The World/Kosmon.

We have all as believers come out of the world, its ways, selfishness, achievement, lies, filth, sexual pleasures, theft, financial gain, and walking over others?

For some who claim a faith in God, some of the above mentioned is fine for them, then the problem is that they have either turned back or that they are not fully saved, or worst still religious imposters?

Evil is the basis of sin, but we know that some people are more evil than others and other deliberately provoke God in their sin! Intimidation, bullying, dishonest gain, tax dodging to sexual sins of lesbianism and homosexuality, while even wearing the cloth and claiming the love of God?

But God sees through our motives and it is only He who knows everything, wither He acts now of tomorrow or never until the day of Judgement that ball is in his court alone!

Genesis 6:5, 13:13, 38:7, Deuteronomy 31:18, Job 1:1, Psalm 14:4, 34:16, 55:15, Matthew 5:11, 24:12, Mark 7:21, Luke 6:9, John 3:20, Acts 8;22-23, Galatians 5:21, Colossians 3:5.

‘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.

LOVE!

A controversial Subject in the modern Ekklesia?

We only have to turn on the radio or the Tv and we are met with love songs and programs aimed at the subject, perhaps songs are the most created side in relation to love? But the love of the world is more about a sexual encounter, rather than that of romance and marriage and the creation of family!

Today many Christians have accepted the doctrine of love to cover sin of a sexual deviant nature in relation to biblical teaching, but this also is leading many people away from the truth’s in relation to Hell and the crimson worm/maggots that never die eating our flesh?

Many leaders and Evangelists will have to answer before God in telling lies and falseness, perhaps to cover their own sin in that God loves us and we are saved and can live the way we want to but that is not the the truth?

Matthew 5:44, 10:37, 22:37, Luke 6:32, 10;12, Isaiah 66:24, 1 Peter 4:8, 1 John 4:10, 21, 2 John 1:16, Revelation 3:19, 22:15.

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.

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.

The Incarnation!

A double Miracle.

This is another difficult area for many Christians the activity of God in the conception and birth into human flesh of His son Jesus.

We see the Holy Spirit being employed here in two powerful miracle of the divine, first that of the conception of a seed being placed in Mary’s womb and then the birthing and healing of that womb so that May did not loose her virginity to her husband Joseph!

Many people cannot fathom some of the language of the Churches, because for the lay person its is deliberately hidden as a mystery!

One has to wonder about the hypocrisy of Churches that deceive believers into thinking that men who do not marry, will know much about anything to do with woman or even care?

The veneration of Mary again can be misconstrued in that the Magnificat has been abandoned by most Protestants since the reformation to their loss?

Matthew 1:18, Luke 1:35, 44, 46-55, Genesis 28:14.

Believers Baptism?

A tough area of Contention!

Should a Born-Again believer be baptised or not?

Is it important to be baptised and do we have too be?

These and many more complex questions have been debated in Ekklesia over the last two-thousand years, and even today there is no clear understanding that is acceptable to all sides!

Many of the early Churches from three-hundred Ad to the time of the German Reformation of Martin Luther went with child baptism, since it was easier and pleased most? The Church from that time kept an exclusiveness on the Scriptures, through the clergy and the common man had to take the word or control as it was distributed with local superstitions and curses?

The most tremendous fact about baptism is that of the thief on the cross who entered heaven, without being baptised! This perhaps is the best clarification on the matter that are faith is on Jesus and focussed on how we are lead by Him and will follow Him doing, loving, caring and showing concern, while witnessing His truth to the dying world around us!

Luke 23:43. Romans 5:21, 1 Timothy 1:15, Hebrews 7:25, Revelation 2:7.