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.

Promises for hard times to be encouraged!

Promises to Israel?

Some people reading this post will want a doctrinal answer to a difficult passage, but here one wants to deals with antisemitism in Ekklesia that is allowing a lot of false concepts into peoples minds that are not of the teaching of the Holy Scriptures or the Church, apart from Replacement theology!

Israel is mentioned throughout the Bible, we really never lose track of the nation, the tribes, the promised Messiah and the tribes gathered at the end of the ages, with the coming of the New Jerusalem for all who have believed in the death and resurrection of Yeshua?

There are many areas in this subject that will be covered at a later date, more so the winter months!

But here we need encouragement as believers to press on and to be joined to the branches of Israel in a hostile and cold media reporting lies and supporting Palestinian terrorism?

Psalm 23, 121, and 148.

Christmas Approaches!

A really busy time for Ekklesia?

Each one of us has the challenge of pulling something new out of the story that by tradition seems to be fixed and at that it in its own right is a tremendous one, but there are many part to it that can be added depending on who one is preaching too?

When we look at this story we are seeing the fulfilment of Jewish history and we know that in that brief time of some thirty four years, his own people rejected Him, but since thirty three AD the way and the Ekklesia just keeps on growing and spreading out and now we live in an age that allows us to see it recovering older areas that have died lack to keep sharing Jesus?

Christmas is also a time when we see the dregs of society, the self-opinionated and the good people come to fellowship with us for plethora of reasons, sometimes guilt, other memory of childhood, others just like the atmosphere without the reality and others still in despair of life?

Numbers 24:17, Matthew 2:2, 9-10, 2 Peter 1:19.

17th September 50 Years!

The Palestinian Authority?

Since King Hussein of Jordan in 1970 kicked out the Palestinians, who had tried to take over his Kingdom they have been on the west-bank of the Jordan river and in the Gaza strip causing havoc for Israel.

Despite the Oslo accords and the much promise of peace in the region, even when Yassa Arafat had 70% of the land, he refused it for more terrorism and allowed his people to be persecuted so he though he would gain more of something that was not his to gain?

Today a kind of history is to be made between the Arab world and Israel, through the U.S. as it has side-lined the uncooperative Palestinians! Meanwhile many younger Arabs do not want the nationalism and socialism of failed Middle-East policies, but progress in sciences and technologies they also no longer buy the victimisation of the lying corrupt authority that lines its own homes and buy weapons to attack innocent people, while claiming untruths?

Israel is for the Jews, the Holy Bible is clear on this matter and the many who discount this fact, probably even refuse to believe that Jesus is Jewish!

Isaiah 11:1-10, Matthew 4:23, 7:21, 19:28, Luke 22:30, Acts 1:6, Revelation 5:5, 7:4, 14:1-3, 21:12.

Scourge of Protestantism!

Replacement Theology?

If we were to take away this problem and see that what is written in the Holy Bible as one complete revelation for both the believing Jews and Gentiles we would not be divided as we are and there would be more opportunity for understanding each other!

Much confusion is based more son in the New Testament, because many believers miss the point or add in things that were never there?

Much of what the Disciples and Apostles are speaking about is plainly Jewish from their culture and religious experience and yet this rejection with the introduction of blessings and curses from the anti-Semitism of the German Lutheran reformation remains divisional to this day!

One believes that despite the many great Christian leaders of the Ekklesia and since the reformation, the ground work for the falling away of the elect has been a constant revelation with the Church!

Matthew/Levi 24:22-31, Mark 1:1-9 (8), Romans 15:6-13.

Jesus Circumcision?

Fulfilling the Law and set us Free!

The Law is what the world lives under and to set us free from rules and regulations was the work of Jesus, who we as believers in Him will be celebrating this Christmas?

Many have taken away the emphasis of this part of the story of the birth of Jesus, their reasons may be more to do with anti-Semitism rather than it being just a minor issue!

Jesus came for Israel first and so He had to fulfil the Jewish Law by doing everything that it required, because He was both perfect and sinless a second Adam. If we see this and point it our to others, it will make understanding more of the New Testament teachings in a better way.

Limiting it because its not relevant now, is no excuse in explaining the role of the law which will come up again and again in the scriptures! One is concerned that much racism amongst believers is both a block and short coming to mission, outreach and preaching the Gospel today?

Let us this season stand back knowing the fulness of this season and our own salvation in God, hoping that by our witness others will to come to faith in Jesus the King of Israel and the Saviour of the world!

Luke 2:21, Genesis 17:12, Leviticus 12:3, Galatians 4:4-5.