God will keep His promises through "Yeshua in US"
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In the section "How God is speaking" I gave my view that the subject of the Bible is a written "timeline" showing how God spoke through Israel as a person and Israel as a Nation,prophets and events then ultimately speaking through Yeshua Messiah.
To be able to pray more intelligently I believe is is also important to be open minded to the spirit world so openly revealed in the Bible.
God keeps his promises through Israel the person and Israel the Nation.
The "gospel" (Good News) started as a Jewish story from the books of Job and the Pentateuch (first five chapters Old Testament used by Christians) but fufilling prophecy the Jew called Yeshua has expanded to the message of living access to God for ALL people.
What is the meaning of Jew? The original meaning to be a Jew means being part of a covenant community "called by God"- descendants of Abraham. God has/is using the Jewish Nation to illustrate His purposes and expanded the meaning of Jew
The timeline records; National captivity by Pharoh in Egypt, illustrating capture of mankind by Satan. National rescue led by Moses 1446BC (Bible the Exodus:1-15), illustrates rescue by Yeshua Messiah . Capturing land in present day Israel, illustrates the battles of Jesus followers to lay captive of every sin Bible 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 "For though we walk in the flesh;we dont wage war according to the flesh;for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obediencee of Messiah "spiritual" capture of things holding people back like drug addiction and/or pornography or people can be held back if "safeguarding issues" are not being correctly executed in our local churches.
The timeline records Civil war after the death of Solomon leading to division into two nations.
After the division of Israel and Judah 930BC the northern tribes Israel were conquered and the population absorbed into non-Jewish (Gentile) Nations to this day. The southern tribes (Judah) were conquered by Assyria. Assyria subsequently merged into Babylon (present day Iran) Unlike the Northern tribes the Southern tribes retained their "JEW" identity despite events like the Holocaust so horrifically documented in various museums today including those located at Auschwitz, Berlin, and Jerusalem
Israel/Palestine so bitterly contested today came into Byzantine control after the Jews were evicted by the Roman emperor Hadrian AD 135. Readers from the UK please note the Hadrian who evicted the Jews from Jerusalem was the builder of Hadrian's wall still standing between England and Scotland today. Jerusalem was renamed Aelia Capitolina, in honour of the family of Hadrian's family "Aelia" and Jupiter "Capitolinus" the chief Roman god.
Byzantine control was replaced by Arab Caliphate, followed by the Crusaders, then the Mamluks, after which the Ottoman empire 1517 until British control in 1917. The Balfour Declaration 1917 proposed the establishment of a National home for the Jewish people with equal rights for the existing non-Jewish population. In 1947 the United Nations proposed dividing land between Jewish and Arab states. Since 1948 wars have been fought, many thousands of Palestinians have been displaced whilst Jews throughout the world have been returning and building Israel as a Jewish State.
The message in the Bible is for all Nationalities all religous traditions and none. In the section "Many faiths and none" I have looked at various faiths/thinking patterns not saying I know best rather open to correction and motivated by wanting to share Gods love and to be a vehicle of His purposes . People are people first It should not be surprising that all religons share aspects about God and I comment from my perspective as a Christian always respectfully.Please email any insights of YOUR faith which you feel may help future updates to david@jebb.ie
illustrates how the good news will be for Jew and Gentile, walls of division broken down.
The Jewish leadership not only rejected Jesus claims to be the son of God spoken of in the historic Tanakh documents but incited the Roman army of occupation to carry out a mock trial and execute Jesus by crucifixion.
The resurrection of Jesus launched a movement which became known by a Greek word the "Ecclesia" Assembly of those called.
Today Ecclesia translates to "Church"- Assembly of those Called to follow God.
Please note/compare with the meaning of Church "Assembly of those Called to follow God."
with the meaning of Jew "Community Called to follow God"
The fact that Jesus (Yeshua Messiah) died, rose again from death and today not only rules our Universe but plans to return to rule a new heaven and new earth is exciting. To help those who think this to too good to be true please look at the section "Evidence" .
The Bible reveals God's intention of through Yeshua Messiah moving from the Spirit world to physical men and women in the image of Yeshua perfectly managing new heavens and a new earth. Today the Spirit world is only seperated by a "veil" but as Yeshua has taught us to pray "thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven" Glimpses behind the veil show dazzling glory but also spirits whose intention is to thwart Gods intentions by surplanting our destiny to rule with Yeshua, surplanting values of righteousness justice and fairness underpinned by love, values demonstrated through the timeline of a family which today has expanded to include "Us!" This is an exciting prospect.
Bible Ephesians: 3:8,9 the purpose of the church, (the "called" of God)
"To preach to the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in GOD, who created all things. His intent was that now through the church, the manifold wisdom of GOD should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to His eternal purpose which He accomplished in CHRIST JESUS our LORD. In HIM and through HIM we may approach GOD with freedom and confidence.
Paul further explains Romans16:25,26,27 "the proclamation of JESUS CHRIST, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal GOD, so that all nations might believe and obey HIM- to the only wise GOD be glory for ever through JESUS CHRIST AMEN
The Word and Us
how these writings were combined after hundreds of years by Jerome into a library (Bible -biblos books) but how the emphasis moved from the word being the subject of the Bible to the Bible itself being the Word.This is where for many thinking is trapped today. In my opinion a focus on the academia of the writings, ie should this book be included or excluded? what was the source? did this writer copy from that writer? rather than putting our energy deeply into the subject of the writings which typically will claim "the Word of the Lord came to xxxx etc " blinds understanding of what God's promises actually are!
In my thinking process I recognise I have been influenced by western secular culture so perhaps that is why I have been nievely unaware of Angels,Demons, Cherubs,Cherubims,Satan,Lucifer Serpent Devil.You can check the first mention of a Cheribum and the consequences of Adam and Eves sin- seperaton from the presence of God at Bible Genesis 3:15-24
Persuading mankind to disobey God was and is Lucifer's strategy to rule in our world today, but God has declared war - see below. Lucifer's scheme works by seperating mankind from an awareness of the presence of God and the vision for good God has for each of us.
Lucifer continued to have access not to worship God but as an accuser of mankind.This is explained in Bible Job providing a "behind the scenes" look at the spirit world and Satan's hatred of mankind which led to horrendous tragedies showing Satan's aim to destroy family, wealth , and health to further his purposes.
God created Satan , Lucifer, Serpent, Devil. beautiful in appearance , super intelligent , super strong but perhaps entrapped by "love of possessions" and pride he became a master of deception.
Lucifer/Serpent persuaded Eve to disobey God. In Bible Genesis 1:27 it was emphasised how man and woman were equally made in Gods image , together reflecting Father Son and Holy Spirit . In Bible Genesis 2 the emphasis changes to show that Eve had not been with Adam when the LORD God said Genesis 2:16 The LORD God commanded the man saying "You may freely eat of every tree in the garden;but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die"
Satans tactics to oppose God and steal power over mankind
(i)Misquote God Bible Genesis 3:1 "Has God really said you shall not eat of any tree of the garden?" Framed as a question designed to lead the woman away from God. The woman correctly quotes as Adam must have told her, but adds to what God had said.
Genesis 3:2 "We may eat from the trees of the garden, but not of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden . God has said "You shall not eat of it . You shall not touch it, lest you die" Was Satan gently stroking the fruit and mocking God with a self confident smile as he spoke prompting the lady to add her comment to not touch the fruit.
(ii)Creating doubt about the trustworthiness of God. Genesis 3:4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't really die,For God knows that in the day you eat it , your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil"
(iii)Satan twists truth. He told the woman she would not die and her eyes would be open to discern good and evil but he blinded her thinking by deceived her into not realising she had allready been made in God's image. She did not need to know the difference between good and evil to be like God - God had allready made her in the image of God, and Satan did not explain that knowing the difference between good and evil would make mankind responsible for their evil actions, which God would have to put to death
(iv)The woman then trusted her own judgement rather than rely on the trustworthiness of God
-She saw the tree was good for food
-She saw the food was a delight to the eyes
-She saw that the tree was desired to make one wise
-She deliberately disobeyed God and took the fruit..
Gods Declaration of War;
4000 years before Yeshua Messiah was crucified God made the following promise.
Bible Genesis 3:15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring.He (the future offspring who would be called Yeshua Messiah ) will bruise your head, (Satan's authority was greatly weakened when after being crucified Yeshua rose from the dead) and you will bruise his heel (Satan damages men and women, example Cain see below.) but was unable to mortally defeat Yeshua.
Satan's only answer to the resurrection of Yeshua is to deceive us to thinking it is not true that Yeshua as a man conquered death. Jesus rose from the dead. In the prophecy God warns of Lucifer's hostility particularly against women. Gods plan is that the womans offspring (US, male and female) will jointly rule the creation with our Lord Jesus the Christ.
God's will is opposed by Lucifer's offspring, those who disrespect Women , who murder, who lie, who steal,are sexually immoral, who proudly promote themselves to the detriment of others, who pursue revenge - basically those who break God's law.
God loves us intensely but His holiness justice righteousness and fairness means God will not compromise/overlook the smallest lie. God will not overlook sin. When people sin God gives them over to their lusts, their anger, their fears.Whilst mankind might discern good from evil their actions prove that man does not have the power to choose good over evil, so disrupting God's plan to rule through US as a holy people. Lucifer is expert at tripping us up. Cain was deceived to not accepting Gods requirement that an innocent lamb was sacrificed but rather offering what Cain thought was his best, - his garden produce .Lucifer after defeating Adam and Eve through his proxy Cain scored another victory .Cain's brother Abel took advantage of Gods method of atonement for sin but Cain devised his own offering which was rejected. We see in Bible Genesis 4:8 Cain as an agent of Satan committing a murder. Abel was seeking to obey God by offering worship in the manner God required combining justice and mercy. Cain as an agent of Lucifer seeks to eliminate true worship of God in the murder.of Abel The prophecy that Yeshua would bruise Lucifers head would not be fulfilled for a further 4,000 years.
God seeing Cain was angry reminded Cain of mans calling to rule and gave a warning;Bible Genesis 4:4 God advised Cain "If you do well, wont it be lifted up? Speaking prophetically of giving the best to God (fat) the lamb a shadow of Yeshua an innocent man as a substitute accepted by God. Refer also Bible Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous,God testifying with respect to his gifts;and through it he,being dead,still speaks
Bible Genesis 4:7 If you dont do well , sin crouches at the door . Its desire is for you but you are to rule oved it. If Cain did the right thing, offered a pure first born lamb and its fat a picture of Yeshua Messiah who would be sacrificed, Cain could be happy. Cain rejected the advice and the first murder was committed. Sin and Satan are synomonous with unhappiness - crouching at the door what a frightening picture
The timeline shows how people can act as agents of Satan Bible John 8 :44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him . When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own;for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
Yeshua Messiah was with God the Father in the beginning as the Word before war was declared.
Bible John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
Bible 1 John 1:1 That which was from from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched - this we proclaim concerning the Word of Life
Having been crucified ,placed dead in a tomb and after three days rising from the dead , today Yeshua is with the Father until He brings into being new heavens and a new earth.
Bible Revelation 1: 1-2 The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John who testifies to everything he saw that is the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Each Sunday we pray Bible Matthew 6:10 "Your kingdom come,your will be done on earth as it is in heaven " We are told how this is to be fufilled Bible Revelation 19: 11-13 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire , and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that nobody knows bur he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood (His life blood shed at the cross)and his name is the Word. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in linen white and clean.
The Word and Us.- An explanation by Paul in Bible "letter to Romans"
In Romans 1:5 Paul introduces obedience that comes from faith. "Circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit not by the written code" (fulfilling Ezekiel 36) God has intervened to provide a righteousness that is not dependant on our strict adherence to the letter of the law but our faith
Bible Romans 3:21 "A righteousness apart from the law"
How do we meet the requirements of the 10 commandments Exodus 21-23 and sacrifice for sin
Bible. Romans 3:25 Paul explains that the requirement of an altar has been met in Yeshua Paul explains that God has offered Christ Jesus as a sacrifice of atonement.
Bible Romans 3:26 Paul infers even God has faith in the blood of Jesus such that justice was not compromised when the sins of people under the Old Covenant were not punished. The men like Abraham believed GOD without knowing the detail of how GOD was going to offer a sacrifice of atonement. "To demonstrate his justice at the present time to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus
Bible Romans5:9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from Gods wrath through him"
Bible Romans 5:11 "Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in GOD through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation
Bible Romans 6:10-18
"The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives he lives to God In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer your selves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master because you are not under law but under grace.
What then shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey – whether you are slaves to sin which leads to death, or to obedience which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted You have been set free from sin and have become slaves of righteousness
Bible Romans 7 :13 But in order that sin might be recognised as sin, it produced death in me
Society does not recognise that people are sinful. Society says look at the good that is in you/me. Yes, we are made in the image of God but we die, that is why we our bodies become weaker in our seventies, as our bodies begin to wind down for the great transition.
Bible Romans 8:4 And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit
Bible Romans 8:9 You, however, are not controlled by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you and if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ but if Christ is in you your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness
Bible Romans 8:14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God
Bible Romans 8:19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed for the creation was subjected to frustration, not of its own choice but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God
Bible Romans 9:17 "For the scripture says to Pharaoh, I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth" This shows me that God is directing world leaders today so that the name of Jesus might be proclaimed everywhere
Bible Romans 10 Paul quotes from Deuteronomy 30:10 which says
If you obey the Lord your God and keep His commands and decrees that are written in the book of the law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you must ask, who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so that we may obey it. No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so that you may obey it. See I set before you today life and prosperity death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them , I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. This day I call *heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings, and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice and hold fast to Him.
Bible Romans 10 :6 The righteousness that is by faith says "Do not say in your heart Who will ascend to heaven?(that is to bring Christ down)or who will descend into the deep (that is to bring Christ up from the dead)But what does it say The word is near you ; it is in your mouth and in your heart , that is the word of faith we are proclaiming : That if you confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved
How are we to understand this teaching?
It took Paul over 17 years to work out what he believed! After 50 plus years I am still working it out! Bible Romans 6:17 Paul writes "you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching"
Bible Galatians 1:15,16 Paul writes When God, who set me apart from birth and called me by His grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult anyone , nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter and stayed with him 15 days.
Bible Galatians 2:1 Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas I took Titus along also. I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did this privately to those who seemed to be the leaders, for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain
In the above Romans 10 quote Paul tells us the requirements first set out in Deuteronomy 30 are met by believing and confessing Jesus. The word is near, ie God is close. See also Bible Psalm 145 If the Television news today is depressing you reflect that God is King- and consider the promises contained in psalm 145
The psalm starts with exalting God as "the King" , not the president of America or any other world leader.
.As you read the psalm please note His name (God) is praised forever and ever , His name is praised every day. Gods greatness is unseaqrchable , one generation will commend Gods works to the next. His tender mercies are over all His works. The works David refers to would include the marvels of creation and how God had intervened in the history of the Jewish Nation.
Promises through Yeshua
The psalm tells us "The Lord is gracious, merciful,slow to anger and of great loving kindness " In my opinion the change of the word for God to Lord is speaking of that part of the Holy Trinity Jewish name Yeshua Messiah or the westernised translation used in Ireland as Jesus
Yeshua in US
The psalm confirms the closeness of "the LORD"
The Lord is near to all those who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth He will fulfil the desire of those who fear him (respect Him as God) He also will hear their cry, and will save them
However the psalm also confirms a warning which is repeated many times in a timeline
The Lord preserves all those who love Him, but He will destroy the wicked
Help my belief
I believe many people worry whether they have enough belief. Romans 6:25 precedes the Romans 10 quote "who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification" My understanding therefore is that if Jesus had not been raised from the dead I would not be justified. My confession is that I believe Jesus died for my trespasses, and Jesus was raised because I was justified! Therefore, it is not about my extent of belief, it is about God being satisfied that my trespasses are paid for and raising Jesus from death.
Dont worry if your faith is weak God's strength is provided in our weakness
My summary ;
Small Faith and Repentance
Large grace and forgiveness
JESUS;Righteousness freely given
Ungodly justified
Society rejoices in our youth and their sporting abilities demonstrated in activities such as football, athletics,motor racing and other sporting activites in them selves an "escape" mostly wholesome teaching values of self discipline and team spirit. However in my opinion the media have overhyped sport to such an extent that the meaning life has become distorted into protecting my rights including the right to assisted death.. Many seek to avoid the evidence that as we age we begin to fail physically and mentally. Medicine continues to make great strides and drugs of all types are used as an "escape" but those who survive into their nineties will require nursing care, ultimately our bodies totally decay. The Good News, the Amazing News is that God who made us wants to provide living water
This concept of living water was mentioned by the prophet Jeremiah many centuries before Jesus
Bible Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils:they have forsaken ma the spring of living waters and cut out cisterns for them selves, broken cisterns that can't hold water. If you are doing your best to live life to the full but sense the cisterns are broken read on about the good news which Jesus brought centuries later to a social outcast.
Jesus existed as God from the beginning. At the point when Jesus was born from the blessed virgin Mary God became His father . (Psalm
God raised Jesus from death "no more to return to corruption (Acts 13:34) Fufilling Psalm 16:10 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol,neith will you allow your holy one to see corruption