Letter From A Rabbi:The Goal (End) of the Faith

"Applying a consistent hermeneutic, we see more clearly!"  -Chris Parker

In running a race, when do runners reach the goal?  At the end, finale, or completion of the course!  In a similar way, you might say, the goal of the Biblical faith is realized at the end.  Listen to what Rabbi Shaul said to his son in the faith:

“But the goal of our instruction (torah) is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy, from which some have deviated, and have turned away into fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the torah, although they* do not understand either the things which they are saying or the things concerning which they are speaking confidently. 

But we know that the torah is good, if anyone makes use of it torah-fully, knowing this, that the torah is not given for a righteous person but for the torah-less and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and totally worldly, for the one who kills his father and the one who kills his mother, for murderers, sexually immoral people, homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is opposed to sound teaching (ie, Torah),”

Changing standards of Rughteosness? Amos 2:4-5

Christian doctrine claims affirms the OT teaching that God does not change, but is the same yesterday, today and forever, where Yhwh says, "I do not change" (Mal. 3:6).  Yet the belief is maintained by nearly all Protestants that they are "set free from the Law (instruction)".  Yet when we read the Prophets, we see that Yhwh's great wrath is aroused for the rejection of the Torah.

"Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh and have not kept his rules, and their lies have led them astray, after which their ancestors walked! So I will send a fire against Judah and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Jerusalem." Amos 2:4-5

So the question is raised, does Yhwh change?  Will he punish Israel for rejecting His Torah while giving unrighteous pagan Gentiles a free pass, and then continue to judge Israel by the standard of Torah?

Elohim's very word states that He does not change.  Yeshua, the word of God made flesh, is testified by that author of Hebrews, that he is the same, "yesterday, today and forever" (13:8).

Gentiles Frees from Jewish Law.

I thought this was great, by 119ministries, I had to share it.

John MacArthur on Inclusivism, Catholicism and Billy Graham

Recently there was a sister publication that came out with news of evangelist Billy Graham's ecumenical views.  And I know personally that this created some anger among those who do not know about his background or have deeply looked into his ministry.  I wanted to offer another reliable source warning and teaching about this apostate who has done so much to lay the groundwork for the coming of the Torah-less one by minimizing the Gospel of Yeshua, and teaching salvation through another way, which is in accord with Masonic teaching.  Yes, Billy is a Mason!









17 “Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one tiny letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all takes place. 19 Therefore whoever abolishes one of the least of these commandments and teaches people to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever keeps them and teaches them, this person will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.  (Matt. 5 - http://biblia.com/books/leb/Mt5.13)

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The Apostasy - Millenia old?

 2 Thess. 2:3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. [from www.biblegateway.com]

The great apostasy, which Rabbi Paul told us would happen before the coming of the Torah-less one! You say, "Chris, you are being so extreme calling the Antichrist the Torah-less one!"  Am I?  In English Bibles, the word translated to denote God's revelation of His ways and His character to man was translated as Law in the English language, to convey the depth and overarching supremacy of Yhwh's commands and their reach within and throughout creation.

But today that meaning has been lost.  In our lands of laws and rights, or lack thereof, we have come to see the Biblical word Law in a negative light, and so much so that a key Christians motto is "Christ has set me free from the Law!"  Let me suggest that the reason this is so is because Christians were separated from the Jews and therefore no longer understand the context of the Biblical authors in which they wrote.  The Biblical authors, inspired by the Holy Spirit, wrote out of a Hebraic theological context.

So many of us, who discuss the importance of interpreting scripture "in context" and "knowing the context" are missing the very deepest, and first and foremost context of all, the Hebraic worldview of the children of Abraham!  

 This issue is of first relevance when we come to the description of the arch-rebel against Yhwh, who has been working throughout all of human history to create an army of rebels, and destroy the Elohim's creation, and steal his praise (Is. 14:13-14).  Rabbi Paul describes him as the (as conveyed in the English text) the "lawless one."  I already dealt with this in a previous post.  To the mind of a Jewish rabbi (a "Hebrew of Hebrews" Phil. 3:5), certainly this meant "Torah-less one"  that is, one without and opposed to the revealed will of Yhwh Elohim.  

Now today the church says, "I am not under the Torah!  I have been set free from the Torah!"  Is this not the spirit of the Antichrist already, the son of perdition?  So we see that the spirit of the Antichrist is already in the Church, and most of "the Church" is ready for , and indeed, already under, the great deception!

So this brings us to the title of our post.  The apostasy, the great falling away... did it recently begin historically, as America banned bibles from school in the 60s, and the country saw a massive increase in sexual immorality and crime?  Or did it begin with the advent of human science ('knowledge'), discovering all it could learn about reality apart from the revealed will of the Creator?  Or did it begin, and this is what I think, when Christians were separated from their Jewish brethren in Messiah, and from the tribes and customs of the teachings of the Torah?

For what is the greata falling away supposed to mean?  Falling away from the ways of Yahweh, and from sound doctrine?  In the minds of the Hebrew authors of scripture, what denotes sound doctrine (2 Tim. 4:3)?  The Tanakh, the Torah.  

2 Tim. 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, (emphasis mine)

This is the Bible Adonai Yeshua used.  And again, He affirms it in John 17:17 when He says, "Yhwh, sanctify them by Your truth, Your Word is Truth."  

As Christians, followers of Messiah, we find ourselves in a bind.  We claim to follow the Truth, the person of Messiah Yeshua, who claims to be the Word in the flesh (Jn. 1:14), but yet we also claim to be free of the "Law," the Torah, found in the Tanakh, which Yeshua believed to be the Truth!  And what part of scripture is most often contested and rejected or so poorly taught in Christian churches today?  It's what Christians know as the Old Testament, which is really the Former Testament, or Covenant (that's still very much in force and validity, except where Messiah satisfied its requirements for our justification (Rom. 3:23-25).

So I propose, the great falling away did not begin only recently historically, but began ages ago... as the apostle John said: 1 John 2:18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. 

Go back, and read your Bibles anew with this new understanding, that Yeshua came to reveal to us the Tanakh, and the Torah (the instruction)!  We were not set free from Elohim's instruction (His Torah), but only from the curse of the Torah (for disobedience, the torah of sin and death).  Apply this understanding to your Bible study, and you will find a whole NEW BIBLE, one you have most likely never seen before!!!

Chrislam - The Coming One World Religion?

As we have seen, there are forces at work all around us, and much moving in the top levels of organizations, whether political, business or governmental.  These are epic times, and all of society is moving in a certain direction.

Planned for Nov. 17-19 of 2014 is a religous conference at the Vatican, which will be headed by Pope Francis, and Rick Warren, two of the biggest names in both sides of the Christian world.  As reported on Nowtheendbegins.com, Warren, the Pope and over 30 pagan religous leaders worldwide will come together in a conference on Chrislam, seeking to merge all these religions together into one, under the headship of the Pope.

I have long said that I think Islam will be the final endtime religion, as it has a photo-negative of the end-time events of Christianity.  

1..They believe the Mahdi will return and reign for seven years.  The Bible teaches the Antichrist will come and reign seven years.

2.  Muslims believe a Muslim Jesus will return and point people to the Mahdi, the Islamic Messiah.  The Bible teaches that a False Prophet, who appears Christian, but has the voice of Satan, will make all people worship this anti, or psuedo-Messiah.

3.  Islam teaches that their Mahdi will be killed at the end of a Seven-year reign on earth, by the coming of the Antichrist!  The Bible teaches that the Antichrist, the Lawless one (or, Torah-less one) will be put to death at the end of the Seven year reign, (the 70th Week, Dan. 9:26-27), by the coming and power of Adonoai Yeshua, and the Jews will look on Him whom they have pierced (Zech. 12:10) and be saved, and so will begin the 1,000 year reign of Messiah when Shalom (peace and prosperity) will cover the earth, and all the nations will celebrate the feast of Sukkot (tabernacles- Zech. 14:16) and honor the greatest Zionist of All, King Yeshua!

Zechariah has much to say about the current times, and the current conflict with Israel.  And indeed, Yhwh remains true to the promise He made to Abraham, to bless those who bless him, and curse those who curse him (Gen. 12:3), but Zechariah prophesies that two thirds of the inhabitants in Israel at that time will die (Zech. 13:8) and only one-third will remain and confess Yeshua, or Yehoshua as Messiah (Zech. 13:9).

All things are going about just as Yeshua foretold his disciples in Mattew 24, and Ywhw's word will continue to come to pass.  If you don't know the Messiah, Adonai Yeshua as your God and Savior today, you can pray with a sincere heart, asking for the forgiveness of your sins, freely offered to you by Yhwh through the death and resurrection of his Son, and invite Yeshua into your heart to be your Master and Savior, and He will grant you eternal life.

"Jesus said... 'I am the resurrection and the life.  He who believes in me will live even if he dies...'"  John 11:25.

Is the Church Growth Model Biblical?

Last night at church, I was disheartened to begin on another Bible "study" that is not Biblically correct!  The study simply has the purpose of helping believers know "why they are here."

Biblically speaking, that could go on for quite a bit, listing all the reasons why God has created us in His image, and purchased back the believers from their fallen state in sin, into a new creation through the prophesied substitionary death of His Son on the cross.  For knowing Yhwh intimately, calling on Him as Abba, Father, living in fellowship with the Trinity, for worship, etc. etc.  That could be and maybe should be a study of its own!

But so what got me so disheartened was one of the final reflection/action steps at the end of the study.  It told us to think of one person we should invite to the next study.  And the response of anger and disbelief when I stated an objection to this goal!  Looking back, it was almost funny.  Now let me state that I am still in good graces with all the people who were in the study, as it should be... but should we be inviting and bringing unbelievers into the church?

Let's say what the scripture says  about unbelievers (from God's persepective):

14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[b]? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God.

(2 Cor. 6:14-16).

But the LORD goes on to say in the next verses - 

As God has said:

“I will live with them
    and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.”

17 Therefore,

“Come out from them
    and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
    and I will receive you.”

18 And,

“I will be a Father to you,
    and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”

We see from this passage that God commands His people, the redeemed in Yeshua Messiah, to come out and be a separate people, thus there is no intimate living or mingling together (now, today's modern "church" in America is not intimate living together either, but that's another post.)

Rom. 3:9c  "all under the power of sin.10 As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;
11     there is no one who understands;
    there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away,
    they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
    not even one.”[b]
13 “Their throats are open graves;
    their tongues practice deceit.”[c]
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”[d]
14     “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”[e]
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16     ruin and misery mark their ways,
17 and the way of peace they do not know.”[f]
18     “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”[g]

All being under the power of sin, is before those are set free from the law of sin and death by the Spirit of God, and for those, there is no longer any condemnation Paul tells us later in Rom. 8:1.

6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.  (Rom. 8:6-8)

And Yeshua taught His followers:

6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Now this is just from the perspective of a difference between the redeemed and the unredeemed. There are many more differences that should be studied and known, what it means to be elect, the New Covenant (Jer. 31:31-33), the role of pastors, true purpsoe of the church... but as for a lack of time, I'll stop here for now.

Shalom.

Jim Staley - Truth or Tradition - Should Christians Celebrate Christmas ...

Time is already here again... where churches begin hanging the greens, setting up Christ-mass trees singing about the 12 days of Christmas [really Yule]... and they are completely oblivious to the pagan altar that they are offering on, even within their church sanctuaries.



Staley does an excellent job recounting for us the facts about the pagan origins of Christ-mas, the real Santa-Claus with his sinister demonic companion, and the climax of the 12 days with a orgiastic festival to Saturn, or Saturnalia.  Maybe the office Christmas party is not too far off!



So which is better, to celebrate a wicked pagan holiday, calling it by "christian names" (of which, even those are quickly disappearing, though the traditions remain), or celebrating a festival in remembrance of God's miraculous provision (Chanukah), of which even Yeshua observed, though not commanded?in the Torah.

A message to the Church: WWJD? Keep Torah!

It's hard to argue with.  The sinless Son of God... how did he remain or achieve sinlessness?  Unlike all his ancestors in the flesh, the people of Israel, Jesus kept the Law of God perfectly!  And for this reason, He was able to offer His life up as a sin offering on the Lord's feast of Passover (Pesach), the spotless lamb of God.

Keeping the Law of God is really quite a feat!  The Jews had all sorts of rules and traditions, "laws" they passed down on top of God's revelation in order to safeguard the keeping of the Law.  Ever since I have been alive, the Church and American Christians have claimed that Yeshua came and fulfilled the Torah in order to "set us free from the Law!"  But as I began to study eschatology,(the study of last things), I began to notice a few things.

Certainly a major component to Biblical prophecy is when the usurper of God's throne, the Evil One takes throne during the last "Seven" (shabua), which is prophesied by an angel of righteousness to Daniel, telling of the 70 "Sevens" decreed for the people of Israel to finish transgression, bring in everlasting righteousness and atonement for sin, and to anoint the holy Temple (Dan. 9:24).  So from this prophecy, and especially as these times are upon us, it seems that the "Old Covenant" is not out of business; God is not finished with it!  In fact, part of Moses' prohecy in Deut. 30:1-8, at the end of the Torah, extended down to this very day, 3000 years later, after the Jews and Israelites were dispersed into all corners of the earth, and began to be brought back to the land promised to Israel!

Quickly, the other thing I noticed was in Zechariah, speaking of the LORD's return, when the people of Israel "look on Him whom they have pierced," (12:10); Mashiach Yeshua sets up His millennial reign on earth, and "all who are left of the nations that came up against Jerusalem (some will be left!) will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the feast of Sukkot [of booths]." (Zech. 14:16)

So if for the 1,000 years that Jesus is reigning on earth(!!!!  He is, He IS returning!!!!) He will require the inhabitants of the earth to worship and celebrate the feast of Sukkot, or Booths, commemorating Yhwh's deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt into the promised land (which, Egypt Biblically became synonymous with "sin", thus signifying Yeshua's salvation, His deliverance from sin).

Now if these things are going on, WE in the Gentile Protestant Church don't have it all figured out!  I thought something was up!  While in seminary, I remember our professors telling us that the term "Law" in the Bible, was really a poor translation choice for the word "Torah" in the Jewish Tanakh.  A better translation for the term "Torah" would be "instruction."  

So let's apply this dynamic.  "Yeshua came to set us free from keeping God's instruction!  Yay!!!"  Now, how does that sound?  Pretty ludicrous doesn't it?  We say, "Oh Jesus came to set us free from keeping the Law (Torah/instruction) of God!"  Following that logic, it makes it clear that we can live any way we want, and claim salvation.  Not far from me, there is a church with a female pastor, and when she or the church is confronted with the verse, "An overseer [i.e. pastor] should be the husband of one wife, (1 Tim. 3:2)" the immediate response is Gal. 3:20, "we have been set free from the Law!"  But it's funny isn't it, both statements are taken from the New Testament!  What have they really been set free from? 

The problem with this logic is, and I'm tempted to say to them; "Well great!  There's a couple of congregants here I really don't like, so it'd be okay if I killed them!  I mean, we're set free from the Law right?  And isn't the prohibition against murder in the Law, I mean following that would be legalism!"  And you could make that argument about adultery, abortion, murder, homosexuality, etc. etc. ad inifinitum.  

Did Jesus really set us free from the Law?  Let us look at some of the scriptures now with this new understanding.  In Matt. 5:17-19, Jesus says "I did not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets.  I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. Amen I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Torah until all is accomplished.  Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever keeps and teaches them, shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

On its face, does that sound like Yeshua is saying "Be free from the Law of God my child!  Be Free!"  No, it doesn't.  In fact, it sounds just the opposite!  We can also see this with the apostle to the Gentiles, Rabbi Paul, as he tries to set out this faith in Messiah to the Jews and dispersed Israelites (remember, the house of Israel was dispersed into the nations circa 720 B.C.) in Rome.  Rabbi Paul says, "What then, should we continue in sin, so that grace may increase?  May it never be!"  Let's remind ourselves, how do we know what sin is?  From God's Torah, His Word!  Again, Rabbi Paul says, "What shall we say then, Is the Torah sin?  May it never be, on the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Torah; for I would not have known about coveting, if the Torah had not said, 'You shall not covet!'" (Romans 7:7).

"But Christopher", you might be thinking, "Are you saying we need to keep the Law in order to be saved?"  Not at all!  Look, Rabbi Paul deals with this also in Romans 3:19-31.  And this really helps if, when you're reading the word "Law," to interpret it as "Torah" or "instruction."  The Apostle Paul taught that we are "saved by grace through faith, and that not of yourselves.  It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast" (Eph. 2:8,9).  In Romans 3:20-22a, 24, Rabbi Paul teaches us:

"because by the works of the Torah no flesh shall be justified in His sight (that is, made righteous, or "saved"); for through the Torah comes the knowledge of sin" [... hence, in order to live life free of sin, like Yeshua, the Son of the living God!] But now, apart from the Torah, the righteousness of  God has been manifested [see Jhn. 1:1-3], being witnessed by the Torah and the Prophets.  Even the Righteousness of God through faith in Yeshua the Messiah for all who believe... being justified [i.e., declared righteous] as a gift by His grace through the Redemption which is in Yeshuah the Messiah" 

We've been SO conditioned, and I think set up for the end-time deception through our use of the word "Law," and it's secular usage (1 Jn. 5:19).  Paul says in verse 31, "Do we then nullify the Torah through faith?  May it NEVER be!  On the contrary, we establish the Torah!"

"What!" you're thinking, "We (Protestant Evangelical Christians) ESTABLISH THE TORAH!!!????"  That is what Paul is telling us!  In Leviticus 23, the proscribed feasts are not called "the feasts of the Jews," but rather, "the feasts of the LORD... even these are My feasts (Lev. 23:2)."

Here's another verse for consideration.  Adonai Yeshua, when giving his high priesetly prayer to the Father, in John 17, says "Sanctify by Your truth, Your Word is truth."  There was no New Testament in existence at the time, nor would the first epistles be written for another 20-30 years.  What Word was He talking about? The revelation given from God, the Jews know as the Tanakh, containing the Torah.  Yeshua said, "[It] is truth" (17:17).

Do Christans not claim to follow the Truth?  We do.  We claim to be people of the Truth.  And we define sin from reading from the Truth.... yet we do not follow the Truth.  We do not establish it, as Paul told us through the Holy Spirit (Ruach hakodesh)(!)  But it seems that there is a growing awakening in our time, as the number of Messianic congregations increase throughout the world, and believers begin to follow Yhwh in Truth.  The LORD is opening people's eyes to understand His Truth.  

This is one reason I have a hard time with the church using "Sunday school" material, which really has become a discipleship material, but has kept believers from seeking understanding of the Scriptures from the Holy Spirit Himself, because the Spirit is the One who gives understanding (John 14:26), not Sunday school quarterlies!  It seems to me that Sunday school quarterlies have kept the church "boxed in" to a predetermined set of beliefs, much like the Jehovah's Witnesses, which have a commentary at the back of their bibles to tell them how to interpret or belief their scriptures from the Watchtower Society, or the Pope, who tells his congregants what and how to believe, and how he gets away with changing God's eternal Truth.  Sunday School quarterlies is a very Popish practice!

But really this Great Deception (THE Great Deception/Falling Away?) started back in the Fourth Century A.D., whcn the Christian Church was separated from the Jews, and the day of their worship was changed from the Sabbath.  The LORD commanded that we honor the Sabbath, and keep it holy.  But Emperor Constatine did not want the Christians to look like the Jews, so he changed the day of worship to Sun-day... the day of worship of the pagan sun god which can be traced back to Nimrod (Gen. 10:8-12), who became a "mighty hunter before the LORD."

Before this, Christians, Messianics and Jews all worshiped together, celebrating the feasts along with observing Torah.  Much of the current confusion in the church today, and why it looks like the world, and why it is losing its young people to the world in the name of science and through Darwinian Evolution (to which even the Pope, the supposed "Vicar of Christ" bowed)... all of this goes back to when the "Christians" were separated from the Jews by the Holy Roman Empire, i.e., the Vatican, and the Christians no longer obeyed the Spirit's command through the Apostle Paul to "establish the Torah" (Rom. 3:31).

When we recognize this fact, we began to have our eyes opened to a whole new Biblical understanding and understanding of what is and will happen in the end times, and why.  I think this is also one reason why we do not see miracles as much in the Church today... for we do not accept Deuteronomy (Second Telling of the Torah) chapter 28, as normative or true for Christians in today's church.

You might still think that I'm being fanatical and legalistic and reading the New Testament thorugh the lens of an extremist zealot.  Haha, ok... but if what I'm saying is true, wouldn't we find evidence of it in the Old Testament, the Tanakh?  After all, the LORD is the same, yesterday, today and forever, right?  What did Yhwh Himself promise of the New Covenant when it was announced through the prophets (remember, Paul mentions it testified by the Torah and the Prophets)?  Let's look in Jeremiah:  

"But this is the Covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD, 'I will put my Torah within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people" (Jer. 31:33).  

This has been one of the Deceiver's greatest deceptions that is still flying under the nose of believers today, and one of the greatest hindrances to the power of the Redeemed of Messiah on earth, as they struggle to carry out the LORD's commands.

"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.  For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith!"  (1 John 5:3,4)

"If you love me, you will keep My commandments."  (John 14:15)

"He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and disclose myself to Him."  (John 14:21)

Now, as for you, is Yhwh's Torah written on your heart?  Will you keep His commandments, and establish His Torah (Rom. 3:31), or will you perpetuate the doctrine of demons and the traditions of men over the word of God?

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What's Wrong with Sex Before Marriage?

Any more, I get distress when I read the supposedly "conservative" news sites.  I came across a story on Christian Post that  reporting that young Christians increasingly do not believe that it is wrong to have sex before marriage or while dating.

Many young people today who identify themselves as Christians and attend church, see nothing wrong with having sex out of marriage.  Why is it wrong to have sex while trying to find the right partner?
Firstly, for those who claim the name of Christ, they are implicitly stating that the Bible is their source of guidance and direction for life.  If it is not, they have no reason to identify themselves as believers in the Jewish Messiah.  But the Bible teaches that we were created to be with one spouse.  In the New Testament, Jesus quotes from the Torah, saying, "And a man shall leave his father and mother and be united (*cleaved~ KJV) to his wife, and they shall be one flesh."

The aposlte Paul elucidates this teaching a little bit for the Corinthian church.  They also were having problems incorporating the new freedoms found in Christ, and this new love for all people made in the image of God, into daily life.

He reminds them of the Torah's teachings:  "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, no idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor theives, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God." 1 Cor. 6:9-10

The Apostle Paul, formerly the Pharisitical Saul Saul (Acts 9) teaches the Corinthians that "the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body."    He continues by explaining to the Corinthians that those who are baptized into Christ are one with him, and when they join themselves to a prostitute, they are one body with her, thus uniting the holy body of Christ to a immoral prostitute.  It is desecrating or profaning the holy earthly body of Jesus Christ.  But those who are joined to the Lord are one spirit with Him.

Finally, his admonition is for the believers to flee sexual immorality.  Every (other type of) sin a man commits is outside his body, but he who sins immorally, sins against his own body.  In another place, Paul explains that the wages of sin is death.  Modern Americans and Christians have been blinded by the advancement of modern science (latin: knowledge) to think that all sickness is from coming into contact with carriers of certain or various viruses or bacteria.  While there may be some truth to this belief, the Bible teaches that sickness and death are primarily a spiritual condition (Deut. 7:12-15; 28:58-61; 1 Cor. 11:28;  James 5:16; 1 Thess. 5:23).

It makes me sick that an article like this even exists on a Christian news site.  Truly we are living in the last days.  Instead of taking surveys to find out what sort of immorality people think is acceptable, the "journalists" ought to rebuke and exhort the so-called young Christians, this is why the Word was given (2 Tim. 3:16-17)!  The Apostle of Love, John, the beloved of the Lord, wrote that "The one who says, 'I have come to know Him,' and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him [or her]... the one who says he abides i Him ought himself to walk in the same way as He walked (i.e. lived)" (1 Jn. 2:4,6).
According to God's own word, those who are claiming to live in Him, but are living in sexual immorality, are liars, and the truth is not in them!  It's not that Christians are bigots, or haters... but that they love the LORD, and they obey His commands (2 John 6).

"Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.  If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds." (2 John 9-11).

Reflections, Burdens, Healings, Victorious Living in the New World Order

Hey guys... sorry I haven't been able to write on here as frequently as before.  My access is shortened, and I try to be faithful to my family.  Sometimes other things have to be set aside.  "There is a time and season for every activity under heaven."

I have a lot going on in my head, so I might try to speak to each thing in this post.  This last December, Sunday before Christmas, the LORD told me that the Antichrist is coming this year, and that most in the church will perish (Amos 3:7)!  The Bible does speak of a great apostasy in the last days, a great falling away.  I believe you can already see it occurring throughout the church, though I think the final event or fulfillment of the Apostasy is still to come.  

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction...  2 Thess. 2:3

But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,  

 1 Tim. 4:1

As I have studied and seen the things going on around us, I have come to believe that the event that Scripture speaks of as the Apostasy, is one and the same as the "Alien" Disclosure, at which time I also believe the Burning Man will come form a UFO, and help achieve a 7 Year Peace Treaty between Israel and the Islamic countries in the Middle East.

We saw the government rollout at the Superbowl, Big Brother all over New York... and it continues in Sochi right now, though it's been pretty commonplace in London for some time.  This shows us that the Fourth Beast prophesied in Daniel 7:19ff is here and all the closer to full disclosure.  The animal die-offs, near life extinction and mutations in the Pacfic from the Fukushima radioactive washout... waters turning to blood around the world... the frequency and intensity of quakes and natural disasters around the world, all of which, and more, would be under the category of "birth pains" Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24:3-8.  

I struck a nerve again with the spiritual forces at church, giving praise and teaching on Biblical healing.  At our last church, we started teaching the people how they could recognize and thwart the schemes of the enemy and live in health, peace and victory over the demonic attacks most Chrisitans live oppressed in surrender to.  Getting the chance to speak out on the issue in our church Wed. night, the following Sunday we were attacked during the Sunday service.  We quietly prayed and rebuked the evil spirits, but then later when we arrived home, my wife slammed her hand in the door as she was speaking to her mother.  

She works on the computer, and if her hand continued in such pain and swelling, she would have had to have not been able to work, and been in severe pain.  We both knew that it had been more than just an accident.  It had been a  spiritual attack, so I told my wife to let me pray over her hand.  It was in severe, intense pain as I touched it, so I lightly laid my hand over hers.  It hurt her, but she asked me to do it again.  So I prayed again... and it took away some of the pain.  It turned out that this was a progressive healing, where the healing did not all come at once, but I laid hands and prayed over her hand five or six different times.  But the amazing, and important thing is, that after the last time, all the pain was gone, and she had full range of motion in her thumb!

Now, I don't think I have the gift of healing if that is what you are thinking.  I only have what is available to every believer who demonstrates faith in the Word of God.  "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits; who forgives all our sins, and heals all our diseases!"  Ps. 103:2-3.

Is He healing your sicknesses?  Your diseases?  Why not???  It says in His word that He will.  Yeshua never turned away one who came to Him in faith.  James (Jacob), the brother of our Lord, tells us:  

James 5:16

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed.The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

James 5:14

Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

In America, how many times is that our LAST resort? We live as if we don't believe the Bible, and then in desperation, we throw ourselves upon the LORD, but retain sin in our lives! That is why we are to examine ourselves when we take the LORD's communion, because the wages of sin is death (Rom. 3:23) and if we allow it to remain, without confessing it, it works death/disease in our lives!

I know many believe that it is God's will that you get sick. Let me ask you this, Is it God's will for death to be victorious in our life? The answer is A RESOUNDING NO! You want to know where sickness and death come from? It tells us in Scripture. Turn to Deut. 28:22, 58-61. Sickness is not to the glory of God. Repentance of sin and healing are (Ps. 103:2-3)! But since we live in a fallen world, it is not always easy to discern the cause of sicknesses or disease. Sometimes it can be a generational curse passed down from your parents or grandparents. Those must also be repented of and renounced in the name of Jesus, and prayer for healing in Jesus' name.

Now if the Church got ahold of this... this would revolutionize America and the Medical insurance industry! Talk about Christians living in victory over sin, over Satan! But we are not of the world, and we interfere with their way of life, so they will continue to disparage and demonize us, even though Crowley's dictum, "Do what thou wilt" is a recipe for bondage and slavery to the sinful nature and passions of your soul that will drag you down to hell forever!

Believers, living in fellowship with God the Son and God the Father, and having a life of continual confession and repentance lead to a life of Victory, even in these last days. We are going to witness spiritual warfare such as the world has not seen since the days before the flood! Living in Victory is no longer an option for you Believer. In the past many such believers tried to live with a foot in God's kingdom, but not fully let go of the world. Anyone who tries to do such from now on will be swept away with the world!


Mt. 13:41 The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, 42 and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.