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Friday, December 28, 2012

BIBLICAL PROPHECY

In the book of Daniel, it says that there are in the end times those that possess insight and wisdom as to what is occurring in the world  in order that they not be deceived:

"Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever." Daniel 12:3

"Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked.  none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand." Daniel 12:10

The following, is what I believe to be some of this insight as to what is occurring as we speak. 

Here's a probable future headline in a Christian newspaper: "The Sanhedrin, the rabbinical court of Israel, has charged all believers in Jesus as the divine saviour of the world with blasphemy.  They have also officially accepted the mahdi or Anti Jesus Christ as their messiah. A new temple patterned after the Solomon's temple will be a place for all the world's religions. Many others in the world have also accepted the Mahdi as the global peacemaker. The good news is that there are many in Israel who do not go along with what the Sanhedrin has proclaimed."

This has not happened yet, but things are getting set up for this at present. It is prophesied in the following scriptures:

"For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy....Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock!" Zechariah 11:16,17

"He shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering.  And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate..." Daniel 9:27

"Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called God or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God." 2 Thessalonians 2:3

After some 1700 years, the Sanhedrin court that convicted Jesus of blasphemy was reestablished in 2006. Their website is www.thesanhedrin.org.  In November 2012, representatives of the court traveled to Turkey and said some pretty startling things. It all goes back to Noah again or what this court falsely has created about Noah. 

Part of the Sanhedrin court system is the council of Bnei Noah or sons of Noah.  In their view, the sons of Noah or Noahides are the righteous Gentiles that follow the laws of Noah.  This council rules on what makes a Gentile righteous before God.  A Gentile is a non Jewish person. They say that to qualify as righteous, it is not important that a gentile believe in  Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but only follow the seven laws of Noah.  Their seven laws of Noah are:

1. prohibition of idolatry
2. prohibition of murder
3. prohibition of theft
4. prohibition of sexual immorality
5. prohibition of blasphemy
6. prohibition of eating flesh from and animal while still alive
7. establishment of courts of law

Gentile believers or any believers in Jesus as the divine savior of the world would not only be considered as not qualifying to be righteous, but actually would be guilty of breaking the Noahidic laws. These believers would be considered idolaters and blasphemers for worshiping Jesus as the second part of the Godhead of Yahweh and as the one who takes away the sins of mankind.

The Sanhedrin has created a fictional account of the story of Noah that bears little resemblance to the account in the scriptures. They got a lot of these ideas from the extra biblical material of the Talmud. The following are reasons that prove how far off track the Sanhedrin is from the Word of Yahweh God:

A.  Noah and his sons existed before Abraham was called to bring      into being, the nation of Israel; therefore, there was no  distinction between Jew and Gentile during the time of Noah's flood.  The Word of God   says that  Noah knew and walked  with Yahweh. Yahweh God that Noah believed in is the God  who created heaven and earth and would become the  God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of national Israel and of the Jews. Any one who believed in the one true God before the  flood event, believed in Yahweh, who is the God of the Jewish  people. There was no such thing as a gentile at this time;  therefore, there could not be a specific set of laws that only apply to gentiles, and Noah and his sons were not considered  Gentiles.

B.  The scripture never says that Noah and his sons had to follow 
the seven Noahide laws in order to become righteous before God. Noah was considered righteous before the flood and before any laws were given to him and his sons.  The scripture says:

"and Noah found grace in the eyes of Yahweh." Gen 6:8

"These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God." Genesis 6:9

Noah was righteous before Yahweh because he knew Jesus, the part of Yahweh that is revealed to mankind. The words that describe Noah are that he found God's grace, was righteous, was blameless, and walked with God.  Grace is unmerited or unearned favor. Righteous means made right with God or found innocent of any sin before God.  The word blameless means complete or without defect.  Noah became righteous, blameless, complete and whole because he was saved by the future work of Jesus on the cross to atone for the sins of mankind.  Noah knew Jesus well and walked with him. The good news of the Gospel was presented to Noah even though it had not happened in real time yet.  The covenant established between Yahweh and Noah and his sons is a foreshadowing of the renewed covenant made between Yahweh Jesus and his believers.  The flood is a foreshadowing of the coming wrath of God on earth as described in the book of Revelation.  The ark is the provision and protection Jesus gives his believers once they agree to covenant with him.

"For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven.  Everything that is on the earth shall die.  But with you, I will establish my covenant and you shall come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your son's wives." Genesis 6:17, 18

It is only after salvation from the flood, that God talks to Noah about changes in his laws.  God deletes one law, the law forbidding the consumption of animals, with the stipulation that it not be alive when eaten.  He tells Noah and his sons to be fruitful and multiply and to not murder any other human.  It is not found in scripture any Noahide laws against blasphemy, idolatry, theft, sexual immorality or establishment of a court system.  Laws were not given to Noah and his sons in order to make them righteous, but the opposite is true.  The true Bnei Noah or sons of Noah are all believers in the saving work of Jesus on the cross, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Ironically, the Bnei Noah council of the court of the Sanhedrin has
been set up to ensnare true Noahides, believers in Jesus as Yahweh, as blasphemers, which in the times of Jesus was punishable by death. All followers of the divine Jesus need to pay close attention to this dangerous development.

The next post will deal with the newly formed Sanhedrin and their growing potential of accepting a false Messiah or Christ.


     
     
      
      









 

Sunday, December 16, 2012

NOAH

I was going to write about something occurring in the real world that you might not know about that is predicted to happen in God's Word, but I have to speak about this terrible tragedy that occurred first in Newtown Connecticut.  It is the saddest thing ever that little innocent children were gunned down before christmas right after the shooter killed his own mother.  My heart is for people to not blame God for these things and to not be deceived, but be prepared. Those of you who know me, know that I believe that we are living in the time right before the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. I know that many terrible things have occurred throughout the history of the world, but for many reasons, that I will not get into here, I believe we are in the season right before his return. Timothy writes in his letter 2 Timothy:

"...there will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good..."

Jesus said that the times of his coming would be likened to the days of Noah. Tragically, one of the children killed was a six year old Jewish boy named Noah. In the account of Noah in the book of Genesis, the Word says, "Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence." The hebrew word for violence is the word "hamas". This is the same name of the terrorist group that has been shooting rockets into Israel and recently stated that they want to kill all Jews and America. The word "hamas" means malicious, violence (specifically physical violence) and also wrong (including injurious language, harsh treatment).

There is good news in all of this and that is the good news of the gospel. The Word of God says that "He (God) named him Noah and said, 'He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground YAHWEH God has cursed." Gen 5:29
Noah is a bringer of good news and comfort and his name in hebrew means "rest". Noah prefigures all of us who enter God's rest by believing in God's provision made for us by Jesus' death on the cross. We, who believe that Jesus died in our place to save us from our sins, are all Noahs. The ark is God's provision and salvation from destruction.  All Noah had to do was believe God and enter into his provision.  The Word says that it was  God himself that actually shut him into the ark.  It says, "Then YAHWEH shut him in." Genesis 7:16 We, as Noahs, are to comfort the distressed and show them the way to the good news of rest.