Posted on 08/24/2020 4:52:40 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
I figured he'd look more like Charles Bronson.
Maybe the pastor didn't see Pres. Trump in Sept. because Pres. Trump (along with all of us) will have "left the building".
That's IF these dreams he's had are real,and if they're accurate. It's always been my understanding that a person's prophecies or predictions MUST be 100% accurate, 100% of the time, to be of God.
Anticipation is up for Jews and Christians. Expect someday soon the third temple in Jerusalem.
Your assertion that Jews “don’t have a religion” without the rebuilding of the Temple in the land of Israel is bogus.
You have been led astray about Jews and Judaism. For Jews, God never was and never will be corporeal and therefore in no way circumscribed.
Groan!
“When Messiah comes, I will be too overwhelmed to ask if it is His first time or His second.”
That is good. That was NYC Mayor Ed Koch’s line too: when the Messiah comes, for the Jews for the first time, for the Christians the second time.
God was corporeal in the Old Testament. Do more research.
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Yes there is no getting around that.
Perfect set up for the anti christ and false prophet.
I’d agree with that.
Rosh Hashana IS the day that no man knows.
The question is, will it be this Rosh Hashana or a future one?
What ‘breaking silence’? Where’s the /s?
Moroccoan, IDF veteran, came to religion as an adult. Very prolific and anything but silent!
https://www.breslev.co.il/html/rabbi_shalom_arush.aspx?id=66&language=english
First, forgive the long comment. I’ll try to break it up some. But I’m a Christian and I just read that article. I’ll have to look into the Solomon claim further, but it doesn’t trouble me because considering all I know about Jesus, I’m sure the truth to it is favorable to Him.
Pt. I
I actually experienced God’s Holy Spirit while praying what’s called the Lord’s prayer at bedtime, many years ago. A few weeks before, I’d just decided for myself, as a young adult, that I did believe Jesus is who He claimed to be. It’s almost indescribable, but I’ll never forget how I was shocked to realize that something was happening, and there was a presence of spiritual light. My eyes were closed, and I’d say it was a supernatural, living light.
At the time, I was a heavy, highly addicted smoker, but the next morning it was like I’d never smoked. I didn’t experience even the slightest craving.
I made a habit of reading the four Gospels then, inspired to do so, actually, by J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, and only read the whole Bible years later, and doing that brought me much, much closer to the Lord. Only then did I see how Jewish the New Testament is.
II.
I imagine you’d agree that what Christians identify as the Old Testament is so amazing that it’s clearly supernaturally inspired. And so too is the New Testament, although, sadly, you probably haven’t read it to even possibly begin to see that.
The apostle Paul wrote that Christians, who have been grafted into the olive tree, shouldn’t boast against the natural branches, the Jewish people. Yet he said he was greatly troubled by how many Jews were missing out on Jesus.
It was the divine revelations in the New Testament that introduced me to the Old and I recognize the Heavenly treasures of each. The New is only the harvest of what was planted in the Old.
That’s why it’s no surprise to me that it seems that Jews have been warned away by their leaders from looking into the New Testament.
But all that’s in it was written by humble, pure-hearted men, who encountered Jesus as they faithfully waited for the Messiah, and were witnesses to His ministry, death and resurrection. And most died for that witness, after lovingly and sacrificially establishing the first churches. If they were deceitful scoundrels, they wouldn’t have done all that.
The New Testament isn’t mere dry theology, either, but mostly actual letters, personal but also Spirit-inspired, that Jesus’ apostles wrote to those churches addressing all manner of issues.
III.
Now, Jesus didn’t fail, at all. Did Abel fail? Jesus was martyred. And His death represents many things, for our instruction.
He’s Uriah the Hittite and Naboth, as He’s every true prophet and faithful person in the Old Testament.
He’s Abel and we’re Cain. He’s the victim of our sin, who’s done nothing to us to deserve ill treatment. We victimize Him because of how we betray God.
He also represents the prophets, like Elijah, whom we naturally don’t want to listen to.
And He represents that our sin victimizes others, but is only against a holy God, as David wrote, and that He grieves over our evil and what we do to others, though it’s Him that our rebel selves really would like to destroy. Jesus is God’s Word. In rebellion we always want to reject it.
Then Jesus is simultaneously also the eternal payment for all human sin, and that is just the most amazing theology personified.
His death represents the enormity of our sin, in all its evil (we all put Him to death), as well as God sacrificially allowing us to victimize Him so we can see that evil in full — all of which should produce in us genuine, godly sorrow for it, repentance, and reconciliation with God. Jesus compares Himself to the brass serpent lifted up to heal the people.
Then Jesus is the lamb that God provided for Himself to be sacrificed in Isaac’s place, as Abraham said prophetically.
Innocent Himself, He takes our death penalty for our sin. He is the embodiment of all animal sacrifices, and the only one who can truly pay our debt. This payment is actually the One we’re indebted to paying it Himself, which at the same time constitutes His forgiveness towards us. As we know from human experience, true forgiveness does come at a cost to the one forgiving the debt. Jesus’ death demonstrates that forgiveness to us costs Him as well.
That’s only the “big picture,” though. As I said, every sentence in the New Testament is full of spiritual treasure.
And one thing I forgot.
In His First Coming, Jesus was more visibly the suffering Messiah, Son of Joseph, while in the Second, He will more visibly be the triumphant Messiah, Son of David.
I hope I am not sent to Hell for this, but I laughed......twice. ;>)
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