Posted on 04/06/2006 7:50:06 PM PDT by Invincibly Ignorant
No KIDDING, ping for later deleting. What a bunch of tripe!! And for us poor deluded Christians, nice to finally have someone who knows so much more to help us along...
Sorry, Desiree but anyone who begins a criticism of Christianity by using the term "xtians" is not worth my time.
Strange article here — can you guys make head or tales of it?
I hope I have given you a little understanding of one of the reasons behind the frantic and urgent need to evangelize the Jewish people and assimilate them into Christianity. The leaders are the people who are actively encouraging the missionaries
Well said.
yet that term can encompass many from those who believe that Christ is God and also keep the Mosaic laws to those who say He was just a prophet. What of the latter?
That's not true.
IMHO I know we see through a glass darkly. People are all over the place in their relationship to Christ. I from my Lutheran background am a God's grace advocate. Legalism exists. IE works righteousness.
IMHO We Lutherans do a great job with justification but lousy on sanctification. Cheap grace sets in easily. I am on a recent new idea of loving people for who they are and let them and the Holy Spirit do the work of fixing any errors. I do not have the power to change anyone. Now getting real Lutheran here, I have no power to change myself. My flesh is absolutely corrupt. This is a mystery to me.
For instance when I post my end times ideas on facebook I love it and chuckle when my 2 daughters say "Dad Stop posting that crazy stuff!" I also love that they want me to be their facebook friend. :)
Who is Isaiah talking about in Isaiah chapter 53:6?
All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
How about Zechariah 12:10?
And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
Like Jesus, Paul, all of the apostles and all of the first disciples, no one needs the New Testament to show that Jesus is the Messiah. He is risen. He’s alive. He is coming again just as prophesied in Zechariah 14:
1 Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then the Lord will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle.
4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.
5 Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to azal. Yes, you shall flee As you fled from the earthquake In the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the Lord my God will come, And all the saints with You.
6 It shall come to pass in that day That there will be no light; The lights will diminish.
7 It shall be one day Which is known to the Lord— Neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen That it will be light.
8 And in that day it shall be That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, Half of them toward the eastern sea And half of them toward the western sea; In both summer and winter it shall occur.
9 And the Lord shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be “The Lord is one,” And His name one.
10 All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.
11 The people shall dwell in it; And no longer shall there be utter destruction, But Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12 And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.
13 It shall come to pass in that day That a great panic from the Lord will be among them. Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor, And raise his hand against his neighbor’s hand;
14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations Shall be gathered together: Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.
15 Such also shall be the plague: On the horse and the mule, On the camel and the donkey, And on all the cattle that will be in those camps. So shall this plague be.
16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain.
18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
20 In that day “HOLINESS TO THE Lord” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the Lord’S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
Although the historical church has not always understood our debt to the Jewish people - more and more are coming to the knowledge that we have been “grafted in.”
May the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob help you in your quest for truth.
It is full of glaring errors e.g. Benny Hinn was born in Jaffa, Israel, There are artifacts in the article which pointWritten by someone who has been swept away
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
by an "anti-missionary" Rabbi.
it claims Benny Hinn was a Jew.
but raised as a Eastern Orthodox Christian.
to it having been created on a non-American Word Processor
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