All of you reading
my Blog and reading my posts on FB know that I have not posted a Thursday Bible
Study post in months – I have been grieving with remembrances of “first’s
anniversaries”. The other morning, as I woke up, I remember thinking, “I need
to get back to Scripture reading”; this was not a condemnation, but simply The
Ruach prompting me that I have grieved enough, and that after December 14th,
I need to give myself wholly over unto the plans Elohim has for my new life.
I can do that ;-)
Circumstances and
situations as of late, are already moving in that direction. And today’s
Scripture passage is the perfect Bible Study to catapult me forward … and to
remind others that death, while being the end of life in the flesh, is NOT THE
END for those in Mashiach Yeshua.
I actually smiled
the entire time I read this passage.
It is perfect for what I have been through this past year of
widowhood, and an
exhortation not only for me – but for ALL those who belong to Elohim :-D I
have known this passage of Scripture all my life, but it is good to be reminded
again.
And it differs greatly
from the vineyard doctrine being preached in the majority of churches now which
tell people they do not need the salvation of Yeshua to be saved, they do not
need to leave their life of sin, and there is no resurrection. These are lies
from the pit of Hell – they are NOT what Elohim tells us, and they are NOT Yeshua
taught.
If anyone is telling you different than what Scripture tells you
– GET UP AND LEAVE. It is
better to suffer mockery for doing what is right, than to suffer the flames of
hell later for following the crowd into perdition.
KNOW YOUR BIBLE! READ Scripture for yourself do not rely on someone else’s perverted interpretation.
If you need to readjust your thinking and get right with Elohim – do it; if you
are not yet saved – get saved; if you have given your life to Yeshua, and are
not sure how to live your new Christian life – get an older version of the
Scriptures (before the obama era, when blasphemous ‘bibles’ were printed)
and read it/amend your life accordingly: and fellowship with other Christians –
this does not need to take place in a church building, which many have become
questionable in relation to true and real Christianity.
Let us, together,
bring in 2020 with gladness, joy, peace, and love.
Amen.
1 CORINTHIANS ~Chapter 15: Resurrection, Rapture, & Victory Over
Death :-D
“Brethren, I want
to remind you of the Gospel which I preach to you, and which you accepted, and
on which you stand. And by this you are saved if you hold to the teaching that
I left with you, otherwise you have believed in vain.
First and foremost,
I passed on to you the teaching I had received, namely, that Yeshua dies for
our sins according to the Scriptures; also that He was buried and that on the 3rd
day He rose again, as the Scriptures said He would; and also that He was seen
by Cephas, and then by the Twelve. Next, He appeared to more than 500 brethren
at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have passed on. Later,
He was seen by James, and then by all the Apostles. Last of all, He appeared to
me also – coming to me as to one untimely born. For I am the least important of
the Apostles, unfit even to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted The
Church.
But by the grace of
Elohei, I am what I am, and His grace towards me has not been without results.
I have actually done more work than all of the others, although strictly it was
not I who did it, but Elohim’s grace which was with me. But whether it was I or
they who labored, this is what we preach, and this is what you have believed.
We preach that
Mashiach Yeshua was raised from the dead, and yet some of you say that there is
no resurrection of the dead. How so? If there is no resurrection of the dead,
then Mashiach was not raised. If Mashiach has not been raised, then our
preaching counts for nothing and your faith is groundless. And we are found
also to be false witnesses about Elohim, for we have proclaimed about Elohim
that He raised up Mashiach from the dead, which is not true if there is no
resurrection. For if the dead are never raised, then, surely, Mashiach was not
raised either. But if Mashiach has not bee raised, then your faith is in vain
and you are still in your sins. And those who died trusting in Mashiach to save
them are lost forever. And if our hopes in Mashiach applied only to this life,
and not beyond, then we, of all people, would be the most to be pitied.
But now Mashiach
has been raised from the dead, and has become the first of those to be raised
who have fallen asleep in death. Jut as death came into the world through a
man, so also has the resurrection of the dead come through a Man! Just as all
die because of Adam, so also shall all be made alive again because of Mashiach.
There is a proper order in this unfolding: Mashiach first, then at Mashiach’s coming,
those who believed on Him. After that the end will come when He will turn the
kingdom over to Elohim, the Father, after having destroyed every other
government, authority and power. He must reign until He puts His enemies under
His feet.
Death, also an
enemy, is the last to be destroyed. Scripture says, “He has put all things in
subjection under His feet.” But when it says that “He has put all things in subjection”,
it is self-evident that Elohim, Who reduced everything to subjection, is not
included. And when Elohim shall have put all things in subjection to the Son,
then the Son Himself will also become subject to Elohim, Who has given Him
power over everything, so that Elohim will remain all in all.
There are some who practice
baptism on behalf of the dead. Why do they do that, if the dead do not raise
again at all? Why should anyone be baptized for the dead? And why do we live in
danger every hour? I face death daily, not withstanding our boasting because we
have safety in Yeshua Ha’Mashiach, our Lord. Humanly speaking, what dd I gain
by “fighting for my life against wild beasts” at Ephesus? If there is no resurrection
from the dead, why not say, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die?”
Don’t be mislead by
such reasonings. Bad company harms good manners. Come to your senses and stop
sinning. Some of you do not know Elohei at all, I say this to your shame.
Some will ask, “How
can the dead rise?”; or, “What sort of body will they have when they come back?”
Don’t be foolish. You know that when you sow a seed it has to die before it can
grow again. And you know that when you sow, you do not sow the body that is to
be, but a bare seed, such as wheat or some other grain. Elohim then gives each to
each seed a body according to His own plans, that is, to each seed its own
body.
In a similar way,
not all flesh is the same. One kind is the flesh of men, another kind is the
flesh of beasts, or of fish, or of birds. And there are heavenly bodies and earthly
bodies, and the glories of the heavenly bodies are very different than the
glories of the earthly bodies. For instance, the sun has one kind of beauty,
the moon has another, and the stars still another. In fact, each star differs
from every other star in its splendor.
In some such way is
the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption; it is raised in
incorruption. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in honor. It is sown in
weakness; it is raised in strength. It is sown in a natural body; it is raised
a spiritual body. As Scripture records it, “The first man, Adam, became a
living soul.” The Last Adam was a life-giving Spirit.
It was not the
spiritual that came first, but the physical. The spiritual came afterward. The
first man was from the earth, made of dust; the second man was The Lord, Who
came out of Heaven. The nature of man made of dust is repeated in all men – all
made of dust; the nature of the Man from Heaven id repeated in those who are of
Heaven. And just as we have been like the man made of dust, so also we can
become like the Man from heaven.
I want to say,
brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven, nor will
the perishable inherit the unperishable.
And I shall tell
you a secret: we are not all going to die, but we are all going to be changed.
It will come about suddenly, quickly, in the twinkling of an eye. There will be
the sound of a trumpet, and the dead will be raised, and we shall be changed. For it is necessary that this
perishable nature must change to the unperishable, and this mortal must put on
immortality. And when this perishable nature shall have been changed to the
imperishable, and this mortal nature shall have become immortal, then the words
of Scripture will be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory! Where, then,
O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” (Isaiah 25:8
& Hosea 13:14).
It is sin that gives
death its sting, and it is the Law that gives sin its strength. But thanks be
to Elohim, for He gives us the victory through our Lord, Yeshua Ha’Mashiach!
So, my beloved
brethren, stand firm, immovable, always busy in the Lord’s work, knowing that
what you do in the service of The Lord is labor not thrown away!”
