I am going to be posting Scripture – chapter & verse -
to my Page every Thursday in preparation for the Sabbath Rest which begins on
Friday: if that offends anyone, feel free to leave: no hard feelings.
I am a Messianic Christian. I am an Evangelist. 40 years
ago I was called to verbally get The Word out; as a Christian since 1966, it is
my DUTY to ‘spread the Good News’. I do not push The Gospel on people, but I DO
talk about my God, my Lord, and my Savior every day; every hour of the day: if
anyone doesn’t want to listen, or is offended to the point of violent anger,
they can walk away. This is MY Page and I speak my mind on it. In any and ALL
cases Elohei is a major part of my life and on my mind 24/7/360; and I speak (or
write/type) as the Ruach moves me to speak, write or type.
When Yeshua walked this earth and spoke to the masses of
people in public and they were offended, He simply walked away. I do that too.
However, this is my Blog, and this Page is MY space; and here I do not walk
away … I speak freely, and I speak openly. YOU are free to listen … or to
leave.
I hope you will pull up a chair and sit a while ;-)
~Shalom
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDNG TO MATTHEW
Chapter 2: When Yeshua was born in
Bethlehem, in Judea, there came to Jerusalem from the East, Wise Men, who began
to ask, ‘Where is He Who was born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the
East and have come to worship Him’.
When king Herod heard this, he was frightened,
and all Jerusalem with him. So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes
and wanted to know of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him, “In
Bethlehem, in Judea, for so it has been recorded by the prophet: ‘And you,
Bethlehem in Judah, are by no means least among the princes of Judah; for out
of you shall come forth a Leader Who shall be like a shepherd of My People
Israel’” (Michah5:2). Herod then secretly called in the Wise Men and
wanted them to tell him the exact time in which the star had appeared. After
that, he sent them on to Bethlehem, saying, ‘Go! Find out all you can about the
Child, and then when you have found Him, bring word back to me so that I, too,
may go and worship Him’.
And they, having heard the king’s wishes,
went on their way. And lo! The tar that they had seen in the East went before
them till it came to the place where the Child was, and stood over it. The Wise
Men, watching the star, were filled with great joy. They went into the house
and found the Child with Mariam, His earth mother. They fell down and
worshipped Him. They opened their treasures and gave Him gifts – gold, incense,
and fragrant myrrh. Then, forewarned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they
left for their country by another way. Hardly had they departed when an angel
of Adonai appeared in a dream to Yosef, and said, “Get up! Take the Child and
His mother and flee to Egypt. And stay there till I call you, for Herod is
about to seek the Child, to destroy Him. He got up, took the Child and His mother,
and left that night for Egypt. There he remained till Herod’s death, in
fulfillment of Adonai’s words by the prophet, who said, ‘Our of Egypt I called
My Son’ (Hosea 11:1).
When Herod saw that the Wise Men had made a
fool of him, he was greatly enraged, and sent men to put to death all the
little boys in Bethlehem and the whole neighborhood who were 2 years old and
under, based on the time which, through careful inquiry, he had learned from
the Wise men. Then were fulfilled the words of the prophet Jeremiah, who had
said, ‘A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning; Rachel,
bewailing her children and would not be comforted, because they were dead’ (Jeremiah
31:15).
Then when Herod died, an angel of Adonai came
to Yosef in Egypt in a dream. He said, “Get up! Take the Child and His mother
and go back to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the Child’s life
have died”. So he arose, took the Child and His mother, and set out for the
land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father,
Herod, as king in Judea, he was afraid to go there. Adonai told him in a dream
what to do. This he did; he withdrew to the region of Galilee. Having come
there, he settled down in a town named Nazareth, thus fulfilling the word of the
prophets that He should be called a Nazarene (Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5;
Zechariah 3:8 & 6:12 – from Nezer, Hebrew word for Branch).
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In response to the modern concept that Yeshua and His earth
family were {refugees in Egypt}, let me make clear that Yeshua IS CREATOR
(Genesis 1:1; John 1:3 & 10; 1 Corinthians 8:6 and Colossians 1:16) as well
as Ben Elohei (Son of God: Matthew 16:15-17), as well as 1/3 of the triune
Godhead (Matthew 28:19). Therefore it is ridiculous to think that He could be a
refugee anywhere … the whole earth belongs to Him! When one owns, they are not
squatters.
Today’s Church is dumbed down and anorexic; and it’s spiritually
dead & Scripturally ignorant/arrogant worldly minded leadership is
dangerous because it is feeding them a starvation diet lacking in reality and
meaty matter. A healthy diet balanced in the correct understanding and
application of Scripture it vital to the maturing of/strength of Christian
growth and l.i.f.e. To grow properly
one must be fed healthy food (The Word) that aides in the maturity of the
Spiritual as well as physical being. That is NOT happening in America’s Church
today – I am speaking of the spiritual as well as concerning the building.
America’s Church today is in sad need of repair – in all regards. America’s
Church came under attack in the 1950’s and was seriously damaged in the 1960’s …
shell-shocked in the 1970’s, hopelessly hypnotized by the enemy’s strobe lights
in the 1980s, wandered into the choking weeds in the 1990’s, and is unsuspicious
dimwitted prey for the ravenous wolves in the 2000’s. In short, the Church today is unrecognizable to Yeshua ... and to me.
Just as loud raucous music and substance abuse was used in Vietnam to disorient
and keep the enemy off balance, so is concert style rock and roll music and pharmaceutical meds/medicinal weed used in
churches today (people that gather together talk more about their ailments/'addictions' and doctors/self-help-programs than they do about Yeshua and His healing!) – people attend churches now for the loud music and the vegetarian food … not
for a close and abiding relationship that Yeshua exampled and talked about, or for
fellowship the way it was intended, or as Yeshua taught. The leadership today is
the modern day Pharisee and Sadducee order that Yeshua spoke against, and the
attendees to their buildings are equated to the self-righteous and pious Jews
that cried out against Yeshua, and ultimately for his blood: blinded by their
own narcissism and socialized world-view.
The Church today is too stupid to realize that
it is itself poor and needy ... because it believes its Savior is a refugee with no rights
and no kingdom!
Time to ((((WAKE UP!)))) sleepers. The wolves are surrounding you
and closing in for the kill.
