He Yelled IT!

 Luke 7:9"And when Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned and said unto the multitude that followed him, I say unto you, 'I have not found so great faith, 

 no, not in Israel.'"

In Matthew when the story is told it is literally a few minutes after the sermon on the mount, so a large crowd, a multitude, is still right there, following Him, probably talking with each other about the greatest 15 minute teaching ever given, or marvelling at the healing of the leper that took place right before this in Matthew and proved that those 15 minutes were being spoken by someone who had the power of the Spirit of the Most High God flowing through Him and in Him.

The back story presented to a similar event, that probably occurred more than once is presented in Matthew. 

5And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 6and saying, Lord, my servant lieth in the house sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. 7And he saith unto him, I will come and heal him. 8And the centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. 9For I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. 

When I read scripture and study scripture I long for the knowledge of the tone of voice that Yeshua was using at the time, and I strongly feel that since Yeshua just heard this amazing confession FROM A MEMBER OF THE GOYIM, THE NATIONS, THE GENTILES HE (the God of the universe, who knows the end from the beginning, who in fact knows everything) marvels!!!!

And then in my not as humble as it needs to be opinion, He turned and yelled to the multitude of people following Him.    

 “I tell you the truth, I haven’t seen faith like this in all Israel! 11And I tell you this, that many Gentiles will come from all over the world—from east and west—and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the feast in the Kingdom of Heaven. 12But many Israelites—those for whom the Kingdom was prepared—will be thrown into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”       

Some of the scariest and yet most comforting words in all of scripture.  You gentiles, not included, with rare exception from the people and plans of God, this Centurion is an indicator that you will be coming in, in great numbers and you Jews who think you are in automatically, no, you are not, I AM the gate, I AM the Way, I AM the truth, you have to go through me or you don't get in. 

500,000 views

 Sure it took 10 years and possibly many bots from Brazil and Singapore choosing to follow me on google, but as of today, this little blog is over 500,000 views.

Kind of scary, but most of the stuff on here is truth and most of it I will stand behind. 

The Tent of Shem May Be Larger Than I Thought

 Listening to Art Katz message, The Tent of Shem and I think God gave me the idea that the tent of Shem is larger than I would have expected it to be. The Arabs and the Jews are both in that tent. Egypt and I don't really know who else are descended from Ham and Canaan.

Maybe the gentiles are being called to help to reconcile the Arabs and the Jews.

The Jewish people have an army that is called the Israel Defense Force, the purpose of their army is defense. That is why the "thing" in Gaza does not feel right, Israel was on the offensive, not just for a little bit and not in proportion to Oct. 7th, most would say that they went a little to far in leveling the entire area.  I don't have an opinion on that.  I know that we gentiles in Messiah's community are called to love the individual Jew in our lives at the sacrificial cost of our lives.

Isaac and Ishmael were reconciled in some way at the death of Abraham, who was still alive in the days of Jacob and Esau.

There may be more here than meets the eye. 

Wise As Serpents

 First of all I am quoting from Matthew 10:16, but if you only read that verse you are lazy, arrogant, and beyond repair in ever becoming a teacher worthy of the Master!

Context is key. 

This famous statement is only recorded in one of the synoptic gospels.  

 -----The word "synoptic" means "together sight." The Synoptic Gospels are called such because the authors "saw together with a common view."-----from GotQuestions.org

Not.Very.Synoptic.

Only one gospel mentions this section. It is a truly beautiful section with deep insights into what it means to be a follow of the Messiah of Israel in this evil age.

Don't expect peace.

Don't expect success.

Don't expect support from your entire family.

Don't expect to fit in.

Don't expect power.

Matthew 10:16 -  “Take note! I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore, be as cautious as snakes and as innocent as doves."

Schindler's List got me thinking of this as the Jews have to be wise as serpents to preserve life in the time of Nazi domination, forging documents, lying about abilities, lying about production.  

Sheep in the midst of wolves. Doesn't sound like a formula for success to me. Sounds like it is doomed to failure and it should have as a movement, and the Jewish people should have been wiped out by now, but the God of Israel specializes in showing mercy to preserve a remnant.

It is all mercy, sometimes it is just hard to see it. Praying for eyes to see and ears to hear His mercy and faithfulness is a good prayer.

10: 22 "and you will be hated by everyone because of my name. He who endures to the finish, however, will be saved."  This is the expectation of a true disciple in this evil age. Period. End of Story.

10:25 is a key to this passage. ^"It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household!"  Yeshua is stating an important principle that was known in the Jewish world, your life will be like the life of your rabbi. It is an uncomfortable truth for the disciples, the leadership does not like Yeshua and they have the might of Rome behind them.

Here is something I don't understand and if anyone does, chime in.  Matthew 10:23 “Now when people begin persecuting you in one town, flee to another. Amen, I solemnly tell you this: You will certainly not finish going through all the towns of Israel until the Son of Man comes." 

Jerusalem and Israel is where they started preaching and they went out from there to the gentiles. So you would think there was a time when they "finished going through all the towns of Israel". This seems to indicate Yeshua would have returned in the neighborhood of AD 60 or so?

 One last question since I am asking questions.

Why does Yeshua from the cross assign John to Mary and Mary to John, he was going to see them in three days and then, an unknown number of times over the following 40 days, my questions regards the timing, Why then? From the cross?

Hope everyone has a good day. Life is filled with highs and lows, this evil age has no justice, no peace, He is our peace and He will bring justice. 

Lord, Lord Did We Not,,,

 Recently I was part of a little curfluffle with a person who had an agenda to emphasize the gifts of healing the sick and casting out demons above everything else. Very grateful for the grace of God. He gave me the wisdom to say, “scripture contains a very clear warning that people with these exact gifts can be looked at by Yeshua himself and told  “I do not know you.” Yet never ever ever ever ever anywhere in scripture is a person who loved sacrificially with the love that Jesus has put inside of them ever ever ever been told, “I do not know you.” So, put down your agenda to make other people feel bad because they’ve never healed the sick cast out demons or raise the dead like you’ve done, because if they are loving the poor, the widow and the orphan and showing mercy they are untouchable by your accusations and your agenda. Who is told you what is good O man??   YES WHO INDEED!

Christian Nationalism is a Horrifying Heresy that is Doomed to Destruction

 As a result of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11) the nations were given to lesser gods, to be ruled over and controlled. Deuteronomy 32 makes this a little more clear and the teachings of Michael Heiser, using the book of Enoch and other literature make it super clear if you are humble enough to sit under his teaching on these matters.

The Supreme God, God Most High, chose a childless couple from the Middle East to be the well spring of His work among the peoples of the earth.  Abram and Sarai were reluctantly obedient and had a lot of "fits and starts" along the way, with lying and laughing, but eventually, Almighty God, The Lord of the Angel Armies, confirmed a covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and clearly stated that He was going to bring a ruler from one of the sons of Jacob, Judah, a strange choice considering Joseph is the star of the last part of Genesis, but God has His ways that are always higher than our ways.

The Bible only recognizes Jew and Gentile as the two existing ethnic groups, but the gentiles got handed over to the 70 (or 72 in the Septuagint) other Elohim the lesser gods warned against in the 1st commandment, You shall have no other gods before ME!

So if you look with spiritual eyes at the nations you can see, lust, greed, power, hatred, poverty, pride, etc. ruling and reigning over each of the gentile nations. 

Here is where it turns to heresy, if you begin to believe that your nation and your leaders are going to lead the way to the Kingdom of God, you have chosen to follow a false god.  God is bringing the kingdom of God through Israel, ethnic Israel, that people that land and gentiles are being given the incredible grace-filled opportunity to join that commonwealth and come under Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and be one with the chosen people of God. There is no Kingdom outside of that, that will last, period, end of story. 

Messiah’s Community Verses the Word “Church”

 This may seem like a radical statement, but stick with me and I will very quickly show you the truth.

You would not put up a Civil War flag representing the South outside of your "church" building to attract people who are black to your "church", but you continue to use the words like "church" and "christian" which have a horrible history to the ethnic Jewish person. 

Maybe it is because you don't know that history. Go to your favorite search engine and look up the term, "Pogrom". Here   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom#List_of_events_named_pogroms    about 1/2way down the page is a table you can look at. "Christians" or people identifying as "Christians" were at the heart of most of the persecution against Jews. 

Did you know that just before Columbus was "sailing the ocean blue" Spain was expelling all Jews from Spain at the request of the Christian leader?

The Crusades?  Oh boy!  Read all about it here,  https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/christian-crusades-timeline-1095-1258  

More bad stuff to read about (the Inquisition)    https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/dominicans

So, hopefully now the statement at the beginning does not seem so radical.

I hope we will all consider taking down the "Dixie" flag and putting up words like "Messiah's Community" and "followers of the God of Israel" "grafted in branches" and I am sure there will be others if we take a creative approach to this.

As the times of the end draw near and one of our assignments is reflecting the heart of the God of Israel for the ethnic children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob I would hope we would be willing to change.