What Can Be Shaken and The Battle of the Near Future

 "25 See to it that you do not refuse the One who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the One who was warning them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject the One who warns us from heaven. 26 His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.” 27 Now this phrase, “Yet once more,” shows the removal of those things that are shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude—through this we may offer worship in a manner pleasing to God, with reverence and awe. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Grateful for a Shepherd who speaks the truth. What we need as followers of the Messiah of Israel, the Son of the Most High God is Him alone.  What we need in this evil age will be provided by the Son of the Most High God in His time, in His way.  This is the end of the "consumerism" spirit that is over this land in the individual's life. As individuals join together small communities that come against this spirit can exist by the will of God and what cannot be shaken will remain to the glory of God.

Listening to Art Katz on Paganism he makes this point. The great battle at the end of this age will not be between good and bad, but between the good and the perfect. I would add that the key will be to discern where the power is coming from and who is getting the glory.

The gifts of the Spirit will be 100% necessary as the end draws near, those who say they have passed away are 100% wrong, and those who use them to inflate their name are equally wrong. Very sad.

Deuteronomy 32 is an Endless Treasure

 "Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end." Deut. 32:29

A friend put this chapter into song and he chose to repeat, "Oh that they were wise" and I was so happy that he did because it felt to me like it needed to be repeated. Being wise here is knowing your end, considering the latter end. 

Years ago, I thought that a good technique for witnessing would be to simply ask, something about a person's future and then say, "Then what?" because eventually that will come to their "latter end." 

Altar = Temple

If we replace "altar" with "temple" we will have most of our songs ready for the millennial reign.

The temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem and the gentiles are invited to come to it and rejoice in the choosing of the Lord God of Israel.  

The temple is the center of worship, the altar is a part of the temple worship.

Since we gentiles don't have a temple in Jerusalem and don't acknowledge the need for one we also fall far short in crying, Maranatha and putting our hope in the return of the Lord and putting the proper weight on the Day of the Lord.

Moving the center of God's work from Jerusalem to Rome was a fatal gentile mistake and led to a 1,000 more mistakes.

Let Me Be Very Clear

 The God of Israel and the Messiah of Israel and the Ruach HaKodesh are never ever telling a woman to stay in an abusive relationship. Anyone who says different is reading the scriptures WRONG! 

Anyone who teaches different will pay a horrible price on the great and terrible DAY OF THE LORD!

Barabbas and the Larger Picture that Explains What Looks Like a Contradiction

 I imagine you can count on one hand the number of events mentions in all 4 gospels.  The synoptic gospels have a lot of overlap, but when you throw John in there and demand that all three of the synoptics record an event, you are eliminating most of the gospels content.

Pilate presenting Barabbas as the alternative "criminal" to save, to the Jewish crowd, Yeshua being the other "criminal", is one such section.  All 4 gospels mention it and here is where the trouble begins.

Every Police Officer knows that if you interview 4 different people about events that happened during an intense time there will be variations in the story, throw in a couple or 60 years in between those events and Wow, the rate goes up and up, but if every minor detail agrees, the officer knows, these people got together beforehand, to cover up what really happened, they agreed on a "story".

The gospels do not agree on every detail, not because they are not true, but because they are true.  Do you get it?

Now we come to Barabbas. Luke 23:19 says he was thrown into prison for rebellion and murder.

Matthew just calls him "notorious".  (Matt. 27:16)

Mark says he took part in an insurrection and committed murder. (Mark 15:7) 

John, written much later, says, "Now Barabbas was a robber." (John 18:40) Some translations replace robber with insurrectionist, but this is not right, the word appears 15 times in the Greek New Testament and is  always translated "robber" or "thief". 

To me this is not a contradiction but an expansion. 

Satan came to steal, kill and destroy. 

Satan is the ultimate rebel. 

Barabbas is a notorious rebel who is willing to murder and steal to get what he wants.

Get the picture? 

If You Are Only a Spectator...

 Just shut up.

You don't know what it is like to be hit in the face.

YOU DON'T KNOW NOTHIN'

A GREAT TRUTH

 Nothing is impossible when your wife loves and supports you.

Nothing.

That is all.