CLARIFICATION

CLARIFICATION

                In my last article, “The Precious Gift” I made some statements that may have startled a few people. I stated that Satan has control of all the major religions including Christianity and Judaism.  I left the thought incomplete which may have caused confusion for my brothers and sisters in the faith

                We don’t like to think that Satan may have infiltrated all of the religions of the world. It is unsettling, even disturbing. We may ask ourselves, ”Is nothing sacred?”

                But ask yourself this: What kind of delusions could Satan pull off in the last days that would deceive if possible even the very elect? Satan is not concentrating his efforts on the nearest strip joint. He isn’t worried about liberals and globalists. They already worship him in every way that is important to him.

                So, what was it that Lucifer said in Isaiah 14: 12-14?

                How you have fallen from heaven O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth. You who have weakened the nations! But you said in your heart, I WILL ASCEND TO HEAVEN; I WILL RAISE MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD, AND I WILL SIT ON THE MOUNT OF ASSEMBLY IN THE RECESSES OF THE NORTH. I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS; I WILL MAKE MYSELF LIKE THE MOST HIGH.”

                Where does Satan want to reign? All of Satan’s big talk really has to do with his gaining control over God’s people doesn’t it? He wants to rule over the earth on the Mount of Assembly in the City of the great King. He wants to rule the world from the temple in Jerusalem. Why do we think that the Vatican is in hot pursuit of Jerusalem? Why are they trying to weaken it by dividing it between Jews and Palestinians? Why has Satan been using religion to try to gain control of Jerusalem for most of the last 2000 years? I guess Satan thought he had already won the game as long as the land of Israel lay vacant for 1900 years. Muslims and Christians fought over it then, as the Ottoman Empire and the Crusaders struggled for control, but now that God has brought the Jews back into their homeland as promised, this battle has reached a boiling point. You had better believe that Satan is doing everything in his power to gain control of Jerusalem. He is using both Luciferian globalists and false pagan Christianity to do it.

                Jerusalem is indisputably the most important piece of real estate on planet earth. God says that the land belongs to Him. He gave it to Israel by an everlasting covenant and Him alone; but ultimately the whole world belongs to god by right of Creation.  In Psalms 48 the sons of Korah, declared Jerusalem to be the city of the great King…”Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earthy, Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, the city of the Great King.

                But where have we heard about the sides of the north before? It was Lucifer claiming that he would sit on the mount of the assembly in the sides of the north.” Isa. 14

                In all of this I am not putting down on Israel one bit. Israel is God’s land and Israel is God’s people and God has a plan for their salvation, but we need to be wise in understanding that Satan also has his sights trained on usurping the place of Christ in the soon coming millennial reign. He wants to reign in the place of Christ, even as He intends to reign in the place of Christ over Christianity. This is why the Pope is called the Vicar of Christ. Vicar is related to the word vicarious. He rules vicariously in the place of Christ and that makes every pope since the very beginning an antichrist. (Here I talk about a corrupt system and not about the godly people who serve God faithfully in the church. In fact there are many Catholic speakers today who put Protestants to shame, in their uncompromising preaching of the Gospel.) Many Catholics themselves are deeply concerned about what is going on in the Vatican and many warn that the devil has taken over, including faithful Bishops within the Vatican.

                So with this in mind then we as Christians and we as Messianic Jews and even Jews themselves need to be extremely wise and careful and discerning. Right now we are watching the power struggle over the land of Israel. The globalists are fighting to secure Jerusalem for the antichrist and the False Prophet (whom I believe to be Pope Francis, or if not him, a pope yet to come). They are gathering all of the religions of the world together, including Christianity, to give their homage to the Beast.

                It is indeed frightening to see Evangelical leaders by the score going to seek an audience with the Pope. They have become prophetically illiterate. They no longer understand the issues. They are willing to compromise truth for the sake of unity, but the kind of unity that their compromises will bring will end up landing them in the global government of the Beast.

                So both Jews and Christians need to be wise. We need to believe in what God is doing in and for Israel, but we need to be aware that Satan is doing everything in his power to gain control of the mounts of assembly both Jewish and Christian.

                Bonnie and I have attended a Messianic Congregation for the past 4-5 years and it has been a wonderful blessing. We have been involved in making quilts for holocaust survivors and clothing for poor Jews returning to the Land as God said they would in the last days. We have been doing the right thing and as such God has abundantly blessed those ministries with miraculous supply. We will always be Messianic Jews at heart even though the Lord has called us to our final mission in Tennessee. So when I say that we must be extremely careful and aware of Satan’s plans, I am only saying that Satan is attacking God’s true Remnant people on every front and that is where the danger lies.

                We believe in Israel… that is to say we believe in God’s plans as laid out in the Bible for Israel. We pray for the peace of Jerusalem. We know it is destined to become the city of the great King, but we also know that Satan is going to usurp that position first and he will commit the abomination of desolation in the temple just as Daniel said he would in Daniel 9:27, Dan. 11:31 and Dan. 12:11 and reiterated by Jesus in Mt. 24:15, Mark 13:14.

                Jesus Christ Himself confirmed Psalms 48 when He too called Jerusalem the city of the great King. So I believe with all of my heart that God’s plans for Jerusalem will come to pass and that His plans for His people Israel will come to pass just as Romans 11:25-29 declares.

                God’s promises to Israel are irrevocable just as His promises to the church are irrevocable, but our faith must be in Him and in His Word and in His Son and not in the systems and institutions that are being corrupted by Satan as he seeks control of the Mountains of Assembly.

                We must by all means put our faith in God alone and His Word alone and we must be led by His Holy Spirit alone and even then we must be vigilant because if we don’t stick to the Word and obey it, a different spirit will sneak into our lives as well and we will wonder after the Beast even as we think we are serving God. Satan will be that deceptive. This is why the abandonment of Bible prophecy, the teaching of a false grace and the replacement of the Gospel of the Kingdom with prosperity teaching is so infinitely dangerous. The church is being dumbed down with self-pleasing, flesh- pleasing messages that leave out most of the vital truths that we need  for our survival.

                If you want to be a Remnant person who keeps the commandments of God and bears the testimony of Jesus (His Holy Spirit) as described in Revelation 12:17; then you must be a 100% Bible believing, born again, Spirit filled, dead to self and alive to Jesus Christ, cross carrying, blood bought child of God. You must have come to the cross of Christ with repentance, turning away from sin and Satan’s kingdom and fully embracing the Kingdom of God as described throughout the pages of Scripture. We must become temples of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ is not defined by a denominational name, or an institution. The Body of Christ can been found in the most unlikely places… but they are His sheep and they hear His voice and they are learning daily how to detect the voice of the enemy and to cast him away. They are following hard after Jesus.

                As we know from Revelation 12: Satan hates both the Woman (Israel) as well as the Remnant of her seed (Remnant Christians) who keep the Commandments of God and who bear the testimony of Jesus. Let us be clear that Satan (The Dragon) is making war with the chosen people of God and he doesn’t fight fairly. He will deceive if possible even the very elect of God.

                There are certain doctrines that will put you on God’s bad side however. Replacement Theology is one of them for the Word has said concerning the future of Israel:

                “For thus says the Lord of hosts, “After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, (Jerusalem) for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.” Zechariah 2:8. Then Zechariah goes on to describe the coming millennial reign of Christ saying: “Sing for joy and be glad, O daughter of Zion; for behold I am coming and I will dwell in your midst, declares the Lord. And many nations will join themselves to the Lord in that day and will become My people. Then I will dwell in your midst and you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me to you. And the Lord will possess Judah as His portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem. Be silent all flesh, before the Lord; for He is aroused from His holy habitation.” Zech. 2:10-13.

                Also take a look at Amos 9:10-15 where the Lord talks about restoring the tabernacle of David and restoring Israelis to their land. See also Jer. 16:14, 15. Zechariah 14 describes the coming of the Lord with his saints followed by His millennial reign. Zech. 12:10 shows Jesus returning to earth and the Jews looking upon Him whom they have pierced.  To me it is irrefutable that these texts and many others are speaking about the end of time and not of the historical past.

                As Romans 11 states, God’s promises to Israel are irrevocable. Jesus Christ will come to dwell among His people and He will reign from Jerusalem for 1000 years and we as Christians will be here to take part in it as well… not because we replaced Israel, but because we have been grafted in through faith in Yeshua the Jewish Messiah. In this way we have become Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise. The church needs to get this right if we are to understand God’s plans and purposes and why it is that blood moons and eclipses and other events in our day are occurring on God’s appointed times. ( Moedim)

                God is trying to wake up His Remnant people in every walk of life and to get them on board with His final program. We need to return to the Bible… the whole Bible and not just parts of it. Doctrine is a wonderful thing as it describes certain key elements of what we believe, but it can be a dangerous thing if we cling only to those elements while ignoring the whole counsel of God in His complete Word from Genesis to Revelation.             

                Today denominations are formed on partial truths… good truths for the most part, but since people no longer study the Bible for themselves, they no longer test their foundations. They are beginning to fall for the lies of the enemy that are drawing them into the global kingdom of the Beast.

                “But the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons…1Tim. 4:1.

                “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth.” 2 Tim. 2:15.

                It is you and I who must do this. We can’t just jump onto a denominational train and then put our minds in neutral. There are tough truths in the Bible that cut across nearly all denomination lines. Sound doctrine is being weakened by an emphasis on church growth rather than truth. Much preaching now panders to the wants of the biggest tithe payers. No one wants to rock the boat. No one wants to stand up and declare the whole Word of God to our fallen generation. No one wants to face the persecution that will surely come from it.

                But the shepherds are going to be held accountable for their sheep and the watchmen will be held accountable for what happens on their watch and the prophets that prophesy smooth things, will be held accountable for their weak leadership. For many today are saying “Thus saith the Lord’’, when the Lord has not spoken and they are holding back the words that the Lord is actually saying.

                It is in Bible prophecy that we are warned that Babylon is fallen and that we must come out of her. This message has always been true, but it has become all the more specific now as the world is being divided into two kingdoms. Choose you this day, whom you will serve and let it be the Lord.

                As true born again, Bible believing Christians and Messianic Jews, we need to understand that we are God’s Remnant people and as such, the devil is angry with us and he has gone off to make war with the Remnant of her seed that keep the commandments of God and who hold to the testimony of Jesus. We need to sharpen the weapons of our warfare, taking on the full armor of God and we need to be wise in the Word of God so that we will not be deceived with the rest of the world. Selah