In Israel, the earth is burning beneath our feet. Together with my wife Anat, I attended a meeting in Kfar Saba shortly before the start of Shabbat. A meeting with many friends and relatives, all of whom were seeking a new connection to God before the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. Towards the end, I received the first news of the targeted air strike in Beirut. A few minutes later, we knew that high-ranking Hezbollah officials were the target. We spoke about the darkness and the war that has descended upon our people over the past year and shows no signs of ending. But who knows, maybe we really are on the verge of redemption? Isn’t the darkest hour always just before dawn? Are we not in a battle between darkness and light – evil and good? Why doesn’t God say about the darkness, “And He saw that it was good”? nor does God say so about the second day of creation. Why not?
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Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. THY kingdom come. THY WILL be done, on earth AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.” Come quickly Lord Jesus and deliver us from evil”
That is not how Yeshu taught us to pray.
He said, «When you pray, say: ‹Father, may your HOLY SPIRIT come upon us. And give us today our bread for tomorrow. Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And do not bring us into temptation.›»
Due to the forgery you quoted, few Gentile “Christians” can be bothered to pray for the reception of the Holy Spirit and thus few receive her (with the result of being destroyed at the Parousia).
Yes, everything will turn out well for Israel.
At a time where the UN demands that Jerusalem’s Old City must be “Judenrein” within a year, it is obvious where we stand in terms of Tanakhic prophecy. Zechariah 14:2 is being fulfilled right before our eyes, and vv. 3–15 will follow suit.
All Jewish deceased will be raised, Jewry will be cleansed of any idols and the Spirit of Grace will be poured out on her, and all Israel, “the good and the bad”, will be saved (Zech 12:10; Rom 11:26; Bar 4:29; cf. Test. Judah 25:4 – “And those who died in sorrow shall be raised in joy.”)
Israel was BORN AGAIN in 1948, and cannot be condemned anymore, no matter what. In the sight of God the “old Israel is dead,” just like a person who has been “put to death” through full water immersion in Jesus’ name: a corpse cannot be put to death a second time. That is the essence of the New Covenant, REGENERATION, yet most Gentiles have exchanged it for “I have accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour” and will therefore go to hell.
Who has made you judge, jury and executioner of the Gentiles?
Then Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me. And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me. I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness. And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him_the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.” John 12:44-48
Maybe you should re-study my message without that demon on your shoulder.
I am judging no one; I am merely warning according to his word (and that unregenerate Gentiles will burn you can read in John 3:5).
The ‘nation’ of Israel was born in one day, however, the Israeli people were not. They, like anyone else must go to the Lord Jesus to come to know him and become born again. That simple.
As far as the rest of my reply, it was right from the pages of the Bible, so who are you really criticizing? Your reply to me was pretty much like the replies I have gotten from Muslims in the past, there is no demon on my shoulder.
As to my original message, “it was right from the pages of the Bible, so who were you really criticizing?”
Yes, the Jewish people need to be born again by means of water and Spirit/fire immersion, and they will be – at the Parousia.
Jewry by and large was divinely blinded regarding Jesus’ Messiahship to allow for Gentiles to be saved (otherwise the New Covenant would not have been extended to non-Jews).
Conversely, this God-ordained blindness was not for Gentiles. They have been free to decide to get saved or not for the last 2,000 years, and they won’t have an excuse. Any non-Jew who has not been reborn by the the time the Parousia occurs will be destroyed (followed by eternal damnation).
Thus, God deals “differently” with Jewry compared to how he deals with the Gentiles, but not in an unrighteous way (Gen 45:1–8 foreshadows how Yeshu will embrace his Jewish brothers at his return).
The 6 million were the scapegoat for all of Jewry. In the Shoah the adulteress Israel was put to death; it was the culmination of the “Seven Times Punishment” lasting from 536 BCE to 1948 (Lev 26:28; Deut 28:45); it was a gradual increasing national chastisement due to centuries-long infanticide.
Thus, God views all of Jewry as “reborn”, and their literal rebirth is imminent.
Jake Wilson. Where can I find your version of the original Lord’s prayer?
Thank you
The earliest narrative gospel from c. 35 CE, i.e. the “Gospel according to the Hebrews” (GH) contained it, but that Hebrew text was destroyed by Rome. Today, one can only reconstruct it from patristic quotations and certain ancient manuscripts.
Luke 11:2 in the Old Syriac and P75 read “Father” (not “Our Father”), and Gregory of Nyssa, who live in the 4th century, quoted, «May your Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us», a reading also attested by the codices 162 and 700; «upon us» is preserved in Codex Bezae, but the Evangelion lacked «and cleanse us», see also J. BeDuhn, The First New Testament, 157–9.
Jerome states: «In the Hebrew Gospel according to Matthew it has this: ‹Give us today our bread for tomorrow›» (Tract. Ps. 135; cf. Comm. Matt. 6.11). The Coptic Boharic agrees with the Hebrew.
“Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us” is the reading in the Shem Tov version (the latter containing very ancient portions).
The rest practically agrees. Whether “but deliver us from evil” is original is hard to tell. The Shem Tov version, Codex Syriacus, the Latin Vulgate, B, and 𝔓75 omit it, yet all Itala MSS include it.
The Clementine Homilies, often quoting GH, read “deliver us from the evil one” (Hom. 19.2).
We cannot be 100% about the autographic reading, but we can be sure that the canonical one is a sanitized version.
Also, note Jesus’ reference to this prayer a few verses later:
“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” (Lk 11:13)
But the wording of the prayer was altered. Hence, few people ask God to fill them with the Holy Spirit (though they cannot be saved without being Spirit-filled).
Why was the third day good? Compare Genesis 1:9-10 with Genesis 2: 4 – 7. It is obvious that Adam, but not Eve, was created on the third day. Note that the sixth day is very good.