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Subject: Happy Jewish New Year 5764!
The Word:
The Lord said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites: `On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the Lord by fire´" (Leviticus 23:23-25).
How could this be "Happy New Year" in the seventh month of the Jewish Calendar? The Biblical Year starts in the spring with the month of Nisan (Exodus 12:1, 2) at the beginning of the new harvest season.
THE Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, This month shall be to you the beginning of months, the first month of the year to you.
- Exodus 12:1, 2
This Special Sabbath (The First of The Fall Holidays) is considered by Rabbis as The "Spiritual" New Year. Biblically known as Yom Teruah (The Day of Sounding / Festival of Trumpets), The First Day of Tishri was Called "Rosh HaShanah," The Head of The Year. It is Believed that Moses ascended Mount Sinai on the first day of Elul (the preceding month) and descended on the tenth day of Tishri (Yom Kippur / The Day of Atonement [At-One-Ment With G-d] / The Highest Holy Day of The Year) after receiving the second set of Tablets of the Law / The Ten Commandments. The Shofar is sounded as a time to "Regather" (The Purpose of This Holy Day) to a Pure Faith In G-d and This Day Represents The Day of Repentance!
"You Will hurl All our iniquities into the depths of the sea."
- Micah 7:19
This "Is" G-d's Promise of Forgiveness.
The Shofar was sounded to gather The Troops for battle (Joshua 6) and "Is" our "Wake-Up Call;" an alarm to Call us to our Appointed Time In Messiah! Yeshua's / Jesus' Birth took place in the late fall, not the winter (Sukkot), the approximate start of His Ministry, as recorded in Luke 3:23 was when He was "about thirty years old," Messiah took a Special Immersion / Mikveh / Baptism in the fall (Matthew 3:13-17), spent a forty day period of testing in the desert by the adversary (Matthew 4:1-11) and The Message He Immediately Proclaimed was, "Turn from your sins to G-d, for The Kingdom of Heaven (Righteousness, Peace and Joy In The Holy Ghost) `Is´ Near!"
For The Lord Himself Will Come down from Heaven with a rousing Cry, with a Call from One of the Ruling Angels, and with G-d's Shofar; those who died united with The Messiah Will Be The First to Rise; then we who are left still Alive Will Be Caught Up (Latin = Rapture) with them in the clouds to meet The Lord In The Air; and thus we Will AlWays Be With The Lord. So Encourage Each Other with These Words" (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).
This "Is" The Feast of Trumpets (1 Corinthians 15:50-58; Revelation 4:1).
The Word "Shout" In Hebrew, "Teruah," Is better translated in this context as The "Alarm" Blast Of The Shofar.
"In That Day The Lord Will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites Will Be Gathered Up One By One. And In That Day A Great Trumpet Will Sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt Will Come and Worship The Lord On The Holy Mountain In Jerusalem" (Isaiah 27:12, 13).
This Prophetic Utterance by The Prophet Isaiah in the seventh century B.C. speaks of The Fulfillment of The Latter Day Regathering of The Nation of Israel at The Second Coming of Messiah.
"He (The Son of Man) Will Send Out His Angels With A Great Shofar and they Will Gather Together His Chosen People from the four winds, from One end of Heaven to the other" (Matthew 24:31).
The Sound of The Shofar reminds us of The Blessed Hope (Hope Will not disappoint us) we "Have" In Yeshua / Jesus and that we could Enter Messiah's Presence at any time (Titus 2:13). G-d Promises that He Will turn our scarlet sins as white as snow (Isaiah 1:18). We are no longer to be the tale, but The Head (Deuteronomy 28:13)!
He Will Again Have Compassion On us, He Will subdue and tread under foot our iniquities. You Will cast All our sins into the depths of the sea.
[Psalm 103:12.]
- Micah 7:19
This Is a Wonderful Time of Spiritual Revival, Prepare to Be Gathered To The King of Kings, Take The Love of G-d and The Good News, The Gospel to All Nations and Peoples In The Holy and Precious Name of Yeshua / Jesus.
Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face to Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of The World. Amen and Amen.
Happy New Year 5764! Let This Be your Absolute Best Year Ever!!
G-d's Richest Blessings and His Love to All, <')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Ministry of Meekness: Isa. 42:2; Matt. 12:19
The Word:
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
- Isa. 42:2
He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
- Matt. 12:19
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but true meekness is not weakness. G-d's Word tells us that Moses was the meekest man on the planet and look how he was used to fulfill The Purposes of The Lord. Keith Green wrote, "He cries, He weeps, He bleeds and He cares for your needs," speaking of Yeshua / Jesus. John the Baptizer was the Voice of "One," G-d's Voice crying out in the wilderness. All of these people and others throughout the Bible were used of G-d, certainly controlled (in complete and total submission to Him) by His Holy Spirit and we, as Believers should be obedient to His Call as well. We "have" something to shout about, to cry out from the house tops! Yeshua / Jesus says, "If I Am lifted up from the Earth, I Will Draw All men (All of mankind) Unto Me!" Is His Holy and Precious Name lifted up, praised and exalted above All else? Not just behind The Church walls, but in the streets, at home, work and play?
Listen to The Voice of The Spirit! The Book of Hebrews tells us that in the past G-d spoke to us through His Word, Angels, Moses, The Prophets, but now, He speaks to us In and Through His One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus.
Are you listening to and hearing what He Is Saying to you as an individual and us as a whole, The Body of Christ, Messiah, The Anointed One? None of us should be struggling or striving, but when we Cry Unto Him, He Hears and Answers us. As we Worship Him In Spirit and Truth, He Inhabits our Praises, fills us up to overflowing, leads and guides us In His Perfect Will and Way, according to His Holy Word. When we speak The Truth In Love, The Spirit of G-d opens deaf ears to hear, blind eyes to see and the lame to Walk with Yeshua / Jesus! Breath deep, take in The Essence of Christ / Messiah / The Anointed One, drink of The Water of Life, awaken your senses to taste and see that The Lord Is Good!
Each and Every One of us is Called of G-d to Live The Life of Meekness. Our Ministry is to complete The Great Commission! As Yeshua / Jesus walked the face of this Earth, so are we to do like-wise, in the same manner and Way, Preaching, Teaching and Healing! What are you or what is it that you are afraid of? If G-d Be For us, who can be against us? Perfect Love casts out All fear! Every tear you cry Unto Him, He Will Honor.
Every time you lift up His Holy Name (Which Is Above All others), He Will Bless your efforts and obedience. Open up! Let Him Come Into your heart, mind, soul, spirit and strength! Say, "Yes, Lord!" Do you want to hear His Voice?
Listen to the sound of silence. There is no need to strive or make your own Way, because Yeshua / Jesus Is The Way!
When He Is Your Good Shepherd, you shall not want and He Will Provide your Every need.
Sit down at The Feet of Him. He Alone Is Worthy of All Glory, Honor and Praise!
Allow The Holy Spirit to Minister To you, so that you can bring The Ministry of Meekness to All Nations and Peoples In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Prayer:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and Give to you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Tender And Loving Shepherd:
Isa. 40:11; Ps. 23:1; John 10: 11, 2-14
The Word:
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
- Isa. 40:11; Ps. 23:1
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
- John 10: 11; John 10: 2-14
Sheep
The conformity in society today is nothing new. Throughout history people of all races have earnestly desired to be led. In fact they have, at times, demanded it.
Ion the Old Testament {Judges ch 8} the Israelites were without a king, "everyone did that which was right!" As time passed the people began to insist upon having someone to rule over them, a king, A GOVERNMENT.
The Prophet Samuel warned the people that this was a mistake. His description of an almost cruel dictatorship did nothing to persuade them otherwise. Samuel confirmed Gods Word that the acceptance and submission to 'government' would cost them their freedom as well as their individuality. Sons will be forced to become soldiers; daughters will be forced into servitude. A man may loose his possessions, his land, and will most certainly pay taxes for this new, chosen privilege of being dominated.
"Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, "but we will have a king over us." Today in America this hunger to be led is as strong as it's ever been. Congress passes laws that slowly and relentlessly take away our rights one after another, and the masses shrug their shoulders and say, "oh well, what are ya gonna do?"
Our right to freedom of speech and assembly are closely watched to insure that those freedoms stay within the confines of our restrictions. The right to keep and bear arms is so tightly regulated and fought against that many people are denied that right unjustly. If the Founding Fathers had not taken up arms we would still be paying tribute to the Queen, and there would be no home of the once "free and brave." It is only the government that is Free and Brave. America is no longer governed "By the people, of the people, and for the people" but rather "by the government, of the government and for the government. It was the government who through military force murdered millions of Native Americans, to steal what they in fact had no right too. It was the same government who allowed the importation of thousands of Africans to be bought and sold into brutal slavery, not caring that so many were beaten, tortured, raped and murdered. And it is this same government who, if a group of people choose not to conform to their dictatorship will step pin and possibly open fire. Let me clarify this: There was once a group of people who exercised their right to bear arms, their right to freedom of religion, their right to assembly, and their right to educate their own children; so the FBI stepped in, heavily armed and prepared for war. I'm speaking of course, of David Koresh and the branch Davidians. I am in no way condoning the actions of Koresh and his followers, but at what point was a constitutional law broken? The people who resided there did so by choice and were free to leave whenever they chose to. Which brings me back to my original point. In the insatiable need to be led, these foolish people followed their leader, engulfed in flames, to they're death.
When the government imposes demands that are spiritually and morally wrong, what will the vast majority do? What they have always done – NOTHING!
Thee is coming a time when the government will force people to accept a new monetary standard. It seems harmless, it even makes sense. By doing away with cash altogether your employer could report all earnings directly to your bank i.e. direct deposit. You in turn will receive your own identification number. This would alleviate several inconveniences and even criminal activity. For instance; illegal drug trafficking would be virtually halted. The IRS would have it's dream come true, "No more tax evasion and possibly no more filing every year, it would all be tracked by the system. But is all this possible? YES! The Bible speaks of the Beast and the False Prophet. Rev 13. an international force and world dictatorship. The scripture goes on to say, "As many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or forehead, and that no man might buy or sell save he that hath the mark"…
Nonsense right?
Check the following links to see where this technology currently is.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15185
http://www.digitalangel.net
Digital Angel, a company already using devices that actually transmit a signal up to a satellite, thereby a persons whereabouts can be monitored at all times if need be. Currently the system is used in the event of a lost pet, medical needs, Equipment, or parolees. The Scripture goes on to say in Revelation Ch19. And the Beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he had deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that had worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Does all this sound too fantastic or far out? Perhaps, but consider this: nearly every prophesy in the Bible has come to pass. From the bondage of Israel to its freedom, of Christ's ministry, to Israel once again regaining it's homeland {this happened in 1948} right up to today with the extreme pollution and violence and the nuclear threat hanging over our heads.
Should we question authority? YES! Should we blindly do as we are told? NO!
It is human nature to want to be told what to do and in many cases this is all right. Have you noticed in the classroom as well as the workplace if the teacher is not a take-charge person, or if the boss isn't around, most will be lost, unproductive, out of control? My point is this; the scriptures say that we are as sheep having no shepherd. God would not have us conform to society's standards, if those standards are opposed to His call on our lives. We are all individuals but we tend to get caught up in the politics of everyday life. Be aware of who you are and who you are meant to be. Be an individual; take a stand against the political and spiritual decline in our society, in your society
Time may very well be running out. What will you do with the rest of yours? Jesus said, "I am the Good Shepherd. My sheep hear my voice and follow me."
God has entrusted the world to mankind and mankind has all but destroyed it. There is a price to pay for this arrogance. We will reap what we have sown. But it's not too late. Jesus has come to seek and to save that which was lost. He has not forgotten us, He has not forgotten you. If you ask Him sincerely what it is your life means to Him, He will show you.
The Spirit of God does not speak to our hearts through earthquakes or big, external signs, but by that still small voice we all have heard. He speaks to our hearts from the inside, but if we refuse to listen, it's not His fault.
If God is real, then His word is true and you will give an account of your life. Take a stand. Be aware of who you are and who you're meant to be. Ask God to prove Himself to you personally, and to create in you that person He is calling you to be. Faith is not a blind thing and God would have us follow Him and not know why. God is a God of unconditional love and all He's asking of you is to receive your sight, receive your life. God loves us so much that He sent His only son to be an example to us, and to die for our sins. Jesus is now resurrected and preparing to return to earth to establish His new kingdom, His new GOVERNMENT. You have a choice to make. Will you ask to be part of that new kingdom, or will you be cast out? Salt water and fresh water do not mix. Light and darkness do not mix and if you won't have anything to do with Jesus now, don't be surprised later when you find yourself left out.
Jesus loves you. He's done all He can. What will you do?
JWS
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Subject: Yeshua / Jesus Identified As The Lord: Isa. 41:4; Rev. 1:11, 17; 2:8
The Word:
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
- Isa. 41:4
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last. Rev. 1:11, 17; 2:8
When God Is For us, who can be against us? If you study human history or even look back over your own personal life (hind sight is 20 / 20 vision and without vision, G-d's People perish), you will notice that there were times when you passed safely and unhindered through circumstances and situations, even by a Way where your feet had not trod before, and swiftly as if your feet did not touch the ground, because G-d Was and Is AlWays there, watching over us, even when we did not acknowledge Him as Lord and Savior. There comes a time in Every One's Life when G-d beckons them, "Come Unto Me." He wishes that None would perish, but that All Would Come To Repentance (to turn and think differently). The Holy Spirit rouses us up, Calls us In Righteousness to His Service and Victory, meets us at Every Step We Take In Yeshua / Jesus! The Lord Is Willing to subdue Nations before us, He Makes us Rulers (we "are" More than Conquerors In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One), Kings and Priests!
LISTEN in silence before Him, let The People gather Together as One In Him and renew their strength! Mount up with wings as eagles and fly, soar to the highest of heights! Draw near to G-d and He Will Draw Near To you (He Is Closer to you than your next breath). Speak forth The Things Of G-d, for The Testimony of Yeshua / Jesus Is The Spirit Of Prophecy!
Do Not be ashamed of The Gospel, The Good News, for It is The Power Of G-d Unto Salvation To All who would Believe, have Faith In, Put their Trust In and Rely On Him.
Who has prepared and done this? Is It Marvelous in your eyes? In The Beginning, G-d Created The Heavens and The Earth and since that time, He has been Calling and Guiding the destinies of the generations of the Nations. He existed before history began (I, The Lord, The First) and He Is An Ever Present, Unchanging G-d (With the last, I Am He)!
I don't know about you, but this portion of Holy Scripture brings a whole new meaning to, "The First Shall Be Last and The Last Shall Be First!" In Yeshua / Jesus, we "are" One from beginning to end. As we Go to All Nations and Peoples, By Faith In His Holy and Precious Name (bringing The Love of G-d and The Good News of Yeshua / Jesus), the islands and coastlands Will see and fear, the ends of the Earth Will tremble, draw near and Come. To Each and Every Neighbor, we are to say, "Be of Good Courage!" We are told In G-d's Word, "Encourage One Another, while It Is Today!"
We "are" G-d's Servants, His Chosen People, The Offspring of Abraham (Our Father Of Faith) and His Friend. [James 2:23; Heb. 2:16.] In Him, there is NOTHING to fear, for He Is With us (In us) and He Is Our G-d! In Him, we Live and Move and Have Our Being! He says, "I Will Strengthen you, harden you to difficulties, Help you, Hold you up and Retain you with My Victorious Right Hand Of Righteousness And Justice."
[Acts. 18:10.] (Who Is Seated At The Right Hand Of G-d, Our Heavenly Father?) All who rage and are enflamed against us shall be put to shame and confounded. Those who strive, contend, war with us shall be as NOTHING, NOTHING at All and perish. Yeshua / Jesus Is Our Redeemer, The Holy One Of Israel and we should Rejoice, Glory In Him! All will come to see, know, consider and understand together, that The Lord Has Done This!
These Are The Words Of The First And The Last, Who Died And Came To Life Again; [Isa. 44:6.] G-d Knows your afflictions, distresses, pressing troubles and poverty, how you "are" abused, reviled and slandered (even by those who say, they "are" Believers), but In Yeshua / Jesus, We "Are" Rich! Fear NOTHING, do not dread! Even if you are tested, proved, critically appraised and afflicted, Be Loyally Faithful Unto The End and G-d Will "Give" you The Crown Of Life in Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and Grant, "Give' To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Complete Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light, Hope of The World And The Glory Of Israel. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: As A Light To The Gentiles: Isa. 49:6, 7; Luke 2:32
The Word:
I will also give thee as a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to servant of rulers. Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. -Isa 49:6, 7
A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
- Luke 2:32
G-d formed you and me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, and that Israel might be gathered to Him and not swept aWay, just as He did His One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus. We "are" Honorable, Right in the Eyes of the Lord, Our Recompense "is" with Him and Our G-d has become Our Strength! Although we strive with G-d and man, we prevail and according to His Holy and Precious Word, He Will Be Glorified In us. [Isa. 49:3; Gen. 32:28; Deut. 7:6; 26:18, 19; Eph. 1:4-6.] He has made our mouth like a sharp sword, Given us His Name, His Word (The Sword of The Spirit), we "are" hidden in the Shadow of His Wings and One In Yeshua / Jesus! From the body of our Mother He has named our name, the Lord has Called us from the womb to speak forth His Praises, so that the isles and coastlands and peoples from afar would Hear and Listen to Him.
Yeshua / Jesus came from Heaven to Earth to proclaim "The Acceptable Year of the Lord!" We "are" living in "favorable" times. Today "Is" The Day of Salvation! He has come to help us, preserve us, to raise us up, establish us, to apportion and cause us to inherit The Abundant Life which He died upon The Cross of Calvary for All of us to "have."
To those who are bound, He says, "Come forth!" ; to those in spiritual darkness, "Show yourselves - come into the light [of the Sun / Son of Righteousness]." Our pastures are not to be in the desert, but He wants to bring us to the grass covered hills and lead us beside the still waters, so that we will not hunger or thirst. The Lord "has" Comforted His People and Will have compassion upon His afflicted!
Surely, This "Is" Good News and All Nations should hear about It!
We have nothing to hide. You "are" The Light to the Nations, that His Salvation may be extended to the end of the Earth, so let your Light Shine! Arise! Prostrate your"self"! Humble your"self" In the Sight of the Lord and He Will Lift you Up, Higher and Higher, because the Lord, Who "Is" Faithful (G-d Is Faithful and Yeshua / Jesus Never Fails!), the Holy One of Israel has Chosen YOU!
Your job description "Is" to Be a Light for Revelation to the World - to disclose what was before unknown - and to bring G-d's Praise, Honor and Glory, His Goodness, Tender - Mercies, Loving - Kindness, Grace and Favor to His People Israel and to the Gentiles. [Isa. 42;6; 49:6.] You have been appointed and destined for the fall and rise of many. To some you will bring Light and Life, but to others death. By His Holy Spirit working In and Through our Life, the secret thoughts and purposes of many hearts may be brought out and disclosed. G-d has ordained you, created you In His Image for Good Works In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, which were prepared for you to do before the foundations of this Earth were laid, so Go and Be All that He has Called you to In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord, Bless, Keep, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto You, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and Give, Grant to you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: His Side Pierced Also: Zech. 12:10; John 19:34
The Word:
And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him.
- Zech. 12:10
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
- John 19:34
Zechariah Is The Old Covenant Book Of Revelation and the writers name (Notice: I didn't say, "The Authors Name") means:
G-d Remembers. G-d "So" Loved The World that He "Gave" His One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus to die on The Cross of Calvary in our stead. Could any one of you ever forget that? Like Moses lifted up the serpent on a poll in the desert, so that All who looked, gazed, fixed their eyes upon It with Intent would not perish, but find Life, so we, as we turn our eyes Upon Yeshua / Jesus and Look Full In His Wonderful Face (He Is Wonderful), the things of this Earth grow strangely dim in The Light of His Glory, His Goodness, His Mercy, His Grace or His Unmerited Favor. In That Day, Upon That Day, G-d destroyed All the powers and principalities that would come against His Nation Israel and His Chosen People! There Will Come A Day when The Nation of Israel and The World Will recognize as their once Crucified Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Him Who Has Come To Rule And Reign! [ 2 Chron. 35:22-25.] The land shall mourn, Every Family, Each with an overwhelming individual sorrow over having blindly rejected their unrecognized Messiah!
When Yeshua / Jesus stood before the crowd of people during The Passover Feast, Pilate exclaimed to them, "Behold! The Man!" Christ / Messiah Is Our Passover Lamb. John The Baptizer cried out to his disciples, "Behold! The Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of The World!" He Came to His Own, but they Knew Him Not! G-d Came to Earth In Human Flesh to Redeem The Lost World back into a right relationship with Him, but they refused His Sacrifice. He wanted to pour out upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and The House of David The Spirit (His Holy Spirit) Of Grace or Unmerited Favor, and Supplication, but they would have no part of Him!
Open your Spiritual ears to Hear and eyes to See! What Is The Holy Spirit saying and revealing to The Congregation of G-d Today?
And they shall look [earnestly] upon Me Whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him as one who is in bitterness for his first-born. [John 19:34; Rev. 1:7.]
Before the Jewish Family would kill the Passover Lamb, It was brought In the home to live as a pet, so that when it died they would feel the bitterness and sorrow of It's Sacrificial death. Mary's Little Lamb died for Every One under the roof.
Just imagine eating one of your favorite animals for dinner? Yeshua / Jesus Came to Earth to Dwell / Tabernacle Among us, With us and He died on The Cross in our stead to Save us from sin and death. What Is G-d saying to us In His Holy and Precious Word Today? We Shall Look Upon Him (G-d) Whom we have pierced!
We Shall Mourn for Him (Yeshua / Jesus) as One Mourns for His Only Begotten Son! This Is Truly a bitter-sweet portion of Holy Scripture that unveils The Tri-Unity of G-d, Our Heavenly Father sending His Son, Yeshua / Jesus to Deliver us from evil and His Holy Spirit revealing to our hearts and minds The Good News (The Gospel).
THE burden or oracle - the thing to be lifted up - of the word of the Lord has been "given" to us and G-d wants us to take His Message to All Nations and Peoples! Not a Bone of His was broken (according to G-d's Holy Word). John The Beloved saw the Roman Soldier pierce Yeshua's / Jesus' side with his spear, and immediately blood and water came (flowed) out. Life, Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life Is In The Blood Of The Lamb. Streams of Living Waters came, flowed out upon the face of the whole Earth and G-d's Holy Spirit has been poured out upon All flesh to Anoint, Empower and Enable us to go, do and "Be" All that He Calls us to. He has "given" us the evidence, His Testimony Is Faithful and True, so that we may Believe and tell others to Look Upon Him Whom they have pierced In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Subject: His Intercession For Sinners:
Isaiah 53:12; Luke 23:34
Worship:
KINDNESS
VERSE 1
Open up the skies of mercy
And rain down the cleansing flood
Healing waters rise around us
And hear our cries, Lord, let'em rise
(REPEAT VERSE 1)
CHORUS
And it's Your kindness, Lord
That leads us to repentance
Your favor, Lord
Is our desire
And it's Your beauty, Lord
That makes us stand in silence
And Your love, Your love is better than life
VERSE 2
We can feel Your mercy falling
You are turning our hearts back again
Hear our praises rise to heaven
And draw us near, Lord, meet us here
The Word:
And He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Isa. 53:12
Then said Yeshua / Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
- Luke 23:34
Messiah said, Many, many would come to Him (On That Day), saying, Lord, Lord, but He would answer them, Depart from Me, I never knew you! The Word Of G-d says, Cursed is any One Who hangs on a tree and Yeshua / Jesus died for the sins of the World on The Cross of Calvary, in our stead, bore the sins of "many," so that we could be forgiven and have Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Holy and Precious Name. Unlike a recent President of the United States of America who exclaimed to the people, "I feel your pain!" G-d came to earth in human flesh, took on the penalty for our sin, paid the price of redemption for our souls, made intercession and continues to this very day to make intercession for us before G-d's Throne of Grace and Mercy. All have sinned, fallen short of His Glory and transgressed against G-d and our fellow man. No One is Good, innocent, guiltless, blameless or holy apart from the Body and Blood of Messiah. He not only has compassion, sympathizes with us, because He took on human form, but He empathizes with us, completely and totally relates to our thoughts, actions and deeds (or lack of them). The Spirit Is Willing, our flesh is weak, but in our weakness, He shows His Strength! Apart from Him, we can do nothing!
Our Heavenly Father forgives us of All wrongdoing, because of what Yeshua / Jesus asked of Him upon The Cross. We "are" forgiven, cleansed by The Blood of The Lamb, because of G-d's Love for us we "are" pure, holy and blameless In His Sight. Until The Truth of G-d's Holy Word was revealed to us by The Holy Spirit and our eyes were opened to His Love, we did not and could not know the vileness of the state we were in or receive forgiveness. For those of us, as Believers who sin or do wrong willingly, when we are convicted and our conscience is made aware of our transgressions, we must repent, turn and think differently of our thoughts, words or actions to be cleansed, healed and restored to a right relationship with Our Father Who Art In Heaven. Obedience to Messiah, following His Word, Will and Way, brings His Blessings.
There Is One Mediator between G-d and man, The Man Messiah Yeshua / Jesus!
As He poured out His Life for many, took aWay their sin and makes intercession for the rebellious [Luke 22:37.], we must pour out our Life as a Living Sacrifice before Him and our fellow man, tell All Nations and Peoples that there Is Forgiveness, Mercy and G-d's Loving-Kindness available to Every One who will receive It In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name and we should be on our knees daily, interceding for the lost, sick and dying in this present World. We shall see the fruit of our travail and our souls shall be satisfied! The ability to possess and impart to others His Righteousness Is ours. He bore our guilt, so that we could be guiltless [without the consequences of our sins, says The Lord]. As in the prayer of Jabez, The Word of G-d exhorts us to SING, break forth, cry aloud, enlarge the place of our tent, let the curtains of our habitations be stretched out; spare not, lengthen our cords and strengthen our stakes, for we shall spread The Love of G-d and The Good News of Yeshua / Jesus abroad!
Yeshua / Jesus prayed, so shouldn't we pray more-so and He was counted with the transgressors [along with the criminals]. He let us in this World, but He did not leave us comfortless. His Holy Spirit was giving to us to "Go" and "Do" Like-Wise. We "are" in the World, not to be of it, but to "Be" Overcomers In His Name. Some will ridicule, make sport of, scoff, sneer, even turn up their noses at us when we share His Word, but the working of His Spirit, In and Through our Life In Him Will Save (bring Salvation), rescue from death those who choose to Believe He Is The Christ, The Messiah of G-d, His Chosen One, King of Kings In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Subject: Brought As A Lamb: Isa. 53:7; John 1:29
GREETING:
Shalom! Peace!
Worship:
LOVE SONG
VERSE 1
I've heard it said that a man would climb a mountain just to be with the one he loves
How many times has he broken that promise it has never been done?
I've never climbed the highest mountain, but I walked the hill of Calvary
CHORUS 1 & 2
Just to be with you, I'd do anything, there's no price I would pay Just to be with you, I'd give anything, I would give My life away
VERSE 2
I've heard it said that a man would swim the ocean just to be with the one he loves
But all those dreams are an empty emotion, it can never be done
I've never swam the deepest ocean, but I walked upon the raging sea (CHORUS)
BRIDGE
I know, that you don't understand the fullness of My love How I died upon the cross for your sins
And I know that you don't realize how much that I give you But I promise, I would do it all again
CHORUS 3
Just to be with you, I've done everything, there's no price I did not pay
Just to be with you, I gave everything, yes, I gave My life away (repeat chorus - personal)
END
Just to be with me,
Oh just to be with me (repeat line 4 times)
The Word:
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
- Isa. 53:7
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of G-d, which taketh away the sin of the world.
- John 1:29
There Is A Way which seems Right to a man and appears Straight before him, but at the end of it are the ways of death.
- Proverbs 14:12
Yeshua / Jesus was oppressed, stricken, smitten, afflicted and slaughtered upon The Cross Of Calvary; not for His Own Guilt and Iniquity, but He became sin for us, was wounded, bruised for our transgressions; the chastisement needful to obtain Peace / Shalom (The Peace Of G-d that Rules and Reigns in our heart and mind In Messiah which passes All human understanding) and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes that wounded Him we "are" healed and made whole. He "has" borne our griefs - sickness, weakness and distress - and carried our sorrows and pain [of punishment]. He was despised, rejected, forsaken by men and we did not appreciate His Worth or have any esteem for Him.
All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own Way; and The Lord has made to light on Him the guilt and iniquity of us All. [1 Pet. 2:24, 25.]
- Isaiah 53:6
Cut off out of the land of the living, Yeshua / Jesus took the judgement for our sin aWay and died in our stead, so that we could "have" Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Holy and Precious Name! It was The Will Of G-d to bruise Him, offer up His One and Only Begotten Son as a sacrifice for the sins of the World, Raise Him Up From the dead, Prosper us In His Hand and grant Yeshua / Jesus the Pleasure of Seeing His Offspring Believe and Receive The Abundant Life! We "are" The Fruit of the travail of His Soul and He Is Satisfied by our Knowledge of Him [which He Imparts To us].
His Life was poured out unto death, Yeshua / Jesus let Him"self" be regarded as a criminal, numbered with the transgressors, bore [took aWay] the sin of many and He continues to make intercession for the rebellious. [Luke 22:37.] When we die to our"self" and accept Him as Lord and Savior of our Life, we see Yeshua / Jesus as The Lamb Of G-d, Who takes aWay the sin of the World [Exod. 12:3; Isa. 53:7.] and like John The Baptizer, we can make Straight The Way Of The Lord. "Be" The Voice Of One Who Cries Out In The Wilderness!
Shine The Light Of Life To All Nations and Peoples, so that they can Know Him, Recognize Him, See Him and G-d Will Manifest, Reveal Him"self" to Israel, In and Through His Holy Spirit In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face To Shine Upon you, "Be" Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and "Give," Grant To you His Shalom, His Peace, His Fullness and His Wholeness In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Railing And Taunting: Ps. 22:7, 8; Matt.27:43
Worship:
ROCK OF AGES
There is no rock, there is no god like our G-d; No other name, worthy of all our praise.
The Rock of Salvation that cannot be moved, He's proven Himself to be faithful and true; There is no rock, there is no god like ours.
Rock of Ages, Yeshua / Jesus is the Rock; Rock of Ages, Yeshua / Jesus is the Rock.
Rock of Ages, Yeshua / Jesus is the Rock; There is no rock, there is no god like ours.
(END)
Repeat & fade to end...
Rock of A - ges.
The Word:
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
- Ps. 22:7, 8
He trusted in G-d; let him deliver him now, if he will save him: for he said, I am the Son of G-d.
- Matt. 27:43
Have you ever been treated like a worm (less than human) and despised by people? [Matt. 27:39-44.] You can cry Unto The Lord for deliverance; trust - lean on, confidently rely on, roll yourself On The Lord, but sometimes, even when you delight yourself In Him, others will crucify you! [Mark 15:29, 30; Luke 23:35.]
Many [foes like] bulls may surround you; strong bulls of Bashan may hedge in against you, open their mouths wide, like ravening and roaring lions, but The Lion Of The Tribe Of Judah Is your Defense.
[Ezek. 39:18.] He Called us from the womb; made us Hope, Trust In Him as our G-d, He Is With us AlWays (even to the end of the ages) and our Help in times of trouble. He Will never leave or forsake us. [Matt. 27:46.] In Him Alone do we find our Rest.
Yeshua / Jesus poured out His Life on The Cross Of Calvary, suffered anguish, thirsted and was brought into the dust of death for our sins. He was pierced, paid the price, the penalty, so that we could "have" Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Name. [John 19:28, 37; Isa. 53:7.] Not only did Yeshua / Jesus rescue others from death while He was Alive on Earth, but even through His death, He Saves All who come to Believe, acknowledge and cleave to Him as Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One.
Sometimes, even your best and closest friends or family members abuse, reproach, make sport of and turn on you. Unfortunately, we All have our Judas' and All too often, we're our own worst enemy, but you've "got" A Friend In Yeshua / Jesus. He sticks closer to you than a brother or sister (as a matter of fact: The Holy Spirit Lives in you , Moves through and "has" His Being In you). G-d Is Faithful and Yeshua / Jesus Never, Ever Fails! You "can" Trust Him with your All, because He "gave" His All, His Life for you. Take Him at His Word, He Is The Son Of G-d and no matter what others say and do, He Loves you!
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Date: Fri, Jan 24, 2003,
Subject: LISTENING TO G-D
WORSHIP:
SHALOM CHAVERIM
Shalom chaverim, shalom chaverim
Shalom, shalom, L'hee traot
L'hee traot, shalom, shalom
SHALOM MY FRIENDS, SHALOM MY FRIENDS
SHALOM SHALOM, UNTIL THEN UNTIL THEN
SHALOM SHALOM
THE WORD:
And the Father Who sent Me has Himself testified concerning Me. Not one of you has ever given ears to His voice, or seen His form (His face, what He is like). - You have always been deaf to His voice and blind to the vision of Him.
- John 5:37
[Rather, I will say,] Father, glorify - honor and extol - Your own name! Then there came a voice out of heaven saying, I have already glorified it, and I will glorify it again.
The crowd of bystanders heard the sound and said that it had thundered. Others said, An angel has spoken to Him!
Yeshua / Jesus answered, This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sake.
- John 12:28-30
G-d forbid that any one of us should not heed the Word of G-d or close our eyes to the vision He has placed before us! From Genesis to Revelation G-d speaks to the hearts, minds and souls of all mankind and He is speaking to each and every one of us here Today! In the Beginning G-d created the heavens and the Earth. How?
He spoke forth the Word of G-d and things came into being. And G-d said! I believe in the Big Bang Theory as Gospel Truth, because when G-d spoke, every proton, neutron and electron came together In Messiah, Christ Yeshua / Jesus Who holds All things together according to Colossians. The Heavens "Declare" the Glory of G-d, they proclaim and shout out His Praises! Look at what the Lord has done and it is marvelous in our eyes. His voice thunders from the mountain top amidst lightning flashes, He speaks in the deepest darkness of night with a Light beyond Light that chases aWay All darkness. Be still my dear Brothers and Sisters In the Lord Yeshua / Jesus and listen for His Still Small Voice speaking to the very heart and soul of your innermost being. All the running around the World and fancy dancing to please others is counter productive and fruitless. We must sit at the feet of Yeshua / Jesus, absorb His Light, His Love, His Grace, His Mercy, His Peace, His Forgiveness and His Compassion. Come buy, eat and drink of the Living Waters that will refresh you and invigorate you to go on in Him!
Listen to the very rocks as they cry out!
Out of the mouth of babes and children come His Praises! Hear what the Spirit is saying to you, the Church, the Body of Christ, Messiah Yeshua / Jesus, the Congregation, the Building and Temple of the Living G-d! Dear G-d! Open our hearts to receive Your Love, our minds to Your Understanding, Wisdom, Knowledge, our souls to the complete and total reality of Salvation In Yeshua's /Jesus' Holy and Precious Name above All Names by which we All MUST be saved! Unite our Spirits as ONE In You, Through You and To You with every breath we take, every thought we think, every step we make by Faith In All You Call Us To.
Precious Savior, Allow us to wait upon You, to renew our strength, to mount up with wings as eagles and fly to the highest of heights. Have you heard the sound of His mighty Voice? Like the raging waters rushing over the waters of the deep. He calls to you, to me, to us, to be "One" In Spirit, "One" In His Heart and Mind. Have you been listening to what He's had to say? Have you been locked up for a while? Yeshua / Jesus died for you and is showing you the Way.
What are we going to do? Listen! What do you hear? The Book of Hebrews tells us that in the past G-d spoke to us through Moses, the prophets, men and angels, but Today which is The Day of Salvation He has spoke to us In His One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus!
Obedience brings blessings. To obey is better than sacrifice. Come! Let us follow the Son together. Lay down whatever it is that might hinder our journey along the Way. Look unto the Good Shepherd, watch His rod and staff, walk with Him as He guides us into greener pastures, beside the still water where we will find our rest In HIm. Yeshua / Jesus says, "My Sheep hear My Voice!" Do you hear what I hear?
May the Lord bless you, keep you, cause His Face to Shine upon you, be Gracious Unto You, lift up the Light of His Countenance Upon You and Give You His Peace, Sholom, Fulness and Blessings In All Things Through Messiah, Christ Yeshua / Jesus the Light of the World.
Amen.
God bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother In Him, Mark
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Subject: FRIDAY SERVICE: DYING TO "SELF" SERIES, KILLING LAUGHTER
GREETING:
Shalom Family! Let us Light the Sabbath Lights and Worship The One True G-d!
WORSHIP:
AMAZING GRACE
Amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now I am found, was blind but now I see.
Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved How precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed.
Thro' many dangers, toils, and snares I have already come 'tis grace hath bro't me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.
When we've been there ten thousand years bright shining as the sun We've no less days to sing God's praise, than when we first begun.
PRAYER:
Lord G-d, Show us Your Will In Your Word, Teach us to Love and offer our "self" up to You as a Living Sacrifice. In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus Messiah we pray. Amen.
THE WORD:
[G-d] said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I will tell you.
- Genesis 22:2
From Genesis to Revelation "The Word Of G-d" clearly reveals G-d's Unfolding Drama Of Redemption! Abraham, our "Father Of Faith" was tested and proved by G-d (maybe some of you [if not All of you] are being tested of G-d Today).
Notice how the Scripture says, "your only son?" Ishmael, was already born to Hagar, Sarah's bondwoman and was probably 39 years old at this time, because he was 14 when Isaac was born and according to Josephus, Isaac was 25 and shared his father's confidence In G-d.
After All, wasn't his very existence the result of G-d keeping His Word? (Gen. 17:15-17.) I say this to remind you All that G-d had a son named Adam and countless numbers of children by this time in human history, but Yeshua / Jesus Is The Only-Begotten Son Of The Father! Although The Word Says, "whom you love" it is clear that Abraham loved his first born child Ishmael and G-d also promised to bless him and make him a nation. Commanded to offer up his son, Abraham rose early in the morning and began the trip to the place of which G-d had told him in complete and total obedience To His Creator. This tells me that Our Heavenly Father Who Is No Respecter Of Persons Is Wanting To Tell Each And Every One Of Us His Will And Way.
All we need do is listen to His Word, be ready, willing and able to obey (even unto the point of death if need be, but ultimately G-d wants us to LIVE for Him!).
Let's face it, nobody likes being in the pit, but understand that it is in this "mountain top experience" that G-d requires Abraham to offer up his son as a burnt offering.
We are His Workmanship Created For Good Works In Christ / Messiah / The Anointed One!
He Calls Us To Offer Up Ourselves A Living Sacrifice! What G-d says, we should listen to and obey. Take now?
Then get to it now!
Whatever He asks of us we should do.
Jesus / Yeshua commands us to GO, but His Children refuse to obey. When we give or do anything it should be "Unto The Lord!" The Word Of G-d tells us that He Makes His Servants Messengers (Angels) Of Fire! We are to be consumed (the Zeal of the Lord Consumes Me) by Him (Our G-d Is A Consuming Fire), filled with HIm (be ye being filled with the Holy Ghost) and anointed with the Holy Spirit (He has poured out His Spirit upon All flesh). G-d will reveal to us His Glory on the mountain and the Holy Spirit will whisper in your ear to turn to the right or the left. By Faith Abraham and Isaac went up the mountain and told the servants they would return.
Abraham said, My son, G-d will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So the two went together.
- Genesis 22:8
This is one of the most profound prophetic utterances referring to The Lamb Of G-d Who Takes AWay The Sins Of The World! G-d In the form of man (Behold The Man Christ / Messiah / The Anointed One Jesus / Yeshua) came to Earth and provided Himself, Who when the fullness of time had come HE (G-d's Only Son) offered Himself as a sin offering (He Who knew no sin became sin for us and died in our stead), a peace offering (My Peace I Give To YOU), was resurrected from the grave as the offering of First Fruits Unto The Father and is now seated at the Right hand Of G-d The Father In Heaven!
Abraham was a Prophet Of G-d (Gen.20:7) and longed to see Messiah's / The Christ's Day!
Jesus / Yeshua said, Abraham hoped for "My day [My incarnation]; and he did see it, and was glad" (John 8:56). When?
How?
Then Abraham looked up and glanced around, and lo, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering and an ascending sacrifice instead of his son!
- Genesis 22:13
G-d Is Our Provider! He gave Abraham his son, Isaac back (as if from the dead) and In Jesus we have "Resurrection Life, Eternal Life" (here and now) In His Name, because He offered Himself up as the sacrifice for our sin! In Isaac (who is the most expressive "type of Christ / Messiah), Abraham and Sarah had "laughter" (Isaac means "Laughter"), but In Jesus, we have Joy Unspeakable Forever More!
Brothers and Sisters, Whatever G-d is asking you (commanding you) to offer up or lay down is for your overall good and He Will Completely and Totally Bless YOU, multiply you and your Seed (Heir) shall possess the gate of His enemies.
And In your Seed [Christ / Messiah] shall All the Nations of the earth be blessed and [by Him] bless themselves, because you have heard and obeyed My Voice.
[Acts 3:25, 26; Gal. 3:16.]
- Genesis 22: 18
May the Lord bless you, keep you, cause His face to Shine upon you, be gracious unto you, lift up the Light of His Countenance upon you and give you His Peace, Shalom, Fulness In the Name Of Jesus / Yeshua, The Light Of The World!
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: Messianic Message: To Sit At The Right Hand Of The Father
Worship:
Psalm 134
Come bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord Who stand by night in the house of the Lord Lift up your hands to the holy place
And bless the Lord
May the Lord bless you from Zion
He who made heaven and earth.
The Word:
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
- Ps. 110:1
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of G-d.
- Mark 16:19 Rev. 3:21
In Psalm 110, a Psalm of David, G-d says to the Messiah / The Christ / The Anointed One, "Sit You at My right hand, until I make Your adversaries Your footstool. [Matt. 26:64; Acts 2:34; 1 Cor. 15:25; Col. 3:1; Heb. 12:2.] Jesus stands at the right hand of the poor and needy, to save them from those who condemn their life and the Lord has sent forth from Zion the scepter of His strength to rule in the midst of His foes. [Rom. 11:26, 27.]
Do you offer yourself willingly, in the beauty of holiness and in holy array to G-d every morning? The Word of God is clear in telling us the We Are Seated In Heavenly Places Along With Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus! Brothers and Sisters, how can this be? He Is The Head and we are the body!
We are "One" With Him and In Him! Our adversaries are at our footstool In Messiah / Christ. We rule and reign with Him! We are kings and priests! The Joy of the Lord Is Our Strength and we have the Victory over our foes In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! We overcome the World, because He has overcome the World!
He has "made"us beautiful, holy In His Sight, clothed us In His Righteousness and as we put on the Lord Yeshua / Jesus the Messiah / the Christ our Light will shine ever brighter until the full Light of Day!
We are able to trample the enemy under our feet, lay hands on the sick and they will get well, called to preach everywhere and when we are obedient to His Word, Will and Way the Lord will work with us, In us, confirm our message by signs and miracles that will clearly accompany us.
Why? Because G-d has poured out his Holy Spirit upon all flesh, so that the World will know that as He Is On This Earth, so are we!
We who overcome (are victorious) will be granted to sit beside Yeshua / Jesus on His throne, as He Himself overcame (was victorious) and sat down beside Our Heavenly Father on His throne. He is forever standing at the door and knocking; wanting us to hear, listen, heed His Voice and open the door, He will come in to eat with us and we with Him.
We are able to hear, because He has made us able, so let each and every one of us listen to and heed what the Holy Spirit is saying to us as the Church / The Congregation of G-d / His Chosen People / His Bride! Let us take our place In Him, In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Friday: The Ascension
Greeting:
Shalom! G-d's Peace, Wholeness and Fullness to All In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name! Let's Worship the Lord for He Is Worthy!
Worship:
Psalm 138:5
Yes we shall sing in the ways of the Lord For great is the glory of the Lord.
Yes we shall sing in the ways of the Lord.
Great is the glory of the Lord
Great is the glory of the Lord
Yes we shall sing in the ways of the Lord For great is the glory of the Lord.
The Word:
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord G-d might dwell among them.
- Ps. 68:18
And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
- Luke 24:51 Luke 24:50
David sang of the ark of the covenant, which after a great victory was transferred or brought back to Zion. In this fact he sees the principle of the history of the kingdom of G-d, appearing in ever widening circles and nobler manner. The fact is to him a type of the method and course of the Messiah's / Christ's kingdom. So the Apostle Paul (in Eph. 4:8) is perfectly justified in finding the psalmist's eye directed toward Messiah / Christ, and so interpreting it.
The "on high" in the Psalm is first of all Mount Zion, but this is a type of Heaven, as Paul makes clear. (Lange's Commentary.)
G-d's Grace was "given" to each of us individually - not indiscriminately, but in different Ways - in proportion to the measure of Messiah's / Christ's [rich and bounteous] gift when He ascended on high, He led a train of vanquished foes and bestowed gifts on men, but He ascended? He Who ascended had previously descended from the height of heaven into [the depth], of earth and He Who descended is the [very] same as He Who also has ascended high above all the heavens, that He [His presence] might fill all things - the whole universe, from the lowest to the highest.
He came from Heaven to Earth to show the Way. From the Earth to the Cross our debt to pay. From the Cross to the grave.
From the grave to the sky. Lord we lift Your Name On High!
Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day, even the G-d Who is our salvation! Selah [pause and calmly think of that]!
- Psalm 68:19
Thank G-d, Our Heavenly Father for sending us the Greatest Gift of All, Yeshua / Jesus His Son, Who came to earth to dwell among us, died on the Cross to nail our sins to the Tree, rose from the grave to conquer sin and death (vanquishing our foes), was carried up to Heaven, is seated at the right hand of G-d, has poured out His Holy Spirit upon All flesh, bestowed His Gifts upon All of mankind who choose to receive and allow His Spirit to dwell in these vessels of clay not made by human hands, but from the dust of Earth. The Son has come to dwell in our hearts, so that we can now set the captives free, defeat the enemy In His Name, bear one another's burdens, carry one another daily in prayer and bring Salvation to All Nations and Peoples!
Every Believer is commanded of G-d to put on the Lord Yeshua / Jesus Messiah / Christ, to be clothed In His Righteousness, with His Power from on high. Do you pray for the Peace of Jerusalem to rule and reign in your heart, mind, soul, spirit and strength? Yeshua / Jesus Is Our Peace, Our Shalom, The Peace Of G-d, which far surpasses all human understanding and intellect. As Born-Again Christians or Messianic Jews we are endued with Power From On High, Born From Above (and borne from above, carried day by day), Born of His Spirit, Children of the Most High G-d, His Sons and Daughters!
Yeshua / Jesus Is The Promise of G-d, of His Grace, His Mercy, His Love and as we remain In Him, dwell In Him, abide In Him, we will bear much fruit, lasting fruit for His Kingdom and All the written and spoken promises of G-d In His Holy Word are YES! and AMEN! In Him for us to receive by Faith In His Precious Name!
G-d has called us, His Chosen People out of the World, out of darkness and into the Light, has lifted up His hands, He invoked a blessing upon us, keeps us, causes His Face to Shine upon us, is Gracious unto us, lifts up the Light of His Countenance upon us and grants, "gives" us His Peace, His Shalom, His Fullness, His Wholeness, His Blessings In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Just because Yeshua / Jesus parted from the Disciples and was taken up into heaven doesn't mean He deserted them and left them to finish the Works He Called them to on their own.
G-d forbid! No! He sent us the Comforter, the Counselor, His Holy Spirit to lead and guide us into All Truth and Understanding. He has "given" us Everything we need to live our Spiritual Life unto Him In His Word, revealed to us His Will and has shown us His Way! We have the Name above All names, Yeshua / Jesus! Let us Worship Him In Spirit and Truth with Great Joy, gladness of heart and continue Celebrating with Praises, Blessing and Extolling G-d for He has Ascended On High In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen. - So be it.
Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Lift Up the Light of His Countenance upon you, Be Gracious Unto you and Grant, "Give" you His Peace, Shalom In Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World! Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Friday! The Resurrection: Ps. 16:10; Acts 2:24
Welcome:
Shalom! May G-d's Peace, Fullness, Completeness and Wholeness Be yours In Messiah as we come together to Worship Him In Spirit and Truth!
Worship:
Psalm 30:11, 12
Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing for me, Thou hast put off my sackcloth,
Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing for me And girded me with gladness,
To the end my glory may song praise unto thee and not be silent O Lord my G-d, I will give thanks unto thee forever.
The Word:
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Ps. 16:10
Whom G-d hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
- Acts 2:24
Messiah exclaimed, "I Am The Resurrection, The Truth And The Life! No man can come to The Father, but By Me!"
What He had to go through to obtain this "right of passage" for us was suffering and death on our behalf. He Who knew no sin, became sin for us when crucified on that Cross at Calvary. Suffering, even in the Life of A True Believer brings on perseverance and even though Yeshua / Jesus suffered unto death, His Body Never saw corruption in the grave! G-d, His Heavenly Father Never abandoned Him to Sheol [the place of the dead], but raised Him up on the third day, showed Him the Path of Life; brought him Into His Presence with Fullness of Joy and He Is Seated at the Right hand of The Father where there are pleasures for evermore!
[Acts 13:35; 2:25-28, 31.] Therefore our hearts should be glad, and our glory [our inner self] should rejoice; for our bodies too shall rest and confidently dwell in safety. It is our Faith In Messiah and All that He has done for us that allows us to enter into His Rest. He Is Our Savior, The Savior of The World and we are His Body, The Body of Messiah!
Just as G-d liberated Yeshua / Jesus from the pangs of death, seeing that it was not possible for Him to continue to be controlled or retained by it, so has He brought Liberty and Justice for All who would put their Trust In Him! King David said, "I saw the Lord constantly before me, for He is at my right hand that I may not be shaken, overthrown or cast down [from my secure and happy state]." How are things in your state? Your state of mind, body, soul, spirit and strength?
Feeling secure? As a Believer you should have perfect Peace In your Salvation, "Knowing" that you "have" Eternal Life In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name! Are you happy? The Joy of the Lord is your Strength! G-d has promised to go before you in All things, never to leave or forsake you and that His Goodness and Mercy would follow you All the days of your Life In Him! He Is Our Defense and we shall not be moved, shaken, overthrown or cast down. We shall overcome!
Listen to what I have to say: Yeshua / Jesus of Nazareth, a Man accredited, pointed out, shown forth, commended and attested to you by G-d, by the mighty works and [the power of performing] wonders and signs which G-d worked through Him [right] in your midst (in the very heart and soul of you personally [if in fact you are a Child of G-d by Faith In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name]) wants you to go into All the World with the Love of G-d and the Good News of Yeshua / Jesus, so that every living creature on the planet will know of G-d's definite, fixed purpose, settled plan and foreknowledge in regards to their Salvation In Him!
Our Heavenly Father wishes that none would perish, go to hell, suffer or ever have to see corruption, but that All would come to repentance, turn around and think differently, so as to obtain Eternal Life In Yeshua / Jesus.
G-d wants to raise us far up above this present World system, to be overcomers, deliver us from evil, loose, liberate, set us free from the pain of sin and death, cause with G-d, by the workings of His Holy Spirit In and Through our Life In Him, All Things Are Possible In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen.
Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, cause His Face to Shine upon you, be Gracious unto you, lift up the Light of His Countenance upon you and "give" you Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World! Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Message! The Sun Going Down At Noon: Matt. 27:45; Amos 8:9
Worship:
Cause Me To Come
Cause me to come to thy river, O Lord.
Cause me to drink of thy river, O Lord.
Cause me to live by thy river, O Lord.
Cause me to come, cause me to drink, cause me to live.
The Word:
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the land unto the ninth hour.
- Matt. 27:45
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord G-d, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
- Amos 8:9
The Word of G-d never, ever ceases to amaze me! I have certainly read it through at least once every year for the past 21 of my Christian walk and relationship with Him, but He is constantly bringing a new and fresh Revelation Of Messiah, A Vision of His Glory to my soul. I want you all to read and re-read the above Scriptures, meditate on them, allow G-d's Holy Spirit to minister to you regarding them and how they apply to your Life In Him Today.
Yeshua / Jesus died on the Cross at Calvary, crucified between two robbers (it was the vilest of criminals that was alWays placed in the middle). The Word of G-d tells us that anyone who is hung on a tree is cursed of G-d and Messiah became sin for us, so that we could become the Righteousness of G-d for and In Him! From noon (12 O'Clock, High Noon) until three o'clock there was darkness over all the land, a darkness that you could feel, like when G-d brought darkness over the whole land of Egypt around the time of the Passover (Messiah Is Our Passover Lamb, the Lamb of G-d that takes aWay the sins of the World). If you are in darkness now, know that Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World has come to set you free and Shine His Light of Life into your heart, mind and soul Today! G-d abandoned, left Him helpless, forsook and failed Him in His time of need upon the Cross, because G-d could not look upon Him "being" sin for us, but accepted His sacrifice on our behalf, in our stead, so that we could be brought back into a right relationship with Our Heavenly Father!
As the Lord swore by Himself, the land trembled and everyone mourned. He made that a day of mourning as for an only son (G-d's One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus), and the end of it as a bitter day. The sun set, but The Son of G-d Rose Again From The Grave On The Third Day. He turned our mourning into feasting and our lamentations into songs of Joy! Joy to the World! The Lord Is Come! Let Earth Receive Her King! Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room! Let Heaven and Nature Sing! Let Heaven and Nature Sing! Let Heaven, Let Heaven and Nature Sing!
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and Grant, "Give" To you His Shalom, His Peace, Wholeness and Fullness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World.
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Message! The Place Of Burial: Isa. 53:9; Matt. 27:57-60
Worship:
Luke 6:38
Pressed down shaken together
Running out all over
Stomp on the grapes, tread out the new wine Give thanks to the Lord forever
If you will bless Him, He will bless you And fill you up with the wine that's new
Stomp on the grapes, tread out the new wine Give thanks to the Lord forever
The Word:
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
- Isa. 53:9
When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimethaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Yeshua's / Jesus' disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Yeshua / Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock.
- Matt. 27:57-60
By oppression and judgement Yeshua / Jesus was taken aWay, cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of Isaiah's people, to whom the stroke was due - stricken to His death. It was The Will Of The Lord to bruise Him, to put Messiah to grief and make The Lord sick.
When You and He make Him an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His spiritual offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
- Isaiah 53:10b
WHO Believes, Trusts In, Relies Upon and Clings To our Message which was Revealed to us by G-d's Holy Spirit? The Arm Of The Lord [the Servant of G-d] has been disclosed to the World! The Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One came into the World to save sinners, died on the Cross at Calvary in our stead, hung on that tree, broken and bleeding before All and For All! This is the Will, the task, the assignment of the Father for Him.
Yeshua / Jesus was numbered with the transgressors (for All transgressors and transgressions committed against our Heavenly Father) and assigned a grave with the wicked and with a rich man in His death. Make no mistake about it, Yeshua / Jesus died and His Body was buried. Joseph of Arimathaea begged The Body, Pilate commanded The Body to be delivered, Joseph had taken The Body, wrapped It and laid It in the tomb.
Yeshua / Jesus was born of a virgin when He came into the World, lived a pure, Holy, blameless Life and was buried, laid in a fresh [undefiled] tomb before leaving this World. At birth He was wrapped in swaddling clothes and at death He was rolled up in clean linen cloth used for swathing dead bodies. Messiah Is The Rock Who came forth from The Father's Heart, hewn not by human hands, but in His death He was placed in a fresh tomb, which Joseph had hewn in the rock. A big boulder was rolled over the door of the tomb, but on the third day it was rolled aWay by The Door To Heaven, Yeshua / Jesus!
Only G-d could have known and seen into the future. The prophecies of Isaiah and All the Prophets were fulfilled by Yeshua / Jesus in Every Way! He Is The Living Word Of G-d! As Disciples of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One (like Joseph of Arimethaea), we are All Called to go, make disciples of all nations, baptize them into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; teaching them to observe Everything that Yeshua / Jesus commanded us and He Is With us all the days - perpetually, uniformly and on every occasion - to the [very] close and consumation of the age. Amen - so be it.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up the Light of His Countenance Upon you and Grant, Give you Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fullness In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name, The Light of the World. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions! Jew And Gentile Rage: Ps. 2:1-3; Acts 4:25-27
Worship:
Adoration Hymn
Leader:
Let us adore
The everliving G-d
And render praise
Unto Him
Who spread out the heavens
And established the earth
And whose greatness
Is revealed in the heavens above
And whose glory
Unison:
Is manifest throughout the whole earth
He is our G-d
There is none else
Response:
Let us adore
The everliving G-d
And render praise
Unto Him
Who spread out the heavens
And established the earth
And whose greatness
In the heavens above
And whose glory
(Repeat Unison:)
The Word:
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed.
Let us break Their bands [of restraint] asunder, and cast Their cords [of control] from us.
- Ps. 2:1-3
Who by the mouth of thy servant David has said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
The kings of the earth took their stand in array [for attack], and the rulers were assembled and combined together against the Lord and against His Anointed, Christ, the Messiah. [Ps. 2:1, 2.]
For in this city there actually met and plotted together against Your holy Child and Servant Yeshua / Jesus, Whom You consecrated by anointing, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel. [Ps. 2:1, 2.]
- Acts 4:25-27
The Lord knows and is fully aware, acquainted with the Way of the Righteous (His Chosen People); but the way of the ungodly (the Gentiles) [those living outside G-d's Will] shall perish (end in ruin and come to nought). The Word of G-d exhorts us to, "Be angry and sin not," but both Jew and Gentile alike will rage against their Maker! All Nations and Peoples will assemble with commotion [uproar and confusion of voices (G-d is not the Author of confusion)], will imagine (meditate upon and devise) an empty scheme, the kings and rulers will take counsel and say, "Let's break Their bands of restraint and cast Their cords of control from us!" Notice they say, "Their."
Together they rage against the Triune G-d, Our Heavenly Father, His One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus and The Holy Spirit, Who Are One Lord, One G-d, One Spirit. Hear Oh Israel! The Lord Our G-d, The Lord Is ONE!
He Who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision [and in supreme contempt He mocks them].
- Psalm 2:4
Your arms are too short to box with G-d!
All attempts to come against the Word, Will and Way of G-d are completely and totally futile, vain and empty. No weapon formed against Him shall prosper (no matter how much counsel you get from others in the World) and with Yeshua / Jesus as our Head, no weapon formed against us shall prosper either, because we "are" His Body here on Earth and He has overcome this World by His Precious Blood. He Is the Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of this World!
Let Every Member of the Body of Messiah, the Anointed One, Christ lift up their voices together with one united mind to G-d and say, "O Sovereign Lord, You are He Who made the heaven and the Earth and the sea and Everything that is in them!" [Exod. 20:11; Ps. 14:6.] King David spoke under the Anointing and Power of the Holy Spirit questioning, "Why did the Gentiles become wanton, insolent, and the people (G-d's Chosen, the Nation of Israel) study and plan fruitless thing - that will not succeed?"
The only True Way to Succeed, make your Way Prosperous and deal wisely is to not let the Book of the Law (G-d's Holy and Precious Word) depart out of your mouth, but to Meditate On It Day and Night, that you may Observe and "Do" according to All that is written In It. The only place in the early English versions of the Bible where the word "success" is found is in Joshua 1:8 and it is the unfailing prerequisite of Eternal Success.
(Deut. 6:3-5; Luke 10:25-28; Ps. 1:1-3).
Like Herod, Pontius Pilate, the Gentiles and the People of Israel attacked, assembled, combined together, plotted and came against Yeshua / Jesus, you can rest assured that as a Child of G-d and Servant of the Most High that opposition will come your Way as well, but only so that G-d can carry out All that His Hand, Will and Purpose Pre-destines (Predetermines) shall occur. As Bond Servants of the Lord, He Will Grant us full freedom to declare His Message of Salvation to All Nations and Peoples (Jew and Gentile) fearlessly. Our G-d Will Stretch out His Hand to Cure and to Perform Signs and Wonders Through the Authority and By the Power of The Name of His Holy Child and Servant Yeshua / Jesus, so let us Pray, allow G-d to shake us from our complacency, Fill us with His Holy Spirit and continue to Speak the Word of G-d With Freedom, Boldness and Courage In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and Grant you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend in Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions! He Is Cut Off
(Slain) Dan. 9:26; John 11:50-52
Worship:
Your Steadfast Love
Your steadfast love extends to the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
Your righteousness is like majestic mountains.
And your wisdom like the depths of the sea.
And you come to me.
Filling my heart is your lovingkindness.
I find my peace in the shadow of your wings.
I eat my fill from abundance in your household,
And I drink from the streams of rejoicing.
You are my King.
The Word:
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself.
- Dan. 9:26
Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
Now he did not say this simply of his own accord - he was not self-moved; but being the high priest that year, he prophesied that Yeshua / Jesus was to die for the nation; [Isa. 53:8.]
And not only for the nation, but also for the purpose of uniting into one body the children of G-d who have been scattered far and wide.
[Isa. 49:6.]
- John 11:50-52
G-d's Word Is Faithful and True! Daniel (Belteshazzar as he was called) knew, understood The Word and had understanding of G-d's Vision. [Dan. 8:26; Rev. 19:9.] Are you In The Word? Is The Word of G-d In you? The Anointed One, The Messiah, The Christ (Yeshua / Jesus) was to be cut off, killed, to have nothing and no one belonging to or defending Him. According to The Word of G-d, they struck The Shepherd (Yeshua / Jesus Is Our Good Shepherd) and the sheep were scattered. When the mob came to the Garden to take Yeshua / Jesus aWay to crucify and kill Him, All of His followers fled and left Him alone.
Daniel's Prophecy also speaks of another prince (the prince of darkness) who's people shall come and destroy the city and the sanctuary. [Isa. 53:7-9; Nah. 1:8; Matt. 24:6-14.] Yeshua / Jesus exclaimed, "Destroy This Temple and I shall raise It up in three days!" (He was speaking of His Body and The Resurrection from the dead), but the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD and has yet to have been rebuilt. The Anti-Christ of Daniel 9:27 has not yet been revealed, but as sure as G-d's Word Is True, the Temple shall be reconstructed, a strong and firm covenant shall be made by him and in the midst of the seven year period he shall cause the sacrifice and offering to cease [for the remaining three and one-half years].
Like Caiaphas declared so many years ago, Many in this present World know nothing at All, understand or reason out that it was expedient and better for our own welfare that This One Man died on behalf of The People, so that we would not perish (be destroyed, ruined). Pilate exclaimed, "Behold The Man!" John the Baptizer shouted out, "Behold the Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World!" Jesus / Yeshua Himself said to Nicodemus, "And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert [on a pole], so must - so it is necessary that - the Son of man be lifted up [on the cross]; [Num. 21:9.] In order that every one who believes in Him - who cleaves to Him, trusts Him and relies on Him - may not perish, but have eternal life and [actually] live forever!" The Lord said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent [of bronze], and bronze is a symbol of judgement! The Word of G-d says, Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree, so Yeshua / Jesus became sin for us, was cursed of G-d, took our judgement of sin upon Himself, died in our stead and like All who were bitten in the desert (All of mankind is bitten by sin, because of the Fall by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and we live in a dry and weary land), we must look, attentively, expectantly, with a steady and absorbing gaze upon Him and Live! Look unto Yeshua / Jesus Who Is The Author And Finisher Of Our Faith! He Is The Resurrection And The Life! There is no other Name under Heaven by which we MUST "Be" Saved, but Yeshua / Jesus!
No one has ever gone up to Heaven; but the One Who has come down from Heaven, the Son of man [Himself], Who is - dwells, Whose home is - in Heaven. G-d did not send the Son into the World in order to judge - to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on - the World; but that the World might find Salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.
Yeshua / Jesus did not only die for the Nation of Israel, but for the Whole Wide World and Every One in It, to redeem us All back into a right relationship with G-d as Our Heavenly Father and also for the purpose of uniting into One Body (The Body of Messiah / Christ, The Temple / Church of G-d, His Chosen Bride) the Children of G-d (All those who have been Born-Again, born and borne of the Holy Spirit of G-d are Sons and Daughters of The Most High G-d) who have been scattered far and wide. We are no longer sheep without a shepherd! G-d has "given" us His Word, His Spirit and His Name! The Good Shepherd's rod and staff will comfort us and He Will Lead and Guide us In His Way. Behold The Lamb Who was Slain! It Is His Blood that cleanses us from All sin and unrighteousness, so even though they took counsel and plotted together to put Yeshua / Jesus to death, what the enemy planned for evil, G-d turned around and used for Good!
Let's not try to arrest Yeshua / Jesus like the chief priests and Pharisees did (do not quench The Holy Spirit Of G-d), try to hold on to "our" [holy] place, "our" nation, ["our" temple and city, and "our" civil organization] or even "our" own life, but lose your life to gain Eternal Life In His Holy and Precious Name. Seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness! As Kings and Priests Of G-d, we must declare, so that Every One can Know and Understand that Yeshua / Jesus was cut off (slain), died for All, so that All Nations and Peoples Everywhere, far and wide could "Have" Eternal Life In His Holy and Precious Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord bless you and keep you, cause His Face to Shine Upon you, be Gracious Unto you, lift up the Light of His Countenance Upon you and "Give" to you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Blessings In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World.
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All.
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Date: Fri, Apr 18, 2003
Subject: Messianic Visions On A Good Friday! Blood And Atonement: Numbers 35:33
Greeting:
Shabbat Shalom, Sabbath Peace (or Peace of the Sabbath), Fullness, Wholeness and God's Richest Blessings to All on this Good Friday!
Worship:
His Majesty Reigns
His majesty reigns from shore to shore
and in the stars above. His righteousness is only exceeded by His love.
He is the King of Kings. He is the King of Kings.
His righteousness is only exceeded by His love.
Father in heaven you're the one.
I'm in love with your only son. (repeat)
The Word:
So you shall not thus pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
- Numbers 35:33
Whoever said that G-d is not interested in "Numbers" has never read His Most Holy and Precious Word! G-d so loved the World and Everyone in it that He sent His One and only Begotten Son to Earth to save sinners, because He desires that None would perish, but that All would Come to Repentance! Today Is The Day that Atonement was made by the Passover Lamb of G-d Who Took AWay The Sins Of The World. He Conquered sin and death, Redeemed us, Healed and Restored us and "gave" us a Right Relationship with Our Heavenly Father.
This Is what we "have" by Faith In Yeshua / Jesus as Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One: "At - One - Ment," We "are" One with The Father, through The Son by the Ministry of His Holy Spirit Working In and Through us. Messiah / Christ "In" you "Is" The Hope of Glory, This Blessed Hope will not disappoint us and G-d's Glory "Is" His Goodness (G-d "Is" Good All the time), Mercy and Grace (His unmerited Favor)!
After Yeshua's / Jesus' Resurrection from the grave, He revealed to two Disciples on the road to Emmaus the Truths of G-d's Word and how the Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, should suffer before entering into His Glory (His Majesty and Splendor), beginning with Moses and (throughout) All The Prophets! Just as He went on explaining and interpreting to them in All The Scriptures the things concerning and referring to Himself, G-d's Holy Spirit "In" us will lead and guide us "Into" All Truth and Understanding of His Holy Word and bring to Remembrance The Words Messiah / Christ has spoken unto us!
Unfortunately, Today there are still "Many" whose eyes are held, so that they do not recognize Him. It wasn't until He took [a loaf of] bread and praised [G-d] and "gave" thanks and asked a blessing, then broke it and was "giving" it to them, When their eyes were [instantly] opened and they (clearly) recognized Him.
For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers' minds (that they should not discern the truth), preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ. the Messiah, Who is the image and likeness of G-d.
- 2 Corinthians 4:4
If these two Disciples could not recognize Yeshua / Jesus for Who He was (He Was and Is and Is To Come) then how much more so do we as Believers need to ask G-d to reveal to us His Living Word, so we can pray He removes the veil [that hinders the knowledge of G-d] - our Gospel (the glad tidings) - which is hid to those who are perishing, and obscured [only] to those who are spiritually dying, and veiled [only] to those who are lost?
Let us cry out as the Psalmist did, "Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law." [Psalm 119:18.]
G-d will deal bountifully with us as His Servants, so that we may live (Life Eternal); as we observe His Word [Hear (Hear! Oh Israel, The Lord, Thy G-d, The Lord "Is" One!), Receive (Believe and Receive), Love, obey It and Him]. [Ps. 119:17,97-101.] We are All just strangers and temporary residents here on Earth; He will not hide His Commandments from us. [Ps. 119:19; 39:12; Gen. 47:9; 1 Chron. 29:15; 2 Cor. 5:6; Heb. 11:13.]
Seek and Ye Shall Find! Draw Close to G-d and He Will Draw Near To YOU!
While reading Moses' writings in Numbers 35 about the Levites receiving from the Israelites' inheritance, cities to dwell in (6 [3 on the east side of Jordan and 3 in the Land of Canaan] of 48 which were to be cities of refuge), pasture lands for their cattle, their wealth in flocks and for all of their beasts. In this chapter of Scripture we read that it was the congregation's (We "are" The Congregation Of G-d and responsible for the destitute, outcast, lost and dying in this World Today!) duty to rescue an accused manslayer from the avenger of blood who was out for vengeance (Vengeance "Is" Mine Saith The Lord!) regarding the murder of another human being, but if the death was accidental; the accused could flee to a city of refuge, live in it until the high priest died and then return to the land of his possessions.
Whoever kills any person [intentionally], the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of witnesses; but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, so that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.
- Numbers 35:30-32
Why have I gone on and on about All of this?
Yeshua / Jesus Is Our High Priest and He has ransomed us from eternal damnation, sin and death. He "Is" Our Refuge and Our Strength! If The Son sets you free then you "are" FREE Indeed! Because Messiah / Christ died on that Cross at Calvary in our stead, the land is no longer defiled in which we live, The Son Has Come To Dwell In Our Hearts And Minds, G-d dwells in the midst of us; The Lord dwells in the midst of Israel and we "have" Eternal Life In HIs Name! The Word of G-d tells us that Life Is In The Blood, Yeshua / Jesus "Is" The Atonement and His Precious Blood cleanses us from All sin and unrighteousness. Our Spiritual Father, Abraham said to his son Isaac, "G-d will provide Himself a Lamb for the Sacrifice." and He has "In" Yeshua / Jesus. John the Baptizer cried out in the wilderness, "Behold The Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World!"
The Virgin Mary asked, "How can these thing be?"
Yeshua / Jesus says, "With G-d All Things Are Possible!"
After Adam and Eve committed their act of disobedience in the Garden of Eden against G-d, they hid themselves, because they knew that they were naked and the first question recorded in The Word of G-d is, "Where are you?"
Because of His Grace and Love towards them, The Lord G-d made long coats (tunics) of skins and clothed them. G-d had to get those coats (tunics) from somewhere, therefore the Scriptures insinuate and imply that He was the first to shed blood on the Earth, so that mankind (His Creation) would have a covering (Yeshua / Jesus "Is" Our Covering). His Word "Is" Faithful and True and when G-d "gives" you HIs Word, He stands by It, because The Lord can not lie and with nothing greater to swear by, He swears On Himself!
No Atonement can be made for the land, for the Blood shed in it, but By The Blood of Him Who shed it! The Earth "Is" The Lord's and the fullness thereof, because Yeshua / Jesus shed His Precious Blood on The Cross of Calvary and by so doing, obtained the title deed to Earth and Everything in It, Redeeming us, Paying the Ransom, Buying us back and Restoring us Unto The Father! What can wash aWay our sin? Nothing, but The Blood Of Yeshua / Jesus. What can make us whole again? Nothing, but The Blood of Yeshua / Jesus. Oh, The Blood Of Yeshua / Jesus! In His dying, we find Life Eternal and In His "giving," we receive forgiveness and Everything we need to Live our Life Unto Him In His Holy Name.
Amen - so be it.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you and Be Gracious Unto you, May He Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and "Give" To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World!
Amen.
Have A Great, Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday / The Feast Of First Fruits!
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions! Numbered With Sinners: Is. 53:12; Luke 23:33
Greeting:
Shalom! Peace to you In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus!
Worship:
O G-d, You Are My G-d
O G-d, you are my G-d,
Early will I seek your Face.
My soul thirsts for you alone,
and for your resting place.
As in a dry and thirsty land,
Where no water is.
I long to see your power and your glory as I've seen, And your presence here this hour,
O Lord as I have seen you in your sanctuary.
Come to me & let my blind eyes see
(Chorus)
Come to me, set me free
Come to me, and like the rolling sea,
With you spirit cover me.
(Repeat chorus)
The Word:
And he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Is. 53:12
And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
- Luke 23:33
When Messiah answered the one criminal saying, "Truly, I tell you, Today you shall be with Me in Paradise," have you ever wondered if it was the man on His Right Side? Yeshua / Jesus is presently seated at The Right Hand of G-d Our Heavenly Father after dying on The Cross at the place which is called The Skull [Calvary, from the Latin; Golgotha, the Hebrew equivalent], crucified between two criminals. It was The Man in the middle Who was considered the worst offender of All and surely He was cursed of G-d, for the Scriptures tell us, "Cursed is any man who hangs on a tree." The fact is that Yeshua / Jesus died in our stead, in our place. He paid the price for our sins, so that we could be released from the penalty of death (our just wages), have Eternal Life In His Name and be found Holy, Blameless, Just and Righteous (in right standing with G-d) by Faith In The Work He accomplished when they executed Him. Yeshua / Jesus prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Have you come to The Place called Calvary? It is crucial that each and every one of us come to recognize ourselves under the sentence of death, condemned to die and suffer the penalty for our sins unless we put our Faith, Hope and Trust In and Upon Yeshua / Jesus! He became sin for us, so that we could become the Righteousness of G-d In Him! Messiah told us that we would All have a Cross to bear. There will be those who ridicule and make sport of us, but if we eat His Flesh, The Bread of Everlasting Life, drink His Blood, The Cup of Redemption and Endure Unto The End, we shall be saved (rescued) from the eternal fires of hell, damnation and death. Like the centurian at the Foot of The Cross, having seen what had taken place at Calvary / Golgotha, if we acknowledge, recognize G-d, thank and praise Him for Yeshua / Jesus Who Indeed, without question, was The Man Who was upright - just and innocent, we shall be saved!
He poured out His Life unto death, and He let Himself be regarded as a criminal and be numbered with the transgressors, yet He bore [and took aWay] the sin of many and makes intercession for the transgressors - the rebellious. [Luke 22:37.] All have sinned and fall short of The Glory of G-d! We All like sheep have gone astray! The only Way to obtain G-d's Goodness, Mercy and Grace is to put our Faith In The Christ / The Messiah / The Anointed One, Yeshua / Jesus!
Regard yourself as nothing and you will become something In Him!
Many, many will come to Him on That Day (Judgement Day) and say, "Lord! Lord!" He will say, "Depart from Me! I never knew you!" Do you know Him?
Does He know you? G-d sent His One and Only Begotten Son to The Cross for you and Yeshua / Jesus is for ever interceding on your behalf before The Throne of G-d's Grace and Mercy, Hoping that you will come to Repentance, because He wishes that None would perish! Do you intercede on behalf of others who are lost and dying? Have you poured out your Life In Christ / Messiah as a Living Sacrifice, a drink offering Unto Him and your fellow man? He bore our sin, took aWay our transgression against G-d and now He Is Ready, Willing and Able to bear us up upon eagles wings, so that we can rise above the ways of this World and overcome it In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name! He Is The Way, Truth and Life Eternal! Without Him there is no going, no knowing and no real Life at all.
Knowing G-d as Our Heavenly Father and Yeshua / Jesus as Lord of Our Life Is Life Eternal and Everlasting Life In His Name!
We "are" the fruit of His travail, of His Soul and He "Is" Satisfied In us; by us knowing Him, possessing Him and by Him possessing us. He imparts to us His Holy Spirit, The Breath of G-d, makes us just (just as if we had never sinned), righteous - upright and in right standing with G-d; for He bore our iniquities and our guilt [with the consequences]. SING and cry aloud!
Enlarge "The Place" of your tent, let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out (Yeshua / Jesus stretched out His Arms upon The Cross For you); spare not (G-d The Father spared not His Son For you), lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes, for you shall spread abroad to the right hand and to the left, and your offspring will possess the Nations, so Fear not, for you shall not be ashamed!
Take G-d at His Word! No weapon formed against you shall prosper! We may be in the World (numbered with the transgressors), but we are not of it! WAIT Upon The Lord and renew your strength!
Be strong In The Lord and In The Power of His Might! Listen to what The Spirit Is saying! Come to the Streams of Living Waters, surrender All and accept The Blessing! [Rev. 21:6, 7; 22:17.]
To those who are afflicted, storm-tossed and not comforted, He will set your stones in fair colors - [to enhance their brilliance] - lay your foundations with sapphires, make your windows and pinnacles of [sparkling] agates or rubies, your gates of [shining] carbuncles, and All the walls of your enclosures of precious stones. [Rev. 21:19-21.] We "Are" The Temple of The Living G-d! Let your Light Shine! Establish yourself on righteousness - conform with G-d's Will and order! No matter what the storm, trial or tribulation in your Life, bring the essence of Christ / Messiah where ever you may go, whatever "place" you may be in and even in death, bring Eternal, Everlasting Life In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and "Give" To you Shalom, Peace In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World!
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions! Not A Bone Broken: Ps. 34:20; John 19:33-36
Greeting:
Shabbat Shalom! Peace of the Sabbath to you!
Worship:
He Is My Light
He is my light, yes the Lord my salvation.
With Him as my stronghold, whom shall I fear.
When evil assails me, when I am surrounded, I will find my life in the Lord.
There is one thing I will ask of Him
And I will seek it forever.
Lord, my one desire is to dwell
within your household and ever
to behold the beauty of G-d and
to grow as a son in His courts.
(Chorus)
Teach me of your ways oh Lord,
and lead me in the paths of your Kingdom.
Hear me when I cry aloud, and answer;
For Your word is my freedom.
I believe I shall see the goodness of G-d in the land of the living.
Waiting for the Lord, I will be strong
and let my heart take courage.
I will wait yeah wait for the Lord.
(Chorus)
The Word:
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
- Ps. 34:20
But when they came to Yeshua / Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came (flowed) out.
And he who saw it - the eye-witness - gives this evidence and his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe also.
For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled (verified, carried out), Not one of His bones shall be broken. [Exod. 14:46; Num. 9:12; Ps. 34:20.]
- John 19:33-36
From the Beginning (Genesis) to The Revelation of Yeshua / Jesus, Old Covenant to New, The Word of G-d is constantly and continuously pointing us to The Anointed One, The Messiah, The Christ! He Was, Is and Is To Come, The Passover Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World. Yeshua / Jesus did not come to abolish The Law, but to Fulfill It and Every Word of G-d points to Him as The Truth, so that we may come By Faith to Believe In and On Him. The Holy Scripture says, They shall look on Him, Who they have pierced!
[Zech. 12:10.] The Messiah hung on The Tree, The Cross at Calvary and died in our stead. He became a curse (The Bible says, Cursed is anyone who hangs on a tree), so that we could become The Righteousness of G-d In Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus!
Remember when Jacob wrestled with G-d? The Hulk Hogan has nothing on him! To this day during The Passover Sedar a bone is placed on the Passover Dish to represent not only the Lamb of G-d, but Jacob's hip bone, because he was a type of Messiah and thus, that bone speaks of The One Who would Come, Redeem Israel and set them Free from captivity! The Truth shall set you free, but he who the Son sets free Is Free Indeed! Yeshua / Jesus conquered sin and death by offering up Himself as The Perfect Sacrifice Unto G-d, but had any of His Bones been broken, He could not have fulfilled The Law and therefore, we would be lost forever in our sin and unrighteousness.
Take a Good, hard Look at Yeshua / Jesus upon The Cross! Know and Understand just how much G-d, Our Heavenly Father Loves you. He sent His One and Only Begotten Son into the World to save you. Yeshua / Jesus took on All the wages and punishment of each and every sin that humankind has ever committed or will commit until That Final Day when He Comes Again! Although the Roman soldiers broke the legs of the others crucified with Him, Yeshua / Jesus had already given up The Ghost after crying out, "Father, Forgive them, for they know not what they do!", so one of the soldiers stuck a sword in His side and The Precious Cleansing Blood of Messiah poured out at The Altar of G-d, The Altar Of Love and we have Forgiveness In His Holy Name!
John The Beloved Apostle is giving us an eye-witness account of what happened on that Good Friday. This Word Is Proof Positive, The Evidence, his Testimony of Truth (Yeshua / Jesus says, I Am The Way, Truth and Life), so that like him, By Faith you may Believe also and enter into Eternal, Everlasting Life! The Messiah came to reveal The Father to us In Word and Deed, He Verified and Carried Out Every Scripture, fulfilling the Old Covenant and bringing in The New by His Broken Body (not broken bones) and The Blood. Like the middle Matzo is wrapped and hidden during the Passover Feast, after His death, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, asked Pilate for His Body, bound It in linen cloths with the spices (aromatics [we are to bring the essence of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One everywhere we go]) and placed His Body in the tomb.
NOW on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw the stone had been removed from - lifted out of [the groove across the entrance of] - the tomb.
- John 20:1
Peter and John, upon hearing The Good News (of course It didn't seem so Good at the time), ran to the Empty tomb, saw the linen clothes lying there, were convinced and Believed that Yeshua / Jesus had risen again from the dead!
[Ps. 16:10.] On that same first day of the week, at evening, with the Disciples behind closed doors, Yeshua / Jesus came to them, stood among them, and said, "Peace to you!"
Our inner selves wait [earnestly] for the Lord; He is our help and our shield.
- Psalms 33:20
Your heart may be hardened like a rock, but G-d can roll aWay the stone for you too, give you a new heart of flesh and make it pliable, so that you can be a New Creation In Him. You might be hiding something deep down within or behind a closed door, but Your Beloved stands at the door and knocks, He wants to come in to you, sup with you, touch you and comfort you, He Will stand beside you through it All, never leave or forsake you, be your help and shield in times of need.
If you wait and Hope In Him, His Mercy and Loving-Kindness Will be upon you, so Bless the Lord at All times and let His Praise be continually in your mouth. Let your Life make it's boast In The Lord, so that the humble and afflicted will Hear (Hear! O Israel!) and be Glad (Be ye glad, for every debt that you ever had has been paid up in full by the Grace of the Lord)!
Magnify the Lord and Exalt His Name, because He Delivered us from All our fears! He has taken aWay our shame and He is not the author of confusion, but His Holy Spirit leads and guides us into All Truth and Understanding, He Saves us from All our troubles and The Angel of the Lord encamps around us. [Pss. 145:20; 18:1; Isaiah 63:9.] Trust and take refuge In Him [1 Pet. 2:2, 3.], revere and Worship Him In Spirit and Truth, taste and see that the Lord, Our G-d Is Good (All The Time)!
Do you want? Are you lacking anything?
Fear the Lord, seek Him, inquire of and require the Lord [by right of your need and on the authority of His Word]. My G-d shall supply All of your needs! When the Lord Is your Good Shepherd, you shall not want! He'll make you lie down in green pastures, redeem your life, be your refuge and you shall not be condemned or held guilty. The Lord will contend with those who contend with you; fight against with those who fight against you!
He'll be your shield and buckler, and stand up for your help! Messiah will draw out also the spear and javelin, close the way for those who pursue you, for the battle Is The Lord's, but because of what He has done, we "have" The Victory In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and Grant you His Shalom, Peace In Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World! Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: His Cry Of Victory In Hebrew:
Psalm 22:31; John 19:30
Greeting:
Shalom! Peace, Fullness and Wholeness to All In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World!
Worship:
I'M COMING BACK TO THE HEART
VERSE 1
When the music fades
And all is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring
Something that's of worth
That will bless Your heart
BRIDGE
I'll bring You more than a song,
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required.
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
VERSE 2
King of endless worth,
No one could express,
How much You deserve.
Though I'm weak and poor,
All I have is Yours
Every single breath!
CHORUS
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about You,
All about You, Jesus.
I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it.
When it's all about You.
It's all about You.
The Word:
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
- Ps. 22:31
When Yeshua / Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished:
and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
- John 19:30
Like vinegar, this present life we live can be bitter. Living is hard, but Life (Eternal Life, Everlasting Life, The Abundant Life In Messiah) Is Good! Had it not been for The Anointed One coming to this Earth, fulfilling The Law and The Prophets, paying the penalty for our sins by dying on The Cross at Calvary and shedding His Precious Blood, none of us could become born-again, born of The Spirit of G-d and be found Righteous In Him. Before Messiah bowed His Head and "Gave" up The Ghost, The Holy Spirit, He asked Our Father Who Art In Heaven to Forgive us All, shouted the cry of Victory, "It Is Finished!" and now those of us who come to Believe, Receive, cling to, trust In and Rely On Yeshua / Jesus as The One and Only Way to The Father can have The Victory over sin and death In His Holy and Precious Name! Come unto Him, find your rest In Him, declare what The Lord has done and how Marvelous It Is, The Things He "Has" Done! Blessed Is He Who Comes In The Name Of The Lord!
All Believers of Today are Charged by G-d to reach this generation of souls with the His Love and Good News, The Gospel. Let us enter His Gates with Thanksgiving and His Courts with Praise, Worship Him In Spirit and Truth. He Is King of Kings, The Ruler Over The Nations, Every knee shall bow and tongue confess that Yeshua / Jesus Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Is Lord of All! We Must take His Word to the ends of the Earth, so that the poor and afflicted shall be full and satisfied. I Am not talking of works in the flesh here, but of the Good Works In Messiah which were prepared for us to do by G-d before the foundations of the World were ever laid. Not by might, not by power, but by His Holy Spirit Working In and Through us to accomplish His Purposes to the Glory, Praise and Honor of His Holy Name! We "have" the Victory, because of what He "has" done for us.
If THE Lord Is truly your Shepherd [to feed, guide and shield you]; you shall not lack, there shall be no want. My G-d shall supply All of your needs In Messiah / Christ! He'll make you lie down in (fresh, tender) green pastures; He'll lead you beside the still and restful waters.
[Rev. 7:17.] He'll refresh and restore your life - your "self"; lead you in paths of Righteousness [uprightness, and right standing with Him, In Him, Through Him and To Him - not for your earning it, but] for His Name's sake. You may be walking through a deep, sunless valley Today, but don't be afraid; for He Is With you; to protect, guide and comfort you. He'll lead you to His Banqueting Table in the presence of your enemies and His Banner of Love will be over you. If you Believe that Yeshua / Jesus lived, died and rose again, He'll Anoint your head with His Holy Spirit Oil and your brimming cup of life will be overflowing, running over. The Glory of The Lord, His Goodness (G-d Is Good All The Time), Mercy (His Tender-Mercies "Are" New Every Morning), Loving-Kindness, Grace, Favor and Unfailing Love (G-d Is Faithful and Yeshua / Jesus Never Fails) shall follow you All The Days Of Your Life In Him!
THE earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it, the world and they who dwell in it. [1 Cor. 10:26.]
- Psalm 24:1
G-d wishes that None would perish, but that All would come to repentance and Life In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! We "have" The Victory In Him, In What He "Has" Done and by Faith "Will" Dwell In The House Of The Lord [In His Presence] through the length of days, AlWays, forever and ever!
This natural life can be sour, but if we drink the cup of Yeshua / Jesus, taste of His Body and Blood, we share In His Sufferings and "Have" The Victory, Eternal, Everlasting Life, The Abundant Life In His Name, because of what He "Has" Done for us on The Cross. Prepare your heart and life before Him, offer up your body as a living sacrifice unto Him, live the Crucified Life, die to "self", be cleansed by His Precious Blood, washed by the Water of The Word, Know that His Testimony Is True, Believe, Receive All that He "Has" for you and shout out the Cry Of Victory in every language and tongue to All Nations and Peoples In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord bless you and keep you cause His face to shine upon you, lift up the Light of His Countenance upon you, be Gracious unto you and "give" you His Peace In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Friday, May 9, 2003! His Commending His Spirit: Ps. 31:5; Luke 23:46
Greeting:
Shalom, Peace to you!
Worship:
Holy Is The Lord
Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts.
Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts.
The whole earth is filled with His glory, The whole earth is filled with His glory, The whole earth is filled with His glory.
Holy is the Lord.
The Word:
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me. O Lord G-d of truth.
- Ps. 31:5
And when Yeshua / Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
- Luke 23:46
Have you committed your Way Unto Him, so that He can make your path straight?
When you put your Faith, Hope and Trust In Yeshua / Jesus as The Lord and Savior of your Life, He Redeems you, buys you back from the wages of sin and death, puts you into a right relationship with The Father, "gives" you Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Holy and Precious Name and you will find out (experientially) that G-d Is Faithful and True and Yeshua/ Jesus Never Fails!
[Acts 7:59.] He becomes our strength, our shield, our stronghold and He draws us out of the net, the enemies snares that are set before us. Messiah leads and guides us according to His Word, Will and Way, for His Name's Sake, because He Is Our Rock (lead me to The Rock Which Is Higher than I) and A Mighty Fortress Is Our G-d! He hears your prayers and answers them, He Delivers us speedily In His Righteousness and becomes our refuge when we put our Trust, Hope, Reliance On and Confidently Lean On Him. The Steadfast Love of The Lord Never Ceases, His Tender Mercies Never, Ever come to an end; He has set out feet in a broad place.
His Grace is sufficient for us and He has "given" us Everything we need to live our Life Unto Him! He Is Our G-d and our Life, our times "are" In His Hands; we "are" Delivered from our enemies, foes and All who would pursue and persecute us. As Servants of The Most High G-d, He Shines His Face Upon us and we shall not be put to shame or disappointed. Like Moses said to Joshua when he was about to enter into The Promised Land, Our G-d says to us Today, "Be strong and let you heart take courage. Wait, Hope for and Expect The Lord!"
We "are" Blessed of The Lord, our sins are forgiven and He has imputed His Righteousness Unto us! About the sixth hour, midday, High Noon, and darkness enveloped the whole land and Earth until the ninth hour [about three o'clock in the afternoon], the sun's light faded (The Son of G-d's Light faded, The Light of The World) - was darkened; and the curtain [of The Holy of Holies] of The Temple was torn in two. [Exod. 26:31-35.] Have you felt like the sun was going down or The Son was coming down On you lately? Those who are living in a land of darkness will see a Great Light when they Look Unto Yeshua / Jesus as The Author and Finisher of their Faith, because He Is The Light of Life! The Veil of The Temple Is torn and He has made a Way (He Is The Way) Into The Holy of Holies, so that we can go boldly before G-d's Throne of Grace and Mercy and like the centurion, having seen what had taken place, Recognize G-d, Thank and Praise Him, and say, Indeed, without question, without a doubt, This Man (The Man Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus) was (Is and Is to Come) Upright - Just and Innocent! Truly He Is The Son Of G-d!
Are you searching for the living among the dead? Yeshua / Jesus was given over to the hands of sinful men [that is, men whose way or nature is to act in opposition to G-d], crucified, commended, committed His Spirit Unto The Father, gave up The Holy Ghost, expired, died, was buried, but on the third day arose (from death) [Ps. 16:10.], just as He said! Like the women at the tomb, we should also Remember His Words and Report All These Things (taken together [from Genesis to Revelation]) to All Nations and Peoples who have not yet heard The Good News of G-d, The Gospel of Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus!
Though many will take these reports as idle tales - madness, feigned things, nonsense - and not believe us, others will wonder about and marvel at what had happened, but Messiah will open their hearts and minds to Believe In, Trust In and Rely On Him.
We are commanded to preach, teach, heal and baptize men, women and children In The Name of The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Baptism is a symbol of the Life, death and Resurrection of Yeshua / Jesus. He died on The Cross in our stead and gave up The Ghost, so that we could "have" Eternal, Everlasting Life by Faith In Him, dying to self, being made Alive In Messiah / Christ and receiving The Holy Spirit Into our hearts, so that we could Live The Crucified Life Unto Him! He cried out with a loud voice unto The Father, so that as Friends of The Bride Groom, like John The Baptizer, we could be a voice, the voice, G-d's Voice crying out in the wilderness, "Behold! The Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World!" There are multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision, who Yeshua / Jesus prayed, wept, died for and forgave their sins, but they have yet to have heard His Message. Some still scoff, sneer, turn up their noses, ridicule and make sport of Him, but He prayed, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." This Is The King of The Jews, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Creator and G-d of the known Universe. He did nothing out of the way - nothing strange, eccentric, perverse or unreasonable to deserve death, but He went to That Cross, because of His Love for us! He gave His All for us, gave up The Ghost, gave His Life, showed forth His Love, so why don't we give our best To Him, For Him and reach out to the World, not by our own might or power, but By His Holy Spirit In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fulness In Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: His Marred Visage (Face) Isa. 52:14; John 19:5
Greeting:
Shalom, Peace!
Worship:
YOU ARE G-D
You are G-d of the heavens and G-d of the earth, You are G-d of our Savior's virgin birth.
You were G-d on the cross and G-d over hell, You were G-d before man and G-d when he fell.
You, You are, You are G-d,
You are G-d, G-d, G-d. (X2)
You are G-d in what seems like happenstance, You are G-d in every circumstance.
You are G-d when we fall and G-d when we stand.
You are G-d who holds us in Your hand.
The Word:
As many as were astonied at thee; his visage was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men.
- Isa. 52:14
And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! . . . Behold your king! [Pilate called the crowd's attention to Yeshua's / Jesus' marred visage, hoping to arouse sympathy for Him, and secure His release.]
- John 19:5
Yeshua / Jesus, The Servant of the Lord dealt wisely, prospered, was exalted, extolled and stood very high in All the Ways of G-d, according to His Holy and Precious Word. As our Lord, He goes before us in All things, He Is also our rear guard, so His Goodness and Mercy follows us All the Days of Our Life In Yeshua / Jesus. The Son of Man / Son of G-d became an object of horror; so much so, that many were astonished. His Face and His whole Appearance were marred more than any man's and His Form beyond that of the sons of men; but just as many were astonished at Him, He startled and sprinkled many nations; kings shut their mouths because of Him; for that which was not told them they saw, and that which they had not heard they considered and understood. [Rom. 15:21.] Messiah was born in Bethlehem, grew up in Galilee and crucified in Jerusalem. He had no royal, kingly pomp, form or comeliness that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him (at least not by the standards of this World). Yeshua / Jesus was despised, rejected and forsaken by men, He was a Man of sorrows, pains, acquainted with grief and sickness; and as One from Whom men hid their faces, they did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him. What price did He pay to bear our griefs, sicknesses, weaknesses, distresses, sorrows, pains and punishments? The Lord paid the ultimate price, He gave His Life, His All, yet we ignorantly considered Him stricken, smitten and afflicted by G-d [as if with leprosy]. [Matt. 8:17.]
Behold The Man, Christ / Messiah / The Anointed One, Yeshua / Jesus! Broken and bleeding, wounded, bruised and chastised for our transgressions, our guilt and our iniquities, so that we could obtain His Peace, well-being, and with the stripes that wounded Him we are healed and made whole In His Holy and Precious Name.
He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my [Isaiah's] people, to whom the stroke was due - stricken to His death.
- Isaiah 53:8b
One of the most important Biblical finds in recent history were the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Book of Isaiah was complete, the oldest of All known manuscripts and confirmed The Word of G-d to this generation. Written more than 800 years before the birth of Yeshua / Jesus, these scrolls showed how G-d's Holy Word (Word for Word) was meticulously recorded by the Scribes in order to keep the Sacred Manuscripts pure and undefiled. The Lamb of G-d Who took aWay the sins of the World Is The Living Word of G-d and we should All submit to His Will.
Turn you eyes upon Yeshua / Jesus. Look full in His Wonderful Face and the things of this Earth will grow strangely dim in the Light of His Glory and Grace.
Pilate found no fault, crime or cause for punishment in Him, but in order to please the crowd that was shouting, "Crucify Him!" he had Yeshua / Jesus scourged, flogged and whipped. Just imagine the beating that Yeshua / Jesus took for you and me. The soldiers twisted a crown of thorns, put it on His Head, ripped the beard from His Face and beat Him to a pulp. The Jews did not kill Messiah and neither did the Romans, but we did, Everyone in the whole human race since the foundations of the Earth were laid and each sin that we committed. He paid the price for our evil and wickedness, became a curse for us by hanging upon that tree, The Cross of Calvary, so that we could have Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Name! Why? Because G-d Is Love and He sent His One and Only Begotten Son to redeem us from sin and death!
O, How He Loves you and me. He gave His Life. What more could He give?
Yeshua / Jesus claimed and made Himself out to "Be" The Son Of G-d! For This He was marred more than any man, and His Form more than the sons of men. No picture ever taken or painted and no sculpture formed or fashioned in All of human history could ever capture the true horror of what Yeshua/ Jesus suffered and went through for you and me. Pilate was alarmed, awe-stricken and afraid of Messiah's Own claims. What about you?
Yeshua / Jesus came out, wearing the thorny crown and purple cloak when Pilate exclaimed, "See, [here is] the Man!" Have you seen Yeshua / Jesus? Do you Know Him In All of His Glory and Majesty? Is He King of your Life? Did you crown Him Lord of All! Yes, He suffered and died, but He rose again on the third day and is now seated at the Right Hand of G-d our Heavenly Father! Behold! The Man, Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus!
Look full into The Beautiful Face of your Risen King Who has secured your release and set us Free Indeed.
We as Believers are being built up into The Perfect Man and like Him must Go to All Nations and Peoples with His Love and Good News In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord bless you, keep you, cause His Face to shine upon you, be Gracious unto you, lift up the Light of His Countenance upon you and give to you His Shalom, Peace In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World!
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: An Intense Lonely Cry: Ps. 22:1; Matt. 27:46
Worship:
BETTER IS ONE DAY
How lovely is Your dwelling place. Oh Lord Almighty My soul longs and even faints for You
For here my heart is satisfied, within Your presence I sing beneath the shadow of Your wings
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere (X2)
One thing I would ask and I would seek, to see Your beauty To find You in the place Your glory dwells
My heart and flesh cry out,
For You the living G-d
Your Spirit's water my soul
I've tasted and I've seen,
Come once again to me
I will draw near to You, I will draw near to You, to You!!
The Word:
My G-d, my G-d, why hast thou forsaken me?
why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
- Ps. 22:1
And about the ninth hour Yeshua / Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is to say, My G-d, my G-d, why hast thou forsaken me?
- Matt. 27:46
Quoted by Charles Haddon Spurgeon as "The Psalm of the Cross" and beyond all others in his Treasury of David, the Gospels quote Psalm 22 as being fulfilled at Christ's crucifixion. King David wrote this Psalm to the Chief Musician; set to the tune of The Hind of the Morning Dawn. It is quite possible that Yeshua / Jesus repeated this whole Psalm while dying for our sins upon The Cross of Calvary, because not only do we have eye witness accounts of His crying out with a loud voice This Particular Scripture, but before He gave up The Ghost, The Holy Spirit, He ends with the thought, "It is finished."
They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born, that He has done it [that it is finished]!
- John 19:30
In just One Day, G-d brought All the judgement of the World's sin upon Yeshua / Jesus and Salvation In His Holy Name to All who would Believe, Trust, Lean On, Be Confident In, Rely On and Receive It by Faith. It Is He Who Has Done This and It Is Marvelous In our eyes! We have been Redeemed, Delivered and Restored to a Right Relationship with G-d By The Precious Blood Of The Lamb. Come, let us exalt His Name together, sing and Praise His Power.
When trouble is near and it seems like there is none to help, G-d Is not far from you, He promises to be with you alWays, even to the end of the age. Though Yeshua / Jesus cried out to His Heavenly Father while hanging on That Tree, G-d did not answer Him. Why? How could G-d do such a horrible thing? The Word of G-d tells us, "Cursed is anyone who hangs on a tree" and when Yeshua / Jesus was nailed to The Cross, He became sin for us, died in our stead, was cursed and suffered the penalty of death, so that we could "have" Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Name! G-d Is Faithful and He Must remain True to His Holy Word. If you ever feel surrounded or hedged in by situations or circumstances within your Life then call upon The Lord, He Will Answer you, Provide The Way out and you will find your Rest In Him.
Yeshua's / Jesus' Life (Life Is In The Blood) was poured out (when the Roman Soldier pierced His Side with the sword, Blood and water flowed through the land), All His Bones were out of joint causing excruciating pain and anguish, He could count them, but none were broken, His Heart was like wax, it softened and melted down within Him (many Dr.s who studied The Crucifixion have determined that Yeshua / Jesus died of a broken heart), His Strength dried up, His Tongue cleaved to His Jaws with thirst, Hos Hands and Feet were pierced and He was brought to the dust of death on our behalf. [John 19:28, 37; Isa. 53;7; Luke 23:27,
35.]
Though the evildoers parted His Clothes and cast lots for His Raiment, we "are" clothed In His Righteousness, The Righteousness Of G-d and not our own.
We "are" washed In The Blood, In The Water Of The Word, His Spirit cuts to the very bone and marrow of our human being. As His Body here on Earth, we are to be joined together as One with Every joint, ligament, muscle and Body Member "doing" their part, so that we function to the Purpose and Ability which we were Created! He died, so that we could Live, "have" Life In His Name and share It with others, All Nations and Peoples throughout the World!
Do you hunger and thirst for His Righteous? Is Yeshua / Jesus your heart's desire? Draw near to G-d and He Will Draw Near To you! We are to declare His Name to our Brethren; in the midst of our Congregations we are to Praise Him. [John 20:17; Rom. 8:29; Heb. 2:12.] The fear of The Lord "is" the beginning of Wisdom, so we should continue daily In His Word, Will and Way until we are made into The Perfect Man, The Man Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus! Revere and Worship Him In Spirit and Truth.
Taste and See that The Lord Is Good (G-d Is Good All the time), eat His Body, drink His Blood for you shall "be" filled and satisfied.
Praise, Seek, Inquire of, Require Him and your heart will "be" quickened now and for ever more! Come and adore him, bow down before Him. Give Thanks to Him, Serve Him and Tell Of The Lord to the next generation. Declare His Righteousness to a people yet unborn, that He "Has" Done It [That It Is Finished]! [Psalm 22:31.]
The Lion Of The Tribe Of Judah, Yeshua / Jesus roared, cried out with a loud voice from upon The Cross and died, but on The Third Day He rose from the grave Unto New Life. He has not left us comfortless, helpless, forsaken or failed In His Mission and we should not fail in The Great Commission that He has "given" us.
Yeshua / Jesus has "given" us His Word, His Holy Spirit and His Precious Name to cry out in the wilderness and make straight The Way Of The Lord. He Is Coming Again Soon and The Voice Of His Spirit Will Cry Out, "Give" The Trumpet Blast, so let us pray that G-d opens up the eyes and ears of those who need to hear of Salvation In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Final Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and "Give" you Shalom, Peace In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World.
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Friday, July 4th Messianic Message! His Mother and Friends
The Word:
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar of.
- Ps. 38:11
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
- Luke 23:49
Sometimes (All too often) as G-d's near and dear ones we stand afar off from Him, rather than enter into His Holy Presence. He Calls us His Lovers, Neighbors, Friends, Sons and Daughters, but we stand aloof from Him as if He had the plague. His heart throbs, He desires us to commune and fellowship with Him In Yeshua/ Jesus, to come and reason together with Him. He Is Health, Rest, Help and Deliverance to our bones (His Holy and Precious Word brings Healing and Life), He forgives our sin and takes aWay All our iniquities. The Lord Is Our Salvation!
Yeshua / Jesus asked, "Who is My mother, brother and sister?" He answered, "Those who Love Me and Obey My Commandments." When we "are" born-again, we give birth to newness of Life In Him as His mother and become His Brother, Sister, Son or Daughter (Children of The Most High G-d)! We "are" His Kinsmen, Acquaintances of [Yeshua / Jesus] and followers of Him. As a Believer, do you just stand at a distance and watch or are you a participator? Christianity is an active sport, a contact sport. Sometimes It gets rather bloody, but whatever you may go through (He Will See you Through It All) in this Life, It Will "Be" Worth It!
Throngs of people may go to Church every week, but how many of them really and truly Come to G-d? Yeshua / Jesus should not be looked upon as a spectacle, but we are to look Unto Him as The Author and Finisher of Our Faith! Indeed, without question, He Is Upright - Good, Advantageous, Righteous (In Right Standing With G-d), Just, Innocent and The Son of The Living G-d! We should be expecting and waiting for The Kingdom of G-d (which Is Righteousness, Peace [Shalom} and Joy In The Holy Ghost) to come and His Will to be done on Earth as It Is In Heaven! We should not go to the tomb for it is empty, but we shall be gathered to our people and live the Resurrection, Eternal, Everlasting, and Abundant Life In Him! Let us tell the World of G-d's Love In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: His Heart Broken: Ps. 22:14; John 19:34
The Word:
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
- Ps. 22:14
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
- John 19:34
Have you completely and totally poured your"self" out before G-d and man? Are your streams of Living Water flowing out and bringing Life to All who thirst in this dry and weary land? I don't think there are many portions of Scripture that speak (so clearly) to the condition of The Church Today as, My Bones "are" out of joint. The Body of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Yeshua / Jesus is a wreck!
How is it that we have become so disconnected? I understand that The Body has many, many parts, but should we not be walking together as One, In The Unity of The Holy Spirit? Are we standing together? A House divided against Itself Can Not Stand! We are shooting the wounded instead of bringing Healing and Wholeness to those who are sick and dying All around us. When are we going to Wake Up and strengthen the things that remain?
When Yeshua/ Jesus was hanging and dying on The Cross of Calvary for your sins and mine, He felt Every Bone In His Body crying out in excruciating pain. He suffered a terrible and horrible death, so that we could have Eternal, Everlasting and The Abundant Life In His Holy and Precious Name! He was pierced in His Side by the spear of a Roman Soldier and The Precious Blood of The Lamb of G-d and Streams of Living Water flowed through the land. Like the blood of Abel, The Blood of Yeshua / Jesus cries out for vengeance! Those who choose to reject The Cleansing Blood of G-d's Sacrificial Lamb will be punished for All Eternity along with Satan and his followers. The Word of G-d tells us that Life Is In The Blood and should we neglect such a Great Salvation, the wages of sin is death! Yeshua / Jesus died of a broken heart over the anguish of sin in the World. Don't disappoint Him again by rejecting the Only Way out of Eternal separation from G-d, our Heavenly Father.
When Yeshua / Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit upon All flesh. The Spirit is still flowing Today! Open up your Spiritual Eyes and See what G-d Is Doing around the World! Just as John The Beloved rested his head on Yeshua's / Jesus' Chest at The Passover Feast / The Last Supper, so too we can lean on The Everlasting Arms. He Will carry us through All that comes against us in this lifetime. There is no Greater Walk than The Walk of Faith! It "Is" The Substance, The Evidence of Things Hoped for and Hope Will Not disappoint us. Without Faith it is impossible to please G-d, but what Yeshua / Jesus did on The Cross pleases Him and He Is The Author and Finisher of our Faith, so All we have to do is Look Unto Him, Believe, Receive and "Be" Saved In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: Yeshua / Jesus Is G-d's Servant:
Isa. 42:1; Matt. 12:18
The Word:
Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles.
- Isa. 42:1
Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall show judgement to the Gentiles.
- Matt. 12:18
Of course to the average eye, both of these Scripture verses appear to be saying the same exact thing about The Messiah, but Each and Every Believer upon the face of planet Earth "Is" Called of G-d to "Be" His Servant, Servants of The Most High! The question is, "How do we Serve Him?" What "Is" our Spiritual Worship, Service To The One True G-d?
He "Is" our Creator and we "Are" Created In Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus for Good Works. As individuals and The Corporate Body of Messiah / Christ, His Representatives, Ambassadors For Him here on Earth, Commanded to Go to All Nations and Peoples, He Calls us to Offer Up ourselves A Living Sacrifice! As with Abraham, our Father of Faith, G-d Provided Himself a Lamb for The sacrifice instead of Isaac, Yeshua / Jesus "gave" His Life Upon The Cross of Calvary (in our stead, as The Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World), so that we could "have" Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life In His Holy and Precious Name! I wonder sometimes, "How many of us openly and honestly Believe that we, like sheep, are Called to Live The Sacrificial Life?"
Look! Behold, The Beauty of The Lord!
Gaze Upon Him In The Temple, The Sanctuary (We "Are" The Temple of The Living G-d)! As Yeshua / Jesus was G-d's Servant, so are we to "Be" In this World.
When we humble ourselves In The Sight of The Lord, He lifts us up, He Upholds us. The Church, The Congregation of G-d "Is" His Elect, His Chosen Ones and His Beloved. You "Are" The Bride of Messiah / Christ, He has Chosen you to "Be" His Own, you were bought with The Precious Blood of His One and Only Begotten Son.
G-d's Soul, His Holy Spirit Looks, Gazes Upon, Beholds you and you "Are" His Delight. He Is not only pleased with you, but "Well Pleased!"
The Holy Spirit of The Lord G-d "Is" Upon you, Living, Moving and Having His Being In and Through you! We are encouraged to be, being continually and continuously filled with The Holy Spirit!
G-d, Your Father Who Art In Heaven, wants your cup of Life to overflow. His Word Is Spirit and Life, so get into It and allow It to get Into you!
How is it that G-d brought forth and showed His judgement to the Gentiles?
All the Judgment for the World's sin was brought upon Yeshua / Jesus. Pilate exclaimed, "Behold, The Man!" As Yeshua / Jesus was brought forth in public display for All the World to See, G-d showed His Judgement for "OUR" sins (publicly) by nailing The Messiah / The Christ / The Anointed One to The Tree. Cursed Is Every One Who Is Hung On A Tree! He Who knew no sin, became sin for us, so that we could become The Righteousness of G-d In Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus! Paul The Apostle talks about us, followers of Messiah / Christ as the ones put on public display. We MUST Live The Crucified Life in order for Messiah / Christ Who Is Our Life to be brought forth to our families, friends, co-workers, neighbors, friends and enemies (He Prepares A Table Before Us In The Presence Of Our Enemies And His Banner Over Us "Is" LOVE)!
Yeshua / Jesus "Is" G-d's Servant! He "Is" The Light of the World and we "Are" Called Upon By Him to "Be" A Light To The Nations as well. If we lift The Name of Yeshua / Jesus up and out to All Peoples, He Promises to Draw All men Unto Him. We "Have" The Light of Life, Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life, so pour out The Holy Spirit Oil, let His Fire burn and spread, so that None would perish and All would Come to Repentance In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen.
The Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon and Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Ministry To Broken And Wasted Lives: Isa. 42:3; 61:1-3; Matt. 12:20
The Word:
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgement unto truth.
- Isa. 40:11; Isa. 61:1-3
A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgement unto victory.
- Matt. 12:20
We "are" talking G-D here! No matter how perfect and successful you may think your little World is, apart from G-d, you are poor, lost pitiful, lame, broken and your life (this temporal one) is wasted. Even King David was considered to have a band of low-lives with him during his times of exile from Saul and his son, Absolom. Though we may appear to be in complete and total control of the circumstances surrounding our day, apart from Yeshua / Jesus, Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One, we are nothing and can do nothing, but Thanks Be To G-d! He has Reconciled us Unto Himself, Redeemed us from the curse of The Law (of sin and death) through The Work of His One And Only Begotten Son! As True Believers, Each of us has been giving a Ministry of Reconciliation to Go to the lost, broken and wasted lives in All Nations!
Never underestimate the Power of Almighty G-d! Although G-d's Word Speaks of Messiah not breaking a reed, He Will tear down whatever walls stand between you and His Heavenly Father, so that you can "be" In a Right Relationship With Him. Sure Yeshua / Jesus is Good (No Man Is Good, But G-d), Tender, Merciful (His Mercies Are Renewed Every Morning), Loving (G-d Is Love), Kind, wanting to show Favor (G-d's Grace) to you and All, but He Is The Man by Whom All Creation shall be judged! The Word says, He'll not quench smoking flax. The Anointed One sent His Precious Spirit, Holy Fire to burn deep within you! G-d wants you to stir up The Flame in your soul, send off sparks to other dry pieces of drift-wood, so that His Word Will Spread Like Wild-Fires!
Yeshua / Jesus came to Earth as a Perfect Sacrifice, Acceptable to The Lord G-d, so that we could "be" Forgiven of our sins and brought back into Communion and Fellowship with Him In The Unity of The Holy Ghost. G-d brought Judgement Unto Truth (Yeshua / Jesus Is The Truth)! All the punishment for our sin was laid upon Him at The Cross of Calvary where He died in our stead. G-d sent forth Judgement Unto Victory (Yeshua / Jesus Is Our Victor) and we "have" The Victory over sin and death, because of what He Has Done on our behalf!
O Victory In Yeshua / Jesus, My Savior Forever. He sought me and bought me with His Redeeming Blood. He Loved me ere I knew Him and All my Love Is Due Him. He plunged me to Victory beneath the cleansing flood!
Is He Alone not Worthy of All Glory, Honor and Praise Due His Holy and Precious Name? Do we not owe Him All?
Should we not also lay down our Life for Him and "Be" Obedient to His Call?
Minister to the broken hearted, give them a new heart and Life In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Help pick up the pieces of the wasted lives around you. G-d Is Our Redeemer and He Will buy back the lost years the locusts have eaten up. Go forth In Love, break down the strongholds of the enemy through prayer In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! It only takes a spark to keep The Fire Burning! Forsake not the assembling of The Brethren. As pieces of coal piled in a grill (getting hotter and hotter), together we can and will stir up the Gifts, Talents and Abilities G-d has Given us to Teach, Preach and Heal In His Name! Let us not quench The Work of The Holy Spirit in our lives. G-d's Judgement is surely coming to a sinful World, but we have The Truth to share with All who can Have The Victory In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and Grant, Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World.
Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: The Mockers
The Word:
I became also a reproach unto them:
when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
- Ps. 109:25
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads.
- Matt. 27:39, 40
Do your knees ever get weak and totter through fasting? Have you cried out to G-d, Help me, O Lord; O save me according to Your mercy and loving-kindness! [Ps. 109:26.] Yeshua / Jesus went to The Cross on our behalf and He treaded down our adversaries [Ps. 60:5-12.] In Him we find our help and rest! The Word of God tells us that everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.
Messiah, The Anointed One, Christ "became" a reproach (He became sin, so that we could become "The Righteousness of G-d In Him) unto All who saw Him die at Calvary and those who choose not to believe on The Lord Today! The Scripture says that "the dogs" surrounded Him. This is referring to "the Gentiles" (All those who were not Jewish), but I find it most interesting that we read, they shake their heads and wagging their heads. [Ps. 22:7, 8; 109:25.]
How many times have we passed by Yeshua / Jesus, spoken reproachfully, abusively and jeered at Him? Even as Christians, Believers In Yeshua / Jesus as Messiah, we find our"self" taking The Lord's Name in vain. Like those crucified to His left and right, we rob our"self," others and Him of The Glory Due To His Holy and Precious Name. He Is The King of Kings, Worthy of All Honor and Praise!
None of us should wash our hands of Him. [Deut. 21:6-9; Ps. 26:6.] Like the Roman Soldiers divided and distributed His garments among them, Yeshua / Jesus ascended to Heaven, Is Seated at The Right Hand of G-d, Our Father and poured out His Holy Spirit Upon All flesh (man, woman and child) and distributed The Gifts Of The Spirit to All. We are Called Upon By G-d to rightfully divide His Word of Truth, taking It to All Nations and Peoples!
Do not deny, disown or betray Him! We are not bound, but set Free! Let us live the crucified Life and shout The Victory!
He did not die in vain, but rose to Victory and when we put our Faith and Trust In Him, we "have" The Victory to overcome this present World In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: Ministry Begins In Galilee: Isa. 9:1, 2; Matt. 4:13-16
The Word:
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
- Isa. 9:1, 2
And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nepthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of Gentiles: The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
- Matt. 4:13-16
Can anything Good Come out of Nazareth?
The Word of G-d declares to us that He, The Messiah shall be Called A Nazarene!
Yeshua / Jesus Is The One and Only Begotten Son of G-d, The Christ, The Anointed One, The Light of the World.
Light was meant to Shine In the darkness, to chase it aWay and overCome it. Is your Light Shining or do you have It hidden under a bushel?
Light of the World, You stepped down into darkness, opened my eyes, let me see. Beauty that made these eyes Adore You, Hopes of A Life Spent With You.
Here I Am to Worship, here I Am to bow down, here I Am to say that You're My G-d. You're Altogether Lovely, Altogether Worthy, Altogether Wonderful To me.
Yeshua / Jesus Came to His Own and They Knew Him not! Do you Know Him (intimately and experientially) Today?
The Son Has Come To Dwell, Tabernacle, Reside In Our Hearts, Minds, Souls and Spirits. Do you Choose Light or darkness? Are you just standing in the shadows? If we Humble our"self" In The Sight of The Lord, He Will Lift Us Up! If we, As His People, The Chosen Ones of G-d, Pray, He Will Hear our voice, Answer us and Heal our land. If you are by The Way of the sea, land or air, beyond Jordan (thinking that you are beyond G-d's reach), In Galilee of the Nations (All Nations and Peoples), of the Jews, Gentiles, male, female, slave or free (He who The Son sets Free Is FREE INDEED), His Light of Life Will Shine On you, He'll Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you and Grant, Give To you His Shalom, Peace (The Peace of G-d Which Passes All human Understanding), Fullness, Wholeness and Blessings In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name (The Name Above All Names)!
Since The Fall of Mankind In The Garden of Eden, we have been walking, sitting, lying down and rising up in darkness, in the valley of the shadow of death, but G-d would say to you Today (Today "If" you Hear [Hear, O Israel] His Voice, harden not your heart and He Is Saying To you [Thus Saith The Lord G-d of Israel]), Arise (Arise, My Love) and Shine For Your Light Has Come! Have you seen A Great Light, The Great Light? Yeshua / Jesus says, I Am The Light of the World!
He Came to Earth to die in our stead. His Light, His Life was snuffed out upon The Cross of Calvary, so that His Light of Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life could Shine In our Hearts For Ever and Ever! Light Is Sprung Up! He Is Risen!
Yeshua / Jesus Is Alive!
The Branch, The Nazarene (Yeshua / Jesus of Nazereth) Came and Dwelt In The City of Comfort (Capernaum [Comfort, Comfort My People, says The Lord]). Upon the sea coasts, in the borders and certainly outside of "the box," His Light Shines Upon us All, the Righteous and the unrighteous. The question is, Will you Open Up Your Heart and Let The Son Shine In (In the deepest, darkest places, recesses of your very heart, mind and soul)? His Word Will Cut To The Very Bone and Marrow of your existence, where you dwell, what you think, do and say in the very depth of you. Are you Willing to Allow His Light of Life turn your dimness, vexation, affliction, darkness, regions and shadows of death Into His Light Beyond Light? Cry Aloud (Sing A New Song), Spring Up, O Well (Yeshua / Jesus Is The Well Spring of Life), With In My Soul! Spring Up, O Well and Make Me Whole! Spring Up, O Well and Give To me, That (Light of) Life Abundantly In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Grant, Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness Wholeness and Richest Blessings Over All In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World.
Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Anointed By The Spirit: Isa. 11:2; Matt. 3:16; Luke 3:22; 4:18
The Word:
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
- Isa. 11:2
And Yeshua / Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of G-d descending like a dove, and lighting upon him.
- Matt. 3:16; Luke 3:22; 4:18
It Is The Anointing that breaks the yoke of bondage, sin and death in our Life.
Messiah's Yoke Is Easy and His Burden Light. Isaiah The Prophet wrote, The Spirit of The Lord Is Upon Me, Yeshua / Jesus quoted It in His First Public Preaching / Teaching and as Believers, Christians, Followers of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, we "have" The Spirit of The Lord Upon, In and Working Through us too! It Is The Third Person of The Trinity, The Holy Ghost, The Spirit of The Living G-d that falls fresh on us, melts us, molds us, fills us and uses us for His Good Pleasure. We "are" His Workmanship, Created In Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus for Good Works In His Holy and Precious Name. He Is The Air we Breath! It is our job to enter into His Rest and to allow His Holy Presence to Rest Upon us. All the Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Might and Knowledge of The Lord Is Found In Him, His Word, His Will and His Way! The Reverential Fear and Acknowledgement of The Lord, All that He Was, Is and Is to Come to, in and through us Is just The Beginning.
When our Life Is Hid In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One By Faith, we are dipped, submerged, baptized Into All That He Is. We "are" One In The Spirit and One In The Lord. If Yeshua / Jesus said It, Believe It, Receive It and Walk In It!
Everything He Did was StraightWay, because He Is The Straight and Narrow Way, The Only Way to G-d, Our Father Who Art In Heaven! Just as when our Mother's water broke and we came forth unto Life on this Earth, so we "are" washed by The Water and The Word, brought forth Into Spiritual Rebirth, Born Again of The Spirit and The Precious Blood of Messiah that was shed upon The Cross of Calvary. When Yeshua / Jesus gave up The Ghost, The Temple Veil was torn from top to bottom and The New and Living Way to The Holy of Holies, Heaven was opened Unto us!
Do you See The Spirit of G-d Upon you?
We can go boldly before His Throne of Grace and Mercy on behalf of others In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name, intercede for them and get A Word From G-d! When Messiah / The Christ Ascended Into Heaven and was seated at The Right Hand of G-d, Our Heavenly Father, He poured out His Spirit upon All flesh, so that we could accomplish and fulfill His Plan and Purposes for mankind. As Ambassadors for Messiah / Christ, His Representatives and Disciples, we MUST go forward In His Name to reach the lost and dying. The Spirit of The Living, One True G-d has descended upon us too, like a dove, the symbol of Peace, His Shalom, Fullness, Wholeness, Blessings and He Is Resting Upon us, Lighting Upon us, so that we can Shine our Light In this present World of darkness! Let us Go Forward In The Joy of The Lord, Anointed, Empowered and Enabled to Do and Be All that He has Created us For In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face to Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give, Grant to you His Shalom In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Flight Into Egypt: Hosea 11:1; Matt. 2:14, 15
The Word:
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
- Hosea 11:1
When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
- Matt. 2:14, 15
Messiah said, Whatever you have done unto the least of these, My Brethren, you have done it Unto Me! Many times, as Believers, we do not understand how we are completely and totally connected to Yeshua / Jesus. We "Are" One In The Spirit and One In The Lord! Saul / Paul The Apostle was asked, "Why do you persecute Me?" and not, "Why do you persecute The Church?" He Is The Chief Cornerstone And The Capstone, The First And The Last, The Alpha And The Omega, The Beginning And The End, The Head Of The Church, His Body and we "Are" That Body! G-d Called Israel out of Egypt, The Nation and The Man. The G-d of Abraham (Our Father Of Faith), Isaac (The Promised Son) and Jacob (Israel) was speaking In "The Then And Now" and Prophetically Towards The (First) Coming Of Messiah. That (This) "Is" How and Why Matthew could write under the influence of The Holy Spirit, That "It" Might "Be" FULFILLED (Yeshua / Jesus Fulfilled All Scripture) which was spoken Of The Lord, By The Prophet!
The Entire Old Covenant shines The Light Towards and On Messiah! These Things were written for our Understanding! As Children of The Most High G-d, we "Are" Loved By Him, and Called out of Egypt, sin and bondage. G-d spoke to Joseph (Mary's Husband) in a dream (we "Are" to dream dreams and see visions [without vision, G-d's People perish]) and he arose! Are you listening and acting upon G-d's Word to you Today? He Has Commissioned and Commanded us to Go, In His Name, to All Nations and Peoples! Sometimes we have to go, depart into Egypt, so that we can Call others out. Are you willing to go anywhere at anytime for Him? Joseph, Mary and Yeshua / Jesus had to wait upon The Lord G-d Almighty, until the death of Herod (the evil king); that The Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life In The King Of Kings and Lord of Lords could Come out of Egypt, death and darkness to Shine Forth His Light of Life and Bring His Righteousness, Allowing us All to Enter In To A Right Relationship, Communion and Fellowship With Our Father Who Art In Heaven, Hallowed Be His Holy and Precious Name!
Out of Egypt, G-d Is Calling you! In the past He Spoke to Moses, The Prophets, Joseph and many others who had ears to hear, but Today He Speaks To us In and Through His Son, The Living Word, In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face to Shine, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give, Grant To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Richest Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Messianic Visions: Massacre of the Infants at HisBrth
"Thus says the Lord: 'A voice was heard in Ramah, lamenting and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.' " - Jer 31:15
"The Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all it's districts from two years old and under, according to the time which he determined from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet saying, 'A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentations, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.' " - Matt 2:16-18
A young man once shared with me this insight that he'd gotten while reading Genesis: The serpent, when G-d's judgment cost him his legs, was sentenced to crawl on his belly and eat dust all of his days - and since then, he's been hungry for the only part of G-d's creation that was made from dust: Men.
And hungriest most, obviously, for the dust that the Creator came down as - Jesus the Messiah.
Satan does all he can to keep truth from the ears of mankind,because he is the father of lies and a liar through and through. When G-d saw fit to give His law to man, Satan sought to thwart Him by putting it on the Pharaoh's heart to have all male children cast into the river and drowned in an attempt to kill the infant would-be-lawgiver, Moses.
When G-od saw fit to fulfill the law for man, Satan sought to thwart him by putting it on Herod's heart to have all male children killed in an attempt to kill the infant would-be-redeemer, Jesus.
But just as G-d brought Moses out of the water safely (and it wouldn't be the last time!) to fulfill his purpose, He brought Jesus up out of the water, commissioned and proclaimed as G-d's beloved Son who was to take away the Sin of the world.
And the ememy's devices were halted. Why? Because as Solomon so beautifully put it "Love is as strong as death"- and stronger when it is the love of G-d towards us, the perfect love that compelled Him to rescue and ransom His creation from the grip of the deceiver.
One last time, or so he thought, the murderer who overtook the heart of the Pharaoh and the heart of Herod, tried his hand at the hearts of Pilate and the crowd. And he thought he'd won.
The whips were bloodied, the three nails were in place. The Creator was lifted high from His creation, as He - the Nazarene - bled. And cried out... and died.
There was darkness in the middle of the day. Chaos from order, darkness from light, the Life-giver sentenced to death. Satan had finally done it. He couldn't slay the innocent, couldn't stop G-d, the first few times around, but finally...finally he'd done it at Calvary. But then...
Sunday morning rolled around, and apparently so did the rock that held Jesus in the tomb. And Satan found that he had not killed the Innocent after all.
And later, again, by the hand of Saul of Tarsus (which proved to back fire, anyway! :-) the enemy tried to kill all the innocents precious to G-d
- only that time, it wasn't the physical children, but the new believers in the Messiah were his target. Not only by drowning, not only by crucifixion, but by be-heading, by stoning, by beating, by burning and by feeding us to lions (putting a whole new spin on the term "Christian entertainment")
But we are still not dying. Even the precious Saints who stand as Martyrs, have no shadow of death on them even as they close their eyes for the last earthly time. And the precious Saints now, who stand in the midst of circumstances that tempt and tumble them, are still brought to their feet again by the merciful One who conquered death to make all of us, yes, the innocents.
If G-d be for us, who can be against us? Jesus never fails.
Messianic Visions: Born in Bethlehem
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting." (Micah 5:2)
"Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came from Jerusalem..." (Matthew 2:1)
"Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David." (Luke 2:4)
"Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?" (John 7:42)
Not only is Jesus the offspring of David, but he is also the root of David. The One in whom David's hope of redemption, faith, and praise was firmly planted...the one who nourished and fed into this man who slew bears, killed giants, ruled Israel, worshipped naked before God and knew, first hand, the mercy of his Lord.
Hundreds of years before the holy baby was laid in that manger, He was announced...like a prince taking the throne of his father, yet this Prince was the one who gave the throne to David, and was the King that David waited for.
If you've ever heard any Christmas carols at all, you know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Bethlehem. It means "The house of Bread" I don't think it'sa coincidence that the house of bread did indeed house the Bread of Life, the One who Fed the thousands, and who commands any who love Him to do the same... The One who feeds our souls and nourishes our spirits and fills us.
Israel was waiting for a Redeemer who would rule the world, who would obliterate their enemies, who would lead them from slavery to freedom and who would be a mighty warrior who would bring peace.
Indeed, Jesus did all that. Not the way He was expected to, but the way He HAD to if He loved us at all...
He was the redeemer who rules hearts, who obliterates enemies with love, who bought our freedom by his own bonds and blood, who conquered not an earthly government, but Death and Hell to bring us peace, and who was the seed of King David, laying in a barn.
Who the Messiah was promised to be, and all who Jesus of Nazareth is, is ALL within our field of view, if we just have the eyes to see.
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Subject: Messianic Message - Massacre of Infants at His Birth Jer 31:15 / Matt 2:16-18
(Messianic) Massacre of Infants at His birth: Jer 31:15 / Matt 2:16-18
"Thus says the Lord: 'A voice was heard in Ramah, lamenting and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.' " - Jer 31:15
"The Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all it's districts from two years old and under, according to the time which he determined from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet saying, 'A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentations, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.' "
- Matt 2:16-18
A young man once shared with me this insight that he'd gotten while reading Genesis: The serpent, when G-d's judgment cost him his legs, was sentenced to crawl on his belly and eat dust all of his days - and since then, he's been hungry for the only part of G-d's creation that was made from dust: Men.
And hungriest most, obviously, for the dust that the Creator came down as - Jesus the Messiah.
Satan does all he can to keep truth from the ears of mankind,because he is the father of lies and a liar through and through. When G-d saw fit to give His law to man, Satan sought to thwart Him by putting it on the Pharaoh's heart to have all male children cast into the river and drowned in
an attempt to kill the infant would-be-lawgiver, Moses.
When G-od saw fit to fulfill the law for man, Satan sought to thwart him by putting it on Herod's heart to have all male children killed in an attempt to kill the infant would-be-redeemer, Jesus.
But just as G-d brought Moses out of the water safely (and it wouldn't be the last time!) to fulfill his purpose, He brought Jesus up out of the water, commissioned and proclaimed as G-d's beloved Son who was to take away the Sin of the world. And the ememy's devices were halted. Why? Because as Solomon so beautifully put it "Love is as strong as death"- and stronger when it is the love of G-d towards us, the perfect love that compelled Him to rescue and ransom His creation from the grip of the deceiver.
One last time, or so he thought, the murderer who overtook the heart of the Pharaoh and the heart of Herod, tried his hand at the hearts of Pilate and the crowd. And he thought he'd won.
The whips were bloodied, the three nails were in place. The Creator was lifted high from His creation, as He - the Nazarene - bled. And cried out... and died.
There was darkness in the middle of the day. Chaos from order, darkness from light, the Life-giver sentenced to death.
Satan had finally done it. He couldn't slay the innocent, couldn't stop G-d, the first few times around, but finally...finally he'd done it at Calvary. But then...
Sunday morning rolled around, and apparently so did the rock that held Jesus in the tomb. And Satan found that he had not killed the Innocent after all.
And later, again, by the hand of Saul of Tarsus (which proved to back fire, anyway! :-) the enemy tried to kill all the innocents precious to G-d
- only that time, it wasn't the physical children, but the new believers in the Messiah were his target. Not only by drowning, not only by crucifixion, but by be-heading, by stoning, by beating, by burning and by feeding us to lions (putting a whole new spin on the term "Christian entertainment")
But we are still not dying. Even the precious Saints who stand as Martyrs, have no shadow of death on them even as they close their eyes for the last earthly time. And the precious Saints now, who stand in the midst of circumstances that tempt and tumble them, are still brought to their feet again by the merciful One who conquered death to make all of us, yes, the innocents.
If G-d be for us, who can be against us?
Jesus never fails.
Love in Jesus,
Juliet
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Subject: Messianic Message and the November Issue of Arms of Love Fellowship !
It's November first, and is All Saint's Day. So, for all you saints out there - thank you! Thank you for all the work you do for the Kingdom...all the prayer, all the visitations, all the encouragement and friendship and strength you offer God's people and the people that God desires to be His. You are my brothers and my sisters...we have a common blood running through us, the blood of Jesus.
I'm blessed and privileged to be a part of The Body of Christ and serve along side you...
Well, that being said, here is the new November issue of Arms of Love Fellowship. We hope it blesses you and encourages you and draws you nearer to Jesus. To check it out, click on:
http://www.armsoflovefellowship.com
With love and prayers,
Mark
Messianic Message: Born in Bethlehem
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting." (Micah 5:2)
"Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came from Jerusalem..." (Matthew 2:1)
"Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David." (Luke 2:4)
"Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?" (John 7:42)
Not only is Jesus the offspring of David, but he is also the root of David.
The One in whom David's hope of redemption, faith, and praise was firmly planted...the one who nourished and fed into this man who slew bears, killed giants, ruled Israel, worshipped naked before God and knew, first hand, the mercy of his Lord.
Hundreds of years before the holy baby was laid in that manger, He was announced...like a prince taking the throne of his father, yet this Prince was the one who gave the throne to David, and was the King that David waited for.
If you've ever heard any Christmas carols at all, you know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Bethlehem. It means "The house of Bread" I don't think it'sa coincidence that the house of bread did indeed house the Bread of Life, the One who Fed the thousands, and who commands any who love Him to do the same... The One who feeds our souls and nourishes our spirits and fills us.
Israel was waiting for a Redeemer who would rule the world, who would obliterate their enemies, who would lead them from slavery to freedom and who would be a mighty warrior who would bring peace.
Indeed, Jesus did all that. Not the way He was expected to, but the way He HAD to if He loved us at all...
He was the redeemer who rules hearts,
who obliterates enemies with love
who bought our freedom by his own bonds and
blood
who conquered not an earthly government, but Death and Hell to bring us peace.
and who was the seed of King David, laying in a barn.
Who the Messiah was promised to be, and all who Jesus of Nazareth is, is ALL within our field of view, if we just have the eyes to see.
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Subject: Messianic Message: David (Jer 23:5 / Romans 1:3/ Matt 1:16 / Jn 7:42
"Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord, "That I will raise to David a branch of righteousness; a King shall reign and prosper, and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth." (Jer 23:5)
"…Concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh." (Romans1:3)
"And Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called 'Christ'."
(Matt 1:16)
"Has not the Scriptures said that the Christ comes from the seed of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?" (John 7:42)
Jesus of Nazareth was a reality long before He took His first breath in Bethlehem. The fact that He is the Eternal Word of G-d, the Creator and the second person of the Trinity from everlasting to everlasting, slain before the foundation of the world… all of that aside, beyond the fact that He has always been a reality in the heavenlies, He has also always been a reality here on earth, from the beginning.
In the Garden of Eden, He was the one the Father spoke of, who would crush the serpent's head.
He was the fourth person in the fiery furnace.
He was the pillar of smoke by day and the pillar of fire by night.
He was the Messiah who's coming was foretold of old… not because the prophets could foretell a future event…but because the prophets KNEW G-d, and SAW that Jesus is a reality even then.
They looked into the heavens and saw Jesus. Saw the Messiah, saw the Christ, because he was ALREADY there.
The fact that He was to be born of the line of David and be born in Bethlehem was already a done deal thousands of years before the deed was done. Like a story already told, time was laid out before these prophets like a mountain range, seeing the beginning and the end as part of the same whole.
David, whose generations, whose progeny was in his spiritual loins, was not only the root of the branch that was promised to him, but was also the offspring of the Nazarene who had spoken into existence the dust with which he formed David's forefather Adam.
These are the things that should bring comfort to our souls, should cool our burning minds and explain peace to us when we are confused…It is all set in motion, it is all under the Eye. G-d is always the same. He does not change, and we are made into the likeness of Jesus more and more as we seek His face.
Time can not usurp the plans of the Almighty. We're a song He has already written, a song that is on His mind, that has His attention, with a rhythm that pumps in time with the Savior's blood in our veins.
G-d will accomplish His purpose in us, just as He accomplishes His purpose in all things.
Beyond time, He is always faithful.
Love in Jesus,
Juliet
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Subject: From Mark Tross: Messianic Visions ; Yeshua's / Jesus' Family Tree:
Abraham:
Yeshua's / Jesus' Family Tree: Abraham:
Gen. 18:18; Matt. 1:1; Acts 3:25
The Word:
"Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?" (Gen. 18:18)
"The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham." (Matt. 1:1)
"You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your seed shall all the families of earth be blessed.' " (Acts 3:25)
There's "far". And then there's "farther".
There's "deep", then there's "deeper".
There is the obvious, and then there is the revealed.
A great and mighty Nation through Abraham? Israel. Obviously.
The sons of the covenant and blessed by the seed of Abraham? Israel. Obviously.
Abraham's generations came and went, birthrights were sold, Israel was established – albeit with a limp, but with the Blessing nonetheless. Brothers sold brightly-coated brothers into slavery, The Law was given, and all was set in motion – and stayed in motion - for thousands of years. But then that baby showed up in swaddling clothes, and the obvious was overshadowed by the revealed.
We can take the promise far - of a great nation which was given to Abraham and we can see the beloved people Israel who by the very hand and heart of G-d were covenanted with and were set apart by G-d for His own use and glory.
We can take the promise far – that those set apart for G-d and by G-d were sons of the covenant and blessed by the seed of Abraham - the great fathers of the Faith, those who, though having not seen the Promise, believed in it with just the same fervor as if they'd beheld it with their own eyes…
We can take these promises far and SEE how G-d was faithful to His own, to His Israel, His Chosen – and just that would be enough. Just the notion that the Creator of the Universe would be faithful to a hunk of very fortunate mud is enough to keep anyone with a brainstem in awe of such a Love. But then…
We can take the promise farther.
A great and mighty nation through Abraham? The Redeemed. (The Blood-bought. The Ransomed.)
Obviously.
The sons of the Covenant and blessed by the seed of Abraham? The Redeemed.
(The Blood-bought. The Ransomed.)
Obviously.
We can take the promise farther and see that the great nation that came from Abraham's seed is the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down from Heaven as a Bride adorned for her Husband. And that Her bridal vestments- her white linen – is the righteous acts of the Saints…
And that WE are the sons of the covenant - the new covenant (Yeshua said: "For this is My blood of the new Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.") And we are blessed by the seed of Abraham, ("…Jesus Christ…the Son of Abraham." [Matt. 1:1]) Because BLESSED are the Peace makers, for they shall be called Sons of God – called the sons of God because we have been given the ministry of reconciliation (aka: Peacemaking), called "Sons of God" because we are daily being made into the likeness of the Yeshua, the Only Begotten Son of God.
Taking the promise far, all that those who were of the seed of Abraham could do was claim to have Abraham as their father. Obviously.
Taking the promise farther, those of us who have been transformed into the likeness of He who is the promised seed of Abraham can claim to have G-d, the ALMIGHTY, as our father.
We are not only children of the promise, but joint heirs with He who is the Promised…
Behold, what manner of love the Father has given unto us!
God bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Yeshua's/Jesus'FamilyTree:Isaac Gen17:19;21:12;Luke3:34;Matt1:2;Rom9:7
The Word:
And G-d said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
- Gen. 17:19; Gen. 21:12
Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor.
- Luke 3:34; Matt. 1:2; Rom. 9:7
As far as trees go, He is not only planted by streams of Living Water, but The Living Water Himself! Yeshua / Jesus is not only rooted and grounded In G-d's Word, but The Word of G-d Himself! He Is The Shoot, The Sprout, The Offspring of Jesse, The Branch, Yeshua / Jesus of Nazareth, The Son of Man & The Son of G-d Almighty! The Seed of Abraham, our Father of Faith, The Seed of Isaac, The Promised Son was planted in the womb of The Virgin Mary, born, lived, died, was buried in A Virgin Tomb and rose again as The First Fruits of Eternal, Everlasting Life! As Believers In Him we become engrafted Into Yeshua's / Jesus' Family Tree, The Tree of Life. We have been redeemed by The Blood / The Life of The Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World and completely restored to a right relationship with G-d, Our Heavenly Father.
For most of us it will come as quite a shock to find out that even in The New Covenant, G-d's Word tells us that Sarah Is Our Spiritual Mother! As the wife of Abraham (and 1/2 sister), she called Him Lord. Those of us who follow Yeshua / Jesus and Obey His Commandments, He says, Are His Mothers, Sisters & Brothers! Not only that, but we "ARE" His Bride. Male, Female, Jew or Gentile.
The Church, His Body Is His Wife! This Is "The Mystery" that Paul The Apostle spoke and wrote about. We Are FAMILY!
Did you ever wonder why The Church is alWays referred to as The Mother?
Usually when other Congregations spring up and out of another Body, they are spoken of as "Sister Churches" and the Home Base is called The Mother Church.
As The Body of Messiah / Christ, we are commanded to Be Fruitful and Multiply!
The Church is to be constantly growing, planting seeds and giving birth to New Life. Are you bearing The Son?
Isaac means Laughter. Most Names given in Scripture depict the times. Certainly Sarah would laugh when she overheard The 3 Visitors to Abraham inform him that she would give birth to a Son since she was old and advanced in years. As her Promised Son brought her Laughter, The Promised Son of G-d brings Joy To The World! The Lord Is Come! Let Earth Receiver Her King of Kings and Every Heart Prepare Him Room! Heaven and Nature Sings!
It was Yeshua / Jesus Who established the Promised, New, Everlasting Covenant of G-d and with His Seed after Him!
Listen to what The Holy Spirit Is Saying To The Church Today! In The Gospel of John, Chapter 17, Yeshua / Jesus prayed for His Disciples (we are ALL Called of G-d to Be Disciples of Messiah / Christ) and for ALL those who would Believe their Message of and about Him. It is because of their Faithfulness In Planting and Spreading The Seed of G-d's Word to ALL Nations and Peoples that we have sprouted forth unto Newness of Life In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name! Each Generation is to keep passing on The Word until Yeshua / Jesus returns to Earth again to establish His Kingdom and our Eternal Home. Yes!
He Was and Is The Son of Jacob, The Son of Israel and He Calls us ALL to Be Children of The Most High G-d, His Sons and Daughters Of The Faith!
Isaac brought Joy / Spiritual Laughter to The World, The Lord Is Come! We take The Essence of Messiah / Christ everywhere we go, so let us bring His Light of Life, His Joy, His Peace, His Spirit of Grace, His Family Tree, The Tree of Life, His Love to All Nations and Peoples In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face to Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give to you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus,The Light of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions ; Jesus to be Born of a Virgin (Is 7:14, Matt1:23, Lk 1:26-35
Messianic Message: Jesus to be Born of a Virgin (Is 7:14, Matt1:23, Lk 1:26-35)
"Therefore, the LORD Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel." (Is 7:14)
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a Son and they shall call His name Immanuel." (Matt 1:23)
"Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, 'Rejoice, highly favored one, for the LORD is with you; blessed are you among women!'
But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was.
Then the angel said to her, 'Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with G-d. And behold, you will conceive in your womb Son, and shall call His name JESUS. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the LORD G-d will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end."
Then Mary said to the angel, 'How can this be, since I do not know a man?' And the angel answered and said to her, 'the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of G-d.' " (Lk 1:26-35)
When I found out that I was expecting my second son only seven months after I'd given birth to my first one, some people had the momentary lapse of social graces (bless their hearts…) to ask me if this second pregnancy was "an accident" - a question to which I consistently replied "No, not an accident. Just a surprise.
And what a surprise Mary had that fateful day, standing nose to nose with Gabriel, being told that she was blessed and favored and chosen to house her Creator in her own belly.
Now, anyone who could read Isaiah 7:14 (which I'm sure she must have, but if not her, then at least her intended – because Joseph was a nice Jewish boy and he would have read the prophets…) and then be visited by an angel regarding those very events taking place in their own lives should have put two and two together immediately. But Mary pondered the whole "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" thing, and Joseph was ready to call the whole marriage off, no matter how much he loved her because he was probably pondering the "how can this be, since she is a virgin?" thing too, only with more of a "Yeah, right…" spin on the question.
But G-d had pity on their earnest confusion (as He does on the earnest confusion of all of us) and gave them words and dreams and visions to help them through, to - in the purity of their intentions – prepare them to receive the Christ unto themselves.
Jesus was born of a virgin. The seed of G-d nestled in a pure womb came to fruition in the presence of Immanuel.
It could have happened no other way.
And G-d never changes. The Word of G-d is living and active, and G-d - when He moves – does not move within the bondage of time because everything that He does, He does for all time and for all people. (Which is why the blood of Jesus, so long ago spilled, so long ago dried up away from the ground below the cross, can still fall on repentant sinners and stumbling saints this very day…)
And the coming of Immanuel could still happen no other way. The birth of Jesus (who was the first fruit of a new creation) not only was an event that caused the heavens and the earth, the present and the future, the living and the dead to never again be the same, it was in itself a first fruit. A model. A map to lead us in preparedness to receive the Christ unto ourselves.
The seed of G-d (the nudging of the Holy Spirit, the calling of our hearts to salvation, the work of the cross) must nestle itself into the pure womb of our deepest places, our most desperate hearts must purely, earnestly and achingly long for Him to enter in. Like the psalmist wrote: "As a deer panteth after water, so my soul longs after thee."
It is then, and only then, that "the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you" and Jesus will be birthed in you.
And yes, Mary was an exceptional woman, blessed beyond measure, and I'm not sure if given the same circumstances, I'd have risen with as great a faith as she demonstrated…
But what G-d proclaimed to Mary through His messenger Gabriel is being proclaimed to YOU this day:
"Rejoice, highly favored one, for the LORD is with you; blessed are you…! Do not be afraid, for you have found favor with G-d. The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you!"
Indeed, you have found favor with G-d, by the precious blood of the Messiah. His Spirit wants to come upon you, He longs to have His power overshadow
you as He fills you with Himself.
Let our desire for G-d be pure.
Let Jesus be birthed in all of us.
Amen.
Love in Jesus,
Juliet
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"Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up." - J. Hudson Taylor
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Subject: Messianic Visions: Jesus to be the Seed of a Woman Gen 3:15, Gal 4:4, Heb 2:14
"And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise His heel."
-Gen 3:15
"But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law…"
-Gal
4:4
"Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself shared in the same, that through death, He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil." -
Heb 2:14
"She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne."
- Rev 12:5
Okay, all right. God's Son would have to be born of a woman if He was to ever be born at all, because that's HOW babies are born. (If any of you are unclear on that, please e-mail me privately…)
Over the past week or so, I have been pondering what Mary was like. I was pondering Why God chose her. Yes, she was a Godly woman of the line of David, betrothed to a Godly man who was also of the line of David, but honestly, there were probably a lot of young women who fit the genealogy bill at that time.
Scripture doesn't say a word about her until we hear that she was visited by Gabriel, and even after the manger scene, we still really aren't told much. But I still pondered. I pondered what it must have been like for her when the Spirit of God overshadowed her, and I would venture to say that I couldn't even venture to say.
I'll ask her when I see her, I guess. If I think of it. If I'm not too busy wrapping my arms around Jesus' ankles, and letting my grateful tears wash his nail scarred feet for the first bazillion years that I'm there. Anyway, I'm getting off the subject. Onward…
The "Born from the seed of a woman" is important on a lot of levels.
Genesis said that God put enmity between the seed of the serpent and the Seed of the woman.
The seed of the serpent is the world, the world's system and all that is under the dominion of the lord of this world, who is Satan himself. The seed of the serpent is the root of bitterness, the sin that ensnares and distracts and takes root in men's hearts so that the entangling vines and thorns of it can choke the eternal life out of all it seduces into it's false sense of safety. (I think that about covers it…)
The seed of the woman has a three-fold definition; The woman being specifically Mary, literally humankind and figuratively the Nation Israel, (who God calls His wife, so it would stand to reason that He would sire a child for her…) No matter which of the three definitions we focus on, each one denotes a Godliness. A God-owned-ness.
God would do no other thing BUT put enmity between the kingdom of the world and His own glorious Kingdom, because as He Himself said, "What fellowship does light have with darkness?" In a sense, He separated Light from darkness TWICE in Genesis. Once in Genesis 1:4 right after He Created light, and then again here, in Genesis 3:15 when He, in a single act of fierce protection, implanted a now-natural disdain in all that is holy for all that is not. So actually, because of God's mercy, we cannot serve two masters.
This verse of scripture is also the first prophecy concerning the Messiah, the Christ, Jesus. All Satan could do to the Seed of the woman would be to bruise His heel. Knick His foot. Be a nuisance.
But The Seed of the Woman, Jesus Christ, would bruise the serpent's head.
Other translations say "Crush" the serpent's head. As in a fatal blow. As in victory.
God's Son was also born of a woman so as to be born under the Law. If Jesus was not born under the Law, then He could never have been the fulfillment of the law. If one were to be above the Law (but no one was) he would have no reason to fulfill its requirements. But Jesus was born fully human and fully subject to the burden of the Law that God had laid on all of us…then God laid on Him the burden of us all.
Jesus was born unto God through the womb of Israel. Through the Jews, through the "People of the Book" as they were known because of their devotion to the Word of God, the Word of God came.
Jesus could have been born through no other people BUT Israel, because God is faithful and had covenanted with Her.
All scripture, whether Old Testament or New, speaks of Jesus because He IS the Word.
Every story, every commandment, every song in that book are shadows made by the casting of the Nazarene's glorious light onto those holy pages.
He came through humankind to save humankind. He came through Israel because God is faithful to His promises.
He came through Mary because yes, it is the natural order of birth, but also because He manifests Himself through PEOPLE. Through you, through me, through any mortal flesh and bone willing enough to house Him and present Him to the world.
Love in Jesus,
Juliet
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Subject: NEW ADDRESS / Message:Judah:Gen. 49:10; Rev. 5:5; Matt. 1:2; Luke 3:34
The Word:
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
- Gen. 49:10
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
- Rev. 5:5
Matt. 1:2; Luke 3:34
Who "Is" The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, but He Alone Who "Is" Worthy, The One and Only Begotten Son of G-d, He Who holds The Sceptre while seated at The Right Hand of G-d The Father, The Lion of The Tribe of Judah, The Branch, Ben-David, The Son of David! The Word of G-d is clear that "He" Will Gather those that "He" Has Scattered. Who "Is" The Servant of G-d, The Good Shepherd, The Bishop of our hearts and souls, The One Who stands in the center, in the midst of the 7 Golden Lampstands?
Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One has come as The Light of The World to Light your Light of Life! He wants to open up your Spiritual eyes and ears, so that you can see and hear what The Spirit "Is" Saying To His Church, His Bride. Let those who have ears to hear, "Hear, O Israel!"
If not for Queen Esther going before her King (who held out his sceptre to her) there would be no Nation of Israel for Messiah to come to! Is it at all possible that G-d has brought you to this time and place in your Life, so that you would Go, Boldly before His Throne of Grace and Mercy on behalf of others? Yeshua / Jesus says, "Come, Let us reason together." He has Given us The Perfect Law of Liberty, The Law of Love, so that we could go out to the high-ways and by-ways of this World to gather the lost sheep of His Fold. Are you a "Fisher of men"? We Have Glad Tidings, Good News, The Gospel of G-d In Messiah / Christ to shout from the mountains! Light was meant to Shine In the darkness, He "Is" The Light of the World and we "are" to be Lights, a city on a hill Shining out for ALL to See!
Weep not! Look! See! Behold! Hennay!
The Lion of The Tribe of Judah (from whom the sceptre shall not depart), Shiloh has come! The Root, The Shoot, The Branch, The Offspring of David has prevailed. He has gone to The Cross of Calvary to pay the price for mankind's sin (without the shedding of Blood there is no forgiveness of sin), so that our names could be written in The Lamb's Book of Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life!
Yeshua / Jesus rose again from the grave on The Third Day, overcame sin and death, so that we could Be Overcomers In His Holy and Precious Name! If you have Faith In Him (without Faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to Please G-d), you prevail, are more than a conqueror! In ALL Things, we "Have" The Victory!
He Who prevailed to open The Book (Has G-d opened His Holy Book, The Bible Unto you?) and has The Power to loose the seven seals can also prevail over any closed area of your Life In Him. Those who Messiah sets Free "are" FREE Indeed! You are loosed from any hold that the enemy claims to have on you.
Satan, the accuser of The Brethren has no power over you. Whatever you (as a Believer) bind on Earth In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name "Is" bound In Heaven and whatever you loose on Earth "Is" loosed In Heaven! I would say that it is high time that we start binding and loosing. The devil has put on you what G-d wants to take off of you, put in you what G-d wants to take out of you and put on you what G-d wants to take off of you. G-d's Word says, "Resist the devil and he MUST Flee from you!" You don't have to sit around and take his junk!
Arise and Shine for your Light has come!
The King is extending His Sceptre to you.
Sit at His Feet. Bask In His Light. Allow Him to open up your heart, mind, soul, Spirit and strength To Him and His Holy Word. Weep not (unless you weep "tears of Joy"). Look and See that The Lion of The Tribe of Judah "Is" Here For you, The Root of David, has prevailed! You Are Not Alone! You Are Set FREE! Released To Be ALL that He has Called you To and Created you For! Be Loosed! Go and Do ALL that He Calls you To, because the seals have been broken, but you "are" Made Whole In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions Message!
Jacob: Gen. 28:14; Matt. 1:2; Luke 3:34
The Word:
And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
- Gen.28:14
Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob.
- Matt. 1:2; Luke 3:34
Are ALL the families of the Earth blessed - enjoying enviable, fortunate, happy, glad, supremely joyful, blithesome, joyous, envied, Spiritually prosperous with Life-Joy, possessing the happiness / satisfaction produced by experience of / in that state in which the Born-Again Child Of G-d enjoys G-d's Favor, especially conditioned by the Revelation, revealing of His matchless, unmerited Grace, Mercy and Salvation, Yeshua / Jesus, regardless of their outward conditions, In The Seed (G-d's Holy and Precious Word) that you present, bring forth and In you (In The Way you Live, Move and Have your Being)?
Granted, That Is a mouthful (Certainly, a "Loaded Question"), but as Children of Abraham, Children of The Most High G-d, Children of Faith (for without Faith it is impossible to Please G-d and Yeshua / Jesus "Is" The Author and Finisher of our Faith) we are to begat Isaac, Laughter, Joy In The Holy Ghost and we are to begat Jacob / Israel. It was Jacob, The Heel Catcher, who begat The 12 Tribes of Israel, The Nation which G-d chose to bring Salvation / Yeshua / Jesus to the World!
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; He shall bruise and tread your head under foot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel. [Gal. 4:4.]
- Genesis 3:15
From "The Beginning", G-d laid out His Plan of Salvation / Yeshua / Jesus to ALL Nations and Peoples In and Through His Spoken, Written and Living Word! Have you been wrestling with G-d lately? Are you trying to figure out His Perfect and Acceptable Will for your Life In Him? It's In The Book (It "Is" Written About Me In The Volume, In The Scroll Of The Book), The Bible, The Word of G-d. He has given us EVERYTHING we need to live our Life Unto Him In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One and ALL Good (G-d Is Good ALL the time) Things Come Down From G-d out of Heaven (Yeshua / Jesus Himself said, "I Am The [Living] Bread that Came Down From G-d out of Heaven")! Have you been listening to what He has got to say? Are you walking In The Light (Yeshua / Jesus "Is" The Light Of The World) that G-d has given you?
If you confess to Believe In / On Him and have asked Him for Salvation, then He has given you His Holy Spirit, so "In" you "Is" The Seed of Abraham (Our Father of Faith), The Seed of G-d, Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One / Yeshua / Jesus!
Messiah / Christ "In" you "Is" The Hope Of Glory / The Hope Of Israel / The Hope Of The World and Hope Will NOT disappoint us! G-d's Word "Is" Faithful and True. It Will Go Forth to accomplish what He Wills To Be Done In His Name and that means ALL the families, Every Tribe, Nation and Tongue of the Earth Shall Be Blessed, because Yeshua / Jesus "Is" Lord!
Abraham longed to see "His Day," but we have seen "It", we walk "In It", because These ARE The Last Days, so let us go forward In His Holy and Precious Name and Bring Forth The Things Of G-d, The Good News that Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Has Come! Let each and every One of us Believe G-d as Abraham did and He Will Credit "RIGHTEOUSNESS" to us (We ARE The RIGHTEOUSNESS of G-d In Messiah / Christ). One may plant The Seed and another may water It, but G-d Brings The Increase, The Prosperity, The Abundant Life In Yeshua / Jesus, He Blesses our Obedience to His Word, Will and Way!
You reap what you sow, so let us plant In Righteousness and The Harvest Will Be Ripe and Plentiful. Let us Begat what G-d has Promised To us and Bring His Blessings To ALL Nations and Peoples In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen and Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give, Grant To you His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fullness In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus / The Light Of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d Bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions: Isaiah 53:4-5,8,10
The Word
Surely He has borne our griefs - sickness weakness and distress - and carried our sorrows and pain [of punishment]. Yet we ignorantly consider Him stricken, smitten and afflicted by G-d [as if with leprosy]. [Matt. 8:17.]
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement needful to obtain peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes that wounded Him we are healed and made whole.
By oppression and judgement He was taken away; and as for His generation, who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my [Isaiah's] people, to whom the stroke was due - stricken to His death?
Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him; He has put HIm to grief and made Him sick. When You and He make Him an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His spiritual offspring. He shall prolong His days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
- Isaiah 53:4-5,8,10
Yeshua / Jesus was punished that we might be forgiven. Isaiah 53:4-5
Yeshua / Jesus was wounded that we might be healed. Isaiah 53:4-5
Yeshua / Jesus was made sin with our sinfulness that we might be made righteous with His righteousness. Isaiah 53:10, 2 Corinthians 5:21
Yeshua / Jesus was cut off by death that we might be joined to G-d eternally. Isaiah 53:8, 1 Corinthians 6:17
No One man in ALL of World History laid out The Crucifixion of Yeshua / Jesus Messiah / Christ, The Anointed One of G-d better in One chapter of Holy Scripture than Isaiah The Prophet. To This Very Day, Believers around the World turn to Isaiah 53 (and Psalm 22) To Prove "The Truth" and Prophetic Utterances of The Messiah's sufferings more than any other portion of G-d's Precious Word (He Is The Living Word of G-d). If He "In Fact / In Truth" has borne ALL of our griefs, sickness, weakness, distress, carried our sorrows, pain of punishment, was wounded, striped for our transgressions, bruised for our guilt, iniquities, cut off, stricken to His death out of the land of the living, made sick (don't you EVER let any One tell you that Yeshua / Jesus was not "made" sick) and He has risen from the dead, then why are we still walking around not healed and "made" whole? How is it that we are still carrying around this heavy baggage instead of laying it ALL down by the feet of Yeshua / Jesus at The Cross of Calvary? He was "made" sin for us, so that we could Become [endued with, viewed as in and examples of] The Righteousness of G-d In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, Yeshua / Jesus - what we ought to be, approved, accepted and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness!
Too many of us are still (I realize that I have been using The Word: "still" quite often here, but if we were ALL trying more to "Be Still" and Know that He Is G-d, the World would quickly Come to Know Him and The Power of His Resurrection) ignorantly considering Him stricken, smitten and afflicted by G-d [as if with leprosy]. This Is "The Man" (Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus) Who drove out the spirits of the many who were under the power of demons with A Word, and restored to health ALL who were sick, weak, infirmed and diseased.
He Is The Same Yesterday, Today and For Ever, so why are we not walking In His Victory? Should we ask our"self" the question asked to the man in The Book Of Acts, "Do you want to be healed?" He Alone "Is" Our Shalom / Peace, Wholeness, Fullness and Blessing, The Very Promise Of G-d Fulfilled! Knowest thou THIS?
Most in Messiah's time Believed that He was (guilty) sent to His death, because of His own wrong doing, making Himself out To Be The Son Of G-d, allowing others to call Him, "Lord" and declaring Himself To Be King, but He was oppressed, judged and cut off for the transgressions of Isaiah's, G-d's Chosen People, to whom the stroke was rightfully due (the wages of sin is death and we are ALL born in sin, because of the fall of man in The Garden). He was slain from the foundations of the World, This was G-d's Perfect and Acceptable Will for Him! G-d The Father, Yeshua / Jesus The Son and The Holy Spirit ALL agreed to make Him an offering, The Offering, The Lamb of G-d that would take aWay the sins of the World. He has seen, is seeing and shall see His Spiritual Offspring, His Church, His Body, His Bride and The Will, Pleasure Of The Lord Shall Prosper In His Hand (He's got the whole World In His Hands)!
Do you not know and realize that when a person joins them"self" to G-d they become One Body with Him? The two shall become One flesh. [Gen. 2:24.] The One who is united to The Lord becomes One with Him In Spirit and Truth!
Because of what He has done for us (He has done Great Things), we are One In The Holy Spirit and One In The Lord, so let us join in His sufferings to reach the lost and dying around the World by His Resurrection Power in Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Pray:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon and Give To You His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, Fullness and Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus The Messiah / The Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Message: Hebrews 2:9; 12:2; Matthew 27:35-36
Yeshua / Jesus died our death that we might receive His life. Hebrews 2.9
Yeshua / Jesus bore our shame that we might share His glory. Matthew 27:35-36, Hebrews 12:2
What was "The Cause" of The Messiah's death? He was "The King Of The Jews"!
The "Real" question is, "Is He Lord And King Of Your Life?" Not many of us would die or take a bullet (let alone a hit) for A Righteous Man, but The Creator Of Heaven And Earth went to The Cross Of Calvary to pay the penalty for ALL in the World! Because of His Death, we can have Eternal, Everlasting and The Abundant Life In His Holy and Precious Name, By Faith (should we choose to accept It). His Mission was not Impossible and neither is ours (ALL Things ARE Possible With and In G-d).
He died in our stead, so that we could Live His Life and bring The Ministry Of Reconciliation to ALL Nations and Peoples! Do your family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers and enemies KNOW THIS? Apart from Him we have No Life at ALL, because a tree can not survive without it's roots.
Do you realize that we ARE "Joint Heirs" With Messiah? He took ALL of our sin, shame, sicknesses and diseases upon Himself, so that we could share In His Glory (His Goodness, Mercy [Tender-Mercies] and [Unmerited Favor] Grace). We ARE "FREE" To Be ALL that He Created us To Go, Do and Be In This World, but The Church, His Body has only a form of G-dliness and denies The Power There Of.
And when they had crucified Him, they divided and distributed His garments [among them] by casting lots so that the prophet's saying was fulfilled, They parted My garments among them and over My apparel they cast lots. [Ps. 22:18.]
Then they sat down there and kept watch over Him.
- Matthew 27:35, 36
Yeshua / Jesus died for each and every One of us, but it seems to me that we have divided and distributed The Gifts and Talents He's Given us into different sects, denominations and independent Congregations and have quenched The Holy Spirit. Are we really and truly taking, accepting and acting upon The Word Of The Prophets, Psalmists, Those Who Wrote The Proverbs, Moses, The Apostles and Yeshua / Jesus Himself, Who Is (Was and Is To Come) The Living Word Of G-d? Are we having a weekly "Crap Shoot" at His House Of Prayer and making It a den of robbers and thieves?
Do you ever feel like you are just sitting around, watching over Yeshua / Jesus and seeing NOTHING happen? G-d even told Moses to stop praying and get The People (My Chosen People) moving! GO FORWARD IN THE VICTORY THAT HE HAS PREPARED FOR YOU IN MESSIAH, CHRIST, THE ANOINTED ONE! Receive His Life and Share His Glory with others In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon and Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fullness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World.
Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Message: Romans 6:6; Colossians 3:9-10
The Word:
Our old man was put to death in Him that the new man might come to life in us. Romans 6:6, Colossians 3:9-10
Even death is redeemed through The Sacrifice of G-d's One and Only Begotten Son, upon The Cross of Calvary. His curse (The Word Of G-d says, "Cursed is every One Who hangs on a tree") became our Blessing, when the first Adam (the first of mankind who sinned in The Garden of Eden and brought the sinful nature [the wages of sin is death] to ALL who followed after him) died and The Second Adam, Yeshua / Jesus took ALL the sins of the World upon HImself, was crucified, died, was buried and rose again from the grave on the third day, unto Eternal, Everlasting Life and He's NOW seated at The Right Hand Of G-d, Our Heavenly Father. When we put our Faith and Trust In Him, His Holy and Precious Name, we enter into The Abundant Life, His Rest, Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, Fullness and The Richest Blessings Of G-d! The question is, Have you died to "self"? The Scriptures tell us, Precious Is The Death Of His Saints, In The Eyes Of G-d. Are you One of G-d's Precious Saints, His Chosen People?
Each and every day of our Life In Him, we are supposed to be bringing the essence of Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One, where ever we go (Go ye into ALL the World and Preach The Good News of G-d, The Gospel Of Peace For ALL Nations and Peoples). Some Will Choose Life and others death, but if we Choose Wisely (Choose ye this day Whom you Will Serve), in death, there is Life! Paul, The Great Apostle stated, I beat my body into submission daily (I Am constantly dying to "self"). If we Choose death to this World of present darkness and enter into The Light Of Life, we ARE Born-Again, Born (and Borne) Of His Spirit, From Above, washed aNew, In The Blood Of The Lamb Of G-d, Who takes aWay our sins, cleanses us and "Makes" us (Yeshua / Jesus said, "Follow Me and I Will "Make" YOU Fishers Of Men) Pure, Holy and Blameless In His Sight (Righteous and In Right Standing With Him).
Do you KNOW that our old (unrenewed) "self" was nailed to The Cross With Yeshua / Jesus in order that our body might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin? When we become One With Messiah by sharing a death like His, we shall also Be One With Him In Sharing His Resurrection [by a New Life Lived For G-d]. If you were "Truly" baptized into death, then we can habitually Live and Behave (or Be [just like we] Have) In Newness Of Life By The Glorious (Holy Spirit) Power Of The Father. None of us who are Confessing "To Be" Believers, Christians, Followers Of Yeshua / Jesus as Messiah should be ignorant of these facts! If we have died to sin, how can we continue to willingly and knowingly live in or to it any longer? By G-d's Grace (Favor and Mercy), we ARE Overcomers, MORE than Conquerors In Messiah! We ARE Freed, Loosed and Delivered from the power of sin and death, so let us ALL Live, Move and Have Our Being, Through, To, By and For Him, In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon , Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon and Give To YOU His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fullness, In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d Bless and Love to ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Good Friday Messianic Visions:
Prophecies Fulfilled By Yeshua / Jesus!
Subject: PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS Robert Ricciardelli
PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS
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Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be A Prophet Like Moses Deuteronomy 18:15 â€" "The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites, and you must listen to that prophet."
About the Prophecy in Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 1:1a states: "This book records the words that Moses spoke to all the people of Israel while they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River."
These words were written about 1260 B.C. Throughout the book of Deuteronomy, Moses talks to the people of Israel as they are about to enter the Promised Land. He reminds them of their covenant with God and their glorious future, if they obey Him.
The Fulfillment
John 7:40-42 â€" "When the crowds heard Him say this, some of them declared, 'This man surely is the Prophet.' Others said, 'He is the Messiah.' Still others said, 'But He can't be! Will the Messiah come from Galilee? For the Scriptures clearly state that the Messiah will be born of the royal line of David, in Bethlehem, the village where King David was born.'"
Acts 3:20-23 â€" "Then wonderful times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and He will send Jesus your Messiah to you again. For He must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through His prophets.
Moses said, 'The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet like me from among your own people.
Listen carefully to everything He tells you.' Then Moses said, 'Anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be cut off from God's people and utterly destroyed.'"
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Tempted By Satan
Psalm 91:10-12 â€" "No evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your dwelling. For He orders His angels to protect you wherever you go. They will hold you with their hands to keep you from striking your foot on a stone."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms The Psalms are a collection of the hymns of ancient Israel.
Scholars divide them into five groups: 1.
Hymns in praise of God's glory 7
2. Community lamentations
3. Royal hymns for special occasions 4.
Individual prayers 5. Individual praise and thanksgiving It is difficult to date the individual psalms. King David is credited with writing many of them, and the collection of these hymns continued after the days of Israel's exile.
It is believed the collection was finalized before the second century B.C.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 4:5-7 â€" "Then the Devil took Him to Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, 'If You are the Son of God, jump off!
For the Scriptures say, "He orders His angels to protect you. And they will hold you with their hands to keep you from striking your foot on a stone."' Jesus responded, 'The Scriptures also say, "Do not test the Lord your God."'"
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Enter Jerusalem Triumphantly
Zechariah 9:9 â€" "Rejoice greatly, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem!
Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey â€" even on a donkey's colt." About the Prophecy of Zechariah Zechariah the prophet came from a priestly family. He was a visionary, who with the prophet Haggai worked on the rebuilding of the Temple.
The New Testament Gospels quote Zechariah more than any other prophet.
Part one of the book of Zechariah was written in 520 B.C. Zechariah spoke about the judgment and salvation of God and about the coming Messiah who would be a priest, governor, humble king and afflicted shepherd.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 21:8-11 â€" "Most of the crowd spread their coats on the road ahead of Jesus, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. He was in the center of the procession, and the crowds all around Him were shouting, 'Praise God for the Son of David! Bless the One who comes in the name of the Lord! Praise God in highest heaven!' The entire city of Jerusalem was stirred as He entered. 'Who is this?' they asked. And the crowds replied, 'It's Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.'", Luke 19:35-37 â€" "So they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their garments over it for Him to ride on. Then the crowds spread out their coats on the road ahead of Jesus. As they reached the place where the road started down from the Mount of Olives, all of His followers began to shout and sing as they walked along, praising God for all the wonderful miracles they had seen." John 12:12-15 â€" "The next day, the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city. A huge crowd of Passover visitors took palm branches and went down the road to meet Him.
They shouted, 'Praise God!
Bless the One who comes in the name of the Lord! Hail to the King of Israel! Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, fulfilling the prophecy that said: 'Don't be afraid, people of Israel. Look, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt.'"
Fulfilled Prophecy The Messiah Will Be Rejected By His Own People Isaiah 53:1, 3 â€" "Who has believed our message?
To whom will the Lord reveal His saving power? He was despised and rejected â€" a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on Him and looked the other way when He went by. He was despised, and we did not care." About the Prophecy of Isaiah Chapters 40â€"55 in the book of Isaiah address the people in exile in Babylon â€" directly before the time of their return â€" about 538 B.C.
Chapter 53 is known as the great prophecy of the Suffering Servant. The Fulfillment John 1:10-11 â€" "But although the world was made through Him, the world didn't recognize Him when He came. Even in His own land and among His own people, He was not accepted."
John 12:37-38 â€" "But despite all the miraculous signs He had done, most of the people did not believe in Him. This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted: 'Lord, who has believed our message? To whom will the Lord reveal His saving power?'" Matthew 26:3-4 â€" "At that same time the leading priests and other leaders were meeting at the residence of Caiaphas, the high priest, to discuss how to capture Jesus secretly and put Him to death."
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Subject: PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS part 2 Robert Ricciardelli
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Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Betrayed By One Of His Followers
Psalm 41:9 â€" "Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me." (NIV)
Psalm 55:12-13 â€" "It is not an enemy who taunts me â€" I could bear that. It is not my foes who so arrogantly insult me â€" I could have hidden from them. Instead, it is you â€" my equal, my companion and close friend."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms
Psalm 41 is a psalm of David. He speaks of his own isolation and his trust in God.
He describes how the sharing of food unites people in loyalty and friendship.
Psalm 55 is a psalm of David as well. In this psalm, he outlines the betrayal of a trusted friend, who was seemingly a follower of God.
Both of these psalms prophesy the betrayal of Jesus by a close and trusted friend.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 26:47, 49-50a â€" "And even as He said this, Judas, one of the twelve disciples, arrived with a mob that was armed with swords and clubs. They had been sent out by the leading priests and other leaders of the people.
So Judas came straight to Jesus.
'Greetings, Teacher!' he exclaimed and gave Him the kiss. Jesus said, 'My friend, go ahead and do what you have come for.'"
Luke 22:21-22, 47b â€" " 'But here at this table, sitting among us as a friend, is the man who will betray Me. For I, the Son of Man, must die since it is part of God's plan. But how terrible it will be for My betrayer'! A mob approached, led by Judas, one of His twelve disciples. Judas walked over to Jesus and greeted Him with a kiss."
John 13:18, 21, 26 â€" " 'I am not saying these things to all of you; I know so well each one of you I chose. The Scriptures declare, "The one who shares My food has turned against Me," and this will soon come true'. Now Jesus was in great anguish of spirit, and He exclaimed, 'The truth is, one of you will betray Me!' Jesus said, 'It is the one to whom I give the bread dipped in the sauce.' And when He had dipped it, He gave it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Betrayed For 30 Pieces Of Silver
Zechariah 11:12-13 â€" "And I said unto them, 'If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord." (KJV)
About the Prophecy of Zechariah In chapter 11 of the book of Zechariah, the prophet refers to 30 shekels of silver as a "goodly price." This amount also refers to the amount paid for the life of a slave.
Zechariah's prophecy speaks about the amount paid for the Lord and His life.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 26:14-16 â€" "Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the leading priests and asked, 'How much will you pay me to betray Jesus to you?' And they gave him thirty pieces of silver. From that time on, Judas began looking for the right time and place to betray Jesus."
Matthew 27:3-4a â€" "When Judas, who had betrayed Him, realized that Jesus had been condemned to die, he was filled with remorse.
So he took the thirty pieces of silver back to the leading priests and other leaders. 'I have sinned,' he declared, 'for I have betrayed an innocent man.'"
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Tried And Condemned
Isaiah 53:8 â€" "From prison and trial they led Him away to His death. But who among the people realized that He was dying for their sins â€" that He was suffering their punishment?"
About the Prophecy of Isaiah
Written in 538 B.C., chapter 53 of the book of Isaiah is known as the Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:1-2 â€" "Very early in the morning, the leading priests and other leaders met again to discuss how to persuade the Roman government to sentence Jesus to death. Then they bound Him and took Him to Pilate, the Roman governor."
Luke 23:1, 23 â€" "The entire council took Jesus over to Pilate, the Roman governor. But the crowd shouted louder and louder for Jesus' death, and their voices prevailed."
Acts 4:26-28 â€" "'The kings of the earth prepared for battle; the rulers gathered together against the Lord and against His Messiah.' That is what has happened here in this city! For Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate the governor, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus, Your holy Servant, whom You anointed. In fact, everything they did occurred according to Your eternal will and plan."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Silent Before His Accusers
Psalm 35:11 â€" "Malicious witnesses testify against me. They accuse me of things I don't even know about."
Isaiah 53:7-8a â€" "He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet He never said a word.
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, He did not open His mouth.
From prison and trial they led Him away to His death."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms and Isaiah
Psalm 27 is a psalm of David. In this hymn, he reassures those who are right with God that they have nothing to fear.
He calls on God to pay back his enemies who have unjustly come against him. The prophecy in this psalm shows the confidence of the Messiah to entrust His life to God, who will answer and judge His accusers. Again, the 53rd chapter of Isaiah was written in 538 B.C. It is known as the Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:12-14 â€" "But when the leading priests and other leaders made their accusations against Him, Jesus remained silent. 'Don't you hear their many charges against You?' Pilate demanded. But Jesus said nothing, much to the governor's great surprise." Mark 15:3-5 â€" "Then the leading priests accused Him of many crimes, and Pilate asked Him, 'Aren't You going to say something? What about all these charges against You?' But Jesus said nothing, much to Pilate's surprise."
1 Peter 2:22-23 â€" "He never sinned, and He never deceived anyone. He did not retaliate when He was insulted. When He suffered, He did not threaten to get even.
He left His case in the hands of God, who always judges fairly."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Smitten And Spat Upon
Micah 5:1 â€" "Mobilize! Marshal your troops!
The enemy is laying siege to Jerusalem.
With a rod they will strike the leader of Israel in the face."
Isaiah 50:6 â€" "I give My back to those who beat Me and My cheeks to those who pull out My beard. I do not hide from shame, for they mock Me and spit in My face."
About the Prophecy of Micah and Isaiah
The book of Micah, by the prophet Micah, was written in the eighth century B.C. He describes how the restoration of God follows His judgment of sin. Micah describes the future of Jerusalem as the center of religious activity for the whole world. Chapter 50 in the book of Isaiah was written in 538 B.C. In the Servant Song of Isaiah, chapter 50, we see the first glimpse of the Messiah's suffering and rejection.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 26:67-68 â€" "Then they spit in Jesus' face and hit Him with their fists.
And some slapped Him, saying, 'Prophesy to us, You Messiah! Who hit You that time?'"
Matthew 27:30 â€" "And they spit on Him and grabbed the stick and beat Him on the head with it."
Mark 14:65a â€" "Then some of them began to spit at Him, and they blindfolded Him and hit His face with their fists."
Mark 15:19 â€" "And they beat Him on the head with a stick, spit on Him, and dropped to their knees in mock worship."
John 19:1-3 â€" "Then Pilate had Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip. The soldiers made a crown of long, sharp thorns and put it on His head, and they put a royal purple robe on Him.
'Hail! King of the Jews!' they mocked, and they hit Him with their fists."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Mocked And Taunted
Psalm 22:7-8 â€" "Everyone who sees Me, mocks Me. They sneer and shake their heads, saying, 'Is this the One who relies on the Lord?
Then let the Lord save Him! If the Lord loves Him so much, then let the Lord rescue Him!'"
About the Prophecy of The Psalms
Psalm 22 is a psalm of David, and in it he describes an execution. The early portion of the psalm speaks of the Messiah's suffering; the later portion describes the universal deliverance the Messiah makes possible.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:39-40 â€" "And the people passing by shouted abuse, shaking their heads in mockery. 'So! You can destroy the Temple and build it again in three days, can You? Well then, if You are the Son of God, save Yourself and come down from the cross!'"
Luke 23:11, 35 â€" "Now Herod and his soldiers began mocking and ridiculing Jesus. Then they put a royal robe on Him and sent Him back to Pilate. The crowd watched, and the leaders laughed and scoffed. 'He saved others,' they said, 'let Him save Himself if He is really God's Chosen One, the Messiah.'"
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Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah To Die By Crucifixion, With Pierced Hands And Feet
Psalm 22:14-16 â€" "My life is poured out like water, and all My bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within Me. My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay. My tongue sticks to the roof of My mouth. You have laid Me in the dust and left Me for dead. My enemies surround Me like a pack of dogs; an evil gang closes in on Me. They have pierced My hands and feet."
Zechariah 12:10a â€" "Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on all the people of Jerusalem. They will look on Me whom they have pierced and mourn for Him as for an only son."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms and Zechariah
Again, Psalm 22 is a Psalm of David. In this psalm he is describing an execution.
The early portion of this psalm describes the Messiah's suffering; the later portion describes the universal deliverance the Messiah makes possible. In Chapter 12 of the book of Zechariah, the prophet speaks of God's own representative who is killed at the hands of His people. At a future point, the people of God will realize whom they have pierced and will mourn for "the son" who died.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:31 â€" "When they were finally tired of mocking Him, they took off the robe and put His own clothes on Him again. Then they led Him away to be crucified."
Mark 15:20 â€" "When they were finally tired of mocking Him, they took off the purple robe and put His own clothes on Him again. Then they led Him away to be crucified."
John 19:15-16 â€" "'Away with Him,' they yelled. 'Away with Him â€" crucify Him!' 'What? Crucify your king?' Pilate asked.
'We have no king but Caesar,' the leading priests shouted back. Then Pilate gave Jesus to them to be crucified."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Suffer With Sinners
Isaiah 53:12a â€" "I will give Him the honors of One who is mighty and great, because He exposed Himself to death. He was counted among those who were sinners."
About the Prophecy of Isaiah
The prophet Isaiah lived in Jerusalem in the eighth century B.C. The book of Isaiah is one of the four major prophetic books in the Bible, along with Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel.
Chapter 53 is known as the Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:38 â€" "Two criminals were crucified with Him, their crosses on either side of His."
Mark 15:27 â€" "Two criminals were crucified with Him, their crosses on either side of His."
Luke 23:32-33 â€" "Two others, both criminals, were led out to be executed with Him. Finally,
they came to a place called The Skull. All three were crucified there â€" Jesus on the center cross, and the two criminals on either side."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah's Garments Will Be Divided By Casting Lots Psalm 22:18 â€" "They divide My clothes among themselves and throw dice for My garments."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms Again, Psalm 22 is a psalm of King David. In this hymn he describes an execution. The early portion of the psalm speaks of the Messiah's suffering and the later portion describes the universal deliverance He made possible.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:35 â€" "After they had nailed Him to the cross, the soldiers gambled for His clothes by throwing dice."
Mark 15:24 â€" "Then they nailed Him to the cross. They gambled for His clothes, throwing dice to decide who would get them."
John 19:23-24a â€" "When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided His clothes among the four of them. They also took His robe, but it was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. So they said, 'Let's not tear it but throw dice to see who gets it.' This fulfilled the Scripture that says, 'They divided My clothes among themselves and threw dice for My robe.'"
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah's Bones Will Not Be Broken
Numbers 9:12 â€" "They must not leave any of the lamb until the next morning, and they must not break any of its bones. They must follow all the normal regulations concerning the Passover."
About the Prophecy of Numbers
Numbers is the fourth of the five books written by Moses. It is the travel history of Israel's journey in the desert. It begins two years after leaving Egypt and ends just before entry into Canaan. It is a 38-year record of the murmurings of the nation of Israel and the constant companionship of God. It is a record of God's ongoing work to produce repentance in His people. Chapter 9 discusses the proper observance and preparation of Passover and prophetically describes Jesus, the Passover Lamb.
The Fulfillment
John 19:31-37 â€" "The Jewish leaders didn't want the victims hanging there the next day, which was the Sabbath (and a very special Sabbath at that, because it was the Passover), so they asked Pilate to hasten their deaths by ordering that their legs be broken. Then their bodies could be taken down. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men crucified with Jesus. But when they came to Jesus, they saw that He was dead already, so they didn't break His legs.
One of the soldiers, however, pierced His side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out. This report is from an eyewitness giving an accurate account; it is presented so that you also can believe.
These things happened in fulfillment of the Scriptures that say, 'Not one of His bones will be broken,' and 'They will look on Him whom they pierced.'" 1 Corinthians 5:7b â€" "Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed
for us."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Die As A Sin Offering
Isaiah 53:5-6, 8, 12 â€" "But He was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed! All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on Him the guilt and sins of us all. From prison and trial they led Him away to His death. But who among the people realized that He was dying for their sins â€" that He was suffering their punishment? I will give Him the honors of One who is mighty and great, because He exposed Himself to death. He was counted among those who were sinners. He bore the sins of many and interceded for sinners."
About the Prophecy of Isaiah
Isaiah the prophet lived in Jerusalem in the eighth century B.C. Chapter 53 of Isaiah is known as the Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant.
The Fulfillment
John 1:29 â€" "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, 'Look! There is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" Acts 10:43 â€" "He is the One all the prophets testified about, saying that everyone who believes in Him will have their sins forgiven through His name."
Acts 13:38-39 â€" "Brothers, listen! In this man Jesus there is
forgiveness
17
for your sins. Everyone who believes in Him is freed from all guilt and declared right with God â€" something the Jewish law could never do."
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 â€" "I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me â€" that Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. He was buried, and He was raised from the dead on the third day, as the Scriptures said."
Ephesians 1:7 â€" "He is so rich in kindness that He purchased our freedom through the blood of His Son, and our sins are forgiven."
1 Peter 2:24 â€" "He personally carried away our sins in His own body on the cross so we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. You have been healed by His wounds."
Revelation 1:5b â€" "All praise to Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by shedding His blood for us."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will See His Seed
Isaiah 53:10-11 â€" "But it was the Lord's good plan to crush Him and fill Him with grief. Yet when His life is made an offering for sin, He will have a multitude of children, many heirs. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord's plan will prosper in His hands. When He sees all that is accomplished by His anguish, He will be satisfied. And because of what He has experienced, My Righteous Servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for He will bear all their sins."
About the Prophecy of Isaiah
The Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant reveals the incredible purpose of God in sending the Messiah to suffer for our sins.
Isaiah wrote this chapter in the eighth century B.C. He foretold that the Messiah would see His heirs, those who would find salvation through His sacrifice.
The Fulfillment
Ephesians 1:4-5, 21-23 â€" "Long ago, even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes. His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure. Now He is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else in this world or in the world to come. And God has put all things under the authority of Christ, and He gave Him this authority for the benefit of the church. And the church is His body; it is filled by Christ, who fills everything everywhere with His presence."
Hebrews 12:2 â€" "We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from start to finish. He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross because of the joy He knew would be His afterward. Now He is seated in the place of highest honor beside God's throne in heaven."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Buried In A Rich Man's Tomb
Isaiah 53:9 â€" "He had done no wrong, and He never deceived anyone. But He was buried like a criminal; He was put in a rich man's grave."
About the Prophecy of Isaiah Once again, the Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant reveals the incredible purpose of God in sending the Messiah to suffer for our sins.
Isaiah wrote this chapter in the eighth century B.C. He foretold that the Messiah would die and be buried in a rich man's grave.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:57-60 â€" "As evening approached, Joseph, a rich man from Arimathea who was one of Jesus' followers, went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body. And Pilate issued an order to release it to him. Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a long linen cloth. He placed it in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance as he left."
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Subject: "But the Scriptures must be fulfilled." Mark 14:49 NKJV
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Lo, your King comes to you; He is [uncompromisingly] just, and having salvation - triumphant and victorious; patient, meek, lowly and riding on a donkey, upon a colt, the foal of a donkey. [John 12:14,
15.]
- Zechariah 9:9
AND when they came near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Yeshua / Jesus sent two disciples on ahead, Saying to them, Go into the village that is opposite you, and at once you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie her and bring them to Me.
If anyone says anything to you, you shall reply, The Lord needs them, and he will let them go without delay.
This happened that what was spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,
Say to the daughter of Zion [inhabitants of Jerusalem], Behold your King is coming to you, lowly and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey [a beast of burden]. [Isa. 62:11; Zech. 9:9.]
Then the disciples went and did as Yeshua / Jesus had directed them.
They brought the donkey and the colt and laid their coats upon them, and He seated Himself on [the clothing].
And most of the crowd kept spreading their garments on the road, and others kept cutting branches from the trees and scattering them on the road.
And the crowds that went ahead of Him and those who followed Him kept shouting, Hosanna (O be propitious, graciously inclined) to the Son of David, the Messiah! Blessed (praised, glorified) be He Who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna (O be favorably disposed) in the highest (heaven)! [Ps. 118:26.]
And when He entered Jerusalem, all the city became agitated, and trembling with excitement said, Who is This?
And the crowds replied, This is the prophet Yeshua / Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee.
- Matthew 21:1-11
ALL Four Gospels describe The Messiah's Triumphal Entry (Mark 11: 1-11; Luke 19:28-40; John 12: 12-19) and the fulfillment of the prophecy by the prophet Zechariah. ALL Scripture Is G-d Breathed and Yeshua / Jesus (As The Living Word Of G-d) Is The Culmination Of The Spoken and Written Word, The Very Heart Of G-d To Mankind Today!
VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Take note of Matthew 21: 2, 5, 7. Messiah, The Anointed One And Christ, hurries The Disciples (Which we are ALL Called To Be) to "at once (immediately)" find "a donkey," AND "a colt," to untie "her" AND bring "THEM" To Him. He Proclaims His Present Actions To Be The Fulfillment (Yeshua / Jesus Did NOT come into The World to Abolish "The Law Of G-d," but To FULFILL IT) Of Isaiah's and Zechariah's Prophecies, their Speaking Forth "The Things Of G-d." Our King of Kings and Lord Of Lords was to come riding on a donkey, AND on a colt, the foal of a donkey [a beast of burden], so when those that followed Him brought the donkey AND the colt AND laid their coats upon THEM, He seated Himself on [the clothing].
QUESTION:
Have you ever seen a movie with Yeshua / Jesus riding two animals or heard a sermon depicting such and act?
Messiah says, His Yolk Is Easy AND His Burden Is Light! The two become One Flesh, This Is The Victory, The Triumph Of Christ's Passion. There is NO male or female, Jew Greek, slave or free. The Wall of separation has been torn down, He has repaired The Breach and Restored ALL Things! The Mystery Has Been Revealed In The Revelation Of Yeshua / Jesus Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One. Old and New have Come Together, The Banquet awaits, The Bride and Her Groom shall consummate Their Marriage, Be Consumed In Each Others Love, Burn With Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Passion, For Our G-d Is A Consuming Fire, An Eternal Flame! We may See through a glass darkly, dimly, but we Can (AND Will) Walk For Ever AND Ever In His Glorious Light, The Light Of The World, The Light Of Life.
Search diligently for The Word Of G-d, Ask, Seek AND Knock, dig deeply, Be Rooted AND Grounded and come up (Spring Up O Well) with Precious Gems of Faith, regarding His Grace, Favor, Hope, Peace, Joy, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Patience, Goodness, Tender Mercies, Loving-Kindness, Dreams, Visions AND Revelations In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen AND Amen.
Closing Prayer:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon AND Give, Grant To YOU His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness AND Fullness Of Blessings In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus The Messiah, Christ, Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen AND Amen.
G-d Bless AND His Love to ALL,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS part 4
Robert Ricciardelli
PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS part 4
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Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Raised From The Dead
Psalm 16:10 â€" "For You will not leave my soul among the dead or allow Your Godly One to rot in the grave."
Psalm 30:3 â€" "You brought me up from the grave, O Lord. You kept me from falling into the pit of death."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms The Psalms are a collection of the hymns of ancient Israel.
The collection of Psalms was finalized before the second century B.C.
Psalm 16 is a psalm of David. In this hymn he reminds us that as we set our hearts on God and trust our lives to His care, we will find joy and security. David prophesies that the Messiah will not be abandoned in the grave, and His body will not decay. Psalm 30 is a psalm written by David, for the dedication of the Temple. In it he prophesies that the Messiah will be raised from the grave.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 28:5-7 â€" "Then the angel spoke to the women. 'Don't be afraid!' he said. 'I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He isn't here! He has been raised from the dead, just as He said would happen. Come, see where His body was lying. And now, go quickly and tell His disciples He has been raised from the dead, and He is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see Him there. Remember, I have told you.'"
Mark 16:6-7 â€" "The angel said, 'Do not be so surprised. You are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who was crucified. He isn't here!
He has been raised from the dead! Look, this is where they laid His body. Now go and give this message to His disciples, including Peter:
Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see Him there, just as He told you before He died.'"
Acts 2:27-31 â€" "'For You will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your Holy One to rot in the grave. You have shown me the way of life, and You will give me wonderful joy in Your presence.' Dear brothers, think about this!
David wasn't referring to himself when he spoke these words I have quoted, for he died and was buried, and his tomb is still here among us. But he was a prophet, and he knew God had promised with an oath that one of David's own descendants would sit on David's throne as the Messiah. David was looking into the future and predicting the Messiah's resurrection. He was saying that the Messiah would not be left among the dead and that His body would not rot in the grave.'"
1 Corinthians 15:17, 20 â€" "And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless, and you are still under condemnation for your sins.
But the fact is that Christ has been raised from the dead. He has become the first of a great harvest of those who will be raised to life again.'"
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Sit At God's Right Hand
Psalm 110:1 â€" "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit in honor at My right hand until I humble Your enemies, making them a footstool under Your feet.'"
About the Prophecy of The Psalms Psalm 110 is a psalm of David. It is a prophetic psalm that seems to speak of a coming coronation.
This royal psalm clearly speaks of the coming Messiah.
The Fulfillment
Mark 16:19 â€" "When the Lord Jesus had finished talking with them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down in the place of honor at God's right hand."
Acts 2:32-36 â€" "This prophecy was speaking of Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, and we all are witnesses of this. Now He sits on the throne of highest honor in heaven, at God's right hand. And the Father, as He had promised, gave Him the Holy Spirit to pour out upon us, just as you see and hear today.
For David himself never ascended into heaven, yet he said, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit in honor at My right hand until I humble Your enemies, making them a footstool under Your feet."' So let it be clearly known by everyone in Israel that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified to be both Lord and Messiah!"
Hebrews 10:12-13 â€" "But our High Priest offered Himself to God as one sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then He sat down at the place of highest honor at God's right hand. There He waits until His enemies are humbled as a footstool under His feet."
JESUS AND YOU
As you have just read, it was God's plan from before the world began that Jesus would come to earth and be crucified as a holy and final offering for sin. Because of God's deep love for each one of us, He provided the way of salvation â€" the only way that we are able to enter a relationship with Him.
John 14:6-7 â€" "Jesus told him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Me. If you had known who I am, then you would have known who My Father is. From now on you know Him and have seen Him!"
The Gospel, then, is God's provision for our salvation. The word Gospel means "Good News."
The Good News is that God Himself has already made all the arrangements for your salvation.
God loves you and wants you to be His own child.
1 John 4:9-10 â€" "God showed how much He loved us by sending His only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him.
This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins."
Through Jesus Christ, you can enjoy a personal relationship with God. He bridged the gap that separated us from God. The Bible outlines this incredible plan:
John 3:16 â€" "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life."
Romans 8:16-17a â€" "For His Holy Spirit
speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God's children. And since we are His children, we will share His treasures â€" for everything God gives to His Son, Christ, is ours, too."
Mankind is sinful. You and I have sinned against God's holy law. As a result of our sin, we are separated from God. In this state of separation, we cannot know God or experience Him in personal relationship.
Romans 3:23 â€" "For all have sinned; all fall short of God's
glorious
standard."
Romans 6:23 â€" "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."
1 John 1:8 â€" "If we say we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and refusing to accept the truth."
Jesus Christ is the only provision for our sin. It is only through Him that we can know God personally, experience His love, and receive eternal life.
2 Corinthians 5:21 â€" "For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ."
Ephesians 1:6-7 â€" "So we praise God for the wonderful kindness He has poured out on us because we belong to His dearly loved Son. He is so rich in kindness that He purchased our freedom through the blood of His Son, and our sins are forgiven."
Colossians 1:13-14 â€" "For He has rescued us from the one who rules in the kingdom of darkness, and He has brought us into the Kingdom of His dear Son. God has purchased our freedom with His blood and has forgiven all our sins."
Hebrews 12:24a â€" "You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which graciously forgives."
We must each receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. When we receive Him, we are given new life; we are born into His family; and we can know God personally. Just to intellectually agree that Jesus died on the cross is not enough. Each of us must turn to God, acknowledging our sin and our powerlessness to save ourselves. We must ask Jesus to come into our lives and receive His sacrifice as total payment for our sins. We do this as an act of faith and will.
John 3:15b,18 â€" "Everyone who believes in Me will have eternal life. There is no judgment awaiting those who trust Him. But those who do not trust Him have already been judged for not believing in the only Son of God."
Acts 16:31 â€" "They replied, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, along with your entire household.'"
Ephesians 2:8-9 â€" "God saved you by His special favor when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God.
Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it."
Revelation 3:20 â€" "Look! Here I stand at the door and knock. If you hear Me calling and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal as friends."
God sees you and knows your heart. There are no magic words or precise formulas you must express. You can talk to God right now in the quietness of your heart and invite Him into your life as your Lord and Savior.
Here's a simple prayer:
"Lord Jesus, thank You that You are the Messiah. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sin. I want to know You personally. I invite You into my life as my Lord and Savior. Thank You for forgiving me of all my sin and for the gift of eternal life. Help me to grow close to You in this new life You've given me." If this prayer expresses the desire of your heart â€" pray it right now.
Jesus will hear you. He will save you and come into your heart and life. You will become a child of God and have eternal life.
John 1:12 â€" "But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God."
Hebrews 7:25a â€" "Therefore He is able, once and forever, to save everyone who comes to God through Him."
If you have made a decision to trust Jesus, you have been born into God's family. God's promise to you is that He will never leave you or forsake you. One of the best things you can do right now is to tell someone about your decision.
Romans 10:9-10 â€" "For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved."
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Messiah/ Christ Would Be Betrayed By A Friend Ps. 41:9; Luke 22:47, 48
The Word:
Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted (relied on and was confident), who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. [John 13:18.]
- Psalm 41:9
And while He was still speaking, behold, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve [apostles], was going before [leading] them. He drew near to Yeshua / Jesus to kiss Him; But Yeshua / Jesus said to him, Judas! Would you betray and deliver up the Son of man with a kiss?
- Luke 22:47, 48
Can YOU answer for your-"self" This Question? Have you EVER given over The Son Of Man, The One And Only Begotten Son Of G-d with a kiss? "SURELY! You Know That `I´ LOVE You Lord, BUT..."
How many times have we eaten of His Bread, The "Living" Bread Of Life (For ALL Man-Kind?) That Came Down From G-d, Out Of Heaven? Can we (YOU) drink From His Cup ("Of The Cup That I [Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One] Drink"), be SO Care-Less as to spill It out and trample on The Blood That Saves Us? Are we TRULY Serving "The One" Who Calls Us Friends? [John 15:15; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Hebrews 6:10.] IF we Believe, Trust In, Rely On AND Are Confident In Him, How can we lift up our heel against Him? The enemy Is "the one" To Be Trampled Under Our Foot, NOT One Another! Are we NOT "One Of His Disciples," In With The (REAL) In Crowd? It Is Messiah / Christ, Who Goes Before Us [Leading And Guiding], By His Holy Spirit and when WE decide to lead "The Crowd" (in any other Way, shape or form than According To His Perfect And Acceptable Will), No Matter How WE Draw Near To Him (thinking to give Him a kiss), we actually deny Him and wind up in the enemies´ camp!
WHY do you sleep "In The Light?" Should we not ALL get up and Pray that we fall NOT into temptation? When Pharaoh spoke, It was Written AND Done. How is it that SO many (confessing) Christians, Believers from ALL walks of Life, can turn against Messiah / Christ, while He Still Speaks? BEHOLD! LOOK around you, LOOK In "The Mirror" (G-d's Holy And Precious Word) and let ALL who "think" they stand, take heed lest they fall. LORD, have Mercy On Us ALL!
THANK G-d, Who Calls Us, Draws Us Closer To Him and Makes Our Election SURE. We ARE One With Him, In Yeshua / Jesus and He Will Lead Us Beside Still Waters. G-d Loves YOU and wants to kiss you with the kisses of His Mouth. He Says, "Arise, My Love!"
Would you betray or deliver up The Son Of Man? NO, of course NOT or at least, not intentionally :( G-d Is Faithful and Yeshua / Jesus NEVER Fails! His Promise (and ALL G-d's Promises are Yes and Amen In Him) Is NEVER to leave or forsake you. He Is Our Redeemer! We have been Delivered from the curse of sin and death, By The Precious Blood Of The Lamb Of G-d, Who Takes AWay the sins of the World. He has given His Holy Spirit as a token of His Trust In, Reliance On and Confidence that we Will Accomplish The Work Set Before Us!
Adam and Eve ate and drank "In The Garden Of Eden," but fell, they lifted up their heels against G-d. Let us (By Faith) eat and drink, for Messiah / Christ Our Passover Lamb Has Been Slain, Taste And See That The Lord Is Good, find Communion and Fellowship (In The Holy Ghost) with ALL The Saints, for TOGETHER, we shall bruise and tread the enemies' head under foot, and he shall eat dust [and what it contains] ALL the days of his life, In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance, Be Gracious Unto and Give YOU Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fullness In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus The Messiah / Christ, The Light Of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d Bless and Love to ALL,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: The Messiah / Christ / Anointed One Would Be Scourged And Spat On
The Word:
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. [Matt. 26:67; 27:30.]
- Isaiah 50:6
Then they spat in His face, and struck Him with their fists; and some slapped Him in the face, [Is. 50:6.]
- Matthew 26:67
So he set free for them Barabbas, and [had] Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation whipped, and delivered Him up to be crucified.
- Matthew 27:26
Title.
Subject:
Betrayed For 30 Pieces Of Silver / Zech. 11:12, 13; Matt. 26:14, 15
The Word:
And I said to them, If it seems just and right to you, give me my wages; but if not, withhold them. So they weighed out for my price thirty pieces of silver.
And the Lord said to me, Cast it to the potter [as if He said, To the dogs!], the munificently miserable sum at which I [and My shepherd] am priced by them! And I [Zechariah] took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. [Matt. 26:14, 15; 27:3-10.]
- Zechariah 11:12, 13
Then one of the twelve [apostles] who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
And said, What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you? And they weighed out and paid him thirty pieces of silver [about twenty-one dollars and sixty cents]. [Exod. 21:32; Zech. 11:12.]
- Matthew 26:14, 15
ALL of us (if we are completely, totally open & honest with Our"Self" and The Lord) at One point or another in Our Christian Walk & Relationship with Messiah / Christ / The Anointed have sold Him and Our"Self" short by literally given Him or another Brother or Sister In The Lord "The Judas Kiss." The Word Of G-d CLEARLY tells us, "The Wages (what we ourselves earn and are due to receive) Of Sin "Is" DEATH, but The Gift Of G-d Is Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In Yeshua / Jesus!
What are you willing, wanting and ready to "sell" your Salvation / Yeshua / Jesus for? Perhaps a bowl of lentil soup, 30 pieces of silver worth $21.60, sex or drugs? I want you to stop for just "ONE WHOLE MINUTE" and take a Good, Hard Look at your"self," because The Temple / Church of Yeshua / Jesus, Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One is "In The Last Days" and G-d's JUDGEMENT Begins At The House Of G-d!
It has been said that One in Twelve Apostles, Prophets, Preachers, Teachers, Evangelists or just plain old ordinary DISCIPLES, which you and I, EVERY Confessing Believer On The Face Of Planet Earth are Called Of G-d To Be can fall into "This Judas Category." Let us NOT Be Deceived, for G-d Shall NOT Be Mocked! Is there a "fitting" opportunity for you or someOne close to you, in your Fellowship or Congregation that will "CHOOSE" To Betray Him? While others were preparing to eat The Passover, The Lord's Supper, Take Communion & Have Fellowship, "The Spirit Of Judas" was determining in his heart to BREAK The Bread Of Life and receive what he felt were "his just wages." What is "This Present World Of Darkness" Willing to Give, Weigh Out or Pay Y-O-U? Are you Ready, Willing, Wanting and Able to Give It ALL up? You shall be weighed in the balance, come up lacking and receive your Just Reward!
Can you, I or any of us go before G-d's Throne and Demand of Him to, "Give Me My Wages, What I Deserve?" LORD, Have Mercy on a Poor Sinner Like Me! ALL we Like Sheep Have Gone Astray and MUST Find Our Way, "The Way" back to The Fold Of G-d, where The Good Shepherd Will Lead & Guide us to Greener Pastures and show us His Compassionate Heart Of Grace & Favor. Ask that He Would Hold Back Our Just Rewards and Grant us Peace, Hope, FULLness & His Blessings In His Holy & Precious Name. Both Zechariah and Judas Cast the 30 pieces of silver in the House Of The Lord, His Holy Temple, but for Our Old Covenant Prophet it was only to be a foreshadowing of what was to come in the sorry, misled, lowly, short-lived life of Judas Iscariot (There's a Reason his name ends with R-I-O-T). As Believers, we are Compelled To Cast Our Cares & Woes Upon Him and ask Him NOT to Cast us aWay from His Presence and Take NOT His Holy Spirit from us.
He "IS" The Potter, we "ARE" The Clay that MUST Submit to His Authority (As The Author & Finisher Of Our Faith) and we MUST ask Him DAILY To Melt, Mold, FILL and USE us to Accomplish His Purposes. Cast NOT your Pearl Of GREAT Price to The Swine, The Pigs and Do NOT Be as a dog that returns to its vomit, so that the sum of your existence is miserable and your value (price) is worthless! Your Worth is NOT Determined by This Present World Of Darkness, but your WORTHINESS "IS" Determined By The Precious Blood Of Yeshua / Jesus, The One & ONLY Begotten Son Of G-d, Who Purchased Your Soul For G-d's Glory On The Hill Of Calvary! He Will Take ALL "The (Broken) Pieces" Of Your Life and Make Y-O-U WHOLE. His Rod AND His Staff WILL Comfort Y-O-U when you repent of your sin and humble your"self" before The Mighty Hand Of G-d, In His Sight, He WILL Lift Y-O-U Up (Into Heavenly Places), Set Your Feet Upon The SOLID Rock, The Firm Foundation, so that you can walk In The Blessings Of G-d In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy And Precious Name. Amen and Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon and Give to YOU His Peace, WHOLENESS and FULLness In The Name Of Yeshua The Messiah, Jesus The Christ, The Anointed One, The Light Of The World, The Light Of Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life, The Hope Of Israel, The Hope Of Glory AND The Hope Of ALL Nations & Peoples! Amen & Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Merry Christmas!
Wishng you ALL The VERY Merriest Christmas EVER & The MOST Joyous Of New Years In 2005!
Thanks to EVERY One of you for your Faithfulness to God and Each Other. It has been my pleasure to serve you throughout this past year in ALL that God has done through Our Group, Web Site, Missions & Church. I Hope that you Will Continue to Pray Daily for ALL involved with This Christian Fellowship and that where you live, move & have your Being In Jesus, your Light Will Shine EVER Brighter Until The FULL Light Of His SOON Coming Day! I'll be signing off until January 3, 2005, so that I can get my house in order for My Daughter's visit from NJ to NM during Christmas & The New Year, but you will ALL Be In My Heart & Prayers. You may possibly hear from me regarding The January Edition of Our Web Site before then and my e-mails will be monitored daily, so if you need to contact me, type aWay! For those of you who don't read ALL of my regular posts :D I leave you with my final One for 2004. May His Richest Blessings And Love Be Yours Throughout This Holiday Season & Into The New Year 2005. GBY!
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Jesus, Mark
ps. Care-Net Pregnancy Center Of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA will be opening on Saturday, January 22, 2005, the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade and Sunday, January 23, 2005 is The Day that MOST Churches around The United States will be Celebrating The Sanctity Of Human Life, so we would definitely appreciate your Daily Prayers regarding these matters and any other support you could give. PLEASE, send a check or money order TODAY to:
Arms of Love Fellowship
1700 B Southern Blvd.
Rio Rancho, NM
87124
USA
and be sure to make it out to "Care-Net Pregnancy Center" with 'Rio Rancho" in the memo section, so that ALL your tax deductible funds go directly towards this project. Thank Y-O-U again for ALL of your Daily Prayers & Continual Support. GBY!
MESSIANIC MESSAGE:
The Messiah's / Christ's / Anointed One's Blood Money Would Be Used To Buy A Potter's Field
The Word:
And I said to them, If it seems just and right to you, give me my wages; but if not, withhold them. So they weighed out for my price thirty pieces of silver.
And the Lord said to me, Cast it to the potter [as if He said, To the dogs!], the munificently miserable sum at which I [and My shepherd] am priced by them! And I [Zechariah] took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. [Matt. 26:14, 15; 27:3-10.]
- Zechariah 11:12, 13
Then were fulfilled the words spoken by Jeremiah the prophet when he said, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him on Whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, [Zech. 11:12,
13.]
And they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me
- Matthew 27:9, 10.
I in NO Way want to end this year on a bad or down note, but it is during this MOST Festive Holiday Season that more suicides occur than at any other time on Our Julian Calendar and it would be inappropriate of me to not tell you The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing, But The Truth. It was Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation Himself, Who told His Disciples, "Look! I Tell You, Raise Your Eyes And Observe The Fields And See How They Are Already White For Harvesting." Apart From Resurrection Day Itself, There Is No Other Day In Human History More Celebrated Than The Birth Of God's Promise To ALL Of Man-Kind, so during this time of reflection, regarding "The End of the old and The Beginnings of The New," Let us ALL "Look" Unto Yeshua / Jesus / Our Salvation As The Author & Finisher Of Our Faith.
The Potter's Field is Exactly where you and I live Today (although, as Believers, we ARE Seated In Heavenly Places). It is Here & NOW where ALL The Pieces Of Broken Pottery Are Thrown About & Discarded, Strewn About here on Planet Earth, but through The Blood Of Our Passover Lamb, The Life, Death & Resurrection Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, we Can Be Made WHOLE Again, In His Holy & Precious Name.
For the wages which sin pays is death; but the [bountiful] free gift of G-d is eternal life through (In Union with) Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation / Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One our Lord.
- Romans 6:23
We Have Been Set FREE, for he who The One & ONLY Begotten Son Of G-d Sets Free Is FREE INDEED from sin and Y-O-U Have Become The Slaves, Bond-Servants, Prisoners Of Hope, Of G-d and we Have Our PRESENT Reward In Holiness and Its End Is Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In Him. G-d has worked and is working ALL Things Together For His & Our Good In Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation! We Have Been Redeemed, Purchased, Bought (Brought) Back Into COMPLETE & TOTAL Communion & Fellowship with Our Father Who Art In Heaven, In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, Through The Ministry Of His Holy Spirit, Working Upon, In & Through us, as His Temple, His Church, His SPOTLESS Bride, His Body. It Is and Was For This VERY Reason (Come Let Us Reason Together) that The Son Of The Most High G-d Came Down From Heaven To Earth, Went From The Earth To The Cross, AND From The Grave To The Sky (Where He Is Seated At The Right Hand Of G-d), To Show Us ALL "The Way" To The Father!
Each and EVERY One of us are like sheep that have gone astray from His Greener Pastures, but He STILL Chooses to Pick Up ALL The Broken Pieces Of Our (lesser or lower) life, puts them ALL Together, In Their Proper Place, so that we can Have The Peace Of G-d (Right Here & NOW) ON Earth and His Good (Perfect & Acceptable) Will Towards ALL Man-Kind. It Is Through His Precious Blood that He Purchased Us, As His Pearl Of GREAT Price, Earth Is "The Potter's Field," because He Bought Back The Title Deed from our enemy, the devil, the accuser of The Brethren and NOW It Is Up To Us To Take The Love Of G-d & The Good News Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation To ALL Nations & Peoples In His Holy & Precious Name!
ALL-Ready The Reaper Is Getting His Wages - He Who Does The Cutting Now Has His Reward - For He Is Gathering Fruit (Crop) And Lasting Fruit Unto Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life. So That He Who Does The Planting And He Who Does The Reaping May Rejoice Together.
- John 4:36
ALL TOO OFTEN I find that even the best of Biblical Scholars Miss-Read The Word Of G-d and their commentaries are the accumulated works of men and NOT G-d Breathed Accounts Of Holy Script. The above portion of Biblical Text is NOT speaking of "The GRIM Reaper," but Of Our Lord And Savior, Who Plants, Waters And Brings The Spiritual Increase, In His Time. He Makes ALL Things B-E-A-Uti-FULL In His Time and His Time Has Come - TODAY!
For In "THIS" The Saying (ALL That Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation Said, Says & Does) Holds True, One Sows And Another Reaps.
I Sent Y-O-U To Reap A Crop (THE HARVEST) On Which You Have Not Toiled. Other Men Have Labored And You Step In To Reap The Results Of Their Work.
- John 4:37, 38
WILL Y-O-U Step INTO "That" To Which G-d Is Calling You? Don't sell your"self" or others short when it comes to Eternal Matters. As we Celebrate The Birth Of Messiah / Christ /The Anointed One, reflect on Your Life In Him over this past year and "Look" Forward To See what further, what MORE can be done in the Up-Coming year and years to bring others "In" To Spiritual Re-Birth, In His Holy & Precious Name. Although we are broken vessels (G-d LOVES A Broken & Contrite Heart), He Mends us and Brings Healing To Our Being, so that we can Go, Do & Be ALL That He Has Called Us To, so pick up a piece of Broken Pottery TODAY, because He Is The Potter & we ARE The Clay.
LORD, Melt us, Mold us Into The Image Of Your Precious Son, FILL us With Your Holy Spirit (Up To Over-Flowing) and Use us In Yeshua's / Jesus' / Salvation's Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon & Give To Y-O-U His Shalom, Peace, WHOLENESS & FULLNESS In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation / Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen & Amen.
Merry Messiahmas & A Happy, Joyous New Year 2005! G-d Bless & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
REMEMBER:
G-d Is Faithful & Jesus NEVER Fails!
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Subject: It Is For This Reason I Came Into The World / Messiah-mas Message 2004
The Messiah's / Christ's / Anointed One's Blood Money Would Be Used To Buy A Potter's Field
The Word:
And I said to them, If it seems just and right to you, give me my wages; but if not, withhold them. So they weighed out for my price thirty pieces of silver.
And the Lord said to me, Cast it to the potter [as if He said, To the dogs!], the munificently miserable sum at which I [and My shepherd] am priced by them!
And I [Zechariah] took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. [Matt. 26:14, 15; 27:3-10.]
- Zechariah 11:12, 13
Then were fulfilled the words spoken by Jeremiah the prophet when he said, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him on Whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, [Zech. 11:12,
13.]
And they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me
- Matthew 27:9, 10.
I in NO Way want to end this year on a bad or down note, but it is during this MOST Festive Holiday Season that more suicides occur than at any other time on Our Julian Calendar and it would be inappropriate of me to not tell you The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing, But The Truth. It was Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation Himself, Who told His Disciples, "Look! I Tell You, Raise Your Eyes And Observe The Fields And See How They Are Already White For Harvesting." Apart From Resurrection Day Itself, There Is No Other Day In Human History More Celebrated Than The Birth Of God's Promise To ALL Of Man-Kind, so during this time of reflection, regarding "The End of the old and The Beginnings of The New," Let us ALL "Look" Unto Yeshua / Jesus / Our Salvation As The Author & Finisher Of Our Faith.
The Potter's Field is Exactly where you and I live Today (although, as Believers, we ARE Seated In Heavenly Places). It is Here & NOW where ALL The Pieces Of Broken Pottery Are Thrown About & Discarded, Strewn About here on Planet Earth, but through The Blood Of Our Passover Lamb, The Life, Death & Resurrection Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, we Can Be Made WHOLE Again, In His Holy & Precious Name.
For the wages which sin pays is death; but the [bountiful] free gift of G-d is eternal life through (In Union with) Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation / Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One our Lord.
- Romans 6:23
We Have Been Set FREE, for he who The One & ONLY Begotten Son Of G-d Sets Free Is FREE INDEED from sin and Y-O-U Have Become The Slaves, Bond-Servants, Prisoners Of Hope, Of G-d and we Have Our PRESENT Reward In Holiness and Its End Is Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In Him. G-d has worked and is working ALL Things Together For His & Our Good In Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation! We Have Been Redeemed, Purchased, Bought (Brought) Back Into COMPLETE & TOTAL Communion & Fellowship with Our Father Who Art In Heaven, In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, Through The Ministry Of His Holy Spirit, Working Upon, In & Through us, as His Temple, His Church, His SPOTLESS Bride, His Body. It Is and Was For This VERY Reason (Come Let Us Reason Together) that The Son Of The Most High G-d Came Down From Heaven To Earth, Went From The Earth To The Cross, AND From The Grave To The Sky (Where He Is Seated At The Right Hand Of G-d), To Show Us ALL "The Way" To The Father!
Each and EVERY One of us are like sheep that have gone astray from His Greener Pastures, but He STILL Chooses to Pick Up ALL The Broken Pieces Of Our (lesser or lower) life, puts them ALL Together, In Their Proper Place, so that we can Have The Peace Of G-d (Right Here & NOW) ON Earth and His Good (Perfect & Acceptable) Will Towards ALL Man-Kind.
It Is Through His Precious Blood that He Purchased Us, As His Pearl Of GREAT Price, Earth Is "The Potter's Field," because He Bought Back The Title Deed from our enemy, the devil, the accuser of The Brethren and NOW It Is Up To Us To Take The Love Of G-d & The Good News Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation To ALL Nations & Peoples In His Holy & Precious Name!
ALL-Ready The Reaper Is Getting His Wages - He Who Does The Cutting Now Has His Reward - For He Is Gathering Fruit (Crop) And Lasting Fruit Unto Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life. So That He Who Does The Planting And He Who Does The Reaping May Rejoice Together.
- John 4:36
ALL TOO OFTEN I find that even the best of Biblical Scholars Miss-Read The Word Of G-d and their commentaries are the accumulated works of men and NOT G-d Breathed Accounts Of Holy Script. The above portion of Biblical Text is NOT speaking of "The GRIM Reaper," but Of Our Lord And Savior, Who Plants, Waters And Brings The Spiritual Increase, In His Time. He Makes ALL Things B-E-A-Uti-FULL In His Time and His Time Has Come - TODAY!
For In "THIS" The Saying (ALL That Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation Said, Says & Does) Holds True, One Sows And Another Reaps.
I Sent Y-O-U To Reap A Crop (THE HARVEST) On Which You Have Not Toiled. Other Men Have Labored And You Step In To Reap The Results Of Their Work.
- John 4:37, 38
WILL Y-O-U Step INTO "That" To Which G-d Is Calling You? Don't sell your"self" or others short when it comes to Eternal Matters. As we Celebrate The Birth Of Messiah / Christ /The Anointed One, reflect on Your Life In Him over this past year and "Look" Forward To See what further, what MORE can be done in the Up-Coming year and years to bring others "In" To Spiritual Re-Birth, In His Holy & Precious Name. Although we are broken vessels (G-d LOVES A Broken & Contrite Heart), He Mends us and Brings Healing To Our Being, so that we can Go, Do & Be ALL That He Has Called Us To, so pick up a piece of Broken Pottery TODAY, because He Is The Potter & we ARE The Clay.
LORD, Melt us, Mold us Into The Image Of Your Precious Son, FILL us With Your Holy Spirit (Up To Over-Flowing) and Use us In Yeshua's / Jesus' / Salvation's Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon & Give To Y-O-U His Shalom, Peace, WHOLENESS & FULLNESS In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation / Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen & Amen.
Merry Messiahmas & A Happy, Joyous New Year 2005! G-d Bless & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
REMEMBER:
G-d Is Faithful & Jesus NEVER Fails!
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Date: Fri, Jan 21, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Crucified - Isa. 53:12; Matt. 27:38; Mark 15:27-28; Luke 22:37
Between Two Thieves
The Word:
Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great [kings and rulers], and He shall divide the spoil with the mighty; because He poured out His life unto death, and He let Himself be regarded as a criminal and be numbered with the transgressors, yet He bore [and took away] the sin of many and makes intercession for the transgressors - the rebellious. [Luke 22:37.]
- Isaiah 53:12
At the same time two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right hand and one on the left.
- Matthew 27:38
And with Him they crucified two robbers, one on [His] right hand and one on His left.
And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, He was counted among the transgressors. [Isa. 53:12.]
- Mark 15:27, 28
For I tell you that this Scripture must yet be fulfilled in Me, And He was counted and classed among the wicked (the outlaws, the criminals); for what is written about Me has its fulfillment -has reached its end, and is finally settled. [Isa. 53:12.]
- Luke 22:37
You have ALL heard the expression, "ALL Good Things MUST Come To An End," but that is not necessarily Truth In The Eyes of ALL Eternity, because God "IS" Good and ALL His Promises ARE "Yes! & Amen!" In Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One Of G-d, yet ALL debt for our sin HAS been "Cancelled" by The Precious Blood Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus and EVERYTHING (According To G-d's Holy Word, Will & Way) HAS Reached Its End - Found Its FULL-FILL-ment In Him! We are watching and waiting for the dust to clear and for our Spiritual Eyes To Be Opened, so that we can See and Determine that what we owed is Finally Settled. God Is Faithful & Jesus NEVER Fails!
Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Tells us that ALL Holy Script "IS" Full-Filled In Him, Because He "IS" The Living Word Of G-d ALL-Mighty, The Manifestation Of Our Father Who Art In Heaven Right Here On Earth! He was Counted Among us, the wicked, robbers, outlaws, criminals, transgressors, the rebellious, Numbered with ALL of human-kind, as One Of us, but NOW One With, Upon, In & Working Through us. He took on the nature of sin-FULL man, so that His Anointing would BREAK Each & EVERY Yolk of human bondage. We NOW can Live The Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection LIFE In His Holy & Precious Name!
YESHUA / Salvation / Jesus "IS" Our Portion & Our Strength. By The Testimony Of Our Faith In Him we Over-Come sin By The Blood Of The Lamb Of G-d Who Takes AWay The sins of This Present World Of Darkness and dis-spells it with The Presence Of His Glorious Light. He Poured Out His Life unto death, so that we could HAVE Life In Him! Are you and I ready, willing and able to pour out our Life as a Living Sacrifice, as Paul The Apostle Did, which is Our Reasonable Service? Go ahead...
Answer "The Question... I'll wait...
Thank G-d that He has waited patiently on a Redeemed World to Humble ourselves In His Sight, Repent and Turn from our wicked ways, so that He Could Bring Healing To Our Land, but He Says To us ALL Today, My Holy Spirit Shall NOT AlWays Strive With mankind. Yes, He "IS" LONG-Suffering, but He "IS" Also "The Righteous Judge" of ALL the Universe. Should we not ALL take heed to the warning signs that point us to The End Of The Age? Wars & rumors of wars, earthquakes in various places (8 Countries were recently DEVASTATED by the Tsunami where 1 out of EVERY 4 people died and the death toll is still climbing) and the gathering of G-d's Chosen People back to Himself (MORE Jewish People have Received Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus as Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One since 1960 than EVER before in ALL of World history), so This "IS" A CLEAR Indication that He "IS" Coming Again SOON!
As The Community Of The Saints, I can assure you that there is NO Community without Unity of His Holy Spirit and Obedience To His Purposes. We MUST Equip The Saints For Spiritual Service In His Kingdom Of Righteousness, Peace AND Joy In The Holy Ghost! I Experientially KNOW that He Said To GO Into ALL The World AND Preach The Gospel Of G-d In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One. We are without excuse and MUST Complete The Task That He Has Set Before us As His Body, The Temple Of The Living G-d, The Church, His Spotless Bride.
Let us Right-FULLY divide The Word Of Truth and Bring The GREAT King & Ruler Of ALL Nations & Peoples His Spoils Of War that He Purchased Upon The Cross Of Calvary! He "IS" Constantly Making Intercession For us At G-d's Throne Of Grace & Mercy, so we Can NOT lose, because The Victory "IS" Ours In Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon AND Give To You Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, FULL-ness & Blessings In The Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus The Messiah / Christ / The Anointed, The Light Of The World, The Light Of Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life, The Light Of ALL Mankind. Amen & Amen.
G-d Bless & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
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We are His Hands, we are His Voice, we are The Ones who make The Choice, if its not now, then tell me when, oh tell me, who will Save The Children?
-Phil Keaggy
Date: Fri, Feb 4, 2005
Subject:
Vinegar To Drink - Psalm 69:21; Matthew 27:33, 34, 48; John 19:28-30
The Word:
They gave me also gall (poisonous and bitter) for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar [a soured wine] to drink. [Matt. 27:34, 48.]
- Psalm 69:21
And when they came to a place called Golgotha [Calvary, in Latin], which means the place of the skull,
They offered Him wine mingled with gall to drink, but when He tasted it, He refused to drink it.
And one of them immediately ran and took a sponge, soaked it with vinegar [a sour wine], and put it on a reed-staff and was about to give it to Him to drink. [Ps. 69:21.]
- Matthew 27:33, 34, 48
After this, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, knowing that all was now finished (ended), said in fulfillment of the Scripture, I thirst. [Ps. 69:21.]
A vessel (bowl) full of vinegar (a sour wine) was placed there. So they put a sponge soaked in the vinegar on [a stalk, reed of] hyssop and held it to [His] mouth.
When Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished! and He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
- John 19:28-30
During The Feast Of Passover, Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One was slain as "The Passover Lamb Of G-d, Who Takes AWay The Sins Of The World" to FULL-FILL The Holy Scriptures. The Promise to Abraham was that G-d Would Provide Himself A Sacrifice and He VERY WELL DID! King David wrote, Cleanse Me With Hyssop And I Shall Be Whiter Than Snow. Isaiah The Prophet said, "Though Your Sins Be As Scarlet, "I" (G-d Speaking) Shall Make Them White As Snow" and It Is ONLY The Precious Blood Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus that Cleanses us from ALL sin and unrighteousness. He tasted the bitterness of death for ALL of us, hungered and thirsted for The Things Of G-d, so that we could Be FILLED (to Overflowing) with His Presence and NEVER Thirst Again, because we NOW Have His Living Water AND Bread Of Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life.
EVERY year, since the days of Moses, G-d's Chosen People gather together for a Sacred Assembly and Celebrate The Exodus. During this most solemn event, ALL witness The Washing With Water (Be Ye Transformed By The Washing Of Water & The Word), Breaking Of The Bread (Matzo) [This Is My Body] and the Pouring Out Of The (NEW) Wine [This Is My Blood, Shed For The Forgiveness Of Sin, Representing The "New" Covenant], but few get the connection of the hyssop... When Moses was "Commanded" To Prepare The Passover, he took the hyssop, dipped it in "The Blood Of The Sacrificed Lamb" and spread it on the door posts. When eating the meal, each person takes parsley and dips their piece into the bitter herbs that represent the bitter tears shed over their bondage while in Egypt. G-d DELIVERED Them from sin and death, but this was just a foreshadowing of what was to be fulfilled In Messiah!
He Is Our Passover Lamb, The One Who Shed His Blood, His Life, so that we could Be FREE Indeed. At The Cross Of Calvary, The Spotless Son Of G-d Became Cursed In Our Stead (Cursed Is EVERY One Who Hangs On A Tree). The VERY One Who Came To Give us Living Water, THIRSTED (in a dry and weary land), so that we would not have to! He Took Up-On Himself our sins, weaknesses, infirmities, guilt, shame, sufferings, sorrows, sickness, diseases, punishment, death and MORE, so that we Could Be Reconciled To G-d, In COMPLETE & TOTAL Communion & Fellowship FOREVER. You might like Moses (when he was first Called Of G-d) say, "Who Am I, Lord?" BUT, The Real Question Of The Day (that G-d would ask us IS) Who Am I? I Am The G-d Of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, The Same, Yesterday, Today & FOREVER. SERVE Me!
This IS Our Reasonable (Come, Let us Reason Together, Says The Lord) Service: To Do Justly, Love Mercy and Walk "Humbly" With Our G-d. Love Him With ALL Of Your Heart, Mind, Soul, Spirit & (In Your Weakness He Will Show His) Strength! Pour Out Your"self," Your Life In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One as a Living Sacrifice Of Praise (Continually) Before His Throne Of Grace, Favor, Loving-Kindness & Tender-Mercies. Hunger & Thirst After His Righteousness, Peace & Joy In The Holy Ghost and You Shall Be (FULL) FILLED.
It Is Finished! He Has Done It! Life Conquered Death! Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Has WON! We "HAVE" The Victory In His Holy & Precious Name, The Name Above ALL Others. He Purchased It "ALL" With His Shed Blood 2,000 years ago, so don't you think that it's about time that we, as Believers start Walking In This Blessed Victory? TODAY Is The Day Of Salvation / Yeshua / Jesus!
CHURCH, Thirst No More, Because He ALREADY Thirsted For Y-O-U, He's The Well-Spring Of LIFE and Promised That Streams Of Living Water Would Flow Upon, In AND Through You, Unto Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name.
Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon & Give To Y-O-U His Peace, Wholeness, Fullness & Blessings In The Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus The Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen & Amen.
G-d Bless & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Mark
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Date: Fri, Feb 18, 2005
Subject: Ps. 22:16; Zech. 12:10; Mark 15:25; John 19:34, 37; 20:25-27
The Word:
For [like a pack of] dogs they have encompassed me; a company of evil-doers has encircled me; they pierced my hands and my feet. [Isa. 53:7; ; John 19:37. ]
- Psalm 22:16
And I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace or unmerited favor, and supplication.
And they shall look [earnestly] upon Me Whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him as one who is in bitterness for his first-born. [John 19:37; Rev. 1:7. ]
- Zechariah 12:10
And it was the third hour (about nine o'clock in the morning) when they crucified Him. [Ps. 22:14-16. ]
- Mark 15:25
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came (flowed) out.
And again another Scripture says, They shall look on Him Whom they have pierced. [Zech. 12:10. ]
- John 19:34, 37
So the other disciples kept telling him, we have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see in His hands the mark made by the nails, and put my finger into the nail prints, and put my hand to His side, I will never believe [it].
Eight days later His disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them.
Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation came, though they were behind closed doors, and stood among them and said, Peace to you!
Then He said to Thomas, Reach out your finger here and see My hands; and put out your hand and place [it] in My side.
Do not be faithless and incredulous, but [stop your unbelief and] believe!
- John 20:25-27
The Messiah / Christ / Anointed One Would Suffer The Piercing Of His Hands And Feet
TOO Many Believers Today are standing behind "Closed Doors" with Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation in their midst and NOT Receiving their Peace, Wholeness, FULL-ness & G-dly Blessings In His Holy & Precious Name. ALL of G-d's Promises (from Genesis to The Revelation Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One) "ARE" Yes & Amen In Him! Believest Thou THIS (KJV)? REACH Out Here (Hear, O, Israel) & NOW (For TODAY "IS" The Day Of Salvation / Jesus / Yeshua), SEE (Behold) His Hands, Feet & Side, Be NOT Faithless, but Faith-FULL, STOP your un-belief and Believe, Cling To, Trust In & Rely On Him, as The Author & Finisher Of Your Faith (which "IS" The Substance (REALITY) Of Things Hoped For & The Evidence (The Sure Foundation) Of Things Yet To Be Seen!
It was us (Y-O-U & me) who put those thorns in His Crown and pierced Him with the punishment of ALL our sins that He took upon Himself on our behalf, in our stead. THIS was done, so that His Streams of Living Water and Precious Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life's Blood could cleanse us from ALL sin and un-righteousness.
How Precious "IS" The Flow that Makes us Pure, Holy, Blameless & White As Snow In His Sight? THIS "IS" The ONLY Way to come into complete Communion & Fellowship with Our Father Who Art In Heaven and Experientially Know The Power Of His Redemption. LOOK Earnestly Upon Him, Weep & Mourn for our continuation of sin, the sins of our forefathers, the sin in our land, taste the bitterness of His Sufferings, so that He Will Pour Out Upon us, The House Of David, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ALL Nations & Peoples, Tribes & Tongues, His Holy Spirit, The Spirit Of Grace (G-d's un-merited Favor), and Supplication (Prayer), According To His Word, Will & Way!
You will hear the slander of many and at times there will be terror on EVERY side of you, because the enemy comes ONLY to kill, steal and destroy. The accuser of The Brethren's desire is to take away your Life, but G-d's Desire "IS" for you to Trust In Him, because your times "ARE" In His Hands and Our G-d Shall Deliver us from the future that our enemy has planned. When evil-doers encircle, encompass and surround you like a pack of wild dogs, Remember That He "IS" Our Peace, Our Shalom, The Peace Of Jerusalem, That Peace Of G-d That Passes ALL human understanding and It "IS" His Holy Spirit (G-d's Hand) Upon, Working In & Through us that Will Lead & Guide us Into ALL Truth & Spiritual Understanding In Yeshua's / Jesus' / Salvation's Holy & Precious Name. Amen & Amen!
Closing Prayer:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The (Holy) Light Of Countenance Upon & Give To Y-O-U His Peace, Wholeness, FULL-ness & Blessings In The ALL-Mighty Name Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation! Amen & Amen.
G-d Bless & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Mark
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Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2005
Subject: The Messiah's Garments Would Be Divided And Gambled For - Psalm 22:18;
The Word Prophesied:
They part my clothing among them, and cast lots for my raiment [a long, shirt-like garment, a seamless undertunic]. [John 19:23, 24.]
- Psalm 22:18
The Word Fulfilled:
And Yeshua / Jesus prayed, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they divided His garments and distributed them by casting lots for them. [Ps. 22:18.]
- Luke 23:34
Then the soldiers when they had crucified Yeshua / Jesus took His garments and made four parts, one share for each soldier, and also the tunic [the long shirt-like undergarment]. But the tunic was seamless, woven from the top throughout.
So they said to one another, Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots to decide whose it shall be.
This was to fulfill the Scripture, They parted My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots. So the soldiers did these things. [Ps. 22:18.]
- John 19:23, 24
Even at the nearing of death, there are family (Spiritual or otherwise), friends, loved ones and yes, even enemies, who seek to divide the spoils of war, those things left behind by "The Dearly Departed." I wonder what He or she left me in their Will? Let us examine this preface (and ourselves) further regarding this matter from both a natural and Spiritual perspective, because there is MUCH to be learned in Today's portion of Holy Script. The Prodigal Son couldn't wait to get on with "his life," so he approached His Father and asked for "his just-due inheritance" prior to "Dear Daddies" passing, only to squander it ALL away. How many times have we literally demanded something of Our Father Who Art In Heaven that we clearly thought we deserved? Sarah declared to Abraham, "Give Me Children Or I Shall Die!" And we ALL know what happened in that situation, as a matter of fact, we are still dealing with the aftermath of that rushed and wrong decision. Should we not ALL "Wait Upon The Lord & Renew Our Strength In Him?"
Certainly there are True Biblical Ways to Rightfully divide things:
1) Solomon proved to the World His Heavenly Wisdom by offering to divide the child in the dispute among two mothers.
2) The Nation Of Israel divided The Promised Land according to G-d's Word.
3) Paul The Apostle exhorted young Timothy (and ALL Believers) to Rightfully Divide "The Word Of Truth!"
4) Yeshua / Jesus Is Our Soon Coming King, Who Will Divide The Sheep from the goats.
While we are on the subject of G-d's Biblical Mathematics, let us not forget that we were commanded from The Beginning, "Be Fruitful And MULTIPLY!"
Too many Christian Churches are seated at The Feet Of Yeshua / Jesus (The Earth Is His Footstool) and arguing over what portion of The Ripe & Ready Fields is theirs, but we are Just Servants and The Owner Will Call us ALL To Account for EVERY Idle (Idol) Word, Deed, Action and In-Action. Like Joseph's Brothers, we "Choose" to dismantle others and ourselves from The Blessings Of His Coat Of MANY Colors! It Is In UNITY, Working Together, Hand In Hand & Side By Side That The Body Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Will Accomplish The Works That Were Prepared For us To Do, Before The Foundations Of This Present World Of Darkness Were Laid.
LORD, Forgive us, for we Know Exactly what we are doing! We tear at each other and divide Your Sheep, rather than gather them Together As One Into Your Fold.
YOU Have Distributed Your Precious Gifts & Talents Throughout Your Kingdom, but we have torn away at The Righteousness You Have Given us. We have turned on each other, rather than the powers & principalities in the heavenlies. ALL the struggling and striving is "SEEMLESS," so PLEASE, Clothe us In Your Righteousness Once Again and Allow us To Go Forward, Onwards & Upwards As Christian Soldiers, Marching Off To War Against The Enemy & Win The Battle, Taking "The Victory" In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon & Give To Y-O-U- His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness & FULLness In The Name Above ALL Names, Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation, Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One & Light Of The World.
Amen & Amen.
G-d Bless & His Love To ALL,
<')))>< Mark
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Date: Fri, Mar 18, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Would Be Surrounded And Ridiculed By His Enemies - Ps. 22:7, 8
The Word Prophesied:
All who see me laugh at me and mock me; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, [Matt.27:43.]
He trusted and rolled himself on the Lord, that He would deliver him. Let Him deliver him, seeing He delights in him!
[Matt. 27:39, 43; Mark 15:29, 30; Luke 23:35.]
- Psalms 22:7, 8
The Word Fulfilled:
Matthew 27:39-44; Mark 15:29-32
And those who passed by spoke reproachfully and abusively and jeered at Him, wagging their heads, [Ps. 22:7, 8; 109:25.]
He trusts in G-d; let G-d deliver Him now, if He cares for Him and will [have] Him, for He said, I am the Son of G-d.
- Matthew 27:39, 43
And those who passed by kept reviling Him and reproaching Him abusively in harsh and insolent language, wagging their heads and saying, Aha! You Who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, Now rescue Yourself (from death), coming down from the cross!
- Mark 15:29, 30
Now the people stood by, (calmly and leisurely) watching; but the rulers scoffed and sneered (turned up their noses) at Him, saying, He rescued others (from death), let Him now rescue Himself, if He is the Christ, the Messiah of G-d, His Chosen One!
- Luke 23:35
Here we see and hear of (Religious) people laughing, mocking, "Giving Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Lip, Wagging Their Heads," reviling Him reproachfully, abusively, harshly with insolent language, scoffing, sneering and "Thumbing Their Noses At Messiah / Christ / The Anointed, Chosen One," while "The General Public" stood by, calmly and leisurely watching The Brutal Crucifixion Of The Lord Of Glory, The King Of Israel! So, what has changed or is ever so different in This Present World Of Darkness that you and I live in Today?
Even the two criminals from their very own crosses were casting insults at Him, until one of them finally came to his senses (Came To His Self like the Prodigal Son) and put his Faith (The Substance Of Things Hoped For And The Evidence Of Things Unseen), Relied On, Clung To, Trusted In and Believed In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One.
How about Y-O-U?
Have Y-O-U Rolled Your"self" On The Lord, Experientially Knowing that He Will (And Has) Delivered Y-O-U from ALL sin and unrighteousness, EVER Seeing Y-O-U Pure, Holy And Blameless In His Sight and Taking Delight, FULL Pleasure In Y-O-U, In Who Y-O-U REALLY "Are" In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed / Chosen One, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus? If Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus delivered Himself from taking on the sins of the world, becoming sin for us or dying in our stead, we could NEVER have been Delivered, Redeemed or Brought Into A True Relationship With Our Father Who Art In Heaven! Because G-d Cares, He SO Loves The World (and EVERY One In it), He Sent His One And ONLY Begotten Son to die in our place and suffer our death, so that we could Have Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In His Holy And Precious Name. Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus not only said, "I AM The Son Of G-d," but He Proved It As A Fact By Raising Himself From The Garden Tomb On The Third Day and Is "NOW" Seated At The Right Hand Of The Father, Interceding On Our Behalf. He Allowed His HuMAN Body To Be Destroyed, so that ALL Of MANkind, Through Faith In Him Could BeCOME The Body Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, The Church, G-d's Chosen People!
Rather than "Come Down From The Cross Of Calvary," He Chose To Rise Again, Unto The Father, With ALL His Past Glory Restored Unto Him and sent us The Beloved Holy Spirit, so that we too could Be Seated In Heavenly Places, With Him and ALL of mankind can "NOW" be restored back to ALL The Glory That G-d Intended For us To Have From The Beginning, The Genesis. Let us NOT Be People Who Just Stand By, Calmly And Leisurely Watching, but Let us WATCH AND WAIT, OCCUPYING UNTIL HE COMES AGAIN, Taking Ground To Further And Strengthen His Kingdom!
He Rescued Others From Death, so Let us Go And Do Like-Wise (no matter what anybody else would say or think about us) In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen And Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To Y-O-U Shalom, Peace, Wholeness And FULLness In His Holy And Precious Name. Amen And Amen.
G-d Bless And Love To ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother And Friend In Him,
Mark
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Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2005
Subject: The Messiah Would Thirst / Psalm 22:15; John 19:28 - Messianic Message
The Word:
My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery; [with thirst] my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and You have brought me into the dust of death. [John 19:28.]
- Psalm 22:15
After this, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, knowing that all was now finished (ended), said in fulfillment of the Scripture, I thirst. [Psalm 69:21.]
- John 18:28
Would any One like a drink of vinegar [soured wine mingled with gall]? Can you (REALLY) drink of the cup that Our Lord And Savior Drank?
"In the BEGINNING the WORD already existed, HE was with GOD and HE was GOD."
- John 1:1
Does it not make Complete and Total, Perfect sense that The Lord Of ALL Creation would have to Come To The Earth That He Created and FULL-FILL His Holy And Precious Word by Becoming Mortal Man And Dwelling Among us As God Incarnate? After ALL, it was His Idea To Form Mankind From The Dust Of The Ground, just as a fragment of clay, so Certainly, The One Who Was With G-d (In) "The Beginning" should be brought into The Dust Of Death on our behalf, in our stead at what The World would call "His End." He "Is" The First And The Last! Should He not come and experientially know our EVERY temptation, feeling and emotion, so that when He Overcomes This Present World Of Darkness, we may Experientially Know Him And The Power Of His Resurrection Life By Faith?
In The Lord's Weakness G-d Should His Strength! He "Is' The Potter and we "ARE" The Clay, to be melted, molded, filled and used For His Good Pleasure, not our own, because we have been bought back, reconciled, purchased and Redeemed By His Blood. Are Y-O-U Thirsting After His Righteousness, The Streams Of Living Water That Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Promises us? When you Humble your"self" in the dust and ashes of your human nature, He Will Raise Y-O-U UP And Into Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In His Name!
Come On Home To The Father, Come On Home To The Son, Come On Home, The Battle Is Over, Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Has Won! "It Is Finished, He Has Done It, Life Conquered Death!"
He Thirsted (and FULL-FILLED EVERYTHING Else That Was Necessary), so that we would not EVER have to hunger or thirst for His Right Standing Relationship With G-d Again. Believest thou this? Like the woman at the well, we can NOW leave behind our pitcher that drew of The World's Well and pick up The Cup of Communion And Fellowship With Our Father Who Art In Heaven, His One And Only Begotten Son, In The Unity Of His Holy Spirit!
The True Passion Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One was us! He Loved (and still does Love) us SO MUCH that He left His Heavenly Glory to share in the humanity of sinful mankind. He hungered and thirsted, was tempted in the same manner as ALL "Are," but was without sin, did NOT give Him"Self" over to it, because He Knew Quite Well That ALL sin of any kind leads to death! Knowest thou this?
When your strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery, Go To The Potter! EVERY THING IS FIXABLE when you Cleave, Bring Your"Self" To Him Before you come to "the dust of death."
Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Knows your end and He Will FULL-FILL It, In His Time, when you put your Faith and Trust In The Provision That He Has Made In His Holy And Precious Word, The Living Word Of G-d, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus! Hunger and Thirst After Him and He'll FULL-FILL Each And EVERY Promise Of G-d, According To Holy Script. He Will Go Before Y-O-U In ALL Things, Keep Y-O-U In His Perfect And Acceptable Will AND "SURELY" His GOODNESS, Tender-Mercies & Loving-Kindness Shall Follow Y-O-U ALL The Days Of Your Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May G-d Bless & Keep You AlWays, May Your Wishes ALL Come True, May You AlWays Do For Others And Let Others Do For You, May You Find That Ladder To The Sky And Climb On EVERY Rug And May You Stay FOREVER Young. Amen & Amen.
His Richest Blessings & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
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Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Would Commend His Spirit To The Father-Psalm 31:5; Luke 23:46
The Word:
Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord G-d of truth and faithfulness. [Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59.] Psalm 31:5
And Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit! And with these words He expired. [Ps. 31:5.]
- Luke 23:46
And while they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, Lord Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, receive and accept and welcome my spirit!
- Acts 7:59
Have you put your hand in The Hand Of The Man From Galilee? It never ceases to amaze me how many confessing Believers / Christians Just Don't Get It! Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus was (And Is) The Second Adam and we (ALL who are in the world) are still part of The First, so Just as He went To The Cross Of Calvary And Died, we are commanded to bear our Cross DAILY and die to sin and self. Just as He was sent to The Lost Sheep, so we are commanded, Go Into ALL The World To Seek And Save The Lost!" Have we forgotten that because He Died In Our Stead we are now commanded To Live Our Lives Unto Him? How many of us have begun to pour out our (Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection) Lifes Blood for the sake of others? Have we Truly Given The Lord what He Requires of us?
TOO Many of us are NOT Trusting In The Lord with ALL of our heart, mind, soul, "SPIRIT" and strength, but we are leaning on our own (baser nature) understanding and NOT "COMMITTING" our (Spirit led) Way Unto Him, He Who Knows the heart of man, He Who Knows our EVERY thought, Word and deed, He Who Is The Lover Of Our Souls, He Who Has Given us His Holy Spirit Of Grace and He Who in our weakness Shows His Strength!
This is NOT Doing Justly, Loving His Tender-Mercies and Walking Humbly With Our G-d. Lord have Mercy when we DO NOT Offer Up Our"self" as a Living Sacrifice Of Praise Unto You Alone, Who Is Worthy Of ALL Glory, Honor, Power, Might And Constant / Continual Thanksgiving. For ALL that YOU Have Done For us, what little can we commit to You?
MY Lord, MY G-d, MY Savior, MY Redeemer, You Alone Are Faithful And True! Thank You for Being SO Faith-FULL (ALL the time), even when we are NOT and Thank You that in this world of lies, on this ball of confusion, You Are TRUTH. I Give Thanks that You Hear (And Answer) The Cries Of Your (Chosen) People and as Your One And ONLY Begotten Son Cried Out To You, Into Your Hands I Commit my spirit (the spirit of man) TODAY, I die to "self" and I Ask For Your Life To Be Manifested, Glorified and Lifted Up Upon, In And Through me In His Holy And Precious Name! Apart from His Holy Spirit connecting, fusing, becoming One with our spirit WE CAN DO NOTHING! If we do not live, move and have our being in His "Agape Love" (not our brotherly or sexual love), we are NOTHING! Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus IS EVERYTHING!
Stephen (whose name means Crown), The Churches First Martyr, knew and understood that he had to commit his spirit unto The Lord G-d Almighty for Eternity. Even in this most horrific and critical situation, Stephen Prayed, he asked, he cried out To Him Who Sits On The Throne And Unto The Lamb Of G-d, Who Takes AWay The Sins Of The World, for his spirit to be Received, Accepted and Welcomed Into The Kingdom.
Stephen Looked Up and Saw Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus. Do Y-O-U? I want to encourage each and everyone who is reading this message Today, for when you Commit your spirit unto G-d, you Shall Be, you "ARE" Received, Accepted and Welcomed Into His Kingdom Of Righteousness, Peace And Joy and so shall ALL others Be when they Choose To Do Like-Wise In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To Y-O-U His Peace, Wholeness, FULLness And Blessings In The Holy And Precious Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, The Messiah / The Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen & Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
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Date: Mon, May 2, 2005
Subject: HIS Bones Not To Be Broken - Ex.12:46;Num.9:12; Ps.34:20; John19:33-36
The Word:
In one house shall it be eaten [by one company]; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.
- Exodus 12:46
They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any bone of it; according to all the statute for the passover they shall keep it. [John 19:36.]
- Numbers 9:12
He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
- Psalm 34:20
But when they came to Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, and they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came (flowed) out.
And he who saw it - the eye-witness - gives this evidence and his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe also.
For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled (verified, carried out), Not one of His bones shall be broken. [Exod. 12:46; Num. 9:12; Ps. 34:20.]
- John 19:33-36
Are you an "eye-witness" of The Good News, The Gospel Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Christ / Messiah / The Anointed One? Do you "HAVE" The Faith, The Substance Of Things Hoped For And The EVIDENCE Of Things Unseen, to give YOUR Testimony of the things that Y-O-U Experientially Know To Be True, The TRUTH Of Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In HIM, so that others may Come To Believe, Cling To, Trust In and Rely On also?
As "The Bride," Y-O-U And I are NOW "Bone Of His Bone And Flesh Of HIS Flesh!" Surely G-d looks, HE searches deeply for a broken and contrite heart, but HIS intent is NEVER to break our Spirit. HE Keeps ALL HIS Bones and NONE of The Flesh should be carried out of The House. CHURCH, There are TOO MANY Confessing Believers that are NOT Living The Crucified Life and therefore, The Manifestations Of G-d are NOT Being Seen by ANY One, who could even come close to becoming an eye-witness to them, because The Bride is NOT Adorning Her"self" In HIS Righteousness! JUST as Eve (The Bride) was taken from Adam's (Man's) side, so too The Body Of Christ, Messiah, The Anointed One, The Second Adam, The Perfect Man was Pierced and brought forth HIS Bride, Born Of HIS Blood And Living Water, The Church, The Congregation Of ALL Believers on Earth. NOW we are One in The Holy Spirit And One In The Lord, The Dividing Walls have been torn down, so that HIS Word, The Holy Scriptures Can Be FULL-FILLed, Verified And Carried Out Upon, In And Through us! We "ARE" One House, Called Of G-d To Go Out, into the fields that are ripe for harvest and Break The Yolk Of Bondage, Sin And Death, By His Anointing, NOT in The Flesh, but By HIS Spirit, Says The Lord.
Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus says, "IF Y-O-U LOVE ME, THEN Y-O-U Will Obey ALL Of MY Commandments." HE "IS" The Passover Lamb Of G-d, Who Takes AWay The Sins Of This Present World Of Darkness and carries us Into HIS Kingdom Of LIGHT! ALL of HIS Statutes MUST Be Proclaimed, Explained And Kept By HIS Chosen People. EVEN the very soldiers who crucified HIM, "Came And Saw" That HE "WAS" Dead, B-U-T NOW HE "IS" Alive For-EVER MORE! We MUST ALL Come To See The Precious Flow Of HIS Cleansing Blood And Living Water that comes to refresh and replenish our dry and weary lands, In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name.
Amen And Amen.
Closing Prayer:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To You His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, Fulness and Blessings, In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Holy And Precious Name. Amen And Amen.
G-d Bless And Love To ALL,
<')))>< Mark Tross
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Date: Fri, May 13, 2005
Subject: The Messiah Would Be Forsaken By G-d - Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46
The Word:
MY G-d, my G-d, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? [Matt. 27:46.]
- Psalm 22:1
And about the ninth hour [three o'clock] Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus cried out with a loud voice, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My G-d, My G-d, why have You abandoned Me - leaving Me helpless, forsaking and failing Me in My need? [Ps. 22:1.]
- Matthew 27:46
YOUR sin has separated Y-O-U from Communion & Fellowship With The Father and THIS is WHY Our Lord & Savior Cried Out From The Cross, My G-d, My G-d, because He Was Forsaken, Left Helpless and Abandoned In His Time Of Need, when He Died In Our Stead, Taking Our Place On Calvary's Hill Far, Far AWay. It is through This Portion Of Holy Script that you and I should find our "Replacement Theology!" If not for Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, EVERY Soul in This Present World Of Darkness would be lost, ALL Alone and tormented throughout Eternity. He has paid our debt, ALL To Him we owe, sin has left a crimson stain, but He Has washed us (By His Living Water, G-d's Word & His Precious Blood) white as snow, Pure, Holy, Blameless and Justified (Just As If We Had NEVER Sinned) In His Sight.
Still "Feeling" Forsaken, distant, like G-d is SO Far, Far, AWay From Helping you and that your groaning cries are falling on deaf ears? Let G-d Be (Faithful &) True and EVERY Man a liar! If we would walk This Believer's Walk "By Faith" (which Pleases G-d) and NOT by our own earthly sight and natural senses, emotions or feelings, G-d would PROVE Himself. We do NOT Trust & Obey like we should and SURELY, There Is NO Other Way To Be Happy, Joy-FULL In, Of & By Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus! ALL of His Promises are YES & AMEN, so why do we not even Believe in The One where He Says, "I WILL NEVER LEAVE OR FORSAKE YOU?" He "IS" Our EVER PRESENT Help In Our Times Of Need, He's Closer than our next breath, heartbeat, thought, word or deed and He "IS" AlWays Attentive To The Prayers Of His Chosen Ones. He Declares To us Today, "Though your Mother & Father Forsake or Abandon you, I Will NEVER!"
Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus said to His Disciples, "I Will NOT Leave Y-O-U Helpless, but I Will Send The Comforter, G-d's Holy Spirit To Lead & Guide Y-O-U Into ALL Truth & Understanding." G-d "IS" Faithful-FULL & Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus NEVER Fails! Is it at all possible that we have forsaken Him? Have we looked for help elsewhere, apart from His Holy & Precious Word, The Words Of Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection LIFE? Are we wallowing in the mud, returning to our own vomit and groaning, because of leaving Our First Love, The Lover Of Our Hearts & Souls?
CRY Out With A LOUD Voice, as The Voice Of One Crying Out In The Desert, The Wilderness, wail and moan, because MANY, MANY have gone The Way of destruction instead of The Way Of G-d Almighty! TOO Many are FORSAKING The Assembling Of The Brethren, so that "The Body" is weak, failing, lacking and left wanting in their time of NEED. MY G-d, MY G-d Shall Supply ALL Of YOUR Needs According To His Riches In Glory.
Y-O-U Are NOT an orphaned child, but Adopted Into The Kingdom Of G-d, As Children Of The Most High. We ARE Accepted, because Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus was condemned and THIS "IS"The Good News, The Gospel Of G-d In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One And Only Begotten Son Of G-d, so GO (Into ALL The World), Tell it on The Mountain, over the hills and EVERYWHERE, To ALL Nations & Peoples, Tribes & Tongues! We Have A G-d, Our Father In Heaven, Who Loves us SOOOO Much that He allowed His Beloved Son to become sin for us, to Take On Our Penalty, so that we could have Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection LIFE, Continual and Constant Communion & Fellowship With Him In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Prayer:
May G-d Bless & Keep You AlWays, May Your Wishes ALL Come True, May You AlWays Do For Others & Let Others Do For You, May You Find That Ladder To The Sky, Climb On EVERY Rung & May You Stay FOREVER Young, In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Holy & Precious Name. Amen & Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Mark Tross
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Date: Sat, May 28, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Would Be Buried With The Rich - Isaiah 53:9; Matthew 27:57-60
The Word:
And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. [Matt. 27:57-60; 1 Pet. 2:22, 23.]
- Isaiah 53:9
When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus.
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.
And Joseph took the body and rolled it up in a clean linen cloth used for swathing dead bodies,
And laid it in his own fresh [undefiled] tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a big boulder over the door of the tomb and went away.
- Matthew 27:57-60
Joseph was ALSO a Disciple of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One. Are Y-O-U?
He went to Pilate and asked for The Body. Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus said, "This Is My Body, Broken For Y-O-U. The Word Of G-d Declares, If you ask for a fish, will G-d Give Y-O-U a stone? NO!
G-d SO Loved The World That He GAVE His One And ONLY Begotten Son To Ad For Y-O-U. When Mary was foretold of the birth of The Messiah / The Anointed One / The Christ Child, she cherished these things in her heart and when He was born, she wrapped Him in swaddling clothes. How about Y-O-U? It was Joseph who wrapped The Body Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, he rolled It up in a clean linen cloth, and laid It in his very own fresh [undefiled] tomb. Not only was it hewn in the rock, but it was hewn For THE ROCK. He rolled a BIG Boulder Over THE DOOR Of The Tomb And Went AWay. How many of us go aWay, but NOT The Way?
THIS Is A "Womb To The Tomb" Story, The GREATEST Story EVER Told, from A to Z, about the Alpha And Omega! It takes place in the evening, but The Son had not really set, because the darkest hour is Just before the dawn and The Stone was To Be Rolled AWay on Sunday Morning. There was NO violence or deceit found In Him, He was Undefiled, Clothed In The Righteousness Of G-d, The Rock Of Ages Cleft For Me, Uncut By Human Hands, "The (ONLY) Door" Way To The Father!
While standing before Pilate at The Judgement, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus said, "It Is For THIS Reason (Assignment) That I Have Come Into The World." What is your assignment? It is appointed unto man(kind) once to die and then The Judgement, but Messiah / The Anointed One / Christ became poor, left His Heavenly Throne and took on human flesh, so that we could become Rich, In & Though His Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life! He tasted death, so that we would not have to. It doesn't matter where you come from or what you name is, but that you put your Faith & Trust In Him and The Work that He Accomplished For us at Calvary.
Y-O-U MUST (Be Born Again) Ask, Petition The Lord For His Body, Broken For Y-O-U and Become His Disciple, so that Y-O-U May Be Made WHOLE, In His Holy & Precious Name! He'll Roll AWay your stone, Clothe you In His Righteousness, Open The Door (And Windows) Of Heaven For Y-O-U and lead you In The Way EVER-Lasting, In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name.
Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To Y-O-U Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, FULL-ness And Blessings In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name.
Amen & Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend, Mark Tross
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Date: Fri, Jun 10, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Would Ascend To Heaven - Psalm 24:7-10; Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51
The Word:
Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be lifted up, you age-abiding doors; that the King of glory may come in.
Who is the King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O you gates; yes, lift them up, you age-abiding doors, that the King of glory may come in.
Who is [He then], this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah [pause, and think of that]!
- Psalm 24:7-10
So then the Lord Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and He sat down at the right hand of G-d. [Ps. 110:1.]
- Mark 16:19
And it occurred that while He was blessing them, He parted from them and was taken up into heaven.
- Luke 24:51
In Psalm 110:1, King David put "IT" This WAY,
THE Lord (G-d) says to my Lord [the Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One], Sit You at My right hand, until I make Your adversaries Your footstool. [Matt. 26:64; Acts 2:34; 1 Cor. 15:25; Col. 3:1; Heb. 12:2.]
Speaking to The High Priest:
Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus said to him, You have stated [the fact].
More than that, I tell you, You will in the future see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Almighty, and coming on the clouds of the sky. [Dan. 7:13; Ps. 110:1.]
- Matthew 26:64
How would Y-O-U like to hear those words directly from Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus? Well, IF Y-O-U're In The Good Book (as Y-O-U should Be DAILY) and sensitive to The Voice Of G-d's Holy Spirit, "HEAR, O Israel," because The Lord, Our G-d, The Lord IS One and He IS STILL Speaking To His Chosen People, The Church, The Body Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One TODAY!
The Prophet Daniel Interpreted Dreams and Visions, Looked, Beheld, Heard, Listened and stated:
I saw in the night visions, and behold, on the clouds of the heavens came One like a Son of man, and He came to the Ancient of days and was presented before Him.
- Daniel 7:13
Foot-Note:
Notice that the four beasts of this seventh chapter of Daniel symbolize the same world kingdoms that were pictured by the image in chapter two, and the ten horns of the last beast answer to the ten toes of the image. Most of both prophecies have been fulfilled, and at this writing "the blessed hope" of the ages is also showing every evidence of nearing realization.
Both visions show the end of Gentile world power. View today's events in the light of these disclosures and they fall into focus and make sense. The individual child of G-d is challenged as never before in the world's history to let go of the trivial and the transient, and yield himself unreservedly to Him Who is coming to fulfill the longings of every true believer - for ever and ever!
Lift up Y-O-U-R Heads (Look Up For Y-O-U-R Redemption IS Drawing NEAR), O Y-O-U Gates (He IS The Gate); and be lifted up (He IS The Resurrection); yes (ALL Of G-d's Promises "ARE" Amen In Him), and lift them up (Encourage, Empower & Enable Others), Y-O-U age-abiding doors (He IS The Door); that The King Of Glory (The King Of Kings & Lord Of Lords) May Come (Again SOON), In The Holy And Precious Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus! Amen And Amen!
Closing Prayer:
May The Lord Bless & Keep Y-O-U, Cause His Face To Shine Upon Y-O-U, Be Gracious Unto Y-O-U In Y-O-U-R Labor, Leisure, Laughter & Tears, In Y-O-U-R Going Out & Y-O-U-R Coming In, In Y-O-U-R Lying Down & Y-O-U-R Rising Up, Until Y-O-U Come To Stand Before Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus In That Day, Where There IS No Sunset Nor Dawning.
Amen & Amen!
His Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark Tross
Copyright 2012
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Date: Fri, Jun 24, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Seated At G-d's Right Hand - Ps.110:1;Matt.22:44;Heb.10:12,13
The Word:
THE Lord (G-d) says to my Lord [the Messiah], Sit You at My right hand, until I make your adversaries Your footstool. [Matt. 26:64; Acts 2:34; 1 Cor. 15:25; Col. 3:1; Heb. 12:2.]
- Psalm 110:1
The Lord said to My Lord, Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet? [Ps. 110:1.]
- Matthew 22:44
Whereas this One (Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One), after He had offered a single Sacrifice for our sins [that shall avail] for all time, sat down at the right hand of G-d,
Then to wait until His enemies should be made a stool beneath His feet. [Ps. 110:1.]
- Hebrews 10:12, 13
"The right hand was alWays a symbol of honor and strength, the supreme seat of authority.
The fact the Father exalted Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One to this place signifies that the risen Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One fulfilled all that was required of Him."
- Greg Laurie
Will Y-O-U be on the right side or the left when Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus separates the sheep from the goats? Are Y-O-U NOW seated In Heavenly Places?
The Word Of G-d declares, "The Earth Is His Footstool" and His Will is to set ALL things under submission to His One And ONLY Begotten Son. What are Y-O-U Doing For His Honor? Is His Holy Spirit Strength being shown upon, through and in Your weakness? By what Authority do Y-O-U do the things Y-O-U Do "In His Holy And Precious Name?" These are Just some of the questions that The Lord had to answer while here on Earth, so why do we Believers think or feel that we are not held to The Same standards?
After ALL, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One "IS" The Same, Yesterday, Today And Forever!
As we "Watch & Wait," According To The Lord's Command, do we realize that He Has Made us One In Him? We MUST Be About "Our Father's Business!" Did He not tell us that we were To Be "The Head" and NOT the tail? Though the enemy (Our Enemy) bruised the heel of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One (upon The Cross Of Calvary), He Has Overcome The World (Through The Resurrection From The Dead) and we are Called Of G-d to CRUSH Satan (The Accuser Of The Brethren) under our feet!
Are Y-O-U (like Mary, Martha's Sister) Seated At The Feet Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, At The Right Hand Of G-d, Our Father Who Art In Heaven? His Sacrifice Paid The Debt (In FULL) for ALL of our sins, for ALL Time and NOW, we MUST Wait Upon The Lord to Re-New our Strength (In Him), Mount Up With Wings As Eagles and FLY! To find our place and take our seat, we MUST FULL-FILL ALL that is Required of us By Him. And what exactly MUST That Be? To Do Justly, Love His Tender-Mercies and Walk Humbly With Our G-d. To Be OBEDIENT To ALL That He Has Called us To (ALL Of HIs Commandments), According To His Holy, Precious Word, Will and Perfect, Acceptable Way! THIS "IS" The Will Of G-d For Y-O-U In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To Y-O-U Peace, Wholeness, FULLness And Blessings, In The Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus The Messiah, The Christ, The Anointed One Of G-d, The Light Of The World.
Amen & Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
<'))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark Tross
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Title.
Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Predicts The Crucifixion, His Death And Resurrection
The Word:
Matthew 16:21-28; 27-28; Mark 8:31-39; 15-16; Luke 9:21-34; 23-24; John 19-20
Besides prophecies made hundreds of years before Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Messiah / The Anointed One / Christ was born, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus made predictions concerning His own death and resurrection. Listed above are those predictions and the fulfillments of them.
The Word of G-d declares that by our own words we shall be judged. Let each and every one of us look unto The Spoken, Written and Living Word, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, as The Author, Finisher, Completer of our Faith and judge Him according to His Holy and Precious Word. Surely He Lived Up To HIs Word and FULL-FILLed ALL that Our Father Who Art In Heaven Required Of Him. Each of The Gospels Clearly Proclaims The (Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection) Life, Death and Resurrection of Messiah / The Anointed One / Christ. Does your Life do the same?
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Mark Tross
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Date: Fri, Jul 22, 2005
Subject:
Messiah's / Christ's Second Prediction Of His Death And Resurrection!
Predicted:
Matthew 20:17-29;
Fulfilled:
Matthew 27-28; Mark 15-16; Luke 23-24; John 19-20
The Word:
They were on the way going up to Jerusalem, and Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus was walking on in front of them; and they were bewildered and perplexed and greatly astonished, and [those who were still] following were seized with alarm and were afraid. And He took the twelve [apostles] again, and began to tell them what was about to happen to Him.
[Saying], Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be turned over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn and sentence Him to death and turn Him over to the Gentiles.
And they will mock Him, and spit on Him, and whip Him, and put Him to death; but after three days He will rise again [from death].
- Mark 10:32-34
Then taking the twelve (apostles) aside, He said to them, Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written about the Son of man through and by the prophets will be fulfilled. [Isa. 53:1-12.]
For He will be handed over to the Gentiles, and will be made sport of and scoffed and jeered at and insulted and spit upon; [Isa. 50:6.]
They will flog Him and kill Him, and on the third day He will rise again. [Ps. 16:10.]
But they understood nothing of these things; His words were a mystery and hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was telling them.
- Luke 18:31-34
Oh my goodness! What kind of predicament had Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus gotten Himself into now? How is it that His Followers were STILL so dull and did not fully understand what it was that He was trying to tell them? He was The One Who said, It was For This Reason That I Came Into The World and Unless a Grain Of Wheat Falls To The Ground And DIES there shall be NO Harvest! It was the Morovian People who were determined to see that Messiah, The Anointed One, Christ would receive the FULL reward for His Sufferings upon The Cross Of Calvary. How about Y-O-U and me? Do we FULLY comprehend The Mysteries Revealed?
Although Saul, Paul The Apostle wrote three quarters of the books in Our New Covenant of Today, Luke's writings actually cover more pages. It was Saul, Paul who told us of G-d's Greatest Mystery Revealed and that was The Revelation Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus as The Bride Groom and ALL Believers as The Church, His Beautiful Bride. The Lord has Given us Beauty for ashes and He shares His Glory with us, so that we can bring His Goodness, Tender-Mercies and Loving-Kindness to ALL Nations, Peoples, Tribes and Tongues! It was For THIS Reason that He shed His Precious Blood, to cleanse us from ALL sin and unrighteousness, but is This Good News being presented properly to ALL four corners of the earth?
For You will not abandon me to Sheol [the place of the dead], neither will You suffer Your holy one to see corruption. [Acts 13:35.]
- Psalm 16:10
G-d has conquered sin and death and Proven it by His Own Resurrection from the grave. He FULLY Promises to NEVER leave or forsake Y-O-U from the cradle, even through death's door and Into Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection LIFE, In His Holy And Precious Name!
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. [Matt. 26:67; 27:30.]
- Isaiah 50:6
G-d will NEVER turn His Back on Y-O-U!
Even His Very Beard was plucked out by His assailants, but WHY? He took the punishment of our sins upon Himself, in our stead, so that we would NEVER have to and therefore, we could Become The Righteousness Of G-d In Messiah / The Anointed One / Christ Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus! He will NEVER hide His Face from us and we no longer have to hide our"self" from Him, because there is NO reason for shame (when we are In The Kingdom Of G-d, which is Righteousness, Peace And Joy In The Holy Ghost), because He took ALL our shame and guilt upon Himself.
ALL of G-d's Predictions and Prophecies about Messiah / The Anointed One, Christ "ARE" FULL-FILLED, YES And Amen In Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus! He "IS" The FULL-FILL-ment of EVERY Hope around this present world of darkness and wants, desires to bring ALL who are weary and heavy laden into His Glorious Kingdom Of Light And LIFE, so let ALL who Believe, Cling To, Trust In And Rely On Him, Come Together As One and reach out to our families, friends, co-workers and neighbors with The Love Of G-d and The Good News In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen And Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May G-d Bless and keep you alWays, may your wishes ALL come True, may you alWays do for others and let others do for you, may you find That Ladder To The Sky, climb on EVERY rung and may you stay Forever Young. Amen And Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings And Love To ALL, <')))>< Mark Tross
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Date: Tue, Aug 9, 2005
Subject: The Messiah's/Christ's Third Prediction Of His Death And Resurrection
The Word:
Matthew 26:2-5; 27-28; Mark 14:1-9; 15-16; Luke 23-24; John 19-20
You know that the Passover is in two
days, and the Son of man will be delivered up treacherously to be crucified.
Then the chef priests and the elders of the people gathered in the [open] court of the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, And consulted together in order to arrest Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus by stratagem secretly, and put Him to death.
But they said, It must not be during the feast, for fear there will be a riot among the people.
- Matthew 26:2-5
The very fact that "fear" is present in this passage of Holy Script is a clear indication that the actions of the high priest, the chief priests, the elders and the people were not motivated by The Love Of G-d, because Perfect Love Casts Out ALL Fear! Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Messiah / The Anointed One, Christ had Just finished His discourse to His Disciples about feeding the hungry,, giving drink to the thirsty, welcoming a stranger, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and ministering to the prisoners.
He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and that which he has given He will repay to him. [Prov. 28:7; Eccl. 11:1; Matt. 10:42; 25:40; 2 Cor. 96-8; Heb. 6:10.]
- Proverbs 19:17
Are Y-O-U hungering and thirsting after His Righteousness? If not for Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Life, Death and Resurrection, NONE of us would EVER Be Satisfied. It Is He Who "IS" The Bread Of True, Spiritual, Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant LIFE! His River Of Living Water is what quenches our thirst in this dry and weary land, This Preset World Of Darkness. We are No Longer strangers, but Children Of The Most High G-d! We "ARE" Clothed In His Righteousness, He Has Visited This Sick, Dying Planet and ALL Prisoners of sin and death "ARE" Set FREE In Deed y the precious blood of the Passover Lamb.
As much as The Son Of Man was delivered over to death, we have been Delivered Over To Resurrection Life (By Faith) In His Holy Name, Which Is Above ALL Others and there is NO OTHER Name under G-d's Heaven by which we MUST Be Saved! He was crucified and we too must carry our cross, daily dying to self.
Are you a Priest, Elder, an Active Member In The Body Of Messiah / The Anointed One/ Christ? As His Chosen People, let us gather together (as One In The Holy Spirit) and stratagize to take LIFE (not death) to ALL Nations, Peoples, Tribes and Tongues, In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen!
Closing Prayer:
May G-d Bless and Keep Y-O-U AlWays. May Y-O-U AlWays do for others and let others do for Y-O-U. May Y-O-U AlWays have His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and FULLness working upon in and through Y-O-U, In His Holy & Precious Name.
Amen & Amen!
His Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Mark Tross
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Happy New Year! Messianic Message With October Updates, Links And ALL Contact Information :)
The Word:
"I will bless those who bless you, but I will curse anyone who curses you; and by you all the families of the earth will be blessed."
- B'Resheet (Genesis) 12:3
Fulfillment In The B'Rit Hadashah:
This is the genealogy of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus the Messiah / The Anointed One / Christ, son of David, son of Avraham / Abraham:
- Mattityahu (Matthew) 1:1
"You are the sons of the prophets; and you are included in the covenant which G-d made with our fathers when he said to Avraham / Abraham, "By your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed."
- Acts 3:25 (Genesis 22:18; 26:4)
Now the promises were made to Avraham / Abraham and to his seed. It does not say, "and to seeds," as if to many; on the contrary, it speaks of one - "and to your seed" - and this "one" is the Messiah.
- Galatians 3:16 (Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 17:7; 24:7)
Are Y-O-U Blessed? ALL Believers around the world have the same Blood-Line In Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One! We are sons and daughters of The Most High and ALL people EVERYWHERE are included in G-d's New Covenant, when we put our Faith, Hope and Trust In Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus. YES, Y-O-U and I are sons of The Prophets and Avraham / Abraham (The Patriarch Formerly Known As Abram) is our Spiritual Father. By "The Seed" of G-d's Promise that was planted in the Life of Avraham / Abraham and in ALL of the Believers hearts throughout the ages by Faith, we also can plant "The Seed" Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One and expect to reap a True Spiritual Harvest in our day, The Last Days. It Is This "One" Seed, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus that makes us ALL One with Our Father Who Art In Heaven, In The Communion And Fellowship Of His Holy Spirit, In His Holy And Precious Name! G-d Is Speaking to our world Today, through "The Seed" Of His One And Only B egotten Son, Who was planted in death, but now Lives FOREVER as The First-Fruits Offering through His Resurrection Power.
Let us bring to Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus the reward of His Sufferings, make of His Life, Death and Resurrection a New, Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant Nation for Him, Bless Him, make His Name, Which Is Above ALL Others, GREAT and Experientially Known throughout ALL Nations, Peoples, Tribes and Tongues! Let us Be The Called Out Ones, sanctified and separated from the sin and death that this present world of darkness has to offer and "GO", as Avram, Abram did, to the Promised Land that He Will Show us. Just as Avram, Abram passed through the land, so shall we go through the fire and flood (unscathed), because G-d Is With us (Immanuel). The Lord, ADONAI appeared to Avram, Abram, He Will Make Himself Know to us also and our descendants shall be given This (Promised) Land as well. Shall we build an altar of thanksgiving, honor, praise and worhip to ADONAI, The Lord? We are the Living Stones that Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Will use to Build His Church, His Temple, His Body!
The Jewish New Year is upon us once again this October 2005. The Shofars shall be sounded for The Feast Of Trumpets and we Will Seek His Face during "The Ten Days Of Awe," that will lead us into The Holiest Day Of ALL on the Jewish Spiritual Calendar, "The Day Of Atonement(which puts us At-One-Ment-With-G-d)" and then The Feast Of Tabernacles, which speaks of the final in-gathering of "The Harvest" that is ripe for the picking, so let us prepare our hearts, minds, souls and spirits to Love Him, because in our weaknesses He Chooses To Show His Strength In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen And Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May Adonai / The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To Y-O-U Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, Fullness And "His Abrahamic Blessings," In The Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus The Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen And Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings, Happy New Year & His Agape Love To ALL,
Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark Tross <')))><
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"Messianic Visions" Messages Bring Revival!
Subject: Happy Jewish New Year 5764!
The Word:
The Lord said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites: `On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the Lord by fire´" (Leviticus 23:23-25).
How could this be "Happy New Year" in the seventh month of the Jewish Calendar? The Biblical Year starts in the spring with the month of Nisan (Exodus 12:1, 2) at the beginning of the new harvest season.
THE Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, This month shall be to you the beginning of months, the first month of the year to you.
- Exodus 12:1, 2
This Special Sabbath (The First of The Fall Holidays) is considered by Rabbis as The "Spiritual" New Year. Biblically known as Yom Teruah (The Day of Sounding / Festival of Trumpets), The First Day of Tishri was Called "Rosh HaShanah," The Head of The Year. It is Believed that Moses ascended Mount Sinai on the first day of Elul (the preceding month) and descended on the tenth day of Tishri (Yom Kippur / The Day of Atonement [At-One-Ment With G-d] / The Highest Holy Day of The Year) after receiving the second set of Tablets of the Law / The Ten Commandments. The Shofar is sounded as a time to "Regather" (The Purpose of This Holy Day) to a Pure Faith In G-d and This Day Represents The Day of Repentance!
"You Will hurl All our iniquities into the depths of the sea."
- Micah 7:19
This "Is" G-d's Promise of Forgiveness.
The Shofar was sounded to gather The Troops for battle (Joshua 6) and "Is" our "Wake-Up Call;" an alarm to Call us to our Appointed Time In Messiah! Yeshua's / Jesus' Birth took place in the late fall, not the winter (Sukkot), the approximate start of His Ministry, as recorded in Luke 3:23 was when He was "about thirty years old," Messiah took a Special Immersion / Mikveh / Baptism in the fall (Matthew 3:13-17), spent a forty day period of testing in the desert by the adversary (Matthew 4:1-11) and The Message He Immediately Proclaimed was, "Turn from your sins to G-d, for The Kingdom of Heaven (Righteousness, Peace and Joy In The Holy Ghost) `Is´ Near!"
For The Lord Himself Will Come down from Heaven with a rousing Cry, with a Call from One of the Ruling Angels, and with G-d's Shofar; those who died united with The Messiah Will Be The First to Rise; then we who are left still Alive Will Be Caught Up (Latin = Rapture) with them in the clouds to meet The Lord In The Air; and thus we Will AlWays Be With The Lord. So Encourage Each Other with These Words" (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).
This "Is" The Feast of Trumpets (1 Corinthians 15:50-58; Revelation 4:1).
The Word "Shout" In Hebrew, "Teruah," Is better translated in this context as The "Alarm" Blast Of The Shofar.
"In That Day The Lord Will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites Will Be Gathered Up One By One. And In That Day A Great Trumpet Will Sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt Will Come and Worship The Lord On The Holy Mountain In Jerusalem" (Isaiah 27:12, 13).
This Prophetic Utterance by The Prophet Isaiah in the seventh century B.C. speaks of The Fulfillment of The Latter Day Regathering of The Nation of Israel at The Second Coming of Messiah.
"He (The Son of Man) Will Send Out His Angels With A Great Shofar and they Will Gather Together His Chosen People from the four winds, from One end of Heaven to the other" (Matthew 24:31).
The Sound of The Shofar reminds us of The Blessed Hope (Hope Will not disappoint us) we "Have" In Yeshua / Jesus and that we could Enter Messiah's Presence at any time (Titus 2:13). G-d Promises that He Will turn our scarlet sins as white as snow (Isaiah 1:18). We are no longer to be the tale, but The Head (Deuteronomy 28:13)!
He Will Again Have Compassion On us, He Will subdue and tread under foot our iniquities. You Will cast All our sins into the depths of the sea.
[Psalm 103:12.]
- Micah 7:19
This Is a Wonderful Time of Spiritual Revival, Prepare to Be Gathered To The King of Kings, Take The Love of G-d and The Good News, The Gospel to All Nations and Peoples In The Holy and Precious Name of Yeshua / Jesus.
Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face to Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of The World. Amen and Amen.
Happy New Year 5764! Let This Be your Absolute Best Year Ever!!
G-d's Richest Blessings and His Love to All, <')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Ministry of Meekness: Isa. 42:2; Matt. 12:19
The Word:
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
- Isa. 42:2
He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
- Matt. 12:19
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but true meekness is not weakness. G-d's Word tells us that Moses was the meekest man on the planet and look how he was used to fulfill The Purposes of The Lord. Keith Green wrote, "He cries, He weeps, He bleeds and He cares for your needs," speaking of Yeshua / Jesus. John the Baptizer was the Voice of "One," G-d's Voice crying out in the wilderness. All of these people and others throughout the Bible were used of G-d, certainly controlled (in complete and total submission to Him) by His Holy Spirit and we, as Believers should be obedient to His Call as well. We "have" something to shout about, to cry out from the house tops! Yeshua / Jesus says, "If I Am lifted up from the Earth, I Will Draw All men (All of mankind) Unto Me!" Is His Holy and Precious Name lifted up, praised and exalted above All else? Not just behind The Church walls, but in the streets, at home, work and play?
Listen to The Voice of The Spirit! The Book of Hebrews tells us that in the past G-d spoke to us through His Word, Angels, Moses, The Prophets, but now, He speaks to us In and Through His One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus.
Are you listening to and hearing what He Is Saying to you as an individual and us as a whole, The Body of Christ, Messiah, The Anointed One? None of us should be struggling or striving, but when we Cry Unto Him, He Hears and Answers us. As we Worship Him In Spirit and Truth, He Inhabits our Praises, fills us up to overflowing, leads and guides us In His Perfect Will and Way, according to His Holy Word. When we speak The Truth In Love, The Spirit of G-d opens deaf ears to hear, blind eyes to see and the lame to Walk with Yeshua / Jesus! Breath deep, take in The Essence of Christ / Messiah / The Anointed One, drink of The Water of Life, awaken your senses to taste and see that The Lord Is Good!
Each and Every One of us is Called of G-d to Live The Life of Meekness. Our Ministry is to complete The Great Commission! As Yeshua / Jesus walked the face of this Earth, so are we to do like-wise, in the same manner and Way, Preaching, Teaching and Healing! What are you or what is it that you are afraid of? If G-d Be For us, who can be against us? Perfect Love casts out All fear! Every tear you cry Unto Him, He Will Honor.
Every time you lift up His Holy Name (Which Is Above All others), He Will Bless your efforts and obedience. Open up! Let Him Come Into your heart, mind, soul, spirit and strength! Say, "Yes, Lord!" Do you want to hear His Voice?
Listen to the sound of silence. There is no need to strive or make your own Way, because Yeshua / Jesus Is The Way!
When He Is Your Good Shepherd, you shall not want and He Will Provide your Every need.
Sit down at The Feet of Him. He Alone Is Worthy of All Glory, Honor and Praise!
Allow The Holy Spirit to Minister To you, so that you can bring The Ministry of Meekness to All Nations and Peoples In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Prayer:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and Give to you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Tender And Loving Shepherd:
Isa. 40:11; Ps. 23:1; John 10: 11, 2-14
The Word:
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
- Isa. 40:11; Ps. 23:1
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
- John 10: 11; John 10: 2-14
Sheep
The conformity in society today is nothing new. Throughout history people of all races have earnestly desired to be led. In fact they have, at times, demanded it.
Ion the Old Testament {Judges ch 8} the Israelites were without a king, "everyone did that which was right!" As time passed the people began to insist upon having someone to rule over them, a king, A GOVERNMENT.
The Prophet Samuel warned the people that this was a mistake. His description of an almost cruel dictatorship did nothing to persuade them otherwise. Samuel confirmed Gods Word that the acceptance and submission to 'government' would cost them their freedom as well as their individuality. Sons will be forced to become soldiers; daughters will be forced into servitude. A man may loose his possessions, his land, and will most certainly pay taxes for this new, chosen privilege of being dominated.
"Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, "but we will have a king over us." Today in America this hunger to be led is as strong as it's ever been. Congress passes laws that slowly and relentlessly take away our rights one after another, and the masses shrug their shoulders and say, "oh well, what are ya gonna do?"
Our right to freedom of speech and assembly are closely watched to insure that those freedoms stay within the confines of our restrictions. The right to keep and bear arms is so tightly regulated and fought against that many people are denied that right unjustly. If the Founding Fathers had not taken up arms we would still be paying tribute to the Queen, and there would be no home of the once "free and brave." It is only the government that is Free and Brave. America is no longer governed "By the people, of the people, and for the people" but rather "by the government, of the government and for the government. It was the government who through military force murdered millions of Native Americans, to steal what they in fact had no right too. It was the same government who allowed the importation of thousands of Africans to be bought and sold into brutal slavery, not caring that so many were beaten, tortured, raped and murdered. And it is this same government who, if a group of people choose not to conform to their dictatorship will step pin and possibly open fire. Let me clarify this: There was once a group of people who exercised their right to bear arms, their right to freedom of religion, their right to assembly, and their right to educate their own children; so the FBI stepped in, heavily armed and prepared for war. I'm speaking of course, of David Koresh and the branch Davidians. I am in no way condoning the actions of Koresh and his followers, but at what point was a constitutional law broken? The people who resided there did so by choice and were free to leave whenever they chose to. Which brings me back to my original point. In the insatiable need to be led, these foolish people followed their leader, engulfed in flames, to they're death.
When the government imposes demands that are spiritually and morally wrong, what will the vast majority do? What they have always done – NOTHING!
Thee is coming a time when the government will force people to accept a new monetary standard. It seems harmless, it even makes sense. By doing away with cash altogether your employer could report all earnings directly to your bank i.e. direct deposit. You in turn will receive your own identification number. This would alleviate several inconveniences and even criminal activity. For instance; illegal drug trafficking would be virtually halted. The IRS would have it's dream come true, "No more tax evasion and possibly no more filing every year, it would all be tracked by the system. But is all this possible? YES! The Bible speaks of the Beast and the False Prophet. Rev 13. an international force and world dictatorship. The scripture goes on to say, "As many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or forehead, and that no man might buy or sell save he that hath the mark"…
Nonsense right?
Check the following links to see where this technology currently is.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15185
http://www.digitalangel.net
Digital Angel, a company already using devices that actually transmit a signal up to a satellite, thereby a persons whereabouts can be monitored at all times if need be. Currently the system is used in the event of a lost pet, medical needs, Equipment, or parolees. The Scripture goes on to say in Revelation Ch19. And the Beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he had deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that had worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Does all this sound too fantastic or far out? Perhaps, but consider this: nearly every prophesy in the Bible has come to pass. From the bondage of Israel to its freedom, of Christ's ministry, to Israel once again regaining it's homeland {this happened in 1948} right up to today with the extreme pollution and violence and the nuclear threat hanging over our heads.
Should we question authority? YES! Should we blindly do as we are told? NO!
It is human nature to want to be told what to do and in many cases this is all right. Have you noticed in the classroom as well as the workplace if the teacher is not a take-charge person, or if the boss isn't around, most will be lost, unproductive, out of control? My point is this; the scriptures say that we are as sheep having no shepherd. God would not have us conform to society's standards, if those standards are opposed to His call on our lives. We are all individuals but we tend to get caught up in the politics of everyday life. Be aware of who you are and who you are meant to be. Be an individual; take a stand against the political and spiritual decline in our society, in your society
Time may very well be running out. What will you do with the rest of yours? Jesus said, "I am the Good Shepherd. My sheep hear my voice and follow me."
God has entrusted the world to mankind and mankind has all but destroyed it. There is a price to pay for this arrogance. We will reap what we have sown. But it's not too late. Jesus has come to seek and to save that which was lost. He has not forgotten us, He has not forgotten you. If you ask Him sincerely what it is your life means to Him, He will show you.
The Spirit of God does not speak to our hearts through earthquakes or big, external signs, but by that still small voice we all have heard. He speaks to our hearts from the inside, but if we refuse to listen, it's not His fault.
If God is real, then His word is true and you will give an account of your life. Take a stand. Be aware of who you are and who you're meant to be. Ask God to prove Himself to you personally, and to create in you that person He is calling you to be. Faith is not a blind thing and God would have us follow Him and not know why. God is a God of unconditional love and all He's asking of you is to receive your sight, receive your life. God loves us so much that He sent His only son to be an example to us, and to die for our sins. Jesus is now resurrected and preparing to return to earth to establish His new kingdom, His new GOVERNMENT. You have a choice to make. Will you ask to be part of that new kingdom, or will you be cast out? Salt water and fresh water do not mix. Light and darkness do not mix and if you won't have anything to do with Jesus now, don't be surprised later when you find yourself left out.
Jesus loves you. He's done all He can. What will you do?
JWS
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Subject: Yeshua / Jesus Identified As The Lord: Isa. 41:4; Rev. 1:11, 17; 2:8
The Word:
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
- Isa. 41:4
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last. Rev. 1:11, 17; 2:8
When God Is For us, who can be against us? If you study human history or even look back over your own personal life (hind sight is 20 / 20 vision and without vision, G-d's People perish), you will notice that there were times when you passed safely and unhindered through circumstances and situations, even by a Way where your feet had not trod before, and swiftly as if your feet did not touch the ground, because G-d Was and Is AlWays there, watching over us, even when we did not acknowledge Him as Lord and Savior. There comes a time in Every One's Life when G-d beckons them, "Come Unto Me." He wishes that None would perish, but that All Would Come To Repentance (to turn and think differently). The Holy Spirit rouses us up, Calls us In Righteousness to His Service and Victory, meets us at Every Step We Take In Yeshua / Jesus! The Lord Is Willing to subdue Nations before us, He Makes us Rulers (we "are" More than Conquerors In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One), Kings and Priests!
LISTEN in silence before Him, let The People gather Together as One In Him and renew their strength! Mount up with wings as eagles and fly, soar to the highest of heights! Draw near to G-d and He Will Draw Near To you (He Is Closer to you than your next breath). Speak forth The Things Of G-d, for The Testimony of Yeshua / Jesus Is The Spirit Of Prophecy!
Do Not be ashamed of The Gospel, The Good News, for It is The Power Of G-d Unto Salvation To All who would Believe, have Faith In, Put their Trust In and Rely On Him.
Who has prepared and done this? Is It Marvelous in your eyes? In The Beginning, G-d Created The Heavens and The Earth and since that time, He has been Calling and Guiding the destinies of the generations of the Nations. He existed before history began (I, The Lord, The First) and He Is An Ever Present, Unchanging G-d (With the last, I Am He)!
I don't know about you, but this portion of Holy Scripture brings a whole new meaning to, "The First Shall Be Last and The Last Shall Be First!" In Yeshua / Jesus, we "are" One from beginning to end. As we Go to All Nations and Peoples, By Faith In His Holy and Precious Name (bringing The Love of G-d and The Good News of Yeshua / Jesus), the islands and coastlands Will see and fear, the ends of the Earth Will tremble, draw near and Come. To Each and Every Neighbor, we are to say, "Be of Good Courage!" We are told In G-d's Word, "Encourage One Another, while It Is Today!"
We "are" G-d's Servants, His Chosen People, The Offspring of Abraham (Our Father Of Faith) and His Friend. [James 2:23; Heb. 2:16.] In Him, there is NOTHING to fear, for He Is With us (In us) and He Is Our G-d! In Him, we Live and Move and Have Our Being! He says, "I Will Strengthen you, harden you to difficulties, Help you, Hold you up and Retain you with My Victorious Right Hand Of Righteousness And Justice."
[Acts. 18:10.] (Who Is Seated At The Right Hand Of G-d, Our Heavenly Father?) All who rage and are enflamed against us shall be put to shame and confounded. Those who strive, contend, war with us shall be as NOTHING, NOTHING at All and perish. Yeshua / Jesus Is Our Redeemer, The Holy One Of Israel and we should Rejoice, Glory In Him! All will come to see, know, consider and understand together, that The Lord Has Done This!
These Are The Words Of The First And The Last, Who Died And Came To Life Again; [Isa. 44:6.] G-d Knows your afflictions, distresses, pressing troubles and poverty, how you "are" abused, reviled and slandered (even by those who say, they "are" Believers), but In Yeshua / Jesus, We "Are" Rich! Fear NOTHING, do not dread! Even if you are tested, proved, critically appraised and afflicted, Be Loyally Faithful Unto The End and G-d Will "Give" you The Crown Of Life in Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and Grant, "Give' To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Complete Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light, Hope of The World And The Glory Of Israel. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: As A Light To The Gentiles: Isa. 49:6, 7; Luke 2:32
The Word:
I will also give thee as a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to servant of rulers. Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. -Isa 49:6, 7
A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
- Luke 2:32
G-d formed you and me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, and that Israel might be gathered to Him and not swept aWay, just as He did His One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus. We "are" Honorable, Right in the Eyes of the Lord, Our Recompense "is" with Him and Our G-d has become Our Strength! Although we strive with G-d and man, we prevail and according to His Holy and Precious Word, He Will Be Glorified In us. [Isa. 49:3; Gen. 32:28; Deut. 7:6; 26:18, 19; Eph. 1:4-6.] He has made our mouth like a sharp sword, Given us His Name, His Word (The Sword of The Spirit), we "are" hidden in the Shadow of His Wings and One In Yeshua / Jesus! From the body of our Mother He has named our name, the Lord has Called us from the womb to speak forth His Praises, so that the isles and coastlands and peoples from afar would Hear and Listen to Him.
Yeshua / Jesus came from Heaven to Earth to proclaim "The Acceptable Year of the Lord!" We "are" living in "favorable" times. Today "Is" The Day of Salvation! He has come to help us, preserve us, to raise us up, establish us, to apportion and cause us to inherit The Abundant Life which He died upon The Cross of Calvary for All of us to "have."
To those who are bound, He says, "Come forth!" ; to those in spiritual darkness, "Show yourselves - come into the light [of the Sun / Son of Righteousness]." Our pastures are not to be in the desert, but He wants to bring us to the grass covered hills and lead us beside the still waters, so that we will not hunger or thirst. The Lord "has" Comforted His People and Will have compassion upon His afflicted!
Surely, This "Is" Good News and All Nations should hear about It!
We have nothing to hide. You "are" The Light to the Nations, that His Salvation may be extended to the end of the Earth, so let your Light Shine! Arise! Prostrate your"self"! Humble your"self" In the Sight of the Lord and He Will Lift you Up, Higher and Higher, because the Lord, Who "Is" Faithful (G-d Is Faithful and Yeshua / Jesus Never Fails!), the Holy One of Israel has Chosen YOU!
Your job description "Is" to Be a Light for Revelation to the World - to disclose what was before unknown - and to bring G-d's Praise, Honor and Glory, His Goodness, Tender - Mercies, Loving - Kindness, Grace and Favor to His People Israel and to the Gentiles. [Isa. 42;6; 49:6.] You have been appointed and destined for the fall and rise of many. To some you will bring Light and Life, but to others death. By His Holy Spirit working In and Through our Life, the secret thoughts and purposes of many hearts may be brought out and disclosed. G-d has ordained you, created you In His Image for Good Works In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, which were prepared for you to do before the foundations of this Earth were laid, so Go and Be All that He has Called you to In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord, Bless, Keep, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto You, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and Give, Grant to you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: His Side Pierced Also: Zech. 12:10; John 19:34
The Word:
And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him.
- Zech. 12:10
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
- John 19:34
Zechariah Is The Old Covenant Book Of Revelation and the writers name (Notice: I didn't say, "The Authors Name") means:
G-d Remembers. G-d "So" Loved The World that He "Gave" His One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus to die on The Cross of Calvary in our stead. Could any one of you ever forget that? Like Moses lifted up the serpent on a poll in the desert, so that All who looked, gazed, fixed their eyes upon It with Intent would not perish, but find Life, so we, as we turn our eyes Upon Yeshua / Jesus and Look Full In His Wonderful Face (He Is Wonderful), the things of this Earth grow strangely dim in The Light of His Glory, His Goodness, His Mercy, His Grace or His Unmerited Favor. In That Day, Upon That Day, G-d destroyed All the powers and principalities that would come against His Nation Israel and His Chosen People! There Will Come A Day when The Nation of Israel and The World Will recognize as their once Crucified Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Him Who Has Come To Rule And Reign! [ 2 Chron. 35:22-25.] The land shall mourn, Every Family, Each with an overwhelming individual sorrow over having blindly rejected their unrecognized Messiah!
When Yeshua / Jesus stood before the crowd of people during The Passover Feast, Pilate exclaimed to them, "Behold! The Man!" Christ / Messiah Is Our Passover Lamb. John The Baptizer cried out to his disciples, "Behold! The Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of The World!" He Came to His Own, but they Knew Him Not! G-d Came to Earth In Human Flesh to Redeem The Lost World back into a right relationship with Him, but they refused His Sacrifice. He wanted to pour out upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and The House of David The Spirit (His Holy Spirit) Of Grace or Unmerited Favor, and Supplication, but they would have no part of Him!
Open your Spiritual ears to Hear and eyes to See! What Is The Holy Spirit saying and revealing to The Congregation of G-d Today?
And they shall look [earnestly] upon Me Whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him as one who is in bitterness for his first-born. [John 19:34; Rev. 1:7.]
Before the Jewish Family would kill the Passover Lamb, It was brought In the home to live as a pet, so that when it died they would feel the bitterness and sorrow of It's Sacrificial death. Mary's Little Lamb died for Every One under the roof.
Just imagine eating one of your favorite animals for dinner? Yeshua / Jesus Came to Earth to Dwell / Tabernacle Among us, With us and He died on The Cross in our stead to Save us from sin and death. What Is G-d saying to us In His Holy and Precious Word Today? We Shall Look Upon Him (G-d) Whom we have pierced!
We Shall Mourn for Him (Yeshua / Jesus) as One Mourns for His Only Begotten Son! This Is Truly a bitter-sweet portion of Holy Scripture that unveils The Tri-Unity of G-d, Our Heavenly Father sending His Son, Yeshua / Jesus to Deliver us from evil and His Holy Spirit revealing to our hearts and minds The Good News (The Gospel).
THE burden or oracle - the thing to be lifted up - of the word of the Lord has been "given" to us and G-d wants us to take His Message to All Nations and Peoples! Not a Bone of His was broken (according to G-d's Holy Word). John The Beloved saw the Roman Soldier pierce Yeshua's / Jesus' side with his spear, and immediately blood and water came (flowed) out. Life, Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life Is In The Blood Of The Lamb. Streams of Living Waters came, flowed out upon the face of the whole Earth and G-d's Holy Spirit has been poured out upon All flesh to Anoint, Empower and Enable us to go, do and "Be" All that He Calls us to. He has "given" us the evidence, His Testimony Is Faithful and True, so that we may Believe and tell others to Look Upon Him Whom they have pierced In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: His Intercession For Sinners:
Isaiah 53:12; Luke 23:34
Worship:
KINDNESS
VERSE 1
Open up the skies of mercy
And rain down the cleansing flood
Healing waters rise around us
And hear our cries, Lord, let'em rise
(REPEAT VERSE 1)
CHORUS
And it's Your kindness, Lord
That leads us to repentance
Your favor, Lord
Is our desire
And it's Your beauty, Lord
That makes us stand in silence
And Your love, Your love is better than life
VERSE 2
We can feel Your mercy falling
You are turning our hearts back again
Hear our praises rise to heaven
And draw us near, Lord, meet us here
The Word:
And He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Isa. 53:12
Then said Yeshua / Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
- Luke 23:34
Messiah said, Many, many would come to Him (On That Day), saying, Lord, Lord, but He would answer them, Depart from Me, I never knew you! The Word Of G-d says, Cursed is any One Who hangs on a tree and Yeshua / Jesus died for the sins of the World on The Cross of Calvary, in our stead, bore the sins of "many," so that we could be forgiven and have Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Holy and Precious Name. Unlike a recent President of the United States of America who exclaimed to the people, "I feel your pain!" G-d came to earth in human flesh, took on the penalty for our sin, paid the price of redemption for our souls, made intercession and continues to this very day to make intercession for us before G-d's Throne of Grace and Mercy. All have sinned, fallen short of His Glory and transgressed against G-d and our fellow man. No One is Good, innocent, guiltless, blameless or holy apart from the Body and Blood of Messiah. He not only has compassion, sympathizes with us, because He took on human form, but He empathizes with us, completely and totally relates to our thoughts, actions and deeds (or lack of them). The Spirit Is Willing, our flesh is weak, but in our weakness, He shows His Strength! Apart from Him, we can do nothing!
Our Heavenly Father forgives us of All wrongdoing, because of what Yeshua / Jesus asked of Him upon The Cross. We "are" forgiven, cleansed by The Blood of The Lamb, because of G-d's Love for us we "are" pure, holy and blameless In His Sight. Until The Truth of G-d's Holy Word was revealed to us by The Holy Spirit and our eyes were opened to His Love, we did not and could not know the vileness of the state we were in or receive forgiveness. For those of us, as Believers who sin or do wrong willingly, when we are convicted and our conscience is made aware of our transgressions, we must repent, turn and think differently of our thoughts, words or actions to be cleansed, healed and restored to a right relationship with Our Father Who Art In Heaven. Obedience to Messiah, following His Word, Will and Way, brings His Blessings.
There Is One Mediator between G-d and man, The Man Messiah Yeshua / Jesus!
As He poured out His Life for many, took aWay their sin and makes intercession for the rebellious [Luke 22:37.], we must pour out our Life as a Living Sacrifice before Him and our fellow man, tell All Nations and Peoples that there Is Forgiveness, Mercy and G-d's Loving-Kindness available to Every One who will receive It In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name and we should be on our knees daily, interceding for the lost, sick and dying in this present World. We shall see the fruit of our travail and our souls shall be satisfied! The ability to possess and impart to others His Righteousness Is ours. He bore our guilt, so that we could be guiltless [without the consequences of our sins, says The Lord]. As in the prayer of Jabez, The Word of G-d exhorts us to SING, break forth, cry aloud, enlarge the place of our tent, let the curtains of our habitations be stretched out; spare not, lengthen our cords and strengthen our stakes, for we shall spread The Love of G-d and The Good News of Yeshua / Jesus abroad!
Yeshua / Jesus prayed, so shouldn't we pray more-so and He was counted with the transgressors [along with the criminals]. He let us in this World, but He did not leave us comfortless. His Holy Spirit was giving to us to "Go" and "Do" Like-Wise. We "are" in the World, not to be of it, but to "Be" Overcomers In His Name. Some will ridicule, make sport of, scoff, sneer, even turn up their noses at us when we share His Word, but the working of His Spirit, In and Through our Life In Him Will Save (bring Salvation), rescue from death those who choose to Believe He Is The Christ, The Messiah of G-d, His Chosen One, King of Kings In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
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Subject: Brought As A Lamb: Isa. 53:7; John 1:29
GREETING:
Shalom! Peace!
Worship:
LOVE SONG
VERSE 1
I've heard it said that a man would climb a mountain just to be with the one he loves
How many times has he broken that promise it has never been done?
I've never climbed the highest mountain, but I walked the hill of Calvary
CHORUS 1 & 2
Just to be with you, I'd do anything, there's no price I would pay Just to be with you, I'd give anything, I would give My life away
VERSE 2
I've heard it said that a man would swim the ocean just to be with the one he loves
But all those dreams are an empty emotion, it can never be done
I've never swam the deepest ocean, but I walked upon the raging sea (CHORUS)
BRIDGE
I know, that you don't understand the fullness of My love How I died upon the cross for your sins
And I know that you don't realize how much that I give you But I promise, I would do it all again
CHORUS 3
Just to be with you, I've done everything, there's no price I did not pay
Just to be with you, I gave everything, yes, I gave My life away (repeat chorus - personal)
END
Just to be with me,
Oh just to be with me (repeat line 4 times)
The Word:
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
- Isa. 53:7
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of G-d, which taketh away the sin of the world.
- John 1:29
There Is A Way which seems Right to a man and appears Straight before him, but at the end of it are the ways of death.
- Proverbs 14:12
Yeshua / Jesus was oppressed, stricken, smitten, afflicted and slaughtered upon The Cross Of Calvary; not for His Own Guilt and Iniquity, but He became sin for us, was wounded, bruised for our transgressions; the chastisement needful to obtain Peace / Shalom (The Peace Of G-d that Rules and Reigns in our heart and mind In Messiah which passes All human understanding) and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes that wounded Him we "are" healed and made whole. He "has" borne our griefs - sickness, weakness and distress - and carried our sorrows and pain [of punishment]. He was despised, rejected, forsaken by men and we did not appreciate His Worth or have any esteem for Him.
All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own Way; and The Lord has made to light on Him the guilt and iniquity of us All. [1 Pet. 2:24, 25.]
- Isaiah 53:6
Cut off out of the land of the living, Yeshua / Jesus took the judgement for our sin aWay and died in our stead, so that we could "have" Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Holy and Precious Name! It was The Will Of G-d to bruise Him, offer up His One and Only Begotten Son as a sacrifice for the sins of the World, Raise Him Up From the dead, Prosper us In His Hand and grant Yeshua / Jesus the Pleasure of Seeing His Offspring Believe and Receive The Abundant Life! We "are" The Fruit of the travail of His Soul and He Is Satisfied by our Knowledge of Him [which He Imparts To us].
His Life was poured out unto death, Yeshua / Jesus let Him"self" be regarded as a criminal, numbered with the transgressors, bore [took aWay] the sin of many and He continues to make intercession for the rebellious. [Luke 22:37.] When we die to our"self" and accept Him as Lord and Savior of our Life, we see Yeshua / Jesus as The Lamb Of G-d, Who takes aWay the sin of the World [Exod. 12:3; Isa. 53:7.] and like John The Baptizer, we can make Straight The Way Of The Lord. "Be" The Voice Of One Who Cries Out In The Wilderness!
Shine The Light Of Life To All Nations and Peoples, so that they can Know Him, Recognize Him, See Him and G-d Will Manifest, Reveal Him"self" to Israel, In and Through His Holy Spirit In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face To Shine Upon you, "Be" Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and "Give," Grant To you His Shalom, His Peace, His Fullness and His Wholeness In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Railing And Taunting: Ps. 22:7, 8; Matt.27:43
Worship:
ROCK OF AGES
There is no rock, there is no god like our G-d; No other name, worthy of all our praise.
The Rock of Salvation that cannot be moved, He's proven Himself to be faithful and true; There is no rock, there is no god like ours.
Rock of Ages, Yeshua / Jesus is the Rock; Rock of Ages, Yeshua / Jesus is the Rock.
Rock of Ages, Yeshua / Jesus is the Rock; There is no rock, there is no god like ours.
(END)
Repeat & fade to end...
Rock of A - ges.
The Word:
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
- Ps. 22:7, 8
He trusted in G-d; let him deliver him now, if he will save him: for he said, I am the Son of G-d.
- Matt. 27:43
Have you ever been treated like a worm (less than human) and despised by people? [Matt. 27:39-44.] You can cry Unto The Lord for deliverance; trust - lean on, confidently rely on, roll yourself On The Lord, but sometimes, even when you delight yourself In Him, others will crucify you! [Mark 15:29, 30; Luke 23:35.]
Many [foes like] bulls may surround you; strong bulls of Bashan may hedge in against you, open their mouths wide, like ravening and roaring lions, but The Lion Of The Tribe Of Judah Is your Defense.
[Ezek. 39:18.] He Called us from the womb; made us Hope, Trust In Him as our G-d, He Is With us AlWays (even to the end of the ages) and our Help in times of trouble. He Will never leave or forsake us. [Matt. 27:46.] In Him Alone do we find our Rest.
Yeshua / Jesus poured out His Life on The Cross Of Calvary, suffered anguish, thirsted and was brought into the dust of death for our sins. He was pierced, paid the price, the penalty, so that we could "have" Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Name. [John 19:28, 37; Isa. 53:7.] Not only did Yeshua / Jesus rescue others from death while He was Alive on Earth, but even through His death, He Saves All who come to Believe, acknowledge and cleave to Him as Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One.
Sometimes, even your best and closest friends or family members abuse, reproach, make sport of and turn on you. Unfortunately, we All have our Judas' and All too often, we're our own worst enemy, but you've "got" A Friend In Yeshua / Jesus. He sticks closer to you than a brother or sister (as a matter of fact: The Holy Spirit Lives in you , Moves through and "has" His Being In you). G-d Is Faithful and Yeshua / Jesus Never, Ever Fails! You "can" Trust Him with your All, because He "gave" His All, His Life for you. Take Him at His Word, He Is The Son Of G-d and no matter what others say and do, He Loves you!
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Date: Fri, Jan 24, 2003,
Subject: LISTENING TO G-D
WORSHIP:
SHALOM CHAVERIM
Shalom chaverim, shalom chaverim
Shalom, shalom, L'hee traot
L'hee traot, shalom, shalom
SHALOM MY FRIENDS, SHALOM MY FRIENDS
SHALOM SHALOM, UNTIL THEN UNTIL THEN
SHALOM SHALOM
THE WORD:
And the Father Who sent Me has Himself testified concerning Me. Not one of you has ever given ears to His voice, or seen His form (His face, what He is like). - You have always been deaf to His voice and blind to the vision of Him.
- John 5:37
[Rather, I will say,] Father, glorify - honor and extol - Your own name! Then there came a voice out of heaven saying, I have already glorified it, and I will glorify it again.
The crowd of bystanders heard the sound and said that it had thundered. Others said, An angel has spoken to Him!
Yeshua / Jesus answered, This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sake.
- John 12:28-30
G-d forbid that any one of us should not heed the Word of G-d or close our eyes to the vision He has placed before us! From Genesis to Revelation G-d speaks to the hearts, minds and souls of all mankind and He is speaking to each and every one of us here Today! In the Beginning G-d created the heavens and the Earth. How?
He spoke forth the Word of G-d and things came into being. And G-d said! I believe in the Big Bang Theory as Gospel Truth, because when G-d spoke, every proton, neutron and electron came together In Messiah, Christ Yeshua / Jesus Who holds All things together according to Colossians. The Heavens "Declare" the Glory of G-d, they proclaim and shout out His Praises! Look at what the Lord has done and it is marvelous in our eyes. His voice thunders from the mountain top amidst lightning flashes, He speaks in the deepest darkness of night with a Light beyond Light that chases aWay All darkness. Be still my dear Brothers and Sisters In the Lord Yeshua / Jesus and listen for His Still Small Voice speaking to the very heart and soul of your innermost being. All the running around the World and fancy dancing to please others is counter productive and fruitless. We must sit at the feet of Yeshua / Jesus, absorb His Light, His Love, His Grace, His Mercy, His Peace, His Forgiveness and His Compassion. Come buy, eat and drink of the Living Waters that will refresh you and invigorate you to go on in Him!
Listen to the very rocks as they cry out!
Out of the mouth of babes and children come His Praises! Hear what the Spirit is saying to you, the Church, the Body of Christ, Messiah Yeshua / Jesus, the Congregation, the Building and Temple of the Living G-d! Dear G-d! Open our hearts to receive Your Love, our minds to Your Understanding, Wisdom, Knowledge, our souls to the complete and total reality of Salvation In Yeshua's /Jesus' Holy and Precious Name above All Names by which we All MUST be saved! Unite our Spirits as ONE In You, Through You and To You with every breath we take, every thought we think, every step we make by Faith In All You Call Us To.
Precious Savior, Allow us to wait upon You, to renew our strength, to mount up with wings as eagles and fly to the highest of heights. Have you heard the sound of His mighty Voice? Like the raging waters rushing over the waters of the deep. He calls to you, to me, to us, to be "One" In Spirit, "One" In His Heart and Mind. Have you been listening to what He's had to say? Have you been locked up for a while? Yeshua / Jesus died for you and is showing you the Way.
What are we going to do? Listen! What do you hear? The Book of Hebrews tells us that in the past G-d spoke to us through Moses, the prophets, men and angels, but Today which is The Day of Salvation He has spoke to us In His One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus!
Obedience brings blessings. To obey is better than sacrifice. Come! Let us follow the Son together. Lay down whatever it is that might hinder our journey along the Way. Look unto the Good Shepherd, watch His rod and staff, walk with Him as He guides us into greener pastures, beside the still water where we will find our rest In HIm. Yeshua / Jesus says, "My Sheep hear My Voice!" Do you hear what I hear?
May the Lord bless you, keep you, cause His Face to Shine upon you, be Gracious Unto You, lift up the Light of His Countenance Upon You and Give You His Peace, Sholom, Fulness and Blessings In All Things Through Messiah, Christ Yeshua / Jesus the Light of the World.
Amen.
God bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother In Him, Mark
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Subject: FRIDAY SERVICE: DYING TO "SELF" SERIES, KILLING LAUGHTER
GREETING:
Shalom Family! Let us Light the Sabbath Lights and Worship The One True G-d!
WORSHIP:
AMAZING GRACE
Amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now I am found, was blind but now I see.
Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved How precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed.
Thro' many dangers, toils, and snares I have already come 'tis grace hath bro't me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.
When we've been there ten thousand years bright shining as the sun We've no less days to sing God's praise, than when we first begun.
PRAYER:
Lord G-d, Show us Your Will In Your Word, Teach us to Love and offer our "self" up to You as a Living Sacrifice. In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus Messiah we pray. Amen.
THE WORD:
[G-d] said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I will tell you.
- Genesis 22:2
From Genesis to Revelation "The Word Of G-d" clearly reveals G-d's Unfolding Drama Of Redemption! Abraham, our "Father Of Faith" was tested and proved by G-d (maybe some of you [if not All of you] are being tested of G-d Today).
Notice how the Scripture says, "your only son?" Ishmael, was already born to Hagar, Sarah's bondwoman and was probably 39 years old at this time, because he was 14 when Isaac was born and according to Josephus, Isaac was 25 and shared his father's confidence In G-d.
After All, wasn't his very existence the result of G-d keeping His Word? (Gen. 17:15-17.) I say this to remind you All that G-d had a son named Adam and countless numbers of children by this time in human history, but Yeshua / Jesus Is The Only-Begotten Son Of The Father! Although The Word Says, "whom you love" it is clear that Abraham loved his first born child Ishmael and G-d also promised to bless him and make him a nation. Commanded to offer up his son, Abraham rose early in the morning and began the trip to the place of which G-d had told him in complete and total obedience To His Creator. This tells me that Our Heavenly Father Who Is No Respecter Of Persons Is Wanting To Tell Each And Every One Of Us His Will And Way.
All we need do is listen to His Word, be ready, willing and able to obey (even unto the point of death if need be, but ultimately G-d wants us to LIVE for Him!).
Let's face it, nobody likes being in the pit, but understand that it is in this "mountain top experience" that G-d requires Abraham to offer up his son as a burnt offering.
We are His Workmanship Created For Good Works In Christ / Messiah / The Anointed One!
He Calls Us To Offer Up Ourselves A Living Sacrifice! What G-d says, we should listen to and obey. Take now?
Then get to it now!
Whatever He asks of us we should do.
Jesus / Yeshua commands us to GO, but His Children refuse to obey. When we give or do anything it should be "Unto The Lord!" The Word Of G-d tells us that He Makes His Servants Messengers (Angels) Of Fire! We are to be consumed (the Zeal of the Lord Consumes Me) by Him (Our G-d Is A Consuming Fire), filled with HIm (be ye being filled with the Holy Ghost) and anointed with the Holy Spirit (He has poured out His Spirit upon All flesh). G-d will reveal to us His Glory on the mountain and the Holy Spirit will whisper in your ear to turn to the right or the left. By Faith Abraham and Isaac went up the mountain and told the servants they would return.
Abraham said, My son, G-d will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So the two went together.
- Genesis 22:8
This is one of the most profound prophetic utterances referring to The Lamb Of G-d Who Takes AWay The Sins Of The World! G-d In the form of man (Behold The Man Christ / Messiah / The Anointed One Jesus / Yeshua) came to Earth and provided Himself, Who when the fullness of time had come HE (G-d's Only Son) offered Himself as a sin offering (He Who knew no sin became sin for us and died in our stead), a peace offering (My Peace I Give To YOU), was resurrected from the grave as the offering of First Fruits Unto The Father and is now seated at the Right hand Of G-d The Father In Heaven!
Abraham was a Prophet Of G-d (Gen.20:7) and longed to see Messiah's / The Christ's Day!
Jesus / Yeshua said, Abraham hoped for "My day [My incarnation]; and he did see it, and was glad" (John 8:56). When?
How?
Then Abraham looked up and glanced around, and lo, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering and an ascending sacrifice instead of his son!
- Genesis 22:13
G-d Is Our Provider! He gave Abraham his son, Isaac back (as if from the dead) and In Jesus we have "Resurrection Life, Eternal Life" (here and now) In His Name, because He offered Himself up as the sacrifice for our sin! In Isaac (who is the most expressive "type of Christ / Messiah), Abraham and Sarah had "laughter" (Isaac means "Laughter"), but In Jesus, we have Joy Unspeakable Forever More!
Brothers and Sisters, Whatever G-d is asking you (commanding you) to offer up or lay down is for your overall good and He Will Completely and Totally Bless YOU, multiply you and your Seed (Heir) shall possess the gate of His enemies.
And In your Seed [Christ / Messiah] shall All the Nations of the earth be blessed and [by Him] bless themselves, because you have heard and obeyed My Voice.
[Acts 3:25, 26; Gal. 3:16.]
- Genesis 22: 18
May the Lord bless you, keep you, cause His face to Shine upon you, be gracious unto you, lift up the Light of His Countenance upon you and give you His Peace, Shalom, Fulness In the Name Of Jesus / Yeshua, The Light Of The World!
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: Messianic Message: To Sit At The Right Hand Of The Father
Worship:
Psalm 134
Come bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord Who stand by night in the house of the Lord Lift up your hands to the holy place
And bless the Lord
May the Lord bless you from Zion
He who made heaven and earth.
The Word:
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
- Ps. 110:1
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of G-d.
- Mark 16:19 Rev. 3:21
In Psalm 110, a Psalm of David, G-d says to the Messiah / The Christ / The Anointed One, "Sit You at My right hand, until I make Your adversaries Your footstool. [Matt. 26:64; Acts 2:34; 1 Cor. 15:25; Col. 3:1; Heb. 12:2.] Jesus stands at the right hand of the poor and needy, to save them from those who condemn their life and the Lord has sent forth from Zion the scepter of His strength to rule in the midst of His foes. [Rom. 11:26, 27.]
Do you offer yourself willingly, in the beauty of holiness and in holy array to G-d every morning? The Word of God is clear in telling us the We Are Seated In Heavenly Places Along With Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus! Brothers and Sisters, how can this be? He Is The Head and we are the body!
We are "One" With Him and In Him! Our adversaries are at our footstool In Messiah / Christ. We rule and reign with Him! We are kings and priests! The Joy of the Lord Is Our Strength and we have the Victory over our foes In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! We overcome the World, because He has overcome the World!
He has "made"us beautiful, holy In His Sight, clothed us In His Righteousness and as we put on the Lord Yeshua / Jesus the Messiah / the Christ our Light will shine ever brighter until the full Light of Day!
We are able to trample the enemy under our feet, lay hands on the sick and they will get well, called to preach everywhere and when we are obedient to His Word, Will and Way the Lord will work with us, In us, confirm our message by signs and miracles that will clearly accompany us.
Why? Because G-d has poured out his Holy Spirit upon all flesh, so that the World will know that as He Is On This Earth, so are we!
We who overcome (are victorious) will be granted to sit beside Yeshua / Jesus on His throne, as He Himself overcame (was victorious) and sat down beside Our Heavenly Father on His throne. He is forever standing at the door and knocking; wanting us to hear, listen, heed His Voice and open the door, He will come in to eat with us and we with Him.
We are able to hear, because He has made us able, so let each and every one of us listen to and heed what the Holy Spirit is saying to us as the Church / The Congregation of G-d / His Chosen People / His Bride! Let us take our place In Him, In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Friday: The Ascension
Greeting:
Shalom! G-d's Peace, Wholeness and Fullness to All In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name! Let's Worship the Lord for He Is Worthy!
Worship:
Psalm 138:5
Yes we shall sing in the ways of the Lord For great is the glory of the Lord.
Yes we shall sing in the ways of the Lord.
Great is the glory of the Lord
Great is the glory of the Lord
Yes we shall sing in the ways of the Lord For great is the glory of the Lord.
The Word:
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord G-d might dwell among them.
- Ps. 68:18
And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
- Luke 24:51 Luke 24:50
David sang of the ark of the covenant, which after a great victory was transferred or brought back to Zion. In this fact he sees the principle of the history of the kingdom of G-d, appearing in ever widening circles and nobler manner. The fact is to him a type of the method and course of the Messiah's / Christ's kingdom. So the Apostle Paul (in Eph. 4:8) is perfectly justified in finding the psalmist's eye directed toward Messiah / Christ, and so interpreting it.
The "on high" in the Psalm is first of all Mount Zion, but this is a type of Heaven, as Paul makes clear. (Lange's Commentary.)
G-d's Grace was "given" to each of us individually - not indiscriminately, but in different Ways - in proportion to the measure of Messiah's / Christ's [rich and bounteous] gift when He ascended on high, He led a train of vanquished foes and bestowed gifts on men, but He ascended? He Who ascended had previously descended from the height of heaven into [the depth], of earth and He Who descended is the [very] same as He Who also has ascended high above all the heavens, that He [His presence] might fill all things - the whole universe, from the lowest to the highest.
He came from Heaven to Earth to show the Way. From the Earth to the Cross our debt to pay. From the Cross to the grave.
From the grave to the sky. Lord we lift Your Name On High!
Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day, even the G-d Who is our salvation! Selah [pause and calmly think of that]!
- Psalm 68:19
Thank G-d, Our Heavenly Father for sending us the Greatest Gift of All, Yeshua / Jesus His Son, Who came to earth to dwell among us, died on the Cross to nail our sins to the Tree, rose from the grave to conquer sin and death (vanquishing our foes), was carried up to Heaven, is seated at the right hand of G-d, has poured out His Holy Spirit upon All flesh, bestowed His Gifts upon All of mankind who choose to receive and allow His Spirit to dwell in these vessels of clay not made by human hands, but from the dust of Earth. The Son has come to dwell in our hearts, so that we can now set the captives free, defeat the enemy In His Name, bear one another's burdens, carry one another daily in prayer and bring Salvation to All Nations and Peoples!
Every Believer is commanded of G-d to put on the Lord Yeshua / Jesus Messiah / Christ, to be clothed In His Righteousness, with His Power from on high. Do you pray for the Peace of Jerusalem to rule and reign in your heart, mind, soul, spirit and strength? Yeshua / Jesus Is Our Peace, Our Shalom, The Peace Of G-d, which far surpasses all human understanding and intellect. As Born-Again Christians or Messianic Jews we are endued with Power From On High, Born From Above (and borne from above, carried day by day), Born of His Spirit, Children of the Most High G-d, His Sons and Daughters!
Yeshua / Jesus Is The Promise of G-d, of His Grace, His Mercy, His Love and as we remain In Him, dwell In Him, abide In Him, we will bear much fruit, lasting fruit for His Kingdom and All the written and spoken promises of G-d In His Holy Word are YES! and AMEN! In Him for us to receive by Faith In His Precious Name!
G-d has called us, His Chosen People out of the World, out of darkness and into the Light, has lifted up His hands, He invoked a blessing upon us, keeps us, causes His Face to Shine upon us, is Gracious unto us, lifts up the Light of His Countenance upon us and grants, "gives" us His Peace, His Shalom, His Fullness, His Wholeness, His Blessings In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Just because Yeshua / Jesus parted from the Disciples and was taken up into heaven doesn't mean He deserted them and left them to finish the Works He Called them to on their own.
G-d forbid! No! He sent us the Comforter, the Counselor, His Holy Spirit to lead and guide us into All Truth and Understanding. He has "given" us Everything we need to live our Spiritual Life unto Him In His Word, revealed to us His Will and has shown us His Way! We have the Name above All names, Yeshua / Jesus! Let us Worship Him In Spirit and Truth with Great Joy, gladness of heart and continue Celebrating with Praises, Blessing and Extolling G-d for He has Ascended On High In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen. - So be it.
Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Lift Up the Light of His Countenance upon you, Be Gracious Unto you and Grant, "Give" you His Peace, Shalom In Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World! Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
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Subject: Messianic Friday! The Resurrection: Ps. 16:10; Acts 2:24
Welcome:
Shalom! May G-d's Peace, Fullness, Completeness and Wholeness Be yours In Messiah as we come together to Worship Him In Spirit and Truth!
Worship:
Psalm 30:11, 12
Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing for me, Thou hast put off my sackcloth,
Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing for me And girded me with gladness,
To the end my glory may song praise unto thee and not be silent O Lord my G-d, I will give thanks unto thee forever.
The Word:
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Ps. 16:10
Whom G-d hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
- Acts 2:24
Messiah exclaimed, "I Am The Resurrection, The Truth And The Life! No man can come to The Father, but By Me!"
What He had to go through to obtain this "right of passage" for us was suffering and death on our behalf. He Who knew no sin, became sin for us when crucified on that Cross at Calvary. Suffering, even in the Life of A True Believer brings on perseverance and even though Yeshua / Jesus suffered unto death, His Body Never saw corruption in the grave! G-d, His Heavenly Father Never abandoned Him to Sheol [the place of the dead], but raised Him up on the third day, showed Him the Path of Life; brought him Into His Presence with Fullness of Joy and He Is Seated at the Right hand of The Father where there are pleasures for evermore!
[Acts 13:35; 2:25-28, 31.] Therefore our hearts should be glad, and our glory [our inner self] should rejoice; for our bodies too shall rest and confidently dwell in safety. It is our Faith In Messiah and All that He has done for us that allows us to enter into His Rest. He Is Our Savior, The Savior of The World and we are His Body, The Body of Messiah!
Just as G-d liberated Yeshua / Jesus from the pangs of death, seeing that it was not possible for Him to continue to be controlled or retained by it, so has He brought Liberty and Justice for All who would put their Trust In Him! King David said, "I saw the Lord constantly before me, for He is at my right hand that I may not be shaken, overthrown or cast down [from my secure and happy state]." How are things in your state? Your state of mind, body, soul, spirit and strength?
Feeling secure? As a Believer you should have perfect Peace In your Salvation, "Knowing" that you "have" Eternal Life In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name! Are you happy? The Joy of the Lord is your Strength! G-d has promised to go before you in All things, never to leave or forsake you and that His Goodness and Mercy would follow you All the days of your Life In Him! He Is Our Defense and we shall not be moved, shaken, overthrown or cast down. We shall overcome!
Listen to what I have to say: Yeshua / Jesus of Nazareth, a Man accredited, pointed out, shown forth, commended and attested to you by G-d, by the mighty works and [the power of performing] wonders and signs which G-d worked through Him [right] in your midst (in the very heart and soul of you personally [if in fact you are a Child of G-d by Faith In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name]) wants you to go into All the World with the Love of G-d and the Good News of Yeshua / Jesus, so that every living creature on the planet will know of G-d's definite, fixed purpose, settled plan and foreknowledge in regards to their Salvation In Him!
Our Heavenly Father wishes that none would perish, go to hell, suffer or ever have to see corruption, but that All would come to repentance, turn around and think differently, so as to obtain Eternal Life In Yeshua / Jesus.
G-d wants to raise us far up above this present World system, to be overcomers, deliver us from evil, loose, liberate, set us free from the pain of sin and death, cause with G-d, by the workings of His Holy Spirit In and Through our Life In Him, All Things Are Possible In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen.
Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, cause His Face to Shine upon you, be Gracious unto you, lift up the Light of His Countenance upon you and "give" you Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World! Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Message! The Sun Going Down At Noon: Matt. 27:45; Amos 8:9
Worship:
Cause Me To Come
Cause me to come to thy river, O Lord.
Cause me to drink of thy river, O Lord.
Cause me to live by thy river, O Lord.
Cause me to come, cause me to drink, cause me to live.
The Word:
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the land unto the ninth hour.
- Matt. 27:45
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord G-d, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
- Amos 8:9
The Word of G-d never, ever ceases to amaze me! I have certainly read it through at least once every year for the past 21 of my Christian walk and relationship with Him, but He is constantly bringing a new and fresh Revelation Of Messiah, A Vision of His Glory to my soul. I want you all to read and re-read the above Scriptures, meditate on them, allow G-d's Holy Spirit to minister to you regarding them and how they apply to your Life In Him Today.
Yeshua / Jesus died on the Cross at Calvary, crucified between two robbers (it was the vilest of criminals that was alWays placed in the middle). The Word of G-d tells us that anyone who is hung on a tree is cursed of G-d and Messiah became sin for us, so that we could become the Righteousness of G-d for and In Him! From noon (12 O'Clock, High Noon) until three o'clock there was darkness over all the land, a darkness that you could feel, like when G-d brought darkness over the whole land of Egypt around the time of the Passover (Messiah Is Our Passover Lamb, the Lamb of G-d that takes aWay the sins of the World). If you are in darkness now, know that Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World has come to set you free and Shine His Light of Life into your heart, mind and soul Today! G-d abandoned, left Him helpless, forsook and failed Him in His time of need upon the Cross, because G-d could not look upon Him "being" sin for us, but accepted His sacrifice on our behalf, in our stead, so that we could be brought back into a right relationship with Our Heavenly Father!
As the Lord swore by Himself, the land trembled and everyone mourned. He made that a day of mourning as for an only son (G-d's One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus), and the end of it as a bitter day. The sun set, but The Son of G-d Rose Again From The Grave On The Third Day. He turned our mourning into feasting and our lamentations into songs of Joy! Joy to the World! The Lord Is Come! Let Earth Receive Her King! Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room! Let Heaven and Nature Sing! Let Heaven and Nature Sing! Let Heaven, Let Heaven and Nature Sing!
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and Grant, "Give" To you His Shalom, His Peace, Wholeness and Fullness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World.
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Message! The Place Of Burial: Isa. 53:9; Matt. 27:57-60
Worship:
Luke 6:38
Pressed down shaken together
Running out all over
Stomp on the grapes, tread out the new wine Give thanks to the Lord forever
If you will bless Him, He will bless you And fill you up with the wine that's new
Stomp on the grapes, tread out the new wine Give thanks to the Lord forever
The Word:
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
- Isa. 53:9
When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimethaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Yeshua's / Jesus' disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Yeshua / Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock.
- Matt. 27:57-60
By oppression and judgement Yeshua / Jesus was taken aWay, cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of Isaiah's people, to whom the stroke was due - stricken to His death. It was The Will Of The Lord to bruise Him, to put Messiah to grief and make The Lord sick.
When You and He make Him an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His spiritual offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
- Isaiah 53:10b
WHO Believes, Trusts In, Relies Upon and Clings To our Message which was Revealed to us by G-d's Holy Spirit? The Arm Of The Lord [the Servant of G-d] has been disclosed to the World! The Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One came into the World to save sinners, died on the Cross at Calvary in our stead, hung on that tree, broken and bleeding before All and For All! This is the Will, the task, the assignment of the Father for Him.
Yeshua / Jesus was numbered with the transgressors (for All transgressors and transgressions committed against our Heavenly Father) and assigned a grave with the wicked and with a rich man in His death. Make no mistake about it, Yeshua / Jesus died and His Body was buried. Joseph of Arimathaea begged The Body, Pilate commanded The Body to be delivered, Joseph had taken The Body, wrapped It and laid It in the tomb.
Yeshua / Jesus was born of a virgin when He came into the World, lived a pure, Holy, blameless Life and was buried, laid in a fresh [undefiled] tomb before leaving this World. At birth He was wrapped in swaddling clothes and at death He was rolled up in clean linen cloth used for swathing dead bodies. Messiah Is The Rock Who came forth from The Father's Heart, hewn not by human hands, but in His death He was placed in a fresh tomb, which Joseph had hewn in the rock. A big boulder was rolled over the door of the tomb, but on the third day it was rolled aWay by The Door To Heaven, Yeshua / Jesus!
Only G-d could have known and seen into the future. The prophecies of Isaiah and All the Prophets were fulfilled by Yeshua / Jesus in Every Way! He Is The Living Word Of G-d! As Disciples of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One (like Joseph of Arimethaea), we are All Called to go, make disciples of all nations, baptize them into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; teaching them to observe Everything that Yeshua / Jesus commanded us and He Is With us all the days - perpetually, uniformly and on every occasion - to the [very] close and consumation of the age. Amen - so be it.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up the Light of His Countenance Upon you and Grant, Give you Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fullness In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name, The Light of the World. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions! Jew And Gentile Rage: Ps. 2:1-3; Acts 4:25-27
Worship:
Adoration Hymn
Leader:
Let us adore
The everliving G-d
And render praise
Unto Him
Who spread out the heavens
And established the earth
And whose greatness
Is revealed in the heavens above
And whose glory
Unison:
Is manifest throughout the whole earth
He is our G-d
There is none else
Response:
Let us adore
The everliving G-d
And render praise
Unto Him
Who spread out the heavens
And established the earth
And whose greatness
In the heavens above
And whose glory
(Repeat Unison:)
The Word:
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed.
Let us break Their bands [of restraint] asunder, and cast Their cords [of control] from us.
- Ps. 2:1-3
Who by the mouth of thy servant David has said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
The kings of the earth took their stand in array [for attack], and the rulers were assembled and combined together against the Lord and against His Anointed, Christ, the Messiah. [Ps. 2:1, 2.]
For in this city there actually met and plotted together against Your holy Child and Servant Yeshua / Jesus, Whom You consecrated by anointing, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel. [Ps. 2:1, 2.]
- Acts 4:25-27
The Lord knows and is fully aware, acquainted with the Way of the Righteous (His Chosen People); but the way of the ungodly (the Gentiles) [those living outside G-d's Will] shall perish (end in ruin and come to nought). The Word of G-d exhorts us to, "Be angry and sin not," but both Jew and Gentile alike will rage against their Maker! All Nations and Peoples will assemble with commotion [uproar and confusion of voices (G-d is not the Author of confusion)], will imagine (meditate upon and devise) an empty scheme, the kings and rulers will take counsel and say, "Let's break Their bands of restraint and cast Their cords of control from us!" Notice they say, "Their."
Together they rage against the Triune G-d, Our Heavenly Father, His One and Only Begotten Son, Yeshua / Jesus and The Holy Spirit, Who Are One Lord, One G-d, One Spirit. Hear Oh Israel! The Lord Our G-d, The Lord Is ONE!
He Who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision [and in supreme contempt He mocks them].
- Psalm 2:4
Your arms are too short to box with G-d!
All attempts to come against the Word, Will and Way of G-d are completely and totally futile, vain and empty. No weapon formed against Him shall prosper (no matter how much counsel you get from others in the World) and with Yeshua / Jesus as our Head, no weapon formed against us shall prosper either, because we "are" His Body here on Earth and He has overcome this World by His Precious Blood. He Is the Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of this World!
Let Every Member of the Body of Messiah, the Anointed One, Christ lift up their voices together with one united mind to G-d and say, "O Sovereign Lord, You are He Who made the heaven and the Earth and the sea and Everything that is in them!" [Exod. 20:11; Ps. 14:6.] King David spoke under the Anointing and Power of the Holy Spirit questioning, "Why did the Gentiles become wanton, insolent, and the people (G-d's Chosen, the Nation of Israel) study and plan fruitless thing - that will not succeed?"
The only True Way to Succeed, make your Way Prosperous and deal wisely is to not let the Book of the Law (G-d's Holy and Precious Word) depart out of your mouth, but to Meditate On It Day and Night, that you may Observe and "Do" according to All that is written In It. The only place in the early English versions of the Bible where the word "success" is found is in Joshua 1:8 and it is the unfailing prerequisite of Eternal Success.
(Deut. 6:3-5; Luke 10:25-28; Ps. 1:1-3).
Like Herod, Pontius Pilate, the Gentiles and the People of Israel attacked, assembled, combined together, plotted and came against Yeshua / Jesus, you can rest assured that as a Child of G-d and Servant of the Most High that opposition will come your Way as well, but only so that G-d can carry out All that His Hand, Will and Purpose Pre-destines (Predetermines) shall occur. As Bond Servants of the Lord, He Will Grant us full freedom to declare His Message of Salvation to All Nations and Peoples (Jew and Gentile) fearlessly. Our G-d Will Stretch out His Hand to Cure and to Perform Signs and Wonders Through the Authority and By the Power of The Name of His Holy Child and Servant Yeshua / Jesus, so let us Pray, allow G-d to shake us from our complacency, Fill us with His Holy Spirit and continue to Speak the Word of G-d With Freedom, Boldness and Courage In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and Grant you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend in Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions! He Is Cut Off
(Slain) Dan. 9:26; John 11:50-52
Worship:
Your Steadfast Love
Your steadfast love extends to the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
Your righteousness is like majestic mountains.
And your wisdom like the depths of the sea.
And you come to me.
Filling my heart is your lovingkindness.
I find my peace in the shadow of your wings.
I eat my fill from abundance in your household,
And I drink from the streams of rejoicing.
You are my King.
The Word:
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself.
- Dan. 9:26
Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
Now he did not say this simply of his own accord - he was not self-moved; but being the high priest that year, he prophesied that Yeshua / Jesus was to die for the nation; [Isa. 53:8.]
And not only for the nation, but also for the purpose of uniting into one body the children of G-d who have been scattered far and wide.
[Isa. 49:6.]
- John 11:50-52
G-d's Word Is Faithful and True! Daniel (Belteshazzar as he was called) knew, understood The Word and had understanding of G-d's Vision. [Dan. 8:26; Rev. 19:9.] Are you In The Word? Is The Word of G-d In you? The Anointed One, The Messiah, The Christ (Yeshua / Jesus) was to be cut off, killed, to have nothing and no one belonging to or defending Him. According to The Word of G-d, they struck The Shepherd (Yeshua / Jesus Is Our Good Shepherd) and the sheep were scattered. When the mob came to the Garden to take Yeshua / Jesus aWay to crucify and kill Him, All of His followers fled and left Him alone.
Daniel's Prophecy also speaks of another prince (the prince of darkness) who's people shall come and destroy the city and the sanctuary. [Isa. 53:7-9; Nah. 1:8; Matt. 24:6-14.] Yeshua / Jesus exclaimed, "Destroy This Temple and I shall raise It up in three days!" (He was speaking of His Body and The Resurrection from the dead), but the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD and has yet to have been rebuilt. The Anti-Christ of Daniel 9:27 has not yet been revealed, but as sure as G-d's Word Is True, the Temple shall be reconstructed, a strong and firm covenant shall be made by him and in the midst of the seven year period he shall cause the sacrifice and offering to cease [for the remaining three and one-half years].
Like Caiaphas declared so many years ago, Many in this present World know nothing at All, understand or reason out that it was expedient and better for our own welfare that This One Man died on behalf of The People, so that we would not perish (be destroyed, ruined). Pilate exclaimed, "Behold The Man!" John the Baptizer shouted out, "Behold the Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World!" Jesus / Yeshua Himself said to Nicodemus, "And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert [on a pole], so must - so it is necessary that - the Son of man be lifted up [on the cross]; [Num. 21:9.] In order that every one who believes in Him - who cleaves to Him, trusts Him and relies on Him - may not perish, but have eternal life and [actually] live forever!" The Lord said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent [of bronze], and bronze is a symbol of judgement! The Word of G-d says, Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree, so Yeshua / Jesus became sin for us, was cursed of G-d, took our judgement of sin upon Himself, died in our stead and like All who were bitten in the desert (All of mankind is bitten by sin, because of the Fall by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and we live in a dry and weary land), we must look, attentively, expectantly, with a steady and absorbing gaze upon Him and Live! Look unto Yeshua / Jesus Who Is The Author And Finisher Of Our Faith! He Is The Resurrection And The Life! There is no other Name under Heaven by which we MUST "Be" Saved, but Yeshua / Jesus!
No one has ever gone up to Heaven; but the One Who has come down from Heaven, the Son of man [Himself], Who is - dwells, Whose home is - in Heaven. G-d did not send the Son into the World in order to judge - to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on - the World; but that the World might find Salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.
Yeshua / Jesus did not only die for the Nation of Israel, but for the Whole Wide World and Every One in It, to redeem us All back into a right relationship with G-d as Our Heavenly Father and also for the purpose of uniting into One Body (The Body of Messiah / Christ, The Temple / Church of G-d, His Chosen Bride) the Children of G-d (All those who have been Born-Again, born and borne of the Holy Spirit of G-d are Sons and Daughters of The Most High G-d) who have been scattered far and wide. We are no longer sheep without a shepherd! G-d has "given" us His Word, His Spirit and His Name! The Good Shepherd's rod and staff will comfort us and He Will Lead and Guide us In His Way. Behold The Lamb Who was Slain! It Is His Blood that cleanses us from All sin and unrighteousness, so even though they took counsel and plotted together to put Yeshua / Jesus to death, what the enemy planned for evil, G-d turned around and used for Good!
Let's not try to arrest Yeshua / Jesus like the chief priests and Pharisees did (do not quench The Holy Spirit Of G-d), try to hold on to "our" [holy] place, "our" nation, ["our" temple and city, and "our" civil organization] or even "our" own life, but lose your life to gain Eternal Life In His Holy and Precious Name. Seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness! As Kings and Priests Of G-d, we must declare, so that Every One can Know and Understand that Yeshua / Jesus was cut off (slain), died for All, so that All Nations and Peoples Everywhere, far and wide could "Have" Eternal Life In His Holy and Precious Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord bless you and keep you, cause His Face to Shine Upon you, be Gracious Unto you, lift up the Light of His Countenance Upon you and "Give" to you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Blessings In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World.
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All.
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Date: Fri, Apr 18, 2003
Subject: Messianic Visions On A Good Friday! Blood And Atonement: Numbers 35:33
Greeting:
Shabbat Shalom, Sabbath Peace (or Peace of the Sabbath), Fullness, Wholeness and God's Richest Blessings to All on this Good Friday!
Worship:
His Majesty Reigns
His majesty reigns from shore to shore
and in the stars above. His righteousness is only exceeded by His love.
He is the King of Kings. He is the King of Kings.
His righteousness is only exceeded by His love.
Father in heaven you're the one.
I'm in love with your only son. (repeat)
The Word:
So you shall not thus pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
- Numbers 35:33
Whoever said that G-d is not interested in "Numbers" has never read His Most Holy and Precious Word! G-d so loved the World and Everyone in it that He sent His One and only Begotten Son to Earth to save sinners, because He desires that None would perish, but that All would Come to Repentance! Today Is The Day that Atonement was made by the Passover Lamb of G-d Who Took AWay The Sins Of The World. He Conquered sin and death, Redeemed us, Healed and Restored us and "gave" us a Right Relationship with Our Heavenly Father.
This Is what we "have" by Faith In Yeshua / Jesus as Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One: "At - One - Ment," We "are" One with The Father, through The Son by the Ministry of His Holy Spirit Working In and Through us. Messiah / Christ "In" you "Is" The Hope of Glory, This Blessed Hope will not disappoint us and G-d's Glory "Is" His Goodness (G-d "Is" Good All the time), Mercy and Grace (His unmerited Favor)!
After Yeshua's / Jesus' Resurrection from the grave, He revealed to two Disciples on the road to Emmaus the Truths of G-d's Word and how the Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, should suffer before entering into His Glory (His Majesty and Splendor), beginning with Moses and (throughout) All The Prophets! Just as He went on explaining and interpreting to them in All The Scriptures the things concerning and referring to Himself, G-d's Holy Spirit "In" us will lead and guide us "Into" All Truth and Understanding of His Holy Word and bring to Remembrance The Words Messiah / Christ has spoken unto us!
Unfortunately, Today there are still "Many" whose eyes are held, so that they do not recognize Him. It wasn't until He took [a loaf of] bread and praised [G-d] and "gave" thanks and asked a blessing, then broke it and was "giving" it to them, When their eyes were [instantly] opened and they (clearly) recognized Him.
For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers' minds (that they should not discern the truth), preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ. the Messiah, Who is the image and likeness of G-d.
- 2 Corinthians 4:4
If these two Disciples could not recognize Yeshua / Jesus for Who He was (He Was and Is and Is To Come) then how much more so do we as Believers need to ask G-d to reveal to us His Living Word, so we can pray He removes the veil [that hinders the knowledge of G-d] - our Gospel (the glad tidings) - which is hid to those who are perishing, and obscured [only] to those who are spiritually dying, and veiled [only] to those who are lost?
Let us cry out as the Psalmist did, "Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law." [Psalm 119:18.]
G-d will deal bountifully with us as His Servants, so that we may live (Life Eternal); as we observe His Word [Hear (Hear! Oh Israel, The Lord, Thy G-d, The Lord "Is" One!), Receive (Believe and Receive), Love, obey It and Him]. [Ps. 119:17,97-101.] We are All just strangers and temporary residents here on Earth; He will not hide His Commandments from us. [Ps. 119:19; 39:12; Gen. 47:9; 1 Chron. 29:15; 2 Cor. 5:6; Heb. 11:13.]
Seek and Ye Shall Find! Draw Close to G-d and He Will Draw Near To YOU!
While reading Moses' writings in Numbers 35 about the Levites receiving from the Israelites' inheritance, cities to dwell in (6 [3 on the east side of Jordan and 3 in the Land of Canaan] of 48 which were to be cities of refuge), pasture lands for their cattle, their wealth in flocks and for all of their beasts. In this chapter of Scripture we read that it was the congregation's (We "are" The Congregation Of G-d and responsible for the destitute, outcast, lost and dying in this World Today!) duty to rescue an accused manslayer from the avenger of blood who was out for vengeance (Vengeance "Is" Mine Saith The Lord!) regarding the murder of another human being, but if the death was accidental; the accused could flee to a city of refuge, live in it until the high priest died and then return to the land of his possessions.
Whoever kills any person [intentionally], the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of witnesses; but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, so that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.
- Numbers 35:30-32
Why have I gone on and on about All of this?
Yeshua / Jesus Is Our High Priest and He has ransomed us from eternal damnation, sin and death. He "Is" Our Refuge and Our Strength! If The Son sets you free then you "are" FREE Indeed! Because Messiah / Christ died on that Cross at Calvary in our stead, the land is no longer defiled in which we live, The Son Has Come To Dwell In Our Hearts And Minds, G-d dwells in the midst of us; The Lord dwells in the midst of Israel and we "have" Eternal Life In HIs Name! The Word of G-d tells us that Life Is In The Blood, Yeshua / Jesus "Is" The Atonement and His Precious Blood cleanses us from All sin and unrighteousness. Our Spiritual Father, Abraham said to his son Isaac, "G-d will provide Himself a Lamb for the Sacrifice." and He has "In" Yeshua / Jesus. John the Baptizer cried out in the wilderness, "Behold The Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World!"
The Virgin Mary asked, "How can these thing be?"
Yeshua / Jesus says, "With G-d All Things Are Possible!"
After Adam and Eve committed their act of disobedience in the Garden of Eden against G-d, they hid themselves, because they knew that they were naked and the first question recorded in The Word of G-d is, "Where are you?"
Because of His Grace and Love towards them, The Lord G-d made long coats (tunics) of skins and clothed them. G-d had to get those coats (tunics) from somewhere, therefore the Scriptures insinuate and imply that He was the first to shed blood on the Earth, so that mankind (His Creation) would have a covering (Yeshua / Jesus "Is" Our Covering). His Word "Is" Faithful and True and when G-d "gives" you HIs Word, He stands by It, because The Lord can not lie and with nothing greater to swear by, He swears On Himself!
No Atonement can be made for the land, for the Blood shed in it, but By The Blood of Him Who shed it! The Earth "Is" The Lord's and the fullness thereof, because Yeshua / Jesus shed His Precious Blood on The Cross of Calvary and by so doing, obtained the title deed to Earth and Everything in It, Redeeming us, Paying the Ransom, Buying us back and Restoring us Unto The Father! What can wash aWay our sin? Nothing, but The Blood Of Yeshua / Jesus. What can make us whole again? Nothing, but The Blood of Yeshua / Jesus. Oh, The Blood Of Yeshua / Jesus! In His dying, we find Life Eternal and In His "giving," we receive forgiveness and Everything we need to Live our Life Unto Him In His Holy Name.
Amen - so be it.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you and Be Gracious Unto you, May He Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and "Give" To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World!
Amen.
Have A Great, Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday / The Feast Of First Fruits!
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions! Numbered With Sinners: Is. 53:12; Luke 23:33
Greeting:
Shalom! Peace to you In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus!
Worship:
O G-d, You Are My G-d
O G-d, you are my G-d,
Early will I seek your Face.
My soul thirsts for you alone,
and for your resting place.
As in a dry and thirsty land,
Where no water is.
I long to see your power and your glory as I've seen, And your presence here this hour,
O Lord as I have seen you in your sanctuary.
Come to me & let my blind eyes see
(Chorus)
Come to me, set me free
Come to me, and like the rolling sea,
With you spirit cover me.
(Repeat chorus)
The Word:
And he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Is. 53:12
And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
- Luke 23:33
When Messiah answered the one criminal saying, "Truly, I tell you, Today you shall be with Me in Paradise," have you ever wondered if it was the man on His Right Side? Yeshua / Jesus is presently seated at The Right Hand of G-d Our Heavenly Father after dying on The Cross at the place which is called The Skull [Calvary, from the Latin; Golgotha, the Hebrew equivalent], crucified between two criminals. It was The Man in the middle Who was considered the worst offender of All and surely He was cursed of G-d, for the Scriptures tell us, "Cursed is any man who hangs on a tree." The fact is that Yeshua / Jesus died in our stead, in our place. He paid the price for our sins, so that we could be released from the penalty of death (our just wages), have Eternal Life In His Name and be found Holy, Blameless, Just and Righteous (in right standing with G-d) by Faith In The Work He accomplished when they executed Him. Yeshua / Jesus prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Have you come to The Place called Calvary? It is crucial that each and every one of us come to recognize ourselves under the sentence of death, condemned to die and suffer the penalty for our sins unless we put our Faith, Hope and Trust In and Upon Yeshua / Jesus! He became sin for us, so that we could become the Righteousness of G-d In Him! Messiah told us that we would All have a Cross to bear. There will be those who ridicule and make sport of us, but if we eat His Flesh, The Bread of Everlasting Life, drink His Blood, The Cup of Redemption and Endure Unto The End, we shall be saved (rescued) from the eternal fires of hell, damnation and death. Like the centurian at the Foot of The Cross, having seen what had taken place at Calvary / Golgotha, if we acknowledge, recognize G-d, thank and praise Him for Yeshua / Jesus Who Indeed, without question, was The Man Who was upright - just and innocent, we shall be saved!
He poured out His Life unto death, and He let Himself be regarded as a criminal and be numbered with the transgressors, yet He bore [and took aWay] the sin of many and makes intercession for the transgressors - the rebellious. [Luke 22:37.] All have sinned and fall short of The Glory of G-d! We All like sheep have gone astray! The only Way to obtain G-d's Goodness, Mercy and Grace is to put our Faith In The Christ / The Messiah / The Anointed One, Yeshua / Jesus!
Regard yourself as nothing and you will become something In Him!
Many, many will come to Him on That Day (Judgement Day) and say, "Lord! Lord!" He will say, "Depart from Me! I never knew you!" Do you know Him?
Does He know you? G-d sent His One and Only Begotten Son to The Cross for you and Yeshua / Jesus is for ever interceding on your behalf before The Throne of G-d's Grace and Mercy, Hoping that you will come to Repentance, because He wishes that None would perish! Do you intercede on behalf of others who are lost and dying? Have you poured out your Life In Christ / Messiah as a Living Sacrifice, a drink offering Unto Him and your fellow man? He bore our sin, took aWay our transgression against G-d and now He Is Ready, Willing and Able to bear us up upon eagles wings, so that we can rise above the ways of this World and overcome it In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name! He Is The Way, Truth and Life Eternal! Without Him there is no going, no knowing and no real Life at all.
Knowing G-d as Our Heavenly Father and Yeshua / Jesus as Lord of Our Life Is Life Eternal and Everlasting Life In His Name!
We "are" the fruit of His travail, of His Soul and He "Is" Satisfied In us; by us knowing Him, possessing Him and by Him possessing us. He imparts to us His Holy Spirit, The Breath of G-d, makes us just (just as if we had never sinned), righteous - upright and in right standing with G-d; for He bore our iniquities and our guilt [with the consequences]. SING and cry aloud!
Enlarge "The Place" of your tent, let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out (Yeshua / Jesus stretched out His Arms upon The Cross For you); spare not (G-d The Father spared not His Son For you), lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes, for you shall spread abroad to the right hand and to the left, and your offspring will possess the Nations, so Fear not, for you shall not be ashamed!
Take G-d at His Word! No weapon formed against you shall prosper! We may be in the World (numbered with the transgressors), but we are not of it! WAIT Upon The Lord and renew your strength!
Be strong In The Lord and In The Power of His Might! Listen to what The Spirit Is saying! Come to the Streams of Living Waters, surrender All and accept The Blessing! [Rev. 21:6, 7; 22:17.]
To those who are afflicted, storm-tossed and not comforted, He will set your stones in fair colors - [to enhance their brilliance] - lay your foundations with sapphires, make your windows and pinnacles of [sparkling] agates or rubies, your gates of [shining] carbuncles, and All the walls of your enclosures of precious stones. [Rev. 21:19-21.] We "Are" The Temple of The Living G-d! Let your Light Shine! Establish yourself on righteousness - conform with G-d's Will and order! No matter what the storm, trial or tribulation in your Life, bring the essence of Christ / Messiah where ever you may go, whatever "place" you may be in and even in death, bring Eternal, Everlasting Life In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and "Give" To you Shalom, Peace In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World!
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions! Not A Bone Broken: Ps. 34:20; John 19:33-36
Greeting:
Shabbat Shalom! Peace of the Sabbath to you!
Worship:
He Is My Light
He is my light, yes the Lord my salvation.
With Him as my stronghold, whom shall I fear.
When evil assails me, when I am surrounded, I will find my life in the Lord.
There is one thing I will ask of Him
And I will seek it forever.
Lord, my one desire is to dwell
within your household and ever
to behold the beauty of G-d and
to grow as a son in His courts.
(Chorus)
Teach me of your ways oh Lord,
and lead me in the paths of your Kingdom.
Hear me when I cry aloud, and answer;
For Your word is my freedom.
I believe I shall see the goodness of G-d in the land of the living.
Waiting for the Lord, I will be strong
and let my heart take courage.
I will wait yeah wait for the Lord.
(Chorus)
The Word:
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
- Ps. 34:20
But when they came to Yeshua / Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came (flowed) out.
And he who saw it - the eye-witness - gives this evidence and his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe also.
For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled (verified, carried out), Not one of His bones shall be broken. [Exod. 14:46; Num. 9:12; Ps. 34:20.]
- John 19:33-36
From the Beginning (Genesis) to The Revelation of Yeshua / Jesus, Old Covenant to New, The Word of G-d is constantly and continuously pointing us to The Anointed One, The Messiah, The Christ! He Was, Is and Is To Come, The Passover Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World. Yeshua / Jesus did not come to abolish The Law, but to Fulfill It and Every Word of G-d points to Him as The Truth, so that we may come By Faith to Believe In and On Him. The Holy Scripture says, They shall look on Him, Who they have pierced!
[Zech. 12:10.] The Messiah hung on The Tree, The Cross at Calvary and died in our stead. He became a curse (The Bible says, Cursed is anyone who hangs on a tree), so that we could become The Righteousness of G-d In Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus!
Remember when Jacob wrestled with G-d? The Hulk Hogan has nothing on him! To this day during The Passover Sedar a bone is placed on the Passover Dish to represent not only the Lamb of G-d, but Jacob's hip bone, because he was a type of Messiah and thus, that bone speaks of The One Who would Come, Redeem Israel and set them Free from captivity! The Truth shall set you free, but he who the Son sets free Is Free Indeed! Yeshua / Jesus conquered sin and death by offering up Himself as The Perfect Sacrifice Unto G-d, but had any of His Bones been broken, He could not have fulfilled The Law and therefore, we would be lost forever in our sin and unrighteousness.
Take a Good, hard Look at Yeshua / Jesus upon The Cross! Know and Understand just how much G-d, Our Heavenly Father Loves you. He sent His One and Only Begotten Son into the World to save you. Yeshua / Jesus took on All the wages and punishment of each and every sin that humankind has ever committed or will commit until That Final Day when He Comes Again! Although the Roman soldiers broke the legs of the others crucified with Him, Yeshua / Jesus had already given up The Ghost after crying out, "Father, Forgive them, for they know not what they do!", so one of the soldiers stuck a sword in His side and The Precious Cleansing Blood of Messiah poured out at The Altar of G-d, The Altar Of Love and we have Forgiveness In His Holy Name!
John The Beloved Apostle is giving us an eye-witness account of what happened on that Good Friday. This Word Is Proof Positive, The Evidence, his Testimony of Truth (Yeshua / Jesus says, I Am The Way, Truth and Life), so that like him, By Faith you may Believe also and enter into Eternal, Everlasting Life! The Messiah came to reveal The Father to us In Word and Deed, He Verified and Carried Out Every Scripture, fulfilling the Old Covenant and bringing in The New by His Broken Body (not broken bones) and The Blood. Like the middle Matzo is wrapped and hidden during the Passover Feast, after His death, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, asked Pilate for His Body, bound It in linen cloths with the spices (aromatics [we are to bring the essence of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One everywhere we go]) and placed His Body in the tomb.
NOW on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw the stone had been removed from - lifted out of [the groove across the entrance of] - the tomb.
- John 20:1
Peter and John, upon hearing The Good News (of course It didn't seem so Good at the time), ran to the Empty tomb, saw the linen clothes lying there, were convinced and Believed that Yeshua / Jesus had risen again from the dead!
[Ps. 16:10.] On that same first day of the week, at evening, with the Disciples behind closed doors, Yeshua / Jesus came to them, stood among them, and said, "Peace to you!"
Our inner selves wait [earnestly] for the Lord; He is our help and our shield.
- Psalms 33:20
Your heart may be hardened like a rock, but G-d can roll aWay the stone for you too, give you a new heart of flesh and make it pliable, so that you can be a New Creation In Him. You might be hiding something deep down within or behind a closed door, but Your Beloved stands at the door and knocks, He wants to come in to you, sup with you, touch you and comfort you, He Will stand beside you through it All, never leave or forsake you, be your help and shield in times of need.
If you wait and Hope In Him, His Mercy and Loving-Kindness Will be upon you, so Bless the Lord at All times and let His Praise be continually in your mouth. Let your Life make it's boast In The Lord, so that the humble and afflicted will Hear (Hear! O Israel!) and be Glad (Be ye glad, for every debt that you ever had has been paid up in full by the Grace of the Lord)!
Magnify the Lord and Exalt His Name, because He Delivered us from All our fears! He has taken aWay our shame and He is not the author of confusion, but His Holy Spirit leads and guides us into All Truth and Understanding, He Saves us from All our troubles and The Angel of the Lord encamps around us. [Pss. 145:20; 18:1; Isaiah 63:9.] Trust and take refuge In Him [1 Pet. 2:2, 3.], revere and Worship Him In Spirit and Truth, taste and see that the Lord, Our G-d Is Good (All The Time)!
Do you want? Are you lacking anything?
Fear the Lord, seek Him, inquire of and require the Lord [by right of your need and on the authority of His Word]. My G-d shall supply All of your needs! When the Lord Is your Good Shepherd, you shall not want! He'll make you lie down in green pastures, redeem your life, be your refuge and you shall not be condemned or held guilty. The Lord will contend with those who contend with you; fight against with those who fight against you!
He'll be your shield and buckler, and stand up for your help! Messiah will draw out also the spear and javelin, close the way for those who pursue you, for the battle Is The Lord's, but because of what He has done, we "have" The Victory In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and Grant you His Shalom, Peace In Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World! Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: His Cry Of Victory In Hebrew:
Psalm 22:31; John 19:30
Greeting:
Shalom! Peace, Fullness and Wholeness to All In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World!
Worship:
I'M COMING BACK TO THE HEART
VERSE 1
When the music fades
And all is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring
Something that's of worth
That will bless Your heart
BRIDGE
I'll bring You more than a song,
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required.
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
VERSE 2
King of endless worth,
No one could express,
How much You deserve.
Though I'm weak and poor,
All I have is Yours
Every single breath!
CHORUS
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about You,
All about You, Jesus.
I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it.
When it's all about You.
It's all about You.
The Word:
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
- Ps. 22:31
When Yeshua / Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished:
and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
- John 19:30
Like vinegar, this present life we live can be bitter. Living is hard, but Life (Eternal Life, Everlasting Life, The Abundant Life In Messiah) Is Good! Had it not been for The Anointed One coming to this Earth, fulfilling The Law and The Prophets, paying the penalty for our sins by dying on The Cross at Calvary and shedding His Precious Blood, none of us could become born-again, born of The Spirit of G-d and be found Righteous In Him. Before Messiah bowed His Head and "Gave" up The Ghost, The Holy Spirit, He asked Our Father Who Art In Heaven to Forgive us All, shouted the cry of Victory, "It Is Finished!" and now those of us who come to Believe, Receive, cling to, trust In and Rely On Yeshua / Jesus as The One and Only Way to The Father can have The Victory over sin and death In His Holy and Precious Name! Come unto Him, find your rest In Him, declare what The Lord has done and how Marvelous It Is, The Things He "Has" Done! Blessed Is He Who Comes In The Name Of The Lord!
All Believers of Today are Charged by G-d to reach this generation of souls with the His Love and Good News, The Gospel. Let us enter His Gates with Thanksgiving and His Courts with Praise, Worship Him In Spirit and Truth. He Is King of Kings, The Ruler Over The Nations, Every knee shall bow and tongue confess that Yeshua / Jesus Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Is Lord of All! We Must take His Word to the ends of the Earth, so that the poor and afflicted shall be full and satisfied. I Am not talking of works in the flesh here, but of the Good Works In Messiah which were prepared for us to do by G-d before the foundations of the World were ever laid. Not by might, not by power, but by His Holy Spirit Working In and Through us to accomplish His Purposes to the Glory, Praise and Honor of His Holy Name! We "have" the Victory, because of what He "has" done for us.
If THE Lord Is truly your Shepherd [to feed, guide and shield you]; you shall not lack, there shall be no want. My G-d shall supply All of your needs In Messiah / Christ! He'll make you lie down in (fresh, tender) green pastures; He'll lead you beside the still and restful waters.
[Rev. 7:17.] He'll refresh and restore your life - your "self"; lead you in paths of Righteousness [uprightness, and right standing with Him, In Him, Through Him and To Him - not for your earning it, but] for His Name's sake. You may be walking through a deep, sunless valley Today, but don't be afraid; for He Is With you; to protect, guide and comfort you. He'll lead you to His Banqueting Table in the presence of your enemies and His Banner of Love will be over you. If you Believe that Yeshua / Jesus lived, died and rose again, He'll Anoint your head with His Holy Spirit Oil and your brimming cup of life will be overflowing, running over. The Glory of The Lord, His Goodness (G-d Is Good All The Time), Mercy (His Tender-Mercies "Are" New Every Morning), Loving-Kindness, Grace, Favor and Unfailing Love (G-d Is Faithful and Yeshua / Jesus Never Fails) shall follow you All The Days Of Your Life In Him!
THE earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it, the world and they who dwell in it. [1 Cor. 10:26.]
- Psalm 24:1
G-d wishes that None would perish, but that All would come to repentance and Life In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! We "have" The Victory In Him, In What He "Has" Done and by Faith "Will" Dwell In The House Of The Lord [In His Presence] through the length of days, AlWays, forever and ever!
This natural life can be sour, but if we drink the cup of Yeshua / Jesus, taste of His Body and Blood, we share In His Sufferings and "Have" The Victory, Eternal, Everlasting Life, The Abundant Life In His Name, because of what He "Has" Done for us on The Cross. Prepare your heart and life before Him, offer up your body as a living sacrifice unto Him, live the Crucified Life, die to "self", be cleansed by His Precious Blood, washed by the Water of The Word, Know that His Testimony Is True, Believe, Receive All that He "Has" for you and shout out the Cry Of Victory in every language and tongue to All Nations and Peoples In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord bless you and keep you cause His face to shine upon you, lift up the Light of His Countenance upon you, be Gracious unto you and "give" you His Peace In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Friday, May 9, 2003! His Commending His Spirit: Ps. 31:5; Luke 23:46
Greeting:
Shalom, Peace to you!
Worship:
Holy Is The Lord
Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts.
Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts.
The whole earth is filled with His glory, The whole earth is filled with His glory, The whole earth is filled with His glory.
Holy is the Lord.
The Word:
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me. O Lord G-d of truth.
- Ps. 31:5
And when Yeshua / Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
- Luke 23:46
Have you committed your Way Unto Him, so that He can make your path straight?
When you put your Faith, Hope and Trust In Yeshua / Jesus as The Lord and Savior of your Life, He Redeems you, buys you back from the wages of sin and death, puts you into a right relationship with The Father, "gives" you Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Holy and Precious Name and you will find out (experientially) that G-d Is Faithful and True and Yeshua/ Jesus Never Fails!
[Acts 7:59.] He becomes our strength, our shield, our stronghold and He draws us out of the net, the enemies snares that are set before us. Messiah leads and guides us according to His Word, Will and Way, for His Name's Sake, because He Is Our Rock (lead me to The Rock Which Is Higher than I) and A Mighty Fortress Is Our G-d! He hears your prayers and answers them, He Delivers us speedily In His Righteousness and becomes our refuge when we put our Trust, Hope, Reliance On and Confidently Lean On Him. The Steadfast Love of The Lord Never Ceases, His Tender Mercies Never, Ever come to an end; He has set out feet in a broad place.
His Grace is sufficient for us and He has "given" us Everything we need to live our Life Unto Him! He Is Our G-d and our Life, our times "are" In His Hands; we "are" Delivered from our enemies, foes and All who would pursue and persecute us. As Servants of The Most High G-d, He Shines His Face Upon us and we shall not be put to shame or disappointed. Like Moses said to Joshua when he was about to enter into The Promised Land, Our G-d says to us Today, "Be strong and let you heart take courage. Wait, Hope for and Expect The Lord!"
We "are" Blessed of The Lord, our sins are forgiven and He has imputed His Righteousness Unto us! About the sixth hour, midday, High Noon, and darkness enveloped the whole land and Earth until the ninth hour [about three o'clock in the afternoon], the sun's light faded (The Son of G-d's Light faded, The Light of The World) - was darkened; and the curtain [of The Holy of Holies] of The Temple was torn in two. [Exod. 26:31-35.] Have you felt like the sun was going down or The Son was coming down On you lately? Those who are living in a land of darkness will see a Great Light when they Look Unto Yeshua / Jesus as The Author and Finisher of their Faith, because He Is The Light of Life! The Veil of The Temple Is torn and He has made a Way (He Is The Way) Into The Holy of Holies, so that we can go boldly before G-d's Throne of Grace and Mercy and like the centurion, having seen what had taken place, Recognize G-d, Thank and Praise Him, and say, Indeed, without question, without a doubt, This Man (The Man Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus) was (Is and Is to Come) Upright - Just and Innocent! Truly He Is The Son Of G-d!
Are you searching for the living among the dead? Yeshua / Jesus was given over to the hands of sinful men [that is, men whose way or nature is to act in opposition to G-d], crucified, commended, committed His Spirit Unto The Father, gave up The Holy Ghost, expired, died, was buried, but on the third day arose (from death) [Ps. 16:10.], just as He said! Like the women at the tomb, we should also Remember His Words and Report All These Things (taken together [from Genesis to Revelation]) to All Nations and Peoples who have not yet heard The Good News of G-d, The Gospel of Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus!
Though many will take these reports as idle tales - madness, feigned things, nonsense - and not believe us, others will wonder about and marvel at what had happened, but Messiah will open their hearts and minds to Believe In, Trust In and Rely On Him.
We are commanded to preach, teach, heal and baptize men, women and children In The Name of The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Baptism is a symbol of the Life, death and Resurrection of Yeshua / Jesus. He died on The Cross in our stead and gave up The Ghost, so that we could "have" Eternal, Everlasting Life by Faith In Him, dying to self, being made Alive In Messiah / Christ and receiving The Holy Spirit Into our hearts, so that we could Live The Crucified Life Unto Him! He cried out with a loud voice unto The Father, so that as Friends of The Bride Groom, like John The Baptizer, we could be a voice, the voice, G-d's Voice crying out in the wilderness, "Behold! The Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World!" There are multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision, who Yeshua / Jesus prayed, wept, died for and forgave their sins, but they have yet to have heard His Message. Some still scoff, sneer, turn up their noses, ridicule and make sport of Him, but He prayed, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." This Is The King of The Jews, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Creator and G-d of the known Universe. He did nothing out of the way - nothing strange, eccentric, perverse or unreasonable to deserve death, but He went to That Cross, because of His Love for us! He gave His All for us, gave up The Ghost, gave His Life, showed forth His Love, so why don't we give our best To Him, For Him and reach out to the World, not by our own might or power, but By His Holy Spirit In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you and Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fulness In Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: His Marred Visage (Face) Isa. 52:14; John 19:5
Greeting:
Shalom, Peace!
Worship:
YOU ARE G-D
You are G-d of the heavens and G-d of the earth, You are G-d of our Savior's virgin birth.
You were G-d on the cross and G-d over hell, You were G-d before man and G-d when he fell.
You, You are, You are G-d,
You are G-d, G-d, G-d. (X2)
You are G-d in what seems like happenstance, You are G-d in every circumstance.
You are G-d when we fall and G-d when we stand.
You are G-d who holds us in Your hand.
The Word:
As many as were astonied at thee; his visage was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men.
- Isa. 52:14
And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! . . . Behold your king! [Pilate called the crowd's attention to Yeshua's / Jesus' marred visage, hoping to arouse sympathy for Him, and secure His release.]
- John 19:5
Yeshua / Jesus, The Servant of the Lord dealt wisely, prospered, was exalted, extolled and stood very high in All the Ways of G-d, according to His Holy and Precious Word. As our Lord, He goes before us in All things, He Is also our rear guard, so His Goodness and Mercy follows us All the Days of Our Life In Yeshua / Jesus. The Son of Man / Son of G-d became an object of horror; so much so, that many were astonished. His Face and His whole Appearance were marred more than any man's and His Form beyond that of the sons of men; but just as many were astonished at Him, He startled and sprinkled many nations; kings shut their mouths because of Him; for that which was not told them they saw, and that which they had not heard they considered and understood. [Rom. 15:21.] Messiah was born in Bethlehem, grew up in Galilee and crucified in Jerusalem. He had no royal, kingly pomp, form or comeliness that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him (at least not by the standards of this World). Yeshua / Jesus was despised, rejected and forsaken by men, He was a Man of sorrows, pains, acquainted with grief and sickness; and as One from Whom men hid their faces, they did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him. What price did He pay to bear our griefs, sicknesses, weaknesses, distresses, sorrows, pains and punishments? The Lord paid the ultimate price, He gave His Life, His All, yet we ignorantly considered Him stricken, smitten and afflicted by G-d [as if with leprosy]. [Matt. 8:17.]
Behold The Man, Christ / Messiah / The Anointed One, Yeshua / Jesus! Broken and bleeding, wounded, bruised and chastised for our transgressions, our guilt and our iniquities, so that we could obtain His Peace, well-being, and with the stripes that wounded Him we are healed and made whole In His Holy and Precious Name.
He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my [Isaiah's] people, to whom the stroke was due - stricken to His death.
- Isaiah 53:8b
One of the most important Biblical finds in recent history were the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Book of Isaiah was complete, the oldest of All known manuscripts and confirmed The Word of G-d to this generation. Written more than 800 years before the birth of Yeshua / Jesus, these scrolls showed how G-d's Holy Word (Word for Word) was meticulously recorded by the Scribes in order to keep the Sacred Manuscripts pure and undefiled. The Lamb of G-d Who took aWay the sins of the World Is The Living Word of G-d and we should All submit to His Will.
Turn you eyes upon Yeshua / Jesus. Look full in His Wonderful Face and the things of this Earth will grow strangely dim in the Light of His Glory and Grace.
Pilate found no fault, crime or cause for punishment in Him, but in order to please the crowd that was shouting, "Crucify Him!" he had Yeshua / Jesus scourged, flogged and whipped. Just imagine the beating that Yeshua / Jesus took for you and me. The soldiers twisted a crown of thorns, put it on His Head, ripped the beard from His Face and beat Him to a pulp. The Jews did not kill Messiah and neither did the Romans, but we did, Everyone in the whole human race since the foundations of the Earth were laid and each sin that we committed. He paid the price for our evil and wickedness, became a curse for us by hanging upon that tree, The Cross of Calvary, so that we could have Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Name! Why? Because G-d Is Love and He sent His One and Only Begotten Son to redeem us from sin and death!
O, How He Loves you and me. He gave His Life. What more could He give?
Yeshua / Jesus claimed and made Himself out to "Be" The Son Of G-d! For This He was marred more than any man, and His Form more than the sons of men. No picture ever taken or painted and no sculpture formed or fashioned in All of human history could ever capture the true horror of what Yeshua/ Jesus suffered and went through for you and me. Pilate was alarmed, awe-stricken and afraid of Messiah's Own claims. What about you?
Yeshua / Jesus came out, wearing the thorny crown and purple cloak when Pilate exclaimed, "See, [here is] the Man!" Have you seen Yeshua / Jesus? Do you Know Him In All of His Glory and Majesty? Is He King of your Life? Did you crown Him Lord of All! Yes, He suffered and died, but He rose again on the third day and is now seated at the Right Hand of G-d our Heavenly Father! Behold! The Man, Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus!
Look full into The Beautiful Face of your Risen King Who has secured your release and set us Free Indeed.
We as Believers are being built up into The Perfect Man and like Him must Go to All Nations and Peoples with His Love and Good News In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May the Lord bless you, keep you, cause His Face to shine upon you, be Gracious unto you, lift up the Light of His Countenance upon you and give to you His Shalom, Peace In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World!
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: An Intense Lonely Cry: Ps. 22:1; Matt. 27:46
Worship:
BETTER IS ONE DAY
How lovely is Your dwelling place. Oh Lord Almighty My soul longs and even faints for You
For here my heart is satisfied, within Your presence I sing beneath the shadow of Your wings
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere (X2)
One thing I would ask and I would seek, to see Your beauty To find You in the place Your glory dwells
My heart and flesh cry out,
For You the living G-d
Your Spirit's water my soul
I've tasted and I've seen,
Come once again to me
I will draw near to You, I will draw near to You, to You!!
The Word:
My G-d, my G-d, why hast thou forsaken me?
why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
- Ps. 22:1
And about the ninth hour Yeshua / Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli lama sabachthani? that is to say, My G-d, my G-d, why hast thou forsaken me?
- Matt. 27:46
Quoted by Charles Haddon Spurgeon as "The Psalm of the Cross" and beyond all others in his Treasury of David, the Gospels quote Psalm 22 as being fulfilled at Christ's crucifixion. King David wrote this Psalm to the Chief Musician; set to the tune of The Hind of the Morning Dawn. It is quite possible that Yeshua / Jesus repeated this whole Psalm while dying for our sins upon The Cross of Calvary, because not only do we have eye witness accounts of His crying out with a loud voice This Particular Scripture, but before He gave up The Ghost, The Holy Spirit, He ends with the thought, "It is finished."
They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born, that He has done it [that it is finished]!
- John 19:30
In just One Day, G-d brought All the judgement of the World's sin upon Yeshua / Jesus and Salvation In His Holy Name to All who would Believe, Trust, Lean On, Be Confident In, Rely On and Receive It by Faith. It Is He Who Has Done This and It Is Marvelous In our eyes! We have been Redeemed, Delivered and Restored to a Right Relationship with G-d By The Precious Blood Of The Lamb. Come, let us exalt His Name together, sing and Praise His Power.
When trouble is near and it seems like there is none to help, G-d Is not far from you, He promises to be with you alWays, even to the end of the age. Though Yeshua / Jesus cried out to His Heavenly Father while hanging on That Tree, G-d did not answer Him. Why? How could G-d do such a horrible thing? The Word of G-d tells us, "Cursed is anyone who hangs on a tree" and when Yeshua / Jesus was nailed to The Cross, He became sin for us, died in our stead, was cursed and suffered the penalty of death, so that we could "have" Eternal, Everlasting Life In His Name! G-d Is Faithful and He Must remain True to His Holy Word. If you ever feel surrounded or hedged in by situations or circumstances within your Life then call upon The Lord, He Will Answer you, Provide The Way out and you will find your Rest In Him.
Yeshua's / Jesus' Life (Life Is In The Blood) was poured out (when the Roman Soldier pierced His Side with the sword, Blood and water flowed through the land), All His Bones were out of joint causing excruciating pain and anguish, He could count them, but none were broken, His Heart was like wax, it softened and melted down within Him (many Dr.s who studied The Crucifixion have determined that Yeshua / Jesus died of a broken heart), His Strength dried up, His Tongue cleaved to His Jaws with thirst, Hos Hands and Feet were pierced and He was brought to the dust of death on our behalf. [John 19:28, 37; Isa. 53;7; Luke 23:27,
35.]
Though the evildoers parted His Clothes and cast lots for His Raiment, we "are" clothed In His Righteousness, The Righteousness Of G-d and not our own.
We "are" washed In The Blood, In The Water Of The Word, His Spirit cuts to the very bone and marrow of our human being. As His Body here on Earth, we are to be joined together as One with Every joint, ligament, muscle and Body Member "doing" their part, so that we function to the Purpose and Ability which we were Created! He died, so that we could Live, "have" Life In His Name and share It with others, All Nations and Peoples throughout the World!
Do you hunger and thirst for His Righteous? Is Yeshua / Jesus your heart's desire? Draw near to G-d and He Will Draw Near To you! We are to declare His Name to our Brethren; in the midst of our Congregations we are to Praise Him. [John 20:17; Rom. 8:29; Heb. 2:12.] The fear of The Lord "is" the beginning of Wisdom, so we should continue daily In His Word, Will and Way until we are made into The Perfect Man, The Man Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus! Revere and Worship Him In Spirit and Truth.
Taste and See that The Lord Is Good (G-d Is Good All the time), eat His Body, drink His Blood for you shall "be" filled and satisfied.
Praise, Seek, Inquire of, Require Him and your heart will "be" quickened now and for ever more! Come and adore him, bow down before Him. Give Thanks to Him, Serve Him and Tell Of The Lord to the next generation. Declare His Righteousness to a people yet unborn, that He "Has" Done It [That It Is Finished]! [Psalm 22:31.]
The Lion Of The Tribe Of Judah, Yeshua / Jesus roared, cried out with a loud voice from upon The Cross and died, but on The Third Day He rose from the grave Unto New Life. He has not left us comfortless, helpless, forsaken or failed In His Mission and we should not fail in The Great Commission that He has "given" us.
Yeshua / Jesus has "given" us His Word, His Holy Spirit and His Precious Name to cry out in the wilderness and make straight The Way Of The Lord. He Is Coming Again Soon and The Voice Of His Spirit Will Cry Out, "Give" The Trumpet Blast, so let us pray that G-d opens up the eyes and ears of those who need to hear of Salvation In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Final Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, Cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and "Give" you Shalom, Peace In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World.
Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Friday, July 4th Messianic Message! His Mother and Friends
The Word:
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar of.
- Ps. 38:11
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
- Luke 23:49
Sometimes (All too often) as G-d's near and dear ones we stand afar off from Him, rather than enter into His Holy Presence. He Calls us His Lovers, Neighbors, Friends, Sons and Daughters, but we stand aloof from Him as if He had the plague. His heart throbs, He desires us to commune and fellowship with Him In Yeshua/ Jesus, to come and reason together with Him. He Is Health, Rest, Help and Deliverance to our bones (His Holy and Precious Word brings Healing and Life), He forgives our sin and takes aWay All our iniquities. The Lord Is Our Salvation!
Yeshua / Jesus asked, "Who is My mother, brother and sister?" He answered, "Those who Love Me and Obey My Commandments." When we "are" born-again, we give birth to newness of Life In Him as His mother and become His Brother, Sister, Son or Daughter (Children of The Most High G-d)! We "are" His Kinsmen, Acquaintances of [Yeshua / Jesus] and followers of Him. As a Believer, do you just stand at a distance and watch or are you a participator? Christianity is an active sport, a contact sport. Sometimes It gets rather bloody, but whatever you may go through (He Will See you Through It All) in this Life, It Will "Be" Worth It!
Throngs of people may go to Church every week, but how many of them really and truly Come to G-d? Yeshua / Jesus should not be looked upon as a spectacle, but we are to look Unto Him as The Author and Finisher of Our Faith! Indeed, without question, He Is Upright - Good, Advantageous, Righteous (In Right Standing With G-d), Just, Innocent and The Son of The Living G-d! We should be expecting and waiting for The Kingdom of G-d (which Is Righteousness, Peace [Shalom} and Joy In The Holy Ghost) to come and His Will to be done on Earth as It Is In Heaven! We should not go to the tomb for it is empty, but we shall be gathered to our people and live the Resurrection, Eternal, Everlasting, and Abundant Life In Him! Let us tell the World of G-d's Love In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: His Heart Broken: Ps. 22:14; John 19:34
The Word:
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
- Ps. 22:14
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
- John 19:34
Have you completely and totally poured your"self" out before G-d and man? Are your streams of Living Water flowing out and bringing Life to All who thirst in this dry and weary land? I don't think there are many portions of Scripture that speak (so clearly) to the condition of The Church Today as, My Bones "are" out of joint. The Body of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Yeshua / Jesus is a wreck!
How is it that we have become so disconnected? I understand that The Body has many, many parts, but should we not be walking together as One, In The Unity of The Holy Spirit? Are we standing together? A House divided against Itself Can Not Stand! We are shooting the wounded instead of bringing Healing and Wholeness to those who are sick and dying All around us. When are we going to Wake Up and strengthen the things that remain?
When Yeshua/ Jesus was hanging and dying on The Cross of Calvary for your sins and mine, He felt Every Bone In His Body crying out in excruciating pain. He suffered a terrible and horrible death, so that we could have Eternal, Everlasting and The Abundant Life In His Holy and Precious Name! He was pierced in His Side by the spear of a Roman Soldier and The Precious Blood of The Lamb of G-d and Streams of Living Water flowed through the land. Like the blood of Abel, The Blood of Yeshua / Jesus cries out for vengeance! Those who choose to reject The Cleansing Blood of G-d's Sacrificial Lamb will be punished for All Eternity along with Satan and his followers. The Word of G-d tells us that Life Is In The Blood and should we neglect such a Great Salvation, the wages of sin is death! Yeshua / Jesus died of a broken heart over the anguish of sin in the World. Don't disappoint Him again by rejecting the Only Way out of Eternal separation from G-d, our Heavenly Father.
When Yeshua / Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit upon All flesh. The Spirit is still flowing Today! Open up your Spiritual Eyes and See what G-d Is Doing around the World! Just as John The Beloved rested his head on Yeshua's / Jesus' Chest at The Passover Feast / The Last Supper, so too we can lean on The Everlasting Arms. He Will carry us through All that comes against us in this lifetime. There is no Greater Walk than The Walk of Faith! It "Is" The Substance, The Evidence of Things Hoped for and Hope Will Not disappoint us. Without Faith it is impossible to please G-d, but what Yeshua / Jesus did on The Cross pleases Him and He Is The Author and Finisher of our Faith, so All we have to do is Look Unto Him, Believe, Receive and "Be" Saved In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: Yeshua / Jesus Is G-d's Servant:
Isa. 42:1; Matt. 12:18
The Word:
Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles.
- Isa. 42:1
Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall show judgement to the Gentiles.
- Matt. 12:18
Of course to the average eye, both of these Scripture verses appear to be saying the same exact thing about The Messiah, but Each and Every Believer upon the face of planet Earth "Is" Called of G-d to "Be" His Servant, Servants of The Most High! The question is, "How do we Serve Him?" What "Is" our Spiritual Worship, Service To The One True G-d?
He "Is" our Creator and we "Are" Created In Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus for Good Works. As individuals and The Corporate Body of Messiah / Christ, His Representatives, Ambassadors For Him here on Earth, Commanded to Go to All Nations and Peoples, He Calls us to Offer Up ourselves A Living Sacrifice! As with Abraham, our Father of Faith, G-d Provided Himself a Lamb for The sacrifice instead of Isaac, Yeshua / Jesus "gave" His Life Upon The Cross of Calvary (in our stead, as The Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World), so that we could "have" Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life In His Holy and Precious Name! I wonder sometimes, "How many of us openly and honestly Believe that we, like sheep, are Called to Live The Sacrificial Life?"
Look! Behold, The Beauty of The Lord!
Gaze Upon Him In The Temple, The Sanctuary (We "Are" The Temple of The Living G-d)! As Yeshua / Jesus was G-d's Servant, so are we to "Be" In this World.
When we humble ourselves In The Sight of The Lord, He lifts us up, He Upholds us. The Church, The Congregation of G-d "Is" His Elect, His Chosen Ones and His Beloved. You "Are" The Bride of Messiah / Christ, He has Chosen you to "Be" His Own, you were bought with The Precious Blood of His One and Only Begotten Son.
G-d's Soul, His Holy Spirit Looks, Gazes Upon, Beholds you and you "Are" His Delight. He Is not only pleased with you, but "Well Pleased!"
The Holy Spirit of The Lord G-d "Is" Upon you, Living, Moving and Having His Being In and Through you! We are encouraged to be, being continually and continuously filled with The Holy Spirit!
G-d, Your Father Who Art In Heaven, wants your cup of Life to overflow. His Word Is Spirit and Life, so get into It and allow It to get Into you!
How is it that G-d brought forth and showed His judgement to the Gentiles?
All the Judgment for the World's sin was brought upon Yeshua / Jesus. Pilate exclaimed, "Behold, The Man!" As Yeshua / Jesus was brought forth in public display for All the World to See, G-d showed His Judgement for "OUR" sins (publicly) by nailing The Messiah / The Christ / The Anointed One to The Tree. Cursed Is Every One Who Is Hung On A Tree! He Who knew no sin, became sin for us, so that we could become The Righteousness of G-d In Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus! Paul The Apostle talks about us, followers of Messiah / Christ as the ones put on public display. We MUST Live The Crucified Life in order for Messiah / Christ Who Is Our Life to be brought forth to our families, friends, co-workers, neighbors, friends and enemies (He Prepares A Table Before Us In The Presence Of Our Enemies And His Banner Over Us "Is" LOVE)!
Yeshua / Jesus "Is" G-d's Servant! He "Is" The Light of the World and we "Are" Called Upon By Him to "Be" A Light To The Nations as well. If we lift The Name of Yeshua / Jesus up and out to All Peoples, He Promises to Draw All men Unto Him. We "Have" The Light of Life, Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life, so pour out The Holy Spirit Oil, let His Fire burn and spread, so that None would perish and All would Come to Repentance In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen.
The Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon and Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Ministry To Broken And Wasted Lives: Isa. 42:3; 61:1-3; Matt. 12:20
The Word:
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgement unto truth.
- Isa. 40:11; Isa. 61:1-3
A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgement unto victory.
- Matt. 12:20
We "are" talking G-D here! No matter how perfect and successful you may think your little World is, apart from G-d, you are poor, lost pitiful, lame, broken and your life (this temporal one) is wasted. Even King David was considered to have a band of low-lives with him during his times of exile from Saul and his son, Absolom. Though we may appear to be in complete and total control of the circumstances surrounding our day, apart from Yeshua / Jesus, Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One, we are nothing and can do nothing, but Thanks Be To G-d! He has Reconciled us Unto Himself, Redeemed us from the curse of The Law (of sin and death) through The Work of His One And Only Begotten Son! As True Believers, Each of us has been giving a Ministry of Reconciliation to Go to the lost, broken and wasted lives in All Nations!
Never underestimate the Power of Almighty G-d! Although G-d's Word Speaks of Messiah not breaking a reed, He Will tear down whatever walls stand between you and His Heavenly Father, so that you can "be" In a Right Relationship With Him. Sure Yeshua / Jesus is Good (No Man Is Good, But G-d), Tender, Merciful (His Mercies Are Renewed Every Morning), Loving (G-d Is Love), Kind, wanting to show Favor (G-d's Grace) to you and All, but He Is The Man by Whom All Creation shall be judged! The Word says, He'll not quench smoking flax. The Anointed One sent His Precious Spirit, Holy Fire to burn deep within you! G-d wants you to stir up The Flame in your soul, send off sparks to other dry pieces of drift-wood, so that His Word Will Spread Like Wild-Fires!
Yeshua / Jesus came to Earth as a Perfect Sacrifice, Acceptable to The Lord G-d, so that we could "be" Forgiven of our sins and brought back into Communion and Fellowship with Him In The Unity of The Holy Ghost. G-d brought Judgement Unto Truth (Yeshua / Jesus Is The Truth)! All the punishment for our sin was laid upon Him at The Cross of Calvary where He died in our stead. G-d sent forth Judgement Unto Victory (Yeshua / Jesus Is Our Victor) and we "have" The Victory over sin and death, because of what He Has Done on our behalf!
O Victory In Yeshua / Jesus, My Savior Forever. He sought me and bought me with His Redeeming Blood. He Loved me ere I knew Him and All my Love Is Due Him. He plunged me to Victory beneath the cleansing flood!
Is He Alone not Worthy of All Glory, Honor and Praise Due His Holy and Precious Name? Do we not owe Him All?
Should we not also lay down our Life for Him and "Be" Obedient to His Call?
Minister to the broken hearted, give them a new heart and Life In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Help pick up the pieces of the wasted lives around you. G-d Is Our Redeemer and He Will buy back the lost years the locusts have eaten up. Go forth In Love, break down the strongholds of the enemy through prayer In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! It only takes a spark to keep The Fire Burning! Forsake not the assembling of The Brethren. As pieces of coal piled in a grill (getting hotter and hotter), together we can and will stir up the Gifts, Talents and Abilities G-d has Given us to Teach, Preach and Heal In His Name! Let us not quench The Work of The Holy Spirit in our lives. G-d's Judgement is surely coming to a sinful World, but we have The Truth to share with All who can Have The Victory In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless you, Keep you, cause His Face to Shine Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon you and Grant, Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World.
Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: The Mockers
The Word:
I became also a reproach unto them:
when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
- Ps. 109:25
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads.
- Matt. 27:39, 40
Do your knees ever get weak and totter through fasting? Have you cried out to G-d, Help me, O Lord; O save me according to Your mercy and loving-kindness! [Ps. 109:26.] Yeshua / Jesus went to The Cross on our behalf and He treaded down our adversaries [Ps. 60:5-12.] In Him we find our help and rest! The Word of God tells us that everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.
Messiah, The Anointed One, Christ "became" a reproach (He became sin, so that we could become "The Righteousness of G-d In Him) unto All who saw Him die at Calvary and those who choose not to believe on The Lord Today! The Scripture says that "the dogs" surrounded Him. This is referring to "the Gentiles" (All those who were not Jewish), but I find it most interesting that we read, they shake their heads and wagging their heads. [Ps. 22:7, 8; 109:25.]
How many times have we passed by Yeshua / Jesus, spoken reproachfully, abusively and jeered at Him? Even as Christians, Believers In Yeshua / Jesus as Messiah, we find our"self" taking The Lord's Name in vain. Like those crucified to His left and right, we rob our"self," others and Him of The Glory Due To His Holy and Precious Name. He Is The King of Kings, Worthy of All Honor and Praise!
None of us should wash our hands of Him. [Deut. 21:6-9; Ps. 26:6.] Like the Roman Soldiers divided and distributed His garments among them, Yeshua / Jesus ascended to Heaven, Is Seated at The Right Hand of G-d, Our Father and poured out His Holy Spirit Upon All flesh (man, woman and child) and distributed The Gifts Of The Spirit to All. We are Called Upon By G-d to rightfully divide His Word of Truth, taking It to All Nations and Peoples!
Do not deny, disown or betray Him! We are not bound, but set Free! Let us live the crucified Life and shout The Victory!
He did not die in vain, but rose to Victory and when we put our Faith and Trust In Him, we "have" The Victory to overcome this present World In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: Ministry Begins In Galilee: Isa. 9:1, 2; Matt. 4:13-16
The Word:
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
- Isa. 9:1, 2
And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nepthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of Gentiles: The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
- Matt. 4:13-16
Can anything Good Come out of Nazareth?
The Word of G-d declares to us that He, The Messiah shall be Called A Nazarene!
Yeshua / Jesus Is The One and Only Begotten Son of G-d, The Christ, The Anointed One, The Light of the World.
Light was meant to Shine In the darkness, to chase it aWay and overCome it. Is your Light Shining or do you have It hidden under a bushel?
Light of the World, You stepped down into darkness, opened my eyes, let me see. Beauty that made these eyes Adore You, Hopes of A Life Spent With You.
Here I Am to Worship, here I Am to bow down, here I Am to say that You're My G-d. You're Altogether Lovely, Altogether Worthy, Altogether Wonderful To me.
Yeshua / Jesus Came to His Own and They Knew Him not! Do you Know Him (intimately and experientially) Today?
The Son Has Come To Dwell, Tabernacle, Reside In Our Hearts, Minds, Souls and Spirits. Do you Choose Light or darkness? Are you just standing in the shadows? If we Humble our"self" In The Sight of The Lord, He Will Lift Us Up! If we, As His People, The Chosen Ones of G-d, Pray, He Will Hear our voice, Answer us and Heal our land. If you are by The Way of the sea, land or air, beyond Jordan (thinking that you are beyond G-d's reach), In Galilee of the Nations (All Nations and Peoples), of the Jews, Gentiles, male, female, slave or free (He who The Son sets Free Is FREE INDEED), His Light of Life Will Shine On you, He'll Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon you, Be Gracious Unto you and Grant, Give To you His Shalom, Peace (The Peace of G-d Which Passes All human Understanding), Fullness, Wholeness and Blessings In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name (The Name Above All Names)!
Since The Fall of Mankind In The Garden of Eden, we have been walking, sitting, lying down and rising up in darkness, in the valley of the shadow of death, but G-d would say to you Today (Today "If" you Hear [Hear, O Israel] His Voice, harden not your heart and He Is Saying To you [Thus Saith The Lord G-d of Israel]), Arise (Arise, My Love) and Shine For Your Light Has Come! Have you seen A Great Light, The Great Light? Yeshua / Jesus says, I Am The Light of the World!
He Came to Earth to die in our stead. His Light, His Life was snuffed out upon The Cross of Calvary, so that His Light of Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life could Shine In our Hearts For Ever and Ever! Light Is Sprung Up! He Is Risen!
Yeshua / Jesus Is Alive!
The Branch, The Nazarene (Yeshua / Jesus of Nazereth) Came and Dwelt In The City of Comfort (Capernaum [Comfort, Comfort My People, says The Lord]). Upon the sea coasts, in the borders and certainly outside of "the box," His Light Shines Upon us All, the Righteous and the unrighteous. The question is, Will you Open Up Your Heart and Let The Son Shine In (In the deepest, darkest places, recesses of your very heart, mind and soul)? His Word Will Cut To The Very Bone and Marrow of your existence, where you dwell, what you think, do and say in the very depth of you. Are you Willing to Allow His Light of Life turn your dimness, vexation, affliction, darkness, regions and shadows of death Into His Light Beyond Light? Cry Aloud (Sing A New Song), Spring Up, O Well (Yeshua / Jesus Is The Well Spring of Life), With In My Soul! Spring Up, O Well and Make Me Whole! Spring Up, O Well and Give To me, That (Light of) Life Abundantly In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Grant, Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness Wholeness and Richest Blessings Over All In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World.
Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Anointed By The Spirit: Isa. 11:2; Matt. 3:16; Luke 3:22; 4:18
The Word:
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
- Isa. 11:2
And Yeshua / Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of G-d descending like a dove, and lighting upon him.
- Matt. 3:16; Luke 3:22; 4:18
It Is The Anointing that breaks the yoke of bondage, sin and death in our Life.
Messiah's Yoke Is Easy and His Burden Light. Isaiah The Prophet wrote, The Spirit of The Lord Is Upon Me, Yeshua / Jesus quoted It in His First Public Preaching / Teaching and as Believers, Christians, Followers of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, we "have" The Spirit of The Lord Upon, In and Working Through us too! It Is The Third Person of The Trinity, The Holy Ghost, The Spirit of The Living G-d that falls fresh on us, melts us, molds us, fills us and uses us for His Good Pleasure. We "are" His Workmanship, Created In Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus for Good Works In His Holy and Precious Name. He Is The Air we Breath! It is our job to enter into His Rest and to allow His Holy Presence to Rest Upon us. All the Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Might and Knowledge of The Lord Is Found In Him, His Word, His Will and His Way! The Reverential Fear and Acknowledgement of The Lord, All that He Was, Is and Is to Come to, in and through us Is just The Beginning.
When our Life Is Hid In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One By Faith, we are dipped, submerged, baptized Into All That He Is. We "are" One In The Spirit and One In The Lord. If Yeshua / Jesus said It, Believe It, Receive It and Walk In It!
Everything He Did was StraightWay, because He Is The Straight and Narrow Way, The Only Way to G-d, Our Father Who Art In Heaven! Just as when our Mother's water broke and we came forth unto Life on this Earth, so we "are" washed by The Water and The Word, brought forth Into Spiritual Rebirth, Born Again of The Spirit and The Precious Blood of Messiah that was shed upon The Cross of Calvary. When Yeshua / Jesus gave up The Ghost, The Temple Veil was torn from top to bottom and The New and Living Way to The Holy of Holies, Heaven was opened Unto us!
Do you See The Spirit of G-d Upon you?
We can go boldly before His Throne of Grace and Mercy on behalf of others In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name, intercede for them and get A Word From G-d! When Messiah / The Christ Ascended Into Heaven and was seated at The Right Hand of G-d, Our Heavenly Father, He poured out His Spirit upon All flesh, so that we could accomplish and fulfill His Plan and Purposes for mankind. As Ambassadors for Messiah / Christ, His Representatives and Disciples, we MUST go forward In His Name to reach the lost and dying. The Spirit of The Living, One True G-d has descended upon us too, like a dove, the symbol of Peace, His Shalom, Fullness, Wholeness, Blessings and He Is Resting Upon us, Lighting Upon us, so that we can Shine our Light In this present World of darkness! Let us Go Forward In The Joy of The Lord, Anointed, Empowered and Enabled to Do and Be All that He has Created us For In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face to Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give, Grant to you His Shalom In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of the World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Flight Into Egypt: Hosea 11:1; Matt. 2:14, 15
The Word:
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
- Hosea 11:1
When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
- Matt. 2:14, 15
Messiah said, Whatever you have done unto the least of these, My Brethren, you have done it Unto Me! Many times, as Believers, we do not understand how we are completely and totally connected to Yeshua / Jesus. We "Are" One In The Spirit and One In The Lord! Saul / Paul The Apostle was asked, "Why do you persecute Me?" and not, "Why do you persecute The Church?" He Is The Chief Cornerstone And The Capstone, The First And The Last, The Alpha And The Omega, The Beginning And The End, The Head Of The Church, His Body and we "Are" That Body! G-d Called Israel out of Egypt, The Nation and The Man. The G-d of Abraham (Our Father Of Faith), Isaac (The Promised Son) and Jacob (Israel) was speaking In "The Then And Now" and Prophetically Towards The (First) Coming Of Messiah. That (This) "Is" How and Why Matthew could write under the influence of The Holy Spirit, That "It" Might "Be" FULFILLED (Yeshua / Jesus Fulfilled All Scripture) which was spoken Of The Lord, By The Prophet!
The Entire Old Covenant shines The Light Towards and On Messiah! These Things were written for our Understanding! As Children of The Most High G-d, we "Are" Loved By Him, and Called out of Egypt, sin and bondage. G-d spoke to Joseph (Mary's Husband) in a dream (we "Are" to dream dreams and see visions [without vision, G-d's People perish]) and he arose! Are you listening and acting upon G-d's Word to you Today? He Has Commissioned and Commanded us to Go, In His Name, to All Nations and Peoples! Sometimes we have to go, depart into Egypt, so that we can Call others out. Are you willing to go anywhere at anytime for Him? Joseph, Mary and Yeshua / Jesus had to wait upon The Lord G-d Almighty, until the death of Herod (the evil king); that The Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life In The King Of Kings and Lord of Lords could Come out of Egypt, death and darkness to Shine Forth His Light of Life and Bring His Righteousness, Allowing us All to Enter In To A Right Relationship, Communion and Fellowship With Our Father Who Art In Heaven, Hallowed Be His Holy and Precious Name!
Out of Egypt, G-d Is Calling you! In the past He Spoke to Moses, The Prophets, Joseph and many others who had ears to hear, but Today He Speaks To us In and Through His Son, The Living Word, In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face to Shine, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give, Grant To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Richest Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Messianic Visions: Massacre of the Infants at HisBrth
"Thus says the Lord: 'A voice was heard in Ramah, lamenting and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.' " - Jer 31:15
"The Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all it's districts from two years old and under, according to the time which he determined from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet saying, 'A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentations, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.' " - Matt 2:16-18
A young man once shared with me this insight that he'd gotten while reading Genesis: The serpent, when G-d's judgment cost him his legs, was sentenced to crawl on his belly and eat dust all of his days - and since then, he's been hungry for the only part of G-d's creation that was made from dust: Men.
And hungriest most, obviously, for the dust that the Creator came down as - Jesus the Messiah.
Satan does all he can to keep truth from the ears of mankind,because he is the father of lies and a liar through and through. When G-d saw fit to give His law to man, Satan sought to thwart Him by putting it on the Pharaoh's heart to have all male children cast into the river and drowned in an attempt to kill the infant would-be-lawgiver, Moses.
When G-od saw fit to fulfill the law for man, Satan sought to thwart him by putting it on Herod's heart to have all male children killed in an attempt to kill the infant would-be-redeemer, Jesus.
But just as G-d brought Moses out of the water safely (and it wouldn't be the last time!) to fulfill his purpose, He brought Jesus up out of the water, commissioned and proclaimed as G-d's beloved Son who was to take away the Sin of the world.
And the ememy's devices were halted. Why? Because as Solomon so beautifully put it "Love is as strong as death"- and stronger when it is the love of G-d towards us, the perfect love that compelled Him to rescue and ransom His creation from the grip of the deceiver.
One last time, or so he thought, the murderer who overtook the heart of the Pharaoh and the heart of Herod, tried his hand at the hearts of Pilate and the crowd. And he thought he'd won.
The whips were bloodied, the three nails were in place. The Creator was lifted high from His creation, as He - the Nazarene - bled. And cried out... and died.
There was darkness in the middle of the day. Chaos from order, darkness from light, the Life-giver sentenced to death. Satan had finally done it. He couldn't slay the innocent, couldn't stop G-d, the first few times around, but finally...finally he'd done it at Calvary. But then...
Sunday morning rolled around, and apparently so did the rock that held Jesus in the tomb. And Satan found that he had not killed the Innocent after all.
And later, again, by the hand of Saul of Tarsus (which proved to back fire, anyway! :-) the enemy tried to kill all the innocents precious to G-d
- only that time, it wasn't the physical children, but the new believers in the Messiah were his target. Not only by drowning, not only by crucifixion, but by be-heading, by stoning, by beating, by burning and by feeding us to lions (putting a whole new spin on the term "Christian entertainment")
But we are still not dying. Even the precious Saints who stand as Martyrs, have no shadow of death on them even as they close their eyes for the last earthly time. And the precious Saints now, who stand in the midst of circumstances that tempt and tumble them, are still brought to their feet again by the merciful One who conquered death to make all of us, yes, the innocents.
If G-d be for us, who can be against us? Jesus never fails.
Messianic Visions: Born in Bethlehem
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting." (Micah 5:2)
"Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came from Jerusalem..." (Matthew 2:1)
"Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David." (Luke 2:4)
"Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?" (John 7:42)
Not only is Jesus the offspring of David, but he is also the root of David. The One in whom David's hope of redemption, faith, and praise was firmly planted...the one who nourished and fed into this man who slew bears, killed giants, ruled Israel, worshipped naked before God and knew, first hand, the mercy of his Lord.
Hundreds of years before the holy baby was laid in that manger, He was announced...like a prince taking the throne of his father, yet this Prince was the one who gave the throne to David, and was the King that David waited for.
If you've ever heard any Christmas carols at all, you know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Bethlehem. It means "The house of Bread" I don't think it'sa coincidence that the house of bread did indeed house the Bread of Life, the One who Fed the thousands, and who commands any who love Him to do the same... The One who feeds our souls and nourishes our spirits and fills us.
Israel was waiting for a Redeemer who would rule the world, who would obliterate their enemies, who would lead them from slavery to freedom and who would be a mighty warrior who would bring peace.
Indeed, Jesus did all that. Not the way He was expected to, but the way He HAD to if He loved us at all...
He was the redeemer who rules hearts, who obliterates enemies with love, who bought our freedom by his own bonds and blood, who conquered not an earthly government, but Death and Hell to bring us peace, and who was the seed of King David, laying in a barn.
Who the Messiah was promised to be, and all who Jesus of Nazareth is, is ALL within our field of view, if we just have the eyes to see.
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Subject: Messianic Message - Massacre of Infants at His Birth Jer 31:15 / Matt 2:16-18
(Messianic) Massacre of Infants at His birth: Jer 31:15 / Matt 2:16-18
"Thus says the Lord: 'A voice was heard in Ramah, lamenting and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.' " - Jer 31:15
"The Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all it's districts from two years old and under, according to the time which he determined from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet saying, 'A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentations, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.' "
- Matt 2:16-18
A young man once shared with me this insight that he'd gotten while reading Genesis: The serpent, when G-d's judgment cost him his legs, was sentenced to crawl on his belly and eat dust all of his days - and since then, he's been hungry for the only part of G-d's creation that was made from dust: Men.
And hungriest most, obviously, for the dust that the Creator came down as - Jesus the Messiah.
Satan does all he can to keep truth from the ears of mankind,because he is the father of lies and a liar through and through. When G-d saw fit to give His law to man, Satan sought to thwart Him by putting it on the Pharaoh's heart to have all male children cast into the river and drowned in
an attempt to kill the infant would-be-lawgiver, Moses.
When G-od saw fit to fulfill the law for man, Satan sought to thwart him by putting it on Herod's heart to have all male children killed in an attempt to kill the infant would-be-redeemer, Jesus.
But just as G-d brought Moses out of the water safely (and it wouldn't be the last time!) to fulfill his purpose, He brought Jesus up out of the water, commissioned and proclaimed as G-d's beloved Son who was to take away the Sin of the world. And the ememy's devices were halted. Why? Because as Solomon so beautifully put it "Love is as strong as death"- and stronger when it is the love of G-d towards us, the perfect love that compelled Him to rescue and ransom His creation from the grip of the deceiver.
One last time, or so he thought, the murderer who overtook the heart of the Pharaoh and the heart of Herod, tried his hand at the hearts of Pilate and the crowd. And he thought he'd won.
The whips were bloodied, the three nails were in place. The Creator was lifted high from His creation, as He - the Nazarene - bled. And cried out... and died.
There was darkness in the middle of the day. Chaos from order, darkness from light, the Life-giver sentenced to death.
Satan had finally done it. He couldn't slay the innocent, couldn't stop G-d, the first few times around, but finally...finally he'd done it at Calvary. But then...
Sunday morning rolled around, and apparently so did the rock that held Jesus in the tomb. And Satan found that he had not killed the Innocent after all.
And later, again, by the hand of Saul of Tarsus (which proved to back fire, anyway! :-) the enemy tried to kill all the innocents precious to G-d
- only that time, it wasn't the physical children, but the new believers in the Messiah were his target. Not only by drowning, not only by crucifixion, but by be-heading, by stoning, by beating, by burning and by feeding us to lions (putting a whole new spin on the term "Christian entertainment")
But we are still not dying. Even the precious Saints who stand as Martyrs, have no shadow of death on them even as they close their eyes for the last earthly time. And the precious Saints now, who stand in the midst of circumstances that tempt and tumble them, are still brought to their feet again by the merciful One who conquered death to make all of us, yes, the innocents.
If G-d be for us, who can be against us?
Jesus never fails.
Love in Jesus,
Juliet
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Subject: Messianic Message and the November Issue of Arms of Love Fellowship !
It's November first, and is All Saint's Day. So, for all you saints out there - thank you! Thank you for all the work you do for the Kingdom...all the prayer, all the visitations, all the encouragement and friendship and strength you offer God's people and the people that God desires to be His. You are my brothers and my sisters...we have a common blood running through us, the blood of Jesus.
I'm blessed and privileged to be a part of The Body of Christ and serve along side you...
Well, that being said, here is the new November issue of Arms of Love Fellowship. We hope it blesses you and encourages you and draws you nearer to Jesus. To check it out, click on:
http://www.armsoflovefellowship.com
With love and prayers,
Mark
Messianic Message: Born in Bethlehem
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting." (Micah 5:2)
"Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came from Jerusalem..." (Matthew 2:1)
"Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David." (Luke 2:4)
"Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?" (John 7:42)
Not only is Jesus the offspring of David, but he is also the root of David.
The One in whom David's hope of redemption, faith, and praise was firmly planted...the one who nourished and fed into this man who slew bears, killed giants, ruled Israel, worshipped naked before God and knew, first hand, the mercy of his Lord.
Hundreds of years before the holy baby was laid in that manger, He was announced...like a prince taking the throne of his father, yet this Prince was the one who gave the throne to David, and was the King that David waited for.
If you've ever heard any Christmas carols at all, you know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Bethlehem. It means "The house of Bread" I don't think it'sa coincidence that the house of bread did indeed house the Bread of Life, the One who Fed the thousands, and who commands any who love Him to do the same... The One who feeds our souls and nourishes our spirits and fills us.
Israel was waiting for a Redeemer who would rule the world, who would obliterate their enemies, who would lead them from slavery to freedom and who would be a mighty warrior who would bring peace.
Indeed, Jesus did all that. Not the way He was expected to, but the way He HAD to if He loved us at all...
He was the redeemer who rules hearts,
who obliterates enemies with love
who bought our freedom by his own bonds and
blood
who conquered not an earthly government, but Death and Hell to bring us peace.
and who was the seed of King David, laying in a barn.
Who the Messiah was promised to be, and all who Jesus of Nazareth is, is ALL within our field of view, if we just have the eyes to see.
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Subject: Messianic Message: David (Jer 23:5 / Romans 1:3/ Matt 1:16 / Jn 7:42
"Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord, "That I will raise to David a branch of righteousness; a King shall reign and prosper, and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth." (Jer 23:5)
"…Concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh." (Romans1:3)
"And Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called 'Christ'."
(Matt 1:16)
"Has not the Scriptures said that the Christ comes from the seed of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?" (John 7:42)
Jesus of Nazareth was a reality long before He took His first breath in Bethlehem. The fact that He is the Eternal Word of G-d, the Creator and the second person of the Trinity from everlasting to everlasting, slain before the foundation of the world… all of that aside, beyond the fact that He has always been a reality in the heavenlies, He has also always been a reality here on earth, from the beginning.
In the Garden of Eden, He was the one the Father spoke of, who would crush the serpent's head.
He was the fourth person in the fiery furnace.
He was the pillar of smoke by day and the pillar of fire by night.
He was the Messiah who's coming was foretold of old… not because the prophets could foretell a future event…but because the prophets KNEW G-d, and SAW that Jesus is a reality even then.
They looked into the heavens and saw Jesus. Saw the Messiah, saw the Christ, because he was ALREADY there.
The fact that He was to be born of the line of David and be born in Bethlehem was already a done deal thousands of years before the deed was done. Like a story already told, time was laid out before these prophets like a mountain range, seeing the beginning and the end as part of the same whole.
David, whose generations, whose progeny was in his spiritual loins, was not only the root of the branch that was promised to him, but was also the offspring of the Nazarene who had spoken into existence the dust with which he formed David's forefather Adam.
These are the things that should bring comfort to our souls, should cool our burning minds and explain peace to us when we are confused…It is all set in motion, it is all under the Eye. G-d is always the same. He does not change, and we are made into the likeness of Jesus more and more as we seek His face.
Time can not usurp the plans of the Almighty. We're a song He has already written, a song that is on His mind, that has His attention, with a rhythm that pumps in time with the Savior's blood in our veins.
G-d will accomplish His purpose in us, just as He accomplishes His purpose in all things.
Beyond time, He is always faithful.
Love in Jesus,
Juliet
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Subject: From Mark Tross: Messianic Visions ; Yeshua's / Jesus' Family Tree:
Abraham:
Yeshua's / Jesus' Family Tree: Abraham:
Gen. 18:18; Matt. 1:1; Acts 3:25
The Word:
"Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?" (Gen. 18:18)
"The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham." (Matt. 1:1)
"You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your seed shall all the families of earth be blessed.' " (Acts 3:25)
There's "far". And then there's "farther".
There's "deep", then there's "deeper".
There is the obvious, and then there is the revealed.
A great and mighty Nation through Abraham? Israel. Obviously.
The sons of the covenant and blessed by the seed of Abraham? Israel. Obviously.
Abraham's generations came and went, birthrights were sold, Israel was established – albeit with a limp, but with the Blessing nonetheless. Brothers sold brightly-coated brothers into slavery, The Law was given, and all was set in motion – and stayed in motion - for thousands of years. But then that baby showed up in swaddling clothes, and the obvious was overshadowed by the revealed.
We can take the promise far - of a great nation which was given to Abraham and we can see the beloved people Israel who by the very hand and heart of G-d were covenanted with and were set apart by G-d for His own use and glory.
We can take the promise far – that those set apart for G-d and by G-d were sons of the covenant and blessed by the seed of Abraham - the great fathers of the Faith, those who, though having not seen the Promise, believed in it with just the same fervor as if they'd beheld it with their own eyes…
We can take these promises far and SEE how G-d was faithful to His own, to His Israel, His Chosen – and just that would be enough. Just the notion that the Creator of the Universe would be faithful to a hunk of very fortunate mud is enough to keep anyone with a brainstem in awe of such a Love. But then…
We can take the promise farther.
A great and mighty nation through Abraham? The Redeemed. (The Blood-bought. The Ransomed.)
Obviously.
The sons of the Covenant and blessed by the seed of Abraham? The Redeemed.
(The Blood-bought. The Ransomed.)
Obviously.
We can take the promise farther and see that the great nation that came from Abraham's seed is the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down from Heaven as a Bride adorned for her Husband. And that Her bridal vestments- her white linen – is the righteous acts of the Saints…
And that WE are the sons of the covenant - the new covenant (Yeshua said: "For this is My blood of the new Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.") And we are blessed by the seed of Abraham, ("…Jesus Christ…the Son of Abraham." [Matt. 1:1]) Because BLESSED are the Peace makers, for they shall be called Sons of God – called the sons of God because we have been given the ministry of reconciliation (aka: Peacemaking), called "Sons of God" because we are daily being made into the likeness of the Yeshua, the Only Begotten Son of God.
Taking the promise far, all that those who were of the seed of Abraham could do was claim to have Abraham as their father. Obviously.
Taking the promise farther, those of us who have been transformed into the likeness of He who is the promised seed of Abraham can claim to have G-d, the ALMIGHTY, as our father.
We are not only children of the promise, but joint heirs with He who is the Promised…
Behold, what manner of love the Father has given unto us!
God bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Yeshua's/Jesus'FamilyTree:Isaac Gen17:19;21:12;Luke3:34;Matt1:2;Rom9:7
The Word:
And G-d said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
- Gen. 17:19; Gen. 21:12
Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor.
- Luke 3:34; Matt. 1:2; Rom. 9:7
As far as trees go, He is not only planted by streams of Living Water, but The Living Water Himself! Yeshua / Jesus is not only rooted and grounded In G-d's Word, but The Word of G-d Himself! He Is The Shoot, The Sprout, The Offspring of Jesse, The Branch, Yeshua / Jesus of Nazareth, The Son of Man & The Son of G-d Almighty! The Seed of Abraham, our Father of Faith, The Seed of Isaac, The Promised Son was planted in the womb of The Virgin Mary, born, lived, died, was buried in A Virgin Tomb and rose again as The First Fruits of Eternal, Everlasting Life! As Believers In Him we become engrafted Into Yeshua's / Jesus' Family Tree, The Tree of Life. We have been redeemed by The Blood / The Life of The Lamb of G-d Who takes aWay the sins of the World and completely restored to a right relationship with G-d, Our Heavenly Father.
For most of us it will come as quite a shock to find out that even in The New Covenant, G-d's Word tells us that Sarah Is Our Spiritual Mother! As the wife of Abraham (and 1/2 sister), she called Him Lord. Those of us who follow Yeshua / Jesus and Obey His Commandments, He says, Are His Mothers, Sisters & Brothers! Not only that, but we "ARE" His Bride. Male, Female, Jew or Gentile.
The Church, His Body Is His Wife! This Is "The Mystery" that Paul The Apostle spoke and wrote about. We Are FAMILY!
Did you ever wonder why The Church is alWays referred to as The Mother?
Usually when other Congregations spring up and out of another Body, they are spoken of as "Sister Churches" and the Home Base is called The Mother Church.
As The Body of Messiah / Christ, we are commanded to Be Fruitful and Multiply!
The Church is to be constantly growing, planting seeds and giving birth to New Life. Are you bearing The Son?
Isaac means Laughter. Most Names given in Scripture depict the times. Certainly Sarah would laugh when she overheard The 3 Visitors to Abraham inform him that she would give birth to a Son since she was old and advanced in years. As her Promised Son brought her Laughter, The Promised Son of G-d brings Joy To The World! The Lord Is Come! Let Earth Receiver Her King of Kings and Every Heart Prepare Him Room! Heaven and Nature Sings!
It was Yeshua / Jesus Who established the Promised, New, Everlasting Covenant of G-d and with His Seed after Him!
Listen to what The Holy Spirit Is Saying To The Church Today! In The Gospel of John, Chapter 17, Yeshua / Jesus prayed for His Disciples (we are ALL Called of G-d to Be Disciples of Messiah / Christ) and for ALL those who would Believe their Message of and about Him. It is because of their Faithfulness In Planting and Spreading The Seed of G-d's Word to ALL Nations and Peoples that we have sprouted forth unto Newness of Life In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy and Precious Name! Each Generation is to keep passing on The Word until Yeshua / Jesus returns to Earth again to establish His Kingdom and our Eternal Home. Yes!
He Was and Is The Son of Jacob, The Son of Israel and He Calls us ALL to Be Children of The Most High G-d, His Sons and Daughters Of The Faith!
Isaac brought Joy / Spiritual Laughter to The World, The Lord Is Come! We take The Essence of Messiah / Christ everywhere we go, so let us bring His Light of Life, His Joy, His Peace, His Spirit of Grace, His Family Tree, The Tree of Life, His Love to All Nations and Peoples In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face to Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give to you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness, Wholeness and Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus,The Light of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions ; Jesus to be Born of a Virgin (Is 7:14, Matt1:23, Lk 1:26-35
Messianic Message: Jesus to be Born of a Virgin (Is 7:14, Matt1:23, Lk 1:26-35)
"Therefore, the LORD Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel." (Is 7:14)
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a Son and they shall call His name Immanuel." (Matt 1:23)
"Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, 'Rejoice, highly favored one, for the LORD is with you; blessed are you among women!'
But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was.
Then the angel said to her, 'Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with G-d. And behold, you will conceive in your womb Son, and shall call His name JESUS. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the LORD G-d will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end."
Then Mary said to the angel, 'How can this be, since I do not know a man?' And the angel answered and said to her, 'the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of G-d.' " (Lk 1:26-35)
When I found out that I was expecting my second son only seven months after I'd given birth to my first one, some people had the momentary lapse of social graces (bless their hearts…) to ask me if this second pregnancy was "an accident" - a question to which I consistently replied "No, not an accident. Just a surprise.
And what a surprise Mary had that fateful day, standing nose to nose with Gabriel, being told that she was blessed and favored and chosen to house her Creator in her own belly.
Now, anyone who could read Isaiah 7:14 (which I'm sure she must have, but if not her, then at least her intended – because Joseph was a nice Jewish boy and he would have read the prophets…) and then be visited by an angel regarding those very events taking place in their own lives should have put two and two together immediately. But Mary pondered the whole "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" thing, and Joseph was ready to call the whole marriage off, no matter how much he loved her because he was probably pondering the "how can this be, since she is a virgin?" thing too, only with more of a "Yeah, right…" spin on the question.
But G-d had pity on their earnest confusion (as He does on the earnest confusion of all of us) and gave them words and dreams and visions to help them through, to - in the purity of their intentions – prepare them to receive the Christ unto themselves.
Jesus was born of a virgin. The seed of G-d nestled in a pure womb came to fruition in the presence of Immanuel.
It could have happened no other way.
And G-d never changes. The Word of G-d is living and active, and G-d - when He moves – does not move within the bondage of time because everything that He does, He does for all time and for all people. (Which is why the blood of Jesus, so long ago spilled, so long ago dried up away from the ground below the cross, can still fall on repentant sinners and stumbling saints this very day…)
And the coming of Immanuel could still happen no other way. The birth of Jesus (who was the first fruit of a new creation) not only was an event that caused the heavens and the earth, the present and the future, the living and the dead to never again be the same, it was in itself a first fruit. A model. A map to lead us in preparedness to receive the Christ unto ourselves.
The seed of G-d (the nudging of the Holy Spirit, the calling of our hearts to salvation, the work of the cross) must nestle itself into the pure womb of our deepest places, our most desperate hearts must purely, earnestly and achingly long for Him to enter in. Like the psalmist wrote: "As a deer panteth after water, so my soul longs after thee."
It is then, and only then, that "the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you" and Jesus will be birthed in you.
And yes, Mary was an exceptional woman, blessed beyond measure, and I'm not sure if given the same circumstances, I'd have risen with as great a faith as she demonstrated…
But what G-d proclaimed to Mary through His messenger Gabriel is being proclaimed to YOU this day:
"Rejoice, highly favored one, for the LORD is with you; blessed are you…! Do not be afraid, for you have found favor with G-d. The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you!"
Indeed, you have found favor with G-d, by the precious blood of the Messiah. His Spirit wants to come upon you, He longs to have His power overshadow
you as He fills you with Himself.
Let our desire for G-d be pure.
Let Jesus be birthed in all of us.
Amen.
Love in Jesus,
Juliet
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"Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up." - J. Hudson Taylor
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Subject: Messianic Visions: Jesus to be the Seed of a Woman Gen 3:15, Gal 4:4, Heb 2:14
"And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise His heel."
-Gen 3:15
"But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law…"
-Gal
4:4
"Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself shared in the same, that through death, He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil." -
Heb 2:14
"She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne."
- Rev 12:5
Okay, all right. God's Son would have to be born of a woman if He was to ever be born at all, because that's HOW babies are born. (If any of you are unclear on that, please e-mail me privately…)
Over the past week or so, I have been pondering what Mary was like. I was pondering Why God chose her. Yes, she was a Godly woman of the line of David, betrothed to a Godly man who was also of the line of David, but honestly, there were probably a lot of young women who fit the genealogy bill at that time.
Scripture doesn't say a word about her until we hear that she was visited by Gabriel, and even after the manger scene, we still really aren't told much. But I still pondered. I pondered what it must have been like for her when the Spirit of God overshadowed her, and I would venture to say that I couldn't even venture to say.
I'll ask her when I see her, I guess. If I think of it. If I'm not too busy wrapping my arms around Jesus' ankles, and letting my grateful tears wash his nail scarred feet for the first bazillion years that I'm there. Anyway, I'm getting off the subject. Onward…
The "Born from the seed of a woman" is important on a lot of levels.
Genesis said that God put enmity between the seed of the serpent and the Seed of the woman.
The seed of the serpent is the world, the world's system and all that is under the dominion of the lord of this world, who is Satan himself. The seed of the serpent is the root of bitterness, the sin that ensnares and distracts and takes root in men's hearts so that the entangling vines and thorns of it can choke the eternal life out of all it seduces into it's false sense of safety. (I think that about covers it…)
The seed of the woman has a three-fold definition; The woman being specifically Mary, literally humankind and figuratively the Nation Israel, (who God calls His wife, so it would stand to reason that He would sire a child for her…) No matter which of the three definitions we focus on, each one denotes a Godliness. A God-owned-ness.
God would do no other thing BUT put enmity between the kingdom of the world and His own glorious Kingdom, because as He Himself said, "What fellowship does light have with darkness?" In a sense, He separated Light from darkness TWICE in Genesis. Once in Genesis 1:4 right after He Created light, and then again here, in Genesis 3:15 when He, in a single act of fierce protection, implanted a now-natural disdain in all that is holy for all that is not. So actually, because of God's mercy, we cannot serve two masters.
This verse of scripture is also the first prophecy concerning the Messiah, the Christ, Jesus. All Satan could do to the Seed of the woman would be to bruise His heel. Knick His foot. Be a nuisance.
But The Seed of the Woman, Jesus Christ, would bruise the serpent's head.
Other translations say "Crush" the serpent's head. As in a fatal blow. As in victory.
God's Son was also born of a woman so as to be born under the Law. If Jesus was not born under the Law, then He could never have been the fulfillment of the law. If one were to be above the Law (but no one was) he would have no reason to fulfill its requirements. But Jesus was born fully human and fully subject to the burden of the Law that God had laid on all of us…then God laid on Him the burden of us all.
Jesus was born unto God through the womb of Israel. Through the Jews, through the "People of the Book" as they were known because of their devotion to the Word of God, the Word of God came.
Jesus could have been born through no other people BUT Israel, because God is faithful and had covenanted with Her.
All scripture, whether Old Testament or New, speaks of Jesus because He IS the Word.
Every story, every commandment, every song in that book are shadows made by the casting of the Nazarene's glorious light onto those holy pages.
He came through humankind to save humankind. He came through Israel because God is faithful to His promises.
He came through Mary because yes, it is the natural order of birth, but also because He manifests Himself through PEOPLE. Through you, through me, through any mortal flesh and bone willing enough to house Him and present Him to the world.
Love in Jesus,
Juliet
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Subject: NEW ADDRESS / Message:Judah:Gen. 49:10; Rev. 5:5; Matt. 1:2; Luke 3:34
The Word:
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
- Gen. 49:10
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
- Rev. 5:5
Matt. 1:2; Luke 3:34
Who "Is" The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, but He Alone Who "Is" Worthy, The One and Only Begotten Son of G-d, He Who holds The Sceptre while seated at The Right Hand of G-d The Father, The Lion of The Tribe of Judah, The Branch, Ben-David, The Son of David! The Word of G-d is clear that "He" Will Gather those that "He" Has Scattered. Who "Is" The Servant of G-d, The Good Shepherd, The Bishop of our hearts and souls, The One Who stands in the center, in the midst of the 7 Golden Lampstands?
Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One has come as The Light of The World to Light your Light of Life! He wants to open up your Spiritual eyes and ears, so that you can see and hear what The Spirit "Is" Saying To His Church, His Bride. Let those who have ears to hear, "Hear, O Israel!"
If not for Queen Esther going before her King (who held out his sceptre to her) there would be no Nation of Israel for Messiah to come to! Is it at all possible that G-d has brought you to this time and place in your Life, so that you would Go, Boldly before His Throne of Grace and Mercy on behalf of others? Yeshua / Jesus says, "Come, Let us reason together." He has Given us The Perfect Law of Liberty, The Law of Love, so that we could go out to the high-ways and by-ways of this World to gather the lost sheep of His Fold. Are you a "Fisher of men"? We Have Glad Tidings, Good News, The Gospel of G-d In Messiah / Christ to shout from the mountains! Light was meant to Shine In the darkness, He "Is" The Light of the World and we "are" to be Lights, a city on a hill Shining out for ALL to See!
Weep not! Look! See! Behold! Hennay!
The Lion of The Tribe of Judah (from whom the sceptre shall not depart), Shiloh has come! The Root, The Shoot, The Branch, The Offspring of David has prevailed. He has gone to The Cross of Calvary to pay the price for mankind's sin (without the shedding of Blood there is no forgiveness of sin), so that our names could be written in The Lamb's Book of Eternal, Everlasting, The Abundant Life!
Yeshua / Jesus rose again from the grave on The Third Day, overcame sin and death, so that we could Be Overcomers In His Holy and Precious Name! If you have Faith In Him (without Faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to Please G-d), you prevail, are more than a conqueror! In ALL Things, we "Have" The Victory!
He Who prevailed to open The Book (Has G-d opened His Holy Book, The Bible Unto you?) and has The Power to loose the seven seals can also prevail over any closed area of your Life In Him. Those who Messiah sets Free "are" FREE Indeed! You are loosed from any hold that the enemy claims to have on you.
Satan, the accuser of The Brethren has no power over you. Whatever you (as a Believer) bind on Earth In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name "Is" bound In Heaven and whatever you loose on Earth "Is" loosed In Heaven! I would say that it is high time that we start binding and loosing. The devil has put on you what G-d wants to take off of you, put in you what G-d wants to take out of you and put on you what G-d wants to take off of you. G-d's Word says, "Resist the devil and he MUST Flee from you!" You don't have to sit around and take his junk!
Arise and Shine for your Light has come!
The King is extending His Sceptre to you.
Sit at His Feet. Bask In His Light. Allow Him to open up your heart, mind, soul, Spirit and strength To Him and His Holy Word. Weep not (unless you weep "tears of Joy"). Look and See that The Lion of The Tribe of Judah "Is" Here For you, The Root of David, has prevailed! You Are Not Alone! You Are Set FREE! Released To Be ALL that He has Called you To and Created you For! Be Loosed! Go and Do ALL that He Calls you To, because the seals have been broken, but you "are" Made Whole In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Fullness and Wholeness In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions Message!
Jacob: Gen. 28:14; Matt. 1:2; Luke 3:34
The Word:
And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
- Gen.28:14
Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob.
- Matt. 1:2; Luke 3:34
Are ALL the families of the Earth blessed - enjoying enviable, fortunate, happy, glad, supremely joyful, blithesome, joyous, envied, Spiritually prosperous with Life-Joy, possessing the happiness / satisfaction produced by experience of / in that state in which the Born-Again Child Of G-d enjoys G-d's Favor, especially conditioned by the Revelation, revealing of His matchless, unmerited Grace, Mercy and Salvation, Yeshua / Jesus, regardless of their outward conditions, In The Seed (G-d's Holy and Precious Word) that you present, bring forth and In you (In The Way you Live, Move and Have your Being)?
Granted, That Is a mouthful (Certainly, a "Loaded Question"), but as Children of Abraham, Children of The Most High G-d, Children of Faith (for without Faith it is impossible to Please G-d and Yeshua / Jesus "Is" The Author and Finisher of our Faith) we are to begat Isaac, Laughter, Joy In The Holy Ghost and we are to begat Jacob / Israel. It was Jacob, The Heel Catcher, who begat The 12 Tribes of Israel, The Nation which G-d chose to bring Salvation / Yeshua / Jesus to the World!
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; He shall bruise and tread your head under foot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel. [Gal. 4:4.]
- Genesis 3:15
From "The Beginning", G-d laid out His Plan of Salvation / Yeshua / Jesus to ALL Nations and Peoples In and Through His Spoken, Written and Living Word! Have you been wrestling with G-d lately? Are you trying to figure out His Perfect and Acceptable Will for your Life In Him? It's In The Book (It "Is" Written About Me In The Volume, In The Scroll Of The Book), The Bible, The Word of G-d. He has given us EVERYTHING we need to live our Life Unto Him In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One and ALL Good (G-d Is Good ALL the time) Things Come Down From G-d out of Heaven (Yeshua / Jesus Himself said, "I Am The [Living] Bread that Came Down From G-d out of Heaven")! Have you been listening to what He has got to say? Are you walking In The Light (Yeshua / Jesus "Is" The Light Of The World) that G-d has given you?
If you confess to Believe In / On Him and have asked Him for Salvation, then He has given you His Holy Spirit, so "In" you "Is" The Seed of Abraham (Our Father of Faith), The Seed of G-d, Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One / Yeshua / Jesus!
Messiah / Christ "In" you "Is" The Hope Of Glory / The Hope Of Israel / The Hope Of The World and Hope Will NOT disappoint us! G-d's Word "Is" Faithful and True. It Will Go Forth to accomplish what He Wills To Be Done In His Name and that means ALL the families, Every Tribe, Nation and Tongue of the Earth Shall Be Blessed, because Yeshua / Jesus "Is" Lord!
Abraham longed to see "His Day," but we have seen "It", we walk "In It", because These ARE The Last Days, so let us go forward In His Holy and Precious Name and Bring Forth The Things Of G-d, The Good News that Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Has Come! Let each and every One of us Believe G-d as Abraham did and He Will Credit "RIGHTEOUSNESS" to us (We ARE The RIGHTEOUSNESS of G-d In Messiah / Christ). One may plant The Seed and another may water It, but G-d Brings The Increase, The Prosperity, The Abundant Life In Yeshua / Jesus, He Blesses our Obedience to His Word, Will and Way!
You reap what you sow, so let us plant In Righteousness and The Harvest Will Be Ripe and Plentiful. Let us Begat what G-d has Promised To us and Bring His Blessings To ALL Nations and Peoples In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name! Amen and Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light of His Countenance Upon and Give, Grant To you His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fullness In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus / The Light Of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d Bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Visions: Isaiah 53:4-5,8,10
The Word
Surely He has borne our griefs - sickness weakness and distress - and carried our sorrows and pain [of punishment]. Yet we ignorantly consider Him stricken, smitten and afflicted by G-d [as if with leprosy]. [Matt. 8:17.]
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement needful to obtain peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes that wounded Him we are healed and made whole.
By oppression and judgement He was taken away; and as for His generation, who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my [Isaiah's] people, to whom the stroke was due - stricken to His death?
Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him; He has put HIm to grief and made Him sick. When You and He make Him an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His spiritual offspring. He shall prolong His days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
- Isaiah 53:4-5,8,10
Yeshua / Jesus was punished that we might be forgiven. Isaiah 53:4-5
Yeshua / Jesus was wounded that we might be healed. Isaiah 53:4-5
Yeshua / Jesus was made sin with our sinfulness that we might be made righteous with His righteousness. Isaiah 53:10, 2 Corinthians 5:21
Yeshua / Jesus was cut off by death that we might be joined to G-d eternally. Isaiah 53:8, 1 Corinthians 6:17
No One man in ALL of World History laid out The Crucifixion of Yeshua / Jesus Messiah / Christ, The Anointed One of G-d better in One chapter of Holy Scripture than Isaiah The Prophet. To This Very Day, Believers around the World turn to Isaiah 53 (and Psalm 22) To Prove "The Truth" and Prophetic Utterances of The Messiah's sufferings more than any other portion of G-d's Precious Word (He Is The Living Word of G-d). If He "In Fact / In Truth" has borne ALL of our griefs, sickness, weakness, distress, carried our sorrows, pain of punishment, was wounded, striped for our transgressions, bruised for our guilt, iniquities, cut off, stricken to His death out of the land of the living, made sick (don't you EVER let any One tell you that Yeshua / Jesus was not "made" sick) and He has risen from the dead, then why are we still walking around not healed and "made" whole? How is it that we are still carrying around this heavy baggage instead of laying it ALL down by the feet of Yeshua / Jesus at The Cross of Calvary? He was "made" sin for us, so that we could Become [endued with, viewed as in and examples of] The Righteousness of G-d In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, Yeshua / Jesus - what we ought to be, approved, accepted and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness!
Too many of us are still (I realize that I have been using The Word: "still" quite often here, but if we were ALL trying more to "Be Still" and Know that He Is G-d, the World would quickly Come to Know Him and The Power of His Resurrection) ignorantly considering Him stricken, smitten and afflicted by G-d [as if with leprosy]. This Is "The Man" (Messiah / Christ Yeshua / Jesus) Who drove out the spirits of the many who were under the power of demons with A Word, and restored to health ALL who were sick, weak, infirmed and diseased.
He Is The Same Yesterday, Today and For Ever, so why are we not walking In His Victory? Should we ask our"self" the question asked to the man in The Book Of Acts, "Do you want to be healed?" He Alone "Is" Our Shalom / Peace, Wholeness, Fullness and Blessing, The Very Promise Of G-d Fulfilled! Knowest thou THIS?
Most in Messiah's time Believed that He was (guilty) sent to His death, because of His own wrong doing, making Himself out To Be The Son Of G-d, allowing others to call Him, "Lord" and declaring Himself To Be King, but He was oppressed, judged and cut off for the transgressions of Isaiah's, G-d's Chosen People, to whom the stroke was rightfully due (the wages of sin is death and we are ALL born in sin, because of the fall of man in The Garden). He was slain from the foundations of the World, This was G-d's Perfect and Acceptable Will for Him! G-d The Father, Yeshua / Jesus The Son and The Holy Spirit ALL agreed to make Him an offering, The Offering, The Lamb of G-d that would take aWay the sins of the World. He has seen, is seeing and shall see His Spiritual Offspring, His Church, His Body, His Bride and The Will, Pleasure Of The Lord Shall Prosper In His Hand (He's got the whole World In His Hands)!
Do you not know and realize that when a person joins them"self" to G-d they become One Body with Him? The two shall become One flesh. [Gen. 2:24.] The One who is united to The Lord becomes One with Him In Spirit and Truth!
Because of what He has done for us (He has done Great Things), we are One In The Holy Spirit and One In The Lord, so let us join in His sufferings to reach the lost and dying around the World by His Resurrection Power in Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Pray:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon and Give To You His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, Fullness and Blessings In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus The Messiah / The Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Message: Hebrews 2:9; 12:2; Matthew 27:35-36
Yeshua / Jesus died our death that we might receive His life. Hebrews 2.9
Yeshua / Jesus bore our shame that we might share His glory. Matthew 27:35-36, Hebrews 12:2
What was "The Cause" of The Messiah's death? He was "The King Of The Jews"!
The "Real" question is, "Is He Lord And King Of Your Life?" Not many of us would die or take a bullet (let alone a hit) for A Righteous Man, but The Creator Of Heaven And Earth went to The Cross Of Calvary to pay the penalty for ALL in the World! Because of His Death, we can have Eternal, Everlasting and The Abundant Life In His Holy and Precious Name, By Faith (should we choose to accept It). His Mission was not Impossible and neither is ours (ALL Things ARE Possible With and In G-d).
He died in our stead, so that we could Live His Life and bring The Ministry Of Reconciliation to ALL Nations and Peoples! Do your family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers and enemies KNOW THIS? Apart from Him we have No Life at ALL, because a tree can not survive without it's roots.
Do you realize that we ARE "Joint Heirs" With Messiah? He took ALL of our sin, shame, sicknesses and diseases upon Himself, so that we could share In His Glory (His Goodness, Mercy [Tender-Mercies] and [Unmerited Favor] Grace). We ARE "FREE" To Be ALL that He Created us To Go, Do and Be In This World, but The Church, His Body has only a form of G-dliness and denies The Power There Of.
And when they had crucified Him, they divided and distributed His garments [among them] by casting lots so that the prophet's saying was fulfilled, They parted My garments among them and over My apparel they cast lots. [Ps. 22:18.]
Then they sat down there and kept watch over Him.
- Matthew 27:35, 36
Yeshua / Jesus died for each and every One of us, but it seems to me that we have divided and distributed The Gifts and Talents He's Given us into different sects, denominations and independent Congregations and have quenched The Holy Spirit. Are we really and truly taking, accepting and acting upon The Word Of The Prophets, Psalmists, Those Who Wrote The Proverbs, Moses, The Apostles and Yeshua / Jesus Himself, Who Is (Was and Is To Come) The Living Word Of G-d? Are we having a weekly "Crap Shoot" at His House Of Prayer and making It a den of robbers and thieves?
Do you ever feel like you are just sitting around, watching over Yeshua / Jesus and seeing NOTHING happen? G-d even told Moses to stop praying and get The People (My Chosen People) moving! GO FORWARD IN THE VICTORY THAT HE HAS PREPARED FOR YOU IN MESSIAH, CHRIST, THE ANOINTED ONE! Receive His Life and Share His Glory with others In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon and Give To you His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fullness In The Name of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World.
Amen and Amen.
G-d bless and Love to ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Messianic Message: Romans 6:6; Colossians 3:9-10
The Word:
Our old man was put to death in Him that the new man might come to life in us. Romans 6:6, Colossians 3:9-10
Even death is redeemed through The Sacrifice of G-d's One and Only Begotten Son, upon The Cross of Calvary. His curse (The Word Of G-d says, "Cursed is every One Who hangs on a tree") became our Blessing, when the first Adam (the first of mankind who sinned in The Garden of Eden and brought the sinful nature [the wages of sin is death] to ALL who followed after him) died and The Second Adam, Yeshua / Jesus took ALL the sins of the World upon HImself, was crucified, died, was buried and rose again from the grave on the third day, unto Eternal, Everlasting Life and He's NOW seated at The Right Hand Of G-d, Our Heavenly Father. When we put our Faith and Trust In Him, His Holy and Precious Name, we enter into The Abundant Life, His Rest, Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, Fullness and The Richest Blessings Of G-d! The question is, Have you died to "self"? The Scriptures tell us, Precious Is The Death Of His Saints, In The Eyes Of G-d. Are you One of G-d's Precious Saints, His Chosen People?
Each and every day of our Life In Him, we are supposed to be bringing the essence of Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One, where ever we go (Go ye into ALL the World and Preach The Good News of G-d, The Gospel Of Peace For ALL Nations and Peoples). Some Will Choose Life and others death, but if we Choose Wisely (Choose ye this day Whom you Will Serve), in death, there is Life! Paul, The Great Apostle stated, I beat my body into submission daily (I Am constantly dying to "self"). If we Choose death to this World of present darkness and enter into The Light Of Life, we ARE Born-Again, Born (and Borne) Of His Spirit, From Above, washed aNew, In The Blood Of The Lamb Of G-d, Who takes aWay our sins, cleanses us and "Makes" us (Yeshua / Jesus said, "Follow Me and I Will "Make" YOU Fishers Of Men) Pure, Holy and Blameless In His Sight (Righteous and In Right Standing With Him).
Do you KNOW that our old (unrenewed) "self" was nailed to The Cross With Yeshua / Jesus in order that our body might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin? When we become One With Messiah by sharing a death like His, we shall also Be One With Him In Sharing His Resurrection [by a New Life Lived For G-d]. If you were "Truly" baptized into death, then we can habitually Live and Behave (or Be [just like we] Have) In Newness Of Life By The Glorious (Holy Spirit) Power Of The Father. None of us who are Confessing "To Be" Believers, Christians, Followers Of Yeshua / Jesus as Messiah should be ignorant of these facts! If we have died to sin, how can we continue to willingly and knowingly live in or to it any longer? By G-d's Grace (Favor and Mercy), we ARE Overcomers, MORE than Conquerors In Messiah! We ARE Freed, Loosed and Delivered from the power of sin and death, so let us ALL Live, Move and Have Our Being, Through, To, By and For Him, In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon , Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon and Give To YOU His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fullness, In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus, The Light Of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d Bless and Love to ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Good Friday Messianic Visions:
Prophecies Fulfilled By Yeshua / Jesus!
Subject: PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS Robert Ricciardelli
PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS
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Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be A Prophet Like Moses Deuteronomy 18:15 â€" "The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites, and you must listen to that prophet."
About the Prophecy in Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 1:1a states: "This book records the words that Moses spoke to all the people of Israel while they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River."
These words were written about 1260 B.C. Throughout the book of Deuteronomy, Moses talks to the people of Israel as they are about to enter the Promised Land. He reminds them of their covenant with God and their glorious future, if they obey Him.
The Fulfillment
John 7:40-42 â€" "When the crowds heard Him say this, some of them declared, 'This man surely is the Prophet.' Others said, 'He is the Messiah.' Still others said, 'But He can't be! Will the Messiah come from Galilee? For the Scriptures clearly state that the Messiah will be born of the royal line of David, in Bethlehem, the village where King David was born.'"
Acts 3:20-23 â€" "Then wonderful times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and He will send Jesus your Messiah to you again. For He must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through His prophets.
Moses said, 'The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet like me from among your own people.
Listen carefully to everything He tells you.' Then Moses said, 'Anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be cut off from God's people and utterly destroyed.'"
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Tempted By Satan
Psalm 91:10-12 â€" "No evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your dwelling. For He orders His angels to protect you wherever you go. They will hold you with their hands to keep you from striking your foot on a stone."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms The Psalms are a collection of the hymns of ancient Israel.
Scholars divide them into five groups: 1.
Hymns in praise of God's glory 7
2. Community lamentations
3. Royal hymns for special occasions 4.
Individual prayers 5. Individual praise and thanksgiving It is difficult to date the individual psalms. King David is credited with writing many of them, and the collection of these hymns continued after the days of Israel's exile.
It is believed the collection was finalized before the second century B.C.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 4:5-7 â€" "Then the Devil took Him to Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, 'If You are the Son of God, jump off!
For the Scriptures say, "He orders His angels to protect you. And they will hold you with their hands to keep you from striking your foot on a stone."' Jesus responded, 'The Scriptures also say, "Do not test the Lord your God."'"
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Enter Jerusalem Triumphantly
Zechariah 9:9 â€" "Rejoice greatly, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem!
Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey â€" even on a donkey's colt." About the Prophecy of Zechariah Zechariah the prophet came from a priestly family. He was a visionary, who with the prophet Haggai worked on the rebuilding of the Temple.
The New Testament Gospels quote Zechariah more than any other prophet.
Part one of the book of Zechariah was written in 520 B.C. Zechariah spoke about the judgment and salvation of God and about the coming Messiah who would be a priest, governor, humble king and afflicted shepherd.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 21:8-11 â€" "Most of the crowd spread their coats on the road ahead of Jesus, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. He was in the center of the procession, and the crowds all around Him were shouting, 'Praise God for the Son of David! Bless the One who comes in the name of the Lord! Praise God in highest heaven!' The entire city of Jerusalem was stirred as He entered. 'Who is this?' they asked. And the crowds replied, 'It's Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.'", Luke 19:35-37 â€" "So they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their garments over it for Him to ride on. Then the crowds spread out their coats on the road ahead of Jesus. As they reached the place where the road started down from the Mount of Olives, all of His followers began to shout and sing as they walked along, praising God for all the wonderful miracles they had seen." John 12:12-15 â€" "The next day, the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city. A huge crowd of Passover visitors took palm branches and went down the road to meet Him.
They shouted, 'Praise God!
Bless the One who comes in the name of the Lord! Hail to the King of Israel! Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, fulfilling the prophecy that said: 'Don't be afraid, people of Israel. Look, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt.'"
Fulfilled Prophecy The Messiah Will Be Rejected By His Own People Isaiah 53:1, 3 â€" "Who has believed our message?
To whom will the Lord reveal His saving power? He was despised and rejected â€" a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on Him and looked the other way when He went by. He was despised, and we did not care." About the Prophecy of Isaiah Chapters 40â€"55 in the book of Isaiah address the people in exile in Babylon â€" directly before the time of their return â€" about 538 B.C.
Chapter 53 is known as the great prophecy of the Suffering Servant. The Fulfillment John 1:10-11 â€" "But although the world was made through Him, the world didn't recognize Him when He came. Even in His own land and among His own people, He was not accepted."
John 12:37-38 â€" "But despite all the miraculous signs He had done, most of the people did not believe in Him. This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted: 'Lord, who has believed our message? To whom will the Lord reveal His saving power?'" Matthew 26:3-4 â€" "At that same time the leading priests and other leaders were meeting at the residence of Caiaphas, the high priest, to discuss how to capture Jesus secretly and put Him to death."
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Subject: PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS part 2 Robert Ricciardelli
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Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Betrayed By One Of His Followers
Psalm 41:9 â€" "Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me." (NIV)
Psalm 55:12-13 â€" "It is not an enemy who taunts me â€" I could bear that. It is not my foes who so arrogantly insult me â€" I could have hidden from them. Instead, it is you â€" my equal, my companion and close friend."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms
Psalm 41 is a psalm of David. He speaks of his own isolation and his trust in God.
He describes how the sharing of food unites people in loyalty and friendship.
Psalm 55 is a psalm of David as well. In this psalm, he outlines the betrayal of a trusted friend, who was seemingly a follower of God.
Both of these psalms prophesy the betrayal of Jesus by a close and trusted friend.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 26:47, 49-50a â€" "And even as He said this, Judas, one of the twelve disciples, arrived with a mob that was armed with swords and clubs. They had been sent out by the leading priests and other leaders of the people.
So Judas came straight to Jesus.
'Greetings, Teacher!' he exclaimed and gave Him the kiss. Jesus said, 'My friend, go ahead and do what you have come for.'"
Luke 22:21-22, 47b â€" " 'But here at this table, sitting among us as a friend, is the man who will betray Me. For I, the Son of Man, must die since it is part of God's plan. But how terrible it will be for My betrayer'! A mob approached, led by Judas, one of His twelve disciples. Judas walked over to Jesus and greeted Him with a kiss."
John 13:18, 21, 26 â€" " 'I am not saying these things to all of you; I know so well each one of you I chose. The Scriptures declare, "The one who shares My food has turned against Me," and this will soon come true'. Now Jesus was in great anguish of spirit, and He exclaimed, 'The truth is, one of you will betray Me!' Jesus said, 'It is the one to whom I give the bread dipped in the sauce.' And when He had dipped it, He gave it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Betrayed For 30 Pieces Of Silver
Zechariah 11:12-13 â€" "And I said unto them, 'If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord." (KJV)
About the Prophecy of Zechariah In chapter 11 of the book of Zechariah, the prophet refers to 30 shekels of silver as a "goodly price." This amount also refers to the amount paid for the life of a slave.
Zechariah's prophecy speaks about the amount paid for the Lord and His life.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 26:14-16 â€" "Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the leading priests and asked, 'How much will you pay me to betray Jesus to you?' And they gave him thirty pieces of silver. From that time on, Judas began looking for the right time and place to betray Jesus."
Matthew 27:3-4a â€" "When Judas, who had betrayed Him, realized that Jesus had been condemned to die, he was filled with remorse.
So he took the thirty pieces of silver back to the leading priests and other leaders. 'I have sinned,' he declared, 'for I have betrayed an innocent man.'"
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Tried And Condemned
Isaiah 53:8 â€" "From prison and trial they led Him away to His death. But who among the people realized that He was dying for their sins â€" that He was suffering their punishment?"
About the Prophecy of Isaiah
Written in 538 B.C., chapter 53 of the book of Isaiah is known as the Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:1-2 â€" "Very early in the morning, the leading priests and other leaders met again to discuss how to persuade the Roman government to sentence Jesus to death. Then they bound Him and took Him to Pilate, the Roman governor."
Luke 23:1, 23 â€" "The entire council took Jesus over to Pilate, the Roman governor. But the crowd shouted louder and louder for Jesus' death, and their voices prevailed."
Acts 4:26-28 â€" "'The kings of the earth prepared for battle; the rulers gathered together against the Lord and against His Messiah.' That is what has happened here in this city! For Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate the governor, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus, Your holy Servant, whom You anointed. In fact, everything they did occurred according to Your eternal will and plan."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Silent Before His Accusers
Psalm 35:11 â€" "Malicious witnesses testify against me. They accuse me of things I don't even know about."
Isaiah 53:7-8a â€" "He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet He never said a word.
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, He did not open His mouth.
From prison and trial they led Him away to His death."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms and Isaiah
Psalm 27 is a psalm of David. In this hymn, he reassures those who are right with God that they have nothing to fear.
He calls on God to pay back his enemies who have unjustly come against him. The prophecy in this psalm shows the confidence of the Messiah to entrust His life to God, who will answer and judge His accusers. Again, the 53rd chapter of Isaiah was written in 538 B.C. It is known as the Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:12-14 â€" "But when the leading priests and other leaders made their accusations against Him, Jesus remained silent. 'Don't you hear their many charges against You?' Pilate demanded. But Jesus said nothing, much to the governor's great surprise." Mark 15:3-5 â€" "Then the leading priests accused Him of many crimes, and Pilate asked Him, 'Aren't You going to say something? What about all these charges against You?' But Jesus said nothing, much to Pilate's surprise."
1 Peter 2:22-23 â€" "He never sinned, and He never deceived anyone. He did not retaliate when He was insulted. When He suffered, He did not threaten to get even.
He left His case in the hands of God, who always judges fairly."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Smitten And Spat Upon
Micah 5:1 â€" "Mobilize! Marshal your troops!
The enemy is laying siege to Jerusalem.
With a rod they will strike the leader of Israel in the face."
Isaiah 50:6 â€" "I give My back to those who beat Me and My cheeks to those who pull out My beard. I do not hide from shame, for they mock Me and spit in My face."
About the Prophecy of Micah and Isaiah
The book of Micah, by the prophet Micah, was written in the eighth century B.C. He describes how the restoration of God follows His judgment of sin. Micah describes the future of Jerusalem as the center of religious activity for the whole world. Chapter 50 in the book of Isaiah was written in 538 B.C. In the Servant Song of Isaiah, chapter 50, we see the first glimpse of the Messiah's suffering and rejection.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 26:67-68 â€" "Then they spit in Jesus' face and hit Him with their fists.
And some slapped Him, saying, 'Prophesy to us, You Messiah! Who hit You that time?'"
Matthew 27:30 â€" "And they spit on Him and grabbed the stick and beat Him on the head with it."
Mark 14:65a â€" "Then some of them began to spit at Him, and they blindfolded Him and hit His face with their fists."
Mark 15:19 â€" "And they beat Him on the head with a stick, spit on Him, and dropped to their knees in mock worship."
John 19:1-3 â€" "Then Pilate had Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip. The soldiers made a crown of long, sharp thorns and put it on His head, and they put a royal purple robe on Him.
'Hail! King of the Jews!' they mocked, and they hit Him with their fists."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Mocked And Taunted
Psalm 22:7-8 â€" "Everyone who sees Me, mocks Me. They sneer and shake their heads, saying, 'Is this the One who relies on the Lord?
Then let the Lord save Him! If the Lord loves Him so much, then let the Lord rescue Him!'"
About the Prophecy of The Psalms
Psalm 22 is a psalm of David, and in it he describes an execution. The early portion of the psalm speaks of the Messiah's suffering; the later portion describes the universal deliverance the Messiah makes possible.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:39-40 â€" "And the people passing by shouted abuse, shaking their heads in mockery. 'So! You can destroy the Temple and build it again in three days, can You? Well then, if You are the Son of God, save Yourself and come down from the cross!'"
Luke 23:11, 35 â€" "Now Herod and his soldiers began mocking and ridiculing Jesus. Then they put a royal robe on Him and sent Him back to Pilate. The crowd watched, and the leaders laughed and scoffed. 'He saved others,' they said, 'let Him save Himself if He is really God's Chosen One, the Messiah.'"
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Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah To Die By Crucifixion, With Pierced Hands And Feet
Psalm 22:14-16 â€" "My life is poured out like water, and all My bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within Me. My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay. My tongue sticks to the roof of My mouth. You have laid Me in the dust and left Me for dead. My enemies surround Me like a pack of dogs; an evil gang closes in on Me. They have pierced My hands and feet."
Zechariah 12:10a â€" "Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on all the people of Jerusalem. They will look on Me whom they have pierced and mourn for Him as for an only son."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms and Zechariah
Again, Psalm 22 is a Psalm of David. In this psalm he is describing an execution.
The early portion of this psalm describes the Messiah's suffering; the later portion describes the universal deliverance the Messiah makes possible. In Chapter 12 of the book of Zechariah, the prophet speaks of God's own representative who is killed at the hands of His people. At a future point, the people of God will realize whom they have pierced and will mourn for "the son" who died.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:31 â€" "When they were finally tired of mocking Him, they took off the robe and put His own clothes on Him again. Then they led Him away to be crucified."
Mark 15:20 â€" "When they were finally tired of mocking Him, they took off the purple robe and put His own clothes on Him again. Then they led Him away to be crucified."
John 19:15-16 â€" "'Away with Him,' they yelled. 'Away with Him â€" crucify Him!' 'What? Crucify your king?' Pilate asked.
'We have no king but Caesar,' the leading priests shouted back. Then Pilate gave Jesus to them to be crucified."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Suffer With Sinners
Isaiah 53:12a â€" "I will give Him the honors of One who is mighty and great, because He exposed Himself to death. He was counted among those who were sinners."
About the Prophecy of Isaiah
The prophet Isaiah lived in Jerusalem in the eighth century B.C. The book of Isaiah is one of the four major prophetic books in the Bible, along with Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel.
Chapter 53 is known as the Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:38 â€" "Two criminals were crucified with Him, their crosses on either side of His."
Mark 15:27 â€" "Two criminals were crucified with Him, their crosses on either side of His."
Luke 23:32-33 â€" "Two others, both criminals, were led out to be executed with Him. Finally,
they came to a place called The Skull. All three were crucified there â€" Jesus on the center cross, and the two criminals on either side."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah's Garments Will Be Divided By Casting Lots Psalm 22:18 â€" "They divide My clothes among themselves and throw dice for My garments."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms Again, Psalm 22 is a psalm of King David. In this hymn he describes an execution. The early portion of the psalm speaks of the Messiah's suffering and the later portion describes the universal deliverance He made possible.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:35 â€" "After they had nailed Him to the cross, the soldiers gambled for His clothes by throwing dice."
Mark 15:24 â€" "Then they nailed Him to the cross. They gambled for His clothes, throwing dice to decide who would get them."
John 19:23-24a â€" "When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided His clothes among the four of them. They also took His robe, but it was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. So they said, 'Let's not tear it but throw dice to see who gets it.' This fulfilled the Scripture that says, 'They divided My clothes among themselves and threw dice for My robe.'"
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah's Bones Will Not Be Broken
Numbers 9:12 â€" "They must not leave any of the lamb until the next morning, and they must not break any of its bones. They must follow all the normal regulations concerning the Passover."
About the Prophecy of Numbers
Numbers is the fourth of the five books written by Moses. It is the travel history of Israel's journey in the desert. It begins two years after leaving Egypt and ends just before entry into Canaan. It is a 38-year record of the murmurings of the nation of Israel and the constant companionship of God. It is a record of God's ongoing work to produce repentance in His people. Chapter 9 discusses the proper observance and preparation of Passover and prophetically describes Jesus, the Passover Lamb.
The Fulfillment
John 19:31-37 â€" "The Jewish leaders didn't want the victims hanging there the next day, which was the Sabbath (and a very special Sabbath at that, because it was the Passover), so they asked Pilate to hasten their deaths by ordering that their legs be broken. Then their bodies could be taken down. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men crucified with Jesus. But when they came to Jesus, they saw that He was dead already, so they didn't break His legs.
One of the soldiers, however, pierced His side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out. This report is from an eyewitness giving an accurate account; it is presented so that you also can believe.
These things happened in fulfillment of the Scriptures that say, 'Not one of His bones will be broken,' and 'They will look on Him whom they pierced.'" 1 Corinthians 5:7b â€" "Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed
for us."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Die As A Sin Offering
Isaiah 53:5-6, 8, 12 â€" "But He was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed! All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on Him the guilt and sins of us all. From prison and trial they led Him away to His death. But who among the people realized that He was dying for their sins â€" that He was suffering their punishment? I will give Him the honors of One who is mighty and great, because He exposed Himself to death. He was counted among those who were sinners. He bore the sins of many and interceded for sinners."
About the Prophecy of Isaiah
Isaiah the prophet lived in Jerusalem in the eighth century B.C. Chapter 53 of Isaiah is known as the Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant.
The Fulfillment
John 1:29 â€" "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, 'Look! There is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" Acts 10:43 â€" "He is the One all the prophets testified about, saying that everyone who believes in Him will have their sins forgiven through His name."
Acts 13:38-39 â€" "Brothers, listen! In this man Jesus there is
forgiveness
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for your sins. Everyone who believes in Him is freed from all guilt and declared right with God â€" something the Jewish law could never do."
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 â€" "I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me â€" that Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. He was buried, and He was raised from the dead on the third day, as the Scriptures said."
Ephesians 1:7 â€" "He is so rich in kindness that He purchased our freedom through the blood of His Son, and our sins are forgiven."
1 Peter 2:24 â€" "He personally carried away our sins in His own body on the cross so we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. You have been healed by His wounds."
Revelation 1:5b â€" "All praise to Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by shedding His blood for us."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will See His Seed
Isaiah 53:10-11 â€" "But it was the Lord's good plan to crush Him and fill Him with grief. Yet when His life is made an offering for sin, He will have a multitude of children, many heirs. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord's plan will prosper in His hands. When He sees all that is accomplished by His anguish, He will be satisfied. And because of what He has experienced, My Righteous Servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for He will bear all their sins."
About the Prophecy of Isaiah
The Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant reveals the incredible purpose of God in sending the Messiah to suffer for our sins.
Isaiah wrote this chapter in the eighth century B.C. He foretold that the Messiah would see His heirs, those who would find salvation through His sacrifice.
The Fulfillment
Ephesians 1:4-5, 21-23 â€" "Long ago, even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes. His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure. Now He is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else in this world or in the world to come. And God has put all things under the authority of Christ, and He gave Him this authority for the benefit of the church. And the church is His body; it is filled by Christ, who fills everything everywhere with His presence."
Hebrews 12:2 â€" "We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from start to finish. He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross because of the joy He knew would be His afterward. Now He is seated in the place of highest honor beside God's throne in heaven."
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Buried In A Rich Man's Tomb
Isaiah 53:9 â€" "He had done no wrong, and He never deceived anyone. But He was buried like a criminal; He was put in a rich man's grave."
About the Prophecy of Isaiah Once again, the Great Prophecy of the Suffering Servant reveals the incredible purpose of God in sending the Messiah to suffer for our sins.
Isaiah wrote this chapter in the eighth century B.C. He foretold that the Messiah would die and be buried in a rich man's grave.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 27:57-60 â€" "As evening approached, Joseph, a rich man from Arimathea who was one of Jesus' followers, went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body. And Pilate issued an order to release it to him. Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a long linen cloth. He placed it in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance as he left."
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Subject: "But the Scriptures must be fulfilled." Mark 14:49 NKJV
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Lo, your King comes to you; He is [uncompromisingly] just, and having salvation - triumphant and victorious; patient, meek, lowly and riding on a donkey, upon a colt, the foal of a donkey. [John 12:14,
15.]
- Zechariah 9:9
AND when they came near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Yeshua / Jesus sent two disciples on ahead, Saying to them, Go into the village that is opposite you, and at once you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie her and bring them to Me.
If anyone says anything to you, you shall reply, The Lord needs them, and he will let them go without delay.
This happened that what was spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,
Say to the daughter of Zion [inhabitants of Jerusalem], Behold your King is coming to you, lowly and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey [a beast of burden]. [Isa. 62:11; Zech. 9:9.]
Then the disciples went and did as Yeshua / Jesus had directed them.
They brought the donkey and the colt and laid their coats upon them, and He seated Himself on [the clothing].
And most of the crowd kept spreading their garments on the road, and others kept cutting branches from the trees and scattering them on the road.
And the crowds that went ahead of Him and those who followed Him kept shouting, Hosanna (O be propitious, graciously inclined) to the Son of David, the Messiah! Blessed (praised, glorified) be He Who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna (O be favorably disposed) in the highest (heaven)! [Ps. 118:26.]
And when He entered Jerusalem, all the city became agitated, and trembling with excitement said, Who is This?
And the crowds replied, This is the prophet Yeshua / Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee.
- Matthew 21:1-11
ALL Four Gospels describe The Messiah's Triumphal Entry (Mark 11: 1-11; Luke 19:28-40; John 12: 12-19) and the fulfillment of the prophecy by the prophet Zechariah. ALL Scripture Is G-d Breathed and Yeshua / Jesus (As The Living Word Of G-d) Is The Culmination Of The Spoken and Written Word, The Very Heart Of G-d To Mankind Today!
VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Take note of Matthew 21: 2, 5, 7. Messiah, The Anointed One And Christ, hurries The Disciples (Which we are ALL Called To Be) to "at once (immediately)" find "a donkey," AND "a colt," to untie "her" AND bring "THEM" To Him. He Proclaims His Present Actions To Be The Fulfillment (Yeshua / Jesus Did NOT come into The World to Abolish "The Law Of G-d," but To FULFILL IT) Of Isaiah's and Zechariah's Prophecies, their Speaking Forth "The Things Of G-d." Our King of Kings and Lord Of Lords was to come riding on a donkey, AND on a colt, the foal of a donkey [a beast of burden], so when those that followed Him brought the donkey AND the colt AND laid their coats upon THEM, He seated Himself on [the clothing].
QUESTION:
Have you ever seen a movie with Yeshua / Jesus riding two animals or heard a sermon depicting such and act?
Messiah says, His Yolk Is Easy AND His Burden Is Light! The two become One Flesh, This Is The Victory, The Triumph Of Christ's Passion. There is NO male or female, Jew Greek, slave or free. The Wall of separation has been torn down, He has repaired The Breach and Restored ALL Things! The Mystery Has Been Revealed In The Revelation Of Yeshua / Jesus Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One. Old and New have Come Together, The Banquet awaits, The Bride and Her Groom shall consummate Their Marriage, Be Consumed In Each Others Love, Burn With Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Passion, For Our G-d Is A Consuming Fire, An Eternal Flame! We may See through a glass darkly, dimly, but we Can (AND Will) Walk For Ever AND Ever In His Glorious Light, The Light Of The World, The Light Of Life.
Search diligently for The Word Of G-d, Ask, Seek AND Knock, dig deeply, Be Rooted AND Grounded and come up (Spring Up O Well) with Precious Gems of Faith, regarding His Grace, Favor, Hope, Peace, Joy, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Patience, Goodness, Tender Mercies, Loving-Kindness, Dreams, Visions AND Revelations In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen AND Amen.
Closing Prayer:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon AND Give, Grant To YOU His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness AND Fullness Of Blessings In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus The Messiah, Christ, Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen AND Amen.
G-d Bless AND His Love to ALL,
<')))>< Mark
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June 2004 Issue at AoLF & Messianic Message! This weekend Arms of Love Fellowship (Foursquare Gospel Church) Celebrates It's 7 Year Anniversary in Rio Rancho, NM, USA, so keep us in your Daily Prayers and on May 30th we're kicking of an ALL New Sunday Evening Church Service. Lot's is going on in this Month Of Penticost! AoLF touches over 222,478 Christian Lives around the World with this "June" Issue at:
http://www.armsoflovefellowship.com and if ALL of you 1,095 Members within This Group continue to Pray and Pass Along The Good News, We Will Reach The World With The Love Of God! July's Issue of AoLF will run a little late (due to ALL the upcoming changes), but after ALL is said and done...It'll Be Worth The Wait! Remember that God Is Faithful and Jesus NEVER Fails!
His Richest Blessings and Love to ALL In Jesus' Name, <')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS part 4
Robert Ricciardelli
PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS part 4
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Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Be Raised From The Dead
Psalm 16:10 â€" "For You will not leave my soul among the dead or allow Your Godly One to rot in the grave."
Psalm 30:3 â€" "You brought me up from the grave, O Lord. You kept me from falling into the pit of death."
About the Prophecy of The Psalms The Psalms are a collection of the hymns of ancient Israel.
The collection of Psalms was finalized before the second century B.C.
Psalm 16 is a psalm of David. In this hymn he reminds us that as we set our hearts on God and trust our lives to His care, we will find joy and security. David prophesies that the Messiah will not be abandoned in the grave, and His body will not decay. Psalm 30 is a psalm written by David, for the dedication of the Temple. In it he prophesies that the Messiah will be raised from the grave.
The Fulfillment
Matthew 28:5-7 â€" "Then the angel spoke to the women. 'Don't be afraid!' he said. 'I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He isn't here! He has been raised from the dead, just as He said would happen. Come, see where His body was lying. And now, go quickly and tell His disciples He has been raised from the dead, and He is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see Him there. Remember, I have told you.'"
Mark 16:6-7 â€" "The angel said, 'Do not be so surprised. You are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who was crucified. He isn't here!
He has been raised from the dead! Look, this is where they laid His body. Now go and give this message to His disciples, including Peter:
Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see Him there, just as He told you before He died.'"
Acts 2:27-31 â€" "'For You will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your Holy One to rot in the grave. You have shown me the way of life, and You will give me wonderful joy in Your presence.' Dear brothers, think about this!
David wasn't referring to himself when he spoke these words I have quoted, for he died and was buried, and his tomb is still here among us. But he was a prophet, and he knew God had promised with an oath that one of David's own descendants would sit on David's throne as the Messiah. David was looking into the future and predicting the Messiah's resurrection. He was saying that the Messiah would not be left among the dead and that His body would not rot in the grave.'"
1 Corinthians 15:17, 20 â€" "And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless, and you are still under condemnation for your sins.
But the fact is that Christ has been raised from the dead. He has become the first of a great harvest of those who will be raised to life again.'"
Fulfilled Prophecy
The Messiah Will Sit At God's Right Hand
Psalm 110:1 â€" "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit in honor at My right hand until I humble Your enemies, making them a footstool under Your feet.'"
About the Prophecy of The Psalms Psalm 110 is a psalm of David. It is a prophetic psalm that seems to speak of a coming coronation.
This royal psalm clearly speaks of the coming Messiah.
The Fulfillment
Mark 16:19 â€" "When the Lord Jesus had finished talking with them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down in the place of honor at God's right hand."
Acts 2:32-36 â€" "This prophecy was speaking of Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, and we all are witnesses of this. Now He sits on the throne of highest honor in heaven, at God's right hand. And the Father, as He had promised, gave Him the Holy Spirit to pour out upon us, just as you see and hear today.
For David himself never ascended into heaven, yet he said, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit in honor at My right hand until I humble Your enemies, making them a footstool under Your feet."' So let it be clearly known by everyone in Israel that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified to be both Lord and Messiah!"
Hebrews 10:12-13 â€" "But our High Priest offered Himself to God as one sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then He sat down at the place of highest honor at God's right hand. There He waits until His enemies are humbled as a footstool under His feet."
JESUS AND YOU
As you have just read, it was God's plan from before the world began that Jesus would come to earth and be crucified as a holy and final offering for sin. Because of God's deep love for each one of us, He provided the way of salvation â€" the only way that we are able to enter a relationship with Him.
John 14:6-7 â€" "Jesus told him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Me. If you had known who I am, then you would have known who My Father is. From now on you know Him and have seen Him!"
The Gospel, then, is God's provision for our salvation. The word Gospel means "Good News."
The Good News is that God Himself has already made all the arrangements for your salvation.
God loves you and wants you to be His own child.
1 John 4:9-10 â€" "God showed how much He loved us by sending His only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him.
This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins."
Through Jesus Christ, you can enjoy a personal relationship with God. He bridged the gap that separated us from God. The Bible outlines this incredible plan:
John 3:16 â€" "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life."
Romans 8:16-17a â€" "For His Holy Spirit
speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God's children. And since we are His children, we will share His treasures â€" for everything God gives to His Son, Christ, is ours, too."
Mankind is sinful. You and I have sinned against God's holy law. As a result of our sin, we are separated from God. In this state of separation, we cannot know God or experience Him in personal relationship.
Romans 3:23 â€" "For all have sinned; all fall short of God's
glorious
standard."
Romans 6:23 â€" "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."
1 John 1:8 â€" "If we say we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and refusing to accept the truth."
Jesus Christ is the only provision for our sin. It is only through Him that we can know God personally, experience His love, and receive eternal life.
2 Corinthians 5:21 â€" "For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ."
Ephesians 1:6-7 â€" "So we praise God for the wonderful kindness He has poured out on us because we belong to His dearly loved Son. He is so rich in kindness that He purchased our freedom through the blood of His Son, and our sins are forgiven."
Colossians 1:13-14 â€" "For He has rescued us from the one who rules in the kingdom of darkness, and He has brought us into the Kingdom of His dear Son. God has purchased our freedom with His blood and has forgiven all our sins."
Hebrews 12:24a â€" "You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which graciously forgives."
We must each receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. When we receive Him, we are given new life; we are born into His family; and we can know God personally. Just to intellectually agree that Jesus died on the cross is not enough. Each of us must turn to God, acknowledging our sin and our powerlessness to save ourselves. We must ask Jesus to come into our lives and receive His sacrifice as total payment for our sins. We do this as an act of faith and will.
John 3:15b,18 â€" "Everyone who believes in Me will have eternal life. There is no judgment awaiting those who trust Him. But those who do not trust Him have already been judged for not believing in the only Son of God."
Acts 16:31 â€" "They replied, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, along with your entire household.'"
Ephesians 2:8-9 â€" "God saved you by His special favor when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God.
Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it."
Revelation 3:20 â€" "Look! Here I stand at the door and knock. If you hear Me calling and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal as friends."
God sees you and knows your heart. There are no magic words or precise formulas you must express. You can talk to God right now in the quietness of your heart and invite Him into your life as your Lord and Savior.
Here's a simple prayer:
"Lord Jesus, thank You that You are the Messiah. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sin. I want to know You personally. I invite You into my life as my Lord and Savior. Thank You for forgiving me of all my sin and for the gift of eternal life. Help me to grow close to You in this new life You've given me." If this prayer expresses the desire of your heart â€" pray it right now.
Jesus will hear you. He will save you and come into your heart and life. You will become a child of God and have eternal life.
John 1:12 â€" "But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God."
Hebrews 7:25a â€" "Therefore He is able, once and forever, to save everyone who comes to God through Him."
If you have made a decision to trust Jesus, you have been born into God's family. God's promise to you is that He will never leave you or forsake you. One of the best things you can do right now is to tell someone about your decision.
Romans 10:9-10 â€" "For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved."
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Subject:
Messiah/ Christ Would Be Betrayed By A Friend Ps. 41:9; Luke 22:47, 48
The Word:
Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted (relied on and was confident), who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. [John 13:18.]
- Psalm 41:9
And while He was still speaking, behold, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve [apostles], was going before [leading] them. He drew near to Yeshua / Jesus to kiss Him; But Yeshua / Jesus said to him, Judas! Would you betray and deliver up the Son of man with a kiss?
- Luke 22:47, 48
Can YOU answer for your-"self" This Question? Have you EVER given over The Son Of Man, The One And Only Begotten Son Of G-d with a kiss? "SURELY! You Know That `I´ LOVE You Lord, BUT..."
How many times have we eaten of His Bread, The "Living" Bread Of Life (For ALL Man-Kind?) That Came Down From G-d, Out Of Heaven? Can we (YOU) drink From His Cup ("Of The Cup That I [Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One] Drink"), be SO Care-Less as to spill It out and trample on The Blood That Saves Us? Are we TRULY Serving "The One" Who Calls Us Friends? [John 15:15; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Hebrews 6:10.] IF we Believe, Trust In, Rely On AND Are Confident In Him, How can we lift up our heel against Him? The enemy Is "the one" To Be Trampled Under Our Foot, NOT One Another! Are we NOT "One Of His Disciples," In With The (REAL) In Crowd? It Is Messiah / Christ, Who Goes Before Us [Leading And Guiding], By His Holy Spirit and when WE decide to lead "The Crowd" (in any other Way, shape or form than According To His Perfect And Acceptable Will), No Matter How WE Draw Near To Him (thinking to give Him a kiss), we actually deny Him and wind up in the enemies´ camp!
WHY do you sleep "In The Light?" Should we not ALL get up and Pray that we fall NOT into temptation? When Pharaoh spoke, It was Written AND Done. How is it that SO many (confessing) Christians, Believers from ALL walks of Life, can turn against Messiah / Christ, while He Still Speaks? BEHOLD! LOOK around you, LOOK In "The Mirror" (G-d's Holy And Precious Word) and let ALL who "think" they stand, take heed lest they fall. LORD, have Mercy On Us ALL!
THANK G-d, Who Calls Us, Draws Us Closer To Him and Makes Our Election SURE. We ARE One With Him, In Yeshua / Jesus and He Will Lead Us Beside Still Waters. G-d Loves YOU and wants to kiss you with the kisses of His Mouth. He Says, "Arise, My Love!"
Would you betray or deliver up The Son Of Man? NO, of course NOT or at least, not intentionally :( G-d Is Faithful and Yeshua / Jesus NEVER Fails! His Promise (and ALL G-d's Promises are Yes and Amen In Him) Is NEVER to leave or forsake you. He Is Our Redeemer! We have been Delivered from the curse of sin and death, By The Precious Blood Of The Lamb Of G-d, Who Takes AWay the sins of the World. He has given His Holy Spirit as a token of His Trust In, Reliance On and Confidence that we Will Accomplish The Work Set Before Us!
Adam and Eve ate and drank "In The Garden Of Eden," but fell, they lifted up their heels against G-d. Let us (By Faith) eat and drink, for Messiah / Christ Our Passover Lamb Has Been Slain, Taste And See That The Lord Is Good, find Communion and Fellowship (In The Holy Ghost) with ALL The Saints, for TOGETHER, we shall bruise and tread the enemies' head under foot, and he shall eat dust [and what it contains] ALL the days of his life, In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name. Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance, Be Gracious Unto and Give YOU Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and Fullness In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus The Messiah / Christ, The Light Of The World. Amen and Amen.
G-d Bless and Love to ALL,
<')))>< Mark
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Subject: The Messiah / Christ / Anointed One Would Be Scourged And Spat On
The Word:
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. [Matt. 26:67; 27:30.]
- Isaiah 50:6
Then they spat in His face, and struck Him with their fists; and some slapped Him in the face, [Is. 50:6.]
- Matthew 26:67
So he set free for them Barabbas, and [had] Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation whipped, and delivered Him up to be crucified.
- Matthew 27:26
Title.
Subject:
Betrayed For 30 Pieces Of Silver / Zech. 11:12, 13; Matt. 26:14, 15
The Word:
And I said to them, If it seems just and right to you, give me my wages; but if not, withhold them. So they weighed out for my price thirty pieces of silver.
And the Lord said to me, Cast it to the potter [as if He said, To the dogs!], the munificently miserable sum at which I [and My shepherd] am priced by them! And I [Zechariah] took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. [Matt. 26:14, 15; 27:3-10.]
- Zechariah 11:12, 13
Then one of the twelve [apostles] who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
And said, What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you? And they weighed out and paid him thirty pieces of silver [about twenty-one dollars and sixty cents]. [Exod. 21:32; Zech. 11:12.]
- Matthew 26:14, 15
ALL of us (if we are completely, totally open & honest with Our"Self" and The Lord) at One point or another in Our Christian Walk & Relationship with Messiah / Christ / The Anointed have sold Him and Our"Self" short by literally given Him or another Brother or Sister In The Lord "The Judas Kiss." The Word Of G-d CLEARLY tells us, "The Wages (what we ourselves earn and are due to receive) Of Sin "Is" DEATH, but The Gift Of G-d Is Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In Yeshua / Jesus!
What are you willing, wanting and ready to "sell" your Salvation / Yeshua / Jesus for? Perhaps a bowl of lentil soup, 30 pieces of silver worth $21.60, sex or drugs? I want you to stop for just "ONE WHOLE MINUTE" and take a Good, Hard Look at your"self," because The Temple / Church of Yeshua / Jesus, Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One is "In The Last Days" and G-d's JUDGEMENT Begins At The House Of G-d!
It has been said that One in Twelve Apostles, Prophets, Preachers, Teachers, Evangelists or just plain old ordinary DISCIPLES, which you and I, EVERY Confessing Believer On The Face Of Planet Earth are Called Of G-d To Be can fall into "This Judas Category." Let us NOT Be Deceived, for G-d Shall NOT Be Mocked! Is there a "fitting" opportunity for you or someOne close to you, in your Fellowship or Congregation that will "CHOOSE" To Betray Him? While others were preparing to eat The Passover, The Lord's Supper, Take Communion & Have Fellowship, "The Spirit Of Judas" was determining in his heart to BREAK The Bread Of Life and receive what he felt were "his just wages." What is "This Present World Of Darkness" Willing to Give, Weigh Out or Pay Y-O-U? Are you Ready, Willing, Wanting and Able to Give It ALL up? You shall be weighed in the balance, come up lacking and receive your Just Reward!
Can you, I or any of us go before G-d's Throne and Demand of Him to, "Give Me My Wages, What I Deserve?" LORD, Have Mercy on a Poor Sinner Like Me! ALL we Like Sheep Have Gone Astray and MUST Find Our Way, "The Way" back to The Fold Of G-d, where The Good Shepherd Will Lead & Guide us to Greener Pastures and show us His Compassionate Heart Of Grace & Favor. Ask that He Would Hold Back Our Just Rewards and Grant us Peace, Hope, FULLness & His Blessings In His Holy & Precious Name. Both Zechariah and Judas Cast the 30 pieces of silver in the House Of The Lord, His Holy Temple, but for Our Old Covenant Prophet it was only to be a foreshadowing of what was to come in the sorry, misled, lowly, short-lived life of Judas Iscariot (There's a Reason his name ends with R-I-O-T). As Believers, we are Compelled To Cast Our Cares & Woes Upon Him and ask Him NOT to Cast us aWay from His Presence and Take NOT His Holy Spirit from us.
He "IS" The Potter, we "ARE" The Clay that MUST Submit to His Authority (As The Author & Finisher Of Our Faith) and we MUST ask Him DAILY To Melt, Mold, FILL and USE us to Accomplish His Purposes. Cast NOT your Pearl Of GREAT Price to The Swine, The Pigs and Do NOT Be as a dog that returns to its vomit, so that the sum of your existence is miserable and your value (price) is worthless! Your Worth is NOT Determined by This Present World Of Darkness, but your WORTHINESS "IS" Determined By The Precious Blood Of Yeshua / Jesus, The One & ONLY Begotten Son Of G-d, Who Purchased Your Soul For G-d's Glory On The Hill Of Calvary! He Will Take ALL "The (Broken) Pieces" Of Your Life and Make Y-O-U WHOLE. His Rod AND His Staff WILL Comfort Y-O-U when you repent of your sin and humble your"self" before The Mighty Hand Of G-d, In His Sight, He WILL Lift Y-O-U Up (Into Heavenly Places), Set Your Feet Upon The SOLID Rock, The Firm Foundation, so that you can walk In The Blessings Of G-d In Yeshua's / Jesus' Holy And Precious Name. Amen and Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon and Give to YOU His Peace, WHOLENESS and FULLness In The Name Of Yeshua The Messiah, Jesus The Christ, The Anointed One, The Light Of The World, The Light Of Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life, The Hope Of Israel, The Hope Of Glory AND The Hope Of ALL Nations & Peoples! Amen & Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Merry Christmas!
Wishng you ALL The VERY Merriest Christmas EVER & The MOST Joyous Of New Years In 2005!
Thanks to EVERY One of you for your Faithfulness to God and Each Other. It has been my pleasure to serve you throughout this past year in ALL that God has done through Our Group, Web Site, Missions & Church. I Hope that you Will Continue to Pray Daily for ALL involved with This Christian Fellowship and that where you live, move & have your Being In Jesus, your Light Will Shine EVER Brighter Until The FULL Light Of His SOON Coming Day! I'll be signing off until January 3, 2005, so that I can get my house in order for My Daughter's visit from NJ to NM during Christmas & The New Year, but you will ALL Be In My Heart & Prayers. You may possibly hear from me regarding The January Edition of Our Web Site before then and my e-mails will be monitored daily, so if you need to contact me, type aWay! For those of you who don't read ALL of my regular posts :D I leave you with my final One for 2004. May His Richest Blessings And Love Be Yours Throughout This Holiday Season & Into The New Year 2005. GBY!
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Jesus, Mark
ps. Care-Net Pregnancy Center Of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA will be opening on Saturday, January 22, 2005, the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade and Sunday, January 23, 2005 is The Day that MOST Churches around The United States will be Celebrating The Sanctity Of Human Life, so we would definitely appreciate your Daily Prayers regarding these matters and any other support you could give. PLEASE, send a check or money order TODAY to:
Arms of Love Fellowship
1700 B Southern Blvd.
Rio Rancho, NM
87124
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and be sure to make it out to "Care-Net Pregnancy Center" with 'Rio Rancho" in the memo section, so that ALL your tax deductible funds go directly towards this project. Thank Y-O-U again for ALL of your Daily Prayers & Continual Support. GBY!
MESSIANIC MESSAGE:
The Messiah's / Christ's / Anointed One's Blood Money Would Be Used To Buy A Potter's Field
The Word:
And I said to them, If it seems just and right to you, give me my wages; but if not, withhold them. So they weighed out for my price thirty pieces of silver.
And the Lord said to me, Cast it to the potter [as if He said, To the dogs!], the munificently miserable sum at which I [and My shepherd] am priced by them! And I [Zechariah] took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. [Matt. 26:14, 15; 27:3-10.]
- Zechariah 11:12, 13
Then were fulfilled the words spoken by Jeremiah the prophet when he said, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him on Whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, [Zech. 11:12,
13.]
And they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me
- Matthew 27:9, 10.
I in NO Way want to end this year on a bad or down note, but it is during this MOST Festive Holiday Season that more suicides occur than at any other time on Our Julian Calendar and it would be inappropriate of me to not tell you The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing, But The Truth. It was Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation Himself, Who told His Disciples, "Look! I Tell You, Raise Your Eyes And Observe The Fields And See How They Are Already White For Harvesting." Apart From Resurrection Day Itself, There Is No Other Day In Human History More Celebrated Than The Birth Of God's Promise To ALL Of Man-Kind, so during this time of reflection, regarding "The End of the old and The Beginnings of The New," Let us ALL "Look" Unto Yeshua / Jesus / Our Salvation As The Author & Finisher Of Our Faith.
The Potter's Field is Exactly where you and I live Today (although, as Believers, we ARE Seated In Heavenly Places). It is Here & NOW where ALL The Pieces Of Broken Pottery Are Thrown About & Discarded, Strewn About here on Planet Earth, but through The Blood Of Our Passover Lamb, The Life, Death & Resurrection Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, we Can Be Made WHOLE Again, In His Holy & Precious Name.
For the wages which sin pays is death; but the [bountiful] free gift of G-d is eternal life through (In Union with) Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation / Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One our Lord.
- Romans 6:23
We Have Been Set FREE, for he who The One & ONLY Begotten Son Of G-d Sets Free Is FREE INDEED from sin and Y-O-U Have Become The Slaves, Bond-Servants, Prisoners Of Hope, Of G-d and we Have Our PRESENT Reward In Holiness and Its End Is Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In Him. G-d has worked and is working ALL Things Together For His & Our Good In Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation! We Have Been Redeemed, Purchased, Bought (Brought) Back Into COMPLETE & TOTAL Communion & Fellowship with Our Father Who Art In Heaven, In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, Through The Ministry Of His Holy Spirit, Working Upon, In & Through us, as His Temple, His Church, His SPOTLESS Bride, His Body. It Is and Was For This VERY Reason (Come Let Us Reason Together) that The Son Of The Most High G-d Came Down From Heaven To Earth, Went From The Earth To The Cross, AND From The Grave To The Sky (Where He Is Seated At The Right Hand Of G-d), To Show Us ALL "The Way" To The Father!
Each and EVERY One of us are like sheep that have gone astray from His Greener Pastures, but He STILL Chooses to Pick Up ALL The Broken Pieces Of Our (lesser or lower) life, puts them ALL Together, In Their Proper Place, so that we can Have The Peace Of G-d (Right Here & NOW) ON Earth and His Good (Perfect & Acceptable) Will Towards ALL Man-Kind. It Is Through His Precious Blood that He Purchased Us, As His Pearl Of GREAT Price, Earth Is "The Potter's Field," because He Bought Back The Title Deed from our enemy, the devil, the accuser of The Brethren and NOW It Is Up To Us To Take The Love Of G-d & The Good News Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation To ALL Nations & Peoples In His Holy & Precious Name!
ALL-Ready The Reaper Is Getting His Wages - He Who Does The Cutting Now Has His Reward - For He Is Gathering Fruit (Crop) And Lasting Fruit Unto Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life. So That He Who Does The Planting And He Who Does The Reaping May Rejoice Together.
- John 4:36
ALL TOO OFTEN I find that even the best of Biblical Scholars Miss-Read The Word Of G-d and their commentaries are the accumulated works of men and NOT G-d Breathed Accounts Of Holy Script. The above portion of Biblical Text is NOT speaking of "The GRIM Reaper," but Of Our Lord And Savior, Who Plants, Waters And Brings The Spiritual Increase, In His Time. He Makes ALL Things B-E-A-Uti-FULL In His Time and His Time Has Come - TODAY!
For In "THIS" The Saying (ALL That Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation Said, Says & Does) Holds True, One Sows And Another Reaps.
I Sent Y-O-U To Reap A Crop (THE HARVEST) On Which You Have Not Toiled. Other Men Have Labored And You Step In To Reap The Results Of Their Work.
- John 4:37, 38
WILL Y-O-U Step INTO "That" To Which G-d Is Calling You? Don't sell your"self" or others short when it comes to Eternal Matters. As we Celebrate The Birth Of Messiah / Christ /The Anointed One, reflect on Your Life In Him over this past year and "Look" Forward To See what further, what MORE can be done in the Up-Coming year and years to bring others "In" To Spiritual Re-Birth, In His Holy & Precious Name. Although we are broken vessels (G-d LOVES A Broken & Contrite Heart), He Mends us and Brings Healing To Our Being, so that we can Go, Do & Be ALL That He Has Called Us To, so pick up a piece of Broken Pottery TODAY, because He Is The Potter & we ARE The Clay.
LORD, Melt us, Mold us Into The Image Of Your Precious Son, FILL us With Your Holy Spirit (Up To Over-Flowing) and Use us In Yeshua's / Jesus' / Salvation's Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon & Give To Y-O-U His Shalom, Peace, WHOLENESS & FULLNESS In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation / Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen & Amen.
Merry Messiahmas & A Happy, Joyous New Year 2005! G-d Bless & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
REMEMBER:
G-d Is Faithful & Jesus NEVER Fails!
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Subject: It Is For This Reason I Came Into The World / Messiah-mas Message 2004
The Messiah's / Christ's / Anointed One's Blood Money Would Be Used To Buy A Potter's Field
The Word:
And I said to them, If it seems just and right to you, give me my wages; but if not, withhold them. So they weighed out for my price thirty pieces of silver.
And the Lord said to me, Cast it to the potter [as if He said, To the dogs!], the munificently miserable sum at which I [and My shepherd] am priced by them!
And I [Zechariah] took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. [Matt. 26:14, 15; 27:3-10.]
- Zechariah 11:12, 13
Then were fulfilled the words spoken by Jeremiah the prophet when he said, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him on Whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, [Zech. 11:12,
13.]
And they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me
- Matthew 27:9, 10.
I in NO Way want to end this year on a bad or down note, but it is during this MOST Festive Holiday Season that more suicides occur than at any other time on Our Julian Calendar and it would be inappropriate of me to not tell you The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing, But The Truth. It was Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation Himself, Who told His Disciples, "Look! I Tell You, Raise Your Eyes And Observe The Fields And See How They Are Already White For Harvesting." Apart From Resurrection Day Itself, There Is No Other Day In Human History More Celebrated Than The Birth Of God's Promise To ALL Of Man-Kind, so during this time of reflection, regarding "The End of the old and The Beginnings of The New," Let us ALL "Look" Unto Yeshua / Jesus / Our Salvation As The Author & Finisher Of Our Faith.
The Potter's Field is Exactly where you and I live Today (although, as Believers, we ARE Seated In Heavenly Places). It is Here & NOW where ALL The Pieces Of Broken Pottery Are Thrown About & Discarded, Strewn About here on Planet Earth, but through The Blood Of Our Passover Lamb, The Life, Death & Resurrection Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, we Can Be Made WHOLE Again, In His Holy & Precious Name.
For the wages which sin pays is death; but the [bountiful] free gift of G-d is eternal life through (In Union with) Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation / Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One our Lord.
- Romans 6:23
We Have Been Set FREE, for he who The One & ONLY Begotten Son Of G-d Sets Free Is FREE INDEED from sin and Y-O-U Have Become The Slaves, Bond-Servants, Prisoners Of Hope, Of G-d and we Have Our PRESENT Reward In Holiness and Its End Is Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In Him. G-d has worked and is working ALL Things Together For His & Our Good In Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation! We Have Been Redeemed, Purchased, Bought (Brought) Back Into COMPLETE & TOTAL Communion & Fellowship with Our Father Who Art In Heaven, In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, Through The Ministry Of His Holy Spirit, Working Upon, In & Through us, as His Temple, His Church, His SPOTLESS Bride, His Body. It Is and Was For This VERY Reason (Come Let Us Reason Together) that The Son Of The Most High G-d Came Down From Heaven To Earth, Went From The Earth To The Cross, AND From The Grave To The Sky (Where He Is Seated At The Right Hand Of G-d), To Show Us ALL "The Way" To The Father!
Each and EVERY One of us are like sheep that have gone astray from His Greener Pastures, but He STILL Chooses to Pick Up ALL The Broken Pieces Of Our (lesser or lower) life, puts them ALL Together, In Their Proper Place, so that we can Have The Peace Of G-d (Right Here & NOW) ON Earth and His Good (Perfect & Acceptable) Will Towards ALL Man-Kind.
It Is Through His Precious Blood that He Purchased Us, As His Pearl Of GREAT Price, Earth Is "The Potter's Field," because He Bought Back The Title Deed from our enemy, the devil, the accuser of The Brethren and NOW It Is Up To Us To Take The Love Of G-d & The Good News Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation To ALL Nations & Peoples In His Holy & Precious Name!
ALL-Ready The Reaper Is Getting His Wages - He Who Does The Cutting Now Has His Reward - For He Is Gathering Fruit (Crop) And Lasting Fruit Unto Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life. So That He Who Does The Planting And He Who Does The Reaping May Rejoice Together.
- John 4:36
ALL TOO OFTEN I find that even the best of Biblical Scholars Miss-Read The Word Of G-d and their commentaries are the accumulated works of men and NOT G-d Breathed Accounts Of Holy Script. The above portion of Biblical Text is NOT speaking of "The GRIM Reaper," but Of Our Lord And Savior, Who Plants, Waters And Brings The Spiritual Increase, In His Time. He Makes ALL Things B-E-A-Uti-FULL In His Time and His Time Has Come - TODAY!
For In "THIS" The Saying (ALL That Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation Said, Says & Does) Holds True, One Sows And Another Reaps.
I Sent Y-O-U To Reap A Crop (THE HARVEST) On Which You Have Not Toiled. Other Men Have Labored And You Step In To Reap The Results Of Their Work.
- John 4:37, 38
WILL Y-O-U Step INTO "That" To Which G-d Is Calling You? Don't sell your"self" or others short when it comes to Eternal Matters. As we Celebrate The Birth Of Messiah / Christ /The Anointed One, reflect on Your Life In Him over this past year and "Look" Forward To See what further, what MORE can be done in the Up-Coming year and years to bring others "In" To Spiritual Re-Birth, In His Holy & Precious Name. Although we are broken vessels (G-d LOVES A Broken & Contrite Heart), He Mends us and Brings Healing To Our Being, so that we can Go, Do & Be ALL That He Has Called Us To, so pick up a piece of Broken Pottery TODAY, because He Is The Potter & we ARE The Clay.
LORD, Melt us, Mold us Into The Image Of Your Precious Son, FILL us With Your Holy Spirit (Up To Over-Flowing) and Use us In Yeshua's / Jesus' / Salvation's Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon & Give To Y-O-U His Shalom, Peace, WHOLENESS & FULLNESS In The Name Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation / Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen & Amen.
Merry Messiahmas & A Happy, Joyous New Year 2005! G-d Bless & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
REMEMBER:
G-d Is Faithful & Jesus NEVER Fails!
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Date: Fri, Jan 21, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Crucified - Isa. 53:12; Matt. 27:38; Mark 15:27-28; Luke 22:37
Between Two Thieves
The Word:
Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great [kings and rulers], and He shall divide the spoil with the mighty; because He poured out His life unto death, and He let Himself be regarded as a criminal and be numbered with the transgressors, yet He bore [and took away] the sin of many and makes intercession for the transgressors - the rebellious. [Luke 22:37.]
- Isaiah 53:12
At the same time two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right hand and one on the left.
- Matthew 27:38
And with Him they crucified two robbers, one on [His] right hand and one on His left.
And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, He was counted among the transgressors. [Isa. 53:12.]
- Mark 15:27, 28
For I tell you that this Scripture must yet be fulfilled in Me, And He was counted and classed among the wicked (the outlaws, the criminals); for what is written about Me has its fulfillment -has reached its end, and is finally settled. [Isa. 53:12.]
- Luke 22:37
You have ALL heard the expression, "ALL Good Things MUST Come To An End," but that is not necessarily Truth In The Eyes of ALL Eternity, because God "IS" Good and ALL His Promises ARE "Yes! & Amen!" In Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One Of G-d, yet ALL debt for our sin HAS been "Cancelled" by The Precious Blood Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus and EVERYTHING (According To G-d's Holy Word, Will & Way) HAS Reached Its End - Found Its FULL-FILL-ment In Him! We are watching and waiting for the dust to clear and for our Spiritual Eyes To Be Opened, so that we can See and Determine that what we owed is Finally Settled. God Is Faithful & Jesus NEVER Fails!
Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Tells us that ALL Holy Script "IS" Full-Filled In Him, Because He "IS" The Living Word Of G-d ALL-Mighty, The Manifestation Of Our Father Who Art In Heaven Right Here On Earth! He was Counted Among us, the wicked, robbers, outlaws, criminals, transgressors, the rebellious, Numbered with ALL of human-kind, as One Of us, but NOW One With, Upon, In & Working Through us. He took on the nature of sin-FULL man, so that His Anointing would BREAK Each & EVERY Yolk of human bondage. We NOW can Live The Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection LIFE In His Holy & Precious Name!
YESHUA / Salvation / Jesus "IS" Our Portion & Our Strength. By The Testimony Of Our Faith In Him we Over-Come sin By The Blood Of The Lamb Of G-d Who Takes AWay The sins of This Present World Of Darkness and dis-spells it with The Presence Of His Glorious Light. He Poured Out His Life unto death, so that we could HAVE Life In Him! Are you and I ready, willing and able to pour out our Life as a Living Sacrifice, as Paul The Apostle Did, which is Our Reasonable Service? Go ahead...
Answer "The Question... I'll wait...
Thank G-d that He has waited patiently on a Redeemed World to Humble ourselves In His Sight, Repent and Turn from our wicked ways, so that He Could Bring Healing To Our Land, but He Says To us ALL Today, My Holy Spirit Shall NOT AlWays Strive With mankind. Yes, He "IS" LONG-Suffering, but He "IS" Also "The Righteous Judge" of ALL the Universe. Should we not ALL take heed to the warning signs that point us to The End Of The Age? Wars & rumors of wars, earthquakes in various places (8 Countries were recently DEVASTATED by the Tsunami where 1 out of EVERY 4 people died and the death toll is still climbing) and the gathering of G-d's Chosen People back to Himself (MORE Jewish People have Received Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus as Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One since 1960 than EVER before in ALL of World history), so This "IS" A CLEAR Indication that He "IS" Coming Again SOON!
As The Community Of The Saints, I can assure you that there is NO Community without Unity of His Holy Spirit and Obedience To His Purposes. We MUST Equip The Saints For Spiritual Service In His Kingdom Of Righteousness, Peace AND Joy In The Holy Ghost! I Experientially KNOW that He Said To GO Into ALL The World AND Preach The Gospel Of G-d In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One. We are without excuse and MUST Complete The Task That He Has Set Before us As His Body, The Temple Of The Living G-d, The Church, His Spotless Bride.
Let us Right-FULLY divide The Word Of Truth and Bring The GREAT King & Ruler Of ALL Nations & Peoples His Spoils Of War that He Purchased Upon The Cross Of Calvary! He "IS" Constantly Making Intercession For us At G-d's Throne Of Grace & Mercy, so we Can NOT lose, because The Victory "IS" Ours In Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon AND Give To You Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, FULL-ness & Blessings In The Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus The Messiah / Christ / The Anointed, The Light Of The World, The Light Of Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life, The Light Of ALL Mankind. Amen & Amen.
G-d Bless & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
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We are His Hands, we are His Voice, we are The Ones who make The Choice, if its not now, then tell me when, oh tell me, who will Save The Children?
-Phil Keaggy
Date: Fri, Feb 4, 2005
Subject:
Vinegar To Drink - Psalm 69:21; Matthew 27:33, 34, 48; John 19:28-30
The Word:
They gave me also gall (poisonous and bitter) for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar [a soured wine] to drink. [Matt. 27:34, 48.]
- Psalm 69:21
And when they came to a place called Golgotha [Calvary, in Latin], which means the place of the skull,
They offered Him wine mingled with gall to drink, but when He tasted it, He refused to drink it.
And one of them immediately ran and took a sponge, soaked it with vinegar [a sour wine], and put it on a reed-staff and was about to give it to Him to drink. [Ps. 69:21.]
- Matthew 27:33, 34, 48
After this, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, knowing that all was now finished (ended), said in fulfillment of the Scripture, I thirst. [Ps. 69:21.]
A vessel (bowl) full of vinegar (a sour wine) was placed there. So they put a sponge soaked in the vinegar on [a stalk, reed of] hyssop and held it to [His] mouth.
When Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished! and He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
- John 19:28-30
During The Feast Of Passover, Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One was slain as "The Passover Lamb Of G-d, Who Takes AWay The Sins Of The World" to FULL-FILL The Holy Scriptures. The Promise to Abraham was that G-d Would Provide Himself A Sacrifice and He VERY WELL DID! King David wrote, Cleanse Me With Hyssop And I Shall Be Whiter Than Snow. Isaiah The Prophet said, "Though Your Sins Be As Scarlet, "I" (G-d Speaking) Shall Make Them White As Snow" and It Is ONLY The Precious Blood Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus that Cleanses us from ALL sin and unrighteousness. He tasted the bitterness of death for ALL of us, hungered and thirsted for The Things Of G-d, so that we could Be FILLED (to Overflowing) with His Presence and NEVER Thirst Again, because we NOW Have His Living Water AND Bread Of Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life.
EVERY year, since the days of Moses, G-d's Chosen People gather together for a Sacred Assembly and Celebrate The Exodus. During this most solemn event, ALL witness The Washing With Water (Be Ye Transformed By The Washing Of Water & The Word), Breaking Of The Bread (Matzo) [This Is My Body] and the Pouring Out Of The (NEW) Wine [This Is My Blood, Shed For The Forgiveness Of Sin, Representing The "New" Covenant], but few get the connection of the hyssop... When Moses was "Commanded" To Prepare The Passover, he took the hyssop, dipped it in "The Blood Of The Sacrificed Lamb" and spread it on the door posts. When eating the meal, each person takes parsley and dips their piece into the bitter herbs that represent the bitter tears shed over their bondage while in Egypt. G-d DELIVERED Them from sin and death, but this was just a foreshadowing of what was to be fulfilled In Messiah!
He Is Our Passover Lamb, The One Who Shed His Blood, His Life, so that we could Be FREE Indeed. At The Cross Of Calvary, The Spotless Son Of G-d Became Cursed In Our Stead (Cursed Is EVERY One Who Hangs On A Tree). The VERY One Who Came To Give us Living Water, THIRSTED (in a dry and weary land), so that we would not have to! He Took Up-On Himself our sins, weaknesses, infirmities, guilt, shame, sufferings, sorrows, sickness, diseases, punishment, death and MORE, so that we Could Be Reconciled To G-d, In COMPLETE & TOTAL Communion & Fellowship FOREVER. You might like Moses (when he was first Called Of G-d) say, "Who Am I, Lord?" BUT, The Real Question Of The Day (that G-d would ask us IS) Who Am I? I Am The G-d Of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, The Same, Yesterday, Today & FOREVER. SERVE Me!
This IS Our Reasonable (Come, Let us Reason Together, Says The Lord) Service: To Do Justly, Love Mercy and Walk "Humbly" With Our G-d. Love Him With ALL Of Your Heart, Mind, Soul, Spirit & (In Your Weakness He Will Show His) Strength! Pour Out Your"self," Your Life In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One as a Living Sacrifice Of Praise (Continually) Before His Throne Of Grace, Favor, Loving-Kindness & Tender-Mercies. Hunger & Thirst After His Righteousness, Peace & Joy In The Holy Ghost and You Shall Be (FULL) FILLED.
It Is Finished! He Has Done It! Life Conquered Death! Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Has WON! We "HAVE" The Victory In His Holy & Precious Name, The Name Above ALL Others. He Purchased It "ALL" With His Shed Blood 2,000 years ago, so don't you think that it's about time that we, as Believers start Walking In This Blessed Victory? TODAY Is The Day Of Salvation / Yeshua / Jesus!
CHURCH, Thirst No More, Because He ALREADY Thirsted For Y-O-U, He's The Well-Spring Of LIFE and Promised That Streams Of Living Water Would Flow Upon, In AND Through You, Unto Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name.
Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon & Give To Y-O-U His Peace, Wholeness, Fullness & Blessings In The Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus The Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen & Amen.
G-d Bless & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Mark
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Date: Fri, Feb 18, 2005
Subject: Ps. 22:16; Zech. 12:10; Mark 15:25; John 19:34, 37; 20:25-27
The Word:
For [like a pack of] dogs they have encompassed me; a company of evil-doers has encircled me; they pierced my hands and my feet. [Isa. 53:7; ; John 19:37. ]
- Psalm 22:16
And I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace or unmerited favor, and supplication.
And they shall look [earnestly] upon Me Whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him as one who is in bitterness for his first-born. [John 19:37; Rev. 1:7. ]
- Zechariah 12:10
And it was the third hour (about nine o'clock in the morning) when they crucified Him. [Ps. 22:14-16. ]
- Mark 15:25
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came (flowed) out.
And again another Scripture says, They shall look on Him Whom they have pierced. [Zech. 12:10. ]
- John 19:34, 37
So the other disciples kept telling him, we have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see in His hands the mark made by the nails, and put my finger into the nail prints, and put my hand to His side, I will never believe [it].
Eight days later His disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them.
Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation came, though they were behind closed doors, and stood among them and said, Peace to you!
Then He said to Thomas, Reach out your finger here and see My hands; and put out your hand and place [it] in My side.
Do not be faithless and incredulous, but [stop your unbelief and] believe!
- John 20:25-27
The Messiah / Christ / Anointed One Would Suffer The Piercing Of His Hands And Feet
TOO Many Believers Today are standing behind "Closed Doors" with Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation in their midst and NOT Receiving their Peace, Wholeness, FULL-ness & G-dly Blessings In His Holy & Precious Name. ALL of G-d's Promises (from Genesis to The Revelation Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One) "ARE" Yes & Amen In Him! Believest Thou THIS (KJV)? REACH Out Here (Hear, O, Israel) & NOW (For TODAY "IS" The Day Of Salvation / Jesus / Yeshua), SEE (Behold) His Hands, Feet & Side, Be NOT Faithless, but Faith-FULL, STOP your un-belief and Believe, Cling To, Trust In & Rely On Him, as The Author & Finisher Of Your Faith (which "IS" The Substance (REALITY) Of Things Hoped For & The Evidence (The Sure Foundation) Of Things Yet To Be Seen!
It was us (Y-O-U & me) who put those thorns in His Crown and pierced Him with the punishment of ALL our sins that He took upon Himself on our behalf, in our stead. THIS was done, so that His Streams of Living Water and Precious Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life's Blood could cleanse us from ALL sin and un-righteousness.
How Precious "IS" The Flow that Makes us Pure, Holy, Blameless & White As Snow In His Sight? THIS "IS" The ONLY Way to come into complete Communion & Fellowship with Our Father Who Art In Heaven and Experientially Know The Power Of His Redemption. LOOK Earnestly Upon Him, Weep & Mourn for our continuation of sin, the sins of our forefathers, the sin in our land, taste the bitterness of His Sufferings, so that He Will Pour Out Upon us, The House Of David, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ALL Nations & Peoples, Tribes & Tongues, His Holy Spirit, The Spirit Of Grace (G-d's un-merited Favor), and Supplication (Prayer), According To His Word, Will & Way!
You will hear the slander of many and at times there will be terror on EVERY side of you, because the enemy comes ONLY to kill, steal and destroy. The accuser of The Brethren's desire is to take away your Life, but G-d's Desire "IS" for you to Trust In Him, because your times "ARE" In His Hands and Our G-d Shall Deliver us from the future that our enemy has planned. When evil-doers encircle, encompass and surround you like a pack of wild dogs, Remember That He "IS" Our Peace, Our Shalom, The Peace Of Jerusalem, That Peace Of G-d That Passes ALL human understanding and It "IS" His Holy Spirit (G-d's Hand) Upon, Working In & Through us that Will Lead & Guide us Into ALL Truth & Spiritual Understanding In Yeshua's / Jesus' / Salvation's Holy & Precious Name. Amen & Amen!
Closing Prayer:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The (Holy) Light Of Countenance Upon & Give To Y-O-U His Peace, Wholeness, FULL-ness & Blessings In The ALL-Mighty Name Of Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation! Amen & Amen.
G-d Bless & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Mark
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Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2005
Subject: The Messiah's Garments Would Be Divided And Gambled For - Psalm 22:18;
The Word Prophesied:
They part my clothing among them, and cast lots for my raiment [a long, shirt-like garment, a seamless undertunic]. [John 19:23, 24.]
- Psalm 22:18
The Word Fulfilled:
And Yeshua / Jesus prayed, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they divided His garments and distributed them by casting lots for them. [Ps. 22:18.]
- Luke 23:34
Then the soldiers when they had crucified Yeshua / Jesus took His garments and made four parts, one share for each soldier, and also the tunic [the long shirt-like undergarment]. But the tunic was seamless, woven from the top throughout.
So they said to one another, Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots to decide whose it shall be.
This was to fulfill the Scripture, They parted My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots. So the soldiers did these things. [Ps. 22:18.]
- John 19:23, 24
Even at the nearing of death, there are family (Spiritual or otherwise), friends, loved ones and yes, even enemies, who seek to divide the spoils of war, those things left behind by "The Dearly Departed." I wonder what He or she left me in their Will? Let us examine this preface (and ourselves) further regarding this matter from both a natural and Spiritual perspective, because there is MUCH to be learned in Today's portion of Holy Script. The Prodigal Son couldn't wait to get on with "his life," so he approached His Father and asked for "his just-due inheritance" prior to "Dear Daddies" passing, only to squander it ALL away. How many times have we literally demanded something of Our Father Who Art In Heaven that we clearly thought we deserved? Sarah declared to Abraham, "Give Me Children Or I Shall Die!" And we ALL know what happened in that situation, as a matter of fact, we are still dealing with the aftermath of that rushed and wrong decision. Should we not ALL "Wait Upon The Lord & Renew Our Strength In Him?"
Certainly there are True Biblical Ways to Rightfully divide things:
1) Solomon proved to the World His Heavenly Wisdom by offering to divide the child in the dispute among two mothers.
2) The Nation Of Israel divided The Promised Land according to G-d's Word.
3) Paul The Apostle exhorted young Timothy (and ALL Believers) to Rightfully Divide "The Word Of Truth!"
4) Yeshua / Jesus Is Our Soon Coming King, Who Will Divide The Sheep from the goats.
While we are on the subject of G-d's Biblical Mathematics, let us not forget that we were commanded from The Beginning, "Be Fruitful And MULTIPLY!"
Too many Christian Churches are seated at The Feet Of Yeshua / Jesus (The Earth Is His Footstool) and arguing over what portion of The Ripe & Ready Fields is theirs, but we are Just Servants and The Owner Will Call us ALL To Account for EVERY Idle (Idol) Word, Deed, Action and In-Action. Like Joseph's Brothers, we "Choose" to dismantle others and ourselves from The Blessings Of His Coat Of MANY Colors! It Is In UNITY, Working Together, Hand In Hand & Side By Side That The Body Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Will Accomplish The Works That Were Prepared For us To Do, Before The Foundations Of This Present World Of Darkness Were Laid.
LORD, Forgive us, for we Know Exactly what we are doing! We tear at each other and divide Your Sheep, rather than gather them Together As One Into Your Fold.
YOU Have Distributed Your Precious Gifts & Talents Throughout Your Kingdom, but we have torn away at The Righteousness You Have Given us. We have turned on each other, rather than the powers & principalities in the heavenlies. ALL the struggling and striving is "SEEMLESS," so PLEASE, Clothe us In Your Righteousness Once Again and Allow us To Go Forward, Onwards & Upwards As Christian Soldiers, Marching Off To War Against The Enemy & Win The Battle, Taking "The Victory" In Yeshua's / Jesus' Name.
Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon & Give To Y-O-U- His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness & FULLness In The Name Above ALL Names, Yeshua / Jesus / Salvation, Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One & Light Of The World.
Amen & Amen.
G-d Bless & His Love To ALL,
<')))>< Mark
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Date: Fri, Mar 18, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Would Be Surrounded And Ridiculed By His Enemies - Ps. 22:7, 8
The Word Prophesied:
All who see me laugh at me and mock me; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, [Matt.27:43.]
He trusted and rolled himself on the Lord, that He would deliver him. Let Him deliver him, seeing He delights in him!
[Matt. 27:39, 43; Mark 15:29, 30; Luke 23:35.]
- Psalms 22:7, 8
The Word Fulfilled:
Matthew 27:39-44; Mark 15:29-32
And those who passed by spoke reproachfully and abusively and jeered at Him, wagging their heads, [Ps. 22:7, 8; 109:25.]
He trusts in G-d; let G-d deliver Him now, if He cares for Him and will [have] Him, for He said, I am the Son of G-d.
- Matthew 27:39, 43
And those who passed by kept reviling Him and reproaching Him abusively in harsh and insolent language, wagging their heads and saying, Aha! You Who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, Now rescue Yourself (from death), coming down from the cross!
- Mark 15:29, 30
Now the people stood by, (calmly and leisurely) watching; but the rulers scoffed and sneered (turned up their noses) at Him, saying, He rescued others (from death), let Him now rescue Himself, if He is the Christ, the Messiah of G-d, His Chosen One!
- Luke 23:35
Here we see and hear of (Religious) people laughing, mocking, "Giving Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Lip, Wagging Their Heads," reviling Him reproachfully, abusively, harshly with insolent language, scoffing, sneering and "Thumbing Their Noses At Messiah / Christ / The Anointed, Chosen One," while "The General Public" stood by, calmly and leisurely watching The Brutal Crucifixion Of The Lord Of Glory, The King Of Israel! So, what has changed or is ever so different in This Present World Of Darkness that you and I live in Today?
Even the two criminals from their very own crosses were casting insults at Him, until one of them finally came to his senses (Came To His Self like the Prodigal Son) and put his Faith (The Substance Of Things Hoped For And The Evidence Of Things Unseen), Relied On, Clung To, Trusted In and Believed In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One.
How about Y-O-U?
Have Y-O-U Rolled Your"self" On The Lord, Experientially Knowing that He Will (And Has) Delivered Y-O-U from ALL sin and unrighteousness, EVER Seeing Y-O-U Pure, Holy And Blameless In His Sight and Taking Delight, FULL Pleasure In Y-O-U, In Who Y-O-U REALLY "Are" In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed / Chosen One, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus? If Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus delivered Himself from taking on the sins of the world, becoming sin for us or dying in our stead, we could NEVER have been Delivered, Redeemed or Brought Into A True Relationship With Our Father Who Art In Heaven! Because G-d Cares, He SO Loves The World (and EVERY One In it), He Sent His One And ONLY Begotten Son to die in our place and suffer our death, so that we could Have Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In His Holy And Precious Name. Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus not only said, "I AM The Son Of G-d," but He Proved It As A Fact By Raising Himself From The Garden Tomb On The Third Day and Is "NOW" Seated At The Right Hand Of The Father, Interceding On Our Behalf. He Allowed His HuMAN Body To Be Destroyed, so that ALL Of MANkind, Through Faith In Him Could BeCOME The Body Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, The Church, G-d's Chosen People!
Rather than "Come Down From The Cross Of Calvary," He Chose To Rise Again, Unto The Father, With ALL His Past Glory Restored Unto Him and sent us The Beloved Holy Spirit, so that we too could Be Seated In Heavenly Places, With Him and ALL of mankind can "NOW" be restored back to ALL The Glory That G-d Intended For us To Have From The Beginning, The Genesis. Let us NOT Be People Who Just Stand By, Calmly And Leisurely Watching, but Let us WATCH AND WAIT, OCCUPYING UNTIL HE COMES AGAIN, Taking Ground To Further And Strengthen His Kingdom!
He Rescued Others From Death, so Let us Go And Do Like-Wise (no matter what anybody else would say or think about us) In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen And Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To Y-O-U Shalom, Peace, Wholeness And FULLness In His Holy And Precious Name. Amen And Amen.
G-d Bless And Love To ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother And Friend In Him,
Mark
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Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2005
Subject: The Messiah Would Thirst / Psalm 22:15; John 19:28 - Messianic Message
The Word:
My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery; [with thirst] my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and You have brought me into the dust of death. [John 19:28.]
- Psalm 22:15
After this, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, knowing that all was now finished (ended), said in fulfillment of the Scripture, I thirst. [Psalm 69:21.]
- John 18:28
Would any One like a drink of vinegar [soured wine mingled with gall]? Can you (REALLY) drink of the cup that Our Lord And Savior Drank?
"In the BEGINNING the WORD already existed, HE was with GOD and HE was GOD."
- John 1:1
Does it not make Complete and Total, Perfect sense that The Lord Of ALL Creation would have to Come To The Earth That He Created and FULL-FILL His Holy And Precious Word by Becoming Mortal Man And Dwelling Among us As God Incarnate? After ALL, it was His Idea To Form Mankind From The Dust Of The Ground, just as a fragment of clay, so Certainly, The One Who Was With G-d (In) "The Beginning" should be brought into The Dust Of Death on our behalf, in our stead at what The World would call "His End." He "Is" The First And The Last! Should He not come and experientially know our EVERY temptation, feeling and emotion, so that when He Overcomes This Present World Of Darkness, we may Experientially Know Him And The Power Of His Resurrection Life By Faith?
In The Lord's Weakness G-d Should His Strength! He "Is' The Potter and we "ARE" The Clay, to be melted, molded, filled and used For His Good Pleasure, not our own, because we have been bought back, reconciled, purchased and Redeemed By His Blood. Are Y-O-U Thirsting After His Righteousness, The Streams Of Living Water That Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Promises us? When you Humble your"self" in the dust and ashes of your human nature, He Will Raise Y-O-U UP And Into Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In His Name!
Come On Home To The Father, Come On Home To The Son, Come On Home, The Battle Is Over, Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Has Won! "It Is Finished, He Has Done It, Life Conquered Death!"
He Thirsted (and FULL-FILLED EVERYTHING Else That Was Necessary), so that we would not EVER have to hunger or thirst for His Right Standing Relationship With G-d Again. Believest thou this? Like the woman at the well, we can NOW leave behind our pitcher that drew of The World's Well and pick up The Cup of Communion And Fellowship With Our Father Who Art In Heaven, His One And Only Begotten Son, In The Unity Of His Holy Spirit!
The True Passion Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One was us! He Loved (and still does Love) us SO MUCH that He left His Heavenly Glory to share in the humanity of sinful mankind. He hungered and thirsted, was tempted in the same manner as ALL "Are," but was without sin, did NOT give Him"Self" over to it, because He Knew Quite Well That ALL sin of any kind leads to death! Knowest thou this?
When your strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery, Go To The Potter! EVERY THING IS FIXABLE when you Cleave, Bring Your"Self" To Him Before you come to "the dust of death."
Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One Knows your end and He Will FULL-FILL It, In His Time, when you put your Faith and Trust In The Provision That He Has Made In His Holy And Precious Word, The Living Word Of G-d, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus! Hunger and Thirst After Him and He'll FULL-FILL Each And EVERY Promise Of G-d, According To Holy Script. He Will Go Before Y-O-U In ALL Things, Keep Y-O-U In His Perfect And Acceptable Will AND "SURELY" His GOODNESS, Tender-Mercies & Loving-Kindness Shall Follow Y-O-U ALL The Days Of Your Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May G-d Bless & Keep You AlWays, May Your Wishes ALL Come True, May You AlWays Do For Others And Let Others Do For You, May You Find That Ladder To The Sky And Climb On EVERY Rug And May You Stay FOREVER Young. Amen & Amen.
His Richest Blessings & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
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Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Would Commend His Spirit To The Father-Psalm 31:5; Luke 23:46
The Word:
Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord G-d of truth and faithfulness. [Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59.] Psalm 31:5
And Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit! And with these words He expired. [Ps. 31:5.]
- Luke 23:46
And while they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, Lord Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, receive and accept and welcome my spirit!
- Acts 7:59
Have you put your hand in The Hand Of The Man From Galilee? It never ceases to amaze me how many confessing Believers / Christians Just Don't Get It! Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus was (And Is) The Second Adam and we (ALL who are in the world) are still part of The First, so Just as He went To The Cross Of Calvary And Died, we are commanded to bear our Cross DAILY and die to sin and self. Just as He was sent to The Lost Sheep, so we are commanded, Go Into ALL The World To Seek And Save The Lost!" Have we forgotten that because He Died In Our Stead we are now commanded To Live Our Lives Unto Him? How many of us have begun to pour out our (Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection) Lifes Blood for the sake of others? Have we Truly Given The Lord what He Requires of us?
TOO Many of us are NOT Trusting In The Lord with ALL of our heart, mind, soul, "SPIRIT" and strength, but we are leaning on our own (baser nature) understanding and NOT "COMMITTING" our (Spirit led) Way Unto Him, He Who Knows the heart of man, He Who Knows our EVERY thought, Word and deed, He Who Is The Lover Of Our Souls, He Who Has Given us His Holy Spirit Of Grace and He Who in our weakness Shows His Strength!
This is NOT Doing Justly, Loving His Tender-Mercies and Walking Humbly With Our G-d. Lord have Mercy when we DO NOT Offer Up Our"self" as a Living Sacrifice Of Praise Unto You Alone, Who Is Worthy Of ALL Glory, Honor, Power, Might And Constant / Continual Thanksgiving. For ALL that YOU Have Done For us, what little can we commit to You?
MY Lord, MY G-d, MY Savior, MY Redeemer, You Alone Are Faithful And True! Thank You for Being SO Faith-FULL (ALL the time), even when we are NOT and Thank You that in this world of lies, on this ball of confusion, You Are TRUTH. I Give Thanks that You Hear (And Answer) The Cries Of Your (Chosen) People and as Your One And ONLY Begotten Son Cried Out To You, Into Your Hands I Commit my spirit (the spirit of man) TODAY, I die to "self" and I Ask For Your Life To Be Manifested, Glorified and Lifted Up Upon, In And Through me In His Holy And Precious Name! Apart from His Holy Spirit connecting, fusing, becoming One with our spirit WE CAN DO NOTHING! If we do not live, move and have our being in His "Agape Love" (not our brotherly or sexual love), we are NOTHING! Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus IS EVERYTHING!
Stephen (whose name means Crown), The Churches First Martyr, knew and understood that he had to commit his spirit unto The Lord G-d Almighty for Eternity. Even in this most horrific and critical situation, Stephen Prayed, he asked, he cried out To Him Who Sits On The Throne And Unto The Lamb Of G-d, Who Takes AWay The Sins Of The World, for his spirit to be Received, Accepted and Welcomed Into The Kingdom.
Stephen Looked Up and Saw Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus. Do Y-O-U? I want to encourage each and everyone who is reading this message Today, for when you Commit your spirit unto G-d, you Shall Be, you "ARE" Received, Accepted and Welcomed Into His Kingdom Of Righteousness, Peace And Joy and so shall ALL others Be when they Choose To Do Like-Wise In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To Y-O-U His Peace, Wholeness, FULLness And Blessings In The Holy And Precious Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, The Messiah / The Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen & Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark
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Date: Mon, May 2, 2005
Subject: HIS Bones Not To Be Broken - Ex.12:46;Num.9:12; Ps.34:20; John19:33-36
The Word:
In one house shall it be eaten [by one company]; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.
- Exodus 12:46
They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any bone of it; according to all the statute for the passover they shall keep it. [John 19:36.]
- Numbers 9:12
He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
- Psalm 34:20
But when they came to Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, and they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came (flowed) out.
And he who saw it - the eye-witness - gives this evidence and his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe also.
For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled (verified, carried out), Not one of His bones shall be broken. [Exod. 12:46; Num. 9:12; Ps. 34:20.]
- John 19:33-36
Are you an "eye-witness" of The Good News, The Gospel Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Christ / Messiah / The Anointed One? Do you "HAVE" The Faith, The Substance Of Things Hoped For And The EVIDENCE Of Things Unseen, to give YOUR Testimony of the things that Y-O-U Experientially Know To Be True, The TRUTH Of Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life In HIM, so that others may Come To Believe, Cling To, Trust In and Rely On also?
As "The Bride," Y-O-U And I are NOW "Bone Of His Bone And Flesh Of HIS Flesh!" Surely G-d looks, HE searches deeply for a broken and contrite heart, but HIS intent is NEVER to break our Spirit. HE Keeps ALL HIS Bones and NONE of The Flesh should be carried out of The House. CHURCH, There are TOO MANY Confessing Believers that are NOT Living The Crucified Life and therefore, The Manifestations Of G-d are NOT Being Seen by ANY One, who could even come close to becoming an eye-witness to them, because The Bride is NOT Adorning Her"self" In HIS Righteousness! JUST as Eve (The Bride) was taken from Adam's (Man's) side, so too The Body Of Christ, Messiah, The Anointed One, The Second Adam, The Perfect Man was Pierced and brought forth HIS Bride, Born Of HIS Blood And Living Water, The Church, The Congregation Of ALL Believers on Earth. NOW we are One in The Holy Spirit And One In The Lord, The Dividing Walls have been torn down, so that HIS Word, The Holy Scriptures Can Be FULL-FILLed, Verified And Carried Out Upon, In And Through us! We "ARE" One House, Called Of G-d To Go Out, into the fields that are ripe for harvest and Break The Yolk Of Bondage, Sin And Death, By His Anointing, NOT in The Flesh, but By HIS Spirit, Says The Lord.
Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus says, "IF Y-O-U LOVE ME, THEN Y-O-U Will Obey ALL Of MY Commandments." HE "IS" The Passover Lamb Of G-d, Who Takes AWay The Sins Of This Present World Of Darkness and carries us Into HIS Kingdom Of LIGHT! ALL of HIS Statutes MUST Be Proclaimed, Explained And Kept By HIS Chosen People. EVEN the very soldiers who crucified HIM, "Came And Saw" That HE "WAS" Dead, B-U-T NOW HE "IS" Alive For-EVER MORE! We MUST ALL Come To See The Precious Flow Of HIS Cleansing Blood And Living Water that comes to refresh and replenish our dry and weary lands, In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name.
Amen And Amen.
Closing Prayer:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To You His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, Fulness and Blessings, In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Holy And Precious Name. Amen And Amen.
G-d Bless And Love To ALL,
<')))>< Mark Tross
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Date: Fri, May 13, 2005
Subject: The Messiah Would Be Forsaken By G-d - Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46
The Word:
MY G-d, my G-d, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? [Matt. 27:46.]
- Psalm 22:1
And about the ninth hour [three o'clock] Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus cried out with a loud voice, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My G-d, My G-d, why have You abandoned Me - leaving Me helpless, forsaking and failing Me in My need? [Ps. 22:1.]
- Matthew 27:46
YOUR sin has separated Y-O-U from Communion & Fellowship With The Father and THIS is WHY Our Lord & Savior Cried Out From The Cross, My G-d, My G-d, because He Was Forsaken, Left Helpless and Abandoned In His Time Of Need, when He Died In Our Stead, Taking Our Place On Calvary's Hill Far, Far AWay. It is through This Portion Of Holy Script that you and I should find our "Replacement Theology!" If not for Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, EVERY Soul in This Present World Of Darkness would be lost, ALL Alone and tormented throughout Eternity. He has paid our debt, ALL To Him we owe, sin has left a crimson stain, but He Has washed us (By His Living Water, G-d's Word & His Precious Blood) white as snow, Pure, Holy, Blameless and Justified (Just As If We Had NEVER Sinned) In His Sight.
Still "Feeling" Forsaken, distant, like G-d is SO Far, Far, AWay From Helping you and that your groaning cries are falling on deaf ears? Let G-d Be (Faithful &) True and EVERY Man a liar! If we would walk This Believer's Walk "By Faith" (which Pleases G-d) and NOT by our own earthly sight and natural senses, emotions or feelings, G-d would PROVE Himself. We do NOT Trust & Obey like we should and SURELY, There Is NO Other Way To Be Happy, Joy-FULL In, Of & By Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus! ALL of His Promises are YES & AMEN, so why do we not even Believe in The One where He Says, "I WILL NEVER LEAVE OR FORSAKE YOU?" He "IS" Our EVER PRESENT Help In Our Times Of Need, He's Closer than our next breath, heartbeat, thought, word or deed and He "IS" AlWays Attentive To The Prayers Of His Chosen Ones. He Declares To us Today, "Though your Mother & Father Forsake or Abandon you, I Will NEVER!"
Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus said to His Disciples, "I Will NOT Leave Y-O-U Helpless, but I Will Send The Comforter, G-d's Holy Spirit To Lead & Guide Y-O-U Into ALL Truth & Understanding." G-d "IS" Faithful-FULL & Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus NEVER Fails! Is it at all possible that we have forsaken Him? Have we looked for help elsewhere, apart from His Holy & Precious Word, The Words Of Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection LIFE? Are we wallowing in the mud, returning to our own vomit and groaning, because of leaving Our First Love, The Lover Of Our Hearts & Souls?
CRY Out With A LOUD Voice, as The Voice Of One Crying Out In The Desert, The Wilderness, wail and moan, because MANY, MANY have gone The Way of destruction instead of The Way Of G-d Almighty! TOO Many are FORSAKING The Assembling Of The Brethren, so that "The Body" is weak, failing, lacking and left wanting in their time of NEED. MY G-d, MY G-d Shall Supply ALL Of YOUR Needs According To His Riches In Glory.
Y-O-U Are NOT an orphaned child, but Adopted Into The Kingdom Of G-d, As Children Of The Most High. We ARE Accepted, because Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus was condemned and THIS "IS"The Good News, The Gospel Of G-d In Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One And Only Begotten Son Of G-d, so GO (Into ALL The World), Tell it on The Mountain, over the hills and EVERYWHERE, To ALL Nations & Peoples, Tribes & Tongues! We Have A G-d, Our Father In Heaven, Who Loves us SOOOO Much that He allowed His Beloved Son to become sin for us, to Take On Our Penalty, so that we could have Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection LIFE, Continual and Constant Communion & Fellowship With Him In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Prayer:
May G-d Bless & Keep You AlWays, May Your Wishes ALL Come True, May You AlWays Do For Others & Let Others Do For You, May You Find That Ladder To The Sky, Climb On EVERY Rung & May You Stay FOREVER Young, In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Holy & Precious Name. Amen & Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Mark Tross
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Date: Sat, May 28, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Would Be Buried With The Rich - Isaiah 53:9; Matthew 27:57-60
The Word:
And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. [Matt. 27:57-60; 1 Pet. 2:22, 23.]
- Isaiah 53:9
When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus.
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.
And Joseph took the body and rolled it up in a clean linen cloth used for swathing dead bodies,
And laid it in his own fresh [undefiled] tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a big boulder over the door of the tomb and went away.
- Matthew 27:57-60
Joseph was ALSO a Disciple of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One. Are Y-O-U?
He went to Pilate and asked for The Body. Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus said, "This Is My Body, Broken For Y-O-U. The Word Of G-d Declares, If you ask for a fish, will G-d Give Y-O-U a stone? NO!
G-d SO Loved The World That He GAVE His One And ONLY Begotten Son To Ad For Y-O-U. When Mary was foretold of the birth of The Messiah / The Anointed One / The Christ Child, she cherished these things in her heart and when He was born, she wrapped Him in swaddling clothes. How about Y-O-U? It was Joseph who wrapped The Body Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, he rolled It up in a clean linen cloth, and laid It in his very own fresh [undefiled] tomb. Not only was it hewn in the rock, but it was hewn For THE ROCK. He rolled a BIG Boulder Over THE DOOR Of The Tomb And Went AWay. How many of us go aWay, but NOT The Way?
THIS Is A "Womb To The Tomb" Story, The GREATEST Story EVER Told, from A to Z, about the Alpha And Omega! It takes place in the evening, but The Son had not really set, because the darkest hour is Just before the dawn and The Stone was To Be Rolled AWay on Sunday Morning. There was NO violence or deceit found In Him, He was Undefiled, Clothed In The Righteousness Of G-d, The Rock Of Ages Cleft For Me, Uncut By Human Hands, "The (ONLY) Door" Way To The Father!
While standing before Pilate at The Judgement, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus said, "It Is For THIS Reason (Assignment) That I Have Come Into The World." What is your assignment? It is appointed unto man(kind) once to die and then The Judgement, but Messiah / The Anointed One / Christ became poor, left His Heavenly Throne and took on human flesh, so that we could become Rich, In & Though His Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection Life! He tasted death, so that we would not have to. It doesn't matter where you come from or what you name is, but that you put your Faith & Trust In Him and The Work that He Accomplished For us at Calvary.
Y-O-U MUST (Be Born Again) Ask, Petition The Lord For His Body, Broken For Y-O-U and Become His Disciple, so that Y-O-U May Be Made WHOLE, In His Holy & Precious Name! He'll Roll AWay your stone, Clothe you In His Righteousness, Open The Door (And Windows) Of Heaven For Y-O-U and lead you In The Way EVER-Lasting, In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name.
Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To Y-O-U Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, FULL-ness And Blessings In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name.
Amen & Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Your Brother & Friend, Mark Tross
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Date: Fri, Jun 10, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Would Ascend To Heaven - Psalm 24:7-10; Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51
The Word:
Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be lifted up, you age-abiding doors; that the King of glory may come in.
Who is the King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O you gates; yes, lift them up, you age-abiding doors, that the King of glory may come in.
Who is [He then], this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah [pause, and think of that]!
- Psalm 24:7-10
So then the Lord Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and He sat down at the right hand of G-d. [Ps. 110:1.]
- Mark 16:19
And it occurred that while He was blessing them, He parted from them and was taken up into heaven.
- Luke 24:51
In Psalm 110:1, King David put "IT" This WAY,
THE Lord (G-d) says to my Lord [the Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One], Sit You at My right hand, until I make Your adversaries Your footstool. [Matt. 26:64; Acts 2:34; 1 Cor. 15:25; Col. 3:1; Heb. 12:2.]
Speaking to The High Priest:
Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus said to him, You have stated [the fact].
More than that, I tell you, You will in the future see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Almighty, and coming on the clouds of the sky. [Dan. 7:13; Ps. 110:1.]
- Matthew 26:64
How would Y-O-U like to hear those words directly from Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus? Well, IF Y-O-U're In The Good Book (as Y-O-U should Be DAILY) and sensitive to The Voice Of G-d's Holy Spirit, "HEAR, O Israel," because The Lord, Our G-d, The Lord IS One and He IS STILL Speaking To His Chosen People, The Church, The Body Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One TODAY!
The Prophet Daniel Interpreted Dreams and Visions, Looked, Beheld, Heard, Listened and stated:
I saw in the night visions, and behold, on the clouds of the heavens came One like a Son of man, and He came to the Ancient of days and was presented before Him.
- Daniel 7:13
Foot-Note:
Notice that the four beasts of this seventh chapter of Daniel symbolize the same world kingdoms that were pictured by the image in chapter two, and the ten horns of the last beast answer to the ten toes of the image. Most of both prophecies have been fulfilled, and at this writing "the blessed hope" of the ages is also showing every evidence of nearing realization.
Both visions show the end of Gentile world power. View today's events in the light of these disclosures and they fall into focus and make sense. The individual child of G-d is challenged as never before in the world's history to let go of the trivial and the transient, and yield himself unreservedly to Him Who is coming to fulfill the longings of every true believer - for ever and ever!
Lift up Y-O-U-R Heads (Look Up For Y-O-U-R Redemption IS Drawing NEAR), O Y-O-U Gates (He IS The Gate); and be lifted up (He IS The Resurrection); yes (ALL Of G-d's Promises "ARE" Amen In Him), and lift them up (Encourage, Empower & Enable Others), Y-O-U age-abiding doors (He IS The Door); that The King Of Glory (The King Of Kings & Lord Of Lords) May Come (Again SOON), In The Holy And Precious Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus! Amen And Amen!
Closing Prayer:
May The Lord Bless & Keep Y-O-U, Cause His Face To Shine Upon Y-O-U, Be Gracious Unto Y-O-U In Y-O-U-R Labor, Leisure, Laughter & Tears, In Y-O-U-R Going Out & Y-O-U-R Coming In, In Y-O-U-R Lying Down & Y-O-U-R Rising Up, Until Y-O-U Come To Stand Before Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus In That Day, Where There IS No Sunset Nor Dawning.
Amen & Amen!
His Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark Tross
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Date: Fri, Jun 24, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Seated At G-d's Right Hand - Ps.110:1;Matt.22:44;Heb.10:12,13
The Word:
THE Lord (G-d) says to my Lord [the Messiah], Sit You at My right hand, until I make your adversaries Your footstool. [Matt. 26:64; Acts 2:34; 1 Cor. 15:25; Col. 3:1; Heb. 12:2.]
- Psalm 110:1
The Lord said to My Lord, Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet? [Ps. 110:1.]
- Matthew 22:44
Whereas this One (Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One), after He had offered a single Sacrifice for our sins [that shall avail] for all time, sat down at the right hand of G-d,
Then to wait until His enemies should be made a stool beneath His feet. [Ps. 110:1.]
- Hebrews 10:12, 13
"The right hand was alWays a symbol of honor and strength, the supreme seat of authority.
The fact the Father exalted Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One to this place signifies that the risen Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One fulfilled all that was required of Him."
- Greg Laurie
Will Y-O-U be on the right side or the left when Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus separates the sheep from the goats? Are Y-O-U NOW seated In Heavenly Places?
The Word Of G-d declares, "The Earth Is His Footstool" and His Will is to set ALL things under submission to His One And ONLY Begotten Son. What are Y-O-U Doing For His Honor? Is His Holy Spirit Strength being shown upon, through and in Your weakness? By what Authority do Y-O-U do the things Y-O-U Do "In His Holy And Precious Name?" These are Just some of the questions that The Lord had to answer while here on Earth, so why do we Believers think or feel that we are not held to The Same standards?
After ALL, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One "IS" The Same, Yesterday, Today And Forever!
As we "Watch & Wait," According To The Lord's Command, do we realize that He Has Made us One In Him? We MUST Be About "Our Father's Business!" Did He not tell us that we were To Be "The Head" and NOT the tail? Though the enemy (Our Enemy) bruised the heel of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One (upon The Cross Of Calvary), He Has Overcome The World (Through The Resurrection From The Dead) and we are Called Of G-d to CRUSH Satan (The Accuser Of The Brethren) under our feet!
Are Y-O-U (like Mary, Martha's Sister) Seated At The Feet Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, At The Right Hand Of G-d, Our Father Who Art In Heaven? His Sacrifice Paid The Debt (In FULL) for ALL of our sins, for ALL Time and NOW, we MUST Wait Upon The Lord to Re-New our Strength (In Him), Mount Up With Wings As Eagles and FLY! To find our place and take our seat, we MUST FULL-FILL ALL that is Required of us By Him. And what exactly MUST That Be? To Do Justly, Love His Tender-Mercies and Walk Humbly With Our G-d. To Be OBEDIENT To ALL That He Has Called us To (ALL Of HIs Commandments), According To His Holy, Precious Word, Will and Perfect, Acceptable Way! THIS "IS" The Will Of G-d For Y-O-U In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine Upon, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To Y-O-U Peace, Wholeness, FULLness And Blessings, In The Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus The Messiah, The Christ, The Anointed One Of G-d, The Light Of The World.
Amen & Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
<'))>< Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark Tross
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Title.
Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2005
Subject:
Messiah Predicts The Crucifixion, His Death And Resurrection
The Word:
Matthew 16:21-28; 27-28; Mark 8:31-39; 15-16; Luke 9:21-34; 23-24; John 19-20
Besides prophecies made hundreds of years before Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Messiah / The Anointed One / Christ was born, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus made predictions concerning His own death and resurrection. Listed above are those predictions and the fulfillments of them.
The Word of G-d declares that by our own words we shall be judged. Let each and every one of us look unto The Spoken, Written and Living Word, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus, as The Author, Finisher, Completer of our Faith and judge Him according to His Holy and Precious Word. Surely He Lived Up To HIs Word and FULL-FILLed ALL that Our Father Who Art In Heaven Required Of Him. Each of The Gospels Clearly Proclaims The (Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection) Life, Death and Resurrection of Messiah / The Anointed One / Christ. Does your Life do the same?
G-d's Richest Blessings & Love to ALL,
<')))>< Mark Tross
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Date: Fri, Jul 22, 2005
Subject:
Messiah's / Christ's Second Prediction Of His Death And Resurrection!
Predicted:
Matthew 20:17-29;
Fulfilled:
Matthew 27-28; Mark 15-16; Luke 23-24; John 19-20
The Word:
They were on the way going up to Jerusalem, and Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus was walking on in front of them; and they were bewildered and perplexed and greatly astonished, and [those who were still] following were seized with alarm and were afraid. And He took the twelve [apostles] again, and began to tell them what was about to happen to Him.
[Saying], Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be turned over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn and sentence Him to death and turn Him over to the Gentiles.
And they will mock Him, and spit on Him, and whip Him, and put Him to death; but after three days He will rise again [from death].
- Mark 10:32-34
Then taking the twelve (apostles) aside, He said to them, Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written about the Son of man through and by the prophets will be fulfilled. [Isa. 53:1-12.]
For He will be handed over to the Gentiles, and will be made sport of and scoffed and jeered at and insulted and spit upon; [Isa. 50:6.]
They will flog Him and kill Him, and on the third day He will rise again. [Ps. 16:10.]
But they understood nothing of these things; His words were a mystery and hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was telling them.
- Luke 18:31-34
Oh my goodness! What kind of predicament had Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus gotten Himself into now? How is it that His Followers were STILL so dull and did not fully understand what it was that He was trying to tell them? He was The One Who said, It was For This Reason That I Came Into The World and Unless a Grain Of Wheat Falls To The Ground And DIES there shall be NO Harvest! It was the Morovian People who were determined to see that Messiah, The Anointed One, Christ would receive the FULL reward for His Sufferings upon The Cross Of Calvary. How about Y-O-U and me? Do we FULLY comprehend The Mysteries Revealed?
Although Saul, Paul The Apostle wrote three quarters of the books in Our New Covenant of Today, Luke's writings actually cover more pages. It was Saul, Paul who told us of G-d's Greatest Mystery Revealed and that was The Revelation Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus as The Bride Groom and ALL Believers as The Church, His Beautiful Bride. The Lord has Given us Beauty for ashes and He shares His Glory with us, so that we can bring His Goodness, Tender-Mercies and Loving-Kindness to ALL Nations, Peoples, Tribes and Tongues! It was For THIS Reason that He shed His Precious Blood, to cleanse us from ALL sin and unrighteousness, but is This Good News being presented properly to ALL four corners of the earth?
For You will not abandon me to Sheol [the place of the dead], neither will You suffer Your holy one to see corruption. [Acts 13:35.]
- Psalm 16:10
G-d has conquered sin and death and Proven it by His Own Resurrection from the grave. He FULLY Promises to NEVER leave or forsake Y-O-U from the cradle, even through death's door and Into Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant, Resurrection LIFE, In His Holy And Precious Name!
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. [Matt. 26:67; 27:30.]
- Isaiah 50:6
G-d will NEVER turn His Back on Y-O-U!
Even His Very Beard was plucked out by His assailants, but WHY? He took the punishment of our sins upon Himself, in our stead, so that we would NEVER have to and therefore, we could Become The Righteousness Of G-d In Messiah / The Anointed One / Christ Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus! He will NEVER hide His Face from us and we no longer have to hide our"self" from Him, because there is NO reason for shame (when we are In The Kingdom Of G-d, which is Righteousness, Peace And Joy In The Holy Ghost), because He took ALL our shame and guilt upon Himself.
ALL of G-d's Predictions and Prophecies about Messiah / The Anointed One, Christ "ARE" FULL-FILLED, YES And Amen In Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus! He "IS" The FULL-FILL-ment of EVERY Hope around this present world of darkness and wants, desires to bring ALL who are weary and heavy laden into His Glorious Kingdom Of Light And LIFE, so let ALL who Believe, Cling To, Trust In And Rely On Him, Come Together As One and reach out to our families, friends, co-workers and neighbors with The Love Of G-d and The Good News In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen And Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May G-d Bless and keep you alWays, may your wishes ALL come True, may you alWays do for others and let others do for you, may you find That Ladder To The Sky, climb on EVERY rung and may you stay Forever Young. Amen And Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings And Love To ALL, <')))>< Mark Tross
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Date: Tue, Aug 9, 2005
Subject: The Messiah's/Christ's Third Prediction Of His Death And Resurrection
The Word:
Matthew 26:2-5; 27-28; Mark 14:1-9; 15-16; Luke 23-24; John 19-20
You know that the Passover is in two
days, and the Son of man will be delivered up treacherously to be crucified.
Then the chef priests and the elders of the people gathered in the [open] court of the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, And consulted together in order to arrest Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus by stratagem secretly, and put Him to death.
But they said, It must not be during the feast, for fear there will be a riot among the people.
- Matthew 26:2-5
The very fact that "fear" is present in this passage of Holy Script is a clear indication that the actions of the high priest, the chief priests, the elders and the people were not motivated by The Love Of G-d, because Perfect Love Casts Out ALL Fear! Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Messiah / The Anointed One, Christ had Just finished His discourse to His Disciples about feeding the hungry,, giving drink to the thirsty, welcoming a stranger, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and ministering to the prisoners.
He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and that which he has given He will repay to him. [Prov. 28:7; Eccl. 11:1; Matt. 10:42; 25:40; 2 Cor. 96-8; Heb. 6:10.]
- Proverbs 19:17
Are Y-O-U hungering and thirsting after His Righteousness? If not for Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Life, Death and Resurrection, NONE of us would EVER Be Satisfied. It Is He Who "IS" The Bread Of True, Spiritual, Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant LIFE! His River Of Living Water is what quenches our thirst in this dry and weary land, This Preset World Of Darkness. We are No Longer strangers, but Children Of The Most High G-d! We "ARE" Clothed In His Righteousness, He Has Visited This Sick, Dying Planet and ALL Prisoners of sin and death "ARE" Set FREE In Deed y the precious blood of the Passover Lamb.
As much as The Son Of Man was delivered over to death, we have been Delivered Over To Resurrection Life (By Faith) In His Holy Name, Which Is Above ALL Others and there is NO OTHER Name under G-d's Heaven by which we MUST Be Saved! He was crucified and we too must carry our cross, daily dying to self.
Are you a Priest, Elder, an Active Member In The Body Of Messiah / The Anointed One/ Christ? As His Chosen People, let us gather together (as One In The Holy Spirit) and stratagize to take LIFE (not death) to ALL Nations, Peoples, Tribes and Tongues, In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen & Amen!
Closing Prayer:
May G-d Bless and Keep Y-O-U AlWays. May Y-O-U AlWays do for others and let others do for Y-O-U. May Y-O-U AlWays have His Shalom, Peace, Wholeness and FULLness working upon in and through Y-O-U, In His Holy & Precious Name.
Amen & Amen!
His Richest Blessings & Love To ALL,
<')))>< Mark Tross
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Happy New Year! Messianic Message With October Updates, Links And ALL Contact Information :)
The Word:
"I will bless those who bless you, but I will curse anyone who curses you; and by you all the families of the earth will be blessed."
- B'Resheet (Genesis) 12:3
Fulfillment In The B'Rit Hadashah:
This is the genealogy of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus the Messiah / The Anointed One / Christ, son of David, son of Avraham / Abraham:
- Mattityahu (Matthew) 1:1
"You are the sons of the prophets; and you are included in the covenant which G-d made with our fathers when he said to Avraham / Abraham, "By your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed."
- Acts 3:25 (Genesis 22:18; 26:4)
Now the promises were made to Avraham / Abraham and to his seed. It does not say, "and to seeds," as if to many; on the contrary, it speaks of one - "and to your seed" - and this "one" is the Messiah.
- Galatians 3:16 (Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 17:7; 24:7)
Are Y-O-U Blessed? ALL Believers around the world have the same Blood-Line In Messiah, Christ, The Anointed One! We are sons and daughters of The Most High and ALL people EVERYWHERE are included in G-d's New Covenant, when we put our Faith, Hope and Trust In Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus. YES, Y-O-U and I are sons of The Prophets and Avraham / Abraham (The Patriarch Formerly Known As Abram) is our Spiritual Father. By "The Seed" of G-d's Promise that was planted in the Life of Avraham / Abraham and in ALL of the Believers hearts throughout the ages by Faith, we also can plant "The Seed" Of Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One and expect to reap a True Spiritual Harvest in our day, The Last Days. It Is This "One" Seed, Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus that makes us ALL One with Our Father Who Art In Heaven, In The Communion And Fellowship Of His Holy Spirit, In His Holy And Precious Name! G-d Is Speaking to our world Today, through "The Seed" Of His One And Only B egotten Son, Who was planted in death, but now Lives FOREVER as The First-Fruits Offering through His Resurrection Power.
Let us bring to Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus the reward of His Sufferings, make of His Life, Death and Resurrection a New, Eternal, Everlasting, Abundant Nation for Him, Bless Him, make His Name, Which Is Above ALL Others, GREAT and Experientially Known throughout ALL Nations, Peoples, Tribes and Tongues! Let us Be The Called Out Ones, sanctified and separated from the sin and death that this present world of darkness has to offer and "GO", as Avram, Abram did, to the Promised Land that He Will Show us. Just as Avram, Abram passed through the land, so shall we go through the fire and flood (unscathed), because G-d Is With us (Immanuel). The Lord, ADONAI appeared to Avram, Abram, He Will Make Himself Know to us also and our descendants shall be given This (Promised) Land as well. Shall we build an altar of thanksgiving, honor, praise and worhip to ADONAI, The Lord? We are the Living Stones that Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus Will use to Build His Church, His Temple, His Body!
The Jewish New Year is upon us once again this October 2005. The Shofars shall be sounded for The Feast Of Trumpets and we Will Seek His Face during "The Ten Days Of Awe," that will lead us into The Holiest Day Of ALL on the Jewish Spiritual Calendar, "The Day Of Atonement(which puts us At-One-Ment-With-G-d)" and then The Feast Of Tabernacles, which speaks of the final in-gathering of "The Harvest" that is ripe for the picking, so let us prepare our hearts, minds, souls and spirits to Love Him, because in our weaknesses He Chooses To Show His Strength In Yeshua's / Salvation's / Jesus' Name. Amen And Amen.
Closing Blessing:
May Adonai / The Lord Bless, Keep, Cause His Face To Shine, Be Gracious Unto, Lift Up The Light Of His Countenance Upon And Give To Y-O-U Shalom, Peace, Wholeness, Fullness And "His Abrahamic Blessings," In The Name Of Yeshua / Salvation / Jesus The Messiah / Christ / The Anointed One, The Light Of The World. Amen And Amen.
G-d's Richest Blessings, Happy New Year & His Agape Love To ALL,
Your Brother & Friend In Him, Mark Tross <')))><
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