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Is the bride prepared and ready for her Groom?
It is vital that we remember that the Bible is a Jewish document that presents the Gospel as the narrative of 
a Jewish Wedding. After scholars rewrote the Bible, some of the Hebrew words (the only language that could completely animate a marital relationship) replaced the original text. Unfortunately, Adonai’s effectual word-picture of His Bride and Groom in the 25th Chapter of Matthew may have been watered down in the story.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Traps of The Devil” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:27|text_align:left|color:%23822a14″][vc_column_text]Sadly, some people have a form of Godliness, but not the Power, because they deny His power to change them.
The seductive whore in Revelations will fascinate and allure the Church into God-forbidden teachings; then this demon will celebrate their fall from the faith by drinking the saints’ blood. We are not ignorant of the devil’s devices. In the Bible, we read about false teachers that are being seen and heard in this day. The Book of Jude prophetically spoke of, men who will fabricate an unholy distortion of the Magnificent Grace of our Lord.
Jude 1:4
(Complete Jewish Bible) 4 For certain individuals, the ones written about long ago as being meant for this condemnation, have wormed their way in—ungodly people who pervert God’s grace into a license for debauchery and disown our only Master and Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.
Matthew 10:32-33
(Complete Jewish Bible) 32 “Whoever acknowledges me in the presence of others I will also acknowledge in the presence of my Father in heaven. 33 But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The love of the truth will wax cold. And the worst will happen when our faithful and loving God of Grace and Mercy, gets fed up humans’ rejection of the Truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
(CWSB) 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Justice for the Nations” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:27|text_align:left|color:%23822a14″][vc_single_image image=”11201″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_column_text]The final judgment against injustices
Injustices and crimes against humanity frequently occur whenever one nation might assume power and oppress people of another nation solely because it is small and without adequate resources or when the country is underdeveloped. These injustices may include the kidnapping of a people and making slaves of them for the economic advantage of 100% earnings since the labor was free or without any investment.[/vc_column_text][vc_images_carousel images=”11209,11212,11213,11214,11215,11216,11211″ img_size=”medium” autoplay=”yes” hide_prev_next_buttons=”yes” wrap=”yes”][vc_column_text]Justice for the Races
For example, people of darker skin from many nations were looked down upon and even hated. Considered as being less than human, this race of people were treated worse than animals on the same plantation. Because rapes and murders were allowed, a slave could not complain. There were no laws in the legal system that represented a slave. Sadly, during this era, both Africans and Jews were made the personal property of ungodly men and were abused.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_images_carousel images=”11219,11220,11221,11222,11223,11224,11225″ img_size=”medium” autoplay=”yes” hide_prev_next_buttons=”yes” wrap=”yes”][vc_column_text]Also, Native Americans who showed kindness to Europeans and Spaniards were taken advantage of, and their land stripped from them. Whether we consider it as such or not, the first chemical warfare used against a people was the deception of smallpox-infected blankets given to Native Americans to make them sickly, and these so-called “gifts” contributed to hundreds of Native American deaths. Finally, after they were repeatedly lied to and tricked out of their land, the remnant of these original inhabitants was forced to live on reservations.[/vc_column_text][vc_images_carousel images=”11198,11197,11196,11195,11194,11199″ img_size=”medium” autoplay=”yes” hide_pagination_control=”yes” wrap=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Additionally, Jews were captured and imprisoned and even murdered merely because some people hated this God-chosen, ethnic/religious group. Nations took over their businesses and wealth. They were gassed, poisoned, or placed in front of firing squads to die and then buried in mass graves. Even infant children were separated from their families and killed.
History shows that Jews (and African-Americans) were cruelly used in scientific experiments while still alive.
After learning about generations of families experiencing these injustices, one might question in his heart “Where was God?”
In my lifetime, I have found that people who have been horribly oppressed and often forgotten, have an incredible resiliency which I believe is an eternal reward from God that words cannot explain.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Redemption of Israel’s Chastisers” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:27|text_align:left|color:%23822a14″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Isaiah 19:21-25
(CJB) 21 ADONAI will make himself known to Egypt;
on that day, the Egyptians will know ADONAI.
They will worship him with sacrifices and offerings,
they will make vows to ADONAI and keep them.
22 Yet ADONAI will strike Egypt, both striking and healing,
so they will return to ADONAI.
He will listen to their prayers,
and he will heal them.
23 On that day there will be a highway
from Egypt to Ashur.
Ashur will come to Egypt and Egypt to Ashur,
and Egypt will worship with Ashur.
24 On that day Isra’el will be a third partner
with Egypt and Ashur, a blessing here on earth;
25 for ADONAI-Tzva’ot has blessed him:
“Blessed be Egypt my people,
Ashur the work of my hands
and Isra’el my heritage.”
[/vc_column_text][vc_images_carousel images=”11189,11184,11186,11187,11188,11190,11191″ img_size=”large” autoplay=”yes” wrap=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary)
מִצְרַיִם miṣrayim: A proper noun is designating Mizraim:
The son of Ham, Noah’s son, and the ancestor of Egypt and its people. The name is the name of Egypt in Hebrew. Mizraim fathered several sons from whom other peoples came (1 Chr. 1:8). An ancient land and nation that has a history going back beyond 3000 b.c. The word Egypt comes from the Greek term Aiguptos. The Hebrew name in the Old Testament is miṣrayim. The meaning of this word is uncertain. It is in a dual form and may hint at the Upper and Lower geographical aspects of this ancient nation. It occupied the northeastern corner of the African continent. It has been called the “gift of the Nile,” referring to its central river which is the lifeblood of the nation. The Nile (or river of Egypt; Gen. 15:18) flows from the south to the northern delta where it empties into the Mediterranean. The Nile’s seasonal flooding provided the land and people yearly with fertile soil and abundant crops for food. To the south, past the cataracts of the Nile, lay Nubia, Cush, and Ethiopia, as well as the White Nile and the Blue Nile, the highland tributaries of the Nile itself. The nation Israel and her ancestors had both friendly and hostile encounters with Egypt (Gen. 12:40, 41; Ex. 1).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Isaiah 19:24-25
(Amplified Bible – AMP) 24 In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and with Assyria [in a Messianic league], a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My heritage.”
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”11182″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”11188″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_column_text]Picture of Head
Head of a King, c. 2650–2600 BC, Brooklyn Museum. The earliest representations of Egyptian Kings are on a small scale. From the Third Dynasty, statues were made showing the ruler life-size; this head wearing the crown of Upper Egypt even surpasses human scale.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”11186″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Economics of Righteousness Judgment” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:27|text_align:left|color:%23822a14″][vc_column_text]How does it make sense for God to tell His prophet to go and ask a poor woman to cook her last bit of food and share it with the prophet?
The answer is that God wanted to end a famine over the children of Israel. So God created a High Court of God:
The judgment Court of the “ἐπουράνιος epouránios,” Where our Heavenly Father sets in Heaven. The Court of God determined an act of kindness, which is one of the highest goals of every Jew [to fear God, observe Torah, and to accomplish acts of kindness with friends as well as your enemies.
Tzedek & Chessed – Righteousness and Kindness
Gemilut Chassadim – Loving-Kindness
Acts of charity and loving-kindness are central to the Torah way of life. The importance and the ramifications of “chesed” in the entire sphere of social obligations and human relationships is mandatory in the Jewish faith.
We have heard that when we pray for our enemy, we should pray that coals of fire be upon their heads. Many may have thought that the coals were meant to burn them alive. But the Scripture was intended for the injured party to pray a Blessing for their enemy which in turn released Blessings for themselves. In ancient Israel, deserts were hot in the day but very cold at night. The only way a person could stay warm was by placing hot coals from the fire in their head coverings. Likewise, in the courts of God, prayer to help your enemy will release Blessings into your own life! Therefore, when the Righteous encounter an evil deed; through our prayer of forgiveness, God’s response will not only show them Mercy, but He will turn what they meant for our evil to work out for our good![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Before our Heavenly Father passed judgment against Lucifer and his kingdom of demonic hosts because of his rebellion; God demonstrated through His Son, Jesus a Godly behavior, and why Lucifer’s condemnation to Hell. Torah was written to reveal the Glory of God, which is hard to understand without the New Birth. Yeshua walked out of the pages of Torah, and then deposited this Treasure into the hearts of man, to teach the Glory of the Father.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dr. Martin Luther King saw from a mountain-top perspective a glimpse into the Judgment Courts of the Almighty. This year a New Report asked me if I could speak on the differences between the Civil Rights leaders of today compared to the Civil Rights leaders of the 1950s, and 1960s. In my response, I told her about the Glory in the Cross of Christ. We realized that somehow the honorable Dr. King was also beginning to understand the Bible mystery of
“Tzedek and Chessed” – Righteousness and Kindness
Tzedek = Righteousness in Hebrew; Chessed = Love and Kindness, or unfailing love.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Hebrews 5:6-10
(Complete Jewish Bible)
Malki-Tzedek
7 During Yeshua’s life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions, crying aloud and shedding tears, to the One who had the power to deliver him from death; and he was heard because of his godliness.
8 Even though he was the Son, he learned obedience through his sufferings.
9 And after he had been brought to the goal, he became the source of eternal deliverance to all who obey him,
10 since he had been proclaimed by God as a cohen gadol to be compared with Malki-Tzedek.
Without fighting or saying a word, Yeshua’s demeanor on the Cross caused the Highest Court in Heaven to make Him, High Priest “cohen gadol”, the King of Righteous “Malki Tzedek.”
Our Messiah trusted His Father’s written Word and taught us to do the same.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Hebrews 5:9-10
(Amplified Bible – AMP)
9 And having been made perfect [uniquely equipped and prepared as Savior and retaining His integrity amid opposition], He became the source of eternal salvation [an eternal inheritance] to all those who obey Him,
10 being designated by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
While Jesus Christ carried the ability to destroy His enemies, He pleased the High Courts of Heaven by trusting The Adoni-Elohim, “Lord God.”
Let me get back to the subject of Dr. Martin Luther King’s peaceful marches. He and his followers encountered hostility, but because of prayer and worship before leaving the churches, the High Courts of Heaven gave them victory in that era. The High Court of Heaven moved on the hearts of men, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin, it is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. … In subsequent years, Congress expanded the act and passed additional civil rights legislation such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Romans 8:5-9
(CJB) 5 For those who identify with their old nature set their minds on the things of the old nature, but those who identify with the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
6 Having one’s mind controlled by the old nature is death, but having one’s mind controlled by the Spirit is life and shalom.
7 For the mind controlled by the old nature is hostile to God, because it does not submit itself to God’s Torah—indeed, it cannot.
8 Thus, those who identify with their old nature cannot please God.
9 But you, you do not identify with your old nature but with the Spirit—provided the Spirit of God is living inside you, for anyone who doesn’t have the Spirit of the Messiah doesn’t belong to him.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
John 11:40-43
(NLT Study Bible Text,)
40 Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?”
41 So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me.
42 You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.”43 Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
So, what is the Glory of God?
The Glory of God is the evidence or proof of Adonai’s Sovereign life flowing throughout all creation. As a seed falls into the ground, it automatically follows instructions from the moment of God’s command and conception. When Yeshua told the sea to be still and the storm to stop, it involved hundreds of thousands of tons of air molecules that are lifting and falling which created a giant engine in the sky!
I once read that one thunderstorm is made up of molecules the weight of an African elephant! With all this said, the Bible tells us that if anyone thirsts, let them come and drink of Me. Jesus Christ is allowing man and woman the opportunity to share in His Kingdom richness.
Numbers 21:10
(Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible)
The Spirit, who is poured forth for our comfort, and from whom flow to us rivers of living waters, John 7:38,39.
Does this well spring up in our souls? If so, we should take comfort to ourselves, and give the glory to God. God promised to give water, but they must open the ground. God’s favors must be expected in the use of such means as are within our power, but still, the power is only of God.
I am sure that you remember when Jesus finally got to Martha, Mary, and Lazareth’s house, Martha told him that by now (4 days later) my brother’s body is stinking because of decay! Christ was not deterred at all by her comment. His response to her was that if she believed as the Scripture said, she would see the Glory of God. Perhaps, she did not understand what His Glory meant.
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(Easton Bible Dictionary)
The glorious moral attributes, the infinite perfections of God (Isa 40:5 Acts 7:2 Rom 1:23; 9:23; Eph 1:12). Jesus is the “brightness of the Father’s glory” (Heb 1:3 John 1:14; 2:11).[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”11253″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In ancient times, the political system was the human level of the governmental system that was influenced by the prince of the air. The Bible taught followers of Messiah to pray for our political governments. If we want changes in our sphere of influence, we also must pray to the Father Who is seated in the Highest Courts of Heavens ( ἐπουράνιος epouránios).
By invoking the heavens where the Elohim is seated and by praying the Will of God, will cause the Glory of our Father to move within the decisions and planning of local leadership. Over the governments of men, there is the Kingdom of Adonai, Who watches over the governments of the world.
ἐπουράνιος epouránios; the place of which is the seat of the living God, the Almighty. The seat of Adonai is above the epouránia means the heavens, heaven (Eph. 1:20); en toís epouraníois, in the heavenlies (Eph. 2:6; 3:10), in heaven.
Adonai, the God that rules from Heaven ἐπουράνιος epouránios;
At the end of time, kingdoms on Earth will do things
that the rest of the world will consider strange behavior, but these kings are subject to the prophetic words laid out in the Holy writing.
Ephesians 3:9-13
(NLT Study Bible Text,) 9 I was chosen to explain to everyone this mysterious plan that God, the Creator of all things, had kept secret from the beginning.
10 God’s purpose in all this was to use the church to display his wisdom in its rich variety to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. 11 This was his eternal plan, which he carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Because of Christ and our faith in him, we can now come boldly and confidently into Adonai’s presence.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]