Demetrics and Pauline Roscoe

REPENT!

Nuclear War Nobody Wins:

All Humanity should ask Adonai for a change in their Lives

In a time such as today, events we hear in the News warn us that a Nuclear War could break out at any time; therefore one needs to be well-seasoned about what Salvation is and what it is not.

The Gospel of John is a manuscript written under the authority of the Holy Spirit that presents Yeshua’s Divinity and Godhead. Yeshua, our Redeemer, is introduced to humankind as the only access to eternal life. Where before a lamb had to be slaughtered to become temple-righteous, and obtained by following rules and regulations; we can now be secured by submitting to the Lordship of Yeshua [Jesus Christ of Nazareth]. Additionally, a change in one’s lifestyle and a life of obedience to the commandments of the Messiah is essential for Salvation.

“Ἰησοῦς” Jesus

(EBD)
Je’ sus, the proper, as Christ is the official, name of our Lord. To distinguish him from others so called, he is spoken of as “Jesus of Nazareth” (John 18:7, and “Jesus the son of Joseph” (John 6:42).
This is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua, which was originally Hoshea (Num 13:8 16), but changed by Moses into Jehoshua (Num 13:16; 1 Chr 7:27), or Joshua.

Few people understand that the Gospels, (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) were never meant to be carbon copies of the story about Yeshua. But, as four individuals stared at this glittering Diamond, each one walked away with their personal life impacted. As Yeshua’s apostles, the impression in their minds as a result from the teachings of Messiah, (contrary to what they already knew) caused these ordinary Jewish men to reshape their thinking about the role of the Redeemer.

It’s intriguing and definitely difficult to miss the distinctions placed on the Messiah that John shared in comparison to the rest of the apostles.

The Gospel of John placed its focus on the Messiah’s divinity and His endowment as Redeemer of humankind.
Apostle John was the prophetic forerunner of the Messiah, which hints to John’s ability to realize and appreciate Adonai’s Son and the sin offering – the Lamb of God.
Yeshua is presented as the servant King, who is also the ultimate Covenant between God and Man. He is the New Covenant standing on two legs. Hallelujah!

Let’s listen to the conversation between Nicodemus [the leader of the Synagogue] and Yeshua. This dialogue gives us some of the most significant insight into the Bible because in John 3:1-5 we find out what “Salvation” meant to the Jewish Messiah (Jesus Christ of Nazareth).

πίστις pístis

First of all, the Hebrew Translator, David Stern translates the Greek word πίστις pístis; as “trust” in comparison to the 1611 King James Version, who translated πίστις pístis as “faith” in the Complete Jewish Bible. We must remember that the Bible is a collection of Jewish documents that tell the story of a Jewish Messiah, who pays the sin-death for humanity with the offering of His sinless body and promises eternal life for those who believe in Him.

However, trusting in Yeshua is not a mere intellectual acknowledgment or a mental assent to the fact that Yeshua is the Son of God. This is not the completed plan of Salvation, there is much more. The most crucial part of the way to Eternal Salvation is that the individual must “repent” as a course of action to the obedience to Christ’s commandments.

James 2:18-20 (CWSB)
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Matthew 3:8-9 (NLT)
⁸ Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God. ⁹ Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’ That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones.

Matthew 3:7-8 (AMPC)
⁸ Bring forth fruit that is consistent with repentance [let your lives prove your change of heart];

Luke 13:6 (New Living Translation (NLT) Study Bible Notes)
13:6-9: The parable of the barren fig tree illustrated Jesus’ ministry to Israel. Unless the nation produced the fruit of repentance, it would face judgment. The parable is open-ended—Israel was being offered the chance to respond. Cp. Matt 21:18-19 // Mark 11:12-14.

As I stated before, trusting in Yeshua is not mere intellectual acknowledgment but adherence to, commitment to, trust in, faith in, reliance upon Yeshua as fully human, completely identified with us, and at the same time fully divine, completely identified with God.
In other words, when we give our life over to the Lord as a dead-man, the Lord takes over the Management.

Romans 3:25 (Jewish New Testament Commentary)
Non-Messianic Jews are hard pressed to give an answer to the question:

“Now that the Temple has been destroyed so that sacrifices can no longer be offered in the manner God requires in the Torah, what is the kapparah {Substitutions} for sins?” The customary answer, that the sacrifices have been replaced by repentance, prayer, and works of charity, finds no basis in the Tanakh, even though all three are worthy activities and the first two are surely essential elements of the atonement process. The correct answer to the question is given in this verse: Yeshua is the kapparah.

To experience a religious conversion by accepting in one’s heart a Covenant through Trust.
The following is the definition of the Greek word for “Faith.”

1. πίστις pístis; gen. písteōs, fem. noun from peíthō (G3982), to win over, persuade. Faith. Subjectively meaning firm persuasion, conviction, belief in the truth, veracity, reality or faithfulness (though rare). Objectively meaning that which is believed, doctrine, the received articles of faith.

In short, Bible “faith” is the acceptance of what is presented about Jesus Christ of Nazareth is true, and we come to “trust” that the object of His mission, is to save the souls of man (Matt 1:21).
So “faith must not be confused with the esoteric mysterious, taught to a select few.

(Easton Bible Dictionary)
“Faith”
Faith is, in general, the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true (Phil 1:27; 2 Thess 2:13). Its primary idea is trust. A thing is true, and therefore worthy of trust. It admits of many degrees up to full assurance of faith, in accordance with the evidence on which it rests.
Faith is the result of teaching (Rom 10:14 -17). Knowledge is an essential element in all faith and is sometimes spoken of as an equivalent to faith (John 10:38; 1 John 2:3). Yet the two are distinguished in this respect, that faith includes in it assent, which is an act of the will in addition to the act of the understanding. Assent to the truth is of the essence of faith, and the ultimate ground on which our assent to any revealed truth rests is the veracity of God.

Historical faith is the apprehension of and assent to certain statements which are regarded as mere facts of history.
It can be said that before an individual is truly born anew, they might think like the Jewish leader Nicodemus, who believed in Christ fundamentally as a miracle worker.

The leader of the Rabbis told Yeshua that “we know you are from God because of the miracles you do.” The facts are: It is easy for our religious nature to automatically attribute divine qualities to a miracle, so, who wouldn’t affirm a God who can perform real miracles.
But John was an interceding Apostle, who cried out to Heaven so that Adonai (God of the Jews) would reveal the mystery of His plan of Salvation.
After all, prophetic fulfillment is waiting on earthly conditions before the spirit realm can release its manifestation as a result of powerful intercession! For example, the psalmist (Ps. 3:4) was a voice in the wilderness. A definition of the English word “intercessor” is a “negotiator.”

Psalms 3:4 (Amplified Bible – AMP)
With my voice, I was crying to the Lord,
And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah.

Hebrews 5:7 (Amplified Bible – AMP)
7 In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].

Born again intercessors, are fixed on the brightness of the Messiah’s Glory, and the brilliance at His coming, instead of blessing and miracles. Amen!

John 3:1-5 (Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary)
Nicodemus
​1 There was a man of the Pharisees, — named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

1. Νικόδημος Nikódēmos; gen. Nikodḗmou, masc. proper noun. Nicodemus, meaning victor among the people, one who has won distinction among the people.

John 3:16 (Jewish New Testament Commentary)
16 This perhaps most famous and most quoted of verses in the New Testament epitomizes the truth of God that has come to Jews and Gentiles alike in Yeshua the Messiah. It teaches that (1) God loves his creation, the world; (2) to love is to give, to love much is to give much, and God loves the world so much that he gave what is most precious to him; (3) Yeshua was fully aware in advance that he would die as God’s own sacrifice; (4) Yeshua knew that he was uniquely God’s Son; (5) the destiny of man when he relies on himself and does not trust in Yeshua is total destruction (Greek apollumi, “be ruined, destroyed, lost”)-not cessation of conscious existence, but the eternal suffering that is the inevitable consequence of sin; and (6) the destiny of an individual who trusts in Yeshua is everlasting life-not only in the future but right now-not just survival beyond the grave, which everyone has (5:28-29; Rv 20:4-5, 12-15), but positive life “in” Yeshua (1:4, 11:25-26).

John 3:18 (Jewish New Testament Commentary)
18 Those who do not trust. Clearly, those who, upon hearing the Good News and understanding it, nevertheless refuse to trust are judged already. But what about those who have never heard of Yeshua? or who have heard but not understood? See Ro 2:14-16 N and Lk 12:8-10 N.

Luke 3:3-14 (CWSB)
3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be made — straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
6 And all flesh shall see the Salvation of God.
7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth, therefore, fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
9 And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.
10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
12 Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
13 And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

16 “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
18 “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. 19 And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.20 All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.21 But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.”

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