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  • The Veil torn on Good Friday + Witness of a story & Scripture

    How does a veil torn in the Temple on Good Friday connect all Jews to Christians of the 21st century Church?

    drawing of priest in Holy of Holies
    a glance inside the HOLY OF HOLIES as described in the books of Moses
    And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. – Mark 15:38

    Good Friday

    Before we turn to the actual script of this pivotal event in history, allow me to place you into a fictional Good Friday scene as one witness to what is about to take place with the veil of the Temple.

    I trust that you understand the imagery and symbolic significance of this scene set within the Temple.

    Setting:

    First century Jerusalem during the week of Passover festival.

    In fact, on this most fateful day prior to the Sabbath of the sacred Passover feast, crowds larger than usual have already witnessed unprecedented scenes convicting Jesus of Nazareth of sedition against Caesar and blasphemy against G-d.

    The politics of Jerusalem and Rome have impacted you your entire life.

    The Politics of Religion – Righteousness on Trial

    Scene:

    Inside the Temple after Jesus’ trials and predetermined death sentence on a cross.

    Picture a fictional scene near the HOLY OF HOLIES in first century Jerusalem. The veil of the Temple is always closed.

    Characters:

    Just you (or so it seems).

    Other Levite priests may also be near in other parts of the Temple, also performing their regular duties away from the massive crowds.

    Imagine that you witness this Good Friday event as a Levite in first century Jerusalem (under Annas, Caiaphas and the seventy of the Sanhedrin, and also under King Herod Antipas Tetrarch, Judean Governor Pilate and of course Tiberias Caesar).

    The lights dim..

    The curtain opens (so to speak) .. as the scene before us unfolds…

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  • Apocalypse 10 + Gospel of the Seventh Seal

    LISTEN!
    Revelation 8
    Complete Jewish Bible
    8 When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for what seemed like half an hour. 2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven shofars.

    The Seven Trumpets

    You weren’t expecting it…

    never-the-less, the sound of the coming Wrath of the LORD is come!

    OR

    You listened to those who predicted it, yet the Wrath of the LORD was not revealed.

    So since it’s been millennia and the END has not come, it will not …

    or so you thought.

    Apocalypse of the END

    “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

    Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

    Mark 13:33 – Caution of the Messiah Jesus to followers 
    To be continued...

.. but when? …

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  • Apocalypse 2 – Good News Unsealed

    Apocalypse 2 – Good News Unsealed

    ἀποκάλυψις

    apokalypsis or apocalypse

    We often associate apocalypse with the dramatic catastrophic events of the Book of Revelation from the Bible. To begin with a definition, note that an apocalypse is not necessarily an unseen disaster (although it may be for some).

    1. laying bare, making naked
    2. a disclosure of truth, instruction
    3. manifestation, appearance

    In this case: ‘the revelation‘ or disclosure of Truth, instruction by the Lord Jesus, various appearances of awe-filled scenes taking place in heaven — ALL lay bare to the eyes of mankind the wrath of the Judgement to come upon all the Creation of Almighty GOD!

    Revelation

    Apocalypse is also the hopeful good word used in the Gospel of Luke by a first century prophet at the Temple of the Jews revealing the child Jesus as their Messiah or the Christ.

    A LIGHT FOR REVELATION TO THE GENTILES,
    And the glory of Your people Israel.”

    Luke 2:32 – prophesy of Simeon about Jesus

    Christians and unbelievers alike are familiar with it as the title of the last book of the Holy Bible. From the Latin of ancient Rome:

    apocalypsis Iesu Christi

    Other versions or translations from Greek:

    Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ

    • The Revelation of Jesus Christ
    • The Revelation from Jesus Christ
    • The Revelation of Yeshua the Messiah

    So whatever section of Revelation you read remember this:

    Revelation is NOT bad news about the end of Creation, but Gospel GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior sent in the flesh to a world of sinners.

    Roger Harned + talk of Jesus {dot}.com

    The Apostle John, who witnessed many miracles of the Lord God, falls prostrate is AWE before these visions laid bare to his mortal eyes. John subsequently obediently begins Christ’s disclosure to the saints of the churches, seven specific first century churches & faithful worshipers of this 21st century day:

    Revelation 1:

    The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, everything that he saw.

    apokalypsis of THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

    Blessed is the one who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things which are written in it; for the time is near.

    To be continued...