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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...
  • 12 Men Texting as their Messiah approaches – Part 1

    12 Men Texting as their Messiah approaches – Part 1

    If you could TEXT 12 men or women about Jesus Christ, would you? Do you SHARE the Good News of JESUS with a ‘christian’ friend or 12 men you know or dozens of men and women who have questions about the Gospel?

    Worship of the Son of God!

    You likely know the narratives of 21st century holidays such as Palm Sunday, Easter or even Passover [Pesach – פסח (in Hebrew)] all too well – perhaps too well to worship the Lord God in the context of a first century Jerusalem.

    A dear Jewish friend of ours, one of many since my wife is a Messianic Jew, commented just last week on the troubling events of these last days. He said something to the effect that it looks like it could be getting close to the time of the return of the Messiah.

    Perhaps our Jewish friend is right. Indeed, if you examine the context of the first coming of the Messiah Jesus you will see promise after His bodily resurrection of a return once more.

    Yet I ask you to consider in my agreement with our Jewish friend (a social jew just like many “christians” have become social christians) a deeper look into Scripture – Jewish Scripture. What you read here I offer based on what Christians call, the “Old Testament” or the ‘former Covenant.’

    The Former Covenant – בְּרִית

    How many Christians OR Jews truly value the solemn witness of Covenant with the LORD our God?

    Sadly, too few — and the LORD in these last days seems all-but forgotten in the hearts and lives of those ‘religious’ who claim covenant with the Lord our God. I trust that by your own study of my exposition of prophecy of the Messiah and especially all other Scripture (yes, christian, including the Old Covenant) you seek cleansing and redemption for your sins.

    Although ancient writings of the Talmud & Mishna, (in various translations), the Apocrypha (with 14 books Jewish in origin) and other extra-Biblical teaching may be enlightening, these do not stand up to Scripture alone, the inspired word of the Lord God.

    We might easily veer off course, sidetracked from the Lord’s application of Scripture in our own lives by even unintentional misdirection and misinterpretation by teachers of the past.

    In this brief look of connection between the Old Covenant and New we will look back to two brief passages from three chapters of Daniel.

    The New Covenant

    Our purpose here is focused only on the Sacrifice of the Son of Man – the Messiah of Israel – and not specifically the broken covenant compared to a new and better covenant. If the Spirit of the Lord draws you to further study the following translations of the book of Hebrews may help.

    Hebrews 9:

    Please note that you may LISTEN to three of these translations as well as READ it in Hebrew.

    Daniel 9:

    … I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

    24 …

    • to finish the transgression,
    • to make an end of sin,
    • to make atonement for iniquity,
    • to bring in everlasting righteousness,
    • to seal up vision and prophecy
    • and to anoint the most holy place.

    What mere mortal, what man even a priest of the Lord can do this with permanence?

    Only the Son of Man, the Holy One of Israel – the One Messiah Jesus!

    25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince…

    You with ears to hear, understand: Jerusalem does not surpass the Messiah the Prince of God our Father in importance. For by His Sacrifice worship of the LORD is sanctified and perfected in Jesus the Son of Man and Only Son of God.

    … It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,
    but in difficult times.
    26 After those sixty-two weeks
    the Anointed One will be cut off
    and will have nothing.
    The people of the coming ruler
    will destroy the city and the sanctuary…

    Daniel 10: Vision of a Glorious One

    Better-learned men than me have studied Daniel’s vision of the Messiah and understood more, but even the Prophet Daniel confessed that he did not understand its full meaning.

    I will add one additional look at Daniel after deferring to Sir Isaac Newton.

    On the Bible:


    “I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.”

    On atheism:
    “Atheism is so senseless.

    When I look at the solar system. I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.”

    TEXT COMMENTARIES :: SIR ISAAC NEWTON – BluedLetterBible.org

    If you count in Judaic years commencing in autumn, and date the reckoning from the first autumn after Ezra’s coming to Jerusalem, when he put the King’s decree in execution; the death of Christ will fall on the year of the Julian Period 4747, Anno Domini 34; and the weeks will be Judaic weeks, ending with sabbatical years; and this I take to be the truth…

    Daniel 12:

    Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

    Daniel 12:2 NASB

    7 Then I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the water of the river. He raised both his hands toward heaven and swore by him who lives eternally that it would be for a time, times, and half a time.

    When the power of the holy people is shattered, all these things will be completed.

    8 I heard but did not understand…

    Whether texting 12 men and women OR simply sharing the Gospel in person you can bet that THEY do not understand either. Why not start your Christian Social Witness here?

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    To be continued...
  • Lazarus – the Dead Man came out!

    Lazarus – the Dead Man came out!

    Witness of a Dead Man

    What must it be like to be dead? (Have you ever thought about it?)

    You get sick and perhaps pain increases. Your loved ones begin to look at you in a different way than when you participated in life with them.

    Although John’s Good News focuses on Jesus, dear friend of Lazarus (who just happens to be the Messiah), the mourners present for this funeral now would see Lazarus in a new light. He becomes a dead man walking out of his own grave!

    The Messiah Jesus, after having been to Jerusalem for a festival (and likely Bethany) receives a message from Mary and Martha asking for help. Jesus continues His mission while returning to Bethany, arriving four days after Lazarus’ death. The Messiah mourns publically the death of His friend.

    But then a turn of events for the dead man unexpected by the mourners of Lazarus.

    John 11:

    38 Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb.

    It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

    Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”

    One does not go into the place of the dead to pray for their soul. And what else can a mere man do to help one that has died?

    Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

    40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?”

    This goes back to their conversation about death and resurrection when Martha first spoke with Jesus as He and the Apostles approached Bethany.

    “If only you had been here, Lord,” said Martha, “my brother would never have died… “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus replied to her.

    John 11:21-23 excerpt PHILLIPS

    41 So they removed the stone.

    Witness of a prayer

    Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said,

    “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

    I knew that You always hear Me;

    but because of the people standing around I said it,

    so that they may believe that You sent Me.”

    Does God hear you?

    If the Lord God hears you, then your public witness to the world around you had best be true.

    43 After Yeshua had said this, he shouted as loudly as he could,

    “Lazarus, come out!”

    The Messiah Jesus (Yeshua) has just shouted into an open tomb to a dead man!

    Does God the Father, Whom Jesus thanked for hearing Him, hear the Lord Jesus’ loud cry to Lazarus? Can a man dead for four days hear the loudest shout of earth or heaven?

    Resurrection of a dead friend

    “Lazarus, come forth.”

    44 The man who had died came forth…

    … bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.

    A dead man walking. This very sight of Lazarus bound in the wrappings of death must have terrified those present!

    These sort of things do not happen.

    “Now unbind him,” Jesus told them, “and let him go home.”

    Some brave soul complied with the command of their Lord and Lazarus, a man dead in the grave, would walk weakly in amazement to the door of his own home, his sisters Martha and Mary at his side.

    The Messiah Jesus, his friend, would accompany the one He had just saved from a death already experienced.

    … for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth;

    those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life,

    those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.

    John 5:28b-29 NASB– the words of the Messiah Jesus
    You with ears to hear, 
hear the voice of Jesus 
calling out to your dead soul...

To be continued...

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