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Thursday, January 26, 2012

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YESHUA SAYS IN LUKE 1 TO "JERUSALEM":

"I TELL YOU, YOU WILL NOT SEE ME AGAIN UNTIL YOU SAY, 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.'"

THIS VERSE IS FROM PSALM 118 AND IS RECITED AT THE FEAST OF PASSOVER AND AT THE FALL FEASTS:

"THE STONE THE BUILDERS REJECTED
HAS BECOME THE CAPSTONE,
THE LORD HAS DONE THIS, AND
IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES.
THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE
LET US REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT.
O LORD SAVE US,
O LORD GRANT US SUCCESS
BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD"

HERE, JERUSALEM COMES TO THE REALIZATION THAT THE ONE WHO WAS REJECTED IS THE CAPSTONE; THE VEIL IS LIFTED FROM THEIR EYES AND THEY SINCERELY WLL SAY 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.' WHEN THEY DO THIS, THEY WILL SEE YESHUA, JESUS, AGAIN!

EVEN THOUGH GOD HAS APPEARED TO DIVORCE THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR LOVE OF OTHER GODS AND THEIR REJECTION OF YESHUA AT HIS FIRST COMING AND THE BETTER COVENANT, GOD SAYS THAT HE WILL MARRY THEM AGAIN. THE LORD SAYS THESE VERSES THROUGH HOSEA AND ISAIAH AFTER HE HAD PROCLAIMED THAT HE WAS DIVORCING ISRAEL. HIS HEART CHANGES AND HIS HEART TURNS FROM ANGER TO LOVE:

"THEREFORE I AM NOW GOING TO ALLURE HER; I WILL LEAD HER INTO THE DESERT AND SPEAK TENDERLY TO HER...THERE SHE WILL SING AS IN THE DAYS OF HER YOUTH...IN THAT DAY, DECLARES THE LORD, 'YOU WILL CALL ME MY HUSBAND.'" HOSEA 2:14

"'SING, O BARREN WOMAN' YOU WHO NEVER BORE A CHILD; BURST INTO SONG, SHOUT FOR JOY, YOU WHO WERE NEVER IN LABOR; BECAUSE MORE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE WOMAN THAN OF HER WHO HAS A HUSBAND, SAYS THE LORD....YOU WILL FORGET THE SHAME OF YOUR YOUTH AND REMEMBER NO MORE THE REPROACH OF YOUR WIDOWHOOD. FOR YOUR MAKER IS YOUR HUSBAND - THE LORD ALMIGHTY IS HIS NAME...THE LORD WILL CALL YOU BACK AS IF YOU WERE A WIFE DESERTED AND DISTRESSED IN SPIRIT-A WIFE WHO MARRIED YOUNG, ONLY TO BE REJECTED...FOR A BRIEF MOMENT I ABANDONED YOU, BUT WITH DEEP COMPASSION I WILL BRING YOU BACK. IN A SURGE OF ANGER, I HID MY FACE FROM YOU FOR A MOMENT, BUT WITH EVERLASTING KINDNESS I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON YOU."  ISAIAH 54

THE MAJORITY OF ISRAEL WILL ACCEPT THE NEW COVENANT, THE BETTER MARRIAGE CONTRACT IN THE FUTURE AND WILL BE THE GLORIOUS BRIDE AGAIN.


THE LORD SAYS IN HOSEA 5:14-15:

"FOR I WILL BE LIKE A LION TO EPHRAIM, LIKE A GREAT LION TO JUDAH. I WILL TEAR THEM TO PIECES AND GO AWAY; I WILL CARRY THEM OFF WITH NO ONE TO RESCUE THEM.  THEN I WILL GO BACK TO MY PLACE UNTIL THEY ADMIT THEIR GUILT. AND THEY WILL SEEK MY FACE; IN THEIR MISERY THEY WILL EARNESTLY SEEK ME."

JOSEPH IN THE BIBLE IS A PROTO-TYPE, A FORERUNNER OF YESHUA. HIS BROTHERS WERE JEALOUS OF HIS AUTHORITY OVER THEM, THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD KILLED HIM, AND DIDN'T REALIZE THAT HE WAS ACTUALLY ALIVE.  JOSEPH REVEALS HIMSELF TO THEM ONCE THEY ADMIT THEIR GUILT. JUST LIKE THE VERSES SAY IN HOSEA, THE PHYSICAL BROTHERS OF YESHUA WILL, DURING THE TRIBULATION, WILL EARNESTLY SEEK YESHUA'S FACE AND AND ADMIT THEIR GUILT.  AT THAT TIME, HE WILL LEAVE HIS PLACE IN HEAVEN.  IT IS INTERESTING THAT MANY IN JUDAISM SAY THAT THERE WILL BE A TYPE OF JOSEPH MESSIAH BEFORE THERE IS THE DAVID MESSIAH.

THE VEIL MUST BE LIFTED OFF THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE IN ISRAEL BEFORE JESUS CAN RETURN IN FULL POWER TO THE EARTH.  PAUL SAYS ABOUT THE ISRAELITES THAT:


"GOD GAVE THEM A SPIRIT OF STUPOR, EYES SO THAT THEY COULD NOT SEE AND EARS SO THAT THEY COULD NOT HEAR..." ROM 11:8

THE WORLD WILL ULTIMATELY BE SAVED BY ISRAEL'S REPENTANCE AND SEEKING OF YESHUA AS MESSIAH.  PETER SPEAKS TO THE "MEN OF ISRAEL" IN JERUSALEM. HE SAYS TO THESE JEWS:

"REPENT, THEN AND TURN TO GOD, SO THAT YOUR SINS MAY BE WIPED OUT, THAT TIMES OF REFRESHING MAY COME FROM THE LORD, AND THAT HE MAY SEND THE CHRIST." ACTS 3:19

THE APOSTLES KNEW THAT JESUS WOULD ULTIMATELY "RESTORE THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO ISRAEL." ACTS 1:6  JESUS ONLY ADMONISHES THEM ABOUT WANTING TO KNOW THE TIME OF WHEN GOD WILL RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL; NOT WHETHER OR NOT IT WOULD INDEED HAPPEN.


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IN ORDER FOR GOD TO BE ABLE TO BRING HIS KINGDOM TO EARTH, THE NATION OF ISRAEL, WHO FAILED IN ITS PURPOSE AT THE FIRST COMING OF THE MESSIAH BY REJECTING YESHUA, JESUS, MUST NOW ACCEPT HIM.  THERE IS ALWAYS IN SCRIPTURE THE NATION OF ISRAEL AND THEN ALL OF THE OTHER NATIONS OF THE EARTH.  THE LORD SAYS:

"ABRAHAM WILL SURELY BECOME A GREAT AND POWERFUL NATION, AND ALL NATIONS ON EARTH WILL BE BLESSED THROUGH HIM." GEN 18:18

THE NATION OF ABRAHAM WILL HAVE AN EFFECT ON ALL OF THE OTHER NATIONS OF THE EARTH.

GOD SAYS TO JACOB: "A NATION, AND A COMMUNITY OF NATIONS WILL COME FROM YOU." GEN 35:11

A NATION IS THE NATION OF ISRAEL.  A "COMMUNITY OF NATIONS" ARE THE BELIEVERS IN YESHUA FROM THE NATIONS; THE HEBREW WORD FOR COMMUNITY IS "KAHAL", WHICH MEANS CHURCH OR ASSEMBLY; MEANING THE BELIEVERS IN YESHUA FROM THE NATIONS. ISRAEL OR JERUSALEM AS IT IS SOMETIMES CALLED, HAS ALREADY BEEN A BLESSING BY GIVING US THE MESSIAH YESHUA AND WILL ULTIMATELY BE A BLESSING TO THE WORLD BY FULFILLING ITS CALLING AND USHERING IN ULTIMATE REDEMPTION FOR THE WORLD.

THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS THAT HIS BROTHERS, THE ONES HE HAS ANGUISH FOR, BECAUSE OF THEIR REJECTION OF YESHUA, ARE STILL THE ONES THAT BY GOD ARE:

"...THE ADOPTION OF SONS, THEIRS IS THE DIVINE GLORY, THE COVENANTS, THE RECEIVING OF THE LAW, THE TEMPLE WORSHIP AND THE PROMISES." ROM 9:4

THESE COVENANTS AND PROMISES ALSO INCLUDE THE PHYSICAL LAND OF ISRAEL.  PAUL CONTINUES TO SAY IN ROMANS ABOUT HIS JEWISH BROTHERS WHO HAVE REJECTED YESHUA, THAT:

"...AS FAR AS THE GOSPEL IS CONCERNED, THEY ARE ENEMIES ON YOUR ACCOUNT; BUT AS FAR AS ELECTION IS CONCERNED, THEY ARE LOVED ON ACCOUNT OF THE PATRIARCHS, FOR GOD'S GIFTS AND HIS CALL ARE IRREVOCABLE.' ROM 11:28,29

HIS CALLING ON THEM TO BE A BLESSING AND HIS GIFTS TO THEM OF THE LAND AND THE COVENANTS STILL STAND AND HAVE NOT BEEN DONE AWAY WITH IN SPITE OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE.

PAUL SAYS THAT THEIR CALLING OF BRINGING THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO THE EARTH WILL FULFILLED WHEN THEY FINALLY ACCEPT JESUS AS MESSIAH. HE SAYS :

"FOR IF THEIR REJECTION IS THE RECONCILIATION OF THE WORLD, WHAT WILL THEIR ACCEPTANCE BE BUT LIFE FROM THE DEAD." ROM 11:15

HE IS SPEAKING ABOUT THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD WHICH OCCURS AFTER YESHUA, JESUS, RETURNS IN GLORY.  PAUL SAYS:

"FOR THE LORD HIMSELF WILL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, WITH A LOUD COMMAND, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL AND WITH THE TRUMPET CALL OF GOD, AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST." 1 THESSALONIANS 4

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

PAGE 3 GOD'S CALENDAR





SINCE GOD WANTS OUR RELATIONSHIP TO BE ONE OF LOVE, HE HAS TO BE HIDDEN AND NOT OBVIOUS. HE WANTS US TO HAVE TO LOOK FOR HIM AND SEARCH FOR HIM. GOD HAS THE PERFECT PLAN FOR REVEALING HIMSELF TO THE WORLD AND IT IS BEYOND OUR HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, BUT WE TRUST THAT IT IS PERFECT. HIS PLAN RUNS ACCORDING TO HIS SCHEDULE AND HIS CALENDAR.  ON THE FOURTH DAY, GOD CREATED TIME:

"AND GOD SAID, 'LET THERE BE LIGHTS IN THE EXPANSE OF THE SKY TO SEPARATE THE DAY FROM THE NIGHT, AND LET THEM SERVE AS SIGNS TO MARK SEASONS AND DAYS AND YEARS, AND LET THEM BE LIGHTS IN THE EXPANSE OF THE SKY TO GIVE LIGHT ON THE EARTH." GEN 1:14

ACCORDING TO GOD'S PLAN, CERTAIN THINGS HAPPEN ON EARTH ON A PARTICULAR DAY IN A PARTICULAR SEASON. THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS:

"BUT IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME, GOD SENT HIS SON, BORN OF A WOMAN, BORN UNDER LAW, TO REDEEM THOSE UNDER LAW, THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE FULL RIGHTS OF SONS" GALATIANS 4:4


AT HIS FIRST COMING, YESHUA READ HIS MISSION TO HIS FOLLOWERS:

"THE SPIRIT OF THE SOVEREIGN LORD IS ON ME,
BECAUSE HE HAS ANNOINTED ME
TO PREACH GOOD NEWS TO THE POOR.
HE HAS SENT ME TO BIND UP THE BROKENHEARTED,
TO PROCLAIM FREEDOM FOR THE CAPTIVES
AND RELEASE FROM DARKNESS FOR THE PRISONERS..." ISA 61

HE LEFT OFF THE SECOND PART OF THIS VERSE WHEN HE READ ISAIAH 61:1 IN THE SYNAGOGUE AT HIS FIRST COMING. HE DIDN'T DO THIS BECAUSE HE WAS FORGETFUL BUT DID IT ON PURPOSE.  THE SECOND PART OF THIS VERSE HAS TO DO WITH HIS MISSION IN HIS SECOND COMING. IT SAYS:

TO PROCLAIM THE YEAR OF THE LORD'S FAVOR AND THE DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD"

 IN LEVITICUS 23 THE LORD HAS ORDAINED FOR ISRAEL 7 FEASTS OF THE LORD TO BE CELBRATED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR:

"THE LORD SAID TO MOSES. SPEAK TO THE ISRAELITES AND SAY TO THEM: 'THESE ARE MY APPOINTED FEASTS, THE APPOINTED FEASTS OF THE LORD, WHICH YOU ARE TO PROCLAIM AS SACRED ASSEMBLIES'"

THREE ARE IN THE SPRING:

PASSOVER, UNLEAVENED BREAD AND FIRST FRUITS

ONE IS IN EARLY SUMMER:

PENTECOST OR FEAST OF WEEKS

THREE ARE IN THE FALL:

FEAST OF TRUMPETS OR ROSH HASHANNA, DAY OF ATONEMENT OR YOM KIPPOR AND TABERNACLES

YESHUA, JESUS,  FULFILLED THE SPRING FEASTS IN HIS FIRST COMING:

PASSOVER (JESUS SYMBOLIZING THE BLOOD OF THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB THE ISRAELITES APPLIED TO THEIR DOORPOSTS IN ORDER TO BE SAVED) EXODUS 11

UNLEAVENED BREAD (IN THE TOMB, HIS BODY DID NOT DECAY SYMBOLIZING BREAD WITHOUT LEAVEN THAT GOD HAD TOLD THE ISRAELITES TO PACK ON THEIR WAY OUT OF EGYPT ) EXODUS 12,13

FIRST FRUITS (JESUS WAS THE FIRSTBORN OF THE DEAD SYMBOLIZING THE FIRST FRUITS OFFERING THE ISRAELITES MADE TO GOD TO SHOW THEIR THANKFULNESS)

HE FULFILLED THE EARLY SUMMER FEAST OF PENTECOST BY SENDING HIS HOLY SPIRIT 40 DAYS AFTER HIS RESURRECTION

SHAVOUT (PENTECOST - GOD SENDS HIS HOLY SPIRIT, THE TORAH WRITTEN ON
                      OUR HEARTS)

JUST AS YESHUA, JESUS, FULFILLED THE SPRING FEASTS IN HIS FIRST COMING, HE WILL FULFILL THE FALL FEASTS: ROSH HASHANNA OR FEAST OF TRUMPETS, YOM KIPPOR OR DAY OF ATONEMENT, AND TABERNACLES IN HIS SECOND COMING.

THE FIRST COMING WAS FOR SALVATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL.  THE SECOND COMING IS FOR THE NATION OF ISRAEL, WHICH INCLUDE GENTILE BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS THAT ARE SPIRITUALLY GRAFTED IN TO ISRAEL.  PAUL SAYS IN ROMANS 11:

"THAT ALL OF ISRAEL IS TO BE SAVED"

YESHUA, JESUS, WILL BE REVEALED TO ALL ON EARTH IN THE FULL POWER AND GLORY OF THE GODHEAD AS KING, JUDGE AND BRIDEGROOM. HIS KINGDOM WILL BE ESTABLISHED IN JERUSAELM. HE WILL BE:

"...RULER OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH"

IT WILL BE A TIME OF DARKNESS AND JUDGMENT BUT IT WILL ALSO BE THE GREATEST TIME OF REVIVAL AND HARVEST OF INDIVIDUAL SOULS IN THE EARTH'S HISTORY. YESHUA IS COMING TO TAKE THE NATIONS AND THE EARTH BACK FROM SATAN'S CONTROL, THE AUTHORITY OF WHICH HE ACHIEVED AT THE CROSS.
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GOD IS A JUST AND HOLY GOD AND GOD  DYING IN OUR PLACE, TO PAY FOR THE PENALTY OF OUR SINS, WAS THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE US FROM THE CURSE OF OUR OWN DISOBEDIENCE. GOD CAN'T BE EXPOSED TO ANY SIN.

GOD IS ALSO A LOVING GOD; HE IS THE EMBODIMENT OF LOVE.  GOD THE FATHER SENDING HIS SON TO EARTH TO DIE A HORRIFIC DEATH TO SAVE HUMANS IS THE ULTIMATE ACT OF INCREDIBLE LOVE

"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE." JOHN 3:16

KING DAVID PROPHECIES WHAT JESUS WAS EXPERIENCING ON THE CROSS IN PSALM 22:

"MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?
WHY ARE YOU SO FAR FROM SAVING ME,
SO FAR FROM THE WORDS OF MY GROANING?...
BUT I AM A WORM AND NOT A MAN
SCORNED BY MEN AND DESPISED BY THE PEOPLE,
ALL WHO SEE ME MOCK ME,
THEY HURL INSULTS, SHAKING THEIR HEADS...
I AM POURED OUT LIKE WATER,
AND ALL MY BONES ARE OUT OF JOINT
MY HEART HAS TURNED TO WAX;
IT HAS MELTED AWAY WITHIN ME....
A BAND OF EVIL MEN HAS ENCIRCLED ME,
THEY HAVE PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET.
I CAN COUNT ALL MY BONES;
PEOPLE STARE AND GLOAT OVER ME..."

THE LORD PROPHECIES THROUGH ISAIAH ABOUT THE CROSS:

"I OFFERED MY BACK TO THOSE WHO BEAT ME,
MY CHEEKS TO THOSE WHO PULLED OUT MY BEARD;
I DID NOT HIDE MY FACE
FROM MOCKING AND SPITTING
BECAUSE THE SOVEREIGN LORD HELPS ME,
I WILL NOT BE DISGRACED."  ISAIAH 50:6

WHAT GREAT LOVE YESHUA, JESUS HAS FOR US AND FOR THE FATHER. HE WILLINGLY OFFERED HIMSELF TO SUFFER AND DIE.  GOD THE FATHER HAS SO MUCH LOVE FOR US THAT HE ALLOWED HIS SON TO GO THROUGH THIS TORMENT. YESHUA FELT SO ALONE BECAUSE IN ORDER TO REVERSE THE CURSE ON EARTH BECAUSE OF THE FALL OF MAN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, YESHUA HAD TO BECOME THE CURSE - ALL SIN- ON THE CROSS. GOD THE FATHER HAD TO LEAVE YESHUA AT THAT MOMENT, COULDN'T EVEN LOOK AT HIM,  BECAUSE HE CANNOT
LOOK AT SIN AT ALL.

YESHUA TELLS HIS FOLLOWERS THAT THERE IS NO "...GREATER LOVE THAN THIS, THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS."  JOHN 15:13

THE WORD THAT GOD USES FOR LOVE IS "AGAPE" IN THE GREEK. IT MEANS A LONGING FOR, A UNSELFISH LOVE THAT DOESN'T LOVE IN ORDER TO GET SOMETHING.

GOD IS LONGING FOR US AND IT IS DEMONSTRATED BY WHAT HE DID FOR US.

HIS LOVE IS NOT AUTHORITATIVE AND IT DOESN'T WANT TO VIOLATE OUR FREE WILL AND PUSH HIMSELF ON US.  HE DESIRES US TO LOVE HIM BACK FREELY, TO DESIRE HIM, AND TO SEEK HIM.

THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS "GOD DID THIS SO THAT MEN WOULD SEEK HIM AND PERHAPS REACH OUT FOR HIM AND FIND HIM."  ACTS 17:27

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS WRITER'S LIFE. I KNEW THAT SOMETHING WAS MISSING AND WHEN I WENT THROUGH CANCER AND ITS TREATMENTS, I CAME TO THE END OF MYSELF. I COULDN'T DO IT ON MY OWN AND THE WORLD DIDN'T HAVE THE ANSWERS. I STARTED MY ALL OUT SEARCH MISSION FOR GOD, THE TRUE GOD, AND HE RESCUED ME.

YESHUA SAYS "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR THEY WILL BE FILLED." MATT 5:6

GOD IS SAYING THAT IT IS THOSE THAT ARE HUNGRY AND THIRSTY. THOSE THAT ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH WHAT THE WORLD OFFERS; THEY KNOW THEY NEED SOMETHING MORE. GOD WANTS US TO DESIRE HIM AND GO TO HIM FOR WHAT CAN SATISFY US AND FILL US WITH WHAT WE ARE LONGING FOR:

GOD SAYS, "COME, ALL YOU WHO ARE THIRSTY, COME TO THE WATERS, AND YOU WHO HAVE NO MONEY, COME, BUY AND EAT! COME, BUY WINE AND MILK WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT COST. WHY SPEND MONEY ON WHAT IS NOT BREAD, AND YOUR LABOR ON WHAT DOES NOT SATISFY? LISTEN, LISTEN TO ME, AND EAT WHAT IS GOOD, AND YOUR SOUL WILL DELIGHT IN THE RICHEST OF FARE. GIVE EAR AND COME TO ME; HEAR ME, THAT YOUR SOUL MAY LIVE. I WILL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH YOU..."ISAIAH 55:1

WHEN WE FIND HIM WE BECOME BETROTHED. HE LOVES US SO MUCH AND WE DESIRE AND LOVE HIM BACK. HE GIVES US THE OFFER OF THE CROSS AND WE ACCEPT. WHEN WE ACCEPT, HIS HOLY SPIRIT AND OUR HUMAN SPIRIT BECOME ONE. HE CIRCUMCISES OUT HEART AND HE LIVES WITHIN US. THIS RELATIONSHIP IS DESCRIBED AT THE END OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION:

"THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY, 'COME!' AND LET HIM WHO HEARS SAY, 'COME!' WHOEVER IS THIRSTY, LET HIM COME; AND WHOEVER WISHES, LET HIM TAKE THE FREE GIFT OF THE WATER OF LIFE." REV 22:17

THE BRIDE WANTS GOD TO COME TO EARTH; LONGS FOR HIM TO LIVE WITH HER AND GOD DESIRES THAT THE BRIDE WILL COME TO HIM FOR HER EVERY WANT AND NEED.








Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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"THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, HAVING NO SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING; BUT THAT SHE WOULD BE HOLY AND BLAMELESS" EPH 5:27

"LET US REJOICE AND BE GLAD AND GIVE HIM GLORY! FOR THE WEDDING OF THE LAMB HAS COME, AND HIS BRIDE HAS MADE HERSELF READY." REV 19:7

"THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY, 'COME!' AND LET HIM WHO HEARS SAY, 'COME!' WHOEVER IS THIRSTY, LET HIM COME; AND WHOEVER WISHES, LET HIM TAKE THE FREE GIFT OF THE WATER OF LIFE." REV 22:17


AS WE ENTER THE END TIMES, THE BELIEVERS IN YESHUA, JESUS, THE CHURCH, HAVE A DEEP UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY ARE THE BRIDE OF THE MESSIAH, YESHUA. THE WEDDING IS APPROACHING AND THE BRIDE MUST GET READY! THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS GIVEN TO THE CHURCH SO AS TO KNOW HOW TO PREPARE. IN THE END TIMES, THE WORLD WILL GROW DARKER AND MANY IN THE NAMED CHURCH WILL BE DECEIVED AND FALL AWAY.  BUT A REMNANTT BRIDE WILL BECOME MORE PURE, RIGHTEOUS AND SPIRIT FILLED. THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SPEAK TOGETHER AS ONE; THEY SAY "COME!". THEY WILL BE MORE UNIFIED THAN EVER BEFORE!  THE APOSTLE PAUL SPEAKS ABOUT THIS FUTURE TIME WHERE WE WILL COMPLETELY FILL THE SHOES OF YESHUA, JESUS.  HE SAYS:

"...SO THAT THE BODY OF CHRIST MAY BE BUILT UP UNTIL WE ALL REACH UNITY IN THE FAITH AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD AND BECOME MATURE ATTAINING TO THE WHOLE MEASURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST."  EPHESIANS 4:12

HOW DO WE BECOME THE BRIDE?

WE BECOME THE BRIDE OF YESHUA, JESUS  WHEN WE REPENT AND TELL HIM THAT WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF OUR SINFULNESS BEFORE A HOLY AND JUST GOD. WE SAY THAT WE KNOW THAT SUCH A HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS GOD CAN NEVER LIVE WITH SIN AND  UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.  WE ADMIT THAT WE ARE SORRY FOR GOING OUR OWN WAY AND THAT WE  ACCEPT THAT YESHUA, JESUS, BEING FULLY MAN AND FULLY GOD, DIED IN OUR PLACE. WE THEN INVITE HIM INTO OUR HEARTS TO LIVE AND RULE OVER US AND BE OUR SAVIOR. YESHUA IS THE HEBREW NAME FOR JESUS AND IT MEANS "SALVATION". YESHUA, JESUS, THEN GIVES US THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BY CIRCUMCISING OUR HEARTS.  THE APOSTLE PAULS SAYS:

"THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD COMES THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST TO ALL WHO BELIEVE.  THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE, FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD, AND ARE JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT CAME BY CHRIST JESUS. GOD PRESENTED HIM AS A SACRIFICE OF ATONEMENT, THROUGH FAITH IN HIS BLOOD...SO AS TO BE JUST AND THE ONE WHO JUSTIFIES THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH IN JESUS." ROM 3:23

"FOR GOD WAS PLEASED TO HAVE ALL HIS FULLNESS DWELL IN HIM, AND THROUGH HIM TO RECONCILE TO HIMSELF ALL THINGS, WHETHER THINGS ON EARTH OR THINGS IN HEAVEN, BY MAKING PEACE THROUGH HIS BLOOD, SHED ON THE CROSS."  COL 1:19


 WE ARE THEN BETROTHED TO YESHUA, JESUS. THERE ARE TWO STAGES TO THE BIBLICAL MARRIAGE.  THE FIRST STAGE IS BETROTHAL OR "ERUSIN" IN HEBREW.  DURING BETROTHAL YOU ARE LEGALLY MARRIED TO YOUR SPOUSE BUT DO NOT PHYSICALLY DWELL WITH HIM YET.

THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT GOD BETROTHED HIMSELF TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AT MOUNT SINAI WITH A COVENANT HE MADE WITH THEM. THIS COVENANT WAS CONSIDERED A MARRIAGE CONTRACT WHEREBY ISRAEL, THE WIFE HAD AGREED TO SUBMIT TO GOD AND OBEY HIS LAWS.

"...THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS IN THE DAY THAT I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO BRING THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WHICH MY COVENANT THEY BROKE ALTHOUGH I WAS A HUSBAND TO THEM SAYS THE LORD." JER 31:32

BECAUSE OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE, ISRAEL BROKE THE COVENANT OR MARRIAGE CONTRACT WITH GOD AND GOD ACCUSES THEM OF ADULTERY:

THE LORD SAYS: "REBUKE YOUR MOTHER, REBUKE HER, FOR SHE IS NOT MY WIFE, AND I AM NOT HER HUSBAND" HOSEA 2:2

THE LORD SAYS: "I GAVE FAITHLESS ISRAEL HER CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SENT HER AWAY BECAUSE OF ALL HER ADULTERIES. YET I SAW THAT HER UNFAITHFUL SISTER JUDAH HAD NO FEAR; SHE ALSO WENT OUT AND COMMITTED ADULTERY." JEREMIAH 3:3

ISAIAH SAYS THAT THE LORD DIVORCES AND HIDES HIMSELF FROM ISRAEL AND SENT HER AWAY BECAUSE OF THEIR REJECTION OF YESHUA, JESUS AS MESSIAH:

"WHERE IS YOUR MOTHER'S CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE WITH WHICH I SENT HER AWAY? OR TO WHICH OF MY CREDITORS DID I SELL YOU? BECAUSE OF YOUR SINS YOU WERE SOLD; BECAUSE OF YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS YOUR MOTHER WAS SENT AWAY.  WHEN I CAME, WHY WAS THERE NO ONE? WHEN I CALLED, WHY WAS THERE NO ONE TO ANSWER? WAS MY ARM TOO SHORT TO RAMSOM YOU? DO I LACK THE STRENGTH TO RESCUE YOU? BY A MERE REBUKE I DRY UP THE SEA, I TURN RIVERS INTO A DESERT;" ISAIAH 50: 1

THE LORD PROPHECIES THROUGH JEREMIAH THAT THE LORD WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH AND WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL:

"THE TIME IS COMING," DECLARES THE LORD, 'WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH. IT WILL NOT BE LIKE THE COVENANT I MADE WITH THEIR FOREFATHERS....DECLARES THE LORD. 'THIS IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THAT TIME...I WILL PUT MY LAW IN THEIR MINDS AND WRITE IT ON THEIR HEARTS. I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY WILL BE MY PEOPLE." JEREMIAH 31:31

THIS IS THE COVENANT OR MARRIAGE CONTRACT THAT YESHUA, JESUS MADE WITH THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM BY HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS:

"...AFTER THE SUPPER HE TOOK THE CUP, SAYING, 'THIS CUP IS THE NEW COVENANT IN MY BLOOD, WHICH IS POURED OUT FOR YOU." LUKE 22:20

THE WRITER IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS SAYS:

"BECAUSE OF THIS OATH, JESUS HAS BECOME THE GUARANTOR OF A BETTER COVENANT."

THIS NEW COVENANT OR MARRIAGE CONTRACT WAS MADE BETWEEN GOD AND THE HOUSES OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL. YESHUA, JESUS WAS BROUGHT UP UNDER MOSAIC LAW, AND WAS JEWISH. ALL OF HIS FIRST FOLLOWERS WERE JEWISH. THE COVENANT WAS ANNOUNCED AT THE PASSOVER SUPPER WITH ALL OF HIS JEWISH DISCIPLES. MOST OF ISRAEL AND ALMOST ALL OF THE LEADERSHIP REJECTED HIS OFFER OF THIS NEW AND BETTER COVENANT AND THIS IS WHY THE LORD IS SAID TO DIVORCE ISRAEL, BUT THERE WAS A TINY JEWISH REMNANT THAT ACCEPTED THE COVENANT AND BECAME THE BRIDE. IT IS NOT UNTIL THE CONVERSION OF THE ROMAN SOLDIER CORNELIUS THAT A GENTILE (NON- JEWISH PERSON) WAS ABLE TO PARTAKE OF THE NEW COVENANT. AFTER THIS EVENT, IT WAS MADE CLEAR TO THE JEWISH DISCIPLES THAT GENTILES COULD BECOME A PART OF THE COVENANT AND COULD BE GRAFTED IN SPIRITUALLY INTO ISRAEL.

AFTER THAT, ALL THAT AGREE WITH THE  COVENANT OF THE CROSS BECOME BETROTHED TO GOD.

PAULS SAYS, "I AM JEALOUS FOR YOU WITH A GODLY JEALOUSY. I PROMISED YOU TO ONE HUSBAND, TO CHRIST, SO THAT I MIGHT PRESENT YOU AS A PURE VIRGIN TO HIM." 2 COR 11:2