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Andrew |
Date: Tuesday, 05.02.2019, 19:49 |
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Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. (1 Corinthians 9:9)
This is not about oxen. And Isaiah is not talking about lions and vipers.
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
(Isaiah 11:7,8)
Straw is a religion. Straw is not needed by itself, but the stem is needed for the grain, otherwise we will not have a grain harvest.
Therefore, Jesus Christ, when he died, gave rise to the religion that had grown from Him. The Bible, which we inherited, was brought to us by the Christian religion, a very unpleasant lady, I must tell you. Straw, it is completely useless to us.
About the straw of pre-Christian Judaism we were prophesied by John the Baptist:
Whose fan [is]in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Matthew 3:12)
However, Isaiah offers us peaceful coexistence. Not all crops ripen at the same time. To ensure the reproduction of the word of God, there are religions. If you have already matured to bring yourselves as a sacrifice to God, then you no longer need religion. If yesterday's atheist today believes in God, he needs time to make a complete reassessment of all his former values and choose the best that God offers him. When ordinary Israelis will feel the presence of God, they must be given the time that they are ripe.
Therefore, there will be a Temple and in the Temple there will be sacrifices for sin as a visual lesson.
If we really ripened as the grain of the new harvest of the saved, it is not the Temple that will be important to us, but the city of Yahweh Shammah. But we need the Temple so that we can get together.
Because the sequence is this: first the Temple should be built, then we gather in the Temple, then the Israelites feel and see God, then they turn to Jesus Christ, then we will be allowed to build the City. And believing Jews will have the opportunity to visit the Temple so that the word of God will be sown in them and grow, drawing them to the City of God.
This picture is drawn in the prophecy of Ezekiel, where it is said about the Temple and about the City. The same picture is figuratively shown in the prophecy of Isaiah, where the lion of Judaism eats the straw of religion in the new Temple, and the newborn baby of our unity in Jesus Christ plays along with serpentine wisdom, but from this knowledge there is no threat to him.
Today we resent religion, because we do not have the City in which it is absent. In order for us to have such a City, we must build and present a long-awaited Temple to religious Jews. We must not impose our faith; we must give the fruits of our faith.
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Andrew |
Date: Tuesday, 05.02.2019, 20:20 |
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There is another reason why the Temple is needed.
Jesus Christ is a sacrifice for those who himself followed his example and become a sacrifice for the sins of others. When we experienced tribulation in this world, we were accomplices in the tribulation of Jesus Christ; we were a voluntary sacrifice to God.
When we have a City where we are saved from tribulation, the remaining people will have to pay for their sins on their own.
Sinned — go to pay, bring sacrifice according to the law to the Temple. Of course, this applies only to the Israelis. Let the rest of the people of the nations think out for themselves how they themselves pay for their sins. For religious Jews there will be a Temple where it is possible to offer sacrifices for sin.
For those who have dedicated themselves to God, for the saints, there will be the City, the city will provide itself with food and everything necessary. The saints will not receive anything from the Israelites or from the nations, but the Israelites will have the opportunity to work in this City.
Therefore, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ will not be valid in relation to other nations.
And I took my staff, [even] Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. (Zechariah 11:10)
I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. (Zechariah 11:10 - NASB)
The New Testament, the testament of the inheritance, is valid only after the death of the testator. When Jesus Christ returns in the person of Israel, the testator is resurrected, then others will no longer have rights to inheritance.
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