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Not One Stone

When the typical modern Bible reader comes across such language as, "stars falling from heaven, heaven and earth passing away, the sun and moon going dark, the elements melting, the heavens being shaken," they naturally think of this material universe coming to an end.
However, many are surprised to learn that this Apocalyptic Language is used by Jesus and His Apostles, not to describe the end of the world as we know it, but the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in AD 70. There is a vast amount of prophecy which this event fulfills. This type of language is not new with Jesus and His Apostles, but is borrowed from the language of the OT Prophets.

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The reader will learn the difference between the Coming of the Son of man, and the Second Coming of Christ

Learn what was the concept of the Parousia, from the Apostles' point of view.

Learn how to understand this language of the OT Prophets.

Learn how this type of language is used to describe the many different judgments, called the "Day of the Lord".

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Creating the Israel of God

Before the foundation of the world, before light and darkness were divided, before the man and woman walked in the garden, God conceived a body of humanity, holy and blameless, chosen in Christ. [Eph. 1:4] This body would be called the Israel of God, which He predetermined would be adopted into His household through a spiritual birth, in His Son. [Eph. 1:5; Jn. 1:13, 3:5]

As part of bringing this plan into reality, God promised land and seed to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He fulfilled these promises in their children. It took both the Sinai Covenant and the New Covenant to fulfill these promises. The Sinai Covenant was a shadow of the “good things to come” in the New Covenant through the Messiah. The Sinai Covenant was to continue until the Promised Messiah should come. [Gal. 3:19]
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The Only Sign Given

When someone points out that Friday afternoon to Sunday morning is not three days and three nights, many will be quick to make their parrot-like remark, “Don’t you know that the Jews counted any part of a day, as a whole day?”

After reading the evidence inside, that tired and worn-out answer will no longer be usable.

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Most are unware that during the week of Passover, there are always two days counted as a sabbath.

Smoking Gun Evidence from Ante-Nicean documents, that the tradition was a Tuesday night Passover was held.

The women who followed Jesus play a key role in the chronology of the three days and nights.

The Sign of the Prophet Jonah explained as Jesus intended it to be understood.

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The Determined Time

Would it interest you to know, that God gave Israel a prophecy that told them exactly when the Messiah would come. When the Messiah came, He told them as clear as day, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.” The time fulfilled was the Sixty-nine weeks of years from the commandment to return and rebuild Jerusalem unto the Messiah.

God told Daniel in the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks, that He had set a determined time to deal with “thy people and thy city.” This determined time was a period marked off out of Israel’s history, with a beginning and an end, lasting 490 years, without interruption, or gaps.
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Did Jesus Descend Into Hell?
Well, Yes and No

Where Jesus went and What He did during the three days and nights that transpired between His death on the cross and His resurrection, is not a matter of simple curiosity, but of Biblical integrity.

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A look at the 4 different words translated as “Hell”, and which ones are associated with Jesus’ descent into the lower parts of the earth

A fresh look at Isaiah 52:14, which sheds light upon Paul’s teachings of Christ’s “emptying Himself” and His “becoming poor, for our sakes.”

An alternative view to 1 Peter 3:18-20, which makes much more sense that the two conventional views held.

Exposing the Word of Faith doctrine that Jesus went into the fiery torments of hell to accomplish man’s salvation.

Before Jesus ascended into heaven, He descended into the lower parts of the earth, and led captivity captive. Who or what were these captives?

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Kiss the Son (part 3)

The Goal of Scripture is for men to worship the Son.

In 4 Parts

By Larry M. Wishon

This is an excerpt of a chapter from my book, Creating the Israel of God. Available on Amazon.

“I thought the Jews worshipped the father”

I know some Christians will also say in ignorance, “I thought the Jews worshipped the same God as Christians do. I always heard they worshipped the Father, just not the Son.” This statement is evidence of the ignorance most professing Christians have of the Word.

Any Christian with even a modicum of familiarity with the Bible should know it is an absolute lie to say you can worship the Father, but not the Son. A simple read through the Gospel of John would put that lie to rest. I ask those who believe this, Have you never read the Scriptures?

[John 8:17-19] It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

If they knew the Father, then they should have known and recognized the Son. But, “Ye neither know me, nor my Father.”

[1 John 2:22-23] Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. [ESV]

Those who deny the Father and the Son are Antichrist. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son, by Biblical definition, is Antichrist. Just as there were many antichrists in John’s day, so there are now. Antichrists have existed in every generation. This should make clear that antichrist is not a political concern, but is a doctrinal issue. Stop looking for the Antichrist to come on the scene; for “even now ” there are many, just as John said [1 Jn. 2:18].

John 5:21-23 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

To honor the Son is to Kiss the Son. However, if you do not honor the Son, you do not honor the Father who sent Him. Remember the lesson from Jesus as Apostle?

[John 6:45] It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to the Son. If the Jews worshipped the Father, it would lead them to worship and honor the Son. Myriads of Jews came to the Father through the Son in the First Century. Those whom He Foreknew come to Him still today.

[John 8:42, 54-55] Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

Jesus was sent from the God they professed to know and worship. If they knew God, they would know His Son, Jesus.

[John 10:30] I and my Father are one.

Jesus and His Father cannot be so separated, that you can love and worship one without loving and worshipping the other. Therefore, it is impossible to say you honor the Father without also honoring the Son.

[John 14:6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

The preceding verse is unmistakable. There is no access nor worship of the Father except through His Son, Jesus the Messiah. This one verse should lay to rest the idea that anyone can worship the Father apart from the Son. It is an impossibility.

[John 15:23] He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

From the Jews’ own literature, the Talmud, their hatred of Jesus is palpable. In their writings, they refer to Him as Jesu, which is an acronym, meaning, “May his name and memory be obliterated.” This is just one tiny example of the blasphemies leveled at Jesus in their Talmud. When they blaspheme Jesus, they also blaspheme the Father. Christians believe that at the present moment, Christ is seated at the right hand of God. The Jews believe that at the present moment, Jesus is in hell, boiling in a pool of burning animal feces (Gittin 57a, Talmud). Try squaring that with your Judeo-Christian values.

It should be evident from the sheer weight of Scriptural witness that there is no such thing as loving and worshipping God as Father without loving and worshipping His Son, Jesus Christ. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE!

So if the Pharisaic, Rabbinic Jews do not worship the Father, who do they worship? Who is their Talmudic god? We have already seen that the image of their Talmudic god is a phallus. Who is the real god behind this image? Revelation 2:9 & 3:9 will give you a good clue. This comes from the lips of Christ, Himself. Michael Hoffman notes this about the degradation of Judaism in the First Century,

“With the rejection of their Messiah and the commitment of the formerly oral traditions to writing, these Israelites completely abandoned themselves to a perversion which had once been only a persistent underground stream polluting Israel, but after Christ's crucifixion, emerged as the main ideology of those who refused to accept Jesus as their savior.”
[Michael Hoffman, Strange gods of Judaism, p.9]

Christ and The New Covenant

The Deity of Jesus Christ

Paul's Excursus on Israel in Romans 9-11

Not One Stone

What's Inside:

Creating the Israel of God

The Only Sign Given

What's Inside

The Determined Time

Did Jesus Descend Into Hell? Well, Yes and No