Yeshua Hamashiach, Messiah Gentiles “Jesus”

Last night I was awakened seeing the grandness of the salvation of God through the fruitful work and evidenced works His Son did in His first coming. The reason I say work and works is two fold: Messiah was about His Father’s business seeking out the lost, the infirmed, the demon possessed, the sheep without a true shepherd which He did daily. Messiah pursued us like it was His job (work) knowing his time was short and diligently sought to bring us aid (works) in every way possible as He walked this earth training His disciples. He did not build a house to own or to sleep in nor barns to gather crops for His work was not of this earth but rather for His Father’s kingdom of heaven. Should we ask why our modern religious pursuits seem to have more kingdom of earth markings in our focus and pursuits around denominational affiliations rather than just being connected to the harvest? There are reasons that I am asking these questions and they have more to do with Scripture than my personal opinions, queryied by a constrasting set of systems that appear to be a historical repeat. This is not meant to be an emotional rant but rather a sobering insight into these very times that we are living in looking for relevancy rather than just religious exercises that have shaped our current pursuits.

This capacity to be shaped societally is much easier to do that to try to shape the society that you have lived in and grow up accustomed to the way that it functions. As Messiah traveled and gathered His 12 disciples these conditional societal settings were most obvious in the ways that the effected people chose their personal ways to be involved. Most wanted to keep their lives and add a little spice rather than to give up their life and become sojourners with the Messiah having no place to lay their heads. The questions become how to balance and indeed if there really is balance for all of us and I believe there might be some almost instantaneous response that the Spirit of God can clarify for us. Are we willing to live our lives in a way that stoops for the needy and willing to make a defense of our faith that shows relevance of our relationship. Or are we content with having our hour of church and therefore conditioned to be religiously satisfied even if most of the society is likely without truly knowing the salvation of God or our love for them personally?

Revelation 7:9 shows this great move of God to bring His salvation to a countless multitude in the tribulation period seemingly through the Father’s sealed workers which are Jewish, male virgins 12,000 from each tribe and 144,000 in total. This focused Jewish driven Messianic movement will be like nothing we have ever seen before because the Father has shown us this prophetic event and will be calling them from birth like He did with the prophets. This concept is so foreign to the Gentile believer of today based on present doctrines of the Gentile churches and much of the present theological displacement teachings contrary to the Scriptures. In ways this dysfunction comes from a long standing religious pridefulness due to a misunderstanding of the partial hardening of the Jews leading up to such a time as this coming now. If we were to consider that the partial hardening of the Jews was to prove that the Gentile religious communities would have equally greater failures in their own lack of pursuit of the Father as God, we might be getting close! The book of Romans prophetically hides some truths that are specifically covered by hiding these announcements in plain sight. It is not just Romans by any means in the Brit Chadeshah (New Testament) that contains these insights but our eyes have been hidden from seeing the prophetic insights in their fulness. Proverbs 25:2 states, "It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings to search out a matter.” (NASB) It is this capacity to be hidden in plain sight that should make us seekers of the deeper things of God rather than to just take the scholars viewpoints as the only truth, for indeed the beleievers were admonished to become like the Berean’s. Willing to hear and then studying out for themselves to see if the Scriptures confirmed the teaching which is always the most important part of knowing and understanding truth. Nicodemus in John 3:1-21 was willing to be a Berean becoming teachable to his credit even though it went entirely against his credentials as a Pharisee. Eventually the Pharisee of Pharisee’s Saul in Acts chapter 9 who becomes the 12th Apostle: Paul after his conversion then writes Romans as well as at least 12 other books, possibly thirteen depending on who actually wrote Hebrews. What is fascinating is the Spirit lead connection from the Tanakh (Old Testament) into the Brit Chadeshah (New Testament) connecting and confirming the prophetic words and works of the Father. In fact the choosing of the disciples was a work of the Father proclaimed in Isaiah 8:16-18 says, (16.) Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. (17.) And I will wait for the LORD who is hiding His face fro the house of Jacob, I will even look eargerly for Him. (18.) Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of host, who dwells in Mount Zion. (NASB)