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"We may all claim to descend from David through Joseph or another father we did not really have, we too. But don't make too much of this silliness, though. Jesus did. Let that suffice." - T. Kinnes
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Old Jewish demagogy that makes soundness-helping truthfulness fall, needs to be demasked.Mark Twain wrote in his Notebook in 1903: "Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired." Those who are exhausted are otherwise prone to commit more errors.
And now: The Bible's Boss created a couple and promised that an apple-eater would be killed the same day he ate of the forbidden fruit - and Adam lived till he was 850 years old after that - hm!
The Boss promised land to Abram and his descendants through Isaac - those persons never got it, or never got all of it. It is the same today.
He set up (institutionalised) goat tent service that was to last forever, but the solemn, ritualised goat tent service took an end when King Solomon had built a temple that his father David had prepared for. Then the famous ark disappeared from the Jews as well. (Someone took it.)
The Boss "gave in" when the people wanted a king, but promised repercussions. [1 Samuel 1.8]: In fact, the Bible says the Boss sent kings to put an end to the people, and allowed them to hail Jesus as a king.
By that God appears to have forgot he had killed all of his people - as found in Hosea (and Amos). After that he sent Jesus to save them - and mind how the plan of the Boss failed: Jews declined his offer wholesale.
Mishmash-ridden strategies did not turn out well, so the nets were cast over Gentiles instead. Do you like to be stranded?
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The value of aggravating enmity
Look to Jesus, now called Christ. His teachings provoked the high priests so
greatly that they decided to kill him. This was because:- His decrees were much out of tune with the inherited Law that God gave Moses, and they were NOT allowed to transgress.
- The adherents of that Law were obliged to have a transgressor executed according to the Law.
And the Father who had sent him to save his own, decided differently after Jesus had been steadily opposed by high priests. Now he wanted Jesus to be butchered like a lamb by them instead. It brought on terror.
Jesus first claimed his words and deeds were for Jews only, as shown in passages here and there.
"I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel," said Jesus. [See Matthew 15;24 etc]But he did not reserve his help for only them anyway. Faith moved him, and he also appreciated such gratitude and appreciation [Luke 17;18 etc]. Finally he decreed that Gentiles were to be saved, after his own people had failed to receive the good thing he offered.
The kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. [Matthew 21;43]There is that movement from "For Jews Only" to "Everybody Else" running like an undercurrent through the four gospels, and the results were made durable. You have to look up to see better into these things, maybe not, maybe a lot.Therefore go and make disciples of all nations ... [Matthew 28;19]
So, after the Lamb had been butchered, the Spirit descended on his apostles and from them to Gentiles far and wide. It founded a New Dispensation, which is thought to be far more lenient. Acts 15. Also:
As for the Gentile believers ... they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality." [Acts 21;25]They would do well to avoid these things, Acts 15 has it too:
Some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses." (5)Blood encompasses blood food, according to the Law of Moses, that demanded execution of those who ate it and those who housed blood eaters. Thus, black pudding (blood pudding and blood sausages) may be advised against. And is not black pudding put side by side with adultery? It surely appears more or less so.
The apostles and elders met to consider this question. (6)
James spoke up: ... "It is my judgement ... that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. (13, 19-20)
Then the apostles and elders sent the following message: (22-23)
"It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things." (28-29) [Acts 15; 5-29, excerpts]
And it seems these four pillars of counsel replaced all the Laws of God by one stroke. Acts 15. By that both circumcision and Sabbath rest were dropped. These two were necessary for being of God's people in the Old Testament. God was willing to kill for that back then. And Jesus, his son, never showed in public anything near the terrific and mega-impressive manifestations of His Father before Mount Sinai, on and after that. So the people did not get signs of the same magnitude and content, it seems safe to say. In the time of Jesus, they were told much instead, got into doubt and dogmatic fiendishness, and so on, but at large they did not want to relinquish the Law of God all of a sudden. They keep to large parts of the books of Moses (the Torah) still.
We could consider the Father's giant impressiveness at the time of Moses and the meagrer influences of Jesus later, also when he "sabotaged" God's will in the Law - it was meant to be valid anyhow for Jews - Check Matthew 5;18-20.
And then again, after Jesus had been executed for allegedly breaking God's Law as handed over, Jews did not accept any different deal either. But "a few things" were changed by Jews all the same. After the temple was demolished by Romans in September 70 AD, the scapegoat-assisting temple practice of killing animals and birds for the sins and wickedness of Jews, took an end.
Also, Jews [these guys who in the light of Hosea were destroyed, must have failed in their thinking somehow, when they meant they were all right or God's own after he avowedly had killed them earlier -] lost the land God had promised Abraham - which neither he nor any descendants have got all of all these years. The point is they never got it all, far from it, and after 70 AD they were shooed from whatever segment they had at the time.
The Lord [has for about three thousand years backed away from his covenant] with Abram ..., "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites." - [See Genesis 15;18-21]Back to Gospel secrets: In certain parts of Amos and Hosea we read:
"I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel." [Hosea 1:4] "I will crush you". [Amos 2:13] "Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again". [Amos 5:2]If he killed them, they were not afterwards. One may find it to be the alarmingly central passage. Judged by that central passage of the whole Bible, the guys who erroneously claimed to be God's people after God had done away with them earlier, were not. Not if the Bible tells the truth. Jesus was not born a Jew either - think of that:
"You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against me, against your helper. (...) In my anger I gave you a king". [Hosea 13:9,11]
If all the Bible tells is true,What was Jesus then? Mystical. But let us find out more by: "So there were no Jews when Jesus came to "save his own". The Bible says they had fallen and were destroyed. Ahem! Do you believe in the Bible?" Can you believe that? If so, it has to go against the faith of many.
he was no Jew.
Now, Jesus took birth among these vain people and was circumcised, a practice that his closest followers did away with by and by. [See Acts 15]
Jesus could even adjust to the older title Messiah, which signifies "king of Jews" [literally, the oil-anointed one - 1 Samuel 10;1] Acording to 1 Samuel 8, the king was to bring basic punishment to Jews. Let us not forget it.
And he saw that even though he preferred the peace of being accepted as saviour of Jews from foreigners, something different was to take place. He was executed.
We have now come to this basic point: Even though the Bible says (In Hosea and in part Amos) there was no one left of God's own people when Jesus came, there were many who thought they were, and in much harsh and cramped ways too. Jesus seldom or never said "fie" to anyone else but hypocrites. He denounced many devout Jews as hypocrites.
If self-imposed God-people (historical Jews) that mattered most had welcomed Jesus, which God's Law denied them, but which Jesus said he had hoped for like a mother hen with chickens and according to plan which his Father initially planned, the nets of salvation might not have been cast on others who were found to be kind to their children and kin. There were such phases:
- The old pact of commandments and rigid executions.
- The deals of Jesus - in transition. His words were aimed at Jews he wanted to save, quite till Golgotha drew near.
- The deal of the Holy Spirit; Acts 15 gives significant information, and the words ascribed to Paul, the apostle to Gentiles, most of all. And this deal gave rise to the church with all the changing faces on earth.
In a follower's life, peace may be had, but not any sort of peace - and peace comes at a price. One question is who pays it, and for how long is the next one.
From this it stands out that arousing enmity among dogmatic leaders at fault could bring on a dear, new Christianity - it's a historical development we talk of, and in part Bible-anchored facts too.
Jesus was known to quote the prophets and get into their prophesies. So when Jesus said
salvation comes from the Jews, "he clearly meant" - the Jews that were no longer, because
God had executed all his people long ago - That makes a lot of sense out of it.
For at the time of Jesus, who thought he was a Jew, but was not, because God's
people had been killed a long time back, keys were not free for all. He almost cursed the
leaders of his people for that, and the very devout-looking ones (Pharisees), he denounced
as hypocrites. What more was to be expected, apart from that these bad leaders wanted to
kill him?
So we dare to ask, "What were the salvation keys the people had before God killed
them all in the time of Hosea (Yes, the Bible says it)?"
Abraham did not function so well on his own. Nor did Isaak and Jacob and most of
his sons. Jacob and sons were helped by Egyptians and Joseph, the one son that was allowed
into Egyptian wisdom at that time. He was honoured in the light of Egyptian
kings.
Hm!
As for Israel (Jacob) and his sons, originators of the tribes, they would have
starved to death if unaided.
Thus, much comes down to help from Egypt. Even monastic parts of Christianity
originated in Egypt, sir Nicholas Pevsner tells. One fit part of that endeavour is the
attempt to get inside, on and on and so on.
Looking for clues in the Bible
Salvation from the Jews - that is our topic, and a very tricky one. [MORE TO COME LATER, THROUGH FAVOURS] |
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