From: "Jesus Christ is the Only Way to God" To: Subject: Subverting whole houses Date: Monday, February 11, 2002 1:44 PM Titus 1:9 Holding FAST the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able BY SOUND DOCTRINE both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. 1:10 For there are MANY UNRULY AND VAIN TALKERS AND DECEIVERS, specially they of the circumcision: 1:11 WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED, WHO SUBVERT WHOLE HOUSES, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. I received (and responded to) an antichrist email this morning. Please bear with me as I introduce and share the interchange with you. I find that once I receive a certain error, it has a tendency to become popular for hellbounds to use. This may be of assistance to a Christian soldier in the future... Dear Christian Friends: I awoke from a dream this morning with a mind to pray. In my dream I saw photographs of smiling faces slowly drop down one upon another. I implicitly knew that all the smiling faces were now dead and in hell. I awoke with hell people on my mind. They get married, go on vacations, watch hellivision, have a few laughs, eat good food, have friends and go to hell. They live the spring, summer, fall and winter of life and then they go straight to hell. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. Jeremiah 8:20 That is a hollow, desolate sentence for somebody to say. They die, they are past harvesting, they are past the summer of their life and they go to their everlasting torment there to remain without hope and with God. I know people who are on their way to hell. But I also know that the blood of King Jesus is STILL saving souls. With that in mind, I got up to pray. On my way downstairs I detoured to my little office to check my emails. I received one from the interloper, Satan, and I knew I must respond. I said Jesus is going to tell me what to say...so with that in mind I went downstairs with my burdens and talked to the Father and the Son about them. Hallelujah and amen. *************THE INTERLOPER*************** Satan is an interloper, an intruder. He seeks to get into the temple of God, whose temple ye are if you belong to Jesus Christ. The devil wants to get in your mind. I am not talking a fairy tale. Many Christians would say "I agree with you" but then they turn on Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Springer. They don't agree and they lied when they said they did. THE DEVIL WANTS TO GET IN YOUR MIND. And if he's already there, he wants to stay there. He wants you hooked on your filthy habits so he can remain the king of your mind. If you are washed and clean, he wants to get in and take over. He's an intruder, an interloper. Christians are the temple of God Himself-- 1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS HOLY, WHICH TEMPLE YE ARE. 2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. The devil wants to get into the temple of your mind to control you and if you are not filled with the word of God and the Spirit of God, Satan will chew you up. Oh, you may think the foul spirits that had you have left for good. You may have even tidied up your life and garnished with some church attendance. But if you don't study righteousness, you are empty and that old foul spirit will come back with seven spirits MORE WICKED THAN HIMSELF and he will come in you again and dwell in you and your last state will be WORSE than your first. It is not enough to consent that Jesus Christ is the Lord and then go back to your same old filthy habits. The devil will chew you up. Christians that are not adding to their faith (as saith Peter) are going to FALL. Your brains are like soft scrambled eggs so that when somebody says something to you, you'll believe it because you don't have the word abiding in you. On the internet, I've seen the people go from agreeing with the truth to being led into Hebrew Roots, etc. like an ox to the slaughter. Many people write me when they have a specific question--which is fine, it helps me bring up some word through the mighty working power of the Holy Ghost. But the problem is that most Christians just do "topical" studies of the word instead of reading WHOLE books and understanding how the WHOLE Bible ties together. They just want to know the answer to a specific question. You need to know all 26 letters of the alphabet to know how to read and write. You can combine them in an endless variety of ways to express yourself and convey meaning. You need to know all 66 books of the Bible. You can combine these truths in an endless variety of ways FOR THE DEFENSE AND CONFIRMATION of the gospel of Jesus Christ. In addition to that, the only way you are going to know King Jesus as the King of glory is through His word. The only way you will understand the workings of the spiritual realm is through knowledge of the word. The Holy Ghost will bring the word to your remembrance and instruct you more fully as time goes on. For precept must be upon precept, line upon line, here a little there a little. A lot of professed Christians ignorantly get into mysticism by reading the works of mystics like Guyon. They end in transcendental meditation (TM) because they are always seeking a mystical experience. Do I ever have awesome, palpable experiences with the Most High? Yes, but I don't spend all day trying to attain that feeling. In the course of reading the word, praying, obeying, and doing what thus saith the Lord, He reveals Himself and draws me into deeper love. The Bible says that those that love the Lord keep His commandments. Keep the commandments and THEN you will know the reason for the doctrine, THEN you will know King Jesus as the King of glory. Christians are dried up! They quote scriptures that they learned in church but there is no power, no radiating love of the Lord. There is no short cut, we have to labour in the word and in doctrine. We must also cut out the filthy habits including hellivision and movies. Must King Jesus serve with you in your sins? I ask my own self that question. I perceive my biggest problem is making sure I stay in submission to my dear husband. I find I have to constantly battle with the remaining corruption in my flesh. I can feel myself dry up when I get out of position. I can't hear from the Lord when I'm not right, that is why I FIGHT AGAINST MY OWN FLESH TO STAY IN POSITION. That is why the Bible says to MORTIFY the deeds of the body (Ro 8:13) and MORTIFY our members which are upon the earth (Co 3:5). If you are going to prosper in the things of King Jesus, you have to discipline yourself to read the word and line yourself up with the doctrine even when you don't "feel" like it. Why go for years and years dried up when the well of water springing up into everlasting life is so near? Forsake the foolish and live the abundant life in King Jesus! All that said, here is the email... *************INTRO TO THE EMAIL********************** I received an email with the subject line, "No Messiah in Bible". What do you think of when you read that subject line? The main thing I think of is "antichrist". 1 John 2:22 WHO IS A LIAR BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST? HE IS ANTICHRIST, THAT DENIETH the Father and the Son. The devil, Satan, that old serpent, the dragon, that ancient, foul, unclean, unholy, unrighteous, liar moves his people to do his work. Satan is an interloper that will brazenly, bodly come up to the temple of God peddling his wicked lies. 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. I get a lot of emails and I don't answer a lot of them. But when I saw this email, I knew I was going to answer it. You are not going to come up on me like that. The righteous CONTEND with the wicked according to Proverbs. Jude says we are to CONTEND for the faith which was once delivered to the saints. In Nehemiah 13, Bro. Nehemiah CONTENDED with the falsehood all around him. When the enemy tries to get in the holy sanctuary of your mind you need to RISE UP to battle stations. The weapons of our warfare are NOT carnal, but are MIGHTY THROUGH GOD TO THE **PULLING DOWN** OF STRONG HOLDS. We CAST DOWN imaginations and EVERY high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and we BRING INTO CAPTIVITY every thought to the obedience of Christ. ******************THE EMAIL I RECEIVED******************* -----Original Message----- From: -------- To: t&t Date: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:13 AM Subject: No Messiah in Bible No Messiah in Bible TOPIC: 'Messiah' not in the Old Testament >From ---------: The term "the Messiah", denoting a future eschatological king, DOES NOT APPEAR in the Old Testament. There is NO prophecy in the Old Testament concerning the Messiah who will come to establish God's eternal rule. In the words of a very conservative biblical scholar, GE Ladd: "the simple term 'the Messiah' does not occur in the OT at all". Not one of the 39 occurrences of "messiah" in the Hebrew canon refers to an expected figure of the future whose coming will coincide with the inauguration of an era of salvation. The assumption by modern day readers of a Messiah-figure in the Old Testament, which is widely maintained (although on absolutely NO foundation), is quite wrong. The idea of a Messiah-figure arose long after the Old Testament was completed. I summarise below the basic scholarly understanding of the term "messiah": 1. The assumption that the Jews were waiting for a commonly-understood Messiah is wrong. There was no single discernible role-description for a Messiah. The Jews did not have a coherent idea of what the Messiah would be like. One cannot therefore claim that most Jews were looking for the coming of the Messiah. 2. The term "messiah" was applied in the OT to a present, political and religious leader appointed by God. The 'Anointed One', in the OT, denotes usually a King, also a priest (Lev, Num, Exo), and sometimes a prophet (Ps 105:15, 1 Chr 16:22). These are real people. Most occurrences concern the Jewish King. Many references concern the enthronement of actual kings, in the strongly mythological language which is common to Egyptian enthronement ceremonies. As Yahweh had promised that David's line would continue, the prophetic references often refer to expected kings who would restore the Davidic dynasty. Zechariah identifies Zerrubbabel as such as an expected "anointed". Both Jeremiah and Zecahariah are concerned with the restoration of the Davidic dynasty and priestly order. However, the expectations were NOT of a final Davidic ruler, ruling for all time to come - but of a continuing Davidic line. 3. The OT contains messianic passages (eg Psa 2, 2 Samuel 7, Isa 7, 9 & 11, Zech 9, Dan 9:26). But these are not apocalyptic, nor eschatological (ie they don't refer to the 'end times' or distant future). 4. The earliest explicit use of the technical term "Messiah/Christ" is in the FIRST CENTURY BC - in the Psalms of Solomon and the Parables of Enoch. Jewish Messianology developed out of the crisis of the non-messianic Maccabean wars of the second century BC, and from the later concerns over Roman rule. The scriptures were only interpreted with Messianic connotations by Jews during the 2 centuries before 70AD. The reason why Jesus did not 'fit' the OT scriptures concerning "the Messiah" is because THERE ARE NONE! This is the consensus of OT scholarship, which now includes even the most conservative voices. The idea of a future Messiah who would bring judgment is developed much later, and even then, not by all Jewish groups. I'll leave you with a quote from conservative bible scholar, Brevard Childs: "It HAS LONG BEEN recognized that the term 'Messiah' in its technical New Testament sense as the eschatological redeemer of Israel DOES NOT OCCUR in the Old Testament itself, but only in the post-Old Testament period. Indeed, one of the important tasks of Old Testament theology is closely to describe the profile of the Old Testament witness without fusing it to that of the New Testament." (emphasis added) *******************MY RESPONSE********************* O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? Do ye not greatly err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? Is it not enough for you to be antichrist without you studying for how you can attack the King of glory? Why add ye iniquity to iniquity? You tell me Messiah is not in the Old Testament. The word Messiah is in the Old Testament, you've lied. It's right here in Daniel chapter 9 in my King James Bible. Not only that, Messiah is wondrously described in the Old Testament. That is why the Samaritan woman at the well (in John 4:25) said, "I know that Messias cometh...when he is come, he will tell us all things." Additionally, I can personally testify of a young Jewish boy who came to know the Lord through our internet witness. He would go to "synagogue" (which, incidentally, is a post-old testament term but that doesn't mean it is not valid) and after he got saved he told me that one night when he went to synagogue, he saw a bulletin board out front that said MESSIAH would bring peace. He said the Jews of that place were waiting on Messiah and that he now knew that Messiah had already come. The Hebrew word "Mashiah" literally means "annointed." I've got a copy of the Jewish Publication Society Holy Scriptures and that is how they've translated Messiah in Daniel chapter 9. The Greek word for Messiah is Christ (John 1:41). Don't think for one moment that non-Christian Jewish scholars have not been careful with their translation of the Jewish scriptures. Don't think the scriptures have not been tampered with by Jew AND raggedy Gentiles. Men have GREATLY perverted the word of the living God. And the accounts will be settled with God Himself. The Lord Jesus Christ came to save YOUR carcass from YOUR sins. You are a sinner, you must SURELY know that. You've lied, harboured hatred, and evil thoughts and MANY other things. SURELY you know it. Jesus died for ALL of it. He did not come here to condemn you, HE CAME TO SAVE YOU. O child of the devil, FULL of all subtilty and all mischief, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to PERVERT the RIGHT ways of the Lord? Be zealous therefore and repent of this thy wickedness. Are you Jewish? If so, take instruction from your own fathers. I'm not talking Abraham and those of faith, I am talking those that were Jewish but did not believe the Lord. They'd do alright for a while under certain prophets and kings, but their hearts were prone to wander to every false god. Barely out of Egypt and they molted the calf and fell down before it. Another time, God delivered their enemies into their hands and gave them manna to eat, yet they said "our soul loatheth this light bread". Dissatisfied and rebellious. Did not the fiery serpents slay them? Even then, the Lord had Moses set a brass serpent upon a pole that whosoever would look at it would live and not die. Jesus said, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life." LOOK AT JESUS AND LIVE! Ah, but Isaiah testifieth Isaiah 53:1 WHO hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 53:3 HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and WE HID AS IT WERE OUR FACES FROM HIM; HE WAS DESPISED AND WE ESTEEMED HIM NOT. 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: YET WE DID ESTEEM HIM STRICKEN, SMITTEN OF GOD, AND AFFLICTED. Back to the fathers...Did not the people go into captivity because they were a rebellious and stiff necked people towards the Lord who was (and is) so very merciful and gracious unto them? Jeremiah chapter 2 is one of the saddest chapters in the Bible. The people even fell down before stocks and stones. They threw Jeremiah in a pit. They slew Zacharias son of Barachias. They gave themselves over to Baal. At the great showdown, Elijah had to REPAIR the altar of the Lord at Mount Carmel because it was broke down. I'm sure Baal's altars were fine! The Lord's was broke down. The people rejected the Lord's ways though He had done so much for them. IT AIN'T CHANGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're rebellious, lawless, and disobedient. Keep taking your hard head and stiff neck down this course and you will go to hell and you will rue the day of your outrageous rebellion. You will RUE the day! You will think "O cursed day! What a FOOL I was!" Look to JESUS and live. Jesus is God manifested in the flesh to save His people from their sins-- Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for OUR transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Jeremiah testified that the Lord would make a NEW COVENANT with Israel, not on tables of stone but on the fleshly table of the heart! Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 31:32 Not according to 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 brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: FOR I WILL FORGIVE THEIR INIQUITY AND I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SIN NO MORE. David testifieth-- Psalms 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity... Only through Christ Jesus. I assume you've seen our page on Messianic prophesies fulfilled by Jesus Christ, but I am going to place the link here again peradventure you repent and want to know the truth. http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/messiah.htm You blasphemy against the God of Israel. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate. You are a sinner and you need to be saved from your sins. Jesus is God manifested in the flesh. He came to save you from your sins. Isaiah testifieth that it is your iniquities that have separated between you and God your Maker. Jesus died for your sins and rose for your justification that you might have LIFE and THAT MORE ABUNDANTLY, now and forever. Awake thou that sleepest; and arise from the DEAD and CHRIST shall give the LIGHT. for Jesus' sake, tracy -- http://www.jesus-is-lord.com ...I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. Ezekiel 2:4, 6 **************CONCLUSION****************** 1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because MANY FALSE PROPHETS ARE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD. Lay up sound wisdom and doctrine so that when you need it, you have something to pull on. Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 6:7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 6:8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 6:10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. for Jesus' sake, tracy -- http://www.jesus-is-lord.com ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: tracy@jesus-is-lord.com EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84whs.a9jehS Or send an email to: jesus-is-lord-unsubscribe@topica.com T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================