How long it takes to tell a person what he or she needs to be saved reveals how perverted one’s gospel has become. The more minutes the less reliable the message.

All those type and antitype charts and genealogies may look like due diligence but they such the life out of the lifegiving message. The core message does not take a day, much less a week.

4) Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. 5) Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: 6) From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; 7) Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. 8) But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; 9) Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10) For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 11) According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

1 Timothy 1:4-11

This treasure of real estate does not need an endorsement from anyone, least of all a nation that shows little regard for Jerusalem’s peace. In fact her residents do not care that much either. David took steps after being crowned in Hebron to live in Jerusalem and house his families there. The political moves of an American president in 2019 do nothing to Jerusalem’s status.

Great nations have gone to Jerusalem but few have joined the Jews in worshipping Yahweh. When the city was emptied there was some export of Jewish religion and Jerusalem remained the beloved centre of Jewish hopes and practice. In neither case was any foreign power trying to change Jerusalem from being the place for Yahweh’s name.

The tombs of Judah’s kingdom are in Jerusalem. The living residents of Jerusalem have much to live up to. The attempt to deny Jerusalem her cosmopolitan nature endures as the ultimate unfaithfulness. She has troubles no foreign or local power can relieve. The news that the US president is moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is a case of smoke without fire, and the smoke smells like patriotism and racism.

If for believing adults the success of the gospel is obedience to God’s commandments and if only spiritual (reborn) persons can render this obedience how sad a comedy of mistakes is the subjection of children to law and obedience!

Are we disciples of Christ or our peers? Our peers are part of the crooked generation from which we need to save ourselves as we turn to Christ. Is light really welcome? A list of demonic doctrines and xenophobic purity can hardly be called godly instruction or lifestyle.

There is nothing to tell your child about the great salvation when you have told them all their lives and tried to live yours as if nothing mattered besides commandment keeping.

The religious movements of our times are the work of liars and demonized children who would rather create scandalous theories than to confess their mistakes and turn to Christ. The darkness is near complete.

15) Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken. 16) Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. 17) But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.

Jeremiah 13:15-17

If the ministration of death – the Words of God written in stone – is the transcript of God’s character what is the death of Christ at Golgotha?

The minute a prophet raises questions about the source of salvation and the character of Christ is the minute we see that the apostolic foundation is not a construct of the 1st or 15th century. The gospel is an eternal construct involving the blood of the Lamb. The ancients, prophets, kings, and righteous men had no insight into what God was planning for the end of the age. They do not survive the coming of light into the world.

22) For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23) And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

Acts 3:22-23

The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

Luke 16:16

Every movement since the Way in New Testament times seems to want to intimidate and brainwash people with its views.  The Jewish people tried that.  They wanted to dominate the way with their devotion to and views of their patriarchs, Moses, and prophets.  The movements all turn their backs on the priorities of their confession.  Moses and prophets come to an end. 

It is a sure sign that something demonic is afoot when prophets and apostles come out of the woodwork having not a clue about what the apostles left once for all for us to follow.  They all want to make chosen people of themselves along the pattern of Gods election of Abraham’s descendants. They even make a mockery and shipwreck of the toys (types and shadows) by trying to adopt them as realities of the grace of God. Above all, these movements encourage people to say there is no certainty that salvation is of the Jews, in Christ alone.  “Save yourselves” they say. We must save ourselves from the crooked generation that shuts Christ out of its plans.

Let us consider that God allows bad stuff to happen because there are better and greater things in his sight and plan.

One of the enduring messsges in the restoration period (see Ezra, Nehemiah, Zechariah and Haggai) is the need for Israelites to begin to see their discrimination as a huge barrier to Yahweh’s approval. The people began hating David’s family while he was still king. Solomon behaved in a way to cement the disapproval of David’s house. When they returned from exile, where they had every opportunity to see the ugliness of racism, they kicked their barriers to Gentiles into high gear.

The new ID

Every religious group seems to have a sense of itself as superior and sometimes exclusive. The Roman Catholic church once gave the impression that only Roman Catholics are Christians.  The Jewish people were taught to see the population of the world as us and them, Jew and Gentile.  There is nothing wrong with that until the us is always safe and beautifully adorned by God, and the rest as second class, lost and cursed.

The church is not like Israel, chosen because of genealogy. Pastors are not prophets declaring sin. A new and greater love has dawned and only the careless and willingly ignorant turn away.

(11) But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; (12) Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Hebrews 9:11-12

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

Matthew 12:42

But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.

Matthew 12:6