• The Lamb, the Throne, and the Desert: Introduction
  • The Lamb, the Throne and the Desert: I. Jesus, the Origin of God’s Creation
  • The Lamb, the Throne, and the Desert: II. Falling; III. Rebellion, Restoration, and the Battle of the Ages; IV. The Man Who Walks with God
  • The Lamb, the Throne, and the Desert: V. Abraham, life as sacrifice, and the call to another country
  • The Lamb, the Throne, and the Desert: VI. Guardians of the Promise; VII. The Name and the Lamb; VIII. The Sinai Covenant
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  • Lest the Stones Cry Out
  • The Grace of the King is the Destruction of the Accuser
  • The City of God, The City of the World and the Great Deception
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  • Zionism and the Messiah, by D.M. Panton
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  • The Problem of Ecumenism: All Gods are not One
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The identity of the God who knows me

04 Monday Jan 2016

Posted by jerusalemgraffiti in Abrahamic promises, amillennialism, Dominionism, ecumenism, Islam, The Israel of God, Uncategorized

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The Angel of Yahveh found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.  And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”

            “I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai,” she answered.

Then the Angel of Yahveh told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”  The Angel added, “I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.”

The Angel of Yahveh also said to her: “You are now with child and you will have a son.  You shall name him Ishmael, for Yahveh has heard of your misery.  He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

She gave this name to Yahveh who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”  That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.”[1]

 

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Aristotle held that at the center of all things there is a God, that he is the Prime Mover and First Great Cause of all things.  His God, in order to be God, had to be perfect in all ways.  It could not “do” things which would cause it to abandon its perfection.  Nor could it contemplate things lesser than itself, as that would demean the god and would be a rebuke of its godly perfection.  For Aristotle there was nothing higher than mind, therefore he concluded that God can only be Mind Thinking Itself.  How does such a God set the world in motion?  According to Aristotle its motive force is its pure and unassailable perfection:  the universe turns in adoration of the divine perfection.

Aristotle’s God evoked a perfection of form, particularly in the realm of the heavenly bodies.   There was an enduring prejudice in the ancient world that the motion of the planets must be, by definition, circular, not elliptical, as the planets are in the heavens and belong to the divine.  [The circle is perfect motion around a center at rest.  The finite displacement of the center in the ellipse implies unrest and finitude, not characteristics of perfection.]

Aristotle’s God also claimed a perfection of content, as it contemplated only that which is highest, which is Mind, which is Itself.  To contemplate what is other than itself would violate its perfection, and to act on behalf of what is other than itself would be a supreme self-sacrifice.  Aristotle could not have contemplated the possibility of a God that would sacrifice itself on behalf of what is other than itself, as, for instance, in an extraordinary act of  love.  A purely rational God can act only according to what is necessary, and love is not an expression of necessity.  Love is a free gift, an expression of something beyond necessity.  Love is something which comes from a free person, from a consciousness which is able to choose to act in a fashion which is a sacrifice of self.  Such an act would have deconstituted Aristotle’s god.

Akin to Aristotle there have been many philosophies in recent centuries falling under the heading of Deism.  These theories also consider God to be a depersonalized Power or Force.  They may expect that their God is responsible for Creation, but, in their view, this God is disinterested, aloof from history.  For some, this God is like the clockmaker who assembles a mechanism, winds it up, and lets it go.  Such a God has no reason to make a special revelation of itself to an individual man or woman.  Deism takes no part in “revealed religion.”  Deists do not look to any of the Scriptures which portray God as intervening in human history or communing with specific individuals.  The Deist wants a cosmology in which all truth is accessible purely through reason.

The American founding fathers are often labeled Deists, but they were mostly Unitarians, a religion which in the 18th century still envisioned a God who is active in history, who is the source of Providence, and who is also a provider of justice and the hope of an afterlife.  Coming out of the Age of Reason they wanted God to be God [to have a will and to be capable of independent action], but they wanted him to be rational.  They felt that the human soul was not fallen but neutral, neither good nor bad, therefore free to act and due to be judged by its deeds.  Consequently, they were happy to see Christ simply as a moral teacher, not as their Redeemer.  Theologically they were not so far from Islam.

Whether it be Aristotle or the Unitarian or the Muslim, it is not so difficult to imagine that the aloof God is the cause of an order in the universe which is both beautiful and moral.   Therefore their God can be a force for justice in the world, so that ultimately the sheep and the goats will be separated and history will be worthwhile.  But it is not easy for these philosophers to imagine the aloof and rational God entering into history in specific acts where God conducts himself as an individual person, where his will and consciousness intersect with the will and consciousness of specific individual human beings.  Nor can they fathom such a thing as the incarnation of infinite God in the finite body and self-directed will of a human person.

 

 

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YHVH is the four letter equivalent of the Hebrew tetragrammaton   יהוה.  This name of God is variously pronounced Yahveh or Yahweh.  In the Hebrew Scriptures it is this God who revealed himself to Abraham and to Hagar.  He is more complex than all other gods.

No one has seen the God of Abraham face to face, yet he penetrates into human history.  He is above all things, yet he is active within space and time.  He has configured history to make possible the knowledge of himself in individual experience.  He is infinite yet makes himself known through the being and finite activity of the Logos.

The Logos translates casually as the “Word.”  However, its root significance in Greek is as “the fountain of all order and ratio in the world.”  It is a massive word with a meaning close to that of the “Tao.”  In the Chinese New Testament, the Logos is translated as the Tao.

John identifies Yeshua as the incarnation of the Logos and tells us clearly that in the beginning the Logos created the world.    The book of John opens with this analysis:

In the beginning was the Logos [the Tao], and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.  He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of men…

The Logos became flesh and made his dwelling among us.  We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth…. No one has ever seen God, but the One and Only Son of God who is at the Father’s side has made him known.”   John 1.1-4,14,18

The God of Israel has revealed himself in past times through his prophets but in this time through his Son.  So says the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews, and he continues by saying,

“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.”  Hebrews 1.3

From the earliest days of the history of Israel, Yahveh entered into space time and, in the figure of the Angel of Yahveh, appeared to Abraham, to Hagar, to Isaac, to Jacob, to Moses, and to many others.  The purpose of the shema, asserting, “Hear O Israel, Yahveh our God, Yahveh is One,” is not to reduce Yahveh to a simple monad but to affirm that he who both enters the world and is above all worlds is yet One.  The very name YHVH is an assertion that the actions of God are not an aberration from his character but are the exact expression of his character.

The God of Israel first revealed his eternal name to Moses.  When God spoke to Moses on Mount Horeb and told him that he was to return to Egypt and lead his people out of slavery, Moses asked God to reveal his name.  Moses saw that he was not in the presence of an aloof prime mover: he was in the presence of an in-historical God, a divine Person who entered into human history on the grounds of his own creative desire.  God then spoke his name to Moses, “Ehyeh asher ehyeh.” “I am and shall be that which I am.”

And God [Elohim] said unto Moses, “Ehyeh asher ehyeh”; and he said, “Thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, ‘EHYEH has sent me unto you.’”  And God said moreover unto Moses: “Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: “YHVH, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me unto you; this is my name forever and this is my memorial unto all generations.  Go and gather together the elders of Israel, and say unto them: YHVH, the God of your fathers, has appeared unto me….”

EHYEH is the first person expression which God says of himself. The phrase, “Ehyeh asher ehyeh,” translates as “I am [now and on into the future] that which I am.”  “YHVH” is the third person expression, which is ours to speak: “He is and shall be that which he is.”  Therefore it is understood that in saying the name YHVH we are saying, “He is, now and forevermore, that which he is.”  Or, more specifically, “He is and ever shall be [in his actions] that which he is [in his essential being.]”

By this name Yahveh affirms the eternity of his essential being and affirms that all his deeds are consistent with his essential being … even as he enters history through the finite actions of Yeshua the incarnation of the Logos and our eternal king.  This meaning of the name YHVH was carried forward when Christ said to the Pharisees, “Before Abraham was, I AM,” and was echoed by John in the book of Revelation when he wrote,

“Grace be to you and peace from he who is, who was, and who is to come.” Rev. 1.4

In Yeshua the Logos became flesh and made his dwelling among us.  In Yeshua Yahveh became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

The being of Yeshua reveals the being of the Father.  In Yeshua it is seen that Yahveh is a free agent who acts rationally and justly and is also free to reach out to his creation in irrational acts of love.  Throughout the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures Yahveh enters history on behalf of his people, healing and instructing those who seek the knowledge of him.  Through Yeshua he has established the grounds upon which the wounds of human rebellion are healed.  In the letter to the Colossians Paul wrote,

“He [Yeshua] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.  For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.  He is before all things, and in him all things hold together…For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”[2]

 

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There is another vision of the world, a vision which claims its origins in the 7th century A.D. as a “new and final revelation” of God to men, ostensibly through Muhammad, a man who considered himself a prophet.  Muhammad claimed to receive revelations from the supreme God through the angel Gabriel.  He called the supreme God by the name Allah, a name which had historically been attached to the chief god of a polytheistic godhead worshiped at the Qa’aba in Mecca.  Companions of Muhammad wrote down the revelations, and these records were compiled shortly after his death to become the Quran.  Muhammad claimed that Allah is the God of Abraham and Moses, and that they were, like himself, prophets of Allah.

However, the followers of Allah do not recognize YHVH as a name of God, nor do they recognize the role of Israel in bringing into the world the ground of human redemption through Yeshua.   Abraham and Moses both saw the coming of a Messiah out of Israel.  The followers of Allah do not recognize either the divinity of Yeshua or the critical role of his sacrifice on the cross, since they believe that the unity of Allah is a unity of form, and that the purity of Allah is partly a function of his abstinence from the mundane.  This does not allow, by their thinking, either the existence of  the Logos or that it be made flesh.  The Dome of the Rock, on the Temple Mount, is covered with slogans declaring that Allah can have no Son.

Muslims claim that the revelations to Muhammad supersede the revelations of Yeshua.  This would seem to be an oblique claim that Yeshua was either ignorant or not telling the truth, since Yeshua clearly presented himself as uniquely begotten of God, as the very presence and agency of God on earth, and made it clear that he had come with the express purpose of going to the cross to redeem mankind from the curse of death.   The actual claim of Muslims is that all the texts of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures have been corrupted.

Muslims, followers of Allah and Muhammad, believe that suspended between two poles, a good life and adherence to the Five Pillars of Islam,[3] hangs the hope [not the guarantee] that they will spend eternity in Paradise.  [There is no evidence that they intend to share in the promise to Abraham, the ancient promise that the people of God will live in the land of promise under the rule of Yeshua the Messiah of  Israel.]

In this way Islam is much like Catholicism.  Catholics are amillennialists.  Amillennialists do not look for Christ to return and rule [for a millennium] in a brick and mortar rule on earth.  Amillenialists like John Calvin thought it would be “beneath” God to have a kingdom on earth, therefore beneath God to fulfill literally his promises to Abraham.

Catholics also believe that salvation is a treasure suspended between two poles, the deeds of a good life and adherence to the Sacraments[4] of the Catholic institution.  In Islam and in Catholicism, decisive power over individual access to Paradise lies in the hands of the institution.

 

 

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We see easily that as the perception of God changes, so is altered every possibility of the nature of the encounter between man and God, the most radical variant introducing itself when one abandons the gods which originate in the imagination and seeks the God who truly knows our face.

Entry into the kingdom of Yeshua is not governed by any religious institution or cultural structure.  The individual person comes to Yeshua in absolute independence and stands alone before God.  The one who seeks Yahveh is called to kneel and recognize the sovereignty of Yahveh and acknowledge that Yeshua is Lord, king upon the eternal and heavenly throne.  Implicit in coming before the heavenly throne is the recognition of the Messiah’s work at the cross and our own need of redemption.  A price had to be paid for human rebellion and Yeshua paid that price.  Even more, a way had to be made for the transformation of our rebellious nature into a spiritual nature capable of fealty to the  person and expectations of a spiritual and holy God.

In Yeshua, Yahveh calls mankind to himself, calls us to a spiritual birth, without which we remain mere observers.  Yahveh is not looking for observers.  He is looking for participants, subjects of the realm, warriors ready to stand for the truth, ready to own the light in a world of darkness.  The “belief” which Christians bandy about is far more than a credo.  It is meant to be total immersion and surrender to the Sovereignty of Yeshua.

Many claim to find satisfaction far short of the all-consuming call of Yahveh.  There are certainly those who have convinced themselves that worlds can orbit in perfect motion and eyes can see and tongues can sing, all without the hand of any Creator, men born with no purpose but to perpetuate their species.  But, these aside, most men have felt the world to be unintelligible without the presence of God, and have found it unlivable without the hope of making appeal to God.

The motive to come into the presence of God is strong and amply recorded throughout our history.  We know that the knowledge of God is often limited by the prevalent religious dogmas of the culture into which we are born.  But we seek God, not to satisfy the demands of culture, but to satisfy the demands of the heart.  Therefore the person who truly seeks to be known by God will reach beyond the pleasantries of common dogma and will search to know if there is or is not a God who sees and hears and answers the call of the heart.

Some are certainly more than satisfied by Aristotle’s God.  The appeal of a distant God is that there is no place for divine judgment upon mankind, nor is there reason to think that man is fallen.  We obviously are not considered to be made “in the image” of such a mechanistic God.  We may imagine that our ancestors started as specks in the primeval slime.  Therefore whatever we are at this moment can only be considered as an amazing accomplishment.  There is no room for judgment nor is there any divine being capable of inspecting or judging us.  Nor does this god require fealty of any kind.  This god demands nothing, therefore leaving man autonomous, owner of complete liberty.

Allah, the God of Islam, does not challenge the integrity of man in his natural state.  Allah does not see man as fallen and in need of redemption.  He only expects a man to do his best and to observe the Five Pillars of Islam.  Therefore Allah asks fealty but does not challenge man to recognize a need for spiritual transformation.

Islamic-world.net has a very informative article on Khilafah [the caliphate or vicegerency of man on earth], in which it states:

“Islam does not contribute to any theory of the ‘fall of Adam’ symbolizing the fall of man.  There was no ‘fall’ at all in that sense.  Man was created for the purpose of acting as vicegerent on the earth and he came to the world to fulfill this mission.  It represents the rise of man to a new assignment, his tryst with destiny, and not a fall.  According to the Quran, ‘Satan caused them both to deflect therefrom.’  Both were held responsible for the act, both repented their transgression, and both were forgiven.  They entered the world without any stigma of original sin on their soul.  Human nature is pure and good.  Man has been created in the best of all forms….Man has not been totally protected against error.  This would involve negation of the freedom of choice.  He may commit errors; his redemption lies in his realization of those errors, in seeking repentance and in turning back to the Right Path.”

In the Hebrew Scriptures, to which Islam refers [while claiming that they have been corrupted], there is no record that Adam or Eve ever repented of their rebellion.  Even if they did repent and were forgiven, there is a question of justice yet to be resolved.  Is simple repentance adequate to restore the rebel to the good grace of a holy God?  Is there no punishment for sin?  If not, then let sin begin, that repentance and grace may flow more freely?  Does not the God who created mankind with the greatest expectations — that we should live and act after the manner of God himself — is he not justified in demanding that, in the face of such rebellion, his continued devotion to the prospects of man on earth must be justified by some cover, some antidote to the seed of unbridled liberty now planted in his creation?  Does not the sacrifice of Yeshua on the cross reveal to us the gravity of God’s law and the depth of his expectations in us?  Does he not amplify his holiness and the honor of his expectations by sending his unique Messiah into the world to bring to mankind the possibility of spiritual transformation?

It is apparent that for Islam man does not need transformation so much as he needs simple upkeep.  Islam does not have absolute laws.  Its morality is greatly situational.  There are many situations in which the Muslim is allowed to deceive or even kill if it is for the sake of the advancement of Islam.  In this they are very much like the Jesuits who are free to act outside divine law if it is for the sake of the welfare of the Papacy.

It also appears that the righteous life of the Muslim individual is dependent on the context of an Islamic social structure within which he is able to pray regularly, tithe, etc., i.e. a society to which his good deeds have meaning.  Furthermore, the Muslim’s divine mission of vicegerency calls him to establish the rule of Allah over the earth, by force if necessary.  This subject is expanded in the above-quoted article:

“The Khilafa [vicegerency] is a common leadership for all the Muslims in the world.  Its role is to establish the laws of the Islamic Shariah and to carry the Dawa of Islam to the world.  The pathetic situation of the Muslims today, due to the absence of a Khilafa, is proof of the saying of the Prophet: ‘Islam and government are twin brothers.  Neither of the two can be perfect without the other.  Islam is like a great structure and government is its guardian.  A building without a foundation crashes down and without a guardian is pilfered and robbed out.’  The state of the Muslims today cannot be helped unless we work to implement in entirety the systems of Islam.  Only then can the justice of Allah the Exalted be brought to bear on earth.”

Then the one who seeks God in the name of Allah does not necessarily come in repentance or in search of rescue from a fallen nature.  Islam allows that human nature is undamaged.  What is required is a good life and simple fealty to the five pillars of Islam.  1.] to recite the Shahada, “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.” 2.] regular prayer five times per day 3.] to tithe 4.] to fast during Ramadan 5.] to make the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Is the petitioner then known by Allah?    It may be of the character ascribed to Allah that he be conscious of individual human beings and even pass ultimate judgment upon them, but Allah, for the Muslim, is unknowable, aloof, and would not enter into communication with the heart of an individual.  According to the Islamic scholar al-Faruqi:

“He [Allah] does not reveal himself to anyone in any way.  Allah reveals only his will.  One of the prophets asked Allah to reveal himself and Allah told him, ‘No, it is not possible for me to reveal myself to anyone.’… This is Allah’s will and that is all we have, and we have it in perfection in the Quran…God does not reveal himself to anyone.  Christians talk about the revelation of God himself –by God of God – but that is the great difference between Christianity and Islam.”[5]

Then there is no personal relationship between Allah and the individual, for Allah does not act as person.  Nor is there any expectation that the individual will radically open his heart and person to Allah.  The personality of the petitioner is not of great significance to Allah.  What matters is his submission, which is the meaning of “Islam.”

 

 

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Traditional Judaism pursues the God of Israel as he is made known in the revelations to Moses and the prophets.  Traditional Judaism approaches YHVH through the study of the Hebrew Scriptures and through prayer and worship, both public and private.  They hold to the notion that the God who revealed himself through Israel is characteristically the God of the genetic people of Israel, and more recently of the geopolitical nation of Israel.  Modern exponents of Judaism hold that you cannot belong to the God of Israel except through popular inclusion into the people of Israel.

[In this they are like the Catholics and the Muslims, where one enters the faith through the socio-ecclesiastical structure.  Pope Francis claimed quite recently, “It is a dangerous temptation to believe that one can have “a personal, direct, immediate relationship with Jesus Christ without communion with and the mediation of the church.”  This of course is a complete rebuke of all that Christ has said in the New Testament, but Catholics do not consider Scripture to have higher authority than the pronouncements of the church.]

For traditional Rabbinic Judaism, the interventions of YHVH in history are on behalf of the historic people of Israel, not necessarily for anyone else.

Modern Judaism has abandoned most of this traditional faith which centered on the revelations of Yahveh to Moses and the prophets.  Instead there is widespread preoccupation with Qabala.  This is an exaltation of a completely depersonalized god accessible through gnostic insight and through communication with spirits.  It presumes to access the power of God without concern for the person of God as he has made himself known in the history of the people of Israel.  In Qabalistic Judaism neither the person of God nor the persona of him who seeks God is of any relevance.

 

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In Yeshua we find the person of Yahveh.  In Yeshua Yahveh  enters history to rescue us from mindless rebellion.  The overwhelming gravity of that intervention is revealed to us at the foot of the cross.  If we cannot meet him there, we cannot meet him.

How do we know that his acts are true?  As Yeshua remarked, Only the true shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.  The hired hand sees the wolf coming and flees.  He, the true shepherd, is the one who knows us:

“I am the good shepherd.  I know my own, and my own know me.”   John 10.14

How does he know us intimately?  This was the concern of the disciples as Yeshua explained to them his crucifixion and coming resurrection.  At that time he explained to them the coming miracle of Pentecost, a plan prepared over centuries, that the Spirit of Yeshua would come to rest in the heart of every person who opens his heart to transformation, to spiritual birth:

“I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth.  The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him.  But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.  I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.  Before long the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.  Because I live you also will live.  On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you….All this I have spoken while still with you.  But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.”  John 14.15-20,25-27           

What am I to think if God does not know me or see me?  Am I not alone in the world?  Is there not an impenetrable divide between us all?  The bond of unity lies in the definition, but without the intent of God we have no definition.  We are randomness classified into arbitrary categories, our DNA something we can edit without a thought for the meaning of “human excellence.”

Do we know each other?  Is not the only hope of being known and understood that we by birth be patterned after the plan of the One who made us and that he be even now a living God and that he exist beyond the patterns of necessity and that he be of that very character that is beyond the rational, that is irrational, that is love.  That is our only hope of being known, if the one who made us also loves us and seeks us for himself.

This is uniquely the character of YHVH the God of Israel, whom we know in this time through the person of Yeshua our Messiah.  The very few will answer the call of Yeshua:

“Behold I stand at the door and knock.  If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come in and sup with him and he with me.”  Revelation 3.20

It is a call to transformation.  It is a promise that God through his Spirit will maintain a presence in the heart’s house and heal us and instruct us and bring to us the life and the will and the understanding which he has meant to be our possession since the rebellion of the first generation left a huge tear in the fabric of the world.   Those who open the heart to his life are opening their lives to his sovereignty and his loving claim upon their lives.  We would never accept that claim and would prefer our own alienated autonomy if we did not see that in a state of autonomy we are part of the damage in the world.  We accept his love and his sovereignty knowing that in the deepest interior of the heart’s house we seek to be known and loved by our God.

 

 

Lawrence S. Jones

Chicago  2016

lawrencestewartjones@gmail.com

 

 

 

[1] Genesis 16.7-15

[2] Colossians 1. 15-20

[3] Proclamation of faith in the Oneness of God and the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad; establishment of  the five daily prayers [ritual and canonical]; paying tithe to the Islamic state or to a representative of a local mosque; fasting the month of  Ramadan; the pilgrimage to Mecca if able.

[4] Baptism, confirmation, communion, confession, marriage, “holy orders,” and the anointing of the sick

[5][5] I. al-Faruqi, Christian Mission and Islamic Dawah: Proceedings of the Chambesy Dialogue Consultation, pp. 47-48

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Zionism and the remnant of Israel

05 Sunday Apr 2015

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“In that day, the remnant of Israel, the survivors of the house of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on Yahveh, the Holy One of Israel.  A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.  Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand by the sea, only a remnant will return.”                                                                                                                                                                                                           Isaiah 10.20-22

Yahveh will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land.  Aliens will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.                                                                                                                                                                                                           Isaiah 14.1

 

 “Glorious return” or “final solution”?                                

Since 1948 Jews have been returning to the Land of Promise under a Zionist platform to rebuild the nation, even to the ancient glory which it knew under King David, even to the establishment of Greater Israel[1], stretching from the Sinai to the Euphrates.  Is this the great return described in prophecy?  Do we need to differentiate the returning people from those who claim to be their guardians?  Should we set to one side those who come to the land of promise out of hope in the promise and out of hope in the God of the promise, while, on the other side, we set the aggressive power structure which has assumed the role of orchestrating the return and the political agenda of these people?  Is it possible that the dream of return is being used by powerful forces in order to position millions of Jews in a battle which will produce no victory for the Israel of God, but rather threatens to become a Zionist enabling of a Final Solution?

Hitler did not hate the Jews because they were good bankers.  Hitler and his Vril, Thule, and Ahnenerbe societies were drinking the wine of occultism.  Behind every overt political agenda they despised the Jews because they were the people of the Book, the people of Torah, the descendants of Abraham.  They despised the people and the Book because they represent the Law of the Creator God.[2]  They despised the Law and the Creator because occultism, Gnosticism, and Kabbalah all celebrate a cosmology where Lucifer sits enthroned over all things, where the Creator  [“demiurge”] is blamed as the source of an imperfect Creation, and where his Law is scorned as an impediment designed to restrain the natural excellence of man.

Hitler is dead, but the heirs of his occultism are alive and well, revealing their true colors in the halls of Zionism[3], within the Muslim elite[4], in the Vatican[5], and in the media of popular culture.  The same Madame Blavatsky who inspired Hitler is also the source of the Theosophy which is professed to be the philosophical guide of the architects of the United Nations.[6]  Do not imagine that the occult elites have any love for the Israel of God or for the God of Israel.  They despise Torah and divine law.  When the opportunity arrives, the leaders of the nations, who are broadly devoted to the occult agenda, will take pleasure in visiting holocaust once again upon the nettlesome People of the Book.

Scripture has significant things to say about an apocalyptic time when, just in advance of the arrival of a global society, the armies of the nations will surround Jerusalem.  On the one hand, it will be a time of unspeakable horror, from which people in the neighborhood of Jerusalem should flee:

“…then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.  Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house.  Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak.  How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!  Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.  For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now – and never to be equaled again.  If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened…”                                                           Matthew 24. 16-22

Luke’s record includes a few additional specifications:

“When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near.  Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city.  For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written….Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.”     Luke 21.20-24

There will be huge suffering.  But Zechariah tells us that there is another side to the story.  Yahveh will use this moment once again to demonstrate to Israel his faithfulness.  When they are without hope and without claim of virtue, he, by his mercy, will again reveal to them who it is who first formed them as a nation, who took a wandering Aramean and made his children into a nation, who redeemed that nation from Egypt, and who is faithful to all his promises to Abraham and the patriarchs in spite of centuries of rebellion:

“I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling.  Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.  On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations.  All who try to move it will injure themselves.  On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares Yahveh.  “I will keep a watchful eye over the house of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations….On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves.”                             Zechariah 12.2-6

It appears that in spite of the dreadful nature of the conflict between Israel and the nations, and in spite of the suffering of Israel, it will not become a day of victory for the nations.  The nations will run into trouble.  “All who try to move [Jerusalem] will injure themselves.”  The nations forget that the God of Israel is hopelessly loyal, that he is a romantic, and that he loves even the dust of Jerusalem.  Many will be saved, even among those who imagined that they would establish Jerusalem by their own hand.  What will be the offshoot of this gracious intervention obstructing the armies of the nations?

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.  They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.                       ”Zechariah  12.10,11

They will at last recognize their king, Yeshua, the Messiah of Israel!

 

ii

I recently received an email from a man in Israel who actively seeks out people in all nations who might recognize themselves as belonging to one of the ten tribes of Israel.  He is searching beyond the domain of mainline Judaism in the belief that the settlement of Greater Israel will require the return and settlement of the descendants of the “lost” ten tribes.

He had had found me on the internet and considered me a reasonable prospect.  He then sent me a very cordial letter, explaining that he and his associates are devoted to this ingathering of Greater Israel and would I not be ready to undertake the beginnings of a conversation in which we “attempt to recognize all that we hold in common and attempt to downplay our differences?”  I copy here excerpts from his letter:

“Dear Lawrence,

“I looked at your Site.  Great insight and wisdom.  The fact that we may interpret things a bit differently while we agree basically, makes for this persistent division which keeps us all apart. …So you mentioned the Blessing of Abraham.  Let me briefly spell out my vision here….Btw the place where God gave the first Promise in this regard [Gen. 12.12] to Avraham is only some 25 km away from our Guest House here in Shomron [Samaria] Israel.  It is my favorite spot to take guests, because this is where it all started in regard of which it will all end!… In later confirmations of this Promise, God defines it to Abraham becoming a father of an uncountable nation of people.  Later development in Scripture defines this at a Time when his descendants will RETURN from across the earth.  Those in the world who do believe in this RETURN apply it to Jews [Tribe Judah] only.  [I am an orthodox Jew myself, as is my colleague, Rabbi F.]  Problem is, there are only 14 million Jews world wide [7 mil in Israel].  We are much into the topic of the Greater Israel these days – Biblical promise incl. lands of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan [ref. Wikipedia].  14 million Jews by far is insufficient to settle even the current disputed land territory of Israel!  So?

“Our favorite topic which we promote thru …[our organization] sees multiple millions of people from ALL nations in this Promise – virtually the re-identified souls from the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel who HAVE to return acc. to Prophecy.  YOU are one of them – hence our discussion!  We find many daily.  There will be hundreds of millions in the end – it is a vast expanse of Land.  The 10 Tribes intermingled with ALL nations during the 2800 years of exile.  It will be the GREATEST Event ever, their RETURN!

“Problem is [the hard part] that the world also will claim this Abrahamic Blessing – on their easy wishful thinking terms.  The entire matter of the Exile acc. to Scripture is a Divorce.  When the Great Husband in His Mercy receives the harlot Bride back, surely it is still on His never changing terms; surely she now has to tow the line?

“This is the problem.

“The subject is so wide that it can go FAR to keep us in agreement.  We will tackle the rest later – or just learn to forebear each other for it while we stride along HOME to the Promised Land.  Here are some links – tell me what it says to you….”

The links were true to what was being suggested in the email, that they are recruiting candidates to go out and settle Greater Israel, presumably immediately consequent upon the moment when the Zionists make a move and take control of the ancient boundaries of Greater Israel, which includes much of the land mass of those countries listed in his email.

Many people, Zionists in particular, believe that Israel can be legitimately whatever Jews make it to be.  That model might be true for France or England or the United States or ancient Rome.  They are what they are.  They live under no antecedent claim demanding a certain determinant character in the polity.  If a great man establishes himself as monarch, the nation may be, without stigma, a legitimate monarchy.  Should the people revolt and establish themselves as a republic with a constitution, they are what they have chosen to be, a constitutional republic, without need for apology.

Israel is not like the other nations.  Yahveh formed it for himself by covenant with descendants of Abraham.  Israel now belongs to its Messiah, its anointed king, Yeshua Ha-Mashiach, and it can set no meaningful course estranged from its king.

After the formative days at Mt. Sinai, Moses sent twelve spies to investigate the land of promise prior to the advance of the people northward.  Only two returned with confidence that by God’s power they could overcome great obstacles and take the land.  The people refused to answer Moses’ call to go forward.  Then God pronounced judgment on them, told them that because of their inability to trust him they would now be bound to remain in the desert for forty years, and only the next generation would be allowed to enter the land.  The pride of the people being stung, they then said, “Okay, we will go!”  Moses then warned them that they would be setting out without the blessing and guardian Presence of Yahveh.  They set out anyway, and they were crushed in combat.

An Israel which divests itself of its God is an Israel with no past and no future.  Israel was born in the promises of Yahveh to Abraham.  It was formed through covenant with the patriarchs, establishing God as royal Lord, and the people of the covenant as his subjects.  Repeated prophecy marked Israel as the foundation from which would come the child of destiny, “the seed of the woman who crushes the head of the serpent.”  The prophets of Israel revealed that the one who would crush Satan would be the Messiah of Israel, and for him the generations waited in anticipation.

The Messiah came to Israel and gave himself as Passover sacrifice.  Just as the blood over the doorways of Goshen warded off the angel of death, so the sacrifice of Yeshua released mankind from the curse of death.  He re-engineered the nation state to become a kingdom in the hearts of men across the planet, men and women who are bound to Yahveh through the Spirit of Yeshua indwelling them, men and women who yet look forward to the return to earth of Yeshua and the establishment of the brick and mortar Israel of promise.

There is no Israel apart from the rule of its Redeemer over it.  The promises to Abraham are in every way accomplished through Christ alone, and there is no redemption or salvation of Israel apart from her Messiah.  The Zionist entity which is rooted in occultism and Qabala cannot claim to be the Israel of promise.  A “nation of promise” which spurns the source of all its promise is a study in delusion.  In the links which O. sent me I found mention of our king sadly missing, and so I wrote him this reply:

“My Dear O.,

“I want very much to share in that which we hold in common and agree to disagree on that which we see differently.  We must also agree to speak freely and honestly and without compromise those things which are in our hearts.

“It would be sad if we should entertain ourselves with half truths because half truths are all that we know how to share.  We are in a time of real emergency, so that in this time I want to share as clearly as possible those uncomfortable truths which grieve me. 

 “I am very much of the mind of my Orthodox friends in Neturei Karta, knowing that there can be no kingdom of Israel without the Messiah of Israel.  On this ground they vigorously reject the Zionist agenda.   I do, however, part company with Neturei Karta where they await a first appearance of the Messiah, while I know that Yeshua is the Messiah, ruling in this time over a living kingdom, transcendent Israel.

 “If Abraham had been a normal sort of man, eager to cash in on God’s promise of land, then after his battle with the kings he would have made a deal with Melchizedek, telling him, ‘With my army, my resources and my alliances; with your established kingship and priesthood, and with your impenetrable city….together we can make this thing happen — this which has been promised to me by God: two people like us can establish the kingdom of heaven on earth!  Let’s do it!’

 “But Abraham was not a normal man.  He was the exception, and that is why God loved him. He waited on God and accepted nothing, not even grazing land, unless it was from the hand and providence of Yahveh.  He knew that the Promised Land was far more than a promise of land.  He knew that it was a promise of the ultimate kingdom in which man and God are in total union.  He knew that this promise was meaningless short of the royal Presence of the Messiah.  

 “Abraham was in no rush to step out in advance of his king. Therefore he also had plenty of time to conduct himself honorably with his Philistine friends, even making alliances….alliances meant to extend into our time.[7]

 “It is worth noting that, contrary to the credo of all Dominionists [Christian, Muslim, and Jew], the faithful do not conquer the world and then the Messiah comes.  The final muster described in Revelation reveals that our king appears ready for battle and the troops of heaven follow his royal lead:

 Then I saw heaven open wide – and there was a white horse!  His rider is faithful and true, yea just are his judgments and his warfare; his eyes are a flame of fire, on his head are many diadems, he bears a written name which none knows but himself.  He is clad in a robe dipped in blood [his name is called THE LOGOS OF GOD], and the troops of heaven follow him on white horses, arrayed in pure white linen…And on his robe, upon his thigh, his name is written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.                                Revelation 19.11-14,16

 “Abraham knew that only under the Messiah — however many centuries it should take — shall the promise be fulfilled, because the promise IS the Messiah: God in the presence of man, total covenant union, “I will be your God and you will be my people.”

“I,  Lawrence, at this moment, in Chicago, own that union with the Messiah of Israel. He is today on the eternal throne of David, the Lamb in the midst of the very throne of God, in total union with Yahveh: Yahveh Yeshua Ha Mashiach, a code inscribed in the Tanakh in equal letter spacing.[8]

 “I am, even now, though stationed at a remote outpost, participating in the union of the twelve tribes who, all of them, are true to their only possible Lord and king, Yeshua Ha Mashiach.

“This outpost is in many ways lonely.  I yearn to be near my brothers and fellow subjects of the king.  I yearn for the dust of the earthly Jerusalem.  I would love more than anything to find myself stationed in the Land of Promise — if it could be in response to the will of my king and, as always, in loyalty only to the rule of my king.  I could never give fealty to the Zionist entity which, I fear, plays Herod to the Papal Caesar.

 “I am  concerned that your program for the return of the ten tribes is not centered on the Messiah and is even organized very deliberately along lines of genetics.  The promise goes far beyond genetics.  What are we to make of Obed Melech, Ruth, Zipporah, Naaman and a host of others — even Nebuchadnezzar who ultimately knelt and praised Yahveh as his God.

“Zionism is the antithesis of true Judaism.  Who will rule your greater Israel?  Who will rule your union of the tribes?  Only the Messiah may rule.  But no one will be ruled by the Messiah but those who recognize him as Messiah.  The Jews reject his kingship. The Christians reject his kingship.  And the Muslims reject him.

“I suspect that Zionism is actually Rome’s Final Solution and that the conflagration to come will actually cost the lives of many who are in the land of promise in search of true covenant union with their God.

 “Yeshua said that when the Abomination that causes Desolation is in the holy place, flee to the mountains.  I believe that a precursor of the Abomination is now in the holy place.  The Dome of the Rock is an obscenity upon the Temple Mount, and most obscene is that there in the place of sacrifice, on the inside and the outside of that edifice, in the tile work, are numerous inscriptions devoted to the denial of the divinity of Yeshua Ha Mashiach.  Therefore it is not time to pretend that all is well in Jerusalem.  It is not time to take more land from the Palestinians and erect more Jewish homes.  It will soon be time to flee to the mountains, for the great battle surrounding the land of promise is soon to begin.  Only following the return of our Messiah in power and glory will it be time to take comfort in Jerusalem. 

“Please do not ally yourselves with the Muslims in denying the truth of our own king! our own Messiah who went to the cross, fulfilling the prophecies of Isaiah, of Jeremiah, of Zechariah, of Moses.  

“The goals of the Zionists have nothing in common with the goals of the God of Israel.  Do not expect glory to come from their machinations.  Do not expect the blessings of Yahveh upon them.  Yahveh will not bless any entity which artificially names itself “Israel” and ignores its Messiah. 

 “Dear O., I am compelled to speak out these things.  It would be wonderful to hear from you speaking just as openly the concerns of your heart, as I am sure that there is so much that I cannot see from here, and I would read it with the greatest interest.  No matter how far apart we are, our dialogue could mean a great deal to many people.  We share the hunger for Yahveh, our wonderful King.  We share the dream of the promises to Abraham.  We share the blessing and the burden of the whole covenant, even in its amplification into the new covenant as promised by Jeremiah and Ezekiel, the covenant transformation by which circumcision becomes circumcision of the heart through the agency of the Spirit of Yahveh cutting into our hearts.  

Yours,

Lawrence

O.responded to me within a matter of days, in a tone of renunciation. He classified my letter as pure “anti-Semitism.” He told me there are two kinds of people, those who are with Israel and those who are not.  He told me that I was one of those who are not.

 

iii

The truth is, there is another side which I am unable to reconcile with the views which I expressed to O.  It is simply this:  When I see Israel under attack I feel wounded in my own self.

However much their path has been distorted by Zionism, the people of Israel are my teachers, and they are the descendants of those who have given their lives for centuries to preserve the Torah and the culture of worship of Yahveh.

However much the land is being unfairly divided, it is the land upon which Yeshua shall once again walk, and it is the land where I will know him face to face and kneel at his feet.  However much I want to call attention to the arrogance of the Zionists, I am overcome by the arrogance of Islam.  Muslims are not ignorant of all that has transpired between the living God and the people whom he created, and yet they would pretend that the call of Mohammed supersedes the truth of Yahveh. [It has even become popular in Islam to deny that the Temple Mount was ever the home of Solomon’s Temple!]  However much the Zionists would like to define the right of a genetic group to the land, it is this land which shall someday be the home of people from every nation on earth.  As seen in the opening quotations,

Yahveh will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land.  Aliens will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.                                                                               Isaiah 14.1

I am just such an alien who swears fealty to the king of Israel.  I also am one of those mentioned by Zecharaiah,

This is what Yahveh Almighty says, “In those days ten men from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, ‘Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.’”    Zechariah 8.23                       

What am I to do?  If I run to Jerusalem, how long will it be before I and others are obeying the call of Yeshua to flee to the mountains?   It is not we who establish Jerusalem.  It is he who establishes the city. Our fates are inseparable from the city, but he must lead us.    

You who call on Yahveh, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth. Isaiah 62.6,7

I believe that in this time of rapid change we must carry in our hearts the burden of Jerusalem and of the Land of our Promise.  For myself, at this moment, I feel compelled to call out to those who are putting their lives and their future in the hands of the Zionists and encourage them to swear fealty to no one but the Messiah of Israel, Yeshua Ha Mashiach.  His is the power, and his alone is the final victory:

“As for the ten horns you have seen, they are ten kings who have no royal power as yet, but receive royal authority for an hour along with the Beast; they are of one mind, and they confer their power and authority upon the Beast.  They shall wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings – the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him.”                                                                          Revelation 17.11-14

We must be still, study God’s word, and listen in our hearts for his voice of direction.

Lawrence S. Jones

Chicago

email: lawrencestewartjones.com

[1] see smoloko.com and the Oden Yinon Plan. Als o see http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-israeli-dream-the-criminal-roadmap-towards-greater-israel/5391839?print=1

[2] see Trevor Ravenscroft, The Spear of Destiny

[3] note ample witness of the Freemasonic character of the Israeli Supreme Court building funded entirely by the Rockefellers.

[4] Freemasonry is as active in the Arab world as it is in the West.  See David Livingstone, Black Terror White Soldiers

[5] see The Temple, the Mosque, the Vatican, and Building Seven, by Lawrence S. Jones

[6] see Robert Muller, World Core Curriculum;   See Charlotte Iserbyt, the deliberate dumbing down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail [Conscience Press, 1999], p. 54, “The offices of Lucis Trust [formerly Lucifer Publishing] which were previously located across from the United Nations Building in New York have offered for sale the Robert Muller World Core Curriculum written by Muller who served as the undersecretary of the UN.  The World Core Curriculum states that it is based on the teachings of Alice Bailey’s spirit guide, the Tibetan teacher Djwahl Kjul… It should be noted that the Robert Muller School is a member of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project, certified as a United Nations Associated School.”; also see The Occult Character of the United Nations, by Alan Morrison available at DiakrisisInternational website.

[7] Abraham and Abimelech, Genesis 21.22-34

[8] see Yakov Rambsel  His Name Is Jesus, Frontier Research Publications pp. 137-167

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John 3.31-36: The witness of John the Baptist:

"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him.

Isaiah 19.19-25.
In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the Lord at its border. It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them. So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the Lord. They will worship with sacrificies and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them. The Lord will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them. In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.

Psalm 87
He has set his foundation on the holy mountain;
the Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Glorious things are said of you,
O City of God:
"I will record Rahab and Babylon
among those who acknowledge me --
Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush --
and will say, 'This one was born in Zion.'"
Indeed of Zion it will be said,
"This one and that one were born in her,
and the Most High himself will establish her."
The Lord will write in the register of the peoples:
"This one was born in Zion."
As they make music they will sing,
"All my fountains [sources] are in you."

The great hymn of John Newton [Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, City of Our God, is based on Psalm 87 above. It represents the heart of the ancient love of Zion, before the advent of Herzl, the love of the City of God in its present transcendent reality, the City of those who love God. The banner of our city is Yeshua our king. By the hand of Yeshua, and by his hand alone, the day will come when our transcendent city will be reunited with the geographical city.

Isaiah 11.10
In that day the Root of Jesse [Yeshua our king] will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him and his place of rest will be glorious. In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the sea. He will raise a banner for the nations [Yeshua our king] and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.

Isaiah 44.3,5
I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring,
and my blessing on your descendants....
One will say, "I belong to the Lord";
another will call himself by the name of Jacob;
still another will write on his hand,
"The Lord's,"
and will take the name Israel."

Isaiah 56.3,6,7,8
Let no foreigner who has bound himself to the Lord say,
"The Lord will surely exclude me from his people."
And let not any eunuch complain,
"I am only a dry tree."
...And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord
to serve him,
to love the name of the Lord,
and to worship him,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold fast to my covenant--
these I will bring to my holy mountain
and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called
a house of prayer for all nations.
The Sovereign Lord declares --
he who gathers the exiles of Israel:
"I will gather still others to them
besides those already gathered."

Isaiah 66, excerpts:
"This is the one I esteem:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit,
and trembles at my word....
Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
all you who love her;
rejoice greatly with her,
all you who mourn over her.
For you will nurse and be satisfied
at her comforting breasts;
you will drink deeply
and delight in her overflowing abundance....
"I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream;
...See, the Lord is coming with fire,
and his chariots are like a whirlwind;
For with fire and with his sword
the Lord will execute judgment upon all men,...
And I,...am about to come and gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see my glory.
I will set a sign among them, [Yeshua our king] and I will send some of those who survive to the nations -- to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians...to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations. And they will bring all your brothers, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem..

Daniel 7.13,14
In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man [Yeshua our king], coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

Daniel 4.34,35,37
AT the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven...Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever.
His dominion is an eternal dominion;
his kingdom endures from generation to generation.
All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing.
He does as he pleases
with the powers of heaven
and the peoples of the earth.
No one can hold back his hand
or say to him: "What have you done?"
...Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

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