Edition 298

a shofarminelogo

This website is distinctly Messianic, comprising the Abrahamic expression of faith, which is to the Jew and the Gentile with a Hebraic character. We affirm the fullness of absolute truth contained in the Bible, embracing the cross and identifying with the convocations of the Lord as seen in the Feasts, the Sabbath and Passover. We reject the legalism of many in the Messianic movement. We reject the Babylonian Pagan traditions of the church. We consider all people Jews and Gentiles and those in all churches who are truly born of the Spirit of the living God to be one family. We reject institutional organised denominationalism (division). We foresee a great falling away of much of the church in these days, while at the same time a great restoration of part of the church. We affirm and identify with God's plan and call to the Jewish people in these days and will support and stand with them as future brothers and sisters. We stand happily with pre / mid/ and post tribbers. Our slant is cautiously pre-trib, but hey, post tribber...you're still family! Today much error has been added to Christendom and much truth has been removed. The Prophetic Scroll's aim is to deal with these issues and assist you on your road to glory.

I was saved in 1976 and became extremely interested in Bible prophecy, being an ex war-correspondent and photographer. My calling and aim is to share the dramatic and all-important issues of prophecy relating to our day. This is a calling to unfold and share the wisdom of God as contained in His word. There is also much teaching in these pages for your heart. It’s not all prophecy! Please study these things further yourself and understand that the format is non-exhaustive. Please search the scriptures to “see if these be true.” This is a "watchman" and Bible prophecy teaching website.

scrollblessing

•Please consider making a donation to this work, which comes to you free as a labour of love. The donations page has been updated and revised.

titleme

►Lord willing, the next edition will be entitled “Effects of the Rapture."

►We have now reached 35 million regular and returning visitors.

•Live "Breaking News" tickers - click the button top left, or Here.

●Talk about Irony! Trump meets Abbas, (meaning father) the Palestinian leader in Bethlehem the place of the birth of the Prince of Peace to discuss a new peace effort and deal! But the Prince of Peace is again banished!

●While Trump tries to appease Islam in Saudi Arabia, and the mass media continues to lie to the world that Islam is peace; we see the heart of it being manifest in the savagery of the Manchester bombing. Trump says, “Drive out the terrorists” and they blow up the innocents!

●Iran’s re-elected Rouhani says we will continue with our missile development and tests. He dismissed Trump’s Arab summit and his remarks against militant Iran. So nothing has changed?

●The Trump visit to the Middle East has killed and buried the Obama policies, which all favoured the “other side.”

Shabbat (Sabbath) begins on Fridays at 6pm and ends on Saturdays at 6pm. The purpose is to help the church and Israel become reconciled in Messiah and to identify the rift, and the needed restoration. There is much in the church that needs to change before it can be fully reconciled with the Jew. Likewise, changes in Jewish thinking are also needed.

19^th May 2017

Shabbat Shalom to all:

The curse of replacement theology:

Replacement theology will get you cursed by God! But, as they say...there is more! It will get your finances cursed as well. (Genesis 12:1-3)

Now consider: Psalm 122:6-7 “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you. Peace within your walls, prosperity within your palaces.” You can have Godly peace or be cursed by God.

Replacement theology is the belief that God has finished with the Jews and replaced them with the church. Did you know that God curses people for changing the Bible?

Replacement theology requires that you change and replace the Bible words “Israel” or “Jews”, when spoken of prophetically, with the church. They claim that you must change the word "Jerusalem" for the church.

They believe that all the curses are now for the Jews while all the blessings are for the church.

So, who gave you, replacement theology supporters, the authority to change the word of God? You may argue that you’re not changing the Bible. Oh yes? Not only are you changing the Bible but you are changing and eliminating the results of God’s word for the Jews. You deceived Nazi-spirited liars!

How to identify the cursed replacement theology advocates.

Those of replacement theology also replace Jerusalem with the church. They say it has no prophetic significance because it’s all the church now. They are actually one with Satan in trying to destroy the results of God’s word.

Zechariah 3:2 “The Lord said to Satan, The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you!

Some ministries are simply, plainly and apparently against the Jews. Do yourself a favour and run away from them fast. Don’t stop and don’t look back!

Some are more subtle about it. They hold to, and promote doctrines that have hidden agendas, which when fully manifest will be against God’s work in Israel now.

A good example is those who teach that the Feasts of the Lord have no future prophetic fulfilment because all seven have already been fulfilled. That sounds good and true. It is not! These people also take the liberty of changing God’s word by rearranging the biblical order of the feasts.

You may think that is no big deal. It is an enormous deal. It curses them for changing the Bible to suit themselves, and it has the final result of replacing Israel with the church.

You will never hear them teaching or preaching in their churches on God’s spectacular plan for the Jews in bringing salvation to the world in the final years.

Any Bible teacher of any sort has the God -commanded instruction of presenting His word for this time – fully and completely. If you change the word in any way, you are cursed and not to be trusted with one word.

Identifying those in the truth in this regard:

Israel-map-tree

The key word is “identification.”

Let me ask you this: If you were a wild talking tree and someone grafted your branch into a healthy big ancient tree, would you identify with your host tree? Would you not be thankful that you are now partaking of the health and nourishment of the big tree and its root?

Romans 11:2-26 “God has not cast away His people (Jews) whom He foreknew...Have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not...Their acceptance will be life from the dead for the world...You (Gentile believers) being grafted in with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree. Do not boast against them...you do not support the root, but it supports you...Do not be haughty but fear, for if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either...Continue in His goodness otherwise you will also be cut off...Hardening in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and so all Israel will be saved.”

The discourse above is one of the most profound in the Bible. It is full of incredible promises and curses. It promises to cut-off those of replacement theology. If you know and understand these verses you are safe.

But there is more!

If you know and believe these verses above, you will identify with the entire olive tree. The root is God and His word, the natural branches are the Jews about to be saved en-masse, and the wild olive branches are the Gentile, Christian Zionists.

You will identify with the entire tree in thinking, in prayer, in speech, in standing, in support, and in visible identification with Hebraic items, like the menorah, the tallit, the shofar and the like.

In some churches there is no visible identification anywhere with any part of the olive tree. And not surprisingly, that church will avoid the subject of God’s plans for the Jews, or they will be silent on it.

These churches are then identified with the half-baked churches of the world.

They are identified with the churches that any Jew would not like to enter. They are identified with the churches that have changed God’s word, cursed the Jew and blessed themselves...so they think!

Their great shock which is coming is that God has cursed them and will soon fully bless Israel! What a slap in the face they have coming!

How to break these curses:

First you must study God’s word relating to God’s covenant people. You need to change your belief system in this regard to line up with the Bible and what God is doing now. You need to repent of your arrogance and belief in Satan’s word. You need to speak and confess in prayer your support and blessing for God’s work in Israel. You need to distance yourself from those of replacement theology.

These are prophetic days:

This is a critical time for discernment and dividing between truth and error.

So much is happening right now that the prophets wrote about thousands of years ago. These are days of great victories and coming reward. They are days of great failure and eternal regret for many too! Pick your choice and do what is required!

It’s all warming up right now!

Shalom † Joel.

Edition 298: February 10^th 2016

Prophecy and the love of God

bible-butterfly-heart

Prophecy and the love of God:

Introduction:

Before we can move on we must define what love is from God’s viewpoint, because this is where one of the huge clashes of the end-times takes place.

The love of God includes everything that is of God and excludes and rejects everything that is not. At the end of the day, only that which has gone through the purifying work of the cross constitutes enduring love, holiness and righteousness.

Holiness and righteousness are close allies with the love of God.

“But I thought love was about nice happy feelings”. “I thought love was tolerance, human rights, democracy and being political correct”. “I thought the world was on the right path because God loves it”! Come on now, the Bible says “For God so loved the world.”

The love of God involves discipline, correction, and training in righteousness, obedience, rebuke, encouragement, yielding, forgiving, and standing your ground and many such things all righty divided and applied. Some may seem contradictory at face value, but when the Holy Spirit is leading and guiding us, the result is “all truth” correctly applied.

Love and truth are eternal bed-fellows.

It is absolutely key and vital to understand that the love of God has many different applications. There are many huge differences in application for the believer and the unbeliever.

What is Bible prophecy?

2 Peter 1:19-21 “We have the prophetic word made more sure (than seeing or hearing, revealed in the previous verse) which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts...no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation, for prophecy never came about by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.”

Prophecy is the “more sure thing.” It is the very word of God Himself.

Bible prophecy constitutes about 28% of the Bible.

Bible prophecy encapsulates world history from the day dot to the end. The very first prophecy was delivered in the Garden of Eden as Satan gave his great, eternally tragic epitaph – “Has God said...” And God said prophetically speaking- “I will bruise your head.” (Genesis 3:15)

Prophecy paints a picture of the future in relation to the time of the writing. All fulfilled prophecy shows perfectly that it is supernatural in origin, because not one has ever failed. Now, as we come to prophecy yet to be fulfilled, the same pattern of literal fulfilment must continue.

This all plots the fall of sin, evil and wickedness and the victory of holiness, righteousness and truth.

Bible prophecy gives you an anchor of hope. It gives stability and endurance in an ever changing world with no absolutes.

Bible prophecy brings life to dead letter. It makes the Bible real and true. It brings ancient scriptures into the current world now.

Revelation 19:10 “...For the testimony of Yeshua is the spirit of prophecy.”

Bible prophecy is not essentially words. It is spirit! Yeshua is the Spirit of prophecy. It is even more than spirit. It is in fact our Lord, alive and living.

Do you know why non-spirit filled Christians ignore Bible prophecy and in many cases hate it? It is because they don’t have the fullness of the Spirit. What they have is dead letter, which is really boring. When your doctrine is dead letter, it’s like trying to get excited reading the phone book.

How terribly boring to pray to a God who isn’t coming soon! What rubbish to put your faith in a never, never Lord. What bull to trust in a historic God speaking dead letter!

Do you know why the world can’t see the living God – Yeshua? It is simply because they have rejected the Spirit of God...they have no spiritual eyes to see.

It is the Spirit that gives light, sight, and life! It is the fullness of the Spirit of God which leads us into all truth. Do you think that the 35,000 odd different Christian denominations are of the Spirit of truth? – Never! The Spirit of truth requires us to all be one!

If prophecy shows the way to go and the obstacles to be avoided, that has to be love in action!

prophecy-love

The purpose of Bible prophecy:

Proverbs 13:12 “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire (of the hope) comes, it is a tree of life.”

The final and complete purpose of all Bible prophecy is to reveal the absolute, spectacular glory of the living God. It reveals the incredible depth and extent of the love of God. It is to reveal the future world and universe of holiness and glory.

In the process, prophecy reveals the enemy and his ultimate defeat with his host of demons, fallen angels and people who refuse the cross of Messiah.

When Bible prophecy is missing from a church or individual the hope contained in prophecy is missing. Have you ever wondered why people without the hope of prophecy in their lives so easily end up as a stressed out mess?

When the hope contained in prophecy is missing, you are not left in a vacuum in that area, but the hope of a continuing world comes in to replace it. A focus on the world and the things of the world becomes predominant.

People with their lives attached to the world freak out when they do hear prophecy and they see the soon coming destruction of their world!

You can be like a dumb, stupid ostrich with your head in the sand about prophecy. The incredible danger of that is that you will fall away when your world is shaken to pieces. You will not understand that the destruction of the entire world system is part of the incredible love of God leading to a world and universe of absolute perfection!

The Bible speaks of breaking down to build up! (Jeremiah 1:10)

Bible prophecy reveals the ultimate victory and love of God as all evil is destroyed forever.

The purpose of prophecy is to bring you to your knees in surrender. As you see the futility of everything that is to be shaken down, you surrender to the great Shaker of all things! Many believers discover Bible prophecy and think it’s some sort of little side-line fortune-telling game. Be careful, you are messing with something much bigger and more important than you can imagine.

Goodness and severity:

Romans 11:22-23 “Consider the goodness and severity of God; on those who fell (Jews), severity; but towards you (Gentile pro-Israel believers), goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. They also (Jews), if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.”

In this very powerful passage of scripture we see what will actually take place at the culmination of history. Multitudes of prophecies throughout the Bible speak of this great end-time return of the Jews to their land and to their Lord.

Mixed in, is a dreadful warning to the church not to come against this in any way or they will be cut off just like the Jews were!

But more important is the phrase “consider the goodness and severity of God.” Bible prophecy contains this theme throughout. If God is love, as He is, then both sides of the coin are true. You can’t cut out the severe warnings, judgements, prophecies and actions of God. They are love in action, leading to the final grand conclusion of love.

Some people and churches cut out the severity side of prophecy and others ignore all prophecy.

Is being silent on Bible prophecy a problem? Does it matter? The funny (terrible) thing is that many churches who are silent on prophecy say that they believe the Bible! “You must be a Bible believer,” they loudly proclaim. How many churches do you know who go by the title, such and such “Bible church” or “Word church”? And they are silent on one third of the Bible!

They are as bad as unbelievers!

The love of the devil:

Some people think the devil is a huge evil- looking monster and they would recognise him easily if ever they saw him. Most people reject the existence of the devil and hell because that is what the devil wants.

Satan may be known by all his names, biblical phrases, titles and descriptions of him. When we look into this gloomy pot we see that he is a counterfeiter. His is the god of camouflage. He is the god of love, but humanistic love with all the severity, discipline and correction removed.

He is revealed in scripture as: ●“The spirit of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2). ●“The force of darkness and wickedness.” (Ephesians 6:12). ●“The evil one”. (1 John 2:13). ●“The crafty one” (Genesis 3:1). ●“The angel of light.” 2 Corinthians 11:14. ●He “defies God” and “resists the truth.” (John 8:44). ●“He comes to steal, kill and destroy.” (John 10:10.) ●He rules the masses outside of God’s protection. (Ephesians 2:1-3). ●He hides and veils the truth of God. (2 Corinthians 4:3-4). And many more.

Satan is the god of feel-good. He is the god of the masses. He is the god of the majority consensus. He is the god of human rights and democracy. He is the god of pride and self righteousness.

Satan is the god of “me, now”!

Of course he will appear to love you, because he wants you for his doomed kingdom. He will use all of the characteristics revealed above and more to trap you. Then he will kill you with an eternal death!

The devils “prophecy” says this: “Come in and join us. I will give you all you want. You can do anything you want. Unbelievers are welcome. Homosexuals are welcome. Murderers, thieves, liars, and the immoral are welcome. “Christians” (without the cross) are welcome. The religious of all religions are welcome.”

The prophecy of the devil says that you will not go to hell. “You are not accountable for your actions, because the rules and laws of society are guilty.” The prophecy of the devil says that everything will continue as always, “You have no need to fear”. The prophecy of the devil says, “All this end-time stuff is rubbish”. The prophecy of the devil says, “God is a liar and you need not fear Him”. The prophecy of the devil says, “We will all have a great time in our “heaven””.

The prophecy of the devil says, “live for yourself – your life is your own, you can do what you want.”

A legitimate question:

Many people look at the severe judgments coming upon the world and say: “How can this be of a God of love.” Many people look at the verses on hell and say the same thing.

Here’s the answer, but many people won’t like it! The answer is simply because God is holy and pure and can have no part with evil or wickedness. He has tolerated it by extending His grace for 2000 years.

God has dealt with evil, wickedness and judged all sin. He removed it positionally on the cross. He has already set up a kingdom of absolute holiness and shining glory. He has done it all through the cross of Calvary.

In fact, you can accurately say that God has removed and dealt with your sin before you sin! You have been forgiven and cleansed before you sin – 2000 years ago.

Have you ever seen those stupid bumper stickers that say “I’m not perfect, I’m just forgiven”? The truth is that you are perfect and you are forgiven. You are perfect in your born-again spirit. It has gone through the purifying cleansing work of the cross. Sin does not reside in your spirit; it is in your mind and flesh, which is where the renewal takes place.

But the unsaved world has rejected the cross. This is why impending judgment awaits them. It is all part of the love of God.

Do you ever wonder why true Christians get offended at the wickedness of the world? I know I get really mad. Well, that’s the pure and holy Godness in us arising in anger.

Do you ever wonder why the unsaved world rarely gets offended at the sin and evil of the world? It’s simply because they have no re-created spirit, at one with God in them.

God’s love involves cleansing the universes of every trace of Satan. God’s love for you and me involves setting up a pure and holy universe for all time.

The purpose of Bible prophecy:

dimaonds-gold

The ultimate, overall, final purpose of all Bible prophecy is to reveal our risen Lord and Saviour in all His magnificent, pure, glory now and forever.

The purpose is also to reveal your great potential in Him and the possibility of your magnificent eternal reward, more valuable than diamonds.

This is in stark, tragic contrast to the terrible suffering and doom of the unsaved that don’t wake up in time!

The love of God causes many to run to God. The judgement of God will cause many, many more to come running at great speed to God!

John 9:39 “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”

Amos 3:7 “Surely the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secrets to His servants, the prophets. A Lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken!”

I have used this verse above in the previous two editions. Here it comes again. It is most powerful and insightful. Bible prophecy is designed to create fear! You don’t like that idea, you say. Tough, it’s the truth.

It is designed to create fear in the unbeliever and the worldly masses. And also fear for the believer who strays into the world system.

►You can’t say there’s no fear in sin. Sin has been and will be judged. For us believers, it was judged at the cross. Reject the cross and you had better start fearing fast. If you say there is no fear in sin, you are interfering with the character and nature of God and you are in a fool’s paradise.

For us believers, we have been judged in Messiah through His substitutionary payment for our sin in His body on the cross.

If you reject the full work of the cross, you had better start fearing fast – because your judgment is coming soon.

Check your heart and your faith. We are entering terrible times. We are now already in the time of a great falling away from truth and the faith.

The purpose of Bible prophecy is to reveal the fullness of our Lord in all His majesty. His character is revealed prophetically in all His names, descriptions and titles.

Here are just a few of the hundreds of names and titles for our Lord. As you read them, think of the meanings behind each name:

●He is the Passover Lamb. ●He is the Spirit of Prophecy. ●He is the High Priest. ●He is the cloud and the fire. ●He is the Captain of our salvation. ●He is the Kinsman Redeemer. ●He is the Prophet of the Lord. ●He is the reigning King. ●He is the rebuilder of the walls. ●He is our Shepherd. ●He is the suffering Servant. ●He is the wisdom of God. ●He is the Bridegroom. ●He is the Baptizer in the Holy Spirit. ●He is the Burden bearer. ●He is the Mighty Saviour. ●He is the Avenger of the elect. ●He is the Son of Righteousness. ●He is the Ascended Lord. ●He is the Justifier. ●He is the soon coming King. ●He is the Blessed Hope. ●He is the Friend who sticks closer than a brother. ●He is the Great Physician. ●He is the Chief Shepherd. ●He is the King of kings and Lord of lords.

I did use this before in one of the Sabbath Reports. If you have not heard it, it is so very good. Click HERE.

The ignorance of the masses:

The unsaved world has a terrible surprise coming. They think that they are not accountable for their actions! They think God loves them even though they reject His works. They think God will forgive them even though they reject the object of forgiveness – the cross.

Most unsaved people believe that they can hide their sins from God, if there is a God! They believe that God will not see them or remember their sin. Have a look at these incredible verses below:

Isaiah 29:15 “Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the Lord, and their works are in the dark; they say, “Who sees us?” and “who knows us?”

Psalm 10:11 “He has said in his heart, God has forgotten (our sin); He hides His face and will never see it.”

Psalm 94:7 “...They say, “The Lord does not see.”

Job 22:13 “You say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the deep darkness?’”

BUT:

Job 34:21 “His eyes are on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps. There is neither darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.”

Psalm 33:13 “The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men.”

Luke 12:2 “There is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.”

Finally:

Bible prophecy is a Spirit. It is the word of our Lord Himself. It is God’s word therefore it is love. It is good and severe. It encapsulates the entire journey of world history and beyond. It reveals doom and gloom for those outside of the work of the cross. It contains all the promises of God for the believer. Bible prophecy is your anchor of hope as a believer. It is the light of your path shining in a dark place.

Without Bible prophecy you are inextricably tied to the world and the things of the world. Without it you are in the forest of me now. Without it you are in a world of variables, where all is relative and everything is relevant and there are no absolutes.

Bible prophecy for many will be their greatest regret ever and forever:

Psalm 34:16 “The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.”

I took this picture sitting at a waterhole in the amazing Etosha Game Reserve. Elephant families are very loving and playful. Right now elephants and wildlife in general is dying at an incredible rate due to drought.

eleIMG 0925copy

Shalom and grow in grace!

a signoff pensml

Editions Index

Search

eBook TCH

eBook NEWAIP

Edition 298

Translate

Menu

Who's Online

Visitor Map

Table of Contents