ONE BIG UNHAPPY FAMILY!
March 19, 2008
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In the distant past God created the first Adam in the Garden of Eden and gave him a free will to obey or to disobey Him. Most are familiar with the events that led to the fall of Adam. After God allowed Adam to have his free will choice, Adam passed the results on it on to all of his descendants.
Since that time man has been one big unhappy family, with descendants blaming each other for all their problems. They all blame each other, God, or the Devil for their problems, whether it be individual against individual, ethnic group against ethnic group, nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom, or any other two groups you would like to plug into the formula. It’s been that way in our inherited natures since the fall, as demonstrated by Adam and Eve’s post-fall answers to God.
Genesis 3:12,13 – And the man said, The woman whom THOU gavest with me, SHE gave me of the tree, and I did eat. [13] And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The SERPENT beguiled me, and I did eat.
God did not create the first man Adam with a self-centered heart, but his post-fall heart is perfectly described by God through Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 17:9 – The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
The SEED OF God, the Son of God, the last Adam, the man Christ Jesus, was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary without sin, and died without any sin of His own on the cross, so that God could be just and the justifier of them that believe in Jesus as the total atonement (KAPHAR) for all their sins.
Romans 3:25-28 – Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; [26] To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. [27] Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. [28] Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Ephesians 1:6,7 – To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. [7] In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
This is not just a New Testament teaching, it was established at the very time Adam and Eve sinned by disobeying God.
God immediately advised them he would send a SEED, a Descendant, a Deliverer, who would provide the way of restoration to God by their FAITH in his PROMISED MESSIAH. The SEED would restore them to God from the ownership the DEVIL had gained over them because of their disobedience. The SEED would crush the spiritual control the Devil had over them by sin. God’s GRACE provided in HIS SEED’S blood, which was spilled in the bruising of his heel by stepping on the power of the serpent, is the full atonement for all a believer’s sins.
Genesis 3:15 – And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
God even detailed six verses later that the heel of the SEED would be bruised to provide a blood covering, a KAPHAR, an atonement, which would cover the shame of what they had become.
Genesis 3:21 – Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
I Corinthians 15:21,22 – For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. [22] For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
I Corinthians 15:45 – And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
When the SEED finally arrived in the person of the last Adam, the man Christ Jesus, He did not bring peace, and there will be no peace on this earth until his Second Advent, which closes Armageddon.
Matthew 10:34-36 – Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. [35] For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. [36] And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
The basic reason I have laid out the history of God’s only remedy for the “heart” problem you inherited in your mother’s womb, is why I know the present Middle East situation must end in the beginning of the last three and one-half years of great tribulation, which Armageddon will close at the Second Advent of Christ. It is finally back where it all started when Abraham and Sarah tried to help God give them a SEED in whom all the families of the earth would be blessed. I do not mean to be critical of Abraham because I would have done the same thing, and so would you. Most religions try to keep on helping their particular god when the true God just wants them to have faith in his ability to help them, and to submit to His will because they believe he knows what is best for them.
The SEED promised in the Garden of Eden has always been the same from the beginning of man’s inherited sin condition. Anything else is a strange doctrine.
Hebrews 13:8,9 – Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. [9] Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
THE SEED has been the only answer God provided for man’ s inherited heart problem ye
sterday, and today,
and forever. He is the SEED that just keeps on giving from start to finish, but the plan was announced first in Genesis 3:15.
Thousands of years later a man named Abram was called out of Ur by God to become the Father of the Faith that would produce countless numbers of children of God by faith in the SEED promised in Genesis 3:15. Abraham’s firstborn was to be the promised SEED, but Sarah and Abraham decided to help God by letting Hagar the Egyptian bear his firstforrn, and along came Ishmael. Then God brought forth from Sarah’s barren womb His PROMISED SEED ISAAC, and the family squabble began.
After Sarah’s death Abraham had six more sons by Keturah, and then sent them away to the East with gifts, but made his son Isaac the inheritor of all his possession,
and the squabble got worse.
The family squabble was not too bad until Muhammad showed up and wrote the Koran, using both the Old and New Testament characters and events with his own twist of who did what, where, why, when, and why to really add more fuel to the squabble between Abraham’s eight sons by Hagar, Sarah, and Keturah.
Now, in the closing stages of the Age of the Gentiles, the squabble gets worst every day. It will not, indeed, cannot end in other way than is so graphically described in Matthew 24:21,22 and Daniel 12:1.
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Daniel 12:1 – And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Guess what the followers of Muhammad call the Old Testament of the Jews. Would you believe they call it “The Book?”
We now see most of the descendants of Isaac’s son Israel as circumcised sons of Abraham allied with most of those referred to as born-again spiritual children of Abraham, in an intense confrontation with the children of Abraham through Ishmael and the six sons of Keturah. It can only end in a final massive war, and peace can only come to the earth when the same man, who first came knowing it would eventually end with everyone’s sword against the others, finally returning to bring a most welcome peace.
Matthew 23:37-39 – O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of
the Lord.
Micah 5:3-5 – Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. [4] And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. [5] And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
The situation described in the following article is typical of a situation which has persisted for ages, and will continue to do so. All the kings horses and all the kids men can never put all the smashed pieces of the past relationships together again.
Only one King can do it, and he will begin to do it from Jerusalem after his Second Advent.
Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and
in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
The Palestinian hate for Israel in their hearts will never be brought to ground until the Millennial Reign of Christ, and even then, at the end of his earthly reign, the hearts of their descendents will again be filled with the Devil’s will. They will suffer their final defeat and be forever cast into never ending agony.
Revelation 20:7-10 – And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, [8] And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand
of the sea. [9] And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. [10] And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Begin YNet News Article from Reuters
Poll: Hamas leader’s popularity rises
Palestinian Centre for Policy’s survey shows Hamas support on rise as group’s leader Ismail Haniyeh gets 47% of the votes on Palestinian street, Palestinian president’s 56% approval rate drops to 46%
Reuters
Published by Israel News
March 17, 2008
Israeli attacks in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip have boosted the popularity of the Islamist group’s leader Ismail Haniyeh among Palestinians in the territory and in the West Bank, according to a poll on Monday.
The survey by the West Bank-based Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research showed that if new presidential elections were held, Haniyeh would receive 47% of the vote compared with 46% for President Mahmoud Abbas of the rival Fatah faction.
The figures represented a sharp strengthening of Haniyeh’s popularity. He served as prime minister in the Hamas-led government Abbas dismissed after Hamas seized the Gaza Strip from Fatah in June.
The center’s previous poll, in December, gave Gaza-based Haniyeh just 37% of a potential presidential vote compared with 56% for Abbas, whose peace efforts with Israel are opposed by Hamas.
Sliding numbers
The latest poll was conducted shortly after Israel ended an offensive in the Gaza Strip in early March that killed more than 120 Palestinians, almost half of them were identified as civilians.
Israel said the operation was aimed at stopping cross-border rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
According to the survey, Hamas’s breaching of the Gaza Strip’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt in January also contributed to Haniyeh’s popularity among Palestinians.
“These developments managed to present Hamas as successful in breaking the siege and as a victim of Israeli attacks,” Commentary accompanying the poll said.
Lack of progress in Abbas’s peace negotiations with Israel also gave Hamas a boost, the poll indicated.
The survey found that if new parliamentary elections were to take place, Hamas would receive 35% of the vote and Fatah 42%, compared to 46% for Fatah and 34% for Hamas in an opinion poll in January.
The current survey polled 1,270 Palestinians in Arab East Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It had a margin of error of three percentage points.
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