Then the End Shall Come...

In Matthew 24 Yehoshua is recorded as teaching his students that all the calamities of the world will escalate more and more but the are not the calamities of the final period of time simply because they are escalating more and more.  They are a part of what prepares the world for that final period of time, which is a period of the most severe judgments.  They are only one part of the escalating patterns that prepare the world for its final end.  Such things as hatred and immorality will also increase exponentially.  But it is the Good News itself, according to Yehoshua, which will bring about the final end of the natural time and life of this world.

How does this work?  First of all the Great Commission being fulfilled is not simply a marker, the ultimate sign of the end time and Mashiach's return.  Nor is it simply a case that it is a technical matter of giving every sinner a chance to repent and be saved.  This good news that is spoken of is itself the channel of the Eternal World penetrating and infiltrating into this temporal world.  This is the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah.  It is an utter mystery to this world, but it will be announced and it will be made clear and indisputable in the final hour – as a result, the end shall come.

If We Walk In The Spirit

There comes a time when followers of the Spirit of Israel's Messiah can no longer walk in the Spirit each in their own way.  When the Shepherd of the sheep has gathered all the strays into one place, into the one flock, the Spirit no longer leads the sheep separately but leads only the flock as a whole.  The Shekinah leads the whole camp of Israel through the wilderness, not separate tribes separately, certainly not separate individuals separately.  But there was a great scattering and all the sheep who were able to hear the voice of the Shepherd had to be called back into one flock.  The time of the testimony in the wilderness is the time of the testimony of unity.  The time of the testimony of unity is the time of the testimony of the whole house of Israel to Yehoshua HaMashiach, which is a testimony in mystery and with a plot of suspense.  For it is the testimony of a people who are whole and not whole.  They are whole because they are one but they are not whole because they are yet in the wilderness.  For they are the people whose land is the land of the new creation of the heavens and the earth.  This testimony, therefore, is a narrative, a story of a journey of a people with their God and toward their God, a people who as one walk in the Spirit and do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh for a kingdom of a few days.  For when the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah, the Good News of the Kingdom of God, is announced unto the ends of the earth, then the end of the kingdom of a few days will come.  The kingdoms of the proud giants will fall and Israel will enter her land.

When Will The Remnant of Israel Speak on Her Behalf About Mashiach?

I will soon post a series of notes here about how the great training work, the training of the nations in our generation, must begin.  This is the training work that will need to be done in obedience to the great assignment that Mashiach has given us.

If you are moved to read these notes by a spirit longing for and seeking the Mashiach of Israel, I would guide you to read and study first my series on the relationship of the judgements in Egypt and the judgement upon the world as a whole as revealed in The Book of The Revelation of Yehoshua HaMashiach.  That series is posted on the Hearing Seven Thunders site.  You might want to read the following post there first, and then go from there back to the first posts in the series and work your way forward from there.  Here is the link to the post where you might want to start coming from here:

Hearing Seven Thunders: Little Book Rev. 10 – Exodus-Revelation Judgements

On Christian Zionism

As things stand, affirmation of the State of Israel on the basis of holding the position that the Jewish people will have the veil of blindness removed from them when they finally turn to the Lord is a kind of infinitely self-complicating proposition.

The idea, as it now stands, is that the Jewish People turning to the Lord means their turning to a Christianity that is presented as an alternative to the very Judaism that sustains them as the Jewish People.  It means the Jews would have to turn away from all that articulates the promises that Christian Zionism turns to for support for its own belief in Zionism.

What is called for is an understanding of the Jewish People's turning to the Lord that is the expression of their Judaism, rather than the alternative to it, even though this would mean the reconstruction of historical Christianity.  

But even as this fully mature turning of Judaism to the Lord would mean the fulfillment of the promise of Judaism, so it would actually mean, at the same time, the fulfillment of the promise of Christianity. This alone, the fulfillment of the promise of both, when once this had occurred, would present the promise of both together as one promise, and this one promise is the promise of the coming of Mashiach to Jerusalem in the glory of the embracing love between the king and his city.

This is the work, to bring about this love, this is the great assignment given to those who are called by the spirit of Israel's Mashiach from among the nations, to disciple all nations with the hope of Israel, in order to make the heart of Jerusalem burn with desire.  

First we need to understand this good news clearly and maturely.  Then Asher will be reunited with Gad* and will dip his foot in the oil of gladness, for together they will be reunited with Judah.

*Look for studies in Mellow Wolf Publications about the Camp of Israel and the Chariot of G-d.

"No Eye Has Seen..."

This is a resource study supporting my On Zion = Israel #2 study.

Quoting Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson:

"Our Sages teach: [Berachos 34b] 

The prophets all prophesied about the Era of Mashiach alone, but with regard to the World to Come, it is said, "No eye has glimpsed it, but You alone." Isaiah 64:3

This theme is the foundational theme of the whole record of the Good News of Israel and Mashiach as given by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John 
- as in for example Matthew 12 on plucking grain on the Sabbath.

MMS teaches that "No eye has seen..." refers to Eden and the revelation of Eden, that is to say, the "Era of the Resurrection,"  The World To Come.

In relation to this we have these references and teachings:

1 Cor. 2: 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Read More:
"No Eye Has Seen..." a note in maxcarlkirk's Springpad

God, Death and Atheism

The Great Assignment is to prepare the ends of the earth, from Jerusalem to Bolivia, for the reign of the Messiah of Israel upon the earth.  The first obstacle to doing this is the turning of all the idolatry of Humanity now toward atheism.

The human arrogance that once wanted to invent gods now does not want to believe in God.  It seems to the human mind that there is no proof of God.  The nature of this problem can be understood by the following analogy.   When a person's sight or hearing is failing the effect can be for them that the light or sound is weak.  So it is with the human mind.  The light of God is more than abundant but the human ability to perceive that light is like old and weak eyes.  One is wise to be patient with the old and with the weak - even when they are still stubborn and defiant of death.

On the Issue of The Virgin Birth

Matthew 1:22-23 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which 
was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall 
be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

We read in Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin 
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. That is the King James Version.  
In the Jewish Publication Society translation we have: Therefore the Lord Himself 
shall give you a sign: behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and 
shall call his name Immanuel.  
The Hebrew is: לכן יתן אדני הוא לכם--אות  הנה העלמה הרה וילדת בן וקראתשמו עמנו אל ...  We are led to the following considerations:

Continue reading from the Mellow Wolf Matthew Files:

Link > Chapter 1 ˙Commentary and Notes on vs. 22-23

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