Showing posts with label Pray for Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pray for Israel. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

"Unjustly Condemned"




A Man Of Great Sorrows

Amazing prophecy of the Messiah, far before his birth that foretold all his sufferings and his plan for man kind to bear our weakness.

The Grand Designed Plan of our Creator Yahweh that was told many years before the Birth of Jesus.  Many believe that the Bible is only inspired by Men.  There can be no confidence of grand deceptions of this very thing, that foretold our suffering Savior Jesus Christ.  This is one of the most inspiring prophecies of Christ in the Bible that can not disprove he was the son of God.

Isaiah 53

Who has believed our message?  To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
My servant grew up in the Lord's presence like a tender green shoot,  like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.  He was despised and
rejected.  A man of great sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.  We turned our backs on him and looked the other
way.  He was despised, and we did not care.

Yet is was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down.  And we thought his troubles were
a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins.  But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.  He was whipped so we could be healed.  All of us, like sheep have strayed away.

We have left God's path to follow our own.  Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.  He was oppressed and treated
harshly, yet he never said a word.  He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.  And as a sheep is silent before the shearers.  He did not open his mouth.

Unjustly condemned, he was led away.  No one cared that he died without descendents, that his life was cut short in midstream.  But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people.  He had done no wrong and had never deceived
anyone.

He was buried like a criminal, he was put in a rich man's grave.  But is was the Lord's good plan to crush him and cause him greif.  Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants.  He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord's good plan will prosper in his hands.  When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied.

And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins.  I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier because he exposed himself to death.  He was counted among the rebels.  He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.

This was a foreshadow of Christ to come and die for the sins of all and through it was written centuries before he came
how can any man deny that Jesus, Yeshua, Messiah was not the true living Son of God.  This illustration of his life to come is evidence of his true existence and why he came and why he died.  It was planned before he was ever known by man through the prophet Isaiah.  How magnificent this plan truly is and the proof that God is the God of all as Christ came to die for the sins of all, to all those that believe with a sincere heart.

Looking at Christ do we understand who he was?  Reading his full description, how can we magnify his example?  Are we being his example or playing games only to be accepted of men?  Looking at life and what blessings that truly come from this description, why is it that our eyes are so far from Christ?  Our traditions have blinded who he was and what he truly did and when he died in agony on the Cross it was finished to the letter.  Why do we want to send him back to that cross again?  Can't we just be real and come to the full understanding of what he did and his character.  There is no greater love than a man that lays his life down for his friends.

He wore a Crown of Thorns, he literally cried tears of Blood, he could have had his dynasty of millions on Earth but he rejected it all so that through his death we might live.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Why The Land of Israel?




A call to Repentance and The Lord's Promise of Restoration.

I posted prophetic scriptures from the Book of Joel and there is so much wrapped up in one place and tells what days we are living in and the very significance of Israel and the need to pray for them, even while yet our Leaders are pushing them to give up land by force.  Please keep them in prayer and I hope you will read further to help you understand why this is so very important.  I have never seen in the entirety of my life time such a call on so many people to share the Gospel and to totally fulfill the commission of Christ.  There is so much more and I pray the Holy Spirit will come and help you understand that all things are being fulfilled in God's designated time.  It seems so confusing because of all the chaos surrounding us daily but it still has no clear effect on the plans that God has laid out.  He is not confused nor is he filled with chaos.  He is a God of order and he is carrying it out to the letter of the Holy Inspired Word of God.  I posted a few Chapters in Joel that gives us some meat on the plans.  I pray the Holy Spirit would feed you well in his perfect time.


 Joel 2:12-32

...12)That is why the Lord says, Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping and mourning. 13) Don't tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead. Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish. 14) Who knows? Perhaps he will give you a reprieve, sending you a blessing instead of this curse. Perhaps you will be able to offer grain and wine to the Lord your God as before. 15) Blow the ram's horn in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting, call the people together for a solemn meeting. 16)Gather all the people, the elders, the children, and even the babies. Call the bridegroom from his quarters and the bride from her private room. 17)Let the priests, who minister in the Lord's presence, stand and weep between the entry room to the Temple and the alter. Let them pray, Spare your people Lord. Don't let your special possession become an object of mockery. Don't let them become a joke for unbelieving foreigners who say, Has the God of Israel left them?

The Lord's Promise of Restoration

18) Then the Lord will pity his people and jealousy guard the honor of his land. 19)The Lord will reply, Look, I am sending you grain and newwine and olive oil, enough to satisfy your needs. You will no longer be an object of mockery among the surrounding nations.

20)I will drive away these armies from the North. I will send them into the parched waste lands. Those in the front will be driven into the Dead Sea, and those at the rear into the Mediterranean. The stench of there rotting bodies will rise over the land.

21)Don't be afraid,my people. Be glad now and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things. 22)Don't be afraid, you animals of the field, for the wilderness pastures will soon be green. The trees will again be filled with fruit, fig trees and grapevines will be loaded down once more.

23)Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem! Rejoice in the Lord you God! For the rain he sends demonstrates his faithfulness. Once more the autumn rains will come, as well as the rains of spring.

24)The threshing floors will again be piled high with grain and the presses will overflow with new wine and olive oil. 25)The Lord says, I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts, the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts. It was I who sent this great destroying army against you. 26)Once again you will have all the food you want, and you will praise the Lord you God, who does these miracles for you. Never again will my people be disgraced.27)Then you will know that I am among my people Israel, that I am the Lord your God, and there in no other. Never again will my people be disgraced.

The Lord's Promise of His Spirit

28) Then after doing all those things, I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughter will prophecy. Your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions. 29)In those days I will pour out my spirit even on servants, men and women alike. 30)And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31)The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn to blood red before that great and terrible day of the Lord arrives.32)But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved, for some on Mount Zion in Jerusalem will escape just as the Lord has said. These will be among the survivors whom the Lord has called.

Glory to God on High to witness his mighty powerful working hand, I pray the Holy Spirit discerns you to understand the beautiful and terrible days we are living. Amen.