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ISRAEL IV
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR ?
ISRAEL and
The TWO-EDGED SWORD
FOR and AGAINST -
and the setting is
SIN or SALVATION
Published by World Wide Web Witness Inc.
July 2009
with extension to July 2010,
February and April 2011
ISBN
ISBN 978-0-9806750-3-0
PREFACE
This work is largely a compilation from WAITING FOR WONDER, with some additions or conformities to this present task, and various other features. It takes total departure from that from Ch. 10 onward. It is convenient to have the Israel elements, with various relationships to Christianity, idolatry and redemption to come, under its own name, as to have such national exercises in the past, sited in one place.
However, in this locale, introductions of relevant emphasis precede in some of the first nine Chapters (q.v.), so giving it the appropriate perspective, flavour and savour. It enables us equally to set the four ISRAEL volumes in a single totality, making reference easier and avoiding scurrying about. The first nine Chapters are from Waiting for Wonder, which in diverse ways and in diverse degrees, focussed this topic.
As to the second part of the title, there is a question. WHAT are you waiting for ? It is addressed to Israel, which has great things to come, dependent on return to the slain Messiah, as divinely provided, pre-announced and proclaimed to come, both in the Old and New Testament, on a very large scale in the nation.
It is addressed to a lesser extent to the nations: WHAT are you waiting for, but trouble as you violate the divinely accorded integrity of the nation, cleverly in diplomacy, vilely with violence ? It is nothing good as you read Micah 7, Ezekiel 36ff., Deuteronomy 32. Thus it is a call to those who will be wise to cease meddling.
This is not all. It is also a call for clarity in the heart of Christians: THIS, as advertised these millenia in the scriptures, it is this which we are waiting for. It is not only what is to befall Israel and its tormentors, the former in sudden salvation of many, the latter in a rebuttal the more impoverishing in that it is divine; it is the return of Jesus Christ to summon and resolve, rule and demonstrate, so that the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God as the waters cover the sea. That ? it is but a passing. The plotting leads to results irrevocable as in Psalm 2. After the rule, as in Isaiah 51:6, and all to be discovered in it, for which glory be to God, there is the ruin. This world, object for dynasties innumerable, in which to gloat, will lose not only its glory as a wonder creation; but history will die in it. It is to go.
That, it is like an old snake skin. There is a new one to come. God however, HE does not change, nor does His word (Matthew 24:35, 5:17-20, Isaiah 59:20-21, Malachi 3:6, Psalm 102, James 1:17, Habakkuk 3:6). Worlds may - and will - go, but He is the same, His ways are everlasting, and to His people, from Jew or Gentile, His redeemed, this He says: I will never leave you nor forsake you! (Hebrews 13:6). Being what He is, there becomes the ultimate blessing. To be ALWAYS with Him, beholding His face indeed (Revelation 21), what surpasses that, except to be HIS, in spiritual genetics! (I John 3:1-4). Praise be to His name.
CONTENTS
PART I
STEPHEN
STEPHEN Part I
Signs and Wonders through Stephen
The Glowing Martyr
STEPHEN Part 2
Stephen,
Centrifugal from Himself,
Centred in Christ
... the life-giving death
STEPHEN Part 3
Stephen,
Centrifugal from Himself,
Centred in Christ
STEPHEN'S FLAMING SPEECH
AND PETITION FOR PARDON FOR HIS PERSECUTORS
PART II
ISRAEL THE TWO-EDGED SWORD
FOR AND AGAINST
and the setting is
SIN or SALVATION
INTRODUCTION and
DISQUISITION from the BIBLESECTION I
Jeremiah
Recently, there occurred the publication of ISRAEL III, Faith, Fishbones, Fiascos and the Faithfulness of the Lord, A Contemporary Inspection and Collection in the Inextinguishable Light of the Bible.
This present Chapter, like the following Chapters is now to be part of ISRAEL IV. Special and concentrated attention is given to actual, numerous verses in the Bible concerning the plus and the minus, the hope and the hindrance, Jew and Gentile, and the divine approach to it all, and especially to the Gentile attitude to Israel. With this there is realism: none is exalted, but all are set as given in the Word of the Lord, the Bible.
DISQUISITION FROM THE BIBLE -
SECTION II
Overview and
Isaiah 51:22-23
with 49:23ff.
SECTION III
Isaiah 54:17, 10:5-21
SECTION IV
Jeremiah 30:15-16, 48:28-36, 51:9,49-50,56,
Ezekiel 35:11-15, 36:5,22-29, 37:24.
for Practical Application of Lessons
and the Reception of the Redeemer
SECTION V
Zechariah 2:7 merging to 2:11., 12:2,
Micah 7:15ff.,
Obadiah
SECTION VI
Zephaniah 2:8-10, 3:2,15,18-19.
SECTION VII
INTRODUCTION IN TERMS OF TRUE HOLINESS
AND DIVINE HEART
Isaiah 34 in its Multiple Spiritual Contexts
SECTION VIII
SERIOUS REFLECTION ? Israel or Obama or both!
News June 2008, June 2009, July 2009 various sources
SECTION IX
This is taken from Possess Your Possessions III, Ch. 4, in July 2010. It covers Revelation 20:4 at length, and the nature of the rule in the millenium, with focus on Israel's place.
SECTION X
The source of this Chapter is Possess Your Possessions III, Ch. 8, once again July 1010. Here, the focus is Ezekiel, the centre is the Messiah, the range is prophetic, Israel and various nations, and while the atmosphere moves amid the details, the horizon is the end of the Age.
SECTION XI
These two Chapters (2 and 3) from Possess Your Possession IV may be viewed as one whole: they dwell on Daniel's Four Empires, as also on Assyria which preceded them in its heyday, yesterday and today, on Three Kings, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar and Christ, contrast what the ultimates involve, and then follow up with the intervening 3rd and 4th Kingdoms of Daniel, with a specialised contrast between such Kings and Christ, and in particular, Antiochus Epiphanes in his sacrifice-stopping action, and Christ in HIS own stoppage of the same thing, in an infinitely different way, and for an infinitely different reason, as in Daniel 9:27!
This leads us to consider the exegesis of Daniel 9:24-27, not for the first time, and in this setting it gives wind to our wings, revealing the fascinating realities of this profound and delicious prophecy, accomplishing so much in so little, as the Lord often does in the biological world likewise, here giving a ground-plan for the very kernel of history, and the overthrow of evil.
Further, the Gentile era is considered relative to Israel's day in the cockpit of celestial missions, and emphasis is given to Daniel's coverage, and the impact of specialised prophesies in the Bible, to our present, our own contemporary approach to ... the deadline!
SECTION XII
This is Ch. 4 of Possess Your Possession IV, which with Ch. 3, *1 deals with the date of the Messiah, with death forecast in the area, A.D. 30, to put in modern dating format. Ch. 5 deals with the world's acute and growing problems in view of the purport of that death, and its need for reconciliation, not with itself merely, but infinitely more, with Him. The significance of the prophetic coverage is explored, and put in its broader setting, for many nations.
SECTION XIII
The Time of Sand
A Strange Stirring within Israel
Fluttering into France:
A Time to Retain the Truth
Positive and Negative Miracles (both by the word of God)
and the test and testimony of history.
Time may be running out for Iran, and running in for Israel.This is taken from Let's Be Reasonable For God Is! Ch. 5.
News 428, The Australian, March 13-14
SECTION XIV
Getting things straight about what has come and is coming:
This is taken from
THE VITALITY, THE PERSPICUITY AND THE WISDOM
OF THE GOD OF CREATION AND REDEMPTION
This includes considerable attention to Jeremiah 30-33,
though by no means limited to this.
SECTION XV
This is taken from
THE DIVINE SUBLIMITY OF THE ARDOUR OF CHRIST AND HIS SALVATION
Ch. 2 Here is presented a large canvas coverage of Jew and Gentile, both relative to Jesus Christ,citing relevant recent news, the state of the art of man in this field, and the plan of God, all in the sight of the Messianic role and regality to come.