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Everyone is a slave in the spiritual sense. We are either slaves to sin, which is our natural state, or we are slaves to Christ. The writers of the New Testament willingly declared their status as slaves of Christ. Paul opens his letter to the Romans by referring to himself as a “slave of Jesus Christ” (Romans 1:1) and his letter to Titus by calling himself a “slave of God” (Titus 1:1). James opens his epistle the same way, “James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ” (James 1:1). Most translations say “servant” or “bond-servant” in these passages, but the Greek word doulas means, literally, “slave.”
In John 8:34 Jesus tells the unbelieving Pharisees, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.” He uses the analogy of a slave and his master to make the point that a slave obeys his master because he belongs to him. Slaves have no will of their own. They are literally in bondage to their masters. When sin is our master, we are unable to resist it. But, by the power of Christ to overcome the power of sin, “You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness” (Romans 6:18). Once we come to Christ in repentance and receive forgiveness for sin, we are empowered by the Holy Spirit who comes to live within us. It is by His power that we are able to resist sinning and become slaves of righteousness.
Jesus’ disciples belong to Him and want to do the things that please Him. This means that the children of God obey Him and live in freedom from habitual sin. We can do this because Jesus has set us free from the slavery of sin (John 8:36), and thus we are no longer under its penalty of death and separation from God.
Romans 6:1–23 goes even further in this idea of a slave and his master. As Christians we aren’t to continue in habitual sin because we died to sin. Romans 6:4 says that since we have been buried and resurrected with Christ we are now able to walk in that newness of life, unlike the unbeliever who is still a slave to sin. Romans 6:6 goes on to say that, since we know that our old self was crucified with Him so that our body of sin might be done away with, we should no longer be slaves to sin. And Romans 6:11 says that we are to consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
We are commanded by God to not let sin reign in our bodies, obeying its lusts, but instead we are to present ourselves to Him as instruments of righteousness (Romans 6:12–14). In Romans 6:16-18 we’re told that we are slaves to the one we obey, either of obedience to sin or of obedience to righteousness. We are to be enslaved to God from whom we receive our gifts of sanctification and eternal life. We do this because the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23).
The apostle Paul, the author of Romans, goes on to say that he knows how difficult it can be to not live in sin because he struggled with that even after he became a follower of Christ. This is important for all Christians to know. While we’re now set free from the penalty of sin, we still live in the presence of sin while we’re alive on this earth. And the only way we can be free from the power of sin is by the power of the Holy Spirit who is given to believers at the moment we come in faith to Christ (Ephesians 1:13–14), and this seals us in Christ as a pledge of our inheritance as God’s children.
The presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives means that, as we grow in our faith and come to love God ever more each day, we’ll have the strength to resist sin more and more. Through the working of the Holy Spirit we are empowered to resist sin, not give in to its temptation, and live according to God’s Word. Habitual sins will become more abhorrent to us, and we’ll find ourselves not wanting to do anything that might hinder our fellowship with God.
Romans 7:17—8:2 is a wonderful encouragement to believers because we’re told that, even when we do sin, there is no longer any condemnation because we are in Christ Jesus. And 1 John 1:9 reassures us that, when we do sin as Christians, if we confess our daily sins to the Lord, He is faithful and righteous and will cleanse us from them in order that we might continue to live in a right relationship with Him. Throughout the book of Ephesians, the apostle Paul encourages and exhorts us to walk as children of light , loving one another as Christ loved us, and to learn what is pleasing to the Lord and to practice it (Ephesians 2:1–10; 3:16–19; 4:1–6; 5:1–10). In Ephesians 6:10–18 Paul shows us how to be strong in the Lord by putting on the full armor of God each day in order to be able to stand against the schemes of the Devil.
When we commit ourselves as followers of Christ to grow and mature in our faith by reading and studying God’s Word each day and spending time in prayer with Him, we will find ourselves more and more able to stand in the power of the Holy Spirit and resist sin. The daily victories over sin that we have in Christ will encourage and strengthen us and demonstrate in a powerful way that we are no longer slaves to sin, but are instead slaves to God.
Elkeen is ‘n slaaf in die geestelike sin. Ons is óf slawe van sonde, wat ons natuurlike toestand is, óf ons is slawe van Christus. Die skrywers van die Nuwe Testament het gewilliglik hul status as slawe van Christus verklaar. Paulus begin sy brief aan die Romeine deur na homself te verwys as ‘n “slaaf van Jesus Christus” (Romeine 1:1) en sy brief aan Titus deur homself ‘n “slaaf van God” te noem (Titus 1:1). Jakobus begin sy brief op dieselfde manier, “Jakobus, ‘n slaaf van God en van die Here Jesus Christus” (Jakobus 1:1). Die meeste vertalings sê “dienaar” of “kneg” in hierdie gedeeltes, maar die Griekse woord doulas beteken letterlik “slaaf”.
In Johannes 8:34 sê Jesus vir die ongelowige Fariseërs: “Voorwaar, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, elkeen wat sonde doen, is ‘n slaaf van die sonde.” Hy gebruik die analogie van ‘n slaaf en sy meester om die punt te maak dat ‘n slaaf sy meester gehoorsaam omdat hy aan hom behoort. Slawe het geen wil van hul eie nie. Hulle is letterlik in slawerny aan hulle meesters. Wanneer sonde ons meester is, kan ons dit nie weerstaan nie. Maar deur die krag van Christus om die mag van sonde te oorkom, “is julle vrygemaak van die sonde en het slawe geword van die geregtigheid” (Romeine 6:18). Sodra ons in bekering tot Christus kom en vergifnis vir sonde ontvang, word ons bemagtig deur die Heilige Gees wat in ons kom woon. Dit is deur Sy krag dat ons in staat is om sonde te weerstaan en slawe van die geregtigheid te word.
Jesus se dissipels behoort aan Hom en wil die dinge doen wat Hom behaag. Dit beteken dat die kinders van God Hom gehoorsaam en in vryheid van gewoontesonde leef. Ons kan dit doen omdat Jesus ons vrygemaak het van die slawerny van sonde (Johannes 8:36), en dus is ons nie meer onder die straf van die dood en skeiding van God nie.
Romeine 6:1–23 gaan selfs verder in hierdie idee van ‘n slaaf en sy meester. As Christene moet ons nie in gewoontesonde voortgaan nie, want ons het vir die sonde gesterf. Romeine 6:4 sê dat aangesien ons saam met Christus begrawe en opgewek is, ons nou in daardie nuutheid van lewe kan wandel, anders as die ongelowige wat steeds ‘n slaaf van die sonde is. Romeine 6:6 gaan voort en sê dat, aangesien ons weet dat ons ou mens saam met Hom gekruisig is sodat ons liggaam van sonde tot niet gemaak kon word, ons nie meer slawe van die sonde moet wees nie. En Romeine 6:11 sê dat ons onsself as dood vir die sonde en lewend vir God in Christus Jesus moet beskou.
Ons word deur God beveel om nie toe te laat dat die sonde in ons liggame heers en sy begeerlikhede gehoorsaam nie, maar in plaas daarvan moet ons onsself aan Hom stel as instrumente van geregtigheid (Romeine 6:12–14). In Romeine 6:16-18 word ons meegedeel dat ons slawe is van die een wat ons gehoorsaam, óf van gehoorsaamheid aan die sonde óf van gehoorsaamheid aan die geregtigheid. Ons moet slaaf wees van God van wie ons ons gawes van heiligmaking en die ewige lewe ontvang. Ons doen dit omdat die loon van die sonde die dood is, maar die vrye gawe van God is die ewige lewe in Christus Jesus, onse Here (Romeine 6:23).
Die apostel Paulus, die outeur van Romeine, sê verder dat hy weet hoe moeilik dit kan wees om nie in sonde te leef nie, want hy het daarmee gesukkel selfs nadat hy ‘n volgeling van Christus geword het. Dit is belangrik vir alle Christene om te weet. Terwyl ons nou vrygemaak is van die straf van sonde, leef ons steeds in die teenwoordigheid van sonde terwyl ons op hierdie aarde leef. En die enigste manier waarop ons vry kan wees van die mag van sonde, is deur die krag van die Heilige Gees wat aan gelowiges gegee word op die oomblik dat ons in geloof tot Christus kom (Efesiërs 1:13–14), en dit verseël ons in Christus as ‘n pand van ons erfenis as God se kinders.
Die teenwoordigheid van die Heilige Gees in ons lewens beteken dat, soos ons in ons geloof groei en God elke dag meer en meer leer liefhê, ons die krag sal hê om sonde meer en meer te weerstaan. Deur die werking van die Heilige Gees word ons bemagtig om sonde te weerstaan, nie aan die versoeking daarvan toe te gee nie, en volgens God se Woord te leef. Gewoontesondes sal vir ons meer afskuwelik word, en ons sal vind dat ons niks wil doen wat ons gemeenskap met God kan belemmer nie.
Romeine 7:17-8:2 is ‘n wonderlike bemoediging vir gelowiges, want ons word meegedeel dat, selfs wanneer ons sondig, daar geen veroordeling meer is nie, want ons is in Christus Jesus. En 1 Johannes 1:9 verseker ons dat, wanneer ons as Christene sondig, as ons ons daaglikse sondes aan die Here bely, Hy getrou en regverdig is en ons daarvan sal reinig sodat ons in ‘n regte verhouding met Hom kan voortgaan. Regdeur die boek Efesiërs moedig en vermaan die apostel Paulus ons om as kinders van die lig te wandel, mekaar lief te hê soos Christus ons liefgehad het, en om te leer wat die Here welgevallig is en dit te beoefen (Efesiërs 2:1-10; 3:16-19; 4:1-6; 5:1-10). In Efesiërs 6:10–18 wys Paulus vir ons hoe om sterk in die Here te wees deur elke dag die volle wapenrusting van God aan te trek sodat ons staande kan bly teen die liste van die duiwel.
Wanneer ons onsself as volgelinge van Christus verbind om te groei en volwasse te word in ons geloof deur God se Woord elke dag te lees en te bestudeer en tyd in gebed met Hom deur te bring, sal ons onsself al hoe meer in staat vind om in die krag van die Heilige Gees te staan en sonde te weerstaan. Die daaglikse oorwinnings oor sonde wat ons in Christus het, sal ons aanmoedig en versterk en op ‘n kragtige manier demonstreer dat ons nie meer slawe van sonde is nie, maar eerder slawe van God.
Bible Verse and Prayer for Today
Let all your things be done with charity.
1 Corinthians 16:14
Prayer
Lord , Charity and Love are Friends in the eyes of Jesus , Jesus combined the 10 Commandments with two that themes Love and Charity . Please Lord Help us to Live these 2 Commandments from Jesus , we Pray , Amen and Amen
Bybel Vers en Gebed vir Vandag
Laat al julle dinge met liefde geskied.
1 Korintiërs 16:14
Gebed
Here, Liefdadigheid en Liefde is Vriende in die oë van Jesus. Jesus het die 10 Gebooie gekombineer met twee wat Liefde en Liefdadigheid temas. Help ons asseblief, Here, om hierdie 2 Gebooie van Jesus uit te leef. Ons bid dit in Jesus naam: Amen en Amen.
Bible Teaching of the Day
In Galatians 5:1, Paul reminds the Galatian believers that “it is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” Believers’ sins are forgiven on the basis of Christ’s perfect sacrifice. Now believers can live in freedom from the law, and they can live in freedom from the consequences and power of sin. The NLT says, “Christ has truly set us free”; believers are “truly free” to live for the things of God.
The occasion of Paul’s letter to the Galatians was that false teachers had come into the churches there. These teachers promoted legalism and tried to require Christians to observe the Old Testament rules, laws, and ceremonies, especially circumcision (Galatians 2:3–5). Paul, in no uncertain terms, says that “for freedom Christ has set us free” and that Christians should not be placed back under the law’s yoke of bondage (Galatians 5:1). The law’s purpose was to reveal our sinfulness (see Romans 3:20) and to bring us to Christ (Galatians 3:24).
Before Christ’s sacrifice, we lived under bondage to the law (Galatians 4:3). We were burdened by demands we could not keep (Acts 15:10). Christ’s death and resurrection broke our bondage to the law. Jesus’ perfect life and holy sacrifice on the cross was the complete fulfillment of the law, and anyone who trusts in Him for salvation is made right with God. Only Christians have true freedom from the law. John 8:36 confirms, “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
In Christ, we are free from the Mosaic Law’s oppressive system, and we are also free from the penalty and power of sin. Before Christ, we lived as slaves to sin (John 8:34). We sought to gratify our desires and lived for ourselves. We were dead in our sins (Colossians 2:13) and were destined to face the consequence of our sin, which is death (Romans 6:23). Yet, when we trusted in Christ for our salvation, our course in life completely changed. We were released from the law’s bondage because for freedom Christ has set us free.
Believers are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and are characterized by a joyous freedom to follow Christ and God’s design for life (Galatians 2:20). The Bible is clear that Christian freedom is not a license to sin. Instead, believers are free not to live for sin and are free to live holy lives in Christ. For this freedom Christ has set us free: to live in relationship to God and others the way He intended (Galatians 5:13). Believers are free to live an abundant life (John 10:10), and we have been given everything we need for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3).
Jesus did what the law could not do—He took away our sin and saved us, and in doing so He set us free from the penalty and power of sin. For freedom to follow His design of life He set us free. “The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit” (Romans 8:3–4, NLT). Now we who have this freedom can live in God’s ways and love others well in the power of the Spirit (Galatians 5:13–26).
Bybel Lering vir die Dag
In Galasiërs 5:1 herinner Paulus die Galasiese gelowiges daaraan dat “Christus ons vrygemaak het tot vryheid.” Gelowiges se sondes word vergewe op grond van Christus se volmaakte offer. Nou kan gelowiges in vryheid van die wet leef, en hulle kan in vryheid van die gevolge en mag van sonde leef. Die NLT sê: “Christus het ons waarlik vrygemaak”; gelowiges is “waarlik vry” om vir die dinge van God te leef.
Die aanleiding van Paulus se brief aan die Galasiërs was dat valse leraars in die kerke daar gekom het. Hierdie leraars het legalisme bevorder en probeer om Christene te vereis om die Ou Testamentiese reëls, wette en seremonies na te kom, veral besnydenis (Galasiërs 2:3–5). Paulus sê in geen onsekere terme dat “Christus ons vrygemaak het tot vryheid” en dat Christene nie terug onder die wet se juk van slawerny geplaas moet word nie (Galasiërs 5:1). Die wet se doel was om ons sondigheid te openbaar (sien Romeine 3:20) en om ons na Christus te bring (Galasiërs 3:24).
Voor Christus se offer het ons onder slawerny van die wet geleef (Galasiërs 4:3). Ons was belas deur eise wat ons nie kon nakom nie (Handelinge 15:10). Christus se dood en opstanding het ons slawerny aan die wet verbreek. Jesus se perfekte lewe en heilige offer aan die kruis was die volledige vervulling van die wet, en enigiemand wat op Hom vertrou vir verlossing, word vrygespreek met God. Slegs Christene het ware vryheid van die wet. Johannes 8:36 bevestig: “As die Seun julle vrygemaak het, sal julle waarlik vry wees.”
In Christus is ons vry van die Mosaïese Wet se onderdrukkende stelsel, en ons is ook vry van die straf en mag van sonde. Voor Christus het ons as slawe van die sonde geleef (Johannes 8:34). Ons het daarna gestreef om ons begeertes te bevredig en vir onsself geleef. Ons was dood in ons sondes (Kolossense 2:13) en was bestem om die gevolg van ons sonde, wat die dood is, te dra (Romeine 6:23). Tog, toe ons op Christus vertrou het vir ons verlossing, het ons lewenspad heeltemal verander. Ons is vrygemaak van die slawerny van die wet, want Christus het ons vrygemaak vir vryheid.
Gelowiges word deur die Heilige Gees bewoon en word gekenmerk deur ‘n vreugdevolle vryheid om Christus en God se ontwerp vir die lewe te volg (Galasiërs 2:20). Die Bybel is duidelik dat Christelike vryheid nie ‘n lisensie is om te sondig nie. In plaas daarvan is gelowiges vry om nie vir sonde te lewe nie en is vry om heilige lewens in Christus te lei. Vir hierdie vryheid het Christus ons vrygemaak: om in verhouding met God en ander te lewe soos Hy dit bedoel het (Galasiërs 5:13). Gelowiges is vry om ‘n oorvloedige lewe te lei (Johannes 10:10), en ons is alles gegee wat ons nodig het vir die lewe en godsvrug (2 Petrus 1:3).
Jesus het gedoen wat die wet nie kon doen nie—Hy het ons sonde weggeneem en ons gered, en deur dit te doen, het Hy ons vrygemaak van die straf en mag van sonde. Vir vryheid om Sy ontwerp van die lewe te volg, het Hy ons vrygemaak. “Die wet van Moses kon ons nie red nie as gevolg van die swakheid van ons sondige natuur. Daarom het God gedoen wat die wet nie kon doen nie. Hy het sy eie Seun gestuur in ‘n liggaam soos die liggame wat ons sondaars het. En in daardie liggaam het God ‘n einde aan die sonde se mag oor ons gemaak deur sy Seun as ‘n offer vir ons sondes te gee. Dit het Hy gedoen sodat die regverdige eis van die wet ten volle vir ons vervul kan word, wat nie meer ons sondige natuur volg nie, maar die Gees volg” (Romeine 8:3-4). Nou kan ons wat hierdie vryheid het, in God se weë leef en ander goed liefhê in die krag van die Gees (Galasiërs 5:13-26).
Today’s Devotional
Proverbs 20:9 asks the question “Who can say, ‘I have cleansed my heart; I am pure and free from sin’?” (NLT). We can all identify with that. If we are honest with ourselves, we know we still sin. So why does Romans 6:18 say, “You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness”? Is this a contradiction?
Sin can be defined as “any thought, action, or attitude that falls short of God’s holiness” (Romans 3:23). Sin has many layers. There are specific actions or thoughts which are sinful. Murder, adultery, and theft are sins (Exodus 20:1–17). Even the desire to commit murder, adultery, and theft are sins (Matthew 5:21, 28). But sin goes deeper than that. We commit sins because we are sinners. Since Adam first sinned in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:17; 3:17–19), every person born has inherited a sin nature from him (Psalm 51:5; Romans 3:23; 5:12). We cannot help but sin because it is our nature to do so. A bird does not have to be taught how to build a nest and keep her eggs warm. It is her nature to do so. A child does not have to be taught to be selfish and demanding. That comes naturally.
However, we were not created to be sinful. We were designed by God in His own image (Genesis 1:27). Humanity is His masterpiece (Ephesians 2:10; Psalm 8:4–6). We were designed to live in fellowship with our Creator. But because of sin, we cannot enter His presence (Habakkuk 1:13). When Jesus died on the cross, He took upon Himself all the sin of the world (2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 2:2). By taking the punishment for our sin, He cancelled the debt that each of us owes God (Colossians 2:14). He also reversed the curse of our old natures, which keeps us enslaved to sinful passions and desires (Galatians 3:10, 13). Before a person meets Christ, he or she is enslaved by that sin nature (Romans 7:25; 2 Peter 2:19). At the moment of conversion, we are given a new nature that has been freed from sin (Romans 6:18; 8:2). The entire chapter of Romans 6 explains this in detail. Verse 14 says, “For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.”
To be free from sin means that those who have made Jesus the Lord of their lives are no longer enslaved by sin. We have the power, through the Holy Spirit, to live victoriously over sin (1 Corinthians 15:56–67; Romans 8:37). Just like we once followed fleshly desires, those who are “in Christ Jesus” now follow the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:14; Galatians 5:24). Because we live in a fallen world and are still fleshly creatures, we will still sin (1 John 1:9; 2:1; Romans 7:21–22). But those who follow Christ do not make sin a lifestyle choice (1 John 2:1–6; 3:6–10; Romans 6:2).
Those who have been born again (John 3:3) have received a new nature. Whereas the old nature drew us toward self-pleasure, the new nature tugs us toward holiness (2 Corinthians 5:17). To be free from sin means it no longer wields the power it once did. The stranglehold of selfishness, greed, and lust has been broken. Freedom from sin allows us to offer ourselves as willing slaves of the Lord Jesus Christ, who continues to work in us to make us more like Him (Romans 6:18; 8:29; Philippians 2:13).
Vandag se Bemoediging
Spreuke 20:9 vra die vraag: “Wie kan sê: ‘Ek het my hart gereinig; ek is rein en vry van sonde’?” (NLT). Ons kan almal daarmee identifiseer. As ons eerlik met onsself is, weet ons dat ons steeds sondig. So hoekom sê Romeine 6:18: “Julle is vrygemaak van sonde en het slawe geword van die geregtigheid”? Is dit ‘n teenstrydigheid?
Sonde kan gedefinieer word as “enige gedagte, aksie of houding wat tekort skiet aan God se heiligheid” (Romeine 3:23). Sonde het baie lae. Daar is spesifieke aksies of gedagtes wat sondig is. Moord, egbreuk en diefstal is sondes (Eksodus 20:1–17). Selfs die begeerte om moord, egbreuk en diefstal te pleeg is sondes (Matteus 5:21, 28). Maar sonde gaan dieper as dit. Ons pleeg sondes omdat ons sondaars is. Sedert Adam die eerste keer in die Tuin van Eden gesondig het (Genesis 2:17; 3:17–19), het elke persoon wat gebore word, ‘n sondige natuur van hom geërf (Psalm 51:5; Romeine 3:23; 5:12). Ons kan nie anders as om te sondig nie, want dit is ons natuur om dit te doen. ‘n Voël hoef nie geleer te word hoe om ‘n nes te bou en haar eiers warm te hou nie. Dit is haar natuur om dit te doen. ‘n Kind hoef nie geleer te word om selfsugtig en veeleisend te wees nie. Dit kom natuurlik.
Ons is egter nie geskape om sondig te wees nie. Ons is deur God na Sy eie beeld ontwerp (Genesis 1:27). Die mensdom is Sy meesterstuk (Efesiërs 2:10; Psalm 8:4–6). Ons is ontwerp om in gemeenskap met ons Skepper te leef. Maar as gevolg van sonde kan ons nie in Sy teenwoordigheid kom nie (Habakuk 1:13). Toe Jesus aan die kruis gesterf het, het Hy al die sonde van die wêreld op Homself geneem (2 Korintiërs 5:21; 1 Johannes 2:2). Deur die straf vir ons sonde te neem, het Hy die skuld wat elkeen van ons aan God verskuldig is, gekanselleer (Kolossense 2:14). Hy het ook die vloek van ons ou natuur omgekeer, wat ons verslaaf hou aan sondige hartstogte en begeertes (Galasiërs 3:10, 13). Voordat ‘n persoon Christus ontmoet, word hy of sy verslaaf deur daardie sondige natuur (Romeine 7:25; 2 Petrus 2:19). Op die oomblik van bekering word ons ‘n nuwe natuur gegee wat van sonde bevry is (Romeine 6:18; 8:2). Die hele hoofstuk van Romeine 6 verduidelik dit in detail. Vers 14 sê: “Want die sonde sal nie meer oor julle heerskappy wees nie, omdat julle nie onder die wet is nie, maar onder die genade.”
Om vry van sonde te wees, beteken dat diegene wat Jesus die Here van hulle lewens gemaak het, nie meer deur sonde verslaaf is nie. Ons het die krag, deur die Heilige Gees, om oorwinnend oor sonde te leef (1 Korintiërs 15:56–67; Romeine 8:37). Net soos ons eens vleeslike begeertes gevolg het, volg diegene wat “in Christus Jesus” is nou die Heilige Gees (Romeine 8:14; Galasiërs 5:24). Omdat ons in ‘n gevalle wêreld leef en steeds vleeslike wesens is, sal ons steeds sondig (1 Johannes 1:9; 2:1; Romeine 7:21–22). Maar diegene wat Christus volg, maak nie sonde ‘n leefstylkeuse nie (1 Johannes 2:1–6; 3:6–10; Romeine 6:2).
Diegene wat wedergebore is (Johannes 3:3) het ‘n nuwe natuur ontvang. Terwyl die ou natuur ons na selfgenot getrek het, trek die nuwe natuur ons na heiligheid (2 Korintiërs 5:17). Om vry van sonde te wees, beteken dat dit nie meer die mag het wat dit eens gehad het nie. Die wurggreep van selfsug, gierigheid en wellus is gebreek. Vryheid van sonde laat ons toe om onsself as gewillige slawe van die Here Jesus Christus aan te bied, wat aanhou om in ons te werk om ons meer soos Hy te maak (Romeine 6:18; 8:29; Filippense 2:13).
The Collectors of Manna – Women of the Word // Gaarders van Manna – Vroue van die woord
Dilize Light has Managed a TruLight Ladies Group on Telegram for the Past 6 Years and from Today . she will be Sharing her Manna with the Ladies in The TruLight Daily Manna Platform . Dilize is the only Daughter of Pastor Dirk and has been part of the Ministry since the age of 11 . Dilize is also the Radio Host for the Popular TruLight Top 10 that airs on TruLight Radio XM saturdays at 17h00′
Dilize Light bestuur die afgelope 6 jaar ‘n TruLight Damesgroep op Telegram en van vandag af sal sy haar Manna met die Dames deel op die TruLight Daaglikse Manna-platform. Dilize is die enigste dogter van Pastoor Dirk en is deel van die bediening sedert die ouderdom van 11. Dilize is ook die radio-aanbieder vir die gewilde TruLight Top 10 wat Saterdae om 17:00 op TruLight Radio XM uitgesaai word.
Bly Gekonnekteer:
Een oggend toe ek wakker word, het ek ontdek dat my internet konneksie nie funksioneer nie. Ek was 24 uur sonder internet. Nou dink jy seker hoe op aarde kan mens sonder internet ?
Maar toe het ek myself afgevra: Sal ek ook panniekbevange raak as my konneksie met God vir ń hele dag gediskonnekteer word ? Ons behou ons konneksie met God deur tyd met sy woord en in gebed deur te bring. En dan moet ons doen wat die woord sê en dit nie net aanhoor nie (Jak 1:22-24).
Die skrywer van Psalm 119 het die belangrikheid van skakeling met God gevra om hom sy voorskrifte te leer sodat hy God se wet kon verstaan (vs 33,34). Toe het hy gebid dat hy die wette van harte sou kon gehoorsaam (vs 34) in God se weë kon wandel ( vs 35) en sy oë van die waardelose dinge wegdraai (vs 37). Deur op die woord te konsentreer, te mediteer en dit dan op die lewe van toepassing te maak, sê die Psalmdigter, dat hy gekonnekteer en gefokus kon bly.
God het aan ons ń lamp vir ons voete en ń lig op ons pad voorsien, om ons na Hom te lei.
Om jou geestelike battery te laai, skakel weer in by die Bron.
Stay Connected:
One morning when I woke up, I discovered that my internet connection was not working. I had been without internet for 24 hours. Now you must be thinking how on earth can a person be without internet?
But then I asked myself: Would I also panic if my connection with God was disconnected for an entire day? We maintain our connection with God by spending time with his word and in prayer. And then we must do what the word says and not just hear it (James 1:22-24).
The writer of Psalm 119 asked the importance of connecting with God to teach him his precepts so that he could understand God’s law (vs 33,34). Then he prayed that he would be able to obey the laws of his heart (vs 34), walk in God’s ways (vs 35) and turn his eyes away from worthless things (vs 37). By concentrating on the word, meditating, and then applying it to life, the Psalmist says, he was able to stay connected and focused.
God has provided us with a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, to guide us to Him.
To recharge your spiritual battery, reconnect with the Source.
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TruLight TV = God’s Great Creation = Surviving the winter.
Sometimes we just have to admit that there are some things we can’t figure out on our own. We need Jesus. What situation are you trying to navigate on your own? Watch this video and be encouraged to grow closer to God through prayer, just like Jesus did. and later a Nature Documentary in title (The Birds of Winter) – Winter approaches Northern Europe and marks the beginning of the Great Journey. Hundreds of thousands of birds, together with the offspring they have raised during spring and summer, travel across the continent. They are the stars of one of the most amazing and spectacular natural events on Earth. A migration of thousands of kilometers to reach the natural areas of the Iberian Peninsula, where nature does not surrender to the ice and the cold. The point of this Nature Documentary is based on the Bible Verse in Psalm 91;1 – The Heavens Declare the Glory of God; The Skies Proclaim the Work of His Hands. Enjoy today’s show and thanks for watching.
INTRODUCTION TO THE GOSPEL ARTISTS of THE PAST
MEET : The Late Vestal Goodman (December 13, 1929 – December 27, 2003)
a Singer who performed in the Southern gospel genre for more than half a century. She was known for her work as a solo performer and as a member of the Happy Goodman Family—which originated with her husband and his brothers and sisters—one of the pioneering groups in southern gospel music.
Early life and marriage
Goodman was the fourth of six children, and she began singing in church as a child. Raised inside the Church of God, her original intent was to study for the Metropolitan Opera but being raised in church she felt compelled to sing gospel music.
She married Howard Goodman, a preacher nine years her senior, on November 7, 1949. They had a son Rick, and a daughter Vicki. They pastored churches and sang for congregations across the country. Along with Howard’s two brothers Sam and Rusty, they became known as The Happy Goodman Family, helping pave the way for Southern gospel music during the 1960s.
Career
With the formation of Word Records in the early 1960s, Vestal and The Happy Goodman Family were the flagship artists signed to the company. In 1969, she won the first ever Female Vocalist of the Year Dove Award. As a natural step in her career, Vestal Goodman released her first solo album, “Hallelujah!” in 1971, from which came the well-known single, “It’ll All Be Over But the Shoutin'”.
Her autobiography, Vestal! ‘Lord I Wouldn’t Take Nothin’ For My Journey Now’, was published in 1999. It details her life in Southern gospel music, her heart problems, her subsequent bout with cancer and her struggle with prescription drug addiction. The Happy Goodmans won multiple Grammy and Dove awards, charted 15 No. 1 hit songs including “I Wouldn’t Take Nothin’ For My Journey Now,” and performed more than 3,500 concerts, including performing at the White House for President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
Goodman was honored by being named “The Queen of Southern Gospel Music”, which was proclaimed in a wide array of magazines, from Rolling Stone, Billboard Magazine, Time, People, and The Singing News. She was also known for her trademark handkerchief, which she held in her hand during virtually every performance, sometimes waving it over her head. Comedian/singer Mark Lowry used to joke, “The anointing’s in the hanky,” during their Gaither Homecoming concert appearances.
Dress worn by the late Vestal Goodman on display at the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame in Dollywood Theme Park
A portion of Alabama Highway 75 near Vestal Goodman’s birthplace of Fyffe Alabama is designated “Vestal Goodman Highway”.
She and Howard worked with many well-known musicians on the Gaither Homecoming music projects in the 1990s. She was posthumously inducted into the Gospel Music Association (GMA) Hall of Fame in 2004. The Happy Goodman’s group was inducted into the GMA Hall of Fame in 1998.
Death and legacy
Howard Goodman died on November 30, 2002, after the couple made a farewell recording and singing tour dubbed “The Final Stand.”
Vestal Goodman died at the age of 74 of complications from influenza while on Christmas vacation in Florida with her family. She died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital in Celebration, Florida. Her son Rick said it was very appropriate for her death that it would happen in a place called Celebration.
Worthington Music Group and Goodman Family Ministries partnered to release a collection of recordings from the family archive entitled Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 1 in 2008. The critically acclaimed album gives listeners a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the ministry of Howard and Vestal Goodman.
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Bible Prophecy in the News
Don’t Be Fooled – Jesus is not the Jewish Messiah
A Large Majority of Christian, especially the Christians that believes in the Pre Tribulation Rapture will be fooled. The Day Israel announces The Coming of The Jewish Messiah.
This will not be the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ. But the Word of God teaches us it will be the Antichrist for the Jews will be fooled, and sorry to say a large majority of Christians too.
Let’s Learn more!
Mashiach: The Messiah
• The idea of mashiach (messiah) is an ancient one in Judaism
• The Jewish idea of mashiach is a great human leader like King David, not a savior
• There is much speculation about when the mashiach will come
• The Bible identifies several tasks that the mashiach will accomplish
• Jews do not believe in Jesus because he did not accomplish these tasks
The Messianic Idea in Judaism
Belief in the eventual coming of the mashiach is a basic and fundamental part of traditional Judaism. It is part of Rambam’s 13 Principles of Faith, the minimum requirements of Jewish belief. In theShemoneh Esrei prayer, recited three times daily, we pray for all of the elements of the coming of the mashiach: ingathering of the exiles; restoration of the religious courts of justice; an end of wickedness, sin and heresy; reward to the righteous; rebuilding of Jerusalem; restoration of the line of King David; and restoration of Temple service.
Modern scholars suggest that the messianic concept was introduced later in the history of Judaism, during the age of the prophets. They note that the messianic concept is not explicitly mentioned anywhere in the Torah (the first five books of the Bible).
However, traditional Judaism maintains that the messianic idea has always been a part of Judaism. The mashiach is not mentioned explicitly in the Torah, because the Torah was written in terms that all people could understand, and the abstract concept of a distant, spiritual, future reward was beyond the comprehension of some people. However, the Torah contains several references to “the End of Days” (acharit ha-yamim), which is the time of the mashiach; thus, the concept of mashiach was known in the most ancient times.
The term “mashiach” literally means “the anointed one,” and refers to the ancient practice of anointing kings with oil when they took the throne. The mashiach is the one who will be anointed as king in the End of Days.
The word “mashiach” does not mean “savior.” The notion of an innocent, divine or semi-divine being who will sacrifice himself to save us from the consequences of our own sins is a purely Christian concept that has no basis in Jewish thought. Unfortunately, this Christian concept has become so deeply ingrained in the English word “messiah” that this English word can no longer be used to refer to the Jewish concept. The word “mashiach” will be used throughout this page.
Some gentiles have told me that the term “mashiach” is related to the Hebrew term “moshiah” (savior) because they sound similar, but the similarity is not as strong as it appears to one unfamiliar with Hebrew. The Hebrew word “mashiach” comes from the root Mem-Shin-Chet, which means to paint, smear, or annoint. The word “moshiah” comes from the root Yod-Shin-Ayin, which means to help or save. The only letter these roots have in common is Shin, the most common letter in the Hebrew language. The “m” sound at the beginning of the word moshiah (savior) is a common prefix used to turn a verb into a noun. For example, the verb tzavah (to command) becomes mitzvah (commandment). Saying that “mashiach” is related to “moshiah” is a bit like saying that ring is related to surfing because they both end in “ing.”
The Mashiach
The mashiach will be a great political leader descended from King David (Jeremiah 23:5) = Will be Jewish. The mashiach is often referred to as “mashiach ben David” (mashiach, son of David). He will be well-versed in Jewish law, and observant of its commandments (Isaiah 11:2-5). He will be a charismatic leader, inspiring others to follow his example. He will be a great military leader, who will win battles for Israel. He will be a great judge, who makes righteous decisions (Jeremiah 33:15). But above all, he will be a human being, not a god, demi-god or other supernatural being.
It has been said that in every generation, a person is born with the potential to be the mashiach. If the time is right for the messianic age within that person’s lifetime, then that person will be the mashiach. But if that person dies before he completes the mission of the mashiach, then that person is not the mashiach.
When Will the Mashiach Come?
There are a wide variety of opinions on the subject of when the mashiach will come. Some of Judaism’s greatest minds have cursed those who try to predict the time of the mashiach’s coming, because errors in such predictions could cause people to lose faith in the messianic idea or in Judaism itself. This actually happened in the 17th century, when Shabbatai Tzvi claimed to be the mashiach. When Tzvi converted to Islam under threat of death, many Jews converted with him. Nevertheless, this prohibition has not stopped anyone from speculating about the time when the mashiach will come.
Although some scholars believed that G-d has set aside a specific date for the coming of the mashiach, most authority suggests that the conduct of mankind will determine the time of the mashiach’s coming. In general, it is believed that the mashiach will come in a time when he is most needed (because the world is so sinful), or in a time when he is most deserved (because the world is so good). For example, each of the following has been suggested as the time when the mashiach will come:
• if Israel repented a single day;
• if Israel observed a single Shabbat properly;
• if Israel observed two Shabbats in a row properly;
• in a generation that is totally innocent or totally guilty;
• in a generation that loses hope;
• in a generation where children are totally disrespectful towards their parents and elders;
What Will the Mashiach Do?
Before the time of the mashiach, there shall be war and suffering (Ezekiel 38:16) The Gog and Magog War. Where Russia and Iran with their alliance will attack Israel . This not to be compared with the Battle of Armageddon. This will before the 7 Year Peace Agreement . One Single verse confirms this ,
Eze 39:9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
The mashiach will bring about the political and spiritual redemption of the Jewish people by bringing us back to Israel and restoring Jerusalem (Isaiah 11:11-12; Jeremiah 23:8; 30:3; Hosea 3:4-5). He will establish a government in Israel that will be the center of all world government, both for Jews and gentiles (Isaiah 2:2-4; 11:10; 42:1). He will rebuild the Temple and re-establish its worship (Jeremiah 33:18). He will restore the religious court system of Israel and establish Jewish law as the law of the land (Jeremiah 33:15).
Olam Ha-Ba: The Messianic Age
The world after the messiah comes is often referred to in Jewish literature as Olam Ha-Ba (oh-LAHM hah-BAH), the World to Come. This term can cause some confusion, because it is also used to refer to a spiritual afterlife. In English, we commonly use the term “messianic age” to refer specifically to the time of the messiah.
Olam Ha-Ba will be characterized by the peaceful co-existence of all people (Isaiah 2:4). Hatred, intolerance and war will cease to exist. Some authorities suggest that the laws of nature will change, so that predatory beasts will no longer seek prey and agriculture will bring forth supernatural abundance (Isaiah 11:6-11:9). Others, however, say that these statements are merely an allegory for peace and prosperity.
All of the Jewish people will return from their exile among the nations to their home in Israel (Isaiah 11:11-12; Jeremiah 23:8; 30:3; Hosea 3:4-5). The law of the Jubilee will be reinstated.
In the Olam Ha-Ba, the whole world will recognize the Jewish G-d as the only true G-d, and the Jewish religion as the only true religion (Isaiah 2:3; 11:10; Micah 4:2-3; Zechariah 14:9). There will be no murder, robbery, competition or jealousy. There will be no sin (Zephaniah 3:13). Sacrifices will continue to be brought in the Temple, but these will be limited to thanksgiving offerings, because there will be no further need for expiatory offerings.
Some gentiles have tried to put an ugly spin on this theology, claiming that Jews plan to force people to convert to our religion, perhaps based on their own religion’s history of doing exactly the same thing. That is not at all how Jews understand the messianic age. We believe that in that future time, everyone will simply know what the truth is, in the same way that we know that 2+2=4, and there will no longer be any reason to argue about it. It is much like a situation I witnessed at work once: two computer programmers were arguing loudly and at length about whether it was possible for a user to input data at a certain point in a program. Finally someone pressed a key and they all saw that nothing happened. Now they knew the truth, end of argument. When mashiach comes, theological truths will be equally obvious to mankind, and there will be no reason to argue about it.
What About Jesus?
Jews do not believe that Jesus was the mashiach. Assuming that he existed, and assuming that the Christian scriptures are accurate in describing him (both matters that are debatable), he simply did not fulfill the mission of the mashiach as it is described in the biblical passages cited above. Jesus did not do any of the things that the scriptures said the messiah would do.
On the contrary, another Jew born about a century later came far closer to fulfilling the messianic ideal than Jesus did. His name was Shimeon ben Kosiba, known as Bar Kokhba (son of a star), and he was a charismatic, brilliant, but brutal warlord. Rabbi Akiba, one of the greatest scholars in Jewish history, believed that Bar Kokhba was the mashiach. Bar Kokhba fought a war against the Roman Empire, catching the Tenth Legion by surprise and retaking Jerusalem. He resumed sacrifices at the site of the Temple and made plans to rebuild the Temple. He established a provisional government and began to issue coins in its name. This is what the Jewish people were looking for in a mashiach; Jesus clearly does not fit into this mold.
Ultimately, however, the Roman Empire crushed his revolt and killed Bar Kokhba. After his death, all acknowledged that he was not the mashiach.
Throughout Jewish history, there have been many people who have claimed to be the mashiach, or whose followers have claimed that they were the mashiach: Shimeon Bar Kokhba, Shabbatai Tzvi, Jesus, and many others too numerous to name. Leo Rosten reports some very entertaining accounts under the entry for meshiekh in The New Joys of Yiddish. But all of these people died without fulfilling the mission of the mashiach; therefore, none of them were the mashiach. The mashiach and the Olam Ha-Ba lie in the future, not in the past.
Biblical Passages Referring to the Mashiach.
The following passages in the Jewish scriptures are the ones that Jews consider to be messianic in nature or relating to the end of days. These are the ones that we rely upon in developing our messianic concept:
• Isaiah 2, 11, 42; 59:20
• Jeremiah 23, 30, 33; 48:47; 49:39
• Ezekiel 38:16
Eze 38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
• Hosea 3:4-3:5
Hos 3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
Hos 3:5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
• Micah 4
Mic 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
Mic 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Mic 4:3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Mic 4:4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
Mic 4:5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
Mic 4:6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
Mic 4:7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
Mic 4:8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
Mic 4:9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
Mic 4:10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Mic 4:11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
Mic 4:12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
Mic 4:13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
• Zephaniah 3:9
Zep 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
• Zechariah 14:9
Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Zec 14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.
• Daniel 10:14
Dan 10:14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
Signs of the Times
The Yeshua Reformation
The Yeshua/Christian Zionism movement was not simply Christians who took on a new political cause. This was a shift in the basis of their belief and connection with a Jewish Jesus.
Many years ago, I encountered the Hebrew Roots movement. I was surprised to see many Christians keeping mitzvot, something that I had never witnessed when I was growing up. It is now almost mainstream for Christians to keep the Biblical feasts. When I was growing up, the term ‘Yeshua’ was never used. Christians only referred to ‘Jesus’.
When I began writing about Christians who loved Israel and the Jews, I suspected that this was a paradigm shift on the same level as the Protestant Reformation and Martin Luther. I think the first revolution in the Jesus movement was a move away from Israel, geographically and spiritually. Roman paganism was grafted onto the Torah. Constantine inserted Rome into the Jesus movement, and eventually, the Jesus movement moved to Rome as Catholicism. I think Martin Luther moved back, but only on a theological level. This final Yeshua revolution is going to reconnect Yeshua’s followers with their spiritual and geographic homeland.
The Yeshua/ Christian Zionism movement was not simply Christians who took on a new political cause. This was a shift in the basis of their belief and connection with a Jewish Jesus. I have recently begun listening to online sermons by pastors and preachers regarding Israel. While Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are in the spotlight, there is a schism, a theological gulf opening in the Christian world that goes deeper than politics. This gulf is focused around Israel, and while it is expressed in politics, its roots are in the Jesus/Yeshua conflict.
100 years ago, it would have been inconceivable for a Christian to say that Jews were not the physical offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It would have been inconceivable for a Christian to say that the Jews were not a separate nation, genetically differentiated from the rest of the world. Yes, the church preached replacement theology, claiming to be Israel, but the pesky Jews running around Europe did not pose a challenge to the church. It would have been inconceivable to say that the Jews were not a separate nation that God was punishing.
The Church spread the belief that Jews were being punished in the exile and had been irredeemably rejected by God. Everyone knew that the Jew was the other, the stranger in a strange Land. No one wanted to be a Jew, and everyone knew who the Jew was, who to hate. For most of history, in most of the world, it was illegal to convert to Judaism or to teach Judaism. Rabbinic Judaism and the Talmud were demonized by the church and this was (and still is) the mainstream belief among Christians.
Denying that the Jews are the descendants of Jacob flies in the face of this replacement theology that has been mainstream Christian belief since the first Jesus movement began in the Galilee. Yet it drives these old-school Christians to other fallacies in an attempt to maintain that Jews are not the Chosen People. They’re now claiming that Iran never had a nuclear weapons program, a claim that endangers the very existence of all the free world. Yet they make this claim because it means that five seconds before Iran fires a nuclear-tipped ICBM at America, it will fire one at Israel.
But many Christians have rejected what has been mainstream Christian theology since the Council of Nicea. The existence of the state of Israel is an existential challenge to any Christian and any church that ascribes to replacement theology. While it seems undeniable that God has brought the Jews back to Israel as he promised and as the prophets predicted, many pastors and public figures are claiming precisely that: that the Jews are not the descendants of Israel and have no claim to the land. The Church is the way to the covenant through belief in Jesus. These old-school “Jesus-Christians” have no choice. Acknowledging that modern-day Israel is the manifestation of biblical prophecy means that all of the other prophecies are going to manifest as well. While all of my friends and most of my readers have come to terms with that, choosing to join fates and their belief with Israel, many others see the end of days as a world series of religions with winners and losers. And they will do anything, believe anything, in order to see the Church win, even if it means rewriting both the Tanakh and the New Testament. END OF ARTICLE
Pastor Dirk Says
The Yeshua Reformation or as its known the Hebrew Scared Names Cult
a Combination of the Doctrines of Demons called Christian Zionism and Hebrew Roots
Gog and Magog Update
IDF bombs Syrian military headquarters as chaos erupts on Israel-Syrian border Northern Border
The Israeli military warned Wednesday that it will continue to strike forces in southern Syria aligned with the Syrian regime until Damascus withdraws from Druze enclaves and halts the ongoing attacks on Druze militias.
An IDF spokesperson said Wednesday afternoon that Israeli forces struck the entrance of the Syrian military’s headquarters outside of Damascus.
“A short time ago, the IDF struck the entrance gate of the Syrian regime’s military headquarters compound in the Damascus area of Syria,” the Israeli military said.
“The IDF continues to monitor developments and the actions against Druze civilians in southern Syria, and in accordance with directives from the political echelon, is carrying out strikes in the area and remains prepared for various scenarios.”
On Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz called on Syria’s military to withdraw from the As-Suwayda province of southern Syria, warning that the IDF would continue to strike regime forces in the area to protect local Druze.
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