Sunday, February 16, 2014

As a Roaring Lion

Christianity has taken this and run with it as well.  There's big money and worldly favor in much of Christianity, if you have the right "roar."  I have personally spoken with people who follow the big names, and they invariably have told me how good those teachings make them feel.  They are still living their lives according to their own standard, but they feel good doing it.  How many of them are blindly being led away from The Word of G-d, who is Y'hshuwah?  It's never been popular to speak of repentance amongst the religious or powerful crowd.  Elijah and John the Baptist spring to mind as outstanding examples!

I got very frustrated and down heartened with the church years ago, when I read of repentant Israel standing to hear Torah read, and it was no short passage. And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the Torah of YHWH their G-d one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped YHWH their G-d.  Nehemiah 9:3  I was new to my call when the prosperity message went from a jail sentence for Jim Bakker to the way of life for televangelism, and then spread into the local gatherings.

The agenda was so similar.   After the "praise and worship team" finished and the offering buckets were passed, seems most were pastors or bishops, rose sanctimoniously on the stage and headed for the pulpit.  Somewhere in my religious MIA time, churches went from having bemas and platforms to stages . . . yet I digress.  The pastor or bishop or visiting bigger name "prophet" or evangelist would tell a joke or an anecdote, open his Bible to read a half verse, expound for 30 to 45 minutes depending.  Some, went the other way, and that was to keep people flipping in their Bibles chasing several 1/2 verses to give the impression, it was throughout Scripture, but context was lost! Once context was lost, the meaning and point soon followed.

I hear many testimonies and mine is no exception.  Churches and synagogues still serve as a beacon for those who are seeking G-d, but most of the ones who find Him, soon leave, or are asked to.  Mainstream Judaism is still not open to Y'hshuwah as Messiah, and most of Christianity believes 3/4 of the Bible has been rendered obsolete and irrelevant to their own lives.  Messiah is Torah in the flesh.  You simply cannot believe half and be made whole!

Here is a quote of the day by one of the big names.
"After the challenge, after the disappointment, you’re going to come out with great abundance. It may have been meant for your harm, but it’s going to thrust you into the fullness of your destiny."


Here is a quote by Messiah, John 17:14
 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

The enemy isn't out destroying the world, people are doing that, in and of free will and choice.  The adversary, as a roaring lion is providing entertainment and empty promises.  The adversary is counterfeiting and twisting the message of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah!

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;  Paul to Timothy

1 comment:

  1. love that, synagogues don't accept Jesus and churches reject 3/4 of scripture. It is where many believers find themselves today.

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