Dear Friends in Malaysia & On Planet Earth,
This Message we hope will shed light for all Regarding Israel
1)First : ISRAEL's Origin
The Name Israel came about after a Night of Prayer by Jacob
Refer to Bible
Genesis 35:10 KJVAnd God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
This Name called ISRAEL originated when God changed the name of Jacob (grandson of Abraham) to Israel
2) HER PURPOSE
13And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
(Genesis 35: 11 -15)
Israel was told that she will be a great nation and God will give her land.
But that is only the Physical Promise
There is a Spiritual Purpose
What is it?
Answer: Israel was chosen by Almighty God to be the Witness & Mouth Piece for God to bring all Mankind to final Salvation
How?
After Man fell into sin God a promise
“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
After Satan through the Snake tempted Eve to sin & as a result both Physical & Spiritual Death came God promised a Messiah of deliverance
Jesus will be hurt but in the process Satan will be defeated & destroyed
God already gave the message of Salvation right after the fall of man
Man discovered he is naked after he sinned. But God took an animal. Killed it. Took its skin & made clothes for man
That coat of skin speaks of the "Righteousness of Jesus Christ" by which all who are saved are covered.
Christianity started long before any other human being existed as it started with Adam; the 1st Man God created on earth
So that was the Purpose for Israel
Israel is the Chosen Nation
God's messiah (Jesus) will be born in Israel, will die for Israel and the whole world, will live again and will return to heaven and then come back again the second time to reign as KING of Kings and LORD of Lords
3) THE PROBLEM WITH ISRAEL
When Jesus was born of Virgin Mary in Bethlehem the Wise Men visited him but King Herod wanted to kill him
So Joseph & Mary fled to Egypt. Until King Herod died they returned back to Israel
At age 30 Jesus began to teach and to preach
Repent; for the Kingdom of God is at hand
However, the Jews rejected His Message. But a good number believed which later became Christian Jews at first. After the Jews totally opposed the Gospel Apostle Paul was given the mandate to preach to the Gentiles (non - Jews)
And there was fierce opposition by Israel against Christian Apostles just as they killed their Messiah Jesus
God said,
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
“For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.”
What did Israel to their Messiah & the Apostle
ISRAEL CRUCIFIED THEIR MESSIAH CALLED JESUS CHRIST & MANY OF HIS APOSTLES DIED AS MYRTYRS
That was why Jesus predicted
28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
ISRAEL touched God's Anointed Prophet Jeremiah long ago when Prophet Jeremiah was put into a dungeon for telling them to repent
See
Jeremiah 38:6 King James Version (KJV)Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
King Zedekiah was touched God's anointed servant suffered the death of his prince sons & their blindness and after that God sent in exile the Whole Nation of Israel away to Babylon for 70 years exile
Jeremiah 39
6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew (kill) all the nobles of Judah.
7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Israel as a nation was captured and sent away in exile to Babylon to 70 years until Prophet Daniel read the Scriptures * claimed God's promise. He prayed in deep repentance & tears for God to restore Israel. God heard Daniel's prayers & returned them back to Israel by the help of Jerubabel, Ezra & Nehemiah with blessings of King Cyrus whom God chose and mentioned in the Bible by name.
That was 70 years of painful & bitter exile. But very very very sad for Israel. They didn't learn their lesson
When their Messiah appeared they rejected and crucified Jesus Christ & then killed most of His Apostles
Below is extracted from FOXE BOOK OF MYRTYRS
THE FATE OF THE 11 ORIGINAL APOSTLES (minus Judas Iscariot who killed himself)
From FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS
JAMES THE GREAT
According to St. Luke, in the History of the Apostles' Acts, James the son of Zebedee, the elder brother of John, and a
relative of our Lord; his mother Salome was cousin-german to the Virgin Mary. The account given us by an eminent
primitive writer, Clemens Alexandrinus, ought not to be overlooked; that, as James was led to the place of martyrdom,
his accuser was brought to repent of his conduct by the apostle's extraordinary courage, and fell down at his feet to
request his pardon, professing himself a Christian, and resolving that James should not receive the crown of
martyrdom alone. Hence they were both beheaded at the same time. Thus did the first apostolic martyr cheerfully and
resolutely receive that cup, which he had told our Savior he was ready to drink. These events took place in AD 44.
PHILIP
Was born at Bethsaida, in Galilee and was first called by the name of "disciple." He labored diligently in Upper Asia,
and suffered martyrdom at Heliopolis, in Phrygia. He was scourged, thrown into prison, and afterwards crucified, A. D.
54.
MATTHEW
Whose occupation was that of a tax-gatherer, was born at Nazareth. He wrote his gospel in Hebrew, which was
afterwards translated into Greek by James the Less. The scene of his labors was Parthia, and Ethiopia, in which latter
country he suffered martyrdom, being slain with a halberd in the city of Nadabah, AD 60.
JAMES THE LESS
At the age of ninety-four he was beat and stoned by the Jews; and finally had his brains dashed out with a fuller's club.
ANDREW
Was the brother of Peter. He preached the gospel to many Asiatic nations; but on his arrival at Edessa he was taken
and crucified on a cross, the two ends of which were fixed transversely in the ground, and appeared to resemble an
“X”. Hence the derivation of the term, St. Andrew's Cross.
PETER
Among many other saints, the blessed apostle Peter was condemned to death, and crucified, as some do write, at
Rome; albeit some others, and not without cause, do doubt thereof. Hegesippus saith that Nero sought matter against
Peter to put him to death which, when the people perceived, they entreated Peter with much ado that he would fly the
city. Peter, through their importunity at length persuaded, prepared himself to avoid. But, coming to the gate, he saw
the Lord Christ come to meet him, to whom he, worshipping, said "Lord, whither dost Thou go?" To whom He
answered and said, "I am come again to be crucified." By this, Peter, perceiving his suffering to be understood,
returned into the city. Jerome saith that he was crucified his head being down and his feet upward, himself so
requiring, because he was (he said) unworthy to be crucified after the same form and manner as the Lord was.
Therefore, St. Peter’s Cross is an up-side-down cross
JUDE
The brother of James, was commonly called Thaddeus. He was crucified at Edessa, AD 72.
BARTHOLOMEW
Preached in several countries, and having translated the Gospel of Matthew into the language of India, he propagated
it in that country. He was at length cruelly beaten and then crucified by the impatient idolaters.
THOMAS
Called Didymus, preached the Gospel in Parthia and India, which exciting the rage of the pagan priests, he was
martyred by being thrust through with a spear.
SIMON
Surnamed Zelotes, preached the Gospel in Mauritania Africa, and even in Britain in which latter country he was
crucified, AD 74.
JOHN
The "beloved disciple," was brother to James the Great. The churches of Smyrna, Pergamos, Sardis, Philadelphia,
Laodicea, and Thyatira, were founded by him. From Ephesus he was ordered to be sent to Rome, where it is affirmed
he was cast into a cauldron of boiling oil. He escaped by miracle, without injury. Domitian after wards banished him to
the Isle of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation. Nerva, the successor of Domitian, recalled him. He was the
only apostle who escaped a violent death.
THE JUDGMENT ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST
That was why Jesus predicted
28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
In AD70
The siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged Jerusalem, the center of Jewish rebel resistance in the Roman province of Judaea. Following a five-month siege, the Romans destroyed the city and the Second Jewish Temple.[1][2][3]
In April 70 CE, three days before Passover, the Roman army started besieging Jerusalem.[4][5] The city had been taken over by several rebel factions following a period of massive unrest and the collapse of a short-lived provisional government. Within three weeks, the Roman army broke the first two walls of the city, but a stubborn rebel standoff prevented them from penetrating the thickest and third wall.[4][6] According to Josephus, a contemporary historian and the main source for the war, the city was ravaged by murder, famine, and cannibalism.[7]
On Tisha B'Av, 70 CE (August 30),[8] Roman forces overwhelmed the defenders and set fire to the Temple.[9] Resistance continued for another month, but eventually the upper and lower parts of the city were taken as well, and the city was burned to the ground. Titus spared only the three towers of the Herodian citadel as a testimony to the city's former might.[10][11] The siege had a major toll on human life, with many people being killed and enslaved, and large parts of the city destroyed. This victory gave the Flavian dynasty legitimacy to claim control over the empire. A triumph was held in Rome to celebrate the conquest of Jerusalem, and two triumphal arches were built to commemorate it. The treasures looted from the Temple were put on display.[7]
The destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple marked a major turning point in Jewish history
FOR ALMOST 2,000 YEARS NOW THE JEWS HAVE BEEN LIKE A FOOTBALL BEING KICKED AROUND THE WORLD'S NATIONS
Until year 1948 when Israel returned home to its land first given to Abraham
But still plagued by unrest, wars and more unrest and more wars
Why oh Why Must it be like this?
The Answer is found in Scriptures
Jesrusalem being the Old Capital (But one day shall be restored as NEW JERUSALEM the New Capital not just for Israel but the Entire Whole when JESUS CHRIST returns to Rule for 1,000 Long Years on Planet Earth some future day)
Jerusalem is called the "CITY OF PEACE"
And JESUS IS THE "PRINCE OF PEACE"
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.(Isaiah 9:6)
By Rejecting "THE PRINCE OF PEACE: JESUS CHRIST" THERE WILL NEVER BE PEACE (SHALOM) FOR ISRAEL OR THE WHOLE EARTH AS WELL
See Scriptures (Genesis 14)
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
And who is Melchizedek?
He is Jesus the Christ of God!
See Book of Hebrews Chapter 7
7 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
Above refer to JESUS CHRIST who existed even before He came to earth to be born (incarnate) as a man
4) THE SOLUTION FOR ISRAEL
One day God will Pour out His Holy Spirit on the Nation of Israel and they will WAKE UP
WAKE UP TO SEE JESUS CHRIST THEIR MESSIAH WHOM THEY CRUCIFIED
Then they WILL CRY
Zechariah 12:10
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
“And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one mourning for an only son, and they like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.will weep bitterly over Him
"I will pour out the Spirit of blessing and mercy on David's family and on those who live in Jerusalem. They will look at me, whom they have stabbed. Then they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son, and they will cry bitterly for him as one cries for a firstborn son.
WHEN WILL THAT DAY COME?
Now we know just like Prophet Daniel knew time was up for Israel first deliverance from Babylonian Exile of 70 years
9 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
4 And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7 O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
14 Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
AND NOW MAY WE CALL UPON ALL TO PRAY THAT ISRAEL WILL WAKE UP! REPENT! AND TURN TO MESSIAH JESUS CHRIST: THE PRINCE AND KING OF PEACE (SHALOM)
ONLY THEN WILL THERE BE PEACE IN ISRAEL AND ON EARTH
Kind Regards to All Mankind
Calvin Tan
Listen my friend
Have you received Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace into your Heart?
If not do it now. Do it today
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THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT (Genesis 12)
12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
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Psalm 122:6-8 KJV
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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: They shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, And prosperity within thy palaces.
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