Church | Kol ha'Mashiach

Paul writes in Romans 1:18-32:

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

The church has failed us – this nation, this world, and us as a people. Yes, this is a bold statement to make – and it’s not made lightly.

New York legalized the killing of unborn children up to the time of birth.

Homosexuality is rampant. Transgenderism is being taught to our kids in schools as normal. A ten-year-old boy – who thinks he’s a girl – is being permitted by his parents to dance in tranny night clubs and pose with naked men! Trannies are reading to our kids in libraries for story time – about transgender topics – and it’s totally normal.

Men are marrying men, women are marrying women – and these “marriages” are being officiated and solemnized by so-called “Christian Clergy”!

Kids are killing their parents. Parents are not parenting as they should.

Men and women, if they are “together” – are more apt to be living together instead of making the commitment of marriage. This is fornication – pure and simple! Its sin!

We, as a people are fools!

And where has the church been during all of this? Missing In Action!

Most of the churches are too busy with their building funds and projects, or other programs that have nothing to do with evangelism. Evangelism has gotten short shrift in terms of church activity.

Where have the pastors been in denouncing this garbage – forcefully – with hellfire and brimstone! They too have been Missing in Action.

The televangelists have been so busy fleecing the flock to buy their toys – their 60-million dollar jets, their multi-million dollar mansions, instead of denouncing the SIN PROBLEM in this nation, and the world.

We have congresspeople and presidential candidates who claim to be “Christian” who have no trouble with this sin!

Nancy Pelosi – who calls herself a Christian – knows nothing of being one! If she read her Bible, she would know that walls do work – and that God calls for borders, boundries and legal immigration.

Chuck Schumer is Jewish, and if he was at all observant, he too, would know that what Nehemiah did, was the same thing that out president wants to do now. He’s not observant – he’s a Jew in name only. It’s funny – he’s from New York, and he tweeted that his granddaughter turned two years old. At least she made it to see her birth.

Hilary Clinton says she wants to be a Methodist Pastor – would she ever call out this sin? Never! To her, it’s OK for men to marry – and sleep with – other men,. and for women to marry – and sleep with – other women. To her, it’s OK for women to kill their unborn children at any time during the pregnancy. None of this is scriptural – and would make her absolutely unfit for the ministry.

What we have today is nothing more than a spiritual war between good and evil.

Look at what Paul write in the first chapter of Romans above! Can you draw the parallels? I certainly can!

Ever since the Lyndon Johnson pro-posed the Johnson Amendment – creating the tax-exempt corporation (the tax-exempt church), pastors have been silenced lest they lose this valuable asset.

I look at this as nothing more than legalized “church registration” – akin to what China does – but in an underhanded way. The government gives a benefit, but it also requires a “quid-pro-quo” – something in exchange – their silence.

Oh, yeah, some pastors will dance around sin topics – addressing them lightly. When was the last time you heard a fire-and-brimstone sermon from the pulpit denouncing the sin in this nation – the sin that’s approved of by our politicians?

Not in the last thirty to fifty years, I’m sure.

Ask Joel Osteen his view on this sin, he’ll dance around it, lest he lose that twelve-million dollar haul each and every weekend. Same goes for every other prosperity-preacher out there.

Ask your pastor what he thinks! When has he done a hellfire and brimstone sermon on this sin? He probably never has, and never will – for fear of offending anyone.

Is there a couple in your church living together – not married? The pastor and elders should be all over that like bees to honey! That’s Satan getting a foothold in the church.

God is getting ready for judgement. Why He’s held His hand back this far is only because He’s long-suffering. This will not last forever though.

It’s time for His people to repent, to start reading their Bibles and get into reverent prayer.

It’s time for the Pastors to start taking their proper roles and stop trying to be politically correct – and offend those who are sinning. Call out the sin, while loving the sinner!

Make people squirm in their seats and in the pews!

If we don’t run back to God now – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – and find Jesus as savior – we are definitely not promised tomorrow.

Are we in the “last days”? I believe we are closer than anyone thinks.

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:1-7, ESV)

This was the apostle Paul telling Timothy, about the coming end times – prophecy as to when Yeshua ha’Mashiach – Jesus, the Messiah – will come again!

Look around you people! It’s all over the place!

People love themselves more than others (proud, boastful, idol worship)
People definitely love money (idol worship, covetousness)
Thinking better of yourself than of others (pride)
Being arrogant (thinking yourself to be better than others)
Abusive
Disobedient to Parents
Ungrateful
Unholy (a big one these days – how much has God been removed from the public?)
Heartless
Unappeasable
Slanderous (speaking lies about others)
Without self-control
Brutal
Not loving good
Treacherous (lying to get something that one doesn’t deserve)
Reckless
Swollen with Conceit
Lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God.
Having the appearance of godliness but denying its power.

That’s quite the long list – but again, look around you, look on the news, look at the anchors of CNN, MSNBC and even Fox News, and you see many of these, if not all of them.

I sat in a church service a few weeks ago, and listened as the pastor talked about having a Christian worldview. If we’re truly Christians, we have a truly Christian worldview and don’t deal with the sins associated with this list. The last part of verse 5 states that we are to “avoid such people” – why? Verse 6 gives us the answer – because they creep into our lives, burdened with their sin, and attempt to sway us into that sin, leading us astray.

One thing I noticed as I listened to this message, was that for every sin mentioned, not once was it called out vehemently as sin. The pastor danced around it so as not to offend anyone.

For example, when it came to Marriage – between a man and woman – He didn’t come out and say that it was:

For one man and one woman
Not for two people of the same gender
That two people should be married, not living together in sexual sin

Let’s get real here:

Marriage was ordained by God: Any other cohabitation is sin. Genesis 2:22-24 makes it very clear. It states:

And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said,

“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Does this say that another man was made from Adam? No! The Hebrew used here is clear. The Hebrew word for woman is ishshah – and the word for man is ish. THe Orthodox Jewish Bible is translates the Hebrew as follows: “And the adam said, This is now etzem (bone) of my etzem, and basar (flesh, skin) of my basar; she shall be called Ishshah (woman), because she was taken out of Ish (man).”

It goes on to say in verse 24, again, translated from the Hebrew: “Therefore shall an ish leave his av (father) and his em (mother), and shall cleave unto his ishshah: and they shall be basar echad (one skin or flesh).”

I’m not a “King James Only” devotee – and given that the Hebrew Bible – the Old Testament – was written in Hebrew. I will always go back to Biblical Hebrew to see God’s true Word. Moses wrote these words as the Holy Spirit directed. Moses spoke Hebrew, and these words were written in Hebrew. The OJB – Orthodox Jewish Bible is one of the foremost authorities on Biblical Hebrew Translation.

Homosexuality is sin: To say otherwise is to deny scripture. Given that “they shall be ‘besar echad’ – one skin” mean a man (ish) is to come together with a woman (ishshah) in a sexual union for the purposes of procreation, and the enjoyment of each other in love and bonds of matrimony – it is not biblical to declare that two women, or two men can come together in any kind of sexual union.

The bible specifically calls it out!

Leviticus 18:22:

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. (ESV)

Thou shalt not lie with zachar (male), as with ishshah: it is to’evah (abomination, detestable) (OJB)

This was written to the men – yes, but it was just as applicable to women, as we see in Deuteronomy 22:5:

“A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.” (ESV)

“The isha shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a gever (man) neither shall a gever put on simlat isha (garment of a woman); for all that do so are to’avat (abomination, detestable) unto Hashem Eloheicha.” (OJB)

Sounds like homosexuality – and transviteism to me. They are detestable to God – and thus sin.

Pastors – we need to stop trying to not offend anyone. Our job is to give the truth – and this is the truth. Tap-dancing around sin isn’t going to bring people to repentance – and that’s our job! To bring people to repentance, and the loving salvation of Yeshua ha’Mashiach – Jesus, the Messiah – the King of all kings, the Lord of all lords.

Pastors, the Rapture is close at hand. All of the prophetic signs are in place.

Israel has become a nation again, and the people are returning to the Land again.

Yerushalaim (Jerusalem) has again been taken under control of Israel – and is now being recognized as its capital! As of this writing, the United States, Guatemala and Brazil have made this recognition, and other nations have it under consideration.

Prophecies in Ezekiel 38 & 39 are starting to form, with Russia, China, Iran and Turkey becoming major players in the area, and all have an eye on Israel. Armageddon is the war played out in the Tribulation by these major powers.

Earthquakes, pestilences, floods, rumors of wars – all have been on the increase (Luke 21:10-11).

Look at the list from 2 Timothy at the beginning of this post – tell me pastor, have you called this out publicly – from the pulpit? Probably not – because we don’t want to offend anyone.

Again pastors – our job is to preach the truth, in season and out of season. Jesus wasn’t afraid to overturn a few tables to show that what was being done in the temple was wrong. Jesus offended people, especially the pharisees, all the time – and for good reason. When the teacher is doing wrong, the teacher should be called on the carpet. Jesus did this a lot – and he was hated for it. That didn’t bother him – discipline was needed, and he was going to administer it. Do out kids like it when we discipline them? Of course not. We do it because we love them, and we want them to do the right thing. Jesus wanted the pharisees and rabbis to teach properly

He also called out sin when he saw it in the people. He never condemned, but he called it out. There were numerous examples of it in the Bible.

One of the most famous was in John 4 – the woman at the well, who was married five times, and giving potential #6 a test ride while shacking up with him. He told her everything she’d ever done – she was amazed and became the town evangelist, “come, and see a man who told me all that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” (v. 29). Jesus treated her with respect, but told her all about her sin. She knew, that He knew.

The other is in John 8 – the woman caught in adultery. Yes, it was a set-up to catch Jesus blaspheming the Law, but he knew that. Did he berate or condemn this woman? He did however, tell her to “Go, and sin no more.” (v. 11).

Jesus loved the sinner – he hated the sin – and called it out. We too, as Christians – are to love the sinner, but hate – and call out – the sin. We don’t condemn anyone – because we too, were once condemned. Our job is to lead people to repentance and salvation.

Pastors – our job is to not only to call out sin, but we’re to do it boldly, without fear of whatever someone may think of us. If a member of our congregation disagrees with the biblical stance on sin – challenge them to come up with rebuttal scripture.

Also pastor, Jesus wasn’t a Democrat or a Republican. He wasn’t a Christian either. He was – and is – God. As such, it’s His way, or the highway – there’s no gray area here. His Word is clear – sin is sin, and it’s not to be tolerated.

That means that unmarried couples in the church are to be counseled to get married, live apart until such time that they do – giving them the supporting scripture. If they are true believers, they should do the right thing. If not, then they should find a new church.

That means we don’t permit homosexuals to serve in any capacity in our church. That’s just inviting the devil into our church and into our church life. We work with those who are battling this issue, teaching them the Word of God, but we don’t compromise. If the person repents – wonderful, but if not, they you must seriously question whether it’s best to have his person in your midst.

This means that we pull those persons we find in sinful situations aside, and privately confront them, with the result being restoration to the body of Christ.

Heck, we all sin – going back to John chapter 8, wasn’t it Jesus who told the pharisees, ready to stone the woman, “let he who is without sin, cast the first stone.” (v. 7). Romans 3:23, Paul said “for all have sinned and have fallen short of God’s glory.” What’s required? We all must repent – and the unsaved, must be called to repentance and salvation. It’s our job to bring them there!

Dancing around the topic of sin is called compromise – and that’s one thing that we are to never do – we never compromise our faith. If telling someone that homosexuality is a sin, and that makes me a bigot – then I’m a bigot – for the name of Christ! Let the LGBTQ community picket my church.

A pastor recently lost his job for standing up for this biblical belief. He posted this sign at his church. You can read all about it here.

This church has problems – and is in need of discipline.

Of course in this case, the church elders were facing an exodus of members from the church. So, we have to be politically correct – to keep butts in seats? Absolutely not! Who is the shepherd of the church? The Pastor shepherds the church under the authority of Jesus Christ – not some elected board. Elders advise the pastor in spiritual issues, and Deacons assist the pastor in administration of church functions, but ultimate responsibility rests with the pastor – and in this case the Elders were absolutely in the wrong!

I hope that this hit home with some pastors, leaders and teachers. If it convicted you, then it did.

What to do now? I think you already know. Go – and preach the gospel!

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