The LORD our Passover

Continuing with the indexing for May 9^th

In 1Thessalonias 1:2-10 we find this; "We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; Knowing, your election of God. For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as you know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. And you became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: So that you were ensamples (examples) to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the Living and True God; To wait for His Son from heaven, Whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.”

Form here I will turn our attention toward John and his 1John letter in chapter 1 where he bears witness of Christ Jesus as he knew Him at the first in the flesh and moving on to verse 5 where we find this; “This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare to you, that God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the Truth: But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleansed us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.”

From here turn to chapter 2 beginning at verse 18 to find this; “Little children, it is the last time: and as you have heard that anti-Christ shall come, even now are there many anti-Christs; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. But you have an unction (an inner knowing) from the Holy One, and you know all things. I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is anti-Christ, that denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son, (as LORD of all) the same has not the Father: (but) he that acknowledges the Son (as LORD) has the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

This is the promise that He has promised us, Eternal Life. These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which you have received of Him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is Truth, and is no lie, and even as it (He) has taught you, you shall abide In Him. And now, little children, abide In Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of Him.” And now turning our attention  by moving on to chapter 4 where we find this beginning in verse 7 through 5:4.

The LORD our Passover

Continuing the indexing for May 9^th

But as usual I cannot leave it rest or stop here I must continue with the complete thought 4:17-24, 25-5:2: “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the Life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart (this by in larger is caused by mans own religion as it hinders the actions and operations of God through Christ): Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ (in this fashion or manner); If so be that you have heard Him, and have been taught by Him, as the Truth is in Jesus (the question of Mat. 11:29 and our response to it): That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Therefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. Be angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed in the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be kind (walk in charity, goodness and truth) one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you. Be therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also loves us, and has given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.”

From here we can move to Colossians 1:13 where we find this beginning at verse 9 through 20: “For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the Knowledge of His Will in all Wisdom and Spiritual Understanding; That you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the Knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, to all patience and long suffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks to the Father, which has made us meet (fit) to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in Light: Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son: In Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by (through) Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by (through) Him, and for Him: He is before all things, and by (again through) Him all things consist. For He is the head of the Body, the Church: Who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He have the preeminence. For it pleased Father that In Him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things to Himself; by Him, I say, whether things in earth, or things in heaven.”

Here again I just cannot leave well enough alone I must complete the thought; “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works (vain imaginations), yet now has He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, unblameable and unreproveable in His sight: If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His Body's sake, which is the Church: Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation (stewardship) of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God; the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifested to (In) His saints: To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect In Christ Jesus: Whereto I also labor, striving according to His working, which works in me mightily.”

While still with Paul our last of his testimonies is in 1Thesselonians 1 and again to keep with the flow I must begin at verse one where we find this; “To the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 

The LORD our Passover

Continuing the indexing for May 9^th

Next chapter 2 and verse 20 picking up the flow with Paul's correcting Peter for his error in character at verse 14: “When I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of our Gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? If we who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we who have believed Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the Law: for by (through) the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

For I through the Law am dead to the Law, that I might live to God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I Live; yet not I, but Christ Lives in me: and the Life which I now live in the flesh I Live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loves me, and gave Himself for me. I do not frustrate the Grace of God: for if righteousness could have come by the Law, then Christ is dead in vain.”

Then the next one is in chapter 4 beginning at verse 1 through 7: “Now I say, the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the law (and the Law of Moses is referenced many times with the capital “L” which distinguishes it from the law of God, however our translators abused their privilege by using the lower case where the capital should have been applied which is grievous error), that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because we are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”

Israel if you will remember were servants but when Jesus came He called a few of them His friend or friends these can be seen in Luke 12:4, John 15:14-15, Isaiah 41:8 and James 2:23. If we have become His friend then are we His heirs (Psalm 2:6-8). From this we can deduce that all others are but those who have been give the right or power to become but may remain as servants and children in waiting.

Next is Ephesians 4:13, starting at verse 7 through 16 we find this: “But to every one of us is given Grace according to the measure of the Gift of Christ. Wherefore He said, When He ascended up on high, when He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men. (Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.) And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: That we should henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, Christ: From Whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body to the edifying of itself in love.”

Next is Ephesians 4:13, starting at verse 7 through 16 we find this: “But to every one of us is given Grace according to the measure of the Gift of Christ. Wherefore He said, When He ascended up on high, when He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men. (Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.) And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: That we should henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, Christ: From Whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body to the edifying of itself in love.”

The LORD our Passover

Picking up the indexing for May 9^th

This days post starts with this quote from John 13 verse 36; “Simon Peter said to the Lord, where go You? Jesus answered him, Where I go, you cannot follow Me now; but you shall follow Me afterwards.”

This could be rewritten as flows; You cannot follow Me now - You have not faith strong enough to die for Me, nor is your work yet done; but hereafter you shall suffer for My sake, and die in defense of My Truth. (look at John 21:18 which states this; “Verily, verily, I say to you, When you were young, you girded yourself, and walked wherever you would: but when you shall be old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall gird you, and carry you where you would not wont to go.”) Look again to Acts and chapter 12 where have Peter is called on the carpet, beginning at verse 1 where we find this; “About that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions (look at Est. 3:6-7, 13) of soldiers to keep him; intending after Passover (meaning the messenger, or the festival of the victim) to bring him forth to the people. Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church to God for him.”

Next we came to verse 7 of John 14 to this; “If you had known Me, you should have known My Father also: and from henceforth you know Him, and have seen Him.”

To this I stated the following comment; The LORD is indeed by meaning and definition both Father, Master, husbandman, husband and vine or a mighty Oak tree into which are grafted His disciples and stewards, and He becomes a husband to all those betrothed in Him and through Him, Psalm 2:7-9, Acts 13:33. In Acts 13 Paul is rehearsing the revelation of the risen Christ now made LORD of all with the following statement beginning at verse 33 through verse 41; “God has fulfilled the same to us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second Psalm, "You are My Son, this day have I begotten You." And as concerning that He raised Him up from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He said on this wise, "I will give You the sure mercies of David." Therefore He said also in another Psalm, "You shall not suffer My Holy One to see corruption." For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption: But He, Whom God raised again, saw no corruption. Be it known to you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins (Redemption): And by (through) Him all that believe are justified (Salvation) from all things, from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses. Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; Behold, the despisers*, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it to you.”
 
*There is a significant list of referenced related passages to this as follows: Prov. 1:24-32, 5:12 this passage must be read from its beginning to grab hold of what the revelation within the context is saying, the next is in Isaiah 5:24, but here again do not miss out on the revelation that goes before this passage.

Then we came to this passage in verse 13 of John 14: “Whatever you shall ask being in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” To this I shared the following passages for reference: Galatians 1:16, 2:20, 4:6, Ephesians 4:13, Colossians 1:13, 1Thessalonians 1:10, 1John 1:7, 2:23-24, 4:14-15, 5:11-13, 20, 2John 1:9. Looking first at Gal. 1:16 we find this spoken by Paul in verse 13 and then down to 18: “You have heard of my conversation (manor of living) in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: I profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals of my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of our fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again after a short time to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.” 

The LORD our Passover

Continuing the indexing for May 8^th

1John 2:7-11 (8-10) “I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning. Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true In Him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines. He that said he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.”

Then lastly we have this; “By this shall all know that you are My disciples, if you have love one to another.” (John 15:13, 17:21, 1John 4:7-11, 20-21)

John 15:12-14 “This is My commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do whatever I command you.”

I will pick up the flow at verse 17 which reads; John 17:17-19, 20-24 “Sanctify them through Your truth: Your word is truth. As You have sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the Truth.

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe Me through their word; That they all may be one; as You, Father, art in Me, and I in You, that they also may be One in us: that the world may believe that You have sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them; that they may be One, even as We are One: I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them, as You have loved Me. Father, I will that they also, whom You hast given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory, which You have given Me: for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.”

Then in 1John 4:7-14, 15-21 we find this; “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God. He that loves not knows not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might Live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loves us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation (to mollify, make less intense, sooth the temper, to placate, win back, to acquire a auspicious outcome) for our sins. Beloved, if God so loves us, we ought also to love one another. No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell In Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior (Salvation) of the world.

Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God Whom he has not seen? And this commandment have we from Him, That he who loves God loves his brother also.”
God's charity and goodness in Truth resides within him, is the meaning of the parable of the fig-tree.

The LORD our Passover

Continuing the indexing for May 8^th

Revelation 2:18, 19-29 “To the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things said the Son of God, Who has eyes like to a flame of fire, and His feet are like fine brass;

I know your works, and charity, and service, and faith, and your patience, and your works; and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you suffered with that woman Jezebel, which calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce My servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, with them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am He which searches the reins and hearts: and I will give to every one of you according to your works. But to you, and to the rest in Thyatira, I say as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. But that which you have already hold fast to, till I come. And he that overcomes, and keeps My works to the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of My Father. And I will give him the morning star. (Rev. 22:16, Lk. 1:78-79, 2Pet. 1:19) He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches.”

Now in John 13:34 we find this: “A new commandment (Jeremiah 31:31-33, 34, Galatians 6:2, 1John 2:8-10) I give to you,”

Jeremiah 31: 31-34 “Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which My covenant they broke, although I was an husband to them, said the LORD: This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, said the LORD, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

Galatians 6:1-10 (20 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest you also be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden. Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teaches in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the spirit shall of the Spirit reap Life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to them who are of the household of faith.”

Form here turn back to Chapter 3 to see what it has to say about this, bearing of others burden's.

Galatians 3:1-5, 6-9, 10-14 “O foolish Galatians (we can place any denominational or sects name here and do no harm), who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. He therefore that ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know you therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before this Gospel to Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law (remember the parable of the fig-tree and the external good of natural man) is not of faith: but, The man that does them shall live in them. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree* might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit** through faith.”
* (Deut. 21:23, Jos. 10:26-27: That the blessing of Abraham (Gal. 3:6-9, 29, Gen. 12:2-3, Is. 41:8, 51:2-3, Rom. 4:3-17)
** (Gal. 4:6, Is. 32:15, 59:19-21, Jer. 31:33, 32:40, Eze. 11:19, 36:26-27, 39:29, Joel 2:28-29, Zec 12:10, Lk 11:13, 24:49, John 7:39) 

The LORD our Passover

Beginning the indexing for May 8^th.

In John 13:11 we find this; “For He knew who should betray Him; therefore He said, You are not all clean.” (Ezekiel 36:(25-26) 22-32)

Ezekiel 36:22-32 (25-26) “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the heathen, wherever you have gone. And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, said the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony (calloused) heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart (of understanding, willingness and wisdom to know truth) of flesh (compassion, charity and goodness). I will put My spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments, and do them. (This would be a good place for the understanding of the fig-tree parable to be placed.) And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Not for your sakes do I this, said the Lord GOD, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.”

This is what should take place while we are within the first estate of redemption, because within it the Holy Spirit bring us to ourselves. To see ourselves are we are, putrid and putrefying, and good for nothing and utter corrupted and in bankruptcy without Him.

Then in John 13:18 we have this; “I know whom I have chosen.” (Heb. 4:13, Rom. 11:25-36, Rev. 2:23)

Hebrews 4:4-13, 14-16 (13) “For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all His works. And in this place again, If they shall enter into My rest. Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: Again, He limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would He not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into His rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do.

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. (look at 1John 1:9) For we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the Throne of Grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”

Romans 11:25-32, 33-36 “For I would not, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel (Ps. 107:43, Hos. 14:9), until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in (Ps. 22:27, 72:8-14, 127:1, Is. 2:1-8, 60:1-22, 66:18-23, Mic. 4:1-2, Zec. 8:20-23, 14:9-21, Lk. 21:24, Rev. 7:9, 11:15, 20:2-4). And so all Israel shall be saved*: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is My covenant to them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes (Rom. 11:11, 30, Mat. 21:43, Acts 13:45-46, 14:2, 18:6, 1Thes. 2:15-16): but (Rom. 11:7, Is. 41:8-9) as touching the election, they are beloved** for the fathers' sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. (Num. 23:19, Hosea 13:14, Mal. 3:6) For as in times past you have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. (Rom. 11:11-19) For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all.

*The referenced passaged for this are a long one and that is why I have chosen to set it here as follows: (shall be saved; Is. 11:11-16, 45:17, 54:6-10, Jer. 3:17-23, 30:17-22, 31:31-37, 32:37-41, 33:24-26, Eze. 34:22-31, 37:21-28, 39:25-29, 40:1-48:35, Hos. 3:5, Jeol 3:16-21, Amos 9:14-15, Mic. 7:15-20, Zep. 3:12-20, Zec. 10:6-12; There shall; Ps. 14:7, 106:47, Is. 59:20: and shall turn; Mat. 1:21, Acts 3:26, Titus 2:14)

**for the same reason as (*), (are delivered: Gen. 26:4, 28:14, Lev. 26:40-42, Deut. 4:31, 7:7-8, 8:18, 9:5, 10:15, Ps. 105:8, Jer. 31:3, Micah 7:20, Lk. 1:54, 68-75)

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out! For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been His counselor? Or who has first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed to him again? For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to Whom be glory for ever. Amen.” 

The LORD our Passover

Continuing with the indexing for May 7

Isaiah 7:10-16 “Moreover the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, Ask a sign of the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. And He said, Hear now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary My God also? Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel (the hidden one, equal with El). Butter and honey shall He eat, that He may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that you abhor shall be forsaken of both her kings.”

Jeremiah 31:22 “How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.”

Galatians 4:1-5 (4) “Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”

Matthew 1:22-23, 25 “Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us......Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took to him his wife: And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.”

It must be note that Moses and Jesus has the same meaning, salvation through water. And this is what was spoken that a prophet like Moses would come from among his people like Moses.

Then in John 12:35-36 we find this as quoted; “Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not whither he goes. While you have light, believe the light, that you may be the children of light.”

Jesus is defiantly making reference to Himself as the Light that has come into the world, just as He was the Light called to dispel the darkness of Genesis 1. This is further emphasized by John in his synoptic gospel chapter 1, in fact John's revelation mentions light more times then any of the other synoptic gospels with 16 verses and 24 matches. I also make reference to the parable of the cloth and wine as they apply here, I should also include the fig-tree as further evidence. 

The LORD our Passover

Continuing with the indexing for May 7

Then moving past our subject passages into the New Covenant we find this in James and John's Revelation of Christ. What I find of interest in James is the fact that he through the Holy Spirit begins with the external use of mans unruly tongue.

James 3:1-12, 13-18 “My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, wherever the governor listes. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts of great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles! The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”

The last one as I said is found in Revelation chapter 6, 6 being the number assigned to man, and perhaps the sixth seal is mans seal, also because in it we find the fig mentioned. I will pick things up with the fifth seal in verse 9 where we find this; “When He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said to them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

Then in verses 12 through 7:3 we find this; “I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? After these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.”

In each passage are mentioned the servants of God, these were the first to be invite to the marriage feast but each found a excuse for not attending the feast, as the Lord's parable states. The king then commissions His servants to go into the uttermost parts of the world to bring others to His feast. This is what the fig-tree parable reveals as do those passages of scripture shown here.

I am still in John 12 heading toward 13, “He that loves his life (in mans sin and death estate of separation from GOD) shall lose it; and he that hates* (more than he loves Me is here implied) his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.” (the root of the promise of Gen. 3:15 and 12:1-3, Isaiah 7:14, Jeremiah 31:22, Matthew 1:23, 25) Look at Gen. 3:15 because it is the bases of all things about to become New in re-birth or a re-genesis as being born from above, in the power of the resurrection.

Genesis 3:15 “I will put enmity* (hostility, hatred) between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it (He) shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”

Genesis 12:3 “I will bless them that bless (pay by bending the knee as in to drink in water that is flowing at a stream or rivers edge, to offer a gift with an open palm of the hand) you, and curse him that curses you (those who act contrary to good, truth and trust): and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.”  

The LORD our Passover

Beginning the indexing for May 7

Beginning in John 12 verse 20 we find the Greeks seeking to know Jesus and though not spoken this seems to be a signal for Him that the next few days make the beginning of the end of His earthly ministry to Israel. His work as revealed in the parable of the fig-tree and its change in fruitfulness is about to come about. If we do a study on the fig-tree and the few verses of scripture about it we can learn just what this parable is as truth and indeed goodness, beginning with Gen. 3:7 where it states this; “The (natural) eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”

1Kings 4:25 “Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.” (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.”)

2Kings 18:30-33 “Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink every one the waters of his cistern: Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that you may live, and not die: and hearken not to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?” (Isa 36:13-19, 20-21 “Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. Thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink every one the waters of his own cistern; Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.”)

Habakkuk 3:16-19 “When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he comes up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The LORD God is my strength, and He will make my feet like hinds' feet, and He will make me to walk upon my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.”