Jail Break - Escaping Dispensationalism

Below is a segment of a chapter from the book I am writing. I hope to have it finished soon but I haven't set a deadline. Keep watching for updates on the progress. Blessings.

Jonn

In Romans 2:28-29 we find two verses that seem to boggle the mind.

Yet both verses are simple statements of fact, made under divine inspiration by the Apostle Paul, and they often send people into conniption fits. Christians concoct the stupidest explanations in vain attempts to explain away these two verses rather than accept their simple truth.

Why the resistance? Well, upon these two verses rests the identity of God’s chosen people, the question of who is a Jew and who is not a Jew. It is clearly explained here but many so called Christians today will hear nothing of it. They are convinced that they already know who God’s chosen people are and the issue is not up for examination, thus you will hear nothing of this from the pulpit today.

So, it may surprise you, the honest reader, to find out that the scriptures go to great lengths in explaining who the chosen people are and nothing is left to chance interpretation because nothing short of your identity in Christ is at stake here. So, let’s look at these two verses now:

“For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.”

Now please carefully examine Paul’s words, he begins: “For he is not a Jew”. Paul is about to tell us who is NOT a Jew. Did you get that? He is about to explain what a person who is not a Jew looks like or how to identify a non-Jew.

Now forgive me for my patronizing tone but so many refuse to see this and as such must be spoken to as if they were children. I pray you are not one of these stubborn individuals and will open your heart to the truth. You will not be offended if you love the truth. Let’s continue our study.

He says that person “which is one outwardly”. In other words a non-Jew looks outwardly like a Jew. In fact, he would likely have many physical features that appear to be Jewish features or perhaps he often wears a yarmulke and a tallit and he attends synagogue. This person, who is outwardly Jewish, is simply not a Jew.

How can this be? It seems that Paul just told us that a Jew is not a Jew. He looks like a Jew, acts like a Jew and even has Jewish blood in his veins yet Paul says this person is NOT a Jew. Is Paul off his rocker? Let’s read on and see what else Paul says about someone who is not a Jew.

“Neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:” So Paul makes a direct hit at the very heart of Judaism by saying that even those who are circumcised in their flesh are not Jewish. Now Paul, being an Israelite of the tribe of Benjamin, knew exactly what he was doing by speaking of the circumcision.

Since the days of Abraham, circumcision has been a hidden but necessary symbol between God and His chosen people. To be in conformance with Jewish law every male child had to be circumcised on the eighth day. If you were not circumcised you were not considered Jewish.

So, perhaps you can see why the Jews hated Paul, just as they hated Jesus before him. Paul has just explained that a non-Jew will be one who is circumcised outwardly in his flesh.

You may not realize the condemnation of Judaism embedded in this statement. Paul leaves nothing to chance; he is directly telling us that those who rejected Christ and who we know as Jewish both historically and those currently living in the Middle East are not Jews at all.

Don’t misunderstand! Paul is not saying they are Khazars, he isn’t saying their DNA morphed into something else, he isn’t saying that all the intermingling that took placed change them into non-Jews, he isn’t saying anything about migration patterns of their ancestors. What he is telling us is spiritual. Those who have rejected Christ are no longer Jews because the Jewish people are not a fleshly people any longer; every Jew on the planet is now spiritual.

Now, if I were standing in most any pulpit in America today and made that statement I would be removed from my position immediately. The fact that this is exactly what Paul is telling us wouldn’t matter. (That detail would be dialoged away later) and I would be labeled a blasphemer against God’s holy people.

Now, there is no doubt that Israel has always been God’s chosen and they still are today, the problem is that we simply don’t know who Israel is and rather than listen to Paul we continue to believe lies.

...more to come

Daniel's Seventy Weeks Timeline

Here is my major project for 2012. I had thought all year that I would write another book but for some reason that never got off the ground.

Please, feel free to copy and use this timeline a much as you like, just please do not make changes to it. If you need to start changing things just make your own timeline, it isn't hard to do nowadays.

Anyway, I wanted those who were interested to see the timeline clearly spelled out so there is no confusion. Please download it and pass it around to friends and let me know if you find any errors. I am very much interested in eliminating any errors (changing it to make room for a 7 year tribulation and a pre-trib "rapture" is not the same as finding an error).

Well, the chart images are below. I pray these serve to strengthen your faith in Christ.

Jonn

click on the images to see a larger version, then right click and save your own copy, which should allow you to zoom in on the smaller print.

The world WILL NOT END on December 21, 2012

The world WILL NOT END on December 21, 2012.

...enough said.

What's to come?

During my life Israel has always played an important role as an indicator of the end times but recently I came to realize that while they do play a role it is the role of the antichrist and not of the chosen people.

If you are interested in following that line of thought you can search through my past articles and read the ones concerning Israel. I suggest, "Who are the chosen people?" and "I will bless those that bless thee" as a starting point. Anyway, just because I have misidentified Israel's role in the past, doesn't mean that they do not play a part in indicating the end days. I wouldn't be dogmatic about this but it is worth writing down before the facts play out.

So, what happens over the next few months? Well, if the nation-state of Israel being back in the land has any bearing on end days timing, I am convinced it will all play out before Passover of 2013. Why Passover? Well this Passover will leave Israel with only 3 1/2 years left before they turn 70 years old in 2017.

You may say, "Jonn, Israel became a nation in 1948 so 70 years later would bring us to 2018 not 2017." That is correct but remember the prophecy, it says from the going forth of the commandment, not the actual beginning of the state.

Of course all of this is based on the skewed understanding that is taught by the churches today, but the antichrist will wish to capitalize on these mistakes and use them to his advantage. If millions believe it, then why not give them what they want?

Anyway, from the going forth of the commandment in 1947 leaves us with Israel turning 70 in 2017. Then removing 3 1/2 years, to account for the tribulation, leaves us at the Passover of 2013 just mere months from now.

Let me be clear. There will be no reason to believe that physical Israel plays any large predictive role in prophecy if nothing happens on this date. When Israel turned 40, everyone believed 40 years was a generation and that that generation would not pass, but it did. At the time the case could be made that a generation was longer than 40 years but time is running out for that line of thought.

If 70 years goes by and nothing happens then there is no reason to continue to look to physical Israel as a major indicator of prophecy, it begins to stretch the imagination that longer than seventy years could still be considered a generation. Plus, Daniel tells us that 70 weeks are determined (or seventy feasts of weeks -pentecosts-) on Israel so if anything is going to happen it must be now.

Here is what I am looking for. Sometime before Passover there will be some sort of grand destruction. Perhaps the world economy falls, perhaps Israel uses nukes in an attack on Iran, perhaps a false flag attack that we are not expecting. Regardless of what shape it takes it must happen within the next few months. Why? Well, as you know the antichrist is given power to rule 42 months and by Passover 2013 there will be left 42 months before Israel's 70th birthday.

As you know God is very precise. So, on Passover, if physical Israel is any indicator, the final 3 1/2 years will have begun. If nothing happens by then I for one will question Israel's standing as a prophecy marker. After all, true believers already know that the real Israel is not in the Middle East anyway but we are Spiritual. So any fulfillment of Israel's prophecies, I will look to Spiritual Israel for the fulfillment, not physical.

However, I will tell you right now it certainly isn't much of a stretch to see everything falling into place. A surprise nuclear strike on Iran by Israel or a world economic collapse could quickly place Israel in the world's driver's seat by March 2013. Once there, everything will be running full force. For 42 months the world government will be given power to overcome the saints. Many will fall but many will be given safety in the wilderness also. As of this moment all of this stuff looks very possible.

So, I may come back and update this with more details (as I have written it down very quickly as a witness). I have skipped over some important details but the jist of it is here and will stand. I will say that the more I consider this the more I see it happening. We are just one disastrous event away from an official world government taking power and the little horn must rule. We will have our answer very quickly.

I am not telling you this is definitely going to happen, just that if physical Israel has any meaning as an end times marker then it must happen. If nothing happens you can stop looking so closely to physical Israel for any large end-times timing clues and rather begin looking to Spiritual Israel to fulfill those.

Don't misunderstand me however, physical Israel will still be an important player just not as the "main time-piece" we have always considered them to be. PASSOVER 2013 will tell.

Jonn

Dean Gotcher audio

Hi all,

I am please to announce that the meeting with Dean Gotcher was a success and I also wanted to let everyone know that the audio track is available for download here. It is listed beside the heading "BRISTOL, TN  2012-11-08". Please listen to the presentation and spend some time at Dean's site, and don't forget to listen to the other audios there also, this is truly life changing stuff.

It is amazing how easily our entire society has been fooled by the methods that Dean alerts us to. We have been and continue to be driven like a herd of sheep, all of us trying to do our own wills, which is the most basic form of Satanism. Jesus never did His own will but rather always did the will of His Father, even unto the death.

It is Satanism because to worship the Devil does not mean that you seek out what the Devil wants you to do and then obey him. No, that is God's hierarchy, not the Devil's. The Devil gains control over you, not by having you do his will but rather by having you do YOUR will. In the process of chasing of your own goals and dreams, instead of doing what God would have you do, Satan gains control over you and you become his servant. I will say it again, TO DO YOUR OWN WILL IS TO WORSHIP SATAN.

Jesus never tells us to do what WE want to do but always that we should obey the commandments and do the will of the Father. We actually believe that doing what we want to do is a good thing. We encourage people to do what THEY want to do and follow THEIR dreams. That sounds good doesn't it? Well, there is nothing good about it. You should never do what you want to do unless you have permission to do it from the Lord.

However, today this form of obedience is scoffed at and anyone who attempts to hold to a fixed belief is attacked as being closed minded, rude and selfish. Christians who follow what the Bible says instead of doing what they want to do will find surprising resistance in all areas of their lives. Still, this way of thinking is exactly what Jesus was attempting to demonstrate to us, don't do what you want to do but rather do what your Father in Heaven wants you to do.

Well, I just wanted to let everyone know that the meeting was a success and I hope this article has piqued your interest. Dean Gotcher is the master of bringing out this understanding and his website is full of articles and audios from his meetings and radio shows. If you are serious about your Christianity you cannot afford to be without this information. I encourage you to spend lots of time there and support Dean by sending a gift or purchasing his books and DVDs. You can click here for his homepage or use the "Authority Research" link in the sidebar.

Blessings.

Dean Gotcher

I wanted to let everyone know that I am honored to have Dean Gotcher coming to the area on November 8th to speak. We will be meeting at the Outdoorsmen Meeting Hall in Blountville, Tenn. at 6:30. The building is located on 11W between Kingsport and Bristol and is just behind the IBEW Union Hall.

Please feel free to stop by but be ready to hear some hard truth. Dean is the master of exposing the evil dialectic formula that has been thrust upon our society like a Pandora's Box. Dean has dubbed this process "the Diaprax" or simply the practice of the dialectical process and after he exposes it many become offended because they realize that they are steeped in it and rather than repent they decide to lash out.

Almost everyone you know uses this process and those who do not use it are usually singled out as being hateful, intolerant and maladjusted. Such is our society today, that those who speak the language of God are considered unworthy and those who speak like dragons (Diaprax) are loved by all.

Well, be that as it may, I am pleased to have Dean and his wife Karen coming in November. Please pray for Dean as he makes his way southward after doing several other presentations from Illinois to Maine. If you would like to visit his website it can be found at www.authorityresearch.com, which I have listed in the sidebar.

Giant Rotten Tomato

I began to wonder the other day as I pondered on all the articles of the economic collapse that is soon to come upon us and the world. The secular writers carry on about how bad it is going to be, and from their point of view it would be. Facing this collapse without God must be a fearful thing but for the remnant of Israel it is not so bad.

First off, we will be protected by God during this time, just as He protected Israel while the plagues were hitting Egypt. Sure we will be in the midst of it and that will be bad enough but we are not concerned about our physical wealth and welfare but rather we are concerned with spiritual things. The fall of the dollar is of little significance to us. In fact it could actually be a good thing as far as that goes.

I mean getting rid of the dollar also means getting rid of the evil that is attached to it. It means getting rid of the money grubbing idiots that have greedily destroyed any virtue that we once had as a nation. It means being rid of the society as we have it today where most people walk around staring into little electronic boxes playing games and reading text messages.

Yes, it is a terrible world we have constructed. I for one will be glad to be shed of it and the sooner the better. Until then you can still respond to the Gospel message of hope and salvation for your soul. There is still a little time left before it all goes completely bad.

But just as fruit goes through stages, so will our country and the world. Consider, as a tomatoes ripens it is good to eat, soon however it begins to decay. At first it is still good to eat, just cut off the small bad section and it is fine. Later however, it isn't so easy.

Soon the tomato is just plain rotten and fit for nothing but the compost pile. At this point if you leave it laying around it attracts all sort of bugs and flies. It begins to stink up your house and even gets so bad that you can't bring yourself to even touch it in order to throw it away, you actually have to scape it off the plate with a knife into the compost pile.

Such is the state of our country, yes in fact the entire world. It is a giant rotten tomato and it must continue through the same cycle as the tomato does. There is no stopping it. You can no more stop it than you can prevent a tomato from also going bad. The only hope would have been to turn back to the Lord and only He is able to preserve, but that was not to be.

Fortunately for Christians, we understand that a new day is soon coming. A one thousand year period where we will reign and rule with Christ. He will rule with a rod of iron and things will be set back as they were intended. While spiritually we are with Him there now (for in eternity there is no beginning or ending) but physically we are still staring at the problem of getting this giant rotten tomato into the compost pile without getting it all over us.

My advice is to stop trying, set your eyes upon Him. He will clean all this mess up soon enough, study the Word, prepare yourself to have an answer for any man who asks you of the hope that is within you. Pray and follow Jesus with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding.

Blessings to the Remnant of Israel.