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Apostle George created a doc in the group 2014 MasterClass. 5 hrs · Understanding the Times - 8 How Rome Re-defined the world permanently by marriage of Politics and Religion -3 In the 26 years it has pleased Yahweh to lay hold of this vessel He rescued from eternal damnation on the merit of His Grace in Yahshua, Jesus, there has never been a time of intense opposition to this teaching ministry on a scale as what we experience whenever sharing what heaven is revealing about the Roman impact on world history! Literarily, all hell seem to always be let loose against this messenger. The irony is that there is nothing said here which is of self! This vessel of clay is just like a Post man delivering a message to this generation, the last before King Yahshua returns! He wants a Church that is pure, de-toxified of traditions of men and the seductions of ancient Rome! He says to come out of Babylon altogether – not just physically but mentally and emotionally! He wants all soul ties with Babylon broken and returned to sender! If by any chance the word does not resonate in your heart, please do not feel bad. Just get on with how you see the Truth of the Holy Scriptures! Not even the saints who make up Arise Metropolitan Assembly in London or our biological children will this vessel ever attempt to force feed any truth it pleases Abba to reveal in this series. In other words, we are not setting doctrines or markers for any of the brethren or drawing lines in the sand which no one should cross. The things of the Spirit are not to be made religious campaigns to violate the wills of humans. Holy Spirit alone is able to convict, instruct and persuade the remnant on these things we are sharing according to the timing He deems best! The least you can do is to take your place in Yahshua and cover us in strategic level prayer and spiritual warfare! Replacement Theology, Change of Times and seasons and Religious Feasts. If the era of Rome saw the re-definition of identity of Yahweh our Father and Yahshua Ha Maschiach, even Jesus, His Only Begotten Son; if the Roman era saw the massive slew of deft moves to foist a replacement theology which demonised Jews and paved the way for an Euro-centric gospel, the deal needed to be fully sealed in change of times, seasons and religious feasts. A. Change of Times and Seasons. Rome was truly bold! And true to its description as the empire which would stamp out all things before it and re-define the march of human history, it accomplished this by changing the way the world observes times and seasons as set by Elohim on creation morning! Elohim had ordained that through the movement of the Sun and Moon, day and night; signs and seasons could be discerned. Genesis 1:14-18 (KJV) 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. Among the Hebrews, there was a fairly accurate record of dealings of Yahweh with them and humanity based on divine inspiration (such as Moses and the Pentateuch) and History (recording of what transpired in the course of national life) because Yahweh elected Israel as His reference point in dealing with humanity. Rome with its sister Greece with whom a bond was forged changed all that as frail humans set about to do these: 1. Assign divinity to the Sun; Moon; individual Stars and indeed all elements of the firmaments. These deities were then worshipped according to ranks assigned to them.(Romans 1:20-25). 2. Days of the week were assigned, not to honor the Creator of the Universe, but to exalt gods of Rome and Greece. This included calling the name of the day most saints chose for public worship of Yahweh as Sun day – day dedicated to the Sun god! 3. The 7th day of the week which Abba called the Sabbath and demonstrated what He wanted it to be observed as (a day of rest, reflection on His goodness and thanksgiving) was unilaterally abolished to root out its assumed Jewish connotation. Unfortunately for those behind this logic, the Sabbath pre-dated the Law by an uncountable number of years. Genesis 2:1-3 (KJV) 1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. The point is that the Sabbath was not a Jewish thing or a dispensational thing. It is true that Jewish religious leaders had corrupted its essence with their traditions and stiff dogmas which made none sense of the purpose of Elohim. King Yahshua, Jesus dealt with their hard hearts and revealed that man was not made for the Sabbath but the Sabbath for the good health and usefulness of man! In other words, the proper response to the issue of Sabbath by the remnant is to rediscover its true essence in Genesis 2:1-3 rather than through the lenses of Moses when observance was made, along with circumcision as one of the vital signs of the Old Covenant! 4. Just as days were used to honor Greco-Roman gods, so also were the months of the Year used to honor deities. Such deities included humans who were exalted while alive or when dead. Julius Caesar had July named after him. The Roman Senate in 8 BC named the eight month of the year after Ocatavian who took the title Augustus. B. Supplanting ‘Jewish’ religious feasts with ‘European’-themed ones The spirit which drove the replacement theology was also responsible for the systematic disregard for all ‘Old Covenant’ Religious feasts (since they invariably had Jewish flair) in favour of new festivals with distinct European themes. Let us examine the bare outlines of a few. 1. The Pass Over. Originally, it was to be a memorial of how Yahweh delivered Israel out of the hand of Pharaoh and Egypt, especially on the night that the angel of death went forth and spared homes where the blood of a Lamb were used to mark doors and lintels. Jews were commanded to observe this day for ever. New Covenant Application: The Pass over had far more meaning than the minds of those covered with the veil of Moses could fathom. Yahweh wanted the feast to remind Hebrews and Gentiles alike of their need for a Lamb who would take away sins of all! Yahshua came to fulfil John 1:29 and in the process, break down the middle wall of partition between Jews and Gentiles so that the One new Man of Yahweh would manifest! Ephesians 2 and 3. From and beyond this, our eating of the Body and drinking of the Blood of Yahshua, Jesus was to remind us of our mutual inheritance in Him and of His return one day 1 Corinthians 11:26. 2. Sukkot/The Feast of Tabernacles. In the first instance, this feast was instituted to remind Israel of its days in the wilderness for 40 years when Yahweh provided all their needs. During that time, they had no permanent buildings but rather dwelt in tents and booths which provided temporary shelter before they moved along on their journey to Canaan. As they were about to enter the Promised Land, they were required to remember this providential care of Yahweh as a true Father for the nation. New Covenant Application: In a futuristic sense, the feast was to remind Israel of the Day of the Rapture when mortality would be swallowed up in immortality as our earthly Tabernacles (Bodies) are shed away! 3. The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah). This feast commemorated the awe with which Yahweh was to be held. It was to be the ‘head of the year’ signifying new beginnings or a ‘second chance’ which a merciful Yahweh gave His people following Teshuvah or repentance and turning to Him. New Covenant Applications: It also had a futuristic meaning: it pointed the way to the trumpet blasts of the end times including that at which the dead in Yahshua will rise first and those who are alive will be changed in a swift moment of time to be caught up with Him (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; 1 Corinthians 15:50-58. It also presaged the Final Trumpet Blast which will signal the end of the human age and inauguration of the Millennial reign of Yahshua (Revelation 11:15). This is the ultimate New Beginning. 4. Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement: this feast required those under the Old Covenant to have their sins and that of the nation of Israel atoned for once a year. The High Priest was to confess the sins of the nation on a goat, the Azazeel and let it loose into the wilderness. Rabinnical tradition had it that a scarlet thread was tied to the goat which often turned white miraculously as a sign that Yahweh accepted the sacrifice. New Covenant Applications. Yahshua fulfilled both types that the two goats were. He was the Scape goat/Azazeel who carried away the iniquity of the Hebrews and all Gentiles far away from the earth realm. He was also the Pascal Lamb Whose blood satisfied the just requirements of Yahweh so that mercy was released to humanity. Rabbinical tradition states that a strange thing happened after the death of Yahshua: the scarlet thread did not turn white. They were puzzled because they did not know Yahshua. But those who knew and know Him know that heaven was fully satisfied with the Blood He shed and there was no need for any physical sign of scarlet turning to white! It is clear that parts of the feasts were fulfilled in the first coming of Yahshua, Jesus. Some other parts that had futuristic implications will be fulfilled at His second coming. Saints are not to be judged by observance of holy days as Colossians 2:16-26 reveal because the Kingdom is not food and drink but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit Romans 14:17-18. Faith and personal persuasion should determine if anyone is willing to celebrate the Feasts of the Old Covenant in the light of their elasticity of application in the present and future. Charity should be the response of those who do not participate towards those who observe. To insist therefore that all saints should observe them is religious and to denounce those who have personal reason for observe them is not charitable as Romans 14 also says. By taking away all the feasts with foundation in the Bible and substituting them with those of doubtful spirituality, Rome and the wing of the Church it compromised was onto something significant: entrenchment of a pseudo-Christian religion based on anti-Semitism whose main compass is marked by replacement theology. These two stand out especially: 1. Christmas. The 33 and half years Yahshua, Jesus incarnated and lived on earth was for the express purpose of paying the price for the original sin of Adam and Eve and therefore to restore the lost Kingdom of Yahweh to humanity. Having completed His assignment, Yahshua ascended to heaven and is enthroned to His seat of honor besides the Father. He now waits for the day He will return to put down all rebellion and re-establish the Kingdom in its fullness on earth. To set up a festival which focuses on transmitting the picture of a vulnerable weakling baby in the manger certainly re-defines the divine narrative. To proceed to celebrate Him at the same time as the Winter Solstice festival of the pagan deities of Europe using their motifs including the Reindeer, Elves, Pine trees and Mistletoe was stretching replacement theology too far. No wonder Christmas time is marked by gross sinning and lack of fear of Yahweh! No wonder people have a form of godliness (Carols in elaborate Church buildings) in which the power of righteousness is denied! No wonder there is a prevailing spirit of commerce and profiteering all over the world in this season! Saints can keep themselves pure by not participating in the Santa Claus themed festivities, spirit of commerce and rather use the season to preach the real Yahshua, Jesus who is presumably the reason for the season. 2. Easter. The Rome inspired church changed the feast of Pass over to Easter. The name itself is a tell tale of how pagan feasts were ‘baptized’ and packaged as ‘Christian’. Then the pagan rites associated with the relevant fertility goddess were thrown into the ring. Easter Eggs and the Bunny (Rabbit) which were symbols of fertility became features of Easter till today. Through these traditions (wrinkles), the power of the gospel has been blunted making Easter Season the second highest preferred for sin and sinning in the organised Church (after Christmas). Rome Re-defined the gospel by displacing Jerusalem as root of the gospel Of the things Abba has been sharing with us from the Book of Daniel, let us be in remembrance that the sum is this: The Imperial Roman juggernaut which operated along two flanks as the Legs of Iron in the dream Elohim granted Nebuchadnezzar and which was interpreted by Daniel the Prophet had an over-riding interest to stamp out consciousness of the Hebraic roots of the gospel so that Christians would live and minister on the foundation of Rome, rather than Jerusalem, so to say. In this stratagem, Rome succeeded without measure to advance a Replacement Theology that was extremely effective. Within the first 30-50 years of the incarnation of Yahshua, this agenda was sufficiently in motion that heaven took notice. King Yahshua, seated in heaven could not just allow this counter-culture to take place. After all, He had said to the disciples emphatically: Matthew 16:18-19 (KJV) 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. As capital of the Empire, Rome had an alluring pull on all people – Jews and Gentiles alike; unbelievers and saints. It had imposed Pax Romana (Roman Peace) upon the world. The disciples Yahshua, Jesus had left behind were largely unlearned fishermen and truly local people, except Matthew His biographer. As they proceeded with the Great Commission, the disciples were culturally hyper-sensitive. The command to go to all the nations of the earth and preach the gospel to every creature (Matthew 24:14; Acts 1:8) preceding the Second Coming of Yahshua, Jesus may have seemed overwhelming for men who did not know or interact with the world. That they were filled with the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost to undertake the work made little difference in re-formating their cultural mindset! The result was that rather than going forth, they stayed put in Jerusalem! Rather than proactively expanding the sphere of Kingdom influence to enfold more people of other cultures, the disciples went into maintenance mode. Welfare of those who were already in the Kingdom trumped the need to invest resources in enlarging the fold! Acts 6:1-7 is a record of how the Apostles received the first enlightenment that their business was not maintenance but expansion. To be continued. Saints, please share freely with friends and family on and off Facebook. The gospel of Yahshua, Jesus and the Kingdom cannot be bound by Babylonian copyright restrictions.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 16:21:58 +0000

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