upgraded December 3, 2011
In one respect, there are only two classifications of people in the world; Jewish people (Israel) and Gentiles. If you are not Jewish, then you are a Gentile.
Romans 11:25-27 (NIV) I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. 27 And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
The Jewish people have incurred a "curse", which effected a "hardening in part" of the Jewish people's hearts. What caused the Jewish people's "curse" of a "hardening in part" of the Jewish people's hearts?
Malachi 2:1-2 (NIV) "And now this admonition is for you, O priests. If you do not listen, and if you do not set your heart to honor my name," says the Lord Almighty, "I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not set your heart to honor me.
Deuteronomy 11:26-28 (NIV) See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse--the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
The Jewish people have been under a "curse" since the Jewish people hardened their hearts by refusing to accept Jesus Christ as the Jewish Messiah. Jesus Christ wept over the destruction that would occur to Jerusalem and the Jewish people, because the Jewish people did not recognize Jesus Christ as God.
Luke 19:41-44 (NIV) As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace--but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you."
The Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Harvest, Pentecost, Shavuot was celebrated following the initial sowing of the physical seed for the summer growing period; and following the early physical rains, and the early physical harvest. The early physical rains were the rains that germinated the physical seed at the time of the sowing of the seed. The early physical rains are symbolic of the Holy Spirit being poured out spiritually on all people, thereby effecting all people to become spiritually sown with the knowledge that Jesus Christ is God; prior to the spiritual harvest of the souls of man that will occur following the Judgment of Jesus Christ, at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. During the early spiritual rains, three thousand people were added in one day to the number of the "Born Again" Children of God, referenced in Acts 2:38-47 printed below; followed by five thousand people referenced in Acts 4:1-4, followed by "more and more men and women" referenced in Acts 5:12-14. The early spiritual harvest referenced in the Book of Acts, was following the early spiritual rains referenced in the Book of Acts. The early rains and the early harvest, physically and spiritually portend the latter rains and the latter harvest, physically and spiritually. The early physical rains began on the first day of the new Jewish sacred year. The early spiritual rains of the Seven Year "covenant" Period officially began on March 16, 2010, the first day of the new Jewish sacred year.
Acts 2:38-47 (NIV) Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off--for all whom the Lord our God will call." With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation." Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Acts 4:1-4 (NIV) The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people. They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day. But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
Acts 5:12-14 (NIV) The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon's Colonnade. No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.
The Feast of Tabernacles/Ingathering followed the latter physical rains, and followed the final physical harvest. The latter physical rains were twice as heavy as the early physical rains, and the latter physical harvest was twice as bountiful as the early physical harvest. The latter physical rains ripened the wheat and the tares simultaneously. The Seven Year "covenant" Period actually contains the Seven Year early and latter spiritual rains as a whole.
The Seven Year "covenant" Period began with a "covenant"/contract/peace agreement on July 9, 2009, which was the 17th of Tammuz on the Jewish calendar. The "peace agreement" primarily involved Bashar al Assad, who is the King of Syria, Antichrist, Muslim "Mahdi", leader of world terrorism, and one of the heads of the beast referenced in Revelation chapter 13; and Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the Prime Minister of Israel. The "peace agreement" allowed the Jewish people to rebuild "a wing" - Daniel 9:27 of their Temple in Jerusalem, in order for the Jewish people to re-establish the ritual of, "sacrifice and offering" - Daniel 9:27, in their attempt to atone for the Jewish people's sin. Information concerning the existence of that "peace agreement" has not been made available to the public. The "wing" of the Jewish Temple was rebuilt and completed, and, "sacrifice and offering" began following sundown on March 15, 2010. The Jewish day begins at sundown, consequently, sundown on March 15, 2010 was the beginning of the Jewish day of March 16, 2010. March 16, 2010 was the 1st of Nisan, the first day of the new Jewish sacred calendar year of 5770. The Jewish people re-established, "sacrifice and offering", in the new "wing" of the Jewish Temple on the first day of their new sacred calendar year of 5770. March 16, 2010, the 1st of Nisan, was also exactly 250 days after July 9, 2009, which was the 17th of Tammuz; the day on which the "peace agreement" was agreed to. The 250 day time period between July 9, 2009 and March 16, 2010 is the 250 day difference between the 2550 days of the Seven Year "covenant" Period referenced as the "seven" in Daniel 9:27; and the 2300 "evenings and mornings" referenced in Daniel 8:9-14 for; "the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host that will be trampled underfoot". The 17th of Tammuz has been a historic day of calamity for the Jewish people. July 9, 2009 was still another day of great calamity for the Jewish people, but the Jewish people will not recognize it as a day of great calamity until exactly 1,260 days later on December 21, 2012.
The re-establishment of "sacrifice and offering" has not occurred publicly. However, the Jewish Sanhedrin publicly advertised for Jewish people to participate in "Korban Pesach" that was scheduled to occur on Passover, March 30, 2010. "Korban Pesach" is the sacrifice of Passover lambs. The sacrifice of Passover lambs on the scale that was proposed by the Sanhedrin has not occurred since the fall of the Second Temple in 70 A.D. Following Passover on March 30, 2010, verbiage concerning the proposed sacrifice of Passover lambs became deafeningly silent. Because of the preparations that were made for the large scale sacrifice of Passover lambs on March 30, 2010, and because of the 2300 "evenings and mornings" referenced in Daniel 8:9-14, and because of the deafening silence concerning the sacrifice of Passover lambs that occurred following Passover, and most importantly because of the personal guidance of the Holy Spirit of God on this issue; it is a certainty that "sacrifice and offering" actually began privately on March 16, 2010, the first day of the new Sacred year. The "wing of the temple" may refer to construction in the excavations underneath the Temple Mount, or it may refer to the newly reconstructed "Hurva Synagogue", which was dedicated in the evening of Monday, March 15, 2010, on Rosh Chodesh, the 1st day of Nissan as the Passover season was beginning.
The early spiritual rains, and latter spiritual rains, contained within the Seven Year "covenant" Period are symbolic of the Holy Spirit being poured out spiritually on the Gentiles, and the Jewish people, thereby effecting all people to be brought to the point of spiritual decision, prior to the spiritual harvest of the souls of man that will occur following the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, at the Judgment by Jesus Christ.
Acts 2:17-21 (NIV) " 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
Joel 2:28-31 (NIV) "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, among the survivors whom the Lord calls.
The Seven Year "covenant" Period contains the final period that Gentiles, and the final period that the Jewish people will have for the opportunity to become "Born Again" Children of God. The latter rains contained within the Seven Year "covenant" Period actually contain both early rain, and latter rain portions. The early rain portion of the Seven Year "covenant" Period is the final opportunity for the Gentiles to become "Born Again" Children of God, and officially began on March 16, 2010. The knowledge that the Jewish people have re-established "sacrifice and offering" - Daniel 9:27, is the information that will effect Gentile people recognizing that the return of Jesus Christ is imminent. That information will effect the early rain portion of the latter rains in the form of a great revival among the Gentiles, when the Gentiles recognize that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is imminent.
The early rain portion of the latter rains will conclude for the Gentiles on December 25, 2012,"And the door was shut." - Matthew 25:10d, when the Antichrist sets himself up on a "wing" of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, "proclaiming himself to be God." - 2 Thessalonians 2:4. The latter, or Jewish portion of the latter rains will begin on that same day of December 25, 2012, after "the full number of the Gentiles has come in" - Romans 11:25, when a great number of the Jewish people will accept the Blood-Substitution Sacrifice of Jesus Christ and become "Born Again" Children of God during the three and one-half year "great tribulation" Period (Matthew 24:21-22 [KJV], Revelation 7:14). The latter portion of the latter rains will conclude for the Jewish people at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, which will occur in the window of time between September 29, 2015, and April 8, 2016.
Malachi 4:5-6 (NIV) "See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."
After the Holy Spirit of God has been poured out on all people, and all people are spiritually ripened, God will harvest the earth on the Day of Atonement, Judgment Day.
Revelation 14:14-20 (NIV) I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man" with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested. Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe." The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
The Day of Atonement, Judgment Day, will be great for the "Born Again" Children of God, but it will be dreadful for the sinful bride of the devil. It is the prayer of "Elijah", that will effect the clarity of the message of "Elijah". It is through the message of "Elijah", that the "Born Again" Children of God will understand where they are in time, and that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is imminent. The prayer of Elijah brought the rain.
1 Kings 18:41-45 (NIV) And Elijah said to Ahab, "Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain." So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees. "Go and look toward the sea," he told his servant. And he went up and looked. "There is nothing there," he said. Seven times Elijah said, "Go back." The seventh time the servant reported, "A cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea." So Elijah said, "Go and tell Ahab, 'Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.' " Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain came on and Ahab rode off to Jezreel.
It is the prayer of "Elijah" that will effect the coming of the early portion, and the latter portion, of the latter rains within the Seven Year "covenant" Period. The latter rains will be twice as plentiful as the early rains. The latter rains will effect a harvest that is twice as bountiful as the early harvest. The early portion of the latter rains will effect the final time that the Gentile souls will be ripened for harvest. The latter portion of the latter rains will effect the final time that the Jewish souls will be ripened for harvest.
The Holy Spirit of God is being poured out like "rain" on the "wheat" and the "weeds" simultaneously. The "wheat" is symbolic of the "Born Again" Children of God. The "weeds" are symbolic of the people who commit sin, and thereby reveal that they are the spiritual children of the devil .
Matthew 13:24-29 (NIV) Jesus told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. "The owner's servants came to him and said, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?' " 'An enemy did this,' he replied. "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?' " 'No,' he answered, 'because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.' "
Matthew 13:36-50 (NIV) Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field." He answered, "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. "As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear. "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. "Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
The Holy Spirit of God being poured out like "rain" on "all people", is ripening the "wheat" and the "weeds" simultaneously. The fact that God is pouring out the Holy Spirit of God right now, is irrefutably evidenced by the exponential increase in sin that has occurred within the last few months, among the children of the devil, who are the "weeds"!
Mathew 24:12a,b (NIV) "Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,"
The results of the exponential increase in sin is being reported every day in the media. The Holy Spirit of God will continue to withdraw God's restrictions on sin; therefore sinful people will continue to become exponentially more aggressive in their wickedness. The "latter rains" that are ripening the "weeds", are also ripening the "wheat". Whenever there is an increase in sinfulness, then you can know algebraically that there will also be an increase in righteousness.
"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts." - Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727
The exponential increase in wickedness by the spiritual children of the devil, is occurring simultaneously with an exponential increase in righteousness within the "Born Again" Children of God. The "latter rains" are also effecting an exponential increase in the number of people who are seeking God. Many of these seekers will become filled with the Holy Spirit of God, and thereby become "Born Again" Children of God.
A substantial portion of Judeo-Christianity has not accepted the fact that the Seven Year "covenant" Period has begun. Knowledge of the fact that the Seven Year "covenant" Period has begun, is reserved for those who have faith in the inerrant accuracy of the Holy Word of God, and have been led by the Holy Spirit of God into a careful search and collating of the Holy Word of God.
On March 16, 2010, when the Jewish people re-established "sacrifice and offering", that act was understood by enough Gentiles to effect a great revival and a great turning to Jesus Christ. This last great revival among the Gentiles is the early portion of the latter rains for the Gentiles.
There is coming a point in time, referenced in Romans 11:25 printed below, when the last Gentile who is going to be saved, will become saved. After that point in time, there will never be another Gentile who will be saved.
Romans 11:25-27 (NIV) I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. 27 And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
We are currently living in a 3 ½ year window of time during the first half of the Seven Year "covenant" Period, that is the final opportunity of Gentile evangelization. On December 25, 2012, the Gentile window of opportunity for salvation will close.
Matthew 25:10c (NIV) "And the door was shut."
In the middle of the Seven Year "covenant" Period, on December 25, 2012, Christmas Day, the Antichrist will set himself up on a "wing" of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, "proclaiming himself to be God" - 2 Thessalonians 2:4, and thereby become, "the abomination that causes desolation"- Matthew 24:15b NIV. When a man sets himself up on a "wing" of the Jewish Temple, "proclaiming himself to be God", that event has been so clearly stated and publicized; that the event will reveal to most of Judeo-Christianity that we are in the three and one-half year "great tribulation" Period. At that time, in the middle of the Seven Year "covenant" Period, Judeo-Christianity as a whole will acknowledge that, "We really are in the "great tribulation" Period." Once Judeo-Christianity realizes that we really are in the "great tribulation" Period, they will also realize that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is imminent. A that time, a cry will then go forth, 'Here's the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!' - Matthew 25:6-10, but "the door was shut" for any Gentile who has not been filled with the Holy Spirit of God by that time.
Matthew 25:1-13 (NIV) "At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 "At midnight the cry rang out: 'Here's the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!' 7 "Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.' 9 "'No,' they replied, 'there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.' 10 "But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut. 11 "Later the others also came. 'Sir! Sir!' they said. 'Open the door for us!' 12 "But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.' 13 "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour."
verse 1 - "ten virgins" all were repentant - virgin denotes a form of purity or abstinence, all of the virgins had repented of their past acts of sin.
verse 1 - "lamps" signify light (knowledge of God)
verses 3,4,8,9,10 - "oil" is symbolic of the Holy Spirit of God. On the part of the unwise virgins, there was an apathetic indifference, and an unawareness that they were insufficient. The wise virgins went to extra trouble to insure that they had an abundant supply of "oil" (the Holy Spirit of God). The five foolish virgins had repented of their past acts of sin, but they had never been filled with the Holy Spirit of God. The wise virgins had repented of their past acts of sin, and following their repentance, they had continued to seek more of God until they were filled with the Holy Spirit of God ("oil"), and thereby become "Born Again" Children of God.
verse 5 - "they all became drowsy and fell asleep" All of the virgins were asleep. It is the condition today of Judeo-Christian Organized Religion, and the "Born Again" Children of God.
verse 6 - "At midnight" In the middle of the darkest night, in the precise middle of the Seven Year "covenant" Period, at the blackest point of the blackest night, the Antichrist will set himself up on a "wing" of the Temple, "proclaiming himself to be God", and thereby become, "the abomination that causes desolation" - Matthew 24:15b. That event will precipitate the cry, "Here's the Bridegroom! Come out to meet Him." - Matthew 25:6b
verse 10 - There is a period of time, from when the cry goes forth, until the Bridegroom arrives.
verse 10 - The "door was shut" for those unwise virgins who had repented of their past acts of sin, but who had never been personally filled with the Holy Spirit of God, and consequently had an insufficient supply of "oil". When the Antichrist sets himself up on a "wing" of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, "proclaiming himself to be God", their will never be another Gentile allowed to become a "Born Again" Child of God. The day of the Gentile will be forever closed. By that time, at the middle of the Seven Year "covenant" Period, God will have brought every Gentile to the point of decision, and every Gentile will have made a decision to accept God through their faith in the Blood-Substitution Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, or they will have rejected God. The Gentiles who have not become "Born Again" Children of God, will have crossed the Deadline of the Mercy of God. Like Pharaoh, they will have grieved the Holy Spirit of God to their damnation. When the full (complete) number of Gentiles that are going to be saved have become "Born Again" Children of God, the "curse" of the "hardening in part" of the Jewish hearts will be over. From that point forward, a Gentile will not be able to achieve atonement with God.
Jeremiah 8:20 (NIV) "The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved."
I have viewed this for years as an abrupt deadline to Gentiles. The Holy Spirit of God showed me that it is a gradual decline, and that we are already in the advanced stages of that decline.
Even right now, the Holy Spirit of God is bringing every Gentile to their personal point of decision. Although Jonah had a free-will, the Book of Jonah reflects that God put Jonah in the belly of a large fish, in the bottom of the ocean, in order to get Jonah's attention; and to then be able to communicate with Jonah. God in His Love and Mercy is using every possible means within God's perfect order, to get individual Gentile people's attention. God is perfectly balancing the spiritual influence on people's free-will, but among lost people that are being prayed for, I have personally seen financial distress, legal distress, and health problems, that were clearly brought about by God using any possible means to get those people's attention. Prayer absolutely does impact all people. Because God has given mankind a free-will, no one is forced to accept Jesus Christ; but if YOU pray earnestly for someone, God does allow God's physical laws to be subordinated to God's laws of Faith. God may put those unbelievers figuratively in the belly of a large fish, in the bottom of the ocean, and then say, "Let's talk."
James 5:13-18 (NIV) Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. 17 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.
Mark 11:22-24 (NIV) "Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
The Holy Spirit of God is using every available tool to get individual Gentile people's attention, and to then bring them to the point of decision. Some individual Gentiles are being prayed for. Some individual Gentiles are accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord. Most individual Gentiles are not being prayed for. Most individual Gentiles are not accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord.
When was the last time your church had a revival with life-changing results? In the last years, how many people have been saved off of the streets, from a life of sin, and converted to a life of Holiness, in your church? How many backsliders have been reclaimed in your church? Do you hear of revival anywhere in America, in any church, of any denomination, that is impacting people to leave a life of sin, and live a life of Holiness?
God did not turn to the Gentile people until the Jewish people had rejected God. Most people in Judeo-Christian Organized Religion are also rejecting God. God can no longer get their attention. They have so occupied their minds with sin, that they do not want to hear God when He calls.
Matthew 13:22 (NIV) "The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful."
Matthew 6:24 (NIV) "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."
Society is voraciously feeding on filth:
· Sex, Pornography, Homosexuality, Child molestation - brought into homes on television and DVD's
· Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco, Obesity
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (NIV) Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
· Greed - Consider the government. - We all are disgusted with our political leadership because of their sin. The sad thing is that they are re-elected because they are a reflection of the people.
"Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre 1753-1821
· Gang violence, Racial strife, Hatred for hatred sake is rampant in our world. Racism is hatred, and therefore godless wickedness whether the perpetrator is White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Arab, or any other race, or cross-race. The devil is using the hatred of Ishmael (Arabs) for Isaac (Jewish people) to destroy the Arabs. Hatred is the foundation of Islam. The devil is also using hatred by many of the African-Americans, for the Caucasian-Americans, because of the horrific sin of slavery, in order to destroy many of the African-Americans.
"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - President Richard M. Nixon in his White House farewell
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." - Mark Twain 1835-1910
"He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner." - Hesiod 700 B. C.
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” – The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
1 John 4:8 (NIV) Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Society is gorging itself on SIN, and the decadence of society has invaded the church;
Matthew 24:12 (NIV) "Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,"
What caused the Jewish people's rejection of God? The Jewish people established the most articulate set of religious laws in the history of mankind; so the Jewish people could look to their law, in order to enable the Jewish people to keep from looking to God.
Romans 10:1-4 (NIV) Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
Historically, the Jewish people did not want to obey God; so as a compromise, the Jewish people offered up "sacrifice and offering" to God.
Hosea 6:6 (NIV) For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
1 Samuel 15:22-23a (NIV) But Samuel replied: "Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry."
In re-establishing "sacrifice and offering" on March 16, 2010, the Jewish people are doing the exact same thing today. In their rebellious hearts, the Jewish people have completely missed the essence of God.
God did not give the Gentiles the Old Testament which included the history of the Jewish people, in order for the Gentiles to look down in self-righteous arrogance on the Jewish people. God gave the Gentiles the history of the Jewish people with their respective successes and failures, in order for the Gentiles to apply that knowledge to their own lives. In most of the Jewish people's failures, a corrupt clergy within Organized Religion misled the people.
Isaiah 9:16 (NIV) Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray.
The Gentiles have exactly duplicated the Jewish weaknesses through a weak and corrupt clergy within Judeo-Christian Organized Religion, and can only expect the identical results from their essential rejection of Jesus Christ. But most people in Judeo-Christian Organized Religion proudly believe that they are not like the Jewish people. Many of the people in Judeo-Christian Organized Religion take pride in the fact that they are not under law because they are under grace. Then the people in Judeo-Christian Organized Religion mirror the Jewish people, by establishing an implied unwritten law:
1. Pay your tithe. This is the one area of Righteousness where Judeo-Christian Organized Religion selectively retains the Old Testament law, preaches it consistently, and demands that the letter of the law be complied with. This is necessary in order to worship Organized Religion's god of materialism, and to acquire the wealth referenced in Revelation 3:17. One of the greatest reasons that Jewish and Gentile people leap sacrificially into giving to Organized Religion, is that these givers prefer to give the sacrifice of their tithes, their time, and their dignity, rather than giving their obedience to God.
Hosea 6:6 (NIV) For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
1 Samuel 15:22-23a (NIV) But Samuel replied: "Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry."
These rebellious people give Organized Religion their money, or their time, rather than to give themselves to God. Then these people delude themselves with the help of the clergy in Organized religion into thinking that they have a relationship with God, because the clergy in Organized Religion tell them that they have a relationship with God. Organized Religion is selling God, Organized Religion is just not delivering God.
Many members of Organized Religion are paying money for a product that they don’t want to receive. Many members pay money to Organized Religion in order to appease their consciences, because they don’t want to pay the real price that is necessary in order to receive God. The price that people don’t want to pay is the surrender and crucifixion of their selfish-will.
God loves YOU, but God is a jealous God, and will not compete with any other gods. The other god that YOU are worshipping, is YOU.
Exodus 20:3-6 (NIV) You shall have no other gods before me. "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
God wants YOU, but God will not accept YOU into a covenant relationship with Him, unless God can have a relationship with ALL of YOU.
Romans 12:1-2 (NIV) Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.
2. Attend church. Judeo-Christian Organized Religion uses the King James Version of Hebrews 10:25 for the manipulation of the people:
Hebrews 10:25 (KJV) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
At the time that the letter to the Hebrews was written, the "Born Again" Children of God were meeting underground, in private homes, and in secret places to avoid persecution by Rome. In their blindness today, Judeo-Christian Organized Religion does not recognize the difference between the social clubs that they call churches, and an assembly of the true "Born Again" Children of God. With the flagrant violations of God's Holy Word that constantly and consistently occur within Judeo-Christian Organized Religion, only the very ignorant would consider that the social clubs within Judeo-Christian Organized Religion are an assembly of the "Born Again" Children of God.
The "Born Again" Children of God are directed by the Holy Word of God to meet with other "Born Again" Children of God for mutual encouragement. Just as at the time that the Book of Hebrews was written, during the three and one-half year "great tribulation" Period, the "Born Again" Children of God will be forced to meet secretly in homes, and in private places because of the coming persecution of the "Born Again" Children of God, by the Antichrist, False Prophet, and Organized Religion.
Hebrews 10:25 (NIV) Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
3. Get along with the church administration. This "law" gives Judeo-Christian Organized Religion the power of excommunication. The teaching of the Roman Catholic Church is that you can only get to God through the sacraments of the Church. Most of the clergy within the rest of Judeo-Christian Organized Religion believe and state, or at least imply the lie that YOU can only get to God through them. We now have a history of priests giving communion, receiving confession, and then committing homosexual acts on young Catholic boys. In March of 2010, Italian newspapers published transcripts from Italian police which revealed that one of the Pope's ceremonial ushers, and a member of the Vatican choir were involved in a homosexual prostitution ring. The assertion that going through Catholic priests is the only way to God is an evil and idiotic lie.
John 14:6 (NIV) Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
4. Read your Bible.
John 5:39-40 (NIV) "You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life."
5. Pray. (It has been alleged that the average prayer time for a Judeo-Christian minister is three minutes per day.)
"I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door." - John Donne 1572-1631
Then these rebellious people feel pretty good about themselves. They do not desire any more of God. They are afraid that God might require something that they do not want to surrender. These rebellious people feel that they are religious enough.
1 John 1:6-7 (NIV) If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
If WE DO NOT walk in the light, as He is in the light, WE DO NOT have fellowship with one another, and the Blood of Jesus, His Son, DOES NOT purify US from all sin.
People in Judeo-Christian Organized Religion are very similar to people in Judeo-Organized Religion 2,000 years ago. There is simply less observance of the law. Jesus Christ is the life (John 14:6). Without Jesus Christ, Judeo-Christian Organized Religion, and Judeo-Organized Religion are both dead bodies without life. Only vultures and a very small number of demented people (necrophiliacs) are attracted to a dead and rotting carcass.
In Judeo-Organized Religion for 2,000 years, and in Judeo-Christian Organized Religion today, tradition has been a powerful force in retaining participants. The evolution of our society with constant new information is forcing a review and an analysis of everything traditional, and has radically eroded tradition as a stabilizing force. This was accurately reflected in the movie, "Fiddler on the Roof." With no life, and with tradition minimized, both Judeo-Organized Religion and Judeo-Christian Organized Religion are rapidly losing participants.
Members of Judeo-Christian Organized Religion have stated: "We are experiencing growth on the mission fields and in the countries formerly behind the iron curtain."
Matthew 23:15 (NIV) "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are."
In Romans 11:1-32 printed below, the Apostle Paul uses the metaphor of a cultivated olive tree to explain the Jewish rejection of Jesus Christ, simultaneous with the Gentile acceptance of Jesus Christ. That was followed 2,000 years later by the completion of the Gentile acceptance of Jesus Christ, and the return of the Jewish people to God through the acceptance of Jesus Christ. After the Gentile window closes at the middle of the Seven Year "covenant" Period, during the following three and one-half year "great tribulation" Period, many of the Jewish people will turn back to God, through faith in Jesus Christ. The final opportunity of Jewish evangelization will occur during the last half of the Seven Year "covenant" Period, which is the three and one-half year "great tribulation" Period.
Romans 11:1-32 (NIV) I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don't you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah--how he appealed to God against Israel: "Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me"? And what was God's answer to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal." So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace. What then? What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened, as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day." And David says: "May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them. May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever." Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring! I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I make much of my ministry in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches. If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree! I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins." As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable. Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you. For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
The Jewish people have been, "without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol," for about two thousand years, which is almost the exact amount of time that has elapsed since the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Hosea 3:4-5 (NIV) For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol. 5 Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.
The "latter rain" for the Jewish people, will occur in the last 3 ½ years of the Seven Year "covenant" Period. God will restore the Jewish people after their two thousand year separation, and the Jewish people will then live in the presence of God for the One Thousand Year Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ from Jerusalem.
Psalm 78:1-72 (NIV) A maskil of Asaph. O my people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old--what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done. He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children, so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children. Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands. They would not be like their forefathers--a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him. The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle; they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law. They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them. He did miracles in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan. He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand firm like a wall. He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night. He split the rocks in the desert and gave them water as abundant as the seas; he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers. But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High. They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved. They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert? When he struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly. But can he also give us food? Can he supply meat for his people?" When the Lord heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel, for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance. Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens; he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven. Men ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat. He let loose the east wind from the heavens and led forth the south wind by his power. He rained meat down on them like dust, flying birds like sand on the seashore. He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents. They ate till they had more than enough, for he had given them what they craved. But before they turned from the food they craved, even while it was still in their mouths, God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel. In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe. So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror. Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again. They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer. But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues; their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant. Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath. He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return. How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wasteland! Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel. They did not remember his power--the day he redeemed them from the oppressor, the day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan. He turned their rivers to blood; they could not drink from their streams. He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them. He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet. He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning. He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility--a band of destroying angels. He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague. He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham. But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the desert. He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies. Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken. He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes. But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes. Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow. They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols. When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely. He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men. He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy. He gave his people over to the sword; he was very angry with his inheritance. Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens had no wedding songs; their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep. Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a man wakes from the stupor of wine. He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame. Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim; but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved. He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever. He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens; from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance. And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.
Psalms 79:8 (NIV) Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.
Jeremiah 50:4-5 (NIV) "In those days, at that time," declares the LORD, "the people of Israel and the people of Judah together will go in tears to seek the LORD their God. 5 They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
Deuteronomy 4:27-31 (NIV) The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you. 28 There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. 29 But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and obey him. 31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.
Isaiah 40:1-2 (NIV) Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
Joel 3:20-21 (NIV) Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem through all generations. 21 Their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, I will pardon." The Lord dwells in Zion!
Luke 13:34-35 (NIV) "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"
Hosea 6:1-11 (NIV) "Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. 2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. 3 Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth." 4 "What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears. 5 Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets, I killed you with the words of my mouth; my judgments flashed like lightning upon you. 6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. 7 Like Adam, they have broken the covenant--they were unfaithful to me there. 8 Gilead is a city of wicked men, stained with footprints of blood. 9 As marauders lie in ambush for a man, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, committing shameful crimes. 10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel. There Ephraim is given to prostitution and Israel is defiled. 11 "Also for you, Judah, a harvest is appointed.
Hosea 6:2 printed above, again reveals the concept whereby, "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."
2 Peter 3:8 (NIV) But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
Psalm 90:4 (NIV) For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
Hosea 6:1-7 (NIV) "Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. 2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. 3 Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth." 4 "What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears. 5 Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets, I killed you with the words of my mouth; my judgments flashed like lightning upon you. 6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. 7 Like Adam, they have broken the covenant--they were unfaithful to me there.
The "two days" of Hosea 6:2 printed above, represent the Two Thousand Years of Jewish Estrangement From God that have elapsed since the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The "third day" of Hosea 6:2 printed above, represents the restoration of the Jewish People to God's presence, after they "acknowledge the Lord" as their God, immediately prior to, and during the One Thousand Year Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ from Jerusalem.