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@TheSeanEsposito Joh 14:6  Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Whats the most important Scripture in the Bible today? As a former Atheist, I'll start:

@WellsJorda89710 Or, perhaps, the mark of Cain? For murdering their righteous younger brother whose Sacrifice was acceptable to God, while rejecting theirs? For being cast from His Presence. For the sake of the fathers?

The Bible drops over 700 Old Testament prophecies about one tiny nation: Israel. Land. Regathering. Jerusalem. Messiah ruling from Zion. All of it. Then Jesus, Paul, and Revelation add another dozen crystal-clear ones about the same people and place. Out of every nation on earth, God picked one to put His entire end-times plan on repeat for 2,000 years. Not Rome. Not America. Not Mecca. Israel. Still think it’s just “politics”? The Bible says it’s prophecy on steroids. 🇮🇱📖 #StillGodsLand

"He will fulfill every stroke and every letter of the Law and the Prophets, just as He has promised." - Jesus has fulfilled every stroke and letter of the Law and Prophets, just as He promised. Act 13:32  “And we proclaim to you the good news of the PROMISE made to the fathers,  Act 13:33  that God has FULFILLED THIS PROMISE to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.’

If God was finished with Israel and Jerusalem in 70 AD with the destruction of the temple, as many say, and moved on to a “gentile Christian church,” shouldn’t He have chosen a new name for the future kingdom instead of calling it “The New Jerusalem”? Isn’t that, in a sense, strikingly Israel centered? It’s a glaring contradiction in many Christian circles. The reality is that Israel remains Israel, and Jerusalem remains Jerusalem. Both undergo cleansing when the Messiah comes again. This takes place at the end of the age, what the Torah and the Prophets call “Jacob’s Distress,” and it is followed by the millennial reign of Jesus when He returns to the earth and makes Jerusalem new. In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and adornment of the survivors of Israel. It will come about that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who is recorded for life in Jerusalem. When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning, then the LORD will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy. There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain. — Isaiah 4:2–6 That is the New Jerusalem. It is not your church. It is not something internal. It is not symbolic. It is real, in time and space, in the future, in the very place Jerusalem stands today. There is deep hope in that. It is tangible. You do not have to reinterpret the Scriptures. You can read them plainly and trust them. He will fulfill every stroke and every letter of the Law and the Prophets, just as He has promised.

Gen 2 : 2-3 says God rested on the 7th Day, blessed and sanctified it. No where does it say He instituted a commandment to man through Adam and Eve to keep the Sabbath, or anyone before Moses. Show me the evidence of anyone keeping the Sabbath before Moses. You can't. All you have is Ellen White, whom you have elevated to equal authority with scripture, even when there's no evidence to confirm what she says.

@Optilous Read Genesis 2

From Adam & Eve and for 2000 years to the first Hebrew Abraham, the Seventh Day Sabbath was kept. It's the only Commandment of the Decalogue that was created before Sin entered the world. It's the only commandment that Satan & the Antichrist seek to discredit in these last days.

@TheSeanEsposito Those who follow Him flee from voices they don't recognize. Especially voices that try teach climbing up by some other way.

Either Christians walk like Jesus walked. Or they are not followers. WDJD?

@rabbriansamuel Act 13:32  And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,  Act 13:33  this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus...

Sanhedrin 98a (Talmud): If the Jewish people merit redemption, the Messiah will come in a miraculous manner with the clouds of heaven. If they do not merit redemption, the Messiah will come lowly and riding upon a donkey.

@Gods_WarriorUSA @tomesnyder Act 13:32  And we proclaim good news to you—that the promise made to the fathers,  Act 13:33  God has completed this in full to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it has been written: You are My Son—I have begotten You today.

@tomesnyder Why do you believe this? What Scriptures are you using to back this idea?

I am noticing a pattern. The people who do not back Israel are nuttier than a fruit cake, treat other Christians horribly, and don't believe the whole Bible. They will talk you down, talk about you, and think nothing of it. Their fruit is rotten. It sure makes me wonder if they are saved.

Joh 1:6  There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.  Joh 1:7  This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. Joh 1:29  The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

The definition is sin is eternal.

Interesting point. The Sabbath of the old covenant was a shadow of the good things to come. Now that the Substance has come, why keep shadows? Also consider - Act 13:32  And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,  Act 13:33  this he has fulfilled to us their children by RAISING Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, TODAY I have begotten you.’

@Optilous @TheSeanEsposito If it was not "God's Sabbath" why did Jesus (who is God) Keep it so faithfully? EVEN IN DEATH he rested Sabbath rose on Sunday.

Jesus kept the 7th day Sabbath

@Deano8182 Joh 5:16  ..the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath.  Joh 5:17  But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working."

@theocraticking1 Jesus fulfilled the law to love your neighbor by dying in your place while you were still his enemy. How did you fulfill it?

@theocraticking1 Joh 15:12  This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  Joh 15:13  Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

I fulfilled the command to love my neighbor today. So, based on Christianity's use of the term fulfilled, I don't have to love my neighbor any longer. I already did it.

@Joel7Richardson There can be no Holy Place in a third temple.

Jesus urged followers to pay careful attention. The greatest sign of the last days is the abomination of desolation. This signals the greatest tribulation humanity will ever face—a crucial warning. #EndTimes #Christianity

Torah is not the purpose of creation. Torah's true purpose is to lead us to Christ. Jesus is the Living Word, not the Torah. God placed the Torah tree in the garden to lead us to the Tree of Life. At the transfiguration Satan spoke through Peter attempting to make Jesus, Moses and Elijah equal, but only Jesus remained when God said "Hear Him." Those whose eyes are fixed on Jesus walk according to what is written on their hearts. Even though we are tempted, it does not require effort to walk to what's in your heart. That's why there is no room for boasting. There's no "look at me, I keep the Sabbath", or "I keep the law". Either seek life through the Living Word or seek it through the written word. Choose.

@Optilous It's not grace Vs law. It's grace because of law. Takes faith to walk in Torah.

This verse is a mistranslation. The word in Greek translated as "End" is from the the Greek word "Telos." It means point aimed at. Goal. From where we get the word "Teloscope." Not end as in cessation!

@rabbriansamuel It has superceded the Exodus.

Jeremiah 16:14-15: "Therefore, the days are quickly coming,” declares Adonai, “when it will no longer be said. ‘As Adonai lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.’ Rather, ‘As Adonai lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had banished them.’" The Messianic redemption will supercede the Exodus.

@Deano8182 How is the law established? Through faith, or through works?

Php 3:6  ..; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.  Php 3:7  But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.  Php 3:8  Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ

@KatA18559808 @JacobNaw1 @rabbriansamuel "was" is right. Now we no longer know Him according to the flesh.

@JacobNaw1 @rabbriansamuel Jesus was Jewish, as were all the first "Christians".

I am not a self-proclaimed Messianic Rabbi. In fact, I never sought out that ordination. My own Messianic Rabbi ordained me through the laying on of hands. Unexpectedly I might add. Subsequently, I received formal ordination (smicha) through the International Alliance Of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues. I don't claim to be a Yeshiva U grad. And I don't claim to have the qualifications to lead a traditional Jewish synagogue. I am an ordained "Messianic Jewish Rabbi", serving my local community in Rhode Island. I'm there every Shabbat, and if you're ever in my area, come visit to meet me in person and for a worship experience you'll never forget.