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June 5, 2016

Scripture Reading: Galatians 3:28

There is a lot of confusion in the Christian world. What does a Christian really believe?  Do all races originate from Adam?  Is the oldest thing in the world only about 6,000 years old?   Did the early descendants of Adam live almost 1,000 years?  And there are many, many, many more.  These three questions are just the minute tip of a massive iceberg.

And it is certainly true in the interpretation of this verse.  One can get almost any doctrine that he wants from someone who teaches what he thinks this verse means.  But let’s raise some questions in regards to this verse in Galatians 3:28:

• Are the “Jews” the covenant people of God or are they imposters?
• Are the “Greeks” all the other races besides the Jews in the world or are they just the Greek speaking peoples?
• Are the “Jews” mentioned in this verse the House of Judah; and the “Greeks” the House of Israel?
• Can a New Guinea savage be considered a “Greek”?
• Is the “Jew” in this verse an Ashkenazi Jew or a Hassidic Jew? 
• Does this verse teach unity or equality?
• Catherine Booth (one of the Salvation Army founders) claimed that this verse gave women the right to preach and to fulfil clerical offices. 
• The interpretation of this verse changed in the nineteenth century when Enlightenment concepts of equality began to be imported into the text. 
• This is the one text that is used to prove wrongly the ordination of women. 
• Does this verse mean that these distinctions between people should be eradicated or does it mean that these distinctions are irrelevant as far as God and the church are concerned and thus Christians need not bother about them?

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May 22, 2016

Scripture Reading:  Leviticus 20:26

INTRODUCTION

When God severed Israel from the other races, there is no indication that this severance was for any limited period, in fact the opposite is what the truth is.  The separation was to last for an eternity.  This separation is a racial expression.  We might just as well say that it is racism on the part of God.

Did it say that Israel separated itself from the other nations; or did it say that the God of Israel separated them from other races?  If it was God, how did He do this?   

He sent the seed of Jacob to Egypt, due to a famine.  There, they lived in a place in Egypt called Goshen, where they eventually became slaves to the Egyptians after Joseph had died. 

In the fourth generation, Israel was delivered from slavery by Moses.  He miraculously led them out of Egypt and they journeyed to the Land of Promise that God said He would give them.  That land was occupied by many families consisting of giants and the Canaanites.  They were bigger and stronger than the Israelites.

God told His people that the land of these Canaanites was the land that He had promised them.  They would live in the homes that the Canaanites had built, but they would have to destroy the way that they worshipped.  They were to destroy their altars, idols and temples and, of course, all the people who lived in the land too. 

It is important to notice that the Israelites were not instructed to send missionaries to them first to see if they would believe the truth, but to totally kill each and every one of them, no matter what their age or what their gender.  Why?  Because it was impossible for them to hear and understand the gospel.  They were genetically opposed to everything God instructed His people to do.

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April 24, 2016

Scripture Reading:  Genesis 25:21-23

It had been twenty years since Isaac and Rebekah had been married.  And they had no children.  So, Isaac, the husband, went to his covenant God and asked Him to help his wife get pregnant.  Isaac was the only covenant child of his father, Abraham, so he had to have children, but he didn’t.  How could Abraham become the father of many nations if his one covenant son had no children?  God did answer his prayers; in fact, Rebekah became pregnant with twins. 

But Isaac’s wife had a problem with her pregnancy.  It seemed like the two future children in her womb were fighting.   So, she went to her covenant God and asked Him about this situation.  God’s reply was:

• She was carrying in her womb two boys who would become two nations.
• The descendants of these two nations would become two different manner of people.
• One nation would be stronger than the other one.
• The first born would serve the second born.

The first born was named Esau while the younger son was Jacob.  So, Esau would serve Jacob.  Both nations would have to be in existence for one to serve the other!

What nation did the descendants of these two twin boys become?  How different were the mannerism of these two nations?  And did Isaac and Rebekah love both twin boys equally?  The Bible answers that politically correct question with an absolute no!  For “…Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison:  but Rebekah loved Jacob” (Genesis 25:28).  It was a split household.

By Pastor Don Elmore

March 27, 2016

Passover was a special time for the special people known as the covenant people of God.  They were the ones, the ONLY ones, who experienced the first Passover.  Their time in Egypt was expressed in the covenant that God made with their father, Abram and later Abraham.

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March 6, 2016

Scripture Reading: Matthew 2:16

What time was it that Herod had diligently enquired of the wise men?  King Herod was an Edomite, not an Israelite.  He would be known as a Sephardic Jew in today’s world.  He questioned the wise men very thoroughly to find out when the future king was born, so he knew at what age his murderous rage would occur.  The evil king murdered every child that was under the age of 2 years old in about a 10 mile radius!  Why would he murder children under the age of 2 years old if Jesus was a new born infant?  In verse 11 it says that the wise men found the baby Jesus in a house, not a stable.  Does that mean anything?

Why would this Edomite/Jewish King get so upset about the birth of a young child?  Why would he attempt His murder when He was only 2 years old?  He wouldn’t be one that would challenge Herod’s rule for several decades, for He was too young.  And Herod died shortly after this incident, when Jesus was just an infant.  What a vicious hatred the Jews had for the birth of Israel’s king! 

But we live in a different time period.  Our government is similar to the government that was in Judah over 2000 years ago.  Edomite/Jews controlled the kingship, the Pharisees, and the judicial courts.  But ours is sort of like the “Wizard of Oz.”  It is based on deception.  The wizard ruled behind the curtain.  No one knew who he was--he just gave out his instructions over a loud speaker.  Everyone just obeyed his instructions, until the day that he was finally exposed.

That’s the way our government now operates.  There is a “wizard” behind the curtain that tells the elected officials what they are to do and say.  Once one figures that out, they are on their way to understanding what they have to do to save their country from total disaster.  They have to expose the person(s) who is/are giving the instructions, but is behind the curtain. 

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February 6, 2016

Scripture Reading: Obadiah 1:14

Today's scripture reading is the only reference to a crossroads that I could find that is located in the Bible.  It tells of the evil that the Edomites did when they cut off the Israelites that had escaped the destruction that they were facing in their captivity.  The Edomties stood in the crossroads and killed the escapees.   

The father of rock ‘n’ roll and king of the Delta Blues, Robert Johnson, met the devil who had taken the form of a huge black man at a crossroad. The devil took Johnson’s guitar, tuned it, and proceeded to play before handing the guitar back to Johnson. From that point on, Robert Johnson had mastery of the Blues and the guitar. He was able to play incredible new songs instantly without taking the time to write the lyrics or compose any music.

A memorial to Johnson reads: “Robert Johnson stands at the crossroads of American music, much as a popular folk legend has it, he once stood at a Mississippi crossroads and sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar-playing prowess.”

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January 17, 2016

2 Chronicles 15:9-15

What did the Kingdom of Judah do which enabled themto have rest from their enemies?  They made a covenant with their LORD God; just like the Vortrekkers of South Africa did in 1838. This covenant gave the covenant seed of Jacob/Israel another miraculous victory; one that saved their race from complete annihilation in South Africa by the Zulus.

In fact, the covenant that Judah and many of the righteous people of the House of Israel, who had come to Judah, was a covenant with a death penalty attached with it.  Any person who failed to participate in making this covenant was to be put to death.  It was a serious covenant that each person who was living in Judah made.

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December 20, 2015

Scripture Reading:  Jeremiah 30:11: 

“For I am with thee saith the LORD, to save thee; though I make a full end of all nations to which I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee, but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.”

This is just one verse of Scripture, but it tells a very unpopular story.  For it tells that all the countries of the world are not equal in the eyes of God.  It says that Yahweh is with some group of nations for the purpose of saving them.  And He makes the promise that although He will make a full end of all the nations that He has scattered His people to, yet He will not make a full end of them.  He adds that He will punish them, but He will not see them totally destroyed. 

Who are the nations that God will not make a “full end of?”  That is the story that is told throughout the Bible.