—sex relations among the unmarried
Evil of:
Comes from evil heart
Matt. 15 - 10 When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand: 11 Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.” 12 Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” 13 But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.” 15 Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.” 16 So Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
Excludes from God’s kingdom
1 Corinthians 6 - 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Sins against the body
1 Corinthians 6 - 12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Immorality Must Be Judged
1 Corinthians 5 - 9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner— not even to eat with such a person. 12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.Spiritual fornication
symbolized in final apostasy
Revelation 17 – ... “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.” … 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
What is the answer to get out from under sins grip?
1 John 1 - 5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. 2 – 1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
The Test of Knowing Him
1 John 1 - 3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. 7 Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. 8 Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.
Only the individual and God know whether a person is owned by God. Others can only judge based on outward appearance. Christians who care about an offending brother or sister will separate themselves from them as they are instructed to do in the hopes that God will deal with them and draw them back to Himself.
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This tracts author is Ray Luff of Bible Door Tracts. Ray’s opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Christian Brethren of Ontario among which Ray is in fellowship. All Bible references are from The New King James Version. 1996, c1982. Nashville: Thomas Nelson unless otherwise noted.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Love – An act of the will or something fallen into?
Deuteronomy 6 - 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Although this statement is not one of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) which God gave to Moses at Mount Sinai, according to Jesus, it is the greatest commandment.
(Matthew 22:35-40, Mark 12:28-31; Luke 10:25-28)
If this is the greatest commandment, then failure to love God with one’s entire heart, soul, and might must be the greatest sin of which one could be guilty.
The second commandment, according to our Lord is “You shall love thy neighbor as yourself”.
1 John 4 – 20 says, “He that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”
“On these two commandments,” said Jesus, Matthew 22 – 40 “hang all the law and the prophets”
The Bible is filled with injunctions to love God, with explanations … and the benefits derived thereby.
Deuteronomy 10 - 12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,…. 30 - 6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live
Deuteronomy 30 - 20 that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days;
Nehemiah 1 – 5b “LORD God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments,
Romans 8 - 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His
purpose.
1 Corinthians 2 – 9b “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
Clearly the message of the Bible is that love is an act of the will toward God first and then others. But there are false prophets which have “crept in unawares” (Jude 4) in Christian circles today that teach us another type of Love; A type of love that the bible does not recognize. The “love” that I am speaking of is that of “self-love”; The idea that we must first love ourselves before it is possible to love others. This false teaching finds its root in the wisdom of man and not in the wisdom of God as revealed to us in His word, the Bible.
The preeminence of loving self began to be promoted fifty years ago by Erich Frumm a blatantly anti-Christian humanistic psychologist who believed in man’s innate goodness. He dared to say that Jesus taught we must first love ourselves before we can love others when he said, Matthew 19 – 19 “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” other humanistic psychologists such as Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers picked up Fromm’s concept of self-love and popularized it.
In fact far from teaching self-love Christ was rebuking it in the statement quoted above. He was saying “You feed and clothe and care for yourselves day and night. Now give to your neighbors some of that attention that you lavish upon yourselves. Love your neighbor as yourselves.” Such has been the Christian understanding of this verse throughout history. Christ would hardly tell us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves if we did not already love ourselves enough. But Fromm’s perverted interpretation, through Christian Psychology, gained an entrance into the church.
In 1900 years, no Christian author or preacher had ever discovered a single verse in the Bible that taught self-love and self-esteem. Calvin, Luther, Wesley, Spurgeon, Moody and others found just the opposite; the necessity to deny self and to esteem others better than ourselves (Phillipians 2:3). Neverthe-less, humanistic philosophy’s emphasis upon loving self inspired Christian psychologists with a new interpretation of Scripture that seemed to support their new position. Bruce Narramore wrote, “Under the influence of humanistic psychologists like Carle Rogers and Abraham Maslow, many of us Christians [psychologists] have begun to see our need for self-love and self-esteem. That is a good and necessary focus”.
Tragically…The sad (result is that)…No longer are we being convicted of our failure to love God with our whole heart, soul, and might as the gravest of sins and the root of all personal problems…. The average Christian, while he may love much else, including even the world which he is forbidden to love, gives little serious thought to loving God.
Why Does God allow false teachers?
God even tells us in Deuteronomy 13:1-3 that He allows false prophets to work signs and wonders as a test to see “whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul”
Love is commanded. True love begins with the will, not the emotions. That love is commanded seems incomprehensible even to many Christians. The world has conditioned us to believe that one “falls in love” and that love is romantic attraction between the sexes. “Boy meets girl and falls in love” is the most popular theme of novels and movies. Yet “love” without God brings sorrow.
Falling in love is perceived as being helplessly swept up in a mysterious, euphoric, overpowering feeling over which one has no control and which, inevitably loses its magic. One is thus equally helpless in “falling out of love,” and thereafter “falling in love” with someone else. A commitment of the wills is missing. We are commanded to love with purity – God first of all, with our whole being, and then our neighbor as at least a partial correction of our natural tendency to excessively love ourselves. Love is a commitment to God that demonstrates itself in human relationships… This temporary release from self-centeredness explains more than anything else the ecstasy of love – a fact which those “in love” generally fail to realize.
Contact the person who handed you this tract or the author.
Bible Door Tracts
bibledoor@rogers.com,
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Copyright 2008 © Bible Door Tracts.
This tracts author is Ray Luff of Bible Door Tracts. The opinions contained in this tract do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Christian Brethren of Ontario among which Ray is in fellowship. All Bible references are from The New King James Version 1996, c1982. Nashville Thomas Nelson unless otherwise noted
Although this statement is not one of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) which God gave to Moses at Mount Sinai, according to Jesus, it is the greatest commandment.
(Matthew 22:35-40, Mark 12:28-31; Luke 10:25-28)
If this is the greatest commandment, then failure to love God with one’s entire heart, soul, and might must be the greatest sin of which one could be guilty.
The second commandment, according to our Lord is “You shall love thy neighbor as yourself”.
1 John 4 – 20 says, “He that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”
“On these two commandments,” said Jesus, Matthew 22 – 40 “hang all the law and the prophets”
The Bible is filled with injunctions to love God, with explanations … and the benefits derived thereby.
Deuteronomy 10 - 12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,…. 30 - 6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live
Deuteronomy 30 - 20 that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days;
Nehemiah 1 – 5b “LORD God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments,
Romans 8 - 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His
purpose.
1 Corinthians 2 – 9b “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
Clearly the message of the Bible is that love is an act of the will toward God first and then others. But there are false prophets which have “crept in unawares” (Jude 4) in Christian circles today that teach us another type of Love; A type of love that the bible does not recognize. The “love” that I am speaking of is that of “self-love”; The idea that we must first love ourselves before it is possible to love others. This false teaching finds its root in the wisdom of man and not in the wisdom of God as revealed to us in His word, the Bible.
The preeminence of loving self began to be promoted fifty years ago by Erich Frumm a blatantly anti-Christian humanistic psychologist who believed in man’s innate goodness. He dared to say that Jesus taught we must first love ourselves before we can love others when he said, Matthew 19 – 19 “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” other humanistic psychologists such as Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers picked up Fromm’s concept of self-love and popularized it.
In fact far from teaching self-love Christ was rebuking it in the statement quoted above. He was saying “You feed and clothe and care for yourselves day and night. Now give to your neighbors some of that attention that you lavish upon yourselves. Love your neighbor as yourselves.” Such has been the Christian understanding of this verse throughout history. Christ would hardly tell us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves if we did not already love ourselves enough. But Fromm’s perverted interpretation, through Christian Psychology, gained an entrance into the church.
In 1900 years, no Christian author or preacher had ever discovered a single verse in the Bible that taught self-love and self-esteem. Calvin, Luther, Wesley, Spurgeon, Moody and others found just the opposite; the necessity to deny self and to esteem others better than ourselves (Phillipians 2:3). Neverthe-less, humanistic philosophy’s emphasis upon loving self inspired Christian psychologists with a new interpretation of Scripture that seemed to support their new position. Bruce Narramore wrote, “Under the influence of humanistic psychologists like Carle Rogers and Abraham Maslow, many of us Christians [psychologists] have begun to see our need for self-love and self-esteem. That is a good and necessary focus”.
Tragically…The sad (result is that)…No longer are we being convicted of our failure to love God with our whole heart, soul, and might as the gravest of sins and the root of all personal problems…. The average Christian, while he may love much else, including even the world which he is forbidden to love, gives little serious thought to loving God.
Why Does God allow false teachers?
God even tells us in Deuteronomy 13:1-3 that He allows false prophets to work signs and wonders as a test to see “whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul”
Love is commanded. True love begins with the will, not the emotions. That love is commanded seems incomprehensible even to many Christians. The world has conditioned us to believe that one “falls in love” and that love is romantic attraction between the sexes. “Boy meets girl and falls in love” is the most popular theme of novels and movies. Yet “love” without God brings sorrow.
Falling in love is perceived as being helplessly swept up in a mysterious, euphoric, overpowering feeling over which one has no control and which, inevitably loses its magic. One is thus equally helpless in “falling out of love,” and thereafter “falling in love” with someone else. A commitment of the wills is missing. We are commanded to love with purity – God first of all, with our whole being, and then our neighbor as at least a partial correction of our natural tendency to excessively love ourselves. Love is a commitment to God that demonstrates itself in human relationships… This temporary release from self-centeredness explains more than anything else the ecstasy of love – a fact which those “in love” generally fail to realize.
Contact the person who handed you this tract or the author.
Bible Door Tracts
bibledoor@rogers.com,
273 Manchester Drive, Newmarket, ON, L3Y 6J4, Canada, http://bibledoor.blogspot.com & http://bibledoor.no-ip.org
Copyright 2008 © Bible Door Tracts.
This tracts author is Ray Luff of Bible Door Tracts. The opinions contained in this tract do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Christian Brethren of Ontario among which Ray is in fellowship. All Bible references are from The New King James Version 1996, c1982. Nashville Thomas Nelson unless otherwise noted
Beware of Benny
He’s dressed in White arraignment, trimmed in Gold. He’s well known around the world. He has so much fan mail that there are 40 full time staff devoted to opening the mail for him. He stays in the finest hotels often costing in excess of $2,000.00 dollars a night. His residence has 8 bathrooms and a parking garage that holds 10 cars. He speaks to stadiums around the world and on Television Networks more than any other speaker; drawing large crowds wherever he goes. His admirers defend him, no matter what he says or does, claiming that he is Gods Anointed and that you cannot speak out against God’s Anointed.
1 Chronicles 16 – 22 Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm.
The one we speak of is Benny Hinn.
Why are we concerned?
Because he is misrepresenting Christ in such a way as to deceive all people whether they call themselves Christians or otherwise. And he is becoming an obstacle to giving this world the truth which can set them free if it will be received. John 8 - 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Is Benny a Prophet? Benny says that he is. This is not a necessary title to ascribe to himself as many others have similar ministry without such claims. But since Benny makes this claim then it is simple to find out if it is true. The bible says a prophet never makes an error. If he does he is false and you shouldn’t listen to him.
Deuteronomy 18 - 21 …‘How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’ 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken;
Jeremiah 14 – 14 Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Jeremiah 23 – 16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
Here are some of Benny’s Prophecies and tall tales:
1983 – Hinn and 5 others survived a small plane crash. Later of this Hinn said: “The Lord spoke, saying ‘Nothing will happen to you’. When I walked out of the plane, I did not have a scratch on my body.” (Hinn also claimed he healed another passengers eye. According to the Sherriff’s report Hinn suffered multiple contusions, abrasions and lacerations. The eye spoken of was healed over several repeated operations and had nothing to do with Benny.)
1989 - The Lord also tells me to tell you in the mid ‘90’s-about ’94 or ’95, no later than that-God will destroy the community of America…He will destroy it with fire.
1989 - The Spirit of God tells me – an earth-quake will hit the East Coast of America and destroy much in the 90’s.
1989 - The Spirit tells me – Fidel Castro will die in the ‘90’s...it’ll be worse than any death you can imagine.
April 10, 1998 - The Lord spoke to me while in Miami … and said “Come back here for good Friday” … and I said “Open the way” and guess what the manager of the Miami Arena cancelled the hockey game so we can have this arena today. (Mr. Ives Brault contacted the Miami Arena manger to verify this account. He was told that there never was a game scheduled for that day.)
October 19,1999 – You’re going to have people raised from the dead watching this network…People from around the world… will say to undertakers “Not yet. I want to take my dead loved one and place him in front of that TV set for 24 hours…if some dead person be put in front of this TV screen, they will be raised from the dead, and they will be by the thousands. You wait…I see something amazing. I see rows of caskets lining up in front of this TV set … I see people taking the hands of the dead and letting them touch the screen.
The lack of discernment among so-called Christians these days is appalling! Because people still follow this man even when these things are pointed out to them.
We at bible door tracts offer this possible explanation. Many are not reading the bible continually from cover to cover anymore. We have interviewed elderly Christians who have admitted they have not done it once. When a false prophet comes along they don’t notice the deception.
2 Peter 2 - 1But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
We are concerned because we don’t want people to blaspheme our Lord because of this man. Secondly if a Prophet is in error his doctrine is also in error. This we are more concerned with. To rescue people from heresies that will further dishonor our Lord.
“But what about his miracles” some will ask. Our Lord Jesus Christ gave the answer to that question.
Matthew 24 - 24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand.
Contact the person who handed you this tract or the author.
Copyright 2008 © Bible Door Tracts.
273 Manchester Dr., Newmarket, ON, L3Y 6J4, Canada
bibledoor.no-ip.org & bibledoor.blogspot.com Email: bibledoor@rogers.com
This tracts author is Ray Luff of Bible Door Tracts. Ray’s opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Christian Brethren of Ontario among which Ray is in fellowship. All Bible references are from The New King James Version. 1996, c1982. Nashville: Thomas Nelson unless otherwise noted
1 Chronicles 16 – 22 Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm.
The one we speak of is Benny Hinn.
Why are we concerned?
Because he is misrepresenting Christ in such a way as to deceive all people whether they call themselves Christians or otherwise. And he is becoming an obstacle to giving this world the truth which can set them free if it will be received. John 8 - 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Is Benny a Prophet? Benny says that he is. This is not a necessary title to ascribe to himself as many others have similar ministry without such claims. But since Benny makes this claim then it is simple to find out if it is true. The bible says a prophet never makes an error. If he does he is false and you shouldn’t listen to him.
Deuteronomy 18 - 21 …‘How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’ 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken;
Jeremiah 14 – 14 Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Jeremiah 23 – 16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
Here are some of Benny’s Prophecies and tall tales:
1983 – Hinn and 5 others survived a small plane crash. Later of this Hinn said: “The Lord spoke, saying ‘Nothing will happen to you’. When I walked out of the plane, I did not have a scratch on my body.” (Hinn also claimed he healed another passengers eye. According to the Sherriff’s report Hinn suffered multiple contusions, abrasions and lacerations. The eye spoken of was healed over several repeated operations and had nothing to do with Benny.)
1989 - The Lord also tells me to tell you in the mid ‘90’s-about ’94 or ’95, no later than that-God will destroy the community of America…He will destroy it with fire.
1989 - The Spirit of God tells me – an earth-quake will hit the East Coast of America and destroy much in the 90’s.
1989 - The Spirit tells me – Fidel Castro will die in the ‘90’s...it’ll be worse than any death you can imagine.
April 10, 1998 - The Lord spoke to me while in Miami … and said “Come back here for good Friday” … and I said “Open the way” and guess what the manager of the Miami Arena cancelled the hockey game so we can have this arena today. (Mr. Ives Brault contacted the Miami Arena manger to verify this account. He was told that there never was a game scheduled for that day.)
October 19,1999 – You’re going to have people raised from the dead watching this network…People from around the world… will say to undertakers “Not yet. I want to take my dead loved one and place him in front of that TV set for 24 hours…if some dead person be put in front of this TV screen, they will be raised from the dead, and they will be by the thousands. You wait…I see something amazing. I see rows of caskets lining up in front of this TV set … I see people taking the hands of the dead and letting them touch the screen.
The lack of discernment among so-called Christians these days is appalling! Because people still follow this man even when these things are pointed out to them.
We at bible door tracts offer this possible explanation. Many are not reading the bible continually from cover to cover anymore. We have interviewed elderly Christians who have admitted they have not done it once. When a false prophet comes along they don’t notice the deception.
2 Peter 2 - 1But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
We are concerned because we don’t want people to blaspheme our Lord because of this man. Secondly if a Prophet is in error his doctrine is also in error. This we are more concerned with. To rescue people from heresies that will further dishonor our Lord.
“But what about his miracles” some will ask. Our Lord Jesus Christ gave the answer to that question.
Matthew 24 - 24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand.
Contact the person who handed you this tract or the author.
Copyright 2008 © Bible Door Tracts.
273 Manchester Dr., Newmarket, ON, L3Y 6J4, Canada
bibledoor.no-ip.org & bibledoor.blogspot.com Email: bibledoor@rogers.com
This tracts author is Ray Luff of Bible Door Tracts. Ray’s opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Christian Brethren of Ontario among which Ray is in fellowship. All Bible references are from The New King James Version. 1996, c1982. Nashville: Thomas Nelson unless otherwise noted
Prophecy Proves Gods Word
The Bible is a collection of writings that were written over a 1600 year period of time by 39 differing authors, most of which had never met each other. Moses, under God’s direction authored the first 5 books of our bible. The first of these books Genesis (the book of beginnings) reveals how God created all material and spirit things.
We trust the things that were revealed to Moses as being true for one reason. Moses demonstrated that he was a spokesperson for God by demonstrating 100% accurate short term knowledge of future events. Moses spoke Gods words to the ruler of Egypt telling him of ten plagues that would befall him each one ahead of time, and each thing he declared happened. Moses also demonstrated that God was willing to answer his prayers by the splitting of the Red Sea and water coming forth from a rock and the providing of Manna to feed the people. Because of his 100% accuracy Moses became fully trusted by his peers as God’s spokesperson.
Later Moses received the 10 Commandments while on Mount Sinai and he wrote five books in which the Jews kept and revered as God’s word. Many of his longer term prophecies regarding the Jewish nation are still coming true today.
Later, other prophets also demon-strated with 100% accuracy the ability to tell future events and their writings were added to the “Canon of Scripture” (books by which the Jews were willing to be ruled by.) By the time of Jesus’ Birth 39 books were determined to be “Canon of Scripture” by the Jews. These form the Old Testament portion of the Bible today. To these books, 27 more were added that record the life and teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ which are called the New Testament. Many of the Old Testament prophecies regarding the Messiah have their fulfillment recorded in the New Testament.
The Bible is now complete and there is no longer any reason to add to it. The Bible itself contains a prophecy regarding its own completion.
1 Corinthians 13 – 8… But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
Approximately 24% of our Bibles contain prophecies. Of that 24% approximately 12% of have already been fulfilled and 12% remain to be fulfilled. There are two major subjects of Prophecy which are recurring themes in the Bible;
1) Prophecies regarding the Jewish Nation.
2) Prophecies regarding the Messiah. Approximately half of these were fulfilled by Jesus’ first coming and half of them are yet to be fulfilled His promised second coming.
For the remainder of this tract we would like to concentrate on the prophecies which were fulfilled by our Lord Jesus Christ’s first coming.
Some object that the prophecies were well known and thereby could be purposely fulfilled by any who wished to fulfill them. They point to the fact that many others came, claiming to be the Messiah at Jesus’ time.
How difficult would it be for someone to fulfill the Messianic Prophecies? Here are some of the criteria that the Messiah had to fulfill; The coming Messiah would be born of a Virgin in Bethlehem do miracles be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver that would be cast to the floor in the temple and then used to buy a cemetery for strangers rejected by his own people crucified be raised from the dead on the third day. To top it off the killing of the Messiah had to happen in the year AD 32.
Daniel 9 - 25 “Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; … 26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
The word for weeks in the Hebrew literally means seven. In this case not days but years. The Messiah was to be cutoff (killed) exactly (62+7)x7 years = 483 years after the command to rebuild Jerusalem was given. That command was given in the month of Nisan in the 20th year of the reign of Artexerxes Longimanus, which was 445 BC. It was fulfilled in AD 32 during the Month of Nissan on the 10th day. This is the traditional day when the Lamb was selected for the Passover Observance. It was then watched for 4 days and then offered as a sacrifice if it was found perfect. Our Lord Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey on the 10th day of Nisan and was crucified on the 14th day of Nisan. This fulfilled yet another prophecy.
Zechariah 9 - 9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.
Some skeptics claim that the New Testament is a hoax and that Jesus never existed.
To that we answer that the writers were for the most part killed for refusing to recant of this hoax and that the Jews thought Jesus existed when they met in AD 100 just 68 years after his death and resurrection at the council of Jerusalem to seek ways to stop Jews from becoming his followers.
Some skeptics have claimed that the Old Testament was altered by the Christians.
In the early 1920s copies of the Old Testament dating to 200 BC of the Greek Septuagint and 500 BC of the Hebrew texts were found in the caves of Qumran. It is impossible therefore for Jesus or his followers to have altered the prophecies.
Contact the person who handed you this tract or the author.
Copyright 2008 © Bible Door Tracts.
273 Manchester Dr., Newmarket, ON, L3Y 6J4, Canada
bibledoor.no-ip.org & bibledoor.blogspot.com Email: bibledoor@rogers.com
This tracts author is Ray Luff of Bible Door Tracts. Ray’s opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Christian Brethren of Ontario among which Ray is in fellowship. All Bible references are from The New King James Version. 1996, c1982. Nashville: Thomas Nelson unless otherwise noted
Bible References for some of the prophecies regarding the Messiah in OT and Fulfillment in NT.
Micah 5:2; Luke 2:4-7
Isaiah 61:1,2; Luke 4:18-19
Zechariah 11:12; Matthew 26:15
Zechariah 11:13; Matthew 27:5; Acts 1:18
Isaiah 53:3; John 1:11; John 1:11; 19:15
Psalm 22; Zechariah 12:10; John 19
Psalm 16:10; 49:15; Mark 16:2-4; 1 Corinthians 15:4
Daniel 9:26 – For more detail regarding this see also – “The Cutoff Anointed One” http://bibledoor.no-ip.org/pdf/eng_annointed_one.pdf)
We trust the things that were revealed to Moses as being true for one reason. Moses demonstrated that he was a spokesperson for God by demonstrating 100% accurate short term knowledge of future events. Moses spoke Gods words to the ruler of Egypt telling him of ten plagues that would befall him each one ahead of time, and each thing he declared happened. Moses also demonstrated that God was willing to answer his prayers by the splitting of the Red Sea and water coming forth from a rock and the providing of Manna to feed the people. Because of his 100% accuracy Moses became fully trusted by his peers as God’s spokesperson.
Later Moses received the 10 Commandments while on Mount Sinai and he wrote five books in which the Jews kept and revered as God’s word. Many of his longer term prophecies regarding the Jewish nation are still coming true today.
Later, other prophets also demon-strated with 100% accuracy the ability to tell future events and their writings were added to the “Canon of Scripture” (books by which the Jews were willing to be ruled by.) By the time of Jesus’ Birth 39 books were determined to be “Canon of Scripture” by the Jews. These form the Old Testament portion of the Bible today. To these books, 27 more were added that record the life and teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ which are called the New Testament. Many of the Old Testament prophecies regarding the Messiah have their fulfillment recorded in the New Testament.
The Bible is now complete and there is no longer any reason to add to it. The Bible itself contains a prophecy regarding its own completion.
1 Corinthians 13 – 8… But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
Approximately 24% of our Bibles contain prophecies. Of that 24% approximately 12% of have already been fulfilled and 12% remain to be fulfilled. There are two major subjects of Prophecy which are recurring themes in the Bible;
1) Prophecies regarding the Jewish Nation.
2) Prophecies regarding the Messiah. Approximately half of these were fulfilled by Jesus’ first coming and half of them are yet to be fulfilled His promised second coming.
For the remainder of this tract we would like to concentrate on the prophecies which were fulfilled by our Lord Jesus Christ’s first coming.
Some object that the prophecies were well known and thereby could be purposely fulfilled by any who wished to fulfill them. They point to the fact that many others came, claiming to be the Messiah at Jesus’ time.
How difficult would it be for someone to fulfill the Messianic Prophecies? Here are some of the criteria that the Messiah had to fulfill; The coming Messiah would be born of a Virgin in Bethlehem do miracles be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver that would be cast to the floor in the temple and then used to buy a cemetery for strangers rejected by his own people crucified be raised from the dead on the third day. To top it off the killing of the Messiah had to happen in the year AD 32.
Daniel 9 - 25 “Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; … 26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
The word for weeks in the Hebrew literally means seven. In this case not days but years. The Messiah was to be cutoff (killed) exactly (62+7)x7 years = 483 years after the command to rebuild Jerusalem was given. That command was given in the month of Nisan in the 20th year of the reign of Artexerxes Longimanus, which was 445 BC. It was fulfilled in AD 32 during the Month of Nissan on the 10th day. This is the traditional day when the Lamb was selected for the Passover Observance. It was then watched for 4 days and then offered as a sacrifice if it was found perfect. Our Lord Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey on the 10th day of Nisan and was crucified on the 14th day of Nisan. This fulfilled yet another prophecy.
Zechariah 9 - 9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.
Some skeptics claim that the New Testament is a hoax and that Jesus never existed.
To that we answer that the writers were for the most part killed for refusing to recant of this hoax and that the Jews thought Jesus existed when they met in AD 100 just 68 years after his death and resurrection at the council of Jerusalem to seek ways to stop Jews from becoming his followers.
Some skeptics have claimed that the Old Testament was altered by the Christians.
In the early 1920s copies of the Old Testament dating to 200 BC of the Greek Septuagint and 500 BC of the Hebrew texts were found in the caves of Qumran. It is impossible therefore for Jesus or his followers to have altered the prophecies.
Contact the person who handed you this tract or the author.
Copyright 2008 © Bible Door Tracts.
273 Manchester Dr., Newmarket, ON, L3Y 6J4, Canada
bibledoor.no-ip.org & bibledoor.blogspot.com Email: bibledoor@rogers.com
This tracts author is Ray Luff of Bible Door Tracts. Ray’s opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Christian Brethren of Ontario among which Ray is in fellowship. All Bible references are from The New King James Version. 1996, c1982. Nashville: Thomas Nelson unless otherwise noted
Bible References for some of the prophecies regarding the Messiah in OT and Fulfillment in NT.
Micah 5:2; Luke 2:4-7
Isaiah 61:1,2; Luke 4:18-19
Zechariah 11:12; Matthew 26:15
Zechariah 11:13; Matthew 27:5; Acts 1:18
Isaiah 53:3; John 1:11; John 1:11; 19:15
Psalm 22; Zechariah 12:10; John 19
Psalm 16:10; 49:15; Mark 16:2-4; 1 Corinthians 15:4
Daniel 9:26 – For more detail regarding this see also – “The Cutoff Anointed One” http://bibledoor.no-ip.org/pdf/eng_annointed_one.pdf)
Israel - A Cup of Trembling
Zechariah 12 - 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
This was an amazing declaration by the prophet Zechariah in 520 BC. At the time it was delivered, Jerusalem was in complete ruins, yet Zechariah declared that Israel would someday be the center of world attention on day and that all of Israel’s neighbors would be gathered together against her. To the rest of the world Israel would be a big burden.
There has been no time since that prophecy that this prophecy could be true other than today. For more than fifty years Israel’s Arab neighbors have tried to attack them without success, even though they outnumber Israel 50 to 1. Every time they attack them Israel comes out the victor.
Zechariah 12 – 6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
For 18 centuries of exile from their land, Jews and Christian’s who read their bibles knew that the Jew would once again possess Jerusalem. This finally happened in 1948, but it wasn’t until 1967 that the Jews regained possession of the city Jerusalem just as it was predicted. Jeremiah 31 - 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
Even though Israel has less than 2 percent of the world’s population more than 30% of the discussions in the United Nations revolve around them. Everyone is seeking a lasting peace between Israel and her neighbors but her neighbors allow for peace only as a ploy to be able to attack them again in some other way. There is no real interest in Peace by her neighbors.
Zechariah 12 - 8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
The God of the Bible promises to protect Israel while the god of the Quran promises to destroy her. This is why no one should be deceived to think that these books contain information about the same God. Whichever of these books is true causes the other by necessity to be declared as untrue.
It is clear that eventually all nations of the world will be against Israel. When that happens God will gather all the nations into the valley of Jehoshaphat for one final battle.
Zechariah 14 - 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; Joel 3 – 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
(See also Ezekiel 38:14-23)
Israel has been conquered as a whole in the past but only in recent years has the land been parted (divided). After the first world war in the 1917 “Balfour Declaration”, the 1919 “Paris Peace Conference” and in 1922 the “Declaration of Principles” of the League of Nations the ancient land of Israel which has been called Palestine was recognized as belonging to the Jews. Great Britain was given the mandate to see “Palestine” once again become the national homeland of the Jew but instead divided the land giving 70 percent of it to Emir Abduallah Hussein because of his oil. The gifted land is called Transjordan, now known as Jordan. The Muslims immediately destroyed every Jewish temple and expelled all Jews from the land. This action against Israel set the sun on the British Empire.
Genesis 12 - 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
Then on November 29, 1947 the United Nations further divided the land giving only 13 percent of what had been designated for the national homeland. The Arabs however want it all. Every so-called peace proposal ever since that time has involved the West asking Israel to give up more of her land. So it is with president Bush’s current “Road map to peace”.
There is one thing that unites all the enemy nations that surround Israel today, it is Islam. Yet the prophecies regarding Israel’s enemies was written one thousand years before Islam ever existed. The Sahih Al-Buhari hadith says, “The last day will not come until the Muslims confront the Jews and the Muslims destroy them. In that day Allah will give a voice to the rocks and the trees and they will cry out ‘O Muslim, O Abdullah, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him!’”.
This is not an obscure teaching but part of the foundation of Islam, taught to Muslims through the centuries. It is taught in every Muslim school all over the world and in North America as well. The Jewish state must be crushed or Islam is proven to be a false religion! In a conference of the Islamic Committee for Palestine in Chicago, December 28-31, 1990, Sheikh Abdul Azis Oudeh, one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad Movement, declared “Now Allah is bringing the Jews back to Palestine in large groups from all over the world to their big graveyard where the promise will be realized upon them, and what was destined will be carried out.”
The consequences of following the wrong God will be severe. If you defy the God of the Bible you will be punished. We cannot pick and choose to accept some parts of the bible and reject others. Until Islam’s real intentions are faced and somehow dealt with, any “peace” plans for the Middle East are a fool’s dream.[1]
Contact the person who handed you this tract or the author.
Copyright 2008 © Bible Door Tracts.
273 Manchester Dr., Newmarket, ON, L3Y 6J4, Canada
bibledoor.no-ip.org & bibledoor.blogspot.com Email: bibledoor@rogers.com
This tracts author is Ray Luff of Bible Door Tracts. Ray’s opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Christian Brethren of Ontario among which Ray is in fellowship. All Bible references are from The New King James Version. 1996, c1982. Nashville: Thomas Nelson unless otherwise noted[1] This tract is a summation of the Introduction of the book entitled “Judgment Day” by Dave Hunt. We highly recommend this book to every Christian, Muslim and Jew.
This was an amazing declaration by the prophet Zechariah in 520 BC. At the time it was delivered, Jerusalem was in complete ruins, yet Zechariah declared that Israel would someday be the center of world attention on day and that all of Israel’s neighbors would be gathered together against her. To the rest of the world Israel would be a big burden.
There has been no time since that prophecy that this prophecy could be true other than today. For more than fifty years Israel’s Arab neighbors have tried to attack them without success, even though they outnumber Israel 50 to 1. Every time they attack them Israel comes out the victor.
Zechariah 12 – 6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
For 18 centuries of exile from their land, Jews and Christian’s who read their bibles knew that the Jew would once again possess Jerusalem. This finally happened in 1948, but it wasn’t until 1967 that the Jews regained possession of the city Jerusalem just as it was predicted. Jeremiah 31 - 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
Even though Israel has less than 2 percent of the world’s population more than 30% of the discussions in the United Nations revolve around them. Everyone is seeking a lasting peace between Israel and her neighbors but her neighbors allow for peace only as a ploy to be able to attack them again in some other way. There is no real interest in Peace by her neighbors.
Zechariah 12 - 8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
The God of the Bible promises to protect Israel while the god of the Quran promises to destroy her. This is why no one should be deceived to think that these books contain information about the same God. Whichever of these books is true causes the other by necessity to be declared as untrue.
It is clear that eventually all nations of the world will be against Israel. When that happens God will gather all the nations into the valley of Jehoshaphat for one final battle.
Zechariah 14 - 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; Joel 3 – 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
(See also Ezekiel 38:14-23)
Israel has been conquered as a whole in the past but only in recent years has the land been parted (divided). After the first world war in the 1917 “Balfour Declaration”, the 1919 “Paris Peace Conference” and in 1922 the “Declaration of Principles” of the League of Nations the ancient land of Israel which has been called Palestine was recognized as belonging to the Jews. Great Britain was given the mandate to see “Palestine” once again become the national homeland of the Jew but instead divided the land giving 70 percent of it to Emir Abduallah Hussein because of his oil. The gifted land is called Transjordan, now known as Jordan. The Muslims immediately destroyed every Jewish temple and expelled all Jews from the land. This action against Israel set the sun on the British Empire.
Genesis 12 - 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
Then on November 29, 1947 the United Nations further divided the land giving only 13 percent of what had been designated for the national homeland. The Arabs however want it all. Every so-called peace proposal ever since that time has involved the West asking Israel to give up more of her land. So it is with president Bush’s current “Road map to peace”.
There is one thing that unites all the enemy nations that surround Israel today, it is Islam. Yet the prophecies regarding Israel’s enemies was written one thousand years before Islam ever existed. The Sahih Al-Buhari hadith says, “The last day will not come until the Muslims confront the Jews and the Muslims destroy them. In that day Allah will give a voice to the rocks and the trees and they will cry out ‘O Muslim, O Abdullah, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him!’”.
This is not an obscure teaching but part of the foundation of Islam, taught to Muslims through the centuries. It is taught in every Muslim school all over the world and in North America as well. The Jewish state must be crushed or Islam is proven to be a false religion! In a conference of the Islamic Committee for Palestine in Chicago, December 28-31, 1990, Sheikh Abdul Azis Oudeh, one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad Movement, declared “Now Allah is bringing the Jews back to Palestine in large groups from all over the world to their big graveyard where the promise will be realized upon them, and what was destined will be carried out.”
The consequences of following the wrong God will be severe. If you defy the God of the Bible you will be punished. We cannot pick and choose to accept some parts of the bible and reject others. Until Islam’s real intentions are faced and somehow dealt with, any “peace” plans for the Middle East are a fool’s dream.[1]
Contact the person who handed you this tract or the author.
Copyright 2008 © Bible Door Tracts.
273 Manchester Dr., Newmarket, ON, L3Y 6J4, Canada
bibledoor.no-ip.org & bibledoor.blogspot.com Email: bibledoor@rogers.com
This tracts author is Ray Luff of Bible Door Tracts. Ray’s opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Christian Brethren of Ontario among which Ray is in fellowship. All Bible references are from The New King James Version. 1996, c1982. Nashville: Thomas Nelson unless otherwise noted[1] This tract is a summation of the Introduction of the book entitled “Judgment Day” by Dave Hunt. We highly recommend this book to every Christian, Muslim and Jew.
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