The Harvest of The Goyim

                 The Wailing Place
Everything Shaul (Paul) did and said was about the work of planting and harvesting a testimony among the nations, a testimony that the promise made by God to Abraham has been fulfilled in Yehoshua (Jesus) the Messiah.  All of this work is now about to be finished.

When it is finished there will be no more adversity coming to the Jew in the name of Christianity.  There will no longer be an anti-Semitic Christianity in the world.  Instead, it will be  acknowledged by everyone who has any interest in Yehoshua (Jesus) at all that he was claimed only to be a Jew of the tribe of Judah of the line of David.  He was not reported by anyone to be of the tribe of Benjamin, for example, nor of Levi, nor of any other tribe or people.    If he was Messiah he was the promised Messiah of the Jews, not of the Romans, not of the Persians, not of the Arabs nor others.  When the work of the testimony among the Goyim, (the nations), is finished everyone, friend and foe, will admit to the importance and truth of this.

It will be admitted by all that if he was the promised Messiah he was giving new revelation to the promise of the Messiah in Israel.  He was revealing himself as a Messiah who would be rejected and would freely lay down his life, rather than forcing himself on his beloved bride, Jerusalem.  It will be admitted by all that if he is the Messiah he gave himself over to death in order that God might keep His promise to Abraham, the promise He made by covenant with Abraham.

It will be agreed that if he is the Messiah he is the Messiah because he was sent by God to be the Prophet like unto Moses to lead Israel into the perfection of obedience to the Torah.  It will be acknowledged  that if he is the Messiah he is the Messiah because when he was rejected by his own, rather than condemning his people for rejecting him and his Father who sent him he laid down his life.  It will be recognized that if he laid down his life, he laid down his life freely in an act of eternal justification and forgiveness toward Israel.  And then the testimony will be clear that he did this in order that God might keep and fulfill His covenant with Abraham, to bless him and his family and all the nations of the earth through him.

It will be admitted by all that if he is the Messiah he will come again to his own when his own are prepared to receive him.   For this is truly the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah, the corporate salvation in heavenly places of God's chosen nation, through Yehoshua, her Messiah and Redeemer.

A Shofar a Thousand Cubits Long

HISTORICAL INTERIOR OF THE RASHI SHUL IN WORMS
R. Tavi said in the name of R. Yoshia: "What do we learn from the following text? 'There are three things that are never satisfied:... the grave and the womb....' How comes the grave next to the womb? - This juxtaposition teaches you that just as the womb takes in and gives forth again, so the grave takes in and will give forth again. Moreover, if the womb which takes in silently gives forth with loud noise [i.e., the crying of the infant], does it not stand to reason that the grave which takes in with a loud noise [i.e., the wailing of the mourners], will give forth [those who are revived] with a loud noise? Here is an answer for those who deny that Techiyas HaMeisim is taught in the Torah."
Rashi cites the verse (Yeshayahu 27:13), "And it shall be on that day, that a great Shofar shall be sounded...." The Midrash entitled Osios deRabbi Akiva elaborates (sec. 9): "How will the A-mighty resurrect the dead in the time to come? He will take up a Shofar a thousand cubits long and will sound it, and it will reverberate from one end of the world to another. With the first blast the world will be in an uproar; with the second, the earth will split," and so on. See also Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer, sec. 34.

 http://www.sichosinenglish.org/books/to-live-and-live-again/02.htm#n43

"Every single word of prayer, blessing, thanksgiving and praise that you will say this coming year, are contained within the shofar’s ten sounds" -> Dvar Torah for Rosh HaShanah 5771 -> http://www.breslov.org/blog/

The Suffering Messiah of Israel

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The following is the lead post from my new site:
Scent Essence of Jerusalem

Jesus/Yeshua/Yehoshua did not separate himself from Israel. For the sake of the world learning the nature of his faithfulness he has endured for a long time all efforts to separate him from Israel. He will not allow these efforts to continue forever. Soon he will make all the world to know that no one can call him Christ/Messiah/Mashiach before the Father who seeks to separate him from Israel. But anyone who has done so who has not known what they were doing will be forgiven."

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Hearing Seven Thunders: Notes on The Sermon on the Mount

Hearing Seven Thunders: Notes on The Sermon on the Mount

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Messianic teachings can clarify Jewish Kabbalistic teachings

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There is an apprehension  that is commonly found in Christianity about Kabbalah.  This can be for good reason, as not everything called kabbalistic is from the same source, and there is a use made of Kabbalah by some people which is occult.  However, the true source of Kabbalah is Jewish Kabbalah, which is found in mainstream Orthodox Judaism.  Occult magic is, of course, idolatry and Jewish Kabbalah, as all true Judaism is without idolatry.  Jewish Kabbalah is another way of saying the Jewish Received Teachings about the Vision of the Chariot (as from Ezekiel) and about the Torah's account of Creation.  For the very reason that these teachings can lead the untrained mind into spiritual the spiritual confusion of speculation and away from faith in the power of the Hebrew Scriptures to reveal truth and understanding, the deep teachings about the Vision of the Chariot and the Revelation of Creation have been kept - until recent times - from the public at large.

To ask whether Jewish Kabbalah is anti-Christian would require asking if Judaism is anti-Christian and today we have begun to learn that this is not the right question to ask.  Judaism may have something to offer Christianity, just as original, (non-imperialistic Christianity) may have something to offer Judaism.

Notes on The Sermon on the Mount

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Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The healed came in great crowds to seek new Torah teachings from the healer.  They came in such a great crowd on the mountain that they cold not be refused.  Those who were the poorest in spirit came to the front.  These were the spiritual orphans for whom the true spiritual son would be moved to compassion, and by having compassion upon these orphans the son would come to maturity and to the place of his inheritance. 

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are those who mourn with all the creatures of God who "groan and travail together in pain, waiting for the manifestation of the children of God".  These creatures are truly blessed.  For a new birth shall come.  And they will be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they who do not see themselves as being entitled to judge even those who offend them or who threaten them; who are meek because they fear the Lord God of Israel.  For he will be their salvation and deliverance, and will make them the caretakers of his coming newborn earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Righteousness is the root of the tree of life.  Righteousness is the root that gathers in, takes up and learns the way of God's actions.  The way of God's actions is the water of life flowing to the tree of life.  Oh that all the little children of Adam, of the man and the woman, would know a sky filled with a light that is like a rain gently falling, watering all things with the knowledge of Israel's God!  That time is coming!  That day will dawn!

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.

Be merciful unto others, as you would have others be merciful unto you.  And if you would be just unto others, let it be with a justice that seeks the way of mercy.  For when we show mercy we find mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

It is those whose heart is pure, whose obedience is pure in going up to Jerusalem to meet with God who, in being seen by God, will see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

Blessed are those who will lay down their lives in faith in order to remove fear from the world.  The first and final source of all friction and conflict between people is the fear of death.  Out of this fear Adam sinned.  Blessed are those who accept humiliation by the power of divine grace in order to bring peace, for they will be called the brothers and sisters of the son of God.

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

A world that is broken, a world with its bones shattered, cannot give success to all its children.  Some of them it will make victims.  Some of them it will make scapegoats.  For this, such a world could be easily condemned.  But who will show it mercy?  Who would save such a world?  Anyone who would choose to save such a world must face its returning evil for good, persecution for a voice of truth.  God chooses to save such a world as this.  The Messiah of Israel chooses to serve his God in saving such a world as this.  Blessed are all those who are persecuted because they are attached to him.  The salvation of the world shall be their joy!  The healing of its bones shall be their happiness and laughter, their great reward.  And they shall breathe the air of righteousness in a world without end.  For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Copyright ©2010 Max Carl Kirk
To Be Continued