Skipper---Jesus' words were fulfilled.
You said--"In any event, he was reflecting the common hope for a savior of the Jews of that day. Did what he was purported to have said come to pass? It did not."
Turn to Romans 10:7 "What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded."
The election were the real Jews that accepted Jesus when He came. The true Israelites or true Jews have always been the true believers in the Lord. Read Rom 11 carefully. The Holy Spirit show us that in the days of Elijah their were only 7000 real Israelites--true Jews worshipping God. Now turn to Rom. 9:6. "Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. (That's what you are believing right now Skipper. You think the Word of God has failed because you lack spiritual knowledge of the Word of God. A blind man cannot give you directions) The Word of God continues. " FOR THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL, WHICH ARE OF ISRAEL. Did you get that Skipper. The Word of God is telling you that Not all those that call themselves Jews are really Jews. The Word of God continues in Rom. 9:7-Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children; but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. Rom.9:8--"That is , They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed." This is very clear. It is the children of FAITH--the promise--that are the true Jews. That is why God say in Rom.9:6 "For they are not all Israel which are ofIsrael:"
The Words of Jesus were perfectly fulfilled in the first century when hundreds of thousands of Jews accepted Jesus Christ as their Messiah and savior. All of the Apostles and most of the first disciples were Jews. They were saved from their sins and translated into the Kingdom of God by being Born-again and filled with the Holy Spirit. -----------------------------------------------------
Shalom has no understanding of this Scripture and many others. He falsely believes that the Words of Jesus have failed and therefore he looks for a future fulfillment in the flesh of the modern Jews. He misuses the Parable of the fig tree to cover his lack of understanding and false prophetic words. --------------------------------------------------- What I have written is truth. You can print it and study it until the Lord opens your eyes. This knowledge will grow more precious with the years as the confusion and lies spread by Shalom and others accelerates. They are honoring and idolizing the anti-christ. Thheir numbers and their evil will grow until the whole world is flooded with their lies. Then God will set up His two Olives tress in the streets of the Sodom where our Lord was Crucified. The mouths of the anti-christ and evil massed will be shut for three and a half years. Then the light of the two candlesticks will be extinguished. Their bodies will be desecrated and the world will cheer. The God will rekindled their light and terror shall fall upon the evil. . May the Lord give you and other the wisdom to understand these words. -------------------------------------- Rom.2:28,29 28: For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. |