The Spirit of Prophecy

This being the “Season of the Reason,” it’s good for us this week I think to talk about Jesus. He’s “Israeli” and as a Jew was born in Bethlehem, so this is a profitable discussion for us just days before what I hope is a joyous Christmas for you.

This week, Pete Garcia posted this intense thought on X:

“I had a pastor tell me once, ‘I don’t focus on the book of prophecy, I just focus on Jesus.’ The book of Revelation 19:10: ‘…For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.’”

(I’m a big Pete Garcia fan, a veteran who is known in the prophecy community. He knows his stuff. His comment struck a chord with me.)

We all know that too many pulpits in America today refuse to talk about Bible prophecy. This is dismaying and, to be honest, infuriating. These alleged shepherds are depriving their congregations of great hope and the Blessed Hope by ignoring 35 percent of the Bible.

I wrote a piece on my Patreon page this week about Bethlehem. In it, I cited a few examples of CHRISTIAN LEADERS that in the last century have worked hard to cast doubt on the historicity of Jesus’s birth in that little Judean town. Some say it’s outright myth, some say the prophet Micah cited the “wrong” Bethlehem (they claim, wholly without evidence, that the town of Jesus’s birth was the Bethlehem of the Galilee). To add a finer point to it, these skeptics deny the Virgin Birth!

In 1961, Rev. James Pike, Episcopal bishop of California, said that the Virgin Birth is a “primitive myth.”

In 1964, a Baptist editor said that while a majority believed in the Virgin Birth, a “substantial minority” do not. This minority did not need to believe in the Virgin Birth in order to accept the deity of Christ, because it isn’t dealt with by Paul, or in the Gospels of Mark and John (This is called the “Argument from Silence”).

A new United Church of Christ curriculum of that era taught youth that it isn’t important to believe in the Virgin Birth.

The question is, why would they do this?

Because they are of their father, the devil. That’s the answer. We often try to find other, kinder and softer reasons, but this is the reason. Most people have no idea how absolutely corrupt the seminaries in this country have been for 150 years. Really. They turn out pastors that deny the faith—which, very ironically for them, fulfills NT prophecies that teach of the coming apostasy in the last days. You can’t get more compromised than denying the Virgin Birth and the accuracy of the prophets.

Remember, it is God Himself—the Lord of History—that has given us very specific, detailed prophecy, so that we can be sure of our faith. As Pete wrote, we should be highlighting the fact that Jesus Christ is the spirit of prophecy. Denying prophecy is denying the Redeemer, the Messiah sent to pay the penalty for the sins of mankind. We each have only to accept, as Paul wrote in Romans 10, that God sent Jesus in the flesh and raised Him to life after three days in the grave.

When a pastor refuses to preach the whole Bible, he is engaging in dangerous and sinister work.

There are plenty of terrible examples of churches in the U.S. holding bizarre services, especially at Christmas, when they have “captive” audiences that normally don’t attend church. Featuring the “Grinch Stole Christmas,” complete with professional dancers, is not preaching the Gospel.

Jesus is indeed the spirit of prophecy. Scripture tells us so. If pastors (your pastor!) isn’t teaching this, and growing the congregation in a healthy understanding of eschatology, you’ll have to do it yourself in your own network.

This is the perfect time of the year to teach your children, grandchildren, neighbor, or anyone else the beautiful story of Jesus born in Bethlehem, and the marvelous, stupendous, astonishing prophecy given in Micah 5:2, that the Messiah would be born in a tiny hamlet way out in the sticks. It happened 700 years later! In fact, David and Jesus would both be born in Bethlehem, 1,000 years apart. Two kings, one eternal.

I pray that each of you will experience pure joy and contentment and peace this Christmas season.

And most of all, remember the Reason for the Season!

Blessings to you all.

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The Insidious Plot

 As readers of this space know, I have long believed that the Two State Solution is the trigger for the great end-times siege against Israel and Jerusalem. Something must be the trigger for such a completely outlandish scenario: an international coalition army invades Israel and arrives at the gates of Jerusalem. This is not some 8^th century Assyrian mob, or Rome’s 10^th Legion. No, this is a full-throated global attack on God’s People.

Thankfully, we still have the wisdom of the late great Dave Hunt. Today I saw this Facebook post from his page:

“Israel is the major topic of the Bible, occupying most of its pages. The many prophecies concerning its past, present, and future are vital in understanding God’s Word. Sadly, they are ignored, explained away, or simply rejected by the vast majority of professing Christians, a growing number of whom insist that Israel has been replaced by the church.”

It’s partly because of that terrible, terrible job the Church overall has done teaching God’s Word in the last two centuries that Israel is in peril, from a human perspective. Right now fighting a seven-front war, and what is being pushed?

A Palestinian state.

It’s madness.

My friend Stan Goodenough also posted this:

“THE INSIDIOUS PLOT WILL POP UP EVERYWHERE

Trump’s Middle East Advisor Pushes for Palestinian Statehood

Massad Boulos, President-elect Donald Trump’s newly appointed advisor on Middle Eastern and Arab affairs, advocates for a roadmap toward Palestinian statehood as a prerequisite for normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

He emphasizes that while immediate statehood isn’t demanded, a clear vision and plan are essential.

CAN YOU SEE THE SERPENT?”

Yes, I can. From the moment I heard that Trump was appointing his son-in-law’s father as an advisor on the Middle East, I knew it was trouble.

And it’s obvious trouble. Like the kind you see your child about to get into so you warn him.

Sometimes us humans are just dumb. We do the obvious dumb things. Satan’s Two-State Solution plan, so clearly a lethal threat to Israel, is embraced by the “smart kids” in the room, those diplomats and politicians and media types (think the insufferable—and always wrong about the Middle East—Thomas Friedman, who rants and rails against Israel for not committing suicide).

It has also been embraced by too many religious types. The religious smart kids, the ones that covet approval and party invitations from those same ghouls in Washington and London and Paris. The ones that hate Israel every bit as much as the jihadists do and fight day and night to eradicate Israel.

This has always lingered in the background of a potential peace deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have been trying this for at least 20 years.

Boulos, born in Lebanon, has acted as a go-between for Trump and Mahmoud Abbas, that old devil that’s gotten rich as the lifetime president of the Palestinian Authority.

According to the Jerusalem Post:

“WASHINGTON — Massad Boulos, President-elect Donald Trump’s advisor on Middle Eastern and Arab affairs, said that the United States would have to discuss laying out a ‘roadmap’ to Palestinian statehood if it hopes to establish relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

“Saudi officials have long made it known that they would not establish ties with Israel absent progress toward a Palestinian state. But for Boulos — a Lebanese-American billionaire and the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany — to emphasize the point is significant because other Trump appointees, in addition to Trump himself, are seen as close to the Israeli right, which rejects Palestinian statehood.

“’I think the issue of a roadmap that would lead to a Palestinian state is an important part of the discussions between the United States and Saudi Arabia,’ Boulos said in a wide-ranging interview last week with Le Point, a French magazine. ‘It is certainly a very important point.’”

Is it? Why is it an important point?

It’s important for those that want to destroy Israel. A much-shrunken Jewish state, already tiny, would be hard-pressed to survive a 23^rd Arab state on its doorstep.

At a time when Trump’s second term is a huge Christmas present for Americans, those of us that love Israel and see her in Bible prophecy lament the mistake made by throwing-in with the likes of Massad Boulos.

It’s an Insidious Plot.

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