THE MESSIAH CRUCIFIED BY THE THREE
BIGGEST LIES ON EARTH V/S THE TRUTH.
AN ETERNITY-CHANGING EXPOSURE
He who rebukes a man shall afterwards find more favour than he who
flatters with the tongue. Proverbs 28:23.
And you
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:32.
ABSTRACT
The
three biggest lies on earth and the cause of all that went wrong with mankind
and the churches are:
1. The
first is Satan’s lie that said we will surely not die if we eat of the
forbidden tree, whilst God has clearly said that man shall surely die if he eats
of it. God subsequently confirmed on several occasions that the wages of sin is
truly death and hell. All who sin and for whatever reasons think they will go
to heaven even if they do not live holy lives, believe this lie of Satan.
2. The second lie is that Satan cannot be overcome
or conquered in our lives despite God clearly saying that Someone will come out
of the woman who will overwhelm/bruise the head of the serpent. This lie
teaches that we all will always keep on eating of the forbidden fruit and sin and
that we cannot live holy lives, despite God’s ability to make us holy and His
word commanding it. The truth is that Jesus Christ was specifically sent to
save us, to set us truly free and to cleanse us from all our sins and to
destroy the works of the devil and to make us holy by His blood.
3. The
third lie says that if we sacrifice something for our sins, God will not be
angry with us anymore but will forgive us even if we still sin. This lie later
said that Jesus is the sacrifice for our sins and He paid our debt, died in our
place, that God punished Him in our place and that we only need to accept and
believe it and we are forgiven by grace and we will not die, even if we
continue sinning. This lie causes the first two lies to be easily accepted and
believed and it discourages earnest searching for complete deliverance from
sin.
All
the sin, enmity, pain, struggling, sorrow, desires, oppression, thorns,
thistles and corruption in the churches and in mankind result from believing
these lies.
The
truth is that God does not want sacrifices, which in any case are all His, but
obedience, righteousness, mercy, a broken and a contrite heart. Without the
latter, our sins deeply grieve God’s heart, it grieves and quenches His Spirit
and it pierced, crushed and murdered Jesus on the cross. Jesus is handed over into
our hands, He bore our sins in His body on the cross and our sins murdered Him!
Every sinner is equally guilty of the murder of Jesus and the Holy Spirit
pleads with us to look up to Him whom we have pierced and to mourn and grieve
bitterly for Him. Jesus did not die “for” us or in our place but died “because
of/through and by” our sins and us. It is blasphemy to make God responsible for
Jesus’ wounds and death and to deny our own guilt.
If,
in obedience to the Holy Spirit, we confess each sin and what it did to Jesus
with true remorse, repent from it, make restitution, believe and do all God’s
words, then God promises forgiveness, deliverance and cleansing from all sins.
Then He promises to fill us with His Holy Spirit onto holiness so that we may
stop eating of the forbidden tree, or else we will surely die. Without holiness,
we will not see God. According to the Scriptures, people who do not believe and
preach holiness are proud, know nothing, are corrupted and are deprived of the
truth. They are believing all three lies.
Most
Bible teachers, churches (and readers) believe and preach these lies. It proves
that academic qualifications equip no one for spiritual insight and that God indeed
hides His wisdom from the sophisticated, cunning, worldly wise, prudent,
learned, qualified, scribes, mighty, rich and noble but reveals it to the babes,
weak, unlearned, seemingly foolish, lowly, base, insignificant, poor and
despised. We need to warn all and form new Biblical congregations where the
truth is preached and believed and where Biblical prescripts are followed.
FULL ARTICLE
The following are the three biggest lies on earth
and the cause of all that went wrong with mankind and the churches— and the
truth about these lies.
THE FIRST LIE: EAT, YOU WILL
SURELY NOT DIE.
The first is Satan’s lie that said we will surely
not die if we eat of the forbidden tree whereas God clearly says: For in the day that you eat of it you shall
surely ‘die dying.’[1] When God’s own children initially
chose to believe this lie and to eat of the forbidden fruit, God could see the
disastrous consequences and it grieved/carved
him at His heart.[2]
He was broken/crushed by their whoring heart which has departed from Me.[3] Stop and seriously think what it must
have done to God that day when the children He created so marvellously, whom He
loved so perfectly and for whom He created the magnificent world and universe, chose
to listen to that low dust-crawling liar, thief and murderer. He must have been
deeply grieved, carved, broken and crushed! Adam and Eve suddenly forgot all
His love, His greatness and His goodness. They forgot their sweet fellowship and
what He did for them. They ran away and thought they could hide their guilt and
shame behind flimsy leaves! In their hearts, He became Someone Who does not
feel hurt and Someone to fear, to flee from and to hide from. How awfully
hurtful it must have been to Him! With an unimaginably grieved heart, God still
called after them but they did not consider His grief, they did not apologize
to Him but blamed another and showed no remorse for what they have done. God
could see that Adam, Eve and every person thereafter by their own free choice would
now naturally and repeatedly choose and obey Satan rather than Him, their holy,
righteous and loving Creator. With a broken heart, He had to chase them out of
paradise.[4]
Therefore, because we all likewise sinned against Him, we will all surely die
dying and burn in hell - and we all deserve that.
God, the prophets, Jesus Himself, John the Baptist,
Paul and John confirmed on numerous occasions that a person who sins and does
unrighteousness will die and go to hell, and it was never changed,[5] for
example, Behold, all souls are Mine; … the soul that sins, it shall die.[6]
But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part
in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.[7]
This is also confirmed by the words of God and Jesus: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God."[8]
We are only alive if we obey every word God and Jesus spoke, and if we
stop sinning. If we disobey any of God’s words, we cannot live, i.e. we
will die dying. The Holy Spirit confirmed it through Peter: ...and it shall be that every soul who will
not obey that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.[9] He who covers his sins shall not be
blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them shall have mercy. Blessed
is the man dreading God, but he who hardens his heart shall fall into mischief.[10] Jesus
did not come to change this so that we can go to heaven even if we keep on sinning.
No, He came to save, deliver, wash, cleanse, rid, free and sanctify us from our
sins. If we truly care anything for God and if we believe, His word and take it
as seriously as we should, we will know that there is only one way out. We need
to repent, we need forgiveness for what we have done and we need complete cleansing
and deliverance from slavery to all sin so that we may stop sinning. For this
we have to call on God and seek Him with all our hearts, and He promised He would
hear us.[11]
That is what He sent Jesus for.
But all who keep on sinning and for whatever reason
or theology think that they will still go to heaven despite sinning, believe
this lie of Satan. They remain totally insensitive to God’s grieved heart because
of their sins and they do not believe His words but only Satan’s lies and their
own deceptions. This will cause them not to earnestly seek God for total
deliverance and they will keep on eating of the forbidden tree and remain in
their sins— and will surely die dying.
THE SECOND LIE: YOU CANNOT STOP
SINNING
The second lie says that Satan cannot be overcome
or cannot be conquered in our lives despite God clearly saying: …her Seed; He will snap/ overwhelm/break/bruise
your head...[12] This lie teaches we will always keep on
eating of the forbidden fruit and sin, that we cannot live holy lives and the
one who says he is without sins, is a liar. [13]It
declares any human righteousness as filthy rags.[14] It also
quotes for all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God[15]
in isolation meaning we all will always keep on sinning. The proponents of
this lie grab onto any doubtful straw supporting their belief —all to console
themselves whilst sinning and whilst ignoring many more scriptures contrary to
it.
THE TRUTH—DELIVERANCE FROM SIN AND HOLINESS
The truth is that God repeatedly commanded: For I am Jehovah your God, and you shall
sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I am holy.[16] God
even said He would make us holy: For I
am holy, Jehovah who sanctifies you.[17]
God also promised He will do something in us so
that we shall do all He commanded:[18] And I will cut an everlasting covenant with
them that I will not turn away from
them, to do them good. But I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall
not depart from Me.[19]
And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and
you shall keep My judgments and do them.[20]
And David My servant shall be King over them. And there shall be one Shepherd
to all of them. And they shall walk in My judgments, and obey My Laws, and do
them.[21]
Then we will walk in holiness and not stumble! And
a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The Way of
Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it. But He shall be with them; the
wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err in it.[22]
In that day Jehovah shall defend around the people of Jerusalem. And it will
be, he who is feeble among them at that day shall be like David; and the house
of David shall be like God, like the Angel of Jehovah before them.[23]
Sins will be searched for in His people and will not even be found, for
there will be none. … The iniquity of
Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and
they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.[24]
That was
what Jesus was specifically sent to do:
to save us from sin - He shall save his people from their sins,[25]
to set us truly
free from sin - Whosoever commits sin is
the servant of sin. … If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be
free indeed,[26]
to cleanse us from all our sins - and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanses us from all sin,[27]
to destroy the works of the devil - For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil,[28]
to give us complete victory over sin - Therefore He is able also to save to the
uttermost/perfectly/ totally those who come unto God by Him.[29]And
they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb,[30]
to make us truly righteous and holy by His blood
and cross - … In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and
unblameable and unreproveable in his sight,[31]
and because He is more than able, He can keep us from stumbling and
keep us blameless and faultless - Now to
Him being able to keep you without stumbling, and to set you before His glory
without blemish / faultless, with unspeakable joy;[32]
Think of the absolute joy if He has kept you like this until your death!!
Tragically, most people do not believe these clear and
wonderful words of God and they do not mind constantly grieving God, but they rather
believe the lies of Satan, his followers and their own minds to excuse and
comfort themselves in their sins. To them God is weaker than Satan and weaker
than their weaknesses or their weaknesses are too strong for God. That is total
unbelief in the true God. Therefore, they will never find holiness but die as
slaves in their sins and go to Satan whom they chose to believe.
THE THIRD LIE: SACRIFICE AND
PAYMENT FOR SINS.
The third lie is the lie that Kain believed and
every man by nature believes and does. Kain knew in his heart that he was
transgressing the laws of God because of his sins (anger and jealousy towards
Abel). He knew that he should do good (not eat the forbidden fruit) and rule
over sin (overcome Satan). He also knew that he was not acceptable to God. But
instead of changing his heart and stop sinning, he believed Satan’s lie and made
sacrifices FOR his sins, believing he could so appease the wrath of God whilst
sinning. He foolishly took God’s own possessions and sacrificed it back to God FOR
his sins as if he can pay for his sins, thinking God will accept it and overlook
his transgressions. Every false religion and faith on earth has some form of
sacrifice for their transgressions. They do wrong, feel guilty but try and make
up by doing good things and by sacrificing.
However, God is not pleased with that. God does not
want His own things sacrificed back to Him as “payment” or to make up for sin. He
wants a more excellent sacrifice, namely our hearts and lives back from Satan
to Him. He wants love, a contrite /broken heart, obedience, justice,
righteousness and mercy and He hates sacrifices without that.[33] The
sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God,
You will not despise.[34]
And Samuel said, Does Jehovah delight in
burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to
obey is better than sacrifice! To listen is better than the fat of rams! For
rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and
idol-worship.[35]
The sacrifice of the wicked / morally wrong is hateful to God; how much more
when he brings it with a wicked mind?[36]
This third lie believed in Bible readers says that if
we sin, Jesus Christ is the sacrifice FOR our sins, He pays for our past,
present and future sins and debt; He died in our place; He took the wrath of God and God punished Him
in our place; He is our substitute; He has taken our guilt and sins and we become
righteousness in Him; God no longer sees our sins but Christ’s blood sacrifice,
payment and righteousness; and He satisfied and expiated God’s wrath and
punishment required for our law-breaking. It says we only need to believe it
and accept Him as Saviour and we will be forgiven and acquitted by grace, and
we will not die even if we continue sinning. It says we then only need to live
in thankfulness as best as we can but we cannot be, and do not need to be,
holy. It says if we can be holy, we will not need the sacrifice of Jesus for
our sins. It is the same lie Kain believed and that every false religion
believes, just in another wrapping – and sins continue.
THE TRUTH:
The truth is that our sins,
disobedience, unbelief and approaching God like Kain with sacrifices whilst the
heart is hard and sinful - as if God is an idol that does not see or feel or
love, greatly grieve God’s heart. Sin is actually adultery and harlotry in the
face of God with the Snake, Satan![37] And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart.[38] Reproach has broken my heart, and I am
full of heaviness;[39]
because I was broken/crushed by their whoring heart which has departed from Me,
and with their whoring eyes which go after their idols.[40]…
but you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.[41]
But they rebelled, and troubled His Holy Spirit;[42]
But with whom was He grieved forty years?[43]
The animal sacrifices of the Old
Testament was not meant to be used or seen as a payment for sin or as an
appeasement of the wrath of God, but it was meant to effect / afflict their
hearts and to be a remedy for and cleansing from the defilement of sin.
And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess
over him all the sins of the sons of Israel, and all their
transgressions in all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and
shall send away by the hand of a chosen man into the wilderness.[48]
And the goat shall bear on him all their sins to a land in which no one
lives. And he shall let the goat go in the wilderness. And it shall be a
statute forever to you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you
shall afflict your souls and do no work at all,
the native and the alien who is staying among you. For on that day a remedy for defilement/ purging[49]
shall be made for you, to cleanse you, so that you may be
clean from all your sins before Jehovah. It shall be a sabbath of
rest to you, and you shall afflict
your souls, by a statute
forever.[50]
For the life of the flesh is in the blood.
And I have given it to you on the altar to make a remedy for the defilement[51]
for your souls. For it is the blood that makes remedy for defilement / kaphar
of the soul.[52]
The people should have stopped and thought deeply of the terrible suffering
of the innocent lamb carrying their sins. It should have afflicted them deeply to
cleanse them and make them stop with sins forever. Instead, they saw it as
payment for their guilt and sins, their hearts were not afflicted and remained unchanged
- and they kept on sinning, thinking their guilt has been paid for or attoned
for! God did not want that and eventually God hated and rejected them and their
sacrifices.
HEAR GOD’S WORD:
Isa 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, You rulers of
Sodom; Give ear to the law of our God, You people of Gomorrah:
GOD has NO DELIGHT, SEES AS ABOMINABLE, CANNOT ENDURE, HATES, IS TROUBLED AND IS WEARIED BY SACRIFICES WITH
SIN AND HE WILL NOT HEAR PRAYERS BUT TAKE VENGENCE, WILL ashame, embarrass, fade,
unquenchable burn, DEVOUR WITH SWORD,
RID HIMSELF, DESTROY AND WILL CONSUME THE TRANSGRESSSORS AND SINNERS.
God commands: Bring no more futile sacrifice, Wash
yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before
My eyes. Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the
oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow and obey willingly.
If this is done, THEN GOD will
clean us, give good to eat, purge away dross, restore righteousness and faithfulness and
redeem with justice.[53]
God, repeatedly, early and late,
sent His law and prophets. Therefore,
behold, I send prophets, wise men, and scribes to you. And you will kill and
crucify some of them. And some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and
persecute from city to city; so that on you may come all the righteous bloodshed
on the earth.[54] Just pause and think what God must
have felt when He has put His holy words into the mouths of these holy men who
loved Him so deeply but who were repeatedly rejected, disobeyed, silenced and
killed by every sinner—and all of us. At one time, it became so terrible that God
drowned all of them. Next time He will burn everyone who kept on sinning with
an everlasting fire.
However, God still loves all
people perfectly and equally and does not want that any should perish and burn
in hell but that they should repent and live eternally with Him in heaven.[55]
In God’s ultimate effort to prove His love, sincerity and
power, to save man from their sins and that no man may ever blame Him for their
condemnation, He sent His only beloved Son, as Himself[56] and His
heart,[57] whilst perfectly
knowing what will happen to Him. But
last of all, he sent his son to them, saying, they will respect my son. But
when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, this is the
heir. Come, let us kill him, and get hold of his inheritance.[58] For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me
up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen on Me.[59]Jesus Himself bore our sins in His own body
on the tree,[60]
and He was wounded because of/through
our transgressions; He was bruised because of /through our iniquities.[61] Thus
says the lord, the one rescuing you, the God of Israel, Sanctify the one
treating his life as worthless, the one being abhorred by the nations, the servant of the rulers.[62]
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair:
I hid not my face from shame and spitting.[63]
so the sight of your appearance shall be despised by men, you and your glory by
the sons of men.[64]
He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with
grief; and we hid, as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised,
and we esteemed Him not.[65] ..
and my / our sins delivered up the lord. And he, because of being
afflicted by evil, opened not his mouth. Because of the lawless deeds of my people
he was led unto death. .. For He shall bear their iniquities / sins. … and he himself bore the sins of many, and
because of their lawless deeds he was delivered up.[66]
WE MARTYRED AND MURDERED OUR
MESSIAH THROUGH OUR SINS!!!
The suffering of the scapegoat
(falsely accused) in the wilderness whilst innocently carrying the sins of the
nation (Lev 16), was pointing towards this Lamb of God who was slain from the
foundation of the world – since Adam and Kain and by every sinner. All this was
intended to break and convict their hearts to return to God.
Every person who does not give
God the love, fruits, reverence and obedience due to Him, crushes Him and also
silences and kills Jesus, the true Owner and Saviour of his life so that he can do as he likes with God’s home and property.
Jesus came to save us and win us back to God that God may forgive us and may
live in our hearts, but our sins against God rejected, struck and fell on
Jesus. On the cross of Jesus, we can now all clearly see what sin truly is and
does to Him. Sins pierce, crush, and murder our own Creator and Father in
heaven. Oh, our callousness and guilt...! That is why hell is the right and
deserved place for all who keep on doing this to Him.
Jesus repeatedly said that He would be betrayed by
the chief priests and scribes and be handed over into the hands of the nations,
people, sinners (it is into our hands) and He will suffer through and be killed
by them/us: And the Son of Man will be
betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes. And they will condemn Him to
death and will deliver Him to the nations. And they will mock Him, and will
scourge Him, and will spit on Him, and will kill Him.[67] These three lies spread by the chief
priests and scribes (the learned “reverends”, preachers and pastors) and by
most believers, do exactly this: it allows and excuses sin that betrays Jesus
and it allows people to continue piercing and crushing Him.
After we have all rejected and murdered Jesus in
and because of/through/by our sinful hearts, as the Jews did, God sends His
Holy Spirit of truth and in grace to us to plead with us to open our eyes and
to see what we have done to Him. And I
will pour on the house of David, and on the people of Jerusalem, the spirit of
grace and of supplication. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced,
and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be
bitter over Him, as the bitterness over the first-born. In that day shall be a
great mourning in Jerusalem. And the land shall mourn, each family apart; all
the families who remain, each family apart and their wives apart... Zech.
12:10-14.
Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said exactly
this: ….this One given to you by the
before-determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken and by
lawless hands, crucifying Him, you put Him to death; Therefore let all the
house of Israel know assuredly that God made this same Jesus, whom you crucified,
both Lord and Christ.[68]
But you denied the Holy and Just One and desired a murderer to be given to you.
And you killed the Prince of Life...[69]
The Jews (and we all should) suddenly realized and saw that they had indeed
betrayed, denied and murdered their own Father, God and Messiah for whom they
had been waiting for thousands of years! They all stood utterly condemned
before God. They were (again, as we all should be) deeply cut and devastated in
their hearts and cried out for help and what to do now. Then Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in
the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift
of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all
those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other
words he earnestly testified and exhorted, saying, be saved from this perverse
generation.[70]
And now, brothers, I know that you did it through ignorance, as also your
rulers did. Therefore repent and convert so that your sins may be blotted out,
when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.[71]
And they did it and God filled them with His HOLY SPIRIT. Thereafter their
lives were totally transformed, they feared God and could not tolerate sin
anymore. Then they understood what is done to the least, is done to Jesus and
they even sold all they had in excess and shared it according to need. It was
so serious that just a lie was punished with death.
The Holy Spirit of grace also now pleads with you to
look up to Him whom you have pierced through sins and to deeply mourn and be in
bitterness for what you have done to Him, just as much as if your only child
should die! Think of the terrible pain a parent feels when his only child dies.
That is what you should feel for Jesus whom you have grieved and pierced
through each of your sins! If you do not feel it and have never felt it, your
eyes are still blind and closed.
However, if we hear and obey the Holy Spirit, we
will also be deeply struck in our hearts and we will also thoroughly repent
from all our sins. With deep mourning and bitterness we will admit and confess that
we have pierced God and Jesus through all our sins. Then, “In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David, and
to the people of Jerusalem, for/against sin and for uncleanness. And it shall
be in that day, says Jehovah of Hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols
out of the land, and they shall be remembered no more. And also I will cause
the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.[72]
The realization that God is deeply grieved and Jesus is wounded and bleeds
through our sins will flow like a mighty river against our sin and
unrighteousness and it will cleanse and deliver us from it. So God will drive
out the idols, false prophets and unclean spirits from our hearts. That is why those
first believers sold all they had in excess. Lies will be intolerable, truth
will be more important than family ties or love, preachers will admit their
folly and stop their deceptions, persecution will start and believers will be
refined and will worship God in truth. And God will accept them.[73] Without
this, we cannot be forgiven, cleansed or delivered from sin and we will never
find true righteousness and holiness.
All along, our sins deeply grieved the heart of God
and, at a point in history, He allowed Himself in Jesus to be crucified,
bearing the sins of the whole world, to once and for all openly show all
mankind what sins have been doing to Him since Adam. He did to expose the true
hellish character of sin,[74] to
utterly condemn sin in our lives,[75] to
leave it without any excuse and to conquer it[76] and so
that He might win and buy us back with His own blood![77] 1 Pet.
2:24 says: He Himself bore our sins in
His own body on the tree that we having died to sins (having stopped with
sins), we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. Carefully
consider His absolute, overwhelming, sacrificial and true love and how your
sins hurt Him! If you now have a tender heart to the Holy Spirit’s pleading and
you realize what you and the whole world have indeed done to Jesus for all
these years through every sin, your heart will also be totally shattered and
changed. It will surely cause you to deeply repent from and confess all sins
with true remorse and bitterness and to reconcile with God. Then the scriptures,
for example, 2 Chr. 7:14, Zech. 13 and Acts 2:38-39, will be fulfilled whereby
God promises forgiveness, deliverance and cleansing from those sins and filling
with His Holy Spirit onto holiness so
that you may stop sinning and stop eating of the forbidden tree. Then God will
heal our hearts and land. And we will love Him much for we have been forgiven
and set free from very much.[78]
This was the overwhelming heavenly light Paul also saw
on his way to Damascus when Jesus asked him why he was persecuting Him. He
suddenly realized he was persecuting and killing the Messiah through his sins whilst he thought he was serving God! That
shocked him so deeply that he stopped eating and drinking for three days — ready
to rather die than live with that guilt —whilst praying and pleading for mercy.
God heard him and forgave him. After that, he was totally and permanently
changed.[79]
This is the insight and light every man needs, even the most religious and
devout.
This message of the cross of Jesus is indeed the
power and wisdom of God for all who are being saved.[80] If your
heart is right, you will most definitely also feel this power of God shaking
the depths of your heart, saving you and stopping you from allowing any sin at
all in your life. Other wise words without the message of the cross make the
cross of no effect and thus the wisdom and power of God too.[81] That is
why Paul said: And I, brothers, when I
came to you, did not come with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to
you the testimony of God, for I determined not to know anything among you
except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.[82]
Every man who truly experienced this power of God through the cross will
never speak other excellent words and leave the cross of Jesus out. I do not set aside the grace of God; for if
righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.[83]
WE CANNOT BECOME RIGHTEOUS WITHOUT THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRITST. If this message
of the cross is foolishness to you, you do not know the power of God, you are
not being saved, and you are heading for eternal death.
The Word of
God became flesh,[84] that is
Jesus. Therefore, every time we break God’s Words and commands, we also break and
wound Jesus. So we have wounded Him and broken Jesus thousands of times!
What is also done to the least (especially the
unborn), is done to Him.[85] When
the church leaders and their congregations allow and tolerate things like
abortion, slavery, apartheid,
discrimination, poverty, etc. they do the same to Jesus and so again hand Him
over to suffer and be killed! Oh, our guilt…!
THE LORD’S SUPPER
The reason why Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper
is now obvious. Jesus bore our sins in His body on the cross and we are His murderers
and condemned. However, God is willing to make a new contract, or testament,
with us. We need to examine and judge ourselves thoroughly and confess our sins
and what they did to Jesus with true remorse. We need to repent from it all.
Then we take the bread, which represents His body and we tear and break it in
pieces and chew it admitting/confessing/proclaiming/openly signifying and remembering
that we have broken His body and will break it again with each sin. We also pour
the wine, signifying His blood and life, and we drink it admitting/confessing, signifying
and remembering that we have poured out His blood and life, and will pour it
out again by sinning. If we do this sincerely and truthfully, God’s part of the
contract is that He will forgive, deliver and cleanse us from our sins. That is
why Jesus said: For this is My blood of
the new covenant, which is shed because of many for the remission (Gr = aphesis
= forgiveness and deliverance) of sins. Heb. 13:20-21 confirms this: Now may the God of peace... through the
blood of the everlasting covenant make you perfect in every good work to do His
will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus
Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. However, if we use the
Lord’s Supper unworthily (irreverently, condoning sin), and we do not repent
and we do not confess our guilt in His blood, we remain guilty of His body and
blood and we will even get sick and die early and be condemned with the world![86]
BAPTISM – DEATH AND LIFE WITH
CHRIST
When a person’s eyes are suddenly opened to all the
above, and he accepts and admits it, he will realize he is condemned to death
due to his sins and he has nothing ever to boast or feel proud about because he
has martyred his own Creator, God and Father to death and for many years! Then
he will in truth say and experience with Paul: But may it never be for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.[87] And he truly wants to and indeed dies with
Christ to sin, self and the world. He can no longer harbour, love and feel
proud about the things that caused Jesus’ pain and death. He will also
experience that he now rises with Christ and Christ will rise in him to a new
life in and with Him. Romans 6 will
now become his experience. He will further require and request to be buried
into Jesus’s death through baptism that he may also raise to a new life with
Him.[88] His
baptism will be the answer of a good
conscience toward God.[89]
DOES JESUS STILL SUFFER AND IS HE STILL CRUCIFIED?
We all know Jesus is not physically on earth
anymore and therefore cannot suffer and die physically repeatedly. He came in
Person once, suffered physically and died physically once, rose from the dead and
went to heaven and now sits to Judge all men for what they did to Him. But what
those sinners did to Jesus physically and in their hearts, we all would have
done to Him if He lived in our day because we all have the same sinful hearts
that they had. Therefore, if we sin, we do what they did and we also reject and
murder Jesus in our own hearts. If we deny it, our denial proves that we are
taking after them and are as blind as they were.
Rev. 13:8 says He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. When Adam and Eve ate
of the forbidden fruit, they grieved, pierced and crushed the heart of God and
they did the same to Jesus who is in the bosom of the Father,[90] and they slew Him. Since then, every sinner
has been doing the same.
God is alive. He sees, hears, feels, loves, is
jealous, longs and gets angry. Sins therefore hurt Him deeply. Those who deny
it, worship a dead and lifeless god.
The whole Bible is applicable to every man that
ever lived. We are all guilty of all the sins ever done, for if we break the
least of the law, we break the whole law and are guilty of all the laws and
sins.
When Cain slew Abel, he also slew Jesus for Jesus
was in Abel. He also broke God’s heart and quenched and grieved His Holy
Spirit. If we do not live like Abel, we are still Cain who slays Abel amongst
us and we do the same to Jesus.
Isaiah, through the Holy Spirit, included himself
and every man when he wrote Is. 53. V5: But
He was wounded because of/through OUR transgressions; He was bruised because of/through
OUR iniquities.
Zechariah said that all tribes of Israel and all
their women by themselves shall look up to Him whom they have pierced and mourn
for Him, even though only a few people physically wounded Jesus.
Jesus Himself said what is done to the least is
done to Him. Therefore, every sin to the least is also done to Jesus.
Jesus is the Word of God. If we break any Word of
God, we also break and wound Him.
The
Bible says if we do not love someone, we hate him and if we hate someone, we murder
him. If we do not love Jesus, we hate and murder Him all the same, though not
physically.
Jesus
charged the Jews with the blood of all the righteous ever shed on earth even though they did not physically shed
Abel’s or the prophets’ blood.[91] Therefore,
we are also guilty of all the righteous blood ever shed on earth and even the
blood of Jesus, Stephen, Peter, John, Paul, etc. if we sin against what they
said.
All
the old prophets spoke the words of God and Jesus is the Word of God. If the
prophets were persecuted and wounded for the words they spoke, the One who
spoke through them was also wounded and persecuted, and the same is still
happening today.
Jesus
charged Paul for persecuting Him, though Paul was not persecuting Jesus physically
in person.
Paul
said that we are again guilty of the body and blood of Jesus if we use the
Lord’s Supper unworthily.[92]
Gal.
3:1 …before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath
been evidently set forth, crucified among you? Paul illustrated the cross
of Jesus to them in such a way that they saw before their eyes Jesus was crucified
among them.
Jesus
has not finished suffering. Col. 1:24:...
and fill up in my flesh what is still lacking and remains to be completed of
Christ’s afflictions. He suffers with every one of His followers that
suffer.
Heb.
6:6 says: …. since they crucify the Son
of God afresh to themselves and put Him to an open shame. We can crucify
Him afresh in our own hearts. Heb.10:29 says
we can again trample the Son of God and His blood.
1 Pet.
2:24. Peter said that Jesus bore OUR SINS in His body on the cross even though
Peter never physically wounded Jesus. So Jesus bore my sins in His body and a
new sin causes a new wound. In Revelation 5:6 John saw Jesus many years later
in the midst of the throne as a Lamb freshly slain. He is still the same today
in heaven—freshly slain by every sin.
Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. What sins did to Him in
the past, sins still do to Him today. Therefore, Jesus is surely still
suffering spiritually and is killed by every sinner. A person who denies that
His sin caused and is still causing the wounds and death of Jesus, cannot be
forgiven for what he did to Jesus and remains guilty of His murder.
SUBSTITUTION:
This
third lie contradicts what God clearly commanded in several scriptures
according to which (human) vicarious atonement or substitutary death is
strictly forbidden. Each person is responsible for his or her own sins. The fathers shall not be put to death for
the sons, neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers. Every man
shall be put to death for his own sin.[93]
God will never punish an innocent person or accept a life sacrifice for the
sins of a sinner and murderer or accept a bribe (sacrifice) to declare a sinner
righteous and to declare a righteous man a sinner. It is said Jesus took our
sins and became a sinner before God and we received His righteousness before
God. That is totally contrary to the whole Scriptures and a deceptive lie of
Satan – that you may think you can eat of the forbidden tree and will surely
not die.
God
never wounded or punished Jesus in our place and Jesus never said God would do
it to Him. He always said it was sinners who were going to do it. All the
eyewitnesses also testified that wicked and sinful men murdered Him innocently.
Even a little child can tell who is guilty of Jesus’ murder. It is therefore terrible
blasphemy and even more painful to God to blame Him and make Him responsible
for Jesus’ wounds and death whilst we murdered Him through our sins and
whilst we deny our guilt and absolve ourselves. Oh, the injustice of these lies
is enormous. God knew beforehand[94] and
allowed Himself/Jesus to be wounded and killed for the heart-changing reasons mentioned,
as with the disciples and all martyrs, but He definitely did not make or cause
Jesus’ wounds.[95]
Jesus was God and God was in Him when He hung on the cross.[96] He did
not commit suicide. What was done to Jesus was done to God. Every strike on
Jesus, the only beloved and perfectly innocent and obedient Son of God, also
struck God. How twisted, blind and bewitched have we become to say and believe
God punished Jesus. It was you and me and all of us who caused His death!
The third lie causes the first two lies to be
easily accepted and believed and it discourages, makes obsolete and even
ridicules any earnest searching for complete deliverance from sin. This lie was
initially, and still is, accepted and taught by all who could not stop eating
of the forbidden fruit, who could not find complete deliverance from sin and
holiness and who needed an excuse or justification for their sins. Instead of
keeping steadfast faith (like Abraham, Joshua and Caleb) in God’s promises and
power to set them free from sin, they believed this lie to get around God’s commands
to comfort and to deceive themselves.
To believe this lie, all the Scriptures quoted so
far and numerous others contradicting this lie have to be ignored, twisted,
misinterpreted and were even wrongly translated to fit in with it. The most
profound was the translations and teachings that say Jesus was crucified “for”
us or “for” our sins whilst the original, Jesus’ own words, multiple collateral
scriptures and even plain logic state that Jesus was crucified “because of/
through/by” us and our sins.[97] For
example, Isa. 53:5 in Hebrew says: But he was wounded because
of/ through our transgressions, he was bruised because of/through
our iniquities (Please read the references carefully).
This lie also says that by faith we are justified,
meaning we are declared and seen as righteous and acquitted whilst we still
sin. The new Afrikaans Bible of 1983
even corrupted the scriptures to support this lie, especially in Romans, by
writing “by faith we are acquitted / ‘vrygespreek.’” “Once saved, always saved” is another variant
that believes all three these lies.
Some more committed people believe another variant
of these lies, namely, as long as you have confessed all your sins, you are OK
with God. Some take this a bit further and confess before counsellors or priests,
thinking that is better and more acceptable with God, but they keep on sinning
and murdering Jesus.
Believers of these lies also believe that Rom. 7 is
the normal believer’s life, that we cannot stop sinning and that it is not they
that sin, but sin that dwells in them. They believe they will always serve the
law of God with the mind but the law of sin with the flesh. To believe this
they have to ignore and twist all the scriptures saying: … from now on we should not serve sin. For sin shall not have
dominion over you; But thanks be to our God that you were the slaves
of sin; Then being made free from sin, you became the slaves of
righteousness. … even so now yield
your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness. But now, being made
free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to
holiness, and the end everlasting life. But the Law of the Spirit of life
in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. … so
that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not
according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.[98]
2Pet. 2:17-19 speaks about people who believe and
preach these three lies. These are wells
without water, clouds driven with a tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness
is reserved forever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they
lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were
escaping from those who live in error; promising them liberty, they themselves
are the slaves of corruption. For by whom anyone has been overcome, even to
this one he has been enslaved. This confirms exactly what Jesus said in John
8:34: Jesus answered them, truly, truly,
I say to you, whoever commits sin is the slave of sin. However, most people
still reject Jesus and His words, despite Him confirming three times that He
speaks the truth. Anyone who sins is a slave of sin, corruption and Satan and
when he speaks, his words are swelling words of emptiness and vanity, promising
liberty to the hearers which the poor hearers will never find and whilst the
speakers themselves are in slavery to sin. Eternal blackness of darkness is
reserved for them! If only they believed the Scriptures, they would have
repented and confessed with rented hearts, cried for deliverance—, and find it.
What a terrible tragedy whilst help is so near and so great!
All men can clearly see God's almighty power in
creation[99]
and Jesus’ power in His miracles[100] but
they still rather believe the lie that they will always sin, that Satan cannot
be destroyed in their lives and that Jesus fortunately paid for their guilt and
took their punishment if they continue sinning. They, in fact, believe God and
Jesus are unable to fully overcome their weaknesses and sins. In other words,
to them God is weaker than their weaknesses. This is the highest level of unbelief!! Such
people will die in their sins and go to hell
whilst God was fully willing and able to keep them from stumbling as the
Scriptures say[101] , but
they wilfully choose not to believe His Words neither His clear demonstration
of His abilities.
All the sin, enmity, pain, struggling, sorrow,
desires, oppression, thorns, thistles, and corruption in the churches and in mankind
result from believing these lies.[102]
Because these lies are believed, many Bible readers think they are now accepted
by God despite sinning. The result is that the conditions in 2 Chron. 7:14 are not
met, they do not humble themselves and they do not turn from all their wicked
ways—and their land, churches and hearts are not healed.
In summary: the case is very simple and straightforward.
We wound and murder Jesus with every sin and we are all condemned to hell for
it. If we admit it with true remorse, truly repent and make restitution, God
forgives us for what we have done and also delivers us from the slavery to sin
and Satan, cleanses us from our sin, makes us stop with it, fills us with His
Holy Spirit and makes us holy through His blood that we can enter heaven. There
is nothing else required and there is no other way. There is no need or
requirement for payment of any kind and especially not the payment of the blood
of Jesus for our sins and law breaking.
CORRECTED SUBSTITUTION SCRIPTURES:
This third lie further caused the wrong translation and interpretation
of several other Scriptures, for example:
a.
Isa.
53:5. The correct translation is: The
discipline / correction / instruction / admonishment for our peace was because
of / based upon Him.[103]
We are corrected and disciplined from our wrong ways towards / onto peace
because of Him because we realize He is despised, rejected, not esteemed,
pierced and crushed if we should sin. It is in harmony with the whole Bible.[104]
b.
Isa.
53:10. The correct translation is: Yet
it pleased Jehovah to be crushed; to be grieved;[105] God
did not crush and grieve Jesus as commonly taught incorrectly. God and Jesus
willingly allowed it and the effects He foresaw in our hearts pleased Him. So,
it pleased Him to be crushed.
This translation is in harmony with v4: Surely
He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we (wrongly) esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted,[106]
the whole chapter and the whole Bible and with common sense. Zech. 12:10 confirms
it: And they shall look on Me whom they
have pierced. WE pierced Him, definitely not God. He allowed us to do it to
Him.
c.
Matt.
27:46. My God, My God, why have You forsaken me? In view of everything, God
definitely did not forsake Jesus in anger and as punishment, for Jesus was God
Himself[107]
and He clearly said: Behold, the hour
comes, yea, has now come, that you will be scattered, each man to his own
things, and you will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father
is with Me.[108] God had
to “leave” Jesus to be killed by mankind for the reasons set out in the whole
article, otherwise mankind would not have been able to kill Jesus. Other
sources say: Eli, Eli, lmanashabachthani! My God, my God,
for this I was kept.[109]
“My power, my power, thou hast forsaken me.”[110]
d. Gal. 3:13. The correct translation is: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the
Law, being made a curse because of/through us (for it is written, "Cursed
is everyone having been hanged on a tree"). Mankind cursed Jesus and
crucified Him innocently through their sinful hearts. God will never curse
someone who is crucified innocently. Several disciples and believers were also
crucified and were surely not cursed by God. It is blasphemy to say God cursed
Jesus when we crucified Him innocently and when we cursed Him and treated Him
as a curse.
e. 2 Cor. 5:21. The correct translation
and interpretation is: For He has made
Him who knew no sin, to be sin because of/through/for us, that we might become
the righteousness of God in Him. Jesus bore our sins in His body. If we see
Him pierced and crushed, we see sin, what sin is, what it does, how evil,
devilish and inexcusable it is—hurting and killing our own Father! On the cross
we see sin to be the murderer of our God!! So the cross totally exposes and
condemns sin in us that we might confess it and die to it, that God can forgive
and deliver us and that we can become righteous and holy in Jesus. It is in
perfect harmony with everything else in the Scriptures and written in this
article.
f.
Col.
2:13-15. The correct interpretation of this portion is now obvious. Our
long list of sins and evil were nailed to and were openly displayed on the
cross/body of Jesus. On the cross we see our sins. We were damned to death. But
we looked up to Him whom we pierced, we repented, we confessed and God forgave
us. His blood washed, freed, cleansed and eradicated our sins from our hearts
and made us alive and gave us victory over sin and Satan.
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH:
By believing the above truths and not the lies, you
will be justified by your faith, meaning God will make you right, just,
righteous and holy because you believed Him. Or you will be justified (made
just, righteous and holy) by the deliverance/ riddance / redemption from sin
through Jesus[111]
and by the washing of sins and sanctification through the HOLY Spirit of God,[112] or you
will receive the gift of righteousness[113]
resulting in righteous living or justification of your life,[114] or
your obedience will result in righteousness[115] and
righteousness will result in holiness.[116] God
will re-birth you, fill you with the LIFE of Jesus and His Holy Spirit, you
will overcome the world through Him and your faith,[117]sin
will stop and the devil will not touch you.[118]All
because you have believed God’s words, commands and promises. John testified to
the reality of this in himself when he wrote: In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day
of judgment, that as He is, so also we are in this world.[119]
Stop and think what he is saying: perfect love, living like and the life of
Jesus. And we all must, and can, find it. What God did in John, He can and
wants to do in every man. Just think of
the hurt He feels when we do not believe or seek this godly life and gift…
Isa. 53:11.
By this knowledge of Him, shall My righteous Servant justify many; because He
shall bear their iniquities.[120]
If we know and believe He shall bear our iniquities and sins with pain and
suffering, sin will be inexcusable and intolerable to us and we will repent
from and confess it with deep remorse. Then Jesus will justify us, that is,
make us just, right and righteous and sin will stop. Then His commands will be truly
written in our hearts.
Rom. 4:25. Who was delivered up (to be killed) because of (Gr. dia) our offenses and was
raised because of (Gr. dia) our justification. Our sins delivered Him over
to and caused His death. If we are now justified, that is, made right, just and
righteous, we cause His resurrection and we raise Him from death and give Him
LIFE in our hearts, lives and communities!!
SELA—pause and think the implications. Astonishingly, the more willing you
are to confessing that you crucify Him through every sin in thought, word and
deed, the more He lives, grows and becomes alive in you!! This is indeed the
wisdom and power of God through the cross of Jesus.
From all the above, it can be seen that we are MADE
RIGHTEOUS and MADE JUST by God because we believed His words. Or we receive the
GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS from God resulting in the justification of our lives and
in holiness. So justification is exactly what it says: We are MADE JUST or
JUSTIFIED. We are NOT SEEN or DECLARED RIGHTEOUS whilst we continue with sins
just because we believed in and accepted Jesus. If you understand this, the
whole Romans will make wonderful sense.
We are, however, not immediately made righteous and
holy from the time we believe these truths. We first need to go through the
desert or a dark place. We also have a
more sure Word of prophecy, to which you do well to take heed, as to a light
that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Daystar arises in your
hearts.[121]
In this desert or dark place, God trains and tests our deepest faith and
obedience in His promises and commands to see if He can entrust us with His
wonderful gifts.[122] Here
we meet up spiritually with heat, thirst, hunger, bitter water, poisonous
snakes, etc. To those who fully believe, obey and persevere, God gives His wonderful
promises and gifts—because of their faith in and obedience to Him and His
words. These gifts are referred to as Canaan (the land overflowing with milk
and honey [the fruit of the Spirit} and victory over all the enemies [sins]), Mount
Zion, the highway of holiness, the Sabbath’s rest, the Daybreak, Daystar, born
of God and sin stops, power to become a child of God that does not sin, eternal
life, filled with the Holy Spirit, filled with all the fullness of God,[123] to the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Jesus Christ,[124]
perfect love, true righteousness and holiness,[125]partakers
of His divine nature,[126] white
clothes which are the righteous deeds of the saints, etc. Some who fully and truly
believe this but who may die before fully and constantly living this, for
example, the sinner on the right side of Jesus or those in Heb. 11, to them
also it will be given according to their true faith and obedience until the
time of their deaths. God knows us through and through and He will reward us
according to our faith and works.
UNBELIEF AND DISOBEDIENCE:
If you resist the Holy Spirit pleading with you to
do as above, there is no forgiveness for and no deliverance from your sins, but whosoever shall speak against the Holy
Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which
is to come.[127] Without shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness
or deliverance/remission.[128]
If you do not admit and confess that you have shed the blood of the Lamb of
God with every sin, you resist the Holy Spirit and there is no forgiveness or
deliverance from that sin. If you deny that you, through sinning, are equally guilty
of the blood of all the righteous ever shed on earth, from Abel to Zechariah to
Jesus and the apostles, by your denial you prove you are not seeing or accepting
the truth and that you are still taking after and have the same heart as those
murderers.[129]
Without holiness, you will not see God[130]
because you will keep on piercing Jesus and because Jesus was more than able to
forgive, cleanse and sanctify you perfectly[131] if
only you repented and confessed your guilt with deep remorse. Paul says that
someone who still disobeys the truth after the cross of Jesus is a bewitched
fool! O foolish Galatians, who did
bewitch you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly
set forth crucified?[132] To demonstrate the seriousness of
this, God struck Ananias and Sapphira dead after just a lie.[133]
We do not find holiness because of unbelief and
disobedience[134]
just like all the Israelites who died in the desert under the wrath of God.
They missed the land of promise because they did not believe it was possible to
enter. If we also do not believe God can make us holy even if it looks humanly
impossible, we will never find it, we will not enter eternal life and we will
not see God. What a tragedy whilst all things are indeed possible with God[135]and as He
promised!
THE TEST FOR TRUTH:
There is a simple but painful test to see if you
believe and know the truth. Everyone who
sins has not seen Him nor known Him.[136] Little children, let no one deceive you.
He who does righteousness is righteous, even as that One is righteous. He who
practices sin is of the Devil.[137]
The Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, and His Truth shall set us free indeed,
shall save, deliver and cleanse us from all sin and shall make us righteous,
holy and godly. If you still sin and have not found holiness, you do not yet
know God and are still of the devil. Do not deceive yourself to think you are
OK. Seek Him until you find Him.
Another test for yourself and your pastors is: Those
who do not believe or preach holiness are proud, knowing nothing, corrupted and
deprived of the truth. Stay away from them. This is according to 1Tim.6:3-5. 1Th
4:7-8 says: For God hath not called us
unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not
man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. Those who oppose
and despise holiness, reject God and are not true prophets of God.
THE CRUX:
Finally, in summary: the crux and solution. True forgiveness,
cleansing and deliverance from all sin, righteousness and holiness are only found
at the cross of Jesus.[138] I do not set aside the grace of God; for if
righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.[139]
If we could find righteousness by anything accept through and at the cross,
Jesus died in vain.
Do as above and persevere until you receive,
experience and live it. It is all by grace—whilst you deserved eternity in hell!
How will we escape if we despise so great a salvation from all our sins?[140]
SELA! Read more at: http://messiahcrucified2012.blogspot.com/
WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW?
As in Acts 2-4, you are also now charged with the
murder of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. We know you were, like us, also ignorant
but now you need to confess it and thoroughly repent from all your sins that
God can forgive and cleanse you from it and fill you with His Holy Spirit.
Harbour no sin or you will be utterly destroyed.
Then we need to tell the world these things as
Jesus commanded: And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, all authority is given to Me
in Heaven and in earth. Therefore, go and teach all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you all
the days until the end of the world. Amen.[141]
If we do not warn them, we allow them to keep on piercing Jesus and they
will die because of their sins and their blood will be required from our hands.[142] Many
will hate hearing these things, they will reject and persecute us and they will
not realize this message is actually the pleasant time of the Lord’s visitation.[143] As
with Jerusalem and Israel after they rejected Jesus and the disciples, their
“cities” will also be left destitute and will be destroyed soon.[144]
Judgement will start in the house of God. [145]
It is obvious that serious errors have entered almost
the whole of Christianity, especially amongst the learned. So many things have
gone wrong because of believing and preaching these lies. They will most
probably not accept this message and this new wine cannot be put into the old
wineskins. Therefore, we need to start with new Biblical fellowships/gatherings
whilst we continue to be witnesses in our current churches until we are driven
out. We suggest these new meetings take place at times and places which do not
collide with current church times. Therefore, we meet on Sunday and Wednesday
mornings at 5.00 am! (In times of
revival, the committed believers often met daily and very early in the
mornings.)
Here are some Scriptures as guidelines as to how
the true body of Christ should function:
a.
1 Sam. 8. God chooses, equips and anoints His
own judges and overseers. Worldly systems, people and churches rather appoint
and respect the trained, qualified, learned and the eloquent to rule and speak
alone like kings, but it is obvious that God’s wisdom is hidden from them.
b.
False prophets believe and preach these three
lies. True prophets preach and live godliness and holiness. If a prophet does
not preach godliness and holiness, Paul says he is proud, knowing nothing,
argumentative, corrupted and deprived of the truth and we should withdraw from
such people (1 Tim. 6:3-5). Obviously, we need to first tell them the truth and
follow the Biblical prescripts with them, for example in Matt. 18.
c.
d.
Mat23:1-11
They do not do as the Pharisees who speak and do not, who love front seats, who
love honourable titles e.g. Teacher, Pastor, Father, Reverend, Bishop, etc. All
are equal brothers and the one serving is the greatest.
e.
Luke
22:25-26: And He said to them, the kings of the nations exercise lordship over
them. And they who exercise authority on them are called benefactors. But you
shall not be so: but the greater among you, let him be as the lesser, and he
who governs, as one who serves. Jesus is head. Members are all brothers and
serve each other and no one rules.
f.
1 Cor.
12:4-11: But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing
separately to each one as He desires. Each member has a function/gift.
g.
Matt.
11:25, Luke 10:21: In that hour Jesus rejoiced in Spirit and said, I thank You,
Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the
sophisticated and cunning, and have revealed them to babes. Yes, Father, for so
it was pleasing before You.
In 1 Cor. 1:19-29, Paul confirmed that God chooses the weak, unlearned,
seemingly foolish, lowly, base, insignificant and despised for His work and
will destroy the worldly wise, prudent, learned, qualified, scribes, mighty and
noble so that they can boast and be proud of nothing and will look down on no
one. These three lies believed and preached by practically all the learned,
illustrate exactly this truth.
h.
1 Cor. 12:22: But much rather the
members of the body seeming to be weaker are necessary. Because God chooses
to use the seemingly weaker rather than the high and learned.
i.
1 Cor. 12:24: For our presentable members
have no need, but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honour
to the member having need; This happens through His gifts
given and wisdom revealed to the humble/poor/least/lowly.
j.
1 Cor. 12:25: ...that there not be
division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for
one another. Factions and divisions are prevented by the above.
k.
There is then equal care for all. Wonderful!
Praise God!
l.
All may
and are encouraged to prophesy/preach. 1 Cor. 14:1: Follow after
charity and desire spiritual things, but rather that you may prophesy.
1 Cor. 14:5: I wish all of you to speak in languages, but rather
that you may prophesy. 1
Cor. 14:24: But if all
prophesy,.. 1 Cor. 14:31: For you may all prophesy one by one. 1
Cor. 14:39: So then, brothers, seek to prophesy. Godly apostles, like Paul, will
encourage and allow all to prophesy.
“Prophesying” is to speak words of edification, exhortation, comfort,
convincing, conviction, judgement v24, as the words of God 1 Pet. 4:11. That is “speaking the heart and mind of God.” Carnal unbiblical
preachers preach alone.
m. 1
Cor. 14:26: Then how is it, brothers? When you come together, each one of
you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an
interpretation. Let all things be for building up. Each member contributes
to the meeting as God equips.
n.
1 Cor. 14:29: And if there are
two or three prophets, let them speak, and let the others judge. This
allows God to speak through whomever He chooses and will prevent the clever,
noble and learned to only speak whilst God has hidden His wisdom from them.
o.
Others are encouraged to judge the
preaching.
p.
1 Cor. 14:30: If a revelation is
revealed to another sitting by, let the first be silent. Anyone with a
word/revelation is free to contribute.
q.
1 Cor. 14:28: But if there is no
interpreter, let him be silent in a church; and let him speak to himself and to
God. No tongues are allowed in church if there is no interpreter.
r.
1 Cor. 14:33: For God is not the
author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. 1 Cor.
14:40: Let all things be done decently and in order. There is
order.
s.
1 Cor. 14:24: But if all prophesy,
and some unbeliever or one not instructed comes, he is convicted by all, he is
judged by all. And so the secrets of his heart become revealed. And so, falling
down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you. THIS IS REVIVAL and will happen if all
prophesy and bring a word from God.
t.
1 Cor. 14:34: Let your women be silent
in the churches; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be in
subjection, as the Law also says. Women do not preach/teach/prophecy.
u.
1 Cor. 14:37: If anyone thinks to be a
prophet, or a spiritual one, let him recognize the things I write to you, that
they are a commandment of the Lord. These instructions are commandments of
God.
v.
Deut. 30:11-14 and Rom. 10:6-8. God will give
His word and will into our hearts and mouths—from amongst us and most likely
from the seemingly weakest and less honourable! We should not think it will
come to us from afar or the high and learned.
w.
A Godly life over time qualifies a person to
lead and preach. 1 Tim. 3; Titus 1:5-16; 1 Cor. 1:17-30. Before anyone speaks,
he should test himself with these scriptures and by the hearers.
x.
All members work with their own hands for
themselves, their families and the needy.
Acts 20:34-35; 1 Cor. 4:12; 1 Thess.
4:11-12; 2 Thess. 3:7-12; 1 Cor. 9:12-18.
y.
Jesus and all the apostles commanded, pleaded
and prayed for unity amongst God’s children and it will happen if we are all
cleansed from sin, self and the world, and are filled with the Holy Spirit.[146]
Because we now know disunity breaks God’s heart and wounds the body of Christ,
we must go as far as possible to resolve issues Biblically (Rom. 12:18).
z.
If anyone in the fellowship errs, the following
scriptures are followed: Matt. 18; 1 Cor. 5 & 6; Gal. 6:1; 2 Thess. 3:6, 14-15; 1 Tim. 5:1-2,
19-21; 2 Tim. 2:25-26; Titus 3:8-11; Jas 5:19; 2 John 1:10.
CONCLUSIONS FROM THE ABOVE:
a.
It is obvious from the above that the current
church structure, systems, and traditions are unscriptural and have led and
will always again lead to great error because people from whom God hides His
wisdom are leading and preaching and because they do not consider or hear the
lowly and contrite to whom God reveals His wisdom and gives His gifts. If the
above scriptures were believed and practiced in the churches, serious errors like
these three lies, abortion, slavery, apartheid, racism, factions, inequality,
divorce, discrimination and remarriage, etc. would have been addressed and
corrected. Churches have now indeed become a den of robbers that robs the sheep
of truth (and money) and churches have become dens of sinners that sit happily
and content in the pews.
b.
A godly preacher will never rule and preach
alone because he knows the above. A preacher who speaks alone and a church that
gives no opportunity for all and the least to freely preach or speak as God
leads, have gone against God’s word, Holy Spirit and wisdom. The current
churches restricted this “for fear of false teaching” but ironically, exactly
that allowed and bred false teachers.
c.
Academic qualifications and learning by
themselves are no spiritual qualification and are actually stumbling blocks as
can be seen from the above. It is because the learned think they know better
and then do not listen to or consider the lowly and base whilst God’s wisdom is
hidden from the learned. That is why Paul counted all his learning, status and
achievements as dung.[147] If the
eyes of the learned are opened, they will do the same as Paul and they will do
as Zechariah prophesied in chapter 13.
d.
The
above will encourage co-responsibility and prevent blaming others for problems
in the church because everyone now has a role and can bring a prophetic word to
correct problems and to correct the church.
e.
It will also prevent a fellowship revolving
around and depending on an individual or cultish leader.
f.
There is no reason or place to appoint and pay
individuals as full-time preachers because in the true church, all may preach.
(Why would only one be singled out to preach and be paid for it?) This will
prevent false prophets feeding on the sheep and enriching themselves. A preacher paid to preach will not be able to
speak godly truths to those who pay him. Exceptions might be missionaries sent
out by their congregations.
g.
The current church leaders will most likely not
accept the above but fight it vehemently, as in the time of Jesus, Acts and
through all the ages. That is because they do not have God’s wisdom and it will
require confession of their folly, repentance, self-denial, total renunciation
of their positions, status and qualifications and a rebirth and restart. For most, the price will be too big. If,
however, some do repent, Jesus said: Therefore
every scribe who is instructed/ discipled/ becomes a pupil to the kingdom of
Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out things new and old
out of his treasure (Matt. 13:52). They will be able to bring out wonderful
new and old treasures from their old learning.
OTHER POINTS:
1. God
commands us to defend the case of the poor and oppressed.[148] A
person or church that stands apathetic towards abortion and the politics that
legalized it and by which it can be stopped or opposed through as little as a
cross is disobeying God and denies and betrays Jesus.
2.
It is truly practically impossible for a rich
man to enter heaven[149] even
if he gives away a lot. It is because he can only stay rich and keep back for
and spend on himself much more than he requires because he has hardened his
heart and closed his eyes for the needs all around him and because he rejected
God who commands him to do to others what he wants to be done to himself. But
God is able to totally change such a callous heart to be like His own heart.
That will be a greater miracle than for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle. It is humanly impossible but it is possible with God to change such a
man so completely.
3. You
can see in all of the above why the true gospel of Jesus will be accepted by
the humble, contrite, lowly, and poor and by those who tremble at God’s word
and who realize and accept they are utterly sinful and lost.[150] They
will accept it with gladness and storm the gates of heaven to find it.[151]
THE WAY FORWARD:
New fellowships now need to be organized along the
Biblical prescripts mentioned above. If you live in or around Bloemfontein and
you agree with the above and want to be a part and help in establishing and
building up the true body of Christ, we invite you to meet together with us
every Sunday and Wednesday morning at 6 a.m. at …………………….. As soon as there are
a few people from the same area in Bloemfontein and God leads so, they will
meet in their own areas and once a month all in Bloemfontein will meet together
to share God’s word and work amongst us - DV. We started a group on Facebook -
Messiah Crucified Fellowships. All these activities will be posted on it. Please
join and follow us there.
Those of you in other towns may want to start your
own fellowships with similar minded believers - as God leads. If you want to
start a fellowship, decide on a place to meet and post your names and the address
of the meetings on the Facebook page so that others can see where the meetings
in each town will take place.
We will also print this document in a small booklet
by means of which we can spread the message and invite people. You can also use
it to study the scriptures quoted. You are free to copy it or order booklets
from us.
May God
fulfil the following wonderful words amongst us.
Eph. 1:22: And He
has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to
the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Eph.
4:11-13: And truly He gave some to be apostles, and some to be prophets, and
some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, for the perfecting
of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the
body of Christ. And this until we all come into the unity of the faith
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of
the stature of the fullness of Christ; Come
Lord Jesus, come quickly to fully fill us with your Holy Spirit.
Eph. 6:24 Grace be
with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
Faan Oosthuizen: 083 265 9395, sdoosthuizen@xsinet.co.za.
January 2014
[1]
Gen. 2:17 (Heb. dying thou shalt die)
[2]
Gen. 6:5-6
[3]Ezek.
6:9
[4]
Gen. 3
[5]
Ezek.18:1-32; Matt.3:1-12, 7:22-23;13:41-42, 49-50; Luke 3:1-18; 13:27-28; Acts
5:1-16; Rom. 1:28-32; 2:8-9,6:23; 1 Cor. 6:9-10; Gal. 5:19-21; Eph. 5:5; Col. 3:5-6;Heb.12:14; Rev.
21:8, 27; 22:15
[6]Ezek.
18:4
[7]
Rev. 21:8
[8]Deut.
8:3; Matt. 4:4; Luke 4:4
[9]
Acts 3:22-23
[10]Prov.
28:13-14
[11]Lev.
26:39-42; Deut.30:9-11; 2 Chr. 15:4; 2 Chr. 15:15; Neh. 1:9; Isa. 55:6-7; Jer. 3:12-15;
Jer. 29:11-14
[12]
Gen 3:15
[13]
1 John 1:8 Wuest writes in Vol. 2, p.103 ‘“sin” here is singular in number and
is used without the definite article, all pointing to the fact that the nature
is referred to, not to sinful acts.’ This verse therefore means: Someone who
says he has no sinful nature, i.e. there is no possibility for him to sin, is a
liar.
[14]Isa.
64:6
[15]Rom.
3:23
[16]Exod.
19:6; Lev. 11:44-45; Lev. 20:7, 26;21:8; Matt. 5:48; 2 Cor. 7:1; 1 Pet. 1:15-16
[17]Exod.
31:13; Lev. 20:8;21:8; Ezek. 20:12, 37:28; John 17:19;Eph. 5:25-27; 1 Cor. 1:30;
1 Thess. 5:23; 2 Thess. 2:13
[18]
Isa. 57:15-19; Ezek. 36:25-33; Ezek. 37:24-28; 2 Cor. 6:16-7:1; 3:6; Heb. 8:6-13,
9:15, 10:16-17; Heb. 13:20-21
[19]Jer.
32:40
[20]Ezek.
36:27
[21]Ezek.
37:24
[22]Isa.
35:8; Jer. 31:9, 31:32-34; Heb. 8:10-12
[23]Zech.
12:8
[24]
Jer. 50:20, Jer. 31:34; Num. 23:21; Isa. 11:9, 43:25; Isa. 44:22; Mic. 7:19;
Acts 3:19, 26; Rom. 8:10-12, 33-34; Heb. 10:17-18
[25]
Matt. 1:21; Ps. 130:7-8; Isa. 12:1-2; Isa. 45:21-22; Jer. 23:6, 33:16; Ezek. 36:25-29;
Dan. 9:24; Zech. 9:9; John 1:29; Acts 3:26, 4:12, 5:31, 13:23, 13:38-39, Eph. 5:25-27;
Col. 1:20-23; Titus 2:14; Heb. 7:25; 1 John 1:7, 1 John2:1-2, 1 John 3:5; Rev. 1:5-6,
Rev. 7:14
[26]John
8:36, John 8:31-32; Isa. 49:24-25, Isa. 61:1; Luke4:18-19
[27]Zech.
12:10-13:9; 1 John 1:7; Heb. 9:14,10:29; Rev. 1:5; 7:14
[28]
1 John 3:8; Gen. 3:15; Isa. 27:1; Mark 1:24; Luke 10:18; John 12:31, John 16:11;
Rom. 16:20; Col. 2:15; Heb. 2:14;
[29]
Heb. 7:25
[30]
Rev. 12:11
[31]Luke
1:74-75; Eph. 5:25-27; Col. 1:22; Titus 2:14; Heb. 13:12, 20-21; Rev. 1:5; 7:14
[32]
Jude 24; Joh_10:29-30; Rom_14:4; Eph_3:20; 2Ti_4:18
[33]
Mat 9:13; Mat 12:7; Isa_1:11-17; Jer 7:21-26; Hos_6:6; Mic_6:6-8; Pro_15:8;21:3,
27; Psa 51:16-17; Mar_12:33; Heb_13:16; 1Pe_2:5;
[34]
Ps 51:17;
[35]
1Sam 15:22-23
[36]
Pro 21:27
[37]
Hos 1:2; Jer_3:1-4, Jer_3:9; Eze_6:9
[38]Gen. 6:5-6; Psa 78:40; Psa 95:10; Luke 19:41-42;
Heb 3:10.
[39]Ps.
69:20
[40]Ezek.
6:9
[41]Isa.
43:24
[42]Isa.
63:10
[43]Heb.
3:17
[44]Isa_63:10;
Eph. 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit
of God. Is 63:10
[45]1
Thess. 5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
[46]
Act 7:51
[47]
Heb_10:29
[48]
Lev 16:21-22
[49]
Atonement = Kaphar in Hebr = remedy for the defilement, cleansing, purging,
putting off, forgiving. See Is 6:7, Eze 43:20.
[50]
Lev 16:29-31
[51]
Atonement = Kaphar in Hebr = remedy for the defilement, cleansing, purging,
putting off, forgiving. See Is 6:7, Eze 43:20.
[52]
Lev 17:11
[53]
Isaiah 1:10-31;
[54]
Matt. 23:34-39; Luke 11:49; Act s 7:51-52; Jer. 7:25, Jer. 11:7, Jer. 25:3, Jer.
35:15, Jer. 44:4; 2 Chr. 36:15-16; Neh. 9:29-30;
Prov. 1:24; Isa. 50:2, Isa.65:12, Isa. 66:4; Hos. 11:2, Hos. 11:7; Zech. 7:13;
[55]Ezek.
18:32, 33:11; Lam. 3:33; Hos. 11:8; 1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Pet. 3:9; Exod. 34:6-7; Job. 33:27-28;
Ps. 147:11; Jer. 31:20; Mic. 7:18; Luke 15:4-7, Luke 15:10, Luke 15:22-24, Luke
15:32
[56]Isa.
7:14; Isa. 9:6; John 1:1-2, 14;8:58; 10:30; 14:9, 1Tim. 3:16; 1 John 5:20.
[57]John
1:18
[58]
Matt. 21:33- 46; Mark 12:6; Luke 20:13; Heb. 1:1-2
[59]
Ps. 69:9; Ps. 89:50-51; Rom. 15:3
[60]
1 Pet. 2:24; Lev. 16:22; Isa. 53:11; John 1:29; Heb. 9:28
[61]
Isa. 53:5; Ps. 69:20; Rom. 4:25
[62]
Is. 49:7 ABP
[63]
Is. 50:6
[64]
Is 52:14 ABP
[65]
Is 53:3
[66]
Is 53:6-12 ABP
[67]
Isa. 53:3; Matt. 16:21; 17:22-23; 20:19; 26:45; Mark 9:12-31; 10:33-34; 12:7-8; 14:41; Luke 24:7
[68]Acts
2:23; Acts 2:36
[69]
Acts 3:14-15
[70]
Acts 2:38-40
[71]
Acts 3:17 & 19
[72]Zech.
13:1-2
[73]Zech.
13:3-11
[74]
Col. 2:15
[75]
Rom. 8:3; Rom. 6:6; 1 Pet. 2:24
[76]
Col. 2:14
[77]Matt.
20:28, Acts 20:28; 1Cor. 6:20; 1 Pet. 1:18-19; Rev .5:9;14:4
[78]
Luke 7:47
[79]
Acts 9
[80]
1 Cor. 1:18, 24
[81]
1 Cor. 1:17
[82]
1 Cor. 2:1-2
[83]
Gal 2:21
[84]John
1:14
[85]
Matt. 25:31-46
[86]
Matt. 26:26-28, Mark 14:23-24; Luke 22:20; 1 Cor. 10:16, 1 Cor. 11:23-32
[87]
Gal. 6:14
[88]
Rom. 6:4
[89]1Pet.
3:21
[90]John
1:18
[91]
Matt 22:35
[92]
1Cor 11:27
[93]
Exod.23:7; 32:31-33; Deut. 24:16; Num. 35:33; 2 Kgs. 14:5-6; 2Chr. 25:4; Ps.
49:7-8; Pro 17:15; Isa 5:23; .Jer. 31:29-30; Ezek. 18:4,20;
[94]
Acts 2:23, 3:18, Acts 4:28; Matt. 26:24; Luke 22:22, Luke 22:37, Luke24:44-46
[95]
Isa. 53:4
[96]
John 1:1-2, John 10:30, John 14:9,John 17:21; 1 John 5:20
[97]Isa. 53:5
Correct Hebrew is: But he was
wounded because of / through4480 our transgressions, he
was bruised because of / through our iniquities: 4480 = מןmin, because of, by (reason of), See Gesenius’s Hebrew Chaldee
Lexicon to the Old Testament, Strong’s no. 4480 (e). Apostolic Bible Polyglot w/ Strong’s
Numbers “because ofG1223 G3588our sins).G1223 = διά dia “A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act;
through (in very wide applications, local, causal or occasional), by, because
of, for (cause), by means of.” The rest of Is. 53 and v 11 &12 also confirm that our sins killed
Jesus and caused His death. He was clearly pierced and crushed because of and
by us and our sins.
Paul quoted Is 53:5 in Rom 4:25 and therefore “dia” was used in the Greek Jesus...who was delivered up because of /
through (Gr. dia) our offences.Wuest says – dia is the preposition of immediate instrumentality. “dia” is also used in 1 Cor. 8:11,
2 Cor. 8:9.
Peter also quoted Isa. 53:5 in 1 Pet. 3:18
and therefore the translators used “peri” in Greek in the same
construction. For Christ also hath once
suffered because of / throughG4012 sins, G4012 = περί peri From the base of G4008;
properly through; πέραν peran Apparently
the accusative case of an obsolete derivation of πείρωpeirō (to “pierce”); through (as adverb or preposition);
Wuest Vol II p… The word peri is the
translation of a Greek conjunction which means “because.” It is also logical
that Jesus cannot suffer FOR SINS but He can suffer because of or through sins.
In a sense He can suffer FOR a person, but not for sins.
In several manuscripts Gr “peri” is also used
in Matt 26:28: For this is My blood of
the new covenant, which is shed because of / through / by many for the
remission of sins. Mark 4:24: This is My blood of the New Covenant, which is
poured out because of / through / by many. “Peri” is also used in Rom. 8:3,
Gal. 1:4, 1 Thess. 5:10, Heb. 10:6-8, 18, 26; 1 John 2:2, 4:10 and should be
translated as because of / through, by.
The original Aramaic Gospels & NT do not
exist anymore, but the original writers would definitely have written “because
of” from the Hebrew “min” used in Isaiah 53:5 in similar NT constructions. The
Aramaic NT was translated into Greek. The correct Greek translation for “min”
is “dia” or “peri” which means because of / through / by. But for some unknown
reason the translators into Greek mostly used “huper” Strong’s 5228. According to Louw and Nida (Louw, J.P.
and Nida, E.A. (ed.) 1988.Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament based on
semantic domains. Vol 1 & 2.) “huper” has five meanings: a. On behalf of (benefaction), b. about
(content) c. beyond (degree) d. above (status) e. because of (reason). The
Greek readers initially probably understood and interpreted “Huper” as “because
of / through / by” in line with Hebrew “min.” But somewhere in the past some
scribe/s preferred “on behalf of (benefaction).” The Substitution teaching was
then already developed or subsequently developed and largely accepted. When the
English translators translated the Bible, they accepted substitution and
incorrectly translated Is. 53:5 “min” as “for” in line with this interpretation
and in most of the NT they also incorrectly translated “huper,” “peri” and
“dia” as “for” to fit in with their interpretation of “on behalf of
(benefaction)” - despite the fact that “dia” can never be translated or
interpreted as “for.” The Afrikaans translators did the same. It is indeed true
that the translators are the biggest enemies of the truth. They wounded and
broke God’s words by translating according to their beliefs and interpretations
and so they have also wounded Jesus who is the Word that became flesh. By this
translation they also handed Jesus over to be wounded continuously by every
sinner who now kept on sinning - thinking it is OK because Jesus died “for”
them and paid all their debt.
The correct translation is therefore: Jesus was crucified because of / through /
by us and our sins wherever these constructions are used in the NT. That
clarifies everything and is in line with the whole Bible and with logic. We
killed Jesus. In a secondary way though we can understand that He allowed it
and did it “for” us or “for our sakes” - to save and deliver us from sin and
hell. But this is only secondary to us killing Him because of / through / by
our sins.
[98]
Rom. 6 & 8
[99]Rom.
1:20-21, 10:18; Psa. 19
[100]John
5:36; John 10:25, John 10:37-38, John 14:10-11, John 15:24; Acts 2:22
[101] Jude
24
[102] Gen.
3:15-19
[103]Apostolic
Bible Polyglot. http://biblehub.com/commentaries/isaiah/53-5.htmClarke's
Commentary on the Bible
[104]Matt.
26:28; Rom. 8:3; 1Pet. 2:24; 1 John 1:7
[106] Isa.
53:4
[107]John
10:30; John 14:9; John 17:21
[108]John
16:32
[109]Lamsa’s translation from the Aramaic
of the Peshitta. Dr George Lamsa's Peshitta New Testament English translation
[110] THE
LOST GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PETER
[111] Rom.
3:24
[112] 1Cor.
6:10-11
[113] Rom.
5:17
[114] Rom.
5:18
[115] Rom.
6:16
[116] Rom.
6:19
[117]1 John
5:4-5
[118]1 John
3:9, 1 John 5:18
[119] 1 John
4:17
[120]http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/OTpdf/isa53.pdf
) דַעְ 4ְ b·doth·uin·knowledge-of·him
http://www.projectwittenberg.org/etext/judisch/pent22b.htm.
By the knowledge of Him, the Righteous One, My Servant, will declare righteous
the aforesaid many, even as their guiltiness this One will bear.
[121] 2 Pet.
1:19
[122]Deut.
8:2; Deut. 8:16, Deut. 13:3; Gen. 22:1; Exod. 15:25, Exod.16:4; 2 Chr. 32:31;
Psa. 81:7; Prov. 17:3; Mal. 3:2-3; Jas. 1:3; 1 Pet. 1:7
[123]Eph.
3:19
[124]Eph.
4:13
[125]Eph.
4:24
[126]2 Pet.
1:4
[127]Matt.
12:32; Heb. 10:29
[128]Heb.
9:22
[129] Matt.
23:29-39; Acts 7:51-52
[130] Heb.
12:14
[131]Heb.
7:25; Jude 24; 1 Thess. 5:22-24
[132] Gal.
3:1
[133] Acts
3:22-23; 5:1-16
[134] Heb.
3:18-19
[135]Matt.
19:26; Mark 10:27; Luke 18:27
[136] 1 John
3:6
[137] 1 John
3:7-8
[138]Exod.
12:13; Lev. 16:10, 20-31; 17:11; Isa. 52:14-15 NLT; 53:11; Zech. 12:10-18:9; Matt.
26:28; Acts 20:28; Rom. 3:25;
5:9; 1 Cor. 1:18; Gal. 1:4; Eph. 1:7;
2:13-16; 5:25-27; Col. 1:14, 20-22; Titus
2:14; Heb. 1:3; 9:12,14,22;
10:10, 14, 19, 22; 13:12, 20-21(see KJV); 1 Pet. 1:18-19; 2:24; 1 John. 1:7; Rev.
1:7, 5:9; 7:14;12:11.
[139] Gal.
2:21
[140] Heb.
2:3
[141] Matt.
28:18-20
[142]Ezek. 3
& 33
[143]Luke
19:42-44
[144] Matt.
23:38
[145] 1 Pet.
4:17
[146] 2 Chr.
30:12; Jer. 32:39; Ezek. 37:16-19, Ezek. 37:22-25; Zeph. 3:9; Zech. 14:9; John
10:16, 17:11, 21-22; Acts 2:46, 4:32; Rom. 12:5, 16; 15:5-6; 1Cor. 1:10,
2:12-13, 12:25-27; Gal. 3:28; Eph. 4:3-6; Phil. 1:27, 2:1-5, 3:16; Col.
3:11-14; 1 Pet.3:8-9
[147]Phil.
3:5-10
[148]Prov. 24:11 ; Psa. 82:3-4; Prov. 31:8-9;
Isa. 58:6-7; Luke 10:31-32; 1 John 3:16-17
[149] Matt.
19:23-26; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25; 1 Tim. 6:9; Luke 6:24; Jas. 5:1-6
[150] Matt.
21:32; Mark 2:15
[151] Matt.
11:12; Luke 16:16;
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