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Unknown to one another, two children agree on what Jesus looks like!

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A little boy's astounding story of his trip to heaven and backIn early 2012 I wrote a very brief review of an account of a very young boy dying from a ruptured appendix but who lived to tell “Heaven Is For Real”.  He claimed to have met Jesus and so I’d wondered what Jesus really looks like and wrote as follows: 

Whilst reading the book I was personally interested in this simply because Jesus’ face had been out of sight during my own encounter, as told here (at 1st Validation). Also, I was familiar with pictures of a so-called ‘Master Jesus’ to be found in New Age circles, but didn’t regard them as being authentic.

Can you imagine how deeply stunned Todd and Sonja Burpo were whilst driving with their two children to hear their 4 years-old Colton suddenly say he’d heard angels and met Jesus Christ?

From their vehicle’s back seat little Colton pipes up in answer to a gentle tease about hospital by saying what mum and dad were doing whilst he was dying on an operating table with a severely ruptured appendix that had poisoned his abdomen.  It wasn’t so much his accurate description of what they were doing in two different places – on the phone and praying; well, losing it with God! – that hit them. (Only much later did his father learn the finer points of how that prayer of desperation was answered!)

They had to stop at a nearby snack bar to hear again, and digest, Colton’s very quick account of what happened whilst being operated upon. As only a young child can, he described being with Jesus. Over the course of many weeks a fuller account gradually emerged, usually popping out during play times, of what Jesus looks like and of many things Colton ‘did and saw’ during minutes, not hours, of earth time. There was also, and more importantly, what Colton knew. Almost all of this could not be attributed to any teaching or children’s Bible stories!

The first answer to what Jesus looked like was the answer to a spiritual ‘riddle’ : what’s the only thing in heaven that’s the same as it was on earth?

He’d said, right off bat, “Jesus has markers”.

His father claims Colton didn’t know about the crucifixion wounds at that age because their Weslyan church made no references to or had any pictures of them.  For nearly three years his parents would show Colton dozens of illustrations depicting Jesus but they all left him cold. He never saw one that he thought was right. He just could not recognise Jesus in any.

One day his father came across a CNN report of a young girl Akiane Kramarik, a child prodigy who began painting exceptionally sophisticated artwork at the age of 6 years.  A couple of years previously she’d begun having ‘visions’ of heaven, even though both her parents were atheists!  The authors of Heaven Is For Real  write, ‘Slowly her mom began to accept that Akiane’s visions were real and that, therefore, God must be real’.

As I watched (writes Todd) a montage of Akiane’s artwork play across my computer screen, the narrator said, “Akiane describes God as vividly as she paints him”. (p 143)

That was similar to how Colton spoke of Jesus – both children spoke especially about His beautiful eyes. So his father told Colton to come and take a look, asking what was wrong with this one. The boy said nothing, just stared, and he was asked again – still silence and then he got nudged:

My seven-year-old turned to look at me and said, “Dad, that one’s right”.

Entitled “Prince of Peace, Resurrection”, her portrait can be seen in Akiane’s Official Gallery under ‘Age 8’  and the next year shows Jesus praying, “Father Forgive Them”. To learn how she saw and painted Him read For child art prodigy Akiane, Jesus is for real.

Below, Ray Downing demonstrates how the picture Colton saw matches the image of the deceased Christ as captured millennia ago on The Shroud of Turin.

Also, you can watch Colton at 11 years tell his story on Heaven Is For Real website.

Further reading:

‘Jesus is the Resurrection of God’s Glory’ – part 2

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Now to plug science into scripture of Hebrews 1:3, and just look at the effulgence of the Interlinear Greek:

Tangible evidence of Jesus being the ‘from-radiance of God’s glory’ may be found on His burial shroud, as noted in ‘What is the Importance of Shroud Science to Faith?’ (pdf 19 June 2020) on closing pages 20-21, emphases mine:

‘The voice of God that Pope Benedict XVI is referring to, for the first time resounded in
Bereshit, In the Beginning, saying (65) ‘Let there be light’. And John, the Apostle, then
writes (66): ‘Whoever says he is in the light, yet hates his brother, is still in the
darkness. Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is nothing in him to
cause a fall’. Therefore, the Light with which God enlightened the world is His Love.
Interesting that more recent studies show that a radiative photo-chemical process is the possible cause of the formation of the Shroud imprint (67), a process that certainly cannot be explained in a corpse.’ –

NB. Power required to produce image estimated at 34 trillion Watts!

67 Extremely important on this topic are the studies of Professor Giuseppe Baldacchini and of Professor Paolo Di Lazzaro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZKT1wXtfzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crrjqa7ynj8; http://www.sindone.info/BALDAKI1.PDF

Some important conclusions stemming from their studies are the possibility for an excimer laser to produce a permanent coloring of the linen not with a fixed light but through a light pulse lasting less than 100 nanoseconds. In particular, UV light allows coloring but only above a certain minimum wavelength threshold and below a limit beyond which the linen burns. Once the appropriate wavelength is found, the coloring appears superficial and does not fluoresce, just as occurs in the Shroud Cloth and the irradiated linen fibrils are fragile, as occurs in the Shroud. Tests performed on small linen samples indicate that to irradiate a sheet like the Shroud one would require 34 trillion Watts and there is no excimer laser of this power in the world today.’‘

Matthew 17 (NKJV) 1-9 reads as follows:

Jesus Transfigured on the Mount

17 Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; 2 and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. 3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. 4 Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, [a]let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!” 6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were greatly afraid. 7 But Jesus came and touched them and said, “Arise, and do not be afraid.” 8 When they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only.
9 Now as they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead.”

Let’s not forget that some who’ve seen the Glory, eg David Strutt, say it makes the sun dirty by comparison!

“The Crucible of Patmos” is Key to the Valley of Vision – Veronika West

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Last weekend a second powerful prophetic vision of personal relevance after that of the previous post, but for reasons relating to my dream Father, Let Your Kingdom Come!  (2011) not only for its location but also untold name directly echoing “Patmos” (!), was that told by Veronika West on her Facebook.

Thus, it’s effectively the 11th posting of the full-circle, wheels-within-wheels series! And so I’m grateful to Angus MacKillop for permitting use of images from His Kingdom Prophecy:

 A NOW WORD: “THE KEY TO THE VALLEY OF VISION IS THE CRUCIBLE OF PATMOS”

So, I had a powerful and profound Dream which I believe and submit, is speaking to The Body of Christ and particularly to the Prophets — to those who are seeking a greater level and measure of Prophetic Revelation, Illumination and Understanding.

A short dream – but powerful

This Valley I knew by Revelation in the dream, was “The Valley of Vision,” and I saw from a distance that the landscape of the Valley before me was rugged and the terrain looked difficult to traverse — jagged rocks jutted out from the hillsides, and the narrow paths that marked the landscape looked somewhat daunting.

The atmosphere in the dream was thick, and yet weighty and again I knew by Revelation that the very ground I was standing on was shrouded in Divine Mystery and Hidden Secrets.

Now, as stepped forward in the Dream, I felt a Mantle come upon me.

( It was almost as if I was being clothed and prepared spiritually to enter into The Valley of Vision.

I was taking on the very fabric of the Valley, the spiritual texture of that deeper dimension of the Spirit was coming upon me which would enable and empower me to both receive and carry what would be imparted to me should I enter in. )

But as I took another step forward towards The Valley of Vision, not only did I feel a tangible sense of great weight now upon me, but suddenly my Vision began to take on greater clarity, and just as I was about to take another step towards The Valley of Vision, I saw what looked like an Ancient Door suddenly appear before me.

As I looked at the door, I saw the Word, ”PATMOS” deeply engraved upon this Ancient Door!

Ha! Immediately in the Dream, it was quickened to me of John, who was sent to the Isle of Patmos where he wrote the Book of Revelation. [RB: aka ‘The Apocalypse’]

Now, as I stood in that place, I knew by The Spirit that the Ancient Door that stood before me in the Dream was like that of the Door of Revelation 4.

“After this I looked, and there before me was a Door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” Revelation 4:1.

As I looked and looked again at the Word “Patmos” engraved upon the Ancient Door, again I knew by Revelation that the Door was Living — it was Alive!

The Ancient Door was full of The Glory of The LORD, and the Ancient Door seemed to recognise me, as a Son of Righteousness.

( Even the fact that I was being given access to traffic in this Realm and dimension in The Spirit, through a Dream, I knew that I was Marked to be there — Called — to become a Partaker of a greater level and Dimension of The Vision Realm of the Glory. )

But as I stood in that Sacred Place, I was made to understand by The Spirit of Revelation that this was not exclusive to me, but rather this was an Invitation to the Prophets — to those in The Body of Christ — who are seeking the Face of God in this Season, for the unveiling and the revealing of the Knowledge of Christ unto greater Transformation and Reformation of The Nations.

The Glory Hunters were being Invited to “go beyond” the shallows in this Season — to “go higher” — to go where “Deep Calls Unto Deep…” (Psalm 42:7)

In the Dream, I could tangibly feel The Glory of The LORD — the weight of The Spirit of The Fear of The LORD filled the atmosphere!

Yet I knew that I was being given and shown a powerful and strategic message for the hour — a Message to the 11th Hour Prophets!

And though I was being given permission to stand before the Ancient Door, I was not yet permitted to go beyond the Door, even though there was a Invitation to “Come up here! Come up higher!”

In the Dream, I began to inquire of The Holy Spirit asking, ”Spirit of Wisdom, what must I do to enter into The Valley of Vision””

In reply I heard these Words, “The Key to The Valley of Vision, is the Crucible of PATMOS!”

I woke up!

As you can imagine, I was now wide awake; grabbing my journal; writing everything down!

But the first thing I wrote was; “The Key to The Valley of Vision is the Crucible of PATMOS…..”

I immediately felt to look up the word PATMOS — Meaning ; “My killing.” (Thayer : #G3963 : Πάτμος — Patmos).

Wow! Now, as I read those words, I believe and humbly submit that God is saying,  ”Patmos is the crucible”, where the fiery trials and tribulations will refine the Faith and deepen the vision of His 11th Hour Prophets into the coming Season.

This Valley of Vision is not one of despair, but rather of the Birth Place of Divine Revelation; glorious Illumination; greater Understanding and Knowledge — which will bring us into a greater measure of the Statue of Christ — the place where the veil is lifted and the 11th Hour Prophets are given unfettered access to look upon His Glory!

Then I heard The Holy Spirit say, “Watch and Listen! For I AM Calling My 11th Hour Prophets into The Valley of Vision in this Hour, that their Eyes of Understanding may be Opened — and that what may BECOME what is Beheld!

Yes! For I AM Calling My 11th Hour Prophets to the Crucible of PATMOS — to the Place of Death unto greater Life and a Greater degree of the Vision — through the Light of My Glory and Power!

I say again, a Crucial of Patmos, where the Fires of Purification will bring forth greater Humility and Purity to My 11th Hour Prophets — an Invitation — to enter into a sacred place — the Birthing place of True Vision — The Valley of Vision — where the flesh dies in order that the Spiritual Senses can come Alive, and are fully Awakened, Illuminated and Ignited!”

Friends, ”The invitation is Open! It’s NOW — and it’s time to Respond in total Surrender, Faith and with Radical Expectation!”

Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West

SELAH!

Tidal Waves of God’s Glory (wheels-within-wheels!) – Henry Joseph Falcone

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GET READY! A LONG-READ BUT MOST POWERFUL END-TIMES MESSAGE…

This time last week I was in awe of how I’d ‘God-incidentally’ come across attorney Sidney Powell’s words “Democrats are a broken party…they have spent four years building a sandcastle of lies about Joe Biden and the tide is rolling in.”; echoing the prophetic vision of Veronika West in May 2021 (see Richard’s Watch Goes Full Circle: 9). Then on Saturday, explosive news emerged fulfilling that and exposures prophecy!

Little did I expect to get any more God-incidences, jigsaw pieces, global prophecy signals, or whatever we’d like to call such ‘coincidences’. Yet what follows is, in effect, the 10th posting of the full-circle, wheels-within-wheels series!

On Sunday evening my phone was charging whilst we watched a tv film and when I unplugged and booted up the phone this popped onto the screen (captured today):

Just a very quick scan-read amazed me at Henry’s CONFIRMATION from the Lord, not only on a specific point but also on others regarding End-times, so I commented as in ascending order shown below – moreover I could add my first writing on the Endgame wheat and tares: Continue reading →

“The command to bless Israel is NOT simply a suggestion” – Veronika West

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Veronika posts earlier this afternoon on Ignite Ireland Ministry…

“I hear the Spirit Say…;

“Daughter the Command to BLESS ISRAEL is NOT simply a suggestion….but rather it’s a DIVINE MYSTERY CONNECTED TO COVENANT THAT WHEN APPLIED…POWERFULLY UNLOCKS THE DIVINE INTERVENTION AND PROVISION OF HEAVEN IN THE LIVES OF MY REMNANT;….I SAY….AGAIN, BLESS ISRAEL AND YOU SHALL BE BLESSED…LACKING NOTHING”…!!!

Huge God-incidences: part 2 – Council of Nicaea 1700th anniversary prayer call

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Now for that latest piece in God’s Invisible Jigsaw from Dr Jurgen Buhler, President International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem:

A special call to 100 days of prayer and fasting to heal the rift between the Church and the Jewish people
By Dr. Jürgen Bühler, ICEJ President

‘This year many churches around the world are commemorating 1700 years since the landmark Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. According to Church historian Philip Schaff, Nicaea was – next to the Apostolic council in Jerusalem in Acts chapter 15 – “the most important and the most illustrious of all the councils of Christendom.” (1)

Nicaea was only the second global council since the days of the original Apostles. In Acts 15, we read about the very first church council discussing how to deal with the new phenomena of Gentiles joining a predominantly Jewish church. In that Jerusalem gathering, the early Apostles had opened wide the door for Gentile believers to join the Church.

Nicaea impacted the Church in a similarly powerful way. But unlike the Jerusalem council, at Nicaea the doors of the Church began to be firmly close on the Jewish people. The umbilical cord was cut between the Church and Israel, even though it was the nation and people who had birthed the Church. It also opened the door for growing anti-Jewish tendencies among Gentile Christians in the following centuries.

To be clear, this development was neither planned nor intended when the council was first called. Yet what made Nicaea end with a very different result from its inception was not inspired by spiritual leaders as in Acts 15, but by the Roman emperor himself.

Emperor Constantine, who reigned from 306 to 337 AD, was a new convert to Christianity. This brought a tremendous sense of relief for the early Church, which had just survived one of the worst waves of persecution a few years earlier under Emperor Diocletian. Constantine not only eased the fears of the Church but decided to make his newly-found faith the most official religion of the Roman Empire….’

Continue reading at https://www.icej.org/blog/1700-years-after-nicaea/

 

New Pope wants to strengthen dialogue with the Jewish people

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Yes Neil, the timing of your revisiting the doctrine of Replacement Theology, especially its history, really is “God-engineered” for we now have an indication of further changes within the Roman branch of Jesus’ Church:

Newsmax reports (emphases mine)

‘Pope Leo XIV has told the world’s Jewish communities he wants to strengthen the Roman Catholic Church’s dialog with them, in a message coming after a souring of relations between the Vatican and Israel over the war in Gaza.

The first U.S.-born pope sent a letter to Rabbi Noam Marans, the Director of Inter-religious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, who posted the letter on the social platform X late on Monday.

“Trusting in the assistance of the almighty, I pledge to continue and strengthen the Church’s dialog and cooperation with the Jewish people in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council’s declaration Nostra Aetate,” Leo said in the letter.

Nostra Aetate was a landmark document in the 1962-1965 Council that repudiated the concept of collective Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus and urged dialog with non-Christian religions.

The brief document revolutionized Catholic relations with Jews after centuries of persecution and mistrust. Dialog that ensued over the following two decades made it possible for Pope John II to become the first pontiff to visit a synagogue, giving a speech in Rome’s main temple in 1986, where he called Jews “our beloved elder brothers”.

Continue reading and watching report at Newsmax’s Pope Leo: Jews Dialogue

We seem to have arrived at  a veritable watershed upon the 1700th anniversary of the agreed core beliefs of Christian doctrine and published in the Nicene Creed.

Richard’s Watch goes full-circle: 8 – false theology, BBC bias and anti-Semitism

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WWW, wheels-within-wheels, continue to roll as dear Neil’s revisiting ‘RT’ and strong stand against anti-Semitism takes this blog full circle back to its beginning fourteen years ago in November when my emailing him and other friends on End-times went public. That month I’d already written about a broadcast theological debate and my very first item, after launching with a Welcome to the wider public, continued with a follow-up, viz

False theology and false history

As ever, ‘God-incidental’ timing is intriguing because Neil wrote his latest as a result of a “curious series of events happened over the weekend” (Psalm Sunday) exposing the need for a proper grasp of scripture’s relevance to our times, and he wishes to share:

“Saturday morning I attended a Men’s Breakfast…I went with no intention or expectation of speaking….

There was a guest speaker from America who I did not know, and have never heard. He started by saying that he had decided the best format for the meeting would be if we attenders where to ask any question we liked, and he would answer. There was a long silence; so, to break the ice, I asked “Do you think Gaza could be under the judgement of God?” there was another silence, then he said: “I don’t know about Gaza, but I think America is under judgement”.
I said: “I asked the question because the people of Gaza have been cursing Israel for at least 20 years, and probably 77. In the Bible God says that if you curse my people Israel you will be cursed: there must be an outcome”. He said: “it depends on who you think “Israel” is. It is not the land, it is the people of God who are now “Israel” and there is only one “people of God”. My comment: “that sounds like replacement theology”. He then said something about different dispensations and “grafted-in Theology”, at which point the host stepped in and said we needed to move on to other questions.”

The next day Neil was interrupted during conversation by someone saying she’d heard he’d been “controversial” at the breakfast – but the speaker was entitled to a different point of view. “I tried to explain that replacement theology is not just “a different point of view”. However, I could see I wasn’t going to get anywhere… I don’t know why what happened, happened, but I am convinced it was God engineered.”

The sadness is that very few people understood, or cared about, what had taken place. The woman’s belief that it was a fluffy little difference of opinion between two equally valid points, seems to be the consensus view.”

Such a clueless position, instead of taking a stand against hatred, it implicitly supports….

BBC and ANTI-SEMITISM

As a consequence of writing about ‘RT’ in November 2011 I noticed and posted many times in the blog’s first year on the BBC’s deeply biased reporting against Israel – hence the need for a BBC tag!

AND IT JUST SO HAPPENS that since Neil’s ‘God engineered’ encounters, relevant news emerged on Tuesday regarding a vastly overpaid sports ex-commentator:

Now, let’s get back to what holy scripture says, for this passage in Ephesians 2 featured the next day at a local house group:

Brought Near by His Blood

11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— 12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Christ Our Peace

14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. (Ephesians 2 NKJV BibleGateway)

This points to God’s ultimate goal of all people, Jews and non-Jews, becoming united believers in Jesus Christ through His awesome grace. This is extensively explained in the books written to the Hebrews and the church in Rome.

SELAH!

Replacement Theology misses significance of Jesus’ warning of the Abomination

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Reference:  The Lord Hands Out FIVE Jigsaw Pieces on Daniel 9 :

“So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing where it ought not (let the reader understand) then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains…” (Mark 13:14 – emphases mine – re Dan 9:27 NKJV)

As ‘the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy’ (Rev 19:10) then His instruction is indubitably prophetic about this sign appearing sometime in the future. Thus, Jesus not only confirms the accuracy of the angel Gabriel’s prophecy to Daniel but also bears His witness to its coming true, and establishing it according to the principle of Deut 19:15.

In heeding that warning, nearly forty years later Jesus’ followers wisely fled Jerusalem when Titus’ huge Roman army besieged and destroyed the city and temple.

As told in Bio Info, the Lord had put this book in my hand and validated its content by what was being shown simultaneously on BBC. Its author Victor Dunstan examines the time-scales of Daniel’s prophecies and the ‘Abomination of Desolation’.

He cites Gibbon’s ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ regarding the outcome of the six months’ siege of Jerusalem (636-7 AD) during Muslim attacks against the Christian Byzantine empire and conquest of The Levant.

Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, agreed to surrender on condition he submit direct to the Caliph Umar in person:

‘After signing the capitulation, (Umar) entered the city without fear or precaution; and courteously discoursed with the Patriarch concerning its religious antiquities. Sophronius bowed before his new master and secretly muttered, in the words of Daniel, “The abomination of desolation is in the holy place!”

Three decades later the Islamic shrine and Dome on the Rock mosque was completed upon a wing of the ruins of the Temple Mount. Victor emphases – it still STANDS there!.

Sadly, in ignoring the scriptural and historic validity of the Jews and nation of Israel then ‘RT’ aligns itself with endemic racial and religious hatred of anti-Semitism.

Replacement Theology’s ungodly root: despising the Desposyni

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A couple of historical points to add to Neil Mackereth’s Replacement Theology Revisited that I’d like to add are on the heritage of Jesus’ family and His warning prophecy of ‘the Abomination of Desolation’ in Jerusalem:

THE DESPOSYNI 

Occasionally, I refer to the ‘Desposyni’, as for example in Jesus’ Crucifixion Described in The Holy Name of God:

‘When he made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in the early 4th Century, Constantine discouraged all contact with Jews and the Church severed itself from its Jewish roots – from even the descendants of Jesus’ kith and kin, known as Desposyni.  In doing so, the Church lost a fuller and deeper understanding of the Old Testament.’

Now let’s expand upon this matter with the help of priest and professor Malachi Martin, whom I seem to recall served as Librarian in the Vatican Library, in his seminal The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church published 1981 (page 34, emphases added):

‘..For Donatus preached the old Jewish idea of a temporal kingdom, just as the Ayatollah proclaims in behalf of Islam. The Roman popes, no matter how subordinate they became to political power, no matter how greatly corrupted by it, always saw their spiritual power as distinct from the political and never wholly identified the two. This was the narrow but all-important hair-difference between Donatus and the bishop of Rome.

4. The Blood Relatives of Jesus

‘In defeating Donatus, Silvester rejected only one extreme that could have spelled early death for Christianity. There was another that in its own attractive way could have been just as lethal. This was the policy of the Jewish Christians, who occupied the oldest Christian churches in the Middle East and whose leaders were always from the family of Jesus himself. Like all Christians, including the Donatists, they expected an imminent return of Jesus. Unlike the Donatists, and now the Romans, they shunned all worldly power and revolution, and were for the most part dirt-farmers and petty merchants, hugging close to their obscurity even though their first bishop was James, first cousin of Jesus.

Yet the issue that arose between Silvester and the Jewish Christians was nothing less than the whole nature of the church. A meeting between Silvester and the Jewish Christian leaders took place in the year 318. The emperor provided sea transport for eight rough-and-ready men as far as Ostia, the port of Rome. From there they rode on donkeys into the imperial city and up to the Lateran Palace, where Pope Silvester now lived in grandeur. In their rough woolen clothes and leather boots and hats, and with their earthy smell, they contrasted sharply with Silvester’s retinue of smartly clad and pomaded bishops and officials. They refused to sit. Silvester spoke with them in Greek-he could not understand their Aramaic; they had little or no Latin. The vital interview was not, so far as we know, recorded, but the issues were very well known, and it is probable that Joses, the oldest of the Christian Jews, spoke on behalf of the desposyni and the rest.

That most hallowed name, desposyni, had been respected by all believers in the first century and a half of Christian history. The word literally meant, in Greek, “belonging to the Lord.” It was reserved uniquely for Jesus’ blood relatives. Every part of the ancient Jewish Christian church had always been governed by a desposynos, and each of them carried one of the names traditional in Jesus’ family – Zachary, Joseph, John, James, Joses, Simeon, Matthias, and so on. But no one was ever called Jesus. Neither Silvester nor any of the thirty-two popes before him, nor those succeeding him, ever emphasized that there were at least three well-known and authentic lines of legitimate blood descendants from Jesus’ own family. One from Joachim and Anna, Jesus’ maternal grandparents. One from Elizabeth, first cousin of Jesus’ mother, Mary, and Elizabeth’s husband, Zachary. And one from Cleophas and his wife, who also was a first cousin of Mary.

Jews, and that included Jewish Christians, had been forbidden to enter Jerusalem under pain of instant death. That ban had not yet been lifted, at the time of Silvester’s meeting with the Jewish Christians. Silvester knew their history well. Jewish Christians had composed the only church ever in Jerusalem until the year 135. They left it only once in 102 years following Jesus’ death, just before the city’s capture by the Emperor Titus. Led by their bishop, Simeon, son of Cleophas, who was Jesus’ uncle by marriage, they had fled to Perea (in modern Jordan). In A.D. 72 they had returned to Jerusalem and had remained there until Hadrian’s ban. After that, Jewish Christian churches were set up all over Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia, but they were always hated by the local synagogues as apostates of Judaism, and always in quarrel with Greek Christians who refused to be circumcised and observe the Torah-things the Jewish Christians insisted on.

They therefore asked Silvester to revoke his confirmation of Greek Christian bishops in Jerusalem, in Antioch, in Ephesus, in Alexandria, and to name instead desposynos bishops.

In addition, they asked that the Christian practice of sending cash contributions to the desposynos church in Jerusalem as the mother church of Christianity, which had been suspended since the time of Hadrian, be resumed.

Silvester curtly and decisively dismissed the claims of the Jewish Christians. He told them the mother church was now in Rome, with the bones of the Apostle Peter, and he insisted that they accept Greek bishops to lead them.

It was the last known discussion between the Jewish Christians of the old mother church and the non-Jewish Christians of the new mother church. By his adaptation, Silvester, backed by Constantine, had decided that the message of Jesus was to be couched in Western terms by Western minds on an imperial model.

The Jewish Christians had no place in such a church structure. They managed to survive until the first decades of the fifth century. Then, one by one, they disappear. A few individuals reconcile themselves with the Roman Church always as individuals, never communities or whole Jewish Christian churches.’ 

(Continue reading from page 37 by clicking here).

Replacement Theology Revisited – Neil Mackereth

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REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY REVISITED

INTRODUCTION

I am disturbed and distressed by the parlous state of the World and our Nation. With few exceptions, our churches have developed a wishy washy, sit on the fence, don’t rock the boat, non-confrontational form of Complacent Theology.

Where is the conviction, robustness and power of Almighty God? I have a zeal for The Word of God, and truth, which is at odds with the smug wokeness of our time.

I want to focus on Replacement Theology (RT) (also known as Supersessionism), and its manifestation, antisemitism. I have written several papers on this subject and only return to it because it is getting much worse, as a result of the 7th October 2023 atrocities. The “Palestinian Movement” have invented a false narrative that has been taken up by the BBC and other mainstream media platforms, and that narrative has become self-affirming (“it must be right; they are saying it as well”).

First let us look at the historic roots of RT.

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Original post on ‘Fabric of Time’ overtaken by time!

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In preparing for our ‘holy-day’ during Holy Week and ‘offline sabbatical’ I’d auto-scheduled republication of postings for Resurrection Sunday, the last of which (2017 reprised) refers to The Fabric of Time dvd on The Shroud of Turin. That busy week made it impossible to check linkages are up-to-date and I find the final paragraph’s link (italicised below) is no longer available:

‘Read about bizarre anomalies in scientific instruments placed on the slab of stone in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre said to be have been where Jesus’ body lay (in): Scientists Who Opened Christ’s Tomb Detect Mysterious Readings That Support Shroud Theory.’

Also, for some reason the PostScript to last year’s issue failed to show, maybe because of current problems with links failing to open on my Win 11 Chrome browser (it works on Brave!).

This video was published in December 2023 and is a most helpful illustrated overview of a most fascinating valid record of the axiomatic crux of Christianity.

2025 > MORE!

Record attendance at churches over the Holy Season incline me to believing the Lord is evidently drawing our attention to HIM and the importance of this astonishing artifact.

In fact, it took nearly 2,000 years for the unique nature of Jesus’ Burial Shroud to be verified and demonstrated by means of modern photography and scientific knowledge.

Therefore, we can be absolutely sure of the Gospels’ disturbing details of Jesus’ torture, crucifixion, death and His return to life within a tomb in truly a blaze of glory!

For readers wishing to know more I offer the following recent videos that confirm and build upon the scientific details covered in ‘The FABRIC of TIME’ dvd.

First, the official documenting photographer of the STURP (Shroud of Turin Research Project) since 1976 and inspiration behind the Shroud’s official website and practising Jew, Barrie Schwortz’s amazing personal account :

110,571 views Apr 23, 2025 ✪ Members first on April 22, 2025

Barrie Schwortz spent years studying the Shroud of Turin and his conclusions will shock you. What I am about to reveal in this video is almost 2 decades of research culminating in the most incredible discovery of our lifetime. You’re not going to want to miss a second of this story.

2nd. This in-depth interview with archeologist Dr Jeremiah Johnson is also exceptional in providing in-depth details. The YouTube site provides ‘chapters’ with descriptions for ease of reference:

1,212,622 views Premiered Apr 18, 2025 #ShroudOfTurin #JeremiahJohnston #ChristianHistory

Is the Shroud of Turin the real burial cloth of Jesus Christ—or the greatest mystery in Christian history? In this powerful episode of Michael &, Michael Knowles is joined by theologian and historian Dr. Jeremiah Johnston to uncover the mind-blowing discoveries surrounding the Shroud. From scientific analysis and historical evidence to theological significance, they explore what makes the Shroud one of the most studied and debated relics in the world—and what it could mean for believers today. 👉 Watch now and decide for yourself: miracle, hoax, or holy artifact?

HE IS RISEN! – Time and Quantum effects in Jesus’ Resurrection

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First published in the early years of this blog and annually thereafter for newer readers:

In preparation for the Holy-days’ weekend Nina creates a tableau for contemplating Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection. She’s inspired about what items to collect and arrange, usually including a rock with a central hole eroded by the sea and which we found on a beach. It serves as both the ‘skull’ and garden tomb of Golgotha. For example, the above display has a scarf as a ‘river of life’ flowing out of the empty cave/tomb below the cross. (In 2012 it gave an insight that I’ll share below.)

Maundy Thursday is celebrated as the night when Jesus and His twelve, principal disciples ate the Passover Seder, or meal, in advance of the main schedule in order to be ready for His being the sacrificial Lamb of God.

Following the meal, one disciple betrayed Him by leading Temple guards to capture Him at night for trial by a ‘kangaroo’ court of Jewish leaders. It was a foregone conclusion that they’d demand authorisation of His death from Pontius Pilate, the Roman Prefect, or governor, of Judea.

If you’re unfamiliar with this true story and how it led to Jesus’ gruesome torture, death and burial followed by his amazing bodily resurrection and appearance to His disciples, read doctor Luke’s investigative account and the personal account of Jesus’ closest disciple John.

Later, Saul of Tarsus, a Jewish leader violently opposed to them, had a life-changing encounter with the Ascended Jesus en-route to Damascus. He became known as Apostle Paul and wrote that Jesus had been seen simultaneously by over 500 people post-Resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:6 refers).

HEAVEN & HUMAN HISTORIES’ PIVOTAL TIME

Jesus Christ died so that each of us may be forgiven for our sins. As a result of this new status, we can have direct personal access to Almighty God when we believe in Jesus Christ. As the Son of God, Jesus suffered on our behalf as our ‘scapegoat’. That is, Jesus took the place of death that we deserved because of our sinfulness, for the shedding of a sinless one’s blood was the only way our status could be changed for us to gain personal salvation. Paul explains it this way to the early church in the Rome:

8But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him! 10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. (Romans 5:8-11, NIV, see whole chapter.)

Now, when I was a new Christian I found that rather hard to understand – but it works! The theological term is ‘atonement’, or ‘substitutionary atonement’. In bringing forgive-ness to the guilty, however, this can cause deep problems for those who’ve been the victim of crimes. After all, why should a killer find forgiveness by God? And what about the victim’s families, or the victim of abuse? They find it very hard if well-nigh impossible to forgive.

In 2012 I heard a Portsmouth prison chaplain address this issue with a concept taken from the criminal justice system: restorative justice. This involves an active dialogue between victim and offender, plus reparation. And it has a sound basis in theology. How?

Jesus was a guiltless victim, directly of those who wanted Him killed, and indirectly of everyone’s ‘fallen state’ of sinfulness, which could only be rectified by His death.

And Almighty God, the Father, is a victim too. How? He’s victim of humanity’s rebellion against Him. For example and especially over the way religious leaders murdered His son – how they seethed with rage when Jesus denounced them! (read Luke 20:9-19). So, every victim can find an identity and affinity in both God and Jesus Christ in their situation. Hence, they can receive God’s own ability to forgive because He will help them choose to forgive those who’ve harmed them. [Lack of forgiveness may be the only thing that hampers God – see Matt 6:14-15]

A TABLEAU IN TIME

During contemplation upon the tableau illustrated above, an insight dropped into mind that the Resurrection created a distinct point in the flow of, or perhaps even a change in, Time itself. That is, the now termed ‘common era’ calendar is the medieval Christian one that counts years from the approximate birth of Christ as ‘anno Domini’. But in fact, a more powerful one would be the point at which things in heaven changed and thus affected our lives on earth and its ultimate role in God’s scheme of creation. This took place at the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, His revival to life from death itself.

That such a concept may be valid can be found in the discoveries about the material of ‘The Shroud of Turin’, the shroud in which Jesus was thought to have been carried and covered during His interment. It is of most astounding significance when examined from the view-point of modern physics.

Apart from the supra-natural or spiritual aspect, that unique, singular event could have naturally happened by means of a ‘singularity’ (a theoretical gravitational effect associated with ‘black holes’, eg. as may have been the starting point of the creation of the universe, or ‘Big Bang’).

Don’t take my word for this but consider that of Dame Isabel Piczek (deceased 2016), famous as a monumental artist and award-winning figurative draughtswoman. Her highly detailed analysis of theories about how the image on the shroud was formed is authoritative, as in the first of several detailed articles here.

Also, as a physicist who may have considered implications from a quantum mechanics standpoint, her conclusions about how the image was formed are most intriguing: it seems that the image of Jesus can only have been created by its hovering equidistantly above and below his reclining bent corpse. Furthermore, this necessitated the body’s levitation – perhaps not an impossible feat during the moment of the Resurrection power-blast?

After all, the disciples had already witnessed Jesus walking on water but were yet to be surprisingly but joyously stunned Him by His turning up in their midst, materialising, in a private room behind closed doors for fear of the Jews (John 20:19) – maybe quantum dynamics principle of ‘tunnelling’, as in On Engaging and Governing Time, came into play? – then forty days later watch Him flying bodily upwards into the clouds!

Dame Isabel succinctly summarises:

We have a piece of cloth and it leads us to a mysterious gateGoverni which opens for us, and it lets us see a completely different world, an extraordinary world with extraordinary laws.

Consider these claims by reading those articles and watching this 19 minute of extracts from the DVD The Fabric of Time (with its own lead-in trailer). There’s also a discussion of her scientific opinion at In Case You Missed Isabel Piczek’s Wonderful Paper.

‘Coincidentally”, just after having read the last link and revised the preceding references to science (post published 5 years ago), I’m alerted to theoretical physicist Mehki’s new post on ‘black holes’ and ‘event horizons’ (see Looking to the Horizon). The discussion thread has a valuable contribution from ‘physicalrealityblog’ that’s pertinent to the Shroud site’s discussion of Dame Isabel’s analysis and indirectly reconnects it back into quantum physics!
2017: ‘Coincidentally’ amusing that bloggers ‘hidden’ on opposite sides of the world (Britain and New Zealand) were preparing items on the fabrics that Jesus Christ was buried with – the full-body shroud and the head linen – in Joseph of Arimathea’s private tomb. My post updated on Wed 12 April 2017 was scheduled on Thurs 13th for auto-publication Sun 16 April. On Good Friday 14 April Joanne Rolston published news of the ‘Sudarium’ in AB-solute Proof – The Blood That Speaks.

Read about bizarre anomalies in scientific instruments placed on the slab of stone in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre said to be have been where Jesus’ body lay: Scientists Who Opened Christ’s Tomb Detect Mysterious Readings That Support Shroud Theory.

2019: Am grateful to unknown source of this image:

Link: The Shroud of Turin website

It’s ‘Good’ Friday…but they don’t know Sunday’s Coming!

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Watch and absord Dr Shadrach Meshach’s Lockridge’s deeply stirring exhortation…

 In the next post we’ll further consider the true identity of Jesus The Messiah …

Post-Holy Week Sabbatical PS: Apologies for lack of video per YT new bot-checks. In very busy week prepping for holiday and auto-scheduling of re-posts didn’t permit time for testing.

Jesus’ Crucifixion described within the Holy Name of God

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First published on this blog in April 2017:

According to Steve Maltz, author of God’s Signature, the only time the sacred, personal Name of God was spoken by the ancient Israelites was during worship in the Temple in Jerusalem, and especially on the Day of Atonement when the High Priest pronounced it ten times.

The Talmud has many warnings about using the most holy Name – it is also regarded as having special powers of healing. Apparently knowledge of its pronunciation was lost after the fall of the Temple in AD70 prophesied by Jesus Christ.

The knock-on effect of that event, together with the Roman Church’s withdrawal in the third Century of financial support for churches in the Holy Land founded by Jesus’ own ‘kith and kin’ (‘desponyni’), was the great loss of a full understanding of the Church’s Hebraic roots. Hence the confusion and doctrinal disagreements over Jesus’ claim, “I am in the Father and the Father is in me” (John 14:10).

Digging deeper we encounter an astonishing revelation of that double-identity!

From translations of Hebrew, the post-Shakespeare English-speaking world referred to God’s Name as ‘Jehovah’ or ‘LORD’ (letter ‘J’ was then starting to replace ‘i’). However, Jews preferred well-known descriptive titles such as ‘Elohim’ – God, in all the fullness of His attributes; ‘El Shaddai’ – Almighty; ‘El Sabaoth’ – Lord of heavenly hosts; or Adonai’ – Lord, and more often than not the reverent term ‘Ha Shem’ (The Name) sufficed.

Scribes, or sopher, needed to take special care in praying before writing the holy name, which must be done without interruption. Were a mistake made, it must not be corrected but the whole page discarded and the page restarted. Numbering had to be carefully handled too because Hebrew characters represented both letters and numbers. So the logical way of writing 15 is to add a yod (ie 10) to a hey (ie 5) and likewise for 16 (a yod to a vav). But this never happened because, as part of the sacred name, they could accidentally be read as this name. The Holy Name is shown below, but read from right to left:

Ha Shem

“Yod-Hey-Vav-Hay” first appears in Genesis 2:4 statement ‘The Book of Beginnings’ is the account of, “When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens”.This Name was first revealed when Moses encountered God in the burning bush after he’d asked Him whom should he tell the Israelites had sent him to get them out of their slavery in Egypt.

God replied, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you’. ” (Exodus 3:14 NKJV)
Steve writes, “Interestingly and contrary to popular belief, the Hebrew word used in this passage…is not YHVY (he shows Hebrew characters). So, what’s going on here? Is it His name or isn’t it? In this Exodus passage, the word used for His name is “Aleph-Hey-Yod-Hey”.

“This takes the meaning of “I will be”…(which) shares a similar three-consonant root with YHVY in Hey-Vav-Hey and Hey-Yod-Hey…and as they’re related are both ways of describing God”. Hence my liking of describing God as “Always” and “Now”, the latter being used by Charlie Shamp too.

HOLY FATHER-SON UNION REVEALED & THE CRUCIFIXION FORETOLD

As in those preceding links, literary Hebrew developed out of pictographic forms that represent gestures and their meanings. We logically surmise both original visual and later written forms were known to and, therefore, used by the Lord in communicating with Abraham and his descendants through Issac and Jacob, and used by Moses and his scribes in compiling the first five books of the Bible.

Comparing the literary and pictorial forms of the name Moses heard and recorded as being from the Lord, we have this graphic (credit Heart To Heart):

Hebrew is read right to left, ie ‘hand-look-nail-look’, but if we read as normal left to right we find not only the Name of God describing who He is, the fullness of His character and abilities, but also its exceptional prophetic nature in it foretelling the pivotal point of His action plan for humanity: the crucifixion of His Son Jesus Christ!

BEHOLD – A NAIL – BEHOLD – A HAND

AND THIS ‘WORD’ SHOWS TWO PERSONS!

Could this indicate that Christ was hidden in the Father when Moses encountered them at the burning bush but manifested as ‘The Angel of the Lord’ or pre-incarnate Christ ? It’s worth reading Exodus 3 carefully again and note Who is speaking to Moses…

Moreover, the pictographs graphically portray God as ‘hands up’ in connection with a nail. Putting all this together into one picture we get a typical image of Jesus on the Cross at Calvary, where long nails or spikes driven through Jesus’ wrists damage the median nerves thus making His hands bend into the ‘claw position’ – just like letter Yod!!

More:

Jesus Christ’s identity hidden in the Bible’s first sentence

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Tim Shey comments on the crucifixion post, “The First Word in the Bible says Jesus is God and He Will Die on the Cross” and he provides this excellent 10 minutes video:

The video was included when I posted the original of this item, which was based upon Jonathan Hill’s book Unlocking the Sign Miracles of John. I’ll tell more another day, but to continue:

ALPHA-OMEGA HIDDEN WITHIN GENESIS 1:1 (AS ALEPH-TAV)

In Appendix I (pages 202-203) on the meaning of number 37 and its palindromic partner 73, Jonathan says both form the numerical value for the fundamental Hebrew word ‘wisdom’. He tells how this pair play a role in a multiplication, the result being the precise number of the Hebrew for the creation verse of Genesis 1:1. He goes on to relate this to 666 and a diagrammatic representation, which he interprets as meaning:

‘This transformation represents the dispensational truth that at the second coming of Christ, the dominant spiritual hierarchy of the world changes from 666, the number of the ‘beast’, to 12 – the governmental number of Israel. All this information including this powerful intervention of God is elegantly and visually encoded in the first verse of the Bible.’

This claim continues by divulging this astounding mystery:

REVELATION 1:8, 11 – 21:6 – 22:13

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (NKJV, BibleGateway.com)

Footnote

If you’ve yet to read my overview of Jonathan’s book Unlocking the Sign Miracles of John go to Astonishing Mathematics Within Genesis 1.1 & John 1.1, and continue for more details at Amazing Geometrical Symmetry of Genesis 1:1 & John 1:1.

POSTSCRIPT (8 April 2023):

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MUST WATCH > THE CHOSEN Season 5 – The Last Supper

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AN ACE START TO OUR HOLY WEEK SABBATICAL!

SUPERB. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WHOLE TEAM.

If you’ve not yet seen the first four seasons, brief summary clips are shown after Dallas Jenkins’ warm introduction.

Website >  https://thechosenlastsupper.com/

Facebook > https://www.facebook.com/InsideTheChosen

AN EXCELLENT START TO A HOLY WEEK SABBATICAL OFFLINE!

A great wealth transfer and unprecedented harvest – Veronika West

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It’s noteworthy that this word received by Veronika is relevant to my recent posts on how the World Economic Forum is unexpectedly Failing and Falling, as though being an over-arching ‘sign’ of the failure of established financial systems that’s been discussed for some years in non-mainstream independent journalism and news, and President Donald Trump’s new ways of increasing American’s wealth: Continue reading →

Stand Your Ground – Neil Mackereth

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My End-times writing partner Neil Mackereth offers further thoughts and insights which strongly remind me that this topic not only proves the Bible is prophetic, both before and since Jesus’ life and ministry, but also affects everyone living today by predicting a 20th Century event that is focal – as though ‘ground-zero’ – to kick-starting the End-times. Thus, I underscore Neil’s opening paragraph…

STANDING YOUR GROUND

Introduction

In the last couple of years, it has often been the case that when I start to write an article on a particular topic, God changes my direction. Today is no exception: while drafting a paper on some general principles of prophecy, God guided me to a specific prophetic fulfilment, and to some related Biblical imperatives, that are being under-appreciated or ignored.

The Prophetic Fulfilment

The re-establishment of the state of Israel in a day, on 14 May 1948, was supernatural, extraordinary and the fulfilment of many prophecies; as in the accompanying Annex.

The detail in those prophecies is mind-blowing and their significance, describing a key turning point in the history of God’s people and a major stepping-stone in the accomplishment of His plans for the world, is seriously undervalued by the church.

Biblical Imperatives

The imperative that trumps all imperatives is that if the Jews were taken out of history there would be no Bible, no prophets, no Judaism, no Jesus, no Christianity etc. Obviously, that is not where we are. But think about it; if Israel were to cease to exist, the Bible would not be true.

Moving on, Israel is a land about which God repeatedly says: “This is MY land” (Joel 1:6; Zech. 2:5-7; Gen. 35:10-15).

God’s call to Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3): ”Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

Isaiah 62:1: “For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her vindication shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch. The nations will see your vindication, and all kings your glory;”

Psalm 122:6: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem”

The Outworking

It is time to take the Word of God seriously, speak out, tell the truth, bless Israel, pray without ceasing, preach the Gospel and lift up our hands in Holy and joyful praise: we have a mighty God.

The Challenge

There can be few who would not agree that the “Palestinians” have been cursing Israel for at least 20 years, and probably for 77. The Bible shows there are consequences: I believe Gaza is under judgement. That does not mean that we should not pray for them and seek their wellbeing. There is no place for hatred in our faith,

What are the roots of this demonically driven desire to see Israel overrun, and the Jewish people eradicated? That question was answered in part in an earlier paper: Israel in the End Times. It is all part of Satan’s plan to ensure that there is no Nation of Israel, no land and no people, for Jesus to return to as King. In other words, Satan believes he can prevent the fulfilment of Biblical prophecy.

With few exceptions, the founding fathers of the church were Jews, and that remained the case until the Gospel began to spread. Paul defines and describes the Jews’ role in God’s purposes, in Romans 9-11: the passage explains the theology of God’s covenants with the Jews. Scripture explains that, spiritually speaking, Christians are grafted into the Jewish legacy (Rom. 2:28-29, Gal. 3:26-29) – the church does not replace them!

It would be anomalous for a Bible-believing Christian to take a passive position toward the Jews and Israel. As Christians, we stand with Israel, because they are forever linked with the spiritual promises of God, and we owe them an immeasurable debt of gratitude.

Ezekiel 37 confirms God’s commitment to make the land of Israel theirs forever.

Notwithstanding Israel’s clear Biblical entitlement to the land, the 1917 Balfour declaration to assign it to them, and the confirmation of the United Nations Assembly in 1948, Israel is portrayed as the aggressor for defending her land from relentless genocidal attacks. The Palestinian goal is not to secure a homeland but to drive Israel out altogether. The relentless animosity of parts of the Arab world is not politically motivated. As mentioned above, there are demonic powers that will not be satisfied until Israel ceases to exist.

Stand With Israel

Scripture says a time is coming when all the nations of the world will turn against Israel (Zech. 12:1-14). Do you see it is happening? The very influential main stream media have become agents of Satan’ propaganda machine and are leading people astray: antisemitism has reached epidemic proportions (eg. as in latest on the BBC as below).

There seems every likelihood that we are the end times generation. Our calling is to stand with Israel. As Ephesians 6:13 says:

“Therefore put on the full armour of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”

Continue reading Niel’s ‘Annex’ in next post >>

RB Footnote:

‘Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, refused anti-Semitism training for the broadcaster, the Government’s adviser on anti-Jewish hatred has revealed.

Lord Mann, Sir Keir Starmer’s independent adviser on anti-Semitism, said he had visited BBC bosses to offer training on three occasions since taking up his role in 2019. However, he said senior figures, including Mr Davie himself, turned down his repeated offers despite growing fears of an anti-Semitism problem at the BBC.

In a strongly worded condemnation of the broadcaster, Lord Mann accused it of failing to take seriously allegations of anti-Semitism and alleged anti-Israel bias in its reporting, saying there was an “arrogance at the top”.

He called for senior executives of the news corporation to be sacked for signing off on a controversial documentary….’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/29/bbc-refused-anti-semitism-training-lord-mann-tim-davie/

The above comes as no surprise in view of this blog’s dozens of postings on BBC, and regarding it as ‘Brussels’ Broadcasting Club’ and ‘Britain’s Brainwashing Cult’…and this screen-shot’s timing acts as confirmation in again showing my birthday number!

A sobering prophetic warning to the Church – Veronika West

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Veronika continued Monday morning’s posting The Days of Elijah Have Begun in the early afternoon with further very serious insights from Holy Spirit whilst travelling home, as follows:

A SOBERING PROPHETIC WARNING TO THE CHURCH 

“Watch, for I AM raising up an Apostolic and Prophetic Remnant in The Spirit and Power of Elijah — that will bring Judgement on the House and the Sons of Eli”

 

So with The LORD speaking much to me today, concerning The Spirit and Power of Elijah, as I was driving home, suddenly I heard The Holy Spirit say something which caused me to pull off the road and write it down!

What He said was incredibly powerful, and friends, even as I write this, I feel the weight of The Spirit of The Fear of The LORD come upon me!

I heard Him say, “Watch, for I AM raising up an Apostolic and Prophetic Remnant in The Spirit and Power of Elijah — that will bring Judgement on the House and the Sons of Eli”

Wow… Wow!

Now, as I pulled off the road and wrote down what I was hearing The Spirit of Revelation saying, He suddenly showed me the “House of Eli and his Sons” as a Powerful Prophetic parallel of The Church in this hour.

Please see 1 Samuel 2 for more context for those Words.

There we encounter Hophni and Phinehas, the corrupt Sons of Eli the priest, who did not truly “know The LORD.”

They treated the sacrificial offerings made to God with disdain, and this led the people astray.

See also 1 Samuel 2:12-17,24 (below).

Their misconduct extended to vile acts of sexual immorality and perversion as they took sexual advantage of the women serving at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting!

Eli was aware of his sons’ actions and issued a rebuke, yet he failed to take decisive disciplinary action — and compromise crept in.

As a result, Hophni and Phinehas dismissed and ignored their father’s admonitions and continued in their wicked and corrupt ways, showing blatant contempt for God’s Laws and Instruction.

We then see God’s Prophet Samuel subsequently delivering a stark message of rebuke to Eli, accusing him of honouring his sons more than God Himself..

“Why do you kick at My sacrifice and My offering which I have commanded in My dwelling place, and honour your sons more than Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel My people?” 1 Samuel 2:29.

This was a Warning of impending Judgment: where Eli’s sons were destined to perish, and his lineage would face an early demise.

I submit, if we look closely at the House of Eli and his sons, we can see clearly the intricate tapestry of Church hierarchy.

There are individuals like the Hophni and Phinehas figures, whose very existence raises alarm bells about the moral and spiritual integrity of religious leadership, we see demonstrated in The Church.

These men — the Sons of Belial — I believe represent a grave reality within The Church that persists in this day — those who do not truly know The LORD, yet wield significant influence, leading many of the faithful astray through their actions and strange fire* teachings and prophecies!

Their behaviour often reveals a deep-seated corruption or a blatant disregard for the sacredness of the Word of God, embodying the strong metaphor of wolves in sheep’s clothing.

The Sons of Eli, “clad in the garments of so-called ‘righteousness’” misled God’s People, as they prioritised personal gain and popularity over genuine spiritual maturity and God-given Anointing and Authority.

Again, I see so clearly how this dark backdrop of the House of Eli and his sons, parallels prophetically The Church of today, many of whom are like Eli, as they strive to uphold their Faith within the religious structures of The Church.

These individuals are faithful Believers who grapple with their convictions in the face of widespread corruption. They are often paralyzed by a profound sense of hesitation when it comes to confronting the pervasive moral decay that surrounds them.

But like the House of Eli and his sons, this widespread corruption is not always overt; as it can manifest through subtle — yet damaging — compromises with worldly values, a disturbing rejection of the Word of The LORD, and an alarming reluctance to hold accountable those who perpetrate acts of evil, whether through negligence or intentional disregard for The Truth.

Just as Eli, the High Priest, chose not to discipline his wayward sons Hophni and Phinehas, and allowed them to continue in their wicked and perversion and misconduct in The Temple, many Church leaders today have acted in strikingly similar ways!

They have neglected their sacred responsibility and accountability to minister first unto God.

They have refused to uphold Purity, Integrity and Righteousness, in turning a blind eye to the actions of those among them who operate in ways that betray the very essence of their Faith!

By failing to confront wrongdoing, they have unwittingly enabled a toxic Spiritual Culture through complacency, and so abuse has flourished, allowing the seeds of corruption to take root and mature within The Church.

Ha! But now the Gavel is falling — and the grave consequences of such inaction, neglect and complacency that has been so severe, is leading not only to a distortion of the Truth of The Gospel, but also to a disillusionment of the faithful Children of God.

As the moral integrity of The Church has waned, so has the spiritual vitality and power of The Church.

This has left behind a wake of confusion and despair among those who seek for God’s direction and guidance in this time of great trouble in the world!

Just like Eli sought to protect his family’s status, that is exactly how The Church has tried to safeguard its reputation and popularity.

In its effort to appear inclusive, diverse and politically correct, The Church has promoted leaders who have a total disregard God’s Word and the leading of His Spirit!

I believe this is a Clarion Call to The Church in this 11th hour, to Return to its First Love — to Repent — and to uphold Truth, Holiness and Righteousness, and to Rise Up and begin to reveal the deep corruption and compromise that has brought great destruction.

Just as God prepared Samuel, God is raising a faithful Remnant to fulfil His Purposes!

Listen! God is not playing games with The Church in this Hour!

I Prophesy : ”WATCH! The House and Sons of Eli are about to come under the Judgment of God — and God is about to raise up a New Apostolic and Prophetic Wineskin filled with the Spirit and Power of Elijah — and they will curse the House and the Sons of Eli — and Great Judgement will ensue!

God is ‘Cleaning House’ and dealing with The Church as He dealt with the House and Sons of Eli!”

“The Wicked Sons of Eli
Now the Sons of Eli were corrupt;[a] they did not know The LORD. And the priests’ custom with the people was that when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come with a three-pronged fleshhook in his hand while the meat was boiling. Then he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; and the priest would take for himself all that the fleshhook brought up. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat for roasting to the priest, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw.”
And if the man said to him, “They should really burn the fat first; then you may take as much as your heart desires,” he would then answer him, “No, but you must give it now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before The LORD, for men abhorred the offering of The LORD…….
…….No, my sons! For it is not a good report that I hear. You make The LORD’s people transgress.” 1 Samuel 2:12-17,24.

*Strange Fire: The Profane [Strange] Fire of Nadab and Abihu : “Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them.” Leviticus 10:1.

Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West