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Why no rapture last week? #1

9/26/2015

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Hi all,

There is a well done little movie playing in the US right now called 'Mr. Holmes'. Set in 1947, it is about detective Sherlock Holmes at age 93, trying to figure out his last case from 35 years earlier and how he got it so wrong. After he realizes the truth of the case he makes a statement that could also apply to those who were caught up in the expected rapture that didn't happen a couple weeks ago:
"I had gathered all the facts but failed to understand their meaning." 

This series is about why it didn't happen 'as scheduled' 
Apparently many people were worked nearly to a frenzy as they awaited the rapture, if you paid attention at all to social or Christian media. Others were awaiting a global financial meltdown on that day, or both.
 

But regular readers will remember my recent 'dream' series and e-newsletters, how I shared the Lord told me not to look for an event, but a larger process at work, though there will be several events within the process. But the rapture isn't yet. This series is about the larger process.

And let me say, there will be economic and political troubles in the US and world for at least the next 2 years, so don't think I am saying that all is well and there will be smooth sailing - I'm not. Times are coming in the US and world that if you don't know Him in whom you believe, and know how to walk with Him now, you could face great difficulty. But the end is not yet. 

So why didn't the rapture happen?

After all, in 2001 and 2008 economic and other turmoil hit world markets in massive 'corrections/events' on Elul 29 in the Jewish calendar - yet in 2015 nothing happened in spite of it being a Shemitah year, in spite of blood moons, in spite of millions of books sold and the Internet buzzing with anticipation.  

If you want to read a well written and easy to understand book on God's anniversary dates, I'd suggest the late Grant Jeffrey's, "Armageddon; Appointment with Destiny", in which he details several Jewish holy days and historical events that happened through the centuries on those dates.  

Why didn't anything happen when it was called for? Do we just chalk it up to God being unpredictable, or is there a larger process at work? (Yes) The answer is much more serious than most realize. That's why this series is related to the fear of God - the end of school girl giddiness about the latest and greatest fad is upon us, to be replaced by a reverence of God for the season we are in.  

First: Why would a prophecy NOT come to pass as predicted? There are several answers possible.  

Situation #1 - they were in the flesh

This is what most first go to as an explanation - the person who gave the prophecy was speaking out of the flesh and 'missed it'. And that is possible. You can have people who study the Word and arrive at conclusions based solely on the Word without the Holy Spirit's guidance, yet they think they are right, out of a cerebral or scientific approach to faith. An example is what didn't happen this month, and also the famous book prophesying the rapture in 1988, and its sequel, why the rapture is going to happen in 1989.  

Situation #2 - people repent

Another situation a prophecy might not happen is when a people repent, such as Jonah prophesying to Nineveh they would be overthrown in 40 days but it didn't happen. Because of their repentance the Lord withheld judgment and the prophecy did not come to pass. Jonah didn't miss it, God changed His mind based on their reaction to the prophecy of their destruction.  

2a is related to #2 - People not repenting, but turning away from God even though they have been given powerful prophetic words, which causes a prophecy not to come to pass. An example is Moses when he came from the burning bush to prophesy to Israel that the Lord would bring them out of Egypt and into a land of milk and honey*. Yet that prophecy didn't come to pass for the nation because the people had changed their mind from following the Lord. It came to pass only for Joshua and Caleb, who followed the Lord fully. (*Exodus 3:17, 4:29-31)

Situation #3 - misunderstanding the revelation of the devil's plan

Another situation is seen in Acts 27:10 when Paul perceives in his spirit if they set out on the voyage "...we will lose the ship, the cargo, and our lives". But this was a situation where the Lord showed him the devil's plan of what would happen if God didn't intervene. We are told later in the chapter, after 14 days of fasting, an angel visited Paul and told him God had spared all (276 people) but they would still lose the ship and cargo. That was a case of God revealing the devil's plan so it could be stopped through prayer. 

Many well meaning Christians have rebuked the Holy Spirit because they thought a revelation of something bad that is about to happen is the devil, not realizing it is very often the Father revealing the enemy plan so that person can pray to Him that He may legally intervene to stop it from happening. 

Situation #4 - 'And God turned' - which is about this series

In scripture there is another reason a prophecy doesn't happen, and it is very seldom talked about or even known about I think. It involves a larger process from heaven's perspective, that isn't easily seen from earth's vantage point. 

The question before us is, how like Sherlock Holmes in the movie mentioned above, did they gather all the facts yet fail to understand their meaning?  

The short answer is that multiple events happen to a people over years as a sign to them in the hopes they will change their ways, and at some point when those warnings are ignored, the people are allowed to experience what they want.  

Therefore sometimes a single event along a string of events that should have happened doesn't, because God is extending mercy yet again. But sometimes it doesn't happen because God has moved, and given them over to experience the ramifications of their actions, which is the most mild form of judgement.  

Paul said in Galatians 6:1-8 to restore with meekness someone caught in sin, but if they insist on going their own way just let them walk it out, for God is not mocked, He gives to each of us what we have sown. In other words, you tried, they insisted on going their own way, so even though you know better, they have to be allowed to experience the ramifications of their actions - that is God's way. 

That's what Israel did

In Numbers 14:2 the Israelites complain for the 10th time about God's plan for them, saying: "Would to God we had died in Egypt, or that we had died in the wilderness." Going back to Egypt was not an option, but finally, after this 10th time of complaining since leaving Egypt, the Lord said starting in verse 20 to Moses:
"I have pardoned them as you requested...but as they've spoken in my ears so I will do to them...you will all die in the wilderness (as you requested)...everyone from 20 years and upwards who came out of Egypt..." 

(If a reader doesn't understand how they could be forgiven yet made to pay the price for their rebellion, I suggest any of my 'Forgiveness' series, which explains a trespass is both vertical (sin) and horizontal (injury/damage). The sin can be forgiven from heaven, but the injury/damage done on earth must be accounted for.) 

If you trace those 10 times Israel murmured and complained you'll find the Lord wanted to deal with them at each point, but Moses interceded and the Lord relented. But finally, He reached a point He was willing to go no further, and allowed them to experience exactly what they said they wanted - to die in the wilderness.  

As Steven gives his defense in Acts 7, in verse 42 he recounts this point in Israel's history saying it this way: "And God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven..." There is a point with a people who insist they go their own way instead of God's, that He 'turns' and lets them do what they want. This gives us a clue as to why seemingly predictable divine appointments don't happen, so stay tuned. 

I've run out of room today...continued next week...until then, blessings,

John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com

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Knowing Sacred/Fear God #2, Chris/the Girl

9/19/2015

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Hi all, 

Chris and the 'girl'

Chris and I were in a Lowe's store - which is a home improvement store selling tools and lumber, lighting and appliances and more - and our usual custom is for him to grab the handle of a cart (buggy) as he sits in his wheelchair, and then I go to the front of the cart (buggy) and pull it and him. We look like a 3-part train rolling down the aisles and have been known to clear off shelves by going too wide around corners as Chris' arm brushes products off the shelf. (see picture) 

This particular day we rounded the corner to find a man and woman of at least 75 years of age standing where Chris' wheelchair was about to roll. He saw them as he rounded the corner and called out to the woman, "Watch out girl, here I come, excuse me!"  

They looked up in time and as he passed he said, "Excuse me girl, good job, thank you!" as we missed them by inches. It all happened at a slow walking speed, but to Chris, he was a race car driver. 

Having completed our business some minutes later, we went to the Walmart next door, Barb having saved some items on a grocery list for Chris and I to get. As we rounded a corner once again we nearly ran into this couple, and again Chris called out to the woman, "Watch out girl! Here I come!" At that point the husband turned to greet Chris:
"Didn't we see you next door young man?" And turning to me said, "You're doing a good thing sir, a real good thing." as he put out his hand to shake mine. "He's a fine young man. My wife hasn't been called 'girl' for a long time, and it made us laugh - made our day! Thank you." Chris put out his hand upon seeing me shaking the man's hand, asking, "Can I shake your hand sir?"  

Having shaken his hand Chris said, "Thank you sir, we have to go now, c'mon daddy race car, let's go!" as he made a sound like a race car starting out from the pit area, and we rolled on. I was once again astonished that Chris had blessed someone without him knowing it, and how graciously this couple reacted to Chris, each respecting the other; Chris by addressing them as politely as he knew, and them by acknowledging his respectful and good heart.  

I've been talking...

...about how having the fear of God, that deep respect and reverential fear of Him, starts with a revelation of Him. Chris had the umbilical cord around his neck in a slip knot when he was being born, which has left him at about a 4 year old level mentally, though at this writing he is nearly 36 years old.  

Yet he has had more of a revelation of God than most 'normal' believers. One day he came crawling down the hall (he can support his weight on his feet but cannot walk) saying, "Dad! Dad! Know what Jesus told me?!" I replied, "No Chris, what did He say?" "He said one day He's going to walk through the mountains with me, Yep, that's what He said, Yahoo! That's what He said! Yep, He's going to walk through the mountains with me!" as he laughed and chuckled to himself. 

I've had visitations with the Lord where Chris has been also present - once when Chris and I were attending a Christian concert and the Lord came and stood on the left of my chair and taught me for several minutes about healing, while Chris was seated in his wheelchair on my right. Yet at no time in any visitation since that first one in April of 1986, has the Lord at any time said anything about healing him.  

Chris' faith in contrast to mine, is to wait until he gets to heaven, when he can then walk with Jesus. He says "When I get to heaven I'm going to run" and things like that. That's where his faith is, and Jesus has never given any indication He would work contrary to his faith. Chris has a deep and profound respect for the Lord in a child-like simplicity borne of revelation. He is God, Chris is not. But He is also his friend. Simple. 

With every ambulance racing by, with every fire truck that passes us as it races to an emergency, with every person who seems sad or lonely or some other condition he notices, Chris' first response is to grab my hand and say "We better pray", and we do. His best friend at the group home is a young lady, the daughter of a missionary couple, and he comforts her when she is upset: "It's okay Frankie, Jesus is with us, it's okay, let me pray for you." 

Respect for others is the natural result of a revelation of God, for included in the fear of God is a respect for those He created in His image and likeness.  

By contrast: Related to lacking the fear of God is a lack of accountability to one another and Him, the sense of a loose informality concerning the things of God, and self-deception that rationalizes away sin or worldliness in one's life, church, or nation. 

The 'Sonic' lady

Chris and I were in the drive-thru lane at a local fast food restaurant called Sonic. They are patterned after the classic American drive-in of the 1950's - you drive into a space that has a menu board, and after pushing a button, someone inside takes your order, and a person called a 'car hop' who at least in our area is sometimes on roller skates, brings it out to you a few minutes later. But this particular Sonic also had a drive-thru lane, and we were waiting at the window for our order. 

As we waited I noticed a customer in a car in front of us had pulled up to the 2 trash containers at the end of the property just before exiting onto the street. Being a drive-in means you eat your food in the car, so those containers are for customers as a courtesy to throw out the trash from their meal before they drive away. 

But the young lady ahead of us pulled up to the trash cans, and rather than just tossing items from her meal into a can, she parked the car, got out, and proceeded to empty all the trash of every variety from her back seat, back floor area, and wherever else in the car she could find, filling 1 whole trash container with her non-restaurant trash.  

As I watched I thought to myself, "She has no understanding why those are placed there, or if she does, she doesn't care. Where is the respect for right and wrong? She clearly doesn't have the fear of God. I wonder if she is a believer? Why didn't she know, or care to respect, the obvious reason for those trash receptacles? Why did she have no internal discipline to restrain her from abusing the purpose of them?" 

Society

Everywhere we look we see no respect for simple rules like the above, no respect for human life. Whether it is one nation advancing across another's borders failing to respect their sovereignty, or ISIS killing any Muslim or 'infidel' that doesn't believe as they do, there is no fear of God in much of the world.  

And it is a good thing I'm running out of room or I'd talk of church splits over the color of carpet, pastors from the pulpit calling people who have left their church as being under the influence or filled with the devil, to Christian leaders having affairs, divorces, waiting 90 days after their new marriage to their secretary or worship leader, and then suddenly all is well...wow, where is the fear of God among believers? 

The answer is - it requires a personal walk with God to have a revelation of Him as God. And that must be a walk in which the person wants nothing in return - they are just caught up in loving God for God's sake. Yet even Romans 1 says for those willing to have a humble and honest heart, even the attributes of Him can been in creation, the most basic revelation of Him. When I see a lover of nature who also acknowledges He is the Creator, I think they are closer to the kingdom of God than many in the pews and pulpits.  

God is not a mind, that you can think up a fear of God. He is a Spirit, a Holy One at that, and must therefore be known in the human spirit. That is where God is revealed, that is where the reverential respect and honor of Him and all He has created, is formed.  

Next week a new subject sort of related to this topic, and relevant to this month - the Rapture Mentality...stay tuned. Until then, 

Blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com

 

 


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Knowing Sacred/Fear of God #1, Solomon

9/12/2015

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Hi all, 

I've heard and read repeatedly over the years I'm supposed to have the fear of God, but no sermon nor book has ever told me how I could get it. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom*, but what is it? I know what it isn't that's for sure, because I've wondered sometimes upon observing the actions of others, 'Have they no fear of God?' *Proverbs 1:7, 9:10 

This series is about that 'reverential respect' or 'fear of the Lord' and why the body of Christ and society has no concept of the sacred, no fear of God, no respect for things ranging from the life of the unborn to the life of someone they don't agree with politically or doctrinally, and how one might acquire a 'fear of God'.  

Solomon

The Lord appeared to Solomon two times, documented in I Kings 3:5-15 and 9:2-9. In the first visitation the Lord asked him what he wanted, and he asked for "...an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil..." The Lord granted his request for wisdom conditional upon Solomon walking with Him.  

The second time He appeared to him was after the dedication of the temple, for the purpose of establishing a covenant to confirm someone from David's family would always be on the throne of Israel, as long as he walked with the Lord.  

But Solomon didn't follow the Lord, chapter 11:6 stating: "And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not fully follow after the Lord as did David his father." Verse 9 continues: "And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice."  

Accountability is the result of revelation

Notice the accountability expected of Solomon. The Lord was angry because He had appeared to him twice, yet it made no impact on Solomon's behavior. He went ahead and sacrificed to other gods among other sins. 

Seeing the Lord two times was a revelation that was to have brought a sense of accountability and responsibility coupled with a reverential fear of God - He was the one after all, who wrote Proverbs 1:7 and 9:10 about the fear of the Lord. But Solomon turned his back on the revelations, and did not hold them as sacred and something to which he felt accountable. 

Solomon therefore felt no fear of God when he sacrificed to other gods. Not holding revelation personal in the heart nor letting it impact one's life, leads to a calloused heart indifferent to the things of God. 

A revelation OF God changes lives - if we let it 

A revelation in the heart changed Peter's life in Matthew 16:16-17 when he proclaimed, "You are the Christ! The Son of the Living God!" Jesus said it was the Father who showed him that fact. In truth, the Father showed each of us Jesus is the Christ, and we responded.  

What was the process by which Peter received that revelation? The text says the people were talking about who Jesus might be - maybe Elijah, Jeremiah, or another prophet back from the dead? Peter heard all the speculation, he thought through it in his mind, and down in his heart the Father by His Spirit showed him that Jesus was His Son. The same thing happened to you and I - the Father showed us Jesus, and we responded as we considered all the other 'voices' and opinions out there. 

Just 2 chapters earlier*

Jesus had come walking on the water to them saying (in the Greek) "Take courage. I AM. Now stop being afraid!" to which Peter replied, "Lord, if you are (the I AM), command me to come to you on the water!" *Matthew 14:27, Exodus 3:14 Amplified Version 

That experience in chapter 14 most certainly contributed to Peter's revelation in chapter 16: You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God! 

So we see revelation came by experiencing God personally, and then thinking through that - personally. 

Calloused hearts

In Mark 6:51-52 when Jesus gets into the boat after He and Peter walked on the water back to it, and the wind and waves calmed, it says "And they were astonished exceedingly beyond measure. For they failed to consider or understand the teaching and meaning of the miracles of the loaves; in fact their hearts had grown callous had become dull and had lost the power of understanding." Amplified Version 

Each disciple had a pesonal revelation of Jesus with the multiplying of the food, and even took part in it as He used each of them to distribute the food - yet not a one stopped to consider what they had experienced - thus they were astonished above measure when He walked on water.  

But think about this - they were evidently expected to have considered the food multiplied in the short time between sundown when they got into the boat, and 3-6:00 AM as they'd rowed all night, when Jesus came walking on the water to them - for if they had the verse says, they would not have been astonished nor would their hearts have become callous. 

We live in a busy world, yet God's expectation for us to stop immediately and consider the revelations we've received, to consider the miracles we've experienced, remains the same.  

Take time to consider Him. Nurture solitude. Be still and know that He is God. 

Revelation from God is first personal, not congregational

Each case of a revelation of God leading to a fear/respect of God in scripture involves revelation on a personal basis, not a massive congregational basis. Holding the fear of God in our hearts is personal - that reverential fear that God is God and we will give account of ourselves one day.  

Any auditorium church service, home gathering, or even a meeting with a friend to pray and worship, is to flow from a deeper and more personal one on one walk with God we have. "Church" shouldn't be where we go to get revelation; That comes on a day to day basis as we walk with Him. "Church" is merely a part of our lives that only compliments and is peripheral to our personal walk and revelation with Him. 

As a result of Christians lacking true revelation that only comes from being with Him, they have deluded themselves into thinking going to a 'good worship service' or a 'good teaching' is experiencing God. Most have no clue what truly experiencing God is like. Like trying to see details through a fog, they know He is out there, but most refuse to take the time and press through and learn for themselves at home how to come into His presence just one on one, them and Him.  

A congregation can bring His presence felt corporately, but revelation must flow from the congregational level to a personal level for any life changing effect. A 'good teaching' can resonate and cause excitement in a person's spirit as they listen, and thousands can keep notes of new things seen in the Word, but unless each individual applies that revelation personally, they will remain unchanged.  

BUT: Having a revelation OF God not FROM God is what changes lives.  

A play list of great worship songs means nothing if you don't first worship God in your heart without any accompaniment. Notebooks full of teachings means nothing if you don't first apply what He has dealt with you about in your heart just between Him and you, first. 

The fear of the Lord - that reverential respect for God - begins with personal revelation. But not just revelation, the effort to let that revelation sink into our hearts to become part of our lives through application of the revelations.  

Next week, Chris and 'the girl'. Until then, blessings,

John Fenn

www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com

 

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Self-center/righteous? #4 (Giving tzedakah)

9/5/2015

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Hi all,

I've been talking about tzedakah, often translated as 'righteousness' in our Bibles, and how tzedakah in Hebrew culture and the Bible is both vertical AND horizontal. Tzedakah states for a person to be right with God vertically he must also be right with his fellow man 'horizontally'. 
 

Giving and tzedakah

The word tzedakah means righteousness, but it so emphasizes the horizontal it is often translated as almsgiving, giving, or charity. Such is the importance of righteousness, that it also means 'giving to others'. 

Think of that contrast for a minute - we've been taught in traditional church that righteousness means 'right standing with God', but the very word of tzedakah means 'giving to others' which is a natural part of the flow from a person in right standing with the Father.  

Contrast why people give money, skills, talent, resources

In modern church culture people sometimes give to get - whether 100 fold return or trying to bribe or manipulate God as a means of meeting their need. Sometimes people give to remind Him they have a need and it is urgent. We've been told to "plant a seed, give to get, and God will help, you bet."  

Relatively rare is the person who gives purely out of love of God and appreciation for the work of ministry someone is doing, with no return expected. That is where the true blessing is. The Rabbi's noted the same human nature in their day, and stated the most pure form of giving is to help bury the dead, for that is the one way of giving there is guaranteed no way for a person to get something back from them, lol. I prefer to say "giving is its own reward". 

In tzedakah giving is a natural outflow of our right standing before God as a way of life, not an event. In Jesus' day it was taught that people who received alms - the lepers, the lame, the blind, the widows, the Levite's and priests - were expected to take from what they received and give part of it to someone else in need, so the cycle of giving and receiving in Israel never stopped, but made a big circle. 

The tithe of the Old Testament was actually in 4 parts over the course of 6 out of 7 years: First fruits, First tithe, Tithe of the tithe, and Second tithe. There were no tithes given in year 7. 

In years 1, 2, 4, 5, the Second tithe was taken to Jerusalem and offered to the Lord in the temple, and then taken back and eaten by the people who brought it, in a big party inviting all the poor, immigrants, Levite's, and priests to come and eat*. On years 3 and 6 that Second tithe didn't get taken to the temple, but stayed within the community, the party being for the local people only. Deuteronomy 14:22-29, 15:1-11 

The First fruits once offered to the Lord in the temple went for the priest's consumption, and the first tithe went to them and the rest of the Levites. Then the Levites gave their tithe from that to the priests, and their second tithe was then given to the people. The priests and Levites were considered to be on the same level as the poor as they weren't allowed to own businesses and could therefore expect support from the people they served, but they also tithed on the tithes they received, back to the people - so you see it all moved in a big circle back to the people. 

That means tithing and giving was never to support a huge structure and bureaucracy, but has always been for the direct support of God's people, including ministers. 

In Acts 2 through 6 we see people giving among themselves and to leadership to the point there were no needs in their midst, similar to the above - everyone who came up short on their obligations had their needs met by others - but when the church moved out of homes and into the auditorium in the 300's AD, it turned the relationships with people into relationships with buildings and programs.  

Accountability therefore in the auditorium is measured by attendance, giving, and volunteering, while accountability in the healthy, family based churches that meet in homes, is as Jesus stated - if your brother has an issue with you, go to him and settle it. It is that simple, but requires maturity and love of all. 

Understanding tithing and tzedakah

Unfortunately in some streams of the faith tithing has been given equal importance or even greater than water and Holy Spirit baptisms and the Lord's Supper. God relates to us through the blood of Jesus, not our bank accounts. You aren't cursed at giving 9.99% and suddenly become blessed at 10.01%. 

The tithe isn't even taught in the New Testament letters because the NT was written by apostles doing home church and writing to people in home church, therefore giving all they had as needs arose governed by love and respect was how they lived. Christ is in you, so you and He have to get together and decide how you are to give money and to whom; resources, talents, skills, time, and to whom. You and He get together. The NT is all about Christ in you, the hope of glory. So talk to Him about it. 

It is very clear that givers, those who give as a matter of lifestyle as a natural outflow of their tzedakah - righteousness - are blessed with what is, having lived in it for decades, a covering of protection and timing that non-givers don't have. When you live a lifestyle of tzedakah you'll find you'll give way more than 10% and not even keep track - because it is your lifestyle! 

Jesus said those who give will have it given back to them*, and Paul said givers 'have all grace abound' in their lives, and have their giving multiplied*. Besides all that, Paul said it is right that if ministers share spiritual things which are the highest truths, then those who receive those truths should give back (lower creation) material things*. Luke 6:38, II Corinthians 9:8-11, I Corinthians 9:7-14. 

In my "Through Jewish Eyes" series I even mention a term used by the Lord in Isaiah 40:1-3 that is directly connected to tzedakah as it relates to giving to others: "Comfort, comfort to my people says the Lord. Speak words of comfort to Jerusalem and announce to her that her warfare is finished, that her iniquity is pardoned: For she has received of the Lord's hand double for her sins. The voice of one who cries in the wilderness; Prepare the way of the Lord..." 

To our ears, not understanding tzedakah as it relates to giving, speaking comfort to Jerusalem because she has received double for her sins because her iniquity is pardoned, is not understood. 

The custom of righteousness being demonstrated by giving is seen in 'receiving double'. If a person was bankrupt before the year of release, they would write down on papyrus all their debts with a total amount, and tack that paper to their front door or gate in the hopes someone with one of the tithes mentioned above, would take some or all of their tithe and pay off their debts. If they did so they doubled up the paper and sealed it with their seal, marking the debt paid in full. It was called 'receiving double' for their debts.  

What the Lord says in Isaiah 40:2 is to speak comforting words to Jerusalem because her iniquity has been pardoned, because she has received of the Lord's hand 'double' for her sins. He is the Person who gave of His own resources to pay their debt, directly linking righteousness to giving. 

He paid out of His own 'pocket' so to speak, our debts. Not because He wanted something, not because He had needs, but because He IS righteous, and that is why He gave. Vertical and horizontal. 

In this series I've explained why it is impossible for a true disciple, not just a believer, but a disciple, to be continually self-focused, self-centered. To be righteous before God one must also be righteous within relationships with others. It is by our love they will know us. That isn't love held silently and secretly in our hearts for others, but love demonstrated to others. That is tzedakah - righteousness.  

New series next week...until then...blessings!

John Fenn

www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com

 

 

 

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