The Prophet
Bible Matters 539: The Prophet
The Old Testament was full of prophets. God spoke through the prophets. What is a prophet?
Prophet – Noun – A person who speaks by divine inspiration or as the interpreter through whom the will of God is expressed.
Most of you go through life, passively following the will of man. Man will say this and that about God’s word and you passively believe him. You go about your life, business as usual, hoping one day to have everlasting life in heaven. It is so easy for the gullible man to believe that Jesus is God, you are saved by grace and by believing in Jesus you’ll have everlasting life. You’ll buy off these three verses and convince yourself that you are going to heaven.
John 1:1,14 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Acts 15:11 – But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
John 6:47 – Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
Those three verses sound like music to your ears. From these three verses, for sure God has saved you. But wait, there is a lot of bible and eleven apostles and Paul and his disciples used to spread God word. There is so much more. Faith, Love, Repentance, following God’s word, doing the will of God with good works and acts of charity. …… Do not be a fool!
Romans 1:22 – Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Jesus said that if you believe in him, then you don’t abide in sin and darkness.
John 12:46 – I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
By not abiding in darkness, you do the will of the Father. You repent and turn from you sin, living under the light of the Lord.
Matthew 7:21 – Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
The question you must ask is, “Am I smart enough to understand the will of God and believe through faith that the power of God will protect and save me from death and destruction.”
Joshua and Caleb could have went about their merry way and not spoke out spoke about being able to conquering the giants, but they didn’t. They knew that with the power of God, the Israelites could conquer those giants in the promised land. The other ten witnesses that went to the promise land to spy for Moses, feared the giants and said they could not be conquered. Joshua as a prophet and Caleb made it to the promised land.
Numbers 14:6-8,30 – And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: And they spoke unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey. Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Moses witnessed the power of God. With his rod, God inflicted the ten plagues onto the Egyptians. With his rod, God parted the Red Sea and defeated the Egyptian army. With his rod, God split the rock to give the Israelites and their animals water. Why did Moses listen to the ten doubters? Ask yourself, “Why didn’t Moses lift up that rod and cross the Jordan?” With the power of God working for the Israelites, they could have defeated the giants and populated the promised land, forty years before they arrived under the direction of the prophet Joshua. Joshua believed in the same God, the same promise and the same instructions. Joshua arrived to the promised land. Moses didn’t. The difference….belief.
Joshua 1:1-3 – Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
Will you have the power to believe in God to lead you to the promised land? The devil just wants you to believe that you’ll be in the promise land without relying on the power of God.
On 9/6/21 after texting the time, 8:28, on my phone, minutes later I pulled my phone from my pocket and my phone had pocket texted the phrase “Romans”.
Romans 8:28 – And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
At that time, I was struggling with my church sending people to the jail ministry promising salvation to inmates without repentance of sin required by God’s gospel of Love. They would then tell the inmates that they were saved and have everlasting life by believing in a couple of verses and they can never lose that gift. That belief is the opposite of the eight New Testament witnesses that have told you to repent of your sins and turn to God, live a life unto righteousness, loving God, loving your neighbor and endure to the end for the gift of everlasting life.
With this Romans 8:28 text, I knew exactly what God wanted. I communicated with my pastors and jail ministry team not to come to the jail and make promises of everlasting life. The outcome is that I kept the jail ministry, teaching the truth in God’s word, without interference:)
My first text from God, was “Ecclesiastes” 3 months after I started studying the bible, 8 years earlier in 2013.
So why this text on 9/6/21?
In bible numbers:
Number 9: Nine (teth) – Visitation
Teth is a snake in Hebrew. It can also signify being surrounded, for the snake was often pictured in a circle swallowing its tail.
The number nine speaks God’s “visitation.” This is a Hebraism that pictures God as an Investigator “visiting” a person, city, or nation to expose the hearts, gather evidence, and “see” firsthand, as it were, the truth of a matter. It is much like a divine court case where the evidence is uncovered and presented to the judge for judgment. In Luke 19:43 and 44, Jesus says to the temple in Jerusalem,
43 For the days shall come upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank before you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side, 44 and will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation [Greek: episcope, “bishopric, overseer”].
In this case, the time of visitation was the three-year period of Jesus’ ministry from 30-33 A.D., where God manifested in human flesh to “visit” Judea and Jerusalem and to test the hearts of the people. (Jesus is called a Bishop or Overseer in 1 Peter 2:25.) In another sense, Jesus was the Heavenly Fruit Inspector. Jesus found a few whose hearts were right, and these formed the branches of the good fig tree that brought forth good fruit (Jer. 24:5-7). The majority, however, along with the religious leaders, were of the evil fig tree (Jer. 24:8-10). The good figs were Jesus’ disciples and the converts of the early Church, who were expelled from the land (by persecution), in order that God might spare them from the coming judgment forty years later.
The idea of “visitation” is shown in the Old Testament. For believers, it has a positive connotation, as in Gen. 50:24, 25, Psalm 106:4, and Jer. 27:24. Their visitation results salvation or deliverance. However, for unbelievers, it carries a negative result, as we see in Ex. 32:34, Lev. 18:25, Isaiah 10:3, and Jer. 10:15. The Hebrew word for “visitation” in the Old Testament is peqadah, and the Septuagint Greek equivalent is episcope.
Number 6: Six (vav) – Man
Vav is a nail or peg in Hebrew. It is also a conjunction (“and”), for it takes a nail to connect two things.
Six is the number of man, for man was created on the sixth day (Gen. 1:24-31). Man was also to labor for six days before entering into the Sabbath rest (Ex. 20:8-11), and the Hebrew slave was to serve for six years (Ex. 21:2).
Moses had to wait for six days before he was allowed to go up the mount to meet the Lord (Ex. 24:16-18).
Israel compassed the walls of Jericho for six days before the city fell on the seventh (Joshua 6:14, 15).
In Daniel 3, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon erected an image of gold by which the gold standard was created. Verse 1 says that it was 60 cubits high and 6 cubits wide. The dimensions of this image are too thin to be the statue of a man. It was more likely something else with a gold object on the top or head. But it does speak of man’s effort to establish a system of economic control by means of the worship of gold and money in general.
Hence, Paul writes in 1 Tim. 6:10 that “the love of money [greed] is the root of all evil.” Also, the works of the flesh in Gal. 5:19-21 lists witchcraft as the sixth vice. Witchcraft is simply man’s attempt to manipulate others against their will. For this reason, Saul’s rebellion against God was “as the sin of witchcraft” (1 Sam. 15:23). What is not generally understood is that man’s religion is largely a matter of doing rituals to manipulate one’s god (or gods) into doing things that are beneficial to them.
Number 21: Twenty-One (kaph-aleph) – Distress
To write twenty-one in Hebrew, they wrote two Hebrew letters: kaph-aleph. These signify giving strength as well as the strength of God’s grace to cover sin during our time of spiritual growth.
When twenty-one is used in terms of time (as in a 21-year period) it is the number of trouble or distress (tsarah), during which time we are in need of God’s strength, offered by an open hand. When it is used as a number in itself, it speaks of the end of the distress. Thus, it speaks of the blessing at the end.
Likewise, the 21st time Abram is mentioned is in Gen. 13:3, where he returned to Bethel after being in distress in Egypt. Verse 4 says that there he “called on the name of the Lord.”
In conclusion: On that Labor Day morning, 9/6/21, I needed the power of God to overcome the wickedness in man by misleading people not in accordance to God’s word. I was under great distress! God visited me and gave me his word in Romans 8:28 and told me to have faith and he will take care of me! That verse gave me strength to stand up against the evils of man religion. Three days later the jail ministry was mine and no longer were heretics coming to the jail abusing God’s word. There is no confusion when you abide in God’s word. The message is clear.
Psalm 118:5 – I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.
Since that day, God has sent witnesses and messages to direct his ministry in God’s church. His books, written for the jail ministry, provide doctrine to live by and understand the truth in God’s word. The books are listed below in the order of development for his church, including: “Jesus Is Coming”, “Glory Bound”, “Put God First”, “Power of God”, “Out of Darkness”, “New Beginning 1) ”, “A Bride of Christ”, “The Ark and the Blood”, “The Church of Nineveh”, “Team ABBA”, “One World Church”, “God is King” and “Gospel of Love”.
1) Lessons started to include the preponderance of evidence from the mouth of two or three witnesses, as commanded by God, twelve times in the Old and New Testament from the mouth of five witnesses. This is the New Beginning for man and God’s church on this earth.
I witnessed using 350 Redemption and Best You Now messages for the 4/08/24 eclipse in the USA. God told me this was his Nineveh eclipse. America is warned. God has now planted his church. 2024 is the year of redemption through his ministry of priesthood offer to you. All are invited into God’s church. The only message is for you to be messengers and servants to God almighty. No Tithing. No titles. No pay. God launched his church with a dream on Ecclesiastes 4:12-15. God told me that my witness to the fifty plus man-made churches was finished.
Ecclesiastes 4:12-15 – And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. For out of prison, he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor. I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
His next dream sealed the deal for me with a recurring dream of death and destruction and his message of “Nothing Is as It First Appears.” God use of “saved” in the Old Testament was about saving his people from destruction. Man has turned God’s salvation message in the New Testament from saving his people to all about saving self.
Man preaches on this verse. Man’s salvation message is all about you!
John 3:16 – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God’s salvation message starts with you living your life for man and loving the things of God. In the end, the world wins. God put man on the world last. The world can thrive without man. It is up to us to live here without destroying this planet.
John 3:17 – For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
God’s gospel of Love is presented in the testimony of all eight New Testament witnesses, the “Quran” and the Hindu scripture, “Bhagavad Gita”. These gospels are presented in the book, “Gospel of Love.” There is no other book, published today that contains the testimony of the prophets, all sent by God, that included the single message of God’s gospel of Love. The power and will of God expressed in the six-point salvation message, sent by God:
1) Believe in the One True God
2) Repent and turn from your sin.
3) Judge no one.
4) Love God.
5) Love your neighbor.
6) Live a life unto righteousness, enduring to the end for the gift of everlasting life with God in heaven.
Decide today, that God is real and you will believe like Joshua believed in the power of God. You will turn from sin and follow God’s gospel of Love. As the world religions fight to kill each other, it is up to us, as believers, to become a servant to God and spread his gospel throughout the world. God will be waiting for you to come into the promised land.
To God be the glory in all you do, Amen.