Can Anyone Foretell the Future? - Pt 2

Thinking With Clarity...about identifying the Real Messiah.

Feb 28

This post continues from Part 1, “Can Anyone Foretell the Future”, which is illustrated through the Hebrew names of Genesis 5, the prophecy of hope to come from a Saviour.

In the work of spies, there is always the need to send very discrete messages to your handlers. Many times, the message is right out in the open but only the right people know that it is a “Message”! In a recent movie I saw, the message was whether or not there was a sheet hung out to dry. Who would recognize that as a message…

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Let’s Continue…

Through this COVID-19 “Fauchi Fiasco”, the control exerted by many two-faced City, County, State, and National Officials (and “Unofficials”), has enabled the workings of Satan to become more and more visible. Unconstitutional actions are performed without a thought of the treachery they are empowering. They do not comprehend that they are fulfilling the very words of prophecy because their minds have become agreeable to accepting a lie and as result, they propagate it everywhere they go. They are totally oblivious to the fact that one day, they will stand in judgment for what they have done in either this life or the next.

People like this are incapable of understanding the meaning of their actions that go beyond the official script they blindly follow. Their eyes are incapable of reading beyond the words, beyond the letters to see the insidious ways they are controled by the Global Elite.

They go thru the motions, pressing the #3 on their cell phone to have a phone number dialed, unaware that the people affected by their dictates are so similar to themselves.

Telephone numbers are amazing. Going thru a specific organization of numbers you can fly from your phone across miles and oceans to a specific handset that your loved one has in their pocket.

My past experience includes the ability to program large telephone switches that many of the largest companies have. I understand the workings of the importance of each set of numbers in a phone number. My son and his family are missionaries on the other side of the world, but the right numbers will go to specifically him, or my Daughter-in-law, or my precious granddaughter.

The following is the takeaway from a sermon of Pastor Rogers1

There are things that we have been told will happen so that when they DO happen, we will know that what we were told was true. What is the law of probability that Jesus Christ is really the Messiah, the Son of God?

“Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am He.” John 13:19

Here are some things we have been told before they happened so that we would know…

1. God said he was to come from a race.

He was not to be an Angel, to be a MAN. Messiah is to be a human being.

Genesis 3:15 Here’s what God said to the serpent.

“And I will put enmity (that means warfare) between thee and the woman, and between thy seed (descendant) and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

This is the first prophecy in all of the Bible. It’s found right there in the threshold of the Bible, and it is called by theologians the “Proto Evangelium” which means the first evangelistic message, and here a battle is prophesied of the seed of a woman and the seed of the serpent and we're seeing that battle go on through all history. Not only is a battle prophesied, but a birth is prophesied: here is the Seed. You know in the Bible the word, “Seed” is used more than 100 times and is always refers to the seed of a male, yet here, God speaks concerning the “woman”. the seed of a woman.

The old Rabbis used to scratch their head and say it was the seed of a man and yet here in Genesis 3:15 it’s called the seed of a woman, a prophecy of the Virgin birth, not only a battle, not only a birth, but a bruising is prophesied that the seed of the serpent is going to bruise His heel, Messiah’s heal, but Messiah is going to crush his head.

Isn’t that an amazing thing, I mean right there in the beginning of the Bible you find that Messiah is going to be a human being. He's the seed of the woman but not only is it going to be

a race.

We've just picked up the phone and dialed the first number.

2. There will be a section out of that race.

As time went along there was a man named Noah. God put Noah in the ark, Noah came out of the ark and Noah had three sons: Ham, Shem, and Japheth. And these three came out of the ark, well from whom is Messiah going to come?

Genesis 9:26, “And he said blessed be the Lord God of Shem.”

Messiah is going to be a Shemite or Semite. God chose Shem, and when God chose Shem, he then narrowed the focus this much more and eliminated two-thirds of all of the people on the Earth. Messiah will come from Shem.

3. God chooses a Nation.

But not only does God choose a seed and not only does God choose out of that seed a section but out of that section God chooses a nation, because about 2,000 years before Jesus was born God came to a man named Abraham and God said to Abraham I'm going to make a nation out of you.

Genesis 12:1-3, “And now the Lord God said unto Abram,” that was his name before God changed it to Abraham, “get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house into a land that I will show thee and I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shall be a blessing and I will bless them to bless thee and curse him that curse of thee and in Abraham shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”

Now we continue to dial, first of all,

a race,
secondly, a section of that race,
thirdly, a nation out of that section of that race.

4. Now God chooses a specific person.

You see, Abraham had two sons. One named Isaac and one named Ishmael well, which one would it be?

Genesis 17:19 “And God said Sarah thy wife she'll bear their son and thou shall call his name Isaac and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant.”

So God takes the descendants of Abraham and God divides them and God tightens the focus again. And God says now Messiah is going to come from:

a race
from a section of that race
from a nation of that race and
from a particular son in that Nation

5. Isaac had two sons

God chose not Esau but Jacob. When God did that, again He eliminates 50% of all of those about a left God chose Jacob.

Numbers 24:17 “The prophet said I see him, but not now. I shall behold him, but not nigh: There shall come a star out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel.”

So here is Jacob he has 12 sons but God just chooses one of those sons and that son is Judah.

Genesis 49:10 “The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a law giver from between his feet until Shiloh come and unto him shall be gathering of the people be.”

And here,

God chooses a race,
and then God chooses a section of a race,
and then God chooses a nation out of that section,
and then God chooses a tribe out of that section the tribe of Judah.

6. There was a specific family.

But God is not finished yet. God keeps punching numbers on his heavenly telephone and now God takes the tribe of Judah and God chooses a family out of the tribe of Judah. What is that family?

That family,
out of that tribe,
out of that Nation,
out of that section,
out of that race,

It is the family of Jesse.

Isaiah 11:1-2 “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch should grow out of his roots.”

Now the rod, the ruler, the kingdom is going to come from a particular family the family of Jesse. Messiah is going to be a descendant of the family of Jesse and all the other families of Judah now are eliminated. But Jesse had 8 sons.

So God is not finished. God is going to tighten the focus a little more not only his Messiah going to come from Jessie but God says Messiah is going to come from a household of that family of that tribe of that nation of that section of that race what is the family?

7. The household is going to be the household of David.

2 Samuel 7:6 “Now therefore so shall thou say under my servant David, thus say the Lord of Hosts, I took thee from the sheep goats and from falling the sheep to be a ruler over my people over Israel.”

2 Samuel 7:12 “And when thy days be fulfilled thou shall sleep with thy fathers yet I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy bowels,” ( that is a descendant of David), “and I will establish my kingdom.”

Now Jesse had eight sons and 7/8 of them were eliminated. God just keeps on narrowing the focus. Messiah's to come from the household of David but God’s not finished yet. We have the House of David but now this has to be a certain woman,

out of the household of David,
out of that family,
out of that tribe,
out of that Nation,
out of that section,
out of that race.

8. This woman is to be a virgin.

Isaiah 7:14 “Behold the Lord himself should give you a sign, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son.”

Not any daughter of the household of David but there has to be a virgin who can season her womb with a child. Are you getting it yet?

A son is born of that virgin,
out of that household,
out of that family,
out of that tribe,
out of that Nation,
out of that section,
out of that race.

9+. God’s not finished dialing yet.

He can't be born anywhere. He's got to be born in Bethlehem. And the Focus does not stop there:

He can't be just an ordinary person he has to be hated,
He has to be sold for 30 pieces of silver,
betrayed,
He has to be crucified by the piercing of his hands and his feet and,
He has to be raised from the dead.

And when you dial all of these numbers and pick up the phone who do you have?

Jesus the Son of God.

I'm telling you folks if you tell me that which happened, is just happenstance, there’s someone knocking on your door and no one’s home upstairs?

There are over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament concerning Jesus.

What are the Odds?

There's a man named Peter Stoner, who deals with the law of probabilities, and he is a great mathematician. And he has taken the prophecies and applied the law of probability to them and here's the illustration that he gives that can help us understand, at least, to somehow get some mental picture.

If you were to cover the state of Texas with silver dollars from border to border 3-feet deep, that would be a lot of silver dollars. Then, make a mark on one silver dollar, then blindfold a man and drop him down anywhere in the state of Texas, and let him stay there and shuffle through those silver dollars. If he reaches in and finds that one, marked, silver dollar, mathematically that would be the same probability that just eight of these prophecies would be fulfilled by one individual.

You find the Lord Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. Jesus is there in portrait, in all of the symbols, all of the emblems, all of the ceremonies… They all picture the Lord Jesus.

He is the Prophet. He is the Priest. He is the King. Then you look at the fulfilled prophecies and you say, how could this happen apart from divine inspiration?

You can trust the word of God.

You can… You can trust the word of God. And you can trust the God of that Word. I mean if you trust the Word of God you certainly ought to trust the God of that Word.

The Old Testament says that somebody is coming.
The New Testament says that somebody has come.
And the book of Revelation says that somebody is coming again.
The New Testament tells you how Jesus, who is coming, gets you ready for his second coming. It tells you how you can know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord.

I'm not trying to prove to you that Jesus is the Messiah. It lies beyond proof. True faith is rooted in evidence but true faith goes beyond the evidence.

True Faith becomes its own best evidence.

Understanding God

If you try to figure God out, you will die and go to hell, and not have God figured out. The Bible says,

Job 11:7 “Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?”

Can a man by reasoning find out God? Why is that? Well, nothing will hold anything beyond its own capacity. In other words, you can't put two gallons of liquid in a 1-gallon jug. Do you think that you can cram God into your mind? It doesn't have the capacity to contain God and so don't try to eliminate God that you don't understand.

in order for me to have a God that I can worship He must be a God greater than my mentality. If I could understand God, God would be no bigger than my intellect which is far too small of a God for me to worship.

Now if we could understand God, we wouldn't need God. I want to tell you something. We don't have to understand Him to know Him.

When I was a little boy my dad used to go off to work. I didn't know where he went or what he did. But I knew it was my dad and I knew him personally, and I loved him.

You don't have to understand how God runs the mighty universe to put your faith and trust in Him. One day there will be a judgment and you WILL STAND BEFORE HIM.

Somebody asked Mrs. Albert Einstein, “Do you understand the theory of relativity?” She said, “No but I understand Dr. Einstein, and I know him.”

And I'm telling you that by faith, you can know the Lord Jesus Christ. If I had a thousand lives to live, I would give Jesus every one of them.

The Bible says,

Acts 16:31 “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”

That word “believe” doesn't mean just “intellectual belief”. The devil believes that way. It's a Bible word that means Trust. You can believe an airplane can fly but you don't trust it till you get on it!

Trust the Lord Jesus.

You can invite Jesus into your heart. Would you pray a prayer like this:

Dear God,
I know that You love me, and I know that You want to save me. Jesus, You died to save me. You promised to save me if I would trust You. I do trust You, Jesus. I do trust You right now. I receive You into my life. I yield my life to You, in faith. Forgive my sin, cleanse me, begin now to make me the person you want me to be. I believe that with Your blood, You paid my sin debt.
Thank you, Jesus. And now I just turned my life over to You, Lord Jesus, because You died for me, I will live for You and help me Lord Jesus, to never ever to be ashamed of You. Give me the courage to make it public.
In Your Name, I pray, amen.

Inspiration

I leave you with inspirational music of this day and age by the Asidors whose sound will amaze you with this message, “I Surrender All.

Adapted from Adrian Rogers, Pastor, and President of the Southern Baptist Convention September 12, 1931 - November 15, 2005. Founder of Love Worth Finding, https://www.lwf.org

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