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6-12-2022 Weekly Messages

Meditation of the Week: Psalm 91:1-16

Text: Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon Title: The Gospel of Christ and the Restoration of Israel

       Apostle Paul testified that the gospel of Christ is the power of God to give salvation to those who believe, and he said that he is not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. He also testified that the gospel of Christ is to the Jews first and also to the Greeks (Romans 1:16).

        Christ means the anointed one. There are three types of people who are anointed in the Bible. The first is  prophet, the second  priest, and the third  king. The gospel of Christ is speaking of the Lord Jesus, who has all these three offices. The core of the gospel that  Apostle Paul testified of is the word about Jesus, the Christ.

        Jesus, who appeared in the flesh, was anointed as a prophet and preached the truth, but was killed by the Jews who rejected the truth. Now, after the Resurrection, he is seated at the right hand of God the Father as the High Priest. However, when the time is fulfilled, he will return to this earth as King of kings and Lord of lords to judge the peoples who do not believe in him and to establish his own kingdom on earth.

         Therefore, those who believe in the gospel of Christ must believe that Jesus Christ has these three offices. At the end of the prayer that the Lord Jesus asked the Jews, “Thy kingdom and the power and the glory are thine forever.” This prayer is a confession that we believe in the glorious Second Coming who will appear on this earth and establish the kingdom Christ in order to fulfill his final will in heaven and earth.

       Apostle Paul testified that Satan, the Devil has been preventing from believing in Christ Jesus who is coming to the earth to take over the earth that has been ruled by the devil:

” In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.” (2 Corinthians 4:4-5).

       By saying, “the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,” he refers to the glorious appearing of Christ Jesus, who appears again on this earth in glory and comes to reclaim the earth that Satan the devil has taken by force. At this time, Christ Jesus will take revenge for the people of Israel who have been persecuted and taken their land given by the LORD God by the nations of the world, and even confiscated all their possessions.

          Prophet Isaiah testified of what God would do to restore Israel:

” The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.” (Isaiah 61:1-3).

          God will forgive those who are mourning in Zion for thousands of  years for their sins against the law, and will restore them to their kingdom. When the kingdom  taken away by the Gentiles is to be restored from their wanderings, they will welcome Christ Jesus as their King, and the kingdom of the Lord will come. When Jesus came, the first prayer he gave them was, “Thy kingdom come.” God will restore their land. The prophet Isaiah prophesied:

“And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.” (Isaiah 61:4).

      Not only that, but at this time the Israelites will become the owner of the earth:

“And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.” (Isaiah 61:5-7)

         How amazing and unimaginable would this be? How will they, who were the most hated, rejected, and called the scoundrels in the world, rule over all nations and make all nations as their servants? But this was happened unto them in the past before they sinned. When they came out of Egypt and marched through the wilderness on their way to the Promised Land, God made to destroy the nations that stood in their way against them, and the peoples who helped them in their way became servants of the people of Israel themselves and followed them in the rear of the people of Israel. God said them as the strangers:

“Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:” (Deuteronomy 29:10-11).

           Isaiah testified of God’s words concerning the restoration of the people of Israel by God’s grace:

“For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.” (Isaiah 61:8-9).

        The restored people of Israel will glorify God in the restored land:

“I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” (Isaiah 61:10 -11)

         At this time, the glory of Zion will finally shine in the morning. At this time they will be called by the Lord God by new names, Hephzibah and Beulah (meaning as, in whom my joy is):

“And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.

3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. “(Isa 62:2-4)

           At this time, Jews and Gentiles who believe in the gospel of Christ and born again by the Holy Ghost to be the bride of Christ will rejoice with them in the kingdom of Christ. That’s right! The gospel of Christ says, first to the Jews, and second, to the Greeks (Gentiles).

        What we must know is that, in order to prevent the light of the gospel of Christ from reaching people, Satan the Devil used his bride, the Roman Catholic, to kill millions of Jews over the past two thousand years, and during World War II, in cooperation with the Nazis, through the Jesuits. They slaughtered the Jews. Because Satan the Devil knew God’s plan to give the people of Israel the land promised to Abraham and make them a priestly nation to occupy all the land, he is still working on a plot to annihilate the Jews until now.

       Also, Satan the devil uses the theologians with Roman Catholicism to create an replacement theology, deceiving that the people of Israel have already been abandoned by God and that God’s promises to Israel have already been inherited by the church, so that they have been blinded the eyes of the churches of  the kingdom of Christ centered on Israel to be established. After the Council of Nicaea,  the Pope has been deceiving the churches that Jesus Christ is  not coming back to this earth because he is the vicar of Christ to rule the world

       But Satan the devil, the Antichrist, and the false Prophet who have deceived the whole world shall be cast into the lake of fire by the Lord Jesus Christ of glory at his coming. At this time, the kingdom and power and glory will be with the Father God forever all.

Amen! Hallelujah!