The Gospel is the Power of Yahuwah

Saturday, August 27, 2005

If Yeshua the Nazarene is the Messiah

We are grateful Oh Lord.

We are grateful oh Lord for your goodness and your mercy
We look to you Oh Yahwah , for life and light and love.
Knowing that all you give us is good and just an true.
You oh Yahwah are all we need , all we need.
You are so great and wondrous, in your good things, toward us.
Bless your Holy Name.
Righteous King who cared for us in our time of need,
When you saw us fatherless and helpless
you became our father and our helper.
When you saw us in destitution,
you moved your sovereign right hand and strengthened us.

Oh Beloved, How I have loved you.
I have seen in you my family of the future.
Children and childrens children,
I have seen in you even to perpetual generations.
The generation of the upright, I have seen in you.
I have seen in you my glory reflected back to me.
This is why I love you.
For is not my glory the best thing for all things?
When my glory, which is life, enlivens it enlivens forever.
For I am life and my glory (glory) is life shed abroad.
My Children, Be My Children.
My Children, Be My Light.
My Children, my hope givers, Be.
That those around you will see in you light.
Will see in you my glory shed abroad.
For indeed I have spoken concerning you,
that you will be conformed to the image of My Son.
In his heart is justice,
My justice is in your heart too, by my Spirit.
In My Son’s heart is righteousness,
And in your heart also is righteousness through my Spirit.
My Son is full of loving kindness through My Spirit.
In you also is loving kindness through My Spirit.
What then do you need to do to allow My Spirit to flow through you?
What do you need to do to allow my Spirit to spread my justice,
Righteousness, faithfulness and loving kindness to the world around you?
What do you need to do?
Children, What did Adam do to be given the garden of God?
What did Adam do to be given Eve?
I tell you my children
He was who I created him to be.
He was my child.
He trusted me, he tended the garden.
Pruning the vine, tending the figs, caring for the Olive tree.
He was who I created him to be.
My children, you who are born of My Spirit,
You in whom I have shed abroad my love in your hearts,
Be in the Spirit.
Pray in the Spirit.
Sing in the Spirit.
Speak in the Spirit.
Love in the Spirit.
Be to my sheep those who bring a word that sustains the weary.
Pray in the Spirit for my Covenant of Peace to be established.
Pray that I might gather my sheep from the ends of the earth.
Pray that I might deliver my sheep from the hands of them
who are killing the sheep and eating their flesh
through evil speech against my Prince Beloved.
Who are eating their flesh by speaking evil things over this nation,
Evil things against the Lord of Israel.
Pray that I would deliver.
Pray that I would heal.
Pray that I would strengthen the sickly,
Comfort the wounded, the hurt and the bruised.
Pray that I would hear the pains of my people
As they rise to my throne from the broken hearts, the wounded children.
Pray my children, my bride, be their intercessor.
For my children perish for lack of knowledge,
My children perish for lack of knowledge of my Son.
For he is the obedient one,
He is the merciful one,
He is the physician,
He is the good shepherd,
He gathers the chicks under his wings.
Pray for my sheep, my children,
That they might know where to turn for their healing
That they might know where to turn for their strengthening.
I have sent you here my children,
That you might be to my sheep,
My Prince Beloved.
The shepherds of Israel kill the sheep
By keeping them away from the key of knowledge
Even the Prince Beloved Messiah and his Spirit.
The fat sheep, my children, are taking the clean water
For themselves and muddying the waters,
That when my needy and lean ship cometo drink,
There is but muddy water.
These fat sheep are bullies.
They know not compassion,
They know not who their neighbour is,
They know not how to love
My Prince Beloved.
He said Because of lawlessness the love of many will grow cold.
My children you have the law of the Spirit of life
Operating in your souls. Yield to it.
Let the Spirit of Life , enable you to become a life giver.
Yes a giver of life .
For indeed the Father has granted to The Son that he might give life
To whom he will.
As Messiah is so you are in the world.
Pray that life will be given.
Pray for the Old Jew who knows not that I am there and I care.
Pray for the young Jew who is being taught not to know
Whether I am there or not.
Pray for the middle aged Jew, who believes I am there
But does not understand my Prince Beloved sits at
My right hand and awaits for his heart and mouth to say
Baruch ha ba be shem Adonai
Awaits his welcome.
For, my children, it is necessary that my people
Appoint for themselves he who will be their King.
For this charge I have given them Appoint for yourselves elders.
Pray, my children, that they will choose him whom I choose.
I gave them the choice life or death, blessing or cursing.
In Joshua I gave them the choice :
Choose this day whom you shall serve.
At the time of Elijah I gave them the choice:
How long will you halt between two opinions?
If Yahwah is God worship him, if Baal him.
So it is today today, my children.
I give my sheep the choice.
If Yeshua the Nazarene is Messiah, take his yoke upon you
And he will feed you and he will heal you
And he will guide you be living waters and will
Establish the Covenant of Peace, so that all the
Harmful beasts will leave the land and you may go in
And out and enjoy safe pasture.
So that the fig tree will blossom
And there will be fruit on the vine,
So that the olive tree will not fail
And the cattle will give forth their milk
And the sheep their wool.
If Yehoshua the Nazarene be your King,
Serve him even as I have chosen him.
Look into the light of the countenance of my
Prince Beloved and see the justice of his heart,
The compassion of his ways,
the faithfulness of his disposition.
Look into his eyes and see the fiery love of his care,
The cleansing purity of this same fire.
Love him for he is your husband.
You will no longer call him master but Husband,
For you are his bride and he is your Beloved,
My Servant Beloved.

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Evangelistic Ramblings

Yesterday was a little more difficult to share the gospel. I shared with Ronald, Torstein,Nayoum and Veronica. But Torstein had been quite an awkward athiest to deal with. He's the kind of guy who can't even believe Jesus was crucified let alone raised from the dead. He thinks it's all a story. Of course he never studied the history, he just heard the RE fairy tales. But he rejected them and thinks that he's on the same ground as historic Christianity. Nayoum doesn't like to talk about religion. You to your faith me to mine. I tellyou this Vietnamese government has done a great job in planting unbelief in their people. Veronica was waiting for Mum and Dad so we ran out of time real quick. So I started to think was I wrong to pray against the Anti Christ Yad Lachim of Israel this morning. Jesus said we should pray for our persecutors, so we need to pray that these Anti christ spirits behind Yad Lachim in Israel will be broken of the orthodox Jews who are controlled by them. We bless Israel in doing this. We bless everybody and this may mean taking authority over lying spirits. So I did this in a moment of inspiration this morning. These persecutors of Jesus Christ needs to be stopped. When we are persecuted we really need to rejoice for our reward in heaven really is great. But also when we praise God the avenger and our enemy is silenced (Pslm 8). We see Yahuwah's victory.
Anyway I was fishing around for reasons why the evangelsim wasn't going so well. But then I met Anna. And here we were again, someone open. My friend Daniel the African Author joined me with Anna and her friend. Her friend (who was very unbelieving) had to leave to catch the bus. But Anna did not try to escape. She wanted to finish the questionaire. She was wonderfully open. So all my meandering went to nothing. I was to continue sharing and to expect the end of Yad lachim.
The evil spirit which inspires it will not prevail against the Church. Like the Apostle Paul its leaders will be set free. Pray especially fo Rabbi Dov Lipshitz (or something) the most notorious anti christ spirit in Israel at this time. He founded the organisation and like Saul is raging against the Church. While you're their pray for Benjamin the french men who fights the Church at every turn.
Well I can say the the dream the Lord Jesus gave me regarding preparing a questionaire and using it for evangelism here in Porsgrunn enabled me to share the gospel with many more people than before. But yesterday was harder than the day before.
You may wonder what is the point of my evangelism. Am I planning that every one I meet will be born again and follow Jesus Christ for ever? Well that would be nice, but I'm not at that level of faith, yet?. No my goal is to proclaim the gospel. Each person who agrees to fill out my questionaire gets an opportunity to hear the gospel. Anna heard it yesterday and others the day before.These people then are privileged with the opportunity to recieve the eternal transforming effect of the gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives. If they will only believe the whole force of God's powers, Yahuwah's power toward salvation is there to help them. The measure of this power is the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. The gospel releases that much dunamis power into the heart of the believer. If only they will believe.
I also have opportunity to pray for those who fill out the questionaire. This may be the most important means of the goal. Because at the end of the day souls are saved because people pray. That was just a little bit poetic, so I'll repeat it:At the end of the daysouls are savedbecause people prayIts not so much what we sayit really come down to how we pray.They say a picture is worth a thousand words
I say prayer is worth a thousand wordy sermons
and its true your saved
through the word you heard
but the word needs roots
in order to bear fruit
it needs roots and soils
and water which takes toil
the toil of you and me
in the prayer rooms
the prayer rooms of our life

Now one will be saved one day
and another on another'
one will be saved in my sight
another through a brotherfrom the otherside of the world

But prayer opens the preachers mouth
to speak the word of power
prayer shows the Church's desire
to connect with resurrection power

The enemy can no longer devour
through his oh so deceptive power
the people we pray for
in resurrection power.

Yahuwah said "Ask me for the nations
and I will give them to thee"
Jesus said "Ask and you will be recieve"
To the sons of God
thats you and me who believe in Jesus
whose blood has set us free

to ask with faith
for the souls of the living dead
is to recieve and to see them set free.

Rise up oh Church
Rise up on the wings of prayer'
let Yahwuah hear your voice of praise
let the devils despair.

For as we pray they have to move away
they can't stay in a house
for which we really pray the deciever is decieved
the lier's in the fire
because the fiery sword of the word of Yahuwah
has split him through from head to toe.
Oh sons and daughters of the Father of Jesus Christ
Awake and seek
Awake and cry out
Yahuwah will hear you
for it's him its all about
We pray from the blessingof the spiritual fount
Jesus Christ the blessed God
will let the prisoners out.

So my goal is to meet to know and to pray for. All the souls
who hear the gospel have the potential tobe changed by the grace of Yahuwah the grace of Jesus Christ.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Questionnaire Evangelism

Dear friend.

Thanks for taking a looking at my blog. You'll be one of the first. I've been staying in Norway for 5 weeks now. And the Lord has impressed upon the fact that if I really am to live of the gospel I'll have to preach it. Now I have no problem talking about preaching it, but preaching it is another thing. I have an added problem, I don't speak Norwegian. But hey most of the young people in Norway speak a little English, even if the old people don't. And I've had the distinct impression that the Norwegian Church is top heavy. It might just be my circles, but it seems to be a problem. So how do I stop sittiing on my laurels and start sharing the gospel. Going down to the street corner and sounding the trumpet is not such an attractive option when it seems that Porsgrunn is a town with -5 people per square meter. But what is the possibility. Well I've been watching the Apprentice and Donald Trumps little army. I am most impressed with their creative ways of dealing with their 24 hour deadlines. Why am I not using my talents for Jesus Christ? He is after all not only my employer but the saviour of my soul? Well I was wondering and praying and I know you can pray about a thing until the Kingdom comes(quite literally) but the time comes when a man has to be embarrassed at the hours the Apostle Paul put into his work. A man has to stand up and do something!. No more talking abiout the call but living the call. But how do I talk to these guys without then running a mile and looking at me funny? I dreamt two days ago that I created a questionnaire. As usual Yahuwah gave me Acts 4 with Peter sharing the gospel. The only purpose of my questionnaire is to give the people a chance to "hear" the gospel. So I got up and designed a questionnaire. I did not ask the people: Do you believe in God? But I wrote John 3:16 and asked, Do you believe God loves the world?. I did the same with Acts 4, Romans 3:23 and Romans 6:23 and Romans 10. God is assumed in the whole questionnaire. It had one purpose: Give the people a chance to hear the gospel. This was mu alternative to writing a letter to many Pastors and Churches asking for support. I want and need support. But I really need to preach the gospel. I need to do the word of Yahuwah. Well I quickly printed off my first set of 40 questionnaires. I would have done 70 if it were free, but when I found out it was half a kronor a copy I dropped it to 40. May the Lord forgive my focus on "all these things will be added unto you". Half the time I act like a hirleing, may Yahuwah forgive me. We must get the gospel to the young people of Norway. They need the gospel.How will they hear without a preacher. Well in one day I had perhaps 20 conversations in English. And at least 20 people had heard and thought about John 3:16. That was yesterday. I met backsliders and communists, rebels and young innocents. They shared there thoughts on the gospel, not on preliminaries. Now I have names to be prayed for, so maybe I'll share there thoughts with you one day. Meanwhile please pray for:Espen B, Caroline B, Irena Y, Adam, Tiina O, Dennis K, Per, Kim B, Annabel H, Liv G, Kyo K, Karine T., Tord, Stefan, Soban, Morten, Camilla B, Eda S, Dangne G, Anita A, Fryer U. You may be wondering how I got to speak to all these Norwegians. Well it varied. First I would gently approach, me a 5 foot 11 black guy from London, I would say "Excuse me do you speak English". Those who said no were immediatly missing the opportunity of hearing the gospel. Those who said "yes". I would ask "Would you mind filling in my questionnaire?" "What's it about?"Religious beliefs, I've heard that Scandinavia has one of the lowest percentage of believers in all western countries.
I'm an atheist
Thats ok that's exactly what I need to hear about.
They accept my invitation and we're off.
Or I would hitch and the dirver or their friends would answer my questions and I would fill them in. I filled out three questionnaires with drivers. One was a backslider and one was a priest of some Hu regligion. And one had a best friend who was a believer. All conversations extended beyond the journey time by 15 minutes to perhaps 45 minutes.
I had one person who was in the state Church pray a thorough prayer commiting her self to Jesus. After this I'm sorry to say but like Philip the Evangelist I pray for her and entrust her to Yahuwah, who does hear and answer prayer.
So folks I hope this is encouraging.I sow only the seed of the gospel. Yahuwah gives the increase. We who are evangelists must PREACH the gospel.The rest of you:PRAY for us and your friends. We are sent to your friends!Pray for my new acquantances to receive protection from the devil's deceptions and that the Lord of the harvest will send other messengers to them.
The Grace of Jesus be with you all!
PS I have a gospel website:yeshuaisyahuwah.blogspot.comThis speaks the gospel in Israel
all the best Edi

Monday, August 15, 2005

Letter to Janel

Edi Nachmana servant of Yahwah Elohei Israel
To newly created newly born Janel, called to "lead her people" by the spirit of Yahwah in the ways of Yahwah, the ways of Tzedekah and Mishpat.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Yeshua the Mashiach.
I was really glad to hear you are not only well but recreated in the image of Yeshua. May the Elohim lead you to the whole truth and away from other paths.Things are going well hear. I am praying about the next step. My visa is out on the third of March so I'm expecting some miracles these next two weeks. I am seeking to sing to the Lord more and more and this releases his glory and then he speaks. As Sister Ruth says
Praise until the Spirit of Worship comes Worship until the glory comes...Stand in the glory" In your present time I recommend taking short scriptures and putting melody to them and praise God for everything. He will bless you more and more with his voice. Don't forget the voice you heard in your experience. He will lead you so that you can lead others. And continue not to worry, for it never helps. Today Today today today Today Todah leElohim, is our concern.
Write a lot and read out loud Isaiah 61 1-3 for 10 minutes daily and it will begin to take your further along the path Yahwah is taking you if you will leave behind the past and operate as the new creature revealed in Isaiah 65, 66 and New Covenant.
Yahwah used to abide in a physical temple, made of stone. He now abides in you and me and all the saints. So don't be surprised if God sends you more people to ask about Him, because he has now set you apart for his call on your life . To lead. The way up is down in the Kingdom of God.
There is an anointing with oil, this is an outward sign. This would be your immersion in water, and there is an anointing of the Holy Spirit, this is immeersion of the soul in the Spirit of God.
The first sets you apart publically in front of people to tell them Yahwah has selected you for special service. The second gives you the G-d ability to fulfil the calling.This is called Grace, Chen or Charin,(Eng, Heb, Greek). If indeed you heard the voice in your Spirit and then Yahwah put the same words on the mouth of your friend, then he has marvellously confirmed his word spoken to your heart, by his servant carletta.
(2) As if to say "My child I see you even in the midst of the 500 and have chosen you so come down for today I would take dinner in your house" He had the preacher speak out a word of knowledge which as G-d who inspired him to speak, and G-d who inspired you to listen, knew you would heed. This is a part of prophecy and agrees with the scripture (1 Cor 14 23-25)
"if the all the assembly comes together in one place and....all prophesy, and un unbeliever or unlearned one comes in, he is reproved by all , he is discerned by all. And so the secrets of his heart are revealed . And so falling down on his face, he shall worship Elohim , declaring that Elohim is truly among you"
(3)So the Preacher revealed your heart to such a degree that among 500 you understood he was talking to you. This has happened to me many times. Then the Spirit gave you one of the purposes of your going forward (to lead) and he spoke also in the mouth of his servant Carletta as if to reveal the thoughts he had just placed in your heart.
(4)This infilling or anointing of the Holy Spirit is to give you, after years or months of yielding to the Spirit teaching you and leading you in the path of G-d, will enable you to indeed lead.
(5)You are greatly blessed to have Yahwah touch you so wonderfully. But why be surprised that if you pray for revelation of truth that you recieve the Spirit of Truth, which Yeshua said would lead his talmidim into all truth.
Since now you are blessed with G-d dwelling inside you. You are as you observed different. You need to remember the pattern for this is how God will teach you a thousand times over in the future.
(1) You hunger for truth knowing you don't have it
(2) This hunger and humility means G-d will pour grace into you.
(3) He will lead you to people and places where his Spirit is working.
(4) He will speak to you, in you and through you.
(5) He will empower you to recieve the answer to what you cried out for
(6) He will reveal the answer to you.
(7) "freely you have received freely give"
Blessed are you Janel among the Jewish women of this age to be chosen by the Most High G-d to lead his children into the love of the truth of the G-d who is love.
(6)I'm blessed to be priviliged to hear of such a wonderful experience of yours. To begin to counteract the loneliness, and don't worry, I say all this to remind you not to teach you as though you don't know, because you published a book.
(7)Write down what you are feeling trying to decribe as honestly and as acurately as possible what you are feeling.
Write down what you fear losing, as accurately as possible , along with the excitement of what you felt that night when you were immersed in spirit.
And remember in everything
You are now a temple a house of the Holy spirit.
Ask G-d to reveal to you what exactly this means.
For every question you have G-d has the best answer. He will answer you with the same intensity you put the question to him with.
He will answer you with the same level of specification you use in asking the question.
(8) Truth Janel, is higher than culture, its higher than physical family and friends , its higher and all forms of Sheqer. Now remember G-d is called Elohei Emet and Yeshua said The word of Abba Elohei Israel is Truth, that his Spirit is the Spirit of truth and that He is "The way the Truth and the Life"
If you live according to my word You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free"
Our ability to recieve knowledge of truth is directly related to our willingness to obey Elohim ha Ab. If we are willing we become friends not just servants. If we are unwilling the truth comes in parables in every area where we are not willing to abide.
If we yield to the Father and are willing to yield to his Son(heir of all things), his way of seeing the world, his plan for mankind, then their is no limit to what Yahwah will do in and through.
As Yahwah once said to me "There is power in my name my son use it for the glory of my name"
Perfect love casts out fear. May be you had a taste of that love.
Well Janel, forgive me if you percieve this as a lecture. I have not said all I could say.
I was really gald to hear a real substantial email from you.
Thank you for remembering me in your prayers. Although I'm sure you don't include me in your Bahai prayers. Because as I understand the Spirit working in the Kingdom of Yahwah is not the same Spirit operating in the Islamic or Bahai or Budhist or Hindu religions. So I do not drink from these cisterns. I seek to drink from the will of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the Spirit of Yahwah.
I feel like my letter is a little mechanical or harsh please forgive me.
Read the book of Ephesians, there are two wonderful prayers which you can read in the first person or which will bless you and others.
I suggests you look for whereever you come across the Spirit of Yahwah or Elohim in the bible, and begin to understand who came and started to live in you and what infinite potential is available if you will lose the old and embrace the new. Don't try to mix stuff. The first two commands are very clear about that.
You can not have two husbands, only one is permitted. These other spiritual influences are called strange fires or gods.
Yahwah is El Qana. You can not lead your people based on a position of uncertainty based on mixing spirits.
Pursue love and earnestly seek spirituality of the bible.
Grace of Yeshua be with you

Prayer Letter from Israel

Dear Prayer partners,
May I call you that in line with what Yahwah our God is teaching me at this time, I hope you have a few moments to join with me in prayer for a few important issues.
Yahwah has shown me that Jesus is everything and that we are in a covenant through him with our heavenly Father. Jesus came to execute many of the blessings of the children of Abraham and what Yahwah showed me today and over the last few days was that everything we do as believers for the Kingdom is an expression of the New Covenant.
This morning and last night I realised that to bless Israel was to come in line with the promise of God to Abraham. "They who bless you I will bless". To bless Israel is not a political thing. When we bless Israel we are seeking that they come into the covenant blessing which comes through Jesus Christ. But if they come into those blessing so do we. So I blessed Israel this morning sayiong "May Israel be fruitful and multiply, fill this land and subdue it". I then decided to begin to believe for souls to be saved. May be 52 a year but it was too small, but more than I ever see. Then for as many as possible, but was this not too general. Finally I asked Yahwah and he gave me "Unless Yahwah builds the house thay labour in vain that buildeth".
So I trust that we do our part of the covenant to witness for Jesus he will do his part and give us fruit. A girl came up to me in the university Pearl by name. She said I saw you again on the Bus with a blond girl (I told her it was my wife) and an old lady. She asked what we were talking about. Well it happens that the old lady was a believer and we recognised it from a book she was reading. So we got talking. Now Pearl has heard the whole gospel and had some thing to read. Please pray for her. She has an Afro American mentor who is a believer and 87 years old. Pearl will be forgiven and enter the New Covenant soon I believe.
Pray for Sam he is the ex muslim who came to Jesus last month. He will go home this week.Pray that he will be rooted in a Church and fruitful.
Pray for Yahwah to send labourers to Jerusalem School and to touch the Muslims and Christians students with the new life of Jesus and pray for their families. Pray especially for Sharihan, Salem B, Ibrahim H, Reem A, Yousef M and Laura A. I will give you more names next time.
Pray for their families as well because they are young people pray for his mercy and forgiveness to be granted them.
Mona did a drama in Church today and it went down very well, please pray for her to flourish evangelistically in this field of her gifting. Pray that we will have many divine appointments with people like Pearl and Sam who are looking for truth. Jesus wants to save all of Israel and we can be his hands and feet.
God's love is greater than we can imagine and with our prayers millions of muslims and Jews will come to the forgiveness of sin and the righteousness as it is in Christ Jesus.
Please pray also for Shmuel Golding, who used to Jerusalem's top anti missionary, Micheala Lawson, another and Benjmin from YAD Lachim, again a very anti christian organization and Barukh from Aish ha Torah. Pray for Rabbi E Sprecher and the Ascent youth hostel with Big Mo, a Jewish Orthodox New Age center where they teach what can only be described as hindu and buddhist meditation up their in Safed. Talking of Safed please pray that the Lord of the Harvest will send many labourers up thier their is a spiritual dirth of Christians in Safed. Pray also for Nancy Bergen and waht used to be mount Zion fellowship, they are turning into a oneness Church which is very sad for they ought to be a part of the revival which will come because of you prayers.
Remember we are just reminding Yahwah of what he promised to do and so will do, to answer those who call on him.

Ok I have overloaded this prayer letter but even if you only pray once for Yahwah to send labourers to these Jews and Arabs it could be enough.
Pray that Yahwah will forgive all their sins and grant them eternal life in Jesus Christ his son. Pray for his mercies upon them.

The Grace of Jesus be with you

Prayer Letter for Souls

Dear Believers
I pray all things are well with you spirit, soul and body.
Its a long time since we chatted, met or spoke. But I say now Greetings in the name of Jesus our Lord (Yeshua Adoneinu).

Do you know that most Jews religious or otherwise have never read Isaiah 53? This is because in the Synagogue thay read the Torah and the Haphtorah through each year. The Haphtorah is from the prophets and does not include Isaiah 53. So on the outreach below I made it a goal to have some read Isaiah 53 with me in Hebrew and ask them who they thought it was referring to.

You know I am living in Jerusalem and have been for the last four years. I write to you to solicit your prayers. I don't know if you will read this email or not but if you do and you have a moment please agree with me in prayer for God's will in the following.

Last week a group of 8 Koreans and myself went on an outreach to Eilat and Tel Aviv. It was a time of great blessing and I believe some people were or will be saved through the outreach and our prayers.

Please pray for the following people who showed interest or prayed a prayer for salvation. (Like Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch, we did not have time to stay and nurture their souls but left their details with a Christian Youth Hostel in Eilat to follow up).

(i) Gabor (about 25)a Hungarian who asked Jesus to come into his heart and to be Lord. Pray he will be baptised in water and the Spirit and join a church.

(ii) Amir, (about 20) a Muslim who read with us many scriptures in Hebrew. And finally when the wall broke said I like to hear you talk like this and gave all his details for follow up. He was given Nicki Cruz to read.

(iii) Alicah: A Qabbalistic Jew who read with us Isaiah 53, and some of John and Matthew and Acts in Hebrew. Who was so touched by the teaching of Yeshua that I left him my Hebrew Bible.

(iv) Lilach, who had just never thought about the issue of what she would do if she died tonight and God asked her Why should I let you into my house? She was introduced to some scriptures for the first ime in her life and perhaps to the gospel message.

These are just four divine appointments I and my partner Sun (a Korean) had.


But if these four enter the Kingdom our week will have been well spent. Please pray the the others touched by the outreached who i have not named.

Pray especially that they will have other labourers sent to them to help the along the path of eternal life and that Jesus will become really real to them as well as the Church.

The main prayer is I bessech you, Lord of the Harvest (Adon Ha Katzir), send forth labourers!

The harvest in Israel Is plentiful and the labourers are so few you wouldn't believe it! Pray for Jesus, the Lord of the Harvest to sent more labourers here.

Finally join me in prayer for my colege fees which are due this month. I must pay the Center for the Study of Early Christianity, 2975 dollars and they being people of faith have waited with amazing patience. And pray for my beautiful wif Mona who is pregnant with our first child.


May the Grace of Yahwah our great Father and Jesus his wonderful Son and our Lord and the Comforter who strengthens us to do the Father's will, be with you all Amen

lots of grace to you

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People of Peace

Dear friends,

Shalom to you from Jerusalem. I hope you know the Messiah Yeshua and hence are people of peace. If not my exhortation to you is to turn back to God. return from doing your own ways and your own thing to the way of Yahwah, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
This is the message we need to send out to Jerusalem, Israel and the seventy nations. Jerusalem first because it is the seat of the rule of Abraham's seed. And Yahwah said of Abraham, "In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed"
How will they be blessed? By practicing the way of Yahwahwhich Abraham's seed the Messiah and his sent ones will teach them . When the nations, including Israel, beginning to walk the way of Yahwah, then he will bring upon them what he has promised.
We may reasonably ask the question what is the Way of Yahwah?
Yeshua the Nazarene gave us the answer very clearly
I am the Way the Truth and the Life no one comes to the Father but by me. So what do we see when we see Yeshua.
The first public act we see Yeshua doing is going to John for Baptism. Why did he who was greater come to his inferior for the baptism of repentance?
The Nazarene Messiah gives us a very clear reason
"In order to fulfil all righteousness"
He wasn't here to do the outward pharasaic legalistic righteousness but to do all righteousness. So if we follow Yeshua the Nazarene, will will do righteousness, not for public performance but secretly.
The way of righteousness is expressed in fasting?
But not the fasting as we percieve in a religious manner. The fast of righteouness is "To loosen the bonds of wickedness"
In other words it is first setting a man free from wickedness himself and secondly it will begin to set his family free from wickedness, his community, his nation and the earth.
"As for the proud one his soul is not right with in him; but the righteous shall live by his faithfulness" So we are faithful in opposing wickedness, faithful in trusting Yahwah to deliver the earth from the control of the violent, the unjust, the oppressor, the unfair, the unforgiving. First we are set free then we set others free throug Messianic power.
Yeshua the Nazarene practiced this kind of fasting. He said "I will drink no more from the fruit of the vine until I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdom" His fast was a fast until the final establishment of the Kingdom founded on righteousness and justice" A kingdom free from all wickedness.
Will you repent and turn to delivering the earth from wickedness?
Fasting is to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bonds of the yolk. The yolk of idol worship is a heavy yolk to bare, as is the yolk of the cares of this world, decietfulness of riches and a stone Torah with no spirutal power of understanding.
The Pharisee's "tie up heavy loads and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves are unwilling to move them with as much as a finger"
This is the stone of the Pharisees but the Spirit of Messiah is an easy yolk and a light burder for he is meek and humbel hearted, not just humble for a day as the fasters of the time of Isaiah.

Letter from Israel to Vila

Dear Vila,

Thanks for your reply, its good to hear you are having so much joy.
By praying the will of the father you will stay in your God ordained destiny. Its amazing, last wednesday night, I think, was Rosh Chodesh.
It means it was the beginning of the Biblical year. However it was more than that. According to some scholars calculations it was also the beginning of the 7th millenium. The bible says a day is like a thousand years to Yahwah, so we have just entered the Shabbat of creation. This means we are close to the personal return of Adon (Lord Yeshua). The angels said to the disciples as Yeshua's ascension, that this same Yeshua whom you have seen leave will return the same way you saw him go. Yeshua is coming back. What's more he is in a glorified eternal body because he was resurrected from the dead and he put on immortaLITY. wOW. The book of Zechriah says that when he returns he will return to the mount of olives. Its amazing that he turned up to Paul and knocked off his high horse back in the first century. What's most amazing about this appearance was that it took place after the ascension. After he sat at the right of the Father.
Psalm 110 tells us about Yeshua postuion now. He is a high priest in the order of Melchisedek. He is the same yesterday today and forever.
However while he's sat there having his enemies made a footstall what are we to do to relate to him?
We have his Holy Spirit as a guarantee of our inheritance in God's kingdom. The Spirit will lead into all truth. But we must bind in the name of Yeshua the Nazarene, the spirits of error and all other spirits which are not from Yeshua.
Yeshua has also been appearing at meetings linked with mount zion fellowship.You can chack this on revival.org.
It is really amazing how God is speaking in Jerusalem at the moment.
We are near judgement day and for every word we speak or have spoken we will have to give an account for it.
Here is a prayer which if you pray it every day and then open the Bible at Random God can begin to guide you and teach you. If you have any questions just write me.
Heavenly Father
Your will be done in my life today
I pray that I will go where you want me to go
see what you want me to see,
hear what you want me to hear,
live as you want me to live
say what you want me to say
fellowhip with who you want me to felloship with,
learn what you want me to learn,
Your will be done in my life today,
I bind, break and destroy any plan, scheme or
work of the enemy which would seek to hinder
your will being done in my life to day.
In the name of Yeshua of Nazareth.
Amen.
Learn this and pray it every day. Its so importan that we follow not just any god, but the God of Israel, and his Messiah Yeshua of Nazareth. He is the true God and eternal life, the God over all so called gods.
Jeremiah says As for the gods who did not create the heavens and the earth that shall disappear from under the heavens and the earth.
If we follow other gods and spirits, for every idol has a demon behind it, we bring a curse on our selves and the God of Israel loves us but at a distance for he has compassion not intimacy with us. We are Paul says, the bride of Messiah. so if we go with another spirit its like adultery. And Yahwah says You shall have no other gods besides me and You shall not commit adultery (read Ezek 16).
So Vila let us seek to purify our temples and not allow any tinges of idolatry (adultery) or contamination, for our God, Yahwah is God who loves so muach that he tries to keep us away from the false fires. See Isaiah 50 As for you who light your own fires, go walk in the light of you fires , this is what you will recieve from my hand, you will lie down in torment"
But to us Vila, who are called to be blameless and holy in a wicked and perverse genration, he is the God of all comfort . Our joy is not that of the wicked in Habukuk, read it, nor the dancing and partying of Israel while Moses was on the mountain. No No No.
Our joy is born from singing Psalms ahyms and Spiritual songs to the Lord, making melody in our hearts to Yahwah.
He loves those who rejoice and work righteousness.
We need ask him to cleanse our temple of all defilements by his Holy Spirit.
Lots of grace and love to you.
Any questions just write me.
Ps work is happening and Yahwah is Good.

He That Offers Thanks Glorifies Me say Yahuwah

He that offers Todah glorifies me. Yahu I glorify you and thank you for your amazing provision throughout the years.
You are an amazing Elohim and worthy of all glory and praise.
I will declare the amazing providence of Yahu.
I will declare that not only does Yahu guide but he provides,
Not only does Yahu lead but he feeds.
Seek ye first the Kingdom of Eloah and his righteousness
And all the things, the food, the drink, the clothing shall be
Added unto you. Hallelujah. Thank you My Great Heavenly Father
For you indeed keep your word at all times.
In Yeshua has my Father in heaven provided for me all things.
Let me relate to you the works of Yahu and glorify my Elohim,
Before men and angels.
When My Father answered my prayer to him to confirm that I was
To go to Swansea, I was amazed.
I prayed unto Yahu, please confirm if I am to go to Swansea,
Please let John Butlin ring me if I am to go to Swansea.
So I cried unto Yahu and he heard my prayer and ansewered
Me from his Holy Heaven.
Yea he sent forth a messenger to John saying,
Call Tony he hath need of a phone call.
Yea and with in half an hour of my prayer ascending to Yahu
Then John called me. He called me in answer to my prayer
To Yahu. Oh bless the name of Yahu for his mercy endureth forever.
John spoke saying "I get the feeling I'm in the middle of one of your fleeces,
Why did you want me to call you" Yeah Elohim has heard my prayer
And answered me swiftly.
Then said I to John, It was to confirm that we are to go to Swansea.
But John did not receive it.
So again I cried unto Yahu, my Heavenly Father,
Oh Lord please confirm again if we are to go to Swansea. Please
O Lord let the answer be beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Yea and Yahu heard my prayer and sent forth a messenger from his
Holy Heaven, to Enrico in London saying call Tony and tell him to
Go to Swansea and get his driving license.
So Enrico, not knowing my prayer, nor knowing that he was in the midst
Of the answer to my prayer sent up to heaven and to Yahu, went to the phone.
He picked up the phone and dialed my number, and rang me.
Oh the mystery and greatness of Elohim's grace.
I answered and Enrico asked me, Have you got your driving license yet?
I said No. He replied GO TO SWANSEA and get it.
Oh blessed be the name of Yahu who in the space of two hours
Has answered two prayers sent up to his holy heaven.
As Enricho spoke out the answer to my prayer the bell rang.
I said to Enricho wait here one minute I have to get the door.
So I went to the door and lo John was there.
Now came the fulfilment of the answer to my prayer.
I said to John come. He came I said to him I want you to listen to
What this guy on the phone has to say. And Lo I went to the phone and
Said to Enricho so John could hear say to this guy exactly what you said to me.
So I handed the phone to Enricho and he said to John "I told him to go to Swansea and get it" Hallelujah, Praise Yahu who has answered the prayer of his son.
"You will call to me and I will answer you."
Indeed has not the merciful Yahu done exactly has he has said?
Give glory to Elohim for lo has done exactly as he has said.
At this John responded "I am convinced that you are supposed to go to Swansea, but not me"
So to this rebellion I replied 'Therefore the moment the Lord gives me some money, I am going to Swansea!!!.
Oh praise Yahu for he is a great Elohim and greatly to be praised.
For John had the car and I did not, I had no money to go to Swansea, nor was I sure why I was going to Swansea. But Yahu knew and in his mercy he had directed my path for he is conforming me to the image of his Son.
Let me now declare the work of Yahu in providing for my trip to Swansea.
John and arranged a group of
Korean Christian young people to come over
And learn English for two weeks in the Manchester Christian Assembly Bible
College. This was a place where Elohim had indeed spoken to me a number of times.
Yea here he had said to me a second time Genesis 12:1-3.
Yea here he had also spoken to me saying "Listen to my voice with in your heart and I will make you great"
So the time was near for this course, and John found himself short of one teacher.
And Lo John called unto me saying. I'm short of a teacher would you like to come and teach English for two weeks? I agreed and with this job came a gratuity of money at the end of the week. So after one week on Friday, January 12th 1996, I received I think around 140 pounds sterling. I looked at the money it was now about two weeks from when I had declared before Yahu and John that as soon as Yahu gives me the money I am going to Swansea. Now I had money in my hand from work among Christians. But then came my question. Should I not use this money to relieve some of my debts? So I cried out to Elohim seeking an answer, should I use this money to go to Swansea? I took of his word and opened it and read "If you will not do so, behold you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out. Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and sheepfolds for your sheep, AND DO WHAT YOU HAVE PROMISED!
So with encouragement from believing friends from Doncaster, I planned to head off to Swansea for the weekend, as I had promised above. I had to leave on Saturday morning, and because of the timing I had no choice but to catch the train. Now if it were down to me, I would without a doubt, have taken the Coach because it was cheaper. But I could not fit the times so I had to travel the more expensive, more comfortable way. Hallelujah. I arrived in Swansea and made contact with an old missionary friend of John's. Who was living in George street. She told me how to get to the Bible college of Wales. I went there and met Mr Mayton the head of the students. A very godly and humble man. He heard a little of my testimony and invited me to come back the next day. I told him that I was called to Muslims, so he told me to go and see a certain Dave and Lily Garnett. I arrived at their door and they were busy. S they told me to come back later on. When I came back they were very cold and resistant and unwelcoming. So I said that I had come to Swansea because the Lord had sent me. I was expecting to make connections but may be they were not the ones. And indeed they were not because they became in the Bible College the greatest opposition to my place in the college. They were continually against me and my faith speaking to certain of the students, behind my back. Those students including a certain Simon were continually attacking me AND TRYING TO ATTACK MY FAITH. But Elohim was faithful. He said to me on the first day when I was arriving at the college for a short trial period. "I will deal with it" When Simon rose up against me in the library. After the incident Mervyn a lecturer whom Yahu used to bring me to the conclusion that this was where he was sending me, apologised for Simon's attack.
How did Yahu deal with it as he had promised?
Well months later Simon called me into his room. He said, "It is clear that we don't like each other. But we are brothers and every time I go to pray the Lord will not let me past the verse 'How can you love God whom you can not see when you do not love your brother whom you can see?'" So Yahu was talking to him continually and our relationship improved. Near the end, of my time there he was even giving me words of encouragement, blessed be the name of Yahu. He is faithful to his word. "Therefore my people shall know my name." "Their vindication is from me" says Yahu. This is amazing grace, that Yahu should vindicate us when we are walking according to his voice and going where he is telling us to go. He will vindicate us! Amen.Hallelujah!

So I was not received by Dave and Lily although they were working among Muslims. This was Saturday 12th January 1996. I was invited by Mr Mayton to return to the Bible College on Sunday 13th January 1996, to take lunch and meet some students. So I returned to George street and stayed with the old missionary lady, that night. I wandered about Swansea that night, wandering why I was there. The Bible college looked old and worn to me and I felt no attraction to it. I dreamt that night that souls were far more important than buildings. With souls we build for eternity, buildings are for a time. So I returned the next morning to the Bible college and went to lunch. Mr Mayton, had placed me next to Dave and Lily, but he had also put me with Billy Makumbo a very quiet Zambian, who was my host. When I say Billy was very quiet I mean he was so quiet that I felt like talking to him was like trying to get blood out of a stone. Then we had the "no fellowship" lunch with Dave and Lily, with their great big inhospitable "You are here but you are totally unwelcome" attitude. So after lunch Billy invited me back to his room. I was here this day to meet the students, but by the end of lunch I was truly dying. I was wondering, why did Yahu send me to Swansea? And why to this college? When Billy invited me to his room I excused myself for a time saying I needed to return to my room for something. I really didn't want to go to Billy's room. I felt we had nothing to say. I felt if I could go back to my room I would gain the strength to face the visit to Billy's room.
On my way back to my room I consulted the Lord. "Lord I know you sent me to Swansea." I don't know why you have sent me here. But I trust you Lord. So I regained strength. I had been sent by the Lord to places before so I knew he was faithful and never sent me anywhere for nothing. The words came to me with greater and greater understanding. "The wind blows where it listeth. You do not know where it comes from nor where it is going. So it is with those born of the Spirit." So it was
I was going where the spirit blew me. No one really knew where I was from or where I would be going afterwards. I had almost become the subject of a joke in Blackpool. They called me the Scarlet Pimpernel. Because the Lord kept sending me to places and I kept disappearing and appearing again.
So I went to Billy's and there I met someone called Simon Langley. A pleasant sounding English chap. The conversation flowed, although I made the mistake of mentioning some of my teachers in the Kingdom, such as Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland. I wasn't aware of it but this was like putting oil on fire. For my words left the room and stirred up a great opposition to my presence in the college with the other Simon who was Simon Langleys best friend. Apparently these were some of the leaders of the opposition to the faith movement in the college. I had asked what people in the college thought of these teachers. I had said well if they don't like them I can just listen to their tapes privately in my room. This did not stop the flow of my words into the ears of the opponents.
Having spoken to Simon Langley I had discovered that the college liked people to come with no money, so that they could learn to exercise faith in Elohim, by learning to pray about their finances. It was at this point that it began to dawn on me as to why Elohim had sent me to this college. Even though Yahu had drawn my attention to the college back on 20th December 1995 just before Christmas, it had not registered with me that I was in Swansea to join this college, but perhaps to meet ex Muslims who were now believers.
How had Yahu drawn my attention to the Bible College of Wales Swansea, the long version?
I tell this story now to increase your faith in the guidance of Yahu, do not be concerned if we seem to be not getting to the point I am trying to show you how Elohim tied many different events together and finally out of it came the conclusion that I was to visit the Bible college.
On Wednesday 13th December 1995 I awoke at 3AM with a searing toothache. It was an intense searing pain across the top of my mouth. I asked my spirit the question "Should I go to Newcastle?". My spirit said "Yes" (note my spirit is born of Elohim). I then prayed for two hours or so for the healing of my teeth. (I had been walking around for days saying to Yahu that if he wanted me to go to a dentist that he would lead me to the one he wanted me to go to. That night I was praying in tongues and confessing "By his wounds I am healed he carried my pain." During this time Yahu put a buffer between my bad tooth and my cheek which gave me some comfort from about 5AM.
In the morning John Butlin of Blackpool said he would give me the fare. He had planned to give me the fare from Manchester to Blackpool (Because he was unable to drive me back having planned to visit Blackpool, but instead he gave me the fare to Newcastle. On Tuesday night we had both felt uncertain as to whether I was to attend the Manchester Bible College the next day. In the morning I felt the coach to Newcastle would go at about 8:30 AM. But due to traffic, or so we thought, I missed that coach. Instead I caught a different coach to Leeds, where I could change and catch a coach to Newcastle. I discovered that the route via Leeds was an hour faster than the earlier 8:30AM coach. Also on that coach the lady I sat next to happened to be a dental student. She told me about a dental hospital in Newcastle University. This was the university where my friend Chiemi was graduating with a Masters degree. (I had helped her write the thesis so she had invited me to the graduation. She had promised to pay but had changed her mind. So I had decided not to go. Then came the night of pain above. )
The student told me that the dental hospital would give me a check up and treat me the same day. Well praise Elohim. Here was the answer to my prayer "Heavenly Father if it is your will for me to go to a dentist please lead me to the dentist you want me to go to". This prayer was prayed after prayers of the healing of the tooth. I had seen two or three times in my minds eye, the tooth being destroyed, so it looked like this was the will of Elohim.
So on Wednesday 13th December 1995, I arrived in Newcastle with the plan to go straight to the Dental Hospital and to have my tooth dealt with. Then I would follow on the Chiemi's graduation. I went to the University Dental Hospital and got a check up and then a little while later had my tooth out.
So here for my reflection was an answer to two prayer requests to Yahu. The first for my tooth to be healed or Elohims will to be done in my tooth, and the second that Yahu would lead me to the right dentist.
And both prayers were answered by my Father in heaven. Yeshua has taught us "ask and it shall be given unto you" And in Psalm 37 it says " Commit your way to Yahu, trust also in him and he will do it" And I believe it is written somewhere else "Trust in Yahu with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your paths"
So I trusted in Yahu regarding my tooth and the toothaches. I acknowledged him saying "If it is your will for me to go to a dentist please lead me to the dentist you want me to go to" Then it is left to Yahu to direct my paths.
Did Yahu direct my paths and what was the result?
Well I can say that he directed my paths in the following manner. I was invited to my friends graduation in Newcastle. I decided not to go when she withdrew her offer to pay my fare. But in the night hours on consultation with my spirit which is from Yahu for He says in Ezekiel "I will put my spirit in you".
(1)So the first step in the direction of my path was an invitation to a city from a friend.
(2) The second step was my acceptance because she offered to pay. This came about because I helped her with her thesis previously.
(3) Now when I changed my mind and decided not to go, Yahu through his spirit redirected my path, actually and the reason was because he wanted to answer a prayer of mine. So for some reason I read the pain in my tooth like a question on my direction. Should I go to Newcastle, I asked my spirit? Now note this question showed an implicit trust in the control of Yahu's Spirit over my pain. This pain is permitted for a reason, and will be withdrawn when Yahu is ready. We may also add to this particular another scripture which is illuminated by this experience.
"Your Teacher will no longer be hide himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. And your ears will hear a word behind you saying this is the way walk you in it, whenever you turn to the right or to the left"
So here we are following the path of the Teacher who as Yeshua says is the Mashiach who dwells in us by his spirit. We turn away from the direction he is leading us and go off to the left. Immediately we have our back to the teacher we were following. He then calls us back to the direction he wanted to lead us onto. So as I was planning to go the wrong way he woke me up and redirected me.
(4) I had no money, but John had already promised some money for a trip and was willing to redirect the finance to this new direction. So when we are following Yahu and trusting him in everything. "He will do it" and he will provide whatever we need to get the prayer done.
(5) Now we headed for one Coach, the 8:30 but missed it because of traffic. Because I missed it I met the student from the dental hospital and arrived in Newcastle an hour earlier. So Yahu had ruled over my circumstances he was contolling not just our relation to the traffic but also the coach I caught and the very seat I sat in on the coach. I had no idea I would sit next to a dental student. Nor had I any idea Newcastle had a dental hospital. This was clearly an example of the blind being lead by the seeing spirit. With the intention that Yahu would fulfil his word. He knew she would be on that coach. He knew about the dental hospital. I was just following his direction to go to Newcastle on that particular day at that particular time, the traffic jam just helped a little.
(6) I arrived in Newcastle went straight to the Dental Hospital and had my tooth out. And here I am writing 3 years later and I have not been to a dentist since Praise to Yahu. He knew the right solution to my particular problem. He is Yahu.
(7) I can now testify to you in the great congregation that Yahu should be praised for he is true to his Word. I had a problem and he by his mercy and grace brought me the solution. Praise be to Yahu who even cares for the specific need and pain of one of his children. This illustrates that we need to trust Yahu down to the smallest detail of our lives. There is nothing left to chance in the Kingdom of Elohim, nothing. Our relation to the traffic, the bus times, the invitation of friends the dentists and doctors are all under the watchful eye of Yahu. Let us learn from this little example.
Now I remind you that all of this activity is leading to my contact with the Bible College of Wales, Swansea. So let us continue our journey. I went to Chiemi's graduation celebration. Unfortunately I couldn't eat any of the delicious cakes until later on because my teeth were still recovering from the local anaesthetic. They were half numb. Chiemi was very busy. Evidently the main purpose of my visit was linked with Elohims will not Chiemi's graduation. I had planned to stay with Chiemi over night and return the next day in the morning. However she was so busy with her friends that she hardly had any time for me.
Did the Spirit turn off the TV and redirect my attention?
In the end when she was going out to eat with her friends, I decided to wait for her in her apartment. She stayed out much later than expected and while I sat in her apartment, I decided to settle down and watch some TV. She had an old black and white TV, but what a joy it was to discover that Bugsy Malone was about to begin. So I put the TV on and started to settle. To my surprise the TV cut out. So I turned it on again. It again cut out again. After two or three attempts at turning it on and settling to watch it I gave up. Clearly Bugsy Malone was not on Elohim's agenda for my evening. I started to think of something else I could do instead. I perused Chiemi's bookshelf and came across a book on Christian-Muslim Dialogue. This was very interesting to me since my call is to the Muslim world. I began to read. It was set in Spark Brook Birmingham. My spirit was at peace and having read I concluded I was supposed to go to Birmingham perhaps with on Thursday 14th December 1995, the next day. (The reason John was going to give me money to go to Blackpool from Manchester was because he was going to Birmingham and so couldn't drive me back home to Blackpool as had been his custom in previous weeks).
So my attention was directed to Birmingham. Chiemi got back vey late. She was so busy and preoccupied so I changed my mind about staying over night and decided at the last moment to leave on the last coach. I decided I would rather sleep at Manchester coach station or Airport than at Chiemi's, I was not happy, but this was how it had to be.In fact I have seen this many times where Yahu will make a present situation uncomfortable for me in order to move me out of a place. It is usually pretty clear when he does this. I slept in Manchester airport.
From Manchester to Birmingham the will of Yahu?
The next morning, against the original plan, I went to Manchester Bible College but I was too tired to listen. I went to rest by myself somewhere. I later told John I felt I should go to Birmingham with him. He exclaimed very strongly "Oh No!", and appeared very upset about this. I questioned my spirit a number of times about the matter. It simply confirmed Birmingham. John said that he didn't want to be responsible to find me any accommodation in any manner(By the way Johns bark is far louder than his bite, he is just very straight speaking). He had had two leeches before and that was what he thought when I said I should go to Birmingham. In Birmingham I discovered Catherine, John's girlfriend, whom I respected until this point, was of the same opinion.
Challenges in Birmingham
In Birminghan we were in Catherine's sisters house. My spirit told me not to let my decision be affected by John's unwillingness and outright desire not to have me there. John and Catherine were waiting for Liz. I was there as well. I said I would go for a walk for 20 minutes. John said make it half an hour. I went and prayed in a Church. I went back to the apartment. It was very uncomfortable. John was asked to go and get some chips. He decided to and asked me along. The moment we got to the stairs he started moaning. "What I prophesied is coming true. I should be spending time with Cath and you're in the way.
I replied "I don't want to come and get chips". I turned around and went back up the stairs. I decided I would test this whole experience very carefully, to see if I really had heard from the Lord. I had a number of contacts in Birmingham whom I tried to ring. Dominic's number was not available I knew him from London. Steve who I knew from a previous faith trip to Birmingham was living in someone else's house and was not available at all according to Liz, Cath's sister. Finally I managed to persuade Liz to give me Steve's number. I also decided I would sleep in Birmingham Airport if nothing came up. It was getting late. Cath and John decided to go to a pub. John had asked me how long I was staying. He went upstairs with Cath and mentioned about the Airport being half an hour away. And I heard Cath exclaim "Oh No". She came down with a sleeping bag. John said to me "If you are back here in an hour I will give you a lift to the place where I am staying. His friends hadn't been home when he called. A friend of there had answered the phone and invited John to stay with him. He also said "if Andy and Debbie are there you can stay with them. If not I don't know what is going to happen."


(The Lord is merciful, so fear not I am with you in all things I am with you 31 Aug þ 1999)

The Noachide Laws in Christian Perspective

It is clear from the scriptures that God has standards of life he expects from the sons of Israel which he outlines in the Torah.
However Messiah is said to come for the whole world, to establish God's kingdom throughout the entire earth. So a very pertinent question is what are the standards God requires of the Goyim? Or to put the question in a more Jeiwsh manner: What are the Mitzvoth God has laid as a burden upon the Gentiles or Non Jewish nations of the world.
The Rabbis teach from there oral tradition that God has laid seven Mitzvoth as obligations on the gentiles for them to live by. Presumeably in the Messianic age when the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of Yahuwah as the waters cover the sea, the gentiles will be fulfilling there seven mitzvoth perfectly. Also in that time the Israelites will be presumebly fulfilling their Mitzvoth perfectly also. And if the Rabbis are correcting in handing down a tradition which they claim come from Moses, which states seven obligations are laid on the gentiles, and all is done and completed, the world will run in the Messianic age, just as God planned it to run. All will be in harmony and peace and all will be well for mankind.
The Rabbis are expecting many Gentiles to run after them, forsake the ways their forefathers taught as false and begin to follow the seven laws of Noah. We need to look at the seven laws, understanding that the standard they were to uphold had to be taught to the Goyim, by Israel. In history only one set of Jews have had a major impact on the knowledge of the true God among the nations, and they are the followers of Yeshua of Nazareth.
What then are the 7 laws of Noah?
Rambam lays them out in his Mishneh Torah, the Laws of Kings and their Wars. They can also be read in Tractate Sanhedrin of the Talmud section 56a to 60a, where it will be quite apparent that there are more than seven.
He states that " Six precepts were commanded to Adam:"
These six were prohibitions against
(1) Against Idolatry (Avodah Zarah).
So we can ask does the New Covenant, teach Goyim to turn from idolatry.
Well the answer is a clear yes. No where in all the New Covenant do we read of the followers of Yeshua setting up and worshipping idols. In fact we have the opposite. Apostle John says "Keep yourself from Idols.". Apostle Paul says "Flee Idolatry" Yeshua lists idolatry among those things which defile a man. Apostle Paul says that God punished men because they began to worship the created rather than the Creator. So there is a clear prohibition against idolatry, in the New Covenant. It was said of one Church in Thessalonica that they "Turned from idols to serve the living God" Not only this but when Yeshua was dealing with the Jews he did not go so much in to the commandment on idolatry because they had been cleansed of a lot of the service of idols after the Babylonian exile. He challenged the people more on the level of their relationship to Yahuwah and their treatment of one another. So not only does the the New Covenant forbid idolatry, as in the 10 commandments, it also enjoins a closer walk with the Only True God , through his Messiah, and the circumcision of the heart so that all traces of idolatry are removed from the man.

(2) Against Cursing God (Bircat Hashem)
Yeshua said that anyone who blasphemes the Holy Spirit is guilty of an eternal sin, it would not be forgiven him in this age or the age to come. The Apostle Paul lists blasphemy among the works of the flesh which the believer is to kill or die to. Not only are the believers enjoined not to curse God, but according to Yacov, they are enjoined not to curse anybody, but they should be blessing all. So cursing is out. Let your conversation be filled with grace, the goyim were told. Bless those who curse you.

(3) Against Murder (shepicot damim).
Yeshua noted that not only was murder forbidden, but the anger in the heart and the words which that anger are also censored. The believer is told to be angry, but not to sin by the Apostle Paul. And the Apostle John taught that no murderer had eternal life in him. Yeshua often dealt with the conditions that might lead to murder and taught the believers to love not to hate their enemies, to pray for not to kill their persecutors.

(4) Against Incest and Adultery (Giloy-Erayot)
A situation was brought in the Church and Corinth which showed that the early Church was indeed teaching against incest. He said a man had his father's wife, and that this man should be put our of the church after judgement. Because the Church took on certain elements of the Torah, they also brought other restrictions on immorality. Certainly each man was told to have his own wife, and that they should defraud one another, by going with each others wives. Yeshua himself made adultery a matter for the heart, stating that the very act of looking at a woman in order to lust after her was adultery. So Yeshua took the teaching against adultery on to a higher level than the immediate commandment might read.

(5) Against Theft (Hagazel).
The robber was told to stop stealing get a job that he would have not only enough for his own needs, but to give to the poor afterwards. In the Talmud it says they even if a goy stole a very small amount he was due the death penalty. The reason given for this was that the goyim don't forgive. But every believer in Yeshua was taught how to forgive , even as they had been forgiven there sins. They were taught to replace stealing with generosity.

(6) To establish laws and courts of justice.
The Apostle Paul told the Corinthian Church that instead of going to court in front of unbelievers, that the church should set up its own court. And the fact that they hadn't that already was a cause for shame. He also said that one person should be tried and although he wouldn't be physically present he would be spiritually present when the person was tried.
It is believed that at the time of Noah a law against eating the limb of a living animal was also added:

(7) Against Eating flesh from living animal.
The Gentiles were taught to not eat animals that had been strangled and to refrain from blood. If they literally stopped eating blood they most certainly wouldn't be eating the limb of an animal which was still living, since for the blood to be gone the animal would have to be dead. I will have to look at this command in more detail.
These together are called the Noachide laws and we know that Noah had the job of repopulating the earth after the flood. So all mankind are descended from Noah and his three sons. If we read Genesis we find that the first generation after the flood consisted of 16 nations. And the total number of the nations were 70. Those that follow Rabbinic Judaism beleive that Gentiles are yet to be taught these 7 laws and that it is going to come about that as the Messianic age approaches more and more Gentiles will begin to follow these 7 laws, the assumption being that the Jews are to be a light to Gentiles and by teaching them these laws will be part of their job done.
However the contention of this paper is that not only have Jews already taught the righteousness of the Noachide covenant to the Gentiles who were willing to receive it but that the plan of God for the Gentiles was that in the Seed of Abraham, they would bless themselves. That is the blessing of righteous will come on the Gentiles through the promised seed and specifically the Messiah and his followers.
Not only this but whereas Noah was considered righteous in his generation, the righteousness of Abraham is considered to be a higher level of rightoeusness and this is the righteouness which God has chosen to give to the Gentiles.
It is written of Abram that "He believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness". The contention of this paper is that not only is the faith which came from the seed of Abraham, Messiah Yeshua, a fulfillment of the 7 laws of Noah, (which as a specific obligation is nowhere mentioned in the Tanach, whatsoever,) but that what this faith and righteousness does is to exceed the requirements of righteousness laid down in the 7 laws of Noah. It also goes on to say that Abraham had the friend of God level of righteousness. And that whilst the Rabbinic Jew has been so concerned with learning the letter of the Torah and attempting to fulfil 613 Mitzvoth ( many of which can't be fulfilled until Messiah, through his Body has rebuilt the temple,) God's righteousness, his everlasting righteouness which was near to come at the time of Isaiah, has been speeding its way to the ends of the earth, through the work of Christian missionaries, translating and preaching the good news of the Kingdom of God and King Messiah Yeshua. They preached wherever they went, repentance, forgiveness of sins, baptism, to die to the old life and begin the new and the infilling of the Holy Spirit, which would cause them to walk in Yahuwah's statutes and commandments.
That whereas that which went forth from the fourth century got isolated from its Biblical and Israelite roots, yet now in the lasts days in accordance with the plan and purpose of God, the reconnection with the roots is taking place through the reestablishment on the earth of a nation called Israel.
And whereas most Muslim nations seek the destruction of the nation of Israel from the map, yet the true followers of Yeshua are supporting the nation, not where it acts in injustice but where it is fulfilling its God given mandate to exist and to be the place where all of Israel may be gathered together, in order to sanctify the name of Yahuwah and indeed be the light of the nations Israel was created to be.
As Isaiah said in the 8th century BC
"Preserve justice and do righteousness,
for my righteousness is about to come and my righteousness to be revealed"
At that time Israel had the whole Torah and their Oral Torah, yet Yahuwah insists that even with all this his 'righteousness' is yet to be revealed. It was future, and we know now that in Yeshua, Messiah of Israel, this righteouaness by faith was indeed revealed and began to speed it was to the ends of the earth by the power of Almighty God. We note also that in God's commissioning of Abram it is said "in you will all the families of the earth be blessed or bless themselves.
The families of the earth are active in receiving the blessing, it is not imposed upon them. So it was that Yeshua sent his apostles out to proclaim the message and the families of the earth were given a choice to accept or reject the message. In accepting it they blessed themselves just as Yahuwah had explained to Abram.
Let us see what the great well respected Jewish Rabbi says of Yeshua. Rambam has said
" Yeshua of Nazareth who aspired to be the Messiah and was executed by the court was also (alluded to) in Daniel's prophecies, as (ibid) 11:14 states "The vulgar among your people shall exalt themselves in an attempt to fulfil the vision, but they shall stumble.'
Can there be a greater stumbling block than this?
All the prophets spoke of the Messiah as the redeemer of Israel and it's Savior, who would gather their dispersed and strengthen their (Observance of ) the Mitzvoth. (This however) caused the Jews to be slain by the sword, their remnants to be scattered and humbled the Torah to be altered, and the majority of the world to err and serve a god other than the Lord.
Nevertheless the intent of the Creator of the world is not within the power of man to comprehend, for His ways are not our ways, nor are his thoughts our thoughts.... All the deeds of Yeshua of Nazareth....will serve to prepare the way for the Messiah's coming and the improvement of the entire world, (motivating the nations) to serve God together, as Zephaniah 3:9 states "I will make the peoples pure of speech that they will call upon the name of God and serve him with one purpose"
The Charges of Rambam against Yeshua are then as follows:
(1)He did not fulfill the role assigned to him by the prophets, namely to be redeemer of Israel,and its saviour.
(2)He did not gather their dispersed
(3) He did not increase there observance of Mitzvoth.
(4) He caused the Jews to be slain by the sword.
(5) Their remnants to be scattered and humbled.
(6) The Torah to be altered.
(7) The majority of the world to err and to serve a god other then the Lord.
Now we know that as Yeshua the Messiah said "By his words a man shall be aquitted and by his word he shall be condemned" So we know that Rambam will have to give an answer for his accusations against Yeshua, to Yeshua on that great and awesome day before God indeed to his great surprise he will also answer to Yeshua himself for as the Apostle Paul says "He(God) has fixed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness through a Man who he has appointed having furnished proof to all men by raising him from the dead"
Or as Yeshua himself said "All judgement has been given to the Son because he is the Son of Man"
So Rambam will answer to Yeshua on that great and awesome day.
Yeshua said of himself "I proceeded forth and came from God, for I have not even come on my own initiative, but he sent me."
And Yahuwah said " I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And it shall come about that whoever will not listen to my words,which he shall speak in my name. I my self will require it of him"
So we can be sure that in ignoring the words of Yeshua, a person puts himself in the position where Yahuwah will require explanation.
1)He did not fulfill the role assigned to him by the prophets, namely to be redeemer of Israel, and its Saviour.
The prophets did prophesy that the Messiah would be the redeemer of Israel and their Saviour and indeed Yeshua has come to fulfill those prophecies. By looking at some of the prophecies we can begin to see why Rambam has not understood how Yeshua fulfilled and is fulfilling those very prophecies.
We know that the best interpreter of prophecies is God the author of the prophecies and generally he does this either through an Angel or his Holy Spirit. So when a prophet is in the middle of a vision we often see them asking questions to the angel as to the understanding of what the vision of prophecy meant. On the other hand prophets, without the help of these heavenly interpreters can often find themselves perplexed by what they see. So we turn to one prophecy regarding the Messianic role of redemption.
"And the Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob"
Declares Yahuwah.
"And as for me, this is my covenant with them,
says Yahuwah:
"My Spirit which is upon , and my words which I have put in your mouth,
shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring,
nor from the mouth of your offspring's offspring,
say Yahuwah
"from now and forever".
So we can observe from this prophecy of Isaiah, written 700 around years, before the coming of Yeshua, that the redeemer will come to Zion. Mount Zion is where the temple stood. Zion is also sometimes used regarding Jerusalem.
Well Yeshua came to both. So Yeshua most definitely fulfilled the first line of the prophecy. He indeed came to Zion in all senses of the word. He did not stay in Galilee, but attended all the feasts in Zion, during his three year ministry.
The next line of the prophecy is what it would appear Rambam missed. The redeemer would come to Zion AND to those in Jacob who turn from trangression".
So it is clear, Jacob, we know is another name of Israel. However the redeemer is said to come to those in Jacob, who turn from trangression. Now Jacob for sure included all Jews. However not all Jews turned from trangression, when Yeshua the redeemer came to Zion. If they had turned he would have fulfilled for them his Messianic role of Redeemer and Saviour. But those who did not do Teshuva, did not receive their Messiah. It is very clear that Messiah could come and a Jew who would refuse to listen to him and do teshuva or to turn from trangression, would not receive him.
This was clear in the case of Yeshua. For as Rambam said. Yeshua was "executed by the court"
A court which Rambam clearly agreed with, which those who turned from transgression did not agreed with. But they too were in Jacob. Let us not think that because Yeshua was executed he lost the approval of God, No it is written "He was despised and forsaken of men"
It is also written "Adonai Yahuwah has opened my ear; And I was not disobedient,
Nor did I turn my back.
I gave my back to those who strike me,
And my cheeks to those who pluck out my beard,
I did not cover my space to humiliation and spitting.
For Adonai Yahuwah helps me.
Therefore I am not disgraced;
Therefore I have set my face like flint,
And I know that I shall not be ashamed.
He who vindicates me is near;
Who will contend with me?"
Yes immediately after they charged Yeshua with blasphemy
"they spat in his face and beat him with their fist;
and others beat him with rods"
So all this is faced, but this does not stop him being the Messianic redeemer of those who turn from transgression in Jacob.
So he indeed redeemed according to the angelic interpretation of that term.
"And she will bear a Son and you shall call his name Yeshua, for it is he whom will save his people from their sins."
What! so indeed the guilt offering Yeshua became redeemer or paid for many people to be saved from their sins. Many to begin worshipping the true God in spirit, as God promised his people they would "I will put my Spirit upon you" and in truth as God also promised "
"Because he who is blessed in the earth shall be blessed by the God of Truth"
All this took place after his condemnation to death.
He was killed but he was raised from the dead. Thus God showed that he did not approve of the courts judgement. He then ascended back to the Father and sent down the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth on his disciples. He had already said that he was the truth and we all worship and bless in the name of the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, the Truth. That is we bless in the name of the God of Amen (truth).
We see above that the final
message of Isaiah 69 was that the Spirit would remain on the offspring of those who turned from transgression in Jacob. And that the word would also remain on their lips.
Well the offspring of those disciples are still here to day on earth and number over 1 billion. They receive the Holy Spirit when they believe and have the word of the Gospel on their lips every day all over the earth in one part of the world or another.
As Yeshua said, they have only one Father in heaven and one teacher the Messiah.They are born again and so like the Spirit on them and the word in their mouths they abide for ever.
And Yeshua had all his disciples baptised in the Holy Spirit
(2) He did not gather there dispersed
Here we have the second accusation against Yeshua and his Messianic role. In a sense it is clear that the error of this accusation comes from Rambam's limited view of the Messiah as a person and his role. Here is how Rambam identifies the Messiah
"If a King will arise from the house of David who is learned in Torah and obs
ervant of the Mitztvoth. As prescribed by the written law and the oral law, as David, his ancestor was, and will compel all of Israel to walk in (the way of the Torah) and reinforce the breaches (in its observance); and fight the wars of God, we may, with assurance, consider him the Messiah.
If he succeeds in the above , builds the Temple in its place, and gathers the dispersed of Israel, he is definitely the Messiah. He will then improve the entire world, (motivating ) all the nations to serve God together as (Zephaniah 3:9) states: "I will make the peoples pure of speech that they will call upon the Name of God and serve him with one purpose"
If he did not succeed to this degree or he was killed, he is surely not (the redeemer) promised by the Torah".
We see that Rambam makes no mention of the Spirit's role in causing observance. As Yahuah said
"I will put my spirit upon you and cause you to walk in my statutes and commandments"
Nor does he mention the possibility of the events mentioned taking place over a protracted period of time because the Messiah by some is understood to be eternal.
There is an odd tendency among the Rabbinical schools of thought to deny the deity of the Messiah, but to give him roles only God could possibly fulfil and which God has specifically said he will personally do, to the Messiah. For example, there is a great emphasis on the ingathering of the dispersed ones of Israel.
Well there is a mega problem involved in this ingathering. That is no man knows who are the dispersed of Israel. No man knows where they live. And even if a man knew where they were it was be almost impossible to convince others that these and not those are Israel. Then on the other hand, having done the mammoth task of working out exactly who Israel are, among the mass of nation into which they were scattered, we then have the issue of "compelling" them to fulfil the Torah, which no man has yet, apart from Yeshua, completely fulfilled.
In regard to these issues they are considered a fundamental element of the Messianic work.Now we know as followers of Yeshua that God was in Messiah reconciling the world to himself.
We know full well that only God can do things assigned to Messiah.
Now the ingathering is so vital to Rabbinic Judaism and its view of Messiah that Rambam says to understand that God will gather in the dispersed of Israel is to understand Messiah is coming. And to believe in the coming of Messiah is one of Rambam's 13 fundamental beliefs of Judaism.
He says "Anyone who does not believe in him or does not waith for his coming, denies not only (the statements) of the other prophets, but (those of) the Torah and Moses, our teacher. The Torah testified to his (coming), as (Due 30;3-5) states:
"God will bring back your captivity and have mercy on you. He will gather you"
So Messiah will do exactly and no less than what God promises to do in his Torah. Rambam believed this but when Yeshua came calling himself the son of God, they wanted to stone him for blasphemy.
We who believe Yeshua to be God manifest in the flesh have no problems with these passages, but the Rabbis who deny this truth will have to do all sorts of gymnastics with the plain words of God. As Yeshua says "Moses wrote of me"
Now we can ask how has the coming of Yeshua tied in with not only the expectation of Rambam but a Messiah who is far greater in revelation than Rambams finite mind could ever contemplate. We see this that Yeshua is doing what Rambam expects but not necessarily in the order he expected and in a far higher way than he imagined. For Gods ways and thoughts are far higher than our ways and thought as Rambam admits in Halakah 4 page 236 of The laws of Kings and there wars.
"Nevertheless the intent of the Creator of the world is not within the power of man to comprehend"
So let us see how Yeshua shapes up in his present and on going Messianic role.
"If a King will arise from the house of David who is learned in Torah and observant of the Mitztvot. As prescribed by the written law and the oral law, as David, his ancestor was, and will compel all of Israel to walk in (the way of the Torah) and reinforce the breaches (in its observance); and fight the wars of God, we may, with assurance, consider him the Messiah.
If he succeeds in the above, builds the Temple in its place, and gathers the dispersed of Israel, he is definitely the Messiah. He will then improve the entire world, (motivating ) all the nations to serve God together as (Zephaniah 3:9) states: "I will make the peoples pure of speech that they will call upon the Name of God and serve him with one purpose"
If he did not succeed to this degree or he was killed, he is surely not (the redeemer) promised by the Torah".
What are Rambams requirements?
(1) A King
(2) From the house of David
(3) Is learned in Torah
(4) Observant of Mitzvoth (Written and Oral)
(5) Will Compel all Israel to walk in the Torah
(6) Reinforce the breaches in its observance
(7) Fight the wars of God
(8) Builds the Temple in its place
(9) Gathers the dispersed of Israel
(10 ) Improve the entire world (motivating) all the nations to serve God together.
Now Rambam has given 10 points to spot his Messiah. His list is by no means exhaustive but we can work with it and compare Yeshua the Messiah extraordinaire, with Rambam's limited requirements for Messiah.
Because much of Rambams criteria is taken from the Tanakh I will use prophets and Apostles to help illuminate the true meaning of the terms Rambam talks about.
(1) A King.
Our question is then Is Yeshua a King? If so was he the kind of King Rambam was looking for?
When Yeshua was asked by Pontius Pilate :
Are you the King of the Jews?
Yeshua replied
It is as you say. (Matthew)
When he was earlier on talking to his disciples in Lukes gospel he said to his discples
"The Kings of the the nations lord it over them; and those who have authority over them are benefactors. But not so with you, but let him who is the greatest among you become as the youngest and the leader as the servant. For who is greater, the one who reclines at table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as one who serves. And you are those who have stood with me in my trials; and just as my father has granted me a kingdom, I grant you. That you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and you will sit judging the twelves tribes of Israel.'
When Yeshua died he had written over him "This is the King of the Jews."
I wonder if anyone else in all history was crucufied with that title written over them.
We have to remember, when the Israelites asked for a king like the nations, they got one. But Yahuah was not very pleased about it. When Samuel gives the list of the things the King would do it was in order to dissuade Israel, from their unfortunate request. But Yahuah in his mercy gave them what they asked for on the understanding that they had reject him from being King over them.
David was chosen by God. The King Messiah to was sanctified by the Father and sent into the world. We must always remember, the son of David , the Messiah will also be the Son of God, and unlike David, he will be a man of peace not of war.
Finally we can ask does this King have any subjects in his Kingdom and what kind of Kingdom is it?
Yeshua told Pilate:
My kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world then my servants would be fighting, that I might not be delivered up to the Jews; But as it is , My Kingdom is not of this world.
Pilate answered "So you are a King? Yeshua answered
You say correctly that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of truth hears my voice."
We can conclude this section that is clear not just to Yeshua but to millions of his subjects all over the world that he is indeed a King and not any ordinary he is a king of God's appointing in the order of the Melchizedek priesthood.
(2) From the House of David.
Here we can start with the words of the Angel to Yeshua's mother:
"Do not be afraid Mary for you have found favour with God. And behold you will conceive in your womb, and bear a son and you shall name him Yeshua. He will be great, and called the son of the Most High; and Adonai Yahuah will give him the throne of his Father David."
As Yahuah had promised David
"Moreover I tell you Yahuah will build a house for you
And it shall come about when your days are fulfilled that you will go to be with your fathers,
That I will set up one of your descendants after you, who shall be of your sons;
And I will establish his Kingdom.
He shall build a house for me , and I will establish his throne forever.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son.
I will not take my lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.
But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever,
And his throne shall be established forever".
These are the words of Nathan the prophet to David. This word of Yahuah has to be fulfilled be cause none of his words fall to the earth. This is the true promise of Messiah.
Now note a number of significant things here. Yahuah is going to build Davids house. And we know that it is through the Spirit of Yahuah that he builds. As he said through Zechariah, "its not by might nor by power, but by my spirit says Yahuah" We know also that a physical house is not what is being referred to, for David would die before all these things would take place. What good would a brick or cedar house do for a dead man. No this house but be of another order altogether.
We also note that this son would be very special for he would be the son of two fathers. Yahuah and David.
We know that the term son of David doesn't just refer to a physical seed because whenever a King of Israel acted righteously his sonship was referred to David. However when a King did wrongly his Sonship was referred elsewhere although he could still be buried in the city of David.
Also we can note that this son of God, son of David, would build a house for Yahuah, however later on the prophesy says "I will settle him in my house forever".
This means the house referred in the second part of the prophecy can not be the temple of Solomon. For this temple only last about 400 hundred years. It is clear that Yahuah said he would settle His Son and David's Son in His house forever. The Temple of Solomon did not last forever, so another house must be referred to. "Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his Father, David"
So Solomon fulfilled parts of the prophecy but not the complete prophecy.
However Yeshua has been pointed out as a fulfiller of this prophecy, firstly by the Angel Gabriel above.
Firstly he was born of a virgin and it came about that :
"The Holy Spirit will come upon you,
and the power of the most high will over shadow you
and for that reason the holy thing begotten will be called the son of God"
As Yahuah said " I will build for you a house …I will be to him a Father and he will be to me a Son"
So Yeshua body came from God it did not come in the ordinary way but by the Holy Spirit and the power of the most high.
Can his body be described as a house?
When Yeshua was first cleansing the temple he was challenged to show a sign, he replied
"Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up"
They reply "It took forty six years to build this temple and will you raise it up in three days?"
The scripture comments "He was speaking about the temple of his body."
So here immediately we have the living and the dead temple compared and Yeshua sees that both are the house of the Father. We know already that God did not promise to build David a house of stone, and nor did ask for one. But for Solomons temple God himself gave the instruction to David by the Holy Spirit.
We know that because of the way of the birth of conception of Yeshua God was a Father to him.
Indeed he could say 'I will declare the decree of Yahuah he said to me You are my Son, this day I have begotten thee".
He described the second temple as "My Fathers house" and took particular pains to cleanse it from all defilement "Take these things away; and stop making my Fathers house a house of Merchandise."
"I will establish his kingdom"
Well immediately after Solomon died his Kingdom was split into because of sin. Rehoboam got Judah and Benjamin and Jeroboam, Son of Nebat got the rest.
"He will build a house for me"
When Yeshua came the temple was already standing. However, it clearly did not need to be built. So how then could Yeshua fulfil this prophecy?
He made it clear himself. "destroy this temple and in three days I will rebuild it"
He was talking about his body. By raising himself from the dead and becoming the foundation of a spiritual temple , he is building a house for Yahuah. Not of cedar but of living stones.
He said in three days he will rebuild it. If we apply this to Herods temple with a day for a thousand years we have another 70 years until we enter the third day. Ample time to build the the final stone temple.
So the kingdom of Solomon survived. Whereas Yeshua died, like Solomon, but unlike Solomon, he did not stay dead. He rose from the dead.
Of Solomon it was said "Behold I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and give you (Jeroboam) 10 tribes (But he will have one tribe, for my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, because they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth….Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand"
So for David and Jerusalem sake Solomon survived and his throne.
However of Yeshua it was said "His Son who was born of a descendant of David, according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of Holiness, Yeshua Messiah our Lord."
Yeshua himself could say
"All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth"
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations….and lo I am with you always even to the end of the age"
I will establish his Kingdom said Yahuah.
So he got everything as Son of God. Solomon lost most of his Kingdom, Yeshua received everything.

We see that Rambam admits here the Mystery of the ways of God. He has not had revealed to him the way of Messiah in Yeshua but he understands that God is organising the whole show and sees very clearly, what to the Christian is already a fact, Yeshua motivates the nations together to serve God.
But what was his main objection to Yeshua or his Church:
"Can there be a greater stumbling block than" (Yeshua)?
he says this because of the suffering that came on the Jews through there rejection of Yeshua. They stumbled on him.Rambam almost cries for understanding, but admits that it was in God's hands. What did he stumble on really? What does Yahuah say through the prophet Isaiah
"Behold I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a costly cornerstone for the foundation firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed."
Isaiah 28.