For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. I Corinthians 2:2
Paul is speaking and unpacking what some like to use as an excuse, but it was not an excuse. He was stating that his words were not simplistic or meant for babes, but that his words were with heavenly power, and were able to overcome the wordly conversation that was taking place in this local assembly. He at this time, because of the manner of the most popular topics, did not say that he couldn't navigate them but that those topics were profitless or worse. Those conversations, as many have been in our lifetime, were in bondage from the freedom of truth and led in every direction down a bad road. Jesus is not involved in lowly powerless dialogue. Jesus isn't a social media influencer, but I should say strongly that Jesus is most assuredly working through the Church that He established, and is the Head of the Church, that He has purchased with His own blood. However, Jesus spoke much about the end times, and Israel in the end times. So, is it possible that the Lord is working actively in the Middle East?
Paul did not claim ignorance on the Corinthian conversations. He said I don't want to know about them. He didn't want to engage in them, because the power of the truth would have authority over those things that were troubling these believers. Paul had wisdom of divine nature, which gave wisdom of the earthly troubles of their day. It was better that God would impart this than Paul trumpet a champion of debate. This kind of wisdom does not come from some gift of God, but it is by faith, study, prayer, and meditation.
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. Psalm 119:15
What this wisdom DOES shields you against-
Hatred
Cultural bias, Cultural ignorance
Demonic influence
False Teachers
Economic dependence
Emotional wreckage- Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Hebrew 12:15
Recency Bias - For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. Mark 13:22
Many things are prophesied to take place in the last days, lying signs and wonders, pestilences, wars, natural disasters, and each one will Satan use to control minds.
What this wisdom does NOT shield you against-
The cold hard truth
The suffering of mankind
The presence of evil
Your need for growth, and your own weaknesses
Your responsibility to your neighbor
The course of this world. This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, I Timothy 3:1-5
The world to come- The great eye opener is the world to come under the reign of Christ.
I must come short of prophesying, but I see a world of craft and skill, where healthy minds and bodies enjoy the outdoors, hone their skills, and increase in knowledge through divinely inspired efforts. They will enjoy the fruits of their labors and every many will lounge under their own fig tree (Micah 4:4). Paul claims to have seen heaven, and what a privilege this was concerning such matters.
Paul said I knew nothing among you, yet we know how capable he was when pressed into these troubles. It is believed by many that Paul was the greatest theologian to ever live. Paul was a great debater (Mars Hill, Acts 17). He was an able civil rights advocate (Book of Philemon). He was scholarly and well-read, possessing his own mobile library (Acts 26:24). Paul was the consummate cultural connoisseur as the chosen Apostle to the gentiles (wrongly called the god Mercurius). Paul was at once a pupil of the great Gamaliel, but now he was a disciple of Jesus Christ.
He was not professing to know nothing; He was saying that the devil is in the details quite literally. Even when we are able to tell truth from fiction, then we must understand that we are not able to change the course of the world. Most people believe they could do that, but I don't see our libraries full of people or quality literature for that matter. Someone recently said "Why would these things be happening in 2023?" as though we have reached some higher plateau of civilization. When you study history you are taught that history always repeats itself. To expect better of humanity than you should violates the teaching of Christ, and is a blind eye to the world you live in. To claim to have the formula to peace is not optimistically noble but makes someone a pontificate bubble boy.
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Jeremiah 8:11
Who is the most famous victim of antisemitism? Besides the divine order of God there was much evil in play. He was born around 4 or 5 BC in Bethlehem where the Jew hating type of the Anti-Christ King Herod carried out the slaughter of the innocents against Jewish male baby and toddlers. Now Herod may or may not have been Jewish or half Jewish, but Hitler was Jewish. Jesus then fled to Egypt to escape antisemitic hatred toward the possibility of a Jewish King over Israel. He may have lived in Alexandria or nearby, and it probably was a beautiful place to live. I cannot do justice to say that Jesus was just a victim of antisemitism because I must proclaim that He had power to defeat it once and for all, but my point is that this evil has existed against the Jew before the Jew ever rejected their Messiah. Let that sink in where it should. Consider some of Gods choicest servants and of what nature they were: David, Samson, Othniel, and Ehud, that were valiant warriors against the enemies of God's people the Jew, and the Bible says that God raised them up.
And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. Judges 2:18
This also gives insight into one of the more difficult passages of scripture:
The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. Exodus 15:3
I don't think it could be any clearer that God hates antisemitism. He hates all forms of hatred but this particular satanically inspired hatred is not dealt with kindly. He dealt harshly with the Philistines, Egyptians, Canaanites, Haman, and the Babylonians. The pre-flood world had been satanically engineered to destroy the promised seed of Genesis 3:15. That is why there is an acute hatred for Jewish children, babies, pregnant women, or childbearing age women. Its satanic, and the world just turns on its head for the devil. The resurgence of such is what I believe could be classified as a birth pangs which Jesus spoke about in Matthew 24:8, (beginning of sorrows (birth pangs)), and Isaiah prophesied that Israel being born in a day (1948) would experience birth pangs.
Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. Isaiah 66:8
So how could a believer, pastor, or any Christian not be able to recognize such? It has to be a denial of the whole of scripture, or an ignorance of it. Things cannot continue as they are because a few of us have found a nice place to hang our hat. The majority of the world believes strongly, especially the Eastern World, that they have not found a good enough place to hang their hat. The root of all evil is the love of money, and even the contented hat hanger is resting upon their greed.
Semitic comes from Noah's son Shem, who was to be the lineage bearer, where David and Jesus Christ would come from. Hebrew may come from Abraham's ancestor Eber, and means wanderer. Jew comes from the chosen tribe of Judah and was used as a derogatory term. Palestine comes from the word Philistine given by the Roman conquerors who sacked Jerusalem and slaughtered an estimated 1 million Jewish men, women, and children, then named the region after the Jews most historic archrival the Philistines.
GOD WILL RAISE UP- He raised up John the Baptist a Jew, who was beheaded because someone hated the most famous Jew of their day. He raised up 12 apostles probably entirely Jewish. In our day God in His wisdom has given to the Church and the world alike people who have received the truth of the 2nd Coming of Christ, and that hatred for God's earthly people will increase. That during the last 3 1/2 years of the time of Jacobs trouble (Jews Trouble) the Anti-Christ will exterminate the Jewish people. 12000 of each tribe of God fearing men spread the gospel and are martyred. If you don't believe the book of Revelation was meant to be studied and believed, or that God can and will preserve Jesus' earthly brethren the Jew, then I am your huckleberry.
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. Jeremiah 30:17
Listen to Jesus' words on not just the parables but divine truths:
If I have told you earthly things (Jews are God's chosen people, Old Testament narrative), and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things (Apocolypse, Rapture, War in Heaven,)? John 3:12
If there are to be wars in heaven, would it be reasonable to see that there would be wars on earth especially revolving around a race of people that God says is the apple of His eye? (Zechariah 2:8)
For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. Zech. 2:8
This is no average people. I don't mean individually but the Jews as a whole are not ordinary, and the start up nation which Isaiah said would be born in a day is here. That means to me that Jesus is coming. They have their own national guardian angel. I'm not boasting but warning. I would never pick a gunfight with Doc Holliday. I know Michael the Arch Angel stands ready, and my Bible tells me that Michael has no problem dealing with that old Dragon.
Why are so many confused or wrong about the events taking place in our world today? Here is my own interpretation. We know and agree that there will be deception, men shall wax worse and worse, perilous times, teachers having itching ears. Relative to all these things are a lack of courage, rebellion, and bitterness against anything that has an ounce of authority. It takes courage to live by faith and it takes genuine faith to withstand the evil day. These truths may be daggers to some but let the Word fall where it may. Let the preaching of the Cross and the Second Coming hold fast until that day. It won't be long until the King of Kings will saddle a white horse in heaven, and the earth will mourn for their evil deeds which they perpetuated against the Jewish race and tribulation saints.
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