Jesus.
Jesus existed well before everything that we know, see and understand.
He was at the creation, He existed before He was manifested in human flesh and we will see Him again either for Salvation or for Judgement.
Psalm 75:3, John 8:58, 1 Corinthians 8:6.
God’s Standards.
We all like to think we have done good and what is right and sometimes we can forget that God chose us because we were bad and not able to be good on any level. Many people who met Jesus thought of Him as a good man because of the healings and miracles that he was performing daily.
Another problem that plagues our thoughts is to see what we think is good works being carried out around the world and we are so easily lead to praise others, while forgetting to recognise the work of Jesus and believers leading thousands to faith and the promise of Eternal Salvation!
Luke 18:18, John 5:41-44.
‘Only One who is Good.’
We are no good, man, humanity are all failures!
God the Almighty, Creator and Sustainer is the only One who remains Eternaly Good. God is perfect and if we have the faith to believe, seek His forgiveness by repenting of our wrong, mistakes, failure He is the God that will save us.
Salvation is promised and it is our hope, but we must try not to continue on as we are. We must change and be a New people enjoying the New Life that He has given to us.
Matthew 19:17, Romans 6:22-23.
People do not like to hear that Israel is a chosen nation by God, they want to say that what is written in the bible is not true or it was written from their point of view. Numbers 32:9-12.
The land was given to them and they lost it due to disobedience, but God always promised He would restore them one day. That day has come and all the events of history and human time will be played out in this region. Matthew 24 and 2 Thessalonians 2.
For believers we need not worry about these events.
But if we are not saved, then we do need to seek Jesus today.
Failure.
I suppose you could say that failure is Sin, but failure does carry the reality of the condition we suffer from. Failure is humanities terminal illness, with no cure. John 8:34, 16:9.
God is merciful, that is one of His many attributes. God has been so merciful to humanity, that He sent his one and only son Jesus into the world to save us. Salvation for eternity and heaven come from our trusting in Jesus now, today. we must believe that he died for us, and rose from the dead on the third day. John 3:16-21, Mark 15:21-32, Mark 16:1-11, Phillippians 2:5-11.
From Ad57 to 1920 the Arab peoples who lived in this region had no real issues with the Turkish control of that region.
During the Christian Crusades, the autrosouties committed by the Crusaders have not been forgotten to this day by the Muslim world.
Before deluded people claiming to be followers of Jesus, the Jewish Messiah jump up to defend the rights of the mythical Palestinians and their claims today. They first need to account for the Crusades.
World history and events are all tied into God’s plan for His people Israel, which are the Jews and not the doctrines of replacement theology that replaces Israel with the Church. Jesus said it himself ‘Salvation is from the Jews’. John 4:22.
Today there seems to be a new movement and stance in the British Churches in relation to Israel, especially in light of the Palestinian peoples and their rights to the land. Some Christian clergy have joined the ‘Christ at the road block‘ movement.
But the reality of Jesus was, he was moral, being a perfect man fulfilling the Law without sin. He criticized the religious leaders of the day, but in no way did he ever get involved politically with the Roman rulers.
The Jewish people wanted Jesus to be their King and to restore the Kingdom of Israel, but he came as the suffering servant to die and take the sins of man on his body to redeem those who would believe in Him.
Ask me and I will tell you! 