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What is left for the man without a purpose of being? Confusion has become the new norm. Religious confusion where those who serve in their particular religious setting have lost the concept of ‘the holy.’ Politics and social issues have overtaken religion. Remember, that I am not writing about Christianity, for religion and Christianity are enemies. We are so far removed from the things of ‘the holy‘ that even false religious establishments are floundering for a footing, something to hold onto, anything to hold onto that may have an odor, a whiff of religious worship. (A religion that they can propagate, teach about, preach about as holding hope (false hope) out to their followers.) Since true Christianity can no longer be recognized, the counterfeit church no longer has a God to proclaim. What is left for the counterfeit churches? It was not only Rome that for centuries melded together superstition, paganism, truth, church doctrine, Nicolaitanism, eastern philosophy, Jewish traditions and scores of unethical edicts; the Anglican Church has also been overthrown for decades by the same ungodly leaders as Rome, struggling for a place in the world of religious renown, power and money. Denominationalism also erroneously built their foundation on things that God rejected (Hebrews 8:13), and here we are today, in a world of confusion without the knowledge of the holy . . . without the knowledge of God. . . . The Age of Confusion.
Side Note: The Old Garment, the Old Bottle, the Old Wine, Old Testament, the First Covenant became the Old Covenant.
In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away. (Hebrews 8:13)
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (Matthew 26:28)
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. (Hebrews 9:15)
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But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. (Luke 5:35) And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old. (Luke 5:36) And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. (Luke 5:37) But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. (Luke 5:38) No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. (Luke 5:39)
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But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. (Mark 2:20) No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. (Mark 2:21) And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. (Mark 2:22)
Romanism, orthodoxy, denominationalism built on the old, that which was rejected by God. Why do you think that God used these words in the church in Smyrna (I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and [I know] the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but [are] the synagogue of Satan Revelation 2:9) and in the church of Philadelphia, Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. (Revelation 3:9) The religious world found it almost impossible to envision a Christianity separated from the old covenant; thus, they carried the things that God had put away into the age of that which was new. The garments of the Aaronic priesthood were ONLY for the Aaronic priesthood. The holy oils, the ashes, the burning of incense, the tinkling bells on the hem of the high priest, the directives given by God for the service of the Tabernacle and the Temple were ONLY for Israel in the Tabernacle in the wilderness and the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. All that was given by God the Holy Spirit for the service in the Tabernacle and later in the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem was to reveal the wonders, glory and majesty of the GODHEAD bodily. God revealed Himself as Godhead to Israel in a material manner to disclose a supernatural spiritual and physical Being. Israel could not comprehend the spiritual aspects behind the material tangible physical manifestations disclosed to them throughout the Old Testament especially the elements of service and priesthood in the Pentateuch.
As John the Baptist was the last (UNACCPETED) legitimate high priest to Israel, and the last Old Testament prophet he symbolically represented the passing away of the Old in order to introduce and to present the New covenant. Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. (John 3:28) He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. (John 3:29) He must increase, but I must decrease. (John 3:30) He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all (John 3:31).
The prophecy of Jeremiah 31:31 pointed to a future time when God would make A NEW COVENANT with Israel. Christ was that covenant IF they had accepted Him as their promised Messiah, but they rejected Christ and, in this rejection, they also rejected THAT COVENANT for THAT time. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. Nevertheless, the spinning wheels of God’s Sovereignty can never be stopped nor altered by man’s rejection and denial. Israel rejected God then, and they still reject Him today. When they have experienced the tragedy of God’s rejection, although it is a temporary rejection, God will completely fulfill ALL of His promises to Israel.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. (Zechariah 12:9)
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zechariah 12:10)
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. (Zechariah 12:11
Then at the time of Israel’s great mourning, THEN God will fulfill His NEW COVENANT. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. Much MUST happen between Israel’s rejection and God’s fulfillment.
● For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. (Romans 11:25) And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: (Romans 11:25) For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. (Romans 11:25)
● For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. (Romans 11:25)
● But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. (Hebrews 8:6)
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. (Hebrews 8:7)
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: (Hebrews 8:8)
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. (Hebrews 8:9)
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: (Hebrews 8:10)
And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. (Hebrews 8:11)
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. (Hebrews 8:12)
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. (Hebrews 8:13)
When God was manifested in the express image of the invisible God THROUGH Jesus Christ and was rejected and denied by His people, ALL ENDED. When Christ cried out, It is finished. He meant, It is finished.His work of earth as the Lamb of sacrifice was finished. When God allowed His Temple to be completely destroyed and demolished by the Roman soldiers in 70 A.D. forty years (forty the time of testing) after His death and resurrection, it was God proclaiming, IT IS FINISHED. Yet, the Jewish priests and the pagan priests (in many cases they were one and the same) at the birth of Christianity needed a form of job security, and so . . . and therefore . . . and consequently . . . another form of priesthood was constructed around the Aaronic priesthood melding together the Aaronic priesthood and the pagan priesthood. And so, and therefore, and consequently when the Counterfeit Church cloaked herself with the things of the old and declared it to be of Christ Christianity was reinvented and Christianity was relabeled.
One of the tragedies that the newborn church faced and failed at was not understanding that they were the beginning of a totally new entity, a new era, a new creation that was NOT to be built on an old system. When men with hidden agendas crept into their gatherings, they, of course, did not have the Spirit of Christ within, and therefore, they desired to imitate the old Jewish system of the Aaronic priesthood. These two separate systems could not merge and maintain its original purpose of godly service without destroying the intent and purpose of the newly forming church. Thus, the new baby in the neighborhood of spirituality became an object to be controlled, stunted, suppressed and to be forced into a mold of a ruined system rejected by God; this new baby was not appreciated as a new living organism created by God to be a completely separated entity which would be led and controlled by the Spirit of Christ alone. Consequently, this new baby was divided into two factions: the possessors of the Spirit of God, and the professors of God.
The Old Garments under a newer garment . . . the Old Bottle with a new label . . . the Old Wine mixed with a newer wine. . . . the Old Testament chopped, mixed, pressed and changed to socially and spiritually gratify political and religious tyrants; thus, making the first covenant into an old irrelevant meaningless covenant, stripping away the foundation so that the fulfillment of the New Testament (the new covenant) cannot be spiritually understood. The foundation became the fulfillment, and the fulfillment became the foundation. ◆ End of Side Note.
© Copyright 2024, Mary Haigh
Published on July 6, 2024, at 1:20 PM (EST)
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