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Post date: Oct 29, 2016 3:47:42 AM
The purpose of Bible reading is to get to KNOW God.
Jesus is indeed a complex character. The Jewish scholars and devout men, struggled to recognize Him as being the Messiah, and in a similar way the modern Christian will also be hard pressed to recognize Him when He returns.
The Jews expected a judging warlord and the modern Christian mostly a Gandhi style nurse.
It is quite clear that many modern Christians have decided that their relationship with Jesus is a mommy baby relationship and so when one reads scripture that shows another side of Christ they freak out and simply cannot comprehend it.
One of the most unsettling facts of life is the suffering of women and children. We all want a Knight on a White Horse who solves all the problems and takes the pain away, and there are many scriptures that do promise that, BUT they are never unconditional and they never extend to the entire population.
1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;
5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”
6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,
7 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Hebrews 4:1-13
One thing becomes very clear when one allows the text to say what it want to say, instead of trying to find small portions that prove what one already believes or wants to believe, is that God blesses and curses the nations for their obedience or disobedience.
Baby Christians are more comfortable with blaming all death and evil on the devil or the free masons, but scripture puts God Himself fairly and squarely in the middle as the author of human suffering. The purpose is always clear, God has ALWAYS blessed obedience cursed disobedience.
The agents of the curse are sometimes demons, or principalities or riders on horses, but make no mistake all of this is part of God's eternal master plan.
Often when one says things like these you get a response like " God has to do it but He doesn't want to" or "This is not God's heart". These statements can never bring peace because that leaves you with a conflicted and disturbed God, who curses people He loves, and tortures people in hell that are actually His own children.
15 “All their wickedness is in Gilgal, For there I hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My house; I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.
16 Ephraim is stricken, Their root is dried up; They shall bear no fruit. Yes, were they to bear children, I would kill the darlings of their womb.”
17 My God will cast them away, Because they did not obey Him; And they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hosea 9:15-17
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