Saturday, December 19, 2015

The Word of the Lord Shall Come Forth From Jerusalem - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

The Word of the Lord
Shall Come Forth From Jerusalem

Now Think On This
Steve Martin

“And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that He may teach us concerning His ways and that we may walk in His paths. For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”
(Isaiah 2:3 NASU)


The Word of the Lord shall again come forth from Jerusalem. The very place where the Lord God of Israel chose, of all the places on earth He could have chosen, is the land of Israel, Eretz Yisrael. His Word will again go forth in power and truth from that very location. In our day.

I like how The Message also states the verse above, as I have included more verses in order to get a fuller picture of what the prophet Isaiah proclaimed centuries ago. This very Word of the Lord is coming forth in our time, directly from the land of Israel.

“The message Isaiah got regarding Judah and Jerusalem: “There's a day coming when the mountain of God's House will be The Mountain — solid, towering over all mountains. All nations will river toward it, people from all over set out for it. They'll say, "Come, let's climb God's Mountain, go to the House of the God of Jacob. He'll show us the way he works so we can live the way we're made."

Zion's the source of the revelation. God's Message comes from Jerusalem. He'll settle things fairly between nations. He'll make things right between many peoples. They'll turn their swords into shovels, their spears into hoes. No more will nation fight nation; they won't play war anymore. Come, family of Jacob, let's live in the light of God.” (Isaiah 2:1-5, THE MESSAGE)

I have become more attuned in recent years to those Jews whom the Lord has chosen, saved and now set in place, as teachers in the Body of Christ, the Body of Messiah. These are ones who even more so are prophetically and accurately speaking to the nations. From their lineage, history, culture and with a deeper, fuller understanding of the Scriptures, these ones get it, and are giving it. And now they are the ones chosen by the Lord to proclaim it to all the nations.

They are the Messianic Jews, or “believers” as some of them prefer to be simply called.

As I look back at the great Bible teachers in my lifetime, men such as Derek Prince, Bob Mumford, Charles Simpson and several others, I have realized that these were (still) all Gentiles. The Holy Spirit had anointed them with the gift of teaching, and they did an excellent job, equipped with the understanding and knowledge having been given to them. They had brought us thus far.

But now, as the days of the Gentiles are waning, the years of the Jewish believers are coming on strong. It is as it has been prophesied.

As Yeshua (Jesus) Himself proclaimed and prophesied, “And they (the Jews) will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” (Luke 21:24 NKJV)

The time of that time is now.

In 1967 the nation of Israel, the Jews, once again took rightful control and ownership of all of Jerusalem, as they were the victors during the Six Day War over the millions of Arabs who had surrounded them. Not since 70 A.D, when the Roman General Titus destroyed Jerusalem, and in particular the Jewish Second Temple (which was standing on what is today the Temple Mount), did the Jews possess this sacred parcel of land - the very land which the Lord Himself had said He had put His name on it. Forever. For all eternity.

Scripture says, “…in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers — only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them." (2 Kings 21:7-8 NKJV)

The Jews were scattered throughout the earth as it been so prophesied. During the days of King David and King Solomon (Jewish kings), the Jewish prophets were speaking of return. And then, since the days of the Roman (Gentile) rule over this land, when the Romans drove them out, scattering the rightful inhabitants of the land, the Jews, to the wind, Gentile kingdoms ruled over the land. For these past 2000 years, Gentiles had “trampled” the land. 

But that has now come to an end. Again, as historically written, and proclaimed in Luke 21:24 by the Messiah Himself, Yeshua, Jesus Christ, these times of the Gentiles were coming to an end at some point in time. That time has now been fulfilled, since that historical triumph at the Kotel, the Western Wall, in 1967. It ended the Gentile rule.

It is now the appointed, prophesied time for the Jewish believers to take the lead, to be the ones taking charge. They shall be doing the proclaiming and teaching.

As I understand it prophetically now, Yeshua-believing Jews are now the primary ones we should be looking to, as they are being raised up to bring forth the Word of the Lord from His Land. Those Jewish teachers and prophets from the group of Messianics, the Jewish believers in Yeshua HaMashiach. They will have the most current word for the nations. They do even now.

I have found myself listening and learning more and more from Messianic Jewish Bible teachers and prophets in these past years, than from any other teachers of the Word. Men like Jonathan Cahn, Barry Segal, Joel Rosenberg, Peter Wyns, Michael Brown, Warren Marcus, Sid Roth, Ron Cantor, Sam Nadler, Chuck Cohen, Scott Volk, Jonathan Bernis, Aviel Schneider, Richard and Carolyn Hyde and many more.

Though not all of these fore mentioned men of the Lord are currently living in Israel (not yet), they are Jews, believers in Yeshua, who are expounding on the full Word of the Lord, from Genesis to Revelation. Their understanding of the Jewish prophets, from Moses through Micah, is beyond any of that which Gentile teachers have understood thus far. They have been given the fuller package.

Ruach HaKodesh (Hebrew), the Holy Spirit, has once again chosen the Jews to bring forth the Lord’s word from Zion, and specifically from the Jewish city of Jerusalem.

I encourage you to watch them on TV, get their emails, read their websites, and subscribe to their YouTube messages. You will be blessed if you also pray for them, and give financial support (out of your wallet, checkbook or credit card!) for their ministries. My good wife Laurie and I certainly do, and have been for over a decade.

Since the first days of the church, beginning in Acts with Peter, James, John, Paul - or should we call them by their Hebrew/Jewish names (Peter was Shimon, James was Yakov, John was Yocahanan, Bartholomew was Bar-Talmai, and Paul was Saul) – Jewish believers have once again been gifted with His word, to be proclaimed in the nations now.

The Jewish prophets proclaimed this would happen. Our Savior Yeshua affirmed it. We are living in the times of the end when it is happening now. What a blessed people we are – the One New Man of Jews and Gentile believers!

I encourage you to listen and learn from them. I believe they have been given the NOW word, for these days and times the world has entered.

The marathon baton has been given back to our Messianic Jewish brothers, for this final sprint, to take the lead in telling the world of the good news of Messiah Yeshua, Jesus Christ.

Now think on this,

Steve Martin
Love For His People, Inc.


P.S. I would be most grateful if you'd share this encouraging word with your family and friends. They might need it. You can easily use the social media icons below. Thanks! Steve


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Thanks for sharing. Blessings on your head from the Lord Jesus, Yeshua HaMashiach.

Steve Martin
Founder
Love For His People
Charlotte, NC USA