ECCE

      This is a very special week for those who believe in One God - both Jew and Gentile. The week starts with Palm Sunday, today, which memorializes Jesus Christ's entrance into Jerusalem to the praise and the waving of palm branches as the people welcomed their King. Passover also occurs this week as Jews and Gentiles remember the blood of the Passover Lamb which was spread upon the doorways of the houses of the Israelites to protect them from the plague of death. Scripture tells us that Jesus is our Passover. Finally, this week, we remember the suffering, crucifixion, death, burial and triumphant resurrection of Jesus. All of these events were written of beforehand by the LORD's servants the prophets, as we will see. These prophets also wrote of the troubles that we are seeing currently in the Middle East.      The prophet Zechariah wrote of judgments that would accompany the Lord's entry into Jerusalem. He wrote the Word of the LORD against Damascus, ...

      Considering what we are seeing on the world stage in this hour and the signs of the end times that are being fulfilled, the command of Jesus to His disciples and to us is to take and preach the Gospel unto all the world. It is called The Great Commission.      In his letter to Timothy, Paul clearly stated the mystery of the Gospel: "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." (1 Tim. 3:16). Paul taught and explained the Gospel using the only scriptures that existed at that time: the Torah and the Prophets. The New Testament did not exist then. The Gospel of Salvation is not just a New Testament teaching. It was spoken of throughout the Hebrew scriptures as well. The importance of preaching the Gospel in these times was also prophesied by Paul: "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that i n ...