ECCE

      The Church should not just seem to be the Church, but it should BE the Church as Jesus intended. New groups like Christian Nationalism and new denominations full of false doctrines are springing up that have nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, nor the Church as Christ purposed it to be. There is a lack of the wisdom, knowledge and understanding of Scripture that the Lord has called us to have: "Hear ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding...Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her." (Prov. 4:1-8, excerpt).      We are also told in scripture to hide God's Word in our hearts, but we seem to...

           The Jewish people do not include Isaiah 53 in their scripture studies, calling it "the forbidden chapter". There is a denial that this chapter of Isaiah has anything to do with a prophetic portrait of the sacrifice of the Messiah/Christ for the sins of others. Why is there this continued rejection of Jesus as the Messiah?       The apostle Paul, who was a Jew and a Pharisee trained under the respected and renown rabbi, Gamaliel, wrote about the mystery at work here regarding Israel, but now revealed: "...Hath God cast away his people?...God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew...Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace...What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded , (according as it is written, God hath give...