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God Told Me to Build an Ark!

 


My last email introduced many readers to the complexity of the Judaisms that existed in Judea and Galilee at the time of Jesus – Zadokite Judaism, Samaritans, Enochic Judaism, Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, Hasidim, Prophetic Messianic Movements, Zealots and the Sicarii. Each group viewed its vision for the future of Israel as “God’s vision.” Their visions were the product of their interpretations of the sacred texts of the Jewish people, which included the books Christians call “The Old Testament.”

 

The two groups below represent the extreme views held by the above groups.

 

● The Essenes told people to separate themselves from the Temple and other Jews.

 

● The Sicarii told people to attack the Romans and force them into a war.

 

Based on the words of Jesus, former members from both of those groups were among his followers, along with former members of other “Judaisms” too. His group also had its own vision, which was based on his interpretations of the same sacred texts. So, what attracted members of the other Judaisms to his group?

 

When Jesus announced that he was the “Anointed One,” he read the following from the scroll of Isaiah (61:1-2) -- “The Spirit of Yahweh is upon me, because He has anointed me . . . to proclaim the year of favor of Yahweh.” He stopped reading at that spot, sending a message to his Jewish audience that Gentiles fail to see. What he did not read was this – “and the day of vengeance of our God.

 

“The Day of Vengeance of Our God” will come

at the end of “The Year of Favor of Yahweh.”

 

What will “The Day of Vengeance of Our God” be like? Two prophesies were well-known by the Jewish people during the time of Jesus. The first is in the scroll of Isaiah that Jesus read from above. It is recorded in Isaiah 66:15-16; 22-24 in the Bible.

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See, Yahweh is coming with fire, and His chariots are like a whirlwind; He will bring down his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For with fire and with his sword Yahweh will execute judgment on all people, and many will be those slain by Yahweh . . . “As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares Yahweh, “so will your name and descendants endure. From one New Moon to another and from one Shabbat to another, all mankind will come and bow down before Me,” says Yahweh. “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against Me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

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The second is found in Malachi 4:1 -- “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” says Yahweh of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch.”

 

When Jesus began proclaiming “The Year of Favor of Yahweh” has begun, the Jewish audience understood that with the dawn of each new day, they were one day closer to “The Day of Vengeance of Our God.” The clock was running! Jesus had their attention and what he taught was based on one of the most well-known stories in the Jewish Scriptures – The Story of Noah and the Great Flood. When a rainbow was seen, everyone remembered the words of Genesis 9:12-16.

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And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

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God promised never to use water again to punish humans, but He made it clear through the prophesies above that if the wickedness of a future generation increased to a certain point – He will punish the wicked with fire! Everyone that heard his “Kingdom of God” message understood exactly what it meant:

 

God has called me “to build an ark!”

That ark is the “Kingdom of God.”

Repent! The Kingdom of God is here now!

 

The simplicity of that message penetrated “the belief barriers of all Judaisms” and “delivered a message they all already knew and understood.”

 

Shalom,

Jim Myers

 

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