Let's not perpetuate the blame game - let's be a blessing!
Oct 12, 2017 12:02:04 GMT -6
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Post by truthseeker on Oct 12, 2017 12:02:04 GMT -6
Jesus says....
John 10:17-18New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
17 This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father.”
On Saturday, the Lord pointed something out to me. Many call this a typology...I just call it a revelation if God's will. It was in regard to the understanding by so many that A certain party 'killed' Jesus. I've heard Jews by some, Rome by others, along with other variations.
But the verses at the top refute that ANYONE killed Jesus. He said that he 'laid it down' of his own accord.
On Saturday, my husband was reading to me from Leviticus 4. In It was a picture of how if Israel(as a group) had sinned against God and didn't know it- there was a way to 'atone' for it and receive forgiveness .
Well this is exactly what Paul said happened to Unbelieving Israel..
Romans 11:1-8New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
Chapter 11
The Remnant of Israel. 1 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of course not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” 4 But what is God’s response to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand men who have not knelt to Baal.” 5 So also at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. 6 But if by grace, it is no longer because of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. 7 What then? What Israel was seeking it did not attain, but the elect attained it; the rest were hardened, 8 as it is written:
“God gave them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day.”
Footnotes:
* 11:1–10 Although Israel has been unfaithful to the prophetic message of the gospel (Rom 10:14–21), God remains faithful to Israel. Proof of the divine fidelity lies in the existence of Jewish Christians like Paul himself. The unbelieving Jews, says Paul, have been blinded by the Christian teaching concerning the Messiah.
So if one would take a closer look at Leviticus, we see Jesus would eventually be the lamb, bull, ram, grain(bread) offerings.
Hebrews 10New American Standard Bible (NASB)
One Sacrifice of Christ Is Sufficient
10 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? 3 But in [c]those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,
“Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, But a body You have prepared for Me;
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In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure.
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“Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of Me) To do Your will, O God.’”
8 After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the Law), 9 then He [d]said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.10 By [e]this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for [f]sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are [g]sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,
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“This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, And on their mind I will write them,”
He then says,
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“And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.
So going back to Leviticus 4:13, in particular, one would see that Jesus was to be a "sin by ignorance offering". He laid down his own life, but 'a people' had to OFFER Him. If we are blaming others, then we are not offering Him for Israel's sin in their blindness, much less ours! Someone has to be THAT PEOPLE.
When we accept what Jesus the Gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1-5), then we are that people. Don't forget that Jesus laid his own life down! But in our belief and profession of the Gospel -we become a people that Jesus needed to recognize that he WAS AN ATONEMENT.
Maybe this is how we bless or curse Israel. If we recognize that Jesus atoned for Israel(and the world), those who do that - WILL BE BLESSED.