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| SHORTS: The Jewish people and Christians |
Date: 2026-08-03 (updated)
People think that Christians are connected to the Jews. And that we are for the Jews all the time. Both assumptions are absolutely wrong.
The first point is that God choose the Jews as the first of all people that would come to know Himself. That started out a long time ago with what is written in the Old Testament when Moses appeared. Nobody was a Christian then. When the Jews were led out of Egypt the Law came and Israel was commanded to uphold the Law and not to mix with other people. God saw that if there were mixed marriages the Law would be violated. Because the gentiles would bring their own (sinful) religion which is more of the flesh and not of the Spirit. Also known as the doctrine of demons.
In the old testament there were only Jews, and the rest of all the people of the world, are the gentiles. So, if you are a Christian and not a Jew, you have nothing in common with the Jewish people, unless you are a Christian and a Jew. But there are not too many of those. One choosen people by God who would honor the real God of the universe (and all the heavens).
But the history of Israel was not very consistent with following the Law or God's commands. Many times the Jewish people would go astray and then God would send them judges, kings and prophets to rule Israel but also to warn Israel because God sets His limits.
The build up in the old testament points to the coming of the Messiah. But strangly enough the Jewish people at the time and even today deny that Jesus Christ is their Messiah. While everything Jesus did is fulfillment what the prophets said about Him in the old testament. It was even prophisied that the Jewish people would be blinded to see the Truth in their own scriptures and this because they denied Jesus Christ who was there to save them. Instead, as we know, they accused Him and wanted Him to be crusified like a criminal.
The Bible speaks of a veil that is put over the Jewish people because God said these people dont see with their eyes and do not hear with their ears. And that veil is even on today on many of the Jews. We can show Isaiah 53 and tell them that that points to Jesus and all other references. But still you see that they do not want to affirm it, they just dismiss it. It is even surprising that they do not read their own prophets anymore. They only read commentaries on commentaries - and like a wisper of a message relayed through dozens of people the original message gets lost.
But not all Jews are like that fortunately. Some Jews indeed see the connection to Christ and then the eyes are opened, the veil is lifted.
For a Christian it is not important who you are, Jew, Russian, Persian or Chinese .... the only thing that matters is that you should be saved. God did not come to earth to make peace. No, on the contrary, as God said Himself that He is the opposite of the world (the people of the world) - following Him means to be in war with yourself, and because you need to change, to the dislike of others, you'll find opposition even in your own household.
Christ said it like this: Whomever wants to follow me denies himself (because God is of the Spirit, and we are of the flesh).
In reaction to the first assumption. Christians are only in such a way connected to Jews because Jews and Christians deal with the One and Only True Living God. The big difference with Judaism and Christianity is Christ Himself. He is the Messiah and God. Christians recognize Him as the Messiah, Judiasm does not. Then, the Holy trinity, where also the Holy Spirit of God is also a member of the the Trinity is not recognized by Judaism. Those difference are huge. But it gets worse. In Judiasm the Jews still expect the Messiah to come while He already came to save the world nearly 2000 years ago. But the messiah that comes in the very near future is not the real messiah - because this one will be full of Satan's deception as he wants to kill all Jews.
So, what can a Christian say of a Jewish person (or anyone else)? Anyone that does not confess Christ as the Savior (as God, as the first born of the dead), is not my brother or sister, but my neighbor. The love of a Christian to a neighbor is expressed by proclaiming the Gospel as this the only way to everlasting life - even when we are ridiculed for it, or even slain for it. Yes and we know also that no-one who is of this world really wants to hear the message of Jesus Christ. Yet it is the only way to save you.
Israel in the end-time will at some point stand alone. A lot will be changed and it is soon to come. Satan wants to destroy Israel, and he does that with many of his allies in this world and we know which people in particular wants genocide of the Jews - Hitler all over again - but worse. Christians feel deep sympathy for the Jewish people because of the curse that is on them. I do believe that any other people would not do any better than the Jews themselves as a choosen people - so really, let not anyone think he is better than a Jew. But there is also a redemption plan for His people (Israel) in motion, God made that very clear. As Christians we hope that many Jews will see that Jesus is the Messiah and the way to everlasting life.
What was made clear to us Christians in the New Testament, the Jews are the root of the tree. And we Christians are just grafted on that tree for those who are saved. We all should bless Israel as they are the root, and the root will suffer greatly in the end-times.
This does not mean that Christians approve what Jews do in general like in politics. That is a great misconception because we Christians have the Law and Gods commands too. And it says that we should love our neighboor as ourselves (equal to the greatest command). And our neighboor is anyone: non-Christians, Christians and Jews.
The first Chistians were the Apostles (all Jews), and the Gospel was then told to Jews and Gentiles. Again the Jews are the root of tree, also for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They told the world!
Amen.
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| SHORTS: Doubts and Troubles - The Second Death |
Date: 2026-07-15
Before anything below is read. It is up to you to understand and check full context and conclusions based upon Scripture. In this case read the book of Revelations.
Do you have the same trouble and doubts that I have when reading the Bible? Like man, am I really saved? Sometimes I have trouble even to grasp the simple things of the Bible that can lead me to doubt or a troubled mind, like when I read in the book of Revelations of our Lord:
Revelation 2:11 - "Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death."
The little confusion was, what is this second death really, and if I had to be victorious after the first death. So that is a question.
The second death
Only in the book of Revelations using a digital search I have found the following references to the second death:
Revelation 20:6 - "Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years."
This is a scentence that also indicates a new thing, there are two resurrections. We now live towards the first resurrection. The first resurrection will be at the end of the 6000 years since creation and then the saints will rule the Earth under the rule of Christ for a 1000 years. Satan will be locked up after the first resurrection - and will be set loose near the end of 7000 years. A good question here is, who are we to rule? My guess would be, that we'd be ruling those that came to repentance after the rapture of the Church - because after that at some point the Great Tribulation will start and the most wonderous things will happen. Believing would not be an issue anymore, it is the will and the courage to repent which is at stake.
Revelation 20:14 - Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
This is a sentence that comes with questions and maybe some translation issues. Is death a person or those who ended up in Hades. But the core of it is horror - being thrown in the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:8 - "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
Also here, a good reminder what the second death us, being in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is just one description of what hell is like. When you read the book of Revelation you'll see that being thrown in the lake of fire is after God's Judgement.
Judgement
If it comes to judgement our Lord is absolutely Sovereign. So I am not taking point on that here - I'll keep any judgement from me out of this text. For my simple mind the parable of Lazarus in Luke 16:19-25 - the poor and sick dying man leads to the understanding that in this life you get only one chance. The unnamed rich man went to Hades when he died, and Lazerus was received in Heaven escorted Abraham.
So if you repent wholeheartedly to Jesus you are saved. And if you die, you will go to Heaven. If you do not repent, when you die you will go to hell. But even this alinea brings confusion - I'll put this in another article.
For the unrepented: to be hurt by the first death is Hades. But, and here comes, after being in Hades, comes the Judgement of our Lord. And everyone who did not repent will be in Court and be judged the Law of God. And as I far as I can understand for not obeying, the Judgement of our Pure and Holy God is death, in the case of Adam and Eve for eating an apple that would open the knowledge of good and evil. So being in the Courtroom of our Lord and being Judged by the Law of God, is not very recommendable. Because everyone has broken the Law countless of times. You'll understand how serious this is when sin not only by saying and doing evil, but thinking evil is sin as well. And all of this leads me to think that the hurting by the first death (Hades) is less heavy then the second death because that is after the Judgement of our Lord.
Any (wo)man is guilty
Repent of your sins and accept Christ as savior makes you an adoptee of the Kingdom of God, but it does not make you less guilty of breaking the Law. But righteousness is imputed by the only ones, the Holy Trinity, that can impute righteousness on you, because God is Righteous and Holy. So therefore no-one can boast because none was good, not even one. (Romans 3:12).
This one scentence in Revelation 2:11 - does bring a lot of thoughts to the table...
The victory is for those who rather die than to forsake our Lord. Looking the first death related to (true) Christians and righteous Jews a lot of Christians and Jews have suffered horrible deaths for our Lord. And one could associate that to the hurting at the first death (not after). The outcome is Heaven. Once in Heaven you will be judged too, at the appropriate time, by your works if you deserve at all any rewards from the Lion of Juda (Jesus). That will certainly proove if saved Christians are while they were alive on Earth more were busy with God or with their own things...
My Conclusion
Thus in short the answer is: The sentence is really about not to forsake the Lord until death - and keep the faith. All of those conquer death by faith in Jesus, that is the victory. And therefore if you die, that is the first death, you will be lead to Heaven and be with our Lord, and therefore the second death will not be even applicable to you, because that is only for the wicked.
Notice
For Christians, surely this is a message that should make you keep the faith and not to forsake our Lord. This is why we try to save people. This is why we try to save you from the One of Who made you Who warns us from Himself. This is His wish - to proclaim the Gospel. Like the brothers from Living Waters say: We all jumped out of a plane, but God warns that you have to pull the cord in order to land safely. Jesus is the cord, your lifeline, the Way to Life. Amen.
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| SHORTS: Doubts and Troubles - What happens to others?! |
Date: 2026-07-15
Before anything below is read. It is up to you to understand and check full context and conclusions based upon Scripture. If there are any references mentioned to Scripture, read the whole chapter, or rather the whole book.
When we talk about salvation through Jesus Christ, the non-repented - who have not studied the Word of God, always get to a particular question or being judgemental that God is not just. But be aware of that thought, it is sin already. God is Just. The question in particular or the judgemental background is composed like this:
- So everyone born before Christ's ministry goes to hell.
- Everyone who does not know that Christ ever existed goes to hell.
- The mentally incapabable go to hell, because they do not understand repentance.
- Babies or little children go to hell - as they do not know what sin is yet?
The Great Commandments
The first thing that comes to mind for me is, God is Just, and He created you.. He'd be millions and millions steps ahead of you in any direction. Meaning all the questions you have He already Judged - and God is Just. First and foremost; being evil is a condition of the heart.
Therefore the Greatest Command of God is, read Matthew 22:34-40: Jesus Replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind". But then Jesus says: And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
There is no Law against whom follow both or one of these commandments. So that takes care first two arguments.
Also read Romans 2:12-16:
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
Faith is very important to God, because not believing God is sin. Because then you accuse Him of being a liar. While He is Pure and Just. In the Old Testament you see that for instance Abraham was declared righteous by God because Abraham believed Him.
Do not mistake
For those who do not repent to Christ, they might interpret Romans 2:12-16 as a nice backdoor. "Love they neighbor like you love yourself" - may seem easy in your own selfrighteousness. Most seculars think they are good and worthy for Heaven because of their works. But they forget that this task and interpretation of what that Love is, is not seen through your eyes, but through God's Eyes and that how they are judged. The two kinds of love are guaranteed not the same because His Love is Spiritual and Pure and yours is polluted with worldly thinking. We know God the Father through the Son, and so you will see and understand His Righteousness and what He sees as Love. But if you gamble on your own selfrighteousnes...(I would not recommend it, I'd rather know God!). It is said by Jesus that not many go to Heaven even of those who said to believe in Him because not many will want to follow the Way, let alone a gentile trusting on his selfrighteousness and does not want to know God through Jesus.
The incapable
Well, even with our human minds, thinking about babies, children and the mentally incapable, the answer should be very simple... God is Righteous, how do you think He would judge!
A small note on the mentally incapable just to be clear. I refer to those people who have this condition by birth or accident, not by self-infliction like using drugs. Because the Lord sees that as sin. Also a drunk can be seen as a mentally incapable - but that is also self-inflicted. God is spiritual and if man willfully pollutes his mind, sin is at the door.
My Conclusion
God's judgement is ultimate and fair. And He is the only one who makes the rules. For Gentiles, for Christians, for Jews, for those who died before Christ and those who died after Christ. And Christ is the Judge of all. Amen.
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| SHORTS: Doubts and Troubles - Can I loose my salvation? |
Date: 2026-07-15
The word of God is to be studied by anyone who seeks salvation, Scripture is the only source of Truth. If you want to live forever in peace and harmony with God then check every reference and the whole story for Truth, because without it, nothing would make any sense. Scripture makes sense from beginning to end.
This is also something I have known not for no too long. Although it sounds relative, I have been in the real faith for about 4 years. Just to give you an idea. But unfortunately, it is possible to loose your salvation, but the only cause will be you.
Nobody, not even the devil can snatch you away from your salvation. But you have free will. To illustrate this, Jesus had deciples and up til the moment He said that He must die on the cross while not being guilty of sin. This was for most unacceptable and while being in the very presence of God (read Jesus is God), most of these deciples forsook Him, that is the ultimate sin.
See John 6:66 - (yes you read well, not a coincidence):
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed Him.
To put this in analog to the Christians after Pentecost - if you are saved you are indwelled by the Holy Spirit. Once you keep sinning and turn away from the Gospel, The Holy Spirit will probable have tried to stop you at first, but if your heart is persistent in turning away, it is quite the same as what these desciples did. The Holy Spirit leaves you, never to return. That is the Judgement of God.
For any Christian (saved) to stay Christian is keeping the faith, meaning praying and reading/studying the Word of God - and to perservere and endure.
My recommendation
Seek the (real) brothers and sisters in Christ. The real church is not a building. It is those who seek Truth and follow and have faith in Christ and who view Scripture as the only source of Truth. So brother or sister, keep the Faith. Amen.
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