Why things happen the way they do.
My belief regarding the ultimate playwright.
Have you wondered why things happen the way they do?
I can understand why people suffer and die in wars. Wars are
man-made and man has only himself to blame. What I cannot understand is why
innocent women and children suffer and die in natural disasters. I have heard
the remark that if there is a God, why is this God so arbitrary and so
heartless. How can God be love?
As I believe the Judeo-Christian God is the one true God, I will
attempt to explain why things occur the way they occur with reference to the
Bible.
I believe that this God is the ultimate playwright. What is
happening in the universe is a vast play in which God, as original cause, is
simultaneously the producer, the director, the scriptwriter, the casting
director, the costume director, the sound manager, the props manager, and the
controller of every conceivable aspect of the play down to the minutest detail,
even every nuance and thought.
He even took upon himself to play the hero’s part in the
play. Unlike the traditional play, he takes the role of the audience. There is
no other audience except himself. The purpose of this play is for his pleasure.
The stage is the whole universe. The props range from items
as vast as the constellations to as small as the electron within the molecule
of oxygen you just breathed in.
The actors include all living beings, from the smallest
viral particle to the complex organism called man. Their role is scripted to
the finest detail. The actors think they have free will, but the reality is
that even the belief of having free will is scripted.
The plot appears mysterious. To put it simply, it involves
the creation of the species called man some of whom he chose to adopt into his
family. For these few, he would open their eyes of understanding to recognize
him as God the original cause and to believe that Yeshua is his son who died
and was resurrected. All the chosen ones will be enabled to obey him so that
they would be included into a composite whole with him as the head. The rest
would appear to disobey him but they are actually following his script to
disobey him. These would eventually be cast into the lake of fire.
The ultimate playwright is understood to be a family of
three personages. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. They are
pre-existent. They decided to produce this play for their own pleasure. The
Father (Adonai, YHVH) told the Son (Yeshua, Jesus) to create the stage for the
play. The stage is the four dimensions that contains the universe. He created
light which can and was resolved into mass (Einstein’s E=mC², the Big Bang
theory). Mass in the form of stars and constellations and galaxies were flung
into the space in the four dimensions.
At each stage of creation he made a value judgment that it was good. Why did he say so?
Perhaps he considered it good because he has scripted it as
such.
This playwright then selected one solar system out of many
millions, and selected one planet in this solar system to have the conditions
conducive to life for a certain span of time. In this planet, he created life
forms and created man in his own image.
I believe man is composed of three components, the physical
body, the mind (soul) and the spirit. Each spirit was created before the start
of the physical universe and is destined to last beyond the existence of the
presently existing four dimensions of length, breadth, height and time. Some of these were
selected right from the beginning to eventually become part of the ‘body’ of
the Son. Some never saw the light of day because their physical life terminated
prematurely as miscarriage. Some did not survive beyond childhood. Others lived
to old age. Each physical person has a role to play in this play. The players
are not aware that every event is scripted to the minutest detail. There is no
escape from the time line decided by the playwright.
He selected one person called Jacob and renamed him Israel
and all his descendents would be special to him. He decided to appear as one of
the actors in this race of people, as one of the descendents of David, the
second king of Israel. He selected several persons to predict future events.
These he called prophets. Because he wrote the script for the play, he is able
to reveal the future to these prophets. The records of the predictions were
collected in a library of separate books by different authors, assembled into
one volume called the Bible.
The main actors in this play include various characters
among many generations of the chosen people, the various kings and potentates
of the various nations of the world. The actors also included spirit beings
called angels, some he made to be on his side and others he made to oppose him.
No play would be complete without some bad guys and the worst of them all is
the chief of the opposing angels variously called Lucifer, devil, dragon,
serpent, and the accuser of the brethren. All others including a wizened
grandfather in the remote arctic tundra and the person currently reading this
discourse are also actors acting out their particular scripted part in the play.
There is no exception.
To make the play more interesting, he scripted wars and conquests like those of Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Roman Empire. To make the play even more interesting, he added natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and pestilences like the Great Plague and the Spanish Flu.
For his special selected people called the Jews, he
scattered them to the four corners of the world in the Diaspora and then
collected them back again into one nation in Israel. He chose to make an
appearance, being born to a virgin called Miriam and narrowly escaped death as
a baby. He also scripted the performance of miracles by himself during the last
three years of his short stage appearance of thirty-three years. What was
surprising of the playwright was the way he chose to die physically, in the
midst of condemned criminals, nailed to a tree. What was spectacular was his
resurrection after three days, appearing to many persons complete with nail
holes in his hands and feet and a gaping hole in his torso. On his ascension up
into the sky, he promised to send his counterpart, the Holy Spirit to dwell in
the chosen ones to point them to himself.
Also scripted is what would occur at the end of time. There would be a great battle in Megiddo between Israel and the forces led by the devil. Here, he would appear in the sky and vanquish the opponents of Israel. Eventually, there would be a new heaven and a new earth in which he will rule as King.
From God’s viewpoint, what he decides is considered good.
Because he scripted all that happens,
all that happens is good. Based on my criterion of moral justice, the death and
dismemberment of many school children in the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan is
unfair, unjust and cruel. But the fact that it happened, it must be good in the
opinion of God. I was initially astonished and outraged at this. How can he
claim that he is love?
The God kind of love for people is unconditional acceptance
of people as they are. When I view him as the ultimate playwright, it makes sense. Since he
scripted the behavior of everyone in the play it is obvious that he has
unconditional acceptance of every one of them in the role he has chosen for
them.
When I look from this point of view, the events of the world throughout history make sense. Especially when he claimed that his ways are not my ways and his thoughts are not my thoughts. Because he is almighty, I understand that it is not my will but his will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The ultimate playwright is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent, absolutely sovereign and is indeed awesome.
This description of Adonai appears unorthodox, however it can explain why things happen the way they do. One of the effects of believing this description is that it enables me to say amen all events in the past, present and future and rest fully on the promises of Yeshua secure in the belief that Adonai is absolutely in control.
Proof text from the Bible. King James version.
(My comments are in
purple)
Adonai’s nature is agape.
1 John 4:7-12
7 Beloved, let us love
one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and
knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not
knoweth not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested
the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the
world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not
that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so
loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God
at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is
perfected in us.
Love. NT:26
agape (ag-ah'-pay);
from NT:25; love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a
love-feast:
KJV - (feast of) charity ([-ably]), dear, love.
Adonai is the original cause.
Isa 43:10
10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have
chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither
shall there be after me.
Isa 41:4
4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the
beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Isa 43:13
13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand:
I will work, and who shall let it?
Isa 48:12
12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the
first, I also am the last.
Adonai is outside the created dimension of time.
Rev 10:5-6
5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the
earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are,
and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things
which are therein, that there should be time no
longer:
Adonai’s will and word are absolutely effective.
Isa 55:11
11 So shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in
the thing whereto I sent it.
He created light and good. Because he created everything, he also created darkness and evil.
Gen 2:9
9 And out of the ground made the LORD
God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the
tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Isa 45:4-7
4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have
even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known
me.
5 I am the
LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou
hast not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from
the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light,
and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Deut 32:39
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and
I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver
out of my hand.
Col 1:16-19
16 For by him were all things
created, that are in heaven, and that are in
earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities,
or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all
things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the
beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the
preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness
dwell;
Gen 41:25
25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to
do.
By granting choice to living
beings, Adonai created the consequence of these living beings sometimes
choosing to do evil instead of doing good.
Deut 30:19-20
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Prov 1:29
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose
the fear of the LORD:
Isa 66:4
4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them;
because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but
they did evil before mine eyes, and chose
that in which I delighted not.
Adonai creates the thoughts and intentions of everyone, even evil intentions.
Phil 2:12-13
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as
in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh
in you both to will and to do of his good
pleasure.
Heb 12:2
2 Looking unto Jesus the author
and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of
the throne of God.
1 Sam 16:13-16
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the
midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day
forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which
are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it
shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from
God
is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
1 Sam 16:23
23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from
God was upon Saul, that David took an
harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the
evil spirit departed from him.
Adonai created all things for his pleasure.
Rev 4:10-11
10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and
worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the
throne, saying,
11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for
thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and
were created.
Adonai created man in his own image.
Gen 1:27
27 So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created
he them.
Image. OT:6754
tselem (tseh'-lem);
from an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure,
especially an idol:
KJV - image, vain shew.
Adonai created man as spirit, soul and body.
1 Thess 5:23
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless
unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Adonai selects whom he wants to choose to adopt into his household before the foundation of the world.
Eph 1:1-23
1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to
the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from
the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 According as he hath chosen us in
him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath
made us accepted in the beloved.
7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and
prudence;
9 Having made known unto us the
mystery of his will, according to his
good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might
gather together in one all things in Christ,
both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according
to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own
will:
12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first
trusted in Christ.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of
truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye
were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the
redemption of the purchased possession, unto the
praise of his glory.
15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord
Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you
in my prayers;
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding
being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and
what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to
usward who believe, according to the working of his
mighty power,
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the
dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and
dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in
that which is to come:
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to
be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is his body, the
fullness of him that filleth all in all.
Eph 2:10
10 For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God
hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Eph 2:13-22
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are
made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath
broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of
commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both
unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off,
and to them that were nigh.
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto
the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners,
but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the
household of God;
20 And are built upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief
corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth
unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded
together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Rom 9:10-24
10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that
calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I
hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I
will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth,
but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I
raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be
declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy,
and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who
hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing
formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same
lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another
unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power
known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to
destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on
the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Adonai decides to bring about the Medo-Persian Empire, the Greek Empire of Alexander the Great and the Roman Empire in that order.
Dan
7:1-28 (Prediction of Daniel at about 539 BC) (This contains predictions
about the nations following the Babylonian Empire: the Medo-Persian Empire, the Greek Empire and the Roman Empire.)
7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel
had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and
told the sum of the matters.
2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four
winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
3 And four great beasts came up from the sea,
diverse one from another.
4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings
thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon
the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. (Babylonian Empire)
5 And behold another beast, a second, like
to a bear, ( and it raised up itself on
one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and
they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. (Medo-Persian
Empire)
6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like
a leopard, which
had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads;
and dominion was given to it. (Greek Empire of
Alexander the great.)
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, (The
Roman Empire) dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in
pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from
all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten
horns.
Daniel 8:20-21
20
The ram which thou
sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.
21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. (Alexander
the great)
22 Now that being broken, whereas four
stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his
power.
Adonai appoints rulers.
Rom 13:1-3
13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God:
the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
Adonai chose Jacob (Israel) to be father of his chosen
people.
Gen 28:12-16
12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth,
and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and
descending on it.
13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the
LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the
land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
14 And thy seed shall be as the
dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the
east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed (Yeshua,
Jesus) shall all the families of the earth
be blessed.
15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all
places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will
not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely
the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
Adonai decides to exile the Jews and to send them back.
Deut 28:36 (Prediction of
Moses in 1,300 BC)
36 The LORD shall bring thee,
and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a
nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt
thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
Jer 29:10-14
10 For thus saith the LORD, That after
seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform
my good word toward you, in causing you to return to
this place.
11 For I know the thoughts that I
think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give
you an expected end.
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto
me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search
for me with all your heart.
14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will
turn away your captivity, and I will gather you
from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD;
and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried
away captive.
Neh 1:8-9 (Nehemiah
oversees the return of the Jews to Jerusalem in 445 BC)
8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst
thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among
the nations:
9 But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do
them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto
the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
Neh 2:1-6
2:1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth
year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine,
and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance
sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I
was very sore afraid,
3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why
should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers'
sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make
request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
5 And I said unto the king, If it
please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou
wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of
my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by
him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
Adonai decides to scatter the Jews and gather them back again.
Deut 28:49-53 (Prediction
of Moses in 1,300 BC)
49 The LORD shall bring a nation
against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle
flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard
the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: (The Romans in AD70)
51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit
of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either
corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until
he have destroyed thee.
52 And he shall besiege thee in all
thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou
trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates
throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh
of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in
the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
Deut 28:64-65
64 And the LORD shall scatter
thee among all people, from the one end of
the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods,
which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. (the Diaspora)
65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither
shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a
trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
Deut 30:3-7
3 That then the LORD thy God
will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither
the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of
heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he
fetch thee:
5 And the LORD thy God will bring
thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it;
and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the
heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul, that thou mayest live.
7 And the LORD thy God will put all
these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted
thee.
Ezek 37:11-12 (Prediction
of Ezekiel, between 593 and 571 BC.)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the
whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is
lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out
of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
(The re-establishment of the nation of
Israel in 1948)
Adonai’s son is Yeshua (Jesus), born of a virgin named Miriam (Mary).
Luke 1:26-33
26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from
God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27 To a virgin
espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house
of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that
art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and
cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou
hast found favour with God.
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring
forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall
give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and
of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Yeshua is Ha-Mashiyach (the Messiah).
John 1:40-41
40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew,
Simon Peter's brother.
41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have
found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the
Christ.
John 4:25-26
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called
Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
Yeshua is God.
John 20:26-30
26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas
with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and
said, Peace be unto you.
27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but
believing.
28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast
believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his
disciples, which are not written in this book:
Ex 3:13-14
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel,
and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and
they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children
of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
John 8:23-24
23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I
am from above: ye are of this world; I am not
of this world.
24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye
believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
John 18:4-6
4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went
forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye?
5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas
also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they
went backward, and fell to the ground.
God. NT:2316
theos
(theh'-os); of uncertain affinity; a
deity, especially (with NT:3588) the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a
magistrate; by Hebraism, very:
KJV - exceeding, God, god [-ly,
-ward].
Lord. NT:2962
kurios (koo'-ree-os); from kuros (supremacy); supreme in
authority, i.e. (as noun) controller; by implication, Mr. (as a respectful
title):
KJV - God, Lord, master, Sir.
Adonai is Love. The God kind of love is unconditional acceptance and benevolence.
1 John 4:8
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:16
16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to
us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in
love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Love. NT:26
agape (ag-ah'-pay);
from NT:25; love, i.e. affection or benevolence;
specially (plural) a love-feast:
KJV - (feast of) charity ([-ably]), dear, love.
Adonai’s ways are not my ways and Adonai’s thoughts are not my thoughts.
Isa 55:8-9
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Adonai’s will be done. What happens and will happen is already written. That is why scripture is called scripture.
Luke 11:2
2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in
heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Rev 17:16-17
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the
whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn
her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his
will, and to agree, and give their
kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Prov 16:33
33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Matt 4:1-11
4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is
written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
Because any and every event is scripted by Jesus, He can forgive everyone.
Luke 23:33-34
33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they
do.
I rest fully on the promises of Yeshua.
Rom 8:28
28 And we know that all things work together for good
to them that
love God, to them who are the called according
to his purpose.
Matt 11:27-30
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son,
but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to
whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me,
all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and
I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me;
for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest
unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Heb 4:3-13
3 For we
which have believed
do enter into
rest, as he said, As I have sworn in
my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the
works were finished
from the foundation of
the world.
4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And
God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom
it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a
time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them
rest,
then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a
rest to
the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he
also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the
same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged
sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all
things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him
with whom we have to do.
Rom 8:1
8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ
Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Walking after the flesh is to believe that I have to obey all the ten commandments all the time. Otherwise I will be condemned and Adonai will consider me unacceptable to Him.
Walking after the spirit is to believe that no matter what I do or don't do, I am acceptable to Adonai. This is because Jesus has already borne on my behalf all condemnation and punishment for my bad deeds.
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