Jun 242017
 
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               The Song of Songs has often been looked upon as a strange little book and many over the centuries have wondered why it is even in the scriptures.  It was even disputed somewhat as late as 90 AD, at the Council of Jamnia.  As for the time of its composition dates range from about 980 BC all the way down to the late date of 220 BC.  It is also a book that seems to have many interpretations that differ so much that many just pass it over to avoid the problems and its flowery language.  It does seem to have about 4 main interpretations and these I will list below:

*It is an allegory where the groom/prince represents God and his love for his bride Israel.  Many educated Jews have held this position for generations and there is no doubt that Israel is often presented as a bride to God, wayward or loyal. (Jeremiah 3:20, Isaiah 54...) and some will give elaborate interpretations for each verse.

*Related to the above is the position that Songs is an allegory portraying the love of Yeshua Christ for his bride the church. (Revelations 21:2-11).  

*Some hold a position that it is portraying, in extended metaphor, the love of God/Christ for the human soul, of each individual.

*Some say that it is simply the poetic meetings between Solomon and a Shulamite maiden, put into flowery language, and nothing more..

These are some common views held and sometimes they are found mixed but what if the book is multi-dimensional, in the sense that God designed it through various writers to touch on many things or to point to many things.  I think Song of Songs teaches that love is higher than materialism. Note the the second verse…where “wine” represents (?) material things.  This possibly indicates a design like the Psalms, where the very first psalm illustrates the two paths: following God or you can follow Evil, thus setting the tempo for the rest of the Psalms? This is something to think about.

pastor zomok

May 252017
 
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Although we must avoid giving in to worldly activities or running with the crowd we must not be overly rigid either. I am sometimes finding that Christians are being closed minded and not thinking, even condemning other believers for differing opinions on secondary issues. I myself have been condemned by other Christians (?) because I point out how “Hell Doctrines” are disproved, and/or I disagree with the general “endtimes” teachings…etc.. Note the inspired words of Paul, on several opinions, in Romans 14-

“But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. 2 One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs. 3 Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 4 Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand. 5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. 6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord: and he that eateth, eateth unto the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, unto the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself. 8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. 10 But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God. 11 For it is written,

As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow,
And every tongue shall confess to God.

Pastor Zomok

Aug 182015
 

GODs PERFECT SPIRITUAL PLAN of salvation …a biblical understanding

Let’s see what God says from the bible: We need to understand spiritually, God is spirit.

In the beginning was GOD, from everlasting to everlasting, the Almighty Father.

Let us look at what GOD teaches us. Jesus Christ before creation atoned for the sins of who he will save in all time. When God created the world it was eternal, however when Adam and Eve disobeyed God, sin took place and creation became cursed, therefore death entered the world. In fact the first death came to an animal due to their transgression and they became clothed to hide their nakedness.

We know perfectly well, Gods perfect law on sin. Any and all sin is punishable by death. This is the beginning of the salvation plan that God determined before creation; else there would be no purpose to life.

Now we know perfectly well that all men are sinful and lust after the flesh and are condemned to die, unless he or she becomes saved by God.

So what does the world theology and christianity prevalently preach? In days of old satans catholic church taught you become saved if you are a church member, confess your sins to the priest and part with your wealth. In today’s churches many have differing self-made salvation plans and these are sprinkling of water, water baptism, being a member of the church and then mostly with an ‘altar call’ where he/she accept the Lord and then become members and are ‘reborn’ and ‘saved’ This is all a lie.

Churches pick a verse here and there and say ‘confess your sins’ or something like merely believe in Jesus Christ and you are saved…, for even ‘our faith’ is works!   We must understand carefully what we as men believe and call faith; which is unlike the biblical believe and faith!

Biblically GOD does all the saving, we are saved by the Grace of God and not any work we do.

Biblically no man nor woman truly KNOWS whether he or she is truly saved, all else is a lie as we do not know the mind of God, its blasphempous to do so.  So how do we actually become saved?

God has set one condition to becoming saved and that is we must come under the hearing of the word.

Well, we know God loves us, however at any some stage in our life, of some who are chosen before time, God causes us to call on Him. IF God takes mercy on the man or woman, he or she is condemned to death in that instant and the soul dies, and in that instant you receive a new soul; which when we study scripture reveals the second of only 2 mysteries not taught to us in scripture, is that the new soul sinneth not.

However, as we still have our mortal bodies we still lust after the flesh and likely will still commit sin, however the indwelling Holy Spirit will convict us and slowly surely we walk towards becoming holy.

God also teaches perfectly the moment you become saved ‘He writes His laws on your heart’…..

No not one truly knows whether he/she is saved, however because we enter a personal relationship with God we find ourselves loving God, obeying his laws and increasingly becoming aware of how we can serve him. When we do become saved by God, then we are also able to believe that Jesus came, died and rose again, AND we receive the Faith of Christ, then we can say we believe and have faith, which is not from us but from Jesus…….Amen to that.

Something else happens when we truly become saved, …and as we not know Gods mind, neither boast anyone they do, we don’t truly know we are saved but we receive another great gift from God and that is HOPE. We also rejoice as if we are saved it is eternal, none are lost, knowing that even your future sins are forgiven, thus if you are truly saved you wish not to grieve the holy spirit and do all in your power not to sin anymore….

We know sadly most christians trust their churches, their leaders, their doctrines, their false gospels, and their ‘beliefs’ that they are surely saved or reborn and most revelations teaches that many (actually most) christians will perish by death with all the others. It’s all in the bible every word. We understand that only about 200 million people from Adam to the last day of judgment day are actually saved in this salvation time of just over 13000 years.

So what must I do, well first trust the bible alone, love God above all things,  God says come to me ‘with a broken and contrite heart’ and pray pleadingly for mercy on your soul….

God the Father and Jesus the holy spirit loves you more that any man can consider or know…. AMEN