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Worship Call 0810

Tuesday January 31, 2023

Good outranks the Law

Friends, our prophetic marker has been set!

Isaiah 11:11‭-‬12 It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea.

He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.

Jeremiah 31:37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

Song of Solomon 2:4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

In 70 AD Jerusalem finally fell to the mighty Roman army led by Titus after a long siege.

To commemorate the Roman victory over the Jewish rebellion an arch was erected in Rome known to this day as the Arch of Titus.

This famous arch depicts the fall of the Temple and its artifacts paraded in a processional described by the historian Josephus' in his account, "The Jewish War."

The arch of Titus stands to this day, a horrific monument to the defeat of the Jewish people.

Yet history and God have a way of inverting such things, since when the nation of Israel was reborn in 1948, the exact depiction of the Menorah on the arch of Titus was used as a symbol of Israel's rebirth.

While the Roman empire has long been vanquished the nation of Israel has remained and been resurrected despite utter defeat and decimation.

How could this tiny nation survive 2,000 years of dispersion and persecution?

A promise (Jeremiah 31) and a prophetic sign are indicated by this "banner to the nations" of Isaiah 11.

And just as the symbol of the menorah on the Roman victory arch has been resurrected to symbolize Israel's rebirth, this little nation of Israel is also a banner and a sign for us.

Israel is a monumental marker indicating our time in history (God's story) and the absolute surety of God's promises.

Her resurrection signals the time of the end, the last of the Last Days, and the soon coming of Messiah for His Bride.

Friends, the Roman empire expressed terrible power and pretension with persecution and plunder, appearing victorious for a season.

In these days of the final "Beast" system the enemy of our souls is also marching triumphantly corrupting culture and government and destroying righteous foundations.

Persecution of God's saints is increasing greatly and we may need serious endurance.

But we also have a "banner".

His banner over us is love, which endures all things, and never fails.

Your family in the Lord with much agape love,

George, Baht Rivka, Obadiah and Elianna (Going to Christian College in Dallas, Texas)

Thomasville, Georgia

And this is another fine day in the Lord

this week bible study and prayer meeting on Thursday starting at 6:30 prayer

§ 51.

A Third Sabbath Controversy With the Pharisees Over the Healing of a Man With a Withered Hand in a Synagogue

ON three other Later occasions controversies arise with the Pharisees concerning Sabbath observances.

John 9:1-34

Luke 13 10-21

Luke 14:1-24

John 7:20-24 Jesus refers to the miracle in John 5 and adds another arguments (circumcision on the sabbath) for his conduct on the sabbath

In that argument circumcision was to be performed on the eighth day and what happens if it falls on the sabbath?

Which law is to be broken?

The Law of the Sabbath or the Law of circumcision?

Mark 3:6 Here at some point near the sea of Galilee, there is already a plot to kill him, as some had wished to do in Jerusalem

The very prince of peace the one who is the Lord of the Sabbath the Religious leaders seek to destroy.

Mark 3:1–12 (ESV) — 1 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. 2 And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.

They followed to get an indictment.

But who was on trial here and who will ultimately have stand accused?

Luke 6:8 (ESV) — 8 But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come and stand here.”

And he rose and stood there.

There is a wider audience then just Jesus and the Pharisees.

Jesus knew their hearts even while others were aware of the their presence but may not be so aware of the why the Pharisees were there.

Almost like a conflict within the unseen realm.

Maybe the audience thought that the question was directed at them as they pondered but certainly the Pharisees knew that they themselves were being question and put on trial.

And as they stood in silence, the rage within their hearts were increasing with every word that Jesus spoke.

Matthew 12:11–12 (ESV) — 11 He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?

12 Of how much more value is a man than a sheep!

So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

καλόςa, ή, όν; καλῶςa: pertaining to a positive moral quality, with the implication of being favorably valued—‘good, fine, praiseworthy.’

Could it be that work is planting and harvesting a field?

Could it be that work means conducting business for a profit?

And could it be that the moral code of loving your neighbor and going the extra mile supersedes the restrictions placed upon each one.

Mark 3:4 (ESV) — 4 And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?”

But they were silent.

Mark 3:5 (ESV) — 5 And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.”

He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.