Today, there are many that say we all
worship the same God, although we use different names. This is the work of Satan. Although our Lord and Savior is known by
several names, none of them is the name of a false god. The Lord God Jehovah,
the creator of the heavens and the earth as well as the entire universe is a
jealous God. He is not willing to share
His place with any of the man made gods. What an insult; to call Him by the
name of a god made with hands that cannot speak, cannot see and cannot hear. I
will admit that you might get an answer if, from the depths of your heart, you
cried out "does anyone out there love me?", but you had better check
out who answers. Don't forget, Satan can
shape shift, and is the great deceiver.
There are many "religions"
in the world today. The major religions are Judaism/Christianity, Islam,
Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto and Confucianism.
There are many smaller, and mostly tribal religions. Except for the Universalistic/Syncretistic groups and organizations such as the World
Council of Churches, there are not many trying to combine these different
religions. The Bible tells us that in
the future, at the end of this dispensation or age, a One World Religion will
be set up, by the false prophet.
There are four
groups, or sects, of Judaism today: the Orthodox, the Conservative, the
Reformed and the Christian. As we now
see, these four groups of professing Jews and Christians prove the promise of
God to Abraham; that his seed would be without number. Today, there are over 2.5 billion professing
Jewish people which includes all four groups.
The next closest are the Islamists, with 1.3 billion followers.
A book I have
recently read, titled The World Religions[1],
lists Judaism as a non Christian religion.
We can therefore understand the world's confusion about what is Judaism
and what is not. We can see that they
are right in one way only: Judaism is not part of Christianity, Christianity is
a part of Judaism: always was, is now and always will be[2]. Even a cursory reading of what Jesus said
verifies this: "Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled"[3], "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the
prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill."[4]. This book also
refers to Christianity and Islam as daughter religions of Judaism. It shows a real misunderstanding of who God
is. To try to establish a relationship
between the God of the Bible and the god of the cult of Islam is blasphemy. Yahweh, the Hebrew deity, is the creator God
who made everything, who always has been, is now and always will be. Allah, the god of Islam, is the pagan moon
god, worshiped by Mohammed's parents. It
always amazes me to see how people can look at the historical records and come
up with such off the wall conclusions.
There is only one true and living God.
During the millennium[5], the
combined religion of Christianity and Judaism will become one harmonious people
and reign in Jerusalem . When the Jews finally recognize Jesus as
their Messiah, they will realize that Christianity is really a part of
Judaism. Many Christians realize that
this is the case. The Jews and
Christians of today are so close, and yet so far away. Most Christians don't realize that they are
adopted Jews. There are Rabbi's that for hundreds of years say that Jesus was
the Messiah to the gentiles, whereas the Jewish Messiah has yet to come.
All Jews will be Messianic after the
second coming of Jesus.
Chrisraelies ? Christalites ?
Jebrews? Hebrewanity? How about we just call ourselves children of
the One True and Living God. The world
belonged to God when He created it, is now, and always will be. This is another
reason to side with Israel
in disputes over the land mass that God gave to them. We, being His people, should honor what He
has established.
David Flusser, a teacher at the Hebrew University
in the 1960's said: about Jesus the Jew, that every word that came from his
mouth had its source in the Torah. “As a
religious Jew,” said Rabbi Dr. Eugene
Korn, “I believe that Christians believe
in many of the fundamentals of Judaism. So religiously there is every reason to
have better relations. “Why does the Messiah tarry? When will
He come?” These were questions which continually agitated young Rabbi Leopold Cohn, D.D.'s mind. One day, while poring over a volume of
the Talmud, he came upon the following citation: “The world will stand six
thousand years. There will be two thousand years of confusion, two thousand
years under the law, and two thousand years of the time of the Messiah.” Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, one of the
most revered rabbis in history, named the Messiah as Yehoshua[6] (
the Hebrew word for Jesus, which means salvation).
The current movement to combine
Christianity and Islam is an abomination in the Lord's eyes. This is known as Chrislam. Since there is only one True and Living God;
He will not share His glory with a false god of any kind.
One thing we should all keep in mind:
the Messiah Jesus (Yehoshua Ha-Mashiach) is the only one who offers salvation
from our sins. There is no other
religion that has someone who suffered and died for you, rose again on the
third day and now offers the only path to Heaven: price paid, free of charge
and with no works necessary. Works are
not followed by salvation, salvation is followed by works, to bring glory to God.
At
Jesus' return, all will recognize him.
Isaiah 45:23 "I have
sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall
not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear."
Romans 14:11 "For it
is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to
me, and every tongue shall
confess to God."
Philippians 2:10
"That
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven,
and things in earth, and things under the earth;"
Acts
4:12 "Neither is there salvation in any other:
for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved."
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