15. Misused Terms – Temple, Jew, Bible Code

15. MISUSED TERMS – TEMPLE,

 ‘JEW’, ‘BIBLE CODE’.  

I. THE TEMPLE CONTINUED:

 A.  Read: 1 Corinthians 3:16-17: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” 

 6:19-20: “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (20) For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

 B. Missing Elements in the Second Temple: Urim ve Thummim, Ark of the Covenant, The Shekinah Glory, Holy Fire, Anointing Oil.

 C. Requirements for our Personal and Corporate Temple:

 1. Urim ve Thummim, Lights and Revelation:

Read: Ephesians 1:17-23.

             2. Ark of the Covenant: Read: Hebrews 9:4; 

Manna: Read: Exodus 16:31-34; Read: John 6:32-35;  

Aaron’s Rod That Budded: Read: Numbers 17: Hebrews 5:1-5.  

Ten Commandments: Read: Hebrews 10:16; Deuteronomy 10:2-5.  

            3. The Shekinah Glory: John 17: 1-5, 22-24; Revelation 21:10-11. 

            4. The Holy Fire: Read: Matthew 3:11; Acts 2:1-4;

Fire to consume the sacrifice: Read: 1Kings 18:23-24, 38.  Bodies for sacrifice: Romans 12: 1-2. 

            5. The Anointing Oil: Read: Exodus 30:22-33; Read: 1John 2:20, 27. 

II. A.  WHO IS A ‘JEW’?* 

            1. Read: Revelation 2:9; 3:9.  This warning to the Churches about “those who say they are Jews and are not” requires us to examine their claim.

             Short Answer: Read: Romans 2:28-29: “For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: (29) But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.”

 2. Read: Philippians 3:3: “For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.”

 3. Question: Who does the “Israeli” Knesset say is a “Jew”? 

             After pondering the question from 1948 to 1970, the Knesset, “Israel’s” law-making body, on March 10, 1970, enacted a law which determined that a Jew was one born of a Jewish mother or a convert to Judaism.”* *Burning Issues, Understanding and Misunderstanding the Middle East: A 40-year Chronicle.  Published by Americans for Middle East Understanding, New York, N.Y., 2007, p. 28.   DOES THIS MAKE THEM JEWS BIBLICALLY?

             A “Jewish mother” is defined as one born of a Jewish mother or a convert to Judaism.  Conversion to Judaism requires fleshly circumcision. 

 B. What does the Bible require for circumcision?* 

            1. Read: Deuteronomy 30:6: “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.”  Not just a token, but the reality.

             2. Read: Colossians 2:10-13: “And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

 (11) In Whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

             (12) Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead.

             (13) And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened (resurrected) together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses; …”

             3. Read: Galatians 5:6: “For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.” 

III. THE “BIBLE CODE”

Wickepedia definition: “The Bible code, also known as the Torah code, is a cipher alleged to exist within the texts, that when decoded form words and phrases demonstrating foreknowledge and prophecy. The study and results from this cipher have been popularized by the book The Bible Code.”

            It is also known as ESL, Equidistant Sequence Lettering, where alleged secret messages are found in the Hebrew Bible text by picking up letters at an equidistance, forward, backward, up, down, diagonal, etc.  This is being misused by some so-called “Prophets” to justify their interpretations of the Bible.

            It is false and originates from the Satanic practice of gematria, a product of Kabbala, the Jewish doctrines of witchcraft, satanism, and magic.

            Disregard, stay away from, and deny any interpretation or so-called “prophecy” based on the “Bible Code”.

 


* [RIC pp 196-202] 

* [For further study: Genesis 17:9-14, a ‘token’; Jeremiah 9:25-26; Ezekiel 44:9; Romans chapter 2; 1Corinthians 7:19.] 

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