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The Door to the Kingdom of God
Posted : 14 Oct, 2011 10:47 AM
The Door to the Kingdom of God
Dear brothers,
On the doorposts of some Jewish homes, you will find a small container/case. This case is commonly known as a Hebrew word �mezuzah� (this word means in Hebrew �doorpost�), because it is placed upon the doorposts of the house. You can see mezuzah on the picture above. The mezuzah is a constant reminder of God�s presence and God�s commandments. But do you remind yourself constantly of God�s presence and God�s commandments? The God of Israel commanded Israelites to do that.
The commandment to place mezuzot on the doorposts of our houses is derived from a passage commonly known as the Shema:
�Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
�And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-9
In that passage, God commands us to keep His words constantly in our minds and in our hearts, by writing them on the doorposts of our house. On the back of the scroll, a name of God is written. The scroll is then rolled up placed in the case, so that the first letter (the letter Shin) of the Name of God (Shaddai) is visible. Shaddai, one of the names of God, also serves here as an acronym for Shomer Daltot Yisrael, "Guardian of Israel's doors".
The scroll must be handwritten. The case and scroll are then nailed or affixed to the right side doorpost on an angle. Every time Jews pass through a door with a mezuzah on it, they kiss their fingers and touch them to the mezuzah, expressing love and respect for God and His commandments and reminding yourselves of the commandments contained within them.
So, every time Jews enter their homes, they see the mezuzah and are reminded of God�s commandments and God�s presence in their lives. This God told us His name: He is the God of Israel.
So, God said that His name is the Guardian of Israel's doors. His name is Shaddai. You should always remember that.
Do you remember who is the God of Israel? His nature is LOVE and justice, holiness. Have you a difficult time reconciling - God's love versus. God's righteousness? God's love requires God's justice. God would have been completely just and loving in destroying all of us for our disobedience/crimes/ to Him. He judges rapists and this is His love toward the raped children. It is only through His extraordinary love and grace that we are allowed into His presence. Because we all are criminals. God imputed us the righteousness of His divine and holy son who died on the cross and took the sin of the world. That�s why we are holy and able to approach God in our prayer and in afterlife.
The Bible says about the people who were destroyed in the Canaan/the Promised Land:
"It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm the oath which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (Deuteronomy 9:5)
How "wicked" could those people have been? How about killing their own sons and daughters by burning them in sacrifices to their gods:
"You shall not behave thus toward the LORD your God, for every abominable act which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. (Deuteronomy 12:31)
So we see that these people are not quite as innocent as you would like you to believe. For these reasons, God ordered the destruction of the peoples whom the Israelites dispossessed. For the same reasons, God is going to destroy Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Gaza and Jordan. Today you know the answer to your question. God�s judgment will judge these Muslim states. That�s why again the Promised Land/the Holy Land, given by God to Israel, will be taken from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine and given to Jews again for their possession during the millennium reign of Jesus on our planet earth.
Jesus Himself addressed the issue:
"Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name,
and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'
And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you;
DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'"
(Matthew 7:22-23)
Thus if Ismail Haniya and Muslims will violate the HOLY laws of God then they will be destroyed by the God of Israel.
It is God�s LOVE and JUSTICE will judge them for their terrorist activity, rockets fired to Israel from Gaza and Palestine.
God�s mercy gives them chance to be reconciled with God and people and God�s justice will judge him for his crimes.
What about you?
Are you saved?
Were you born of God?
Believe in the Son of God, repent, abandon your sins, confess them to God in a prayer and start LOVING people. Then He will adopt you and give you a right to your FREE entrance to the Kingdom of God.
:peace:
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