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Under the fig Tree?
A warning of Conditions!
Jesus went to the fig tree to find fruit to meet His hunger, but he found only leaves and cursed and it died!
There are many illustrations that we can get from this account, one being that as believers, if we fail to produce fruit we could loose our Salvation since we are all commanded to give our testimony when the opportunity arises?
On the other hand we need faith in our lives to travel, to stay put, to be different from the world who risk or become stubborn and live by their sight and not that of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 21:18-22, John 14:12, Acts 10:20, Romans 4:20, 14:23, James 1:6.
Happy and a blessed New Year 2024.
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Glory to God Always!
No matter what are circumstances may be?
Much of the Middle-East has cancelled Christmas, but as believers in our hearts we cannot, but we must give thanks to God for sending to us His one and only son that we might be saved through Him!
The shepherds went to investigate the birth of the Messiah and they left praising God, at the joy that they were chosen for this moment!
Yesterday hundreds of believers died in Nigeria for celebrating Christmas, the many who survived will keep giving glory to Jesus for their salvation and we must too keep going, knowing that the world outside the Ekklesia is lost in their own conceptions of ideals, politics, falseness and other?
Luke 2:16-20, 1 Corinthians 2:7, Ephesians 1:14, 1 Peter 4:11.
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The Shepherds!
Out in the fields….
Probably under a tree or bush with their sheep for some protection from the elements, they were asleep and where startled by the flash and the appearance of the Angles?
Today that might be termed a UFO or some weather event, but this was the announcement to these men that the Messiah had come into the world and they had been chosen, since Jesus ancestor David had been a shepherd before he became a great King of Israel!
Luke 2:8-18, Psalm 148:1-2, Isaiah 9:6, Revelation 5:11.
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The Magi!
They saw the star of Jacob.
The prophecies of the Prophet Daniel had now come true in Elam-Persia and the wise men set out on their mission from the three great nations of the Earth to follow that star to Jerusalem, where they knew that the King of Kings was to be born into our World.
Tradition places them at the end of the Christmas story, but they had traveled over a two year period to reach our Lord and they by tradition may have come from Ethiopia, China and India to present these precious gifts to the King child?
Numbers 24:17, Matthew 2:1-10, Revelation 22:16.
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Registration!
From Roman times until Now?
Before the Romans colonized the Middle-East and the Holy lands, Israel registered only themselves and no one outside their ethnic community, But when Roman arrived the first serious census of the people in the region was undertaken and this has remained a part of western society to this day.
Governments want everyone in their respective nations to have a static place of residence and are not in favor of people moving from place to place, but the world still has many nomadic peoples and so they use A to B/Z to register them!
Ezekiel 13:9, Luke 2:1-2.
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From the Bedouin to Smuggers?
There has and always be big bucks in the smuggling and trafficking business for people who chance their luck in believing they can undermine the laws of all lands?
In this new situation developing, the Bedouin might be accused of being one of the causes, since they move about but in recent years this has changed for them!
Hebrews 9:26, 10:10, 3 John 1:1-3, Revelation 3:20.
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Caravans
Traders, travellers, tribes, Danites, Ishmael.
U.S. Republican politicians are always, using this illustration to provoke anger about the immigration issues on the Mexican border and one like to refer to the hoards in the caravan convoy, which most sensible people know is a downright lie?
Today there are still traders in the Sahel of N-Africa trading everything from spices to slaves, even some Gypsies are involved in serious exploitation of woman and the vulnerable, but this is equally the same for the gorgers.
Genesis 37:25, Job 6:18-19, Isaiah 21:13, Matthew 8:20, Luke 9:58.
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Under the bushes!
Hagar.
God provided, when Abraham had to ask her to leave.
The child was provided for from under the bush, a place of despair for Hagar. Even this child of human flesh and will was still cared for?
To understand the full meaning of this account, must include the New Testament being fulfilled!
Genesis 16:1-16, 21:8-17, 25:12, Galatians 4:21-25.
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Gods fruit, our Fruit?
A summertime of sharing our Faith!
The question is will we and should we, but we must since this is how the Ekklesia is growing world-wide and we as believers cannot make excuses or delay Gods will for us.
God created trees that bore seed and they were sown so that they could spread, we in light of Jesus’ salvation are seeds that will grow and spread our faith to others who are lost around us, wither in our own communities or outside?
Genesis 1:11-12, Matthew 13:23, Philippians 4:17.
Be serious this summer time to make the opportunities and see God moving
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A tented Peoples!
May people do not understand that in times past many travellers lived in Tents?
We are told in the Holy Bible that Jabal was the first leader to live in tents. Genesis 4:20.
Abraham left in a train of animals wagons and tents to go by faith to the promised land and so many peoples have lived in tents or temporary shelters as well as caravan or covered wagons.
The tent is a feature throughout the scriptures, worth a good bible study for your self. Song of Songs 1:5.
And last of all the tent is mentioned in the book of Hebrews 11:9-10.
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