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Monday, September 9, 2024

GRACE / UNITY THROUGH MESSIAH vs. THE FOOLISH SHEPHERD

 

GRACE – UNITY THROUGH MESSIAH vs. THE FOOLISH SHEPHERD

By Doug Krieger


There is a pernicious tendency—due to the insipid quest for control within fallen man—which incessantly raises its ugly head among the shepherds of the sheep of His flock.  I’d like to address this ubiquitous malady in its immediate and prophetic commentary as it pertains to the prophet Zechariah’s amazing address of the same—this may surprise you. 

I don’t expect “commentary agreement” on my exegesis but I’ll be more than satisfied if you get the drift of what I feel the Holy Spirit’s bearing witness in my spirit that we’re on to something here that has major consequence at the “end of time” for the people of God—both Judah (the Jewish Nation) and Ephraim (those among the nations who have entered into Covenant through Yeshua’s Person and Work).

Today’s Judah/Jewish people are seemingly more divided than ever before due to a host of issues—primarily, today, centered on the current distress, wars, hostages, etc., let alone how to address the flagrant rise of anti-Semitism throughout the globe.  Simultaneously, these issues of “domestic division” afflict all the “people of the Book”—namely, those who claim membership in the Commonwealth of Israel who were once non-citizens but who through Messiah have been joined teleologically[i] to the “Israel of God” becoming joint-heirs through the Jewish Carpenter. 

Dr. John Walvoord (past president of Dallas Theological Seminary) once said that the book of Zechariah presented the most stereoscopic eschatology of virtually any book in the entire Bible; rivaling the Revelation extracted from the Isle called Patmos.  Specifically, Zechariah 11-14 speaks in immediate and futuristic implications regarding the Almighty’s dealings with His people—and does so in no uncertain terms.  Our focus resides within the peculiar and rather open-ended reflections concerning shepherding the flock of God either with the “Two Staffs” of the Great Shepherd of the Sheep or via the Foolish Shepherd’s “three shepherds” who await their fate—cutting off!

Inserted within these interpretive ambiguities is the redemptive price of Messiah’s sacrifice and ultimate, I affirm, judgment upon these three shepherds and their ring leader, if you would, the Worthless Shepherd (Zech.11:17).

On the one hand, Zechariah 11:4-17, speaks regarding the differences between the "two staffs" and the dismissal of the "three shepherds" during a 30-day time frame (one month). This is a profound prophecy indeed!

Saturday, June 29, 2024

God's Eternal Purpose Unveiled by Gian Luca Morotti

Does God have a plan for uniting and reconciling Jews and Gentiles? 

https://www.amazon.com/Commonwealth-Israel-Eternal-Purpose-Unveiled/dp/B0D6J5LB5H


As confusion over the place of the Jews escalates, learn why the “mystery” revealed to Paul holds the key to one of the most volatile issues of our day. 

As Christ came on the seen there was a pre-existing “enmity” based on a “mutual dislike of each other’s customs.” But was reconciliation part of “the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Eph. 3:11)? Morotti’s book, Called to a Holy Pilgrimage explored how the Jewish people regathered to the land of Israel according to the prophetic scriptures—while still in their unbelief. Yet according to the Amplified Version, God would “make plain [to everyone] the plan of the mystery [regarding the uniting of believing Jews and Gentiles into one body] which [until now] was kept hidden through the ages in [the mind of] God who created all things” (Ephesians 3:9).

Gian Luca exposes how “Stigmatic Theology” presents “a deformed view of the "whole counsel of God” and creates a “glaring impediment to the Almighty’s plan and purpose wrought by the blood of the cross in making the two (Jews and Gentiles) – ‘one new man – so making peace’ (Ephesians 2:15).”

Gian Luca Morotti

Gian Luca Morotti holds a degree in Security Management and a Bachelor in Biblical Studies in Hebraic Heritage. He currently serves as member of the International Board of Ebenezer Emergency Fund International (EEFI) and as chairman of Ebenezer Operation Exodus Israel. He is also a board director of the Commonwealth of Israel Foundation (COIF). 

See details at Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Commonwealth-Israel-Eternal-Purpose-Unveiled/dp/B0D6J5LB5H

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

THE BLOOD OF YOUR COVENANT — by Doug Krieger, Chair - COIF

Headline article from the Spring 2024 Commonwealth of Israel Foundation quarterly newsletter. 
Doug Krieger, Chair - COIF

It’s time for some theological clarity, commentary and devotional. There are few Messianic Scriptures from the Hebrew text which are alluded to and/or directly quoted in all four gospelsso, the passages from Zechariah 9:9-10 are altogether poignant, laced with overt prophetic fulfillment and found in Matthew 21:5; Mark 11:7, 9; Luke 19:38; John 12:15, to wit:

  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey” (Zech. 9:9)



 Allow me to pause here for Messiah’s First Coming wrought us so great a SALVATIONyes, His Triumphal Entry on Nissan 10 (so-called “Palm Sunday”—which will occur this year on April 18, 2024 with Passover on April 22contrariwise, Easter will occur on March 31, 2024 with Palm Sunday on March 24, 2024). Nisan 10 matches the same date on the Hebrew Sacred Calendar as the choosing of the spotless lamb on that first Passover4 days before it was slain (Exodus 12:1-11). Moreover, it was on Nissan 10 the very day the children of Israel crossed over the Jordan River into the Good Land (Joshua 4:19) and the day when Ezekiel saw the vision of the Holy City, the Holy District as found in Ezekiel 40:1-2—viz. “. . . at the beginning of the year [religious Rosh Hashanah], on the tenth day of the month . . ...”

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Why Bible-believing Christians have a heart for Israel

 

EXCERPT: “FROM THE RIVER TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH” – Zechariah 9:10b - By Doug Krieger Chair, COI Foundation

Why Bible-believing Christians have a heart for Israel
(from free Winter 2023-2024 Newsletter)
What we are advocating is an eschatological (prophetic) SEA CHANGE wherein our Catholic-Reform understanding of what constitutes Israel is void of Jews wherein the True Israel of God is constituted by adherence to One Olive Tree. Furthermore, and although well-meaning brethren among Evangelical
Dispensationalists wish the Jews well in their “separate plan” versus the Church’s plan even to the extent that there is one “wife of Jehovah” for Old Testament saints and Jews in general, and the Bride of Christ for New Testament saints, aka Christians, wherein “Jacob’s Trouble” is a “Jewish problem” and the “Valley of Dry Bones” in Ezekiel 37 is reserved for “Jews only” is flat-out theologically wrongheaded!
No, “Jacob’s Problem” is OUR MUTUAL PROBLEM and the Valley of Dry Bones—if ever Judah and Ephraim needed reviving—is just as much Ephraim’s Revival as it is Judah’s, to wit: “Son of man, these bones are the WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’ Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel . . . Again, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions. Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’ Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand” (Excerpts, Ezk. 37).

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

THREE PROPHETIC WARS

 Oracle of Damascus 

Gog-Magog 

Armageddon Campaign

By Doug Krieger


God’s prophetic forecasts cannot and should not be implicated in that the Almighty knows all things (past, present and future—because He is God); however, this does NOT prejudge blame upon his forethought/foreknowledge where even the most horrific massacres wrought by fallen humanity are known of Him.  What we are witnessing today (October, 2023) concerning the carnage taking place in Israel/Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East, and in places like Ukraine, are fraught with man’s inhumanity toward man; notwithstanding, all deception and evil are instigated and sourced in the thoughts and fleshly pursuits of “earthlings” at the behest, convenience, and connivance of the Evil One—Satan.

            Some, like the French philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre (an existentialist and Marxist), concluded cir. WW II, he did not believe in God’s existence but most definitely affirmed the Devil’s dastardly presence in the flesh.[i]  Indeed, there is blatant “good and evil”—all compromise with nuanced relativity and balance is extinguished as perhaps the worst massacre (certainly the most filmed due to phone cameras) in modern history was witnessed by the world near Gaza in Israel proper.

            Blaming God (determinism)[ii] for all of man’s misfortunes is nigh an incurable disease of the natural man who thrice has been “given over” by the Almighty—yielding to the corruption of humanity’s own free will, coupled with their deadened consciences, “. . . to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting—being filled with all unrighteousness . . . moving from heterosexual sin – then given over to homosexual sin – and “anything goes (e.g., bestiality—Romans 1:24, 26, 28).   

            Coming to grips with one’s own disobedience—acknowledging one’s predisposition to evil (i.e., “owning it”) rarely finds itself on fallen humanity’s radar.  The Devil’s modus operandi normally centers on “big picture” items (e.g., World Wars) but he needs little help to accomplish his acts of barbarism and annihilation since sin’s poison (aka, “in my flesh dwells no good thing”—Rom. 7:18) is ubiquitous among the human race.  Notwithstanding, and all the more, the Deliverer is into deliverance to all “dead in their trespasses and sin” (Eph. 2:1)—“For by grace are you saved through faith and not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8-9).


           

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Commonwealth of Israel Foundation 2023 Summer Newsletter is Live!

 

Read full Newsletter here

Read segment of article by Doug Krieger:

FROM QAHAL TO EKKLESIA

The Septuagint Version of the Hebrew Bible (cir. 200 BC) was translated by Hebrew scholars into koine Greek and was generously quoted by the New Testament writers who simultaneously used original Hebrew (into Greek) where appropriate. That is, NT writers did not quote verbatim from the Septuagint but integrated their own Hebrew into Greek where they thought it more in line with the original Hebrew text.

 The fourth edition of the United Bible Societies' Greek Testament lists 343 Old Testament quotations in the New Testament, as well as no fewer than 2,309 allusions and verbal parallels.

 The Septuagint (viz. LXX or “70” referring to the number of Hebrew scholars who translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek), in the main, translated the Hebrew word “Qahal” (Strong’s H6951 or Gahal) used some 123 times from the Hebrew primarily as Ekklesia — The word Qahal in English has been translated as “assembly” – “gathering” – “company” – “multitude”- “troop” – “army” & “congregation.”

 Again, our immediate reflection is the prophetic multiplication or expansion of the Qahal into the Ekklesia Jesus would build and/or is now building after His earthly ministry.

 

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE: New release by Gian Luca Morotti

 

God's Eternal Purpose: A Truth Restored

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God's Eternal Purpose front cover
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Amazon description:
If you are on a pathway of discovering deep and glorious truths from God's Word and have always had before your eyes the vision of His multifaceted wisdom, God’s Eternal Purpose: A Truth Restored is what you've been waiting for!

Gian Luca Morotti takes you on a tour through the pages of scripture on a quest for restoration of one of the most important truths, towards which God is shining light in these last days of restoration. But in fact, most of what you're about to discover has been available to us in the Word of God all along. Previously and mysteriously prophesied, but then revealed through the apostolic writings—Paul being charged with this monumental calling.

In Morotti’s unique work, you'll be immersed in the mystery of God’s Eternal Purpose. From the first words of the opening chapter, you'll plunge into the chronicles of truth animating pivotal biblical scenes and illuminating the truth on display.

IN GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE: A TRUTH RESTORED, YOU WILL DISCOVER:
* What is the mystery of God’s Eternal Purpose?
* Your position, acceptance, and membership in God’s congregation.
* The relationship between prayer and revelation.
* The biblical and practical reality of the “Commonwealth of Israel.”
* When did the “breach of Jeroboam” occur?
* God said, “I will rebuild the Tabernacle of David.” What did He mean?
* Are some Christian theologies still ghettoizing the Jews?
* And much more …

All proceeds from the sale of this book go to support the work of the Commonwealth of Israel Foundation. Or, donate directly here

(Paperback edition will be out in about a month).

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

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Thursday, December 15, 2022

 

SHOW ME THE POWER?

PART 1

By Doug Krieger

“My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God”

1 Cor. 2:4-5