Ruler In Israel

 

THE PROPHECY

 MICAH 5:2

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little amongst the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth to Me that is to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY

Matthew 2:1, 2

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is He that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him.  

THE PROPHECY

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY

John 12:14, 15

Finding a young donkey, Jesus sat on it, as it is written:  “Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion. See, your King is coming, seated on the colt of a donkey.” 

 

PROPHECY

Revelation 19:16

And He has on His robe and on His thigh a Name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. 

        As you can see, this last prophecy about The Ruler of Israel has not yet been fulfilled. That day is coming. And soon. Are you ready for The King's return?

     

Seek His Presence

 

1 CHRONICLES 16:11

Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face continually [longing to be in His presence]. (Amplified Bible).

Psalm 105:4

Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

Isaiah 63:1

A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. 

    God's people are always hungering for more of God. To see His face and His glory is the hope of every saint. When we seek God's kingdom, as He tells us to do (Matthew 6:33), we are seeking an audience with our King, a one-on-one moment, where we not only see Him clearly, but also hear Him quite plainly.

    To seek God's Kingdom is to believe that His plan of salvation through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son JESUS CHRIST on the cross, and then to have Him go through hell via death and the grave in order to conquer them once and for all, is to seek a personal intimate relationship with JESUS CHRIST. It is the most important love relationship a person will ever encounter. 

HEBREWS 6:11

But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. 

    It takes wisdom to seek this CHRIST of whom so many have a limited knowledge, or even awareness of. It takes an inner determination to dig into The Word of God and find JESUS. All we have to do is ask. God reveals Himself and opens up our understanding of His Word, when we are earnestly seeking to know Him.

Matthew 7:7, 8

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened unto you.

For everyone asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking, it will be opened.

    God wants us to know Him better. God wants us to live with Him forever. But unless we believe that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD and repent of our wicked ways; turn from participating in the sins we once took delight in, and begin to focus our lives and hearts on what pleases God, we will never gain the eternal presence of God.

    When we die, not everyone goes to heaven. And the saints of God who do die before Christ's return, do not become angels. That is angel worship. Who we are inside these bodies will go with us into death. The body will perish, but the soul is eternal. If that soul is saved, it will live forever with God. If that soul is not saved, it will die forever in hell and the lake of fire afterwards. 

    Seek God. Seek Him now. Now is all we ever have to seek God. Let us read His Word and go to Him in prayer. Together.

SEEK FIRST - Jason Upton

He Shall Be Called - Lawgiver

 

NOMOTHETES

(pronounced no-mo-the-TAYS)

LAWGIVER

ISAIAH 9:6

For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 

James 4:12

There is one Lawgiver, Who is able to save and to destroy: who are you to judge another?  

Isaiah 33:22

For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our Lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.

John 5:22, 23

Furthermore, The Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to The Son, / so that all may honor The Son just as they honor The Father. Whoever does not honor The Son does not honor The Father who sent Him. 

Matthew 5:17

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 

Galatians 4:4, 5

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, / to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons. 

Though Moses received the Law of God written on tablets of stone with the finger/power of God, Ezekiel knew that the day was coming when the Law of God would be written on hearts. This Law of God is THE WORD OF GOD come to us in flesh (John 1:14), crucified for our sins and resurrected for our eternal lives (John 3:16), The Law and The Lawgiver now reside within us through the power of God's Holy Spirit, Who has written, with the finger of God, THE WORD OF GOD, on the hearts of we who believe  that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD. 

There is no one higher, no one greater, no one more able to save than THE WORD OF GOD. None other deserves our praise, our worship, our obeisance than THE WORD OF GOD. 

Philippians 2:9-11

Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him The Name above all names, / that at The Name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, / and every tongue confess that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, to the glory of God The Father. 

 

JESUS NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES Terry MacAlmon

He Shall Be Called - Child

 

ISAIAH 9:6

For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

    

Matthew 1:23

“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a Son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).

Luke 1:32, 33

He will be great and will be called The Son of The Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, / and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 

    Though believers become sons of God after they believe on His Name for their salvation, there is ONLY ONE only begotten Son of God: His Name is JESUS. He is The Christ Messiah - The Anointed One (John 4:25). 

    God took His HOLY powerful WORD and wrapped It in frail flesh and bone, and placed It in a young virgin's womb. That had to be some pregnancy, carrying God's only begotten Son under her heart and in her heart at the same time. 

    He came from heaven so we could go to heaven. He came to die on the cross and resurrect from the grave. He came to tell people to "repent and be baptized". This Child of God is The Son of God Which is THE WORD of GOD. THE WORD IS ALIVE and thriving in the heart of every believer who has heard THE WORD. 

    He came to bring us near to God, His heavenly Father. He came to deliver us from the bonds of sin, to ransom us as His own. We are the people of God because we have JESUS CHRIST as our SAVIOR. The Son of God is living in us through the power of God's Holy Spirit. We are breathed upon by God, Who gave us His only begotten Son to die in our place. 

    For the punishment of sin is death. And death is eternal separation from God. For after death there is no coming back, nor crossing over. Once a person dies without believing on THE NAME of JESUS CHRIST for their salvation, there is no other chance given to be saved from eternal damnation. There is no limbo, no purgatory: we cannot pray a person out of the grave and into heaven. Now, while we have breath, is the time to acknowledge the sins in our life, repent (confess them to God and stop doing them) and begin to walk out our faith in a holy lifestyle led by God's Holy Spirit. 

    This is your day, your hour, your moment. Will you accept and believe that JESUS CHRIST is LORD and give Him your heart and your life? 

O COME TO THE ALTAR   - Elevation Worship

GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN: 

He Shall Be Called - Isaiah 9:6

 

WONDERFUL COUNSELOR

Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His Name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 

Matthew 11:28

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 

Isaiah 55:6

Seek The LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.

THE MIGHTY GOD

John 1:1 

In the beginning was THE WORD, and THE WORD was with GOD, and THE WORD was GOD. 

Isaiah 42:8

I Am The Lord, that is My Name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven (carved) images. 

THE  EVERLASTING FATHER

Daniel 7:13-14

In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached The Ancient of Days and was led into His presence. / And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

THE PRINCE OF PEACE

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Philippians 4:7

And The Peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

His Name Is Jesus

 

MATTHEW 1:21

And she shall bring forth a Son, and thou shalt call His Name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins. 

JESUS

In the Hebrew His Name is spelled Iésous and pronounced " ee-ay-soos' ". 

Word Origin: Derived from the Hebrew name יְהוֹשׁוּעַ (Yehoshua), which is a combination of יְהוָה (YHWH, the name of God) and יָשַׁע (yasha, meaning "to save" or "to deliver"). 

God Saves us through His Son Jesus Christ, Whom He sent to this world in the form of a small, helpless infant, but Who would one day be nailed to a cross with the sins of the whole world on His shoulders. 

GOD SAVES

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

John 1:29

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"

Acts 4:12

"Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

Isaiah 53:4-6

Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. / But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. / We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 45:22

Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

HIS NAME IS JESUS

Philippians 2:9-11

Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the Name above all names, / that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, / and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

1 Timothy 2:5-6

For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 

who gave Himself as a ransom for all—The Testimony that was given at just the right time. 

KING OF GLORY - Third Day