John 3:22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.
This is also an interesting part of the ministry of the Messiah, and his students. They did not spend much time in Jerusalem. Jesus did not present Him self for the high priests, to claim a prominent seat in the city. He rather went into the countryside, where he preached, taught and baptized. I guess Jesus baptized with them same baptism as he had received from John. With full immersion.
Matthew 22:32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ ? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
The Messiah came and confirmed that God is God of the Jewish patriarchs. That God is God of Isaac, is important for all who believe in the Messiah. Isaac is the forefather of the Jewish people. Like a Father loves his sons, The Messiah loves his own people, alive and kicking and back home in Israel.
The Jewish people have been gathered home to Israel. They will soon face both the last antichrist and the true Messiah.
Waiting for the Messiah. Running the danger of being decived by the last Antichrist
The Jews are back home in Israel to face the end game on planet Earth. Jerusalem is the city that God of the Bible chose to be His dwelling place. Here the final battle will take place between antichrist and the true Messiah.
The Jews are loved by God and His Messiah. Not because they are many, powerful or righteous. They are loved for the sake of the patriarchs.
The Jewish Apostle Paul explains this to us:
Romans 11:28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.
That they have become enemies of the gospel, does not change the love that Jesus the Messiah have for them. The prophet Ezekiel explains that God of the Bible has gathered his people home, because of His Holy name, and purposes.
Ezekiel 36:22 «Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone».
Ezekiel 36:32 «I want you to know that I am not doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign LORD. Be ashamed and disgraced for your conduct, O house of Israel».
The Messiah will forever stand with the promise His Father gave through the prophet Jeremiah. The Bible says that only when the Sun and the Moon disappear, the nation of Israel shall cease to exist.
Jeremiah 31:35-36
35 This is what the LORD says,
he who appoints the sun
to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar—
the LORD Almighty is his name:
36 “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,”
declares the LORD,
“will the descendants of Israel ever cease
to be a nation before me.”
God has chosen Jerusalem, the Jewish people and the nation of Israel as His tools. The Devil has always been a copy-cat. To keep the Jews away from their Messiah, angles of Satan has bombarded the Jews with with copy-cat Jesus”es and other false Messiah`s.
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the site for the final battle of the Messiah.
There have been times when the Jews have been prosecuted and killed in the name of Jesus.
On such cross roads in history, it has always been followers of a copy-cat Messiah who have done these criminal acts.
The last days false peace makers in the Middle East will also promote peace in the name of a false «Messiah», the last antichrist.
This last false Messiah will set Him self up in the Temple Mount, and claim to be God. In this darkest hour of the Jewish nation, Jesus of Nazareth will return.
He will kill the false Messiah and save the Jews out of the final trap.
John 3:22
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