I’ve seen the video going around Facebook where a Google Home device owner asks it about various “deities”.
Buddha, Allah, Brahman, New Age, etc…
And Jesus, or Jesus Christ.
The Google device begins spouting historical information about each, but does not recognize Jesus or Jesus Christ.
Here is a link to the video:
Many “Christians” are triggered and offended by this…
Well, we live “in the world” and Google is very much “the world.”
What do you really expect??
But here is the kicker.
Most of these offended Christians also don’t know who their Messiah is.
Let that sink in for a second.
Christians do not know Yeshua Messiah.
I don’t care which name you use: Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ Superstar, Yeshua, Messiah, Yeshua Hamashiach, Big Guy in the Sky.
People do not know the deity/man who died for them on a stake.
So, I’m guessing this statement may have just “triggered” a few people.
Sorry, not sorry.
When speaking of our eternal fate, there is no room for candy coated false teaching.
So here’s the deal:
Christians know all about Jesus, the guy their church teaches them about. But Messiah’s direct quotes in scripture do not match the Jesus taught by churches. People are all upset about the NSA device in their homes, but don’t realize they have no idea what their churches are teaching them, nor whom they serve either.
Jeremiah 16:19-20 predicts this would happen.
19 O Lord, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of affliction, The Gentiles shall come to You From the ends of the earth and say, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, Worthlessness and unprofitable things.” 20 Will a man make gods for himself, Which are not gods?
Verse 19 tells us that the nations (the Gentiles) will realize they have learned nothing but lies.
Verse 20 tells us it is ok, God will sort it out in heaven, and everyone will be there. It’s just a matter of getting everyone on the same page once they have arrived in heaven…
Ummm, no, that isn’t what verse 20 says. Verse 20 says people will use their lies to create gods that don’t exist, gods who are not gods. If they are not gods, then they cannot grant salvation. The false information that all the Gentiles believe is worthless and unprofitable according to verse 19.
This is what I spend countless hours trying to warn people about. Hardly anyone believes me.
And there was weeping and gnashing of teeth.
But each man or woman must decide for themselves what they will believe and live.
What Jeremiah warns us about is a horrific tragedy of epic proportions!!
Nobody thinks this could ever happen. A loving God would not allow people to go astray like this. The only reason they think that is because they have not studied the words of the prophets. The prophets speak of horrible consequences for the people who turned away from God. The prophets also speak of reconciliation, and the promises that will follow reconciliation. Churches love to quote the promises. They avoid the horrible things, though, and they don’t realize the promises don’t apply to them.
How could this be?
God said it would happen in Deuteronomy, and via other prophet writings. The people would stray from Him, and He would scatter them among the nations.
Jeremiah 3:8 says He divorced the house of Israel from the covenant.
Ezekiel 4 tells us the duration of the punishment – separation from God for 390 years —– except they did not repent.
Torah requires their punishment to be multiplied by 7 for the unrepentant.
That makes the separation from God last 2730 years.
It started in roughly 721 BC when the Assyrians defeated the house of Israel, and began scattering them among the nations. The punishment, the separation from God, ended in 2009. That is when people began ‘waking up’ and being called to study the Torah (like me). That is why people are turning back to the instructions God gave in the Torah, the Old Testament.
I’m trying to tell people, but not many are interested. They love their lies… Yeshua Messiah told us who will not be in His kingdom in Revelation 22:15
But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie. “Those who love and practice a lie”
What lies?
Jeremiah 16:19-20
19 O Lord, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of affliction, The Gentiles shall come to You From the ends of the earth and say, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, Worthlessness and unprofitable things.” 20 Will a man make gods for himself, Which are not gods?
Why would God allow 2730 years of people, many generations, to be separated from Him? Because He is a just God. Because He is not a liar. He said if the people turned away from Him and His ways, that this would happen. So when they turned away from Him and His ways, He could either be a liar and not do as stated, or He could be a just God, and the people would suffer the consequences of their own actions, for the duration of time stated.
Churches don’t teach these things. I’m not even sure pastors understand these things. It is all laid out in scripture, plain as day.
Here is the test of whether or not we know and love God in the Old Testament:
Deuteronomy 13:3-4
…for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.
And here is the same test, given to the New Testament and beyond believers:
1John 2:3-6
The Test of Knowing Him
3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
Nothing has changed. The same test is given in the Old Testament and the New Testament, before and after Messiah.
Ecclesiastes 12:12-13
Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh. 13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.
Study and debate is wearisome, and can be done our whole lives. But this is the whole duty of man: Fear God Keep His Commands. Churches do not teach this.
Is it possible that educated religious leaders could lead their followers to hell? [“hell” is another false teaching, but that’s a whole other topic of study]
Would God allow such a thing?
The question is not if God would allow it, but rather, would man subject fellow man to such a fate?
The evidence is clearly a huge YES. It happened in scripture, so it can happen again. This is a direct quote of Messiah, to the educated religious leaders of His time:
Matthew 23:13
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
What the Pharisees teach will keep themselves out of heaven, and it will also keep other men and women who learn their teachings out of heaven.
At least, that is what Messiah said!! Do you believe Him?
Yehova is a just God.
We all have the truth.
We all have scripture to read and study and pray about.
But people don’t. They go to church and learn what other men think.
And what do other men think?
They repeat what they were taught in bible college. The seminary gets it wrong, so all the educated religious leaders get it wrong.
It is a sad, slippery slope.
People can read the truth, or they can leave their own eternal fate to whatever some guy learned in college. If you don’t believe this could happen, go read Jeremiah 16:19-20 again.
He told us it would happen.
It is important for us to believe it could happen.
Because, if we believe it could happen, we can watch for it and see it, and turn away from it!!
The choice is ours…
We can listen to men teach whatever…
Or we can know Messiah, and know His voice, and do the things He said…
Here are a few things Messiah told us:
Luke 6:46
46 “Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord’ and do not do what I say? ”
John 14:15
“If you love Me, you shall keep My commands.”
John 14:21
“He who possesses My commands and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and manifest Myself to him.”
John 15:10
“If you keep My commands, you shall stay in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commands and stay in His love.
Matthew 7:21-23
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in Your name, and drive out demons in Your name, and perform many miracles in Your name?’ 23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Get away from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’”
Matthew 5:17-19
17 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Torah or the Prophets! I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. 18 Amen, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or serif[b] shall ever pass away from the Torah until all things come to pass. 19 Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever keeps and teaches them, this one shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Do you know Him?
Do you hear His voice?
Do you do the things He said?