THE 5 PILLARS OF MATTHEW1.1. Introduction to the Spiritual Kingdom of God

PROGRESS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD

• Fuzzy Kingdom: Creation—Abraham (c.2000 Years):

• Adam Was Created Holy, but the Fall Took It Away.

• The High Priests of Humanity (Gen 5) Lost Control and Resulted in the Flood.

• The New High Priests (Gen 11) Were Never in Control. Resulting in the Tower of Babel.

• Spiritually It Was a Straight Down Fall.

• Visible Kingdom: Abraham—Christ (c.2000 Years):

• The Visible Nation of Israel Rose in Power from Abraham through Moses to David, Fell to the Time of Daniel, and Was Partially Restored at the Time of Jesus.

• Spiritually It Was a Straight Fall.

PROGRESS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD

• Spiritual Kingdom: Between Christ’s 2nd Advents

• Jesus Offered the Spiritual Kingdom, but Delayed the Full Kingdom till His Second Coming.

• The Offer Was Rejected by the Jews (Leaders & Majority), but Accepted by the Church (Jews and Gentiles Who Follow Jesus and thus Have the Holy Spirit).

• People from All Nations Are Equal in Christ. Unbelieving Jews Do Not Like It, and Have Been Used by Satan to Oppose the Church throughout the Church Age.

• The Power of the Visible Church Rose and Fell during the Church Age in a Similar Pattern as Israel Did during the Israelite Age.

• Spiritually It Is a Straight Down Fall.

PROGRESS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD

• Full Kingdom: From the 2nd Coming to the Last Judgment• The Remnant Jews Are Saved during the Tribulation. They

Live into the Millennium with Physical Bodies.• God Fulfills His Promise to the Jews during the Millennium,

Ruling over the Nations through Them as the First Nation.• The Church Is Already Glorified, and Rules with Christ as Co-

Regents, Like the Queen with the King.• Satan Is Bound. The People Live to 1000 Years with Physical

Body, but with No Temptations, There Is Little Sin.• When Satan Is Released Near the End of the Millennium, the

People Sin and Rebel Again. The Rebellion Is Quickly Suppressed.

• All Would Agree Then that the Physical Body (with the Sinful Nature) Is Not Good to Keep. All the Elect Are Glorified after the Last Judgment, and All the Guilty Are Sent to Hell.

• The Eternal State Future Is the Everlasting Stage of the Full Kingdom. It Fulfills God’s Promise to the Church.

2 ISRAELS

• The Fleshly Israel Is Composed of Physical Descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as Well as Jewish Proselytes from the Nations.

• The Latter Are Counted as the Physical Seed of Abraham due to God’s Covenantal Promise.

• They Do Not Know Jesus, that Do Not Know God.

• They Need to Believe in Jesus in Order to Be Saved.

• The Spiritual Israel Is Composed of Jews and Gentiles Who Believe in Jesus as the Christ/Messiah, therefore Having the Indwelling Holy Spirit.

• They Are the Spiritual Descendant of Abraham.

• They Are in the Kingdom of Light.

1 TRUE RELIGION

• Christianity Alone Is the True Religion, Which Let the True God (Triune God) Known to Mankind.

• Judaism after the 1st Advent of Christ Is Pharisaic, Which Is a Mixture of Bits of Bible (Often Read in the Opposite Meaning of the Text) with Man Made Traditions and Eastern Mysticism. It is a Good Candidate for Babylon the Great, the Whore Who Sits on the Beast.

• The Term “Judeo-Christian” Is an Oxymoron, Just Like “Chrislam” (Christianity-Islam) Is an Impossible Forgery.

• “All Jews Have a Place in God’s Eternal Plan” Is Misleading as “Salvation Is of the Jews,” So They Don’t Need Jesus. The First Has Become the Last.

1 TRUE RELIGION

• Pharisaic Judaism Is Powerful. • It Judaized a Large Branch of Christianity: Roman

Catholicism (Making It Salvation by Works).

• It Raised up an Apprentice-Helper: Islam (Believing in an Unitarian God; Selective Obedience to the Law of Moses; Salvation by Works; Doing Evil to Christians; Acts of of Holy Men [Rabbis, Muhammad] Are Divine Laws).

• It Diverges into So Many Branches, Virtually There Are People who Practice All Kinds of Religions within Jewry.

• Only the Karaites (Very Few) Are OT Only, “Orthodox Jews” in the Christian Mind. Those Called “Orthodox Jews” Are Racial/Nationalist Humanists. The Cabalists Practice Witchcraft. The Sabbatean-Frankists Are Atheists and Satanists.

THE HOLY BOOK(S)

• It Is All About What Book Is Holy:

• The Hebrew Bible Is Called TaNaK, because It Is Composed of 3 Parts:• Torah (the Law) = the Pentateuch (Gen，Exod, Lev, Num,

Deut).

• Naviim (Prophets) = 2 Parts:• The Early Prophets (Josh, Judg, 1-2 Sam, 1-2 Kgs).

• The Later Prophets (Isa, Jer, Ezek, the Twelve [Hos, Joel, Amos, Obad, Jon, Mic, Nah, Hab, Zeph, Hag, Zech, Mal]).

• Ketuvim (Writings) = 3 Parts:• Poetry (Pss, Job, Prov).

• Megillot (5 Scrolls) (Ruth, Eccl, Song, Lam, Esth).

• History (Dan, Ezra-Neh, 1-2 Chr)

THE HOLY BOOK(S)

• Different Sects of Judaism Recognize Different Holy Books, therefore Have Different Theologies:

• The Sadducees (and the Samaritans) Recognize the Torah Only. So the Sadducees Are Not Convinced of Resurrection, since It Was Not in the Torah. That Is Why “They Are Sad, You See.”

• The Essenes Believe in All of Tanak, and Focus on the Prophets, Counting the Days for the Coming of Messiah.

• The Karaites Believe in All Tanak and Tanak Only: No Oral Laws (vs. Pharisees), and No NT (vs. Christians).

• The Christians Are “OT Only” in the Sense of “No Oral Laws” (vs. Pharisees); but NT Was Recognized after A.D.100.

THE HOLY BOOK(S)

• The Pharisees Added the Oral Law (Written in A.D.200 as Mishnah) as Holy, and More So than Tanak (OT).

• They Claim that the Oral Law Was Given to Moses together with the Written Law (Torah). But the Written One Was Allowed to Be Translated, the Oral One Was Reserved for the Jews Only.

• When the Rabbis Added their Commentary to the Mishnah (the Gemara), It Became the Talmud.

• Pharisaic/Rabbinical Judaism Claim to Be OT + Talmud, Actually It Was the Talmud Replacing OT.

• In Pharisaism There Are Also Untold Seeds of Cabalism.

THE HOLY BOOK(S)

• Rabbinical Judaism Split into Orthodox (Value + Ritual , Conservative (Ritual Only) and Reformed (Value Only). The Later Ones Corrected Some of the Excesses in the Talmud, but the Orthodox Hated It Because It Allowed the Jews to Assimilate.

• Those Who Added Cabala (e.g. the Book of Zohar) as Holy Books Added Neo-Platonic Pantheism, Demonic Magic and Numerology. They Become either Extremely Conservative (Ultra-Orthodox or Hasidic), or Extremely Liberal and Libertine (Sabbatean-Frankists). They All Believe in False Messiahs; the former Believe in their own Rabbi; the Latter Work to Create the Antichrist.

REASONS OF SPLITS

• It All Started in the 2nd Century B.C., When the Pan-Hellenist Antiochus IV Epiphanes Tried to Eliminate Judaism for “Progress,” the Conservative Had a Strong Reaction.

• The Maccabean-Hasmoneans Bravely Defeated the Oppressors. But They Received High Priesthood and Kingship, Both They Are Not Qualified by Jewish Laws.

• The Essene Split Out, Led by a Legitimate High Priest, Called the “Teacher of Righteousness.” They Despised the World, Lived in the Desert, Copies the Bible, and baptized Twice a Day to Get Ready to Receive the Messiah. But They Missed Jesus.

REASONS OF SPLITS

• When the Hasmoneans Passed, their Political Power Went to the Herodians, and the Religions One Went to the Sadducees.

• The Pharisees Became Popular in c.100 B.C., and Was Heavily Persecuted by the Hasmoneans. King Alexander Jannaeus Crucified 8000 of Them on the Road to Jerusalem, but He Could Not Eradicate Them. So before His Death, He Told His Queen, Who Would Succeed Him, to Incorporate the Pharisees into the Government in Order for Her Survival. Queen Alexandra Salome Did. Then the Pharisees Turned from revolutionaries to Stake Holders.

• Some Karaites Became Christians, Having Seen the Messiah. Some Ambitious Ones Became Zealots, Trying to Be Messiah.

5 INIQUITIES OF PHARISEES

• Nehemiah Gordon, a Karaite Jew, Summarized These:

• There Are 2 Torahs: Written and Oral. The Latter One Is Greater.

• The Rabbis Sit on the Seat of Moses, Having the Authority of Moses.

• Midrashic Interpretation for the Secret Meaning Is Greater than the Literal-Grammatical Interpretation for the Plain Meaning, even if They Are Unrelated, even Opposite.

• The Tradition of Men Are Added to the Laws of God.

• The Man-made Laws Are Divine Laws, Including the Reforms of the Rabbis by Majority Vote, and the Precedence of Acts by the Holy Men (Rabbis).

THINNING OF BLOOD

• The Edomites (Idumeans) Were Forced by the Hasmoneans to Be Circumcised and Become Jews in the 2nd Century B.C.

• After the Two Failed Revolts against Rome (A.D.66-73, 132-135), the Jews (with Edomites within) Were Dispersed.

• After the Rise of Islam in the 600s. Most Jews Lived in Muslim Countries (Including Spain); They Are Called the Sephardic(Spanish [=Southern]) Jews. Now They Are 10% of All Jewry.

• In the 10th Century, The Nation of Khazaria (of Turkish Stock) Converted to Judaism. They Are Called the Ashkenazi(Scandinavian [=Northern]) Jews. They Lived Mostly in Christian Countries. Now They Are 90% of All Jewry.

• The Tail Is Wagging the Dog. Are They Included in God’s Promise of the Land to Abraham?

THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM

• The Visible Kingdom of God Is in a Mess. There Must Be a Radical Change of the Nature of the Kingdom.

• Jesus Offered the Spiritual Kingdom of God, in Contractual Form Similar to Moses.

• Moses Gave Us 5 Books; Jesus Gave Us 5 “Pillars of Matthew” (5 Long Discourses in Matthew).• Genesis Is God’s Blue Print for the Visible Kingdom (a Chosen

Nation); Exodus Is Leaving Slavery; Leviticus Is on Holy Living; Numbers Is on the Consequence of Pride; and Deuteronomy Is Preparing for the Promised Land.

• The Sermon on the Mount Is God’s Blue Print for the Spiritual Kingdom (a New Humanity); Send of the 12 Is a Call to Leave the Slavery to Sin; The Kingdom Parables Are on Holy Living; Discourse on Kingdom Life Is on the Need of Humility; and the Olivet Discourse Is Preparing for the Millennium.

• Jesus Is Giving a New Start as Important as (and More So than) Moses.