Christendom just a 'bastardized form of Judaism'

Here is the second installment to the article posted April 2, entitled “Why not ‘sell that you have’?":

Mark 1:14 says, [14] Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
[15] And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

Jordan says, “What does he mean, ‘The time is fulfilled’? God gave Daniel a time schedule and told him that from the commandment to, ‘Go forth and rebuild the temple until Messiah the prince should come,’ is only going to be so much time and after that, there’s going to be a seven-year period and then the kingdom’s going to be established.

“They had a time schedule, and when that time schedule for the days of Messiah arrived, John the Baptist showed up.

“They went 400 years with God not talking to them. Then there’s a man sent from God named John and he’s the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Prepare ye the way of the Lord.’ He’s doing exactly what Isaiah 40 and Malachi 3 said would happen. He’s the messenger.

“He said to them, ‘When I came baptizing with water, I did it because He that sent me SAID unto me . . .’ God the Father spoke to John personally, commissioning him and sending him.

“God told them back there in the Prophets, ‘I’m not going to talk to you for 400 years.’ You know what, they knew there was a time schedule! You know why those wise men were looking for that star? Daniel gave that prophesy in the east in Babylon.

“You know why Anna and Simeon were there in expectation, looking for the Messiah? They knew what the schedule was. They could figure out within a three-year period of time when He was going to be born. They weren’t running around just reading the tea leaves; reading the horoscope in the newspaper every morning, wondering what’s happening.

“When He tells these guys about the kingdom, they know, ‘Hey, after He goes away . . .’ That’s why they said, ‘Wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom? They know they’re on a time schedule because in Daniel, 69 weeks after which Messiah the prince is cut off, there’s a period of time between the 69^th and 70^th week when the time clock isn’t going and they say, ‘Okay, how soon before this thing starts up again?’

“They know it’s not going to be a millennium later. They could sell their stuff and not worry about it.

“What’s going on in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is they’re preparing. The Book of Matthew presents the Lord Jesus Christ as the King of Israel; it documents His kingly authority. The Book of Mark presents Him as the suffering servant of the Lord. The Book of Luke says, ‘Behold, He’s the man touched with our infirmities.’ The Book of John says, ‘He’s Jehovah God in human flesh.’

“He matches all of the four criteria that Israel is told to look for in order to say, ‘He’s the Messiah.’ That’s why there are four gospels and not one or six; it’s because He matches all those ‘branch’ statements back in the Old Testament that told them, ‘When Messiah shows up He’s going to be a carpenter with four identifying markers.’

“By the way, He’s called ‘the carpenter’ because that’s what Zechariah said He would be. I mean, you’d have to be blind in one eye and couldn’t see out the other to miss Him and, of course, they were blind.

“Those books are not written to be your doctrine today. They’re written to present to the nation Israel who He was, gather that believing remnant together and prepare them for this period of time over here because in prophecy, THAT’S the issue.

“They couldn’t know anything about the church the Body of Christ because if that had been revealed back there, Satan would have known about it and he wouldn’t have crucified Christ.

“So when you’re reading Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, you’re reading about the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ to the nation Israel. That’s why He says, ‘Don’t go to the Gentiles.’ That’s why He says, ‘I’m not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’ That’s why He told the woman at the well, ‘Salvation is of the Jews.’

“It wasn’t because He didn’t love everybody; it’s because God’s purpose and plan in the earth is to go through the nation Israel.

“Don’t get me wrong, I taught the Book of Luke in my church for 6-7 years. I taught the Book of John for five years and I just finished it about a year-and-a-half ago and started teaching the Minor Prophets.

“You study those books for what they really are, and when you leave them where they are, wow, what a blessing! When you try to make that stuff you, and your pattern, you’ll wind up in confusion because it isn’t who you are.

“You wind up trying to teach people to be somebody they’re not. Christendom today is a bastardized form of Judaism and it comes from people going back into those passages that don’t have to do with us and trying to make them theirs.”