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June 11, 2024 - Dan Bidondi Show
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Would Jesus Eat A Mouse FOJC Friday Night Live (Monday Replay) 8pm et
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Thank you.
Good evening, everybody, and welcome to FOJC Radio Friday Night Live.
I am honored, as always, to be here with you to share the Word of God.
I have Brett Graham with me at my side here in the studio, and Brian Reese.
They're on remote, and I'm so thankful that we'll be able to bring you another broadcast and bring to you the Word of God in a challenging message tonight entitled, Would Jesus Eat a Mouse?
And we're thankful for all of you that are joining us for that.
And we're going to have mail call.
And we have people that contact us, and they ask if we have, if they come, if we have places for them to stay, and we do not.
We do not have the capacity to house people.
We just don't, and we just have to say no.
We just aren't set up for that.
And we have had a lot of good response this week as always, and we want to acknowledge Mary Ann in Arizona, and Samantha in Kentucky, and got a good one here, this is, it says here, I asked my five-year-old son Matthew why he named his chick Dawn, He responded for Donna, Donna Kericho's sister.
Well, here you go, Donna.
There you go.
There's the little chicken that Matt wanted to name to be your sister.
So there we go.
Thank you for that, Matt and Samantha.
That is very cute.
We also heard from Karen in Tasmania, a nice letter.
And now I can hold up this postcard, beautiful postcard.
From Karen in Tasmania, just a really, really beautiful area out there, and thank you so much for that, Karen.
We heard from Tom and Chris in Indiana, we heard from a friend in Colorado, from Chris in St.
Louis, And from Lovis in Indiana, Stacy in Texas, and from Thalia in Alaska, and I'll read just a little bit of Thalia's letter.
And you know, when you're young, she says, I'm almost 20.
You know, I'm almost 20.
Well, it goes the other way.
When you get over 70, you don't say, well, I'm almost 75.
You say, well, I just turned 74.
It kind of reverses in the mentality.
But Thalia is almost 20 years old.
She's from Alaska.
And thank you so much, Thalia, for writing.
I'll just read just a bit of her letter.
She loves the doctrine of Christ.
She said, thank you for saying What most won't say, and for preaching the true Jesus in a day where everyone makes up their own and shouts their twisted perverted doctrine from the rooftops, while we are like ruddy David standing up against Goliath, that stone in our hand, the chief cornerstone of Jesus, will utterly demolish this new world order, the beast and his godless army.
Well, Thalia, Almost 20 years old.
Thank you for that.
That is a great blessing, and we're so thankful that you're listening to FOJC.
That's a real blessing.
We heard from Dennis in Indiana, Sharon in California, and Suzanne in Texas, and Simcy and Terry in Pennsylvania.
And again, a lot of nice cards coming in for Donna, and I always take them up to her.
She really appreciates it.
And just thank you so much.
And if you want to write to Donna and I, Our address here at Mail Call, just right, Followers of Jesus Christ, Post Office Box 671, Tell City, Indiana, 47586.
Thank you all so very much.
And I'm going to have Brett come now, and Brett's going to lead us in prayer.
And Brett, come on.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Most High Father, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, we come to you humbly and obediently praying to you for healing for Sister Donna and the rest of her rehabilitation mates at the nursing home, for Brian, Brian's dad, Brian Reese's dad,
My cousin is still in the ICU, and my stepdad is still having medical issues.
So we pray for healing for these people, Lord.
Also, we pray for protection to be put on John and tWitch with their soon upcoming endeavor.
And I would also pray That your spirit of wisdom be put upon us, Lord, and your spirit of patience and meekness.
And these I pray in Christ Jesus' name.
Amen.
Amen.
Turner, your Bibles.
Thank you so much, Brett.
Yep.
Turner, your Bible to Isaiah chapter 65 and the third verse.
Would Jesus eat a mouse?
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face, that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars.
And Isaiah talks about people that are doing the dark rituals of the fallen one, and Floss Westerman in his commentary on Isaiah, he talks about, he comments on this, that crouching in tombs was for the purpose of obtaining oracles from the dead.
And this is the worship of the dead?
that was carried on by the Fallen Ones, and it's what could be called the Incubation Rituals of the Ancient Mysteries, and over in Isaiah chapter 66 it gives us a little more detail.
of what's going on here.
In Isaiah chapter 66 verse 3 and 4, he that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man, he that sacrificeth a lamb as if he cut off a dog's neck,
He that offereth an oblation as if he offered swine's blood, he that burneth incense as if he blessed an idol, yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
I will also choose their delusions.
And you notice that the Bible says that the people that conduct themselves in this way, that God will choose their delusions, that a spirit of confusion will come upon them.
I will choose their delusions and will bring their fears upon them, because when I called, none did answer.
When I spake, they did not hear.
But they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
And in this text, it mentions swine's blood in this ritual, and about choosing what God doesn't delight in.
And isn't it interesting that in these dark rituals of the fallen ones, that we always see the swine being used?
And we'll look at verses 15 through 17 in Isaiah 66 here, And it says, For behold, the Lord will come with fire and with his chariots like a whirlwind to render his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Now we note the context.
That the scripture is talking about the time when the Lord will return, which I believe will be very soon.
How long can this nonsense go on?
In verse 16 it says, For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the garden, behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
And it talks about these occult rituals, and Mr. Westerman draws a comparison.
He says, This is the cult practiced in the garden.
This recalls the mystagogue of the Aleutian Mysteries of the Pater Patrium of the worshippers of Mithras who initiated the members of the community into the secrets, the rituals of the worship of the dead, the worship of the secret societies.
And we have to ask ourselves, why do they always use those animals which God considers to be an abomination And the only answer is, they want to offend God.
They want to be abominable.
They want to defile.
They want to commit sacrilege.
And here together, in this Scripture, in Isaiah chapter 66, And it says here, and let me read it again, it says in verse 17, "...they that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the garden, behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord." Now, if we would think
About eating a mouse.
I think that would make most people pretty disgusted.
Any more of the thing is, boy, insect protein.
The more we head toward the return of Christ, the more that we are told that it's good to consume things that are abomination, that are just outright offensive to God.
And we have to ask ourselves, can you see, imagine Jesus eating a mouse?
And that's really nonsensical, and the thing we need to realize is that the swine and the mouse are placed together here as abominations to God, things that are used by the evil one to do their workings.
And absolutely, God would not eat a mouse.
This is something that's offensive, and absolutely God would not eat swine.
Because this is offensive to him.
And maybe this will help some of our friends that they don't have a problem in eating pork, if we realize just how offensive that eating swine and mice is to God.
And just a thought, by maybe provoking people to think That how far removed would it be for Jesus to even think about our Lord and Savior eating a rodent, you know?
And this is just as an abominable, and even more so to think about, our Lord eating swine, or of us eating swine.
The very darkest workings of Satan are going to employ the swine and the blood of swine and those of unclean animals, because that is what Satan wants to do.
He wants to involve human beings in rituals that are absolutely abominable and repulsive to God.
John Oswalt in his commentary on this verse said, this is nothing other than form and routine He said, a religion that is nothing other than form and routine, and is not demonstrated in a heartfelt obedience to the covenant, is as disgusting to God as rank idolatry.
It is not pleasing to God, but is as nauseating as the eating of mice and swine.
Now, this is the true picture that we would have, that there's just no way Jesus is going to eat a mouse.
And we need to realize that if these things are offensive to God, that these things should be offensive to us.
I want to read from the works of Flavius Josephus, and I want to read something else for us to think about this evening.
On page 323, Josephus writes about the defiling of the temple in 167 BC by Antiochus Epiphanes, and it says here, I'll just read a little back, it says, King Antiochus, returning out of Egypt for the fear of the Romans, made an expedition against the city of Jerusalem.
So he left the temple bare, And took away the golden candlesticks, and the golden altar of incense, and table of shewbread, and the altar of burnt offering, and did not abstain from even the veils which were made of fine linen, and left nothing at all remaining, and by this means cast the Jews into great lamentation.
For he forbade them to offer those daily sacrifices which they used to offer to God, According to the law.
Now, when this fella, and this fella is a clear type of the final beast that will arise, that is spoken of in Revelation 13, he is a perfect type of that final beast, as in this abomination of desolation.
And in the abomination of desolation, Jesus referred to it, the abomination of desolation spoken of.
by the prophet Daniel, and this is what he did, as recorded by Josephus, and when the king had built an idle altar upon God's altar, he slew swine upon it, and so offered a sacrifice neither according to the law nor the Jewish religious worship in that country.
And why?
Why a swine?
Why not some other unclean animal?
Because when we see the heart of God, That a swine is an abomination to God that excels all other unclean animals.
It is a rank, rank abomination, and we could no more imagine Jesus eating a mouse, a swine, any more than we could imagine Jesus eating a mouse.
And it probably follows, and it certainly does, very logically and very sensibly, that if Satan used a swine to defile that physical temple, would a swine defile our spiritual temple?
And, you know, there's a lot that could be said About the health benefits of not eating swine.
I could talk about that for a long time.
There's just a lot of reasons why.
Swine's not good for you physically, but there's even more to that.
And I don't even understand all of it.
But God hates swine.
It's an abomination.
And Satan knows that, and he'll use the swine in each and every way he can.
Why do you think today that beef is high, And pork is cheap.
America is pork crazy.
I saw the other day in a bakery, they actually had a piece of bacon on a long john.
A piece of bacon on it.
You can't hardly buy a green bean in a restaurant without bacon in it.
Bacon crazy!
You know, bacon—why is that?
There's a reason for that, because Satan wants to defile and pollute the entire population, to estrange us from God, to absolutely put any concept of obedience to God's law completely out of our mind, and maybe we need to remind ourselves this evening that Jesus wouldn't eat a mouse.
Neither would he eat swine.
And we have to understand, 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 16, Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy.
For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Satan used a swine and Antoshus Epiphanes to defile that temple in 167 BC, a clear picture and type of that final beast that will rise in Revelation 13.
It is no accident that Satan now is using swine to defile the people of God.
And in, in the Levitical priesthood, when someone was defiled from unclean food, they could not enter in to the sanctuary to worship and serve God.
How many people—and you know, today, when people are defiled, it will hinder you from entering into the place where you can have that intimate communion in the secret place of the Most High God.
And, you know, people say, well, you know, it doesn't hurt anything to eat swine.
Well, something happened on the way to Porky Pig out there in Churchland, because we're in the sewer, my friends.
Nobody knows nothing.
Nobody can do nothing except compromise and go along with the devil.
Something went wrong somewhere while these professed Christians were sucking on their pork chops.
It all went down the sewer, didn't it?
And, you know, it is just absolutely Well, it is frustrating.
I admit it is frustrating, but all we can do is say, He that hath an ear, let him hear, and for all of those that will hear and walk in obedience, they will understand that they can enter into that secret place of the Most High without defilement.
Now, in Daniel 11 and 31, I'll read the text, and in Daniel 11 and 31, Speaking of the abomination in 167 BC, it says, "...an arm shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate a pig." Oink oink!
Defiling the temple.
Jesus wouldn't eat a mouse.
Jesus wouldn't eat swine.
The idea, um, these things, uh, I love Brother Oswalt's comment.
These things are disgusting to God.
We need to seek the Father's heart.
Those things that the Father rejoices in, we should rejoice in.
And those things that the Father would consider abomination, we need to be as disgusted with them as He is.
And when we find ourselves taking pleasure in things that God is disgusted with, it might be time for us to check ourselves.
I think that it might be.
I want to read something from 1 Maccabees.
And Maccabees is one of the books that would be called the Apocryphal Books, and it was in the original KJV.
It is not scripture, but it is certainly a very accurate historical record.
And I want to read from 1 Maccabees 1, verse 54, and we'll get some of the history of what was going on at the time when the swine was offered upon the the altar in the temple.
It says here, Now on the fifteenth day of the month, Kassilu, the hundred forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar, and built idle altars throughout the cities of Judah on every side, and burnt incense at the doors of their houses and in the streets.
And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law, which they found They burnt them with fire.
They hated that law.
That law said don't eat pig.
They said, well, we're going to eat pig.
We're going to sacrifice a pig on the altar, and we're going to eat pig till our little piggy-piggy bellies pop.
And they burned the law.
Now, today, people are doing the same thing.
They might not literally be taking their Bibles and setting them on fire, but they might as well.
They might as well, whatever they don't agree with or believe in, they ought to just rip the page out, and by the time they're done ripping, they ain't going to have a whole lot left.
Don't like Paul?
Well, we'll rip out Paul.
Don't like the Old Testament law?
Well, rip that out.
You know, and just like the devil burned the law and put the pig on the altar, that's what's happening today.
People have burned the law of God.
They have put the pig on the altar.
America worships the pig because we're just pig crazy.
Gimme gimme pig pig.
Now, let's read on.
In verse 60, It says, "...at which time according to the commandment They put to death certain women that had caused their children to be circumcised.
And they hanged the infants about their necks, and rifled their houses, and slew them that had circumcised them.
Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing.
Wherefore they chose rather to die that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they may not profane the holy covenant.
So then they died, and there was great wrath upon Israel." Now think about it.
These women, rather than eat pork, they, you know, how to actually kill their babies and hang that dead child about their neck?
Yet these women chose obedience to God.
Now, let's just imagine that, and this event took place about 167 B.C., and in the books of the Maccabees, there's actually one story where they actually killed seven of their children in front of their eyes, you know, because the parents wouldn't give in.
and have some ham and eggs with them, they actually slow kill seven of their children in front of their eyes.
Now let's just, let's just imagine for a moment that this took place on the Sunday before Jesus rose from the dead, and that this terrible abomination took place, that there was a woman in Israel that had her baby hung around her neck,
That there was another one that saw their children slain in front of them, and then the very next Sunday, well, Jesus has rose from the dead!
Hey, it's ham and eggs for breakfast!
We're all good, all home free!
That's just absolutely nonsensical to think about, isn't it?
That is just absolutely nonsensical, that all of the people The godly Jewish remnant that died as martyrs rather than be disobedient to God's law.
Now, all of a sudden, Jesus rose from the dead and, uh, we're gonna, well, we're gonna, well, we'll visit our kid's grave and then we'll go have us some bacon and eggs.
I mean, it's absolutely nonsensical.
This is about as upside down a thinking as what we could ever have in our minds.
We have to realize Jesus wouldn't eat a mouse.
Hebrews 13 and 8, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.
Malachi 3 and 6, I am the Lord, I change not.
We don't serve the God that will allow people to die as martyrs on Sunday and then on the next Sunday to do away with it like a lark.
after it was all for nothing.
That is not the God we serve.
We serve a God that requires of us integrity of heart and obedience to His laws, which are not grievous.
The commandments of God are not grievous.
Now, let's deal with an objection.
This is one of the objections that people put forth That like to justify the eating of swine and of other unclean foods and what they say as well?
There was nothing in the Bible about not eating pork until the time of Moses, and it was okay to eat pork for a long time, and then all of a sudden, it's wrong to eat pork.
Well, I say, is that true?
Let's question that.
And let's go to the Word of God in Genesis chapter 7 and verse 2, and this is the story in the Scripture about Noah's Ark.
You know, and most people say, if you'd ask the question, well how many animals of each kind did Noah put on the ark?
Most people would say two of every kind.
That's an incorrect answer.
Let's read in Genesis chapter 7 and verse 2.
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens the male and his female, and of beasts that are not clean by two the male and his female.
Well looky there!
There was the knowledge of the clean and unclean beasts in the days of Noah, and I believe right there.
Now, it doesn't, in the book of Genesis, it doesn't spell it out like it does in the time of Moses, and well, Moses wrote Genesis too, by the way, but there was definitely the knowledge of clean and unclean beasts when Noah put the animals in the ark.
Genesis chapter 7 and verse 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of everything that creepeth upon the earth.
There was absolutely the knowledge of clean and unclean beasts at the time That Noah put the animals on the ark.
And for me to believe that these unclean beasts were different than what God revealed on to Moses is absolute nonsense.
So I have to absolutely believe that Noah and the people in that antediluvian world, that they very well understood the difference between clean and unclean beasts because it's right there In the Word of God, in Deuteronomy chapter 14 and verse 3, Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Now let's just take a breath and let's just think about this for just a moment.
The things that are designated in Scripture that we should not be eating are termed abominations.
The pig is an abomination.
The mouse It's an abomination to God.
Satan understands that.
That's why he uses the mouse and the swine and the things of evil.
You know, the witches have known this for a long time.
Witches, when they make their potions, they'll use all kinds of insects, spiders, anything nasty in the world.
Today, we're told that it's good to eat them.
Get that insect protein.
Yeah, anything in the world to defile
uh human beings that's what satan's all about that's what satan's all about and we need to be clear-eyed about it we need to be clear-eyed about it and i i love what is said in the book of job in job chapter 14 and verse 4 who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one nobody can bring a clean thing out of an unclean you're not gonna ever
Come to the conclusion that Jesus would eat a mouse, that he would eat swine.
It's utter ridiculousness.
The Father expresses in multitudes of places that these things are an abomination, and this is absolutely something that we need to get.
And I know that I'm speaking to the choir, for our regular listeners, but I just hope that for some of our friends that don't have this understanding, that this will hopefully be able to put it into a little more clear perspective for you.
Now, in the book of Leviticus, let's go to chapter 11, and we have said many times that obviously the Levitical priesthood has passed away, and I'm looking here to see Sister Donna.
I don't know if she's in the chat tonight.
I hope you're in there, Sister Donna.
But absolutely, thank God the Levitical system has passed away.
We don't have to do the animal sacrifices, but there were, the, the truths that are set forth that don't have that don't relate to that worship system of the animal sacrifices and offerings, the things that don't relate specifically to when Israel was in the land, they are still morally in force.
What God deemed right and holy then is right and holy now.
Now let's look at Leviticus 11.
Leviticus 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
And then he goes on to spell it out.
Now, what is happening here in Leviticus chapter 11 is that God is telling us what food is.
He's telling us what food is, what is good for us to eat and what is not.
And there's a lot of obvious health reasons that we could bring out.
You know, we shouldn't have to bring out scientific proof that, well, it's not good to eat a spider, not good to eat a rat.
We really shouldn't have to do that.
Common sense should kick in somewhere along the line.
And a lot of the reasons why, and I don't I don't think any of us understand all the reasons.
There's a lot of obvious reasons we should get.
But I believe that many of these things were originally created good by God, but they have been deeply corrupted by Satan.
And we know that not only did Satan set out to corrupt the human genome through the sons of God and the daughters of men, But that he also, we read in the Book of Jasher about the pollution that was put upon the animal genome also.
And I think a lot of these things that are forbidden, they're forbidden because they can actually create genetic alteration in us.
But you see, I don't have to, my thoughts are not God's thoughts.
I don't have to understand everything to obey.
You see, if God tells me not to do something, my little pea brain doesn't have to understand it When I come to the Word of God, I bring a couple premises.
Well, number one, God knows more than I do, and number two, He loves me!
So what He tells me is for my good, so if He says something, I'm going to do it, and I'm not going to question like some kind of little brat kid and refuse to do it until He explains it all to me.
So we need to come back to that attitude.
We need to come back to that attitude that God loves us, what He tells us is for our good, and here in Leviticus 11, for our good, He is telling us just exactly what food is, and we should thank our Heavenly Father for that, as I know we do.
Now, let's go to the book of 1 Timothy, and let's look at 1 Timothy chapter 4.
And we're going to read verse 4 and 5.
And this is one of the most used scriptures that...
people will use to defend the eating of just anything they want to.
In 1 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 4, For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving, for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
I want to read Albert Barnes, and to many people, this is a get-out-of-jail-free card for them just to do anything they want, and I think that's what most people in the religious system are looking for, a get-out-of-jail-free card for some way for them to justify living a godless life.
But I want to read Albert Barnes' comment, and I'll read it again.
This is one of their gotcha verses.
Well, a gotcha.
For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving.
Albert Barnes said this.
It is good in its place, good for the purpose for which he made it.
But it should not be inferred that a thing which is poisonous in its nature is good for food.
There are certain fish and there are certain reptiles that if you would eat it would kill you.
There are other plants that will kill you if you eat them.
You know, every creature of God is good, and it says because it is a creation of God, it is good only in its place and for the ends for which he intended it.
Nor should it be inferred that what God has made is necessarily good after it has been perverted by man And the devil, we might add.
It's nonsensical to think that it's good to eat a poisoned reptile that would kill you.
It just gets crazy.
Every creature of God is good for its purpose, and every creature of God that God has designated as food is good.
But if he says that something is an abomination, it is an abomination, and we need to get that, and we need to understand that, and I know that certainly most of us do.
I want to read Genesis chapter 1, and I want to read verse 31, and the Scripture says here in Genesis chapter 1, And verse 31, it says, And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
And after that, we know what happened.
There was the fall of man, And not only when Adam and Eve sinned, it did not just affect all of their descendants, all of us, because we are the descendants of Adam and Eve.
We inherit from them a sinful nature.
And not only that, but the entire earth fell.
It then began to bring forth thorns and thistles and weeds And now even the entire creation is groaning and crying out in Romans 8 and 22, For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
And when the Lord returns in that new heaven and that new earth, it's going to be restored like it was at one time in the Garden of Eden, and even the are going to be changed.
They're going to be back the way God originally created them, but we now live in a fallen world, and the Lord has given us his word for a reason, that we can navigate through this fallen world, and that we can live a life that is pleasing to God, where we can be the priests of the order of Melchizedek, where we can distinguish between things that are clean and unclean,
And we can be able to counsel people how to be a people that walks in obedience to the law of the Most High God.
Now, I'm going to take a break now, and at the break, when Sister Donna was here for so many years, it would be at this point that I would say that I want to thank each and every one of you That prays for us and studies with us and supports us with your gifts and with your kindness, and we certainly do with all of our heart.
And I'm going to have Brian here and Brett come, and they're going to give you a little bit of an update.
We got a lot going on on FOJC Radio.
And they're going to be giving you a little update about what's coming and then I'm going to be back and I got some more things.
Got a lot more that needs to be said about this teaching this evening.
Would Jesus eat a mouse?
You stay tuned.
I'll be back with you in just a moment.
There.
As my name is Brett Graham.
I do the Holy Commission.
This week's Wednesday night was already in the pipeline.
Okay.
Study to show thyself approved.
So, this broadcast is giving me an idea of what my next one will be, for sure.
Brian, you got anything to announce about Sunday live or anything like that?
Yeah.
Hello everybody and welcome to FOJC Friday Night Live.
Bless you Brett.
We have a lot to talk about that's upcoming here on FOJC Underground Church.
This Sunday night, like always, we have a Sunday Night Live going to be coming up.
It's going to be called The Cult That Kidnapped Christianity.
It's going to be at 7pm Central Time, 8pm Eastern Time, as always.
So if you feel Like you want to join us for that that will be coming up on this Sunday night live coming up a few other announcements we have on Monday on the doctrine of Christ Channel It would be me and brother David doing the hard sands of Jesus.
We have a little mini series in on the doctrine of christ program we are going to do the hard sayings of jesus the title is going to be not dead but sleeping and that will be on monday night at 6 p.m central time and 7 p.m eastern time and on sunday morning i failed to mention we will be premiering on the doctrine of christ channel
Season 1 episode 9 is titled The Last Trump, The Missing Church, and The Restrainer.
That will be premiering on the Daughter in Christ channel.
So check that out.
And I have two other things, two other things.
I'm really excited about it actually.
We will be having the second if you have not had an opportunity to go check it out We will have remnant conversations.
It's gonna be hosted by agent 505 The there's season 1 if there's episode 1 already up, but the season 1 episode 2 will be airing Coming up.
So keep an eye on that.
It's gonna be called.
What do Mormons really think about women and So if you want to have any you know, anybody out there has questions about Mormonism and whatnot This will be the show for you to check out So that will be coming on up and up on that on FOJC and one other thing.
There's a new New series gonna be started off here Conversation with my Mormon friend and Andrea She will be presenting that material and being the host of that new series here on FOJC Underground Church.
Keep an eye out for that, for those programs, and I'll keep you posted.
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And I think that, I believe that's all I have.
Uh, thank you all for being in the chat and thank you for being here on FOJC Friday Night Live.
I'll get the floor back to you, Brother Brett.
Okay.
Well, I got a whole lot to say, don't I?
Um, It's pretty dismaying to me how subtly some people work their way in and judge not lest ye be judged.
You know?
So, anyway, I hear David rolling back in here.
Got it done?
Yeah.
All righty.
Well, welcome back to the FOJC Remnant Gathering.
and I want to thank Brett and Brian there for that update.
We do got a lot going on, and a lot of people are working real hard to bring quality Doctrinal material that's going to be solid and where I quite frankly I don't know anybody else that's putting out as much quality content as we are and I'm thankful for that and for everyone that is involved in that.
Now let's go to Acts chapter 10, and we're going to read a scripture that many of us are familiar with, but for a lot of our new listeners, and for this tape, which hopefully will be a blessing to those that If you are not familiar with the correct interpretation of this, let's go to Acts chapter 10 and let's begin in verse 9.
Acts chapter 10 and verse 9, and the Scripture says this, On the morrow, as they went on their journey and drew nigh into the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour.
And he became very hungry and would have eaten, but while they made ready he fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let down to the earth.
Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and of fowls of the air.
And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill, and eat.
But Peter said, Not so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.
And the voice spake to him again the second time, What God hath cleansed.
that call not thou common.
This was done thrice, and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
And this is another text that is used that people will want to interpret in such a way that will give them a license to just eat anything.
And let's go down to the 25th verse, and let's see the way the Scripture interprets it.
What is important is the way the best interpreter of the Bible is the Bible, and let's look at the way the Word of God interprets this.
In the verse 25 and following, And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshipped him.
And Peter took him up, saying, Stand up!
I myself also am a man.
And as he talked with him, he went in and found many that were come together.
And he said unto them, Ye know how.
That it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company or come unto one of another nation, but God hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Now let's have an instant replay there.
This is the biblical interpretation from Peter himself of what the Lord showed him was the meaning of this vision But God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
The purpose of this vision unto Peter was to show that the Jews were no better than the Gentiles, and that the Gentiles were worthy And very capable of faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
It's talking, the lesson is about people.
It's not about animals.
They were used just as a parabolic, symbolic comparison.
Now, let's go to the book of Colossians.
And it's amazing how that this text also, you know, when a person has a predisposed idea, When you think you know what the answer is, you can twist the Scripture to fit whatever you think is accommodating in your mind and to whatever your mind thinks is right or wrong.
Now let's go to the book of Colossians chapter 2, which is another passage that is used in this regard.
Colossians chapter 2 and verse 20, it says here, "...wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to as though living in the world, are you subject to its ordinances?" Touch not, taste not, handle not.
Now, right there, they'll say, we gotcha.
We gotcha.
Looky right there.
It says, don't go along with these laws that tell you what you can eat and what you can touch.
But let's read the next verse.
Which are all to perish with the using after the doctrines and commandments, excuse me, after the commandments and doctrines of men.
What is being addressed here by Paul and Colossians?
Poor Paul.
Poor Paul really gets blamed for a lot of stuff he has nothing to do with.
It's talking about the doctrines of men.
Let's read verse 22 again.
Which are all to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men.
It is not talking about the Jewish law.
Well, I won't even say Jewish law.
It's the Torah.
It's God's holy law.
It's not talking about God's law, it's talking about laws that men make up about what we can eat, and what we cannot.
Let's look at Romans 14, and we'll look at another gotcha scripture that they want to throw out to try to prove their point.
Romans chapter 14, and let's read verse 14, it says here, I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself, but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Now, let's get the context, let's go back to Romans 14 verse 1 and let's get the context and we're going to find out again, context is king.
If you take something out of context, you can make the Bible say whatever you want.
The context of Colossians 2 is not God's law, it's the commandments of men.
And let's get the context here in Romans 14.
Him that is weak in the faith, Receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
For one believeth that he may eat all things, another who is weak eateth herbs.
Now, I want to look at Godet's commentary on Romans 14 here.
He brings up a great point and he says here, The law did not forbid the eating of flesh, except that of certain unclean animals, nor the use of wine, except to certain persons and in certain particular cases.
It would therefore be difficult to explain how they could have come by way It's very well said, Mr. Godet.
Once again, Romans 14 is not talking about the God's law, it's talking about the laws of men.
And if it's not talking about But, I mean, there's nothing about total abstinence, and he mentions wine, because in Romans chapter 14, 21, he says, It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
And you cannot get vegetarianism nor total abstinence from God's law.
It isn't there.
So therefore, just like Mr. Godet concluded, it's not talking about God's law.
It is not.
Now, if not, who's it talking about?
John Gill gives us a couple options right here.
In his commentary, he says, the Essenes among the Jews, and the Pythagoreans among the Gentiles, who thought they were to abstain from the eating of all sorts of animals.
There were groups of the Essenes that were vegetarians.
The Pythagoreans, you know, there we go, it's the gloveheads, they're the vegetarians, not us, it's the glovers.
The Pythagoreans and the Essenes, they had these rules, and they were affecting a lot of people.
It's not God's law that's even being talked about.
In Romans chapter 14, context is king, and whenever people fall into the trap, and you see, when I've got an agenda, that I'm going to eat pork and I'm going to take scriptures to try to build my case for that, you've got to be very, very careful, because you will be allowed, in your mind, to come up for justification for that which your carnal flesh wants to do.
Now, Brian, I want you to throw up on the screen the picture of our little canine friend.
And we're going to introduce to you Lassie this evening.
Everybody say hello to Lassie.
Is Lassie in the house tonight?
Alright.
Now isn't Lassie cute?
Just a wonderful cute little, don't we, any dog lovers in the house tonight?
Does anybody listening to FOJC radio tonight, do any of you have a dog?
Now, I want to read Romans 14, 14 again.
Romans chapter 14 and verse 14, I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself.
Now Lassie there, That is so cute and so lovable, Lassie is an unclean animal.
She is unclean, but yet, she is not unclean of herself.
Now, you can pet Lassie, You can play fetch with Lassie, you can cuddle up with Lassie and let her lay her little head in your lap, and it will not defile you.
But if you eat Lassie, you're gonna be defiled.
Now this isn't hard, is it?
Everything is good for that purpose it was created.
It's not unclean of itself, but it's unclean when it is used improperly by us.
Don't eat Lassie.
It's not that hard.
Don't eat a mouse.
Don't eat a pig.
Don't eat Lassie.
This isn't hard.
It is just common sense, and this is a very, very good illustration how that nothing is unclean of itself, but when we use things for the purpose other than what God intended, it becomes unclean, and it becomes perverted.
Jesus would no more eat a mouse.
Then he would eat a pig or he would eat Little Lassie.
And that is why the Word of God gives us the guide of the things by which we are to partake in a way that's going to be a blessing to us and not a curse.
And all of the dog lovers in the chat said amen.
Any dog lovers in the house tonight?
That's right.
Don't eat Lassie.
This ain't hard, is it?
Don't eat Mickey.
Don't eat Lassie.
Enjoy your animals.
They're not unclean to themselves.
Now, let's go to Mark chapter 7, and let's go to the doctrine of Christ, and let's bring everything in perspective.
Let's go to Mark chapter 7.
Mark chapter 7, and we're going to begin in verse 1, Then came together unto him the Pharisees and certain of the scribes which came from Jerusalem.
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashing hands, they found fault.
For the Pharisees and all the Jews, except they washed their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Context is king, my friend.
The context of Mark chapter 7 is the issue of whether or not you can eat food without the ritualistic Jewish hand-washing.
That's the issue here.
The issue here isn't pork versus turkey sausage, it's about the ritual of Jewish handwashing.
I want to read something from, this is the commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica by Lightfoot, and this is what the actual ritual of the Jewish handwashing involved.
It says here, The washing of hands as to common things or common food was to the joining of the arm, and the cleansing of the hands and feet in the temple was to be to the joint.
Sayeth the Aarak, is where the arm is distinguished from the hand, also where the foot is distinguished from the leg.
Are you getting all that?
The second water's cleansed whatsoever part of the hands the first water's had washed.
You gotta do it once, and then you gotta do it again, because when you wash the first time, when you cleanse one part, the part you touched to cleanse the part that was dirty is now defiled, so you wash again to make sure you get it off.
The second waters cleanse whatsoever parts of the hands the first waters had washed, but if the first waters had gone above the juncture of the arm, the second waters do not cleanse, because they do not cleanse Beyond the juncture, if therefore the waters which went down above the juncture return upon the hands again therein clean.
Oh my goodness, give me a break.
It's almost like, it's a lot easier even, you know, we'll wash our hands, 1-1000, 2-1000.
But I mean, this is a bunch of nonsense.
And this is the nonsense Jewish, Jesus was coming against.
And in Mark chapter 7, this is the tradition of the elders.
This is that tradition of the elders, the, the halakha.
That became written down as the Talmud and evolved into the Kabbalah, and Jesus hated it.
You know, the Jews, they were saying, boy, Jesus, you and your disciples, you don't do all this stuff!
How dare you!
Jesus absolutely came against it.
He came against it in no uncertain terms.
He made a clear distinction between God's holy law and this Nonsense!
This nonsense that men were putting on people.
Going on in verse 5, it says this, Mark chapter 7 verse 5, Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not by disciples according to the tradition of the elders?
But eat bread with unwashing hands.
He answered and saith unto them, Well hath Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines, The commandments of men.
The very same phrase we encountered in Colossians.
We're talking about the commandments of men here.
That's the context.
That's the context of Colossians 2.
That's the context of Romans 14.
For laying aside the commandment of God, here Jesus is making a clear distinction between the oral Torah The Halakha, the traditions of men, that's one thing, that's of man, God's laws of God.
Jesus is making that distinction.
For laying aside, you're laying aside the commandment of God.
Ye hold the tradition of men as the washing of pots and cups and many other like such things ye do.
And he said unto them, he's going to get even stronger, and he said unto them, full well ye reject The commandment of God.
You lay it aside.
You reject it, that ye may honor your own tradition.
You reject God's law, and you make up whatever you think you want to put on people.
For most, and it goes on, we'll read verse 13, it gets even stronger.
Making the Word of God of none effect through your tradition which ye have delivered, and many such like things ye do.
I know a bright light in the Hebrew movement And they have a—I guess I haven't been to there for a long time, don't plan to go—but did a series of teachings defending the oral Torah.
Really?
Jesus comes against the oral Torah, says that it lays aside God's law?
And that it makes it of none effect, and you're going to defend it?
Really?
Well, go ahead.
But I'm sorry for anybody that's so silly they're going to follow after that nonsense.
There's a clear distinction between God's law and that oral tradition that has become the Talmud, that has become the Kabbalah, that has become the modern Hebrew movement, Messianic, take your pick, whatever you want to call it.
Now, I want to read a little bit from Leonhard Golpetz's Theology of the New Testament, and he sees it so clearly, and we need to really get this in clear, uh, with a clear-eyed clarity that is not subject to confusion.
He says this, the Pharisee rabbinic Judaism ascribed to the Halakha the same authority that it granted to the Torah itself.
That it's a cult, You know what the Mormon Church does?
And I choke, I shouldn't even use the word Church, but they put the Word of the Prophet equal with the Scripture.
Roman Catholicism puts the Word of the Pope and their tradition above Scripture, not just equal to it, but above it.
What Judaism Which has bled into the thinking for everyone that adopts this thinking of the Oral Torah I'll read it again.
Pharisee rabbinic Judaism ascribed to the Halakha the same authority that it granted to the Torah itself.
The Halakha was traced back to Moses as a secret oral tradition.
Jesus, however, drew a sharp distinction between the Torah and a Halakha in a way that provoked astonishment among his contemporaries.
Oh yeah!
He drew a sharp distinction and it amazed them.
The Pharisees Couldn't get over it, they had to kill him.
But that's our Lord.
He wants us to have truth.
He wants us to have purity.
He wants us to separate all teachings of men from our mind, and follow the way of God in truth, and when we come back to everything, to the doctrine of Christ, the cross, the doctrine, and the example of Christ, we can see this clearly.
So, one more thing here from Mr. Goldpelt.
He says, In contrast to the general understanding current in his Jewish milieu, Jesus drew a sharp distinction between the Old Testament commandments and the Halakha of the scribes.
He rejected the Halakha as precepts of men and the tradition of men.
Thank God!
This is very clear.
We need to get it clear, get it straight, and understand that in no way was Jesus Christ diminishing God's law.
He said that He did not come.
Well, let me just read that.
Let me just read that.
We've read it many times, but we cannot read it enough, because for some reason this doesn't register.
You know, and I go back to What this young lady from Alaska wrote, the almost 20-year-old, where she says that it's the true Jesus.
That, you know, when we look out at the Jesus preached by these churches, is it the true Jesus?
Is it this one?
In Matthew chapter 5 and beginning in verse 17, Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets, for I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle, shall no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever shall Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, yea, to teach people it's okay to even break the least of them, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.
But whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Now that's pretty clear.
And how do, you know, it's just like this Jesus here.
is not the guy we're hearing about on Sunday morning in these assemblies, for the most part.
And he goes on to say in verse 20, For I say unto you that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
The righteousness that comes from thinking you're doing some perfect law-keeping isn't good enough.
Because none of us can keep it perfectly.
The love of God in our heart will compel us to try to do so, but we need the righteousness of Christ, the righteousness of Christ that puts the Holy Spirit within us, that writes the law upon our heart, that gives us a desire to fulfill God's law.
And somehow I don't understand when the Bible says that He will write the law upon our heart, That once we have the law written upon our heart, we're gonna say, okay, it's done away, you know, I got the law in my heart, that means we don't even have to regard it anymore.
That's pretty nonsensical, isn't it?
It's just as silly to think of that, or if Jesus would eat a mouse.
It's pretty crazy, isn't it?
Now, and I hope that this teaching tonight will help some of our friends that are constantly inundated Um, with this lawlessness, that it will help them to see clearly that the scriptures are against them.
The scriptures are against some understanding that God's moral understanding and his clear precept of what is food is.
I tell you, right now, we need to read Leviticus 11 and to really take to heart what's food and what ain't more than any time.
In the history of humanity, because there has never been a time when man has done more to try to defile that which we eat.
I'm going to give you one more example, and then we're going to conclude.
I've got another verse I want to talk about in Mark 7.
But let's have another example, and context is king.
Each and every one of these verses that is used to try to prove that it's okay to consume whatever you want, swine, mice, insect, protein, all of these are taken out of context.
I'll give you one more.
1 Corinthians chapter 8 verse 8 and 9, but meat commendeth us not to God, for neither if we eat are we the better, neither if we eat not are we the worst, Now, they're going to say, gotcha, lookie there, it's okay to have a pork chop, but let's get the context, please.
The context, once again, is not God's law on what's clean and unclean.
In 1 Corinthians 8 and 1, now as touching Things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge.
Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
The context of 1 Corinthians 8 is clean and unclean food, not weather, Leviticus 11.
If you read Leviticus 11, you know, it doesn't say that, you know, this will expire in 400 years and it will no longer be any good.
It doesn't say that.
It tells, it's God's information from the Most High God of what's food and what's good for us to eat and what isn't.
And it's very, very important that we understand that and act accordingly.
Now I want to share another verse with you.
This is a verse that way back in the day when I was a pork guzzler,
And I'm sure I ate as much of it as any of them, but I would have people from time to time would confront me, and I was the type of person, I like to study things out, and they would come to me with Mark 7 and 19, and I'll read it to you in the NIV Bible,
And in the NIV Bible, Mark chapter 7 verse 9 says, 19 says this, For it doesn't go into their heart, but into their stomach, and then out of the body.
In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.
And I would read, I would have my NIV Bible, and I would read them this verse.
I would say, lookie there, I gotcha!
Jesus said that all foods are clean and good to eat.
The only problem when I finally figured out that these apostate Bibles were apostate Bibles that Satan is using to defile people.
Let's look at it in the real Bible.
Let's look at Mark chapter 7 verse 19 in the real Bible, the King James Bible, and it says here, Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the drought, purging all meats.
That means it goes in one end and comes out the other.
That's what that means, if anybody's struggling with that.
But the part about Jesus declaring all foods clean, it is not in the real Bible.
It wasn't said by the real Jesus.
It was said by the NIV Jesus, with the apostate readings that was added in by Westcott and Port, and the Jesuit Roman Catholic Cardinal Martini that sat on the board of the Nestle-Allen committee.
That's been tampered with.
The NIV Bible has been tampered with by the devil.
Yeah, that's right.
God didn't do that.
It was the devil, because he wants to defile you.
God wants you to be holy and pure.
Satan wants to defile you.
And when I realized, and it irritated me, because I don't like to be fooled.
I don't like to be lied to.
I want to get the truth.
And when I saw that the real Jesus didn't say that, There goes, there goes the Piggly Wiggly right there.
And, I, uh, you know, I just, um, I just can't implore you enough.
I believe, and right now, I tell you what, uh, I guess there was a period of time when I thought, man, I'd love to have me a pork-loaded pizza, I'd love to fry me up some bacon, but I tell you, I'm to the point now, it disgusts me.
It disgusts me and it nauseates me.
I don't want to even smell it cooking.
I just really, and I'm glad because it's disgusting to God, and I'm glad that it has become disgusting to me.
And I'm sure that, and thanks also by the way all of you that are a part of the broadcast tonight, And I know that we've got a lot of new listeners that you might have never heard something like this, and we just encourage you to go through this teaching again, to read the Scriptures, and come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord.
That many, many would give the testimony of how their life has been blessed spiritually and physically since they began to walk in obedience to God's law in the realm of clean and unclean food.
Well, with that, I just want to, with all heartfelt thanks, thank each and every one of you for being a part of this broadcast tonight.
I thank the Lord each and every time.
That I'm able to share God's Word, the struggles and the barriers just keep to be increasing the closer we get to the Lord's return.
So thank each and every one of you.
And I just want to say, you know, Brian has given the announcements of everything we've got upcoming, and I will be with John tomorrow night on the midnight ride, always looking forward to that.
So I'm just going to say that for tonight, on FOJC Radio Friday Night Live.
A big high five and good night everybody.
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