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Written by Dr Les Aron Gosling, Rebbe
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May 01, 2008 at 12:00 AM |
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We have all enjoyed, raised, loved and lost pets. Dogs, cats, rabbits, whatever. And, it is usually a child's first experiential sense of grief over loss when a pet dies. Almost needless to say, the dispossession of a pet can be as devastating to adults as well as to children.
Will we ever see our beloved pets again, even after death?
It is very difficult for parents who lack a proper biblical education to provide proper biblical answers, in order to teach children how to cope with (and recover from) the loss of a dearly loved pet. Certainly, we were all children at one time, and we know how the death of a beloved companion shattered us (especially is this the case if the tragedy occurred when we were still quite young). As I have noted, oftentimes the demise of a pet is the first loss in life that a child will experience and it is invariably the rule, rather than the exception, that the child is ill-prepared and ill-equipped to handle this painful and complex experience.
Many adults have approached me (off the record, due partially to embarrassment) to enquire if the Bible speaks of life after death in relation to animals. And I must say, that when I have been engaged in lecture circuits and preaching opportunities at various churches that children are not in any way hesitant in delivering the very same question to me. And we all have a right to know what God says about this important subject.
One thing seems apparent. Religious educators generally have no idea about the revealed will of God -- especially is this the case regarding the nature of salvation.
As a prime example of the gross ignorance that masquerades as "Christian" thought let me cite just one example. I do not in any way wish to insult this particular man, or to single him out as being exceptional in his stupidity (for myriad's of other "authorities" are in the same boat with him) but if he is so silly as to set up an Internet web site with his name on it and claim to be God's representative teaching His truth in this particular matter then he can "take it on the chin" when Bible-based criticism comes his way. And I make no apology for castigating his level of intelligence (or lack thereof).
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Written by Dr Les Aron Gosling, Rebbe
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May 01, 2008 at 12:00 AM |
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Powerful evidence both overlooked and ignored by Jewish scholars for twenty centuries points to Yeshua ben Yosef as the fulfilment of first century CE widespread Messianic expectation. Astonishingly, this remarkable evidence comes not from pagan secular sources, but from their own sacred writings of the Intertestamental Period (circa the conclusion of the prophet Malachi's ministry to the arrival of Yochanan, the Essene baptiser). Indeed, the truth included in these largely forgotten documents is staggering! Its time for Jewish rabbis to repent of their ignorance about (and hostility toward) the carpenter Rome crucified, and the Jews stoned to death, 2000 years ago.
Its high time for all people to reappraise Yeshua the Nazarene.
The Chinese Expected the Appearance of the "Holy One" The Chinese philosopher, K'ung Fu-Tze, better known to us as Confucius, predicted the coming of the God-Man but knew he would not be found in China. The Chinese recognised that He would come from the regions west of China. They also knew that He would be due around the period (in their historical assessment) of the Roman Occupation of Judaea. They hoped He would make His appearance in India. Notice what the sage had to say: "The Holy One must be sought in the West." Verbally handed down from father to son, "by the year 64 after the Christian Era, the Emperor Mimti, we are told, under the influence of this expectation sent messengers westward into India, that there they might enquire for the long-predicted Holy One of Confucius" (Du Halde's China, Vol. I., 360,361; Le Compte's China, 118,200). |
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Written by Dr Les Aron Gosling, Rebbe
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May 18, 2008 at 01:36 PM |
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The twentieth century witnessed the sudden and awesome rise of the United States of America as a world power enshrouded with a prosperity such as has characterised no previous civilisation in world history. Seven percent of the world’s population possesses, and enjoys, 94% of the world’s wealth. Centred in the United States is an immense and sturdy manufacturing capacity, military production and financial power. America has been blessed beyond belief despite the profligacy of its national natural resources and its contemptuous disregard of biblical moral standards. Indeed, American Edomites today are in the lead as star protagonists brutally raping the planet of its remaining natural resources and ravishing the face of the globe for the last of its timber, oil, minerals, and gold. While Australian Edomites call for an end to unbridled consumerism and insist on appropriate environmental solutions to our world in crisis, the Americans wallow in their haughtiness and overtly confident sense of superiority as industrial giants scrape the muddy bottom of the oceans and the cold surface of the moon for new untapped treasuries and storehouses of unclaimed wealth and fortune. Not content with denuding Earth’s natural resources, America looks to colonise Mars and to reverse its present desolate state imaginatively transforming its barren wastelands into our original Eden. A military base on Mars will be a proposition yet to surface. All this, and more, as the world’s food resources shrink beyond belief and the spectre of global famine stalks the Earth. The USA proudly and arrogantly flies the "Stars and Stripes" of ancient Edomite power, and rules the waves under the symbol of the Edomite eagle. Moreover, typically Edomite by nature she eagerly commits "porneia" with all political and economic newcomers along with the rabble of the earth. Certainly, the Pentagon was built with German "know-how." So was the aerospace industry, and the top-secret mind control psychiatric and medical experimental programs (some details of which are beginning now to leak out into the public domain). |
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Written by Dr Les Aron Gosling, Rebbe
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Apr 13, 2007 at 07:01 PM |
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Very briefly, BRI does not teach a sin-centred theology. Any theology that centres in anything other than Yeshua haMashiach (Yeshua the Messiah) is a diabolic heresy. Indeed, BRI may be a Messianic Work, replete with Jewish roots, but even Israel is not the focus of our theology. If your theological focus is sin, Israel, prophecy, the end times, finance, homophobia or any other theme you are guilty of holding to an heterodox theology. The centre and focus of BRI theology has always been and shall remain Yeshua the Nazarene -- the Messiah alone. Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Written by Dr Les Aron Gosling, Rebbe
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Apr 28, 2008 at 03:39 PM |
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A hostile Christian (of the Nimrod-Tammuz persuasion) recently wrote to BRI and, among other things, impertinently asked me: "When, were you saved?" I put the same question back to him. He referred to his conversion experience which, he said, occurred at a particular place, and time of the day, and he even gave me the anniversary of that special date in his life and the specific circumstances surrounding it. Not too many folk can do that. He was also adamant that he alone chose "Christ." I know that Billy Graham could give the time and place when he first accepted God's Son as his Saviour. His wife, on the other hand, never ever had a specific time and place that she could recall...she "always" believed in the Lord even as a little child. In fact, it seemed there never was a time when she did not believe. Everybody’s experience of the Lord is different. I am told forthrightly by my Bible that God "has saved us [speaking of Christians] and called us [Christians] with a holy calling [please note the order here, first we are saved then we are called to worship the One who has already saved us] not according to our works [and that includes our decision-making ability to choose the Lord], but according to His own purpose and Grace, which was given us in the Messiah Yeshua" -- given when? -- "BEFORE THE UNIVERSE BEGAN" (2 Tim 1.9). Blessed assurance! How GLAD am I that my assent to Mashiach's will in His Grace, His calling, and His election, was a mere response to my already-saved position -- my acceptance of His sacrificial death on my behalf (as important as I would like to believe it is) was really an after-thought on my part; it was a mere response to the Gospel of my (already-attained) salvation ....an already accomplished fact. There are some Christians who do not like the way I pen my literature or the way I forcibly and enthusiastically express my Jewish view of the Gospel of salvation. They do not like my stylistic emphasis on God’s salvific Grace, nor yet my readiness to eagerly applaud God’s Salvific Sovereignty. Like kids in a schoolyard boasting about their fathers I can confidently say, to those who hate Jewish thoughtform and who despise the Gospel of God’s Grace: "My God is bigger than your god! My God is not the Local Village Idiot, like yours. My God is not the Fast Fading Smile of some Cosmic Cheshire Cat, like yours. My God is logical and consistent and....dare I say, endlessly affectionate, doting and loving?" Most people make God in their own image, or after the image of their own earthly father, and such a creation of the human mind naturally carries with it terrible flaws, obscene character deficiencies and blatant inconsistencies. Really, isn’t it high time to repent and give glory to the One who endlessly loves us with a kenotic Sacrificial Love, and who is soon to return in the Person of His Son to ask an account of those who supposedly believe in Him and love Him? After all, He loved us so much He would not permit the thought that we could save ourselves by our own works and capabilities. He loved us so much that He saved us before our human birth -- way back in eternity -- even long prior to the Big Bang, before SpaceTime began. That, my spiritual brethren, IS unconditional love. Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Written by Dr Les Aron Gosling, Rebbe
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Apr 28, 2008 at 03:25 PM |
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In a nutshell -- and I am usually longwinded in any important reply of this nature -- there are two ways of looking at the salvation experience. One is Gentile Christian and entirely negative. The other is rooted in Jewish thoughtform and is entirely positive. The Christian looks at salvation as an escape from the fires of hell. The Jew looks at salvation as a release INTO God and all that God is. Our Lord Yeshua made it patently clear: "He who seeks to save his life shall lose it: but he who seeks to lose his life, for my sake, will save it." Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Written by Dr Les Aron Gosling Rebbe
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Dec 20, 2007 at 05:11 PM |
1. God the Father. The supreme Deity of the universe is known to us as "God." He is the Boundless Almighty, the Creator and Sustainer of the heavens, the Earth, and all things therein. The Sh'ma (Deuteronomy 6.4) states explicitly that God is ONE . This also means that God's UNITY is found expressed right throughout the creation -- the entire Creation is at ONE with the Creative Loving Intelligence we inadequately refer to as "God." Dualism (the existence in this universe of two powerful opposing forces engaged as gods in constant conflict and hostilities) has no part in God's integral Reality. Whatever dualism is seemingly apparent is a projection of illusion in the concepts perceived by the human brain. God, as eternally Creative Spirit, is a compound unity expressed in the aspects of “Ab’ba” [Aramaic, Our Dearest Darling Daddy], "Yeshua" [Hebrew, "Salvation (of Yah);" the Son, Messiah], and Ru'ach HaKodesh [the sovereign holy Spirit] in this age. The doctrine of the "Trinity" is a blasphemy of the paganised Constantinian church. |
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