Israel, Gaza, Jerusalem destruction, and the Parable of the King's Wedding Feast
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Right off the bat, “NO”. Thank you for that. Now someone needs to tell the rest of the church and our congress. But i doubt they will listen.
Maybe so, but we are debtors to Israel for the Bible. Very little of it was written by Gentiles. And we mourn for them, that they are blind to truth. They are, in short, a special case. They share our regard for civil liberties and for basic civilization, most of them speak English, and they are our chief military ally in the world. Also, would you rather live among Israeli Jews or among Arab Muslims?
@@bobtaylor170 I'd rather live with both in peace. Both NEED to hear the Gospel every day. How are they going to hear it if we don't share it?
The current nation of Israel was established in 1948. Those people are not the descendants of the Jews that existed during Jesus’s time or that wrote the Bible.
Parts of our country including government are actively working to genocide Palestine in the name of protecting Israel.
Seeing as our command as Christians is to go and share the Gospel to all nations, we should desire to be peacemakers and work things out diplomatically rather than through war.
But if war is inevitable, then we should still fight to save as many lives on both sides, both temporally and eternally.
We have no power really over what the government does with our taxes. We simply render to Caesar what is his and give to God what is His.
@@johnhouchins3156 I agree.
@bobtaylor170 funny you say that. A catholic from Bethlehem comes to my city every year from late Nov until just before Christmas, when he heads home. He told me to my face, that in Bethlehem the Christians and the Muslims get along just fine. No problems between them at all.
Also, the 3rd oldest Christian church in the world is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Gaza. There were 1,300 Christians that were living peacefully in Gaza all this time. I found out about that church after part of it was hit by Israel bombing last week. 18 women and children, our fellow Christians, dead.
My wife and are going through the Bible study program to be confirmed into our Lutheran church.. a couple more weeks. We are very excited!
Amen, invite friends!
Confirmed sounds Catholic not washed in the blood joined to the Body of CHRIST.
As a retired Lutheran Pastor in the Missouri Synod I can relate to the feelings of guilt for all my failures as a Servant of Christ my LORD!!
Thank you, I am not Lutheran, but my own denomination (Reformed) holds to essentially the same orthodox view of the definition and identity of Israel and its role on end times. Most American evangelicals have been taught an errant view. I grew up in that culture, from Hal Lindsay to Left Behind. I am pleased that Lutheran and Reformed pastors are addressing this issue and doing so scripturally.
Exactly!
Do you believe Israel existed up until 70AD? When did it cease?
Amen
And it's kind of a callous View because it degrades the people that are suffering on both sides of that conflict to nothing more than check marks on a to do list.
@@serronserron1320...and it turns away from injustices done on all sides, too.
The other big problem is that people are wishing, inviting, and hoping in a huge explosion of terrible events to come instead of repenting. They are literally wishing for evil and celebrating it instead of repenting.
Pastor Wolfmeuller, please write a detailed book on eschatology from a Lutheran perspective. I find that most Lutheran teachers are so vague when it comes to matters related to the end times. The same vagueness is present in this video. You started off with the question of if what's happening to Israel is a sign of the end times? All I heard was a 'no' and then the gospel. It drives me crazy because I have a lot of deconstruction to do after being in the reformed tradition for so long. For example, what do we make of the antichrist? Is it a singular person, or plural? Is it a system? Another is the mark of the beast. The evangelicals are having a field day terrorising people with their version of- especially after Covid. Then there are the seals and bowls for which evangelicals have detailed explanations. I guess Lutherans like myself just want clarity on what the Lutheran Church's stance is on these matters. I've watched your videos on eschatology, the rapture, and so forth, it was helpful but there are still so many unanswered questions. Could you please direct me to a book or can you write an end times book?
I agree with you. Lutherans seem the most vague about end times. I know it’s not the Lutheran style to be as vocal, but many other Christian denominations are on this topic. I would like to see more in depth videos explaining and clarifying the Lutheran perspective on this topic.
CPH has the Concordia Commentaries on Revelation, Daniel, etc.
Your the best teacher.
Pastor, God bless you to be there with those who pass/die. I think of Grace when I'm clothed in the holy garments to face GOD and it's only thru Christ that I am saved, spared and forgiven.
Amen, Amen, and Amen!
I just love you! You keep answering my many questions ❤ Wonderful teachings. Thank you!
From 77 yr. old. New to Lutheran teachings.
Hey Pastor. Thank you so much. Very comforting. Very...very...very...
I am a Lutheran in St. Louis and i see alot o doomsayers saying we will go to hell for this that even wearing a cross. Pastor Bryan you are a breath of fresh air man!!! Thank you. Seriously thank times a billion!! You rule!!!!!
ASL is Awesome during LCMS Church Services! Create in me a Clean Heart Oh God and Renew a Right Spirit Within me..
Wow I love this Thank you
I recently read Chemnitz’s preaching on the wedding feast. It’s amazing how I never saw it that way. Love reading the church fathers.
Thank you..God be praised
I so appreciate this word and your heart for us. And the good news you faithfully proclaim. We need it. We need Christ and Him who came to us and will come for us again!
Thank you. God's peace be with you.
Oh how this blesses my weary soul! We get so caught up in our stuff and I need to be reminded of not only His precious cleansing blood but hoe He covers us in His righteousness! Thank you Jesus!
Why do we have to feel so bad about ourselves? I know I'm not good enough to be in God's presence. But I am so thankful to God and Jesus for the sacrifice that was made so I can be with them in Heaven. I so look forward to being in Heaven, and whatever God has planned for me there, I'm okay with it. I will gladly be a door keeper or whatever job there is; I just want to be there with them. ❤️
indeed
POWERFUL! God bless you Pastor. Amen ❤
Why do some acknowledge Israel existed in 50 ad, but also say it can't exist in 2000 ad? Did God say it?
Those whom Paul spoke of in Romans who are his kin (Jews) were scattered after 70 ad. Is it impossible for God to gather them again, by whatever means and for whatever reason, back to the holy land and Jerusalem?
How would a Christian ever recognize it if God did such a thing?
What are the special hoops a "Jewish nation" in the holy land would need to jump through to qualify as being related to the Israel of the Bible?
Good message. Thank you.
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Wonderful comfort! Gods Peace!
You da man! ❤
Very good message! Thank you
Awesome message! Thank You.
Great message!
Thanks for your comments about baptism covering our shame.
Excellent!!! 😎
Wonderful as always. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this!
This was wonderful. Thank you
Shindig....a tv show on ABC that ran for 2 seasons 1964-1965. It featured popular music groups of that time and a group of dancers. Are you old enough to remember that show Pastor Wolfmueller???
are, then, Confessional Lutherans Partial-Pretorists? and/or, what about secondary or tertiary fulfillments? (Jerusalem destroyed in 70AD and at other times thereafter?) thanks for your comforting words about the assurance of salvation! we needed it!
Everybody is a partial-preterist. It's just a matter of degree.
It is my understanding that we Lcms Lutherans are amillenialists.
@leendas7281 yes. You can be Partial preterist amillenialist
@@leendas7281 yes, definitely amil.
@@joncollins7129 thanks but this is all still clear as mud and I've given up on trying to figure it all out. Intentional or not, eschatology has become ridiculously complicated and frustrating. Theologians from different beliefs claim to use scripture to interpret scripture but arrive at vastly different conclusions. It becomes all about the hermeneutics and I've given up on that. Seems like most just manipulate scripture to fit their belief and that is all wrong. I a stack of books about this and only get through a few chapters in each before my head feels like its going to explode. I'm done with all of this nonsense. I am just grateful eschatology is not critical to my salvation.
Hey, Pastor! On the end times, I was wondering about your thoughts on chapters 38 & 39 in Ezekiel. What sort of prophecy is it? Has it been fulfilled, and if so, how?
Shindig Meaning “a lively party”, this term emerged in the 1870s with mysterious origins. It’s possible that it comes from the Scottish word shinty, describing a game similar to hockey, which has a commotion similar to parties.
I am not sure what you do with the many prophecies that speak of the time directly before the Day of the Lord. Like the time being worse than any in the history of the world (paraphrasing of course), and the 3 days of darkness, and the Ezekiel 38 war, and Daniel, and God pleading with humanity through pestilence and famine and fire, etc.? What about the harlot in Rev.? What do you do with it all? Because some is speaking of the destruction of Jerusalem, but some is obviously speaking of the end of the world. Mark 13:19, For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God crated unto this time, neither shall be. And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. There have been many other horrible times through history like the fall of Jerusalem, and even today, the evil is so rampant and just on population alone, I think it is worse than any time in the history of the world. (look at the child brothels in Europe and the selling of children's body parts after their 'usefulness' is over) Surely God will wipe out the sin on the earth, as He did in Sodom and Gomorrah, and I feel like we must be close to that day of Reckoning. I appreciate you speaking the Gospel, but I don't feel any Lutherans want to talk about these prophecies.
Anglicans are often squeamish about the Hebrew prophets too. For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the Patriarchs. Roman's 15:8.
I've always felt that the only "sign" left unfulfilled is that not every nation, tribe or tongue has yet received the Gospel and therefore representation in the New Jerusalem. There are some unreached tribes I believe.
The Great Commission says:
"..Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
The key word here is "all nations", which is quite different from "all tongues" or "all tribes". If you look at a world map today where Christianity has been or is currently present, this is fulfilled. Christianity has been to every remote corner of our planet. Its been received and rejected by many nations.
@MrGyngve from what I've read there are still unreached groups in both the Amazon and New Guinea. Read Revelation 7:9. All....
It's important to remember the Abrahamic blessing passed on to the tribes of Joseph, never the tribe of Judah who falsely claim to be the totality of Semites, Hebrews, and Israelis. Israel today is the church and Revelation warned of the Synagogue of Satan. In Acts 9:15, God separates gentiles and Israel, not gentile and Jew. In Romans 11:1, the apostle Paul corrects those calling him a Jew stating that he is an Israelite, of the tribe of Benjamin.
The Kingdom of Judah carried on the church whereas the Kingdom of Jerusalem carried on the Abrahamic blessing until the coming of Christ Jesus.
Palestinians and Arabs in general are the descendants of Ishmael, a wild man whose hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him.
Peace be with you and all of those under the state of Israel. My heart goes out to the Christians caught there in the middle of this
Nonsense!
I would find it edifying for a video to cover (at least the basic) prophecies people propose about Israel and how they've been fulfilled in the past / through Christ and his Church.
Similarly it would be good to delve into how 'Israel' should be interpreted in Scripture; i.e. when it's referring to the physical place, Jewish people, God's people (believers, OT and NT), or Christ.
The guy at the end.
Jesus called him friend.
And he gave his robe to someone else, i think. Which is love but it is putting a friend before Jesus. On his wedding day.
Read Matt 24, Luke 21, is 24: revelation and many other scriptures there are many prophetic events to come before Jesus returns
So, we Chritians, as you so eloquently described as being so very taken up with God's love for us, (which I am in full agreement with), are to completely ignore as passe a number of things: 1) That God has always described Himself as the God of Israel. 2 That Jesus, our beloved Redeemer, told his Jewish disciples that in the age to come they would sit on 22 thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel. 3) Jesus said to his disciples at the last Passover he spent with them..that He would not do so again until He does so with them in His kingdom. 4) Matthew 24..all about those times and events leading up to His glorious return. 5) Jesus' Lament over Jerusalem in which He surely did speak of the coming destruction of the city..but also said a day was coming when Jerusalem would repentantly welcome Him..Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. There are so many many Scriptures in both testaments that must be allegorized, ignored, even sometimes mocked, to keep hold of the narrative that God is done with Israel, and now its all about us wonderful gentile Christians for whom all God's grace is due..without a scrap remaining for Jewish Israel. What a terrible shame.
I liked the commentary on the parable. Didn't like the no to Israel and prophecy so much.
As I have got older I have tended to take the bible more literally and less symbolically. Augustine's tendency to allegorise did great damage which carries on with those who follow him in Calvinism, which I now consider to be error. Promises to Israel mean Israel, not the church.
I am also a 'survivor' of Hal Lindsay (Hal on earth!!) who put me off eschatology for decades! 🙂
Galatians 3:26-29
"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise."
Romans 9:6-8
"Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel. Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children
; but, in Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed."
Romans chapter 11 speaks of the natural branches being broken off because of their unbelief (v.20). They can be grafted back in if they cease from their unbelief (v.23). Gentiles being grafted in because of belief (v.24). So then, believers in Christ (both Jew & Gentile) are grafted in and are now saved and so the Israel spoken of in v26,27 are the believers in Christ which makes up the church. "And so all Israel shall be saved (v.26).
Those who believe in Christ are the true Spiritual Israel. For they believe in the same promise that Abraham believed. It's not replacement theology. It is called the New Testament, which by Jesus Christ, fulfilled the Old Testament.
Blessings to you in Christ. Amen 🙏🏻
Matthew 24:15 still needs to be fulfilled. It’s not imminent yet but vlose
Bible Quiz: Who was unhappy at the return of the prodigal son?? Answer: The Fated calf. 🤣🤣🤣
17:18, royal robes…
Isaiah 17 has not been fulfilled. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12, Matthew 24:15-34 and most of Revelation 6-20 haven't been fulfilled yet (but look to be soon). No, the End Time is not for despair but, for resounding the approach of redemption. The all-important mission of Christians is to witness by giving Alms with the Word to invite the unChurched to Procession into the Church for Confession, Lections, Communion and Tithes for further Almsgiving with the Word in order to bring God's people back to Him before the End of this world.
Time will tell which view is biblical
I don’t get it
Sorry, thats 12 thrones. Slip of the finger.
Bahaullah came over 100 years ago as set forth in the book "Thief in the Night." Sorry you missed it, but not surprised.
Sorry pastor, I’m a Lutheran convert and while there’s much I agree with, Lutheran eschatology isn’t one of them.
Revelation was written post 70 ad and it’s subject is the things that are and are soon to happen. This is after the fall of Jerusalem, so you’re opening statement is wrong.
And I haven’t heard you or any other Lutheran pastor able to debunk Darbys claim that Israel would once again be a nation with Jerusalem as its capital. Darby started teaching that over 100 years before it happened. You’ve got some explaining to do about that!
Israel has a special role in the Apocalypse, and it's been a huge flaw in confessional Protestantism that it has largely failed to recognize that. Hermeneutics. Aren't they swell?
@@bobtaylor170
Frustrating is more like it. They use the historical/grammatical interpretation so well-until it comes to eschatology. Then they go all allegorical Augustinian and wind up missing things.
It’s doubtful that Revelation was written after AD70; otherwise John would have mentioned the temple being destroyed. But he doesn’t. Jesus, “This generation would see it.” Now of course, there is a future fulfillment too. But a lot of it happened already.
@@tammywilliams-ankcorn9533
Why would John have mentioned the temple being destroyed? And many good commentaries have Revelation written about AD90.
@61loneviking the only reason anyone says he wrote it in 96 is because of a single quote by Iraneus, and that date is perpetuated since then.
There is a very good reason to mention AD70 and the destruction of Jerusalem: it marks the end of the Mosaic religion. There is really nothing bigger to write about post resurrection than the destruction of Jerusalem.
Sorry, with all due respect as I love my brother, but prophecy happens more than once and yes I believe this is unfolding because everything is ordained by God thus everything is prophecy. But I agree with everything you said except no. It is
Steven...Jesus warned sternly not to "add" to his words. The modern State of Israel has NOTHING to do with God's OT people. What happens in modern Israel has no bearing on Christ's imminent return. Jesus said Wars would come, and so they have and perhaps are escalating. What is happening is another fulfillment of that, but nothing more.
Why do you think it’s prophecy and not just Gods previous promise unfolding? Anyone who attacks Israel with suffer. What prophecy could be at play here?
@mirandataylor6385 God knows the beginning from the end and end from the beginning andhe spoke it through the prophets, so I say what part is not prophecy? Truth be told I worship him in spirit and in spirit nothing is literal and everything is literal. What I am saying is this if I say it is prophecy and I am looking up for the return of Christ Jesus, what diffrance does it make to me and my faith in him in spirit if someone tells me I am wrong in my faith? I'm just saying it's not a salvation all issue I am Lutheran but I don't agree with 100% of man's theory, Jesus tells me so. He opened my eyes to see in spirit. Why would anybody try to convince me to stop going there intamently ? Faith is beautiful. We are living in the last days or even hours. Why would a Christian say otherwise?
@@steventaylor7716 So are you a prophet? Or are you leaning on your own understanding?
@br.m neither. Why are you attacking me for my uncompromising faith in the bible, God's word? Why is a female man like me attacked for making a statement that I believe that the word of God is prophecy? Why, are you a Faracy?
War & rumors of war ----- and you show a photo of yourself laughing.
Well yes the Bible says be not distressed because of these things
I and most law enforcement officers would say it is prideful and narcissistic for an arrogant man to produce UA-cam videos while driving. Bryan puts self before others safety and I'm guessing he even answers text while driving. So why would you trust him in your journey with the LORD, when he cares less about others on their journey to the supermarket or going to pick up their children from school? Look who long and often Bryan is distracted by the camera.
shin·dig ˈshin-ˌdig
Synonyms of shindig
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: a social gathering with dancing
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: a usually large or lavish party