DESCRIPTION: From the state of being asleep to the life of awakening, such is going from the shekels of historical understanding of the Word of God to prophetic revelation of the Word of God. Historically the Bible is a roadmap to nowhere, leading the reader to contradictions again and again without prophetically seeing God and what He is trying to say. Obviously, the historical account of scripture is not what the Father intended for us to see because His Word would not be sound and true. May this revelation bring us to solid ground, as Michael Petro dissects and offers rebuttal arguments from the book, ""Why the Jews Rejected Jesus"" to disannul Jesus as the Messiah. For example, the book goes over the prophecy in Isaiah 6 - when Isaiah after seeing God in his glory asks the Lord, how long will it be until the people get eyes to see him and ears to hear him, and he said- ""Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant and the houses without a man, and the land be utterly desolate."" Isaiah received this prophecy in 742 BC and it was just 21 years later in 721 BC that the children of Israel were carried away to Babylon, and the Assyrians quite literally ""wasted the cities"", "made houses without a man" and "made the land utterly desolate" in the natural. Therefore, historically speaking, the prophecy had been fulfilled which should have allowed all Israel to see and hear God. Next the book points out how Jesus quotes Isaiah 6 in Matthew 13:14 and John 12:40. The latter is quoted over 700 years after the fall of Jerusalem (Babylonian Captivity) So historically speaking the people Isaiah prophesied to should have had eyes to see and ears to hear, because 'the city was waste, houses were without a man, and the land was left desolate.'' If we take scripture historically Jesus cannot be the Messiah because he quoted a scripture that historically had been fulfilled. But if we understand scripture prophetically and see the symbolic teaching which the Holy Spirit reveals to us, we can see a hidden picture in the text. God told Jeremiah, ""I have made you a fortified city"" (Jer .1:18) so the city laid waste isn't a natural town it's a person. Paul says, ""What? Know ye not that ye are the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?"" So, the house without an inhabitant is not a literal house but a spiritual house, a person without Christ in them! And the land in Matthew 13 and Luke 8 is the earth that the seed Word is sown into, which is the heart. Therefore, the historical account is shunned by the prophetic account that was yet to come. Revivalist Michael Petro releases this teaching to the Body of Christ, a sign to us that we have to begin to search the scripture using the Spirit of God as our guide. It is the job of the Spirit of God to reveal the deep and hidden things in scripture so that we can perceive Jesus. The testimony of Our Lord is the Spirit of prophesy so obviously, Dad wouldn't have it any other way. |