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The Lord spoke again, ‘These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are 

on the earth.” 

kashrut 

Introduction 

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famine 

The Hebrew Dietary Laws are found 

in Dueteronomy 14 and Leviticus 11 

is the more inclusive version. 

The Lord spoke again to Moses and to 

Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the 

sons of Israel, saying, ‘These are the 

creatures which you may eat from all 

the animals that are on the earth. 

Whatever divides a hoof, thus making 

split hoofs, and chews the cud, among 

the animals, that you may eat. 

Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, 

among those which chew the cud, or 

among those which divide the hoof: the 

camel, for though it chews cud, it does 

not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you. 

Likewise, the shaphan, for though it 

chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, 

it is unclean to you; (it had to be both 

chew the cud and divide the hoof) the 

rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it 

does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to 

you; and the pig, for though it divides 

the hoof, thus making a split hoof, it 

does not chew cud, it is unclean to you. 

You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch 

their carcasses; they are unclean to you. 

‘These you may eat, whatever is in the 

water: all that have fins and scales, 

those in the water, in the seas or in the 

rivers, you may eat. 

But whatever is in the seas and in the 

rivers that does not have fins and scales 

(in other words, shellfish) among 

all the teeming life of the water, and 

among all the living creatures that are 

in the water, they are detestable things 

to you, and they shall be abhorrent to 

you; (notice the words detestable and 

abhorrent–the recur throughout this 

passage); you may not eat of their flesh, 

and their carcasses you shall detest. 

Whatever in the water does not have 

fins and scales is abhorrent to you. 

‘These, moreover, you shall detest 

among the birds; they are abhorrent, 

not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture 

and the buzzard, and the kite and 

the falcon in its kind, every raven in 

its kind, and the ostrich and the owl 

and the sea gull and the hawk in its 

kind, and the little owl and the cormorant 

and the great owl, and the white 

owl and the pelican and the carrion 

vulture, and the stork, the heron in its 

kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 

All the winged insects that walk on all 

fours are detestable to you. Yet these 

you may eat among all the winged insects 

which walk on all fours: those 

which have above their feet jointed 

A Midrashic 

commentary 

on 

Dietary 

prohibitions and 

the 

famine 

for 

the 

Word of God ! 

Written by, 

James Jacob Prasch 

legs with which to jump on the earth. 

These of them you may eat: the locust 

in its kinds, and the devastating locust 

in its kinds, and the cricket in its kinds, 

and the grasshopper in its kinds. 

But all other winged insects which are 

four-footed are detestable to you. 

‘By these, moreover, you will be made 

unclean: whoever touches their carcasses 

becomes unclean until evening, 

and whoever picks up any of their carcasses 

shall wash his clothes and be 

unclean until evening. 

Concerning all the animals which divide 

the hoof but do not make a split 

hoof, or which do not chew cud, they 

are unclean to you: whoever touches 

them becomes unclean. 

Also whatever walks on its paws, 

among all the creatures that walk on 

all fours, are unclean to you; whoever 

touches their carcasses becomes unclean 

until evening, and the one who 

picks up their carcasses shall wash his 

clothes and be unclean until evening; 

they are unclean to you. 

‘Now these are to you the unclean 

among the swarming things which 

swarm on the earth: the mole, and 

the mouse, and the great lizard in its 

kinds, and the gecko, and the crocodile, 

and the lizard, and the sand reptile, 

and the chameleon. 

These are to you the unclean among 

all the swarming things; whoever 

touches them when they are dead becomes 

unclean until evening. 

Also anything on which one of them 

may fall when they are dead becomes 

unclean, including any wooden article, 

or clothing, or a skin, or a sack—any 

article of which use is made—it shall 

be put in the water and be unclean until 

evening, then it becomes clean. As 

for any earthenware vessel into which 

one of them may fall, whatever is in it 

becomes unclean and you shall break 

the vessel. 

Any of the food which may be eaten, 

on which water comes, shall become 

unclean, and any liquid which may 

be drunk in every vessel shall become 

unclean. 

Everything, moreover, on which part 

of their carcass may fall becomes 

unclean; an oven or a stove shall be 

smashed; they are unclean and shall 

continue as unclean to you. Nevertheless 

a spring or a cistern collecting water 

shall be clean, though the one who 

touches their carcass shall be unclean. 

If a part of their carcass falls on any 

seed for sowing which is to be sown, it 

is clean. Though if water is put on the 

seed and a part of their carcass falls 

on it, it is unclean to you. 

‘Also if one of the animals dies which 

you have for food, the one who touches 

its carcass becomes unclean until 

evening. 

He too, who eats some of its carcass 

shall wash his clothes and be unclean 

until evening, and the one who picks 

up its carcass shall wash his clothes 

and be unclean until evening. 

‘Now every swarming thing that 

swarms on the earth is detestable, not 

to be eaten. Whatever crawls on its 

belly, and whatever walks on all fours, 

whatever has many feet, in respect to 

every swarming thing that swarms on 

the earth, you shall not eat them, for 

they are detestable. 

Do not render yourselves detestable 

through any of the swarming things 

that swarm; and you shall not make 

yourselves unclean with them so that 

you become unclean. 

For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate 

yourselves therefore, and be 

holy, for I am holy. And you shall not 

make yourselves unclean with any of 

the swarming things that swarm on 

the earth. 

For I am the Lord who brought you up 

from the land of Egypt to be your God; 

thus you shall be holy, for I am holy.’” 

This is the law regarding the animal 

and the bird, and every living thing 

that moves in the waters and everything 

that swarms on the earth, to 

make a distinction between the unclean 

and the clean, and between the 

edible creature and the creature which 

is not to be eaten. (Leviticus 11:1-47) 

A LACK OF FOOD IS FAMINE 

During the Intertestamental Period the 

people had the Maccabees, but they had no 

prophets. 

There was no prophet from the time of 

Malachi to the time of John the Baptist. He 

came in the spirit of Elijah and fed God’s 

people during the famine. 

So it will be before Jesus comes. There 

will be a famine for the hearing of the Word 

of God. 

“Behold, days are coming,” declares 

the Lord God,“When I will send a famine 

on the land, Not a famine for bread 

or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing 

the words of the Lord. (Amos 8:11) 

The way Elijah fed the Gentile woman 

and her son is a type of the way the ministry 

of Elijah will operate in the Last Days. 

PUBLIC HEATH 

These dietary laws are interesting. Jesus 

said, “What goes into the mouth does not 

make unclean, but what comes out of his 

mouth, that is what makes him unclean.” 

(Matthew 15:11) 

So there is obviously a meaning to it beyond 

public health. Nonetheless, let’s begin 

there. 

In the ancient Near East, with its lack 

of refrigeration and a desert environment 

where animals scavenged to survive, there 

was high risk of food poisoning. 

In particular, illnesses like trichinosis and 

botulism could be contracted from eating 

certain kinds of foods. Pork or shellfish–not 

properly frozen, preserved or cooked, eaten 

in the kind of environment–was potentially 

deadly. 

So there was a legitimate medical reason 

not to eat these foods. 

PEOPLE WHO ARE IN A FAMINE WILL 

EAT ANYTHING 

But in a famine, anthropologists tell us, 

even the most civilized of human beings 

will eat anything. 

There are case studies where survivors 

of a shipwreck, for example, have actually 

resorted to cannibalism, eating the flesh of 

their own friends, even their own families. 

Notice in verse 47, you are to make a distinction 

between which is kosher and that 

which is not kosher, between the clean and 

the unclean, between the eatable and that 

which is not to be eaten. 

The text continually reiterates that if 

something is not kosher it is to be detestable, 

abhorrent, loathsome. 

The thought of eating them should make 

us feel sick. These things shall be abhorrent 

to you–rats, serpents, bats, roaches, they 

shall be abhorrent to you. 

Just thinking about eating something like 

that should make you feel sick. 

But in a famine people get hungry enough 

to eat anything. They will even devour each 

other. 

GOD BECAME FLESH 

In the beginning was the Word, and 

the Word was with God, and the Word 

was God. He was in the beginning 

with God... And the Word (Logos) became 

flesh, and dwelt among us, (John 

1:1,14). 

The word for dwelt in Greek is kataskenoo. 

It is the Greek translation of the Hebrew 

verb to tabernacle. 

The Hebrew is mishkan (from which 

comes (Skekinah). Mishkan speaks of 

God’s dwelling place. John is saying that 

the same God who was present with ancient 

Israel–the Shekinah who dwelt in the tabernacle, 

the Mishkan–had now become flesh. 

GOD HAD BECOME A MAN 

The ancient Greeks were dualists. They 

understood about the Logos, the creative 

agent of God and even the salvific agent of 

God, but their concept was of a transcendent 

Being. 

The minute you say God became a man, 

the Word became flesh, the Greeks could 

not handle it. 

They believed that everything physical 

was evil; everything spiritual was good. 

Anything physical was regarded as the domain 

of a lesser god. 

Notice how this perverts a biblical truth. 

The Bible doesn’t say everything physical 

is bad. It says everything physical is 

fallen, and has temporarily come under the 

domain of Satan. 

Satan’s lies always pervert a truth. 

DUALISM 

Among the Greeks there were two main 

philosophical groups: the Stoics and the 

Epicureans. 

The Stoics eschewed everything physical 

and lived a monastic life based on mortification 

of the flesh. 

The Epicureans lived a life of lasciviousness. 

They believed that only the spiritual 

realm mattered. 

Both groups taught that there was a split 

between the physical world and the spiri- 


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tual world. 

John’s teaching, that God could become 

a man, went directly against the dualistic 

Greek ideas. 

Dualism had many forms. Christian Science 

is dualistic. What does Christian Science 

say? “My body is lying to me. This 

doesn’t matter; it is only the physical. It’s 

the spiritual that matters. Death is an illusion. 

Old Age is an illusion.” 

Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian 

Science, first fell victim to the illusion 

of old age, then fell victim to the illusion of 

sickness, then–voila, la grande illusion–she 

cashed in her chips! 

Men like E.W. Kenyon, Kenneth Hagin and 

Kenneth Copeland teach this same dualism, 

which they learned from Christian Science. 

The Bible says that we are called to be 

in the world, but not of it, (John 15:18-19; 

16:33; Rom. 12:12; Gal. 6:14, Col. 2:20, 

James 4:43 and 1 John 2: 15-17). 

We are not called to be unnatural, we are 

called to be supernatural. 

Let me explain what is unnatural. The 

teaching that if God wants the spiritual man 

or the spiritual woman to suffer, they should 

be happy to suffer, is not Christian. 

That is not normal, that is unnatural. 

That is religious masochism. Look at the 

example of Jesus, He said, “Father let this 

cup pass from Me.” He didn’t want to suffer 

but still said, “Thy will be done.” 

It is unnatural to say the spiritual believer 

wants to suffer, if that is the Lord’s 

will. It is supernatural to say, “Lord, all 

things work together for the good, and if 

You know this is the best thing, give me the 

grace to suffer.” 

We are called to be natural. We are 

called to be supernatural. We are not 

called to be unnatural. 

The early church was up against this radical 

Dualism, Gnosticism, and all that went 

with it, and we have the same things today 

with the Hyper-Faith teachers. 

THE WORD BECAME FLESH 

The word became flesh (John 1:14). When 

Jerome translated the flesh into Latin in the 

Vulgate, he did not use corpus (body), but 

carnum, meaning meat. The Greek word 

for meat, sarx, The Word–the Logos–became 

flesh (sarx), literally, became meat. 

The Greek word for meat, sarx, is the 

same word for flesh. 

The Hebrew word for meat, barsah, is 

the same word for flesh. 

The Latin word for meat, carnum, is the 

same word for flesh. 

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes 

has eternal life. I am the bread 

of life. Your fathers ate the manna in 

the wilderness, and they died. This 

is the bread which comes down out 

of heaven, so that one may eat of it 

and not die. I am the living bread that 

came down out of heaven; if anyone 

eats of this bread, he will live forever; 

and the bread also which I will give 

for the life of the world is My sarx.” 

(John 6:47-51) 

In the same way that The Word became 

sarx, so now the bread I give is My sarx– 

flesh. 

Then the Jews began to argue with one 

another, saying, “How can this man 

give us His flesh to eat?” (John 6:52) 

It is likely that the Sanhedrin, educated 

in midrash, would have understood what 

He was about. 

Jesus said to them,“Truly, truly, I say 

to you, unless you eat the flesh of the 

Son of Man and drink His blood, you 

have no life in yourselves. He who 

eats My flesh and drinks My blood 

has eternal life, and I will raise him 

up on the last day. For My flesh is true 

food, and My blood is true drink. He 

who eats My flesh and drinks My 

blood abides in Me, and I in him. As 

the living Father sent Me, and I live 

because of the Father, so he who eats 

Me, he also will live because of Me. 

This is the bread which came down 

out of heaven; not as the fathers ate 

and died; he who eats this bread will 

live forever.” (John 6:53-58) 

Jesus is talking about Himself as the 

bread that came down from heaven. The 

manna in the wilderness was a type, Jesus 

is the anti-type. 

We have to read the text in its context, 

but in turn we have to read it in the context 

of the whole Bible. 

The rabbis tell us that the matzoh–the 

bread used at Passover–corresponds to the 

flesh of the lamb. The Rabbis say it had 

to be striped and pierced because it corresponded 

to the flesh of the lamb. 

But He was pierced through for our 

transgressions. . . and with His stripes 

we are healed (Isaiah 53:5) 

When Jesus stated that the bread was 

His flesh, He agreed with the rabbis. This 

relates to the Passover, insofar as Passover 

also comes from the book of Exodus, where 

the manna began to fall.. 

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE 

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 

The Roman Catholic Church will try to 

tell you that the Lord’s Supper is the key to 

eternal life, but that is absurd. In their catechism 

they say that sins are forgiven by the 

sacraments of baptism and penance, not the 

Eucharist, so they even contradict their own 

doctrine. (Roman Catholic doctrine always 

contradicts itself, as does Mormon doctrine). 

For John 6:47-58 to be talking about the 

Lord’s Supper, it would have had to be talking 

about the Last Supper, when the Lord’s 

Supper was instituted. The Last Supper had 

to take place at Passover time in Jerusalem. 

The text tells us it was not yet Passover, and 

this does not take place in Jerusalem. 

So it is not talking about the Last 

Supper, or the Lord’s Supper in any 

primary sense. 

What it is talking about is the bread that 

fell in the wilderness–a type of Jesus–and 

He says this is His flesh. 

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes 

has eternal life. (John 6:47) 

Believe equals eat. How do we get this? 

The Word became flesh. The Word, the Logos, 

became sarx. Eat the sarx, believe the 

Word. You must read the text in its context. 

It has nothing to do with the doctrine of 

transubstantiation, which is cannibalism, 

and it certainly has nothing to do with the 

Last Supper. 

Jesus said, “Do this in remembrance of 

Me” (1 Corinthians 11:24-25). He used the 

language of the Hebrew memorial sacrifice. 

The Roman Catholic Mass is not the same 

sacrifice as Calvary. When you understand 

the Lord’s Supper as a Jewish Passover, it 

is a Jewish zikharon (memorial–see Exodus 

12:14, 13:9, 17:14, 28:29, and Leviticus 

23:24, etc.) 

Only when you divorce the Last Supper 

from its Jewish background can you begin 

to argue that it is the same sacrifice. But 

in the Jewish context that Jesus gave it, it 

can’t possibly be that. It is a memorial. “Do 

this in remembrance of Me.” It is a memorial 

of what Jesus did, in the same way that 

the Passover meal is a memorial of the deliverance 

from Egypt. 

HE WHO BELIEVES, EATS . . . 

The Word becomes flesh. “Eat My flesh.” 

What does that mean? It means eat My 

word. You take it into yourself. 

This is not new, the prophets taught the 

same thing, and even afterwards it was the 

same with the apostles. 

Your words were found and I ate them 

(Jeremiah 15:16). You take it into yourself 

and you believe it. As Jesus said, “He who 

believes eats My flesh.” 

“Now you, son of man, listen to what 

I am speaking to you; do not be rebellious 

like that rebellious house. Open 

your mouth and eat what I am giving 

you. “Then I looked, and behold, a 

hand was extended to me; and lo, a 

scroll was in it. When He spread it out 

before me, it was written on the front 

and back, and written on it were lamentations, 

mourning and woe. (Ezekiel 

2:8-10) 

Then He said to me, “Son of man, eat 

what you find; eat this scroll, and go, 

speak to the house of Israel.” So I 

opened my mouth, and He fed me this 

scroll. He said to me, “And He said 

to me,” Son of man, feed your stomach 

and fill your body with this scroll 

which I am giving you.” Then I ate it, 

and it was sweet as honey in my mouth 

(Ezekiel 3:1-3) 

Ezekiel ate the scroll. He ate the Word 

of God. 

And I went to the angel, telling him to 

give me the little book. And he said to 

me, “Take it and eat it; it will make 

your stomach bitter, but in your mouth 

it will be sweet as honey.” And I took 

the little book out of the angel’s hand 

and ate it (Revelation 10:9-10). 

Eat the Word. That concept is in the Old 

Testament; and it is in the New Testament. 

Jesus was teaching nothing new, only what 

the prophets said before Him, and what the 

apostles said after Him. 

The Word became flesh. Eat My word. 

Belief equals eat, as even the Roman Catholic 

Saint Bernard said. 

The Word becomes flesh, His own substance, 

as God, becomes His Word. 

YOU BECOME WHAT YOU EAT 

Metabolically, what you eat you are. Jesus’ 

essence–His Word, His doctrine, His 

teaching–is Himself. 

Whatever you eat becomes part of you. 

Thus, when you eat something spiritually, 

you become what you eat. 

Terrestrial animals that the Jews were allowed 

to eat, that were kosher (clean), were 

types of Jesus Himself. 

Lamb is kosher. Behold the Lamb of 

God, who takes away the sins of the world 

(John 1:29). 

Goats are Kosher. But the goat on which 

the lot for the scapegoat fell shall be presented 

alive before the Lord, to make atonement 

upon it, to send it into the wilderness 

as the scapegoat. (Leviticus 16:10) 

Oxen are kosher. And he sent young men 

of the sons of Israel, and they offered burnt 

offerings and sacrificed young bulls as 

peace offerings to the Lord. (Exodus 24:5) 

Each one of them, in some way or another, 

is a type of Jesus. 

Eat what is kosher. Eat the Word. 

If somebody is not kosher, keep away 

from them. Because if you begin eating 

their word, you’re going to get sick. Eat 

what’s healthy; eat what’s clean. 

But if people become hungry enough–if 

there is a famine–people will eat anything, 

even each other. 

We have to understand the Jewish idea of 

eating the flesh. 

Concerning him (Melchizedek) we have 

much to say, and it is hard to explain, since 

you have become dull of hearing. (Hebrews 

5:11) 

He is speaking here of typology and midrash. 

Melchizedek (Genesis 14:18-20, 

Psalm 110:4) is a Christophany (a preincarnate 

manifestation of Christ), an Old Testament 

type of Jesus. 

The writer is saying, “I want to teach you 

typology and midrash, but you have lost capacity 

to understand.” 

BABY FOOD 

For though by this time you ought to 

be teachers, you have need again for 

someone to teach you the elementary 

principles of the oracles of God, and 

you have come to need milk and not 

solid food (meat). For everyone who 

partakes only of milk is not accustomed 

to the word of righteousness, 

for he is a babe. But solid food is for 

the mature, who because of practice 

have their senses trained to discern 

good and evil. (Hebrews 5:12-14) 

Again, he is saying, “I want to give you 

people meat. I want to teach you about the 

typology of Melchizedek, but can’t give you 

meat anymore, I’ve got to give you milk.” 

BACK TO THE BASICS 

(There are no chapter divisions in the 

original Greek) 

Therefore leaving the elementary 

teaching about the Christ, let us press 

on to maturity, not laying again a 

foundation of repentance from dead 

works and of faith toward God, of instruction 

about washings and laying 

on of hands, and the resurrection of 

the dead and eternal judgment. And 

this we will do, if God permits. (Hebrews 

6:1-3) 

We are in the same situation today. We 

need to go back and teach the basics. People 

have lost sight of the foundational doctrines 

like repentance, baptism, eternal judgement, 

People are saying that there is no hell. 

The church now needs milk, not meat, 

by and large. And at this point, milk would 

be a big improvement. The Hindus actually 

drank cow urine because they think it’s 

holy, and I know of Charismatics drinking 

the spiritual equivalent. Milk would be a 

big improvement. 

Does that sound abhorrent? It is supposed 

to be abhorrent. These shall be detestable 

to you. The thought of it should 

make you feel sick. 

THE UNDISCERNING WILL EAT ANYTHING 

But solid food is for the mature, who 

because of practice have their senses 

trained to discern good and evil. (Hebrews 

5:14) 

They know how to put the Word into effect; 

they have a discerning knowledge of 

the Word and are able to put it into effect. If 

people do not have an effectual knowledge 

of the Word, they are not going to be discerning. 

When you are undiscerning, you 

will eat anything–kosher or not. 

And I, brethren, could not speak to you 

as to spiritual men, but as to men of 

flesh, as to babes in Christ. I gave you 

milk to drink, not solid food; for you 

were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, 

even now you are not yet able, for you 

are still fleshly. (1 Corinthians 3:1-3) 

Think of a baby when he learns to crawl, 

before he can walk. It doesn’t matter what it 

is, a marble, a crayon, a tip of a pencil; as far as 

the child is concerned, it’s sweet, it’s candy. 

The mother takes anything that she knows 

can wind up in that kid’s mouth and puts it 

up where the kid can’t reach it. Because a 

baby is undiscerning, it will eat anything. 

So it is with Christians who are not 

trained in the right doctrine and the Word 

of righteousness, they will eat anything (especially 

if they are hungry enough). 

Milk would be a big improvement. Paul 

is complaining, “I wish they would drink 

their milk, maybe then we could take them 

out for a steak.” 

CHEW THE CUD 

Animals that don’t chew the cud or split 

the hoof are not kosher. 

Now these (Bereans) were more nobleminded 

than those in Thessalonica, 

for they received the word with great 

eagerness, examining the Scriptures 

daily to see whether these things were 

so. (Acts 17:11) 

The Bereans chewed their cud. 

Chewing the cud is not vomiting or regurgitating 

the food. It is bringing it up 

again, chewing over it, then swallowing it 

and taking it into your metabolism. 

Many Christians today have forgotten 

how to chew the cud. “Jacob Prasch or 

Derek Prince said it, so it must be true!” 

No, no, no. 

Paul said we should judge even what he 

taught (Galatians 1:8). Jesus said, “But do 

not be called rabbi; for One is your Teacher, 

and you are all brothers.” (Matthew 23:8) 

Chew the cud. Eat the food, bring it up 

again, pray about it, examine the Scriptures, 

and then if it’s right swallow it. Otherwise 

spit it out. 

WOLVES 

“Beware of the false prophets, who come 

to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly 




are ravenous wolves.(Matthew 7:15) 

Wolves can imitate Christians. They can 

look like sheep, but they are false prophets. 

Their flesh (their teaching, their doctrine) 

is not kosher. Don’t eat it. It should be abhorrent 

to you. 

SNAKES 

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how 

will you escape the sentence of hell? 


Satan is a deceiver; the serpent beguiled the 

woman, Eve–a type of Israel and the church. 

Religious leaders who teach false doctrines 

come in the character of the serpent. 

Jesus says they will go to hell if they 

don’t repent. (He uses the Greek subjective 

mood here. The subjective mood in Greek 

implies doubt. It’s not important in English, 

but it’s very important in Greek. What He is 

saying is, “It’s possible for you not to go to 

hell, but it’s very unlikely you’re going to 

go anywhere but hell.”) 

Teachers of false doctrine crawl like 

snakes. They’re deceptive and beguilers. 

They come in the character of serpents. 

Don’t eat them. Keep away from people 

who teach spiritual seduction. Can you picture 

yourself picking up a snake and eating 

it? Would you eat a viper? No! Well, keep 

away from those vipers and their teachings. 

Don’t eat it. Keep away. 

Is eating a snake disgusting to you? The 

thought of eating a prosperity preacher’s 

doctrine should be just as disgusting. 

When you see someone sitting down 

reading a book by a prosperity preacher, 

you should think of someone munching on 

a rat! That’s what they are doing. It shall be 

detestable to you, it shall be abhorrent. The 

thought of eating these vile, vermin-ridden 

animals is disgusting, and the thought of 

eating those false doctrines should be just 

as disgusting. 

VULTURES 

Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures 

will gather. (Matthew 24:28) 

Vultures attack the body. They prey on 

what’s dead, on the persecuted church. 

Don’t eat it! Vultures should be abhorrent. 

You will find people who prey on dying 

bodies. They’ll find a church that’s 

in trouble and come along claiming to be 

the miracle man who will turn the church 

around. But all they do is carry off a limb 

or a foot so they can begin their own thing 

somewhere. Vultures aren’t kosher. They 

should be abhorrent to you. 

PIGS 

They came to the other side of the sea, 

into the country of the Gerasenes. And 

when He got out of the boat, immediately 

a man from the tombs with an 

unclean spirit met Him, and he had his 

dwelling among the tombs. And no one 

was able to bind him anymore, even 

with a chain; because he had often 

been bound with shackles and chains, 

and the chains had been torn apart by 

him and the shackles broken in pieces, 

and no one was strong enough to subdue 

him (Mark 5:1-4) 

Super human physical strength and super 

human intellectual power are two characteristics 

that frequently accompany demon 

possessions. 

Almost every recorded case of demon 

possession in the Bible was accompanied 

by irrational behavior–throwing themselves 

into fire, living in graves, etc. You 

can almost rule out demon possession in 

cases where there is no irrational behavior. 

And Constantly, night and day, among 

the tombs and in the mountains, he 

was crying out and gashing himself 

with stones. And seeing Jesus from a 

distance, he ran up and bowed down 

before Him; and shouting with a loud 

voice, he said, “What do I have to do 

with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High 

God? I implore You by God, do not 

torment me!” For He had been saying 

to him, “Come out of the man, you 

unclean spirit!” And He said to him, 

“What is your name?” And he said to 

Him, “My name is Legion; for we are 

many. (Mark 5:5-9) 

Now, if you can believe it, there is a 

president of an Assemblies of God Bible 

College in Australia, who wrote in an article 

in their magazine called, The Evangel, 

that the mans name, not the demons, was 

named Legion. This President is (supposedly) 

training others to be ministers. They 

will eat anything, won’t they? 

And they began to implore Him earnestly 

not to send them out of the 

country. Now there was a large herd 

of swine feeding nearby on the mountain. 

The demons implored Him, saying, 

“Send us into the swine so that 

we may enter them.” Jesus gave them 

permission. And coming out, the unclean 

spirits entered the swine; and 

the herd rushed down the steep bank 

into the sea, about two thousand of 

them; and they were drowned in the 

sea. (Mark 5:10-13) 

Pigs are not kosher. In Galilee, there 

were Gentiles (non-Jews) and probably 

Jews who were not particularly observant, 

who would have kept pigs. 

To understand what is happening here, 

we have to understand the midrash. 

“do not throw your pearls before 

swine, or they will trample them under 

their feet, and turn and tear you to 

pieces.(Matthew 7:6) 

Who are swine? People who mock and 

reject the gospel. What happens to them? 

“Then He will also say to those on His 

left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, 

into the eternal fire which has been 

prepared for the devil and his angels; 


And the devil who deceived them was 

thrown into the lake of fire (Revelation 

20:10) 

In Mark chapter 5, the Sea of Galilee becomes 

a picture of the lake of fire. In Revelation, 

those who mock and reject the gospel 

go to the same place as the demons. 

SHELLFISH 

Let’s look at fish. A marine biologist 

took me to a fantastic aquarium in Cape 

Town, South Africa. It is a tank constructed 

with actual chunks of the continental shelf, 

from the underwater environment around 

South Africa. They put animals in there, 

like sharks, and you walk through glass 

tubes and you can see the sharks swimming 

above you. It really is incredible. He was 

showing me around and I was looking at the 

shellfish. They are scavengers at the bottom 

of the sea and they eat garbage. They are 

not kosher. They eat garbage, so–what you 

eat, you are–they become garbage. 

And He said to them, “Follow Me, and 

I will make you fishers of men.” (Matthew 

4:19) 

The apostles threw in the nets and pulled 

out fish when Jesus told them to cast their 

nets. We can witness, witness and witness, 

but until Jesus tells us where to cast our 

nets, you are not going to catch many fish. 

That’s not to discourage personal witnessing 

or evangelism, but when we talk 

about missions programs or crusades, they 

have to be directed by the Holy Spirit. Otherwise 

we are not going to catch many fish. 

But what are shellfish like? 

The Book of Revelation speaks of the 

earth and the sea (Revelation 5:14, 7:1-3, 

10:2,5,6,8, 12::12, 14:7) 

There are two beasts, one from the sea 

(Revelation 13:1) and one from the earth 

(Revelation 13:11). 

The earth speaks of Israel. The sea speaks 

of nations. Why are the nations in an uproar? 

(Psalm 2:1) 

Shellfish are closed and so far into the sea 

that they won’t get caught in a net. Shellfish 

speak of people who are closed and who are 

filled with garbage. If you don’t eat the right 

food you are going to eat the wrong food. 

They eat garbage and they become garbage. 

They are so far into the world system 

that they are not going to get saved. They 

are closed to the Gospel. Don’t eat them. 

SEEDS 

If one of these unclean animals fell on a 

seed before it got planted, the seed (and the 

fruit that came out of it) could be eaten. 

And if a part of their carcass falls on 

any seed for sowing which is to be 

sown, it is clean. (Leviticus 11:37) 

Why? 

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain 

of wheat falls into the earth and dies, 

it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears 

much fruit. (John 12:24) 

You fool! That which you sow does not 

come to life unless it dies; (1 Corinthians 

25:36) 

This is the catabolic process. When you 

plant the seed, it has the germ inside. The 

seed falls into the earth and dies, and a new 

creation comes out. 

So it is with us. The old creation is planted 

with Christ. In baptism we die with, we 

are buried with Him, and we are resurrected 

with Him. 

Our glorified bodies that are going to 

come out ultimately will be different from 

what went in. 

It doesn’t matter what the seed does; it 

doesn’t matter what the old creation did. 

You could have been a homosexual, prostitute, 

drug dealer, alcoholic or a criminal–it 

doesn’t matter what the old creation did, if it 

falls into the earth and dies, the food is clean. 

CHAMELEON 

The chameleon is not kosher. What’s a 

chameleon? The Hebrew word for chameleon 

is the same as the Hebrew word for hypocrite. 

Don’t eat it! Watch out for hypocrites. 

DON’T MUZZEL THE OXEN 

For it is written in the Law of Moses, 

“You shall not muzzle the ox while he 

is threshing.” God is not concerned 

about oxen, is He? Or is He speaking 

altogether for our sake? Yes, for our 

sake it was written, because the plowman 

ought to plow in hope, and the 

thresher to thresh in hope of sharing 

the crops. (1 Corinthians 9:9-10) 

What He is talking about here are those 

honest preachers who are deserving of being 

paid for the ministry. Those who work 

hard preaching and teaching the Word of 

God, and teach it accurately and fairly, are 

the ones who deserve the privilege of being 

paid for it. 

Don’t muzzle the ox when he is threshing. 

The ox is clean; you can follow his teaching. 

You can eat the ox, but not the pig, not 

the serpent, not the wolf. 

DOVES 

Doves are kosher–they are types of Jesus. 

They are one of the fives creatures that God 

ordered Abraham to sacrifice (Genesis 15:9) 

In the Law of Moses, they had to be 

sacrificed “over running water” (Leviticus 

14:5), symbolizing “the washing of the water 

with the Word” (Ephesians 5:26) 

LISTEN TO THE ANIMALS. . . 

There were clean and unclean animals. 

Zoologically we don’t know what all of the 

animals mentioned in Leviticus were. 

Some may be extinct, some may no longer 

be indigenous to the Middles East, but 

those we do know, or can find parallels of 

in the Bible, all teach us something about 

our spiritual diet. 

If people get hungry enough they will eat 

anything–mice, rats, bats, lizards, Kingdom 

Now, Ecumenism, Name-it-and-Claim-it 

and Faith Prosperity. 

It shall be abhorrent to you. The Bible 

keeps saying to you, over and over, It shall 

be detestable to you. 

These unclean spiritual foods should disgust 

you. The thought of them should be so 

disgusting to you that you have to put them 

out of your head, because they make you sick. 

The idea of swallowing a Benny Hinn 

doctrine should be like the idea of eating a 

rat–it should make you feel sick. 

It shall be abhorrent to you, it shall be 

detestable to you. The book of Mormon–it 

shall be detestable to you. The Watchtower– 

it shall be detestable to you; it should make 

you feel sick. Keep away from them. If you 

eat their teaching you’ll become something 

disgusting and unholy in the sight of God. 

DEATH IN THE POT 

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there 

was a famine in the land. As the sons 

of the prophets were sitting before 

him, he said to his servant, “Put on 

the large pot and boil stew for the sons 

of the prophets.” (2 Kings 4:38) 

There is a famine in the land. There is 

nothing to eat, but the people have to eat 

something. 

Then one went out into the field to 

gather herbs, and found a wild vine 

and gathered from it his lap full of wild 

gourds, and came and sliced them into 

the pot of stew, for they did not know 

what they were. (2 Kings 4:39) 

When the people are hungry enough, 

they’ll eat anything. 

So they poured it out for the men to 

eat. And as they were eating of the 

stew, they cried out and said, “O man 

of God, there is death in the pot.” And 

they were unable to eat. (2 Kings 4:40) 

There was death in the pot. You eat this 

stuff–this un-kosher food, this pork or shellfish 

that has not been refrigerated–and you 

will die of botulism or trichinosis. There 

is death. 

So what did Elisha do? 

But he said, “Now bring meal (bring 

the grain).” And he threw it into the 

pot and said, “Pour it out for the people 

that they may eat.” Then there was 

no harm in the pot. (2 Kings 4:41) 

You put the grain in it. People who eat 

the grain are not going to get sick from eating 

this other stuff. They are not going to be 

affected by false doctrine and false teaching. 

They are not going to be sucked into 

Ecumenism, Kingdom Now theology, or 

Name-it-and-Claim-it. 

The grain takes out the poison. The grain 

absorbs the toxins. The grain renders it 

harmless. 

True teaching renders false teaching 

harmless. 

WHAT GOD HAS CLEANSED. . . 

It shall be abhorrent to you. Rats, snakes, 

vermin–and those who teach it, should be 

abhorrent. You shouldn’t even think of listening 

to those tapes, or going to those conferences, 

or reading those books, any more 

than you would munch on a rat. It shall be 

abhorrent to you. But if people are hungry 

enough, they will eat anything! 

This teaching is not some kind poetic license. 

See what happened to Peter: 

On the next day, as they were on their 

way and approaching the city, Peter 

went up on the housetop about the sixth 

hour to pray. And he became hungry 

and was desiring to eat; but while they 

were making preparations, he fell into 

a trance; and behold the sky opened 

up, and a certain object like a great 

sheet coming down, lowered by four 

corners to the ground, and there were 

in it all kinds of four-footed animals 

and crawling creatures of the earth 

and birds of the air. (Act 10:9-12) 

The reference is to the foods mentioned 

in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14–foods 

that were not kosher and which should have 

been abhorrent to him. 

A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, kill 

and eat!” But Peter said, “By no means, 

Lord, for I have never eaten anything 

unholy and unclean.” (Act 10:13-14) 

In other words, Peter was saying, “I 

won’t eat that’s not kosher.” 

Again a voice came to him a second 

time, “What God has cleansed, no longer 

consider unholy.” This happened 

three times, and immediately the object 

was taken up into the sky. (Act 10:15-16) 



In Loving Memory 

And he (Peter) said to them, “You 

yourselves know how unlawful it is for 

a man who is a Jew to associate with a 

foreigner or to visit him; and yet God 

has shown me that I should not call any 

man unholy or unclean. (Act 10:28) 

This issue is the person and their beliefs, 

it is not race. The issue is what the person 

believes. 

The Romans of Peter’s day worshipped 

other gods; they worshipped Jupiter and all 

the rest of the Roman pantheon. 

DOGS 

Remember Jesus and the Syro-Phoenician 

woman who asked Jesus to heal her 

daughter. Jesus said, “It is not good to take 

the children’s bread and throw it to the 

dogs.” (Mark 7:27) 

What are dogs? 

For dogs have surrounded me; A band 

of evildoers has encompassed me; 

They pierced my hands and my feet. 

(Psalm 22:16) 

Dogs, was a derogatory Jewish term for 

pagans. “It is not good to take the children’s 

bread and throw it to the dogs.” 

He was not making a racist statement. 

Jesus loved that little Gentile girl as much 

as He would have loved a little Jewish girl. 

But what He was saying was, “Lady, your 

religion is not fit for human consumption. 

I am not going to give bread to dogs. Become 

a human being.” 

In Peter’s vision in Acts 10, what do the 

un-kosher animals represent? 

Pagans, Gentiles, unbelievers. Dogs. 

These were the un-kosher animals of the 

vision. 

”Peter, eat this, accept this, swallow it.” 

“Hey, wait a minute, there’s a kosher deli 

right down the street. I’m not touching this!” 

“Peter, eat it!” 

God makes unclean people clean. He saved 

the Gentiles, He made them edible. He made 

their beliefs right. He made them digestible. 

God can make anybody clean, even 

Christians who’ve gone into eating spiritual 

rats and cockroaches. God can make 

even them clean, if they repent. 

MUST INDIA STARVE? 

When I was a little boy in New York, the 

Monsoon rains failed to come to India in sufficient 

quantity one year and there was a famine 

in India. The second most populous country 

in the world was facing mass starvation. 

There was a big campaign: “Must India 

Starve?” 

The wheat producing nations of the 

world–like Argentina, America, Canada and 

Australia–donated large quantities of wheat. 

People all over the world raised money. 

“Must India Starve?” was a big campaign. 

It was on billboards, it was in newspapers, 

it was on television, and magazines 

promoted the theme: “Must India Starve?” 

Christian farmers in the American Midwest–a 

lot of them were believers–tithed 

their wheat to India, or various Christian 

relief agencies. 

I’ll never forget this. A magazine in the 

United States came out with a full-page 

spread. The heading at the top of the page 

said, “Must India Starve?” and at the bottom 

of the page it said, “Why Not?” 

There was a photograph of two Hindu 

boys–skinny little bags of bones who were 

literally on the verge of dying of starvation, 

their bones sticking out. 

The boys were holding a big sack of 

grain which had printed on the side, “United 

States Emergency Wheat–NOT FOR 

SALE–a gift from the people of America to 

the people of India.” 

While these two boys were holding the 

bag, a cow was eating the wheat! 

RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION 

False religion will always bring famine and 

death, Just look at the countries where these 

famines occur–it is concentrated in places 

like Latin America, Africa and Asia where 

there is paganism, Catholicism and idolatry. 

I’m not saying that Christians are immune 

from suffering, but one is a reflection 

of the other–they were hungry, they were 

starving to death, but there was food right 

in front of them. 

The Bible says, “There will be a famine 

for hearing of the Word of God.” There is 

already a famine, but it’s going to get worse. 

What would happen in a persecution if 

there were no Bibles and no Christian meetings 

allowed, like in Saudi Arabia or Iran? 

When that comes to countries like Britain 

or Australia or New Zealand, what are 

they going to do then? 

There is food all over the place now, but 

they’re not eating it. What is going to happen 

when there is no food? Who’s going to 

be the first to die? 

Those who refuse to eat the food that is 

in front of them will be the first to die. 

It was a tragedy with those two Hindu 

boys starving in India. The tragedy was not 

simply that they were starving, but rather 

that they were starving with food right in 

front of them. 

The famine I see happening in the 

church today, where people are eating 

anything–literally anything, no matter 

how crazy, how sickening, how poisonous–is 

a tragedy. 

But the bigger tragedy is that there is 

still plenty of grain in the silo! 

God bless, 

Jacob Prasch ††† 

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and tumult of the world around us.... 

“But thou, when thou prayest, enter 

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Father which is in Secret; and thy 

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• PrayER - Moriel & Jacob Prasch request 

prayer for Tony Wiggans, a Botanical biologist 

friend of Moriel and of Jacob in the Uk 

and his wife Brenda. Both are committed 

Christians and Tony is battling Chronic Lymphocytic 

Leukemia. 

We also request on going prayer for Maggie 

Vivienne and her husband Richard as Maggie 

continues her struggle with cancer. Both 

are close friends of Moriel in the UK. Moriel 

& Jacob Prasch request pray for Tony Wiggans, 

a Botanical biologist friend of Moriel 

and of Jacob in the Uk and his wife Brenda. 

Both are committed Christians and Tony is 

battling Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. 

We also request on going prayer for Maggie 

Vivienne and her husband Richard as 

Maggie continues her struggle with cancer. 

Both are close friends of Moriel in the UK. 

• PrayER - Moriel & Jacob Prasch request 

prayer forAnother former leader who left 

mainstream Pentecostalism is former Australia 

General Secretary of The Assemblies of 

God Philip Powell who withstood the counterfeit 

revivals from Toronto & Pensacola 

and opposed the financial scandals and sex 

scandals of Hillsong. Philip, who pastors a 

church near Brisbane and who directs CWM 

(a partner ministry of Moriel) has been diagnosed 

with a tumour that is being biopsied 

next week. We do request prayer that it will 

prove benign. 

Friday, April 5, 2013, Dave Hunt drew 

his final breath and entered into the presence 

of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

His beloved wife Ruth was at his side. 

Born in 1926, David Charles Haddon Hunt 

enjoyed the advantages of a godly upbringing 

and placed his trust in Jesus Christ as his 

personal Savior and Lord in his early teens. 

As a young man, he served in the military 

toward the end of World War II. Afterward, 

he attended UCLA and received a degree 

in mathematics. It was during that time that 

he met the love of his life, Ruth Klassen. 

In 1950, they were married, and since both 

loved the outdoors, they enjoyed a beautiful 

honeymoon hiking in the High Sierras-- 

perfect for two young people madly in love 

and with very little money to their name. 

Marriage was soon followed by the birth 

of two sons and two daughters. Ruth was 

a busy mother and also a gifted writer herself. 

She had a tremendous interest in and 

knowledge of history, an ability that would 

help Dave further down the road. Dave’s 

own career path led him into a position as 

a CPA/management consultant and later as 

the manager of several corporations. 

Along with church-related activities, 

Dave initiated and became involved in numerous 

campus ministries and meetings in 

their home, with a special outreach to Jewish 

young people and foreign students. Many 

of these have stayed in touch with Dave 

and Ruth through the years, fondly recalling 

those Bible studies at the Hunts’ house. 

Dave and Ruth also traveled abroad, 

spending time in various locations throughout 

Europe, meeting with believers there 

and ministering in many ways while raising 

their own family. Dave also brought Bibles 

and other materials into the Soviet Union 

during a time when it was very difficult to 

do so. Throughout his later years, he and 

Ruth traveled extensively as he was invited 

to speak in churches and fellowships, 

large and small, all over the world. Often 

they stayed in people’s homes, dining with 

them, learning their customs, and sharing 

God’s Word and God’s love. 

The desire of Dave’s heart was ultimately 

to be involved in fulltime ministry, especially 

since he saw firsthand everywhere he 

went the breaking down of the true church 

as the world began to work its way into her 

midst. He began to write in 1973, warning 

believers about the incursion into Western 

culture and into the church itself of Eastern 

religion, psychological and selfist philosophies, 

ecumenism, and other unbiblical 

teachings. 

The ministry of The Berean Call was 

founded by Dave in 1992. It grew out of 

a previous organization, of which Dave 

was also a founding member since 1986. 

With T.A. McMahon working alongside 

him at The Berean Call, Dave was able 

to share his love for and defense of Christ 

in the subsequent newsletters, books, videos, 

and speaking engagements that resulted 

from this ministry. Dave and T.A. 

wrote three books together, including the 

best-known The Seduction of Christianity, 

which was groundbreaking in its boldness, 

exposing false teachings in the church and 

daring to identify the names of the ones behind 

the deception. 

By the early 2000s, Dave’s love for 

Christ and his desire to defend the name of 

the Lord had grown even stronger, and his 

concern over Islamic politics and religion 

are reflected in many of his articles, lectures, 

books, and interviews. 

Then Richard Dawkins and the “new 

atheists” came onto the scene with a vengeance, 

seeking to destroy the very concept 

of God in the minds of everyone. Dave began 

to write and teach and speak more passionately 

than ever about the absolute truth 

that is in the Word of God and our need to 

immerse ourselves in it daily in order to 

prevent being taken up in the evolutionist 

delusion that is sweeping the world. 

One of Dave’s favorite activities was to 

see whom God would seat next to him on 

airplanes as he traveled and spoke. He often 

said that he “could prove the existence of 

God” just by these providential occurrences. 

While writing about Islam, he would 

end up seated next to a Muslim who didn’t 

really understand what Islam was about but 

was eager to hear the difference between the 

Bible and the Qur’an. When writing about 

creation vs. evolution, the Lord would bring 

him, as a seat companion, an atheistic scientist 

who thought he had all the answers 

and was very surprised that there was another 

verifiable explanation to this universe. 

Dave’s bold yet loving approach to any 

situation allowed him entrance into these 

conversations where many others would 

have been shut out. His love for Jesus, for 

Israel, and for people in general was obvious 

to all. His enthusiasm for the truth, 

along with his anger over the sin and wickedness 

that he knew was robbing people 

of what God wanted for them, flamed his 

desire to share the Lord with anyone with 

whom he had contact. 

At least 4 million copies of his books 

have been sold, many of them translated into 

more than 50 languages. He also wrote two 

novels, The Mind Invaders (formerly The 

Archon Conspiracy) and Sanctuary of 

the Chosen, along with a children’s book 

called The Money Tree, illustrated by his 

daughter Karen. 

One of his videos, Israel, Islam and 

Armageddon, has become a tremendous tool 

for churches and for anyone interested in 

helping to spread the truth about events 

prior to and since the attack on the World 

Trade Center. His video A Woman Rides the 

Beast is a favorite among those who are witnessing 

to Catholics, a group for whom Dave 

had a deep love and sorrow, desiring to see 

them come to the knowledge of the truth. 

Dave Hunt’s own drive to find and then 

deliver the truth is evident in everything he 

did. His impeccable research and recognized 

scholarship were based on in-depth studies 

of original documents and publications, interviews 

with key experts from around the 

world, and extensive travel-including to 

South America, Australia, Europe, India, 

and throughout the Middle East. 

Dave has left us a legacy of inestimable 

value. We are blessed to be able to see and 

hear and read what he has taught about the 

evidence for God in a breathtaking number 

of materials. From explaining about 

the history of Christianity, to exposing the 

deception that has crept into the church, to 

teaching about the prophecies that are being 

fulfilled even today, this humble, brilliant 

man will go on teaching us for a very long 

time. We look forward to the day when we 

will see him again. 

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Sons of Zadok Jacob Prasch 

Jacob Prasch 

Sons of Zadok 

by James Jacob Prasch 

Sons of Zadok 

Ezekiel 44:1-6: ”Then he brought me 

by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, 

which faces the East, and it was shut. 

And the Lord said to me, ‘This gate shall 

be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one 

shall enter by it, for the Lord God of Israel 

has entered by it. Therefore it shall be 

shut. As for the prince, he shall sit in it as 

a prince to eat bread before the Lord. He 

shall enter by way of the portico gate and 

go out by the same way. 

“Then he brought me by way of the north 

gate to the front of the house, and I looked, 

and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the 

house of the Lord, and I fell on my face. 

And the Lord said to me, ‘Son of man, mark 

well; see with your eyes, hear with your 

ears all that I say to you concerning all 

the statutes of the house of the Lord, and 

concerning all its laws. And mark well the 

entrance of the house with all exits of the 

sanctuary. 

“‘And you shall say to the rebellious ones, 

the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord: 

‘Enough of all your abominations!’”’” 

Continuing with verse 8: “And you have 

not kept charge of My holy things yourselves, 

but you have sent foreigners to keep 

charge of My sanctuary. Thus says the 

Lord God: ‘No foreigner uncircumcised in 

heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the 

foreigners among the sons of Israel, shall 

enter My sanctuary. But the Levites, who 

went far from Me when Israel went astray, 

who went astray from Me after their idols, 

shall bear the punishment for their iniquities. 

Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, 

having oversight at the gates of the 

house, and ministering in the house. They 

shall slaughter the burnt offering and the 

sacrifice for the people, and they shall 

stand before them and minister to them. 

But because they ministered to them before 

their idols, and became a stumbling block 

of iniquity to Israel, therefore I have sworn 

against them,’ declares the Lord, ‘that they 

shall bear the punishment for their iniquity. 

Sons of Righteousness 

They shall not come near to Me to serve 

as priests to Me, nor near to any of My 

holy things, the things that are most holy to 

Me; but they shall bear the disgrace of the 

abominations, which they have committed. 

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of 

the house, of all its servants, and of all that 

shall be done in it. 

“‘But the Levitical priests, the sons of 

Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary 

when the sons of Israel went astray from 

Me, shall come near to Me to minister to 

Me, and they shall stand before Me to offer 

Me the fat and the blood,’ declares the Lord 

God. ‘They shall also enter My sanctuary, 

they shall come near to My table to minister 

to Me, and keep My charge. 

“‘And it shall be that when they enter 

the gates of the inner courts they shall be 

clothed with linen garments, and wool shall 

not be on them while they are ministering 

in the gates of the inner court of the house. 

Linen turbans shall be on their heads, and 

linen undergarments shall be on their loins. 

They shall not gird themselves in anything 

which makes them sweat. And when they 

go out into the outer court, into the outer 

court to the people, they shall put up their 

garments in which they have been ministering 

and they shall lay them in the holy 

chambers. Then they shall put on garments, 

that they might not transmit holiness to the 

people with their garments. 

“‘Also, they shall not shave their heads, 

yet they shall not let their locks grow long. 

They shall only trim the hair of their heads. 

Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when 

they enter the inner courts. They shall not 

marry a widow or a divorced woman, but 

shall take virgins from the offspring of the 

house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow 

of a priest. Moreover, they shall teach 

My people the difference between the holy 

and the profane, and cause them to discern 

between the clean and the unclean. 

“‘If there is a dispute, they shall take their 

stand to judge. They shall judge it according 

to My ordinances. They shall also keep 

My laws and My statutes and all My appointed 

feasts, and sanctify My Sabbath.’“ 

Ezekiel’s name in Hebrew means ‘in the 

strength of God.’ Like all of Israel’s prophets, 

his name indicates something about his 

character and the nature of his ministry. 

Also like all of the Hebrew prophets (he 

was specifically a prophet to Judah), he 

prophesied for three time frames: he prophesied 

for his own time, for the first coming 

of Jesus, and for the Return of Christ. 

Thirdly, like all of the Hebrew prophets, 

Ezekiel is a type— an Old Testament foreshadowing—of 

the Messiah. He is the only 

person in the Bible other than Jesus who is 

called “the son of man.” 

In the Book of Daniel it says that the king 

saw ‘one walking as the son of man,’ and I 

have personally always been convinced that 

that was a Christophany; an Old Testament 

manifestation of Jesus Christ. Again, the 

only person called ‘the son of man’ with the 

definite article, other than Jesus, is Ezekiel. 

He is a picture of Jesus eschatologically, 

specifically in the Millennium. The second 

half of Ezekiel’s book is largely concerned 

with the millennial reign of Jesus; that is its 

ultimate meaning. 

A while ago you perhaps heard about the 

riots and the shootings going on at the Temple 

Mount; we are certainly getting closer 

and closer to the return of the Lord. Zechariah 

chapter 12 tells us that Jerusalem will 

be a stumbling block to the nations round 

about it; the ultimate issue in the Middle 

East will not be the Golan Heights, or the 

West Bank or the Gaza Strip; it will be Jerusalem. 

Jerusalem is where Satan received 

his biggest defeat, and it is also where he 

will receive his final defeat; he knows this. 

Therefore, Jerusalem is a source of contention; 

there is a spiritual battle going on over 

that particular piece of turf. 

Ezekiel prophesies about this, and he 

sees the East Gate being shut. Now ultimately, 

this will take place in the Millennium 

when Jesus reigns from the City of 

David and the Shekinah goes through the 

East Gate. Ultimately, that is its meaning. 

However, it has a partial historic fulfillment 

already: Hebrew prophecy has a pattern. 

The Jews believed due to Zechariah 

9:9 that the Messiah would come on a donkey, 

and they believed that He would enter 

the East Gate, or what we call in Hebrew 

shaar HaRachamin, which is literally “The 

Gate of Mercy.” It lies on the western slope 

of the Temple Mount, opposite the Mount 

of Olives, with the Kidron Valley in the 

middle. If you have seen the East Gate, it is 

now cemented up. This happened because 

there was once a Turkish sultan during the 

Ottoman Empire, after they had conquered 

Israel, who knew that the Messiah would 

have to come through that gate according 

to Jewish beliefs. So he put an Islamic cemetery 

in front of the East Gate so that the 

Messiah could not go through it without 

being ritually defiled, and he cemented up 

the gate. He did not know, of course, that 

he was in part causing the prophecy to be 

fulfilled concerning the East Gate. 

When the second Temple was built, 

the Hebrews were promised that its glory 

would exceed that of the first Temple. Its 

architecture was not as great as that of the 

first Temple, but even more importantly, it 

did not have the Ark of the Covenant. Yet 

they were promised in the days of Ezra, Nehemiah, 

and Haggai that its glory would exceed 

that of the first. Indeed it has; its glory 

exceeded that of the first temple because 

the Lord God Himself entered the second 

temple. Yet after the Lord had entered it, 

the gate would be sealed up. Therefore, 

Jewish people today who do not believe in 

Jesus have a problem: if the gate is sealed, 

the Lord God had to have already entered 

by it. When did God enter it? Jesus, of 

course, was the Messiah, and He entered it. 

But again, the ultimate fulfillment of this 

will be in the Millennium. 

A born-again evangelical Christian archaeologist 

by the name of Dr. Jim Fleming 

found Herodian stones beneath the present 

East Gate; so we know that it is built on 

the same site as the gate, which Jesus went 

through. 

In Ezekiel’s day, something that had 

been predicted by Isaiah, Jeremiah, and 

Joel, was already underway. The northern 

tribes had already gone into captivity in 

720 B.C.; now God’s judgment was coming 

on the south—on Judah. Isaiah and Joel 

warned about this, but their message was 

rejected. Jeremiah warned about it, and was 

persecuted. People preferred to listen to the 

false prophets. By Ezekiel’s day, it was 

underway, thus proving that Jeremiah had 

been right, while the popular false prophets 

were proven wrong. Yet remarkably, the 

people still would not repent. The captivity 

was already underway; Nebuchadnezzar 

had invaded four times. In fact, Ezekiel 

himself was prophesying from the captivity. 

People were saying things like, “It’s not 

so bad,” “It’s going to get better,” “It will 

be short-lived,” when in fact it was going 

to get worse. 

What happens here? It is an amazing 

thing: false prophets do not repent even 

when proven wrong, and then people forget 

that they prophesied falsely, and simply 

go on listening to the next false prophecy. 

Meanwhile, the true prophet is proven 

right, but they still reject him. Now they are 

rejecting Ezekiel in the same way they rejected 

Jeremiah before him. 

Ezekiel shows a contrast between two 

kinds of clergy: the sons of Zadok and 

the ordinary Levites. Not all Levites were 

Zadokites, but all Zadokites were Levites. 

Let us begin by understanding about 

Zadok: the name comes from the Hebrew 

word tsodek meaning “to be right,” which 

is also the Hebrew word for ‘to be correct,’ 

which is also related to the Hebrew word 

for “to be righteous.” The Hebrew word for 

‘a righteous one’ is tsadek; one who is righteous. 

The Hebrew word for “righteousness” 

is also the Hebrew word for “charity.” 

This word is tsdaka. 

As I have previously explained, in Hebrew 

thought sonship means more than 

pedigree; it means “in the character of.” For 

example, we have two pictures of the Messiah 

in the Hebrew faith: ha Moshiach ben 

Yosef and ha Moshiach ben David; Messiah 

the Son of Joseph, who is a suffering servant, 

and Messiah the Son of David, who is 

a conquering king. Jesus came in the character 

of Joseph at His first coming, but He 

will return in the character of David to set 

up His kingdom. In Matthew 16 Jesus rebukes 

Peter, but before He rebukes him he 

calls him “Simon bar Jonah,” in Aramaic 

“son of Jonah.” Why? In one sense, one of 

Peter’s father’s names may have been Jonah, 

like the prophet. But in biblical times 

Jews would name their children after heroes 

and characters of Israel’s more ancient 

biblical history, in the aspiration that the 

child would grow up to emulate the virtues 

of these figures. Jonah was somebody who 

argued with God; his first argument with 

God was at Joppa. What happens at Joppa 

with Peter in Acts chapter 10? He begins 

arguing with God. Jonah did not want to go 

to the Gentiles; neither did Peter. Simon bar 

Jonah; he is in the character of Jonah. Jesus 

Son of David is in the character of David; 

His biological father was not David, though 

David was one of His ancestors. In the same 

way, the Zadokites were in the character of 

Zadok. Zadok was the Old Testament priest 

who remained loyal to David through the 

rebellions of Absalom and Sheba. He was a 

righteous priest who remained loyal. Now, 

loyalty to David is an Old Testament foreshadowing 

of loyalty to Christ, the Son of 

David, the Good Shepherd. 

Zadok’s sons remained in his character; 

they were not only biologically descended 

from him, but they also remained faithful 

when the rest of the Levitical clergy 

became corrupt. They stayed faithful for 

generations, even for centuries. All the way 

to the time of the Maccabees there were 

Zadokites, all the way through the Hasmonian 

period. Finally, then they became corrupt. 

In Hebrew, Zadokites were called tzadukim. 

What Ezekiel is doing is comparing 

the righteous clergy—who were by far the 

minority, only descending from one lineage—with 

the other Levites, the popular 

clergy, who were unrighteous. He begins 

highlighting the differences between the 

ordinary Levites and the Zadokites. They 

were all sons of Levi. 

In Biblical thought, in the Hebrew language—which 

Paul tries to communicate 

to Greeks in Philippi, as I will show you 

momentarily—one cannot be righteous unless 

one is right. If one is not tzodek, one 

cannot be a tzadek. In other words, if what 

you believe is wrong, you have no chance 

of being righteous. The fact that what you 

believe is right, however, does not guarantee 

that you are righteous. One can believe 

what is right and still be unrighteous; Paul 

tells us this in I Corinthians 13. It cannot 

be assumed that because someone’s doctrine 

is right, they are also right. It may be 

an indication of righteousness, and in fact 

it is; however, it does not prove righteousness. 

However, if what someone believes is 

wrong, that person cannot be righteous. 

Philippians 1:9: “And this I pray, that 

your love may abound still more and more in 

real knowledge and all discernment.” Notice 

that real love, agape love, is dependent 

on biblical knowledge and discernment. If 

there is no discernment and no knowledge 

of the Scriptures, real love cannot abound. 

The political correctness of the world has 

found its way into the churches, and it 

makes love and truth mutually exclusive. 

In actual fact, however, God says that they 

are mutually dependent. One cannot really 

love if one has unbelief. (This is dealt with 

also in the teaching on Leviticus 2, the typology 

of the grain offering, with the honey 

and the leaven.) 

Ephesians 6:13: “Therefore take up the 

full armor of God, that you may be able 

to resist the evil day, and having done everything, 

to stand firm. Stand firm, having 

girded your loins with truth, and having put 

on the breastplate of righteousness.” Notice 

that truth comes before righteousness. 

I once saw actual Roman armor at the ruins 

of the Colosseum in Rome. People were 

smaller then, but even by modern standards 

it is fairly heavy. The armor had to be put 

on in a certain way and in a certain order. 


Sons of Zadok – Continued 


Paul goes through that order in which the 

armor had to be put on. The gird was pulled 

up above the waist, and held the heavier 

pieces of armor in place. Unless you put on 

the gird first, you could not keep the breastplate 

on. In the same way, unless you have 

truth, you cannot be righteous; truth comes 

first, righteousness second. If what you believe 

is false, you cannot be righteous. 

Today we find people talking a lot of garbage, 

which goes something like this: “Well, 

I know this man is wrong about his belief 

in faith-prosperity, but he is still a good 

brother;” “I know that Pensacola is really 

not a revival, but the leader is such a loving 

man.” But if he lacks knowledge of God’s 

Word and is undiscerning, he is not a loving 

man. Love can only abound where there is 

knowledge and discernment. I once met 

Bill Hybels briefly. Is he a nice man? Oh, a 

very nice man. But is he a righteous man? 

No, he is not, because what he believes is 

false. Truth comes before righteousness, 

because unless you know the truth, you 

won’t know what righteousness is. One 

cannot know the difference between right 

and wrong unless one first has the truth. 

Yet people protest: “Oh, but he’s such a 

good brother,” “Oh, but they are such nice 

people,” “Oh, they’re so charitable, so caring, 

so loving, they do so much for the poor.” 

No. Mother Teresa was very charitable; yet 

several months before she died, she made 

it clear that she only converted Hindus and 

Moslems to be better Hindus and Moslems; 

she sent those people to hell without Christ 

in the name of being charitable. Love can 

only abound where there is discernment 

and knowledge. The Bible tells us that 

other gods are demons; the gods of Hinduism 

are demonic. Mother Teresa had no 

discernment, nor did she have any knowledge 

of God’s Word; therefore true love 

could not abound. What real good is it to 

pick people up, clean them off, give them a 

place to die with dignity—and there is a lot 

more to that than most people have heard; 

we’ve mainly heard the embellished public 

relations stories, but when you talk to those 

in the medical profession who worked with 

her, you find there was much to be desired 

in what she did—and then send them to hell 

for a Christless eternity? Charity depends 

upon truth and discernment. 

Notice that the first difference Ezekiel 

points out between the sons of Zadok and 

the ordinary Levites is this, in chapter 

44:8: “…they set foreigners to keep charge 

of My sanctuary.” Whenever there was a 

true move of God, the foreigner was kicked 

out. The Levite gave place to the secretly 

hostile alien; the Zadokites would kick the 

aliens out. 

To see how this works out in a true move 

of God, let’s look at Nehemiah 13. This is 

after the captivity is over; they had learned 

their lessons the hard way, and had longed 

to come back. Then, when Satan tried to seduce 

them, it did not work. 

Nehemiah 13:1: ”And that day they read 

aloud from the book of Moses in the hearing 

of the people.” Notice that there was a 

real move of God, with the rededication of 

the Temple and the city, the walls being rebuilt 

the emphasis on Scripture; there was 

revival here. In Nehemiah 8 there were allday 

Bible studies; notice that everything 

was based on Scripture. When there is a 

real move of God, the Word of God will be 

central and paramount; everything else will 

be derived from what is in the Bible. The 

minute you see people going to experience 

or subjective revelation and prophecy, you 

know it is not a real move of God—or, if it 

is a real move of God, it has been corrupted. 

A real move of God will be based 100% 

on Scripture. True prophecy is always 

based on the Bible; it is never a replacement 

for it, though that is what we see happening 

today. People are replacing what is 

in Scripture with personal ‘words,’ following 

people who are obviously false prophets, 

such as Kim Clement and Rick Joyner. 

“In the hearing of the people, it was found 

written that no Ammonite or Moabite should 

ever enter the assembly of God, because 

they did not meet the sons of Israel with 

bread and water, but hired Balaam against 

them to curse them. However, our God 

turned the curse into a blessing. So it came 

about that when they heard the law, they 

excluded all foreigners from Israel.” Notice 

that these foreigners who tried to join 

with Israel had an agenda to take over. 

Here with Sanballat and his people, they 

were enemies pretending to be friends, 

claiming, “Our god is your God, and we’re 

one with you.” There was a false basis for 

unity; they had a hidden agenda. 

“Now, prior to this, Eliakim the priest, 

who was appointed over the chamber of 

the house of our God, being related to Tobiah 

[The word ‘related’ there is ambiguous; 

it could mean physically related, but 

it could also simply mean ‘close to’] had 

prepared a large room, where formerly they 

put the grain offering, the frankincense, 

the utensils, the tithes of grain, wine and 

oil prescribed for the Levites, the singers, 

the gatekeepers; the contributions for the 

priests.” Notice that when they brought this 

alien in, who had a secret agenda, the grain, 

the wine, and the oil stopped. The grain— 

the Word of God. Real anointing—the oil. 

Real worship—the wine. Where the singers 

used to be, real worship stopped. Real 

teaching, the feeding of the grain to the 

people, stopped. The real anointing stopped. 

It all stops when you bring the alien in. 

The alien’s name was Tobiah, which in 

Hebrew means “the goodness of Yahweh.” 

He is a bad man with a good name; many 

of the most sinister people in the Bible 

had good names. Absalom, for example, 

was a very bad man with a good name, as 

was Abimelech. This alludes to something 

about the Antichrist, though we will not go 

into that at this time. So here we have a bad 

man with a good name who is close to the 

high priest. He was an alien with a secret 

agenda, he was really bad, he meant them 

no good, yet he had a good name; and he 

got in bed with the clergy. The pope has a 

good name with Billy Graham; but he is an 

alien. What did the pope say not long ago? 

The Roman church is the one true church; 

same old story. Last year in Mexico, what 

did he say? He told the Catholics to rise up 

against the Protestants. As a result, there 

were churches burned and Christians killed 

in Mexico. The pope is an evil man, “All to 

You, Mary,” is written on his sleeve and is 

his personal belief. The man is an idolater 

and a necromancer. 

Yet he has a good name; Chuck Colson 

thinks he’s wonderful. “He’s the Holy Father,” 

says Robert Schuller. The Levite will 

always give place to the secretly hostile alien, 

but the righteous clergy will kick him out. 

Ecumenism is the first step toward the interfaith 

movement. They say that the pope 

is a great Christian leader, and the pope 

says that the Dalai Lama—a man who says 

that there is no God, yet allows himself to 

be worshiped—is a great spiritual leader. 

This is what Revelation warned about; yet 

he has a good name. He is allowed into 

God’s house. 

Today we have many people like Eliakim; 

Chuck Colson is one of them. Chuck 

Colson is a very dangerous man; he is more 

of a danger to the cause of Christ than any 

homosexual, any pornographer, or any 

Freemason—he is much more dangerous. 

An external enemy can be dealt with, but if 

a cancer is spreading in the body, look out. 

Colson’s wife is a practicing Catholic who 

says that Catholics should not be witnessed 

to. If you are an ex-Catholic, the Catholic 

Church says that you’re on your way to hell 

for leaving the one true church. And Chuck 

Colson has sold you out. 

What was the second contrasting characteristic 

in Ezekiel 44? Look at verse 

10: “…the Levites who went astray from 

Me when Israel went astray.” Isaiah begins 

by castigating the clergy for leading the 

people astray. Jeremiah begins in the same 

way. Earlier in his ministry, Ezekiel begins 

also by following the examples of his predecessors, 

Isaiah and Jeremiah. However, 

in the second half of his book, Ezekiel reverses 

it. He no longer says that it is the 

leaders leading the people away; the problem 

becomes the people leading the leaders 

astray. In other words, the blame of the 

leaders here is not that they are misleading 

the people, but that they are failing to be 

leaders. Instead, they are letting the people 

dictate what should be done. A Levite will 

always give the people what they say they 

want; the Zadokites, on the other hand, will 

give the people what God says they need. 

Today the big philosophy in church 

growth is, “Find out what the people want 

and give it to them.” It is derived from Bill 

Hybels’ church in Willow Creek. Do your 

market research, find out what the people 

want, and give it to them. 

There are a lot of very unscriptural ideas 

and influences coming from people like 

Peter Wagner and others, on how to grow 

a church. Whenever you use a human discipline 

or management philosophy, it must 

always be subordinate to Scripture. It has 

been said that the bait you use to catch 

someone is the food you must feed him in 

order to keep him. The church will therefore 

become more and more like the world. “Oh, 

they want Christian rock music and smoke 

machines, so we’ll give them to them.” 

So instead of having worship services, 

you basically have rock concerts in church, 

based not on the worship of God but on the 

worship of worship. That’s one example; 

there are others. There are churches that 

have food courts in them. There are pastors 

attending seminars at Willow Creek in Chicago 

to learn church growth. 

A while ago, hundreds and perhaps even 

thousands of evangelical pastors met at Willow 

Creek Church with Bill Hybels, who 

interviewed President Clinton. In the Old 

Testament history of Israel, God’s judgment 

was looming because of the genocidal 

atrocity of sacrificing children to demons. 

God put up with a lot of things; He put up 

with immorality, social injustice, and even 

idolatry. But once they began taking babies 

and sacrificing them to other gods in a cruel 

manner, God drew the line. Judgment must 

come; even if there were a revival, it would 

only delay the judgment, not stop it altogether. 

We see this in the days of Josiah. The 

revival only delayed the inevitable because 

of the blood of the babies under Manasseh. 

God’s judgment is looming over the 

Protestant democracies, including the United 

States, because of abortion. Thirty-five 

million babies murdered, with less than 

one percent of them aborted for any clinical 

reason. Now we have partial-birth abortion; 

this procedure involves a suboccipital 

puncture—puncturing the baby’s skull— 

and suboccipital insertion of a catheter into 

the baby’s cranium, followed by suction of 

the baby’s brain from his or her skull while 

he or she is still alive. This is partial-birth 

abortion, supported vehemently by Clinton 

and the present administration. 

What did Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah say 

to the national leaders about the immorality 

that was going to bring God’s judgment? 

They openly confronted the king, knowing 

that they would be persecuted for doing 

so. But what did Bill Hybels say about 

partial-birth abortion—or any abortion, 

for that matter? What did Bill Hybels say 

about militant and radical homosexuality, 

with lesbianism being promoted by Clinton 

and his wife? Not one word. He was ‘politically 

correct,’ and people are looking to 

him. What did Christian leaders say to the 

national leaders when they were bringing 

God’s judgment? We are talking here about 

little babies having their brains sucked out; 

yet not one word is said. “Give the people 

what they want.” 

But the righteous clergy give the people 

what they need. They were the minority. Let 

us look further, to understand how this works. 

Ezekiel 44:11: God leaves them in 

place. Don’t worry; God says in verse ten 

that they will bear the consequences of 

their iniquity—they will not get away with 

anything. Yet God leaves them in place for 

a season, to be ministers in the sanctuary. In 

verse 11 it says that they shall stand before 

the people and minister to the people; but 

in verse 15, the Zadokites kept charge of 

the sanctuary when the Lord’s people went 

astray. “They shall stand before Me.” A 

Levite will always minister to the people; a 

Zadokite will minister to the Lord. 

When the Levites give the people what 

they want, you don’t see a real move of 

God. There are places in the United States 

which are having real moves of God; there 

is something of a genuine revival taking 

place in my native New York City, with the 

radical decrease in crime and so on. There 

is an incredible move of God in the late 

David Wilkerson’s Times Square Church 

in Manhattan and in Jim Simbola’s church, 

Brooklyn Tabernacle. I remember when 

that was a small group of people meeting 

in a YWCA; now it’s a congregation of 

ten or twelve thousand. This has spread to 

other areas of the Northeast. Their growth 

is not based on people leaving one church 

for another; it is based on people being 

saved. I once taught a Bible study in David 

Wilkerson’s church’s rescue mission, 

called the Upper Room; every day we saw 

drug addicts, prostitutes, and homosexuals 

get saved. People are saved during every 

meeting in Times Square Church. I’m not 

saying David Wilkerson was perfect, but he 

was honest. The crime rate has plummeted 

in New York; the current murder rate is 

lower than that of 1964. This is opposed to 

places in which there has been no change 

and no growth, such as Pensacola, Toronto, 

and London, where instead things have gotten 

worse. 

If I take money from my right pocket 

and move it into my left pocket, am I any 

better off financially? What kind of businessman, 

or any person, would do such a 

thing and think themselves richer? Much of 

this seeker-friendly stuff, “Give the people 

what they want,” is transfer growth. People 

leaving one church for another to have 

their ears tickled, as Paul tells us. They find 

somebody who tells them what they want 

to hear. This is not people being saved; it’s 

not the forces of darkness being challenged; 

it’s not immorality being thrown back. It’s 

people taking money from one pocket and 

transferring it to another. No businessman 

could run a business on transfer growth, 

taking money from one column and putting 

it into another. Only a Pentecostal preacher 

can get away with that. 

Believe me, I should know; I am a Pentecostal 

preacher. I am embarrassed to admit 

that the Pentecostal ministry has become 

a dumping ground for people who simply 

cannot do anything else. Do you really 

think that these guys could be electricians 

or plumbers and build up a good business? 

Could they be dentists or mathematicians? 

No, they’re not intelligent enough. The Pentecostal 

ministry becomes for these people 

a ticket to the success they couldn’t achieve 

in the world. I am not saying that they’re all 

this way, but most of what we see today is 

like that. It’s all hype artistry, psychological 

manipulation, and pop psychology, not 

the Bible. It’s “Give the people what they 

want”; they’re pandering to a market. 

A lot of people knew Pensacola was 

not a revival. A lot of Assemblies of God 

ministers knew it was wrong, just as a lot 

of them knew that the PTL club was not 

of God. They went along with it anyway, 

why? Because the people liked it! “If we 

don’t have it,” they said, “we’ll lose members 

to the church up the street that does 

have it.” You see, they are no longer running 

a church; instead, they are running a 

business, an enterprise. Just as you have to 

give the customers what they want if you 

run a haberdashery shop, you have to give 

the customers what they want if you’re running 

a church. They are ministering to the 

people and not to the Lord. 

A Zadokite, however, a righteous clergyman, 

would rather teach the truth to 50 people 

than teach error to 50,000. He is ministering 

to the Lord, you see. The other guy, 

verse 11, he’s ministering to the people. 

There was no revival in Pensacola, and 

none in Toronto. No real revival like we see 

in New York City, with people really getting 

saved. That didn’t happen in London 

at Holy Trinity Brompton with the Alpha 

Courses; the city has actually only gotten 

worse. All they do is get people leaving one 

church for another, and then say that the 




Lord is blessing them, for look how they’ve 

grown. But that’s silly; it is sheer idiocy. We 

have men standing in pulpits today behaving 

like idiots. Not a nice word; but Paul 

uses the word idiotae in Corinthians. 

I think that people should leave bad 

churches in order to come to good ones; yet 

the Gospel should be our focus. One danger 

that can happen in good churches is this: because 

they stand up for truth against error, 

they wind up becoming hospitals for Christians 

who have been ripped off and abused 

in bad churches, and lose their own evangelistic 

focus. This shouldn’t be allowed 

to happen; a balance should be kept. It can 

easily happen that a good church becomes 

a hospital for abused Christians rather than 

focusing on evangelistic outreach to the 

community. 

What comes next? “It shall be that when 

they enter, they shall be clothed with linen 

garments; wool shall not be on them while 

they are ministering in the gates to the inner 

court of the house. Linen turbans shall 

be on their heads, and linen undergarments 

shall be on their loins. They shall not gird 

themselves with anything which makes 

them sweat.” 

This refers to an elaborate Hebrew ritual 

for the Day of Atonement called the Mustafa. 

We read about this ritual in an ancient 

rabbinic tractate called yoma, which describes 

what the Day of Atonement was 

like in the day of Jesus. When you read the 

Book of Hebrews in light of its background, 

you understand that book a lot better. In this 

ritual, the high priest is of course a picture 

of Christ, as we are told in Hebrews. But 

when he went to the Holy of Holies once 

a year, he put on different clothes that the 

people could not see; all-white linen garments. 

He looked different from the way 

he normally looked when he went into the 

Holy of Holies; this is a picture of Christ 

as well, when Jesus went before the Father 

to make atonement for our sin. It was a 

mystery what happened behind the curtain 

while the high priest was behind it; when 

Jesus went before the Father, He was different 

than when He was before the people. 

The apostles had only glimpses of this; 

the transfiguration, or later on when John 

saw Jesus in His manifest glory. And although 

John knew Jesus humanly, when he 

saw Him in His divinity, he was shocked, 

as we read in Revelation chapter 1. 

His disciples saw one Jesus; but when 

He went in back of that curtain, as it were, 

to make atonement, they didn’t see Him. 

Likewise the high priest had to change his 

clothes and put on these linen vestments 

once a year, that he would not transmit holiness 

to the people. After the final sacrifice 

on the Day of Atonement, he would again 

put on his ordinary clothes and come down 

the Temple Mount stairs on the south, to 

the City of David, and then he would make 

a right, turning west, and go up the stairs 

to the upper city where the high priest 

lived. As he attempted to come down the 

stairs and go up again to the upper city, the 

people would surround him, grab onto him 

and pull him, saying, “Don’t leave; don’t 

leave.” He would have to battle his way 

through the crowds in order to leave. After 

Jesus made atonement for our sins, He said, 

“I ascend now to My Father,” and they did 

not want Him to go; yet He said that it was 

to their (and our) advantage that He go. 

Notice that the high priest could not have 

a mixture. The Levites had a mixture, but 

the Zadokites had none. The Zadokites 

could also not wear anything that would 

make them sweat. Why? Let’s begin by 

looking at the mixture: they were forbidden 

to make a garment of flax and wool. 

God hates the mixture; He despises the 

mixture. Two passages we will touch on 

briefly: 

2 Peter 2:1: “False prophets arose among 

the people, just as there will be false teachers 

among you.” Peter uses false prophets 

and false teachers synonymously and interchangeably. 

Why? Because if someone’s 

doctrines are wrong, their prophecies will 

also be wrong! The reason that Kim Clement, 

Paul Cain, Rick Joyner, and Gerald 

Coates get it wrong—the reason their 

prophecies don’t come to pass—is that 

their doctrines are false. 

“…who will secretly introduce destructive 

heresies, even denying the Master who 

bought them.” 

Joyce Meyer did this; she said in her 

book that if you do not believe that Jesus 

went to hell, you cannot go to heaven. Kenneth 

Hagin and Kenneth Copeland got their 

beliefs from E.W. Kenyan; they too deny 

the Master who bought them. 

“…secretly introducing damnable heresies 

. . .” We translate it “destructive,” but 

a better word is “damnable.” That phrase 

is man’s best effort to translate this Greek 

word, parasaxousin. Para is the Greek prefix 

meaning “next to.” It means that they 

put truth adjacent or next to error. In other 

words, they use truth to camouflage error. 

There is always real cheese in the rat trap. 

What did Satan do when he tempted Adam 

and Eve? When the serpent beguiled the 

woman—a figure of Israel and the church 

being seduced—he took something the 

Lord said out of context. What did Satan 

do in Matthew chapter 4 when he tempted 

Jesus? The whole argument was from the 

book of Deuteronomy. Satan would quote 

from Deuteronomy, and Jesus would answer 

from Deuteronomy. Satan put truth 

next to error; he took verses out of context. 

Jesus answered in context. 

When you see people taking verses out 

of context and making it a pretext—Rodney 

Howard-Browne is a master at it, and 

Mike Bickle is another—that is the signature 

of Satan; Lucifer manifesting himself 

as an angel of light. What does he do? He 

puts truth next to error. And Peter calls them 

“damnable” heresies; some Bibles translate 

the word as “destructive”; the King James 

is more accurate in this case, and calls them 

“damnable.” 

“Oh, there’s some truth in Pensacola!” 

“Someone once was actually healed at a 

Benny Hinn crusade!” For one thing, we 

know of people who were pronounced 

healed by Hinn who are now dead, and we 

know that there is no medical documentation 

of true healings. But even if there 

were, we must heed Matthew 7:22: “Lord, 

we did miracles in your name.” “I never 

knew you.” A true healing would not prove 

anything about Benny Hinn. 

People so often defend these things by 

pointing out that there is some good in 

them, some truth in them. Yes, and by virtue 

of the fact that it is a mixture of truth 

and error, it is clearly not of God. 

“Oh, there’s some good in it!”—God has 

damned it. There is a false wisdom of man 

that goes something like this: “Eat the meat 

and spit out the bones.” Again, think of a 

three-egg omelet, in which two of the eggs 

are good but one is rotten. If you want botulism, 

bon appetit. 

God hates the mixture; His priests were 

forbidden to have a mixture. 

Paul compares his own ministry and 

those of Timothy and Silvanus with the 

Benny Hinns and Kenneth Copelands of 

today, saying this in I Thessalonians 2:3: 

“Our exhortation does not come from error 

or impurity or by way of deceit, but just as 

we have been approved by God to be entrusted 

with the Gospel, so we speak not 

as pleasing men, but God, who examines 

our hearts. We never came with flattering 

speech, as you know, nor with a pretext of 

greed—God is witness. Nor did we seek 

glory from men—either from you or from 

others, even though as apostles of Christ 

we might have exerted our authority.” 

The true apostles were being compared 

to the false ones. What the false apostles 

did was flatter people with a motivation 

of greed—to get money out of them. They 

went around flattering people, telling them 

what they wanted to hear, in order to get 

money from them. Today they’re going 

around prophesying over people, telling 

them “You’re going to do this and have that 

and the other thing,” and then they take up 

a really big offering. The fact that none of it 

happens doesn’t matter; the people go back 

for still more false prophecies. 

Jeremiah 5 says that the prophets prophesy 

falsely and God’s people love it, but 

look at what God says through Paul: “Our 

exhortation does not come from error or 

impurity or by way of deceit …” 

Error, impurity, or by way of deceit. It 

begins with error; doctrinal error becomes 

mixed. That word for “mix” is akatharis, 

mix or mixture of pure and impure. The 

whole thing is impure because some of it 

is; it’s a mixture. Get a nice big glass of 

orange juice, and then pour in a few drops 

of arsenic; it becomes a homogeneous solution, 

doesn’t it? Can you decide to swallow 

the juice and spit out the arsenic? When 

you hear people saying that we have to “eat 

the meat and spit out the bones,” they don’t 

know the Greek language for one thing, 

but they don’t know basic doctrine either. 

Those are the babbling words of foolish 

men. It is impossible to swallow the juice 

and spit out the arsenic; it’s akatharis. 

At best a person who would say that is an 

ignoramus with no biblical right to be behind 

a pulpit. If someone is unable to teach 

truth, unable to rightly divide the Word of 

God, that person has no right to be in the 

ministry. James says, “Let few of you be 

teachers,” for teachers will be judged more 

strictly than the rest. 

When we stand before Jesus, your pastor 

and I are going to be held more accountable 

than most of you. And yet there are people 

who will teach you that you can swallow 

the juice and spit out the arsenic. But that’s 

absurd; it’s homogeneous! I don’t mind that 

these people don’t know Greek, but some 

of them don’t even know English. 

There is a mixture. Now, the mixture will 

make them sweat. But the Zadokites were 

different; they would not perspire because 

there was no mixture. Their garments were 

pure linen. Revelation 19:8: “It was given 

to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright 

and clean, for the fine linen is the righteous 

acts of the saints.” 

A Zadokite wore pure linen; his deeds 

were no mixture, so there would be no 

sweat. The Levite had a mixture, so there 

would be perspiration. In other words, a 

Zadokite would rest in the Lord, whereas 

the Levite would strive in the flesh. Again, 

if I have only 100 people in my church and 

they are the 100 that God has given me, I 

am going to teach them the truth and I will 

rest in the Lord. I will be content with what 

I have, and ask that the Lord may add to my 

numbers. I will do my evangelism, I will 

preach the Gospel, I will pray, I’ll seek the 

Lord, I’ll do all that I can do; but it is the 

Lord who gives the increase. I’m not going 

to sweat about it. 

Today’s Levites, by contrast, devise one 

program after another. They are programoriented, 

and become event-oriented. They 

have to put on one big event after another 

to bring in numbers in order to bring in 

money to pay for the program that has never 

been ordained by God. They are striving 

in the flesh; they sweat. They have to 

worry. There is some good in what they say 

and what they teach, of course, because it 

is a mixture. 

A Zadokite will strive to be in the Lord, 

for that is where his rest is. Remember Jesus 

as our Sabbath rest? A Zadokite will 

strive to be in the Lord. Anything he does 

will be a result of his abiding in the Lord. 

A Levite, however, will strive in the flesh. 

He’ll have to get the latest gimmick, the latest 

program, the latest church-growth plan; 

and if those don’t work, he’ll have to get 

others. He’ll always be a mixture. There’s 

a mixture in what he preaches, a mixture in 

what he believes, and a mixture in what he 

does. It is impure; it is akatharis, because 

he is trying to please man instead of God. 

Ezekiel 44:23: “They shall teach My 

people the difference between holy and 

profane, and cause them to discern.” 

A Levite and a Zadokite; a Zadokite will 

teach discernment. A Levite will be politically 

correct; he will not teach discernment. 

If your pastor is not teaching discernment, 

if he is not teaching the people to discern, 

he is not a faithful leader. Only a righteous 

leader will teach discernment. When you 

see churches that will not deal with error, 

will not teach the people what is wrong 

with what’s being shown and espoused on 

popular “Christian” television—when you 

see people who will not take a stand and 

warn people when they go to a Christian 

book shop what kinds of books to keep 

away from—when you find that discernment 

is not being taught in a church—that 

is a Levite, not a Zadokite. He will always 

compromise. A Levite will always compromise 

truth. Once people begin compromising 

truth, it won’t be long before they are 

compromising morality. Give them enough 

time, and the same guys will begin to compromise 

morality. 

Finally, we’re told, “…they will take 

their stand in a dispute, and judge according 

to My statutes.” 

A Zadokite, a righteous minister, will 

take a stand in a dispute and judge biblically. 

Again, a Levite will be politically 

correct. He will come down on the fence. 

In England we have a Baptist preacher 

whom I once respected, though I no longer 

can, by the name of David Pawson. He 

watched the videos of the laughing revival, 

and he was appalled; but when his followers 

began writing to him to ask whether it 

was of God or not, instead of telling them 

the truth, he called Toronto a “yellow 

light.” It wasn’t red, nor was it green; in 

other words, he said, proceed with caution; 

go into it cautiously. It’s a mixture, he said; 

and he’s a man who knows Greek as well 

as I do. By virtue of the fact that it is a mixture, 

it should not be gone into. He was told 

that by me and by another pastor, yet it did 

not change his mind. It was not politically 

correct to take a stand. Why would he not 

take a stand? Because he no longer ministers 

to the Lord, he ministers to the people. 

It is a tragedy, because he is a man who did 

take a stand in the past. He took a stand on 

a lot of issues; he stood against annihilationism, 

he said that leadership is male—he 

took a stand in the past, but now he no longer 

takes a stand. Now he bails out. He will 

not take a stand in a dispute. 

“It’s a mixture,” he says. Of course it’s 

a mixture! That very fact tells you it is not 

God, that it is damnable. How can you try 

to defend something, which, according to 

Peter, God has damned? If God has damned 

something, it is indefensible. There’s nothing 

more to be said. 

Remember that Ezekiel prophesied not 

only for his own day or even for the first 

coming of Jesus, he also prophesied for now. 

In whatever church you go to, does your 

minister give place to the secretly hostile 

alien? Will he fool around with the liberal 

Protestants or the Roman church, people 

with a stated agenda? Will he go down the 

road to Babylon? When that happens, true 

worship ends, the grain is no longer being 

shoveled out for the people, and the wine 

and oil are gone. Does your leader give place 

to the alien, or does he kick the alien out? 

Does your pastor give the people what 

they say they want, or does he give the 

people what God says they need? In other 

words, does he minister to the people, or 

does he minister to the Lord? 

Does your minister strive in the flesh? 

Does he allow a mixture of what is right 

and wrong, true and false, biblical and 

unbiblical, spiritual and carnal? Does he 

allow for akatharis? Does he tell you to 

eat the meat and spit out the bones? And 

if there is a mixture, in the process of it is 

your minister always striving in the flesh 

for another gimmick, another program, and 

another “celebration/praise” event? Or is 

he someone who has no mixture; what he 

teaches and what he does is purely scriptural? 

Does he rest in the Lord? Would he 

rather have 100 people that he can teach 

the truth to than 5,000 to whom he can only 

give a mixture? 

Does your pastor teach God’s people discernment? 

Does he teach you to discern? 

Does he protect the sheep from the wolves? 

Or is he a hireling as described by Jesus 

in John 10, who is not a shepherd, who is 

out for his hire—his job, his housing allowance, 

his credentials, his standing in 

the community? Is he a hireling or a pas- 

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tor? Does he teach discernment, or does he 

compromise truth? 

Finally, on a disputed issue such as seeker-friendliness, 

the Alpha courses, Promise 

Keepers, or the laughing “revival,” will he 

take his stand and judge biblically? Or will 

he rather come down on the fence, refusing 

to take a stand and refusing to judge biblically, 

even though he knows better, as so 

many of these guys do? 

These are not questions for me to answer; 

these are only questions for me to 

ask. I don’t know all of you, and I don’t 

know what churches you go to. I am only 

asking the question: your leader—is he a 

Levite or a Zadokite? 

If your minister is a Zadokite—if he 

is somebody who will kick the alien out, 

who will give the people what God says 

they need, who ministers to the Lord rather 

than to men, in whom there is no mixture 

in what he teaches, believes and does, who 

will rather rest in the Lord than strive in 

the flesh, who will teach people to discern, 

and who will take a stand in a dispute—if 

that is your pastor, you stand by him. You 

pray for him, you support him financially, 

and you help him in any way you can. He 

may not be a perfect man, but he is a good 

man, and he is God’s man. You stand by 

him; you pray for him; you support him; 

you be loyal to him so long as he is loyal 

to the Word of God. He needs your prayers, 

he deserves your support, and he is entitled 

to your help. 

On the other hand, if your minister is a 

Levite—if he will give place to the alien 

and walk down the ecumenical path to 

Babylon; if he’ll give the people what they 

want; if there is a mixture in what he teaches, 

believes and does; if he will not teach 

discernment but rather is politically correct, 

will not take his stand in a dispute and does 

not want any controversy—do not sit under 

that man’s ministry; do not bring your family 

under his ministry. He is not a shepherd; 

he is at best a hireling or an incompetent. 

He is somebody who does not deserve your 

support. You can pray for him, but get away 

from him and get your family away from 

him, and take anybody else away from him 

that you can. He is leading the sheep to destruction. 

At best, he is an ignoramus who 

should not be behind a pulpit. Don’t support 

his ministry, don’t support him financially, 

don’t stand by him, and don’t be loyal to 

him, because if you are you are being loyal 

to something not of God. God has damned 

what he does. If he is not right, he is not, 

and cannot possibly be, righteous. 

Again, I am not the one to answer this 

question, only the one to ask it. Is your 

minister a Levite or a Zadokite? 

Paul Sevilla 

Dear Bro. Jacob and Bro. David, 

Grace and peace be unto you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 

The coming of Bro. Geoff Toole this April 14 th and 15t h was a blessing. We 

visited the four sick children at their home. (Rialyn Cali, Romar Ibanez,Shyrose 

Baladbad, Jenna rose Romero). They are our main concern, Brother Geoff prayed 

for them and brought encouraging words to their family. He also lead a Bible 

Seminar. The attendance was more than 35 people including mothers, one pastor’s 

wife, and young people. Every one received additional knowledge from the lessons 

of God’s word and we had a happy fellowship. 

Our young children who regularly attend the Young Peoples Fellowship along 

with other churches, was unanimously chosen to be the Host for the next YP Fellowship 

on June 1, 2013. This will be their first time hosting the activity. Let’s 

pray for them. 

Last week we attended church anniversary. Our young children sang their praise 

song number for the Lord. 

We’ve went Phil. Heart Center, the Doctor examined Jennarose who has a heart 

problem. The Doctor wants her to be confined, but the pregnant mother requested 

her child to be confined after she gave birth. The Doctor scheduled Jennarose to 

return on July 23 rd for an X-ray, CBC, APC, Urinalysis and 2D Echo. She will 

undergo electrocardiogram on July 31. 

Shyrose with the same heart problem is scheduled to return in May. Her mother 

will process the required papers to get the yellow card (access card). 

Regarding Rialyn, we brought her to an EENT Surgeon. The doctor advised her 

mother to let Rialyn’s bone mature before having the second surgery. The doctors 

explanation was: if second surgery is done (which is the cleft palate) on her fresh 

age and while she is growing up, the gums muscles will stretch and the bone will 

expand which tend to deform. We had to look for another doctor and they had 

almost the same opinion. The mother decided to wait for a few years. 

We as God’s people are not only concerned about spiritual needs, but also for 

physical needs. Please let us pray together for them. Thank you very much. May 

the Lord God continue bless His ministry. 

Sincerely in Christ, 

Ptr. Paul 

WATCH AND PRAY 

It is one of the paradoxes of the faith that 

to live out a truth taught us in the Bible. We 

sometimes must first experience the opposite 

power working against us. 

For example, to become humble there 

often needs to be a corresponding awareness 

of just how potentially proud we can 

become. I have seen those of us therefore 

wishing to build and oversee a discernment 

ministry, must also be conscience of how 

quickly we ourselves might be deceived. 

Those who believe that they can never be 

led astray into error usually are the ones 

who will fall the quickest and the hardest. 

“Therefore let him who thinks he stands 

take heed that he does not fall.” 1 Cor. 

10:12 (NASB). 

Even if we are strongly gifted by the Lord 

in prophetic matters and taught things by 

Yeshua himself; it’s often not strong enough 

to prevent our going into error. The classic 

example of this of course is Peter; though 

ready, willing and able to fight for The Lord, 

he ended up denying The Master. The faith 

he so strongly espoused was refuted by a 

mere servant girl. 

If we look at the warning that Jesus gave 

to Peter, regarding this issue; there is an important 

element that we often overlook. 

Luke 22:31 “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan 

has demanded permission to sift you like 

wheat; 32 but I have prayed for you, that 

your faith may not fail; and you, when once 

you have turned again, strengthen your 

brothers” (NASB). One vital thing that the 

Messiah did in preparing the disciples lives 

for tribulation was prayer. We see His example 

of a prayer marked life over and over 

again in the Gospels. 

Today it is in this area of developing a 

faithful consistent prayer life that we too 

have failed enormously; we have neither 

really listened to what Jesus said or acted 

upon it. Prayer has been largely neglected 

Steve Boot 

or underdeveloped 

in its importance. 

Don’t 

forget we were 

commanded to 

watch AND pray! 

(Mark 14:38). We 

may have been 

somewhat diligent 

in the watching 

part, but what 

about prayer? 

Now before 

you regard this 

article as just another 

exhortation 

to do more. Be 

aware the issue of 

prayer is strongly 

linked to the ministry of the end times. In 

Luke 17:20-37 when Yeshua is specifically 

talking about the coming of the kingdom of 

God and the Son of man. He then teaches 

in Luke 18 a corresponding parable about 

the necessity of faithful, persistent prayer; 

so as to not lose heart. The point being that, 

by its context, it is connected to the overcoming 

of end times troubles. The ability to 

withstand the distress and tribulation of this 

day and these times are linked to our being 

faithful to cry out to Him beforehand (Luke 

18:8). Jesus seems to be indicating of all the 

actions we could take to remain faithful in 

the waiting of our redemption, we have to 

be praying rightly or in a right manner just 

as He taught us. 

Throughout Luke 18 and19 Jesus gives us 

examples of some people being deluded in 

their faith, whilst there are others who persist 

on crying out to Him. In 18:9-14, there is 

specifically a teaching about some who will 

pray to God, but be rejected; others who 

will pray and be judged as justified (heard). 

We also read in the later letters of Peter, 

after his restoration to Yeshua, that he urged 

fellow believers to be in Prayer for the end 

times. 1 Peter 4:7 warns us, “Now the end 

of all things is near; therefore, be serious 

and disciplined for prayer.” (HCSB). In the 

NASB it reads “The end of all things is near; 

therefore, be of sound judgment and sober 

spirit for the purpose of prayer.” The word 

for serious/sound is swfronew “sophreno,” 

which means to be in the right mind. The 

purpose for doing so is to then be clear 

headed for prayer. 

Yes it is vital to be discerning about the 

times we live in, the resulting action to be 

applied from this sober, disciplined mindset 

is to pray. It is not enough to have insightful 

teaching and exposition if we are not also 

linking it to an intercessory outpouring. 

Jesus prayed on the shore when the disciples 

were in the midst of the tribulation of 


the storm. Abraham interceded with God 

over Lot in Sodom are but two examples. 

Throughout the scriptures we see the repeated 

pattern of the great leaders also being 

great intercessors. People like Jeremiah 

not only had highly developed prophetic 

skills but also highly developed prayer lives! 

In our time whilst we have a mountain of 

materials to do with end times predictions 

but there’s been a molehill regarding prayer. 

The choice is largely between books hundreds 

of years old, like the Andrew Murray’s 

Classics. Or flakey, charismanic pulp fiction 

from the likes of Cindy Jacobs. I strongly believe 

there is a “gap” or void in our prayer 

ministries and the enemy has correspondingly 

flooded this hole with a whole host 

of unsound teaching and so called “watchmen” 

who are not taking Jesus’ warning 

concerning prayer seriously. Prayer builds a 

wall that guards the watchman while he is 

on watch! Can you imagine a watchman out 

in the open? While he may be able to do his 

job, he is still very exposed without the covering 

of prayer. Also, can you imagine how 

he has to explain to The Lord why he didn’t 

build his defenses when he had time knowing 

what the days ahead will bring? 

In nearly all the “End Times Conferences” 

prayer time is largely noticeable by 

its absence or brevity. Very few sound CD’s, 

books or videos are present at the stands 

on this subject. 

One of the failures the disciples had when 

Jesus was in distress at Gethsemane was 

their inability to remain awake AND pray. 

It seems before the second coming of The 

Lord that we too may end up repeating the 

same pattern of behavior. We are specifically 

warned that the love of many will grow 

cold (Matt 24:12), and because of this concern 

Jesus instructs us to be in prayer over 

these days of distress. Matthew 24:20 “But 

pray that your flight will not be in the winter, 

or on a Sabbath” (NASB). It doesn’t bode 

well that even as we begin to enter into 

these seasons of trial; deep, faithful, consistent 

prayers is lacking at a lot of our meetings 

and personal agendas, 

In 1 Timothy 2:1, we read “I exhort 

therefore, that, first of all, supplications, 

prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, 

be made for all men” (KJV). Paul is saying 

that we should be praying in some different 

ways; and one of them is by “intercessions” 

(nteuxeij), which means literally to 

“hit the mark,” an intervention led by God, 

between heaven and earth as it reflects the 

Lord’s specific will. 

Now in Hebrew, we have a corresponding 

term (ugP) paga, (Isaiah 59:16 “And was 

astonished that there was no one to intercede; 

Then His own arm brought salvation to 

Him.” It has the basic meaning of “to meet.” 


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It conveys the idea of physical contact. Its 

three main usages are (1) “to intercede/ 

plead for” (Isaiah 53:12, Jeremiah 36:25) (2) 

“to place a burden upon” (Isaiah 53:6, “the 

Lord has ‘laid’ upon him all our iniquity”). (3) 

“Making intercession” either to man (Ruth 

1:16, “entreat me not,” i.e. “don’t press me 

to leave you,”) or to God (Jeremiah 7:16, 

“don’t make intercession to me”). 

If therefore, we have been listening to 

the Lord’s voice. There should be evidenced 

among us that there are regular times set 

aside for meeting with God in prayer. Our 

lives and ministries should follow the pattern 

of the Messiah who was habitually was 

found praying over His disciples and ministry. 

Please note, that Yeshua is the only true 

“intercessor” per se. We do not take on the 

the weight of prayers upon ourselves. It 

is only through the will and work of The 

Holy Spirit is it possible for His “burdens” 

either to be placed on us or lifted from 

us. Hebrews 7:25 states, “Therefore He is 

able to save completely those who come to 

God through Him, (NIV). 

Might I suggest in the light of what The 

Lord is calling us to we must take some 

practical steps in response? 

First we must role model a prayer ministry 

as much as we emphasize the “teaching” 

ministry. Next, there must be a conscience 

effort to develop this intercessory praying 

over our lives and outreaches. If our Master 

in His important, busy life, took the time 

to teach on prayer, role model and explain 

prayer; then it behooves us too, to follow in 

His footsteps. 

Finally, we begin to lament, cry and ask 

for forgiveness for our Pray-less lives. We 

become as humble as the tax collector was 

in Luke 18:13; pleading with The Lord not 

to leave us as we are now. Let’s begin by 

asking Him to give us a true attitude towards 

intercession, so that the Bride of 

Christ be found watching and praying, when 

He comes. (Song of Solomon 5:2) 

Any comments ? Suggestions ? I do welcome 

any feedback and/or corrections to 

this article; please write to Steve at: 

canadamoriel@gmail.com. 

Thank you, 

Steve Boot 

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Dear Friends and Family, 

Greetings in Jesus, we hope that you are 

all well and walking with the Lord by His 

truth and Grace. 

We have some important announcements 

this month that we hope will encourage you 

in your walk and draw us closer to him. 

First of all, our Moriel South Africa website 

went live. On this you will find a whole 

host of information and resource material. 

• Sermon Downloads 

• Bible study aids 

• Latest news 

• Photo Gallery 

• Links to like minded ministries 

• Bible school material 

• Films that make you think 

• A blog for discussing important and contemporary 

issues 

And so much more. Please visit our site 

and our new Face Book page, www.facebook.com/MorielMissions 

also our Twitter 

account, twitter.com/MorielSA. Links to 

these can be found on the website. 

We are nearing the completion of the first 

phase, a home for the children. The builders 

have been magnificent and have done the 

work as unto the Lord. Dennis the leader is 

a real godly man and it has been encouraging 

to hear hymns being sang by him while 

he works and begins the day in prayer. 

All walls inside are up and to date most 

of the inside plastering has been done with 

outside plastering being focused upon this 

week. On Monday the window panes are 

going in and wood fire fitted. 

Around the 25 th our electrician Rudi is 

coming to do the wiring at the same time as 

we do the plumbing. It is hoped that the ceilings 

will be placed around the same time. 

The Wind Turbine is now erected along 

with the solar panels. This brought a small 

delay because we did not know we was providing 

the housing and so our new building 

has a new extension already to hold the batteries, 

inverter and panel, with a plug for 

generator back up in case of emergency. 

Once these tasks have been completed we 

can move in and take our time painting and 

fitting blinds etc. This will be welcome as 

the nights are getting colder and the thought 

of sleeping in a proper bed is such a draw. 

The children went to the pathology lab 

for their regular blood checks. All but 2 of 

the children are undetectable while the other 

two show a small viral load due to resistant 

HIV. All in all we are pleased with the results 

although Pee Wee has a low white blood 

count that has been there for over a year. 

Luke had his first real tooth ache this 

week which meant a trip to the Dentist and 

unfortunately has to have an extraction this 

Tuesday the 16 th . He received a sticker and 

a Balloon so he was quite happy. It’s strange 

though as his cleaning habits are quite strict 

and we don’t over indulge with too many 

sweets as not only are they no good for 

your teeth but can cause a dip in the CD4 

level. His medicines though are quite syrupy 

though. Diet is all important to help the 

drugs do what they do. We tend to have the 

children eat extra protein items as the drugs 

inhibit the crossover of the proteins into the 

body system. 

Prudence will be attending another 

course in Hermanus we hope very soon to 

help her with her career in the food industry, 

we just wait for confirmation. 

This week we set off planting again with 

100 African Lilac tree’s as wind breaks. This 

lovely tree is indigenous and grows rapidly. 

This week we are swapping our 4X4 (the 

beast) for a more practical open end 4X4 

Bakkie. This will enable us to fetch and 

carry our own materials from the builders 

as well as carry future live stock. Our next 

vehicle will have to be a tractor with grass 

cutting and plough capabilies. Please pray 

the Lord will bring us to the right one. 

• Carol Adams in Uganda who has health 

problems 

• For the children and their ongoing health 

issues 

• A school assistant for Lyn 

• Pray the school website will encourage 

many 

• A tractor and equipment so we can use 

the veggies produced for reaching the 

poor with the Gospel 

• Please pray that God will bless Chris in 

certain areas that God knows about 

• All our administrative people around the 

world who do a fantastic job 

As you may know we are an NGO in the 

UK and South Africa. If the Lord burdens 

you to help us financially please contact us 

at one of the ministry contacts above. 

Teaching 

DR. Gagnon is a lecturer I hold in high esteem. 

Over the years he has stood his ground 

amid torrid attacks on the issue of Homosexuality. 

The Pink agenda is something 

that all of us need to be concerned about. 

The elevation of same sex marriages, the 

adoption of children by same sex couples 

and the turning of academic disagreements 

into ‘hate speech’ has meant that many today 

are scared to talk about the issue. I even 

came across a United Methodist church that 

has refused to marry anyone until same sex 

weddings are seen as the norm. 

Well just how bad is Homosexuality? Are 


Moriel South Africa – Continued 

Moriel South Africa – Continued 

we guilty of setting aside Homosexuality as 

something more than any other sin or practice. 

In his essay published several years ago 

DR. Gagnon provides some clear answers. 

How Bad Is Homosexual Practice According 

to Scripture and Does Scripture’s 

Indictment Apply to Committed Homosexual 

Unions? 

by Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D. 

Associate Professor of New Testament, 

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary 

www.robgagnon.net, gagnon@pts.edu 

January 2007 (slightly modified December 

2007) 

This brief essay explores two of the most 

common questions asked about the Bible’s 

view of homosexual practice. First, how bad 

is homosexual practice according to Scripture? 

Second, does Scripture’s indictment 

of homosexual practice apply to committed 

homosexual unions? 

I. How Bad Is Homosexual Practice According 

to Scripture? 

It is my contention that homosexual practice 

is a more serious violation of Scripture’s 

sexual norms than even incest, adultery, plural 

marriage, and divorce. (The reader will 

note that I did not mention bestiality because 

the evidence from ancient Israel and early 

Judaism suggests that bestiality is a worse 

offense than same-sex intercourse.) 

A. Different Degrees of Severity as 

regards Sin 

At the outset there will be some readers 

who contend that it is both unscriptural and 

un-Reformed to argue that any sins are more 

severe than any other sins. However, no one 

really believes such a claim. In fact, most 

people in the mainline churches today who 

want to see some sort of accommodation 

made to committed homosexual unions do 

so because, they rationalize, even if it is not 

God’s ideal it is nevertheless “not that bad 

of a sin” or at least a lesser evil than, say, 

promiscuous homosexual behavior. Proponents 

of homosexual unions often recoil 

in horror at the thought of any comparison 

with consensual incest or with adultery (to 

say nothing of bestiality) precisely because 

they operate with a notion that some sexual 

sins are truly more severe than others. 

Whatever concessions have been made to 

fornication and divorce in the church, I still 

see the mainline churches in the West holding 

reasonably consistent positions against 

sexual unions involving more than two 

partners and certainly incestuous unions of 

a first-order severity (e.g., incest with one’s 

parent, full sibling, or child), to say nothing 

of bestiality, sex with prostitutes, and sex 

with prepubescent children. Are we being 

unreasonable in giving precedence to some 

sins over others? Should we concede these 

other matters as well and be more consistently 

disobedient to the will of Christ? I 

don’t think so. Failing in some areas does 

not justify failing in more foundational matters. 

The church’s current practices tacitly 

acknowledge a different weight given to different 

sins. 

It is true that any sin, including sexual sin, 

can get one excluded from the kingdom of 

heaven if merit is the means of entrance. In 

that specific sense, all sins are equal. And 

there are certainly other sins, including sexual 

sins, that the apostle Paul indicates create 

a risk factor for the exclusion of Christians 

from the kingdom of God if they persist in 

such behavior in a serial, unrepentant way. 

Paul mentions in 1 Corinthians 5-6 incest, 

adultery, and sex with prostitutes alongside 

same-sex intercourse. 

Yet none of this means that the church 

should regard all sexual sins, let alone all 

sins of any type, as basically of equal import 

or even that God views all sins as equally 

abhorrent. I am confident that few Christians, 

at least when hooked up to a lie detector 

or given truth serum, would assert that 

God views the taking home of a company 

pen as endangering the eternal destiny of 

the Christian perpetrator in the same way 

that, say, raping and eating children (thinking 

here of the serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer). 

The image is offensive, I grant. In fact, if 

you, the reader, feel any offense, this merely 

confirms my point: you don’t really believe 

that all sins are equally heinous, either to 

God or to us. 

In short, it is not true that all offenses 

to God are in all senses equally offensive to 

God. 

For those from the Reformed tradition 

it should be noted that such a view is “reformed.” 

For example, the Larger Catechism 

of the Westminster Confession of Faith (1647) 

states the obvious: “All transgressions of the 

law of God are not equally heinous; but some 

sins in themselves, and by reason of several 

aggravations, are more heinous in the sight 

of God than others” (7.260; elaboration in 

7.261; cf. the Shorter Catechism 7.083). 

The claim that Scripture does not support 

the notion of different weights of sins is also 

inaccurate, in my view. To take a few examples: 

• In the Old Testament there is a clear 

ranking of sins. For instance, when 

one goes to Leviticus 20, which reorders 

the sexual offenses in Leviticus 18 

according to penalty, the most severe 

offenses are grouped first, including 

same-sex intercourse. Of course, variegated 

penalties for different sins can be 

found throughout the legal material in 

the Old Testament. 

• Jesus also prioritized offenses, referring 

to “weightier matters of the law.” 

For instance, healing a sick person on the 

Sabbath takes precedence over resting. 

• Paul’s attitude toward the case of incest 

in 1 Corinthians 5 also makes clear 

that he differentiated between various 

sexual offenses, with some being more 

extreme than others. This is clear both 

from the horror in his tone at the case 

of incest but, even more, from the fact 

that he has to arbitrate between competing 

values when he condemns the 

incest. If there were no ranking of 

priorities, how could Paul reject out 

of hand a case of incest that was monogamous 

and committed? If the values 

of monogamy and commitment to 

longevity were of equal weight with a 

requirement of a certain degree of familial 

otherness, Paul could not have 

decided what to do. Would commitment 

to a monogamous, lifelong union cancel 

out the prohibition of incest? Obviously, 

this was not a difficult matter for 

Paul to decide. He knew that the incest 

prohibition was more foundational. 

© 2007 Robert A. J. Gagnon 2 

B. Why Homosexual Practice Is One of 

the Most Severe Sexual Sins 

Having established the principle that 

some offenses are more heavily weighted 

than others, both by Scripture and by the 

church, the question arises: How big a violation 

does Scripture view same-sex intercourse? 

I believe that Scripture indicates 

that the only sexual offense more severe is 

bestiality. Here are three main reasons why: 

• Homosexual practice, committed or 

otherwise, is the violation that most 

clearly and radically offends against 

God’s intentional creation of humans 

as “male and female” (Gen 1:27) and 

definition of marriage as a union between 

a man and a woman (Gen 2:24). 

According to the story in Genesis 2, the 

differentiation into man and woman is 

the sole differentiation produced by the 

removal of a “rib” or (in my view a better 

rendering) “side” from the originally 

undifferentiated human. It is precisely 

because out of one flesh came two 

sexes (a story line that makes a transcendent 

point about the exclusivity of 

male-female complementarity) that the 

two sexes, and only the two sexes, can 

(re-)unite into one flesh (2:24). Since 

Jesus gave priority to these two texts 

from the creation stories in Genesis 

when he defined normative and prescriptive 

sexual ethics for his disciples, 

they have to be given special attention 

by us. Paul also clearly has the creation 

texts in the background of his indictments 

of homosexual practice in Rom 

1:24-27 and 1 Cor 6:9. 

• Every text that treats the issue of homosexual 

practice in Scripture treats 

it as a high offense abhorrent to God. 

That this is so is evident from (a) the 

triad of stories about extreme depravity, 

Ham, Sodom, and Gibeah (which 

incidentally are no more limited in their 

implications to coercive acts of samesex 

acts than is an indicting story about 

coercive sex with one’s parent limited 

in its implications only to coercive acts 

of adult incest), to (b) the Deuteronomic 

and Deuteronomistic legal and narrative 

materials that rail against the homoerotic 

associations of the qedeshim 

as an “abomination” or “abhorrent 

practice” (men who in a cultic context 

served as the passive receptive sexual 

partners for other men), to (c) the Levitical 

prohibitions (where the term 

“abomination” or “abhorrent practice” 

is specifically attached to man-male intercourse), 

to (d) texts in Ezekiel that 

refer to man-male intercourse by the 

metonym “abomination” or “abhorrent 

act,” to (e) Paul’s singling out of homosexual 

practice in Romans 1:24-27 

(compare 1 Cor 6:9) as a specially reprehensible 

instance, along with idolatry, 

of humans suppressing the truth 

accessible in the material creation set 

in motion by the Creator, labeling it 

sexual “uncleanness,” “dishonorable” 

or “degrading,” “contrary to nature,” 

and an “indecent” or “shameful” act. 

These views are also amply confirmed 

in texts from both early Judaism and 

early Christianity after the New Testament 

period, where only bestiality 

appears to rank as a greater sexual offense, 

at least among “consensual” acts. 

There is, to be sure, some disagreement 

in early Judaism over whether sex with 

one’s parent is worse, comparable, or 

less severe, though most texts suggest 

a slightly lesser degree of severity. Yet 

while Scripture makes some exceptions, 

particularly in ancient Israel, for 

some forms of incest (though never 

for man-mother, man-child, man-sibling) 

and for sexual unions involving 

more than two partners (though a monogamy 

standard was always imposed 

on women), it makes absolutely no exceptions 

for same-sex intercourse. Indeed, 

every single text in Scripture that 

discusses sex, whether narrative, law, 

proverb, poetry, moral exhortation, or 

metaphor, presupposes a male-female 

prerequisite. There are no exceptions 

anywhere in Scripture. © 2007 Robert 

A. J. Gagnon 3 

• The male-female prerequisite is the 

foundation or prior analogue for defining 

other critical sexual norms. Jesus 

himself clearly predicated his view 

of marital monogamy and indissolubility 

on the foundation of Gen 1:27 and 

2:24, texts that have only one thing in 

common: the fact that an acceptable 

sexual bond before God entails as its 

first prerequisite (after the assumption 

of an intra-human bond) a man and a 

woman (Mark 10:6-9; Matt 19:4-6). 

Jesus argued that the “twoness” of the 

sexes ordained by God at creation was 

the foundation for limiting the number 

of persons in a sexual bond to two, 

whether concurrently (as in polygamy) 

or serially (as in repetitive divorce and 

remarriage). The foundation can hardly 

be less significant than the regulation 

predicated on it; indeed, it must be the 

reverse. Moreover, the dissolution of 

an otherwise natural union is not more 

severe than the active entrance into an 

inherently unnatural union (active entrance 

into an incestuous bond would 

be a parallel case in point). The principle 

by which same-sex intercourse is 

rejected is also the principle by which 

incest, even of an adult and consensual 

sort, is rejected. Incest is wrong because, 

as Lev 18:6 states, it involves 

sexual intercourse with “the flesh of 

one’s own flesh.” In other words, it 

involves the attempted merger with 

someone who is already too much of a 

formal or structural same on a familial 

level. The degree of formal or structural 

sameness is felt even more keenly in 

the case of homosexual practice, only 

now on the level of sex or gender, because 

sex or gender is a more integral 

component of sexual relations, and 

more foundationally defines it, than is 

and does the degree of blood relatedness. 

So the prohibition of incest can 

be, and probably was, analogically 

derived from the more foundational 

prohibition of same-sex intercourse. 

Certainly, as noted above, there was 

more accommodation to some forms 

of incest in the Old Testament than 

ever there was to homosexual practice. 

Adultery becomes an applicable offense 

only when the sexual bond that 

the offender is cheating on is a valid 

sexual bond. Needless to say, it would 

be absurd to charge a man in an incestuous 

union or in a pedophilic union 

with adultery for having sexual relations 

with a person outside that pairbond. 

One can’t cheat against a union 

that was immoral from the beginning. 

My purpose in evaluating, from Scripture’s 

perspective, the severity of engaging 

in same-sex intercourse is not to exhort believers 

to hate those who engage in homosexual 

behavior but rather to inform love 

with knowledge of the truth. Many Christians 

have attempted to respond in love 

towards persons who act on homosexual 

urges, including ordained officers, by either 

“tolerating” the behavior or, worse, affirming 

it. If, however, same-sex intercourse is a 

high offense in the sexual realm toward God, 

then there can be no question of ordaining 

persons participating in such acts in a serial, 

unrepentant manner. To do such would 

only confirm the sin, leave the individual 

exposed to the wrath of God, and risk that 

one’s exclusion from an eternal relationship 

with God—not to mention produce deleterious 

effects on the community of believers 

(see 1 Cor 5:6-7: a little leaven leavens the 

whole lump of dough). 

It is also important to determine the relative 

severity of an offense because of polity 

decisions. Churches do not treat all sexual 

offenses as equal when it comes to decisions 

of ordination (and sometimes even membership) 

but rather make distinctions on the basis 

of the severity of the offense, its repetitive 

character, and whether the offender has 

expressed repentance. Churches will ordain 

persons who have and occasionally entertain 

lustful thoughts, though I’m not sure one will 

find many churches ordaining persons who 

affirm and promote such thoughts. They will 

ordain persons who have been divorced and 

remarried, though I know of none who will 

ordain persons who have had five or more 

divorces and remarriages and plan to continue 

the cycle. Some churches may even 

ordain heterosexual persons in a committed 

sexual bond outside of marriage. However, 

few if any churches will ordain—at least not 

as of today—persons who are in committed 

sexual bonds involving close blood relations, 

more than two persons concurrently, 

or an adult and an adolescent or child. Few 

if any will ordain persons who are actively 

engaged in adulterous behavior. So knowing 

the severity of the sexual offense is an 

important factor in deciding what ordination 

decisions should be taken when violations 

are committed—and not only committed but 

committed repeatedly and, worse of all, unrepentantly. 

In fact, the more severe the sexual offense, 

the more acute becomes the question 

of whether churches and individuals should 

stay in a denomination that tolerates or perhaps 

even promotes such offenses among 

its ordained officers. For I know of few, if 

any, reasonable persons who would stay in a 

church that tolerated or promoted repetitive 

and unrepentant incest, adultery, or polyamory 

among its ordained officers. If same-sex 

intercourse is treated by Scripture as equally 

severe or worse than these sexual offenses, 

then serious issues about denominational 

unity are posed by a denomination’s toleration 

or affirmation of homosexual practice 

among its ordained officers. 

© 2007 Robert A. J. Gagnon 4 

Part II continued in September’s issue, Does 

Scripture’s Indictment of Homosexual Practice 

Apply to Committed Homosexual Unions? 


Moriel Israel 

Elon and Hadass Moreh 

Elon and Hadass Moreh 

Moriel Israel 

Moriel office in Northern Israel 

Dear friends and supporters, 

We are now on the very brink of Summer, 

it always come as a shock because the change 

from pleasantly warm to hot and stuffy 

happens very rapidly here. For those of you 

who have been watching and praying for 

this nation and ourselves, I am sure that you 

will be delighted to know that some of your 

prayers have been answered, and some very 

significant things have happened recently. 

Some National Blessings, The Rains. 

We know that many of you have been 

praying about this matter, and we are delighted 

to say that winter rains were very 

good indeed and the Galilee is nicely filled 

for the first time in years; the shoreline has 

even moved back towards where it used 

to be. Considering that water levels have 

been critically low for many years and had 

dipped down almost to the point where the 

water table could have been irreparably 

damaged, this really is a major miracle, the 

LORD has pulled it back from the brink. 

The plentiful winter rains are a reminder 

that God is a good god and makes his rain to 

fall on the righteous and the wicked alike. 

We are not a righteous nation, but God in 

His goodness has blessed us. 

The Gas begins to flow. 

As those who read the Israeli media might 

be aware, an enormous natural gas deposit 

and large oil reserves were discovered off 

Haifa a few years ago. The natural gas has 

just begun to come on stream this year. This 

again is God’s goodness and perfect timing; 

the Arab ‘Winter’ chilled our relationship 

with Egypt and gas supplies from there 

have been frozen. However this new oil and 

gas supply means that soon Israel could 

Moriel Israel /June 2013 

be energy-independent; very important 

indeed in a world that increasingly see us 

as a pariah state. This may be the LORD’s 

provision for a time when the world may 

impose restrictions or embargos upon us. 

Justice for the Ortiz family. 

Perhaps you might remember the story 

of Ami Ortiz; the pastor’s son from Ariel 

who was injured by a Purim parcel-bomb 

intended for his father. We were not sorry 

to hear on the news that Jack Teitel the 

Yad L’Achim anti-missionary operative 

who was behind this, several other violent 

crimes, and a number of murders was sent 

down for two life-sentences. There are 

some ultra-orthodox who would have seen 

Teitel as doing God’s work, thankfully the 

sentencing judge did not see it that way. 

Believers in this country will breath more 

easily that this dangerous and evil man will 

never be allowed to roam our streets again. 

The wind of political change 

A major development here is that after 

our last elections; -for possibly the first 

time in our state’s existence; the stranglehold 

that the immensely corrupt religious 

parties have held on our system of government 

has finally been broken and they are 

not part of the present governing coalition. 

Whether this situation will persist long term 

is not known yet, but at least for a while 

they won’t be able to extort concessions 

from the Government and leech massive 

amounts of cash and privileges away to 

their private interests. This has the potential 

to be immensely significant, and could, 

if the religious are kept out of power, eventually 

amongst other things lead to an easing 

of the difficulties that presently hinder 

Messianic believers from making Aliyah. 

Some brief news from us 

Though quiet in other respects, we continue 

to work with a number of others towards 

rolling out what will be a major 

outreach project. I had hoped to have more 

to report on this by now, sometimes here 

things don’t happen as fast as I would like; 

but this is definitely going ahead. 

I have volunteered some of my time each 

week to helping out in a coffee-shop outreach 

in a nearby Arab area. Coffee-house 

culture is very strong here in Israel, it’s the 

place to be if you want to sit down and have 

a chat, so it’s a good place to make contacts 

with people. 

We are about to become grand-parents 

any time now and Haddas has come down 

with a severe case of baby-fever as the day 

grows near. The primary symptom of this 

ailment is a total inability to talk of anything 

else but childbirth. Apparently this 

condition, though probably incurable, can 

be alleviated by contact with its point of 

origin, so we are now abroad for a short 

while to be around for the arrival of our 

first grandchild and to see some family. 

Here the LORD has worked another miracle, 

our eldest daughter two years ago had 

an ectoptic pregnancy. Unfortunately it was 

misdiagnosed and the condition became 

serious. After surgery she acquired a hospital-borne 

infection (actually necrotising 

fasciitis) which resulted in her having to be 

opened up wholesale to clean out the mess 

and then a month long stay in hospital. She 

very nearly died and needed an ovary removed. 

So this new grandchild to be is a 

sign too of God’s grace. 

An interesting taxi ride. 

At this time of writing we are in Europe. 

A few days ago we hired a cab. The taxi 

driver who was defintely of non-European 

origin asked us where we came from, ‘Israel’ 

we replied. “Oh’ he said, ‘I’m from 

Egypt’. Thankfully he eased my instant apprehension 

(filled with thoughts of being 

attacked by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood 

and how we could escape from a 

moving vehicle), with; ‘That’s fantastic! 

Someone who will understand me; I’m a 

Copt, do you know what a Copt is?’ He 

then proceeded to tell us about what conditions 

are like for Coptic Christians in Egypt. 

In one sense all that he said was only 

a confirmation of what Moriel and others 

have been saying for a long time. The only 

people who are deceived, stupid or duplicitous 

enough to go around proclaiming Islam 

is a religion of peace and tolerance, are 

those tho have never had to live under an 

Islamic government. 

During the rest of the journey we received 

up close and personal testimony 

of some of the horrors that Copts endure 

in Egypt. This man though not born-again, 

had enough discerment to see what many 

Western Christians can not; that the Allah 

of the Koran is not the God of the Bible, 

that the essential nature of Islam is thoroughly 

demonic and that Muslim atrocities 

have nothing to do with poor conditions, 

grievance over ‘Palestinian’ suffering or 

any other like cause but everything to do 

with the diabolical spirit behind Islam. If 

you want to know about Islam ask a Copt. 

Up until this time I had been totally unaware 

that there were communities of Coptic 

exiles in Europe. This was a real eyeopener, 

and I felt that it was one of those 

‘divine appointments’. At the very least it is 

an encouragement to pray for these people, 

that the LORD would visit them with his 

salvation; but it also highlighted the terrible 

betrayal of these people by those Western 

christians and movements who have swept 

this issue under the carpet in order to pursue 

their agenda of hate-momgering against 

Israel unfettered. 

News from The Way; the Moriel 

supported congregation in Karmiel 

and a brief note on Internet 

evangelism over here. 

Nothing major to report this quarter but 

since our last newsletter Kehilat HaDerekh 

congregation has launched its new website. 

It is still under development somewhat but 

it’s looking good. You can view it at http:// 

www.kehilathaderech.org. 

You may remember from our last newsletter 

that Pastor Yossi reported that a number 

of people had come to faith via their 

congregational website. They are not the 

only congregation that has experienced this 

phenomenon. Our friends in the persecuted 

congregation down in Arad have also seen 

non-believers contacting them through 

their web site which you can see at http:// 

hasdeyyeshua.com. 

It is a sign of our times that many Israelis 

are inquiring about the faith and coming 

to believe in Yeshua via the medium 

of the Internet. Internet take-up in Israeli 

is extremely high and apart from the its 

more unsavoury uses, the Net has become 

a means for the Word of God to enter directly 

into Israeli households. The Gospel 

can visit inquiring Israelis in the privacy 

and security of their own homes (or smartphone 

for that matter) without interference 

or harassment by the religious. 

Unsurprisingly among many ultra-orthodox 

groups (which are effectively cults) 

the Internet is banned by their leadership. 

This is not just to avoid the possible temptation 

to view unwholesome material, but 

also to prevent members of the these cult 

groups accessing knowledge and teachings 

from outside of which the leadership would 

disapprove; this would particularly apply 

to biblical and especially to Gospel material. 

This phenomenon is not restricted to 

hasidic cult groups, in many yeshivot (rabbinical 

colleges) study of the Bible (except 

through the filter of approved Rabbinic interpretations) 

is discouraged, and the older 

interpretive traditions regarding the Messiah 

(which are often very close to NT teachings) 

are censored or avoided. 

A Hebrew conundrum: -the Saviour 

who needs to be ‘saved’ 

Here in Israel sometimes issues arise that 

probably would never come up in an English 

believing environment; for example I 

was discussing recently with a friend the 

significance of Zechariah 9:9 and I thought 

it might be of interest also to our readers: 

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; 

shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, 

thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and 

having salvation; lowly, and riding upon 

an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. 

My friend was translating an English 

book into Hebrew, and its exposition of this 

Messianic prophecy was heavily dependent 

on the wording of the English bible 

version being used. For this exact reason 

my translator friend had hit a problem and 

said something like this to me: ‘his whole 

point depends upon where the English says 

“having salvation;” but it doesn’t say that 

in Hebrew.’ My friend was quite correct - 

it doesn’t say that in Hebrew. The underlying 

text in Hebrew is ‘uçcn’ (NoSha) and 

is clearly a passive form of the verb ‘uçcy’ 

(YaSHa), from which we get the word 

‘huwçcy’ Yeshuah ‘salvation’ and the name 

‘uwçcy’ -Yeshua. Strictly speaking this verb 

in the form it occurs in Zechariah 9:9 does 

not quite mean ‘having salvation’ at all, but 

‘saved’. The rendering ‘having salvation’ 

is a bit of a fudge. The English translators 

did not want to render this passive verbal 

form (in which the subject the recipient 

of the action) as an active form -’saviour’, 

for they did not want to misrepresent the 

underlying Hebrew. On the other hand 

they were uncomfortable with the idea 

of a Messiah that needed ‘saving’; hence 

they opted for something betwixt the two. 

So we have a conundrum here; in English 

we wouldn’t even notice this, it has been 

‘lost in translation’, but in Hebrew it exists. 

Consequently this is not the right verse 

to use to demonstrate that the Messiah is 

Saviour if you are speaking to Israelis. 

All right, you might say; but if the Messiah 

needs ‘saving’ wouldn’t this undermine 

what Scripture teaches us about the 

his sinlessness? This is where we hit another 

problem, a form of one-dimensional 

Christian thinking, which tends to always 

think of ‘huwçcy’ ‘salvation’ only in terms of 

‘salvation from sin’; however that is not its 

primary usage in the Old Testament, where 

it is more often seen in contexts of victory 

over, or salvation from enemies or deliverance 

from a bad situation. Now if we take 

this information into account and start to 

look at some other messianic passages we 

can actually see that they support this idea 

of the Messiah needing or receiving ‘salvation’ 

e.g. Psalms 21, 22, 118; Isa. 49:1-12; 

Heb. 5:7 etc. 

A very good example from these is psalm 

22 particularly verse 19-21 where the same 

verbal root is employed: 

But be not thou far from me, O LORD: 

O my strength, haste thee to help me. Deliver 

my soul from the sword; my darling 

from the power of the dog. Save me 

(‘ynuycçoh’ from the same root ‘uçcy’) from 

the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me 

from the horns of the wild oxen. 

In the Servant Song of Isaiah 49 we 

see both ideas combined, the Messiah is 

presented as both Saviour and a recipient 

of salvation. He is presented as one 

who raise up the tribes of Jacob, restores 

the preserved of Israel, is the light of the 

nations and the LORD’s salvation to the 

end of of the earth. He is also described 

as the One who is given for a covenant of 

the people who would bring the prisoners 

out of darkness; but in the very same 

breath God says to the Messiah ‘in an 

acceptable time I have heard thee and 

in a day of salvation have I helped thee’. 

If we look back to passage from Psalm 

22 we see the same terms ‘salvation’ and 

‘help’ occurring together also. 

So putting it all together; the Gospels 

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Moriel Israel – Continued 

Margret Godwin 

Moriel Australia 

of the Messiah in his first coming as the 

Suffering Servant king, Moshiach ben 

Yosef; of his humbling himself and laying 

aside his glory for our sakes; of his 

total dependence on the Father for all 

things, including deliverance out from 

death; now the idea of the Messiah being 

‘saved’ actually makes perfect sense 

when seen this way. The Messiah of 

course had no sin to be saved from, but 

in his first coming he relied totally on the 

Father to save, preserve, help and sustain 

him to the end of his task, and ultimately 

raise him up from the dead (Rom. 6:4); 

and now mission accomplished he has 

become ‘uycom’, Moshia --Saviour; and 

author of eternal salvation to all who 

trust in him (Heb. 5:9). 

Some prayer points 

Please pray for the outreach planned in 

this area and for the coffee-shop outreach, 

that they will be fruitful. There are quite a 

number of ministries operating in Hebrew 

that are doctrinally sound and have excellent 

web-sites with good evangelistic content. 

Please pray for these, and that God 

will use the Internet in a mighty way here 

to spread the good news of His Son. 

Our national institutions; that there will 

be a good ‘clean out’, and that God will use 

the ousting of our corrupt religious parties 

for the spread of the Gospel that perhaps 

for a season it will open the door for Messianic 

Jewish aliyah. 

For our taxi driver and his fellow Copts, 

especially those left behind in Egypt. 

May the LORD bless you all for your 

prayers and support. 

Elon and Hadas Moreh. 

Your Letters and 

Comments 

Question: To Jacob Prasch: 

I want to start out by thanking you for 

your ministry, it has blessed me greatly, 

and I will continue to lift it up in prayer. 

I do have perhaps a request, but yet it’s 

a comment. I realize you speak out a lot 

against false teachers, either via teachings 

or through articles you write. I was 

wondering why you haven’t spoken out 

against the Hebrew Roots movement (notably 

false teacher Jim Staley or even Michael 

Rood or even 119 Ministries) since 

they teach we are still under the OT Law. 

They also teach that if we call Jesus Jesus 

and not Yeshua, then we are calling Him 

by a pagan name. This movement is growing, 

probably just as fast as the charismatic 

movement. And the Watchmen need to 

speak out. Whether you realize it or not, 

A LOT of the Hebrew Roots people follow 

you, even though you don’t teach Law 

doctrine, they still follow you because of 

your Hebrew stance, and that’s not your 

fault, you are a solid teacher, but since 

you hardly ever speak on the errors of the 

Hebrew Roots cult, they don’t decipher 

what’s truly Hebrew Roots and what’s not. 

People like Mike Hoggard have spoken 

out, but yet because he is sooo King James 

Only, it’s a turn off and just makes them 

pull away more. I know you are affiliated 

with Jackie Alnor and even Calvary Chapel 

(via Quintanas) but they hardly ever 

speak out against this either. It seems the 

Emergent Church or Rick Warren or Charismatic 

church is always the focus but not 

ever the growing dangers of the Hebrew 

Roots cult... 

Will you please consider teaching on 

this subject? 

God bless you, 

Sarah 

Reply: Dear Sarah: 

There is actually no monolithic entity 

called the Hebrew Roots Movement. To 

begin with , most of its proponents do not 

realize that the Greek term in Romans 11 

(shoresh in Hebrew) is “reza” and is the 

singular ‘root’ not roots. There are rather 

multiple strands some good examining the 

theological origins of Christianity in a exegetically 

responsible way ( eg. Dr. Arnold 

Fruchtenbaum, Dr. Michael Rydelnik, and 

Moriel) while others such as Michael 

Rood are off the wall. 

There are extremist elements to the 

messianic movement lifting up Jewishness 

instead of “Jesusness” and placing 

even non Jews in bondage to Mosaic Law. 

We have two teachings confronting this 

error. One is The New Galatians and the 

other an article Satan’s Seduction of The 

Hebrew Movement. These are are found 

on our website in various places as well 

as in our electronic store in various media 

forms and in the book Israel, The Church, 

and The Jews.’ 

We are not familiar with all of the figures 

you name but we do know who Michael 

Rood is and as we have stated he is 

not kosher. The sacred Name movement 

are a cult. The Jerusalem School of Synoptic 

Research are actual academics who 

are not crackpots or cultic but we disagree 

with them on a scholarly basis linguistically 

and in terms of manuscript history 

about all four Gospels having been originally 

composed in Hebrew. 

This is a wide subject and so we will 

refer you to our website and catalog. 

In Christ, 

JJP and Moriel 

Question: Understanding the Mixture 

Can you explain God’s reasoning behind 

Leviticus 19:19? 

Reply: Blessings in The One who saved 

us. Your question was forwarded to me 

from The USA. 

We have explained this multiple times 

already-for instance on our recorded 

teachings of ‘parasoxousin’ (Greek text) 

in 2 Peter chapter 2 and elsewhere. The 

Torah/ Law of Moses is the Old Testament 

shadow of the substance found in Christ 

revealed in The New Testament. Parasoxousin 

mean to put truth next to error to 

camouflage the error; all cults, false teachers, 

false prophets, and false religions have 

elements of truth they sow next to error. 

God hates mixture. 

Our salvation is another example of how 

the principle undergirding Leviticus 19 

applies to us as it is fulfilled in Christ. it is 

all of God not of us. We do good works because 

we have been saved not to get saved. 

We work out our salvation, we cannot earn 

it or work for it – it is the gift of God. It 

is not man’s efforts mixed with God’s as 

Roman Catholicism and most other false 

religions and cults falsely teach. 

The garments are what Isaiah calls in 

Hebrew ‘bigda yesha’ the garments of salvation 

or what the New Testament calls ‘ 

robes of righteousness’; it is the righteous- 


AUSTRALIANnews 

Australian/New Zealand Report – June Issue 2013 

Greetings in the Name of Jesus 

I am not sure if it is our advancing years that cause us to reflect on “what was – What is and What is to come” 

but personally I do seem to be looking at all three and most readers that I speak with are doing much the same 

thing. It appears too that is very much of the “world.” I pondered if it was fear of contemplating a whole new 

computerized/electronic way of life. Or is it a comparison of life today and that which we knew as children and 

young adults? Maybe it is a part of the “aging” process. Is it that the nicer way of life that we knew has been 

replaced by what must almost make Sodom and Gomorrah pale into insignificance? How much more putrid and 

vile can mankind become? Surely the end must be near! 

I am not too sure if I have shared this with you before (please be patient with me if I have) but I had one of 

our readers send me a copy of a government celebration ceremony/dinner that was held in Melbourne in 1901 to 

welcome Australia becoming a Federation. The ceremony and banquet was filled with prayer, hymns, acknowledgment 

as God being the cornerstone for our government, for our laws and constitution, our way of life, our 

freedom. Well here we are 112 years on – where is God in our government, our laws, our way of life. It seems 

that the cornerstone is now self gratification and greed. I think that is why I so sadly reflect on “what was.” Personally 

my total assurance can only be in my Lord & Saviour – He will orchestrate my going in and going out! 

Praise Him. What of those that do not have that assurance? I am sure we all have family, friends and loved ones 

who are not walking with the Lord and of course there is the “backslidden.” 

This is one of my “long winded” ways of getting to what I wanted to share and that is about using every 

single moment and opportunity to share the Lord. Reflection and memories in lots of instances are lovely but we 

must continually look forward and up. Encourage each other – there is one such person who Aunty does Pam that for & Bridget me. A 

lady I look after (in a local nursing home) who is a committed Christian who loves her Lord. 

Quite a number of you will know whom I am talking about (Shirley). Well this lady is 83 and bed ridden 

now-a- days and is dependent on the staff & lifting equipment for almost everything (bar eating). She is restricted 

to her room except for being moved by the staff to the dining room in a special wheel chair. There are 

some 40 or 50 other patients in the exact same position but the difference here is that this lady never misses an 

opportunity to share the Lord. She never compromises or backs down when it comes to her Lord and the Truth 

of His word. When she is in horrendous pain (which is quite often) she sings songs of her made up prayers to the 

Pastor Paul Lord giving and out the gifts worse to the children pain the louder she sings. Nothing excites her more than to share the Lord. Staff members 

who have no or little beliefs come to her and ask her to pray for them. One of her favourite visitors is the retired 

Catholic priest. This man has a great devotion to Mary –mother of Jesus and Mary McKillop (recently ordained 

nun) – well the moment he brings this up you hear “No, No …. the word of God tells us……). 

If anyone brings the name of the Lord falsely she is in tears (grieving) quite often sobbing. She constantly 

writes letters of encouragement to all in sundry. These letters are full of psalms and prayers and their timing is 

unbelievable. Now this dear lady is a sinner just like the rest of us and I know I will be in trouble when I share 

with you that sometimes she can be a wee demanding and stubborn, BUT if you want a prayer warrior or partner 

– she surely is. 

I visit her to encourage her, and I come out being the encouraged with a renewed vigor to “speak out” and 

calling out to the Lord for me to be ever bolder and watchful for an opportunity to share Him. If Shirley knew 

I was writing this she would say “Margie please emphasize that all of this is to the Glory of Precious Lord I am 

just so thrilled and excited to share Him with everyone He brings to my room.” 

As I finish this wee bit – Shirley loves getting letters and writing them so if you have a few spare moments 

do drop her a line. Send it to me at the office. 

A beautiful man has gone to be with His Lord 

My dear brother and friend Dave Hunt is now in the presence of the Lord and surely those words “well done 

oh good and faithful servant” are ringing out throughout heaven. 

Ross (my late husband) and I had the pleasure of hosting Dave and Ruth in 2004, when we had Jacob and 

Dave in Conference here in Melbourne. What a beautifully humble and gracious couple. They were such an 

inspiration to Ross and I. We had only been married four years and many of our friends will testify to the fact 

that I was quite often a “bossy boots” in this union but within hours of being in their company we were on our 


Moriel Australia – Continued 

Geoff Toole 

Moriel Japan 

knees – especially me – asking the Lord to lead our union to what we saw in 

Dave and Ruth. 

We brought them out to the country for a couple of days to give them a 

break from their very hectic schedule. Ruth fell in love with the beautiful 

Strezlecki Mountain Range behind us and marveled at the changing colors. 

Dave loved to share a joke with us, but at times it was lost in the American/Australian 

understanding or sayings, but we laughed ourselves silly at 

the joy Dave got from the telling us his jokes. One evening we went to dinner 

(driving for ages) for him to get spare ribs, and before long our table 

was surround by staff and diners listening to this dear man. Ruth was ever 

watchful and would ever so gently draw things to a close if she saw him getting 

weary. 

At the Conference (on a long weekend) the weather was dreadfully hot 

with north winds blowing constantly. I was mindful of Dave’s health and 

suggested to him that after his session Ross would take him to the motel 

nearby for a little rest and his response was “Oh no my dear I never miss an 

opportunity to hear the boy preach, I always learn so much from him!” 

Of course the boy was Jacob. The love and respect between them was 

so apparent. At the end of the conference we had a question and answer 

time and it was move over Laurel and Hardy, they were so funny. Sure they 

answered the questions but the jokes flowed. Dave would say “now just a 

moment junior I will answer that one!” 

So many wonderful memories! 

A couple of years later, Dave and Ruth were here in Melbourne and I 

went to see them. I was just getting out of the car when they pulled up beside 

me and immediately that wonderful couple were giving hugs and expressing 

their sympathy at Ross’ passing. Of all the thousands of people all over the 

world they would encounter they remembered us. I was so humbled. 

This dear man had earned his final reward, and while Ruth will miss him 

dreadfully she will have such inner joy and peace because she knows exactly 

where her beloved is. 

Dave and Ruth were wonderful friends of Moriel and Jacob. Please continue 

to pray for Ruth. 

Each of our administrators will be bringing you reports from their part of 

the world so I will bring this to a close with an apology if I have rambled on 

(which I do at times) too long but do close with a reminder to be ever watchful 

for that opportunity to share Our Lord & Saviour. 

Humbly in Christ, 

Marg 

Your Letters and 

Comments 

ness of Christ imputed to us, not our own. 

There is no mixture. Salvation is all the 

work of God; we only respond to it. 

Another example still is Jesus’ caveat to 

The Church of Laodicea about spitting out 

the lukewarm. The area around Laodicea 

has hot springs fed from the Roman aqueduct 

from Pamukela in modern Turkey but 

there are cold springs also where the water 

seasonally chills forming both hot and 

cold springs and wells. The springs where 

the hot and cold mix are lukewarm. As always, 

Jesus hates the mixture. We address 

this in the book The Lord led me to author 

“The Dilemma of Laodicea” (which you 

can get from Moriel website or catalogue 

or Amazon etc.). 

There is more to Leviticus 19 than 

this, but this is the essence of the meaning. 

How the Law of Moses is the shadow 

of New Testament truths fulfilled and revealed 

in Jesus is a massive subject and 

therefore not something we can explain 

extensively by e mail. If you want to truly 

understand the New Testament beyond a 

baby food level of milk instead of meat we 

must understand it in light of The Old Testament 

(Hebrews 5: 10-14, 1 Cor. 3:1-2). 

Churches that do not expound the Old Testament 

in light if The New Testament only 

serve milk which is good for babies (new 

believers) but cannot produce real growth 

in older believers who have been saved 

any length of time. As a result we are told 

their spiritual senses cannot discern good 

from evil ( true doctrine and practice from 

false). It is like its counterpart when unsaved 

Jews cannot really understand the 

Tenak (Old Testament) beyond a superficial 

level unless they understand it points 

to Christ as the Messiah. The New cannot 

be understood properly without the Old, 

not the Old without the New. 

Again, this is a massive subject and goes 

into lengths beyond what we can respond 

to by email, but I hope this at least answers 

your question. We do have a wide variety 

of scriptural teachings and several books 

including ‘Grain For The Famine‘ where 

we attempt by God’s grace to address this 

issue with scriptural exposition. See also 

Understanding the Mixture. 

In Jesus, 

Jacob Prasch & Moriel 

moriel japan 

News from the Far East 

June Report 2013 

It has been a busy and fruitful few 

months since our last Moriel Japan 

report. This term began with a lot of 

prayer and the Lord has blessed His work. 

Earlier in the year I began listening to a recording 

of Andrew Murray’s ‘With Christ 

in the school of Prayer’, which encouraged 

me to seek the Lord more specifically 

in prayer. The months of March and April 

were wonderful. There were opportunities 

to share the gospel at every turn. More 

people received tracts than ever previously. 

More people on buses, trains, and streets 

were asking about faith in God and the 

bible than ever. I have never experienced 

times like these. So I am encouraged, and 

I also encourage you to remember what 

Christ and the apostles taught about our 

need for specific and zealous prayer. The 

Lord always proves His word true. How 

much more would be accomplished if we 

all believed in the importance of prayer! 

And how great is the work to be done! 

Scott and Khea Noble visited us in 

March for two great weeks of evangelism 

and teaching. I realized how different the 

Buddhism of Thailand and Japan are. There 

are relatively few sincere Buddhists here, 

but around the temples they can always be 

found. Scott and Khea led us to some of the 

temples in Kyushu where we distributed 

tracts and spoke with local worshippers. 

One priest’s testimony was that he had 

turned to Buddhism after his friend had died 

in a car crash. Although he truly believed 

his Zen Buddhism, he readily admitted to 

not having reached ‘enlightenment’ as they 

put it, and I sensed that his heart really was 

open to spiritual truth in a way that most 

Japanese are not. There must be many like 

him in the ‘priesthood’. Scott and Khea encouraged 

us a lot regarding reaching out to 

the local priests and their families. We had 

some good times street preaching and witnessing 

together in Fukuoka and Osaka. 

Another approach was to open an archaeology 

club in some local community 

centres. The aging population of Japan 

now boasts large numbers of recently retired 

people who have time to pursue new 

interests. I had an idea to advertise an archaeology 

club simply as a way of meeting 

new people and creating the ‘circle’ which 

seems to be so important in this culture. 

Japanese people trust others much more 

once they are connected in some kind of 

social circle or group. At our first meeting, 

Scott presented the archaeology of the Hittites 

and Assyria. Six new people attended. 

A few were English students, but two were 

strangers. One of which, ‘Shiokawa san’ 

was encouraged to begin reading the old 

testament and happily received a Japanese 

creation magazine. He promised to come 

again. Another lady said she was interested 

in Indiana Jones! Right now I am preparing 

our next meeting on the topic of Egypt (and 

of course what God did there!). Please pray 

that people will join this study and that it 

will lead to real opportunity to witness and 

present the gospel. Especially ‘Shiokawa 

san’, who was encouraged to read the bible 

and learn more. 

Grant returned to Japan after a visit with 

his family back in the US. The Lord was 

able to make good use of him there, sharing 

about the need for missions in Japan and 

encouraging people to pray for and join 

in the work here. Right now Grant is busy 

improving his Japanese and preparing for 

another term of evangelism. Last week God 

provided a local English teaching job. Pray 

for God’s direction for him now. It is an exciting 

time as summer is approaching and 

the witnessing opportunities will be many. 

Leaving Scott and Khea on their way to 

Tokyo I left for the Philippines on April 1st. 

The work there has never been better. More 

and more young people from the universities 

came and joined our meetings. There I 

continually introduced the basic principles 

of midrash, this time in the context of the 

History and Prophecy of Egypt. We looked 

at Joseph’s famine and compared the 

plagues of Exodus, to those of Revelation, 

with particular emphasis on those that the 

Hebrews went through, and the last seven 

plagues from which they were spared. It is a 

great study and I encourage you to do it too! 

The false ‘grace’ teaching of Joseph 

Prince has divided up the body there, especially 

down in the islands. It was helpful 

for them to clear up some of the issues of 

what biblical grace really is. Pastor Hope, 

who exactly one year ago was removed 

from ministry on account of his Moriel 

affiliation, is doing well. Moriel provided 

financial assistance to Hope which he has 

invested in a field of peanuts. By the time 

you read this the harvest will be done and 

most of it will be peanut butter. He is reaching 

out to the ‘young people’ and providing 

a space for them to come and study more. 

Some of the young students asked their 

pastors to borrow the concordance but were 

refused. Their pastor told them they would 

“mis-interpret”, and that “It was only for 

those who had been to bible college”. No, 

these are not the Catholics but the ‘protestants’ 

saying this. Hope is working hard to 

get lots of good teaching into their hands 

and the hands of their friends. I am convinced 

that they already know a great deal 

more than their teachers. They are the outcasts 

of Israel, that God is already beginning 

to use. May we provide them with 

what they need to study and teach others. 

One of them was threatened recently by his 

Catholic family at knifepoint on account of 

his conversion. He has been a faithful believer 

for three years and has a great deal 

of knowledge considering his situation. Yet 

his pastor, after three years, will not baptize 

him! The LORD is personally tending the 

needs of his scattered sheep. 

Hope has now joined Pastor Pol, also 

zealous in the promotion of midrash and 

discernment, and together they are getting 

the teaching out to many in the various 

provinces of the Philippines. Pastor Pol was 

able to arrange a meeting in a central province 

where about 120 pastors and teachers 

could attend their first midrash and prophecy 

seminar. (As opposed to the ‘prophecy’ 

seminars of Cindy Jacobs and the G12 

which are so popular now. Pol was overwhelmed 

with joy to watch his brothers and 

sisters eyes open as they saw for the first 

time some deeper truths of scripture (which 

have become so familiar to us). One host 

pastor happens to be head of a university 

school of veterinary science, researching 

buffaloes. He treated us to a sample of their 

buffalo yogurt and buffalo milk café latte 

after the meeting. I have found the simplest 

way to teach midrash to new people is to 

use the exegesis of Melchizedek, in Hebrews 

Ch 7. This gives us such a clear pattern 

that we can repeat for any other bible 

passage. We are now planning a follow up 

seminar for them and another similar one in 

Manila, Lord willing, by Jacob next year. 

I was blessed to visit Olongapo again 

and see so many of the young children 

growing in their faith and knowledge of 

the Lord. Two years before, I mentioned to 

David Lister that soon the families of the 

children would come. Pastor Paul had a 

great idea to invite the mothers to help with 

the food preparation and through that many 

are now attending regular bible studies and 

asking good questions. I was not sure if the 


Moriel Japan – Continued 

Scott Noble 

Moriel Thailand 

Egypt teaching would be too hard for them, 

but they understood it well and were challenged 

by it. Praise the Lord! 

For now, having just returned from the 

Philippines, there is a long list of things 

to do, but the top of the list is to pray and 

thank God for all his blessings to us in the 

last few months. 

Please pray with us for Japanese people’s 

hearts to be moved by the frequent earthquakes 

and political instability around us. 

May it lead them to God. 

Pray for the archaeology club meetings 

and our street witnessing this summer. That 

the message will be clearly presented and 

understood. 

Pray for Hope and Pol’s work in the Philippines. 

That the materials will be widely 

distributed and read. 

Give thanks for the many eyes opened this 

year. May they continue to seek the truth. 

Shalom, 

Geoff 

mj 

Scott and Khea present 

evidence for the flood 

Geoff, Scott and Khea at the 

temple of 1028 idols 

inside a temple 

“Now how do I 

translate that?” 

Hope “working for peanuts” 

Pastor Poland daughter 

Dianne 

Pastor Paul and some of the 

mothers who attend his 

bible study and help with 

the feeding program 

Olongapo youth full of 

Joy and thanks to God 

‘Outcasts’ who know more 

than their teachers 

. . . . . Moriel TV continued from page 20 

promised criteria of not begging for money 

all the time and compromising with heretics 

and money preaching religious charlatans 

as appear on the GodTV (better called 

“God-less”) channel, Revelation TV, and 

TBN. Paul and Jan Crouch can have their 

sex scandals and Benny Hinns, Wendy and 

Rory Alec can have their Todd Bentleys, 

and Howard and Leslie Condor can have 

their Jesse Duplantis just as Ahab and Jezebel 

had their priests of Baal. By God’s 

grace our goal will be to lift up the true Jesus, 

proclaim the true Gospel, and expound 

true doctrine. Donations and subscriptions 

will be welcome to fund operating costs but 

we will not continually push fund raising 

gimmicks or feature any money preachers. 

If the Lord is in this, there will be regular 

open Questions & Answers with Jacob 

Prasch and guests as well as much exposition 

of God’s Word with no shortage of emphasis 

on prophecy, evangelism, Israel, and 

discernment related issues. We also hope to 

invite and host other preachers from outside 

of Moriel who share our convictions. 

Our aim is to preach the return of Jesus 

while we are still able to do so and be an 

alternaive to the mess that Satan has made 

of most of Christian TV. 

To this end first and foremost, we seriously 

request prayer. Such a project will require 

money but we will trust God and the 

generosity of His people and not run such 

a ministry as an enterprise. We do however 

request prayer for adequate finances and an 

on-line contribution and subscription will 

be implemented. 

Your prayers and support will be much 

required and very much appreciated. 

In Jesus, 

Jacob Prasch 

And 

All at Moriel 

MARANTAHA ! 

Quotes of the QUARTER ! 

“For if you forgive others their 

trespasses, your heavenly Father 

will also forgive you, but if you do 

not forgive others their trespasses, 

neither will your Father forgive 

your trespasses.” 

– Matthew 6:14-15 – 

B a n g k o k S k y l i n e 

Dear believers in grace, 

R i c e f i e l d s C h i a n g M a i 

thailand 

Quadruple Potassium 

Recently three ladies from my home 

church in Iowa came to visit us for a 

ministry trip here. As it turned out, all of 

their names begin with the letter “K” (Kris, 

Kim, and Kayla). “K” is the chemical 

symbol for Potassium. Including my wife 

(Khae), I’ve named them the quadruple 

Potassium team. The three from Iowa were 

here for 10 days. 

Visiting Khae’s Parents 

After church on Sunday, we started driving 

towards Suphanburi to visit Khae’s parents. 

Khae’s Mom was actually very friendly 

and made some extremely delicious Thai 

food for us during the two days we were 

there. We had good conversation with her 

and before leaving we prayed for her, but 

Mom says she regrets letting us pray for her. 

Her stance is still very opposed to the gospel. 

I thought it was a good step in the right 

direction though for her to welcome this 

group of Christians for meals. 

We were also able to visit some of their 

neighbors who had stopped going to the 

temple. They stopped because they said 

that all of their “merit making” did them no 

good, since the wife is very sick now. They 

did not seem very open to the gospel either, 

but Khae shared with them with great zeal. 

May they call out to Jesus. 

Khae’s Dad took a bold stand and shared 

with his son, telling him he should read the 

Bible and understand it. This may sound 

like a small thing, but for Khae’s Dad this 

really is a big step. Right now Khae’s Mom 

has come back to putting heavy pressure on 

Dad again, scolding him for being a Christian. 

Maybe she feels conviction from the 

Holy Spirit and is fighting this conviction by 

scolding Dad. Please pray for Khae’s family 

and their neighborhood. 

School Program 

Also in Suphanburi we went to a Christian 

school and had a program for them. 

Most of the students and some of the teachers 

are Buddhists. The ladies from Iowa 

had some praise songs for the children 

and I shared a gospel balloon presentation. 

Afterwards we prayed with them, leading 

them in a prayer to Jesus. And, the weather 

was so hot, Kris was glad to have one of 

the girls throw a cup of cold water on her. 

Women’s Prison 

We went to a Women’s Prison, where 

the QP team had a great program for the 

ladies there, and Khae even did the translation 

for Kris’ message. That was the first 

time Khae has translated that long of a 

message and she did really well. One of 

the ladies in our group had some back pain 

that day, and she got a VIP massage- three 

of the prisoners massaging her at once. At 

the end they prayed for each of the ladies 

individually. And, they were able to go 

have lunch with one of the guards, while I 

prepared for our trip to Burma. 

Mae Sot 

We left Chiang Mai by air to go to Mae 

Sot. This was our first time to go there by 

air. It was a small airplane with plenty of 

turbulence, but a great view. Our friend 

Paul also came to help out. On arrival we 

bought some food to hand out the next day 

and then went to the hotel. 

In the morning, the six of us left the 

hotel in three-wheeled “tuk tuks,” fully 

weighed down with food and gospels in 

the Burmese language. I had a couple of 

contacts from our last trip there, but these 

two were not answering their phones, so 

we met a man who takes tourists into Burma 

for tours. He gave us a good price so 

we decided to go with him by van. 

Brick Yard 

First he brought us to a small village 

where they had many workers making 

bricks. The three ladies began singing some 

worship songs, and the children and some 

of the workers started gathering. After that 

I preached the gospel using balloons, and 

Paul also preached the gospel. Afterwards 

we gave them some food items. It seemed 

that some of the workers were really listening 

sincerely during the messages. We pray 

that they will read the gospel of John we 

gave them and really get saved. 

Bus Station Village 

On the way to the brick yard I saw an area 

that looked interesting, so on the way back 

I asked the driver to stop there. It was a bus 

station and behind that was a small village. 

We found a shady area in front of one of 

the houses and asked them if we could have 

a program there. They agreed. We all sang 

“Amazing Grace” and then Kris shared a 

salvation message, which our tour guide 

translated. I added a few words about reading 

the gospel we were giving them, saying 

that God loves them, and as they read this, 

they will also come to love God. Then, we 

also gave them some food items. 

One of the food items was some canned 

fish, which had some incorrect grammar on 

the label, calling it “cutted fish.” I asked 

Paul if there was any more “cutted fish” 

left. He said it was all “gone- ded.” 

Back to the Border 

From the bus station we walked about 

two more blocks and then handed out some 

more gospels and food. Some motorcycle 

taxi drivers were waiting for customers and 

asked me to explain a little bit about the gospel. 

One of them could speak a tiny bit of 

English, and I think I was able to convey to 

him enough of the gospel to get his interest 

to read the gospel for himself in Burmese. 

Then our guide called the van to come 

get us and we went back to the border. At 

the border we still had a lot of gospels left 

so we handed those out to people standing 

in line waiting to go to Thailand. In all 

we handed out over 500 gospels of John 

in Burmese and we were able to preach in 

two spots. Please pray for all who heard the 

gospel and for all who will read it, that their 

eyes will be opened to the truth and that 

they will find life through Jesus Christ. 

Jesus Has Overcome the World 

I was just reading in Mark about how 

the people chose a man who took life away 

(Barabbas), in order to reject the one who 

gives life (Jesus). When Pilate asked the 

people, “Why, what evil hath he done?,” 


Moriel Thailand – Continued 

instead of giving a rational answer, “...they 

cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify 

him.” (Mark 15:14). Many times people’s 

rejection of Jesus is totally irrational. We 

should be able to give a rational answer for 

our faith, and sometimes people will listen. 

But, at other times, we have to show people 

the truth through a life of sacrifice, dying 

to self. Of course, this is not always easy. 

And, we cannot accomplish this in our own 

strength. We put our faith in the one who 

has overcome the world... “...this is the victory 

that overcometh the world, even our 

faith.” (I John 5:4) “...be of good cheer; I 

have overcome the world.” (John 16:33). 

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed 

about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 

let us lay aside every weight, and 

the sin which doth so easily beset us, and 

let us run with patience the race that is set 

before us, looking unto Jesus the author 

and finisher of our faith; who for the joy 

that was set before him endured the cross, 

despising the shame, and is set down at the 

right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 

12:1-2). Thank you to the Potassium team 

and others for making sacrifices to share the 

gospel. Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. 

Peace in Christ, 

Scott and Khae 

A few photographs from Moriel Thailand 

MORIEL MINISTRIES 

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Land of the Bible 

LWelcome to Bible Study Tours Led by Jacob Prasch 

and of the Bible, an unforgettable, life-enriching experience. 

Sept 29, 2013 through October 10, 2013 

11 Full days touring, 11 ½ days guiding, and airport assistance 

Bible study tours to Israel and other biblical lands with 

Jacob Prasch emphasize spiritual, theological, and doctrinal 

content. Unlike most tours, we avoid becoming pilgrimages, 

devotional tours, or vacation packages. We visit places of 

biblical importance and proven archaeological and historical 

veracity, steering clear of tourist traps and unsubstantiated 

“holy” sites. 

Please check the Moriel website www.moriel.org/Tours/ for more 

information including a brochure, itinerary and information 

on accommodations. Any additional questions please email 

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