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The most dangerous threat to the exercise of religion and freedom of speech in your lifetime, and perhaps history to date, is not a theory, but it is a conspiracy. It’s called the Great Reset. People who can see the end from the beginning have been sounding the alarm for decades. The foundational element, at least, is not a theory, while many of the conclusions drawn from it remain to be proven and are often discounted and ridiculed by a Great Reset-complicit news media. This is a situation where there is no need to embellish the truth. It’s bad enough.

The Daily Jot will try to explain the Great Reset without embellishment and in layman’s terms. Be prepared to suspend your disbelief.

The Great Reset is the brainchild of Klaus Schwab, a Swiss engineer and economist who founded the World Economic Forum (WEF) as the European Management Forum in 1971. His idea of “Stakeholder Capitalism” argues that “the management of a modern enterprise must serve not only shareholders, but all stakeholders to achieve long-term growth and prosperity.”

Stakeholder Capitalism requires corporate cooperation with government, and in turn, strong government intervention in the economy. Formerly known as corporatism or economic fascism, it is the economic model employed today in China. Corporations in league with the communist government pay huge taxes for favors and assist the government in orchestrating tyrannical control of the population, except, of course, those who are in control.

The WEF holds meetings of global elites in Davos, Switzerland, each year. The goal is to integrate top leaders of civil society, business, and government to enable joint action and achieve collective progress on the Davos Agenda. This agenda includes global and political interaction, environmental responsibility (climate change), reimagining the global economy, global healthcare, technology, and social equity in an effort to attain a more fair, just, sustainable, and inclusive world society.

In this stakeholder model, governments, favored corporations, and nonprofits partner and collaborate to control governance of people and are unaccountable to constituents (in America’s case, they are unaccountable to voters). The WEF derives its power from its membership and its agreement with the UN to support the UN 2030 Agenda.

The WEF membership is a who’s who of global business and government. Schwab boasts that there are over 600 captains of global industry and 80 countries involved. If you live in America, you are 99% likely to support many of the companies. They are intertwined in your life. These companies are part and parcel to working so closely with the government that they have enabled the government to circumvent the US Constitution to trample your rights to free speech and religious expression, and at the same time, have made exorbitant profits without concern for any so-called “stakeholder,” except their pocketbooks.

Part 2 will explain the relationship between you, COVID, and the Great Reset.

As Christ said in Luke 8:17, “For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.”

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Christians throughout the world celebrated Pentecost Sunday and the coming of the Holy Spirit—in a new and fresh way, to begin the church age—on June 5th.

Interestingly, these celebrations may not involve many of our readers as, oftentimes, the churches in our circles do not make much of this day on the calendar.

If you were like me, however—raised in a liturgical church that celebrated Pentecost Sunday every year—its chronological relation to the resurrection was likely fixed clearly in your mind. But, regardless of how we remember Pentecost, we certainly need to be familiar with it and understand its vast significance.

In this two-part blog series, we are going to consider the day of Pentecost as the birthday of the church and the launch of the church age—focusing on the fact that the church did not begin before that signal day, nor did it begin after it.

One very strong evidence that the church did not begin before the day of Pentecost in Acts 2 is Jesus’ teaching given prophetically to the disciples in His Upper Room Discourse in John 13 to 16. He is clearly speaking of a major change that the apostles were about to experience following His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension.

Jesus, in fact, spoke precisely about “that day” when His disciples would “know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you” (John 14:20). In other words, this was the specific day on which the body of Christ would be formed by the baptizing work of the Holy Spirit (see Acts 1:5; 2:2-3; 1 Cor. 12:13).

Of course, we know that many Jewish people were in Jerusalem on Pentecost, the 50th day from the resurrection (and also “fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath” [Lev. 23:16], when marked with relation to “the day of the firstfruits” [Num. 28:26]), to take part in the feast that God commanded His Old Testament people Israel to celebrate. In fact, “all (Jewish) males” were to “appear before the LORD your God” for this annual festival (Deut. 16:16).

General instructions on the observance of Pentecost, known to the Israelites as “the Feast of Weeks” (Ex. 34:22), were revealed in Ex. 23:16 (where it is called “the Feast of Harvest,” related to “the firstfruits of wheat harvest” [Ex. 34:22]), Lev. 23:15-22, Num. 28:26-31 and Deut. 16:9-12.

In the development of Jewish tradition, the day of Pentecost also came to be associated with the giving of the law at Mount Sinai. Although this is not supported by the text of Scripture, it is very interesting because Ex. 19:6 is the formal beginning of the theocratic nation of Israel. Thus, to that extent, it can be said that both Israel and the church each began, individually, on the day of Pentecost.

There is so much more that could be said regarding Pentecost in both Biblical history and Jewish tradition, as Bruce Scott recorded in lively fashion in chapter four of his wonderful book The Feasts of Israel: Seasons of the Messiah (Bellmawr, NJ: The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, 1997). But one thing is certainly clear—nowhere in the Hebrew Bible do we see the inauguration of the church, on this day or any other, in the history of Israel before the time of Christ.

Those who believe that they can find the church in the Old Testament usually begin it all the way back with Abraham—or even Adam. They view all the redeemed as one united people of God, and Israel as the Old Testament church (and the church as New Testament Israel). Obviously, this removes all the distinctions which we as dispensationalists—who draw our doctrine directly from the literal interpretation of Scripture—believe truly exist between Israel and the church, making each one utterly unique.

In fact, the New Testament calls the church a mystery, using that term three times in Eph. 3:1-12—meaning that it was not revealed prior to that, or in the Old Testament. Indeed, the church, which includes Jewish people and Gentiles on equal footing in one spiritual body (v. 6), was not a concept that Old Testament Israelites could have fathomed.

We will pick up there next time, also seeing that the church did not begin after Pentecost but, rather, exactly on the day of Pentecost, in fulfillment of Jesus’ own words.

Reposted, with permission, from The Friends of Israel Blog.

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Paul J. Scharf (M.A., M.Div., Faith Baptist Theological Seminary) is a church ministries representative for The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, based in Columbus, WI, and serving in the Midwest. For more information on his ministry, visit sermonaudio.com/pscharf or foi.org/scharf, or email pscharf@foi.org.

Scripture taken from the New King James Version

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