Letter to the First-Born :: By Asher Mandel

The Jewish holiday of Passover will be celebrated from 4/12 – 4/19. The Jewish people commemorate that wonderful night some 3,400 years ago when the Angel of Death slew the first-born of the Egyptians but “passed over” the houses of the Israelites being held as slaves in Egypt. By the next morning, God’s chosen people were ready to leave for the “Promised Land”!

Now, if you ask 10 Jewish people why the Angel of Death passed over their ancestors that first Passover night, 9 of them will confidently tell you, “It was because they were Jewish!” Perhaps only 1 out of 10 will recall that it had something to do with the blood of a perfect lamb. Here is the answer from the Jewish scriptures:

“Announce to the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for a sacrifice, one animal for each household…. They are to take some of the blood and smear it on the sides and top of the door-frames of the houses where they eat the animal…. On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn son and firstborn male animal in the land of Egypt. I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt, for I am the Lord! But the blood on your doorposts will serve as a sign, marking the houses where you are staying. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. This plague of death will not touch you when I strike the land of Egypt” (Exodus 12:3,7,12-13).

One family Passover years ago, I asked those around the table the question posed above and got the same response predicted above. Even when I corrected them, they all looked at me with vacant stares as if their eyes were scaled over, because they were!

“God has put them into a deep sleep. To this day he has shut their eyes so they do not see, and closed their ears so they do not hear” (Romans 11:8).

But the good news is that once a Jewish person trusts Christ, the veil is taken away from their eyes (2 Cor. 3:14)!

In Romans 11:11, Paul tells us that it is God’s plan for the Gentile sons of God to “make Israel jealous” so that they will come to faith in their Messiah.

“I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them (Israel) jealous.”

Dear Christian Family, it will soon be “Resurrection Day.” Are you grateful to God for raising Christ from the dead? The Bible has promised us that,

“The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you” (Romans 8:11).

In Exodus 4:22, God tells Moses to tell Pharaoh that “Israel is my “first-born son.”

Below, I have written a Letter to the First-Born” for those among my readers who may want to make a “thank offering” to God by reaching out to His “first-born son.” Please pray and ask the Lord to place into your minds the names or faces of any Jewish acquaintances He may want you to send this letter to. If you choose to be especially bold, send it to some local rabbis in your area. God will see your effort and remember it, and you may qualify for the reward promised in Mt. 25:40:

“And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’

Dear Jewish friend,

I call you friend because, as a Christian, I owe God’s chosen people a great debt of gratitude! I am grateful to the Jewish people for preserving the scriptures so faithfully so that I could benefit from them today. I am grateful to the Jewish prophets for giving us such a clear picture of the two advents of our beloved Messiah (Isaiah 53 and Isaiah 11:1-6). I am grateful to the people of Israel for proving to the world that our God keeps His promises (Amos 9:14-15).

It is because of my gratitude that I want to give some good gift back to them. At this Passover time, my gift is a question: “What was it that caused the Angel of Death to “pass over” the homes of the Jewish people in Egypt on that first Passover night? If you said, “It was the blood of a perfect lamb!” you would be correct. But have you ever considered that God provided this picture to us in order to illustrate an even greater truth?

As a Bible believer, I have been taught the importance of this verse from Leviticus 17:11:

“…for the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you, making you right with the Lord. It is the blood, given in exchange for a life, that makes purification possible.”

True Christians love the Jewish God for providing us with a “perfect lamb,” Yeshua, to shed his blood on the cross to atone for our sins 2,000 years ago! Your own prophet described this concept perfectly in Isaiah 53:3-6 when he wrote this:

“He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.”

If we, by faith, believe that Isaiah is speaking of the “Suffering Messiah” (as ancient rabbis called him) and we personally ask God to apply Yeshua’s blood to the door of our hearts to forgive our sins, we can then be made “kosher” with God and made ready to go to the “Promised Land” of Paradise when we die.

I pray that you will consider the words of the Jewish prophets I have quoted here and place your faith in Yeshua, the “lamb of God”! If you have any questions or comments about what I have written to you today, please feel free to get back to me or to email my friend Asher Mandel at is53@att.net. Asher has been a Jewish believer in Yeshua for 50 years and has volunteered to try to answer any questions you may have for him.

Thank you for reading through this letter. In closing, I want to remind you of the promise God gives us in Jeremiah 29:13:

“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”

is53@att.net

Only Evil Continually :: By The Gospelist

We have entered the Days of Noah.

If all humanity possessed just the 46-minute film of the October 7 massacre of innocent Jewish civilians by Hamas, the above statement would not even be controversial.

When Jesus prophesied that when he comes, it will be as it was in the days of Noah, October 7, 2023, should mark the beginning of when those days began.

The slaughter of Christians in Africa, Syria, and India is increasing as Satan and his minions are preparing for their final confrontation with God. In Western countries, the civil rights of Christians are being severely violated. The world press is completely uninterested in this phenomenon because they are futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts are darkened.

Just like the corrupt governments they serve.

The Godless Democrats and many of their judges have thrown in with violent street gangs and resist their deportation. They are perfectly happy to defend those who rape and murder our citizens and have no interest in bringing these people to justice.

And a whole lot of people continue to vote for these reprobates.

There are violent gangs just across the border in Mexico that worship Satan and torture their enemies. Their crimes against humanity make them every bit as evil as the Hamas terrorists.

They have become especially dangerous since they are funded by the sale of dangerous drugs and the foul Chinese government (CCP).

And, because the Godless Democrats and their judges are in bed with them, they have a fifth column in the U.S. to help protect them.

In the U.S., evil has congregated under the banner of the jackass. The Godless Democrats and their voters have become Sado-Masochists. They enjoy inflicting pain on innocent people, and they are happy to suffer themselves as they take joy in the misery of others.

Any sane person who goes to a ‘protest’ against the administration of Donald Trump and reveals they do not support the protesters is often threatened with violence. The left, which controls the Godless Democrat Party, has now revealed that a majority of their number support assassination as a viable means of expressing their political and economic grievances.

The wickedness of men is reaching fever pitch as we slowly approach a time when every inclination of the thoughts of his heart is only evil continually.

We see this growing hostility forming all over the world, and if we are in the period I suspect we are in, it will only grow progressively worse. The love of many is growing cold.

We are headed for terrible times. Over the next few years, as an increasing number of churches abandon the Gospel, those who have no faith will be completely turned over by God to a reprobate mind.

When evil grows in a nation and around the world, that is an indication that faith is dying. When we examine the theology of churches around the world, it should be no surprise that this is the case.

Where are our churches in Western Civilization when innocent Christians are being arrested for praying against the wickedness of the LGBT?

People are becoming lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God…

If you are wondering what this looks like, simply watch the women on TikTok express their anger and hatred because they are bitter about the election. They are infuriated that truth and righteousness has returned to the U.S. government.

Imagine a society where these people comprise the majority of the voting population.

These people have deluded themselves into believing they are the ones who have love in their hearts.

We have already seen what happens when the politicians these reprobates support have power. Innocent people are thrown into prison for protesting their evil, they constantly bear false witness against others to destroy their lives, and they are fully on board with repeated assassination attempts of their political opponents.

The Godless Democrats who control Colorado now have made it illegal for a parent to righteously object when the other parent wishes to sexually mutilate their child.

They love those who lie to them and are furious with anyone who attempts to tell them the truth. They cling to every false narrative with neurotic enthusiasm and scream at any who might try to correct it.

We are now witnessing the dissolution of social relationships. This is especially true with the youth and dating. Women are becoming masculinized, radicalized, and completely unsuitable as wives.

And men are becoming feminized by our sick and corrupt culture. Our pastors are failing to teach young men how to be men of God. Currently, we are left with ‘libertarians,’ who have no moral foundation, teaching our young men how to be masculine and how to form a relationship with a woman.

Their advice is worldly and useless because it is not Godly.

What is puzzling is that Paul stated that the people of this time will have a ‘form of godliness but deny its power.’

One of the more popular false gospels of the last days of the church age is the ‘love gospel.’ This false gospel has been around for some time. One of its most famous proponents is the pope.

Many Protestant pastors have also taken up its mantel.

These ‘shepherds’ claim to be motivated by ‘love,’ but there is no truth or righteousness in them. Their love is reserved for the wicked, and their hatred is reserved for those who shun evil.

They worship a god of love but who is devoid of truth and righteousness. Any amorous interaction between two people is now considered ‘love.’ They show ‘compassion’ to people who violate God’s moral law but have nothing but disdain for those who call these people to repent.

Those who break our laws are the ones who deserve kindness according to these people, not those who must face the consequences of lawlessness.

The god of the pope and other purveyors of the love gospel is more in keeping with Eros of ancient Greek mythology. According to Wikipedia, Eros is one of the Erotes, which is where the term erotic finds its origin. He is joined by other gods, such as Himeros and Pothos, who are patrons of homosexual ‘love’ between males.

Eros is also part of a triad of gods that played roles in homoerotic relationships, along with Heracles and Hermes, who bestowed qualities of beauty (and loyalty), strength, and eloquence, respectively, onto their male lovers.

As Paul prophesied, because of the worship of this pagan god, men and women are being given over to the shameful lust of homosexuality. Both sexes are abandoning natural relations for unnatural ones.

If a society is molded by the spiritual condition of its church, and the spiritual condition of the people will be as Paul, in his letter to the Romans, has expressed, then the ‘love’ gospel will be the dominant gospel that will be preached leading up to the rapture.

This gospel creates creatures who have a form of godliness but are completely anarchistic, dishonest, and licentious.

Those religious leaders who push the love gospel are like Jannes and Jambres, who opposed Moses in the courts of Pharoah. They are sorcerers who have crept in among us, whose condemnation was written about long ago.

They are Godless men who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality. They deny Christ by justifying the very sins that Jesus bled and died for.

All in the name of ‘love.’

The fruit of these pastors can be found in the hostility that is being manifested at this time. Societies the world over are turning on themselves and forming people into factions.

We in America have a political party that has made this division their primary strategy for winning elections. They divide people according to ethnicity, sex, age, and religion and try to set them against each other.

They pretend to represent their interests to secure their votes, then make empty promises to them to maintain power. Like vampires, they seduce them and then suck the lifeblood out of them.

In no area have they been more successful than when they used the ideology of ‘feminism’ to drive a wedge between the sexes. The vast majority of young men and women are beginning to express no desire to get married or have children.

The most popular male and female social media influencers are saying that they don’t need the opposite sex. The anger and hatred that is being developed between the sexes is palpable.

This will only increase the misery and anger of both sexes. This is how you create communist revolutionaries, not a civil society.

The Godless Democrats have worked tirelessly to create divisions between ethnicities. This is well-documented. All one must do is review the past several election cycles, with their laments that Republicans want to return black Americans to slavery, as proof of this assertion.

Due to political divisions, families have begun to split. Our miseducated women routinely abandon their husbands and destroy their families because they think they deserve a better life. The vast majority of those who educated these women voted for Democrats.

Most of these women are indeed ‘lovers of themselves.’

Christians and conservatives, on the other hand, want freedom, not licentiousness. Freedom contains a moral component because God is the author of freedom, which the Godless Democrats and their voters abhor.

There is no way to bridge this divide.

About twenty years ago, Rush Limbaugh used to marvel at the mainstream media, which seemed to hate its consumers. The press was infuriated when he and other conservatives refused to accept their propaganda.

They would attack conservatives mercilessly with false accusations, such as being racists, in their effort to silence their customers (which is a strange business model).

The entertainment sector has taken up this mantel. They put out awful movies with ‘diverse’ characters, with no real plot, and demand that the public praise them. Those who refuse to praise them are accused of being racists.

They then masculinize the female characters and feminize the male characters and demand that the consumer hail this as well. When people object, they are accused of misogyny or of being sexist.

There is no question that movies are now being made solely for the purpose of attacking and shaming ‘normies’ when their favorite movies and characters are butchered.

It is like the awful art that is being produced today. If you dare to criticize it, you are treated like some kind of rube for being unable to see its ‘deeper meaning.’

We are now seeing these same divisions in our service sectors. Our doctors are financially rewarded for providing poor health care. The number of doctors that went along with the C-19 hoax is legion.

Only a few doctors were willing to speak out against it.

In education, there are divisions between teachers and parents. Our teachers are being taught that they are the custodians of other people’s children. They believe they can advise these children contrary to the values of the parent.

If the child wants to change his gender or be a ‘furry,’ then many teachers will help hide this mental illness from the parents.

The sad fact is that society is breaking down. And no political figure or policy is going to fix this.

Judgment begins in the house of God. If our churches preach the Gospel and call sinners to repent, these problems correct themselves. If they preach the love gospel, these problems grow progressively worse.

It is a sad fact of human nature that all the evil Globalists must do is throw a great deal of money behind an aberrant idea to cause it to gain instant credibility. Even Scientology has a level of respectability, even though it is cartoonish, because people are more impressed with the wealth behind it than with truth.

If our churches continue to preach a different Gospel and a different Jesus, we can rest assured that the days of Noah will grow progressively worse.

Many of our cemeteries (previously known as seminaries) no longer teach sound doctrine. Too many of them are populated with atheists because they are perceived as intellectuals who can benefit seminary students intellectually.

They believe this even though God calls atheists ‘fools.’

The Christian faith is simple. It can be summed up with five words: Christ died for our sins. If Christians can be persuaded to stand on this confession, many among the heathen will take notice.

I know I did when I first heard it. I loved to argue with Christians and try to make fools of them. However, when you ask people if they believe that Christ died for their sins, you defang them fairly quickly.

If you know how to build on the Gospel by explaining the person of Christ and God’s moral law, including the need for repentance, you will take control of the argument and make them come to terms with their sinful nature.

I challenge the reader to ask ten Christians if they know what the Gospel is. If five of them can answer properly, I will be amazed. They might get close, but few will be able to lay the foundation as simply as Paul did in I Corinthians 15:3.

We need to bring back true evangelism if we want to put evil on its heels.

Maybe I am mistaken that everyone in this generation who is in rebellion against God already knows the Gospel and has rejected it. It sure would be nice if all Christians could proclaim it properly so we could find out for certain.

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