Episode 122: Becoming Fulfillers of Prophecies

In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

Spirit, forever Amen. Glory be to the everlasting

mercies which sent you to us, O Christ, the light of the world

and the life of all. Give us wisdom by your law and

enlighten our impulses by Your knowledge.

Sanctify our souls by Your truth and grant that we may be

obedient to Your words and may fulfil Your commandments at

every hour. O You who enlightens the

rational with the knowledge of Your greatness, do enlight, O my

Lord, our thoughts, that we may meditate upon Your holy and

divine Scriptures at all times. O Lord of all, Father and Son

and Holy Spirit, forever. Amen.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.

Yes, we're back again. I pray that everyone is well

back to our normal routine, new programs on a weekly basis.

I'm not going to apologize. We've just been very busy.

We had Easter, you know, with the Passion Week, and then we

had the Easter services and, you know, being occupied with a few

other ministries. But here we are again.

Glory to God, back to the double edged sword podcast episodes and

I'd like to take this time to not sure if I did, but to wish

everyone a an amazing blessed feast of the resurrection of our

Lord. This is the fourth week and

we're still celebrating. We celebrate for seven days

because the the event was the greatest event in the entire

history of the world. You know, ancient history,

modern history, and what I call a contemporary history.

Nothing like this has happened before and is happening or will

ever happen unless God has a perfect plan that one man was

resurrected, died, and was buried and resurrected and he's

alive. Yes, Lazarus was resurrected.

He died again. Darius's daughter was

resurrected. She died again, but Christ is

alive. Christ is risen, praise and

glory be to his name. I'd like to go back to our

series on the book of Acts of the Apostles.

The Acts of the Apostles we we left off at the chapter 13,

verse 25, where Saint Paul is preaching to the church in

Antioch. The church is growing.

Now We learned that Saint Paul not only was rebuking, but this

was his first sermon, his first first preaching.

We learned that they continued to go to the synagogue on the

Sabbath. They went to the synagogue on

the Sabbath to partake in the liturgy in the order of worship

in the synagogues, listening to the readings of the prophets and

you know, the, the sermons and obviously the praising.

I was probably singing a lot of Psalms, the the celebration, the

procession of when they read the, the books of the, the

Torah, but at the same time preaching Jesus Christ, you

know, standing up with zeal and telling everyone that what we've

just heard, these prophecies have all been fulfilled in the

Lord Jesus Christ whom you crucified.

And some were then beaten for that.

Some were taken out of the synagogues, but they weren't

reluctant and they preached Christ in the synagogues on the

Sabbath. Acts chapter 3.

Acts 3 · chapter mention

We read Simon and John go to the synagogue on the hour of prayer,

which was at 3:00 PM to go to pray, to go to partake in the

evening or the vespers or the the prayers that were happening

then. But again, they went to preach

Jesus Christ. They were on their mission when

they were going to the synagogue.

They were on their mission to bury those who believed and

accepted Jesus Christ in baptism.

Colossians 212 they were there that to clothe them with Christ,

those who believed and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ and became

his followers. Galatians chapter 3, verses 26

Galatians 3:26–27

through 27. They went to the synagogue to

preach Jesus Christ and to preach the word of salvation

from the bondage of the Mosaic law of the law of the Old

Testament, which was weak in the flesh.

Romans 8-3 and that's the what their mission was when they went

to the synagogue to pray and to worship and to preach Jesus

Christ. Let's pick it up from verse 26

and we'll read I'll read till verse 30 and we'll we'll expand

on those Saint Paul writes, speaks old men and brethren,

descendants of the family of Abraham.

That's one part of the people he's talking about.

And who so ever among you reverences God or believes in

God. That's another type of people to

you is the word of salvation sent for in as much as the

inhabitants of Jerusalem. Now going back to those other

people, inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders did not

understand him, nor the books of the prophets which are read

every Sabbath day. See, there you go.

They were reading the books of the prophets.

They condemned Him, but all the things which were written have

been fulfilled. So by condemning Him they were

fulfilling the prophets, and yet they still did not believe.

And today let's not go there. And though they found no cause

of his death, they asked Pilate that they might kill him.

And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they

lowered Him from the cross. This is very important, what

Paul is saying. They lowered him from the cross,

meaning that he was crucified. O beloved Muslim friend, Jesus

was crucified. Jesus was in the Bible says

this, the Holy Scripture says say this and attest to this.

And when they had fulfilled all that was written of them, they

lowered him from the cross and laid him in a sepulcher or a

tomb. But God praise and glory to his

name. God raised him from the dead.

That means He himself in his divinity raised his humanity

because Jesus wants destruct this temple, and I will raise it

up in three days, referring to His body.

Let's go back and let's expand on this verses 26 to 29.

He's talking both to Jews and non Jews, obviously Jews and

Gentiles, the Jews who feared God.

Now it doesn't say that they believed in him and that

accepted him, but they feared God.

They were waiting for the Messiah.

So there is the reason why they go to the synagogues and they

preach to these people that you you're fearing God.

Let us tell you now how God, that you, the God that you fear,

is now manifested in Jesus Christ, in Jesus Christ.

However, it seems that when he mentions salvation, you know

he's talking to both types of people.

But when he refers to salvation, it is the Gentiles he's

referring to. And this is evident when he

separates them from those who committed the murder.

For as much as the inhabitants of Jerusalem, he writes, they

weren't Gentiles, they were the Jews, and their leaders did not

understand him, nor the books of the prophets which they read

every Sabbath day. They condemned him, they

murdered him. And again, that follows by those

who lived in Jerusalem. So he's obviously referring to

the Gentiles here. He's not rebuking the Jews.

He's not rebuking because he's saying to them, now you know,

you don't realize that the prophets you were reading, you

fulfilled yourselves in Jesus Christ, so now you need to come

back and believe in Jesus Christ and accept him as the Messiah.

And he continues to say that they did not know him, even

though they read the prophets they did not know.

Now, let's not be too harsh. You know, we can't be too harsh

on people who don't not know. You know, ignorance is a bliss,

right? At times we say ignorance is a

bliss. Well, you can't use it as an

excuse. 2025 years, we cannot be ignorant.

No, no, no. 2025 years ago when it was happening, yes, yes, it

was something new. You know, we can't be harsh on

Thomas. Let's not call Thomas the

doubting Thomas. No, I'm not going to call him

the doubting Thomas. I'm going to call Thomas the

prudent Thomas who through his actions and his words has

proclaimed Jesus to be Lord and God.

Not because he proclaimed Jesus became Lord and God.

No, Jesus is Lord and God. And we now have evidence of one

person who at first was skeptic, divinely inspired.

I believe his skepticism became evidence and became a tool in

our hands as Christians that our Lord is God, praise and glory be

to his name. So they continues, He continues

to say that they, even though they didn't know him, they

didn't know the prophets that were reading on the Sabbath,

They not only read them, but they were fulfilling, fulfilling

them by condemning Jesus Christ because it was prophesied.

Beloved, there are 28 at least 28 prophecies about the death

and the crucifixion of our Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ.

Praise and glory be to his name always unceasingly. 28 prophets.

There is no excuse. There is no room for ignorance

anymore. 28 prophecies which were fulfilled.

Now, I'm not going to go through all of them and I'm not going to

read the verses, but let me give you at least 4.

You go and find the other 24. Do some reading work, some

finger work. You know, whether you're

scrolling or you're turning the pages, Read your scriptures,

right? Listening to the podcast and

telling me they're amazing and you know, life has changed.

Great. Glory be to Christ, Amen.

We are puny. We are unworthy glories only to

Christ. But that it doesn't stop there.

Now you need to continue to expand your education and your

knowledge about the Lord Jesus Christ.

Genesis 315 The serpent, it was prophesied the serpent would

bruise the seed of the woman, right?

Bruise the head of the seed. I'm sorry that the seed of the

woman, the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the

serpent. Genesis 315 John 1231 to 33.

You go and read it. There's a prophecy in Zechariah

Zechariah 13:7

chapter 13, verse 7 Jesus Christ would be forsaken by his

disciples. Mark 1450.

You may know that we, we celebrated it, we read, we, we

revisited, we read the whole gospel during the the passion

week. You know, Mark 1450, the

fulfilment David prophesied, King David prophesied the shame

and dishonor that Jesus would suffer being condemned as a

criminal. Psalm 69, verse 9, Psalm 19,

Psalms 69:9

verse 20, Matthew chapter 26, verses 55 and verses 66.

Matthew 26:55

You read those, some of his observers would shake their

heads at him. So, so precise.

You know these these specific details.

Some of his observers would shake his head and there was a

prophecy in Psalm 109, verse 25. Read Matthew chapter 27 verses

Psalms 109:25 Matthew 27:39–40

39 to 40. It was fulfilled.

And Paul in verse 28 talks about the crucifixion and again, as I

said, at least 28 prophecies of the crucifixion.

And as I said, it's very important that Paul, St.

Paul mentions this. And I reached out to our Muslim

friends that Christ was crucified.

He is risen, but he was crucified.

You know, even though it was not accepted that a Messiah would

die, as you know, as be as as the way that he died being the

Messiah, Deuteronomy 21, chapter 23, He that is hung is accursed

of God. So it is important for Paul to

mention this to prove to us to reach out to them that he

fulfilled that prophecy. Must be, if you are telling me

that the Messiah could not be hung on the cross, well there

is. He is hung on the cross.

He is the Messiah and he took on our curse.

Go and read the other 24 prophecies that he would be a

curse for us. So he is the Messiah, praise and

glory be to his name. That's what he's saying to the

Gentiles. So you're looking for the real

God, the true God. You're believing you fear the

God. Let me tell you which God is the

true God, the one God that there is none above and none like him.

It is through Jesus Christ say Amen.

Keep your eyes on the road if you're driving.

Thank you, Stephen. But what do we learn from all

this today, beloved? What did we learn from our

processions and our candles? And I always say our crocodile

tears on Good Friday. That one Friday a year we we

shed tears. You know, Friday everyone was

posting for our transgressions. He died, I mean, praise and

glory, which is his name. And then Saturday we're posting,

you know, selfies, going out, doing whatever.

Just that one day, just that one crocodile tear on that one

Friday, we remember Jesus's crucifixion and his suffering.

Shame on us. Shame, pity, shame and pity upon

us. So what do we learn from all

that, beloved? How relevant and and evident are

they going to be with what Jesus has prophesied in the New

Testament? How relevant are these

prophecies being? How relevant are the fulfilment

of Christ's? Are the fulfilment of prophecies

in Christ? How relevant are they today in

the fulfilment of all the warnings and prophecies Jesus

gave us the new prophecies, the new warnings, the new blessings,

the new teachings Jesus gave us. Let's have some example and take

this is now going to rock your foundation and you're going to

be on fire, but not just for this 30 minutes.

No, always on fire for Jesus Christ.

Matthew chapter 10 verse 22. Jesus says to his 12 disciples,

Matthew 10:22

Now you may say I'm sorry, allergies, Turlock allergies, or

you'll be hearing me cough and you or 12 disciples will be

hated by everyone because of my name.

But whoever will endure until the end, he will live.

You may be saying that's the disciples.

That's got nothing to do with me.

No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

The hatred extended or the hatred that the disciples

experience extends to us being the disciples of the disciples

of Christ to you and I, being the apostles of the apostles of

Jesus Christ. Apostles is a messenger.

We should be preaching the message of Jesus Christ of

salvation. We are the disciples of the

disciples of Jesus Christ, disciplined in faith by the Holy

Scriptures, disciplined by the teachings of the apostles and

the Church Fathers. Very important.

You want to understand the meaning, the interpretation of

the scriptures, go to the early church fathers from the 4th,

from the 3rd century and read those because they were there.

They were there, they had it. It was still hot news, it was

still press releases. It was still being preached and

and spoken. We've been discipled by the

disciples of Jesus Christ and his apostles and their

teachings. We've been disciples by the

discipled by the teachings of the church, the one holy,

Apostolic, universal or Catholic with a small C church.

Congratulations to our brothers and sisters in the Catholic

Church on the on the the election of the the Pope, the

new Pope, the the American Chicago born Pope Leo Revost the

14th congratulations. So we are the disciples of the

disciples and we too those those sufferings, the hatred, the

resentment is also extended to us.

But glory between his name, we're being fulfillers of the

prophecies of Jesus Christ, those that oppose us today,

those those governments, those legislations, those evil blinded

by Satan friends out there who hate Jesus Christ and hate

Christians because we love Jesus Christ.

We follow the words of Jesus Christ.

Those words that Jesus gave to gave to the world, but the world

hated them because the words were not of the world.

So beloved persecutors, insulters, you know, those who

are oppose us, those who swear and cuss and spit and, you know,

RIP out signs from hands and while preaching the Word of God,

the holy Gospel, pour water on our brothers and sisters who are

out there proclaiming the message of salvation to bring

them from light to dark. You're opposing us.

You're assaulting us. You hate us.

You know why we love you, why we love you?

First and foremost, because Christ loved you and Christ

loves you. And secondly because you are

being an instrument for Christ's prophecies and warnings to be

fulfilled in US. Glory be to his name.

What an honor, what an honor. Now I'm not saying go out there

and become the the cause of insults and what have you know?

Let us not be the cause of the stumbling block for anyone, no,

but when it comes, praise the Lord.

Christ's prophecies are being fulfilled in us through the

rejection of the world. Who is rejecting us.

So you see, when we read the Scriptures, we see that in the

Old Testament the prophecies were fulfilled in both Jesus

Christ and his disciples. You know when the disciples

deserted him, there's a prophecy.

Read the 28 prophecies. They were fulfilling prophecies

without them even knowing. And that's happening today.

Luke chapter 12 verse 11. Jesus says, but whenever they

Luke 12:11

bring you to assemblies before rulers and authorities, what's

is it the 4th Amendment? That is freedom of speech,

Stephen. Or is it 5th Amendment?

Whichever amendment, unfortunately.

And today, First Amendment. First Amendment.

I'm sorry. Unfortunately, today the 1st

Amendment only applies to evil. You can say whatever you want.

Evil. You can.

You can. You can offend people according

to their religion, what have you.

That's OK. But when you preach Jesus

Christ, they walk up to you in the entire world and tell you to

stop preaching. So what happened to the First

Amendment? Oh, dear.

Politicians only for evil. Yeah.

You know why There's a prophecy. Yeah.

Oh, glory be to your name, Oh, Lord Jesus Christ.

They call evil good and good evil.

So the First Amendment is only good for evil, but no good for

good, but evil for good. Yeah, that should be a maxim.

The First Amendment, good for evil and evil for good.

And Jesus goes on to say you shall not be concerned.

You should not be concerned, first of all, because I told you

it's going to happen, and by these things happening, you're

just confirming to the world, and they are confirming to the

world through their ignorance that I am God because I knew

these things beforehand. Praise be to His name #1 and #2

Don't be concerned how you will give an answer or what you will

say. Christ will be there, the Holy

Spirit will be there. They are fulfilling the warnings

and prophecies of the gospel. But beloved, the greatest

fulfillment is not what happened to Christ is not is not that you

know what happened to Christ fulfilling the 28th also

prophecies. No, no, no, the greatest of the

fulfillments is not when they are being fulfilled in US today,

what's happening to the followers of Jesus Christ, but

what happened to Christ after and what will happen to you and

I after we have persevered in the suffering of what the

Scriptures are telling us that we should wait for.

That is the future. In verse 30 Paul writes, but God

raised him from the dead. Now when it says God raised him

from the dead, yes, the question, well if Jesus is God,

well does it say, yeah, God raised the flesh.

So Jesus in his divinity raised his humanity.

I think I mentioned this. Jesus in his divinity which is

alive would not die, but his humanity that died, he raised

his flesh. Simple 2 + 2 is 4 and that's not

being racist. 2 + 2 is 4 and it cannot be five. 2 + 2 is 4,

right? God raised Jesus from the dead.

That's the glory, beloved, and look at what Jesus is now

telling you and I through His prophecies, through His

teachings, Matthew 1022 But whoever will endure until the

end, He will live enduring until the end.

That is the greatest thing that's going to happen.

Not, you know, I was glorifying God.

Amen to that. For using us for the fulfillment

of His prophecies to use us as the fulfillers of His prophecy

so that those who are persecuting those who are

through ignorance unknowingly fulfilled prophecies that they

may come back to Jesus and the truth of Jesus Christ, praise be

to his name. John chapter 13 verse 31.

John 13:31

See this is Jesus being God knew this.

Now Jesus says, now the Son of man is is present, is eternally

is glorified, not will be glorified was glorified, may be

glorified. And this is before he went to

his shameful death. This is before he went to

fulfill the prophecies about how they would shake his head, how

they would give him gold to drink, how they would mock him,

how they would Pierce him, how they would beat him to to the

point where there was no no looks for us to look at him.

There was no beauty for us to look at him.

These are all prophecies. These are all prophecies.

But Jesus says, now the Son of man is glorified and God is

glorified in him. You know why?

Because he's going to his glory, He's going to die, but he will

be resurrected. Jesus is resurrected, is alive,

praise and glory be to his name and God.

He's the divinity, the, the, the, the three Norma in the one

divine nature will be glorified because that divine nature has

resurrected the human nature. There's the glory, beloved, and

that's what we have. We have a share in that glory.

We already, we are glorified. We are glorified when we have

believed in Jesus Christ and we have been put to death in his

death. We have a part of his death.

We've been put to death in baptism.

That means we have a part. We have participation in the

death of Jesus Christ. Then we also have participation

in his glory when he returns. Second Timothy 212.

If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him.

Wow, if we suffer with him, we will reign with him.

There's our glory. That is what see suffer that's

wide. So that means there's a

prophecy, not only Jesus Christ. Timothy is echoing that there is

going to be suffering rejection. There is going to be, you know,

a persecution continue. There is a glory waiting for

you. But if we renounce him as some

do, he will also renounce us. Renounce him because today

education and technology, technology has so advanced.

It is nothing. It is not a grain of dirt

beneath Jesus feet and the feet of his disciples and the feet of

his apostles and the feet of those who died for Jesus Christ.

Technology, education, academia is not worthy to be a grain of

dirt, sand underneath, beneath Jesus feet.

No, beloved, don't renounce Jesus Christ because you know

more now, because there you know, and there's all these

capitulations and there's these, these words that are being used

like the greater the word, the more effect that word has, you

know. No, no, no.

Let me give you a few words. Jesus is risen simple.

That's it. Glory be to his name, and he is

reigning from heaven on earth. And that rain is awaiting us as

well. Luke chapter 12, verse 37.

Luke 12:37

Blessings to those servants. Listen to this blessings to

those servants, everyone. We are the servants of Christ,

whom when their Lord will come, He shall find, while they are

watching, serving relentlessly, joyfully, serving, serving Him,

praising Him, preaching Him, worshipping Him, enduring with

Him, persevering with Him. Amen.

I say to you that he shall gird his waste.

This is a promise. And those who are suffering,

causing us sufferings, this is what they are.

They are foreseeing us to. They are, you know they are

pushing us to that. They are, they are bidding us

farewell to this, that the Lord will come and shall gird his

waste, that is, He will reward and grant rest to each and

everyone was individually, and he shall make them to recline,

and he shall go through and shall wait on them, serve them.

Of course, Revelation 7/17 He will wipe away all our tears, no

more suffering, no more persecution, if we persevere

with him. So you see the Jews, Saint Paul

is talking about ignorantly, foolishly doing what they were

doing or fulfilling the prophecies.

Now you can't say. Well then, OK, well then what?

What problem did you know what? What's the issue there?

What fault do they have? Yeah, but they didn't

understand. They didn't accept.

And that's what Jesus was trying to say to them.

I am here. I'm the prophecy.

I am the fulfiller of the prophecy.

I am the Lord, I am the Messiah. So if prophecies are being

fulfilled in us as Christians, as believers of God, worship of

worshippers of God, that is an honor in itself.

But the greatest honor is awaiting us.

Let us continue steadfast. Believe it, beloved, in the

Church. Let us continue steadfast in the

Church, which is a descendant of the early Church which the

disciples and apostles built upon their foundation.

Saint Paul writes to the Thessalonians, You have been

built upon the foundation of the apostles, and Christ is the

cornerstone. And within this Church there are

prophecies, there are warnings, there are teachings that there

will be suffering. Two benefits.

Those who are causing suffering, they are fulfilling prophecies

and only ignorantly proclaiming and confirming.

Jesus is God, praising glory to his name and he will return.

And those who are being persecuted and are suffering,

they have a glory awaiting them. Just as God raised his Son from

the dead, so too he will raise us from the dead to that glory

that is awaiting all who live in the hope of our Lord and our

Saviour Jesus Christ. Praise and glory be to His holy

name now and at all times and forever.

Amen. Christ is risen.

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