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6Dec/080

Is Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) a right-wing extremist?

Revelation 19:11-18:
(11) And I saw the heaven opened, and there was a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Trustworthy and True, and in righteousness He judges and fights.
(12) And His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns, having a Name that had been written, which no one had perceived except Himself
(13) and having been dressed in a robe dipped in blood – and His Name is called: The Word of יהוה.
(14) And the armies in the heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.
(15) And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations. And He shall shepherd them with a rod of iron. And He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of El Shaddai.
(16) And on His robe and on His banner He has a name written: SOVEREIGN OF SOVEREIGNS AND MASTER OF MASTERS.
(17) And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, “Come and gather together for the supper of the great Elohim,
(18) to eat the flesh of sovereigns, and the flesh of commanders, and the flesh of strong ones, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great.”

Yeshua was, is, and will be an extremist. The Gospels and the passage above certainly answers that question... and probably answers another. Is יהוה Elohim of the Old Testament the same יהוה of the New Testament? Can you follow an extremist and not be an extremist?

Numbers 25:6-13:
(6) And see, one of the children of Yisra’el came and brought to his brothers a Midyanite woman before the eyes of Mosheh and before the eyes of all the congregation of the children of Yisra’el, who were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
(7) And when Pinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aharon the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a spear in his hand,
(8) and he went after the man of Yisra’el into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Yisra’el, and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague among the children of Yisra’el came to a stop.
(9) And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
(10) And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
(11) “Pinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aharon the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Yisra’el, because he was ardent with My ardour in their midst, so that I did not consume the children of Yisra’el in My ardour.
(12) “Therefore say, ‘See, I am giving him My covenant of peace,
(13) and it shall be to him and to his seed after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was ardent for his Elohim, and made atonement for the children of Yisra’el.’ ”

Extremism is extremely good when it is in alignment with the extremism of יהוה. Knowing His will is a whole different question and conundrum, but there should be no doubt that His will is historically and prophetically "extreme" and not exactly "politically correct".

Unfortunately, there has been extremism in the past that was wrongly justified in the "name of God", such as Christians killing Jews, Muslims, and/or pagans and vice versa, but could any of those killings be comparable to the actions of Phinehas in antiquity? No, they can't, but similar righteous acts of extremism will occur in the future as Revelation 19 and other prophetic passages exude.

Shalom Aleichem.

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