QUESTION: what about the ministry of YAHSHUA, what then did he preach?
ANSWER: Today we hear that Jesus preached Salvation, that the kingdom he talked about is the church. That anyone who accepts Jesus Christ as their personal saviour is a part of the church and the kingdom. That is all you need to know, heaven or hell.
We have told you much through the tapes about the literal kingdom here on earth, from the Swift tape ministry, so lets look at this again for this was the theme of the Saviours ministry. Lets see what the companion Bible has to say as well about Matthew 4:17; ‘From that time Jesus began to preach and to say: ‘Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand’. Since this was the proclamation also of the kingdom let’s look at the meaning of these words used in this King James translation.
Preach means to proclaim, to bring word down, to bring it home by setting it forth, to make it known by spreading it far and wide.
Repent means to recover ones senses, not only to change one’s apprehensions regarding sin, but to change your thinking regarding sin, this breaking of the law, to regret the movement away from God because of not knowing better.
Alright: YAHSHUA began to proclaim what? That he brought word down to someone, brought it home to someone who seems to have forgotten it, and HE makes it known by spreading it far and wide. And then we remember that he said: ‘I come only to the lost Sheep of Israel’ and he sent his Apostles only to the Lost Sheep. Matt. 10:6. Therefore to his sheep he said: ‘Repent or come to your senses, remember the past, change your thinking, your apprehensions regarding transgression of the law because that is what sin is all about. Regret your movement away from YAHWEH because of not knowing any better as you wandered in this World Order.
Repent then means a real change of attitude toward this breaking of the law which He gave them, through Moses, at Mt. Sinai, and which Israel had not been to keep perfectly as they wandered through that time from Moses to YAHWEH, here in the flesh walking as YAHSHUA or Saviour. Israelites were to now have a real change of mind and attitude toward their transgressions, the reasons why they broke the law, why they became so bogged down in rituals forgetting the main purpose of the law.