Take the word eternal, and the word everlasting.
They're different.
Today with scripture, we'll demonstrate that.
Not understanding the differences will cause you problems in various places in your Bible.
It's what's got some confused about Isaiah 9:6.
See, Isaiah 9:6 is only a half-filled prophecy.
Why was it only half-filled?
Because a postponement in Israel's prophetic program occurred.
And this isn't the only half-fulfilled prophecy we have in our Bible.
Matter of fact, there's another one right here in the very same book, the book of Isaiah.
In order to demonstrate this, let's look in the fourth chapter of the book of Luke.
Verse 14.
And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.
And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for it to read.
And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah.
And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering the sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.
And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
What scripture did Jesus fulfill that day?
Well, it's found in Isaiah 61, beginning at verse 1.
And notice, this sounds almost identical to the words of Jesus in Luke 4.
Watch.
Starting with verse 1,
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.
He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Okay, now, now, here's where we see the postponement of Israel's prophetic program.
If we look back to what Jesus said there in Luke 4, there at verse 19, we see that he said, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord, which lines up with Isaiah, but makes an abrupt stop right here on the comma.
He doesn't finish the prophecy.
But Isaiah, he does.
He continues with, listen,
And the day of vengeance, of our God, to comfort all that mourn.
Jesus, having full knowledge of the revelation that would be later revealed to Paul, having full knowledge that no one in attendance there at the synagogue would witness that day of vengeance, he closed the book, closed it on the comma, and sat back down.
That's amazing, huh?
It's these sorts of things that you wish you could get across to those that are caught up in the trappings of religion.
We who rightly divide the word of truth, we have some valuable information to show them this change in the program.
That there's indeed a difference between God's prophetic program for Israel and his mystery program for us.
So now when we come upon a verse like Isaiah 9:6, we don't get lost in the weeds thinking Jesus is his own father, because we recognize the ever so clear prophetic postponement.
Watch closely,
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.
Now that prophecy, was it fulfilled?
Yes, it was.
Read,
And the government shall be upon his shoulder.
Was this fulfilled?
No, it was not.
Just like when Jesus closed the book on the comma, sat back down, here's another half-fulfilled prophecy from the prophet, Isaiah.
The first part of this,
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.
Yes, fulfilled.
But the government shall be upon his shoulder?
Absolutely not.
Never happened.
Read,
And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Same question.
Was that ever fulfilled?
No, it was not.
The mighty God?
Are you kidding me?
Jesus was rejected as God.
Okay, let's continue with verse 7,
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.
What?
What peace?
Our present-day government?
Read,
Upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment, and with justice from henceforth even forever.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Folks, none of this happened.
Jesus has never taken his place upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it and establish it with judgment.
Nor has he ever assumed the title Everlasting Father to Israel.
Didn't happen.
Totally outside of the but-now parenthetical, dispensation of the grace of God.
The prophet Isaiah in chapter 9 verse 6 prophesied that the day will come when Jesus shall be the Everlasting Father to Israel.
That's here on earth.
Not their eternal father.
Their everlasting Father.
Big difference.
Jesus will at no time replace the eternal Father.
So if you think Jesus is currently operating as Israel's earthly father, you most likely haven't fully understood the differences between prophecy and mystery.
The words eternal and everlasting.
Everlasting has a beginning but no end.
Eternal has neither.
No beginning, no end.
We've encountered some today who are fervently pushing this heresy that Jesus is the Father.
They're out there saying that everlasting and eternal are the same.
They bring up verses where God is called everlasting and say, See, God doesn't have a beginning, so everlasting and eternal must mean the same thing.
This foolish thinking has led them to knee-jerk and ignore the surrounding context.
So with that in mind, let's travel over to the book of Psalms.
Here, let's get chapter 90, chapter 90 and verse number 2.
Let's see if we can get some clarity here.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
See that?
What sticks out to you about this?
Duly note that before, another time word, before the mountains were brought forth, this shows the everlasting beginning of something.
Just as the earth had a beginning, David's relationship with God had a beginning also.
It's not eternal.
Just one proof after the other.
Let's get Daniel, chapter 12, and let's watch this begin to take shape.
Everlasting and eternal are spelled different for a reason.
Look at verse 2,
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
The prophecy here concerns everlasting life, not eternal life.
Meaning, life with a beginning.
Okay, Psalm 93, verse 2.
Speaking of the Lord here, David writes,
Thy throne is established of old, thou art from everlasting.
Notice that the establishment of this throne David speaks of is not eternal.
It has a beginning.
Okay, go with me to the 106th chapter here, verse 48 of the book of Psalms.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
See it?
What we see here is, he has always been the Lord God from eternity past, but he has not always been the God of Israel.
Which is why it says, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
The relationship with the Lord began with the establishment of this throne.
It had a beginning which made it everlasting.
Genesis 21:33,
And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord the everlasting God.
Who's everlasting God?
Abraham's.
I thought God was eternal.
He is, but not to Abraham.
Abraham's relationship with God was not eternal, it was everlasting.
Their relationship had a beginning.
Eternal and everlasting have different meanings, which means they are not the same.
This distorted Godhead doctrine, Jesus is his own Father.
The folly of fools is deceit, right?
Now let's check in with our apostle Paul.
Let's check in and see if it's consistent, if he's consistent and cohesive with this pattern that we're following, with how the word everlasting is used throughout scripture.
2 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 9,
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power;
Why is this punishment everlasting, not eternal?
Because if it were eternal, that would mean punishment has always been.
See how cray-cray the Bible starts to sound if we don't define our terms correctly?
We have a series on Bible terminology you might want to check out.
Listen, everlasting destruction has a beginning.
No one has ever been eternally punished.
Punishment has to start somewhere.
In your Bible, everlasting and eternal are never the same thing.
Hopefully, after today, some light bulbs will come on and some will start to see this.
Let's look at how Paul states it in Romans chapter 16 verse 26.
Watch this,
But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.
Now think.
Ask yourself.
Why would Paul call God everlasting when he's eternal?
The answer is found in one word.
Context.
Some study their Bible in context, others study in man-text.
What about you?
Are you easily swayed by a personality?
See, in context here, Paul is spot on.
The context is not about God's existence, which is eternal, of course, but rather when he was made known to all nations.
Don't you love God's infallible word?
It's never hit and miss, it's always hit.
That's why we don't recommend eating the meat and spitting out the bones.
Let's just get straight to the meat.
This group likes to run around telling everyone that the word eternal and everlasting are the same thing.
And many are gullible, and they don't study for themselves.
Many are babes in Christ, and so they believe what they're being spoon-fed.
The problem is they're word-searchers.
But for us who actually enjoy reading God's word in its entirety, well, different story.
We know that the two words are spelled different and they carry different meanings.
Using the rule of context and consistency, let's put this to rest with the apostle John.
Revelation chapter 4 verse 6.
Here, John said,
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the...
What?
What will the angel have?
The everlasting gospel.
See, now they've got a real dilemma on their hands.
If the word everlasting is the same as eternal, then why do we need Paul?
Why do we need his gospel?
Following their own logic, his gospel would be no different from the gospel this angel will have in the future.
If the angel's gospel is everlasting, and everlasting is the same as eternal, then that angel's gospel has been around since eternity past.
Meaning that there was never a break in time when Paul's gospel could replace it.
But of course we know better.
The everlasting gospel John wrote of has not always been in existence.
It had a beginning.
A beginning that hasn't begun.
It begins during the future dispensation of judgment.
Notice in verse 7 he says,
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of judgment is come.
But folks, we're in a period of grace, not judgment.
Some, they have made a mess of this.
Clean up on aisle 7.
Welcome to Walmart.
And there's more.
There's more.
2 Peter chapter 1.
Watch how he lines up with the prophet Isaiah.
Why do these two line up with each other but not Paul?
Because Isaiah and Peter spoke prophetic language.
Paul, however, he spoke in mystery language.
The Ephesians 3:8 unsearchable riches mystery language.
2 Peter 1:11,
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting, the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Here is that same everlasting kingdom that Isaiah spoke of.
Hmm.
The time when Jesus will serve as the everlasting Father to Israel.
This doesn't belong in the but now timeline.
So beware of these light dividers who are bringing in this heresy.
They're doing the very thing Paul warned of in 1 Corinthians chapter 11.
You remember, he told those at Corinth that he had heard that when they all got together in church there was divisions among them.
He said there must be heresies among you so that they which are approved can be made manifest among you.
This is happening as we speak.
It's time future.
It's time future when Jesus will be the everlasting Father and will hold the government on his shoulder.
Jesus the Son will never replace the eternal Father.
Never.
But during Israel's millennial kingdom, during that 1,000 year reign here on earth, Jesus will serve as Israel's everlasting Father.
Not replacing the eternal Father, but being the everlasting Father, the Father with a beginning to Israel in that kingdom.
Be careful not to belly flop in the mud by using a text without a context.
That's what many do.
A text without a context is just a pretext.
Which is what dishonest teachers use to weave their opinions into the scriptures.
So study to show yourself approved and stop being gullible.
Stop being a simpleton.
Proverbs 14:15,
The simple believeth every word.
But the prudent man looketh well to his going.
Here's another one for you.
Romans 8:16,
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God.
Heirs of God, that's the Father, and joint heirs with Christ, that's the Son.
If we're children, then heirs, heirs of the Father, and joint heirs with the Son.
Now if Jesus is the Father and the inheritance comes from, from the Father, then they've got Jesus giving himself an inheritance.
You do realize that, right?
Here's when the old timers, like my grandfather, would step in and say, total hogwash.
But to some, their pet doctrines means more to them than Paul's one doctrine.
In the kingdom, Jesus shall be Israel's everlasting Father.
But nowhere, nowhere are we told that he is the eternal Father.
That's simply not scriptural.
Well, unless you want to talk modern Bibles, you want to talk modern perversions, then that's a different story.
Maybe that's where they found this strange Godhead.
In the NASB, over there in that perversion, they changed Jesus from being the everlasting Father to being the eternal Father.
Now that's a deformed Godhead for sure.
This Jesus is his own Father theory has no teeth, therefore they're trying to gum us to death.
Meanwhile, we just keep marching forward, doing all things to the glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, sticking with the infallible word of God in this King James Bible.
Hey, God's word is not just interesting.
His word is spirit and life.
His word dwells in our hearts.
It's like a fire shut up in our bones, Jeremiah chapter 20.
The word of the Lord is right, Psalm 33.
It's like honey, Ezekiel chapter 3.
Solomon said, How sweet are thy words unto my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
The truth is becoming less and less popular, friends.
It's only going to wax worse as time progresses.
People today want their ears tickled with man's philosophies.
Galatians 4:16,
Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
We've been at this for many years now, and I can assure you that it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not.
It's better to be hated for standing on truth than loved for falling for compromise.
Eternal and everlasting are different.
Maybe not according to man, but different according to this word.
On my way out, let me remind you of the greatest news, the greatest news known to mankind.
Christ died for how many of your sins?
If you said all, you got it right.
He was buried with how many of your sins?
Right again. All.
And he rose up with how many of your sins?
Correct. None. Not one sin.
So it would be unjust for God to declare that he made his Son, who knew no sin, to be sin for us.
It would be totally unjust of him to still hold us accountable for those sins.
But our God is a just God.
And that's why his word says to wit that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.
When he declared that he made his Son, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, he meant what he said.
I invite you today to take God at his word and reckon it so.
If you'll do that, if you'll exercise your faith by believing this good news, at the moment you believe, God will positionally place you in his Son where you'll be hid with him in God.
You only get two educations.
The one you're given, and the one you give yourself.
Grace and peace.
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