The Madman – part 2

[genesis]

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. -- G.K. Chesterton


Sad to say that even Jesus of Nazareth was also labeled a madman. (Hosea 9:7)
 
John 10:20   
And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?


Even as many prophets were labeled mad.  For example Ezekiel cooking food with cow dung (Ezekiel 4:15) and all sorts of crazy stuff prophets were asked of God to do….

Ezekiel 4:12   And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

In a way, God lost His beloved treasure Israel and that made Him mad. 

When we loose sight of God, we too became madly lost in Babylon’s material world, endlessly searching for something we lost in our heart and in our mind and in our soul.  God cries for us to come back to Him just as we yearn for our lost beloved.

Are you madly in love with Jesus Christ just as He is madly in love with you?


Song of Solomon 6:13   Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

Malachi 3:7   Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?


Exodus 19:5   Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:


Isaiah 33:6   And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.


Matthew 6:21   For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.


Matthew 13:44   Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Matthew 13:52   Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.


So this time, “The madman (Jesus of Nazareth [Genesis 32:29-30]) is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything (all of His Children and His most prized treasure, is inheritance, Israel [Genesis 32:28]) except his reason. "

Will you return to the Lord O Israel; will you return to the Lord, peoples of the earth?


Genesis 32:24   And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
Genesis 32:25   And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
Genesis 32:26   And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Genesis 32:27   And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
Genesis 32:28   And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Genesis 32:29   And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. 
Genesis 32:30   And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 




Hosea 9:1   Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
Hosea 9:2   The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
Hosea 9:3   They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
Hosea 9:4   They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
Hosea 9:5   What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
Hosea 9:6   For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. 
Hosea 9:7   The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. 
Hosea 9:8   The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
Hosea 9:9   They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Hosea 9:10   I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Hosea 9:11   As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
Hosea 9:12   Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

[Poet]

I would urge you to caution.

You are simply marvelous at finding and quoting verses.  How do you do that?

There are people out there that monitor the internet, and they are looking out for our country's best interests.  They will, however, pay special attention to anyone whom they believe to be a "religious nut."

You, my friend, are not a religious nut.  Let us make an effort together not to appear that way.

[genesis]

Hi Poet,

Don't worry too much about those internet monitors . . . . . they are in turn monitored by God.

In any case, its too late, all has been said and done, my occassional role as a court jester in the Israeli circle and other places has already thrown my credibility out the window.   
Since I have lost everything, then I am nothing and hence, I have got nothing to loose !!
So, do not take my word for it, because i have become nothing and my flesh is dead and gone, who i am is NOT important but if those who heard my messages and testimonies felt compelled by the Holy Spirit of the Lord to listen and understand, then there is only the knowledge and grace of Jesus Christ left in the picture   (Matthew 17:8, "And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only." )  , as such, go ye therefore and LIVE according to God in the Spirit.


Just a witness of the Lord,
Genesis Yew






2 Corinthians 12:11   I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.


1 Corinthians 4:4   For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.


1 Peter 2:24   Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.


1 Peter 4:6   For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.


Mark 8:35   For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.