Messiah enjoins His TRUE KINGDOM DISCIPLES to make PRAYER
a PRIVATE matter that is SEEN BY GOD ALONE and WHO WILL REWARD them OPENLY (Matthew 6:6)
"The EYES OF THE LORD are UPON THE RIGHTEOUS, and
HIS EARS are OPEN UNTO THEIR CRY" (Psalms 34:15) and "He is a REWARDER OF THEM THAT DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM"
(Hebrews 11:6)
WHEN God is ABSENT FROM HIS EARTHLY PEOPLE (ISRAEL) -
He is called "THE GOD OF HEAVEN" (Daniel 2:18-19,37,44)
WHEN God is PRESENT WITH HIS EARTHLY PEOPLE (ISRAEL) -
He is called "THE LORD OF ALL THE EARTH" (Joshua 3:11,13) and "THE PRINCE OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH" (Revelation 1:5)
ISRAEL PROFANED GOD'S HOLY NAME among the heathen when
He scattered them among the heathen (Ezekiel 36:19-20) due to her IDOLATRY in her LAND (Ezekiel 36:17-18)
GOD WILL SANCTIFY HIS HOLY NAME among the heathen by regathering
ISRAEL back to her LAND and CLEANSING her FROM the FILTHINESS of her IDOLS (Ezekiel 36:22-25 cf.Zechariah 13:1-2)
- "IN THAT DAY" all shall be "HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD" in His House (Zechariah 14:20-21)
God "will raise unto David a RIGHTEOUS BRANCH"
Who "shall execute JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE IN THE EARTH" (Jeremiah 23:5 cf.Jeremiah 9:24)
- HIS NAME "shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS" (Jeremiah 23:6) by HIS EARTHLY PEOPLE (ISRAEL) - they will become POSSESSORS OF HIS
RIGHTEOUSNESS (Isaiah 45:23-25) via the IMPLEMENTATION OF HIS NEW COVENANT with them (Jeremiah 31:31-34 cf.Ezekiel 36:26-27)
At that TIME, MESSIAH WARNS His people to IMMEDIATELY
FLEE from Jerusalem (Matthew 24:16-18) and the BLASPHEMY of the "SON of PERDITION" (II Thessalonians 2:3-4)
INDIVIDUAL FORGIVENESS under the MOSAIC LAW was CONDITIONAL
- MERCY RECEIVED for MERCY GIVEN (Matthew 9:13 cf.Hosea 6:6)
PETER'S QUESTION concerning INDIVIDUAL FORGIVENESS (Matthew 18:21)
pertained to ISRAEL LIVING IN THE LAND (Leviticus 25:18) and relative to the OCCURRENCE of each JUBILEE YEAR after every 7x7
years (Leviticus 25:11-13)
MESSIAH'S ANSWER concerning INDIVIDUAL FORGIVENESS (Matthew 18:22)
pertained to ISRAEL SCATTERED OUTSIDE THE LAND (Deuteronomy 4:25-27) and relative to the ESTABLISHMENT of MESSIAH'S EVERLASTING KINGDOM
after 70x7 weeks (Daniel 9:24)
- each WEEK tepresenting SEVEN YEARS (Genesis 29:27-28)
ISRAEL'S NATIONAL FORGIVENESS under the NEW COVENANT will
be UNCONDITIONAL having nothing to do with her FAILURE under the OLD (MOSAIC) COVENANT (Hebrews 8:7-13 cf. Jeremiah 31:31-34)
Under this GENTILE "DISPENSATION of the GRACE of
God" (Ephesians 3:1-2), INDIVIDUAL FORGIVENESS is UNCONDITIONAL (Ephesians 4:32) - based upon "His GRACE through the REDEMPTION that is in CHRIST
JESUS" (Romans 3:24),
which is RECEIVED "through FAITH in His BLOOD" (Romans 3:25)
For this PRESENT TIME of RECONCILIATION when God is NOT
JUDGING, but OFFERING PEACE through His AMBASSADORS (II Corinthians 5:18-21) - ETERNAL LIFE is "the GIFT of God through CHRIST JESUS our Lord"
(Romans 6:23),
which is RECEIVED by "GRACE ... through FAITH ... NOT of WORKS" (Ephesians 2:8-9)