Monday, December 29, 2025
Sunday, June 22, 2025
"I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY"
By Doug Krieger
NOTE: This missive is intensely EVANGELICAL - proceed with caution and confirmation . . .. "I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY"
With
persistent wars raging in the Middle East . . . and with “news from the East
and North” more than troubling (Dan. 11:40-45), we who claim our
inheritance in the Good Land, await the “Last Day” in which out of this death
and chaos shall arise resurrection life!
This
missive is not what you might expect at your next “prophecy conference” but it
is intensely prophetic because it echoes the very words of the prophets
acclaimed by Jesus: “It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be
taught by God.’” (John 6:45). Allow me to elaborate how and when this can be.
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Four
times Jesus declared “I will raise it/him up at the Last Day” in John
6:39, 40, 44 and 54. No doubt our Lord in this discourse in the synagogue in
Capernaum, Galilee (John 6:59) declared the very purpose of His manifestation
as the Bread of Life. It was to give “everlasting life” to all who would
believe in and partake of Him—but how could mortal man arrive at the Last Day
and be raised, resurrected, to everlasting life by believing in and partaking
of Him?
If,
like the 5,000 fed in the earlier part of John 6:1-14, anyone who seeks the
miraculous bread from heaven (manna) to feed their own belly or hungers for a
supernatural sign, will, as the fathers who ate such manna in the wilderness,
die in their superficial encounter with such provision—they take it in but have
no clue nor faith in the One behind their sustenance.
SEE
THE SON
Monday, September 9, 2024
GRACE / UNITY THROUGH MESSIAH vs. THE FOOLISH SHEPHERD
GRACE – UNITY THROUGH
MESSIAH vs. THE FOOLISH SHEPHERD
By Doug Krieger
There is a pernicious tendency—due to the insipid quest for
control within fallen man—which incessantly raises its ugly head among the shepherds
of the sheep of His flock. I’d like to
address this ubiquitous malady in its immediate and prophetic commentary as it
pertains to the prophet Zechariah’s amazing address of the same—this may surprise
you.
I don’t expect “commentary agreement” on my exegesis but I’ll
be more than satisfied if you get the drift of what I feel the Holy Spirit’s
bearing witness in my spirit that we’re on to something here that has major
consequence at the “end of time” for the people of God—both Judah (the Jewish
Nation) and Ephraim (those among the nations who have entered into Covenant
through Yeshua’s Person and Work).
Today’s Judah/Jewish people are seemingly more divided than
ever before due to a host of issues—primarily, today, centered on the current
distress, wars, hostages, etc., let alone how to address the flagrant rise of
anti-Semitism throughout the globe.
Simultaneously, these issues of “domestic division” afflict all the “people
of the Book”—namely, those who claim membership in the Commonwealth of Israel
who were once non-citizens but who through Messiah have been joined
teleologically[i] to
the “Israel of God” becoming joint-heirs through the Jewish Carpenter.
Dr. John Walvoord (past president of Dallas Theological Seminary)
once said that the book of Zechariah presented the most stereoscopic eschatology
of virtually any book in the entire Bible; rivaling the Revelation extracted
from the Isle called Patmos.
Specifically, Zechariah 11-14 speaks in immediate and futuristic implications
regarding the Almighty’s dealings with His people—and does so in no uncertain terms.
Our focus resides within the peculiar and rather open-ended reflections
concerning shepherding the flock of God either with the “Two Staffs” of the
Great Shepherd of the Sheep or via the Foolish Shepherd’s “three shepherds” who
await their fate—cutting off!
Inserted within these interpretive ambiguities is the
redemptive price of Messiah’s sacrifice and ultimate, I affirm, judgment upon
these three shepherds and their ring leader, if you would, the Worthless
Shepherd (Zech.11:17).
On the one hand, Zechariah 11:4-17, speaks regarding the differences between the "two staffs" and the dismissal of the "three shepherds" during a 30-day time frame (one month). This is a profound prophecy indeed!
Saturday, June 29, 2024
God's Eternal Purpose Unveiled by Gian Luca Morotti
Does God have a plan for uniting and reconciling Jews and Gentiles?
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As confusion over the place of the Jews escalates, learn why the “mystery” revealed to Paul holds the key to one of the most volatile issues of our day.
As Christ came on the seen there was a pre-existing “enmity” based on a “mutual dislike of each other’s customs.” But was reconciliation part of “the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Eph. 3:11)? Morotti’s book, Called to a Holy Pilgrimage explored how the Jewish people regathered to the land of Israel according to the prophetic scriptures—while still in their unbelief. Yet according to the Amplified Version, God would “make plain [to everyone] the plan of the mystery [regarding the uniting of believing Jews and Gentiles into one body] which [until now] was kept hidden through the ages in [the mind of] God who created all things” (Ephesians 3:9).
Gian Luca exposes how “Stigmatic Theology” presents “a deformed view of the "whole counsel of God” and creates a “glaring impediment to the Almighty’s plan and purpose wrought by the blood of the cross in making the two (Jews and Gentiles) – ‘one new man – so making peace’ (Ephesians 2:15).”
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| Gian Luca Morotti |
Gian Luca Morotti holds a degree in Security Management and a Bachelor in Biblical Studies in Hebraic Heritage. He currently serves as member of the International Board of Ebenezer Emergency Fund International (EEFI) and as chairman of Ebenezer Operation Exodus Israel. He is also a board director of the Commonwealth of Israel Foundation (COIF).
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
THE BLOOD OF YOUR COVENANT — by Doug Krieger, Chair - COIF
Headline article from the Spring 2024 Commonwealth of Israel Foundation quarterly newsletter.
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| Doug Krieger, Chair - COIF |
It’s time for some
theological clarity, commentary and devotional. There
are few Messianic Scriptures from the Hebrew text which are alluded to and/or
directly quoted in all four gospels— so, the passages from Zechariah 9:9-10 are altogether poignant,
laced with overt prophetic fulfillment and found in Matthew 21:5; Mark 11:7, 9;
Luke 19:38; John 12:15, to wit:
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Why Bible-believing Christians have a heart for Israel
EXCERPT: “FROM THE RIVER TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH” – Zechariah 9:10b - By Doug Krieger Chair, COI Foundation
(from free Winter 2023-2024 Newsletter)
What we are advocating is an eschatological (prophetic) SEA CHANGE wherein our Catholic-Reform understanding of what constitutes Israel is void of Jews wherein the True Israel of God is constituted by adherence to One Olive Tree. Furthermore, and although well-meaning brethren among Evangelical
Dispensationalists wish the Jews well in their “separate plan” versus the Church’s plan even to the extent that there is one “wife of Jehovah” for Old Testament saints and Jews in general, and the Bride of Christ for New Testament saints, aka Christians, wherein “Jacob’s Trouble” is a “Jewish problem” and the “Valley of Dry Bones” in Ezekiel 37 is reserved for “Jews only” is flat-out theologically wrongheaded!
No, “Jacob’s Problem” is OUR MUTUAL PROBLEM and the Valley of Dry Bones—if ever Judah and Ephraim needed reviving—is just as much Ephraim’s Revival as it is Judah’s, to wit: “Son of man, these bones are the WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’ Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel . . . Again, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions. Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’ Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand” (Excerpts, Ezk. 37).
Dispensationalists wish the Jews well in their “separate plan” versus the Church’s plan even to the extent that there is one “wife of Jehovah” for Old Testament saints and Jews in general, and the Bride of Christ for New Testament saints, aka Christians, wherein “Jacob’s Trouble” is a “Jewish problem” and the “Valley of Dry Bones” in Ezekiel 37 is reserved for “Jews only” is flat-out theologically wrongheaded!
No, “Jacob’s Problem” is OUR MUTUAL PROBLEM and the Valley of Dry Bones—if ever Judah and Ephraim needed reviving—is just as much Ephraim’s Revival as it is Judah’s, to wit: “Son of man, these bones are the WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’ Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel . . . Again, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions. Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’ Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand” (Excerpts, Ezk. 37).
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
THREE PROPHETIC WARS
Oracle of Damascus
Gog-Magog
Armageddon Campaign
By Doug Krieger
God’s
prophetic forecasts cannot and should not be implicated in that the Almighty
knows all things (past, present and future—because He is God); however, this
does NOT prejudge blame upon his forethought/foreknowledge where even the most
horrific massacres wrought by fallen humanity are known of Him. What we are witnessing today (October, 2023)
concerning the carnage taking place in Israel/Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle
East, and in places like Ukraine, are fraught with man’s inhumanity toward man;
notwithstanding, all deception and evil are instigated and sourced in the
thoughts and fleshly pursuits of “earthlings” at the behest, convenience, and
connivance of the Evil One—Satan.
Some, like the French philosopher,
Jean-Paul Sartre (an existentialist and Marxist), concluded cir. WW II, he did
not believe in God’s existence but most definitely affirmed the Devil’s
dastardly presence in the flesh.[i] Indeed, there is blatant “good and evil”—all
compromise with nuanced relativity and balance is extinguished as perhaps the
worst massacre (certainly the most filmed due to phone cameras) in modern
history was witnessed by the world near Gaza in Israel proper.
Blaming God (determinism)[ii]
for all of man’s misfortunes is nigh an incurable disease of the natural man
who thrice has been “given over” by the Almighty—yielding to the corruption of humanity’s
own free will, coupled with their deadened consciences, “. . . to a debased
mind, to do those things which are not fitting—being filled with all
unrighteousness . . . moving from heterosexual sin – then given over to
homosexual sin – and “anything goes (e.g., bestiality—Romans 1:24, 26,
28).
Coming to grips with one’s own
disobedience—acknowledging one’s predisposition to evil (i.e., “owning it”)
rarely finds itself on fallen humanity’s radar.
The Devil’s modus operandi normally centers on “big picture” items
(e.g., World Wars) but he needs little help to accomplish his acts of barbarism
and annihilation since sin’s poison (aka, “in my flesh dwells no good
thing”—Rom. 7:18) is ubiquitous among the human race. Notwithstanding, and all the more, the
Deliverer is into deliverance to all “dead in their trespasses and sin” (Eph.
2:1)—“For by grace are you saved through faith and not of yourselves, it is the
gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8-9).
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Commonwealth of Israel Foundation 2023 Summer Newsletter is Live!
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Read segment of article by Doug Krieger:
FROM QAHAL TO EKKLESIA
The Septuagint Version of the Hebrew Bible (cir. 200 BC) was translated by Hebrew scholars into koine Greek and was generously quoted by the New Testament writers who simultaneously used original Hebrew (into Greek) where appropriate. That is, NT writers did not quote verbatim from the Septuagint but integrated their own Hebrew into Greek where they thought it more in line with the original Hebrew text.
The fourth edition of the United Bible Societies' Greek Testament lists 343 Old Testament quotations in the New Testament, as well as no fewer than 2,309 allusions and verbal parallels.
The Septuagint (viz. LXX or “70” referring to the number of Hebrew scholars who translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek), in the main, translated the Hebrew word “Qahal” (Strong’s H6951 or Gahal) used some 123 times from the Hebrew primarily as Ekklesia — The word Qahal in English has been translated as “assembly” – “gathering” – “company” – “multitude”- “troop” – “army” & “congregation.”
Again, our immediate reflection is the prophetic multiplication or expansion of the Qahal into the Ekklesia Jesus would build and/or is now building after His earthly ministry.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE: New release by Gian Luca Morotti
God's Eternal Purpose: A Truth Restored
Here's the digest on Commonwealth Theology you've been looking for...
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If you are on a pathway of discovering deep and glorious truths from God's Word and have always had before your eyes the vision of His multifaceted wisdom, God’s Eternal Purpose: A Truth Restored is what you've been waiting for!
Gian Luca Morotti takes you on a tour through the pages of scripture on a quest for restoration of one of the most important truths, towards which God is shining light in these last days of restoration. But in fact, most of what you're about to discover has been available to us in the Word of God all along. Previously and mysteriously prophesied, but then revealed through the apostolic writings—Paul being charged with this monumental calling.
In Morotti’s unique work, you'll be immersed in the mystery of God’s Eternal Purpose. From the first words of the opening chapter, you'll plunge into the chronicles of truth animating pivotal biblical scenes and illuminating the truth on display.
IN GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE: A TRUTH RESTORED, YOU WILL DISCOVER:
* What is the mystery of God’s Eternal Purpose?
* Your position, acceptance, and membership in God’s congregation.
* The relationship between prayer and revelation.
* The biblical and practical reality of the “Commonwealth of Israel.”
* When did the “breach of Jeroboam” occur?
* God said, “I will rebuild the Tabernacle of David.” What did He mean?
* Are some Christian theologies still ghettoizing the Jews?
* And much more …
All proceeds from the sale of this book go to support the work of the Commonwealth of Israel Foundation. Or, donate directly here
(Paperback edition will be out in about a month).
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