03/12/2021
Holiness Corner_Dec. Edition 2021.
Theme: Jephthah the Coming King.
Passage: Rev. 22: 12 "And behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be".
The book of Matt. 18:16 makes us to understand that every truth is established by the mouth of two or three witnesses. The truth we as a ministry want to esterblish is biblically based because several scriptural passages are in support of our view that Jesus is coming back as a King (Matt.26:64, Mk14:62, Luk21:27, 1Thes 4:13_17 and Act 1:11.
In Act 1:11, the angel of the Lord affirmed to the apostles that the same Jesus that was going up the sky into heaven would soon come again.
At this juncture, we want to hasten by letting you know that the name Jesus and Jephthah refer to the same person in this piece of writing. It wa Jesus who introduced Himself in a vision to the visioneer as the New Testament Jephthah . This means that Jephthah in Judges eleven is a typology of the true and revealed Jephthah in the New Testament though there is no name Jephthah in the New Testament. The name is an acronym coined by the Lord Jesus Himself. Jesus we know has several names by which He is known by those who have persanal relationship with Him. So, the initial letters of some of those names give us the name Jephthah.
JE_Stand for Jesus the name above every name (Phi 2: 9_10)
PH_Stands for Physician/Healer ( Ps 103:3).
T_Stands for Teacher (Jn14:26,
H_Stands for Helper (Ps 124:8).
A_Stands for Advoate (1Jn2:1).
H_Stands for Holyone 1Pt 1:16).
Now, if Jesus is truely all of the above, then, He is called Jephthah and we all know that He is coming back very soon.
As Jephthah in the Old Testament was despised, rejected, dejected, persecuted and driven by his own kins men but was later called upon to be their leader, so was Jesus our New Testament Jephthah. He was despised, rejected, hated, molested, dejected, bruised and killed by his Jewish kins men. Today, He is sitted at the right hand of