When the Saints go marching in {do I want to be in

THE
words of
The Prophet ring
out, too, in Yeshua's
"beatitudes": he opens for us
The Kingdom of heaven to The Poor
in Spirit and The Meek, and Gives Comfort
to them that mourn. It was to them that this
Good News of Yeshu was
especially sent.

The word
used in Greek was
EUANGELION,
derived from the verb used in the verse
from Yeshayahu [see ISA 61:1; 40:9; 52:7]
to denote the preaching of salvation. For Yehoshua,
this passage from scripture was The Bridge between His Calling ~ announced
when Yochanan baptized him in the river Yardeen ~ and his present vocation.
He knew that the Spirit of the Lord had come upon him, because the Lord
had anointed him to proclaim salvation
to the meek and the poor
[at the right {?} time
and place]!

As
Yochanan's messengers
were departing to report Yeshua's answer,
'Yehoshua began to speak to the crowds
concerning Yochanan,
"WHAT DID YOU GO OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS TO BEHOLD?
A REED SWAYED BY THE WIND?
WHY THEN DID YOU GO OUT?
TO SEE A MAN CLOTHES IN SOFT RAIMENT?
BEHOLD, THOSE WHO WEAR SOFT RAIMENT ARE IN KINGS' HOUSES!
WHY THEN DID YOU GO OUT?
TO SEE E PROPHET? YES, I TELL YOU,
AND MORE THAN A PROPHET!
THIS IS HE OF WHOM IT IS WRITTEN,
'BEHOLD,
I SEND MY MESSENGER BEFORE THY FACE,
WHO SHALL PREPARE THY WAY BEFORE THEE!"
TRULY I SAY TO YOU,
AMONG THOSE BORN OF WOMEN
THERE HAS RISEN NO ONE GREATER THAN
YOCHANAN THE BAPTIST; YET HE WHO IS LEAST
IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS GREATER THAN HE.
FROM THE DAYS OF YOCHANAN THE BAPTIST UNTIL NOW
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS BREAKING THROUGH AND THOSE WHO BREAK THROUGH,
TAKE IT IN POSSESSION. FOR ALL THE PROPHETS AND THE LAW
PROPHSIED UNTIL YOCHANAN; AND IF YOU
ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT IT, HE
IS ELIYAH WHO IS TO
COME! HE WHO HAS
EARS TO HEAR,
LET HIM
HEAR!"

Eigenlijk
zijn woorden
als deze daarvoor
en daarna niet overtroffen:
geen wonder dat mensen 'die er niet aan willen',
de grootste moeite ondernemen om 't tegendeel
te bewijzen, of Yehosjoea dolgraag willen
ophemelen, verafgoden & opblazen uit
onmacht, bijgelovigheid, bijziendheid,
verblindheid &
doofheid?

Je
zou zelfs
met een kleine
variatie op onze 'moderne'
tijd kunnen zeggen:
"YES, WE
CAN!"

Want
wie dat
niet geloven wil,
die kan het klaarblijkelijk
niet uit ongeloof
en onkunde
...