July - August 2014

… But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,

because they are spiritually DISCERNED. (1 Cor. 2:14) … But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to DISCERN both good and evil. (Hebrews 5:14)

Greetings from the Breaker Family!

When my Dad was alive, he would always tell to me: “Practice Discernment!” I’ve never forgotten this. My Dad was a real blessing and I really miss him, especially the older I get. (I turned forty in July! Can you believe it?)

The Bible has much to say about discernment, and these last two months, I’ve really focused on practicing it, being careful to discern as much as possible.

DISCERNING THE CHRISTIAN WALK

The beginning of July, we got a call from my Mom’s friend in Oklahoma telling us my Mom was in the Hospital. She had recently had knee surgery, and was recuperating, but the doctors (as they so often do) messed up her medication and gave her something she was allergic to. This led to her having an allergic reaction, and she spent three days in the hospital suffering from side affects. We immediately called a friend to watch my grandmother, and we rushed overnight to Oklahoma to care for her. I kept Emma, our oldest, with me, while Laura drove back home with Elyse, our youngest. Emma and I stayed three weeks total taking care of Mom.

Mom then needed therapy to learn to walk again, as her knee surgery demanded constant exercise so her muscles and tendons would heal correctly. I watched her go from wheel chair, to walker, to cane, and then to walking by her own power and eventually even driving. In short, she had to learn to walk all over again!

While taking care of Mom, I thought about the Christian walk and the job of a true minister of the Gospel. I was helping her walk physically, and glad to do so. I then thought about how that should be the desire of a minister of the Gospel as well. They should greatly desire to give of themselves to others and help them in their spiritual walk with the Lord.

Mom had therapists come almost daily that helped her exercise her knee, and they all stressed that she must learn to walk the RIGHT way. For if not, then she would always have a limp. This made me think. There is a right way and a wrong way to walk!

I’ve known, and I’m sure you have too, many who claim to be preachers and ministers, who only care about getting people to make decisions, but afterwards, they are no where to be found. They could care less if those new converts learn to walk correctly. All they care about is bragging on the “surgery” (as the doctors often do), but then don’t care about the follow-up. But this trip really made me think of the importance of discipleship; that is teaching others to walk correctly in the Christian way.

With that stated, I’ve had a great opportunity lately to do just that! I’ve had many people contacting me via email or phone asking me for counsel, advice, and fellowship. Many had Bible questions, and such. And, I’ve spent hours helping these people, often talking with them for hours and teaching them Bible over the phone, and helping them to grow in the Lord.

　

DISCERNMENT IN WITNESSING

Discernment in witnessing is so important. I’ve seen many who witness the same exact way every time, using the same verses, and always saying the exact same thing to sinners. But people are different! So, this doesn’t always work. When I speak with people, I try to understand who they are and where they come from, and then ask the Holy Spirit to give me the verses they need to hear. Some need to hear about Hell and Judgment. Others already know about that, but need to hear about grace, and the blood atonement. It’s hard to know exactly what they are missing that is keeping them from getting saved, but the more we try to put ourselves in their shoes and understand where they are coming from, the more we can reach them where they are. The following is a good example, of practicing discernment as I tried to understand where a sinner was coming from and why he was saying what he was saying.

In August, I came across a man who I immediately identified as Hispanic because of his thick Cuban accent when he spoke English. I began speaking to him in Spanish and told him I was a minister of the Gospel, and a Missionary. He replied, “Oh, well, you missionaries are doing more harm than good!” He then went on to explain some things he’d seen in his home country and other Latin American countries, and how he said most Missionaries tried to win the people by giving them THINGS and then encouraging them to join their RELIGION, based upon their giving them STUFF.

He then said, “Most Missionaries are only giving people RELIGION and THINGS and not SPIRITUAL CARE, and that’s why they are doing more harm than good! When the stuff runs out, the people run back to the same sins they came from.” After listening to the man, I finally spoke up and said, “Well, I have to agree with you!” He stopped speaking and looked at me in unbelief. I then said, “I agree, as I’ve seen a lot of that myself. But a true Missionary is someone who does not preach RELIGION and giving away of THINGS, rather he preaches SALVATION, and faith in what Jesus did, as He GAVE Himself for our sins as our substitute on the cross.” The man then let me speak and listened to every word, when before he sounded like he didn’t want to hear anything I had to say. Practicing discernment helped me reach the man. And, I was able to show him the true work of a Missionary is to give the GOSPEL, and show the way of salvation. We were later interrupted, and I didn’t finish saying all I wanted, but I did have a chance to plant the seed. I hope to speak with the man again. Please pray for him. His name is Ernesto.

DISCERNMENT OF THE TIMES IN WHICH WE LIVE

For years now I’ve been patiently waiting for the rapture. Things are so bad in this world, that I surely thought Jesus would have returned by now. Yet he tarries. Thinking about this, and reading through Daniel again, I read in chapter nine of seventy weeks, and then seventy years. Many agree that the Hebrew word “weeks” can mean “years.” With this in mind, I thought of something, and I haven’t heard many others talking about it, so I thought I might throw it out there. What if the seventy weeks mentioned being “determined upon Israel” were seventy years that were determined on the modern nation of Israel? We know Israel was founded in 1948. Seventy years from that date would be 2018. Could the rapture happen then? That would mean there would be 7 more years of tribulation after that, and then 2025 would be the battle of Armageddon, and Christ’s return at the Second Advent. This is just a thought on my part, but I would love to hear what others think about it. (I hope I’m wrong and the rapture is 2014!)

The other idea I had was what if Hosea 6:1,2 means a whole two thousand years? (A day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.) That means that the battle of Armageddon would be in 2033 (as Jesus died in 33 A.D.) Subtract 7 years for the tribulation, and we come to 2026. But, boy that is a long time away! And, I really don’t see how the world will last that long.

At any rate, I truly believe we are in the last days. (Read 2 Tim. 3:1-5 and tell me if that doesn’t sound like today!) And things are changing at a rapid rate. It is both awesome and scary to live in this age, but it is interesting as well as we try to discern the times, and wonder about when the Lord will return! I just hope it is soon!

　

DISCERNING THE SPIRITUAL APATHY OF OUR AGE

I’ve noticed it, and perhaps you have as well, that people just don’t seem to be as open to the Gospel as they used to be. In fact, they are actively hostile to it. It seems the more you witness, the more angry people become, as more and more people despise the things of God. It’s like the world is rapidly turning from God at an alarming rate.

I talked to a friend the other day whose Dad is a Missionary, and he told me that even his father is aghast at how many people are rejecting the Gospel. He told me that every year they hand out 5000 John and Romans in their city, and usually they see at least one or two people saved because of it. But this year they didn’t, and what’s worse is they had a record number of negative responses. Some people even drove to the church just to give back the John and Romans! Others mailed dirty letters with snide remarks, or called on the phone to express their anger for leaving such a thing on their doorstep. By far, this was the most hateful responses they ever received from leaving Gospel literature.

As I witness to others, I too have noticed that many people are becoming more hostile towards those of us who preach the Gospel. They look at you like you are crazy speaking about Jesus, the Bible, and heaven and hell. I don’t know if it is because of secular education, or if it truly is spiritual wickedness in high places deceiving them, or just a sign of the times; but it is getting harder and harder to witness as fewer desire to listen. Yet, we must continue no matter what, even though the day might soon come that we are looked upon by society as outcasts, superstitious, bigoted, and/or intolerant. Truly a great evil is descending upon this world, and we are the light. But our light seems to be flickering world-wide, and in danger of going out, unless we determine within ourselves to do more for the cause of Christ. Will you join me? Let’s try to reach others in spite of the great spiritual apathy of our age.

　

　

Because of Christ Jesus our Lord,

Robert Breaker and Family

1 Sam. 12:24!

　

May - June 2014

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (2 Tim. 1:7)

Greetings in the great name of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!

We are living in very strange and scary times! One must not need look far to see just how crazy and upside down the world is. Death, destruction, resentment, and intolerance are everywhere, and the way things are heading, it’s not hard to see that there’s another World War on the horizon. We are further seeing religious persecution, as Muslims are mercilessly slaughtering Christians in countries throughout the world as militant Islamists spread through the Middle East and Africa, while boasting of their coming “caliphate,” in which they seek to rule over the masses with their tyrannical “sharia law.”

Even in America, we are seeing a complete takeover by radical socialists, who spy on the people daily with their Gestapo-style surveillance (through the NSA), and attempt to enslave everyone to their communistic ideals, while undermining the Constitution and obliterating the rule of law. If that weren’t bad enough, they continue to heap upon the national debt as they follow the Cloward and Piven plan to destroy the U.S. economy, and bankrupt the entire nation, all while they leave the borders entirely open to illegal aliens and terrorists.

But this shouldn’t be a shock to you, as the Bible says: “…we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rules of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places

” (Eph. 6:12).
Truly, forces of darkness are at work in the world today which are arduously working towards their goal of setting up a Satanic New World Order to enslave the entire world. Even the President of America is doing things that are so criminal and outrageous, that many religious leaders are openly stating that they believe he is the very Anti-Christ of which the Bible prophesied in the book of Daniel. (I don’t know, but it is interesting that he has appeared to have fulfilled almost all of the prophecies in Daniel chapter 11). If all this weren’t bad enough, the United Kingdom announced in June that the teaching of Divine Creation is ILLEGAL in British schools, and only Evolution is allowed to be taught.

So, clearly, there is a spiritual, physical, intellectual, and political attack on all mankind, and if the Lord doesn’t come back soon, the entire world will sink back into the second “dark ages.” Thankfully, we are not finished, and as the verse above states, “God hath not given us the spirit of fear...” For this reason, we need to do even more for Jesus in the short time we have lefft as we battle an epic spiritual war, and try to liberate souls from the devil’s coming global government. As for us, we are doubling up our efforts as we serve the Lord amidst a changing world that grows actively hostile towards God, the Bible, and the Gospel, with each passing day.

COMPLETED DVD ON CREATIONISM

Several months ago, I reported that I worked with Creation Science Evangelism in Pensacola, as we recorded a short DVD based on Dr. Kent Hovind’s Creation videos. Eric Hovind, Kent’s son, spoke in English while I translated in Spanish. The finished DVD is now available, and I’m enclosing a copy of it with this prayer letter. The DVD is in English and Spanish, so I encourage you to watch it yourself. Yet, it was designed to be given to Spanish-speaking people with the hope they will watch it and then order the longer version of the 6 DVD set in Spanish, (which we recorded back in 2005 in Honduras). Also, at the end of the DVD, I preach a Gospel invitation in Spanish. So, I ask you to pass this DVD along to a Spanish-speaking person. That should not be too hard, as they are pouring into our country in droves! One estimate says that 15 million have come into America through the open borders in just the last couple of years. I reported about 5 years ago that there were already an estimated 35 million illegal Hispanics in our nation (about 10%). So if the numbers are true, that means there can soon be as many as 50 million Spanish-speakers in our nation! We need to reach them! And this DVD is a great way to get them the truth about Creation, and the Gospel.

PASSING OUT TRACTS AND WITNESSING

With all the Spanish-speaking illegal aliens in America, we’ve found we don’t have to go too far to reach them, as they are everywhere. So, we take Spanish tracts with us and pass them out in supermarkets, garage sales, flea markets, and many other places. The best time to find them is on the week-end, as they are everywhere. Many have yet to learn English, so when I hear them speaking Spanish, I love introducing myself and speaking with them. Sadly, many are so Catholic they won’t listen to what I have to say, but they do take a tract. In fact, I can’t think of one instance in which a Spanish-speaker in America rejected a tract. But many English-speakers have and continue to do so. It also makes one think God is finished with America, and we are seeing his judgment on this nation because of it. Hopefully, more Christians will speak up, especially while we still have the freedom to do so.

On a final note, please pray for Joe, a man I met one Saturday in June. His father passed away at the age of 50, and this young man was devastated. When I spoke to him about the Lord, he said, “Well, I used to go to the Assembly of God church.” I replied, “Well, you know that going to church doesn’t save you! What you need is to have your sins forgiven, and the only way according to the Bible is by FAITH in the FINISHED BLOOD ATONEMENT of Jesus Christ.” He listened, but didn’t seem to understand. At least I planted a seed. Please pray for his salvation.

　

TRUE RELIGION

When people ask me if I’m “religious” I respond with a boisterous, “NO!” Being quick to add that: “Religion is a system of WORKS that men do to justify themselves to God.” Also, I note that it was the “religious leaders” that killed Jesus Christ. I then tell them that rather than “religious,” I’m “justified” or “saved,” and the difference is that it’s not by my WORKS, but by FAITH. I’m further careful to explain that “salvation is what you take when you finally realize that you can’t save yourself, thus you trust Jesus’ finished work to save you!” This is a great way to witness to others!

But the Bible does tells us what “true religion” is in James 1:27, “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and WIDOWS in their affliction…”

I state this, as most of you know, that we are taking care of my widowed grandmother, Lucy, who is now 93 years old. Because of this, it makes it hard for me to travel like I used do, as she is taking more and more of my time, not allowing me to leave overnight anymore.

We appreciate your prayers for her, and for those of you who asked about how she’s doing. She has her good days and bad days. On the good days, we have more liberty to go pass out tracts, and witness to others, but on the bad days we stay home close by her. Every now and then she suffers very painful episodes with her stomach, and has what the doctors call some sort of intestinal disease. And, as you can imagine, this gets messy.

I never thought I’d ever do the work of a nurse, but that’s what it seems I’m doing now. And, God is showing me some things through it. I always dreaded something like this happening, and I thought I couldn’t take it or go through it. But I’m finding that God’s grace is sufficient, and if you really love someone, it’s easy to care for them. I’m also learning about how good Jesus is to take care of us! So please pray for us, as we are doing our best to practice what the Bible calls “true religion.”

　

ECOUNTERING EVIL IN THIS WORLD

Truly we are in the last days. And, because of this we see more and more people using wicked means to defraud others. With that stated, I thought I’d mention something that happened to me the other day, in hopes it might help you as well. While shopping one weekend, I went to the cash register to pay, and gave a certain bill to the cashier. When he returned my change, it was the wrong amount, being very short of what I expected. I asked what happened, and the cashier told me that I gave him a bill of lower denomination. But I did not. (I knew exactly what bill I gave him, as I was calculating in my head what my change should be). To make a long story short, the cashier argued with me and wouldn’t give me my change. I ended up having to call the sheriff, and when he came, he tried to fix the problem. But the cashier and business owner (who by this time came over to see what was happening) would not do anything, instead calling me a “liar.” With no video camera to prove I was right, the police told me that my only option was to take the man to civil court, and it would cost me 70 dollars. However, the “burden of proof” would be on me, and I would have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was right.

Since I couldn’t do this, as it was basically my word against the word of the Cashier (or as the Police put it: “his opinion vs. your opinion), I was then out of luck, and never got back the rest of my money. I was sad the rest of the day, and so bummed that a criminal could do something like that and the law protected him. But after looking this up online and talking with others, I found that this is a very common scam today, especially in our bad economy, and many are doing this to steal from others. Sadly, the law is on their side, as most people won’t take it to court, and if they do, “How do you prove it?”

After telling my wife about it, and sulking for a while, she had a great idea to protect us from future scammers. Now we mark every single bill we get in a specific place with a pen, and that way if something like that happens again, we can prove beyond any shadow of a doubt which bill we paid with, and they won’t be able to argue with us, as each bill we carry holds a certain mark in a certain place. This might be a good idea for you as well. I hope you don’t have to go through what we went through, but if you begin marking your bills, then you will have “proof” in case something like this ever happens to you.

　

Because of Christ Jesus our Lord,

　

Robert Breaker and Family

1 Sam. 12:24!　

March - April 2014

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.     (Romans 8:22-23)

 

Greetings from a very frustrated Breaker family,

That’s right, we are so perturbed by what we see going on in the world today. The above verses state it well. Not only does the whole creation “groan” and “travail” but so do we within ourselves as we see these last days grow worse and worse and we anxiously await the rapture (i.e. the “redemption of our body.”) Please come back soon, dear Lord Jesus!

I hate to write one of those “whiney” prayer letters, complaining about how awful everything is and how horrible things are. But, I also like to speak from the heart every so often and tell people how I honestly feel about things, so here goes. I hope this prayer letter doesn’t drag you down in the dumps, but rather encourages you as what we see going on in the world today is just confirmation that Jesus must be coming soon!

March and April haven’t been the best of months. Cars have broken down, we’ve gotten sick, and we’ve heard the heart-wrenching news of my cousin passing away. It’s hard in such times to be joyful, but we try to press on with meek and lowly sacrifices of thanksgiving. (I’m, comforted with verses like Col. 3:15, which states, “…And be ye thankful,” and 1 Thess. 5:18; “In everything give thanks,” but sometimes that’s hard to do. Still we try.)

I’m also bummed when I look at the state of the world today. I read an article lately in which a Bible scholar wrote that the world is so degenerate today, it’s close to “biblical proportions” the utter depravity and sin that abounds. Socially, politically, morally, and spiritually, the world is on a downward spiral descending straight to the pits of hell, and it’s hard to watch. (It makes me cringe more and more just reading the daily headlines of the wickedness in the world).

Our nation is transitioning into a Socialist Dystopia, as our Constitution is continually degraded by power-hungry politicians who attempt to strip us of our God-given rights and deceive us into thinking they are just “privileges.”

Our Churches are full of people who desire to steal the praise and worship from our Lord Jesus Christ, changing the focus from bragging on Jesus to bragging upon themselves.

Even individual Christians are getting more deceitful, and I’m finding myself continually wanting to be friends with others, but viewing them with suspicion, wondering if I open up to them and try to get close to them, what will they do to hurt me and my family in the future? (We’ve been hurt so much by other Christians, it’s hard to get close any more to anyone. In fact, it’s hard to trust anyone any more in this present evil world!)

I find my only solace is in preaching the Gospel to the lost and dying world, but even that is an endeavor in itself, as many people today don’t even understand the Bible or the Gospel. Most think that salvation is by good works. And, it’s almost a “deprogramming” session to sit down and speak with such people to try to show them salvation by God’s amazing grace. (By the way, I’m enclosing a tract with this prayer letter entitled: “You Are Not Saved by Works!” I wrote it as I’ve dealt with so many lately who think they have to “work their way to heaven.” This tract does a good job of showing it’s not of works, but by grace through faith!)

So this is what we are struggling with. I want to do more for Jesus, but there are many hindrances. When I do my best, there are little results. And, when I seek His face in prayer, I find little counsel. Truly we are in the last days, and things are getting worse. This makes me want to do even more for the Lord. But I find myself continually thinking how much I wish the Lord would just come back and get us out of this mess. The sooner the better! But until He does, we’ll continue to be faithful, witnessing to the lost, and praying God will use us for His glory. Please pray for us. We need your prayers. Also, please pray for all those we’ve witnessed to these last couple of months, passed out tracts to, and planted Gospel seeds in. We truly want to see people saved!

Thanks again for all your continued prayers and support. I truly hope this will be the year that Jesus returns. But until then, we’ll “groan” within ourselves as we “go forth” with the glorious Gospel message of salvation by His finished work.

Because of Christ Jesus our Lord,

　

Robert Breaker and Family

1 Sam. 12:24!

POST SCRIPT

And you thought I was going to quit there, and actually write a short prayer letter this time? Well, that’s hard for me to do. (My wife says I’m a very “wordy” person.) So much is going on, I had to mention just a couple more things. So here goes.

In April something surprising happened. I was reading my Bible one morning when all of a sudden I heard the most awful explosion. It was so loud it made us all jump, and so powerful it shook our entire house, even rattling the windows. This happened again a few minutes later. To this day, no one has been able to explain it. Some say it was a “sonic boom” from an airplane, but I’ve heard those before, and that wasn’t it. Others say it was bombs dropping at Eglin Air Force Base across the bay from us, but I’ve heard and felt those before, and none were ever that loud or powerful. (Besides, they claim officially that it wasn’t them!) So we still don’t know what it was. (Nor does the local News Media. They can’t explain it).

It did make me curious enough to pursue further study, and I’ve found that things like this have been happening all over the U.S., and even all over the world. Some sources say that before huge earthquakes, there are often times unexplainable boom noises, and some Youtube videos even show that this has happened all over the middle of America and is possibly caused by the New Madrid Fault line, and is a precursor to a possible impending giant earthquake. I don’t know. I just thought it worthy of mentioning, as it was quite dreadful, and kind of went along with the “theme” of this prayer letter, and the whole “earth groaning” thing.

If you have heard something like this where you live, let us know. We’d love to hear about it. There are so many strange and amazing phenomenon happening in these last days that it’s incredible. Keep looking up! Our redemption draweth nigh!

On a funny note, I couldn’t resist telling about witnessing one Saturday at Garage Sales. I meet a man who sold jewelry on the side of the road, and gave him a tract. I noticed he was wearing a star of David chain, so I asked him if he was Jewish. He said, “Oh, yeah, I’m Jewish on my Mom’s side!” I then asked him which of the twelve tribes of Israel did he come from, and his reply floored me. He said, “I’m from the tribe of Mason. ‘Cause we are Masonic Jews.”

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, so I started asking him some more questions. Turns out, he didn’t know what it meant to be Jewish, and he most certainly wasn’t. His Mom took him to a Jewish synagogue once when he was a kid, and that was about the only time he’d ever gone to a formal religious gathering. His Dad was a Mason, but this guy didn’t know anything about Masonry. He just liked the idea of being Jewish, so he tried to make himself one because his Mom took him to one of their services. And, since his Dad was a Mason, he figured he must have been one of those too.

I thought about this a lot later. How many people in this world are trying to be something they are not? People like this are everywhere. They just don’t know, and have never been taught, so they claim they are something, when they don’t understand what that something is. (A lot of times they claim to be what their parents were).

There are a lot of Christians like this as well. They are playing religion. They claim to be Christians without knowing what it means to be a Christian, or better stated: how to become a Christian. They are religious, but lost.

That’s why it’s so important to preach the Gospel of 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 and show that it’s JESUS CHRIST who saves! We can’t save ourselves. Being a Jew, or a Protestant, or Mason, etc., does not save anyone. You must by faith accept Jesus Christ and His sacrificial blood atonement on the cross for you, in your place, to be saved. It’s that simple, and that’s the message we are still trying to get out! I pray you’ll do the same.

In closing, Laura reminded me of an interesting passage of scripture as she read through this before I printed it to send it out. She remembered that story in Ezekiel chapter 9 about an angel of the Lord going and marking the foreheads of the men of the city who “sighed” and “cried” for the abominations they saw around them. These “marked men” were the ones that God spared when his judgment fell on that place. They were spared, because they “sighed” or dare I say: “groaned within themselves” when they saw the evil of their day. How about you? Do you groan and sigh at the evil of our world, or have you grown accustomed to it and even learned to enjoy it? Sometimes it’s good to just “sigh.”

TEXT OF MY NEW GOSPEL TRACT

You are not saved by works!

Although countless hordes of religious people think that salvation is based upon what they do (i.e. their own good works), this is most certainly not what the Bible teaches. Rather, the Bible teaches us that salvation is by God’s GRACE.

The Bible is very clear on this subject, for we read in Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by GRACE are ye saved through faith, and not of yourselves: it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. ”

Salvation, therefore is not something you can EARN by what you have done, rather it is a GIFT of God by His own GRACE to all who will believe.

In Romans 4:4 –7 we also read: “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. ”

Notice these verses very clearly show that working to obtain salvation is the opposite of receiving God’s gift of salvation by faith. Working for salvation means you are trying to EARN your own salvation. This puts the emphasis on you and what you do. But God’s gift of grace shows the emphasis in it’s proper biblical perspective: it’s GOD saving sinful man, not sinful man saving himself.

The aforementioned verses prove that God imputes righteous and forgives sin not based upon what man does, but based upon what man’s believes. It’s that simple.

Galatians 2:16 makes it even clearer, when it states: “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”

The Bible is very clear, man is not saved by his OWN WORKS, rather by FAITH in Jesus. The question, then, must be asked: What did Jesus do to save man?

Romans 5:6 has the answer. For there we read: “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly

.” Again in Romans 5:8 we read: “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Jesus Christ DIED for us, the ungodly! He did all that is necessary to save sinful mankind. It’s all what HE did, not what WE can do. It’s HIS WORK, not ours that saves.

In 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, a passage known as The Gospel, we read more about what Jesus did, and how salvation is through believing in His finished work for us:

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

The Gospel, therefore, is the good news that Jesus Christ DIED FOR OUR SINS, and was BURIED. Yet, He didn’t stay in the grave, for He ROSE AGAIN from the dead! Why did he do this? It was all for you!

Romans 4:24-25 further tells us: “But for us also, to whom it [righteousness] shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification

.”

According to these verses, God will impute His righteousness to all those who believe. Further, we are told that Jesus rose again from the dead “for our justification.” What is justification? It is a judicial term. To be “justified” means to be completely exonerated or forgiven of a crime. When a person trusts Jesus Christ who died in his place for his “offences,” as the verse above tells, then he is justified in the eyes of God.

Look at that word “justified.” Break it up into syllables like this: Just-if-ied. Literally, to be saved means it’s “just-if-I’d” never sinned. That is what salvation is! It’s God’s grace to forgive us of all sins, and make us sinless in His eyes! But this does not come by one’s own works. This forgiveness that God offers can only be obtained by FAITH in the finished work of Jesus Christ at Calvary, where Jesus paid for the sins of all mankind.

Thus, it’s only by JESUS’ WORK and His work alone that man can be saved. For anything a man can do can never compare to what Jesus did for man on the cross of Calvary.

Jesus Christ did all that is necessary for you to be saved. He suffered in your place for your sins. He now sits on the right hand of God in heaven waiting for you to come to Him for salvation. But that salvation is not based upon what you yourself have done. Rather it’s all based upon what you do with Jesus Christ’s work for you.

You must receive Him as your Saviour by faith. That is, you must trust in what He’s done for you to save you. You say, but isn’t that a work in and of itself? NO! For the only thing a man can do that isn’t a work is BELIEVE. God demands your Faith in His finished work.

According to the Bible, you can do nothing to earn our way to heaven. God doesn’t ask for your works, rather He asks for your faith in what He did for you at the cross.

Do you believe? Do you trust in Jesus’ work for you to take you to heaven? Or, do you foolishly believe that you, a vile sinner, can work your way to heaven? The choice is yours. Work yourself to the bone, and completely ignore what Jesus did for you; or give up trusting your own self-righteousness, and trust alone in what Jesus did to save you. For it is only through Him that you can be saved.

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January - Februrary 2014

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: Whereunto I am appointed a preacher... and a teacher of the Gentiles.           (2 Tim. 1:9-11)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

　

A very heartfelt greetings from the Breakers! It is now 2014, and I’m astonished we are still here with everything that is going on in the world. I truly thought the Lord would have come back by now! But until he does, we are active in doing what God would have us to do, which is preach the Gospel to a lost and dying world.

 

MAKING FRIENDS TO WITNESS TO

Lately, we’ve been trying to make friends with some locals here where we live, in order to get to know them and then have the chance to witness to him. We know they aren’t saved, but we figure if we could just be friendly, then God would open a door for us to witness later, so that’s what we’ve been doing. One man in particular I asked to come to church with me one Sunday where I would be speaking. He did, and I gave him the Gospel as plainly and clearly as I could. Afterwards, he gave me a list of verses to look up later, as he told me he believed that a person had to be “baptized in water” and “endure to the end” to be saved. How sad he didn’t understand what Jesus did for him was sufficient and nothing else is needed to be saved. It’s by FAITH, and not of WORKS! Please pray for him, as I’m still working on him. After reading his page-long list of verses, I later gave him a letter with my list of verses for him to read. It ended up being about SEVEN PAGES LONG, (I couldn’t get it any shorter!). I pray he’ll read it and get saved.

PASSING OUT TRACTS

One of my favorite tracts to hand out in both English and Spanish is the one with a drawing of a bloody, crucified Jesus Christ on the front with the words, “All This I Did For Thee,” underneath it. It does a great job of getting right to the point. Even if a Sinner won’t read the whole thing, at least he’ll read the title, and hopefully it will make him think.

One Saturday, I was passing out tracts at a huge garage sale in Pensacola, Florida, when a black man on a bicycle showed up and starting asking everyone for money. He was very vocal and belligerent, and people were going out of their way to avoid him. When he came my way, I told him, “I’ve got something much better than money,” and I pulled out that tract. When I did his eyes locked on it, and he began to back away slowly. When I’d move closer, he’d back away, and when I’d back away he’d move closer to me, always maintaining the same distance. Yet, everything he did was in slow motion. It was so weird! His countenance changed also, and he became a completely different person, eyes always locked on the crucified Saviour, and never looking away. The scary thing was his voice changed as well, and he began saying strange things, and then he kept saying he had to leave. He then slowly backed away as far as he could, all the while speaking more slowly until he finally took his gaze off our crucified Lord and then quickly jumped on his bike and sped away! It was so strange. I wonder if he didn’t have a demon. That’s the only thing that could explain it.

GETTING A TOOTH PULLED

While in Honduras, I had some dental work done years ago by a dental student there. She ended up taking out a lot of my back right bottom tooth, and adding in a lot of mercury, something I didn’t like, but I lived with it. Several years ago, I decided it was time to get the mercury removed, so we went to a dentist in Alabama who specialized in getting rid of mercury and replacing it with another kind of filling. Sadly, he didn’t do so, and left some mercury in the tooth.

After that I always had problems with my mouth, and even had frequent gland problems and constant ear infections. It was so bad, my cheek was always inflamed, and I couldn’t even stand to look at myself, as I looked so fat, ugly, and bloated. I finally figured it was probably that tooth so I had it pulled in January. I then asked the dentist for the tooth, and he gave it to me. When I got home, I saw the problem. There was a small slit in the side and the mercury was coming out and poisoning my body, causing my almost constant sickness. I’m so glad it’s gone now! My cheeks aren’t as swollen, and I really feel like a million bucks! It’s so good to get rid of that “thorn in the flesh” if you will!

RECEIVING MANY PHONE CALLS

I receive many phone calls and emails daily. And, we’ve found that our ministry is spreading widely via internet, DVD’s, CD’s, books, written literature, etc., and we are grateful that God is using those mediums today to get the Gospel far and wide.

One thing we are finding is how great the telephone is for a witnessing tool, and for teaching others the Bible. I’m continually getting phone calls from people who have read my website and have questions about the Spanish Bible, Salvation, Dispensational Truth, and more. It’s great to be able to witness when we go out, but what a true blessing to be able to witness while in your own house as well!

One funny story I have to include. We recently got a phone call from a Pastor in Honduras who calls quite often with Bible questions. This particular time he called with someone in his church who had a problem. It seems their child had shoved a grain of corn up his nose, and they couldn’t get it out! They were hysterical and didn’t know what to do. I asked them first if they had prayed, and then secondly if they had done anything about it. They had not. I then recommended they should first pray, and then find some black pepper and rub it all over the child’s nose and upper lip. They said they would. I got a phone call later in which they informed me that the grain of corn had come out! How funny!

WORKING ON ANOTHER DVD

Most of you know we had Bro. Kent Hovind come to Honduras back in 2005 and tape his series on Creationism in English with a Spanish Interpreter. Creation Science Evangelism has since sent that DVD out far and wide to Spanish-Speaking People. It is, however, very long (7 DVDs in total in both English and Spanish). So in English they have made one single highlight DVD, which hopefully will make people want to order the entire 7 DVD set.

Recently, they thought it would be a good idea to do the same in Spanish, and I was asked to translate for Eric Hovind, the main speaker, who introduced each summarized section. We filmed in a studio in Pensacola, and after he spoke in English, I translated in Spanish. It was a lot of fun, and the DVD is now finished!

I have a friend who will soon mail the DVD out to Spanish-Speaking churches across the nation, starting in Texas. The idea is the church will want a Spanish-speaker to come to their church and preach, and that’s why my address, phone, and other information are on the end of that DVD. So hopefully, in the future we will get many wide open doors to preach revival, mission conferences, teaching sessions on Creation vs. Evolution, and much more in Spanish. Please pray for this!

Once again, thanks for all your continued prayers and support. They mean more than you know. Times are tough, but God is still on the throne and doing things with us, and we count it an honor to have the privilege to serve him with you all!

　

Because of Christ Jesus our Lord,

Robert Breaker and Family

1 Sam. 12:24!

November - December 2013

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day... we preached...the gospel of God.

(1 Thes. 2:9)

Dear fellow warriors in Christ Jesus our Lord,

　

The year has come and gone! We are that much closer to the soon return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! (The sooner the better). But these last two months have been full of highs and lows.

TRAVELLING TO MEXICO

On December third, I flew to Mexico for two weeks. There, I spent a week in Monterrey at our home church, and then another week in Tampico preaching at a Spanish Bible conference. I had a great time, but I fell very ill with what I think was an amoeba, and was unable to keep anything down for over three days. I was so sick I was going in and out of consciousness while trying to rest. I also lost 15 pounds through this whole ordeal. It was horrible! (But in a bittersweet way. It’s always good to lose a few pounds! Amen?) But I endured it for the cause of Christ.

Even though I missed an entire day of the conference in Tampico due to illness, I was able to show my slide presentations during the rest of the conference on the topics of: the Spanish Bible, its history, and those people behind its translation. The people were very grateful, and enjoyed learning.

STUDYING THE BIBLE

While in Monterrey, we studied the Spanish Bible almost every day. We are looking at verses and scrutinizing them and checking to see if they are as close to the King James as possible. We had several 13 hour days and even one 16 hour day of study. We figured it out later that we spent about 54 hours in only four days of studying. Yet it didn’t feel like that long. When you really get into the word it is so comforting and fun! I love the word of God!

TRAVELLING TO SOUTH FLORIDA

After arriving home, and my wife nursing me back to health, we drove to South Florida to visit my wife’s family for the holidays. (My Mom was nice enough to travel from Oklahoma to stay with my grandmother for us to do this). We had a great time at my wife’s parents, but once again I fell sick. This time I got a horrible ear infection. I had to take anti-biotics and I spent three days in bed with other medicines that kept me in a drowsy state. (I don’t remember much of the trip!) It was fun though, and we enjoyed our time with family in spite of the fact that Emma also got the chicken pox. She’s only five, but somewhere she picked it up and gave it to her sister and cousins. So December has been a month of sickness all around.

CONTINUALLY TALKING TO PEOPLE ON THE PHONE

At home, I’ve been busy working on the Spanish Bible. I’m going verse by verse translating from the King James, and that is just for me, as I’m enjoying doing it for practice. While doing so, I’m also checking the Valera 1602 Purified, and if there is a place that it needs to be closer to the King James, I’m writing it down and sending it to our home church in Monterrey. They desire the work to be done correctly so we are reading and re-reading it. This is tedious work, but I’m so thankful for the E-sword Bible software program, which allows me to go verse by verse with the King James and the following Spanish Bibles: 1569, 1602, 1865, 1909, 1960, and the modern Gomez. I am sure finding a lot of problems in these versions! But I’m also finding what I’ve always known, that the Valera 1602 Purified is indeed the best. But that’s just my opinion after having gone through probably three-quarters of the Bible in these versions VERSE by VERSE.

While working at home in my office, I get phone calls all the time from hispanic people asking me Bible questions and wanting me to teach them doctrine. I answer them as much as I can, and it’s a blessing that they are reading my website and contacting me. Many want a Valera 1602 Purified Spanish Bible, and I’m able to point them to the publishing company in Tennessee where they can obtain a copy. They are so thankful. It’s so sad that modern Spanish Bibles are so horrible, with so many errors, mistakes, misprints, and problems. What a blessing to point people to the purest Spanish Bible out there!

PONDERING THE RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST

While I was sick laying in a hotel bed in Tampico, Mexico, trying to rest, but having to get up every so often to vomit, I had time to do some studying about something I’ve been hearing a lot of lately. That is the “Blood Red Moons.” Have you heard about this? This is really being talked about a lot by many Christians today, and it is quite interesting! It turns out that there have been several times in history when the moon turned red three times in the same year, each time during the three feast days of Israel. And, it’s about to happen again! Each time this happened, something big happened in Israel. It’s almost like these were signs that God gave Israel. The following graphic below gives several of these and the dates they correspond with:

This is amazing! For 1948 was the founding of the nation of Israel. 1967 was the six-days war, in which against all odds, Israel won against it’s oppressors. And the interesting thing about 2014-2015 is that during these up-coming red moons, there will also be several SOLAR ECLIPSES, something that hasn’t happened before. Could this be the year of the rapture, and the year when God goes back to dealing with the Jews? It’s an interesting topic. You can find more about it on Youtube by looking up “red moons.” I hear the famous TV evangelist John Hagee has a video on Youtube about it as well. (I haven’t watched it, as it’s very long, but I plan to do so).

With the way the world is going, it wouldn’t surprise me if the Lord was to come back in 2014 or 2015. If he doesn’t, well, a man can dream, can’t he?

Thanks again for all your continued prayer and support. We need it and them. Times are getting tougher, yet we find God is faithful. We haven’t missed any meals, (at least not on purpose).

God bless, and may you continue to preach the Gospel to the lost and dying world. I’ll close this prayer letter with a little poem I penned a few days ago. I hope it’s a blessing.

　

Because of Christ Jesus our Lord,

　

Robert Breaker

1 Sam. 12:24!

My poem:

Time is short,
The rapture near,
Sin abounds,
But have no fear,
Christ is coming,
Soon we’ll be gone,
The world won’t touch us,
When we’re with the Son!

　

September - October 2013

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord ... knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

(Eph. 6:7-10)

Dear fellow laborers in Christ Jesus our Lord,

　

September and October have come and gone as this year whizzes by. But God has given us many opportunities to serve him, and has opened some doors for us in the future.

WITNESSING THE GOSPEL OF 1 COR. 15:1-4

The last two months, I’ve had a chance to have some guests over, and I’ve enjoyed being able to witness to them. One of the best places to witness to people is around the table. So, it’s fun getting to know people, and then inviting them over for dinner, where I can take out my Bible and take them through the Gospel. It’s even better when you do it BEFORE you eat, as they are a more captive audience. (If they are hungry, they’ll stay till you’re done!)

At a local public meeting place I had the chance to witness to several people in October. I also had a great opportunity to talk to several folks at gas stations, and even at garage sales. One lady I spoke to at a road-side flea market asked me what church I went to after I gave her a tract. When I answered, she responded, “Oh, well, I’m Catholic and I’m going to Hell!” That opened the door to speak with her. Another person at a local shop asked about the Gospel and I was able to explain it to them at length. We’ve also given out a lot of Spanish tracts as we see more and more Hispanics moving into our area.

WRITING A NEW GOSPEL TRACT

Sometimes God plants a thought in my head that sounds like a good idea for a Gospel tract. This month that thought was “Did you know God died for you?” So, I’ve written a tract with that same title. It does well to show that Jesus is GOD, and then to prove that GOD died for your sins. I’m enclosing it with this prayer letter. I hope it’s a blessing to you.

WORKING ON A GOOD VIDEO

Creation Science Evangelism contacted me and asked me to work on a Creation video with them to get out to Spanish-Speaking people. I’ll be translating the English into Spanish and we hope to get the video out to over 150 Hispanic churches in the Dallas, Texas area. Hopefully, it will eventually go world-wide. So now I’m working hard at translating into Spanish, and then we have to tape it. Please pray it goes well.

WAITING TO GO TO MEXICO

In October, our church in Mexico contacted me and asked me to come and preach at a Spanish Bible Conference there in December. My Mom has been kind enough to promise to come and stay with my wife, kids, and grandmother while I’m gone, so it’s working out for me to go. Please pray for that meeting. I plan be there for about two weeks.

MY WIFE’S SELLING GOOD PET FOOD

With the stagnant economy, it’s getting a little tighter with us getting less support. Thinking on this, my wife has started selling holistic pet food online. We are hoping to supplement our income with this, as the product pretty much sells itself. If you are a dog or cat lover and are interested, please go to my wife’s site at:

www.feedmehealthypetfood.com

You can also set up a way to buy automatically each month on the site if you desire. So, if you buy pet food anyway, why not buy it online and help a missionary at the same time?

　

 

WATCHING THE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF AMERICA

Living in America, I can’t help but see the destruction of our nation taking place at an ever-increasing pace. Sadly, I find that many of my other fellow Christians still don’t see what’s really happening to our nation. For those who don’t know, we are in the middle of a Communist takeover of America by international Global Bankers. This isn’t a “conspiracy theory” but just a simple fact. Social Medicine is now here. And the powers that be are continuing their “socialist programs” to take away all our freedoms in their progressive agenda of total enslavement of the American people. I’m sure most of you know of Lord Byron who said, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely!” But few know this same man also stated, “Socialism is Slavery!” How true. Welcome to the United Socialist States of America.

All I can say is that the Lord must be coming soon, for if these tyrannical people continue to get their way, we’ll all soon be slaves to the nanny state, and they will be chipping all citizens with RFID chips which, by the way, governments have already purchased are already beginning to inject under people’s skin world-wide.

Knowing that we, as Christians, won’t go through the tribulation, I’m looking up! I ask you to do the same, but also WAKE-UP to what’s happening now. Bad times might come before the rapture. We might even see war and violence before the Lord returns. Some good websites to read with information of what’s happening are:

www.infowars.com
www.theblaze.com

www.drudgereport.com

www.wnd.com

www.freedomoutpost.com

I’m sure there are others, but those are good ones to go to for news you can’t get anywhere else. The liberal news media certainly won’t report on what’s really happening. Thus, many people are still left in the dark. It’s time to wake-up and face the facts. I like what Paul says in Eph. 5:13-17...

13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

In the mean time as we wait for the rapture, we will do our best to be faithful preaching the Blood, the Book, and the Blessed Hope! I hope the Lord comes soon, but if not, I pray our liberties will remain in place so that we might have the freedom to preach the blessed Gospel to the lost and dying world! For getting saved is the only way to be truly free from Satan’s emerging New World Order!

　

Thanks again for all your prayers and support!

　

　

Because of Christ Jesus our Lord,

　

Robert Breaker

1 Sam. 12:24!

“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

- Thomas Jefferson

　

July - August 2013

And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. (Romans 5:11)

Dear fellow laborers in Christ Jesus our Lord,　

Greetings yet again from the Breakers! July and August have zoomed by so quickly. Is it just me, or is time going by much faster than it used to when we were kids? Whether it is or not, Christ’s return can’t come soon enough for me. Even so come Lord Jesus! But until he returns, we serve him amidst times of absolute joy and unexpected pain.

HAVING DIFFICULTIES WALKING

The end of July I fell off a ladder while painting the house, and I hurt my left leg pretty bad. I don’t know if I broke the bone, as I didn’t go to a doctor, but I was left unable to walk for several weeks. My Mom’s a nurse and she thinks I bruised the bone, broke a blood vessel and maybe did some nerve damage. But, I am now walking again on my own, and hobbling around with the use of a cane. My leg is very weak though and I’ll have to do some exercise therapy to get it back in shape. Thank God it wasn’t any worse! But I now have a nice-sized bump on the bone to remind me of my fall!

HAVING PLENTY OF TIME TO THINK

While down with a bum leg, I had a lot of time to think these last two months as I rested and read my Bible, and God has shown me a few things. I’m going to enclose them with this prayer letter in the hopes that they will be stimulating. (Iron sharpeneth iron, Amen?). One is on the teaching of the “atonement” and what that actually entails. Did you know there are two parts to the atonement? There are. I’m also enclosing my new Gospel Tract entitled, “Have you received the Atonement?” I think it’s pretty good, but I’ll let you be the judge.

The other deals with the question of when the book of Hebrews was written. There are some who say that it couldn’t possibly have been written by Paul, and they deny his authorship. For me, I’m just a King James Bible Believer, so when my Bible says: “The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews,” I believe it! Yet there are many who claim that what’s written in Hebrews doesn’t line up with the doctrine of Paul’s other epistles. I believe I might know the answer why, and it still keeps Paul as the author of the Book. I hope it too will stimulate you to much thought, as the Book of Hebrews is probably the greatest book in the Bible about the importance of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. And, if it is indeed Paul’s first epistle, as I propose, then that means that the foundation of Christianity is indeed based upon Blood Atonement.

HAVING OPPORTUNITIES TO WITNESS

When I did start walking again, the Lord opened some doors to witness to Hispanic people. Laura and I love to Garage Sale on Saturdays, as it’s a great way to meet people, witness, and pass out tracts. Often we see Hispanic people there, and I enjoy speaking with them and giving them Gospel tracts. One Saturday in Pensacola, I met an older man named Eugenio (Eugene in English) from Cuba and gave him and his family a few gospel tracts. Please pray for their salvation. I’ve seen them twice and enjoy speaking with them.

Probably the saddest thing I saw in August was a Sinner walking down the street in the town we live in. He had no shirt on, and in big letters on his back was a tattoo which read, “HELL BOUND!” How sad! People are not only going to Hell today, but they are proud of it, and want others to know they are going there. I didn’t get a chance to speak to the young man, but I’ve been thinking about him a lot lately praying for his salvation. I hope you’ll do the same.

I also have had many opportunities to speak with people on the phone who call me up and ask me Bible questions. They find my website and seek to speak with me. I can’t tell you how many people have contacted us this way, and it’s quite a blessing to minister to them. The Bible tells us to reach the world for Christ, and what a great way to do so today through the WORLD-WIDE WEB. Amen?

Anyway, thanks again for all your prayers and support. We love you all and thank you for your faithfulness.

Because of Christ Jesus our Lord,

Robert Breaker

1 Sam. 12:24!

 

A Little Something Extra God Showed me Lately

As you know I preach hard about the Blood Atonement. That is because very few today do so. This really bothers me, as it’s the foundation of Christianity. Salvation through blood atonement is the crux of Christianity, and what sets it apart from other “religions!” For without the shedding of blood, there is no remission (Heb. 9:22). And it is the blood that forgives (Eph. 1:7, Col. 1:14)!

Thus, I have always been active to point out the importance of trusting the blood of Jesus, shed for our sins. We are clearly instructed in the scriptures to “trust the blood” or to put our “faith in the blood” (Rom. 3:25). And in Romans we see that justification is by three things:

Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his GRACE through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Rom 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by FAITH without the deeds of the law.

Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his BLOOD, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Therefore, justification, (or salvation), according to the above scriptures are by three things: GRACE, FAITH, and BLOOD, or better stated:

We are justified by God’s GRACE through our FAITH in Jesus’ BLOOD!

But as I’ve read the scriptures more lately, I’ve learned something that I believe needs to be pointed out, that is, the importance not only of the shedding of blood, but also the offering of blood as well. You see, I’ve said it for years, and maybe you have as well, that sinners should trust the “shed blood” of Jesus Christ for salvation. But speaking just about the SHED blood is only speaking of the blood on the cross. I’ve found I was omitting the final part of the atonement, which is the OFFERING of that shed blood before God.

Let’s look at a couple of Old Testament verses in order to make this clear:

Leviticus 1:4 “And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make ATONEMENT for him.”

Leviticus 4:26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 5:10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

In the Old Testament, there were two parts to a blood atonement. First, was the shedding of the blood of the animal, and in Leviticus, we are told that the Sinner himself had to cut the throat of the sacrifice. That is HE shed the blood. But even though he did that, he didn’t receive the atonement until THE PRIEST took the blood and offered it for him. So, the first verse above says that his animal sacrifice shall be (future tense) accepted to make an atonement for the Sinner. But the other verses say that the atonement wasn’t actually made for him until the shed blood was OFFERED by the priest on his behalf. In other words, blood had to be shed, but then it also had to be offered before God accepted it and forgave the Sinner.

Now looking at the New Testament, we see Jesus as our sacrificial blood atonement. He not only SHED his own blood, but HE was the HIGH PRIEST who himself took His own blood up to the mercy seat and OFFERED it before God. Hebrews 9:12 illustrates this clearly: “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”

If we take the Old Testament type and apply it to Christ, then it is THERE ON THE ALTAR IN HEAVEN that we find the finished atonement of Jesus Christ. It’s not just that Jesus shed his blood here on earth, but that he also offered it to God in heaven for us. Thus, when we trust the blood of Jesus, we are trusting not only in the shed blood, but also in the offered blood as well! For that is what completed the atonement!

This might sound strange to some, but the scriptures clearly teach that TRUSTING THE BLOOD ATONEMENT of Jesus consists of trusting in the all encompassing finished work of Jesus Christ. He not only shed His blood here on earth, He also sprinkled it in heaven before God. It is a completed atonement consisting of two parts. Thus, when we trust the blood of Jesus for salvation, we are accepting His finished blood atonement for our sins! This is why the Gospel is not just that Jesus died (shedding his blood), but that he also was buried, and RESURRECTED from the dead (for after he arose he offered his blood to God).

I’ve added a gospel tract that I’ve written lately about “Atonement” with this prayer letter. I hope it will be a blessing to you. This message really needs to be gotten out! Jesus not only offers his blood to all today for salvation, but 2000 years ago he offered it to God as well. God accepted that offering, how about you?

WHEN WAS HEBREWS WRITTEN?

If you look at some Bibles, you’ll see a note that says the book of Hebrews was written in about 64 A.D. But this doesn’t make sense. Why would Paul write an epistle at such a late date that doesn’t sound like the rest of his other epistles? And why would he write to Hebrews (Jews) if he was the apostle to the Gentiles (Rom. 11:13)? It just doesn’t make much sense! That is, unless you look at the book itself and compare scripture with scripture, and then it makes sense that Hebrews was not only written by Paul, but most likely penned much earlier than once believed, and it appears the last chapter was quite possibly added on by him at a later date. Let’s explore this idea.

At the end of the book of Hebrews, in chapter 13, we read of Timothy, who we know was with Paul toward the end of his life, and we find the whole chapter is very different from the rest of the book. What if, and I throw this out as a theory, and am not teaching this as some “peculiar doctrine” that I adhere to, but what if chapter 13 was tacked on by Paul at a later date, possibly sometime around 64 A.D., right before Paul died? And what if the first 12 chapters were written by Paul early in his ministry, during the events taking place fairly early in the book of Acts?

If this be so, then we would find evidence of this, right? Well, there’s something interesting in the book of Second Timothy that gives us something to ponder, something that I always wondered why it was written there at all. In 2 Timothy 4:13 we read Paul’s command to Timothy, in which he says: “The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the BOOKS, but especially THE PARCHMENTS.”

Here we have Paul requesting Timothy to bring several things to him before he dies. Could the “books” refer to the Books of the Bible? And what are the “parchments,” and why does Paul “especially” want them? Could one of those “books” or “parchments” be his own epistle to the Hebrews, written years before?

What if at that time Paul was asking Timothy to bring him his own epistles which he wrote aforetime, and what if it is at that time that Paul added chapter 13 to his epistle of Hebrews? That would make perfect sense, wouldn’t it? For the last chapter clearly doesn’t read much like the rest of the book. And since Timothy is mentioned by name, doesn’t that just make more sense? Let’s look at some strong evidence that might prove this to be the case.

1. The Book of Hebrews (written to HEBREWS, which are JEWS) without chapter 13 would have only 12 chapters, just like there are 12 tribes of Israel. Also, chapter 12 ends with verse 29 speaking of a “consuming fire.” What a great way to end a message, with HELL! Amen?

2. What the book of Hebrews deals with seems to correspond much with what’s spoken about early in the book of Acts, which we know is a transition book in which God goes from the Jews to the Gentiles. In Acts 7 the Jewish leaders reject their Messiah for the third time, with the stoning of Stephen, and we find chapter 8 begins with “And Saul,” (which we know to be Paul). God then later chose Paul to take the Gospel to the Gentiles, but Paul first preaches to Jews. What if Paul wrote the book of Hebrews to the Jews at this time, before taking the Gospel to the Gentiles?

3. As the book of Acts goes on we find some things taking place and changing until eventually the Gospel is set in stone. What are those things? Peter first preaches to Jews and he often preaches repentance and water Baptism. He also preaches in believing in Jesus’ name (or in WHO Jesus was—i.e. the Jewish Messiah). And, there is a lot of “laying on of hands” to get the Holy Spirit. But as time goes on, this transitions to preaching salvation by faith alone, and justification through Jesus and WHAT he did for the Sinner. And the Jewish stuff is slowly phased out, as Paul goes to the Gentiles with the message of the Gospel. This would certainly explain Hebrews chapter six where Paul says in verse 2 and 3: “Of the doctrine of baptisms and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment, and this will we do, if God permit.” At that time, God went from Peter’s preaching of “baptism FOR the remission of Sins” to the Jews, to a Believer’s Baptism, or being baptized AFTER one is saved. Eventually, Paul’s emphasis was on the Gospel alone, and not on water baptism at all (1 Cor. 1:17). Also, the “laying on of hands” was no longer necessary in order to get the Holy Ghost as the book of Acts progressed. And finally the “resurrection of the dead” sounds like the signs God gave the Jewish apostles, and we remember that Peter did raise the dead in Acts 9.

4. There are places in Hebrews which make it sound that a person can lose their salvation. But Paul is clear we cannot today, as we are eternally secure in Christ. Could it apply to Acts then, in a time when a Jewish believer could have rejected Christ and reverted back to Judaism (i.e. keeping the law like those at Galacia that Paul warns against).

5. If Paul is the author of Hebrews, which I strongly believe, that means he wrote 14 books all total. (Without him writing Hebrews, you have only 13, and that’s not a good number!) If you divide those 14 books into what some call “pre-prison” and “post-prison” epistles, you have something interesting. Paul wrote 7 pre and 7 post-prison epistles. (We know what seven means, right? It’s the number of completion!) But the only way to make it seven and seven is to put Hebrews as a PRE-PRISON epistle. That would make it like this:

PRE-PRISON EPISTLES:

Rom., 1 Cor., 2 Cor., Gal., 1 Thess., 2 Thess., and Heb.
POST PRISON EPISTLES:

Eph., Phil, 1 Tim., 2 Tim., Col., Titus, and Philemon

6. In Galatians chapter one we read of Paul’s testimony of what he did after he was saved. In verses 16-18 we find Paul going to Arabia and Damascus, and then after three years going to Jerusalem to see Peter, where he abode with him fifteen days. Could Paul have penned the book of Hebrews during that time, and then spread it to the Jewish Believers through Peter? It’s interesting, as Arabia is where Mt. Sinai is (Gal. 4:25), and that’s where the law was given to Moses. Could Paul have written scripture in Arabia as well? And did he write it for the Jews before he went to the Gentiles? It’s certainly worth further study. For Hebrews is very “Jewish” in content, speaking often of “priests” and it continually puts them down while exalting Jesus Christ as the only true High Priest. This would certainly be a slap in the face to the Pharisees and Sadducees of the time which continually persecuted the early Church.

7. Finally, the content of chapter 13 and the order of the writing of Paul’s epistles show that Hebrews is hard pressed to be dated around 64 A.D. as it is so different from his other contemporary writings.

The order of the epistles of Paul are as follows:

1 Thes. 49 A.D.

2 Thes. 52-54 A.D.

Galatians 57-58 A.D.

1 Cor. 57-58 A.D.

Romans 58-60 A.D.

2 Cor. 60 A.D.

Ephesians 62 A.D.

Phil. 62-64 A.D.

Col. 64 A.D.

Philemon 64 A.D.

Titus 65 A.D.

1 Tim. 65-68 A.D.

2 Tim. 66-68 A.D.

Notice I left Hebrews out, because it just doesn’t seem to fit with his other writings during the time. Why doesn’t the entire book of Hebrews sound like what he wrote in Phil., Col., Philemon, etc., if it was supposedly written in 64 A.D.? Why so many references to Judaism in the book, if Paul during that time was supposed to be reaching the Gentiles for Christ?

When we actually look at the first 12 chapters of Hebrews, we find a writing style that almost sounds like a great learned “Lawyer” (which was what Paul was when he first got saved), and only chap. 13 sounds like the Paul we know in the Church age, which is further proof that he probably wrote chapters 1-12 first when he ran in Judaism, and then years later as an apostle to the Gentiles he tacked on chap 13 towards the end of his life and ministry.

So there it is. Take it or leave it. But I do hope you will study it out more. I’ve enjoyed reading Hebrews and Acts over and over and trying to see if Hebrews (chapters 1-12) could have possibly been written sometime before 49 A.D. by Paul. And it seems to fit! It’s also strengthened my faith. For if it’s true, then it is proves the importance of the blood atonement to the early Church, and it would also answer the question why Paul didn’t mention “blood atonement” too often in his other books. It was already the foundation of Christianity and so ingrained in the minds of believers that he didn’t need to address it much! If this idea be so, then it appears Paul didn’t want people to forget to read his epistle of Hebrews, even though it didn’t line up completely with Church age doctrine to us Gentiles, so that’s why he tacked on chapter 13, and addressed it to Christians before he died. As the author of the book of Hebrews, Paul certainly could have added to his work anytime he liked, adding an extra chapter whenever he desired to do so. It makes sense to me. How about you?

Like I said, I’m not teaching this dogmatically. I just throw it out there and hope you’ll toss it around. It’s an interesting thought, and would definitely explain why Paul told Timothy to bring the books and parchments to him in jail before he died. Timothy, then, would be the reason why we have Hebrews chapter 13, for had he not brought the books to Paul, then Paul might never have penned the final chapter of Hebrews, and Timothy might never have had it with him to give to others. (By the way, if you want a fun study, go verse by verse from Hebrews chapter 13 and compare it to Paul’s other writings, for it does sound a lot like Paul in his other epistles written around the same time, while the rest of Hebrews does not).