|
Main page :
Art Katz :
 |
|
showing from 1 to 50 of 125 articles
A Further Guide for the Perplexed
A Guide for the thoughtful over the perplexity of Jesus from a believing Jewish point of view
“Shema Yisrael Adonoi Elohenu Adonoi Echod…”
“Hear O Israel, the Lord your God is One”
However faint the spiritual condition of Jewish people, the cry of t ... read more
A Message for the Earnest Seeker
In much the same way as the Shekinah glory lights the holiest place of all, so also are we ‘lighted’ to the degree that first the natural (open daylight at the brazen altar), and later the ‘religious’ (the seven-branched oil-fed priestly serviced Menorah) ... read more
A Message for the Nations
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it (Psalms 24:1). How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord (Psalms 144:15).”
It is remarkable, when one reflects upon it, how little deference or consideration is give ... read more
A Message on Restoration and Return
(With quotations from Thomas M. Raitt’s A Theology of Exile, Fortress Press, 1977)
The prophecies of Zephaniah, as is true with all the prophets of Israel, speak not only to the present condition and immediate future of the nation, but also its eschatolo ... read more
A Plea for the Serious Consideration of God
A message, especially but not exclusively, for our Jewish kinsmen as we approach the end of the millennium
Be still and know that I am God…(Psalm 46:10)
There is a connection between the strange providences of God and what we know of Him, and we have to ... read more
A Priesthood Made Ready for the Future
An edited transcript of message # S04-29.
We have previously looked at one or two aspects of the Levitical function of the Aaronic priesthood, but I want to begin to look at the expression of the priesthood in the future. There is clearly an Ezekiel temp ... read more
An Answer to Ethnic Identity
A word particularly for the black community (adapted from a letter written to a sister)
Our identity in God is an enormously significant subject. I understand (in measure) the terrible depletion of the Black Man in America and the great need for a self- ... read more
An Apostolic Manifesto
In this late hour, the church needs to consider something that would constitute a plumb line from heaven, to which we should align ourselves. I believe there is an apostolic distinctive that identifies the true church and makes of it what has always been ... read more
An Expression of Loving Concern
A message given by Art Katz to a closely-knit group of community/fellowships known as “The Move” (The Move of the Spirit) in 1988, Lubbock, Texas.
It is a message given in the context of a movement that celebrates the Holy Spirit over and above the cl ... read more
An Insight into the Mystery of Christ
Paul speaks of a mystery in Ephesians 3:6:
[T]o be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, of which I was made a minister, according to the gift ... read more
Anti Semitism: A Little Considered Root
From time to time one reads of how Jewish commentators are chafed by the world’s holding of Israel to a higher standard or account. Their irritation evidently stems from a secular and rational mentality that does not regard Israel as in any way exceptiona ... read more
Apostolic Conversion
Pretext or Reality?
This is the verbatim transcript of a message given in 1993 to an American congregation of a spiritually impressive kind. That is to say, that it had all the appearances of a committed body, serious in the Lord, and whose lively worshi ... read more
Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Character: Meekness
Apostolic meekness is that quality of character by which we shall be able to discern those who “say they are apostles and are not.” One of the dangers of the Last Days is the presumptuous apostles who throw their weight around, and who seem to have a meas ... read more
Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Confrontation: Paul on Mars Hill (The Areopagus)
Paul on Mars Hill is the sacred man confronting the secular; the spiritual mind verses the worldly mind; the heavenly perspective brought to bear toward that which is earthly. It is an ultimate, classic, and eternal confrontation, and therefore every elem ... read more
Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Perception: Eternity
Therefore, we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things ... read more
Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Proclamation: The Mystery of Preaching
If we are called to anything, it is to be the bearers of God’s word. There is a profusion of speaking, welters of tapes and videos, yet in the midst of it all, there is little that can be labeled the word of the Lord. We need a deep and new perception of ... read more
Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Realities: The Principalities and Powers
The theme of the principalities and the powers of the air is foundational to all true seeing. The remarkable thing, though, is that it has to do with something totally invisible. There is a whole realm of invisible, angelic ‘spirit-entities,’ who have a p ... read more
Apostolic Foundations - Apostolic Service: Priestliness
The Mystery of Priesthood
Priesthood is at the heart of everything, and probably one of the most lamentable needs in modern Christianity is the absence of the sense of priestliness. If someone had asked me in my adolescence in Brooklyn, New York, as a ... read more
Apostolic Foundations - Introduction
There is no word that should be more alive in our consciousness than the word apostolic. It is a word that says everything about the nature and the genius of the church, and all that God expects from it, and intends for it. Like all other great biblical w ... read more
Apostolic Foundations - Preface
I have a very special respect for the word apostolic. To lose its meaning threatens the loss of the faith itself. It is not a word that is easy to define, and yet there is something about this word and its meaning that is at the heart of the faith ... read more
Ask for the Ancient Paths
Thus says the Lord: “Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.” But they said, “We will not walk in it.” (Jeremiah 6:16).
The pleading, haunting cry of the ... read more
At the Age of Twelve
At the age of twelve, Jesus is giving us a lesson in the making of a son, and the episode reveals an insight into the definitive principles of sonship that are applicable for sons (and daughters) of God in every generation.
And the Child continued to gro ... read more
Beyond Categories
Some reflections on the controversial Tent of Shem message and Israel’s final destiny. A transcription of a spoken message by the same title.
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb wh ... read more
Born from Above
I am reading an entry by Oswald Chambers about the birth of Christ:
His birth in history. “Therefore also that holy thing that shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” [That is the angel’s announcement to Mary.] Jesus Christ was born i ... read more
Contemporary Worship: The Malady of the Church and the Issue of Israel
One cannot help but notice an increasing and sweaty insistence on parts of the Church to affect the sense of God’s Presence. However desirable that may be, Oswald Chambers reminds us (My Utmost for His Highest, April 25) “Those times are the gift of God e ... read more
Counsel to a Distressed Wife
From a letter of counsel for a wife in time of distress and estrangement from her spouse.
I suspect that there are circumstances in your past that affect how you perceive things that could exaggerate your fears and heighten your insecurity. That is tr ... read more
Critiquing the Visions of the Last Days
It is only with some reluctance that we are responding to a request (2004) to give an evaluation of two videos we have been given to consider that have to do with an End Time vision of judgment upon America - given by prominent American ministers of the g ... read more
Crying Wolf
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, is quoted by Eric J. Greenberg in a September 19, 2003 article of the Jewish Week as citing Mel Gibson, producer of the film The Passion, as “spouting classic anti-Semitism.” My personal fea ... read more
David’s Cry for Mercy
The Lord wants to pull out all the stops and touch a subject that has suffered chronic and historic neglect: the Cross, which is central to all that I will be sharing about the crucifixion of Jesus, His death and atonement, and sin and righteousness. The ... read more
Deep Calling Unto Deep
The Unheard Cry for Reality Itself
I have long suspected that the deepest issues that are at the root of strife and division in the Body of Christ are not at the level of doctrine. Doctrine is often employed as the subterfuge beneath which the real is ... read more
Eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Few of us, even as Christians, realize the continual danger that this ultimate temptation constitutes. It is the delicious area of being ‘as God’ - judging and deciding, usually about others, those delicate and intangible things that can only be known by ... read more
Esteeming the Presence
I have for a long time been secretly irked in my inner man with the growing preoccupation of many of God’s saints to desire the ‘presence’ of God. It is implied that this is the summum bonum of the faith, the high water mark of true spirituality. In thi ... read more
Exploring Israel's Deliverance through Zion
"And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins" (Rom. 11:26-27).
I have long been intrigued ... read more
Exploring Israel’s Deliverance through Zion
“And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins” (Rom. 11:26-27).
I have long been intrigued ... read more
Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth:
An Essay into Lex Talionis, the Forgotten Principle of God
In the remarkable pattern of these days, I find myself up at 3:00 a.m. praying, seeking the Lord and looking into the devotional readings for the day now hardly begun. The text of last evenings F ... read more
God as a Factor in the Secular Affairs of Men?
I don’t know if anyone has noticed lately, but God, so long restricted to mere Friday through Sunday religious acknowledgment, is threatening to become a factor in the more serious affairs of men where He is usually excluded. I have reference to the legit ... read more
God Crucified
Transcribed by Meri Burlingame in July 1997 from a tape of the same name of a message given by Art in Holland in the 1970’s. It has been edited in cooperation with Art Katz. The tape, K-031, includes the full message and is listed in our audiotape catalog ... read more
God: The Forgotten Father and Author of His Son’s Passion
In all of the present and increasing controversy over Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion, little or nothing is said about the role of God the Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Israel’s God, in the suffering and Crucifixion of Jesus. It is as if Jes ... read more
Godly Critiquing of our Church Life
The scriptures encourage us to “examine ourselves.” Critiquing would be a synonym for examining. We need to examine our lives, and events in our lives, in order to get their fullest meaning. If our lives were examined in the biblical sense, we would en ... read more
In the Year of King Uzziah’s Death, I saw the Lord
In his commentary on this text (July 13, My Utmost for His Highest), Oswald Chambers writes:
Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is where we faint and get discouraged. In the year that t ... read more
Is Death the End? - The Reality of Hell
The reality of Hell needs to be anguished over, and to be understood as a terrible and eternal calamity. Once your life ends, there is no turning back; there is no second chance; there is no way to make amends when you realize that what you have spurned ... read more
Israel and the Apocalypse: A Hermeneutical Key for all the Faith
Eugene Pederson in his devotional message for February 25 in Living the Message speaks of the effect of the Book of Revelation in stimulating his spiritual life.
It is the message of Israel that has had a like affect upon me and which I believe is God’ ... read more
Israel and the Powers
There is an invisible realm over the nations and over every locality occupied by an order of fallen, rebellious angels. They have influenced, and continue to influence, the course of history in nations, races and men. The genocidal horrors that are taking ... read more
Israel's Restoration
The eternal wisdom of God, demonstrated through the Church,
as the necessary prelude to Messiah's parousia
---
(Delivered in Kent, England; September 1995)
There are two great English Hebrew-Christian scholars: David Baron and Adolph Saphir. Both ... read more
Israel’s Restoration:
The eternal wisdom of God, demonstrated through the Church, as the necessary prelude to the Messiah’s parousia (coming) - transcribed from a spoken message in Kent, England - September, 1995.
There are two great English Hebrew-Christian scholars: David ... read more
Jewish Commentary on the Issues Raised by the Passion film
Leo M. Abrami, in his article in Midstream, April 2004, takes up the question of Jewish culpability for the death of Jesus. He shows that, at that time, the greater number of Jews lived in the Diaspora outside of Palestine, and hence can not conceivably ... read more
Judaism and the Resurrected Life
Any believer who lives presently unto the Lord, and for the Lord, out of the abundance of Life in Christ Jesus, demonstrates to the yet unbelieving Jew [or Gentile], like the Apostle Paul, the millennial mode of life of a future, restored Israel. This as ... read more
Lying Signs and Wonders: Deceptions of the Last Days
I would appreciate your sympathy as I try to address a subject that is already dividing many of God’s people into defensive and opposing camps. One is put into the uncomfortable, if not dangerous, even in raising elementary cautions, of seeming to oppose ... read more
Messianic Conference Report: The Morning After
Again, I had the strange sense of being entirely “out of it” in the midst of a whole congregation, mostly women, greatly moved to dance in the aisles and on the platform. They were playing loud, recorded Israeli-type music whose lyrics were shown overhea ... read more
Messianic or Hebraic?
A Critique of the Messianic Movement
There are large segments of the essentially Gentile church that are a little mystified by the Messianic movement. They do not know quite how to assess it, how it fits in, and how it relates to what they are about. ... read more
|
1 | 2
| 3
|
|
|
