The Significance of Gethsemane: Midrash Bible Studies

By Raymond Creed

This study examines the question 'What did Christ's arrest in the Garden of Gethsemene reveal about end-time Apostasy and the type of people who will be involved in it?' Useful tips are provided to help believers prepare for a 'Global Gethsemane.' Summaries and questions for individual or group reflection are provided.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raymond Creed
• Release date: Jan 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393299257

Raymond Creed

Published Under the Pen Name of Raymond Creed On Lulu Publications Facing the Unthinkable (2010) (What the Jewish People May Feel When They Find their True Messiah) The 52 Attributes of God (2011) (A Bible-Based Analysis of the Attributes of God – With Particular Reference to the Relationship between Divine Holiness and Divine Love) The Leeds Liturgy (2010) (A Prayer Book enabling Christians to ‘Worship God in Spirit and in Truth’) The Phantom Conflict (2010) (Bible teaching on the relationship between divine holiness and divine love in connection with Christian idolatry and the need for a balanced Christian life) Reaching Across the Chasm (2019) (An Unlikely Dialogue between a Male Religious Conservative and a Christian Lesbian Writer) Ancient Passions (2020) (Exploring the Spiritual Crisis of our Time) How I Became  Christian Regarding becoming Christian I was: - 1. Led by the Revd Richard Bolt to ask Jesus Christ into my life at a boys’ camp in Croyde North Devon, during August 1968 (and in late August 1969 and 1970 because I lacked assurance) 2. Finally re-born through receiving a direct vision of Christ at a Student Christian Union meeting (held in a student flat in Newcastle upon Tyne) on Saturday, 18th October 1975 (around 8.00p.m) 3. Baptized in the Holy Spirit at a prayer meeting on Thursday, 27th November 1975 (began to pray with tongues the following Monday evening) 4. Given a full immersion (Trinitarian) water baptism on the evening of Sunday, 5th September 1976.

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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GETHSEMANE

(A Typological Midrash Showing How Christ’s Arrest in Gethsemane foreshadows End-Time Apostasy)

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Contents

KEY CONCEPTS

Introduction

Context

Characters

Comparison

Conclusion

Summary

Questions

One More Thing

Key Concepts

GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY (known also as ‘Gentile Christianity,’ ‘Christianity’ or ‘the Church’):

The worldwide Church as represented by the five major Traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Protestantism and Independent Pentecostalism.

The ‘fall of Christianity:’ This phrase refers to the complex and protracted process whereby the five traditions of Gentile Christianity have turned away from even nominal obedience to Biblical standards and are descending into ever greater apostasy. The term ‘fall of Christianity’ can also be known as the ‘fall of Gentile Christianity’ and the ‘fall of Global Christianity.’

Typological Midrash: This complex form of Midrash assumes that past occurrences (events, institutions and personages) can act as prophetic foreshadows (or ‘types’) that anticipate or have something to say about present day and future occurrences. (Such occurrences may also have something to say about developments in the Spiritual realm.) In order to uncover the fulfilment of past prophecies recourse may be made to the Rez-Peshar, (‘this is that formula’).

In this article, the Christ’s arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane is seen as being