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What are these three sets of sandal prints doing here? The time is just after the crucifixion of Christ in Jerusalem. The center sandal prints are those of the "Stranger" sharing the Messianic prophecies about Yeshua from the scriptures with Cleopas and an unnamed disciple. The place is the road to Emmaus, in sight of the steep sided Mount of Olives where I was once taken (hair-raisingly) to the top in a jeep set in low drive so that we would be able to make it up. Imagine the scene, as two very discouraged disciples listen to the stranger's wonderful review of God's prophetic, written promises regarding the Messiah, their hearts "burning" within them as their all-but-dead faith in Christ is rekindled by Messianic prophecies that clearly point to Jesus Christ.

THE EMMAUS WALK:

A Messianic School of the Bible


AN OPEN DOOR TO THE BIBLE AND UNDERSTANDING IT

WORLD'S GREATEST BOOK CAN BE UNDERSTOOD IF GIVEN A CHANCE: Beyond question, the greatest book in the world is the Bible, and the greatest Book is about the greatest Person, Jesus Christ (Yeshua the Anointed).

Friend, are you unable to read the Bible, that is, make sense of it? Or do some parts make sense, but others, such as Leviticus or Revelation or Romans seem totally bewildering? Are you desiring to go deeper, or reach a higher ground, spiritually, but your difficulty in comprehending scripture is holding you back? It may well be you need to consider that the Bible is essentially Messianic--that is, it exists to tell you about the Messiah and Savior, and virtually everything in the Bible points to Him. With this understanding, you are on your way to unlocking the scriptures and opening the door to Yeshua--for they are, in truth, a living Person, Jesus (Yeshua), who delights in His Name, the Word (John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

You are most welcome to review the list of the Bible books now. This is vital. In this era, when in the general population and even among Christians there is so little remaining knowledge of the Bible (the knowledge of the Bible has plunged, not "declined"), it can no longer be taken for granted that everyone knows what the Books of the Bible are (most people probably think the Bible is just one book--and the actual books are just "chapters," which is completely mistaken, for each book is unique unto itself, whereas chapters of a book all fit within the same context and carry the same theme, something the Bible books certainly do, but with a much greater purpose and depth than normal chapters are usually intended to convey. To explain this a bit more: No one would publish a book ordinarily, unless it is a survey of literature, with a different author for each chapter--isn't that true? But this is the case with the Bible--most of the books have different authors. But you can also find one author writing more than one book (Moses wrote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy--the first five books of the Bible. Paul wrote quite a number, and so did John write more than one book. Some can be attributed to no specific author, such as Hebrews, Chronicles I and II, Judges, and so on, though Samuel is thought to be the author of books other than I and II Samuel. This is a interesting topic, you can explore it yourself in your own time! Eerdmans's "New Bible Commentary Revised" is the one I use to learn about the Bible's multiple authors, but there are others which are probably as good or perhaps better.

The Books of the Bible




The history and discovery of the Essene Scrolls is so important for our Christian faith and their role in Christian apologetics is so foundational that we have a whole page devoted to them, and we will be adding new material from time to time:

"Essene Scrolls Center


THE MESSIANIC BIBLE TEXTS--WHAT ARE THEY?

The Bible's Messianic Texts are thus named because they are passages in scripture that point specifically to the Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus in Gentile terminology). Foremost in consideration of these texts, Christ Himself chose it when conducting an informal Bible class with two distraught and troubled disciples who had left Jerusalem just after the crucifixion and were on their way to Emmaus, a village seven miles from the Holy City. This spiritual trek inspired the logo graphic at the top of our home page, and in Judaea in the time of Jesus (see the map) Emmaus is near the bottom, located close by Jerusalem.


Vita of Ronald Ginther, Founder of the Emmaus Walk:

Vita


"Autobiographical Sketch of a Sparrow," by Ronald Ginther


IS JESUS WALKING BESIDE YOU? HAVE YOU EVER MET GOD?

"Have you ever met God?", a Reply to a Radio Show Host's Question by Ronald Ginther



The Emmaus Walk Certificate of Excellence


AS A CLEAR REBUTTAL TO THE SECULAR HUMANISTS RULING AS OPPRESSORS OVER A ONCE FREE AND PROGRESSIVE AMERICA, WHO DENY THE SUPER-ABUNDANT CHRISTIAN HERITAGE WE HAVE AND THE FACT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN NATION. THIS FOLLOWING IS AN ACTUAL ACT OF CONGRESS THAT ESTABLISHED THIS RESOLUTION, WHICH COULD NOT BE MORE DAMAGING TO THEIR TISSUE OF LIES MAINTAINING THAT AMERICA IS A GODLESS NATION FOUNDED ON SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: America, the World's Most Powerful Nation Declares the Bible to be the Word of God! This was America's perhaps last affirmation of its Judaeo-Christian heritage and foundation. We ought to have it pinned on our walls at home and in our offices and work places and even in ACLU war rooms--reminding us all of the fact.

"CONGRESS DECLARES BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD," Public Law 97-280, October 4, 1982, Statute 1211, Approved October 4, 1982


Crosswalk Bible Website



Course Articles are now listed in the new "Course Articles Center" page:

"Course Articles Center"

Some Bible Resources:

"Bible Resources Center"

Recommended Book List:

"Recommended Book List Center"

Islam Center:

"Islam Center"

Missions Center:

"Missions Center"

Testimonies of Martyrs Center, with Russian martyr Ivan Moiseyev's account:

"Testimonies of Martyrs Center"

Music Center with original and also added lyrics to famous songs:

"Music Center

THE PERSECUTED CHURCH CENTER GIVES RELATIVELY EASY MEANS TO CONTACT PERSECUTED AND IMPRISONED CHRISTIANS ACROSS THE WORLD AND GIVE THEM ENCOURAGEMENT WITH A SIMPLE NOTE OR BRIEF LETTER IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGES:

"Persecuted Church Center"

CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM CENTER:

CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM (HOW TO MAKE CHRISTIAN VALUES AN UNAVOIDABLE ISSUE FOR SECULAR HUMANISTS RULING AND OPPRESSING AMERICA):

"Christian Activism Center"

FRIENDSHIP CENTER FOR SUPPORT OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE:

"Friendship for Israel Center"

AMERICA'S RE-EDUCATION CENTER:

"America's Re-Education Center

America has experienced by God's mercy and divine intervention two Great Spiritual Awakenings of the Christian churches in the first and second century of its existence, and we are sorely needing a Third Great Awakening of the Christian faith in the hearts and lives of the people in the churches. This can only be brought about by prayer, as was evidenced in the incident of the two sisters who prayed daily for repentance and revival among the wayward young people of their tiny island in the Pacific, part of the New Hebrides island group. Their prayers were answered. The young people, gathered at a dance with a teacher, were so convicted, they left the dance hall and returned to the church and to God, surrendering their lives to Christ. We need the same kind of revival here in America, if we are to be saved from destruction and total social and moral collapse. But it will take praying saints, faithful unto death, like the two sisters praying in the kitchen of their little farmhouse on a far, Pacific island. It probably looked hopeless to them--but God...

"Revival Center"

What is the urgency to praying for America's churches to be revived? Pastor Hagee of Cornerstone Church, San Antonio, has reported on national and international television that informed sources (and he has been briefed by such as former Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu, and others in Israel who are his long-term friends): America's premier cities have cell groups waiting to detonate nuclear suitcase bombs. Among the cities are New York City, Miami, Houston, Washington. This is the mortal, death blow the Islamic Jehadists plan to strike us with, and they have the bombs, it is reported, enough to crush us as a nation, when they detonate them simultaneously. They are, it is reported, just waiting for the call to set them off.

We all saw how ineffectual the U.S. Federal Government is in the midst of a national emergency such as Hurricane Katrina's assault on the coast and its aftermath. The Federal Government was far more efficient at the turn of the century, when San Francisco was destroyed by the great earthquake. Help was there in a matter of hours--not days and weeks! This is what Secular Humanism has done to us--our government is set in a kind of concrete, unable to act when it would be most vital for it to do so!

It was CHRISTIAN ministries and churches, Mayor Nagin of New Orleans, that were first on the site of your destroyed city, pouring out tons of food, water, supplies, even rescue operations! Did you ever thank any of them for the tremendous help they gave thousands in the city and thousands more outside it?

Now it seems hopeless at first sight, when secular humanists are in so much control of our society that we are made sitting ducks where our enemies are concerned. What can one person do to stop our arch-enemies from destroying us and our country? Our nation is in such disarray, morally, spiritually, and politically. We cannot even unite to fight the terrorists, who are using Iraq as a base of operations. That base will soon shift to our own streets and malls and cities, as we pull out our troops. The terrorists have said so themselves, that they are pleased by the prospect of our giving up and pulling out of Iraq, and we know that they will bring the war to us--and then crush us completely with the suitcase bombs!

We must know that our government and military (and certainly not our Congress) cannot protect us (we have seen it in case after case of national emergency). We must turn to God alone. The only hope we have is God--in this time of peril. It seems impossible, however, to be of any influence. This nation is too big, too divided, for one person to affect. How can we help bring a turn-around in America, in our lives, in our relationship to God, that will bring God's forgiveness and His aid in saving us and our country? It just seems altogether impossible! Impossible! The darkness is too great to penetrate or drive back! Right? Do I strike a chord somewhere in somebody who is concerned about this entire situation? National security is just one aspect--it is all connected to our moral and spiritual, backslidden state as a Christian people and a formerly Christian nation.

Actually, let us think soberly, biblically, about this crisis. One person can be a majority, in God's eyes. He doesn't look at crises the way we do--one person who is so little compared to overwhelming numbers and overwhelmingly great circumstances. He is God--He is the Biggest "Component" in the universal equation. With Him, you, or I, have the winning number, not the other eight million entrants in the lottery. Our number with God making divine arithmetic with us: 1 (God who is Number 1, plus one--you or I). 1 plus 1 is ordinarily just 2 (which will cause no change in this natural world probably), but when the first 1 is God--that is as good as an infinite number on your side! Look at the Bible! It is full of crises where one person, with God as Number 1 in that person's life and prayers, turned entire nations back from destruction and going over the cliff! Deborah, Moses, Gideon, Elijah, David, Daniel...and they weren't considered important, either. They weren't always known, either. Gideon declared he was the least person in a family in a clan that was least in his tribe--but God went to him and called him "mighty champion." If we choose unbelief and distrust of God, we will say, "God you can't save this nation through me--I am too small, too average, too something or other, for You too use!" That is wrong thinking! That will never please God. God delights in using small, average, insignificant people like you and me. Then He gets the glory from what is accomplished through us! He doesn't get much glory through using Nobel Prize Laureates, or Presidents, or big-shots of any kind. He gets tremendous glory, as the Bible states over and over, from using insignificant vessels such as you and me.

In fact, He PREFERS to use people like you and me! Yes, he prefers to use us over the so-called great people of the world. So let us be willing to obey Him--even if it is a small task in our eyes. A small rudder turns a mighty ocean-liner! It is hidden away underwater, but without it the mighty liner would run out of control and dash itself on the rocks and everything would be destroyed. Let us be the little rudder that turns the mighty ocean-liner of America. Though our prayers, examples, witness of Jesus, and our support of what is our Judaeo-Christian heritage in America, we can turn our doomed ship of state away from disaster. Let no one, particularly our fellow Christians, discourage us in the least. We don't answer for their lives and their decisions to give up in overwhelming situations. We answer only for our own lives and decisions. Let us go on--with God--who is the Majority over every other majority--and so we cannot lose! We cannot lose--no matter what it looks like. We simply cannot lose. The Bible is the testimony, of person after person, mostly insignificant and powerless, who won great victories by simply trusting God and turning to him in every situation of life, great and small. Let us turn to him in the small things now, and then He can use in the great issues too.

Faithfulness to Him will be rewarded. He is that kind of God. If we prove ourselves by obedience to Him, He can use us to go and speak to kings and parliaments and congresses and presidents and generals and terrorist leaders--and they will listen and do what we say they should do! We have that potential in us--if only we will obey now in the small things he has given us to do. We can start today, we can start now. Will you? Will I? It is our individual choice.

SLAVERY CENTER:

"Slavery Center"

INFANTICIDE IN AMERICA CENTER:

"Infanticide in America Center

HERESY AND CORRECTION CENTER:

"Heresy and Correction Center"

PROPHECY CENTER:

"Prophecy Center"

"Resurrection Center"

THE RESURRECTION IS HISTORICALLY ESTABLISHED FACT, NOT RELIGIOUS WHIMSY OR SOMEBODY'S RELIGIOUS HOAX--"BUNK" AND "PROPAGANDA"--TERMS USED BY ONE FELLOW AMERICAN CALLING IN TO A RADIO PROGRAM WHO HAS A FAMILY HE IS TEACHING HIS STUPIDITY AND ATHEISM TO, WHILE THINKING IT IS GOOD SENSE AND TOLERANCE ON HIS PART. DOES HE KNOW HE IS ROBBING HIS CHILDREN OF ANY REAL HOPE IN LIFE? OR THAT THEY FACE GOING INTO A CHRISTLESS ETERNITY AFTER LIVING A CHRISTLESS LIFE? WHAT POSSIBLE MEANING WILL THEIR LIVES HAVE? THANK GOD FOR THE RESURRECTION: WE HAVE A REAL, LIVING SAVIOR AND LORD, WHO ROSE FROM THE GRAVE, AND WHO LIVES AND REIGNS FOREVER, GIVING OUR LIVES MEANING THAT WILL NEVER FADE WAY BUT WILL LAST FOREVER AS WE ENJOY ETERNITY WITHIN HIS KINGDOM OF LOVE AND FELLOWSHIP.

Big Bad Business Center:

"Big Bad Business Center"

I have no illusions about the subject, I realize that this center will be the least visited, if it is visited at all. I know this because this is the pattern that is dooming contemporary, post-modern American society and the church as well. Popular Christianity is going its own way, without prayer--doing its own thing too, and loving it, while the nation and the youth and the whole society goes to hell in a handbasket, to use an old phrase. Of course, most people don't believe in hell and the Devil and divine judgment for their actions anymore! But I do! And the Bible says these things exist. I choose to believe the Bible, not forty million mules stampeding over the cliff while thinking it is a big, broad highway to happiness. Why pray? Because my own life depends on it. Because my country depends on it. Because the church depends on it. Because everything good depends on it. Because it is as necessary, and even more necessary, than the air we breathe. We shall see how people end up without prayer. I don't care to risk their fate. Prayer has so many wonderful things in store for me, if I continue. I cannot number them all. I thank God for prayer. I could not live, physically and spiritually, without it. Prayer is a wonderful, wonderful thing God has given us, that will bring all sorts of blessings and also help us and gain protection for us on our pilgrimage to heaven. Thank God for prayer! Even if I am the only one left praying--I will gladly pray. It has proved itself countless times to me, how valuable it is.

"Prayer Center"

PRAYER TARGET CENTER:

"Prayer Target Center"

A Mini-Review of McTernan's book:

Ever wondered if there is a connection between our awful bad weather and the many disasters our country has suffered these last ten years or so and the way we are doing things in this country? Well, John P. McTernan draws a direct causal link between the disasters (weather, fires, hurricanes, terroristic, etc) and America's mistreatment of Israel, forcing Israel to give up land for "peace," the most ridiculous thing our State Department and our last three or four presidents have devised and inflicted on this faithful ally and friend of America.

"Mini-Review" of "As America Has Done to Israel," by John P. McTernan, by Ronald Ginther

IT'S IN THE BIBLE, JOHNNY AND SUZY: Most people may not know that many of the stock phrases they use in everyday conversation come from the Bible. Here are just a few of them: "In the twinkling of an eye" (I Cor. 15:52). "Den of Thieves" (Matt. 21:13) "Keep the faith" (2Tim 4:7) "A stone's throw" (Luke 22:41) "Old wives' tales" (1Tim. 4:7) "Drop in the bucket" ((Isa. 40:15) "Apple of his eye" (Deut. 32:10) "No rest for the wicked" (Isa. 46:22). --Rev. Jerome Porkorny in Catholic Quote

As a Postscript to Rev. Porkonry's quote, I just heard a radio commentator on her show describe the recent passing of a "domestic partners" or same-sex marriage legalization bill in our Washington State legislature as a "thorn in the flesh" for evangelicals, something she delighted in, she made it very clear. Did she know that she was using a Biblical phrase? That is rather ironical, in my view. The piece of stinking garbage, the bill she is so happy about, legalizing what God calls an abomination, will, I can assure her, turn out to be a thorn in HER flesh--if she does not give up her snotty attitude and repent.

ENGLISH LITERATURE HERITAGE CENTER:

"English Literature Heritage Center"

"Solid Rock, not Sand," Message Notes by Ronald Ginther, on how to keep it simple and honest with God. We are clay, He is the Potter--not the other way round, as it is preached and promoted in popular Christianity today. Want to "get back on track with God?" Here's how, in a few words:

"Choose Rock, Not Sand," Message Notes by Ronald Ginther


DUNCES OF THE WORLD CORNER:

"Dunces of the World Center"

"Bible Quiz Center"

SAINT-BUILDING CENTER, FEATURING THE MESSAGES OF THE INIMITABLE STUART MAXWELL HAWKINS:

"Saint-Building Center"

Please return soon Stuart Hawkins's next message, "Forgive Me," when it comes on-line soon.

ALONG WITH A NEW LOGO, THIS SITE WILL SOON BE MADE MUCH EASIER TO USE--WITH A NEW HOME PAGE AND SOME TWENTY OR MORE CENTERS THAT WILL BE ACCESSED FROM THE HOME PAGE. PLEASE KNOW THAT WE ARE APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR PATIENCE, AS YOU NEGOTIATED THE OVER-LONG HOME PAGE--SOMETHING THAT HAS BOTHERED US FOR A LONG TIME, BUT NOW WE HAVE TIME AND MEANS TO CHANGE THAT FOREVER.--ED.

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ABOUT THIS SITE: This site is truly powered by the Only Begotten Son of God and Savior and Lord of all, the one and only Jesus Christ, who created everything, including lightning! That means a greater power than lightning (which has temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun!) is behind this little enterprise of the Emmaus Walk (valuable things, like diamonds, can still come in small packages, we know). If you dislike the views expressed and want to sue me, go right ahead. There is nothing for you or anyone to take, other than the good (and the "good" needs to include correction too for us proud and faulty human beings!) offered here for your sake and others. This site is an entirely non-profit (non-profit means absolutely no outside financial support, other than prayer support), evangelical, Bible-based enterprise, with no funding from any source other than site holder, founder, writer and editor, Ronald D. Ginther. We aim to be based on the Bible and Christ and faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, Who paid for our salvation by his shedding of his blood as our Substitute, Holy, Innocent Lamb, shedding his blood on the Cross. He rose again from the grave, he was resurrected, three days later after descending into Hades and preaching His victory over sin, death, and the Devil to the saints in Abraham's Bosom, as well as the captive sinners in the hot hell-part of Hades there. That is the Gospel, the Good News of Jesus Christ, crucified for us. This site does not accept any other funding, for it is a free site offered freely with no strings attached to the viewer or to anyone else except the Lord.

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