Saw this in a FB group:
This group does not allow teaching from Jacob Prasch and Moriel Ministry to be shared here because Jacob is opposed the the pre-tribulation rapture and is very mean spirited with those who disagree with him.
He was born near New York City in the USA where he became a Christian while studying science in university in February of 1972,
After trying to disprove the Bible with science, history, and archaeology. He found so much evidence in support of the claims of Jesus and the Bible that it required more faith to reject it than to believe it.
Already frustrated by the failures of the hippie generation to build a better world, disillusioned by the Marxism to which he subscribed, and with the drug culture that claimed the lives of some of his friends and nearly his own, he put his faith in Jesus.
Jacob’s family is a combination of Roman Catholic and Jewish. (In his youth he was forced to attend a Catholic school, but also attended the Jewish Community Center.) Jacob’s wife Pavia, also from a science background, is a Romanian-born Israeli Jewish believer who is the daughter of holocaust survivors. Pavia was an atheist and Jacob was an agnostic. After coming to faith both switched from study in scientific fields to theological fields in Israel and in Britain. They have two children both born in Galilee.
Jacob is a Hebrew-speaking evangelist to the Jews and a Bible teacher elaborating on the original Judeo-Christian background and hermeneutics of the New Testament, and his emphasis is on church planting and missions. He and Moriel have also been a conservative voice for biblically-based discernment among moderate Pentecostals and Charismatics opposed to the seductions of the ecumenism, money oriented preaching and hype artistry, "charismania" and psycho-babble prevalent in today’s church.
www.moriel.org/about/about-jacob-prasch.htmlHe said he is a voice for biblically-based discernment among moderate Pentecostals and Charismatics. This means he teaches that the Apostolic spiritual gifts continue. From Moriel Ministry Statement of Faith it says:
We believe the gifts of the Spirit, including charismatic gifts, continue to operate in the church.
Continuationism is the belief that all the spiritual gifts, including healings, tongues, and miracles, are still in operation today, just as they were in the days of the early church. A continuationist believes that the spiritual gifts have “continued” unabated since the Day of Pentecost and that today’s church has access to all the spiritual gifts mentioned in the Bible.
www.gotquestions.org/continuationism.htmlHe teaches own modified version of Pre-Wrath, that Jacob calls "Intra Seal Rapture." So he is very much against the pretribulation rapture.
Recently Thomas Ice taught The Upper Room Discourse and the Rapture
pre-trib.org/…/the-upper-room-discourse-and-th…/readJacob Prash goes after him a in a very un-christ like attack against him.
JACOB PRASCH - THOMAS ICE AND THE UPPER ROOM
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Thomas Ice likes to invent things nobody else to highlight in any significant measure previously. Now we have to understand something about Thomas Ice. He claims to be a Dr. Thomas Ice and has a doctorate but it is a complete fake. The institution that awarded the doctorate a place called Tyndale Seminary is not a real Seminary.
The information he gives about Dr. Ice's education and Tyndale Seminary is erroneous and serves as the foundation to discredit what Dr. Ice teaches.
Tyndale Theological Seminary and Biblical Institute is not accredited, and has no plans to pursue any type of accreditation for several particular reasons: (1) to keep our expenses low, enabling Tyndale to maintain its very low tuition rates – pursuit of accreditation would require a dramatic increase in costs passed on to the student; (2) to maintain doctrinal autonomy, and (3) to continue the utilization of Tyndale-educated faculty to ensure theological and philosophical consistency with the doctrinal statement and mission of Tyndale. Pursuit of accreditation would make this increasingly difficult.
tyndale.edu/about/Here is an article that reviews is book Shadows of the Beast.
Shadows of the Beast: Jacob Prasch – Twisting Scripture the Midrash Way
So I bought the book, “Shadows of the Beast” by Jacob Prasch and didn’t really make it past the Prologue. I was kinda horrified at a number of things. I will begin to list them in this article. To start off with, Jacob Prasch is anti Pre-Tribulational rapture and bases his whole ‘idea‘ on the premise that Jesus won’t come back and Rapture the church until the anti-Christ makes himself known in the middle of the Tribulation. He uses this verse as his only backup: (2 Thessalonians 2:3) “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;”
The problem is, Jacob is not telling us the truth, because if you go and read from the beginning of the chapter you find out that Paul is speaking to the Thessalonians, not about the Rapture, but about ‘the day of the Lord’.
Jacob states that Pre-Tribulationists are against identifying the anti-Christ and this is a BIG problem. This is news to me, I had no idea that we were against identifying the anti-Christ because the bible tells us that (1 Thessalonians 5:6) “we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.” However the bible also does tell us not to focus our attentions on evil things, but to focus our attentions on Jesus Christ.
Jacob states that Pre-Tribulationsists flounder because “they equate the removal of the Holy Spirit with the removal of the church. This is a mistaken eschatology resulting from a mistaken pneumatology; they misunderstand the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, which results in a further miscomprehension of 2 Thessalonians.” [pg. 17] We misunderstand the doctrine of the Holy Spirit now do we? No Jacob. We understand it fine. It’s Jacob who is making up stories here to fill pages in his book. Jacob believes that when we say that the Holy Spirit removes the church during the Rapture, he actually thinks we mean the Holy Spirit goes forever, good-bye, and the rest of the people on earth have to make do without Him. Nope, we know that the Holy Spirit is then poured out as God once again shifts His attention back to the salvation of Israel during the 7 year Tribulation period.
Jacob says more and more people are fortunately turning away from the “erroneous nature of Pre-Tribulationalism and the need understand how to properly identify the final Antichrist and False Prophet – the beast of Revelation 13.” [pg. 20] Yes more people are apostacising and turning away from Jesus Christ and focusing their attention on Satan instead. You are helping fulfill 2 Thessalonians 2:3 “…. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes …”
Jacob says, “If only those who have wisdom will understand how to calculate the number of the beast (Rev. 13:18), and if it requires the true believers (whose wisdom is Christ), then who will be here with the wisdom to do the calculation? These cannot be the tribulation saints because if they had the wisdom they would not be here either.” [pg. 19]
Jacob says more and more people are fortunately turning away from the “erroneous nature of Pre-Tribulationalism and the need understand how to properly identify the final Antichrist and False Prophet – the beast of Revelation 13.” [pg. 20] Yes more people are apostacising and turning away from Jesus Christ and focusing their attention on Satan instead. You are helping fulfill 2 Thessalonians 2:3 “…. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes …”
8) Jacob says, “If only those who have wisdom will understand how to calculate the number of the beast (Rev. 13:18), and if it requires the true believers (whose wisdom is Christ), then who will be here with the wisdom to do the calculation? These cannot be the tribulation saints because if they had the wisdom they would not be here either.” [pg. 19]
If we go and read about Midrash here on Moriel’s website, we can clearly see that something is very very wrong.
The Midrash definition is extremely vague, so much so that Jacob Prasch says,
“Unless someone has been educated in Judaism, Hebrew, or theology, it is easier to demonstrate midrash than to explain it.”
How peculiar, why can’t he explain it, are we not smart enough?
Strangely enough Wickipedia can explain it.
Midrash (Hebrew plural midrashim, lit. “to investigate” or “study”) is a homiletic method of biblical exegesis. The term also refers to the whole compilation of homiletic teachings on the Bible.
Midrash is a way of interpreting biblical stories that goes beyond simple distillation of religious, legal or moral teachings. It fills in many gaps left in the biblical narrative regarding events and personalities that are only hinted at. [1]
So it helps you “go beyond” teachings and “fill in the gaps” of the Bible; that is very interesting – basically you are adding “extra biblical revelation” to the bible. Jewish websites and others will admit Midrash is a collection of stories, allegory, history, scientific observations and legend. Jacob claims the word Midrash is supposedly mentioned in the bible, as he claims here in this article: What does the Word of God Actually Say About Midrash?. But then we need to ask ourselves so is Enoch mentioned in the Bible, this does not mean we now can read the Book of Enoch as something inspired.
I went to go and look through the bible for the word “Midrash” and I can’t find it.
Prasch states:
“You will never understand the Book of Revelation with the kind of limited approach to biblical interpretation that is taught in Protestant seminaries. Midrash is like a quadratic equation or a very complex second order differential equation, a thirteen or fourteen step equation. Some people take the first step of grammatical-historical exegesis and think the equation is solved” [Emphasis added]“The problem with the Reformers is that they only went so far. They made rules governing the application of their grammatical-historical system in order to refute medieval Roman Catholicism, and many of those rules are still taught in theological seminaries today. [Emphasis added]
Jacob Prasch claims that you need to be well educated in Greek, Hebrew and a whole host of other rabbinical teachings to “truly understand scripture“. This sounds very much like Roman Catholicism who only speak in Latin (so that you don’t understand) and tell their converts that they will never be smart enough to understand the bible; so you need to rely on specialist experts in all forms of theological studies to give you the message instead.
As I mentioned above, scripture is clear, you only need the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to be able to understand scripture and Christians through-out the centuries have done fantastically fine without Jacob Prasch and his Midrash. Judging by the way Jacob has handled such simple scriptures as those mentioned at the very beginning of the article, I would say that a Reformer from a few hundreds of years ago could run circles around him and teach him a thing or two on CORRECT BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION.
But according to Prasch, it is just so terrible to think that the Reformers only went so far in their faith and could go no further without the Midrash. It would seem Jacob Prasch is trying to take us back to the dark ages where the little people have to listen to the big people with regards to what the Bible says. See (Galatians 4:2-12) This is unbiblical.