Why the Muslim must hate the Jew!

Something I received today and which I consider worth reading - the source, in my opinion, is reliable.  I am afraid that we have gone too far down the road of Political correctness and are thus no longer able to make a stand on what we believe to be right or wrong for fear of offending somebody somewhere!

I recall a rather frightening Scripture which may jolt us - Mark 8:38: 

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August 3, 2012 
Why Muslims Must Hate Jews
By Nonie Darwish 

Recently, a Pakistani religious leader, Pirzada Muhammad Raza Saqib
Mustafai, said: "When the Jews are wiped out ... the sun of peace [will]
begin to rise on the entire world."  The same preaching is routinely
done not only by clerics, but by politicians -- in Iran, Saudi Arabia,
Egypt, and elsewhere.  This is not just Ahmedinijad; it is at the heart
of Islamic theology that world peace will be established only when all
the Jews are wiped from the earth.  But few people in Western media are
alarmed by this kind of rhetoric or care to expose this dreadful dark
side of Islam's obsession with Jew-hatred.
I do not believe that one has to be an authority on human behavior or
group thinking to find out the obvious pathology in Islamic Jew-hatred.
It is time for all of us to uncover and expose this atrocity against the
Jewish people.  We owe that to humanity and the truth.
No true Muslim can see that such hatred is unbecoming and unholy for a
world religion to focus on and that the credibility of Islam is
tarnished by such hatred.  No Muslim is allowed to go far enough to
self-analyze or ask why such hatred.  Muslims defend Jew-hatred by
claiming that Jews betrayed Muhammad and thus deserve of this kind of
treatment.  Even when I was a Muslim, I believed that the one-sided
story against Jews by Islam was enough to justify all the killing,
terror, lies, and propaganda by Islamic leaders against Jews.  To the
average Muslim, routinely cursing Jews in mosques feels normal and even
holy!
After a lot of thinking, analysis, research, and writing, I discovered
that Jew -atred in Islam is an essential foundation to the Islamic
belief system that Muslims cannot seem to be able to rid themselves of.
Jew-hatred masks an existential problem in Islam.  Islam is terrified of
the Jews, and the number-one enemy of Islam is the truth, which must be
constantly covered at any cost.  It does not matter how many Muslim men,
women, and children die in the process of saving Islam's reputation.
The number-one duty of Muslims is to protect the reputation of Islam and
Mohammad.  But why would a religion burden its followers like that?
This is why:
When Mohammed embarked on his mission to spread Islam, his objective was
to create a uniquely Arabian religion, one created by an Arab prophet,
which reflected the Arabian values and culture.  Yet to obtain
legitimacy, he had to link it to the two previous Abrahamic religions,
Judaism and Christianity.  He expected the Jewish tribes who lived in
Arabia to declare him their Messiah and thereby bring him more
legitimacy with Arabs, especially with his own tribe in Mecca, the
Quraish.  Because his own tribe had rejected and ridiculed him, Mohammed
needed the approval of the Jews, whom he called the people of the book.
But the conversion of Jews to Islam was part of the scenario that
Mohammed had to accomplish in order to prove to Meccans that they had
made a mistake by rejecting him.
That was one of the reasons Mohammed chose to migrate to Medina, a town
that had predominantly been settled by Jewish tribes and a few
impoverished Arabs who lived around the Jews.  The Jews allowed Mohammed
to move in.  At the beginning, the Koran of Mecca was full of appeals to
the Jews, who were then described as "guidance and light" (5:44) and a
"righteous" people (6:153-154), who "excelled the nations" (45:16).  But
when the Jews rejected the appeasement and refused to convert to Islam,
Mohammed simply and completely flipped.  The Quran changed from love to
threats and then pure hatred, cursing, and commandments to kill Jews.
Rejection by the Jews became an intolerable obsession with Mohammed.
Not only did the Jews reject him, but their prosperity made Mohammed
extremely envious.  The Jewish Arabian tribes earned their living from
legitimate and successful business, but Mohammed earned his living and
wealth through warfare -- by attacking Arab tribes, some of whom were
from his own tribe -- and trade caravans, seizing their wealth and
property.  That did not look good for a man who claimed to be a prophet
of God.  The mere existence of the Jews made Mohammed look bad, which
led Mohammed to unspeakable slaughter, beheading of 600 to 900 Jewish
men of one tribe, and taking their women and children as slaves.
Mohammed had the first pick of the prettiest woman as his sex slave.
All of this senseless slaughter of the Jews was elaborately documented
in Islamic books on the life of Mohammed -- not as something to be
ashamed of, but as justified behavior against evil people.
One does not have to be psychiatrist to see the obvious: that Mohammad
was a tormented man after the massacre he orchestrated and forced his
fighters to undertake to empower and to enrich himself and his religion.
To reduce his torment, he needed everyone around him, as well as future
generations, to participate in the genocide against the Jews, the only
people whom he could not control.  An enormous number of verses in the
Koran encouraged Mohammed's fighters to fight, kill, and curse Muslim
fighters who wanted to escape fighting and killing Jews.  The Quran is
full of promises of all kinds of pleasure in heaven to those who
followed Mohammed's killing spree and curses and condemnation to those
who chose to escape from fighting.  Muslims were encouraged to feel no
hesitation or guilt for the genocide because it was not they who did it,
but rather "Allah's hand."
Mohammed never got over his anger, humiliation, and rejection by "the
people of the book" and went to his grave tormented and obsessed that
some Jews were still alive.  On his deathbed, Mohammed entrusted Muslims
to kill Jews wherever they found them, which made this a "holy
commandment" that no Muslim can reject.  Muslims who wrote sharia
understood how Mohammed was extremely sensitive to criticism, and that
is why criticizing Mohammed became the highest crime in Islam that will
never be forgiven even if the offender repents.  Mohammed's message on
his deathbed was not for his followers to strive for holiness, peace,
goodness, and to treat their neighbors as themselves, but rather a
commandment for Muslims to continue the killing and the genocide against
the Jews.  Killing thus became a holy act of obedience to Mohammed and
Allah himself.
Mohammed portrayed himself as a victim of Jews, and Muslims must avenge
him until judgment day.  With all Arab power, money, and influence
around the world today, they still thrive at portraying themselves as
victims.  Sharia also codified into law the duty of every Muslim to
defend Mohammed's honor and Islam with his own blood, and allowed the
violation of many commandments if it is for the benefit of defending
Islam and Mohammed.  Thus, Muslims are carrying a huge burden, a holy
burden, to defend Mohammed with their blood, and in doing so they are
allowed to kill, lie, cheat, slander, and mislead.
Mohammed must have felt deep and extreme shame after what he had done to
the Jews, and thus a very good reason had to be found to explain away
his genocide.  By commanding Muslims to continue the genocide for him,
even after his death, Mohammad expanded the shame to cover all Muslims
and Islam itself.  All Muslims were commanded to follow Mohammed's
example and chase the Jews wherever they went.  One hundred years after
Mohammed's death, Arabs occupied Jerusalem and built Al Aqsa mosque
right on top of the Jewish Temple ruins, the holiest spot of the Jews.
Muslims thought they had erased all memory of Jewish existence.
Mohammed's genocide of the Jews of Arabia became an unholy dark mark of
shame in Islamic history, and that shame, envy, and anger continues to
get the best of Muslims today.  In the eyes of Mohammed and Muslims, the
mere existence of the Jewish people, let alone an entire Jewish state,
delegitimizes Islam and makes Mohammed look more like a mass murderer
than like a prophet.  For Muslims to make peace with Jews and
acknowledge that Jews are humans who deserve the same rights as everyone
else would have a devastating effect on how Muslims view their religion,
their history, and the actions of their prophet.
Islam has a major existential problem.  By no will of their own, the
Jews found themselves in the middle of this Islamic dilemma.  Islam must
justify the genocide that Mohammad waged against the Jews.  Mohammad and
Muslims had two choices: either the Jews are evil sub-humans, apes,
pigs, and enemies of Allah, a common description of Jews still heard
regularly in Middle Eastern mosques today, or Mohammad was a genocidal
warlord not fit to be a prophet of God -- a choice that would mean the
end of Islam.
Then and now, Mohammad and Muslims clearly chose the first worldview and
decreed that any hint of the second must be severely punished.  Jews
must remain eternally evil enemies of Islam if Islam is to remain
legitimate.  There is no third solution to save the core of Islam from
collapsing; either Mohammed was evil, or the Jews were evil.  Any
attempt to forgive, humanize, or live peacefully with Jews is considered
treason against Islam.  How can Muslims forgive the Jews and then go
back to their mosques, only to read their prophet's words, telling them
they must kill Jews wherever they find them?  It does not add up, if
someone wants to remain Muslim.
That is why the number-one enemy of Islam is, and must remain, the
truth.  If the truth exposes Islam's unjustified Jew-hatred, Muslims
will be left with an empty shell of a religion, a religion whose prophet
was a murderer, a thief, and a warlord.  Without Jew-hatred, Islam would
self-destruct.
Nonie Darwish author is the author of The Devil We Don't Know.
(See also: "Fed to the Sharks by Political Correctness")

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Babylon Marriage

BABYLON MARRIAGE

I am busy at this time working on a larger and more extensive study of this topic, however I feel an urgency to get something circulated in the meantime.

To get the ball rolling I would ask that each of you who are reading this blog to please take a moment to reflect on the question I wish to now pose –

SHOULD YOU BE MARRIED, TO WHOM DID YOU DEDICATE YOUR MARRIAGE TO?   Selah (pause, contemplate)

Strange question I know but I shall try and explain why I believe we need to ask it, and maybe more importantly, why we should attempt to answer it!

The Word begins in Bereshith (Genesis) with a marriage instituted, officiated and ordained by YHWH alone with the obvious agreement of Adam and Chava (Eve) –

And YAHWEH Elohim formed the rib which He had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. (Bere 2:22 HRB)

The Hebrew sages of old say, and I tend to agree with them, that Bereshith 2 indicates the very first marriage took place on a Shabbat; interesting that the playing out on earth by man of the image of His Eternal Marriage should have been consummated on the day which is a sign of His Betrothal to us (Ex 31:13ff), but that is for another day.

The Word ends in Hitgalut (Revelation) with the fully consummated Marriage of the Lamb; the Second Adam; The King (Melech) of Israel to a Bride without any defects at all (as Her Husband was, is and shall always be):

Let us rejoice and let us exult, and we will give glory to Him, because the marriage of the Lamb came, and His wife prepared herself. And it was given to her that she be clothed in fine linen, pure and bright; for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.  And he said to me, Write: Blessed are the ones having been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These Words of YAHWEH are true.

(Hig 19:7-9 HRB)

Husbands, love your wives, even as Messiah also loved the Congregation and gave Himself up on its behalf,  that He might sanctify it, cleansing it by the washing of water and by the Word,  that He might present it to Himself as the glorious Congregation, not having stain or wrinkle, or any such things, but that it be holy and without blemish.

(Eph 5:25-27 HRB)

 Observing the above I might be forgiven for saying the entire Word has to do with a Marriage!

Again a quick side bar: Did you know that the first letter in the Torah (Bere 1:1) is a Bet - Bereshith and the last letter in the Torah (5 Books of Moshe – Dev/Deut 34:12) is a Lamed – Yisra’el. Put these two letters together (remember Hebrew is read from right to left) you get Bet Lamed which is the root word for Heart – so when the Messiah says that He was shown to the people through Moshe (Torah) I wonder what He meant? 

"Then I said, Lo, I come, as it is written about me in the beginning of the Books I delight to do Your will, O Elohim." (Psa. 40:6-8)

(Ibr/Heb 10:7 – HRB Emphasis mine)

Or just as importantly this may give an indication as to why we are told in the Scriptures that the Law is good and beneficial for us? (Ps. 19:8; read Psalm 119 – as the ministry 119 ministries say “If the Torah of God has been abolished then Psalm 119 is the biggest joke in the Bible )  Ps 119:174 reads:

“I have longed for Your salvation (Y'shua*), O YAHWEH; and Your Torah is my delight.”

Or Proverbs 4:2

“for I give you good teaching; do not forsake my Torah.”

If this is the Heart of YHWH how can it be bad for us?  Or would YHWH give from His Heart something He knows will never benefit His People? - Just a thought or two.  But again - another topic; another day! 

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one accusing you, Moses, in whom you have hoped. For if you were believing Moses, you would then believe Me; for that one wrote concerning Me.  But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My Words? (Yoch/John 5:45-47 HRB)

Believing that the entire Word has to do with a Marriage, and not just any marriage, but a Marriage between the Salvation of YHWH, Yeshua HaMessiach and His Set Aside (Holy) Bride; then I believe I would not be going out too far on a limb to say we had better be careful how our earthly, physical marriages are entered into and conducted if we truly want a marriage that reflects the relationship of Yeshua with His Bride (Assembly) for the whole of creation to see!

Something else can we learn from the Word when taking it in its entirety is that from the fall of man in Bereshith 3 to the marriage of the Lamb in Hitgalut 19 the Bride (the Remnant of Israel) is in the process of being fully reconciled to her Husband by returning to the Covenant of YHWH made with Israel, His Bride.  Please understand that after the fall of man Israel was raised up to be a light to the Nations and indeed a NATION herself for YHWH to use to present His Son Yeshua HaMessiach to the NATIONS!    

A quick overview may be in order here: After the period of the Patriarchs Abraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov, the 12 Tribes of Israel (including a “mixed multitude” Shem/Ex 12:38 - Nations) were led out of Egypt into the Sinai desert.  Here Moshe was told that there would be one Law (Covenant) for home-born (Biological Israel) and the Stranger (gêr – alien) sojourning (joining) with Israel; therefore for the first time, she, Israel, (including the mixed multitude joining her by being willing to follow the Covenant through Faith in the Redeemer of Israel) had the Marriage Covenant proposed to her as a Nation, no longer just individually:  She, Israel, as a Nation accepted the Marriage Covenant: BUT as with all mankind, She - Israel, as a Nation, broke the Marriage Covenant at Sinai – BECAUSE OF THIS FRACTURE OF THE COVENANT  we see the need for the appendage of the Levitical Priesthood to be added to the Covenant.  Now please check this out very carefully – I am saying that with the understanding that I have of the Scriptures at this time, I believe that the Marriage Covenant committed to writing at Mount Sinai by the Messiah Himself has always and will always be in effect WITHOUT ANY ALTERATION : THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD WAS ADDED AFTER THE GOLDEN CALF INCIDENT WHICH CAUSED THE MARRIAGE COVENANT INITIALLY ACCEPTED UNCONDITIONALLY BY ISRAEL AT MT SINAI TO BE BROKEN!

However on the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Our Messiah HE became our High Priest in the Order of Melchizedek and annulled and replaced the High Priest of the Levitical Priesthood (Ibrim/Heb 7;8;9) BUT NOT THE MARRIAGE COVENANT – THAT STANDS FOR ETERNITY.  We also read in Ezekiel 40ff that there will be a millennium Temple here on earth which will use the services of both the Levitical Priesthood as well as Sons of Zadok in that Temple again; BUT Messiah Yeshua shall be our High Priest and King reigning out of Jerusalem, OUT OF HIS TEMPLE.

Quick aside here again please: Just ask yourself;

·         If Messiah Yeshua is the Word –

·         If Messiah will never change –

·         If Messiah is from eternity to eternity –

·         If Messiah, The Word will never in any way be altered –

Then how come The Israelites of Old were saved by Works of the Covenant but we are saved by the exact opposite?  Does not make sense does it?  They, Tanakh (O/T) Saints gained Salvation through Grace by Faith in Messiah just as we do (Kefa Alef/1 Peter 1:10-11); however they had the added appendage of the Levitical Sacrificial System to teach and lead them into the Truth of the need for atonement of sin (breaking of Covenant) by the blood sacrifice of an innocent life; this obviously pointed to the foreshadowing knowledge and faith in the Sacrifice Messiah (The Salvation of YHWH) would one day make for humanity and which was prophesied repeatedly for our forefathers in the Scrolls of the Torah starting with Bere/Gen 3:15.

So does Faith (Greek Pistis = Fidelity) in the Messiah (Messiah the Word, Messiah The Covenant; thus fidelity to The Covenant) mean we are now entitled to break the Covenant?  Rav Sha’ul (Apostle Paul) screams out:

What then? Shall we sin (break covenant) because we are not under the penalty of the Torah, but under grace? Let it not be!  (Rom 6:15 HRB –Emphasis added)

Rav Sha’ul (as he was known in his day) also tells us that the Torah is just, holy and good (Rom 7:12):  That the Torah is Spirit (Rom 7:14):  That Torah agrees with his conscience (Rom 7:21): That his spirit delights in Torah (Rom 7:22): And so he goes on and on;  Please note this is the same Sha’ul (Paul) who tells us we may eat whatever we want; worship whenever we feel like it; ignore Torah, in fact that Torah is a burden, a curse!   How can this contradiction I fact and word be reconciled?

Dear brother and sister in Messiah Yeshua it is painfully evident that confusion abounds BUT  know that confusion is not of YHWH and never shall be:

For YAHWEH is not an Elohim of confusion, but of peace, as in all the congregations of the saints. (1 Cor 14:33 HRB)

The attributes of confusion are lies, instability, unauthorized additions and all these are attributed to Hasatan, they are also the attributes of Babylon; Babylon in both the Hebrew and Greek stems from the Hebrew word H1101 Bâlâl  confusion through mixing: 

Wow! Let’s see that again – confusion through mixing –

Let’s have a quick run through this shall we:

We have only two K/kingdoms here on the earth at this time and have had since the fall of man:  They are, the Kingdom of Light (YHWH) and the kingdom of dark (Hasatan) – no more choices I am afraid.  Our Messiah said to Pilate on the day of His Crucifixion that He (Messiah Yeshua’s) Kingdom was not of this world (Babylon) – but strongly states that His Kingdom will come (But now My kingdom is not from here.)  Messiah states in no uncertain terms that He came to make His Kingdom Rules evident and visible by witnessing the Truth! Strangely enough Pilate poses the question we should all ask ourselves: - What is the TRUTH?

Yahshua answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would have fought that I might not be delivered up to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here.

Then Pilate said to Him, Are You really a king? Yahshua answered, You say that I am a king. For this purpose I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I might witness to the Truth. Everyone being of the Truth hears My voice. Pilate said to Him, What is truth?

(Yoc /John 18:36-38 HRB)

·         So what is the Truth? Messiah is the TRUTH!

·         Torah (Covenant) is TRUTH – (Ps.119:142)

·         How did Messiah prove He was the TRUTH? HE complied with and fulfilled the prophecies referring to Him as written of in the Tanakh (Torah & O/T).

·         How did He bear Witness to the TRUTH? HE LIVED OUT THE TORAH (COVENANT) PERFECTLY

NB: MESSIAH LIVED OUT THE PERFECT MARRIAGE COVENANT AS THE PERFECT HUSBAND; WE ARE THE WHORE.  NEVER WAS IT NECESSARY FOR MESSIAH TO COMPLY WITH THE LEVITICAL REQUIREMENT OF A SIN SACRIFICE – WHY? BECAUSE HE LIVED OUT THE COVENANT PERFECTLY WITH OUT BREAKING IT AT ALL IN ANY WAY!

Dear Reader PLEASE NOTE: WE, MANKIND, HAVE BROKEN HIS MARRIAGE COVENANT FOR WHICH HE HAD TO DIE TO PAY OUR DEATH SENTENCE OFF, SO DOES THAT MEANS WE CAN NOW BREAK HIS MARRIAGE COVENANT HE HAS MADE WITH US WITH IMPUNITY – CERTAINLY  THAT WOULD MAKE US ADULTRESSES AND WHORES (IDOLATERS IN THE SPIRIT) WORSHIPPING THE IDOLS OF BABYLON (MIXED RELIGIONS)!

One of my favorite verses is 1 Yochanan Alef /1 John 3:4 – it tells us what sin is:-

Everyone practicing sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is the breaking of the Torah.

So Messiah never broke the Torah – BUT the main line theology preached in many churches today would require HIM to have to break His COVENANT when He one day comes back to marry His Bride so as to accommodate His Sabbath breaking, pork eating, Christmas celebrating wife JUST LIKE THE FIRST ADAM DID?   Is that what your denomination teaching implies and requires?  – Well I should say Heaven forbid of course HE will never break His COVENANT:

Do not think that I came to annul the Torah or the Prophets; I did not come to annul, but to fulfill.  Truly I say to you, Until the heaven and the earth pass away, in no way shall one yod or one stroke pass away from the Torah until all comes to pass.  (Matt 5:17-18 HRB)

ARE WE  NOT TO BECOME ONE WITH MESSIAH, BONE OF HIS BONE, FLESH OF HIS FLESH NOT HE WITH US?

For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. (Eph 5:30 HRB)

If so then maybe we should walk as HE walked, ate as He ate, worshiped as and when He worshipped; Married as HE wants us to marry!

OR we risk hearing on that Great and Fearful day:

Many will say to Me in that day, Master, Master, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many works of power?  And then I will declare to them, from everlasting, I never knew you; "depart from Me, those working lawlessness!" (Psa. 6:8)

(Matt 7:22-23 HRB)

This is what the Messiah (WORD/COVENANT), HOPEFULLY OUR HUSBAND TO BE HIMSELF SAYS – not me! 

So now I must again ask – IF YOU ARE MARRIED, TO WHOM DID YOU DEDICATE YOUR MARRIAGE TO?

To a contract/covenant made with the local Church, the State (with all the contributing laws), your Lawyer, your denominational doctrines and Elohim (added into the mix)?

OR

To a Covenant made between YHWH, your spouse and your parents? (Gen 24).

I hear the dissenters calling out: What about Romans 13 and Kefa Alef 2:13ff to which I answer, read Acts 5:27ff esp. verse 29 and see what the self same Kefa (Peter) said to the governing council (The Sanhedrin); the clarion call has gone out by Kefa himself:

It is necessary to yield obedience to Elohim rather than men (ABP)

In closing I shall say that I believe that two people who are not born again cannot ever enter into a Biblical marriage under the Protective Authority and in accordance with the requirements of the Kingdom of YHWH! But that is not to say that should we be in such a marriage YHWH is not capable of rectifying it and us through the Blood of the Lamb, the King of Israel and return us back to His Marriage Covenant so that our marriages shall truly reflect His Marriage to His Bride - but the call must go out repent and turn from our wicked way – that is what His Grace and Redemption is all about – Hallelujah!

He, who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Shabbat Shalom in Messiah Yeshua

Steve Swanepoel.

What is Sin?

If I should start this blog with a question - Is YHWH an evolutionist? I wonder what responses I would get:  Many and varied I am sure, but there is one thing I am quite sure of and that is that most of us may never have really considered this question.  I mean why should we, He is after all ELOHIM (GOD) is He not and if we believe that He is ELOHIM (GOD) that is enough – do not question Him – that is the work of the professional clergy, certainly not ours – we have to just trust in the Name of YESHUA HAMASIACH (Jesus) to be saved?  Or that is what we have been told by the clergy and those who have learnt about ELOHIM at seminary or university and we should mindlessly trust them to tell us the truth!

Why then have I asked the question – Is YHWH an evolutionist?  Well because I believe it is a rather important question we should ask ourselves, and I believe, even more importantly that we each as individuals need to arrive at OUR OWN answer.

What is evolution?  Well in its simplest form it is the gradual development over many years of plants, animals & humans, from a simple to a more complicated form – (we all came from a lump of slime in a biological soup sort of thing).  So at a very basic level an evolutionist believes in evolution (from chaos to perfection – sorry no more second law of thermo-dynamics here). 

I hear all our believers saying now – no, no ELOHIM is a Creationist!  What then, at its most basic level does creation mean?  Well it means the act of making something that is new, or to cause something to exist that did not exist before.  So again at its very basic level of understanding a creationist believes in creation.

Right, so there we have it YHWH is a Creationist & everything that He created was good (Heb Tôb – best - well that is if you believe what is written in Gen 1).  No more problems, question answered, in fact what a stupid question to ask believers in the first place – as our younger generation would say …Dah!

SO WHY DO WE TREAT YHWH AS IF HE WAS THE AUTHOR OF A HUMANISTIC (MAN ABOVE ELOHIM) & EVOLUTIONARY GOSPEL OF SALVATION?

Again I hear the faithful cry out, “THAT IS NOT TRUE!”

Well, I believe it is true, – my reasoning being as such: Evolution is the birthing place of our Humanistic Greco mindsets is it not?  Is man, through education and thought, not evolving to a higher plain of enlightenment?  Is the Bible (Old Testament Laws) not just for the uneducated, unhygienic and simple minded Jew of days gone by?  Do we not now know better so we can abandon the laws of diet and worship and festivals laid out in said Old Testament and which are essential to His Covenant encapsulated in the Torah  (Instructions) of Moses? 

Hmmm…. Reminds me a little of Genesis 3:2-5 “And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, Elohim hath said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.' And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die; for Elohim doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as Elohim, knowing good and evil.'

We obviously, being as enlightened as we are today, know Elohim did not really mean we would die if we did not obey His Word.  I mean I am a good person, I do what the Church says I should do don’t I, and anyway God has said we are no longer under the Law didn’t He?

Well it certainly looks that way because we are by-en-large taught that:

·         YWHW saw fit to save the “Jews” of the “Old Testament” by works of the Law.

·         YHWH now sees fit to save us Gentiles (and any Jew who might perchance come along) by faith in Yeshua HaMessiach.

·         The “Jews” of the “Old Testament” were not able to keep the Law properly, so they needed to offer animal sacrifices for forgiveness.

·         We today are saved by Messiah’s Yeshua’s sacrifice on the cross.

·         The “Jews” were forced to keep TORAH (Moses’ writings given him at Sinai) on pain of death.

·         We must not keep TORAH (Moses’ writings given him at Sinai) on pain of death.

·         YHWH made an Eternal Covenant and promise for all of eternity with Abraham as the Father of Israel and with his descendants, The House of Israel.

·         YHWH has broken His Eternal Covenant & promises to Abraham & The House of Israel and given an abridged form of it to the Gentile Church.

So my summation of the few points listed lead me to conclude that YHWH must have evolved His ways and Laws to better suit us because the Original Law was too difficult to keep (although He seems to say the exact opposite in Deut 30:11 through Moses – read this whole chapter, and again through Paul - Sha’ul in Romans 10:4-10 NB vs. 10 – Christ is the end (G5056 – Telos – goal) of the Law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. 1 John 5:3).

HE (YHWH) realised that HE had made a mistake when choosing Israel as HIS Covenant People so had to move the goal posts, so to speak to us Christians, and at the same time write off all the House Of Israel who were unable to keep these impossible Laws.  However again I find that this does not gel with my understanding of Scripture – (Mal 3:6; Heb 13:7-8; Jas 1:17 & Num 23:19 ff – YHWH does not lie – in fact if one reads this portion of Numbers one will see that Balaam actually suggests that Balak cause Israel to break TORAH so that YHWH will have to curse them – so serious was this action that Scripture makes mention of it in Jude and Revelation 2! And very importantly YHWH says in the Torah He hates uneven scales - Lev 19:33-37; and we are sternly warned against any form of favouritism.  We are instructed in Psalm 119 :9 that for a person to cleanse his path he must take heed of the Word: Prov 1;2-9; 4:2-27 and so on).

YHWH, if I am to understand what I have noted above correctly, decided that sin according to the Old Testament and as laid out by Him Face to face to Moses and written with HIS Own Hand, was no longer sin (i.e. Torah keeping – so we now no longer need to keep Sabbath as a specific day – 7^th day; or any of the Leviticus 23 Feast Days – which YHWH said were His very own Feast Days; or Dietary Laws Leviticus 11 and so on).  In fact we are now entitled (humans I mean) to add and subtract from the Word of YHWH, which HE said we may never ever do (Deut 4:1-2; Prov 30:5-6; Rev 22:18-19 – taking that which is written in Deut 4 & Prov. 30 I believe Rev 22:18-19 applies to both the Book of Revelation and the entire Word) even thought Messiah Yeshua kept the whole Covenant perfectly and was without sin?

YHWH no longer holds HIS Word (remember Who His Word is..? John 1:1ff) in absolute eternal esteem despite what He inspired through His Ruach (Spirit which shall lead us into all Truth) and as recorded in Ps 89:34:

I will not profane My covenant, nor change what goes from My lips.

Or in Ps. 105: where He says:

He has remembered His covenant forever; the Word He commanded to a thousand

generations; which He cut with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac;  and He confirmed it to Jacob

for a statute, to Israel for a perpetual covenant; saying, to you I will give the land of Canaan,

the portion of your inheritance;

Thus we no longer have any solid guide-lines as to what sin is or is not…? But I hear it said, “God has written the Law on my heart, I will be led by His Spirit through my heart, I am in the New Covenant.”(Read Jer. 31:31ff about whom the New Covenant is promised to and its conditions and time frame–it may surprise you).  My question thus is twofold:

(a) Why does Jeremiah tell us in Chapter 17:9 that all our hearts are deceitful above everything and that YHWH has to test them to recompense us accordingly?

(b) So if my heart is so wicked and devious that YHWH has to keep testing it how shall I know what is right in His Eyes, after all I cannot trust my heart?  SIMPLE, HIS RUACH (SPIRIT) LEADS ME INTO HIS WRITTEN WORD WHICH TELLS ME WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG! 

Ps. 119:105 – Your Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

John 16:13-15 But when that One comes, the Spirit of Truth, it will guide you into all Truth, for

it will not speak from itself, but whatever it hears, it will speak; and it will announce the

coming things to you.  That One will glorify Me, for He will receive from Mine and will

announce to you.  All things which the Father has are Mine. For this reason I said that He

receives from Mine, and will announce to you.

SO HOW DO I TRUST MY ETERNITY TO SUCH AN EL? HOW WILL HE JUDGE ME? WHAT CRITERIA WILL YESHUA USE TO JUDGE ME? 

Dare I say it? This appears to be a God who, like His Apostle Sha’ul, seems to be an untrustworthy liar at best and to all intents and purposes a schizophrenic at worst:

Schizophrenia: a mental illness in which a person becomes unable to link thought, emotion and behaviour, leading to withdrawal from reality and personal relationships.

Now obviously this cannot be true of an Elohim Who allows and invites us to call Him ABBA (Father); Redeemer; Husband; Truth; Way; Life; Prince of Peace; Rock of Ages:  An Elohim and Redeemer Who first loved us and gave Himself as a Sacrifice for us before the foundations of the earth were laid; Who say to us – Come to Me all of you weak and heavy laden I will give you peace; take on my yolk because My yolk is light; Who says to us that we shall know the Truth and that Truth, that Word (Messiah Yeshua) will make us free!   AN ELOHIM WHO CHANGES NOT: Hallelujah!

The Word tells us that what the heart is full of is what we talk about mostly:  It (The Word) also says that the same source cannot provide both brackish and sweet waters.  We all have a “heart’s desire”: It motivates; it inspires – it gives life a purpose and direction.  Well YWHW Who is the Creator made us in His Image – He too has a Heart’s Desire – to call, according to His standards, the perfect Bride for His Son – HE IS LOVE.  But because He is also HOLY (Kadosh – dedicated, set aside for His and only His use) and Holiness is THE VERY ESSENCE OF YHWH (Is 6:3) He requires His Son’s Bride to also become Holy, dedicated, set aside for His Use, become one with His Son ACCORDING TO THE STANDARDS SET UP BY ABBA – The Bride is to become one without mark or wrinkle, clothed in White – The New Jerusalem who shall rule with her Husband!  A House divided against itself will fall – One is Worshipping and being worshipped on a Sabbath, the other is worshipping on a Sunday or any other day they please.  One says to eat certain foods is an abomination; the other says “Hey we eat what we want; we are emancipated (liberated) now.”  One says, My Birthday is during Sukkot, the other says, no it’s not, it’s Christmas – I think you get the message.  We would do well to once again be reminded that our hearts though are wicked, whereas YHWH’s is pure. Our hearts will never be totally pure this side of the return of Messiah Yeshua, that dear reader is why we need His written Word and Ruach working in conjunction to guide us!

ABBA YWHW did not leave the route and methods of such a massively important process for His Son’s Bride up to the minds and hearts of us humans no matter how illogical or contrary His Way may seem to us.  He wrote it all down for us to see; He sent His Son to show us how to walk the walk; He then allowed His Son to die and rise again 3 days later (not Friday to Sunday – but that is another teaching) to pay the demanded price by a Just Elohim for all our SINS - and then He sent His Ruach to lead us according to His will and designs into our individual walks back to Him to arrive at our Goal – to be just like Yeshua HaMessiach.  YHWH is the perfect Father, Husband and Councilor; He is the complete and perfect Truth from eternity to eternity.  He gave us that fullness of Truth in the Torah (Instructions) and covenant by covenant He builds on that Truth – He never annuls His Truth because that would mean annulling Yeshua HaMessiach the Eternal Truth (Matt 5:17).  He revealed all in the beginning for us to know Who He is, and has spent the rest of His Word and Time bringing us back to that Truth of being, a being in accordance and united in one to His Image (His Sons likeness) –

Isa 33:22 For YAHWEH is our judge; YAHWEH is our lawgiver; YAHWEH is our king; He will save us.

Isa 46:9-10 Remember former things from forever, for I am El, and no other Elohim exist, even none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from the past those things which were not done, saying, My counsel shall rise; and, I will do all My desire;

So the crux of this blog…. WHAT ARE SINS?  Or should I rather ask WHAT IS SIN?  James tells us in chapter 2 verse 10 of his Epistle that if we break just one point of the Law (Torah) we break the whole Law (Torah).      

John (The Apostle Yeshua loved) writes in 1 John 3:4 that whoever commits sin transgresses the Law (Torah) because sin is the transgression of the Law (Torah).  Sha’ul writes in Romans 3:20 that:  Because by works of the Torah not one of all flesh will be justified before Him, for through the Torah is the full knowledge of sin. (Emphasis mine)

So my question is:  Where do we get off deciding for YHWH what is and is not sin, and what is and is not acceptable to Him?  If the Law has been done away with, then so has sin as defined by YHWH Himself and we err on the side of Humanism and Evolution to tamper with His Word and that is an abomination to YHWH and He will judge us harshly – See Lev 26; Deut 28; Mat 7:21-23; Rev 22.  I believe the basic differences between Theocracy and Humanism is in Theocracy we believe there is an El (GOD) Who knows everything and we bow and worship Him in His entire revealed way. In Humanism we rely on the arm of flesh (humans and their capabilities) and trust Elohim to fall in line with our patterns of Who we believe Him to be – Read Jer 17:5-10.

Brethren may I be permitted to humbly but severely caution each and every one of us to prayfully read Jude and ask the Ruach to lead us into all Truth and Righteousness and to earnestly contend for the Faith (Greek - pistis – fidelity – loyalty, faithfulness) which was once delivered unto the Saints (Greek – Hagios – consecrated, sacred, Holy – set apart ones).

Once again please, do not trust what I have penned here – check everything I say out with Scripture and prayer.

Shalom in Messiah Yeshua.

The Body of Messiah

I am hoping to share something here today that has been on my mind and in my prayer life for a rather long period of time, and now seems to be formulating into a more solid idea.

Firstly however I wish to make it abundantly clear that this blog, as outlined in the main presentation, is what I believe is happening and how I believe the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) is moving.  I do not claim a main line exclusive link to ABBA, however when I have ideas impressed on my spirit, and these specific ideas remain and seem to be reinforced, by whatever means I feel are being presented to me, means that are never sought or pushed but come naturally – so to speak – I start to take them much more seriously.  These are the sort of opinions and subject matters I wish, ABBA willing, to share on this blog page.  Please never just accept what I have said, check it out against the Word diligently with prayer.  We are all learning to walk this path of Kingdom Rule – Elohim forbid that we may think we have it all together!

Finally, before sharing my thoughts for this particular entry, I would dearly welcome comments and, where thought necessary, criticism, hopefully though the criticism – and there will be I am very sure – will be in a loving and constructive manner.

Now to the essence of what I hope to present today:

I believe that there is a move afoot to bring the Body of Messiah Yeshua together.  His Body is so fragmented and self-centered right now as to be almost ineffective for Him or His Rule on Earth. If we look at the Word we see that the Body has never come together in times of prosperity and peace, the Body has needed persecution to force it to cry out to YHWH and ask for His deliverance (Israelites in Egypt; in Babylon; in Jerusalem under the Romans – Acts 2; and of course the long preached about and expected Great Tribulation).

What I am seeing right now is that there is approaching, and I believe very shortly, a massive break down of World systems accompanied by wars, famines, political upheavals etc (no crystal ball needed for this) BUT for the Believers to survive in this chaos and destruction the Rule of YHWH will have to be experienced and seen to be operating by both His Body and those still needing to come into the Kingdom – but this Rule of YHWH will have to be exercised through His Body, however His Body must be walking according to His Will and Kingdom Principles, not denominational doctrines or our own ideas of what is right or wrong as we are doing now, before it is to be accorded this responsibility and privilege of carrying His Glory, a Glory which He will share with no other person, thing or doctrine.  The only way we shall arrive at a point of being able to walk in His Will and Principles shall be once we have had every crutch & support which is not of Him removed – then, and unfortunately only then, shall we truly have no option at all but to seek Him in Spirit and Truth – then Scriptures such as Proverbs 3:5-6; 27: 7; 30:7-9; Matthew 6:19-34 and II Corth 12:19 will become a rallying cry of His Body.  Then, and only then shall we pray unto Him and seek Him with our whole heart and then as a Body shall we be able to Love Him with all our hearts, with all our souls and with all our might.  Then and only then shall we do the works that Messiah Yeshua did and greater:  Then and only then shall the Sons’ of Elohim be revealed! 

1Pe 4:1 Therefore, Messiah having suffered for us in the flesh, also you arm yourselves with the same thought, because he having suffered in the flesh has been made to rest from sin, 2 for him no longer to live in the lusts of men, but to live the remaining time in the flesh in the will of Elohim. 3 For the time of life having passed is sufficient for us to have worked out the will of the pagans, having gone on in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, parties, indecent singing, and lawless idolatries;  4 in which they are surprised that you do not indulge with them into past excesses and they blaspheme against you;  5 who will give account to Elohim, who is to judge the living and dead.  6 For to this end also the good news was preached to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but might live according to YAHWEH in the Spirit. 7 But the end of all things has drawn near. Be of sound mind then, and be mindful of prayers;  8 and above all things having fervent love to yourselves, "Because love will cover a multitude of sins." (Prov. 10:12) 9 Be hospitable to strangers without murmurings,  10 so let each one of you according to the gift he received from Elohim, minister the same to your fellowman as good stewards of the manifold grace of YAHWEH. 11 If any man preach, let him preach the word of YAHWEH; if anyone ministers, let him do so according to the ability that YAHWEH has given him that in all things that you may do, YAHWEH may be glorified through Yeshua Messiah; to whom belongs glory and honor forever and ever. Amen. 12 Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial happening among you for your testing, as if a surprise were occurring to you;  13 but rejoice, that you participate in the sufferings of the Messiah, that so you may also rejoice and exult at the revelation of his glory.  14 If you are reviled in the name of Messiah, you are blessed, because "The glorious Spirit of YAHWEH rests upon you." 15 For do not let any of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a meddler in the affairs of others. 16 But if one suffers as a Christian, do not let him be ashamed, but to glorify YAHWEH in this respect. 17 Because the time has come that judgment must begin with the house of YAHWEH; and if it first begins with us, what will be the end of the ones disobeying the good news of Elohim?  18 And "if the righteous is scarcely saved, where will the wicked and sinner appear?" (Prov. 11:31) 19 Wherefore, let them who suffer according to the will of YAHWEH, commit their souls to him in well doing, as to a faithful Creator.

 I close this blog off with the fervent hope that each and every one of us shall prayerfully consider Psalm 51 – we shall only survive and spend eternity with our Messiah Yeshua if we take up our stake and follow HIM:

Psa 51:1 [To the chief musician, A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.] Let your grace be to me, O Elohim, according to Your loving-kindness, according to the multitude of Your tender mercies; blot out my transgressions.

Psa 51:2 Wash me completely from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Psa 51:3 For I know my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me.

Psa 51:4 Against You, You only, I have sinned, and done evil in Your eyes; that You might be justified in Your speaking and be clear when You judge.

Psa 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

Psa 51:6 Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden parts You teach me wisdom.

Psa 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Psa 51:8 Cause me to hear joy and gladness; the bones You have crushed will rejoice.

Psa 51:9 Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O Elohim; and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Psa 51:11 Do not cast me out from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Psa 51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Psa 51:13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways; and sinners will turn back to You.

Psa 51:14 Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, O Elohim, O Elohim of my salvation; my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.

Psa 51:15 O YAHWEH, open my lips and my mouth shall declare Your praise.

Psa 51:16 For you do not desire sacrifice, or I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

Psa 51:17 The sacrifices of Elohim are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O Elohim, You will not despise.

Psa 51:18 Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.

Psa 51:19 Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole offering; then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.

Amen and Amen.