What is of man?

This is the first blog of this new secular year, in fact if the truth be told, this is the first blog I have felt led to pen for a rather long time.

I am trusting that this finds you all growing in Messiah Yeshua and your relationship with both Him and YHWH Abba.  

It is a known and documented fact that many of us have unfortunately erroneously discarded the Festivals of YHWH as outlined in Lev. 23, but had we not we would have seen how they follow a Northern Hemispheric climatic cycle (H4570 - 23-24;  = to revolve, circular, round, paths) showing how He works everything according to His model and our geographic inheritance, Israel. These Festivals are a visual aid or if you like, physical manifestations and/or a road map of YHWH our Creator's ownership, authority and workings of, in and through His entire creation with all its machinations, intricacies and wonders eternally and consistently.

Another result of having discarded His Festivals has resulted in the losing sight of the fact that all LIFE and GROWTH whether physical, spiritual, agronomic, creative or what ever else can only come from Abba YHWH through Yeshua our Messiah according to His creative design as set out in His Moedim (H4150 - moed, moedim (plural) = an appointment, a fixed time or season, a festival, an assembly convened for a specific purpose, a signal) the revealed pattern and cycles of growth for everything in His Creation which includes the natural as well as the spiritual growth!

So if we take time to adopt this "natural cycle" of YHWH's Festivals we can very often identify episodes and events conforming to the change of seasons, growth, stillness and so forth in our lives, spirits and circumstances.

For us dispersed into the Southern Hemisphere we obviously identify with a mirror-image of the growth patterns (cycles) of YHWH, so for us right now we are basically experiencing the Northern Winter period, a period of immense importance to Creation - this is a period of unseen "underground work" and restoration to the roots of His Tree - to gather strength for the coming spring and summer season!

Israel is described as The Olive Tree (Religious Yisrael - Rom. 11); The Fig Tree (National Yisrael- Mat. 24:32-35); The Vine (Spiritual Yisrael - Is. 5:1-2); so if we are born again in Spirit through Messiah Yeshua we are "grafted" into Yisrael in every conceivable way and thus also share the same root systems, soil conditions AND NUTRIENTS as Yisrael would need to live and grow and thereby of necessity move in rhythm with their Cycles, Seasons, Moedim  - Rom. 11:11ff.

That having been said I too have indeed been experiencing quite a time of "restoration" for the upcoming season.

Allow me to expound if you will please: 

As you all know for many years now (16 + years) the Ruach has been leading me out of the Church/Denominational system & consequently more recently I have been asking more and more for the Father to strip me of all religion and to please truly lead me to worship Him in Ruach (Spirit) and in Truth!

I need to share what I believe is behind the prompting of such a prayer and move of The Ruach: 

I am becoming more and more aware as time passes that the severity of what we will experience possibly much sooner than we can imagine must not be underestimated; what is going to be expected and extracted from us in these end times cannot possibly be accomplished or endured without the complete and sovereign control, direction, protection and provision of YHWH Yeshua through His Ruach; now that having been said I believe that by His Grace we still have a small window of time to get to know His voice and His Ways pertaining to us and our houses before all collapses.

I believe that our entire lives, homes and relationships and all pertaining to them will be radically, eternally and irrevocably changed NO MATTER WHETHER WE BELIEVE IT WILL OR EVEN WANT IT TO HAPPEN - PLEASE UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT THE FACT THAT WE HAVE NO CHOICE IN THESE COMING EVENTS AND TO THINK WE ARE GOING TO BREEZE THROUGH EVERYTHING ON OUR OWN STRENGTH AND LOGIC, TRUSTING OUR FELLOW MAN AND HIS/HER GOODWILL IS QUITE SIMPLY NAIVE AND UNWISE! 

So, as I have said above, Abba is using this "Winter Season" we are in right now I believe  to answer my prayers and is surely stripping me of more and more man made and ordained religion; but like with every period of growth, it stretches comfort zones and is rather difficult because I never quite knew how much I had based my worship of YHWH Elohim on man made traditions and systems and how naked I fell having to leave these "systems" behind - let me explain if I am able:

I gave a simple explanation earlier about all LIFE and GROWTH coming from YHWH Elohim through Yeshua our Messiah - well during this last period of time (the winter cycle from the end of Sukkot) I have become more and more aware of the fast that much of what I do, be it Bible Study, Prayer Times, Shabbat and Festival worship IS ALL BASED ON WHAT I HAVE LEARNT FROM MAN AND SYSTEMS INTRODUCED BY MAN! In short I am doing Biblical requirements according to the way man has told me to!

Now I am not saying these introductions are all necessarily wrong, but if we are to grow in  our Relationship with Messiah our Redeemer and hopefully press on to the finish line so as to be able to become the Wife of Messiah our Yeshua WE NEED TO BE FOLLOWING HIM AND HIS LEAD that when the Winter is past we can run with Him as He calls - see Song of Solomon 2:8-13.

We need to be praying as He wants us to pray; we need to be reading and learning from His Word as He wants, leads and reveals to us; we need to be worshiping in rhythm with His Ruach in Spirit and in Truth; we need to wait on Him in Silence when He so Desires - WE DO NOT NEED TO DO AS SOME PERSON DECIDES OR HAS DECIDED FOR US! 

I have no problem with corporate worship, in fact it is directed in His Word, that we should gather together (Heb. 10:25) just unfortunately this speaks of His Lev. 23 gatherings and not the Christian Sundays and extraneous unbiblical festivals the Denominations celebrate, so when we do come together AS HE HAS DIRECTED ACCORDING TO HIS WORD WHO DECIDES ON WHAT IS GOING TO BE SAID IN THAT WORSHIP SERVICE?

Who decides on the Order of that Service and much more of our religious "works" of appeasement?

I was speaking to a young lady the other day and she expressed the desire to hear the Voice of The Ruach far more clearly for her life.  I answered her that we were all in a learning curve, and at best we could see/hear/understand the Ruach as through darkened glass  - but that to build a closer relationship with Him we needed to be faithful to execute with absolute integrity and fidelity that which we believe He has revealed to us; that if we were faithful with a little He could trust us and give us more.

I also stated to her that I believe the Ruach is speaking with us continually but we do not always understand - because HE CANNOT GET THROUGH TO US AS WE HAVE ABANDONED HIS COVENANT, HIS TORAH and as He is trying to lead us back to His Covenant made at Mount Sinai, we are rejecting His leading because we will not accept that HE WOULD & MUST do such a thing - WHAT HE IS SAYING IS AGAINST THE CHURCH MAN MADE DOCTRINES WE APPLY TO OUR "RELATIONSHIP" WITH YESHUA! 

This now brings me to what the theme of this blog is: But before you go on please take the time to watch this presentation by 119 Ministry  (http://119ministries.com/the-deuteronomy-13-test)

I hope you have watched the presentation; there is no accusation intended here for those still in the Christian Denominational system or those coming out of that system and now beginning to adopt "Messianic Judaic" works of man, but please understand that as I have said in the past The Jesus of the New Testament Denominational Church and The Yeshua of The Acts Assembly as witnessed to by Sha'ul (Paul), Kefas (Peter), Yakov (James), Judas (Jude), Stephanos (Stephen) and the other apostles and witnesses of The Way (The original "Hebrew Roots" assemblies), are two totally different People - Jesus is a sinner breaking Torah ( http://theshofarblows-steve.blogspot.com/2013/11/stone-your-rebellious-sons_6885.html) whereas Yeshua was the Prophet like unto Moshe that was promised to Yisrael and foretold in Deuteronomy 18:18 arw John 5:23-24, 30-35, 45-46; 12:49. 

We need to understand that Yeshua is the Creator and that He always has and always will work on a Seed Principle, thus as I have said, we have the Two Trees in the Garden, the analogies for Israel of the Vine, the Fig, the Olive - THESE ARE NOT MUTATIONS OF THE TREES, THESE ARE PURE AND CULTIVATED BY A LOVING GARDENER - IT IS THE GENTILE (SINNER) WHO IS THE MUTATED WILD OLIVE - the same applies with His Word - it is the SEED and will never mutate, it stays the same and His Word (The Seed, The Basis of His Covenant/His Torah) is not just interwoven into Creation IT IS THE VERY FABRIC AND FOUNDATION OF CREATION FROM THE BEGINNING AS WE ARE TOLD THAT YESHUA IS THE SAME ALWAYS - SO CHANGE HIS WORD (MIX THE SEED) YOU GET A MUTATED AND DEFORMED CREATION - YOU GET THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL AND EATING OF THAT BANISHES US FROM THE GARDEN! As Jonathan Cahn said, "change marriage and it is the same as changing an atom - there will be disastrous consequences" - (Rom. 11; Mat. 13:1-9, 18-23, 31-32; Luke 8:11; John 1:1-5, 14 & 17 NB vs. 17 is written so in the original Greek - for the law was given by Moshe, ** grace and truth came by Yeshua HaMessiach - NOTICE THAT THE WORD BUT where I have placed the ** is not in the original! Mal. 3:6;  Heb. 13:8).  

We need to come back to the Truth and walk in The Spirit of YHWH and not in the knowledge of man and his forced religious works!

I have no more to say, I pray that each receiving this blog and who have read it thus far will prayerfully consider what I have said, these words are not light, they are not easy to say, and for some they may demand a massive and life altering change, but maybe that required change can still be done incrementally (as a seed grows) through the leading of The Ruach of Yeshua now and not be forced all at once under massive duress later.

Shalom and blessings in the Name of our Redeemer and King, Yeshua HaMessiach.

Shabbat shalom

Bo'az.