The wonder OR mystery if you will, of the entire Written Word is that it is inspired by The Ruach of YHWH, BUT IT WAS LEFT TO MAN TO WRITE THOSE INSPIRED THOUGHTS IN HIS OWN WORDS! That is of course apart from the portions of the Torah which many of us believe to be the actual Eternal Wedding Covenant made by YHWH with His People Yisrael WHICH HE ACTUALLY SPOKE AND WROTE WITH HIS OWN VOICE AND FINGER, OR DICTATED WORD FOR WORD TO MOSHE!
YHWH in His glory and wisdom uses finite and imperfect man with their finite limited languages to convey His Infinite Eternal Messages for His People!
I was asked last Friday morning by a man searching for YHWH HOW IS IT I KNOW WHEN YHWH ELOHIM SPEAKS TO ME?
I thought for a moment and replied to him - HE speaks to me in dreams and visions; He speaks to me through His Written Word; He "impresses" things on my spirit; He "stirs" my spirit up to begin to ask questions; He touches my heart, reduces me to tears and in so many, many other ways - BUT IT DOES NOT MATTER WHICH WAY HE HE CHOOSES BECAUSE I KNOW THE VOICE OF MY SHEPHERD, and once he has spoken confirmations will follow!
Later on that same Friday I needed to answer an email to a sister in Messiah, I sitting here in Africa, she in America and I just believed that I had to in some way comfort & reassure her in her situation where she is right now so I wrote this:
"I have maintained, like many I am sure, that the systems of governance, finance, religions will force us out into the “desert” where I believe that Yeshua will make a way for us, but what it will cost us I do not know! I just keep reminding Abba, and telling myself that we are His Bondservants (Ex. 21) - the ride is going to be rather rough, but very, very revealing. It will lead us to Mt Sinai and He will contend with us Face to face, and those who accept His authority will be brought under the rod of His Covenant - Ps. 23, Eze. 20:33-38, and the Ruach of Yeshua has assured Zanja and I that He will never leave us as orphans and we shall never walk alone and when the time comes to go He will be our Advance-Guard and the Elohim of Yisrael will be our Rear-Guard: Hallelujah - John 14:18-28; Is. 52:11-12.
As for Zanja and I, our Shabbats are becoming more and more precious as we spend them mostly alone with Yeshua ministering to us. A little secret if I may. When not actually ministering on a Shabbat I do not even ask Abba anymore to show me if He needs me to prepare something for us to study or read - it works so now that when we get up on Shabbat morning we sit around in our PJ’s drink coffee, and begin to talk about what He has shown us during the week, and then it just takes off LITERALLY AND HE LEADS US TO SCRIPTURES, REVELATIONS, EXEGESES, you name it, and being out on the farm we are quiet and alone. HE TRULY MINISTERS TO US, WE EAT FROM HIM. BLESS HIS HOLY NAME, HE FEED US! It may not sound like the correct way to go, but that is how it is going here right now and has done for quite a long while, and that is why our Shabbats’ are so precious BECAUSE OF HIS PROMISE THAT WHERE EVER 2 OR MORE GATHER IN HIS NAME HE IS IN THEIR MIDST - SORRY TO LABOUR THE POINT, BUT HE KEEPS THAT PROMISE SO FAITHFULLY EVERY WEEK."
Once I had sent the mail I had the most urgent need to make an extract of this mail to our sister in the USA available to a few of our family in Messiah with whom we fellowship with here in Namibia; I knew that I knew I was to share with them the need TO TRUST YHWH COMPLETELY NO MATTER WHAT THEY MAY BE EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW OR IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE.
NB: Please remember we are very few and very scattered here in Namibia so we do not always have the privilege to physically get together that often on a Shabbat to fellowship - but thank YHWH for the internet facilities HE has provided for us, we are perfectly in His Will and Shepherding for our little flock, we get so much to eat and drink of Him, we have no shortages at all. Our Shepherd indeed leads us in pastures green and beside the still waters. Thank you Yeshua!
I added this to the mail to our Namibian brethren I felt led to sent it to:
"The promise that we would never walk alone was given to Zanja and I just as we were preparing to go to Zambia and Tanzania the last time, and that trip was the one that when we came back to Namibia I had to give the message to those YHWH chose that “WE HAVE SEEN THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIBULATION, AND NONE OF US WILL MAKE IT!”
What I believe He meant was that we still depended so much on our riches and resources that we could not experience what we had seen in Zambia and Tanzania IF WE DID NOT TRUST IN HIM AND HIM ALONE FOR EVERYTHING!
Please if you feel so led have a prayerful look at Ps. 23; Is. 52:11-12; Eze. 20:33-38; John 14:18-28 and where-ever else The Ruach leads you; and just to relax with, please have a listen to this which is the promise YHWH has given to us all that as His Children we will never walk alone - but let us remain in His care and commandments as He tells us to in John 14, and remember that Yeshua promises us that where 2 or more gather in His Name HE IS WITH US!"
On Shabbat morning Zanja and I were "doing our thing" in our PJ's, I told Zanja about the above and I believed that we should prepare to sit before YHWH and ponder the Scriptures above, especially John 14:18-28 - she agreed, we sat in quiet contemplation praying and reading as YHWH led us in preparation as per my suggestion.
During this preparation I personally was led to read the missives / Torah teachings of a man who goes under the title of The Rabbi's son (an excellent teacher in my opinion) which covered the Torah portion for this last Shabbat (I had not read the Torah portion for this Shabbat thus far) - Parsha Tetzaveh: - Exodus 27:20-30:10 "Command the children".
What was being discussed was so incredibly relevant to what I felt in my spirit and had tried to portray to our brethren the pervious day, and that being that we may very shortly be separated from all that we are familiar with, especially in the spiritual realm, BUT DO NOT FEAR YESHUA IS WITH US - JUST DO WHAT HE HAS ALREADY SHOWN YOU TO DO! Is. 50:10-11.
I could not put the commentary down; BUT THERE WAS STILL MORE TO COME:
When I read the Brit Chadashah (Re-newed or New Testament reading) relevant to last Shabbats Parashat I was "surprised" (could that be the right word?) to see that it referred to Hebrews 13:5-21 WHICH WAS A SCRIPTURE I WAS LED TO THE PREVIOUS DAY WHEN I WAS PREPARING THE EMAILS I HAVE NOTED ABOVE BUT WHICH I, AT THAT TIME, CHOSE NOT TO INCORPORATE!
But it did not stop there though, we all know that the Epistle to the Hebrews was written to the Hebrews just before the destruction of their Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE and covered the transition from the Levitical priest hood to the Eternal Melchizedek High Priest Hood of Messiah Yeshua, but the words that this author of the missive chose when explaining this fact struck such a chord within me and brought everything together - he wrote the following,
"Tetzaveh also corresponds nicely to some passages from the apostolic book most people call ‘Hebrews’. This ‘book’ is actually a letter written in the 1st Century CE by an unidentified writer to those of Hebrew descent who were following Y’shua.
In his letter to the myriads of Hebrew-born talmidim of Y’shua who were now dispersed throughout the world, an unidentified writer addresses in some detail a number of issues relative to the Redeemed lifestyle. The point of the letter was to make sure that believers from the Covenant Seed who were faced with the imminent destruction of the Second Temple and the devastation of Jerusalem by the Romans did not do what their forefathers had done when exiled in Babylon and Persia after the destruction of the First Temple and the devastation of Jerusalem by the Babylonians." (Emphasis by me)
Here is the MYSTERY, here is what I believe our Shepherd may be saying to us, His Little ones, right now:-
We are facing an imminent destruction of all that we have ever taken as "normal", we will be turned upside down, our lives will be shattered, we may very possibly loose everything in a physical, financial and spiritual sense; we may find ourselves in the most hostile and /or strange places being persecuted, robbed, extorted!
Most assuredly WE WILL BELIEVE THAT YHWH YESHUA HAS DESERTED US - BUT THIS IS NOT TRUE HE WILL BE CLOSER TO US THEN THAN WE MAY EVER HAVE ALLOWED HIM TO BE UP TILL THEN!
We are NOT TO COMPROMISE; WE ARE NOT TO CAPITULATE; TRUST IN YESHUA THAT HE WILL NEVER LEAVE US ALONE AS ORPHANS; WE WILL NEVER WALK ALONE: AND NEVER EVER TRUST IN THE ARM OF FLESH IT WILL DECEIVE AND DESTROY YOU, IT WILL LEAD TO CURSES: LISTEN TO THE RUACH OF YHWH - BEG HIM, BESEECH HIM, IMPLORE HIM IN HIS MERCY TO ENABLE YOU TO DRAW CLOSER TO HIM SO THAT HE MAY DRAW CLOSER TO YOU!
WE WILL NOT MAKE THIS TRIBULATION WITHOUT HIM AND I DO NOT MEAN JUST THE FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL THAT WILL COME - I AM TALKING OF THE SPIRITUAL - WE WILL WHORE WITH THE WORLD IF WE DO NOT ALLOW HIM TO STRIP US OF ALL THAT IS NOT OF HIM NOW AND COME CLOSER TO HIM LISTENING QUIETLY AND INTENTLY FOR HIS INSTRUCTIONS!
I believe that this message is critical and URGENT! I BELIEVE THAT IT IS GIVEN TO US WITH THE SAME URGENCY THAT MESSIAH GAVE TO HIS DISCIPLES ON THE NIGHT HE WAS BETRAYED - HE WANTS TO REASSURE US THAT TROUBLES WILL COME, BUT HE IS WITH US, THAT IS WHY HE SAID IT IS BETTER FOR US THAT THE WORD (THE PHYSICAL YESHUA HIMSELF WAS GONE), SO THAT HIS RUACH (SPIRIT) COULD BE WITH US TO LEAD & GUIDE US INTO ALL TRUTH & RIGHTEOUSNESS; TEACH & REVEAL TO US HOW TO WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT & TRUTH; PROTECT AND PROVIDE FOR US IN THE DESERT WHERE MAN'S WAYS CANNOT!
Please read the Scriptures quoted above, the links hi lighted - seek your Spiritual family, ask YHWH to place you where you were Created to be - MAKE AS MUCH SPIRITUAL PREPARATION AND PROVISION WHILST IT IS STILL DAY, PLEASE!
I believe the hour is late, so once again I urge you all, read this with caution, prayer and The Word - because as always, I am just a man also trying to find his way back Home to the Assemblies of the Apostles of Acts as Yeshua taught them!
Shalom in Messiah Yeshua.
Bo'az.
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