We are in need of a BIG DOSE OF BOREDOM!

Part of the calling I have been entrusted with is "to prepare the way for those to come".

In and of itself is seems rather straight forward, but like everything else, in my naivety, I tended towards my own ideas of what that part of the calling would mean -AND I SOON REALISED THAT I WAS WAY OFF THE MARK.

Now, sixteen years down the line & in retrospect influenced, and dare I say now, formed by actual events in my life all underpinned by Scripture and The Ruach HaKodesh I have an entirely different perspective on what I have been tasked to do, and possibly more importantly, how YHWH is going to have me achieve it.

There is, if you will accept it dear reader, a strange parody in the path I am being led, and yet a paradox in terms and application:

The parody? 

Well it would seem that almost all that I was told about religion and how we are to worship YHWH Elohim is being shown for what it evidently is - MAN'S BEST ATTEMPTS TO PRODUCE AND OFFER HIS BEST WORKS TO YHWH ELOHIM AS SACRIFICES OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP - HOWEVER TRAGICALLY THESE WORKS ARE IN NO WAY ACCEPTABLE TO YHWH ELOHIM! Is. 64:6

The paradox?

The Denominational system described obedience to the Old Testament Law (read Torah) TO BE BONDAGE UNDER THE LAW, and they thus MADE THEIR OWN LAW ACCORDING TO PAUL, which seemed to be correct earlier in my "religious walk" as to obey Torah would have led, in my opinion at that time, to THE GREATEST FUNDAMENTALISM IMAGINABLE - HOWEVER NOW IT WOULD SEEM THAT THE GREATEST FREEDOM IMAGINABLE IS DISCOVERED IN OBEYING THE TORAH AFTER RE-BIRTH IN MESSIAH YESHUA! Lev. 26:14-15; Josh. 1:6-9; Matt. 7:13-14; Lev. 26:3ff; Gal. 5:1 (note here slavery to the Law, or yoke of bondage applies to the law of man, the Oral Torah of Judaism, MAN MADE RELIGION); John 10:7-10; Rom. 6:1-2 arw Rom. 7:7, vs. 13-14 & Rom. 7-22 - 8:-27; Jam. 1:25 arw Jam. 2:14-26 & I John 3:4.

It would therefore now seem that "to prepare the way for those to come" I, and many like me who also are being used in this massive end-time revival of the saints, are being led by The Ruach of Yeshua BACK TO THE LAW, AND THEREFORE have been called to a TEAR DOWN THE PLACES OF HIGH WORSHIP WE FIND IN THE DENOMINATIONS AND RCC, HIGH PLACES OF WORSHIP ON WHICH WE HAVE BASED OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YHWH ELOHIM AND HIS SON YESHUA FOR THE LAST 2 MILLENNIA, AS GIDEON WAS CALLED TO DO.

In my case, and please understand this very important Truth, you can only talk with authority when you talk about something you have experienced - somebody else's experience may be a very good witness to your presentation or case - BUT YOU CANNOT CLAIM IT WITH ANY AUTHORITY - AT BEST IT IS WHAT IT IS - A GOOD WITNESS!

So in my case and as stated before, I often have "thoughts" introduced into my mind which niggle me, present themselves at the most unexpected moments and just generally make me aware of the fact that I need to be considering something.

Here is the latest "thought" - What does it mean in the true Biblical sense to "BUY OUT THE TIME"?

Reading from Eph. 5:1-9 we are instructed in what to do and what not to do so as to arrive at THE CONCLUSION OF vs. 10 and only THEN shall we be able to prove what is acceptable unto YHWH; vs. 11-14 instructs us to have absolutely nothing to do with these unfruitful works of darkness because even the discussion of such works is reprehensible, but we are to rather "rebuke" them by bringing them into The Light, A LIGHT WHICH IS OF YESHUA, THE REDEEMER OF YHWH, HIMSELF & SEEMINGLY THIS LIGHT IS ONLY GIVEN TO THOSE SLEEPERS WHO ARE ARISING FROM THE DEAD thereby showing and manifesting these dead and fruitless works for what they are - USELESS AND DEAD WORK HOLDING NO LIFE OR POWER! 

THEREFORE THOSE HAVING BEEN GIVEN THIS LIGHT ARE NOT TO WALK AS FOOLS, BUT ARE TO WALK DILIGENTLY & CAUTIOUSLY WITH THE WISDOM OF YHWH ESPECIALLY IN TIMES OF DIVERS TEMPTATIONS WHICH YHWH WILL ALLOW SO AS TO WORK OUT PATIENCE IN US TO ENABLE US TO WALK PERFECTLY AND WANT OF NOTHING.  Eph. 5:15; Jas. 1:2-8

Now arriving at Eph. 5:16 which brings us to the verse we are aiming at here :

"Redeeming the time, because the days are evil."

Now back to the subject of this missive:-  What does it mean in the true Biblical sense to "BUY OUT THE TIME"?

My initial thoughts were that we should be about doing YHWH's works, which I still believe is correct - BUT WHAT ARE HIS WORKS?

WHAT WORKS ARE ACCEPTABLE TO HIM?

I know what works are not of HIM - 

HE has shown me that exchanging the Original Shabbat for the Denominational Sunday is NOT of HIM!

HE has shown me that applying or following the Oral Judaic Law (Talmud) is NOT of HIM!

HE has shown me that discarding HIS Torah and all therein (Festivals, Diets and more) and replacing them other feasts, free diets and the rest is NOT of HIM!

HE has shown me that mixing HIS Torah with our own ideas of religion, praise and worship is definitely NOT of HIM!

HE has shown me that much of what the Denominations present before HIM as worship (including the Holy Communion of both the RCC & Denominationalism) is NOT of HIM!

So what IS?

Who can possibly tell?

ONLY THOSE WAKING UP AND BEGINNING TO WALK IN THE LIGHT OF A RISEN AND ETERNAL REDEEMER YESHUA CAN EVEN BEGIN TO TELL.

This walk in The Light is based on a relationship achieved by walking in the Foot Steps of Messiah Yeshua as revealed through His Ruach HaKodesh and based on The Written Word.

NB: Disciple in Hebrew comes from the word Talmudein (H8527 - talmiyd - from  root H3925 - lamad = properly - to goad, to teach; a pupil, diligently, expertly, skilfully, a teacher) & (G3101 - mathetes - from G3129 - manthano = a pupil, to learn, understand, a disciple).

Just a quick thought here: Looking at the Biblical use of "Disciples" do you think it was possible that Yeshua lived out His Torah perfectly as an example to HIS Disciple, then tells HIS Disciples to go out to the entire world teaching what HE HAS SHOWN THEM (which can only be a perfectly demonstrated Torah which HE preformed and lived out as Led by His Fathers' Spirit in their very presence) - THEN WITHOUT ANY WARNING HE CHANGES EVERYTHING THROUGH A PERSON WHO DID NOT EVEN WALK WITH HIM, AND WHO HAD ABSOLUTELY NO CREDIBILITY AT ALL AMONGST THE BELIEVERS, AS IS THE CASE WITH PAUL (SHA'UL) THUS CAUSING THERE TO NOW BE TWO TORAH'S, TWO MARRIAGE COVENANTS, BASICALLY TWO MESSIAH'S FOR ONE BRIDE? 

Come on, that is absolute and utter confusion, is not supported by Scripture AND THEREFORE CANNOT BE OF YHWH!

Do we really think these massive issue of which we pin eternity through or just allow ourselves to be led about by our noses? 

Each of us needs to decide for ourselves! This is your decision to make dear reader, not mine, not your pastor's or dominee's; father or priest's - YOUR DECISION YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE.  Either way whether you choose The Messiah with His Torah, or Jesus without - YOU MAKE A CHOICE: TO SIT ON THE FENCE IS NOT A CHOICE AND IS IN FACT GUILT (CHOICE) BY ASSOCIATION, THE SORT OF THING A COWARD DOES! IF YOU ARE BORN AGAIN IN MESSIAH YESHUA YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE ONE OF TWO CHOICES AND IT WILL AFFECT YOUR ETERNITY - SO BE WISE, BE PRUDENT, COUNT THE ETERNAL COST!

So I hope to have shown here in a very brief explanation that to "BUY OUT THE TIME" in a Biblical sense would require one to be raised from The Dead (acts of dead works) by Yeshua through His Ruach, and then to begin to walk in The LIGHT of Yeshua's Presence and Revelation; such an action WOULD OF NECESSITY BE ACCOMPANIED BY DIVERS TEMPTATIONS WHICH YHWH WILL ALLOW SO AS TO WORK OUT PATIENCE IN US THUS ENABLING US TO WALK PERFECTLY BEFORE HIM IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS LAW (TORAH) AND SO AS TO WANT FOR NOTHING; talk about Freedom! Deut. 8:2-3  HE HAS NOT CHANGED - THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN! Mal. 3:6; Heb. 13:8; Ecc. 1:9.

A topic that arises from time to time is: WHAT, IF ANYTHING, HAS YHWH TAUGHT ME IN THESE LAST YEARS?

My answer is: Much, HE has taught me much about HIS Torah!

BUT I have also learnt that HE is very serious about us walking in HIS TORAH, BECAUSE WHEN WE DO THIS IN OBEDIENCE TO HIS LEADING THROUGH HIS RUACH HE IS ENABLED TO WRITE HIS SPIRITUAL TORAH ON OUR HEARTS -BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THE LAW, THE TORAH, IS SPIRITUAL & BENEFICIAL WHEN WALKED IN. I HAVE ALSO LEARNT, I BELIEVE, JUST NOW AND IN PRINCIPLE HOW TO BUY OUT THE TIME! Please see our blogs here & here.

To do this I have had to learn to wait, and wait and then wait some more. I have learnt that YHWH Yeshua is Sovereign, and like any king I CANNOT JUST DEMAND MY RIGHTS AND WAYS! I NEED TO BE STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS YHWH ELOHIM! Ps. 46:10 (KJV) H7503 - raphah - to slacken (lit or fig):- abate, cease, forsake, idle, leave, let alone, be still -it is interesting to see that this word is very similar to H7495 which is pronounced exactly the same and begins with the same two letters as H7503 - raphah - but in the case of H7495 - raphah  means to mend, cure or heal - thus we can seemingly apply the Hebrew concept of "Word Play" - to be still, to leave well alone is to heal oneself, and to heal oneself requires being still, abating, leaving alone!

I have learnt through many circumstances that to apply His principle of "not by might, nor by power, BUT by HIS Ruach" achieves much: And for those who wait on Him (even in what would appear to be hopeless situations when all seems totally lost and we are ready to faint/capitulate) HE WILL RENEW OUR STRENGTH; AND WE WILL MOUNT UP ON THE WINGS OF EAGLES, WE SHALL RUN & NOT WEARY, AND WALK AND NOT BE FAINT!  Zech. 4:6; Is. 40:27-31.

But I had a frequent question, more of a complaint really: I could understand many things; deal with rather more now than I could have a few years ago - BUT I CRACK UP WITH BOREDOM, THIS IS ONE ASPECT I CANNOT (COULD NOT?) DEAL WITH: I prayed against it; I tried to fill the boredom up with "things", trivial pursuits, Bible studies, writing, physical exercises - BUT EVERYTHING I DID WAS AKIN TO CHASING AFTER THE WIND, or as the KJV translates, which I feel more inclined towards, translates as "a vexation of the spirit", AND ONCE COMPLETED, THAT WHICH I HAD DONE LEFT ME MORE EMPTY THAN BEFORE I STARTED! See Ecc. 1:14; 2:11 and others.

BUT THEN LAST NIGHT I came across this subject entitled Boredom is not a problem to be solved. It's the last privilege of a free mind.

This really caught my attention, the article makes this startling statement:

But boredom is not tragic. Properly understood, boredom helps us understand time, and ourselves. Unlike fun or work, boredom is not about anything; it is our encounter with pure time as form and content. With ads and screens and handheld devices ubiquitous, we don’t get to have that experience that much anymore. We should teach the young people to feel comfortable with time.

Then the writer made this suggestion to his class of students as a cure for boredom:

You know the best antidote to boredom, I asked them? They looked at me expectantly, smartphones dangling from their hands. Think, I told them. Thinking is the best antidote to boredom. I am not kidding, kids. Thinking is the best antidote to boredom. Tell yourself, I am bored. Think about that. Isn’t that interesting? They looked at me incredulously. Thinking is not how they were brought up to handle boredom.

Were any of us taught that to deal with boredom we should just think? 

Sure this is a secular writer using secular examples, BUT YHWH used a donkey did HE not?

In our hurly, burly world of today we have forgotten how to be still and just think through a situation. We have given up on sitting and pondering, dreaming, imagining, respectfully arguing with YHWH - we rush instead to Google; You Tube; Twitter or Facebook, our Denominational leader for advice - we need to be entertained; anaesthetised and numbed from reality: SPOON FED LIKE BABIES - WE CANNOT AND DARE NOT THINK FOR OURSELVES ANYMORE - WE NEED TO BE AMUSED (Greek - English Translation - DUMBED DOWN, STUPID!).

BECAUSE WE ARE NO LONGER PEACEFUL & COMFORTABLE WITH OURSELVES: WE DO NOT TRUST OURSELVES OR OUR ELOHIM - WE NEED TO BLAME SOMEBODY, ANYBODY FOR OUR DECISIONS, AND IT IS EVEN BETTER WHEN ALL A SUNDRY AGREE WITH US - BUT TO STAND ALONE AFTER HAVING THOUGHT AND WRESTLED OUR SITUATION OUT WITH THE CREATOR YHWH ELOHIM IS COMPLETELY INCONCEIVABLE FOR MOST OF US!

We have let CNN, NBC, SABC, BBC, Internet, our denominations tell us what is going on and what we should do to the extent that we now we rely on them completely, whilst they in turn direct and channel our thoughts, actions and fears according to the agenda's their masters have developed for them.

This has become a serious psychological condition from which their is no return, we are unable to really think anymore - EVEN OUR CHURCHES (INCLUDING SOME OF THE MESSIANIC ASSEMBLIES) ARE USER FRIENDLY, POLITICALLY CORRECT PLACES OF SOCIAL AND LIKE MINDED GATHERINGS, DIRECTED BY THE "FACILITATOR (AKA RABBI, PASTOR, DOMINEE, REVEREND, FATHER, PRIEST and so forth) and orchestrated according to his/her agenda or rules laid out by some governing body above them.

It is even worse for most of our children today I believe, social media has in my opinion taken on a life of its own ready to suck our children and grand-children into their "manga's" (strange local Afrikaans colloquial word meaning a cattle chute that cattle are forced down when being dipped or inoculated; and in a local tribal language I was introduced to in my earlier years - "MANGA" meant to lie!)

Which leads me to the lie (Manga) that a senior member of the Synod of the largest denomination in Namibia uttered on the local Christian Channel this morning when telling the "faithful" how he and his house celebrate the pagen festival of St. Valentine's Day to the Honour and Glory of Jesus, but not as the world did which had now sexually perverted it! Really I suppose he may never have heard of Deut. 12:29-32 because the Torah does not exist anymore in his denomination! BUT anyway he is also guilty of leading the sheep he has down a chute (manga) they were never supposed to go down, but which they willing followed - so nobody is innocent here.

Man are we in trouble!!

So there is the parody I spoke of in the beginning of this missive; a parody = an imitation or version of something that falls far short of the real thing; a travesty - as nicely demonstrated by this "Holy man of God" on our National Christian Channel!

And here is the paradox: The Body of Messiah has become so dysfunctional, lawless and assimilated (INTEGRATED) into the world and its ways, systems and educational patterns "sans" HIS LAW (HIS TORAH) as to be useless & without savour (SALT) DESPERATELY NEEDING THE LAW OF YHWH NOW MORE THAN EVER IN THESE LAST DAYS SO THAT SHE CAN BE SO FUNDAMENTAL AS TO BE HOLY (KADOSH) - SET APART FROM THE WORLD AND IT'S WAYS: SHE IS SO IN NEED OF A MASSIVE DOSE OF BOREDOM AND DOES NOT EVEN REALISE IT, OR IF SHE DOES, SHE, LIKE ME TRY(ED) TO FILL IT WITH SOMETHING ELSE THEREBY AVOIDING AN INCREDIBLE ELOHIM INSPIRED SITUATION CREATED TO BRING US CLOSER TO HIM AND MORE UNDER HIS COUNSEL AND PRESENCE!

In closing please allow me to say that not all that we see on internet, or Google, CNN and the rest is necessarily wrong - BUT WE SO NEED TO HAVE THE TIME TO SIT WITH THE RUACH OF YHWH AS HE WILLS TO HEAR HIS VOICE SO THAT WE CAN WALK IN HIS PATHS IN TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT WE CAN WORSHIP HIM IF SPIRIT AND TRUTH, WALK IN HIS COUNSEL OTHERWISE WE WILL BE SO DECEIVED AND CONTINUALLY RUNNING AFTER OUR OWN TAILS; BUT NEVER FINDING THE BREAD AND WATER OF LIFE: NEVER BEING ABLE TO PROVE WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO YHWH: NEVER BEING TO FULLY UTILISE AND REDEEM THE TIME HE HAS GIVEN TO OUR ACCOUNT!

Are our minds still free enough to confront the additional time that we have and give over to His Divine boredom, or are they so controlled as to seek every avenue of escape and amusement so as to avoid our appreciation of the time YHWH has given to us in which we can think on His things and come into His Presence?

Are we buying out this precious time, or are we selling it cheaply?

So dare we pray and ask YHWH Abba, in Yeshua's Name to forgive us for our human efforts, known and unknown - and to please make us so unsatisfied and bored to the point of a "vexing of our spirits" with anything that is not of HIM?

Again, each one of us has the right to choose for him or herself - NOBODY WILL FORCE YOU, BUT WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR CHOICE, OR LACK THEREOF! 

There seems to be more coming out from the blog than usual right now, I trust and pray it is of YHWH, but that does not mean you should be any less diligent, and as the good Berians check all that I have said against His Word with prayer and thanks giving, please.

Shalom in Messiah Yeshua.

Bo'az