It is an indisputable fact that YHWH Elohim is an Elohim of Creation and life; whilst on the other hand HaSatan, the enemy, is an entity which is only able to produce counterfeits of the Real and causes death!
In my opinion this is nowhere more apparent than in the very foundation of our interaction with YHWH Elohim Himself - it all started in The Garden when HaSatan told the Bride of Messiah to not operate by the mandated Ways of YHWH but by ways of man led by his/her human senses!
Thus we had the birth of RELIGION which resulted in the death of a RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CREATOR HIMSELF!
On that flawed foundation we now have an entire system of "RELIGIONS" with all their different religious works which are erroneously substituted for an intimate "RELATIONSHIP" with our Creator.
This topic has come a long, long way with me thus I would ask you all to read an amended blog that I penned a while back to get a little background of where I am coming from.
Of course you have all heard the explanation of the similarities between Rat Poison and the works of the enemy - Rat poison is 99,9% good for the rats but 0,01% poisonous - when eaten the rat dies! Well it is the same with the works of the wicked one - a large percentage of the Truth is contained in his deception with just a small amount of lies!
THESE LIES, WHEN DIGESTED WILL KILL ONES SPIRIT MAN, OR AT THE VERY LEAST LEAVE IT SERIOUSLY ILL; SEPARATED FROM YHWH ELOHIM THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE AND HEALTH!
Our entire walk with Yeshua is littered with the carcasses of our religious efforts and man made attempts to please Him, this is harsh I know, but it is the reality of the day AND THESE ATTEMPTS WILL ULTIMATELY END UP LEADING US INTO DECEPTION AND SEPARATION FROM HIM!
We all need to come to grips with 2 aspects of fact right here and right now:- Firstly: BECAUSE OF WHOM YHWH ELOHIM IS IN DIVINE AND ETERNAL UNCHANGEABLE ESSENCE WE CANNOT PLEASE HIM BY OUR OWN HUMANLY INSPIRED EFFORTS OR LOGIC:
Secondly: WE WILL ALL FALTER AND STUMBLE IN OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM AT SOME OR OTHER STAGE! Is. 55:6-11; Is. 64:6; Rom. 3:10, 1 Cor. 10:11
The reason we are unable to please YHWH Elohim through our own unguided human efforts is really very simple and understandable: ANYTHING which is done out of the flesh cannot please HIM or stand in HIS Presence (please read this Scripture very carefully - Rom. 8:1-8 - vs. 2 = is very definite in that THE LAW (1) OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN YESHUA HAS NOW SET US FREE FROM THE LAW (2) OF SIN AND DEATH - THIS DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE NOW SET FREE FROM KEEPING TORAH - IT IS THE VERY BREAKING OF TORAH WHICH HAS EVOKED THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH AND GIVEN IT AUTHORITY OVER US!!
THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE FOUND IN OUR REBIRTH IN AND THROUGH YESHUA ENACTS A RELEASE FROM THE MANDATORY DEATH SENTENCE WHICH IS REQUIRED AND ENCAPSULATED WITHIN THE TORAH FOR THE VERY BREAKING OF THE TORAH, THE LAW OF YHWH, INITIALLY!
Please ask yourselves this - Why does Sha'ul use the same word (Nomos - G3551) for LAW on both occasions when he is obviously speaking of two entirely different aspects and laws of our very existence?
Verse 3 has the answer: BECAUSE MAN WAS NEVER ABLE TO KEEP THE PERFECT LAW OF TORAH WITHOUT THE INDWELLING OF THE RUACH (SPIRIT) OF YESHUA SIMPLY BECAUSE OF OUR FALLEN NATURE, OUR SELF CENTRED, PROUD, HUMANISTIC FLESH WHICH TELLS US WE CAN BE LIKE ELOHIM WITHOUT ELOHIM AND HIS WAYS BEING APPLIED BY US.
To qualify to even begin walking in His Ways DEMANDS THAT WE ARE BORN AGAIN, (REDEEMED) THROUGH YESHUA AND THUS ENABLING US TO NOW LEGALLY BE ENTITLED AND EQUIPPED TO BE LED BY THE RUACH (SPIRIT) OF ELOHIM INTO ALL TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS - IF WE SO CHOOSE.
NOW WHEN WE BEGIN TO WALK IN TORAH AFTER REBIRTH AND FALTER AND FALL, WHICH WE WILL DO BECAUSE OF OUR FALLIBILITY AND INABILITY TO OVERCOME OUR DEVIOUS & PUTRID FLESH BECAUSE OF THE FALL IN THE GARDEN, THE ETERNAL BLOOD OF YESHUA, ALSO COVERS US FOR THESE SINS, HALLELUJAH! John 3:3-8; 1 John 1:1-10 arw 1 John 3:1-9; Ex. 21:1-11 -please again read this very prayfully and carefully - IT IS THE LAW OF REDEMPTION WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY APPLICABLE TO YHWH ELOHIM AND POINTS TO HOW MESSIAH WILL REDEEM US - NB: PLEASE NOTE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HANDLING OF A HANDMAIDEN AND A MALE SERVANT!
I now will deal with the subject of this missive which I have chosen to call the "doctrine" of generational sins & which bind the children and makes them supposedly responsible for the sins of their forefathers and thus weighs them down with the consequences of said sins!
The most heinous of examples that I can think of based on this false teaching can be seen as the very foundation of the ant-semetic wave that has engulfed the world for almost 2 millennia and they are that THE JEWS MURDERED JESUS and are thus THE CHRIST KILLERS!
The Catholics and Church Fathers used this slanderous demonic doctrine to murder Jews in their millions, it has been suggested that this "doctrine" may have played a part in the decision of Hitler to justify his "Holocaust" against the Jews.
Then there there are Crusades (1000 years after Mat. 27:24-25) which killed Jews, long before they ever killed any Muslims in Yerusaliem because they, the Jews, were the "Christ Killers" -
A secondary task was to rid the world of as many non-Christians as possible - both Muslims and Jews. The Crusaders gave the Jews two choices in their slogan: "Christ-killers, embrace the Cross or die!" 12,000 Jews in the Rhine Valley alone were killed as the first Crusade passed through. Some Jewish writers refer to these events as the "first holocaust." Once the army reached Jerusalem and broke through the city walls, they slaughtered all the inhabitants that they could find (men, women, children, newborns). After locating about 6,000 Jews holed up in the synagogue, they set the building on fire; the Jews were burned alive. The Crusaders found that about 30,000 Muslims had fled to the al Aqsa Mosque. The Muslim were also slaughtered without mercy.
It would seem that the root of this "doctrine" of generational sins can be found in verses such as Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:6-7; Num. 14:18 & Deut. 5:8-10 (both referring back to the Exodus verses). A closer look at these verse will see the expressed fact THAT ONLY THOSE WHO HATE YHWH ELOHIM WILL HAVE THEIR INIQUITIES VISITED TO THE 3RD AND 4TH GENERATIONS OF THEIR CHILDREN - BUT FOR THOSE WHO LOVE YHWH AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS ELOHIM HE SHOWS MERCY TO THE THOUSANDS!
Brethren, please stop and consider for a moment that WE ALL HAVE SINNED (broken YHWH's Commandments) and fallen short of the glory of ELOHIM (Rom. 3:23) BUT according to the Word this vicious cycle has to be broken somewhere to apply the promised blessings to those who love HIM to the 1000th, and that cycle is broken by those coming to Redemption through Messiah Yeshua and who are then freely justified by HIS Grace that is found in Messiah Yeshua and freely RECONCILED THROUGH FAITH IN HIS BLOOD SHED FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THE REMISSION (A COMPLETE CANCELLATION) OF SINS THAT ARE PAST! (Rom. 3:24-25)
PLEASE READ THAT AGAIN - A COMPLETE REMISSION, AN ETERNAL AND FULL CANCELLATION OF ALL SINS THAT ARE PAST! Hallelujah Yeshua my Master, King and Saviour, Thank you Abba - We are free!!!!
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT MY FOREFATHERS DID WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE, ACTIONS OR PERMISSION!
But please let me press this home: Deut. 28:2-13 describes the conditions we now need to apply through Yeshua for eternal blessings in every area of our lives; BUT Deut. 28:15 tells us that those who will not listen and respond to HIS Voice and observe HIS Commandments and Statutes curses will follow - and these curses listed in the rest of the chapter cover just about every curse one could think of!
There is also a verse which we may not pay very much attention to because of our religious views on what Sha'ul is supposed to have preached, and that is found in Gal. 1:8-9 and I quote:
"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed."
Please read these Scriptures:
- Rom. 8:1-2: There is absolutely no condemnation for them who are in Messiah Yeshua and who walk after the Ruach!
- Rom. 8:11: The curse in us have been broken at the Stake of Messiah.
- 2 Cor. 5:17-19: Through Messiah Yeshua we are now a New Creation AND THE OLD THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY AND OUR TRESPASSES ARE NO LONGER IMPUTED (ATTRIBUTED) TO US.
- Heb. 2:17: Yeshua, our High Priest has made reconciliation for the sins of all HIS people.
- Titus 2:13-14: Our hope is in the appearing of Messiah Yeshua, our Elohim Himself, Who offered Himself to redeem us from all iniquity.
- John 8:36: IF THE SON SHALL MAKE YOU FREE THEN YOU SHALL BE FREE INDEED!
Brethren, Messiah was made sin & the curse for us who accept HIM and His offer of Salvation so that we can be made the Righteousness of Elohim in Yeshua! (2 Cor. 5:21; Gal. 3:13 arw Deut. 21:23).
Our salvation and redemption; our fullness of life and blessings in abundance; our very well being DOES NOT LIE IN BEING DELIVERED BY SOME PERSON IN A "DELIVERANCE MINISTRY" IT LIES IN MESSIAH YESHUA AND OUR RETURNING TO HIS MARRIAGE COVENANT - HIS TORAH!
Through Adam the world fell into sin, without us being involved and that Sin changed then entire Creation and eternally effected us, BUT we were given Messiah Yeshua to redeem us from something we could not control - Rom. 5:12-21; BUT my Father and all his Fathers before him, as with me, also fell into sin, but here is the difference THEWRE SIN DOES NOT EFFECT ME BECAUSE I WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THEIR CHOICES TO SIN - I WASN'T EVEN THERE, WHAT LAW BLAMES ME AND HOLDS ME RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT MY DAD, GRAND-DAD OR WHO EVER DID? THAT IS UNLESS I DECIDE TO WALK THE SAME PATHS AS THEY WALKED, COMMIT THE SAME SINS AS THEY COMMITTED THROUGH MY OWN CHOICES, BUT, IF WE REALISE THAT THEY WERE WRONG AND WE TOO ARE NOW WRONG (SINNING - BREAKING TORAH) AND REPENT WE ARE SAVED AND FREE OF THOSE SINS! (Jer. 16:19-21)
I can definitely ask someones forgiveness for something my Dad may have done to them in the past, BUT I AM CERTAINLY NOT REPONSIBLE FOR THAT ACTION and the Word bears this out - Please read Ezekiel 18 - it is massive and shows the responsibilities of each for his/her own conduct, AND shows the path back to YHWH Elohim and full forgiveness for all and any sins!
Any sin, whether meted out to a family, a nation, a person, is redeemable in and through Messiah YESHUA AND THEN WE NEED, FOR PURPOSES OF SANCTIFICATION, TO RETURN TO HIS TORAH! Please see "The Blood of Yeshua is enough for me!"
1 Cor. 10:21 explains that we cannot be of YHWH and of the enemy - either one or the other - Messiah has done a complete work - it is up to us to accept it!
We are told in 1 John 3:2 that when our King and Redeemer appears we shall be just like HIM - we will never be just like HIM if we remain in our religious circles and "doctrines" - WE NEED TO BE TAUGHT BY THE RUACH OF OUR FATHER AND BRIDEGROOM WHO HE IS AND WHAT IS PLEASING TO HIM - AND SUBMISSION TO HIS MARRIAGE COVENANT REALLY PLEASES HIM, AND IF WE LOVE HIM WE WILL OBEY AND KEEP HIS COVENANT!
Religion was designed by man to control: The Covenant presented by Messiah Yeshua to His Bride was destined to set us free from all control!
Remember that Ba'laam could not curse those whom YHWH had blessed - Numbers 23:7-8 and the only way that he could get them to be "punished" was to get them to break TORAH - Numbers 25:1-5.
Some more verses we may want to ponder with His help -
Rom. 8:28-35; Eph. 6:10-18; James 4:7-8.
There is more we could write about such as Ruth the Moabitess who was in the line of Yeshua Himself and was from a cursed tribe - BUT BY TURNING TO THE ELOHIM OF YISRAEL AND JOINING HIS PEOPLE IN THEIR WAYS (TORAH) SHE WAS REDEEMED. Or the mixed tribes who came out of Egypt with the Israelites but were considered one and the same as the Tribes once they renounced their gods and turned to YHWH through faith in The Blood of The Lamb slain before the foundations of the Earth - but I hope I have made my case with what I have penned here.
We must just beware that we do not bring a curse upon us and our houses' by applying religious actions which are not of YHWH because this is akin to idolatry and a continuation in these practices can lead to rebellion and that is witchcraft!
Read John 9, it is a very interesting chapter about sin and spiritual blindness, may He open our eyes to His Truth, His Way and His Life!
Shabbat shalom in Messiah Yeshua
Bo'az