I had the opportunity to share a coffee or two with a brother in Messiah Yeshua earlier this week; our conversation centred more or less on my last blog.
The question that arose out of this meeting was, in my opinion, best summed up thus:
Why is it that the Body of Messiah seems so cold, without real passion and spiritual stirring?
WHY IS IT THAT MOST WITHIN THE BODY ARE MORE CONCERNED IN MAINTAINING AND ACCEPTING THE POLITICALLY FRIENDLY AND COMFORTABLE HEGEMONIC & HUMANISTIC STATUS QUO OF TODAYS' SENSUAL PLEASURE SEEKING EXISTENCE THAN TAKING UP THEIR STAKE, RETURNING TO THE TRUTH OF THE WORD AND FOLLOWING OUR MESSIAH YESHUA WHERE EVER HE MAY LEAD?
More condensed we may ask - WHY ARE WE SCARED ALMOST TO THE POINT OF IMMOBILITY TO TAKE A CHANCE ON WALKING WITH MESSIAH YESHUA WITH A PASSION AND FIRE LOOKING TOWARDS HIS RETURN AND HIS KINGDOM RULE HERE ON EARTH?
I confess to the fact that I, more often than not, am beleaguered with an inner struggle to deal with the stress and anxiety I experience almost continually: A struggle birthed out of the my frustrations with the futility of this dying world and its' fast fading "pleasures", weighed against my almost tangible expectation of the return of our Messiah and King Yeshua, all painted against a back-drop of the insipid, the staggeringly sobering realisation of my, and I suspect all of you as well's, need for and dependancy on this sick and debauched fallen world, this fallen toxic society in which we live, breath and exist!
To sleep through a night is for me a matter worthy of note, I kid you not.
Being that this "condition" has been growing in intensity for a very long time now, I really needed to have a coffee with my brother in Messiah and ask if in his opinion I may be "losing it" (he and I have touched on my "intensity" a few times in the past); being the diplomatic person he is he did not really give an opinion, but he did say that when he reads what I write and say he very clearly picks up my massive frustration with the Body!
I had begged YHWH Elohim to please remove this "intensity" if it is not of HIM, but so far to no avail.
This blog is not about the frustrations and anxieties of the writer though - the descriptions hopefully serve as just an introduction to the short message I am wanting to put across:
THE VIRGINS ARE ASLEEP, some, on waking, are destined to wisdom, whilst others unfortunately to damning foolishness; but be that as it may we all however have been soothed and lulled by the comfortable western traditions and Christian denominationalism continually & reassuringly sung to us whilst we snuggle up in our cocoon of self-denial and Roman's 13 passivity, all the while bowing and scraping to "Caesar" and his systems, which largely include the recognised religious systems as well (they are called Babylon and her daughters in the Word).
What is it that differentiates the two groups of virgins of Matt. 25?
It is that the foolish did NOT TAKE ENOUGH OIL WITH THEM!
What is OIL symbolic of in The Word?
The RUACH HAKODESH; THE SPIRIT OF THE YHWH OUR FATHER; THE SPIRIT WHICH RESTED ON OUR MESSIAH YESHUA, THE SPIRIT OF:
- WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING
- OF COUNCIL AND MIGHT
- KNOWLEDGE AND FEAR OF YHWH ELOHIM
- OF QUICK UNDERSTANDING IN THE FEAR OF YHWH ELOHIM! Is. 61:1; Acts 10:38; Is.11:1-3 is what the foolish virgins did not have, and when they realised their lack of OIL they, the foolish virgins, asked the Wise to give of their Precious OIL: The Wise, obviously, refused but they did tell them (the foolish) what to do to try and rectify this damning situation - and this bears noting:
"..go ye rather TO THEM THAT SELL, and buy for yourselves. And while they went TO BUY, THE BRIDEGROOM CAME AND THEY THAT WERE READY WENT IN WITH HIM TO THE MARRIAGE AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT!"
The foolish were sent back to their "teachers", the sellers of religion, to acquire their necessary OIL AND THEY MISSED THE BRIDEGROOM!
Please take time to have a look at this link giving a summary describing the history of The Church and THE MASSIVE POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS THE MINISTRY OF A VERY ORTHODOX & JEWISH YESHUA HAD FOR ROME (THE SECULAR GOVERNANCE) AT THAT TIME, AND STILL HAS TO THIS DAY, OR SHOULD ONE SAY ESPECIALLY TODAY!
We really need to note here and now that no matter how hard we may try, no matter how diplomatic we may address issues, to boldly speak the Truth today is a massively divisive and political statement that will in and of itself cause reactions and ramifications because the clash between Light and dark, Kingdom against kingdom has just about come to fullness of time!
We are told in The Word that the people of YHWH:
"are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou has forgotten the LAW (TORAH) of thy Elohim, I will also forget thy children." (Hos. 4:6).
We are also told in 2 Thes. 2:7 that the mystery of inquity was already at work at the time that Sha'ul received and penned The second Epistle to the Thessalonians and that there were going to be those PERISHING because they would believe the works of the wicked one BECAUSE THEY DID NOT RECEIVE A LOVE FOR THE TRUTH THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED, AND ELOHIM, BECAUSE OF THIS REJECTION OF HIS INVITATION TO ACCEPT A LOVE FOR HIS TRUTH, WOULD SEND A MASSIVE DELUSION OVER THEM THAT THEY WOULD BELIEVE THE LIES OF THE ENEMY!
SUBMITTING OUR FLESH TO THE WORKS OF THE TORAH, THE SAME TORAH THAT YESHUA SUBMITTED HIMSELF TO, WILL BRING US CLOSER TO OUR INTENDED BRIDEGROOM, THUS ABANDONING THIS LAW (TORAH), AMONGST OTHER THINGS, WILL LEAD TO OUR REJECTION AS PRIESTS, AND JUST AS CRITICALLY, OUR CHILDREN BEING FORGOTTEN BY YHWH! This decision on our behalf does not just involve us you see, IT EFFECTS OUR LOVED ONES, OUR CHILDREN!
Again we should look more closely at 2 Thes. 2:10(b) for the reasoning that YHWH Elohim would send this massive delusion over these people:
"...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." KJV
"and in every deception of unrighteousness among the ones being destroyed, because of the love of the truth received not for them to be delivered." ABP+
"en met allehande verleiding van ongerechtigheid in die wat verlore gaan, omdat hulle die liefde tot die waarheid nie angeneem het om gered te word nie." AOV
"Lost people will be fooled by his evil deeds. They could be saved, but they will refuse to love the truth and accept it. CEV
"and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved." ESV
I believe that the case that can be made, and as stated in the past, that 2 Thes. 2:10 clearly shows that there is, with rebirth in Messiah Yeshua & contained within the free gift of faith through grace an ability which also allows one to accept the fullness of the Truth of the Torah if one so choses (Eph. 2:8-10).
HOWEVER, just as in the Garden, one also has the right to reject such a gift of faith (pistis - fidelity) through grace and accept the lie of the enemy through the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and thus not depending or relying on the Fruit of The Tree of Life, The Fruit which is the source and required sustenance to ENABLE US TO FAITHFULLY TRUST IN THE LEADING OF THE MESSIAH THROUGH THE SPIRIT (RUACH) OF HIS FATHER.
BUT INSTEAD AFTER OUR REBIRTHS WE ARE TAUGHT TO RELY ON A DISGUISED DOCTRINE OF HUMAN LOGIC, ALSO KNOWN AS GNOSTICISM, BY THE DENOMINATIONAL SYSTEM!
It is not yet too late to repent of this Christian Gnosticism built on anti-semitism which we have all been party to, and to come out of it as commanded in The Word. Rev. 18:4
There are many out there who are under this strong delusion from YHWH Elohim, and so are believing the lie that all is still OK; the teachings of the Denominations and their Sunday Doctrines are right. That the time to cry out is not here yet and anyway we are most probably well on track for a rapture experience anyway because Jesus would never allow us to suffer.
Dear reader if you believe any of the above paragraph, then know this is all folly and it is indeed time to awaken, to cry out in repentance and seek His Ruach and His Leading into His Word and Kingdom now before it is indeed too late.
Please read this link, it is food for thought and prayer - DO NOT BELIEVE THE LIES OF THE TEACHERS WHO LEAD YOU AWAY FROM MESSIAH AND HIS TORAH, HIS COVENANT OF ETERNAL PEACE AND MARRIAGE - they are false teachers who will be dealt with by Yeshua Himself (Deut. 13);
YOU DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS OUT THERE, I ADMONISH YOU - DO NOT LEAD HIS FLOCK ASTRAY BY TEACHING THAT THE TORAH HAS BEEN ABRIDGED, DONE AWAY WITH OR IS JUST A PLAIN ADDITIONAL BURDEN TO HINDER THE FREEDOM OF BELIEVERS IN MESIAH YESHUA!
PLEASE ALL OF US MUST NEVER REJECT HIS ONGOING INVITATION TO ACCEPT INITIALLY A LOVE FOR HIS TRUTH, AND AS WE GROW IN HIM, A DEEPER AND MORE ABIDING LOVE FOR HIS TRUTH, FOR HIS FULLNESS OF HIS OIL FOR OUR LAMPS IN THESE DARK TIMES (Ps.119:105 - what does His Lamp use for Fuel to burn so as to light up our paths?).
A final point my friend and I agreed upon was this - If we believe we may lack urgency and passion in our lives could it be because we are not committed to YHWH Elohim and the finding of His Truth with all our hearts, souls and MINDS?
You may want to ask yourselves this question - DO I WANT TO FOLLOW YESHUA MY MESSIAH IN A COVENANT RELATIONSHIP NO MATTER WHAT IT MAY COST & WHERE IT MAY LEAD? Mark 10:17-40 is the example our Pious and Orthodox Pharisee, Yeshua HaMessiach The Son of YHWH Elohim left for us to follow!
Shalom
Bo'az
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