Eze. 33:1-6: Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Don't listen to the Denominations.

This is not a pointing of the finger, it is a statement of fact which needs to be stated:

We all have intimate knowledge of the idiom "carrying excess baggage" and that is why we are admonished in Rom. 12:1 to present our bodies as living sacrifices.

How do we achieve this end?

Rom 12:2 tells us it is achieved by not being conformed to the world any longer BUT by having our minds transformed (G3339 - metamorfo - literally metamorphosed) through a process of renewing (G342 - anakainosis - renovating, renewing) them.

This renewing of our minds is a life-long and varied process initiated by YHWH through HIS Ruach beginning most often with the "Wooing" of the person in question and culminating in re-birth in and through Messiah Yeshua, and then a further and more intense process of life-long sanctification achieved, if we want it, once again by the leading of HIS Ruach into HIS Word and life applications of It - in other words, moving into the very Personage of Messiah Yeshua HIMSELF to enable us to walk as HE Walked! John 1:1-3 & 14; Eph. 4:20-24; Jos. 1:8-9; 1 John 2:6.

However we see that from the very beginning of Creation the attacks launched against The Word, The Truth of YHWH (The Way of Yeshua) has been twisted by the enemy in what is described in the Word as very subtle or cunning way towards a way now representing the personage of the enemy (H6175 - arum - cunning, subtle Gen. 3:1) and this deception, his way, has continued into our present times (2 Pet. 3:15-16), however we are again encouraged through Kephas (Peter) in 2 Pet. 3:1 to stir up our pure minds by way of remembrance & remembrance of what?  The words of the Holy Prophets (TORAH MOSES THE GREATEST OF THE PROPHETS whom YHWH ENTERTAINED FACE TO FACE) & the Apostles of YESHUA our MESSIAH. Deut. 34:10-12; 2 Pet. 3:2 arw Mat. 5:17ff; Matt. 28:19-20 & Acts 2:41-44

It is therefore crucial that we realise that we all, individually and corporately, have an active role to play in the renewal of our minds, a role based on multiple daily decisions needing to be made by each and everyone of us, and this is especially evident in this day and age, with the battle for our minds being waged with an intensity most likely never seen before and achieved through the barrage of information through all the social media outlets and world opinions (i.e. www - Google), education, entertainment and so many other ways.

Now obviously, as pointed out above, this principle of altering or changing our mindsets is a universal principle which can be used by any form of authority one wishes to apply or submit to ones life - indeed we need look no further than our own front-doors at the social principles of Humanism with its accompanying political and religious processes constantly trying to infiltrate our minds and thus our lives. See the ever present and critical warning Yeshua gave to us in Mat. 24:4-5!

So there we have it, we all carry baggage and have the propensity, due to our sinful flesh, to add more useless baggage to that which we already carry.

That having been said I hope that all reading this will understand when I say that this is not an exercise in "finger pointing", we have all fallen and hopefully are all trying to find our way back Home; Abba forbid that we ever consider ourselves better than another (Rom. 3:23 & 12:3-5).

What is the relevance of what I have penned so far? 

Well precisely because most of us reading this missive are in the predominantly, albeit flawed, western Judeo-Christian cultures where all of the above is most prevalent is reason enough for the enemy to have massively impacted us by his progressive Humanism on every level of our existence for many, many years and now, in these last days, as said, with an increased & exponential aggressiveness, that we are today, more than ever before are finding ourselves potential slaves to the Humanistic Doctrine of Relative Truths shielded behind Political Correctness. Rev. 12:12

These humanistic doctrines of man have been further impacted, in my opinion, by our explicit and "TORTURED/PERVERTED Christian doctrines" of LAWLESSNESS summed up in the Christian Mantra "WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW BUT UNDER GRACE!" Please read 2 Pet. 3:16 into which one could also insert abrogation of The Torah which in and of itself is the very definition of SIN as described in 1 John 3:4 - thus today we have and live in a society by-en-large based on morals founded on human opined relativity and not fact (read Biblically revealed Truth) all of which is underpinned by a religious system espousing similar, if not identical moral, social and political values as the world.

As a result of the foregoing many of us believers today are still within the denominational systems, and consequently when being confronted by The Absolute Spiritual Truth of The Word now expounded upon by The Ruach of YHWH HIMSELF, AS OPPOSED TO THE BASELESS RELATIVISM OF THE HUMANISTIC DOCTRINES OF MAN AND HIS THEOLOGY WE HAVE BECOME SO ACCUSTOMED TO, WE FIND OUR MINDS BALKING AT SUCH A DIVERGENCE OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF LIFE WHEN WEIGHED UP AGAINST OUR USUAL DIET FROM THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE & UNFORTUNATELY SUCH A DIVERGENCE CAN AND IS BOTH EXTREMELY THREATENING AND DOWNRIGHT INTIMIDATING CAUSING MANY OF US TO JUST STAY WHERE WE ARE! Here we see a classic clash of the Biblical Hebrew Block logic and the Humanistic Greek Linear logic.

As I have said this process of renewal (sanctification) is an eternal one and we realise the critical and urgent need for it when we once again see the regrettable hangover of the reality of our Greek minds which is still exhibited by us who have already made the transformation from Denominationalism into a more Torah observant life style. 


How so one may ask?

Well for many and varied examples of our reverting to our Greek mindsets; I however would like, need? to just highlight one glaring example:   

The need of us under Torah to keep running back to "Mother Church" on occasions: These occasions are usually reasoned away as not so significant or often we may really believe it is OK to return to "The System". BUT TRUTH BE TOLD IT IS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT AN EMOTIONAL URGE THAT FORCES US TO "POP IN" AND SAY HI!

Allow me to use this allegory please if I may: It works for me, hope it does for you. 

For all of us we were in a form of marriage covenant with our denominations and the "covenant", like any marriage covenant, was many faceted; it involved church bazaars, social, outings, Sunday Schools, Choirs, Bible studies, Sunday Worship and more. Now we leave this "marriage covenant" and go into the Desert - NOTHING, JUST SUN, SAND, SINAI & SOLITUDE!

We murmur, we throw tantrums AND WE LONG FOR THE LEEKS AND ONIONS OF EGYPT (THE FOOD OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE WHICH OUR GREEK MINDS SO NEED TO FUNCTION).

We think we are free of the "System" BUT WE ARE NOT, WE DO NOT EVEN UNDERSTAND YET HOW MUCH WE STILL NEED THE PASTORS, PEERS AND CONGREGATIONS TO DEFINE US AND TELL US HOW GOOD AND RIGHT WE ARE!  

You see dear Brethren, it is just beyond the scope of us all to believe that we have been lied too and cheated upon for so long. We cannot believe that our "spouse" (the systematic denominations) was so cruel and controlling AND LIKE ANY ABUSED SPOUSE "WE NEED THAT ABUSE TO FUNCTION".

It is impossible to think that all the great Christian teachers and their ministries could have themselves been deluded and were in fact teaching lies for the last 1700+ years! Please read Jer. 16:14-21 - this Scripture refers to the ingathering (2nd Greater Exodus) of Israel in total (12 Tribes) and us THE GENTILES, and the fact that the gentiles (us) lament and choose to return to the TRUTH, The Torah BECAUSE WE REALISE THAT WE HAVE INHERITED LIES, FUTILITY & WORTHLESSNESS. 

But this is a process we need to go through because unfortunately we are what we believe (Mat. 5:8; Mat. 12:34-35) so if we have been told for the last 1700 + years that the Torah is bondage and a curse, AND THAT THE SYSTEM OF THE DENOMINATIONAL CHURCHES OF JESUS CHRIST sans TORAH IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, then a larger than life revelation of the Truth of The Torah is a BLINDING LIGHT INDEED, A LIGHT WHICH MOST WILL REJECT BY APPLYING WHAT WE KNOW BEST, A HEALTHY APPLICATION OF HUMAN REASONING, SUBJECTIVITY, PEER PRESSURE & EMOTION, whilst those who indeed do accept this LIGHT, as said above, will struggle with the acceptance of the fact that we have been lied to by those we trusted with our eternities. (John 1:4-12)
NB: To receive Yeshua IS TO RECEIVE HIS LIGHT, HIS DOCTRINE, HIS TRUTH, HIS WORD - Reading a "cycle" or "loop" of Scriptures as a teacher named Steve Berkson speaks of based on John 14:6  then Ps. 119:142 & 160 and then John 1:14 - portrays the Unity, Eternity & Righteousness of Yeshua and His Torah, the very  Torah which is the Way, the Truth and the Life - The same Torah (Word) which is clothed in The Flesh of Yeshua - thus if we reject Torah we by necessity reject Yeshua, when we reject Yeshua we reject LIFE - points to ponder for now and as we go on with this missive). 

So for those who say they believe the ENTIRE WORD IS INSPIRED OF YHWH ELOHIM; THAT IT IS ETERNAL AND THAT IT IS THE FINAL AUTHORITY ON WHICH WE BASE OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YHWH ELOHIM - Here is a Truth we can bank on for eternity - IF WE DO NOT FIND A DOCTRINE ADOPTED THROUGH THE PROFESSED TEACHINGS OF THE BRIT CHADASHAH (New Testament) FOUNDED IN THE TORAH YOU WOULD BE COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED IN DECLARING THAT PROFESSED DOCTRINE/TEACHING FALSE AND THUS THE TEACHER OF SUCH A DOCTRINE WOULD BE ACCORDING TO Is. 46:10 arw Deut. 13 A FALSE TEACHER AND SHOULD NOT BE HEEDED IN ANYWAY!  

So I am of the opinion, and it certainly does not take a diploma, degree or doctorate in theology or the many accompanying subjects on the Divinity to arrive at this opinion: The plain and simple reading of Scripture BY ANYONE TRULY SEEKING TO WALK IN THE TRUTH AS TAUGHT BY YESHUA (Mat. 5:17-19) CANNOT REJECT THE TORAH AS REDUNDANT OR JUST PASS IT OFF ONTO THOSE PESKY JEWS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

I am further of the opinion that to reject the Torah is to reject Yeshua and anyone who teaches that the Torah is abridged, aborted, abrogated or in anyway done away with is committing heresy which is tantamount to leading people away from YESHUA HAMESSIACH; SUCH A TEACHER IS ADDING OR SUBTRACTING FROM THE WORD OF YESHUA & THUS HIS VERY PERSONAGE, AUTHORITY AND DIVINITY AND THEREFORE SUCH A PERSON, UNTIL HE REPENTS OF HIS ACTIONS AND TEACHINGS PUBLICLY, MUST BE DECLARED  A FALSE TEACHER AND/OR PROPHET WHO MUST NOT BE LISTENED TOO OR CONSIDERED A SERVANT OF YHWH (Deut. 13; Deut 4:2-8; Deut. 12:32; Prov. 30:5-6; Rev. 22:18-19 - please note the punitive measures meted out for those who add or subtract to HIS WORD)!

Please ask yourselves these questions: 
  • HOW CAN ANYONE WHO REJECTS THE DIVINE CREATIVE DOCTRINE OF YHWH YESHUA, DOCTRINES WHICH YESHUA YHWH CALLED UPON HEAVEN AND EARTH TO WITNESS (Deut. 32:1-4 and reiterated in Mat.5:18) BE QUALIFIED IN ANY WAY AT ALL TO TEACH YESHUA'S DOCTRINES, DOCTRINES WHICH YESHUA, THE LAW-GIVER HIMSELF GAVE AT MOUNT SINAI (James 4:11-12)? 
Answer: HE CANNOT!
  • HOW CAN ANY PERSON TEACH THE DOCTRINES OF YESHUA, AS INSTRUCTED BY YESHUA HIMSELF AND RECORDED FOR ETERNITY IN Mat. 28:19-20 WHEN THEY HAVE REJECTED HIS TORAH, HIS COVENANT, HIS MARRIAGE KATUBA? 
Answer: HE/SHE CANNOT HE/SHE IS A WHORE AT BEST OR AT WORST AN ADULTERESS!
  • HOW CAN ANYONE, WHO BY REJECTING THE LAW AND CONTINUING TO LIVE IS SUCH A STATE OF REJECTION, WHICH IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF SIN (1 John 3:4) FOR WHICH YESHUA HAD TO DIE SO AS TO REDEEM US ALL FROM ETERNAL DEATH (Col. 2:13-15 & for those saying it was the TORAH nailed to the cross please see Mat. 5:17;  Rom. 7:12-14; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 1 John 3:4; 1 John 2:3-6; Ps. 111:10; Rev. 12:17:17 & Rev. 14:12 - no there is no rapture) AND ETERNAL DAMNATION, SUPPOSEDLY STAND IN THE COURT ROOMS OF HEAVEN AND REPRESENT HIS SET-APART PEOPLE?
Answer: THEY CANNOT!

Hopefully I have made my point thus far and that being that I truly believe that we are NOT TO PAY HEED TO THOSE STILL IN THE DENOMINATIONS ON ANY POINT OF SCRIPTURE OR DOCTRINE BECAUSE THEY LEAD BELIEVERS AWAY FROM MESSIAH YESHUA, OUR LAWGIVER, EXPOSITOR, AUTHOR AND CREATOR OF THE TORAH, THE WORD OF YHWH HIMSELF - THUS  ACCORDING TO DEUTERONOMY 13 WE ARE NOT TO FEAR THEM OR LISTEN TO THEM, EVEN IF WHAT THEY PROPHESY COMES TO PASS, AS THEY (THESE FALSE TEACHERS/PROPHETS) WILL THRUST YOU OUT OF THE WAY (TORAH - YESHUA) WHICH WE HAVE BEEN COMMANDED TO WALK IN- AND THEN BY IMPLICATION AND APPLICATION SOMEONE FOLLOWING SUCH A TEACHER OR PROPHET WILL BE WALKING IN THE WAY OPPOSED TO YHWH, ARGUABLY THEN FOLLOWING IN THE WAYS OF HASATAN! 

Please read Deut. 12:29 to 13:18, This is truly no joke, such people teaching and prophesying in such a manner/way are eligible for Capital Punishment under YHWH'S Kingdom Rules; PLEASE IF YOU ARE SUCH A PERSON, DESIST IMMEDIATELY, REPENT OF YOUR SINS AND SEEK HIS FORGIVENESS I BESEECH YOU! AND IF YOU ARE FOLLOWING OR INTIMATELY IN FELLOWSHIP WITH SUCH A PERSON, AGAIN DESIST - LET YHWH BRING THOSE ACROSS YOUR PATH WHOM HE DESIRES TO BRING ACROSS! Acts 2:47; Acts 15:19-21. 

Moving on to my next point, which I hope to tie into the above discussion, we see that John tells us in 1 John 4:1 that we are to test all spirits to see if thy come from YHWH Elohim or not.

How are we to test them? 

Well we see in 1 John 4:2-4 that if they confess that Yeshua HaMessiach has come in the flesh we know they are of YHWH Elohim.

Seems rather simple does it not? 

No it does not: If we consider what James pens in his Epistle to the Galut (the 12 tribes scattered abroad) in Chapter 1:22 we are to be not only hearers of The Word - BUT DOERS - he goes on even further in Chapter 1:25 to call the The Law a Law of Liberty and any person who looks into this Law of Liberty AND DOES WHAT IT SAYS WILL BE BLESSED IN ALL HE/SHE DOES. 

James further expounds on the Law of Liberty (TORAH) in Chapter 2:8 calling it the Royal Law again expounding on his statement by telling us if we break it in one point we have broken it in all points. Please note that his examples quoted in James 2:8-13 are directly out of the TORAH.

But we see a very important matter addressed by The Ruach through James (Ya'akov) in 2:14 to the end of the chapter - THAT FAITH (G4102 - pistis - moral conviction, fidelity) without works is dead - even believing that YHWH ELOHIM IS ONE, obviously speaking to TORAH observant believers, BUT CAN ALSO BE APPLIED TODAY TO DENOMINATIONAL MEMBERS  WHO STATE THAT THIS IS ALL THE TORAH NOW CONSISTS OF UNDER THE NEW COVENANT, BECAUSE WITHOUT WORKS OF THE ROYAL LAW, THE LAW OF LIBERTY, IS ABSOLUTELY DEAD & OF NO PROFIT AT ALL; IN FACT EVEN THE DEMONIC POWERS BELIEVE THE IRREFUTABLE FACT OF YHWH'S UNITY, ONENESS (ECHAD) AND IT IS OBVIOUSLY OF NO BENEFIT TO THEM! (DEUT. 6:4 - THE SHEMA arw MARK 12:29). Please read these two blogs -  http://theshofarblows-steve.blogspot.com/2015/03/fruits-of-ruach.html & The Blood of Jesus is enough for me!

The greatest intellectual acceptance of anything WITHOUT ACCOMPANYING ACTIONS MEAN NOTHING TO YHWH - NOTHING AT ALL! 

Further in James 2 we are told that works of obedience are credited to the believer as Righteousness, Yeshua was declared RIGHTEOUS AND SINLESS BY KEEPING THE TORAH, THE LAW (1 Cor. 1:30; 2 Cor. 5:21):

Finally in James 2:26 we are given the analogy of The Body which is so relevant to The Word; and that analogy is that just as The/a B/body is dead without The Ruach - SO FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS JUST AS DEAD! Eph 5:23-24; 1 Cor. 12 & 13.

NO TORAH OBSERVANCE MEANS NO MANIFEST PRESENCE OF YHWH plain and simple as that - SO HOW CAN WE ACCEPT TEACHINGS FROM THE DENOMINATIONAL SYSTEMS? 

I advocate that on the basis of the Scriptures offered in this missive and the fact that YHWH has begun a massive grass-roots movement of bringing people out of the Denominational Christian Churches into this movement of returning back to Torah observance, it would be both unwise and un-Biblical to submit to the  doctrinal policies or any other form of teachings, worship or association from the very system we are being taken from; in short WE CANNOT accept such teachings, please read Deut. 13 again!

In conclusion; I was praying early Monday morning and asking Abba to help us to get complete separation from the Denomination Systems when I truly found myself praying and stating the words
 "PAPPA THE ENTIRE CHURCH SYSTEM HAVE BOWED THEIR KNEES TO BA'AL". 
There is no Politically Correct or Relatively Truthful way to make this statement: The system followed and adhered to dogmatically by the denominations IS NOT OF YHWH BUT IS OF THE SUN G-D HIMSELF WITH DEUT 12:29-32 FULLY IMPLEMENTED BY THE ENEMY AND ASSISTED BY MAN, THIS SYSTEM IS AGAINST THE WORD YESHUA, THE PROPHET LIKE UNTO MOSHE!  Deut. 18:9-22.

The Denominations practice the doctrine of Bala'am and whether it is done deliberately or not is of no concern - they promote teachings and doctrines that are against The Word of YHWH and they do lead the Children of YHWH away from their Torah, which is their Yeshua, by teaching them to break HIS TORAH WHICH IS TO REBEL AGAINST YESHUA HIMSELF SO THAT YHWH, IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, HAS TO PUNISH HIS HOUSE. Num. 31:16; Jude 1: 11; Rev. 2:14-17.


To return to Rom. 12:1-2 I need to ask one final question:
  1. How can we present our bodies as living, reasonable sacrifices to and through YHWH Elohim's mercies, and renew our minds in accordance with HIS perfect will so as to not conform with the world if we follow doctrines and foundational teachings which are forbidden by The Torah? Hmmm…!
Once again I urge each and every one of you reading this blog to take out your Bible and with prayer and supplication check out all I have said here. I too am just a man trying to find my Way Home!

Shalom in Messiah Yeshua

Bo'az

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