FACE TO FACE (DEUT.8)
Yisharal, do you want to go into the land Yahuah promised your ancestors? Do you want to capture it, live there, and become a powerful nation? Then do what you’re told and be sure to obey every instruction I’m giving you. Don’t forget that Yahuah your Alahim has led Yisharal through the desert for the past forty years to humble you, to test what’s in your hearts, and see if you’re truly willing to obey Him and depend on Him for everything. Yes! He let you suffer hunger to test you. Then He gave you manna, (a kind of food that you and your parents had ever seen before). YAHUAH WAS TEACHING YOU THAT PEOPLE NEED MORE THAN JUST NATURAL FOOD TO SURVIVE! THEY NEED TO BE CLINGING TO EVERY WORD THAT YAHUAH SPEAKS, FOR HE'S THE TRUE SOURCE OF NOURISHMENT AND LIFE.
I mean what do you think of the fact that over the past forty years, your clothes haven’t worn out, and your feet haven’t swollen? Was that all for nothing? No! Yahuah has been disciplining you, just like a parent does their child. Now obey the instructions that Yahuah your Alahim has given you and walk in His ways with fear and trembling . . DO IT, because He’s bringing you into a good land with streams and fountains that flow from springs in the valleys and hills. You can dig for copper in those hills, and the stones are made of iron ore. And you’ll never go hungry. Wheat and barley fields are everywhere and so are vineyards and orchards full of fig, pomegranate and olive trees, and there is stacks of honey too.
But after you’ve eaten all that you can and you’re stuffed full, make sure you acknowledge and give Yahuah the credit and esteem for the good land He’s given you and make sure that you never forget Him, or disobey His Instructions that I’m giving you here today (LET HIM HAVE IT AND DON’T TRY AND TAKE THE RECOGNITION FOR ALL THE GOOD THINGS AND BLESSINGS THAT COME IN YOUR LIFE). If you always obey Yahuah you will have plenty to eat, and you will build good houses to live in, getting more and more cattle, sheep, silver, gold, and other possessions.
So when all these blessings happen, don’t let your heart be lifted up and your chest puffed out with arrogance! Don’t forget that you were once slaves in Egypt yourselves and that it was Yahuah who set you free. Remember how He led you in that huge and frightening sandpit of fiery trials where poisonous snakes and scorpions live. There was no food or water, but Yahuah split open a rock, and water poured out so you could drink, and He also gave you the manna.
Remember Yahuah was testing you to make you trust Him, so that He can be good to you and trust your behaviour once He does. So when you become successful, don’t start prancing around like a peacock, saying, “I’m rich, I’m rich, and I’ve earned it all by myself. Look at me and what i’ve done . . . it’s all because of me . . . I made my life what it is today and everything i’ve got is all mine!”
Nah don’t be so stupid. Don’t behave like that. Rather, remember that Yahuah your Alahim gave you the strength to achieve and that’s how He keeps the promises He made to your ancestors. . . . through you!
So I’m warning you all . . . if you forget the voice of Yahuah your Alahim and bow down to serve other false deites, He will come and `rip you a new one’ and utterly destroy you, just as He snuffed out all the nations you’ve already fought.
MOSES STATES THAT THE WEALTH THEY WILL HAVE IS FROM YAHUSHA, AND IT’S BECAUSE OF A PROMISE THAT HE MADE TO THE PATRIARCHS ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB AND NO OTHER REASON THAT YISHARAL HAS WON SUCH FAVOR WITH YAHUSHA. BUT IF YISHARAL DOES FORGET, AND GETS PROUD, DESTRUCTION WILL COME IN SIMILAR FORM AS IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN TO THE PAGAN NATIONS AND TRIBES OF CANAANITES WHO WILL BE DISPOSSESSED OF THEIR HOMES AND LAND.
AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE OR BELIEF IN YAHUSHA AND A COMPLETE SURRENDER AND OBEDIENCE TO HIM CAN NEVER BE SEPARATE THINGS, BECAUSE OBEDIENCE TO HIS INSTRUCTIONS IS ACTUALLY THE PRACTICAL, BEHAVIOURAL EXPRESSION OF TRUE AWARENESS OF JUST WHO YAHUSHA IS AND THE FOUNDATION OF A TRUE BRIDAL RELATIONSHIP. REMEMBER MOSES IS GOING TO DIE VERY SOON. HE’S BEEN IN THE THICK-WARMTH AND GLOWING-RADIATION OF YAHUSHA’S PERFECT ESTEEM AND (ALMOST) SEEN WHO HE IS (AS MUCH AS HE WAS SAFELY PERMITTED BY YAHUSHA). HE’S HAVING A REAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS CREATOR WITH ALL OF IT’S UPS AND DOWNS, SUCCESSES AND FAILURES AND NOW HE’S PLEADING WITH YISHARAL TO REMEMBER WHO THEY ARE, WHO YAHUSHA IS, AND THAT THEIR ACTIVE OBEDIENT BEHAVIOUR AND OBSERVANCE OF HIS INSTRUCTIONS IS THE PROPER EXPRESSION OF LOVE FOR YAHUSHA. AS MOSES STARED INTO THE FACES OF ALL THOSE YISHARALITES WHOM HE’D LED, CARED FOR, FOUGHT FOR, MEDIATED FOR, AND SACRIFICED EVERYTHING FOR (OVER THE PAST 40 YEARS), IS IT ANY DIFFERENT THAN TO TODAY WITHIN YAHUSHA’S BRIDE? ONLY A FEW AMONG MOSES` LISTENERS WOULD HEED THE MESSAGE TO LOVE YAHUSHA IN THE WAY HE EXPECTED, (I.E OBEDIENCE TO HIS INSTRUCTIONS). HOWEVER UNFORTUNATELY THE VAST MAJORITY WOULD NOD THEIR HEAD IN SILENT AGREEMENT AND THEN DECIDE THEY HAD A BETTER WAY, THEIR WAY TO GO ABOUT LIVING A REDEEMED LIFE (AS FELT AND THOUGHT BY THEM) AND IT LED TO HORRIBLE CONSEQUENCES INCLUDING THE LOSS OF THEIR PRECIOUS LAND INHERITANCE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS AT A TIME.
OF COURSE TODAY THOSE WITH HALF A CLUE KNOW THAT ALL THE LAND PROMISES IN SCRIPTURE HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO `HEART REAL ESTATE’, SINCE YAHUSHA BEGAN BUYING-UP FLAMING HOT PROPERTY ALL OVER THE GLOBE (OF OBEDIENT FOLLOWERS), PLACING A PORTION OF HIS ESSENCE/SPIRIT IN THEM AND CONNECTING THE DIMENSIONS THROUGH A PORTAL ON THEIR HEARTS IN ORDER TO REIGN, RULE, COMMUNICATE, TRAIN, DELIVER AND PREPARE HIS BRIDE FOR HIS SOON RETURN. SO FOR YAHUSHA’S BRIDE (THOSE WHO OVERCOME AND BECOME SET-APART AND PERFECT AS HE IS), OUR INHERITANCE IN NOT LAND-BASED, IT’S YAHUSHA HIMSELF, THE HOPE AND EXPECTATION TO BE ESTEEMED AND TRANSFORMED AND CONSUMMATED WITH HIM IN THE NEW CITY AND MARRIAGE HOME FOR ALL ETERNITY.
"Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master’ will enter My reign; only those who are listening and behaving the instructions of My Father. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Master, Master’ Come on! We put out truth and proclaimed Your Name, cast out demons and even did stacks of miracles in Your Name! So what gives Master?’ But I’ll say to them, “Get lost, you’re wicked and disobedient and I don’t even know who you are”. MATT 7 BRS
“JUST FOLLOW YOUR HEART” IS A POPULAR SAYING IN THE BODY, AS THOUGH WITHIN OUR HEART LAYS THE TRUTH. HOWEVER WHEN SCRIPTURE SAYS “HEART”, THE UNDERSTANDING IN SCRIPTURE TIMES WAS THAT THE HEART WAS THE ORGAN WHERE CONSCIOUS THOUGHT, INTELLECT, AND THE MIND RESIDED.
“Mankind’s heart (thoughts, emotions, behaviours) is more deceitful and evil than anything else and desperately sick. Who could ever understand it? JER 17 BRS
IS OUR HEART (MIND) NO LONGER DECEITFUL WHEN WE ACCEPT YAHUSHA AS OUR DELIVERER? WHAT WAS PAUL EXPERIENCING?
“I don’t understand what I’m doing! I don’t behave how I want too and I’m always doing the things I hate.” ROM 7 BRS
THE EVIL INCLINATION IN OUR MINDS/HEARTS WAS NOT DESTROYED UPON OUR IMMERSION! WE WILL CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE WITH IT, GIVE IN TO IT AT TIMES, BELIEVE IT AND EVEN OBEY IT OVER YAHUSHA’S WORD AND SUFFER THE CONEQUENCES. SOMEHOW WE BELIEVE THAT WHAT’S “IN OUR HEARTS” IS GREATER AND MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT'S IN YAHUSHA’S WRITTEN WORDS. THIS IS WHY WE MUST ALWAYS INVESTIGATE HIS WORDS AND BE OBEDIENT TO HIS INSTRUCTIONS AND VERY SUSPICIOUS OF `OUR’ OWN THOUGHTS (ARE THEY REALLY OURS?).
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