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Shalom and Blessings to you!!!
Thanks for reading and considering the content of this website. I built this website simply because I wanted to own the site with my Hebrew name, Baruch Ben Daniel, but, the fact is, www.mashiyach.com is where I discuss elements of the Original Faith that was Once Delivered through Mashiyach Yeshua. I discuss serious stuff on this site, and my heart goes out to all who are seeking the Ancient Path of Mashiyach, it's not an easy road for anyone in these latter days.
I could provide a long list of things about my life, my experiences, my dreams, my goals, successes and failures, my "qualifications"... but why? My goal is not to find a following of people but to be a people along with those who are seeing what I'm seeing in these latter days. I feel like a prophet crying out in the wilderness. I must confess that more times than I wish to admit, I've emptied my tears for family and friends and those I meet who are so very indifferent towards the Master of the Universe who gave us all life.
I teach Torah and Mashiyach every week, people visit and come and go and most couldn't care less about the Word of YHWH, they have no interest in learning Torah and being obedient to Mashiyach Yeshua. One fellow said, "forget the Law" as he was leaving the fellowship. "Forget the Law" he said to me, after I taught a class on Torah. It's all about grace, everything is grace. He and his wife are smitten with the false cheap grace gospel that has been drilled into him all his life. What a shame, what a religious travesty, what an abomination to YHWH and His Mashiyach. Church people have become purely evil, they beg for judgment while they await their rapture and the ride to paradise they've convinced themselves of receiving. The Church employs people, the pastors and staff are paid to keep the religious traditions they call "faith" which in effect is all about the god they made for themselves, a religion about Yeshua (Jesus) but certainly not The FAITH of following him, and living his lifestyle... the original Faith is condemned as being "too Jewish" too "legalistic"... too inconvenient... too embarrassing.
It's so much easier to go right back into the churches and synagogues, get that pat on the back, rally around the old religion, be "accepted in the beloved" and retain the false religious ideas that are so popular. Then, for many who are trying to come out of the false religious systems they often go headlong into another problem, there are charlatans out there cursing the modern religious systems, others who have been "hurt by the church and synagogues" and who speak of Torah and of righteousness but use it as the new religious cliché. They speak about truth but aren't willing to bear the infamy of obedience to YHWH.
So now there is another culture of those who find fault with the churches and synagogues but who have no power to be conformed to Mashiyach, no deliverance from gossip and talking of conspiracies and the lovelessness within their souls towards their fellow man. They've identified the problem, talk about the problem, became enemy centered because of the problem (them and us mentality) but don't live according to the solution, they live according to the problem.
Most "believers" are apathetic and ashamed of the Name of YHWH and His Mashiyach Y'shua, when they are out there among the worldly and religious, when they come together they have an identity as "believers", but that all changes the moment they step outside the circle of fellowship, most don't want to suffer or be different than the world... it's just "too hard"... many people tell me this. Some are way to embarrassed to pray at a restaurant because others will see them and might mock them. Many are too embarrassed to say they keep Torah or believe in Yeshua so they "keep the peace" when in fact there is no peace, all they have is an agreement to let haSatan shut them down and so they don't want to rock the boat. In that moment of denial when they sit at a restaurant or when the Ruach (Spirit) asks them to sanctify His Name and His Word, the succumb to fear. The fear of man. Let's get real why don't we? Let's look at the facts, the reality of what is going on among "the believers".
There will be no change until we have the courage to admit our failings and our weak flesh.
When I see indifference and the shame among the believers of living for Yeshua I tend to go the opposite way, I know if I don't I will slide into that laodicean luke warm attitude myself. I want to shout out the Word of YHWH. I'll again be the fool in their eyes. Yes, I have my own pride and ego that tries to trip me up, just like every other human being. I'm not such a great soul that I walk in the purest of humility and wisdom, but I meet more and more souls who are being led along the same paths as I... to "come out of her My people, lest we be partakers of her plagues."
Pardon me if you see my flesh (the carnal insecure man) poke out here and there, yes this website has my name on it, but it's not about me or what I think, this is about what the WORD of Yahweh says and the reality that HE WILL DO ALL THAT HE HAS SAID HE WILL DO!
How much more do we need to see my friends? Look at how much Yahweh has foretold in His Word!!! Look at how His Word is being confirmed by Science and Technology and religion and politics and good and bad in this world. We can do NOTHING for the truth, but we will confirm that YHWH is JUST in obedience or our rebellion, it doesn't matter which way we choose to go YHWH's Name will be exonerated as Just and Good and Pure and Holy.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily entraps us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us...
Those who fight against YHWH and His Mashiyach and His Torah shall lose and are losing the battle each day. If we LOVE Him He will transform us as He is, and we will become conformed into His Image. Why can't Orthodox Jews even say the Shema properly? Thrice daily observant Jews say the Shema but they refuse say it as was originally revealed.
Shema Yisrael YAHWEH echad!!!
Man's tradition makes void Torah. Why do Christians refuse the teachings of Yeshua (Jesus) who very clearly said... if you LOVE ME KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, and my Commandments are not grievous or burdensome? Many will say, Lord, Lord but the Master will say depart from me you who work TORAHLESSNESS!!! Wow, wow, how plain can it be, how simple!!! Everyone who breaks the 10 Commandments are under judgment!!! The Church is indifferent, careless and willfully rebellious against the TEN COMMANDMENTS!!!
Why do Messianic Rabbis make money on Shabbat? Why do these so called Rabbis sell their stuff on Shabbat and handle money? Why? Because they are carnally minded and sold under sin and have not entered into Shabbat, they have only entered into a religion about Torah, about Mashiyach. Shabbat is time where all people are equal as one body, it is not to take from people but rather to allow each one rest from the mundane. As Rabbis we are called to point others to YHWH and His Mashiyach, not ask for financial support for ourselves or our building projects or our ministries on Shabbat. Many Messianic Rabbis have never learned about the Covenant of Shabbat for the Bride of Mashiyach, they still think in terms of being the "head pastor" or the "authority" and they ask their congregations to defile the unity of Shabbat for the benefit of their Rabbi, this is evil, self-serving and contrary to YHWH and His Torah.
There are reasons why I've posted this website. I have long been condemned by Jewish and Christian brothers and sisters. I've been put out of Messianic synagogues and churches for teaching the inconvenient truth of Torah and Mashiyach Yeshua. I've been mocked, scorned, gossiped about and just about everywhere I go in my own country there is a hoard of Jezebels wanting to pull me down... ex-Church folk who have never left the Beast system, who hate the Name of YHWH, who want to rule over those who serve the Body and who support the false hierarchy of religious leadership that likes to play social club religion.
Lest you get the wrong impression, I don't want your money, there are no donation buttons on this website or on any of my websites where I solicit money for myself. I live a simple life and own very simple things and I'm not seeking a following.
When I awake many mornings I feel a burden that I wish I didn't have, I wish I could take it off my shoulders and give it to someone else, my only consolation comes through prayer and reading the Word of YHWH and knowing that YHWH is Just and that we have treated Him and the life He has given us with disdain and contempt. We do what is right in our own eyes, every one of us, we are all culpable and yet the Church has the shameful audacity to teach cheap, indifferent "grace" and wipe sins and rebellion off on Yeshua like he's the filthy doormat of willful rebellion. I think not. I'm ashamed of how "believers" live and treat YHWH and his Mashiyach with such disdain. We my friends are headed for a train wreck, like it or not.
There are some folks who think I've lost it. There are some who have taken me to court to try to force me to pull back from what I've written on the net and drain me from all my financial resources. There are some who call me a Judaizer and Legalist for what I teach, these are willfully ignorant religious people who are enjoying sin for a season. What I teach is way to inconvenient for the materialistic, relativistic, indifferent lifestyles of many "believers".
The world today is as the days of Noah, but even worse. The Church is a purveyor of wickedness by using trickery to deceive and teach people to disobey the Word of YHWH. Rabbinical Judaism is lawless and political and not accountable to YHWH and His Mashiyach. Many say Lord, Lord, then they treat His Word with disdain and contempt.
Sure I and we can cast all our cares upon Him. I hear people saying and doing that all the time. These same "believers" also go to the local casinos, pubs and comedy nights to have a few laughs and make themselves feel better... for a moment. Laughter is good medicine. Don't be so serious people tell me. Lighten up. We have piped for you, and you have not danced; we have mourned for you, and you have not lamented. People have told me... forget that stuff... you could have made something out of yourself... you're good looking... you're talented... become like the rest of us... why are folks so concerned about what I teach? The reason is they are convicted of their own rebellion and I've become the source of their consciousness. I've seen people run from me when I've quoted the Word of YHWH, religious people, Christian people, Messianic people... the "believers" in effect say... "speak to us smooth things" don't tell us about that other stuff like the Word of YHWH.
I'm amazed at how many people say... where are you quoting that from? Is that in the Bible? I've never heard that before? Who said that? My friends there is a famine in the land for the Word of YHWH that is SENT from YHWH Himself. "Behold, the days come, says YAHWEH ELOHIM, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of YAHWEH." Amos 8:11 Why? Because the inhabitants of the earth have mocked the Word of the Living Elohim by our rebellion to Him. Because we've scorned our very lives because of our rebellion and disobedience.
The fact is that when we turn to YHWH and keep His Commandments we have a very great joy come upon us, we can endure the embarrassment of being mocked and scorned by our family and friends. We can be hidden deep in His Word where we are like dead men walking and the gossip and shame we bear of those who speak evil of us is part of our reward. Bring it on.
I know there are souls like I, who sigh and that cry for the abominations in the Churches and Synagogues and I know of many who have been ostracized for being "too religious" which is the defense of the lukewarm and rebellious social religious status quo.
The answer is to take a long hard look at Scripture and choose Life. Enter into YHWH's Shabbats, enter into His Presence and choose what pleases Him. Confess our sins, congregate with those who aren't playing religious games but who are being transformed into Mashiyach and who seek the fruits of Love, Peace and Justice, even in a very small way in a small group where 2 or 3 are gathered is far better than a big Church meeting where there are lies and compromise and open rebellion against YHWH and His Torah (Instructions).
Aren't you appalled at the Charismatic Christian movement who are singing all their Jesus love songs but who willfully teach and break the 10 Commandments? Christians are embarrassed to observe Torah and the Ancient Seventh Day Shabbat and Moedim (Feasts) and sanctify their lives before Mashiyach and have His Name written upon their foreheads. Everything the Church does is religious symbolism about the Word of YHWH, but not the Word itself. Everything is a religious about Yeshua (Jesus) but not in being a follower of him. Wow, what a HUGE difference between the two ideals, but you will never know unless you lay down your religion and ask YHWH to write Torah upon your heart... see Jeremiah 31:31-34. The fact is that people don't even want to learn what the New Covenant is. People don't want to hear so they won't have to be accountable to the Word of YHWH. HE says that HE wants to write TORAH (HIS Torah) upon your heart. His Commandments, His Word. But religious people say no, they want religion about His Word. These two concepts are diametrically opposed, they do not live together they are black and white, evil verses good.
My friend. A religion "about" Yeshua is a false religion! A Faith that teaches you how to live like he did and how the first disciples did is a Faith about Him and IN HIM!
Your church is teaching a religion about Jesus, your synagogue is a social club about Jewish tradition, can you not see the difference?
Can you not pray and ask the Ruach haKodesh (Set Apart Spirit) of YHWH to reveal this to you?
Can you not consider what I'm earnestly trying to say here, the appeal that I'm making to you?
Ask YHWH for yourself, must you go to your pastor or rabbi and listen to what they think about the Kingdom of Elohim (God)? Why do people put an man or a woman between themselves and the Father YHWH? Are you like those who hide their faces from Moses because they were ashamed of themselves? Are you too ashamed to admit the facts? Are we too proud to open your mouth wide and ask our Creator and Redeemer? Can we not call on the Name of Yahweh in our prayers? Are we afraid to say His Name? Can we not speak to Yeshua and ask him the deepest questions of our hearts, or do we go to another man for their opinions? Do you see how false religion has insulated people away from hearing His Voice?
People email from time to time say they can't hear His voice. Yes, I understand. I don't always hear the voice of the Father in my spirit either. I'm just as human as you are. BUT, if we DO HIS WILL then we WILL HEAR HIS VOICE!!! There is no doubt about this!!!
FIRST we are obedient. Then when we hear people mock us and scorn us and our family members and religious people point their fingers at us for believing and observing the Word of the Living Elohim (God) we will intimately understand and know that most people live a religious lie each day. When we see the difference between religion and truth then we will begin to hear His Voice.
First we humble ourselves. First we obey. Then we hear from heaven. Then our eyes open to His Kingdom. Then we see the world for what it is today. Many people have at one time heard His voice calling them out of false religion, but they pretended it wasn't happening, they didn't want to suffer or be different or pay the price.
The answer is to return to the Faith Once Delivered and refuse the religious politics of Jewish identity or Jewish tradition or Christianity which are stumbling blocks that don't allow people to enter into the Malchut Elohim (Kingdom of God). Your Rabbi and Pastor have refused to enter into the Kingdom and they will do everything they can so that you cannot enter in either, they feed you the traditions of men rather than the Word of YHWH that demands obedience.
The answer is to begin with the 10 Commandments and return to the way they were originally to be written upon our hearts, not accept religious traditions about the Commandments. Your synagogue or church has made void the 10 Commandments by man made religious traditions. I could give you hundreds of examples.
My joy is knowing there are others who care and who are seeking the Kingdom of Elohim (God). About the only joy I have in this life is hearing from others who are coming out of Babylon like myself and who are seeking YHWH and His Mashiyach, everything else is mundane.
But if you want me to do the happy dance and put on a big front like there's nothing going wrong and be happy in Yeshua (Jesus), please spare me your email, I've heard it many times before. People tell me all the time... let's just sin like hell and wipe it all off on Yeshua (Jesus). Let's break the Commandments and wipe it off (give it all) on Yeshua (Jesus). Let's live like the world, watch the worlds entertainment, laugh at the worlds jokes, go on the worlds vacation destinations and lay all our worldliness on Yeshua (Jesus).
Why do people accuse me of being an unhappy and sad, disillusioned man because of what I write? Have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth? All liars will find themselves in judgment, all deceivers and all preachers and Rabbis who speak against the Word of YHWH will face the wrath of a Righteous and Just Father who simply asks that we return obedience to Him for the lives He has given us. There is hell on earth as we speak for many people right now because of the world's lawlessness. Hell visited the Jews many times in holocausts, crusades and pogroms and many Jews still think they are innocent and that YHWH is evil for letting the holocaust happen. Jews and Christians judge with unrighteous judgment. Rabbis were telling people that there would be no holocaust, that Jews were safe in Germany and Poland. Today the Rabbis do the same thing and the Pastors are lulling people to sleep, the world is in extremely serious danger on several fronts but the Rabbis and Pastors want everyone to do a happy dance and pretend it's all going to be just fine. No it isn't going to be just fine.
Collectively as a body of people together we have the joy of doing His Word, of having His Word live inside of us. Each soul is called to be strengthened within a community that chooses to obey the Word of YHWH. But the synagogues and churches follow their own status quo to live like the world and not sanctify the Name of YHWH daily.
Choose this day whom you shall worship.
Those who Yahweh has chosen will serve Yahweh in Spirit and in Truth.
Those who are called in Mashiyach will bear the infamy of the truth of Mashiyach Yeshua.
We do good Keep His Commandments and resist the evil and the religious social clubs.
I pray that you are making your refuge deep in the Word of YHWH in these acharit hayamim (latter days).
Shalom U'Vrachot,
YHWH be with you,
Baruch Ben Daniel
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