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The time
has come to bring clarity and differentiation between
"messianic" forms of religion and the Malchut* Elohim.
It's not just a matter of knowing the difference because many idealists have knowledge that is theoretically right, but
putting into practice the unique directives
contained in the Malchut Elohim (Kingdom of Elohim) is
what matters.
The calling of souls into the Malchut Elohim by Mashiyach Yeshua is
also the eternal calling of the Kedoshim (Set Apart people).
Building the Malchut Elohim is something
which requires a body, rather than hierarchical pagan church models that the Messianic (not
so) Jewish Movement
has chosen to adopt. Certainly the challenges
are massive, we've been born into a fallen world that
has modeled itself after paganism and many leaders in the Messianic Movement were
Christo-Pagans
long before they heard of Torah, or the Name of YHWH and His
Mashiyach Y'shua.
The main objective is to pursue and apply Truth
as a lifestyle. Unfortunately, there is an ongoing chronic sickness
within the Body of Mashiyach, everyone claims to be followers
of Mashiyach and "Believers" but most opt for theologically based cerebral religion
rather than Discipleship within the Malchut Elohim.
Most Believers enjoy "friendship" based on generally accepted doctrinal positions but most
Believers are really not more than "groupies" of
their Rabbi
or Pastor, their vision is not so much based in truth
as it is about being part of a collective identity. The Truth
I'm referring to of course is the Word of YHWH, "Thy Word is Truth", "Thy Torah is
Truth", "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every
Word that proceeds from the mouth of YHWH", this
Truth.
Many
who claim to be Torah Observant tend to focus heavily on
aspects of observance but also have a theological
focus, they invariably elevate meetings as the standard
of "truth" rather than enter into Truth.
How many times have you witnessed the Truth being
"classified", for example YHWH is the Name of the Most
High Elohim, this is True. However the Name of
YHWH is
classified under religious precepts which dictate that
although this is Truth it is such a magnanimous Truth
that the Rabbinical halacha of abstention is also mandated
among the Messianic world. In both Messianic and Christian
culture the Name of YHWH is rather taboo.
The fact is
that Truth divides the sheep from the goats, in the days of Yeshua, Ya'akov haTsaddiq (Yeshua's brother) paid for
expressing this truth with his very life, read the account of
him being thrown off the Temp wall. Rabbinical writings
indicate that Ya'akov refused to recant that Yeshua (the
Spirit of Mashiyach) came as YHWH (the Ruach haKodesh), even the charges levied against Yeshua were predicated upon him making
himself "equal"
to YHWH, this of course was another fabrication by false
witnesses rather than the Truth. The fact of the
matter is that most "Believers" know that it was Yeshua's
neshama (unique YHWH breathed spirit) that was
the Ruach of YHWH not his nefesh (soul, mind, will,
emotions).
Every community has similar and basic needs to ensure
the maxims of law protects liberty, property and
person. However the community of YHWH
is called to model the Kedoshim (set apart people) before the world, which
means we are not to adopt status quo religion or
government and concede the Torah of YHWH to be dictated
to us according to Pharaoh or any pagan tradition, but this is what the bulk
of Believers are happy to concede. The Torah is
about a people being set apart and distinct because of
the authority of YHWH's Word, what we eat,
wear, talk about, when and how we worship
and the fulfillment of every part
of Torah is given by YHWH as a specific directive to make us
a peculiar people.
Torah cannot not bring a person into bondage, it brings freedom from the
tyranny of man's governments and religions. However
many Believers see Torah as bondage and they prefer their
manmade government and
religious authorities who endorse Hellenized living,
as is their freedom.
There are too many examples one could give,
the propensity of "Believers" to be
worldly, amass materialism, gain carnal knowledge about Hollywood
and incessantly
watch TV and uphold "theology"
as the "high calling" rather than become
Y'shua's disciplines
and establish righteous character for themselves and all their community.
One sad example of carnal "Believers" is that most
Believers know that YHWH forbids "graven images" of YHWH
or His Mashiyach, however droves of "Believers" flocked to Mel
Gibson's Passion movie because of peer pressure and the
urgency to be "in" the contemporary crowd. Those who issued stern warnings and rebukes to Messianic and
Christian leaders were marginalized and gossiped, I
heard nothing but
dribble from most leaders, one took a position
against the groupie mentality but then attended and
said he had to so he could understand what was on the
screen. Certainly there are way too many vertebrae
challenged "Messianic" leaders on the planet. In
due course of time
the world then heard of Mel Gibson hiring a
porno queen to be the leading lady. It was
not a deterrent that the movie was being financed by a carnally
minded Catholic
who markets himself as a Jew
hater and who also amassed a fortune by marketing carnal and
sensual garbage movies to carnally minded people.
Believers who attended the flick have little
spiritual wherewithal, they know very little about what is Set
Apart unto YHWH and what is carnal and not pleasing to
YHWH. The movie was an attack against Truth, for those who don't understand this there is
no point arguing, they are
"justified" by religion which
says it's good stuff. Mel Gibson
"ministered" their gospel, Mel
portrayed their "gospel truth" which is to do what is right in
your own eyes, fabricated with sensuality and emotion
and designed
to entice people away from the Malchut Elohim
and Torah. Mel Gibson
provided the "faith" to advance the gospel of false religion,
predicated upon the lie that it is ok to break
Torah, if one follows Je-Zeus. Torah says make no
graven images, no likeness of YHWH or His Mashiyach who
is in heaven.
Our Father in Heaven has instituted Torah not only to protect a
persons freedoms and rights but that He alone would
receive the Kavod (Glory) due unto His Name. This
He could accomplish if a group of people were to
actually be obedient to His Word, they would be
different and He could use them as an example to the
world, this is what he tried to do with the Jewish
nation but
they had other plans. The true sacrifice for each
Believer is in the living not in the thinking of Faith,
for instance the Torah institutes many levels of
equality within wealth and personal freedoms, however
Believers are trained by status quo,
their governments provide legal systems which maintains
a form of equality. Believers pay taxes and some
of their monies go into supplying welfare for
the poor, therefore they feel they are doing their
righteous act according to Torah, but are they?
The paganism and
wickedness within government and world leadership is
plying people with every form of immoral toxicity each day, they've marketed
transgression to be a status quo normative. The governments protect
and harbor indecency and all manner of evil conduct under the guise of "equality" and personal freedoms.
Believers are advocating and supporting this evil on all
levels and can't stop because their religion
says they must bow to their God given governments, their religion is wrong, it is false because it is born in
carnal materialism. Many "believers" don't want to
think about leaving Babylon, they
think they can have friendship with the world and
friendship with YHWH, this is what their Messianic leaders
are demonstrating but it's a lie.
Friendship with YHWH and His people is a family and community
thing, not a religion, not an idea to incessantly talk
about so one does not have to follow Torah. The reason
Believers want to be friends with the world is because
they are ashamed of living for YHWH and His Mashiyach,
it's too radical and they don't want their
materialistic comfort levels
diminished. They have bought into the "American
dream" American's or not, the dream is to have every carnal thing the world has to offer
to the fullest then go right into heaven, they resent
those who point out
they are being greatly deceived.
Religious theology cannot preserve Truth, it only
devises clever strategies to avoid the
Word of YHWH, His Torah.
YHWH's people are called to be a Set Apart people which means their action
is based on the Authority of the Word of YHWH
not according to religious dogma or a membership in a local congregation.
The truth has been retained in the Word of YHWH and this
is our guide and authority, not according to those
who provide a digest version. Most cannot see
the difference between the two but it's not complicated.
YHWH stands alone in Himself just as the Truth stands
alone in itself, as a result of following truth YHWH's
people are
peculiar, strange, different, targets for abuse and
criticism by all who feel our lifestyle impinges on their wanton lifestyles.
The fact of
the matter is that man's greatest Freedom occurred when Yeshua laid bare the false religions of his day and
extended the invitation to enter into the Malchut
Elohim. The Kingdom is characterized by freedom
from sickness, freedom from religious oppression,
freedom from tyrannical government. Messianics
have put a twist on Caesar's coins, render unto Caesar
what is Caesar's now means, pay your taxes and eat the
foods of Babylon and go shopping for materialism in the
name of Jesus.
Nope, see that picture of Caesar on the coin,
give the coin back and don't collect them, the Pharisees and Christians and governments that uphold false religion don't want you to
know that the tax being disputed in that passage was originally a once
in a lifetime tax not an income or sales tax for life.
Modern Messianics can easily imagine Avraham and his "trained
men" meeting "once a week" on Shabbat and then at
a Wednesday prayer meeting, that is if the football game wasn't on. No, they
lived, worked and prospered together as one
body, in the Spirit of Mashiyach. It is in this picture
of righteous family where Torah is fully
functional, one cannot bring Torah into the pagan or
Hellenized model of culture and religion and claim to be
"Torah Observant", because the basic and essential
elements of Torah have already been negated before
observance has begun. What
we have among the majority of "Believers" is a
pseudo-Torah lifestyle that claims Torah values but
whose foundation is based on pagan Christianity and a
paycheck every two weeks. Many congregations say
they "Love YHWH", they are "Torah Observant", or "Torah
Submissive", or "Torah Obedient" etc, but
it's a fallacy these are only religious nomenclatures.
A Torah "lifestyle" is often rejected
as being too invasive to the carnal man. That's right
the Believers live according to carnal lifestyles, laziness
and indifference to the Message of Mashiyach, because they only have to show up for a meeting
once a week to be in "good standing" with
Rabbi, Pastor and the flock. What a
shame and what a denial for the leadership and Believers
of Yeshua to call themselves followers then live
like the rest of the pagan Hellenized world. The
party line is that they want to win the lost, build
bridges to the unsaved, reach out and be like Paul who
was their two faced hypocrite camelion who put on a face
when he needed to score religious points here's a passage
they twist...
For though I be free from
all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all,
that I
might gain the more.
And unto the Jews I
became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews;
to them
that are under the law,
as under the law, that I
might gain them that are under the law;
To them that are
without law,
as without law, (being
not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,)
that I might gain them
that are without law. To the weak became I as weak,
that I might gain the
weak: I am made all things to all [ men ],
that I might
by all means save some.
And this I do for the
gospel's sake,
that I might be partaker thereof with
[you].
1 Corinthians 9:18-23 KJV
Clearly Paul refers to
his servitude to Mashiyach, that Mashiyach is calling
people from all different walks of life and that Paul
isn't a respecter of persons, but also notice in the
brackets (being not without law to God, but under the
law to Christ,) that's yet another dirty little
twist of the Christo-Pagan church. The law of God
and the law of Christ are made into two different things
for Christo-Pagan theologians, and so the "Believers" give
themselves a license to loosen righteousness so they can
go out and win the lost to their new feel good
religions.
The religious people are headed towards difficult times as evil governments continue making laws against
the Bible and making observance of YHWH's Word illegal. Certainly
the big excuses like... "it's not easy", "the
congregation isn't ready for this", "we don't know
enough about Torah" etc, is an
excuse whose day will soon come. Certainly all would agree
that it's not "easy", some people will never be
ready, they already have every intention not to be
ready. Isn't it obvious that
most "Believers" in the world today fresh
out of the Messianic or Christian churches are also
fresh out of vision for the Kedoshim? Did our
fathers leave the Hellenized churches and synagogues to raise us up in the Torah values of
Mashiyach? Were we
raised in family communities where Torah living isn't
just a buzz word and the Patriarch in the family saw
the future from the past, like Avraham? Nope, most
of us had to claw our way out of paganism, but in
reality we haven't
got out as far as we think.
Was your
own father like Avraham who raised up "trained
servants" in Torah unto YHWH and prospered in
community living? Isn't this why our generation
struggles and has lost our true identity, because the
essential ingredient of Family Community has been almost
entirely negated, in it's place are cult-groups or
communal situations where men are forced to be "groupies"
or "yes men" under one-man-show hierarchical leaderships.
Believers who are
digging in their heals and refusing to change are most vulnerable to all sorts of
manipulation and abuse from the Beast, but of course, every once in a while
a new believer gets mad enough to actually send out an email
and initiate a
petition against all the religious lawlessness that
wants to swallow them up.
The Malchut Elohim
is established on the Word of YHWH, each soul is valued equally and
to be equipped uniquely with sovereignty to be leaders in their own right, rather than surrendering their personal
authority to the local religious hierarchies.
The fact of the matter is that the Believer is no longer
salt, they are vertebrae challenged and ready for
correction much more than the rest of the population because
they say they know Mashiyach and yet warn others away
from Torah, but they don't do Torah.
History proves that the greater population gets tired of whiners,
those who whine against homosexuality or gay marriage or
the constant murder of innocent babies or the toxic
food, water and air and the new capitalism that demands
the surrender of all personal sovereignty. Believers
put
their trust in sorceries for physical healing, just like the pagan world because their faith is
in man's wisdom rather than YHWH's and so there is
little real distinction between the Household of Faith
and the world, the salt has lost it's savor.
It's not impossible to come out of Babylon, it's just a
personal choice. Come out and suffer a bit now or
come out later and suffer much more than you could ever imagine,
that's what Scripture tells us.
Avraham did not hide himself in a cave or run for the
hills or sit as a King over YHWH's people, he was a
Servant who led others to be educated in the Way of
YHWH. Just as Yeshua is the quintessential Jew and
the quintessential "Believer", he raised up talmidim
(Disciples) unto YHWH. Many "leaders" become very
threatened by this imposition because they fear losing
control of their flocks and losing their elevated
positions rather than be fathers like Avraham they have in fact
become leaches who take offerings to
maintain their religious hierarchies. There is a big
difference between paying a tithe to YHWH or paying it to your church
to finance a
Pastor or Rabbi. There is a big
difference between following Torah or accepting syncretism
that melds the teachings of Mashiyach into a Christianized Hellenized culture.
The fact of the matter is that according to Torah the
priesthood is to impart a blessing upon YHWH's people. In reality one has to have the ability given by YHWH to impart blessings to others.
In other words you have to have a blessing to be able to
give someone, before you can impart one. Many Believers are deluded into thinking that if they
hear a good speaker, a good sermon and feel "stirred" by
a Pastor or Rabbi that he is worthy of his wages.
No, he's likely a hireling who read the book on
how to make a presentation that will stir the people,
that's the majority of what he learned in
seminary. In reality there are probably a dozen men in the congregation
who could give a sermon, anyone can give a
sermon but to give a blessing and serve the body is a
much different scenario.
Many Believers and Messianics from Christian backgrounds nowadays are
absolutely adamant that they are NOT Christians, they call themselves "Believers" or "Messianic" but the
reality is they are often different in word and theology
alone. Yes many Believers celebrate Shabbat, the Moedim,
eat Kosher etc, but live unto a
religion of observing Torah which is different than
ingesting Torah within and having Torah written upon the
heart.
If "Believers" neglect the spiritual and
physical needs of the Kedoshim (Set Apart (Holy) family)
they are only stroking a Torah ego through religious
motive or by thinking themselves on the cutting edge of
truth neither in Torah or Mashiyach. The real
needs of YHWH's family are to become Set Apart in Him,
change or turn from living a worldly lifestyle to being
transformed into the Image of Elohim and delight oneself
in Torah.
For
example the
fatherless, orphans and widows in the congregation are
not necessarily those who don't have physical fathers or
widows who don't have husbands, many souls have never
experienced someone investing their time to ensure their
personal success or to speak into their lives and create
accountability and transparency that creates confidence
in themselves. This is what it means to treat one
another with equality, with acceptance. In reality Torah and Yeshua demonstrate
a very different way of living than religion would have
us believe. Avraham had servants move right into
his home (so to speak) he trained men into their full
potential rather than preach at them once a week about
their potential, he demonstrated their potential by his
own obedience and willingness to impart the blessings of
YHWH to others. In reality leadership today is
both extremely unqualified and ill-equipped because the
status-quo expectation of leaders is more as filling a
corporate headship of the congregation and playing the
part.
Yeshua moved
right into his disciples lives, he taught them by
example, he
went into their dwellings, he healed them, he raised them up,
he empowered them and he served them, this is Torah.
Torah is not an external lifestyle of choice that is
based on belief or theology but a way of inner being
that makes us Set Apart. We are to use wisdom and
discernment regarding our time and resources in
practical organic everyday ways, but not unto ourselves
alone but rather through the corporate needs of all
souls who YHWH has entrusted us to travel through life
with. It is abominable that many religious people
refuse to raise the standard of Mashiyach and Torah but
rather treat fellowship with each other as a social
club. It is abominable that crude anti-Torah
values are left unchallenged week by week by the
leadership who often are also living far beneath the
standards that YHWH has revealed to us through Mashiyach
Y'shua. It is shameful how leadership uses gossip
and slander and allows Hegelian "opportunities" to
manipulate the lives of others so they themselves do not
have to ascribe to higher standards.
Truth is not an idea, it's a way of Life. Many
"Believers" have business relationships and divisions
among them that indicate their own values are corrupted,
in one group they uphold
one standard in another they hold to different standards, but it's hard for many
Believers to shake this because they "believe" Paul was
also all things to all people and if Paul was a
hypocrite for his "gospel" so can they be. They
live in a path of least resistance. "Believers" attack those who raise up
a standard which they are not willing to life, they
make loopholes according to their own "theology"
and attack others who practice and teach things that
are not convenient to their theology. As
soon as one "Believer" advocates the easy road many more are anxious to follow
and broad is the road that leads to death.
Torah is the Word of YHWH and His Word is Spirit. When YHWH speaks He does so
in eternity so His Word continues through all
generations. Our generation is called to live and teach
the Word of YHWH to the next generation and so on. The idea that the Word of YHWH has been
changed by Yeshua, or by his Disciples or by Paul is a theological lie that supports the Hellenistic pagan
cultural values of carnal men. Just because
most "Believers" prefer religion over the Malchut Elohim
does in no way change Torah which YHWH
revealed through His Prophets. Just because most
of YHWH's own people, "the Jews" and "the Christians"
have not interest in the Malchut Elohim does in no way
negate the Word of YHWH.
Most people don't
even realize they are making daily choices that deny YHWH
in favor of paganism and the traditions of men, they've been affirmed as "good people", their families
and friends are also "good people" and their
"authority" affirms that their rebellion is
"normal" Christian or Jewish behavior. Torah teaches us that we
are responsible for one another and for how we treat the earth we live on, for Believers to be the same
as the lawless world is a travesty of epic proportion.
Most "believers" delight themselves in the "foods of Babylon"
and the pharmaceuticals and diet and entertainment of the
carnal world. Yet Torah teaches us to come out of the
carnal world and be separate, live near to one another,
work together, share the benefits of having scales of
economy, uphold a high standard when raising children,
practice environmental sustainability and organic living
and see the blessings of how YHWH has created the
earth and how He wants us to live, it's all a matter of
personal choice.
There are many "non-religious" groups on
the earth who have greater appreciation
and consciousness for the natural world which YHWH has created, how much more should Believers feel
privileged to co-exist within YHWH's handiwork and show
respect according to His Word? When Believers
realize there is something wrong with their choices
there is hope that Torah will once again return to
mankind and be respected as the Perfect charter for
living and co-existing in peace and harmony with one
another, it's never too late even if...
"The hasid (set apart or righteous) man is
perished out of the earth: and there is none upright
among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt
every man his brother with a net. That they may do
evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the
judge asks for a bribe; and the great man, he utters his
mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. The best
of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than
a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy
visitation comes; now shall be their perplexity. Trust
not in a friend, don't put your confidence in a guide:
keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies by your
side. For the son dishonors his father, the
daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter in
law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the
men of his own house. Therefore I will look unto
YHWH; I will wait for the Elohim of my salvation: my
Elohim will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O
mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in
darkness, YHWH shall be a light unto me. I will
bear the indignation of YHWH, because I have sinned
against Him, until He plead my cause, and execute
judgment for me: He will bring me forth to the light,
and I shall behold His Righteousness. Then she
that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover
her which said unto me, Where is YHWH thy Elohim? mine
eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as
the mire of the streets. In the day that thy walls
are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far
removed." (Micah 7:2-11)
YHWH be with you,
Shalom U'Vrachot!
Baruch Ben Daniel
"And you shall eat it
as barley cakes,
and you shall bake it with dung that
comes out of man, in their sight.
And YHWH said,
Even thus shall the children of Israel eat
their defiled
bread among the Gentiles,
whither I will drive them.
Then said I, Ah YHWH Elohim!
behold, my soul has not
been polluted:
for from my youth up even till now have I
not eaten of that which
dies of itself, or is torn in
pieces;
neither came there abominable flesh into my
mouth.
Then He said unto me, Lo, I have given thee
cow's dung for man's dung,
and you shall prepare your
bread therewith."
Ezekiel 4:12-15
*Malchut is Hebrew
for Kingdom
Elohim means
mighty, it was translated into Gawd, but God really
means troop or fortune, Gawd was the name of one of
Ya'akov's twelve sons. Unfortunately Gawd has the
connotation of a power source where one gets things
from, that's why the Title of Elohim is preferable,
because this does not dishonor YHWH by reducing Him into
a sugar daddy or by using pagan titles that are also
being used to refer to all manner of corrupt human
individuals.
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