Deuteronomy 3:22, Must fear them. The Scriptures reveal an interesting, and counter-intuitive spiritual principle that humans have a hard time wrapping their heads and hearts around. It is this: When we fear Elohim, we won’t fear our enemies. When we don’t fear Elohim, we will fear and be tormented by our enemies.
What is it to fear Elohim? It is to walk in the wisdom of his commandments or his loving instructions in righteousness. Rebellious humans have a hard time doing this, since their sin nature is opposed to submitting to YHVH legal instructions (Jer 17:9; Rom 8:7). Once, however, one gets their sin nature under control with the help of Yeshua, and one begins to love and fear Elohim by keeping his commandments, suddenly the physical things they once feared no longer have any hold on their hearts and minds.
Having defeated the greatest enemy of all—one’s sin nature—with Elohim’s help effectively empowers and emboldens the saint. He now realizes he can, with Elohim’s help, overcome any enemy.
So now what is there to fear?
Moreover, at the end of one’s life, the overcoming saint has the ultimate victory in his possession. That is the victory over death, which is the mother of all fears!
This is well said. Fear of Elohim is the beginning of wisdom etc.. That is where our ultimate protection must come from in the days ahead with what all believers will be & are facing as end times get closer.
It reminds me again of the last article I read re the persecuted Christians in the Coptic church in Cairo and what persecuted ones face all over the world ..but the time is fast approaching when all believers will face some sort of persecution ….so our faith & trust in Elohim will have to be so strong to overcome the powers of darkness & to deliver us out of what we may be ultimately facing.,.birth pangs/ > tribulation etc… & the anguish of what is yet to come.
YESHUAS words were “fear not ” for he has overcome the world & we as believers are meant to be OVERCOMERS.
I fear persecution by my husband. Everyone else can do and say all they want, but when it comes to my husband it hits me unlike anything. Unfortunately, this has caused me to compromise on certain issues in order to keep peace in my marriage. This is very troubling to me because Yeshua says if you love any of your family members more than me then you are not worthy of me. I tremble at the fact that I may not be worthy of Yeshua because I am too weak and cowardly to go up against the giant that stands between me and my husband. What do I do? I know that Satan desires to destroy my marriage so I am often confused. I already know the answer: to trust in Yah, and know that as long as I obey Him His will will be done in my life, and it is for my good and my welfare because He loves me. This is my battle, and if I can overcome that I can say that I am worthy of Yeshua because I have the faith of Yeshua (to love Yah more than life). This is my greatest desire: to have the faith of Yeshua.