The Bible tells us to be angry and sin not, and that there is a time to love and a time to hate, and that Christians are to hate the things that YHVH (God) hates and to love the things that he loves. This IS NOT a popular message in the Christian church, if a message at all.
Today most Christian pastors preach a weak, anemic, powerless and ear tickling messages so as not to offend “the giving units.” Few preach hard against sin and wickedness with fiery zeal and righteous anger, but instead have become greedy, feckless hirelings, barkless dogs (these are biblical terms and condemnations against the pastors). These pastors have ceased to be men and have become effeminate, effete snowflakes and pansies in the pulpit. Fewer still are using their godly influence to take a public stand OUTSIDE the comfort zones of their churches against DEI, Wokism and the LGBTQ… agendas.They are cowards!
Moreover, few Christian leaders are exhibiting manly, moral leadership by confronting societal evil. They have become spiritual effeminate. This has in turn given rise to gender dysphoria among many young men who no longer know what a true man of God is since our spiritual leaders are largely emasculated due to spiritual compromise. Thus, is it any wonder that so many young people think they are the opposite sex and end up cutting off their genitals? This is because our spiritual leaders already emasculated themselves spiritually long ago and what happened in the spiritual realm is now occurring in the physical realm.
Elohim is calling godly men (and women) to rise up passionately in holy hatred against sin and evil (while still loving the sinner). This is the necessary precursor to spiritual revival that will turn our nation and the world around.
WILL YOU ANSWER THE CALL OF ELOHIM to be the salt and light the Yeshua called Christians to be by confronting the evil works of spiritual darkness with perfect godly anger and hatred in your local sphere of influence?
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Communion or the Lord’s Supper is a ritual that has been vital to all Christian churches since the beginning, yet there is a proper biblical way to observe it of which many Christians are unaware. Plus, many people take communion in an unworthy and irreverent manner and as a result are bringing the divine judgment of sickness and even premature death upon themselves as Paul the apostle warned us about. We discuss this important issues in the teaching.
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“Don’t take away my bacon!” is the cry of many Christians who decry the biblical laws of clean and unclean meats. “Those Old Testament laws are done away with,” they continue. But let’s step back, take a deep breath, and for a moment put on the shelf what we’ve been taught in our churches. Let’s take a second look at WHY Elohim called eating pork, shellfish and the like an abomination, and why he deemed his dietary laws a holiness issue. This is an overlooked aspect of true biblical holiness that has to do with how we view our bodies as the holy temple of YHVH, and how the biblical dietary laws are a pathway to a transformative mindset on how we view ourselves as being holy, set-apart, and as having been called out of the world and its ungodly ways to be a chosen and peculiar people unto YHVH.
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Obedient and truth-seeking disciples of Yeshua will want to love him by keeping his commandments (John 14:12), and by teaching and doing everything he commanded (Matt 28:20). They will be following Paul’s example to imitate Yeshua the Messiah (1 Cor 11:1) as well heeding John’s admonition “to walk just as [Yeshua] walked” (1 John 2:6). This applies to the important biblical ritual of communion as well. How can we celebrate communion just as Yeshua did it? How closely is your typical mainstream Christian church following Yeshua’s commandments when it conducts a communion or the Lord’s supper? We shall discover the answer below.
With regard to obeying YHVH’s commands, symbols and memorializations figure prominently in YHVH Elohim’s spiritual economy. Why is this? They are teaching aids. Physical humans need physical things to help them to comprehend spiritual truths and ideals. Using symbols, commemorations and memorializations is a method of teaching and relates to pedagogy, which is “the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.” A effective teacher endeavors to build bridges of understanding between what the student knows and what the teacher wants to teach the student— between the known and the unknown, between what the student understands now and what the teacher wants his students to learn. A successful teacher learns the skill of building bridges of understanding with his students to bring them to a higher level of understanding. The same is true of YHVH Elohim as we works with humans to teach them about spiritual things.
On a spiritual level, YHVH Elohim, our Heavenly Teacher, employes similar pedagogic or teaching techniques as he endeavors to bring men to a higher level of understanding heaven’s spiritual truths and realities. The use of symbols and memorials as teaching tools is essential to this process of teaching and learning.
The Bible is full of symbols and memorials that represent or point to something else and act as teaching aids to assist humans in learning about Elohim and what he requires of us. For example, the very name of the Creator, YHVH (Yehovah), is a memorial, symbol or remembrance (Heb. zeker from zakar) of who Elohim really is (Exod 3:15). His name is a way for humans to connect with him. The same is true of each of our names. Our name is a label, a pointer, a symbol of who we are, but it’s not really us. Similarly, eating unleavened bread during the Feast of Unleavened Bread is a memorial (Heb. zikrown from zakar) of coming out of Egypt and putting sin out of one’s life (Exod 13:9). The twelve stones on the high priest’s breastplate were memorials (Heb. zikrown from zakar) of the twelve tribes of Israel (Exod 28:12). The grain offering that was made on the altar of sacrifice in the Tabernacle of Moses was a memorial (Heb. azkarah from zakar) or remembrance that prophetically pointed to Yeshua the Messiah’s death on the cross and the fact that he is the bread of life (Lev 2:2). Blowing shofars on the Day of Trumpets is a memorial (Heb. zikrown from zakar) of many things past, present and prophetically including the second coming of Yeshua and the firstfruits resurrection (Lev 23:24). In fact, the whole Tabernacle of Moses, the Levitical priesthood, the sacrificial system, the Sabbath and biblical feasts is a complex system of memorials, remembrances and symbols to point humanity to the higher, upward spiritual path, which eventually brings him to Yeshua the Messiah. This is so abundantly clear in the Bible. Why don’t more people see this? Why do so many Christians and their leaders have such an apathy, even antipathy for these things? It’s mind boggling, especially in view of the fact that these teaching aid memorial and symbols were ordained of Elohim himself!
The overarching purpose and meaning of the Hebrew word zakar and its derivatives is something that “gets men to think about something, to meditate upon something, to pay attention to something, to remember something, to mention something, to declare or proclaim something or to commemorate something” (see The TWOT on the meaning of zakar).
Why do people need to remember something or to stop and think about something? Simply this. In the busyness of life, people forget a lot of things that they should remember, meditate on, ponder, be thankful for and learn from. The fact that people tend to forget important things is the whole reason we have national holidays, statues, gravestones, war medals, a national flag and anthem, birthdays and anniversaries, photo albums and other manmade traditions. These are culturally important to humans and add meaning and depth to life. They help us to stay connected to past, significant events. They aid us in remembering where we have come from and who we are. None of us just spontaneously combusted, or appeared out of nowhere as if some cosmic hand just dropped each of us down onto this planet non-contextually and without a past history. Biblically, the same can be said of a Torah scroll, the Bible itself, the Sabbath, the biblical feasts, the cross as a symbol of something, the ritual of baptism and Passover, which had embedded in its observance the Lord’s supper (1 Cor 11:20), communion (1 Cor 10:16) or the Lord’s table (1 Cor 10:21). All of these remembrances or memorials are designed to cause us to pause and stop and to reflect on something that is beyond us (in the past or future) or above us. The memorialization of past events should cause us to better appreciate those who have gone before us—our past history—and be thankful for our present blessings. Such reflections can help us not to repeat the mistakes of past generations and at the same time learn from their wisdom. Simultaneously, things that memorialize future events (like the Sabbath and the biblical feasts) should encourage us onward and upward in our spiritual journey. They strengthen our faith and give us hope for tomorrow. Symbolic rituals like baptism and communion can help us to connect to present realities that relate to our upward spiritual walk and our relationship to Yeshua the Messiah—our Master and Savior.
What Does Communion Memorialize?
So what does the Christian ritual or sacrament of communion called “the Lord’s supper” memorialize? To its credit, the mainstream Christian church understands the basic meaning of communion quite well. But let’s review this basic understanding, while, at the same time, adding some Hebraic or whole Bible background information. This will hopefully help us to appreciate more fully this glorious sacrament, which, sadly, due to its frequent occurrence in many churches, can become banal ritual that is easily taken for granted.
How many of you have eaten leavened bread during a Christian communion service? Did you know that the Bible forbids this. Why is this? Because it is blasphemous and dishonors and profanes the body and life of Jesus/Yeshua. This sinful practice typifies many ungodly traditions in the church. It’s time that Elohim’s people woke up and turned away from these and other traditions of men by which the Word of Elohim is made of none effect in the church!
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I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And YHVH answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. (Habakkuk 2:1–3)
A Fresh Vision For the Saints of the Most High Elohim to Combat the Antichrist Spirit of This Age
YHVH Elohim’s end time saints need a fresh, prophetic vision with which to go forth against the spirit of antichrist and to prepare for the coming of Yeshua the Messiah. Without a vision, YHVH’s people will flounder spiritually and perish as they acquiesce to the spirit of the age. Absent such a vision, YHVH’s people may well wither and die on the proverbial vine and cease to exist.
Where there is no [prophetic] vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the [Torah] law, happy is he. (Prov 29:18)
Prophetic vision comes to those who keep, preserve and guard YHVH’s Torah. Torah-obedience per Proverbs 29:18 involves complying with both the spirit and letter or truth of YHVH’s Torah-word, which is how the saints will be worshipping YHVH in a pleasing way.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. Elohim is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:23–24).
YHVH is currently seeking such a people. To confront the present spirit of this age (i.e., the spirit of antichrist), which has a virtual death grip on this planet, will require a special, powerful double anointing of YHVH’s Spirit (e.g., the spirit of Elijah and Elisha) to come upon YHVH’s people. Before the saints can effectively combat the antichrist spirit, the yoke of false doctrine and the blinding spiritual veil must first be lifted from the eyes YHVH’s people including both the Christians and Jews. The blindness on the Christians is the failure to recognize the full validity of YHVH’s Written Torah-law and for the Jews it is failure to believe that Yeshua is the promised Messiah or the Living Torah-Word of Elohim incarnate. When both of these people-groups repent of their sin of unbelief and begin to unite, it is then that a double anointing, Spirit-filled and led, Yeshua the Messiah-trusting remnant of saints from both houses of Israel (i.e., Judah or the Jews and Ephraim or the Christians) will unite like an army to oppose the wicked conspiring cabal of satanic forces who are currently opposing the Messiah (Pss 2:2; 83:3). This coming together and uniting against the antichrist spirit and eventually Antichrist himself is the rising up and the preparation of the warrior bride of the Messiah, who will meet him in the air at his second coming and accompany the sword-wielding Conquering King of kings on his war stallion back to earth from heaven to destroy Satan and his antichrist forces once and for all (Rev 19:1–21).
The Vision Spelled Out
Now let us dive deeper and unpack this vital regarding the restoration and revival of YHVH’s people. It is essential that the nascent bride of Yeshua understand these issues, so that she can be a wise virgin who will be ready to meet Yeshua her Bridegroom at his coming. The Book of Proverbs tells us,
Where there is no vision [Heb. chazon; also divine or prophetic revelation], the people perish: but he that keepeth [Heb. shamar meaning “guard, protect, hedge about] the Torah-law, happy is he. (Prov 29:18, KJV)
Without a prophetic vision (i.e., a spiritual sense of direction and purpose), YHVH’s people will inevitably flounder in a morass of spiritual confusion including religiosity, lukewarmness, mediocrity, spiritual stagnation leading to state of declension and even apostasy as has happened to so many other Christians in the past. The law of entropy applies to the spiritual realm as well as to the physical realm. Without the outside input of energy to a both a physical and a spiritual system, the status quo deteriorates into disorder and confusion, and eventually grows cold and dark and then and dies. In the spiritual realm, the external input of energy is divine and prophetic revelation as energized by the Holy Spirit from whom comes specific instructions or vision that YHVH has for his people at a given time and place in history. This divine revelation not only keeps YHVH’s people on track spiritually and heading in the right direction in accordance with the will of YHVH, but it is the fuel that keeps them moving forward personally as well a as a corporate body as they help to advance heaven’s kingdom on earth.
There are two aspects to (prophetic) vision: personal and corporate. A personal vision is individualistic in scope and involves personal development, goals and one’s sense of one’s own unique destiny. A corporate vision is much broader in scope and is outside of as well as above and beyond the private aspirations of one’s own soul (mind, will and emotions) or personal spirit. It involves the larger people-group or one’s spiritual tribe. For the personal vision, it may be no more than being a good Christian and knowing that you will “go to heaven” when you die. On the other hand, the larger vision focuses on people-groups and spiritual activities beyond one’s own personal goals and aspirations. For the Christian, this may involve becoming involved in ministry of one sort or the other including winning the lost and making disciples for Christ as per his Great Commission command. In the discussion that follow, we will focus on the broader and greater vision that involves executing the so-called Great Commission (Matt 28:18–20 and Mark 16:15–18), but with a focus on specific details that pertain to the fulfillment of end times Bible prophecy.
This video continues the discussion of the amazing parallels between YHVH’s “marriage” to Israel at Mount Sinai and Yeshua’s marriage to those saints who qualify to be his bride. These two marriages relate to each other in a most curious way and are ingeniously connected legally. This message will give you a fuller, broader and deeper understanding for of Yeshua had to die on the cross.There is so much more to the glorious gospel message than merely John 3:16! You will come away with a deeper love for your Lord and Savior, as well as a realization of your spiritual connectedness to your Israelite ancestors and your Torah roots as a grafted in Israelite and child of Abraham!
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