He was talking about Me!

Is there anyone among you who feels that the Bible does not speak to you? That it is hard to understand and harder to do what it says to do? Are there any among you who feel that there is nothing in there for you, or that heaven does not speak out to His people today? I can understand how this happens to people. I have been there too. So desperate to hear from God because things seems so dire and chaotic around me, nothing going right, and not being able to break free from my own bondage of sin that weighs me down so heavily. When I take a look around me, I see many people claiming they know Jesus or are believers… yet no one is doing what He did, at least as I read the Bible. Then, always struggling with my own sin as I got older, and hoping that “if I could just pick up that Bible and have Him speak to me, cure me, heal me.” Then reading it and getting nothing from it once again and then feeling as though it just cannot be understood. Do any of you, or have any of you felt that way or experienced something similar? Well, He has shown me one clue as to why that is and I am now sharing it with you.

Do you know about the veil? How about scales…. over the eyes? These are common ways in which scripture iteself talks about why we cannot see, hear, or understand certain things of Him and His Kingdom. There was a veil over my eyes and heart. I know that now… the main point being the word “now” As the phrase goes, “you never know you have been alseep, until you wake up.” The veil and the scales prevent understanding and prevent seeing. Sometimes the heart truly is in dire need of understanding due to pain, heartache, certain hopeless situations… and no prayers are being answered and nothing is happening. But God knows the heart. People are always saying this, and it is true. They don’t even know that they are pronouncing the problem upon themselves even as they say that! It is truly amazing! His question to you… as you rove around in darkness: “Are you going to keep and guard My Commandments?” Because if you are not, and yes I truly do know your heart, then I shall not reveal to you what you are seeking.

Why would an Almighty, Righteous Creator reveal Himself to someone who is not going to repent and follow Him? To someone who already thinks they are blessed, and thinks they know how to please Him – just because they have a Bible and know how to read? He will not speak to people who are not going to reflect His Image in the other, or at least those who have the desire to. He is not there to call out when your in pain to be a fixer. He is the Almighty consuming fire, full of Glory and Power, and He desires a people who will reflect His Image in the world. It is not about us… it is about Him. Anyway – sorry for all that soap box stuff, but sometimes it just needs to be said.

So back to the veil: The veil that was over my eyes was placed there by the church, the world, and false teachings – AND ALLOWED by Yahuah (God) to be removed at the most perfect moment by God Himself and His Spirit of Truth. You see we all learn stuff, from the world, church, people, books, etc. We learn them and accept them as the truth because someone in authority said so. Some of those things are so basic and pivotal to all other things, that that one thing can lead us down a path of thinking that truly effects many many other things. Well, this one thing is the thing of my article today and boy or boy I pray you “get it”

So the veil that was over my eyes was removed and it was done in a most dramatic way I might add. I praise God for His never giving up on me, for continuing to allowing me to go down all the destructive paths I did, just to bring me to where I am today. Thank you Father – forever!

It was in 2006, when the veil was removed and I am continually in awe of the revelations He is providing to us, His people, today. Each time this happens I am re-invigorated all over again, revived again, with a reassurance that “YES” He is still listening and still speaking to His people – those obeying His Commandments, with His Torah in their hearts, and following after the Good Shepherd. It is my testimony that the veil will not be lifted until a believer truly submits their whole heart AND committs with their whole heart to “keep His Commandments” Disregarding everything they have ever been “taught” and actually listen only to God, through His written Word. It is my testimony that with each instruction that is given by Him in His Word that is kept and guarded and performed, more revelation will be given. Even what I am about to share with you will not be understood by you, if you have not committed to follow Him.

With that introduction, I will now share with you what has my heart leaping with joy once again. For:

He talking about Me!

Our King of kings, Yahuah, spoke many parables while He tabernacled among us in the flesh. He spoke in parables in fulfillment of prophecy about Him and for the purpose of the veil. The very veil I spoke about earlier in this article. Another one of His parables has been unlocked! and revealed! I give credit to 119 Ministries at Test Everything.net for this revelation. It was so funny too, because as I was watching the teaching – I literally blurted out the answer before they got to it! Ha ha ha. You know why? Because God was speaking to me!

A Word about Parables…

Do we understand what a parable really is? I am not asking about what we have been “taught” a parable is, but what a parable really is. Most of us know, that the parables spoken by Jesus (Yahuah) are these sayings He said in trying to teach us the deeper meanings of things. They were even difficult for the disciples to understand, and they are hard for us too. It is my testimony that they are made EASY when you keep the commandments… ALL of them (yes, that means reading the “old testament”)

A parable is the language of a King. Please read and learn with me, for I also am just learning the meaning of a parable and I am amazed. Then we will get into the specific parable of my article –  because of my desire to share with you all… the great revelation of this parable.

The Hebrew word for parable is:

mashal {maw-shawl’} apparently from 04910 in some original sense of superiority in mental action; TWOT – 1258a; n m AV – proverb 19, parable 18, byword 1, like 1; 39 1) proverb, parable 1a) proverb, proverbial saying, aphorism 1b) byword 1c) similitude, parable 1d) poem 1e) sentences of ethical wisdom, ethical maxims

It comes from the Hebrew word:

mashal {maw-shal’} Strong 4910; a primitive root; TWOT – 1259; v AV – rule 38, ruler 19, reign 8, dominion 7, governor 4, ruled over 2, power 2, indeed 1; 81 1) to rule, have dominion, reign 1a) (Qal) to rule, have dominion 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to rule 1b2) to exercise dominion

Did you see that? Rule, Dominion, Power, Reign, exercise dominion. The word parable comes from this and it is a sense of superiority in mental action. Sentences in ethical wisdom.

Our King spoke in parables and He Himself said:

“Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, but to them it has not been given.
For whoever possesses, to him more shall be given, and he shall have overflowingly; but whoever does not possess, even what he possesses shall be taken away from him.
Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do ot see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
And in them the prophecy of Yeshayahu (Isaiah) is completely filled, which says, “Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive, for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are  hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with ther eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back (REPENT), and I heal them.'” Matthew 13:11-15

Here is the parable…

It is about a woman and a coin; a single, missing, silver coin. This parable can be found in the Gospel of Luke chapter 15 in verses 8-10

“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she finds it?

And having found it, she calls friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Regoice with me, for I have found the coin which I lost!”

I say to you, in the same way there is joy in the presence of the messengers of Elohim over one sinner repenting.”

The way to study scripture for meaning is to first live what it says, even when the meaning is not understood. You will understand it AFTER you do it most of the time. It is this way for a reason. Secondly, in all cases possible, define terms according to the old testament please. Everything you read in the new testament came from the old. There was no new testament when the new testament was written… there was ONLY the old testament and that is what everyone taught from.  So let us take this parable apart together using this instruction.

Who is the “woman” in our parable? The woman is the entity who stood at Mount Sinai and said “We will”

This is God speaking: “This is what you are to say to the ‘house of Jacob’ and declare to the ‘children of Israel’:

‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ windg and brought you to Myself. And now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession (Segulah, Bride) above all the peoples – for all the earth is Mine – and you shall be to Me a reign of priests and a set-apart nation.’ Exodus 19

What did the people (the woman, the Bride) say to this? “And all the people answered together and said, “All that Yahuah has spoken we shall do.” Exodus 19:8

We find further evidence of how God Himself saw Israel when we read His Words found in the prophets:

“For your Maker is your husband, Yahuah of hosts is His Name, and the Set-apart One of Israel is your Redeemer. He is called the Elohim of all the earth.” Isaiah 54:5

And in Jeremiah speaking to the Northern Tribes (the House of Israel): “But indeed as a wife betrays her husband, so have you betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares Yahuah  Jeremiah 3:20

and we will do one more to drive it home: “See, the days are coming,” declares Yahuah, “when I shall make a renewed covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, THOUGH I WAS A HUSBAND TO THEM,” declares Yahuah. Jeremiah 31:31-32

So, the woman is the wife of Yahuah – the betrothed, the future Bride, Israel.

This woman HAD ten silver coins. Our next question: what are these ten silver coins that Israel had at a previous time?

The Psalmist tells us: “The Words of Yahuah are clean Words, Silver tried in a furnace of earth, refined seven times.” Psalm 12:6

Although there are many many other references to silver in the Scriptures, the one found in Psalm 12:6 leads us to the proper understanding. Remember we are talking about a “coded message” of the King. A special language that only those who have loved Him enough to search Him out, His Words and Ways, will understand. If we were to use the references to silver shekels – what mystery is that? Not much mystery there. Then there are all the silver utensils… no mystery there either. We are in search of something the silver “represents” and it would not be anything in scripture that is literally silver because it is a parable.

Ok, so. Israel had ten silver coins. The silver, we found, is His Word. From above: The Words of Yahuah are silver… tried in a furnace. So now, we know the silver Israe, the Bride, the Womanl had was His Words… and there were ten of them, right? I mean now, how hard is this? Any beliver worth their salt knows about the Ten Words!!

They are none other than the Ten Commandments! Many times people see the word “ten” in a parable and automatically try to make the “ten” represent the ten northern tribes. Very often this is the case. But not here. The reason being is that the woman only lost one coin. Ten coins were not lost (as in the scattering of the 10 nothern tribes) but only one. So the ten here is not the ten Northern Tribes. Additionally we discovered that the silver coins are His Words.

And he (Moses) was there with Yahuah forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread and he did not drink water. And He wrote on the tablests the Words of the covenant, the Ten Words. Exodus 34:28

In summary then, to the beginning of this teaching by the King: The Bride had the Ten Words of Yahuah.

Hmmm, then She lost only one of them. Let me write out the list of the Ten Commandments and let us see if we can figure out which one she (I)  lost.

1. I am Yahuah your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You have no other mighty ones against my face.

2. You do not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of that which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth, you do not bow down to them nor serven them. For I, Yahuah your Elhim am a jealous El, visiting the crookedness of the fathers of the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing kindess to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My commands.

3. You do not bring the Name of Yahuah your Elhim to naught, for Yahuah does not leave the one unpuynished who brings His Name to naught.

4. Remember the Sabbath day, to set it apart. Six days you labor, and shall do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of Yahuah yourEjohim. You do not do any workd – you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your malw servet, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days Yahuah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in the, and rested the seventh day. Therefore Yahuah blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart.

5. Respect your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged upon the soil wich yYahuah your Elohim is giving you.

6. You do not murder.

7. You do not commit adultery.

8. You do not steal.

9. You do not bear false witenss against your neighbor.

10. You do not covet your neighbor’s house, you do not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belong to your neighbor.

Now what I would ask you to do… is look over this list of the Ten Words, ten silver coins, very carefully. I wonder if there is “one” of these that was lost to the Bride, in history. Which one is it? Do you know, or can you see it? If you can… your King is speaking to you just as He is speaking to me! 2000 years ago, our King spoke these Words, in His language, directly to us today! I find that just amazing and heart penetrating!

We are truly truly living in an age of fulfillment of so many prophesies and so many do not even know it, because they do not know His Word, the Torah, the Prophets, the Writings. They do not obey Him, keep His instructions for life, actually do what the King said to do… to be in His Kingdom.

So… “light your lamp, sweep your house, and search diligently until you find which one has been lost!”

What is the lamp you are to light?

We return to the Book:

And it came to be, when the sun went down and it was doark, that see, a smoking oven and a bruning torch (lamp) passing between those pieces.” Genesis 15:17

Here the lamp is God Himself, when He covenanted with Himself on behalf of Abraham and his descendants.

In Exodus, the lamp is the menorah: “And you, you are to ommand the children of Israel to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light, to cause the lamp to burn continually.” Ex 27:20

The menorah represents the Light of Messiah, the light He shines into the world and into the lives of His people.

King David proclaimed that Yahuah is the Lamp in 2 Sam 22:29: “For You are my lamp, O Yahuah, and Yahuah makes my darkness light.”

In Psalm 119:105: “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”

That makes complete sense, because we are told that the Word was made flesh, the Word was with God and the Word was God in John 1:1. Thus far, our lamp is God Himself, the Menorah (Messiah), His Word, and we are going to see that of course the lamp is the commandments.

For the command is a lamp, and the Torah a light – Proverb 6:23

So the woman, the Bride, takes her lamp, Messiah and His commandment, sweeps her house to look for the lost commandment – the missing silver coin. Her house is her dwelling place. Where do we dwell? We dwell in a vessel of skin, or flesh on this earth. When is the last time we swept our dwelling place? Searched our soul for sin and rebellion and cast off all that is not of Him?

What happens next, after she has taken the lamp and swept her house and searched diligently? She finds the missing silver coin!

She then calls friends and neighbors together and says, “Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I lost!”

And this is what I am saying to you today! “Rejoice with me! For I have found the missing commandment of my Elohim that was lost — It is His Sabbath Day! That is the missing silver coin. Commandment #4: Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy! Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice! I found my treasured possession! My wedding ring, my sign, and my oath. My seal, that I belong to the King!

Then, what does our King say about this woman… and all others who do this very same thing? What is He saying to you and to me?

“I say to you, in the same way there is joy in the presence of the messengers of Elohim over one sinner repenting.”

To sin is to miss the target. If we are missing the target, we are sinning. The target is to be in full obedience to ALL His commandments. Sin is trangression of the Law.

I am that one sinner repenting, who transgressed His Law by not keeping His Sabbath day. I am the woman, who had a missing silver coin. He allowed me to find it FINALLY in 2006 when He called me to “keep His Sabbath” and I was so full of joy, I tried to tell everyone. I still do! That is what I am doing now also. Rejoice with me! Keep the Sabbath of our King. So many will not listen. They do not believe they are in error, they believe they are not sinning and that they keep His commandments.

So many — billions of people — say they keep the 10 commandments. These are believers. They believe they are keeping the 10 commandments and do not even realize they are missing a silver coin. They truly believe that somehow, somewhere, that God’s Sabbath day was changed to another day. This is impossible, for He says He does not change.

He was speaking of me 2000 years ago!!! Right there in the Gospel of Luke! He was speaking to you too, if you will only follow Him… and keep His commandments. He desires to bless you. He desires to lift the veil. Sweep your house, search diligently and find the silver coin you are missing. And please believe me when I say, if you are not keeping the true Sabbath day, you are sinning, and you are missing a silver coin. This is my testimony. Shalom

 

 

Hebrews (Ibrim) Chapter 3

Chapter 3

1 Therefore, set-apart brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, closely consider the Emissary and High Priest of our confession, Messiah YAHUsha,

Reviewing from the last portion of chapter 2, Shaul was telling us about how The Messiah had become flesh, and called us brothers so that we can be assured of the Trustworthiness, Faithfulness and Compassion of our High Priest and King. Because of this, those who share in a purpose that is above ourselves – that part of us that is the Image of our Elohim – to perceive or look deeply into the Shaliach (the Ambassador or Emissary) AND Cohen Gadol (High Priest) of our COVENANT. Did you see that? Yahusha is the High Priest of our Covenant – that is the word. [Confession just does not do it justice]

2 who was trustworthy to Him who appointed Him, as also Mosheh in all His house.

Have you noticed we are going back to the giving of the Torah again? That is where all wisdom and knowledge is – in His Torah, His Teachings and Instructions.

3 For this One has been deemed worthy of more esteem than Mosheh, as much as He who built the house [family] enjoys more respect than the house [family].

4 For every house [family] is built by someone, but He who built all is Elohim.

5 And Mosheh indeed was trustworthy in all His house as a servant, for a witness of what would be spoken,

6 but Messiah as a Son

Moses as a servant and Messiah as a Son

over His own house [family], whose house [family]  we are if we hold fast the boldness and the boasting of the expectation firm to the end.

7 Therefore, as the Set-apart Spirit says, “Today, if you hear His voice,

8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

9 where your fathers tried Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

I would like to pause right here and actually take us back to the time and place Shaul is referring to to make his point AND where Elohim said these words to us. So many times when we are reading the Renewed Covenant Writings – we gloss over these things and to our detriment and lack of complete and/or full understanding.

Shaul takes us back to Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 15. The Israelites had just left Mitsrayim (Egypt) and just finished singing a song to YaHUaH praising His Strength and Rulership. They were traveling in the Wilderness of Shur and they had been three days without water. And they came to Marah, and they were unable to drink the waters of Marah (which means bitter), for they were bitter. So the name of it was called Marah. And the people, grumbled against Mosheh, saying, “What are we to drink?” Then he cried out to YaHUaH, and YaHUaH showed him a tree. And when he threw it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a law and a right-ruling for them, and there He tried them. And He  said, “If you diligently obey the voice of YaHUaH your Elohim and do what is right in His eyes, and shall listen to His commands and shall guard all His laws, I shall bring on you none of the diseases I brought on the Mitsrites, for I am YaHUaH who heals you.”

Notice here, our ever-merciful Father has compassion on us when we are fresh out of bondage. He knows that we have to learn, grow, mature in our relationship with HIM. He asks us to listen to His voice, obey, and guard His Word and He will heal us. YaHUaH gave them water in Chapter 15, quail and manna in Chapter 16, and they came through the wilderness and camped at Rephidim in Chapter 17. But now see, in Chapter 17 what they do after all this – at Rephidim, there was no water for the people to dirnk. Therefore the people strove with Mosheh, and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Mosheh waid to them, “Why do you strive with me? Why do you try YaHUaH?” And the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Mosheh, and said, “Why did you bring us out of Mitsrayim, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” Then Mosheh cried out the YaHUaH, saying, “What am I to do with this people? Yet a little and they shall stone Me!”

This is where Elohim instructs Mosheh to strike the rock to get water. And Mosheh called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the ‘strife’ of the children of Yisra’el, and because they ‘tried’ YaHUaH, saying, “Is YaHUaH in our midst or not?”             This event is referenced many, many times throughout scripture. No matter the current situation we find ourselves in, it is not a good idea to start questioning His Love and Faithfulness for us. He saves us, teaches us, loves us. Let us not be so fickle as to begin trying Him as soon as things look bad for us.

10 “Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’

11 “As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they shall enter into My rest…'”

Additionally, Shaul is quoting almost verbatim from Tehillim (Psalms) 95:7-11 “For He is our Elohim, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you would hear His voice “Do not harden your hearts as in Meribah, and as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, “When your fathers tried Me, have proved Me, though they saw My work. For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and said, ‘They are a people who go astray in their hearts, and they do not know My ways.’ “As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they enter into My rest…’ ”

12 Look out, brothers, lest there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in falling away from the living Elohim,

13 but encourage one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened by the deceivableness of sin.

14 For we have become partakers of Messiah if we hold fast the beginning of our trust firm to the end,

15 while it is said, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Mitsrayim, led by Mosheh?

17 And with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, but to those who did not obey?

19 So we see that they were unable to enter in because of unbelief.

(Chapter 4….)Therefore, since a promise remains of entering into His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the Good News was brought to us as well as to them, but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mixed with belief in those who heard it.

I do not know about any of you, who may read this study, but I cannot help but read here – that Shaul is warning us about something. “Therefore……. since a promise remains of entering into His rest.” You know, the mixed multitude who came out of Egypt obtained salvation – but proved to be hard in their hearts and unbelieving. I have a question for you all – Is there something more required other that salvation to enter into His Rest?

I would love to hear thoughts on this question.

The Kingdom of Heaven: Matthew 20

MattithYAHU 20:1-16

Yahusha teaching about the Kingdom –The Restored Kingdom- through a parable

 

“For the reign of the heavens (Kingdom of Heaven – God’s movement upon the earth, which is happening at present)

is like a man, a householder (God/YAHUAH)

who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. (The workers are His People, His vineyard is His Torah.)

And when he had agreed with the workers (His People, Israel both Houses/Israel and Judah during Israel’s United Kingdom)

for a silver piece a day (the reward for the work of Knowing and Teaching His Torah),

he sent them into his vineyard. (He sent them into His Torah to learn His Ways and Principles)

 

And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market-place (just prior to Messiah coming – the work of His Torah being brought NOT much to the nations, the times of the Prophets, Rabbis, Pharisees, Saducees, the time following the dividing of the Kingdom of Israel, into the House of Judah and the House of Israel/Joseph/Ephraim)

And said to the, “You too go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I shall give you.’ And they went.

“Having gone out again about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise. (After Messiah came 100 AD – 1990’s, we have been and are become idle, lazy. The “church” has NOT studied, learned, adored His Torah – His teachings and instructions and Ways of Life – His Principles)

And about the eleventh hour (the current time near the end of this age),

having gone out (the movement of Elohim, the reign of the heavens, Kingdom of heaven, God’s movement upon the earth),

he found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?” (This is us! Wake up o’sleeper)

“They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ (This is us, saying “we are hungry, no one will teach us your Word, your Torah)

He said to them, ‘You too go into the vineyard (HE is telling us – ‘go into my Torah! Do it now, for your life and reward),

and whatever is right you shall receive.’ (We WILL receive life from Torah/Yahusha)

And when evening came, the master of the vineyard said to his manager (The Father instructs the Spirit to call us, ALL of us),

‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.’ (House of Israel is last to come BACK to Torah – return, now re-gathering, while the House of Judah was first to Torah and has been working in His Torah for centuries)

And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour (re-gathered Israel),

they each received a silver piece.

And when the first came (House of Judah, includes Benjamin and Levi)

they thought they would receive more. But they too received each a silver piece.

And when they received, it they grumbled against the householder,

Saying, ‘These last have worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.’(a reference to the Holocaust)

The House of Judah is and will say “why are you making them House of Israel/Joseph/Ephraim equal to us, we have been with You and Your Torah from the beginning?

But he answering, said to one of them, ‘Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree

with me for a silver piece? The gift of eternity with Elohim Yahusha is the reward for all who hold fast, guard, and do His Ways.

Take yours and go. But I wish to give to this last man (the House of scattered Israel)

as also to you (House of Judah).

‘Is it not right for me to do what I wish with my own? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’

Thus the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”

 

Common Hebraic Concept of the Ages from Creation to the Everlasting

(These are approximate)

Early in the morning – Creation/Adam to Abraham/Moses – 0-2000 yrs

The third hour – 0900 in the morning – Abraham/Moses to Messiah 2000 – 4000 yrs

The sixth and ninth hour – 1200, 1500, or 3:00 pm: Messiah – 4000-6000 yrs

The Eleventh Hour – Messianic Age – Now!  The time of restoration

 

 

 

 

 

Kingdom of Heaven: Properly Defined!

Malkut Shamayim

The Kingdom of Heaven, i.e. the Kingdom of YAHUAH Elohim. In this phrase, as in many

other expressions dating from the last half of the Second Temple period, the term

“heaven” is used as an evasive synonym {a word or phrase that means the same thing, but saying something else so as to not “say the real word or phrase”} or circumlocution {a paraphrase}  for YAHUAH, the personal name of the Almighty. The fact that, in the Apostolic Writings, the term “heaven” is a circumlocution or evasive expression for the personal names of YAHUAH, is widely

misunderstood in Christianity—hence the deplorably otherworldly and pagan “we are going to heaven for eternity”  is a myth.

The truth is that the Malkut Shamayim is coming to the redeemed remnant of mankind and to the earth. What has been lost in Adam, is gained and restored in Messiah Yahusha, the corporate representative of the Yisra’el of Elohim—redeemed Yisra’el and Gentiles grafted into the commonwealth of Yisra’el.

We have the firstfruits now, but the fulness comes later—when Messiah returns.

The teaching of some dispensationalists that there is a difference between the “Kingdom

of Heaven” and the “Kingdom of God” is an incorrect teaching dating from a time when

there was little appreciation of the communication principle of hermeneutics.

The Malkut Shamayim is a present reality. If I stand next to a table, I would say, “the

table is near.” This refers to spatial nearness. Likewise, the expression “the Kingdom of

Heaven is at hand or near” refers to its actual, spatial presence. The Malkut Shamayim is

a present, dynamic reality. In the fulness of time, it will become a physical reality on

earth. It is “here now but not yet in its fulness.”

The Malkut Shamayim is:

ì The supreme rulership and absolute sovereignty of YAHUAH Elohim. The Kingdom

of Heaven is the Kingship of YAHUAH. Remember that, in the Apostolic Writings,

the term Heaven is often not a place, but an evasive synonym for the personal

name of Almighty YAHUAH.

ì YAHUAH ruling and reigning actively, forever and ever. Imparting His life, His

Ruach, His redemption to man, through the Son. The king is a saviour—see

Psalm 72. The Almighty redeems to rule.

ì The redeemed people whom YAHUAH rules over. All authority has been given to

the Son—Yeshayahu 40:10. The movement started by Messiah Yahusha is the

Kingdom of Heaven. Those who submit to His mastership are in the Kingdom.

The Kingdom owns us; we are the subjects of the Kingdom. King Messiah is not

only our Saviour but also our Master.

ì The supernatural manifestations of the Spirit of YAHUAH.

Some applications of how to operate in the authority and power of the Kingship of

YAHUAH and His Messiah:

ì Repent, turn around. Confess your sins. Be cleansed. Be clothed. Be equipped.

Be commissioned. Now go.

ì Live a kingdom-centred life? How? Do the will of YAHUAH—“Thy kingdom

come, Thy will be done.” The manifestation of His kingdom, His kingship,

expands on earth as more and more people know Him and do His will. Submit to

His authority. Be faithful and obedient. Do the will of our Father in Heaven.

How? Prayer and Scripture, prayer and Scripture, prayer and Scripture… Hear

and obey. All who call the Messiah Adon (Master) are not part of His movement;

only those who do the will of His Father in Heaven—Mattityahu 7:21. Those

who “name and claim” but do not obey are not in the Kingdom. We must take the

yoke of the Kingship of YAHUAH on our shoulders. How? By obeying Torah in

the measure it has been laid on us:  We should

bend the neck, put on the yoke, and do the work of the Kingdom. The yoke is

easy to bear, but it is still a yoke. The Kingdom is for free, but it costs everything.

ì Lead a life characterised by humility. Be not puffed up. The Almighty is in

charge; He placed all under His Son.

ì Beautify the commandments. When observing a commandment, do it with joy

and beauty.

ì Lead a life characterised by productivity and abundance in fruit. There is not a

single Hebrew word for “prosperity” in the sense of the accumulation of wealth.

Scripturally, prosperity refers to being equipped for what YAHUAH has sent us to

do. We should bear this fruit in the here and now, in our daily walk. As the Body

of Messiah, we share in the power of the Ruach that is upon Him. He is the

Bearer and Bestower of the Ruach. He bestows that power and authority to those

inside His movement. By the power and authority of YAHUAH in our lives, we

should bear abundant fruit and have abundant life.

ì Become connected to the community of the faithful. Be an active part of

Yahusha’s living movement; don’t try to be a “lone ranger,” a Rambo. Do not

fight battles alone; let the rest of the army support you in prayer. Think “we” and

“us” and not “I” and “me.”

ì Realise you are in continual spiritual conflict. Satan is upset when people leave

his territory and get into the Kingdom of YAHUAH. The Malkut Shamayim frees the

captives who are in Satan’s hold. The adversary takes offence at this and attacks.

You are part of a community engaged in conflict. So put on the full armour of

Elohim—truth, salvation, active witnessing, righteousness, the manifestations of

the Ruach HaQodesh, the authority of the names of YAHUAH and Yahusha.

Proclaim the mastership of Messiah Yahusha. Heal the sick, drive out demons,

set the captives free—by the power of Almighty YAHUAH and the authority given

to us by the Son.

ì Realise that the Kingdom is a present reality, but a reality that is manifest in

firstfruits-form. The Kingdom is in our midst individually and as a community of

believers.

Taken from Glossary of Hebraic terms, changing YHWH to YAHUAH.

Day of Atonements (Yom HaKippurim)

YAHUAH’s Sabbath morning, the Sabbath between Yom Teruah (the Day of Blowing) and Yom HaKippurim (Day of Atonements) has been full of blessings. My husband had taken down some verse references from a reading he had done the past week. They are listed below if you would also like to read them for yourself.

Exodus 30:1-10

Numbers 29:7-11

Leviticus 16

Leviticus 23:27-31

Leviticus 25:9

I am going to type them out here for this sharing of what we learned – HalleluYAH!

Exodus 30:1-10:

“And you shall make an altar to burn incense on, make it of acacia wood, (2) a cubit long and a cubit wide – it is a square – and two cubits high, its horns of the same. (3) “And you shall overlay its top, and its sides all around, and its horns with clean gold. And you shall make for it a moulding of gold all around. (4) “And make two gold rings for it, under the moulding on both its sides. Make them on its two sides, and they shall be holders for the poles to lift it with. (5) “And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. (6) “And you shall put it before the veil that is before the ark of the Witness, before the lid of atonement that is over the Witness, where I am to meet with you. (7) “And Aharon shall burn on it sweet incense, morning by morning. As he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it. (8) “And when Aharon lights the lamps between the evenings, he shall burn incense on it – a continual incense before YHWH throughout your generations. (9) “Do not offer strange incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering on it. (10) “And Aharon shall make atonement upon its horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement – once a year he makes atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is most set-apart to YHWH.”

On this portion of our reading, some things we saw were – Yahuah is speaking about our prayers to Him. The altar of incense represents the prayers, the prayers of the children of the covenant. The altar of incense is an important part of the Day of Atonements because the High Priest makes atonement upon its horns once a year. There is another altar with horns – the altar of sacrifice (the Brazen altar) in the outer court of the Tent of Meeting, but more on this later.

The altar of incense (our altar of prayer) is to be no strange (unholy) language, no sacrifices, no offerings. This altar is MOST SET APART UNTO YHWH. I propose this altar of incense is pure praise and worship! Our Father Himself tells us that to obey is better than sacrifice and He would that there never be sacrifices and only praise and worship. But because of His Great Holiness, and our lack thereof, He provides a way for us to draw near to Him. He provides a covering, a covering of blood.

Also, that Aharon was to put the altar before the veil that is before the ark of Witness, before the lid of atonement that is over the Witness, WHERE I AM TO MEET WITH YOU. I knew I had to understand this part especially. Where is my Father going to meet with me (and you)?

Literally, there no longer is a veil. We can read in Matthew 27:51

And see, the veil of the Dwelling Place was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were split.

Also, the ark of Witness has been hidden away. But we know that all the figures of the Temple exist in Heaven – the True Temple, of which the earthly figures are a copy – the ark of Witness, the presence of Elohim, resides in Heaven.

Aharon burning sweet incense on that altar morning by morning. Likewise, I am to offer up my prayer of praise and worship on the altar, rising early every morning.

Atonement is made by blood. The lid of atonement is where the High Priest sprinkled the blood of the sacrificed animals. Starting westward (opposite his body) and sprinkling eastwardly (towards himself). Then sprinkling in front of the ark of Witness. Did this make a tau in blood? The Hebrew letter tau? The blood on a cross?

The Messiah, Yahusha atoned for the sin of the world.  1 John 2:1-2

“My little children, I write this to you, so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Intercessor with the FAther, Yahusha Messiah, a righteous One. (2) And He Himself is an atoning offering for our sins, and not for ours only but also for all the world.”

So now, can you see it? Partial fulfillment of good things to come from all the way back to the Children of Israel in the wilderness at Mt Sinai. Praise and worship, morning by morning unto YAHUAH, in a direct manner covered by the atoning blood of a sinless Messiah who allows us to meet with our Holy Creator.

That was only the first portion…….

Numbers 29:7-11

“And on the tenth day of this seventh month you have a set-apart gathering, and you shall afflict your beings, you do not work. (8) ‘And you shall bring near a burnt offering to YHWH, a sweet fragrance: one young bull, one ram, seven lambs a year old, perfect ones they are for you, (9) and their grain offering: fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram, (10) one-tenth for each of the seven lambs, (11) one male goat as a sin offering, besides the sin offering for atonement, the continual burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings.”

This is how the Day of Atonements (Yom HaKippurim) would have started when the Children of Israel were in the wilderness learning to serve, worship, and draw near to a Holy Elohim. This day is a specially, appointed day in the eyes of our Creator. He says it and He does not change. Here in this portion, He is telling us when this special appointed time is – it falls on the 10th day of the 7th month. We CANNOT use the Roman calendar to get this time right. Our Creator gets to create the timetable – we do not. He does not want us to work, He wants us to gather together in a sanctified way – a Holy Assembly if you will, He wants us to humble ourselves before Him in praise, worship, and service, and finally to bring a burnt offering. This is our complete selves – heart, soul, mind, body, the living sacrifice.

I know there is a lot here to take in. Keeping in line with the truth that the Feasts of YHWH are “shadow pictures of good things to come” What is the shadow picture that the Day of Atonements represents? First off, it is safe to say that this observance is part of the “Fall Feasts” or occurs in the Autumn of the year. It is commonly believed and I also hold to the fact that all the commanded observances of YHWH have initial, intermediate, and final fulfillments. There is a feeling to me, and evidently among many believers, that the understanding of what it is Our Father desires us to glean from this Holy Rehearsal eludes us. Even the “Jewish” sages had/have little to no understanding of the two goats and the meaning of Azazel.

Leviticus 16 (I know what you are thinking…. is she going to type the whole chapter?! – YES I AM!! because it is so very important to me sharing what we saw)

So…..

And YHWH spoke to Mosheh after the death of the two sons of Aharon, as they drew near before YHWH, and dies. (2) And YHWH said to Mosheh, “Speak to Aharon your brother not to come in at all times to the Set-apart Place inside the veil, before the lid of atonement which is on the ark, lest he die, because I appear in the cloud above the lid of atonement. (3) “With this Aharon should come into the Set-apart Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering. (4) “He should put on the set-apart linen long shirt, with linen trousers on his flesh, and gird himself with a linen girdle, and be dressed with the linen turban – they are set-apart garments. And he shall bathe his body in water, and shall put them on. (5) “And from the congregation of the children of Yisra’el he takes two male goats as a sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering. (6) “And Aharon shall bring the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house. (7) “And he shall take the two goats and let them stand before YHWH at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Now – a right ruling straight out of the Torah with this same wording…..

In Deuteronomy 19:16-19 “When a malicious witness rises up against any man to accuse him of turning aside, (17) then both men who have the dispute shall stand before YHWH, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. (18) “And the judges shall diligently search and see if the witness is a false witness, who has falsely accused his brother, (19) then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.

(8) “And Aharon shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for YHWH and the other lot for Azazel. (9) “And Aharon shall bring the goat on which the lot for YHWH fell, and shall prepare it as a sin offering. (10) “But the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell is caused to stand alive before YHWH, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness to Azazel.

Here is where there remains many questions even from the Rabbis and teachers. What do the goats mean, and there is no “TRUE” explanation of what this Azazel means. It appears nowhere else in all of scripture. I wonder if the limited understanding that remains within Judaism is due to the unbelief in the Messiah Yahusha, the Gospels, and the Book of the Revelation. I am going to try to show you how the language is much the same as judgement day and the Day of YAHUAH. I am going to suggest that the following rehearsal is not only that of the Day of Atonement when Yahusha our Messiah entered into Heaven as our High Priest and made atonement for the world, but a rehearsal for what will happen at the first judgement upon the earth, and the final at the Great White Throne judgement upon HaSatan and those who do not repent.

“And Aharon shall bring the goat on which the lot for YHWH fell, and shall prepare it as a sin offering.

Clearly, this offering, as the Word states, is the sin offering. Its blood will be part of that blood used by the High Priest to make atonement for the altar unto YHWH, the altar of incense, the lid of atonement, the Tent of Meeting, and all the people. The lot for YHWH fell on this goat, in other words, this goat is YHWH’s choice. This goat of YHWH’s choice is the sin offering. Its blood will be shed, it will be sacrificed. This goat is Israel, this goat is anyone who is part of the covenant of YHWH, this goat is us. This goat is YHWH’s choice, but it is a sin offering and must be sacrificed for transgressions. Only blood atones (covers) for the forgiveness of sins. In the passage of time, YAHUSHA became this blood atonement in our place. Our blood would still be required of us, but for our Messiah paying that price for our sin. Clearly, this is representative of the sin offering Yahusha made in His own, pure and sinless blood and entered into Heaven and atoned (covered) all.

Now….. the other goat.

(10) “But the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell is caused to stand alive before YHWH, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness to Azazel.

This goat is not for YHWH. The text would not read “but” if we were not to understand there is a contrast coming. “But the goat…” This goat is for something else – but not YHWH. Why is this goat “caused to stand alive before YHWH?” We could not help but think of the judgement, the day of judgement, the Day of YAHUAH (Day of the LORD). Who is it in the scriptures that will stand alive before YHWH? Let us see……

As we already saw earlier in Deuteronomy, a false accuser will stand before YHWH (or judges). Who is the supreme false accuser? Is it not HaSatan, the adversary?

“And I heard a loud voice saying in the heaven, “Now have come the deliverance and the power and the reign of our Elohim, and the authority of His Messiah, for the accuser of our brothers, who accused them before our Elohim day and night, has been thrown down.” Revelation 12:10

Back now to Leviticus 16

(11) “And Aharon shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall slaughter the bull as the sin offering which is for himself, (12) and shall take a fire holder filled with burning coals of fire from the altar before YHWH, with his hands filled with sweet incense beaten fine, and shall bring it inside the veil. (13) “And he shall put the incense on the fire before YHWH, and the cloud of incense shall cover the lid of atonement which is on the Witness, lest he die. (14) “And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the lid of atonement on the east side, also in front of the lid of atonement he sprinkles some of the blood with his finger seven times. (15) “And he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, and shall bring its blood inside the veil, and shall do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the lid of atonement and in front of the lid of atonement. (16) “And he shall make atonement for the Set-apart Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Yisra’el, and because of their transgressions in all their sins. And so he does for the Tent of Meeting which is dwelling with them in the midst of their uncleanness. (17) “And no man should be in the Tent of Meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the Set-apart Place, until he comes out. And he shall make atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the assembly of Yisra’el. (18) “And he shall go out to the altar that is before YHWH, and make atonement for it. And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around. (19) “And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and set it apart from the uncleanness of the children of Yisra’el.

The High Priest, in this portion, is Aharon. Our High Priest today is Yahusha The Messiah. Aharon is to make atonement for the Tent of Meeting, the altar (on the horns), the Set-apart Place, and the altar of incense (on the horns), for himself, and for all the children of Israel – using the blood of a bull, a ram, and a goat. Yahusha makes atonement for all the world with His own, pure blood. This, I suggest is the initial fulfillment of this beautiful rehearsal. Read the words of Shaul (Paul) from the book of Hebrews Chapter 9:

“Now the first covenant indeed had regulations of worship and the earthly set-apart place. (2) For a Tent was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, and the table, and the showbread, which is called the Set-apart Place. (3) And after the second veil, the part of the Tent which is called Most Set-apart, (4) to which belonged the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that held the manna, and the rod of Aharon that budded, and the tablets of the covenant, (5) and above it the kerubim of esteem were overshadowing the place of atonement – about which we do not now speak in detail. (6) And these having been prepared like this, the priests always went into the first part of the Tent, accomplishing the services. (7) But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for sins of ignorance of the people, (8) the Set-apart Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Most Set-apart Place was not yet made manifest while the first Tent has a standing, (9) which was a parable for the present time in which both gifts and slaughters are offered which are unable to perfect the one serving, as to his conscience, (10) only as to foods and drinks, and different washings, and fleshly regulations imposed until a time of setting matters straight. (11) But Messiah, having become a High Priest of the coming good matters, through the greater and more perfect Tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, (12) entered into the Most Set-apart Place once for all, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood, having obtained everlasting redemption. (13) For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sets apart for the cleansing of the flesh, (14) how much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the everlasting Spirit offered Himself unblemished to Elohim, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim? (15) And because of this He is the Mediator of a renewed covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemptions of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance. (16) For where a covenant is, it is necessary for the death of the covenanted one to be established. (17) For a covenant over those dead is firm, since it is never valid while the covenanted one is living. (18) Therefore not even the first covenant was instituted without blood. (19) For when, according to Torah, every command had been spoken by Mosheh to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, (20) saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which Elohim commanded you.” (21) And in the same way he sprinkled with blood both the Tent and LAL THE VESSELS OF THE SERVICE. (22) And, according to the Torah, almost all is cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is not forgiveness. (23) It was necessary, then, that the copies of the heavenly ones should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly ones themselves with better slaughter offerings than these. (24) For Messiah has not entered into a Set-apart Place made by hand – figures of the true – but into the heaven itself, no to appear in the presence of Elohim on our behalf, (25) not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters into the Set-apart Place year by year with bold not his own. (26) For if so, He would have had to suffer often, since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the offering of Himself. (27) And as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment, (28) so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to those waiting for Him, unto deliverance.”

Back again to Leviticus 16……..

(20) “And when he has finished atoning for the Set-apart Place, and the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.

“And when he has finished atoning for all, he shall bring the live goat.” This goat has nothing to do with atonement! So what is this goat for?

(21) “Then Aharon shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and shall confess over it all the crookednesses of the children of Yisra’el, and all the transgressions in all their sins, and shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a fit man. (22) “And the goat shall bear on itself all their crookednesses, to a land cut off. Thus he shall send the goat away into the wilderness.

Walk with me now to the book of the Revelation when we read about the dragon, the serpent, Revelation chapter 13

(5) And he was given a mouth speaking great matters and blasphemies, and he was given authority to do so forty-two month. (6) And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against Elohim, to blaspheme His Name, and His Tent, and those dwelling in the heaven. {there is the accuser again AND those who do likewise!} (7) And it was given to him to fight with the set-apart ones and to overcome them. And authority was given to him over every tribe and tongue and nation. (8) And all those dwelling on the earth, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the slain Lamb, from the foundation of the world shall worship him.

A common, popular, and well known brotherly and sisterly wish during this time of Atonements in Judaism is this “May your name be written in the Book of Life” I wonder if they know this is in the Book of the Revelation of YAHUSHA The Messiah!

Let us read some more about what YHWH is going to do to this serpent.

Revelation 17

(1) And one of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying to me, “Come, I shall show you the judgment of the great whore sitting on many waters {peoples, crowds, nations, and tongues}, (2) with whom the sovereigns of the earth committed whoring, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her whoring.” (3) And he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast covered with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Continuing the reading through the rest of Revelation chapter 17 and 18, the whore is Babylon. Most of Chapter 18 tells the story of her fall and judgment, but for this study on the Day of Atonements I am going to Revelation 18:20 for the comparative words.

(20) “Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you set-apart emissaries and prophets, for Elohim has completely avenged you on her!”

And also in Revelation 19:2

“Because true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her whoring. And He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.“

This is the end of the “judgment” of the great whore of Babylon, the counterfeit religions of the world. The goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel. She looks similar to the true assembly, she claims a Christ, she claims a day of worship, she claims holidays of observance. But they are all false. The only way to know the difference is to know the Torah and have the testimony of the True Hebrew Messiah, YAHUsha. Directly following this judgment is the battle of beast and the sovereigns of the earth with YAHUsha where HE slays them all with the sword of HIS mouth.

Revelation 19:21-20:6

(21) And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

(1) And I saw a messenger coming down from the heaven, having the key to the pit of the deep and a great chain in his hand. (2) And he seized the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, (3) and he threw him into the pit of the deep, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should lead the nations no more astray until the thousand years were ended. And after that he has to be released for a little while. (4) And I saw thrones – and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them – and the lives of those who had been beheaded because o the witness they bore to YAHUsha and because of the Word of Elohim, and who did not worship the beast, nor his image, and did not receive his mark upon their foreheads or upon their hands. And they lived and reigned with Messiah for a thousand years. (5) (and the rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended) – this is the first resurrection. (6) Blessed and set-apart is the one having part in the first resurrection. The second death possesses no authority over these, but they shall be priests of Elohim and of Messiah, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

This in the intermediate fulfillment of Yom HaKippurim in its rehearsal. Let us continue to the final fulfillment. Revelation 20:7-15

(7) And when the thousand years have ended, Satan shall be released from his prison, (8) and he shall go out to lead the nations astray which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. (9) And they came up over the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the set-apart ones and the beloved city. And fire came down from Elohim out of the heaven and consumed them (10) And the devil, who led them astray, was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet are. And they shall be tortured day and night forever and ever. (11) And I saw a great white throne and Him who was sitting on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. (12) And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before the throne, and the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged from what was written in the books, according to their works. (13) And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and the grave gave up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. (14) And the death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death. (15) And if anyone was not found written int he Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

The final fulfillment of this Yom HaKippurim, Day of Atonements, Day of YAHUAH!!

(23)” Aharon shall then come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Set-apart Place, and shall leave them there. (24) “And he shall bathe his body in water in the set – apart place, and shall put on his garments and shall come out and prepare his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people, (25) and burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar. (26) “And he who sent away the goat to Azazel washes his garments and shall bathe his body in water, and afterward he comes into the camp (27) and the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Set-apart Place, is brought outside the camp. and they shall burn their skins, and their flesh, and their dung with fire. (28) “And he who burns them washes his garments, and shall bathe his body in the water, and afterward he comes in the camp. (29)” And this shall be for you a law forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you afflict your beings and do no work, the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. (30) “For on that day he makes atonement for you, to cleanse you, to be clean from all yours sins before YHWH. (31) “It is a Sabbath of rest for you, and you shall afflict your beings- a law forever. (32) “And the priest, who is appointed and ordained to serve as priest in his father’s place, shall make atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, the set apart garments (33) and he shall make atonement for the Most Set- apart Place, and make atonement for the Tent of Meeting, and for the altar, and make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. (34) “And this shall be for you a law forever, to make atonement for the children of Yisra’el for all their sins, once a year.” And he did as YHWH commanded Mosheh.

These final two portions are more of the instructions that ABBA gave to us on how He desires for us to observe, serve, and obey Him.

Leviticus 23:27-32

“On the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be a set-apart gathering for you. And you shall afflict your beings, and shall bring an offering made by fire to YHWH. (28) And you do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before YHWH your Elohim. (29) “For any being who is not afflicted on that same day, he shall be cut off from his people. (30) “And any being who does any work on that same day, that being I shall destroy from the midst of his people. (31) “You do no work – a law forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. (32) “It is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your beings. On the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you observe your Sabbath.”

Leviticus 25:9

“You shall then sound a ram’s horn to pass through on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement cause a ram’s horn to pass through all your land.”

It is right to humble ourselves on this day. We have a High Priest who has atoned FOR us with His precious blood on our behalf. All our sins and transgressions are laid upon the head of our accuser. Our accuser receives all that he has done to us, a repayment. We are bystanders in this drama while our King and Redeemer accomplishes all His good work for us. In truth, there is nothing we can do – He alone does all. And HE HAS DONE AND WILL DO IT ALL.

Let us Seek the Father while He may yet be found. Repent, humble  ourselves for He will humble the proud, and lift up the lowly.

Amein!