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October 31, 2009 - Saturday 3:33
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
YHWH's Sovereign Election
Sovereignty means that HE's supreme in power & authority, that HE answers to no one & that HE may do as HE pleases for whatever reason HE chooses: Declaring the end from the beginning & from ancient times things which haven't been done, saying, 'MY purpose will be established & I'll accomplish all MY good pleasure.' - Isaiah 46:10
To do whatever YOUR hand & YOUR purpose predestined to occur. - Acts 4:28
YAHUSHUA, delivered up by the predetermined plan & foreknowledge of YHWH, you nailed to a cross. - Acts 2:23
Out of a people of utter sinfulness & inability, HE's chosen, by HIS sovereign grace, to elect some into salvation & not others. Remember, nothing in man merits any favor, blessing, or mercy. For there's no favoritism with YHWH (Romans 2:11). Every person is worthy of wrath & incapable of saving himself. That's why YHWH's chosen a people to HIMSELF out of the good pleasure of HIS heart. Because without HIS choosing, none would ever come to HIM. Therefore, predestination is a loving doctrine: In love, HE predestined us to adoption as sons through YAHUSHUA haMashiach. - Ephesians 1:4, 5
HE chooses some & ignores others, not because of what the person's done, or what's foreknown that he'd do, but simply because of HIS sovereign choice: YHWH, who's saved us & called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to HIS own purpose & grace which was granted us in YAHUSHUA haMashiach from all eternity. - 2 Timothy 1:9
and..... Though the twins hadn't done anything good or bad, in order that YHWH's purpose according to HIS choice might stand, not because of works, but because of HIM who calls, it was said to her, 'The older will serve the younger.' Just as it's written, 'Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.' - Romans 9:11-13
Sovereignty is why YHWH has mercy on whom HE desires & hardens whom HE desires: HE says to Moses, 'I'll have mercy on whom I have mercy & I'll have compassion on whom I have compassion.' So then it doesn't depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on YHWH who has mercy. So then HE has mercy on whom HE desires & HE hardens whom HE desires. - Romans 9:15, 16, 18
This is sovereignty! It's YHWH who is in control!
Some HE's elected to salvation, others HE hasn't: They stumble because they're disobedient to the Word & to this doom, they were also appointed. - 1Peter 2:8
and...... What if YHWH, although willing to demonstrate HIS wrath & to make HIS power known, endured with much patience, vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And HE did so in order that HE might make known the riches of HIS glory on vessels of mercy, which HE prepared beforehand for glory. - Romans 9:22-23
It seems quite clear that YHWH prepares some for mercy & not others. That is true sovereignty.
With a better understanding of Scripture, predestination isn't the tyrannical doctrine that many make it to be. Predestination is really the manifestation of YHWH's mercy & love. It ensures the salvation of the ones HE's chosen. It properly reveals the true nature of man to be utterly sinful, rebellious & antagonistic to HIM. It puts YHWH in total sovereign control, where HE belongs & removes man's ability to take any credit at all for salvation, because even the act of believing could not be self-authored in a sinful free-will. And, finally, it reveals the greatness of HIS mercy & love & causes the saved to rest in the knowledge that it was YHWH who made their salvation sure & not their own faulty, sinful wills.
- Objections Answered -
1) How does this doctrine of predestination fit in with a loving EL?
Predestination is loving. Without the loving predestination of YHWH (Ephesians 1:4,5) no one would ever be saved. All would be condemned.
2) If YHWH predestines us & our sinful wills would never allow us to seek HIM, then wouldn't HE be violating the wills of those HE calls?
No, because HE doesn't violate their wills when HE regenerates them first. Since YHWH calls (Romans 8:28-30), HE first regenerates their nature. Since the person is then regenerate, with a new nature (2Corinthians 5:17), he's then able to desire YHWH, so HE doesn't violate his will.
But some say that faith brings regeneration, so how can an unregenerate person have faith in the true EL? He can't. It's regeneration that brings faith.
3) Does this mean that even if you wanted to be saved you couldn't if you're not predestined?
This question doesn't reflect a proper understanding of the condition of man. The unsaved doesn't want salvation or the MOST HIGH, so they wouldn't ever seek salvation. Also, anyone who truly desires salvation is only wanting it because YHWH's calling him.
4) Doesn't Romans 8:29 prove that YHWH looked into the future & foreknew who'd accept HIM?
For whom HE foreknew, HE also predestined to become conformed to the image of HIS SON, that HE might be the 1st-born among many brethren & whom HE predestined, these HE also called.
There are 2 reasons why these verses can't be used to support that idea. First, if you read it, there's a word that's often missed: 'also.' The verse says that the ones foreknown are ALSO predestined. In other words, the same ones foreknown are the ones predestined. It doesn't say that HE foreknew all & predestined some; otherwise it'd say, 'Of those HE foreknew, some HE predestined.' It says HE ALSO predestined those whom HE foreknew. The foreknown are the group HE's predestined to be saved.
Secondly, YHWH only 'knows' Believers. He doesn't 'know' unbelievers.
Many will say to ME on that day, 'LORD, LORD, didn't we prophesy in YOUR name & in YOUR name cast out demons & in YOUR name perform many miracles?' And then I'll say to them, 'I NEVER KNEW YOU; depart from ME, you who practice lawlessness. - Matthew 7:22-23
MY sheep hear MY voice & I know them & they follow ME. - John 10:27
I don't speak of all of you, I know the ones I've chosen. - John 13:18
Now that you've come to know YHWH, or rather to be known by HIM. - Galatians 4:9
YHWH KNOWS those who are HIS. - 2Timothy 2:19
These verses show a 'knowing' that's related to salvation, only HIS are 'known,' only the foreknown are predestined. YHWH foreknew; HE foreloved HIS chosen ones & predestined them into salvation. YHWH knows believers, hence the word 'foreknown.' Therefore, Romans 8:29 doesn't support the idea that HE looked into the future to see who'd pick HIM, because if that were so, then HIS choice would depend on man's choice & YHWH wouldn't be sovereign.
5) What about the verses that suggest you choose YHWH?
'Whosoever will believe... He who receives... etc.' We see in Scripture both YHWH's & man's hands in salvation. YHWH elects, predestines, draws & saves. Man chooses, but only after YHWH has saved him.
Many are called, but few are chosen. - Matthew 22:14
We experience & understand the act of choosing, but this is because we do so after we're regenerate. If someone says that he freely chose to accept YHWH & that predestination is untrue, then he's establishing doctrine by his experience. This is something that is to be avoided.
Acts 13:48 describes the 'whosoever.' They're the ones who are appointed to believe: All who were appointed for eternal life believed.
It's obvious from this verse that the ones who believe are the ones who are appointed by YHWH to believe.
To you it's been granted for MESSIAH's sake, not only to believe in HIM, but also to suffer for HIS sake. - Phillipians 1:29
YHWH grants that the elect believe. That's why we're born again, not of our wills, but of the WILL OF YaHuWaH (John 1:12-13).
Jason Desmond
Ambassador of HIS Kingdom
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October 24, 2009 - Saturday 9:30
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
Laughing children dressed as witches, goblins, skeletons, vampires & other shadowy creatures spread across your neighborhood. They appear at your door chanting, 'Trick or treat.' They carry bags for candy, bubble gum, money, or other treats. 'Halloween is for kids,' people say.
Teens drape toilet paper across bushes, others splatter eggs on cars, burn down barns & play other destructive 'tricks.' 'Halloween is for thrills,' they claim.
A group of Satan worshipers professing to be druids meets at a city park to celebrate their most important 'holy day,' Halloween. A coven of witches gathers in a forest clearing not far from suburbia. Halloween is their chief holiday, a night of casting spells & invoking the forces of evil.
These are different views of Halloween. Is it just innocent fun? Where did it originate? Why do people still observe it today & is it ok to?
Historians trace the origin of Halloween & many of its customs back to the Celtic people of Britain, Ireland & France. Celtic religious leaders (druids) sought wisdom through signs & omens. The Celts worshiped nature & the god Samhain, the lord of the dead & the prince of darkness. They believed he controlled the cold & darkness of the winter months. Their new year began November 1st. The new year festival was meant to appease Samhain. Druids believed the spirits of all who had died the year before roamed the Earth at the time of the feast of Samhain. They offered sacrifices to him, built bonfires to ward off evil spirits & sought the powers of darkness to foretell the future. Sometimes they offered human sacrifices in attempts to appease their gods. Many Halloween customs having to do with fire, fortune-telling, ghosts & good luck can be traced to Celtic beliefs.
Another ancient Halloween custom is making jack-o'-lanterns. An Irish legend has it that a man named Jack was too greedy to get into Heaven & could not go to hell because he'd tricked the devil. The devil threw a hot coal that fell on a turnip Jack was eating. The turnip with the glowing coal lit Jack's way as he wandered the Earth until Judgment Day looking for a final resting place. People began to carve out turnips at Halloween & put lights inside to remember poor Jack. In America, the pumpkin replaced the turnip.
At Halloween, the ancient Celts set out food offerings to appease the spirits of the dead. Later, the Irish had a custom of going from house to house asking for food. These early trick-or-treaters would play tricks on people who had no food for them.
The druids believed cats were sacred. During the Middle Ages, people associated black cats with witches who used them as mascots. Witches supposedly consulted familiar spirits they imagined had resided in cats. Witches observed this day as their special day.
Halloween is probably the most controversial day of the year. Yet most aren't shocked to discover that the Church made Halloween universal throughout the world!
When Christianity spread to parts of Europe, instead of trying to abolish these pagan customs, they tried to introduce ideas which reflected a more Christian world-view. Halloween has since become a mixture of traditions & practices from pagan cultures & Christian tradition.
By 43AD, Romans had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. During their rule of the Celtic lands, Roman festivals were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The Romans observed the holiday of Feralia, intended to give rest & peace to the departed. Some made sacrifices in honor of the dead, offered up prayers for them & made oblations to them. Another festival was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit & trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple & the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of 'bobbing' for apples.
As the influence of Christianity spread into Celtic lands, Pope Boniface IV introduced All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints & martyrs, to replace the pagan festival of the dead. It was observed on May 13. In 834, Gregory III moved All Saint's Day from May 13th to November 1st & for Christians, this became an opportunity for remembering all the saints who had died & all the dead in the Christian community. Oct. 31 thus became All Hallows' Eve ('hallow' means 'saint').
By the late 800's, the Roman Catholic Church had tried to Christianize most of Europe, even requiring many to become Christians. But many of these still observed their old practices. The Church established November 1st as All Saints' Day to remember all the saints who had died. The Celtic descendants observed All Saints' Day, but the night before, they practiced many of their pagan customs. The mass that the priests repeated on All Saints' Day was called Allhallowmas. The evening before became known as All Hallow E'en or Halloween. To proclaim a Church holiday did not santify the pagan Celtic customs. Actually...
In 1517, Martin Luther honored the faithful saints of the past by choosing All Saints Day (November 1) as the day to publicly charge the Church heirarchy with abandoning Biblical faith. This became known as Reformation Day, a fitting celebration of the restoration the same Biblical faith held by the saints throughout church history.
Just like holidays such as Easter & Christ-mass, Halloween has no place in the life of a true Believer, because they all come from paganism in its origin, its symbols & in the ways people celebrate it.
Both the Old & New Testaments explicitly forbid YaHuWaH's people to become involved in witchcraft, spiritism & the demonic: You shall not learn to do after the abominations of other nations (the heathen). There shall not be found among you any one who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or one who uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. - Deuteronomy 18:9-13
The observance of Halloween with its focus on death, witches, luck & foretelling the future, links one to the very things the Scripture forbids. At best, seemingly 'innocent' Halloween practices weaken one's position against the occult & at worst, they openly invite the demonic. The NT condemns witchcraft as one of the works of the flesh that YHWH will judge: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of YHWH. - Galatians 5:19-21
The conversion of those in Acts brought conviction against heathen & occult practices. The new Believers wanted nothing to do with practices from which the YHWH had delivered them: Many that believed came, confessed & showed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together & burned them before all men: they counted the price of them & found it 50,000 pieces of silver. So then, the word of YHWH grew mightily & prevailed. - Acts 19:18-20
How might HE bless today, if those proclaiming to be Believers, would rid themselves of all the pagan customs of our society?
Those who're seeking YHWH & Truth certainly don't want to become involved in occult practices or devil worship. Yet many professing Believers unthinkingly allow their children to dress as witches, ghosts, or even devils & take them out to trick-or-treat. Look many churches hold Halloween parties or sponsor haunted houses 'to keep the kids out of trouble?' Now they have events such as 'Trunk-or-Treat.' Another sure sign that Christianity is not the path to that leads to Truth!
Some may argue, 'But we don't worship Samhain or devils at Halloween. We don't believe in that stuff. These things don't mean what they used to. Now Halloween is just a time of harmless fun for the children.'
Can anyone give a Scriptural reason for observing a holiday so steeped in paganism & witchcraft? Surely there isn't anyone out there who thinks that the MESSIAH would partipate in such an abomination. We should be no different, if we are truly HIS followers, we should do what HE did. The Word tells us to 'be holy as HE is holy.'
With all the blatant evil in Halloween, what non-pagan, righteous person can claim Halloween as their holiday & observe it, even in fun? Surely the HOLY SPIRIT is not in such an individual!
For you were once darkness, but now are you are light in the MASTER: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness &
righteousness & Truth;) Proving what is acceptable to the MASTER. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. - Ephesians 5:8-11
Regardless of your opinion, Halloween clashes with the ALMIGHTY's guidelines, it fits the world & human nature very well. That's why the mastermind behind this spiritual war keeps using the same tactics through the centuries. The enemy's strategy has always been to tempt people to love what YHWH hates, prompt them to pursue his enticing path & deceive them into thinking that his 'new' way is as good, or even better, than the old ways YHWH has shown us. Since his strategies don't change, this warning is as relevant today: There's a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. - Proverbs 14:12
Most people follow the masses & the masses follow the media - especially when it promotes thrills & adventures that feed the lust for forbidden thrills. The occult's always focused on gory images of violence, death & destruction. We see it in today's media, music & movies. As people become desensitized to occult violence & horror, the images in popular entertainment grow increasingly & indescribably evil. Yet, this is old news. Thousands of years ago, YHWH warned us: All those who hate ME love death. - Proverbs 8:36
-- Halloween Symbols --
The Jack-O-Lantern is the festival light for Halloween & is the ancient symbol of a damned soul. Originally the Irish would carve out turnips or beets as lanterns as representations of the souls of the dead or goblins freed from the dead. When the Irish emigrated to America they couldn't find many turnips to carve into Jack O'Lanterns but they did find an abundance of pumpkins so they've been an essential part of Halloween ever since. Pumpkins were cut with faces representing demons & was originally intended to frighten away evil spirits.
Bats, owls & other nocturanal animals, also popular symbols of Halloween, were originally feared because people believed that these creatures could communicate with the spirits of the dead.
Black cats were considered to be reincarnated beings with the ability to divine the future. During the Middle Ages it was believed that witches could turn themselves into black cats. Thus when such a cat was seen, it was considered to be a witch in disguise.
Masks were often used by Egyptians to impersonate their deities. Their art included elaborate masks that cover the entire face of the wearer, who were believed to embody the deities and divinities and anyone who wearing such a mask was believed to manifest these pagan deities in human form. Mask was known in Teutonic as 'Grim', which was also a common part of the names of the deities. Hundreds of years ago, even the Christianity forbade wearing masks to avoid such practices, but today, Christianity's so conformed to the world, that there's not much difference between the two.
Witches & witchcraft are dominant themes of Halloween. Most witches believe they are followers of an ancient religion, which goes back far beyond Christianity & which is properly called 'wicca'. Witches are really just one side of a modern revival of paganism - the following of pre-Christian nature religions, the attempt to return to worshipping ancient Norse, Greek or Celtic gods & goddesses.
To witches, Halloween is a festival of the dead & represents the 'end & the beginning of the witches year. It marks the beginning of the death & destruction associated with winter. At this time the power of the underworld is unleashed & spirits are supposedly freed to roam about the Earth; it's considered the best time to contact spirits.' - Halloween & Satanism; P. Phillips & J.H. Robie
Paul said Witchcraft is one of the acts of the sinful nature & those who practice it 'will not inherit the Kingdom of YHWH.' (Galatians 5:16-21; see also Revelation 22:15)
The activities traditional to Halloween are mostly associated with the idea of obtaining good fortune & foretelling the future. Samhain was a time when it was customary for the pagans to use the occult practice of divination to determine the weather for the coming year, the crop expectations & even who'd marry whom & in what order. The idea behind ducking, dooking or bobbing for apples seems to have been that snatching a bite from the apple enables the person to grasp good fortune. Unmarried people would attempt to take a bite out of an apple bobbing in a pail of water, or suspended on a string. The 1st person to do so was believed to be the next to marry.
Samhain is also a time for getting rid of weakness, as pagans once slaughtered weak animals which were unlikely to survive the winter. A common ritual calls for writing down weaknesses on a piece of paper or parchment & tossing it into the fire.
One way of looking for omens of death was to visit churchyards, because the spirits of those who were going to die during the coming year were thought to walk around the churchyard during this night.
It's amazing to me that Christians think they can turn a pagan-based day into an acceptable day to partake of!
As Believers, we're called to: Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil. (1Thessalonians 5:21-22) Who can deny that all of the symbols of Halloween are evil? Witches, monsters, vampires, ghosts, devils, etc. all portray evil. We are to 'have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.' (Ephesians 5:11) Should we compromised by accommodating itself to the culture?
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. - Romans 12:2
What do righteousness & wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between MESSIAH & Belial? - 2Corinthians 6:14, 15
When America & the world celebrates the Festival of Samhain & the powers of darkness by masquerading as evil creatures or decorating our homes, schools, businesses & churches with occult symbols, demonic power is glorified.
The sort of practices celebrated on Halloween are what defiled the ancient nations (Leviticus 18:24-30). The Israelites were warned against such practices when they entered the Promised Land: When you come into the land which YHWH your EL gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. - Deuteronomy 18:9
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to YHWH & because of these detestable practices YHWH, your EL, will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before YHWH, your EL. The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, YHWH your EL, has not permitted you to do so. - Deuteronomy 18:10-14
While you may have participated 'all in fun,' be assured, Halloween is serious business for Satanists, witches & in the spirit world. It's an abomination to the MOST HIGH. Those who oppose YAHUSHUA are known to organize on Halloween to observe satanic rituals, to cast spells, to oppose righteousness & all that is holy, to perform sacrilegious acts & to even offer blood sacrifices to the devil. While some may say, 'But we only do this in fun...we don't practice witchcraft,' those things that represent the enemy & his domain can't be handled or emulated 'for fun.' Such participation places you as an enemy to the MOST HIGH & places you in forbidden territory.
Tom Sanguinet, former high priest in Wicca (witchcraft) said, 'The modern holiday we call Halloween has its origins in the full moon closest to November 1, the witches' New Year. It was a time when the spirits (demons) were supposed to be at their peak power & revisiting the earth planet. Halloween is purely & absolutely evil & there's nothing we ever have or will do that would make it acceptable to MESSIAH.' - The Dark Side Of Halloween
As evil prevails, Americans have embraced an evil day of the enemy, with the pranks of 'would be' hoodlums, combined with 'demon faces' on pumpkins, clothing of 'death' being worn & calling it fun. When Believers participate in Halloween, it sends a message to children that witchcraft, demonism, Satanism & the occult are something fun, entertaining & harmless. Then you have a whole generation or 2 that doesn't know any better, wait, we already that!
Recognizing this pagan holiday gives the false impression that what is actually lethal is harmless. Some kids develop a fascination with the supernatural which leads them into more sinister occult practices.
How people can defend Halloween as just another innocent holiday is beyond me. The sad thing with deception is.... those who are deceived have no clue they are!
Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light & won't come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. - John 3:19-20
Over the last 30 or so years, the occult has moved into the mainstream of America - in television, movies, magazines, business & various aspects of daily life. Movies, books, magazines & games of the supernatural have abounded. Turn on your TV & hear from the ever-present 'Psychic Friends' hotline, or maybe watch an episode of 'Pet Psychic,' 'Medium,' 'Bewitched' or 'Buffy.' Entire bookstores devoted to the occult have become common, ever hear of books such 'the Shack,' 'Law of Attraction,' 'the Secret,' 'Harry Potter.'? Universities regularly offer courses on witchcraft & magic - usually the so-called 'white' variety. Myriads of mystical Eastern religions, bizarre & often demonic, have invaded America & found in most cases an amazing responsiveness with a lack of seeing anything wrong with it.
Impressions, a curriculum used in many school districts instructs teachers & students in how to cast spells. One teacher's manual reads, 'Tell the children that a magician has cast a spell on some children. Have them work in pairs to write the magic spell the magician used. Have each pair write another spell to reverse the first spell. Have them chant their spells.'
About 16,000 school districts use the Pumsey the Dragon curriculum, by Jill Anderson. Many of the relaxation techniques used are identical to those used in hypnosis. Another curriculum called Duso the Dolphin employs relaxation techniques & sends hypnotized youngsters off on guided fantasies to a place called Aquatron.
Satanism has become a phenomena that crosses the city limit into the rural areas of our nation. It's reported there are some 6000 witches & about 10 million people involved in the occult. However, it's difficult to establish how many there really are though. They're involved in a variety of activities from simply casting spells to human sacrifice.
As demonic involvement among the youth increases, we begin to see the primary goal of such activity. According to Scripture, the enemy's goal is to deceive man by blinding him to the Truth of the Word & to receive worship for himself. That's why we're warned....
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour. - 1Peter 5:8
'Christian holidays were deliberately set at times that had been sacred since the earliest Pagan days. The Christians knew the power Paganism had over the people & usually, renamed rather than reinvented holidays.' - Witches; Erica Jong
The best known of all the feasts, Halloween is 'looking in mirrors at midnight, bobbing for apples (the tree of knowledge & immortality) or eating them from strings which enacts the battle for life in death.' - Magic For The Aquarian Age; Marian Green
'It's a time of ghosts & weird stories, but as a Pagan rite it's the time when the dead & the living & the unborn children step outside the circle of time to meet, to talk & to exchange information. The door of the circle is left open & a place is laid with rich food & wine to be offered to the Goddess when she joins her worshipers, who are her children.' - Ibid
'Halloween's a day that witches celebrate above all other days. It's a festival of the dead & represents the 'end & the beginning of the witches year. It marks the beginning of the death & destruction associated with winter. At this time the power of the underworld is unleashed & spirits are supposedly freed to roam about the Earth; it's considered the best time to contact spirits.' - Halloween & Satanism; P. Phillips/J.H. Robie
'There's another religious group which is equally serious about its Halloween celebrations: the Satanists. Halloween to them is a more sinister & direct celebration of death & Satan; they celebrate as one of his 2 highest holy days. At Halloween, the sacrifices of some of these satanic cults are unspeakably vicious & brutal.' - Like Lambs to the Slaughter; Johanna Michaelsen
'So what? What difference does this all make anyway?'
It doesn't matter to heathen, but to those who are seeking Truth & salvation, it's very important not to participate in Halloween. YHWH bluntly told HIS people: 'Learn not the way of the heathen!' (Jeremiah 10:2) When HE called them out of Egypt, HE said, 'When you come into the land which YHWH your EL gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.'
Be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good & acceptable & perfect, will of YHWH. - Romans 12:1,2
Repent & be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. - Acts 3:19
The bottom line is, regardless of your opinion or beliefs of Halloween.....
The Scriptures tells us to 'Abstain from all appearance of evil.' - 1Thessalonians 5:22
Wake up people! Halloween is a night of evil & those who love the MOST HIGH & HIS SON should have nothing to do with it.... at all! Or HE will have nothing to do with you!
Jason Desmond
Ambassador of HIS Kingdom
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September 26, 2009 - Saturday 2:05
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
Continuing on the Pre-destination Doctrine from the Holy Scriptures...
3) The Result of Man's Sinful Condition
Because of man's sinfulness, he's unable to understand YHWH, seek HIM, or do anything good: There's none righteous, not even one; there's none who understands, there's none who seeks for YHWH; all have turned aside, together they've become useless; there's none who does good, there's not even one. - Romans 3:9-12
Because of his sinfulness, he loves darkness rather than light; he loves evil rather than good: This is the judgment, that the light is come into the world & men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. - John 3:19
Because of his depravity, he's incapable of accepting the things of YHWH or understanding them: A natural man doesn't accept the things of the SPIRIT of YHWH; for they're foolishness to him & he can't understand them, because they're spiritually condemned. - 1Corinthians 2:14
The natural man is the unregenerate man, he can't understand the things of YHWH. Notice it doesn't say, 'has trouble understanding,' or 'can if he's sincere,' or 'will be able to if he chooses YHWH.' It says he can't understand. Salvation is one of those 'things of YHWH,' & so is the understanding of being lost, of being a sinner, of needing repentance, etc. All of these are out of reach of the natural man, he can't understand them.
How can an unbeliever come to an understanding that he needs salvation if the Word teaches that he can't understand this need, that his nature is evil & that he doesn't seek YHWH? What effect, then, does this condition have on his free will?
4) Man's Free-Will
Many believe that man, by his own will, by something that resides in him, is completely able to independently accept or reject YHWH. This is un-Scriptural. Being, man's will by nature is sinful, what will a sinful free-will choose? It'll choose sin, his own will would never allow him to reach for YHWH.
But we must ask, 'What's free-will?' Generally, it's accepted to mean the freedom to choose according to one's desires. This seems true. But someone is only as free as his nature is free. His will is limited to that which is within his nature. The unregenerate can only choose what his nature allows him to choose. Since he's full of sin, his choices can only be sinful.
In other words, a person can choose to do only that which his nature allows him to do. He can't simply will to suddenly vanish into thin air or fly like Superman because he's incapable of such feats; his nature limits him. So too with the nature of fallen man. He's limited by what he can & can't do.
The sinful man:
can't understand spiritual things (1Corinthians 2:14),
is full of evil (Mark 7:21-23),
doesn't seek for YHWH (Romans 3:11),
is lawless, rebellious, unholy & profane (1Timothy 1:9).
How then can the good desire to want YHWH come out of the unsaved evil heart? It can't! How's he able, in his sinful free-will, to desire YHWH when his inclinations are always to reject HIM? He can't! How can he, with his blind & sinful will that's deadened, hardened & enslaved by sin (Romans 6:20) ever choose YHWH? He can't! It's impossible. That's why YAHUSHUA said, 'With man this is impossible, but with YHWH, all things are possible.' (Matthew 19:26)
But some still maintain that YHWH works on a person & slowly teaches & guides him or her into believing. Others say that there's something in a person's free-will that enables him to choose YHWH. They maintain that everyone's equally able to accept or reject. But if they were, then why don't they all equally accept YHWH, or why don't they all equally choose to reject YHWH? Why are there variations in choice? Are the variations a result of a tendency that YHWH gave them? But HE made them that way. Is it because of their environment? But YHWH put them there. Is it because of some physical inclination? But YHWH gave them their bodies. Is it because of their parents' influence? YHWH also gave them their parents.
Man isn't entirely free; he's sinfully free. The unsaved can act freely, but only within the limits of their sinful nature which can't understand spiritual things, doesn't seek for YHWH,but hates HIM & is in slavery to sin (Romans 6:17, 20) etc. YAHUSHUA said, 'No one can come to ME, unless the FATHER who sent ME draws him'. - John 6:44
and...
No one can come to ME, unless it's been granted him from the FATHER. - John 6:65
These are not the statements one would hope to find if the sinner were so free to choose to accept or reject YHWH.
5) The Necessity of Predestination
So, man is completely a sinner who's incapable of understanding & coming to YHWH & has a sinful free-will capable only of rejecting HIM. Therefore, in order for salvation to occur, YHWH must predestine it. It can be no other way. If this is so, then there should be verses supporting it. Right? There are:
When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing & glorifying the Word of YHWH & as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed. - Acts 13:38
As many as received HIM, to them HE gave the right to become children of YHWH, even to those who believe in HIS name, who weren't born of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of YaHuWaH. - John 1:12-13
There's you a couple; not convinced yet?
How bout........
For whom HE foreknew, HE also predestined to become conformed to the image of HIS SON, that HE might be the firstborn among many brethren & whom HE predestined, these HE also called & whom HE called, these HE also justified & whom HE justified, these HE also glorified. - Romans 8:29-30
Almost convinced?
HE predestined us to adoption as sons through YAHUSHUA haMashiach to HIMSELF, according to the kind intention of HIS will. - Ephesians 1:5
OK, if I show you one more, will you believe HIS Word?
We've obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to
HIS purpose who works all things after the counsel of HIS will. - Ephesians 1:11
Noticed, they said nothing of our 'free-will,' it's about HIS will! These Scriptures clearly show that YHWH's very active in salvation. HE didn't simply provide the means of salvation, but HE also ensured the application of the blood of MESSIAH through predestination.
Notice that it's YHWH who: - draws people to Himself (John 6:44,65)
- creates a clean heart (Psalm 51:10)
- appoints people to believe (Acts 13:48)
- works faith in the believer (John 6:28-29)
- chooses who is to be holy & blameless (Ephesians 1:4)
- chooses us for salvation (2Thessalonians 2:13-14)
- grants the act of believing (Phillipians 1:29)
- grants repentance (2Timothy 2:24-26)
- calls according to HIS purpose (2Timothy 1:9)
- causes us to be born again (1Peter 1:3)
- predestines us to salvation (Romans 8:29-30)
- predestines us to adoption (Ephesians 1:5)
- predestines us according to His purpose (Ephesians 1:11)
- makes us born again not by our will but by His will (John 1:12-13)
It is man who: - is deceitful & desperately sick (Jeremiah 17:9)
- is full of evil (Mark 7:21-23)
- loves darkness rather than light (John 3:19)
- is unrighteous, doesn't understand, doesn't seek for YHWH (Romans 3:10-12)
- is helpless & unrighteous (Romans 5:6)
- is dead in his trespasses & sins (Ephesians 2:1)
- is by nature a child of wrath (Ephesians 2:3)
- can't understand spiritual things (1Corinthians 2:14)
- is a slave of sin (Romans 6:16-20)
How can it be any other way than YHWH's loving predestination to make our salvation not only possible, but also a reality? Left to man, salvation's impossible: When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished & asked, ‘Who then can be saved?' YAHUSHUA looked at them & said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with YHWH, all things are possible.' - Matthew 19:25-26
Jason Desmond
Ambassador of HIS Kingdom
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September 19, 2009 - Saturday 2:04
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
If you're a Believer, you've heard of predestination, because the Bible teaches this. But what exactly is this? What about free-will or YHWH's sovereignty, what parts do this play, if any? What about man's sin-nature? Wouldn't this doctrine make YHWH out to be some sort of a mean tyrant?
Predestination states that YHWH decides who HE will choose for HIS Kingdom as a typical king does with his. HE makes HIS choice outside any quality or condition in a man, being 'no respecter of person.' HE doesn't look in a person & notice something good & HE doesn't look in the future to see who'd choose HIM: Jacob, I've loved, but Esau, I've hated. - Romans 9:13
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with YaHuWaH? Certainly not! - Romans 9:14
HE elects people to salvation purely on the basis of HIS good pleasure: I'll be gracious to whom I will be gracious & I'll have compassion on whom I'll have compassion. - Romans 9:15
No one can come to ME unless the FATHER who sent ME draws him. - John 6:44
So, therefore, the theory to go out & get people 'saved' or having them say a 'sinner's prayer' is incorrect. Being Scripture says YHWH doesn't hear the prayers of sinners but considers them an abomination! (Proverbs 28:9; John 9:31) We are to walk as HE walked in truth & declare the WORD of YaHuWaH! It's up to the FATHER if one is to receive salvation. HE is the who has given 'eyes to see & ears to hear.'
Even if you've been called, that's not good enough: Many are called, BUT, few are chosen. - Matthew 22:14
Chosen:
1. Selected from a number; picked out; taken in preference; ELECTED; PREDESTINATED; designated to office. 2. Select; distinguished by preference; eminent. - 1828 Webster's
HE calls many but most will fall into deception aka christianity but out of all HE has called, few will actually hear the call to walk in HIS ways instead of man-made tradition.
'You've made YaHuWaH's commandments of no effect by your tradition. Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied about you, saying, "These people draw near to ME with their mouth (not by the Spirit) & honor ME with their lips, but their heart is far from ME. And in vain, they worship ME... (how?) teaching as doctrines (truth) the commandments of men." When HE had called the multitude to HIMSELF, HE said to them, 'Hear & understand: Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.' HIS disciples said to HIM, 'Do YOU know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?' - Mark 7:6-12
And no they weren't offended because they'd eat pork chops in secret, it's funny how some ignorant people will use this verse as an excuse to eat their ribs, bacon & Red Lobster. HE was actually speaking to those who attempt to worship the FATHER in their own way aka man-made religion & yes, christianity is a man-made religion! Almost everything done in that religion is un-Scriptural & it'd be revealed to many more if that book they carry with them was opened & studied with the mind of Yahushua! Anyway, back to the topic.....
Therefore, those not elected (predestinated) by YHWH aren't saved. HE does this because HE's sovereign, HE has the authority, right & ability to do with HIS creation as HE wills. HE has the right to elect some to salvation & let the rest go their natural way: to hell. Many will say this is, 'Unfair!' & misquote John 3:16, because they've been taught that "HE loves me (everyone) just as I am, no matter what. Besides, if HE is such a ONE of love, how can HE send anyone to hell?"....... Emotionalism does not change the truth!
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against YaHuWaH? Will the thing formed say to HIM who formed it, 'Why have YOU made me like this?' Doesn't the POTTER have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor & another for dishonor? What if YHWH, wanting to show HIS wrath & to make HIS power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? - Romans 9:20-22
As proven throughout Scripture, predestination is Biblical, so let's start digging for some truth.....
1. The Eternal Covenant
In order to understand predestination better we need to start at its beginning. Its origin can be found in what is called the Eternal Covenant: May the EL of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our YAHUSHUA haMashiach, that Great Shepherd of the sheep. - Hebrew 13:20
If you've never heard of the eternal covenant, it's vital that you get understanding of one of the ways YHWH deals with HIS people; HE works covenantally.
A Covenant is a pact, agreement or contract between two parties. The O/N Testaments are really Covenants. There are OT covenants that YHWH made with individuals; Adam (Genesis 2), Noah (Genesis 9), Abraham (Genesis 17), the Israelites at Mt Sinai (Exodus 34) & David (Samuel 7). In the NT, there's the New (revised, not replaced) Covenant prophesied in Jeremiah 31.
The Eternal Covenant was made between YHWH & YAHUSHUA with regard to the Elect. This was made before creation & consisted of the FATHER promising to bring to YAHUSHUA all HE'd given to HIM: This is the will of HIM who sent ME, that I shall lose none of all that HE's given ME, but raise them up at the last day...I pray for them. I'm not praying for the world, but for those YOU've given ME, for they're YOURS. FATHER, I want those YOU've given ME to be with ME where I am & to see MY glory, the glory YOU've given ME because YOU loved ME before the creation of the world. - John 6:39;17:9, 24
In this Covenant, YHWH would prepare the SON a body; give HIM the SPIRIT without measure, support & comfort HIM, deliver HIM from the power of death, bring HIM all whom HE'd given HIM & give HIM a number of redeemed that no one could number. The SON's part was to assume human nature; be under the Law & bear the sins of HIS people, not everyone on the face of the earth.
We see that YHWH's given a certain number of people to YAHUSHUA & that HE came to redeem them, to 'lose none of them.' We can conclude from this, that YHWH had in mind certain people who'd be HIS elect. Since YHWH knows all things, HE knows those whom HE's chosen. Therefore, they're predestined from the very beginning of time.
2) Man's Sinful Condition Man doesn't become a sinner by sinning, he sins because he's a sinner. Sin's corrupted all that he is: mind, soul, spirit, emotions & body. Man is so engulfed in sin that there's nothing in him that merits or enables salvation. He's born into a state of condemnation: We were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. - Ephesians 2:3
The heart's often referred to as the deepest part of man & the center of his spiritual nature. From the heart, man understands (Proverbs 8:5), reflects (Luke 2:19), feels joy (Isaiah 65:14) & experiences pain (Proverbs 25:20). Because of his sinful condition, man's heart isn't only impure but sick: The heart's more deceitful than all else & is desperately sick; who can understand it? - Jeremiah 17:9
Also: Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. - Matthew 12:34
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting & wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride & foolishness. All these evil things proceed from within & defile man. - Mark 7:21-23
Therefore, man's understanding, reflection, feelings & experiences are all stained by sin. I think it's funny when I hear people say stuff like, 'I think blah, blah, blah' or 'I believe blah, blah, blah.' And it's nowhere to be found in Scripture or hearing, 'No one's perfect, at least I'm trying, HE knows my heart.' or 'It doesn't matter what we call HIM, HE knows my heart.' You're right... Jeremiah & Mark clearly said that it's sick, full of deceit, & sin....
The unregenerate person is a slave of sin: For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. - Romans 6:20
That means that doing good or obeying HIS Law is not a concern or need of the unbeliever & naturally so for a person with a sinful nature. The unregenerate is inherently against YHWH & HIS ways.
Enmity is deep-rooted hatred, bitterness & malice toward an enemy. That was our relationship to YHWH prior to salvation; there was enmity, deep-rooted hatred between us.
So, the Word reveals the true nature (heart) of man as evil (Mark 7:21-23), sick (Jeremiah 17:9), a slave of sin (Romans 6:20), at enmity with YHWH (Ephesians 2:15) & naturally belongs in hell (Ephesians 2:3). Out of his sinful condition, only sinful desires & effects will follow. The question must then be asked, 'How can a sinful person ever desire YHWH?'
Plenty more next time, just getting started......
Ambassador of the Most High
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September 12, 2009 - Saturday 3:24
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
Why Not Yahweh?
Many people are getting the revelation of the importance of knowing the FATHER's name, yes, salvation is very importance. But many haven't completely studied thoroughly to come to the full revelation of HIS name, so this should help tremendously.
'Spiritual Israel' of today is walking about as the Israel of old, wandering about & making for itself gods that are the creation of their minds or of others. Our CREATOR has but ONE name & it's found where all TRUTH is; in HIS WORD. Period! If you can't find it there, then it's wrong, I don't care what King James or your Babylonian preacher said!
HIS name isn't found through man's wisdom: encyclopedias, 'Yahweh' studies, what Samaritans called HIM or through Greek scholars, etc. For those who have eyes to see, count the letters in 'Yahweh' - 6 - the number of man. While in YaHuWaH, there are 7 - HIS perfect number!
Four ancient Hebrew consonants can't yield a 2-syllable word 'Yahweh,' nor can 4 Hebrew vowel sounds (per Josephus). However, the real test as to the validity of 'Yahweh' (yah-way) is by the WORD; the ONLY true test!
The FATHER's name in Hebrew is spelled Yod-Hey-Waw-Hey (YHWH). Yod-Hey (YH) is a root & Waw-Hey (WH) is also. When you add 2 roots, you end up with 3 syllables, this is basic Hebrew grammar. With the vowel points, YH becomes Yah & WH become Wah, when you add them together you get YaHuWaH (Yah- Hoo-Wah). Another issue with the name 'Yahweh' is the Hey (H) can't have one sound as 'aH' (ah) in the first root then 'eH' (ay) in the 2nd root.
There are 2 major errors that 'Yahweh' people make. The 1st is over the pronunciation of 'Yah' that they cling to. The 2nd is how they view the phrase 'I AM HE.' First, let's deal with the pronunciation 'Yahh.'
The Hebrew language almost always follows a consonant sound with a vowel sound & that leaves the final syllable to be determined. Therefore, the vowel pointed abbreviation 'Yahh' that's found in Scripture, leads us to the pronunciation of YaH-Huw (Yahoo) & shows that the first 2 syllables of HIS name could be pronounced in that manner, not as 'Yah' as so many believe. This error of pronunciation has caused many to label the MESSIAH with a name that is NOT HIS! They wrongly believe that the 'short form' of the Creator's name is 'Yah,' then compound the error by adding to it 'shua' - saving/deliverance - thus coming up with 'Yahshua or worse still Y'shua.' However, if they were true to the Hebrew & the pronunciation of 'Yahh,' they'd arrive at the true name of MESSIAH, YAHUSHUA (Yahoo-shua). Many of the Israeli community regularly pronounce names that end in the letter sequence 'yh,' such as its Prime Minister; NetanYahu; spelled in Hebrew as 'NTN YH,' having the same ending sound that should be applied to Scriptural names that end in the same manner, such as YirmeYahuw (Jeremiah), YashaYahuw (Isaiah) & so many others.
Actually, there are 99 others of Israel who have 'YaHuW' in their names: 72 names that end with 'YaHuW,' 27 names having 'YaHuW' at the beginning & 1 with it in the middle, for a total of 100! (YaHuw - YHW - is the Hebrew spelling)
'I AM HE' which is 'Ani Huw' translates into 'YaHuW' & is a major identifying part of HIS name, which is for some reason, not seen or acknowledged by many as being important! Notice the text below, just one of many in which the identifying phrase 'I AM HE' is used. (The actual Hebrew reads just 'I He' - 'Ani Huw' - the 'am' is placed between these words for clarification.)
'I AM HE Who is Self Existent; continually everyday I lament the destruction of MY name that they have set to blaspheme. Therefore in that Day,' speaks HE, 'certainly MY name they shall know; it is HE Who Exists (YaHuWaH); with tears they shall report, BEHOLD!' - Isaiah 52:5-6 (Hebrew)
Since 'I AM HE' = 'Ani Huw' = 'YaHuW,' then the text above from the Hebrew could be read as follows: 'YaHuW Who is Self Existent....'
Exodus 20:7 says: You shall not bring the name of YaHuWaH your EL to naught, for YaHuWaH WILL NOT HOLD HIM GUILTLESS WHO BRINGS HIS NAME TO NAUGHT. (ruin, nothing, despised, worthless - by wrong use or even by non-use)
Use the texts below to test the validity of the names by which you call on the MOST HIGH & MESSIAH & write out the names you call on & see if they meet these requirements! There's no way that YaHuWaH's name can be separated from the name of HIS SON, for YaHuWaH's name must be within the name of YaHushuWaH. The enunciation of one name will verify the other name!
I've come in MY FATHER's name & you don't receive ME. If another comes in his own (made-up) name, you shall receive him. - John 5:43
A positive example is this: The FATHER: YaHuWaH (Yahoo-wah) / The Son: YaHushuWaH (Yahoo-shu-wah) (YaHushuWaH - I AM HE who SAVES).
One name combination that doesn't follow these texts is: Yahweh, Yahveh, God, Lord, Lord God or Jehovah for the Father & Y'shua, Yahshua, Yeshua, Jesus, or Yehoshua for the Son. Why not call THEM Bob & Larry, same difference. The name 'Yahweh' isn't within YaHushuWaH & Yeshua is even further from the truth; Yeshua means 'may HIS name be blotted out.' Therefore, all these other names are wrong & inappropriate, regardless if you prefer to use them or not! Calling THEM by another name, what a great way to take THEIR name as nothing, unimportant... in vain!
2nd challenge: Can you find one name given in the OT that's a derivative of 'Yahweh?' Nope, wanna know why? This is what 'Yahweh' means?
The chief god of the ancient Romans is known to us today as Jupiter, King of the Gods, but Jupiter has a more ancient name. In English, it's Jove & in classic Latin, it's spells IOVE & pronounced Yahweh. Looking at a pronunciation chart of classic Latin in the Vox Latina, we find the 'I' is pronounced as a double 'EE,' the 'O' is as 'AH' the 'V' is as a 'W' & the 'E' is pronounced as 'EH.' If we put it all together, we get EE-AH-WEH which is pronounced Yahweh, spelled IOVE in classic Latin which is the King of all Roman Gods! The ancient Romans worshipped & praised the name of Yahweh as mentioned in Acts 14 & 19! This is the same god that the 'whore of Babylon' still worships today, check out their Cathechism!
Deception is as close to being true without being the truth, be not deceived! Remember... A little leaven leavens the whole lump. More on this in another blog. But, anyway......
HIS people are being destroyed for the things they don't know. - Hosea 4:6
There's coming more testing, oppression, tribulation & of trials; you'll need to call on the name of the ALMIGHTY for deliverance & if you have the wrong name, there'll be no deliverance for you. Now is the time to be sure you know HIS name & trust in it. You can't assume you have HIS SPIRIT because you see a feather or golddust, get goose-bumps or hear someone blabble. To be honest with you, if you haven't called on the name of YaHuWaH & believed in HIS SON YAHUSHUA, then that spirit you have is NOT the HOLY SPIRIT according to Paul in 2Corinthians 11:3-4.
YaHuWaH will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble. Those who know YOUR name will put their trust in YOU, for YOU, YaHuWaH, have not forsaken those who seek YOU. - Psalms 9:9-10
It'll happen that whosoever shall call on the name of YaHuWaH shall be delivered. - Joel 2:32
There are many more who turn their backs on the the WORD, where HIS name can be proven. There's many different 'groups' of Yahweh, all of which rely on 'sources' for HIS name that aren't Scriptural & assume, 'there are so many of us that call on this name, how can it be wrong?' Well, so did all Israel when they called on 'Baal' in the days of Ahab when Jezebel & her false prophets led them astray!
Yahushua said, 'FEW (not a few billion) will find the TRUTH that leads to LIFE.' - Matthew 7:13-14
Descernment 101: If a majority of people are doing something, it's not the thing to be doing in the eyes of the MOST HIGH! Merry Christ-mass...hint, hint.
We all should heed the word that was given: Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he? - Isaiah 2:22
Thus says YaHuWaH: Cursed is the man who trusts in man & makes flesh his arm & whose heart turns away from YaHuWaH! - Jeremiah 17:5 (This is especially true for those seeking to know HIS great name!)
As for those who say, 'It really doesn't matter if we say 'Yahweh,' 'God,' or 'YaHuWaH' or any other name, for HE 'knows' what we mean. HE knows my heart & HE'll accept what we say until HE makes HIS name known to us.'
HE already has! It's in HIS WORD around 7,000 times for those willing to 'study to show themselves approved' & it's been shown to you in this blog as well. HIS name is actually the 1st Commandment as well & HE placed HIS name 7 other times throughout the 10 Commandments!! And you're right, it doesn't matter to the unrighteous what HE's call HIM & HE does know your heart... HE said that perversity, fraud & all evil come from it!
But, I feel wierd saying those names after calling on the other names for so long.... Really? That's an excuse you came up with? So, you'd feel better in a burning damnation?
My family & friends may treat me different.... Great! I would think the ungodly would treat the righteous differently. Besides, I don't know of any relative worth frying in the lake of fire with. Scripture says: Do you think I came to bring peace on Earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, 3 against 2 & 2 against 3. They'll be divided, father against son & son against father, mother against daughter & daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law & daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.- YAHUSHUA (Luke 12:51-53)
If your whole family, extended family & all, is on the same page as to who their Lord & Savior is, then not one has been born again in that family!
But, if you continue to use these excuses then why not stay with your God, Lord, Jesus, Jehovah, Yeshua, Yahshua, Lord God, or Yahweh (Jupiter) etc. - for YaHuWaH 'knows' what you mean, your evil heart speaks out of your mouth.
HIS chosen are told to honor HIS name, not take it for granted or count it as nothing. But once again, 'many are called, but FEW are chosen.'
So, here's a Word from the FATHER to you who will disregard this blog.....
If you won't hear & if you won't take it to heart, to give glory to MY name, I'll send a curse upon you & I'll curse your blessings. Yes, I've cursed them already, because you don't take it (MY name) to heart. Behold, I'll rebuke your descendants as well. - Malachi 2:1-2
Better yet, just quit calling yourself a Bible-Believer, because if you prefer to call HIM by a name other than that of YaHuWaH & think it doesn't matter or have any other excuse & still say no one knows for sure, it'd be more honorable for you to just go back & be a heathen instead of being a hypocrite & leading others astray!
Eternal life depends on knowing the correct name! Yes, it's all about the names - the correct ones; without the correct names as a foundation, the rest of your faith & believes are irrelevant. We can't change the names of the characters of the story & expect the same results....
There's salvation in no other name under Heaven given to us by which we must be saved. - Acts 4:12 (YAHUSHUA = YaHuWaH's Salvation)
What will a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of ME & MY words in this adulterous & sinful generation, of him the SON of MAN also will be ashamed when HE comes in the glory of HIS FATHER with the holy angels. - Mark 8:37-38
It's all very simple & lines up with Scripture. You've been given the TRUTH, so who will you serve?
....as for me & my household, we will serve YaHuWaH! - Joshua 24:15
Much love to those seeking Truth without excuse & without compromise!
Jason Desmond
Ambassador of HIS Kingdom
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June 24, 2009 - Wednesday 4:31
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
It's a great honor to suffer persecution & to be singled out to bear witness to the Truth. 'They departed from the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.' (Acts 5:41) Kings are defenders of the faith by their swords as martyrs by their lives. To bear witness by sufferings to the Truth should be a greater honor than to have a temporal reign on earth. Persecution is called the 'fiery trial.'
(1Peter 4) YHWH has 2 fires, 1 where HE puts HIS gold & another where HE puts HIS dross. The fire where HE puts HIS dross is hellfire. The fire where HE puts HIS gold is the fire of persecution. YHWH honors HIS gold when HE puts it into the fire. Persecution is as a badge of honor. What greater honor can be put on a man than to stand up for the cause of YHWH? And not only to die in HIM, but to die for HIM?
Consider what YAHUSHUA endured for us. What's your suffering? Are you poor? So was HE. Surrounded by enemies? So was HE. Do your enemies lay claim to be religious? So did HIS. Nothing like a 'godly' persecutor! Are you reproached? So was HE. Slandered? So was HE. Used? So was HE. Been betrayed by friends? So was HE. Is your estate sequestered & do the wicked cast lots for it? As was HIS. Do you suffer unjustly? So did HE even to death! Did YAHUSHUA endure all this for us & shouldn't we suffer persecution for HIS name? Great is the honor we bring to YAHUSHUA & the gospel by suffering. It was an honor to Caesar that he had such soldiers as were able to fight with hunger & cold & endure hardship in their marches. It's an honor to YAHUSHUA that HE has such listed under HIM as will leave all for HIM, it proclaims HIM to be a good MASTER.
Consider who it is that we've engaged ourselves to in baptism. We solemnly vowed that we'd be true to YAHUSHUA's interest & fight it out under his banner to death. Now if when being called to it, we refuse to suffer persecution for HIS name, HE'll bring our baptism as an indictment against us. YAHUSHUA's called 'the CAPTAIN of our salvation.' (Hebrews 2:10) We've listed ourselves by name under this CAPTAIN. Now if, for fear, we shall fly from our colors, it's treason in the highest degree & how shall we be able to look YAHUSHUA in the face another day? That oath which is not kept inviolably shall be punished infallibly. Where does the 'flying roll' of curses light, but in the house of him who 'swears falsely?'
Our sufferings are light. This 'light affliction' is heavy to flesh & blood, but it's light to faith. Affliction is light in a 3-fold respect:
1. It's light in comparison of sin. He who feels sin heavy feels suffering light. Sin made Paul cry out, 'O wretched man that I am!' (Romans 7) He doesn't cry out of his iron chain but out of his sin.
2. Affliction is light in comparison of YHWH's judgement. What is persecution to damnation? What is the fire of martyrdom to the fire of the damned? It's no more than the pricking of a pin to a death's wound. 'Who knows the power of Your anger?' (Psalms 90:11)
3. Affliction is light in comparison to glory. If persecution be light, we should in a manner set light by it. Let's neither faint through unbelief, nor fret through impatience.
Our sufferings are short: 'After you've suffered awhile.' (1Peter 5:10) Our sufferings may be lasting but not everlasting. MESSIAH calls his sufferings 'an hour.' (Luke 22:53) Can we not suffer one hour as well? Persecution is sharp, but short. Though it has a sting to torment, yet it has a wing to fly. 'Sorrow shall fly away.' (Isaiah 35:10) It's but awhile when the saints shall have a writ of ease granted to them. They shall weep no more, suffer no more. They shall be taken off the torturing wrack & laid in HIS bosom. The people of YHWH shall not always be in the iron furnace. While we suffer for YAHUSHUA, we suffer with HIM. (Romans 8:17) He bears part of the suffering with us. Many don't think they can hold out. But, 'we can all do all things through YAHUSHUA who strenthens us.' HE bears the heaviest end of the cross. HE won't only crown us when we conquer, but HE'll enable us to conquer.
He who refuses to suffer persecution shall never be free from suffering:
Internal sufferings; Whoever doesn't suffer for conscience shall suffer in conscience.
External sufferings; Whoever won't die for YAHUSHUA will be made to die for his sins.
Our present sufferings can't hinder us from being blessed. 'Blessed are those who are persecuted.' We think, 'Blessed are those who are rich,' nope, 'Blessed are those who are persecuted.' 'Blessed is the man who endures temptation.' (James 1) 'If you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are you.' (1Peter 3:14)
Persecution can't hinder us from being blessed. They're blessed who have YHWH for their EL. (Psalms 144:15) Though persecuted, yet we say, 'our EL.' Therefore persecution can't hinder us from being blessed. Isn't it something how those who are being persecuted are assumed by others that they must be in sin, Job's friends thought the same of him as well. They are blessed whom YHWH loves, but persecution can't hinder the love of YHWH either. 'Who shall separate us from the love of YAHUSHUA? Shall persecution?' (Romans 8:35) YHWH visits HIS children in prison. 'Be of good cheer, Paul.' (Acts 23:11) HE sweetens their sufferings. As the mother, having given her child a bitter pill, gives it afterwards a lump of sugar; persecution is a bitter pill but YHWH gives the comforts of HIS SPIRIT to sweeten it. If persecution can't hinder HIS love, then it can't hinder us from being blessed either.
They're blessed for whom YAHUSHUA prays; but such as are persecuted have HIM praying for them. 'Keep through YOUR own name those whom YOU've given ME.' (John 17) Now if persecution can't hinder HIS prayer for us, then it can't obstruct our blessedness. They are blessed who have sin purged out & persecution purges out sin (Isaiah 27:9; Hebrews 12:11). Persecution is a corrosive to eat out the proud flesh. It's a fan to winnow us, a fire to refine us.
The great suffering consideration is the glorious reward which follows sufferings: 'Theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.' Moses had an eye at the 'recompense of reward' (Hebrews 11) & even YAHUSHUA (Hebrews 12). Many have done great things for hope of a temporal reward. If men will risk their lives for a little temporal honor, what should we do for the reward of the eternal? One may lose his life, but not his reward, he may lose his head, but not his crown.
Look often on 'the recompense of the reward.' It was the hope of this reward which so motivated primitive martyrs, who, when there was incense put into their hands & there was no more required of them for the saving of their lives but to sprinkle a little of that incense on the altar in honor of the idol, they'd rather die than do it. This reward is reigning with YAHUSHUA. 'If we suffer with HIM, we shall also reign with HIM,' first martyrs, then kings.
The wicked first reign & then suffer. The righteous first suffer & then reign. The saints shall have a happy reign, it shall be peaceable & durable. Who'd not suffer joyfully? The Greek word signifies 'to leap for joy'. We should have our spirits elevated & exhilarated when we contemplate the weight of glory.
To you it's given in the behalf of YAHUSHUA, not only to believe on HIM, but also to suffer for HIS sake. - Philippians 1:29
It's a gift to be able to suffer. Don't think you can be able of yourselves to lay down life & liberty for YAHUSHUA. Peter was overconfident of himself, but his strength undid him. Peter had habitual grace, but he lacked auxiliary grace. We need fresh gales from Heaven. Pray for the Spirit to animate you in your sufferings. As the fire hardens the potter’s vessel which is at first weak & limber, so the fire of the SPIRIT hardens men against sufferings. Pray that YHWH will make you like the anvil that you may bear the strokes of persecutors with invincible patience.
Jason Desmond
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June 16, 2009 - Tuesday 13:42
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
Continuing the Persecution Series...
The pretence of faith is one thing, but the use of faith is another. The hypocrite makes faith a cloak while the martyr makes it a shield. Faith beats down all oppositions. By faith, we resist the devil. (1Peter 5:9) Faith is a victorious grace. An unbeliever is like Reuben: 'Unstable as water, he shall not excel.' (Genesis 49) But cast a Believer on the waters of affliction & he'll follow YAHUSHUA on the water, without sinking. Cast him into the fire & his zeal will burn hotter than the flames. Cast him into prison & hell be enlarged in spirit. Get faith!
Faith makes us truly believe that 'I can do all things through Messiah.'
(Philippians 4:13)
Faith shows the soul better things than the world, it gives a sight of MESSIAH & HIS glory. It gives a prospective of HIS Kingdom.
Faith gets strength from promise. Take the fish out of the water & it dies, take faith out of a promise & it can't live. When a garrison is attacked & is almost ready to yield to the enemy, auxiliary forces are sent to relieve it. When faith begins to be weak & is ready to faint in the day of battle then the promises muster their forces together & all come in for faith's relief & now it's able to hold out in the fiery trial.
Faith gives us the right notion of suffering. Persecution can only take away this life at worse case scenario, but faith gives us the right notion of sufferings so we can prostrate our life at the feet of YAHUSHUA.
Faith reconciles providences & promises. As it was on Paul's voyage, providence seemed to be against him, there was a crosswind that arose (Acts 27) but YHWH had given him a promise. Therefore when the wind blew ever so contrary, Paul believed it'd at last blow him to the haven. So when sense says, 'Here is a cross providence, sufferings come, I shall be undone,' then faith says 'all things shall work for good to those who love YHWH.' (Romans 8:28) This providence shall fulfill the promise. Affliction shall work for my good, it shall heal my corruption & save my soul. Thus faith, making the wind & tide go together, the wind of a providence with the tide of the promise, enables us to suffer.
Faith picks sweetness out of the cross & shows the soul YHWH reconciled & sin pardoned & then how sweet every suffering truly is!Faith looks on suffering as YHWH's love-token. Afflictions are sharp arrows, but they're shot from the hand of a loving FATHER. Faith fetches joy out of suffering. (John 16:20)
Suffering grace is love......
Love is active; It lays a law of constraint on the soul; 'The love of MESSIAH constrains us.' (2Corinthians 5:14) Love never thinks it can do enough for YAHUSHUA, love's never weary. It's not tired unless with its own slowness.
Love is passive; it enables to suffer. A man who loves his friend will suffer anything for him rather than allowing him to be wronged.
Most pretend love to the MESSIAH. How shall we know that we have such a love for HIM as will make us suffer? True love is a love of friendship, which is genuine & when we love HIM for just being HIM. There's a 'love,' when we love divine objects for something else. A man may love YAHUSHUA for HIS 'head of gold,' because HE's enriched with glory, but true love is when we love HIM for who HE is, not just for HIS position or what HE can do for us.
True love is a love of desire, when we desire to be united to YAHUSHUA. The soul that loves YAHUSHUA is ambitious of death because this dissolution tends to union. Death slips one knot & ties another. True love is a love of benevolence, so when we're able, we endeavour to lift up YAHUSHUA's name in the world. We can never love HIM too much, nor can we love HIM to HIS worth, but we must strive to in our daily lives.
Another suffering grace is patience. Patience is a grace made & cut out for suffering, it's a sweet submission to the will of YHWH so we're content to bear ANYTHING that He's laid on us. Patience makes us innvincible, it's like the anvil that bears all strokes. We can't be child of YHWH nor can we be a martyr without patience. Patience makes us endure. (James 5) Faith keeps the heart from sinking but patience keeps the heart from murmuring. Patience isn't provoked by injuries, it's sensible, but not 'whiney.' Faith says, 'YHWH will come,' & patience says, 'I'll go through whatever it takes until He comes.'
YHWH's made promises of protection. 'No man shall set on you to hurt you.' (Acts 18:10) And 'there shall not be a hair of your head that perishes.' (Luke 21:18) Persecutors are lions, but chained lions.
YHWH's made promises of HIS special presence with HIS saints in suffering. 'I'll be with him in trouble.' (Psalms 91:15) YHWH will hold us when we're fainting! HIS honor is dear to HIM, it wouldn't be for HIS honor to bring HIS children into sufferings & leave them there. HE'll be with them to support them & when new troubles arise: HE shall deliver you in 6 troubles. - Job 5:19
YHWH's made promises of deliverance: 'I'll deliver him & honor him.'
(Psalms 91) 'HE'll with the temptation make a way to escape.'
(1Corinthians 10:13) Thus he did to Peter, his prayers had opened Heaven & YHWH's angel opens the prison. YHWH can either prevent a snare or break it. 'To YHWH belong the issues from death.' (Psalms 68:20) YHWH sometimes makes enemies the instruments of breaking those snares which they've laid themselves. (Esther 8:8)
In case of martyrdom, there's promises of consolation: Your sorrow shall be turned into joy. - John 16:20
YHWH will abundantly recompense all our sufferings, 'in this life a 100-fold & in the world to come life everlasting.' (Matthew 19:29) Our losses for YAHUSHUA are gainful. 'He who loses his life, for MY sake, shall find it.' (Matthew 10:39)
Set before your eyes suffering examples. Look on others as patterns to imitate. 'Take the prophets for an example of suffering affliction.'
(James 5:10) Examples have more influence on us than precepts. Micah was in the prison, Jeremiah in the dungeon & Isaiah was sawn asunder. The early Believers had their flesh boiled, roasted, dismembered, yet they remained invincible. Such was their zeal & patience in suffering that their persecutors stood amazed & were more weary in tormenting than they were in enduring. YHWH has so much love in HIS heart to pity us & so much strength in HIS arm to help us as before. Let's think what courage the heathens have shown in their sufferings; when Julius Caesar was foretold of a conspiracy against him, he said he'd rather die than fear. Mutius Scaevola having his hand held over the fire till the flesh fried & his sinews began to shrink, yet he bore it with an undaunted spirit. Quintus Curtius reports of Lysimachus of him being cast naked to a lion, that when the lion came roaring at him, he wrapped his shirt around his arm & thrust it into the lion's mouth taking hold of his tongue & killing it. Did nature infuse such a spirit of courage & gallantry into heathens! How much more shall be in us! Let's be as Paul: Not counting my life dear, so that I might finish my course with joy. (Acts 20:24)
Consider whom we suffer for, YAHUSHUA. There's many who suffer shame & death for lusts. He suffers disgrace for a drunken lust, for debt, etc. He'll suffer death for a revengeful lust. Shall we also die for our lusts & not for YAHUSHUA? Will a man suffer for that lust which damns him & not suffer for YAHUSHUA who saves? If no man shall 'kindle a fire on YHWH's altar for nothing,' (Malachai 1) then surely no man shall sacrifice himself for YHWH in the fire for nothing.
Jason Desmond
Ambassador of HIS Kingdom
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June 10, 2009 - Wednesday 18:52
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
Promote those things which will help to suffer.
(A) Discipline yourselves to suffering. 'As a good soldier of MESSIAH, endure hardship.' (2Timothy 2) Learn to bear a reproach with patience, that is die daily. He began with lesser sufferings & by degrees learned to be a martyr. How far are those from suffering who indulge the flesh. 'What shall I say,' says Jerome, 'to those who make it all their care to perfume their clothes, to crisp their hair, to sparkle their diamonds, but if sufferings come & the way to Heaven has any water in it, they won't endure to set their feet on it!' Those 'silken Christians' that pamper the flesh, are unfit for the Kingdom.
(B) Be well skilled in the knowledge of YAHUSHUA. One can never die for someone he doesn't know. 'For which cause I suffer those things; I know whom I have believed.' (2Timothy 1:12) Blind men are always fearful. An ignorant man can never be a martyr. He may set up an altar, but he'll never die for an unknown EL. It's amazing to me how many people would die for zeal with knowledge, what I mean is, claiming to do anything for or boasting of a CREATOR of which they say they have a personal relationship with, but yet have no idea what HIS name is or thinks it doesn't matter.
(C) Prize every truth of YHWH. The filings of gold are precious, the least ray of Truth is glorious. 'Buy the truth & sell it not.' (Proverbs 23:23) Truth is the object of faith, the seed of regeneration, the spring of joy. Truth crowns us with salvation. If ever you'd suffer for the Truth, prize it above all things. He who doesn't prize Truth above life will never lay down his life for the Truth.
(D) Keep a good conscience. If there be any sin allowed in the soul, it will make one unfit for suffering. If a ship be sound & well-rigged, it'll sail on the water, but if it's full of holes & leaks, it'll sink. If conscience is full of guilt, it won't sail in the bloody waters of persecution. If a man's heart is rotten, he'll never stand in a storm of tribulation. How can a guilty person suffer when he knows he's likely to go from the fire at the stake to hell-fire! Let conscience be pure. 'Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.' (1Timothy 3:9)
(E) Make the Scripture familiar to you. (Psalms 119:50) The Scripture well digested by meditation will make us fit for suffering. 'Let the word of YAHUSHUA dwell in you richly.' (Colossians 3:16) The Scripture arms a Believer both against temptation & persecution.
Against temptation: YAHUSHUA, when tempted, used Scripture for armor: 'It is written.' Are you tempted? Are you tempted by pride? Read, 'YHWH resists the proud.' (1Peter 5:5) Are you tempted to lust? 'When lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin & sin when it's finished, brings forth death.' (James 1:15)
Against persecution: When the flesh draws back, Scripture will recruit us. It'll put armor on us & courage in us. 'Fear none of those things you shall suffer.' Though your body be martyred, your soul shall be crowned. But I shall not faint when trials come, 'MY grace shall be sufficient.' (2Corinthians 12:9)
(F) Get a suffering frame of heart. 'If any man will come after ME, let him deny himself & take up his cross.' (Matthew 16) Self-denial is the foundation of godliness & if this isn't laid, the whole building falls. If there be any lust in our souls which we can't deny, it'll turn at length either to scandal or apostasy.
Here are several areas of self: Worldly self; that is, his estate. 'Behold we've forsaken all & followed you.' (Matthew 19:27)
Relative self; that is, his dearest relations, if YHWH calls. If our nearest alliance, father or mother, stand in our way & would hinder us from doing our duty, we must either leap over them or tread on them. 'If any man come to ME & doesn't hate his father, mother, wife & children, even his own life, he can't be MY disciple.' (Luke 14:26) Relations & even our own life must not weigh heavier than YAHUSHUA, he must be willing to become a sacrifice & make YAHUSHUA's crown flourish. 'They loved not their lives unto the death.' (Revelation 12:11) YAHUSHUA was dearer to them than their own blood.
Self-opinion; Every man has a high opinion of himself. He's drunk with spiritual pride & a proud man is unfit for suffering. He thinks himself too good to suffer & disdains the cross. How did YAHUSHUA come to suffer? 'HE humbled HIMSELF & became obedient unto death.' - Philippians 2:8
Self-confidence; Peter's confidence undid him. 'Though all men shall be offended because of you, yet will I never be offended; though I should die with you, yet I won't deny you.' (Matthew 26) He who trusts himself shall be left to himself & one who goes out in his strength comes off to his own shame.
Self-wisdom; We read of the 'wisdom of the flesh’ (2Corinthians 1) Self-wisdom is carnal & says to keep out suffering but doesn't to speak against sin yet finds subtle distinctions to avoid the cross. Fleshly wisdom tries to save the flesh. 'This wisdom isn't from above, but is devilish.' (James 3:15)
Self-will; This hasn't only an indisposition to good, but an opposition. 'You've always resisted the HOLY SPIRIT.' (Acts 7) There's no greater enemy than self. It's against YHWH. The will loves sin & hates the cross. If we suffer for YHWH, we must cross our own will & say, 'Not my will, but Your will be done.'
A man must deny self-reasonings. The fleshy part will be reasoning & disputing against sufferings. 'Why do you reason these things in your hearts?' (Mark 2:8) Such reasonings as these will begin to arise in our hearts: This self-denying frame of heart is very hard. A man doesn't have so much to do in overcoming men & devils as in overcoming himself. 'Stronger is he who conquers himself than he who conquers the strongest walled city.' We must turn from self-seeking to self-denial! Those who can't deny themselves, when sufferings come, will deny YAHUSHUA as well.
Whatever you deny for MESSIAH, you shall find again in HIM: Every one who has forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for MY name's sake shall receive a 100-fold & shall inherit everlasting life.' (Matthew 19:29) Instead of these 'preachers' telling you to give them money for 100-fold, they should be teaching you the true name of the MESSIAH in order to receive 100-fold... YAHUSHUA!
It's but equity that you should deny yourselves for YAHUSHUA. Didn't HE deny HIMSELF for you? HE denied HIS joy, honor & HIS life, yet endured the shame. HE poured out HIS blood as a sacrifice on the altar of the cross. Being YAHUSHUA denied HIMSELF for you, won't you deny yourselves for HIM?
Self-denial is the highest sign of a true child of the MOST HIGH. Hypocrites may have great knowledge & make large professions, but it's only the true-hearted saint that can deny himself for YAHUSHUA.
A holy man once tempted by the devil, was asked, 'Why do you take all these pains? You watch & fast & abstain from sin. O man, what do you do more than I? Are you no drunkard, no adulterer? No more am I. Do you watch? Let me tell you, I never slept. Do you fast? I never eat. What do you do more than I?' 'Why,' says the good man, 'I'll tell you, devil; I pray; I serve YHWH; more than all, I deny myself.' 'No way, then,' says the devil, 'you go beyond me, for I exalt myself.' And so he vanished. Self-denial is the best touchstone of sincerity. This seperates you from the hypocrites.
To deny yourselves is what others have done before you. Moses was a self-denier. He denied the honors & profits of the court. (Hebrews 11:24-26) Abraham denied his own country at YHWH's call.
If you don't deny the world for YAHUSHUA, the world will deny you. It'll turn you out of possession & which is worse, not only the world will deny you, but YAHUSHUA will deny you: Whosoever denies ME before men, him will I also deny before MY FATHER which is Heaven. - Matthew 10:33
Jason Desmond
Ambassador of HIS Kingdom
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June 6, 2009 - Saturday 3:47
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
Pray for those who despitefully use you. - Luke 6:28
Why? Our prayers may be a means to bring them to YHWH. Stephen prayed for his persecutors & his prayer was effectual to some of their conversions. Augustine says that the Body of MESSIAH was beholden to Stephen's prayer for all that benefit which was reaped by Paul's ministry.
We should pray for our persecutors because they do us good, though against their will, they shall increase our reward. Every reproach shall add to our glory, every injury shall serve to make our crown heavier. Every stone that was thrown at Stephen was a precious stone that enriched him & made him shine brighter in the Kingdom of Heaven. It shows us what the nature of our faith is sanctity joined with suffering. A true saint carries YAHUSHUA in HIS heart & the cross on his shoulders:
All that will live righteously in YAHUSHUA haMashiach shall suffer persecution. - 2Timothy 3:12
What's the meaning of the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, but to imply that we must encounter sufferings? Persecution's the legacy bequeathed by YAHUSHUA to us. 'In the world, you shall have tribulation.' (John 16:33) HIS 'Bride' is a lily among thorns.
We're told suffering comes before reigning. 'If we suffer, we shall also reign with HIM.' (2Timothy 2:12) 'Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial.' (1Peter 4:12) If we're YHWH's gold, it's not strange to be cast into the fire for refinement.
See that persecutions aren't signs of YHWH's anger or fruits of the curse, for 'blessed are they that are persecuted.' If they're blessed who die in YHWH, aren't they blessed who die for Him? We're very quick to judge them hated & forsaken of YHWH who are in a suffering condition. The Jews could hardly believe YAHUSHUA was the SON of YHWH when he was sacrified. Would YHWH let HIM be reproached & forsaken if HE were the SON of YHWH? When the barbarians saw the viper on Paul's hand, they thought he was a great sinner. 'No doubt this man is a murderer.' (Acts 28:4) When we see HIS people afflicted & the fangs of persecution fastened on them, we're apt to say, 'These are greater sinners than others & YHWH doesn't love them.' This is for want of judgement. Persecutions are pledges of HIS love, badges of honor. (Hebrews 12:7) In the sharpest trial, there's the sweetest comfort.
It reproves such as would be thought good 'Christians' but won't suffer persecution for HIS sake. Their care isn't to take up the cross, but to avoid the cross: When persecution arises because of the Word, by & by, he is offended. - Matthew 13:21
There are many who speak well of MESSIAH, but won't suffer a thing for HIM. Many, when they see the palm-branches & garments spread, cry 'Hosanna,' but if the swords appear, then they slip away. Hypocrites will sooner renounce their baptism than take up their cross. He who refuses to suffer, let him read over this Scripture: Whosoever shall deny ME before men, him I'll also deny before MY FATHER who's in Heaven. - Matthew 10:33
Let's think beforehand & make account of sufferings. This reckoning beforehand can do us no harm; it may do much good though.
(A) The thought of suffering will make us. The heart wants to be feathery & frothy & the thoughts of suffering persecution would consolidate it. Am I in a posture fit for persecution? We grow serious in the casting up our spiritual accounts, reckoning what religion must cost & may cost. It must cost the blood of our sins & it may even cost us the blood of our lives.
(B) The thought of persecution will be as sauce to season our delights, that we don't surfeit on them. How soon may there be an alarm sounded? The thoughts of this would take off the heart from the immoderate love of the creature. YAHUSHUA, at a great feast, breaks out into mention of his death. So the thoughts of a change would be an excellent antidote against a surfeit.
(C) The thoughts of sufferings would make them lighter when they come, knowing that the anti-messiah will be destroyed soon & suddenly.
(D) Thoughts of persecution would put us in mind of getting our armor ready. It's dangerous as well as imprudent to have all to seek when the trial comes, as if a soldier should have his weapons to get when the enemy is in the field. He who reckons on persecution will be ready for it. Let's prepare for persecution, even a wise pilot in a calm will prepare for a storm.
How shall we prepare for sufferings?
Labor to be rightly qualified for suffering, be righteous. One who suffers 'for righteousness' sake' must be truly righteous, not self-righteous.
A righteous man breathes after sanctity (Psalm 119:5). Though sin cleaves to his heart yet, his heart doesn't cleave to sin. A good man hates the sin which tempts him. (Psalm 119:128) A righteous man is one who makes YHWH's grace his center. He who's qualified is so ambitious of HIS glory that he doesn't care what he loses, so YHWH may be a gainer. He prefers the glory of YHWH before credit, estate, relations, etc. & a righteous man is one who values a good conscience at a high rate & he'd rather risk anything than violate his conscience. A good man had rather sustain hurt in his body or estate than in his conscience. HE'd rather die than violate the purity of his conscience.
Avoid things which will hinder suffering.
(A) The love of the world. He who's in love with the world will be out of love with the FATHER. The love of the world chokes out zeal. A man joined to the world will, for 30 pieces of silver, betray YAHUSHUA & a good cause. Before a man can die for YAHUSHUA, he must be dead to the world.
(B) Carnal fear:
A filial fear, when a man fears to displease YHWH.
There's a cowardly fear, when a man fears danger more than sin, when he's afraid to be good; this fear is an enemy to suffering. YHWH proclaimed that those who were fearful shouldn't go to the wars. (Deuteronomy 20) The fearful are unfit to fight in spiritual wars. One possessed with fear doesn't consult what's best, but what's safest. If he may save his estate, he'll snare his conscience. 'In the fear of man, there's a snare.' (Proverbs 29:25) Fear makes sin appear little & suffering great. A fearful man will vote against his conscience. Fear enfeebles, fear melts away the courage & when a man's strength is gone, he's unfit to carry his cross. Fear is the root of apostasy. Fear hurts more than the adversary. It's not so much an enemy without the castle as a traitor within endangers it. A fearful man is versed in retreating. Be afraid of this fear. 'Fear not those who can kill the body.' (Luke 12:4) The fearful are set in the forefront of them that shall go to hell. (Revelation 21:8) Let's get the fear of YHWH in us. As one wedge drives out another, allow the fear of YHWH to drive out all other fears.
Take heed of a facile spirit. A facile-spirited man will be turned anyway with a word. He'll be like wax. He's so tame that you may lead him where you like. 'With fair speeches, they deceive the hearts of the simple.' (Romans 16:18) A facile man is malleable to anything. He's a weak reed that'll be blown anyway with the breath of men. One day you may persuade him to engage in a good cause, the next day to desert it. He's not made of oak but of willow. He'll bend every way. It's not ingenuity but folly to suffer one's self to be abused. A true Believer is like Mt Zion that can't be moved. (Psalms 125:1)
Take heed of listening to the voice of the flesh. The flesh will give bad counsel. King Saul consulted with the flesh & afterwards he consulted with the devil. He sends to the witch of Endor. Be as a deaf adder stopping your ears to the charmings of the flesh.
Jason Desmond
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June 2, 2009 - Tuesday 19:48
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
Great persecutions are raised against ministers, YAHUSHUA told HIS apostles whom HE sent out to preach:
Blessed are you when men shall persecute you. - Matthew 5:11
Take the prophets for an example of suffering affliction. - James 5:10
Not only is one a minister, but he's a piece of a martyr. The ministers of YAHUSHUA are HIS chosen vessels. As the best vessels of gold & silver passes through fire, so YHWH's chosen often pass through the fire of persecution. Neither the divinity of doctrine nor the sanctity of life can exempt one from persecution.
The reasons why persecution has fallen on HIS ministers:
1. They have their imperfections as well as others & lest they should be lifted up 'through the abundance of revelation.' YHWH lets loose some 'messenger of the enemy' to vex & persecute them. HE sees they have need of the flail to thresh off their flesh. The fire HE puts them in isn't to consume but to refine. Paul also had to be 'buffeted.'
2. HIS true, chosen ministers are MESSIAH's ensign-bearers to carry HIS colors, the captains of YHWH's host, the most shot at. 'I'm set for the defense of the Gospel.' (Philippians 1:17) The Greek meaning of this refers to a soldier set on the frontline of battle & has all the shots flying about him. The minister's work is to preach against sin, (unlike the false ones out there now, preaching the prosperity or feel-good message) every man's sin is his king to which he yields love & subjection. The work of the ministry is to divide between men & their lusts, to part them, no wonder if it meets with much opposition. When Paul preached against Diana, all the city was in an uproar. We preach against men's Dianas, those sins which bring them in pleasure & profit, thus causing an uproar. (Acts 19)
3. The ministers of YAHUSHUA come against the enemy's kingdom, therefore the old serpent spits his venom at them. If we tread on the devil's head, he'll bite us on the heel. The devil sets up several forts & garrisons in men's hearts - pride, ignorance & unbelief.
Persecution of the tongue is the most gentle persecution that can be expected. It's impossible to be a faithful preacher & not meet trials & oppositions.
It shows the corruption of men's nature, they're their own enemy. They persecute those who come to do them most good. What's the work of the ministry but to preach the soul-saving Truth? Yet they're angry at this. We don't hate the doctor who gives us medicine that makes us well; nor the surgeon who operates, because it's in order to cure. Why then should we quarrel with a true man of the MOST HIGH who gives us the pure Word?
We should encourage them in their work that they may be more vigorous. But instead, most give them gall & vinegar to drink while hating & persecuting them, dealing with them as Israel did with their prophets, wanting to hear from the false teachers, instead of the men of YHWH. The prophets would pray for them & perform miracles for them, yet Israel was continually arguing with him & ready to kill them.
Being the fury of the world is against YHWH's chosen, then you who fear YHWH had best pray much for them. 'Pray for us, that the Word of YHWH may have free course & that we may be delivered from unreasonable & wicked men.' (2Thessalonians 3:1, 2)
Let's see what suffering won't make us blessed.
(A) Suffering isn't reckoned for martyrdom, when we do things to ourselves. Augustine spoke of some in his time who were called Circumcellions, who from zeal of martyrdom, would cause themselves to suffer. These were accessory to their own death, like King Saul who fell on his own sword. We're bound by all lawful means to preserve our lives. When men run themselves into trouble, it's a cross of their own making & not from YHWH laying it on them. Even YAHUSHUA didn't suffer till HE was called to it.
(B) It's not to be counted as martyrdom when we suffer for our offenses. 'Let none of you suffer as an evildoer.' (1Peter 4:15) 'We indeed suffer justly.' (Luke 23:41) The thief on the cross didn't suffer as a martyr, he suffered as an evildoer! YAHUSHUA did take pity on him & he was saved, so he died a saint, but not a martyr. When men suffer by the hand of the magistrate for their uncleanness, blasphemies etc., these don't suffer persecution, but execution. They don't die as martyrs, but as malefactors, they suffer evil for being evil.
(C) Suffering won't make men blessed, when they suffer out of sinister respects or to keep up a faction. Paul implies that a man may give his body to be burned, yet go to hell. (1Corinthians 13:3) Ambitious men may sacrifice their lives to purchase fame, but these are the devil's martyrs.
NOTE: Persections & trials aren't these preachers on TV defending themselves from those calling them out on their false doctrine. It's not when someone goes through a divorce or files for bankruptcy either.
ALOT of crap that goes on in our lives isn't from the FATHER, a devil, or from others; it's just from ignorant choices we've made in our life!
So, what's the suffering persecution that makes us blessed & places the crown of martyrdom on us?
(A) Suffering for a good cause; such as for the Truth, we become the 'Blessed who suffer for righteousness' sake.' It's the cause that makes a martyr.
(B) Suffering with a good conscience; one may have a good cause but a bad conscience. He may suffer for 'righteousness' sake,' yet in an unrighteous way. Paul had a pure conscience. 'I've lived in all good conscience to this day.' (Acts 23:1) It's made the saints go as cheerfully to the stake as if going to a crown. A ship that's to sail on the waters must be preserved from leaking. When we're to sail on the waters of persecution, let's take heed that there's no leak of guilt in their conscience.
(C) When we have good ends in our suffering, that we may glorify YHWH, set a seal to the Truth & walk as YAHUSHUA walked. There's no question but a man may so far consult for his safety that if YHWH open a door so he may fly in time of persecution. (Matthew 10:23) When brought before kings & the case is such that either we must suffer or the Truth suffer, here's a clear call to suffering & this is reckoned for martyrdom.
(D) Suffering as a Believer: If any man suffer as a Believer, let him not be ashamed. - 1Peter 4:16
To suffer as a Believer is to suffer with such a spirit, which is:
Suffering with patience; Take the prophets for an example of suffering affliction & of patience. (James 5:10) A Believer should be willing to say, 'Shall I not drink the cup of martyrdom which my FATHER's given me?' There should be such a spirit of meekness in our suffering that it should be hard to say which is greater, our persecution or our patience. When Job had lost all, he kept the breastplate of innocence & the shield of patience. An impatient martyr is a solecism.
Suffering with courage; Courage is our armor of proof, it steels & animates us. Daniel's friends were of brave, heroic spirits. They didn't say to the king, 'We ought not serve your gods,' but 'We will not.' (Daniel 3:18) Neither Nebuchadnezzar's music nor his furnace could alter their resolution. This is to suffer as Believers; meek, yet resolute. The more the fire is blown, the more it flames, so it is with a true Believer. The more opposition we meet, the more zeal & courage flames forth. If it isn't the cause of YHWH we are embarked in, let's desert it! But if it's HIS cause & will bear us out, why not stand to it?
Suffering with cheerfulness. Patience is bearing the cross; cheerfulness is taking up the cross. YAHUSHUA's death was a freewill offering, as ours must be for HIM. Cheerfulness perfumes martyrdom & makes it the sacrifice of a sweet-smelling aroma to YHWH. Thus Moses suffered cheerfully: Moses, when he was come to years, chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of YHWH than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. - Hebrews 11:24, 25
Suffering wasn't so much his task as his choice. The cross wasn't so much imposed as embraced. This is to suffer as told, when we volunteer; we take up the cross cheerfully, joyfully. 'They departed from the presence of the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.' (Acts 5:41) Or as it's more emphatic in the original, 'They rejoiced that they were so far graced as to be disgraced for the name of YAHUSHUA.' Tertullian says the early Believers took more comfort in their sufferings than in their deliverance, alot has changed today, huh? We should be joyful in sufferings because it's a great favor when YHWH honors a man to be a witness to His Truth. YAHUSHUA's marks in Paul's body were prints of glory. The saints wear their sufferings as ornaments. Never have any princes been so famous for their victories as the martyrs for their sufferings.
Jason Desmond
Ambassador of HIS Kingdom
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May 30, 2009 - Saturday 8:47
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
Some may not wanna judge the fruit or admit that a self-proclaimed Believer could actually be a goat from the enemy, but, we mustn't be naive either especially if one claims that the Word is false, accuses the brethren, twists words, attacks others and/or tries to bring strife & division, this person is not a child of the MOST HIGH! A good tree cannot produce bad fruit. (Matthew 7:18)
Also,a wolf is a false teacher, one who speaks more time on 'breakthrough' & an easy life, instead of persecution & dying to self: Behold, you trust in lying words that can't profit. Thus says YHWH: 'Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless, they speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of YHWH.' - Jeremiah 7:8, 23:16
Certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, unholy men, who turn the grace of our EL into lewdness. - Jude 1:4
Well, let's get into part one of persecution.... Blessed are you, when men shall hate you & when they shall separate you from their company & shall reproach you & cast out your name as evil, for the SON of MAN's sake. - Luke 6:22
Most are reluctant to do anything that might make them less popular, let alone anything which might lead to social ostracism or even suffering. It hurts to be 'cast out as evil,' when seeking to do right & to honor YHWH. This was the experience of the blind man who was healed. The religious ones responded to his testimony with a rebuke & casting him out. (John 9) Nevertheless, he could see! Likewise, the religious leaders 'raised up persecution against Paul & Barnabas & expelled them.' But, 'the disciples were filled with joy & with the HOLY SPIRIT.' (Acts 13)
This exists today everywhere, even in America to those who proclaim HIS true name, no one ever gave me persecution when I was proclaiming the name Jesus, but say the real name & watch out! Regardless, may YHWH enable us to honor HIS name in suffering with joy & without compromise.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. - Matthew 5:10
How would you like to experience the Kingdom of YHWH on Earth? How about living such a devoted life to YAHUSHUA that angels visit you & it seems that you're really mixing with Heaven on Earth? You must chose who you tell about these experiences as the wrong ones will mock you & tell others that you're out of your mind: Don't speak in the hearing of a fool, for he'll despise the wisdom of your words. - Proverbs 23:9
Also when you obey the Word, build your house on the rock & share with others the Truth, those who've built their life on the sand will mock you. They'll want to tear you to pieces with gossip & slander. Being obedient will make you a fool to the world. The wisdom of YHWH is foolishness to the world & this can include most Christians. As you live a devoted life, they'll want to bring you back to their way of living & will try to argue with you. Truth will cost us the tears of repentance & the blood of persecution. But there's encouragement from this... For the present, blessed; for the future, crowned.
The condition of the righteous; in this life: Persecution / Our reward
after this life: Kingdom of Heaven
True righteousness is often attended with persecution:
We must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of YHWH. - Acts 14:22
Luther made persecution the very definition of a Believer. YAHUSHUA died to take away the curse from us, but not the cross. Those stones which are cut out for a building are first under the saw & hammer to be hewed & squared. The righteous are called 'living stones' (1Peter 2:5) & must be hewn & polished by the persecutor's hand that they may be fit for the heavenly building. The saints have no exemption from trials. Though we are so ever meek, merciful, pure in heart, our piety won't shield us from sufferings.
What are the different kinds of persecution?
The persecution of the hand: This I call a bloody persecution, when the people of YHWH are persecuted with fire & sword.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? - Acts 7:52
The persecution of the tongue: which is 2-fold.
(1) Reviling; 'His words were drawn swords.' - Psalms 55:21
You may kill a man as well in his name as in his person. True Believers endure this persecution of the tongue. 'They had trial of cruel mockings.' (Hebrews 2:36) David was 'the song of the drunkards.'
(Psalms 69:12)
(2) Slandering; 'When they persecute you & say all manner of evil against you falsely, for MY sake.' - Matthew 5:11
Did you see that? We are persecuted for HIS sake, so don't it personal! Count it ALL joy!
Why there must be persecution.... Persecution is the touchstone of sincerity, it divides true saints from hypocrites. Unsound hearts pretend fair in prosperity, but in time of persecution fall away (Matthew 13). Hypocrites can't sail in stormy weather. They'll follow YAHUSHUA to Mt Olivet, but not to Calvary. If trouble arises, hypocrites will rather prefer 30 pieces of silver before MESSIAH. YHWH will have persecutions in the world to make a discovery of men. Suffering times are sifting times. 'When I am tried, I shall come forth as gold.' (Job 23:10)
YHWH lets HIS children go in the furnace so they may be 'partakers of His holiness.' (Hebrews 12:10) The cross purges out pride, impatience, love of the world. YHWH washes HIS people in bloody waters to get out their spots & make them look white.
There'll be persecutions in regard of 2 types of enemies to HIS elect:
Open enemies; The wicked hate the righteous. There's 'enmity between the seed of the woman & the seed of the serpent.' (Genesis 3:15) From the holiness of the saints, hatred arises to open violence from the wicked. The thief hates the light, therefore attempts to blow it out.
Secret enemies; Those who pretend friendship but secretly raise persecutions against the righteous. Such are hypocrites & heretics. Paul calls them 'false brethren' (2Corinthians 11:26). These are those who had been among the elect & pretended religion & sympathy. Such as are open pretenders but secret opposers of the faith are ever worst. A wen seems to be a part of the body, but is indeed an enemy to it. It disfigures & endangers it. They're the vilest & basest of men who hang forth MESSIAH's colors, yet fight against HIM & HIS elect.
They walk according to their own lusts & they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. - Jude 1:16
Regardless, through it all, follow the example of YAHUSHUA... through all the false accusations & persecutions, do not open your mouth. Let YHWH be your Defense!
The attacks may have been allowed to happen in order for us to pray for them if no one else is, remember, we are to 'pray for those who spitefully use you & persecute you.' (Matthew 5) Isn't the FATHER awesome? HE can bring all kinds of good out of the bad men may have for us!
Jason Desmond
Ambassador of HIS Kingdom
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May 23, 2009 - Saturday 8:27
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
When you think of words like 'ADORE, MAGNIFY, EXTOL, REVERE, WORSHIP, EXALT, PRAISE, HONOR, RESPECT, COMMEND or FAVOR,' do you think of words that describe what Christians do to the Devil? Well, that's exactly what they do when they go along with the Lucifer myth, let me explain; first check out what these words actually mean.....
ADORE: to HONOR, REVERENCE or GLORIFY to ADORN; to MAGNIFY
1. To WORSHIP with PROFOUND REVERENCE; to ADDRESS with EXALTED THOUGHTS; to PAY DIVINE HONORS to; to HONOR as a GOD or as DIVINE.
2. To REGARD with the UTMOST ESTEEM & RESPECT.
To ADORE the DEVIL is to SHOW WORTH with PROFOUND FEAR MINGLED with RESPECT. To ADDRESS with THOUGHTS of UNDUE PRETENTIONS of POWER.
MAGNIFY: 1. To MAKE GREAT or GREATER.
2. To EXTOL; to EXALT in DESCRIPTION.
To MAGNIFY the DEVIL is to MAKE him CHIEF of VAST POWER or SUPREME or to MAKE him GREATER than what he really is.
EXTOL: To RAISE in WORDS; to PRAISE; to EXALT in COMMENDATION; to MAGNIFY.
To EXTOL the DEVIL is to RAISE him from a LOW ESTATE by what we say about him.
REVERE: [to FEAR]: To REGARD with FEAR MINGLED with RESPECT; to REVERENCE; to HONOR in ESTIMATION (FAVORABLE OPINION).
WORSHIP: 1. EXCELLENCE of CHARACTER; DIGNITY; WORTH; WORTHINESS.
2. A TITLE of HONOR.
3. A TERM of IRONICAL RESPECT.
4. The HOMAGE (REVERENCE) PAID to IDOLS or FALSE GODS by PAGANS.
5. To ADORE; to PAY DIVINE HONORS to; to REVERENCE with SUPREME RESPECT & VENERATION.
6. To RESPECT; to HONOR.
7. To HONOR with EXTREME SUBMISSION.
To WORSHIP the DEVIL is to give him a TITLE of GREATNESS of MIND such as an ARCHANGEL or HEAVEN'S EX-PRAISE LEADER.
EXALT: 1. To RAISE HIGH.
2. To ELEVATE in POWER, WEALTH, RANK or DIGNITY.
3. To ELEVATE with CONFIDENCE.
4. To make UNDUE PRETENSIONS to POWER or RANK; to ELEVATE TOO HIGH or ABOVE OTHERS.
5. To ELEVATE in ESTIMATION & PRAISE; to MAGINFY; to PRAISE; to EXTOL.
To EXALT the DEVIL is to SPEAK HIGHLY of, to SPEAK of him GREATER than what he really is, as him being as a MIGHTY ONE.
PRAISE: 1. To COMMEND; to EXPRESS APPROBATION of PERSONAL WORTH or ACTIONS.
2. To EXTOL in WORDS; to MAGNIFY; to GLORIFY on account of PERFECTIONS or EXCELLENT WORKS.
3. To do HONOR to; to DISPLAY the EXCELLENCE of.
To PRAISE the DEVIL is to SPEAK of him needing to be RESPECTED or WORTHY of NOTICE. To make him APPEAR GREATER than what he really is.
HONOR: 1. A TESTIMONY of ESTEEM; ANY EXPRESSION of RESPECT or of HIGH ESTIMATION by WORDS or ACTIONS.
2. DIGNITY; EXALTED RANK or PLACE; DISTINCTION.
3. ANY ACT by which REVERENCE is EXPRESSED.
4. REPUTATION; GOOD NAME.
5. TRUE NOBLENESS (GREATNESS) of MIND; DIGNIFIED RESPECT for CHARACTER.
6. An ASSUMED APPEARANCE of NOBLENESS (GREATNESS); springing from the FEAR of REPROACH, without REGARD to PRINCIPLE.
7. NOBLE (EXALTED) APPEARANCE.
To HONOR the DEVIL is to SPEAK of him with HIGH REGARD. To do something that would SHOW REVERENCE to him. To SAY he HAD a GOOD NAME or REPUTATION. To THINK of him as having GREAT POWERS or EXCELLENT APPEARANCE.
RESPECT: 1. To REGARD.
2. To VIEW or CONSIDER with some degree of REVERENCE; to ESTEEM as POSSESSED of REAL WORTH.
To RESPECT the DEVIL is to CONSIDER with some degree of RESPECT or to place some KIND of VALUE or WORTH to him.
COMMEND: 1. To REPRESENT as WORTHY of NOTICE or REGARD; to SPEAK in FAVOR of.
2. To PRAISE.
3. To MAKE ACCEPTABLE or MORE ACCEPTABLE.
4. To PRODUCE or PRESENT to FAVORABLE (BEAUTIFUL) NOTICE.
To COMMEND the DEVIL is to SPEAK of him as to give him RESPECT or REGARD or PRESENT him of something that is or was of BEAUTY.
FAVOR: 1. To SUPPORT; to AID or have the DISPOSITION to AID; to be PROPITIOUS to; to COUNTENANCE (to keep an appearance).
2. To RESEMBLE in FEATURES.
To FAVOR the DEVIL is to do the things that aren't SUPPOSE to be done (STEAL, KILL, ACCUSE, BEAR FALSE WITNESS, FORNICATE, LIVE in DISOBEDIENCE &/or REBELLION, etc) or don't do the things you are to do (ALL 10 of the COMMANDMENTS, FEASTS DAYS, SABBATH, LOVE YHWH & your NEIGHBOR, LIVE RIGHTEOUSLY, etc).
So, do you see why I spent a few weeks to let you know who the DEVIL isn't? Knowing the enemy is half the battle. It's amazing how the 'church' has elevated him by teachings of him being a beautiful angel of the MIST HIGH, the Praise & Worship Leader of Heaven, one who has so much power to control someone by their actions & saying he has so much control throughtout this whole world, the one where evil had come from, so on & so on.
The thing is if we do one of these words that I broke down, we do them all, as you may have have noticed, they all interlink & point to glorifing the enemy.
Glorify: 1. To praise; to magnify and honor in worship; to ascribe honor to, in thought or words.
2. To make glorious; to exalt to glory, or to celestial happiness.
3. To praise; to honor; to extol.
WoW!
And....
To say he was all that at first, beautiful, lovely, & most intellectual is giving him undue honor & praise. Also, to say YHWH's given us free-will, therefore HE can't make us do anything against our will but the devil can make us do something is making a mighty one out of the Devil & YHWH clearly states, HE is the only MIGHTY ONE, 'there is no other before HIM.' (1st Commandment)
YAHUSHUA said HE 'came to destroy the works of the enemy' (1John 3:8), so why are so many people giving him so much credit, glory & power? We all need to wake up & first accept YAHUSHUA (the true MESSIAH), walk in HIS authority & when we do, we'll soon realize that the Devil is beneath our feet because YHWH's seated YAHUSHUA (our Head) in heavenly places above principalities of darkness, power & dominion.
We are to give the Devil NO HONOR or PRAISE or RECOGNITION of POWER, he's to be as a stepping stone, not a stumbling block or excuse for things in our lives!
Jason Desmond
Ambassador of HIS Kingdom
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May 19, 2009 - Tuesday 8:43
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
We are people - stuff happens to people! When stuff happens to you, it proves that you are still alive, because as long as you're alive, stuff's gonna happen. Quit listening to your pastor tell you that you're one of the special ones that nothing should happen to, especially after you get born again, they are lying to you & just want to make you feel worthy enough to give them your money!
Believe me, when you truly get born again, a sign of a child of the MOST HIGH is trials & persecutions!
Count it ALL joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be mature & complete, lacking nothing. - James 1:2-4
If crap isn't happening to you, there are 2 reasons why:
1) You're not really a Believer
or
2) YHWH's given you a breather & told the enemy to step back for a season.
The stuff that happens to you is what makes life interesting - both the good & the bad. Most of our lives are already interesting enough, I'm sure! lol But this is called LIFE! Deal with it. Put up with it. It's life! Enjoy it the best you can, there's always someone who is in a worse situation than you are. But, please, whatever you do, don't whine about it! If you do, you'll get the same as the children of Israel got once they left Egypt during the Exodus.... nothing but going around in circles & finally death in the wilderness!
'If you are going through hell, keep going.' - Winston Churchill
Life can be complicated & hard at times. Celebrate that. Children of the King are made to be able to overcome whatever crosses their path.
We must also descern why 'stuff' lands in our lap. There are two places this comes from as well...
1) From the enemy beating you up when you purposely live outside the FATHER's will & covering.
2) From the enemy through others to just try to distract you & discourage you & get you to quit your walk with YHWH.
But, it's not always the enemy....
3) From the FATHER HIMSELF 'spanking' you to straighten you out when you begin to stray from HIS path.
Don't despise the chastening of YHWH, nor be discouraged when you're rebuked by HIM; for whom YHWH loves, HE chastens & scourges every son whom HE receives. - Hebrews 12:5-6
Regardless.....
Who shall seperate us from the love of YAHUSHUA? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it's written, 'For YOUR (His) sake, we are killed all day long; we're counted as sheep for the slaughter.' Yet in all these things, we're more than conquerors through HIM who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to seperate us (those truly born again) from the love of YHWH which is YAHUSHUA haMashiach our LORD. - Romans 8:35-39
As long as we have YAHUSHUA & YHWH in our lives, 'what can man do to me?'
These things I have spoken to you, that you may have peace. In the world, you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. - YAHUSHUA (John 16:33)
If it won't affect you 100 years from now, it's not worth losing control of your life right now! OK?
But for those who think they are all that, the following is for you......
If.......
If you can start the day without caffeine,
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches & pains,
If you can eat the same food every day & be grateful for it,
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
If you can overlook it when those you love take it out on you when through fault of yours, something goes wrong,
If you can take criticism & blame without resentment,
If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,
If you can face the world without lies & deceit,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aids of drugs,
If you can honestly say that deep in your heart that you have no prejudice against creed, color, religion, gender preference, or politics,
Then.....
You've reached the same level of development as your dog!
That'll put some things in perspective! LOL
I'm amazed how many boast how much of a child of YHWH they are & how spiritual they are, when really, they haven't even gotten to their dogs' level of spirituality!
Be encouraged, much love to ya'!
Jason Desmond
Ambassador of HIS Kingdom
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May 15, 2009 - Friday 7:44
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
Concluding the Lucifer Devil Myth.....
The words 'devil, satan & angel' never occur in Isaiah 14. This is the only place where the word 'Lucifer' is used in the KJV. There's a good reason why the King of Babylon's described as this 'morning star' or 'Venus.' The Babylonians believed that their king was the child of their gods Bel & Ishtar, both of whom were associated with the planets, they thought that their king was the planet Venus. It may come as a surprise to many Christians that to the Jews & Early Believers, there was no such person as Lucifer, how could this be?
If the whole context were read, (which begins in chapter 13) we'd see that a little over half of Isaiah 14 is a word against Babylon's king, with no indication that this target ever changes. So where do Christians get the idea that at verse 12, the subject switches from the king of Babylon to the devil & then goes back to a word against Babylon & the other countries in the region, once again 'Christian doctrine' has been busted... again!
I think people get the idea that this 'lucifer' was the devil's original name or his description comes from a passage in Revelation: Now war arose in Heaven, Michael & his angels fighting against the dragon. The dragon & his angels fought back, but he was defeated & there was no longer any place for them in heaven. The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who's called the devil & satan, the deceiver of the whole world, he was thrown down to the earth & his angels were thrown down with him. The Revelation of YAHUSHUA haMashiach 12:7-9
This was prophesied by John, it wouldn't make sense having Isaiah speak of it as a past event. Also, when we put aside the question of what YHWH's opponent should be called, the fact remains that the story of a rebellious angel who fell because of pride isn't in Scripture. Some claim that the fallen satan is present from the very beginning, even though his name doesn't appear in Genesis. Paul, according to translation, suggested that the serpent was named satan, the implication being that he tempted Adam. Yet most of the early Believers thought that the devil fell after Adam. It took them over 200 years to establish that his sin was pride & that he fell before the creation of man & that he was the serpent that tempted Adam & Eve.
There's no evidence that Isaiah's speaking about anything that happened in the garden of Eden; plus, why wait 3,000 years before saying anything & right in the middle of a word against Babylon & its king?
'How did you come to fall from the heavens, daystar, son of the dawn?' (Isaiah 14:12). Some Bibles, like the KJV, use the word 'lucifer' then add a capital 'L' to make it a name. The literal Hebrew is 'a shining one.' The morning star, or daystar was a symbol of Babylonian power. This was identified with astrolatry (star worship) as well. The word 'lucifer' is another one of those unfortunate uses of medieval Latin originating out of the KJV to become a name for satan (which it's not) whose fall was supposed to be shadowed in this context. This is very similar to the misconceptions found through the misunderstandings & translations of 'the King of Tyre' (Ezekiel 28) Which is explained in my previous blog series.
'Fallen from heaven.' No one could suggest that the king of Babylon literally fell out of Heaven! 'Heaven' sometimes means a ruling authority (government) & 'earth' its subjects, according to Scripture. So to 'fall from heaven' is to lose the position of authority. Isaiah's prophecy had a literal fulfillment in the life of Nebuchadnezzar! The context begins in verse 4 where YHWH told Isaiah to: Take up this parable against the King of Babylon & say, 'How has the oppressor ceased! The golden city ceased!'" This king abided over a 'golden city' but the devil's of a kingdom of spiritual darkness (Ephesians 6:12).
The king's described as being 'covered in worms, he's to rot in the grave': Your pomp is brought down to the grave & the worms cover you (vs11). This isn't the devil demise & seeing angels can't die, lucifer can't be an angel, this is speaking to a man!
Vs 12 says that the king was to be 'cut down to the ground' - therefore this parable was implying he was a tree. This connects with Daniel 4:8-16, where Nebuchadnezzar & Babylon are likened to a tree being cut down.
Some false teachers of the lucifer devil myth point to Isaiah 14:13-14: You said in your heart, 'I'll ascend to Heaven; I'll raise my throne above the stars of YHWH; I'll sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I'll ascend above the tops of the clouds; I'll make myself like the MOST HIGH.'
They'd suggest that this is referencing the devil since these ambitions exceed the reach of any human ruler. But of course it exceeds the reach of him also. Further delusions of grandeur are not uncommon in earthly rulers & those that are farther away from YHWH are more likely to think they have god-like power (like the Pharaohs). Especially when you consider how distorted their view of YHWH was.
Albert Barnes' commentary explains that YHWH’s wrath was kindled against the king because the ruler 'intended not to acknowledge any superior either in Heaven or Earth, but designed that himself & his laws should be regarded as supreme.'
Besides, why's the devil punished for saying, 'I'll ascend into Heaven' (vs 13), if he was already there? hmmmmm
The 'stars of YHWH' can refer to the leaders of Israel (Genesis 37:9; Joel 3:15; Daniel 8:10), above whom the King of Babylon wished to arise.
How could the devil 'weaken the nations' & 'be cut down to the ground?' Wouldn't he have much less power over anyone after being 'cut down to the ground?'
King 'Neb' wanted to have control of Jerusalem, but in verse 15, he's told he'd be 'brought down to the grave, to the sides of the pit.' He'd be buried, so that he wouldn't continue troubling the nations. It goes on to say: 'Is this THE MAN that made the earth to tremble?' The king's to be mocked by men because he no longer has any power after his casting out of heaven (governmental authority); so there's no justification for thinking that he's now on earth leading believers astray.
Verses 18-20 tells of his end & compares it with the other kings of the nations who were laid down in the grave in glory. Then, still dealing with this 'so called Lucifer Devil.' verse 21 says, 'prepare slaughter for his children.' We know of course, that celestial angels don't have offspring!
Verses 17 & 21 accuses the king of making the 'world as a wilderness, (destroying) the cities; who didn't loose his prisoners to their home & filled the face of the world with cities...the exactress of gold.' These are all descriptions of Babylonian military policy razing whole areas to the ground, transporting captives to other areas & not letting them return to their homeland (as they did to Israel), building new cities & taking tribute of gold from nations they oppressed.
NOTE: This could also be a prophecy that will occur again with another king of Babylon as well. Check this description out....
Because of this 'he was driven from men & ate grass as oxen & his body was wet with the dew of Heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers & his nails like birds' claws' (Daniel 4:33). This sudden humbling of a world leader to a deranged lunatic was such a dramatic event as to call for the parable about the falling of the morning star from heaven to earth. This was Nebuchadnezzar obviously, but it also described another king of Babylon, you guessed it; Saddam Hussein! This describes the state he was in when US troops found him in a hole a couple years ago. Remember, ancient Babylon is today's Iraq!
Assuming this 'morning star' is the devil is absurd, here are 3 passages where 'morning star' or 'daystar' is mentioned:
So we have the prophetic message more fully confirmed. You'll do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns & the morning star rises in your hearts. - 2 Peter 1:19
(To the one who conquers), I'll also give the morning star. - Revelation 2:28
It is I, YAHUSHUA, who sent MY angel to you with this testimony for the assemblies. I'm the root & the descendant of David, the bright morning star. - Revelation 22:16
All 3 references to the 'morning star' point to YAHUSHUA or things HE gives, authority related. In the Vulgate, the word 'morning star' in 2Peter is even translated 'Lucifer.'
From this, some have twisted this as well & started other religions, such as (Mormons) Latter Day Saints saying that the MESSIAH is the devil's brother, how ignorant & blasphemous this is!
I've also seen people use this Scripture to justify the myth of the Lucifer Devil: The 72 returned with joy, saying, 'MASTER, even the devils are subject to us in YOUR name!' And YAHUSHUA said to them, 'I saw satan fall like lightning from Heaven.' - Luke 10:17-18
Not going there, this is just taken flat out of context. No wonder why Babylon means 'confusion' & why we are told to come out of it!It's been proven that Isiaiah was speaking of King Nebuchadnezzar, not the devil! Funny how you can find the truth just by studying.... Next time, I'll explain what I mean about all this 'Christian Devil Worship' I've been hinting about the past couple blogs & how most people are involved without even realizing it.
Was just thinking, it's something how devil-worshippers worship a devil they think is named 'Lucifer,' it's kinda like Christians worshipping an Elohim they think is named 'God or Yahweh' & serving a Messiah named 'Jesus.' One more time, a devil is & was not named 'Lucifer' & the Most High & His Son aren't named 'Yahweh, God, Lord, Jesus, Yeshua, etc.,' it's only YaHuWaH & YAHUSHUA! The Bible would be so much easier to understand with His true Spirit. I have more than enough proof on this as well if anyone would like me to send it to them.... blessings!
Jason Desmond
Ambassador of HIS Kingdom
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May 12, 2009 - Tuesday 4:54
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Category: Religion and Philosophy
I was going to speak on this when I get the equipment to do so because this is a message that needs to be heard instead of just written. But like Jude who had a plan about what he was gonna write about, the FATHER directed him to urge the people about what HE wanted out at that time. So I decided to let somone else do the talking for me this time & maybe later on, I might elaborate on it, when I get what what I need.
I felt this was so important to give all those out there who don't understand John 3:16, those who feel like, 'God loves everybody,' 'God loves the sinner, just not the sin' or any other 'soothing words' from the doctrine of the Babylonian false teachers out there, which most call, 'pastor.'
As you all know, the 'God' he is speaking of has a name, it is YaHuWaH! And when he mentions 'Jesus' he is really speaking of YaHushuWaH Let me introduce to you the MIGHTY ONE of the Bible when speaking of 'Does HE Love Everybody?'
Quick question.....? Are you truly working out your salvation with FEAR & TREMBLING? If not, maybe after this video... you will.
Be not deceived, but be ye blessed!
I also gave a couple Scriptures to think about on the first comment..... blessings!
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