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Decisions

Following Yah’s way involves each of us in a personal decision to seek the TRUTH of Yah.

I made that decision before I hit my teenage years, bur had real difficulties finding a starting point for my journey; I was looking in the wrong places.

My parents were not ‘believers’ but they were also not ardent atheists, they were ‘socialists’ but not activists but they could not show me a start point.   I tried my local CofE (Episcopalian) church and found complete disinterest, theirs was a social club and a gospel I had nothing to offer so I was ignored.   The Catholics were better, but somehow they were wrong, in that they worshipped idols and popes.

At school were two teachers who obviously believed but to a schoolboy seeking truth, they were unapproachable, they could ‘educate’ but not ‘indoctrinate’, thus there is no one-on-one in a British state schooling and one could not discuss such a sensitive subject in class.

When Dad was posted to Singapore I attended the Army school there and was taught about Yahweh, it stuck.   Maybe the teacher was Jewish, but she was a believer whatever.

It was not until I was in my early twenties that I found my first fellow believer; curiously enough he was CofE chaplain on HMS Kent, the ship on which I did my Midshipman’s year. This Chaplain put me in contact with other believers throughout the Royal Navy and I learned about Christian fundamentalism.

Christian fundamentalism has its problems, the first being the belief that ‘Yah changed His mind. about ‘Judaism’ and invented a ‘new’ covenant with ‘Christians’.  

To make the doctrine fit, the idea of dispensationalism was invented whereby the teachings of the bible could be split into blocks of time each with a slightly different rule set and ‘Christianity’, worship of Jesus, was the ultimate revelation.

Christianiy is a top down structure whereby God’s truth is revealed to the ‘leaders; and trickles down to the congregants.   It avoids the need for a personal decision, just do what the Vicar/Pastor/leader tells you and all will be fine “see you on the other side”.

Christianity believes that Yah’s Torah has been ‘nailed to the Cross’ and can be safely ignored……

It took me some 50 years to get those nails out.

In the beginning was Torah (the Word of YAH) and Torah was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.   Not one Jot or Tittle of Yah’s Torah is irrelevant in today’s world and as we, as a ‘Western culture’ slowly abandon Torah, so our civilization slowly disintegrates into the dust of barbarism and paganism.

Religion and the Serpent

We gloss over the story of Abel and Cain at our own peril, the story explains the origin of ‘religion’ and how Cain, under the influence of the serpent defied Yah and changed the basis of life on earth.

When Adam rejected Yah and chose his own knowledge of good and evil instead, he did so with the knowledge that the serpent was right there beside him, encouraging him to do it his way rather than Yah’s Way (the Way of Torah).

So Cain rejected Yah and chose his own ‘religion’ instead, but in fact it was not his own religion, it was the serpent’s religion.

When a man takes the base core of Yah’s Truth, and adds to it or takes away from it, he creates a ‘religion’, and the more it deviates from Yah’s Truth, the more malignant it is.

If we take the religion of Atheism for example, in recent history Atheism has caused the deaths of millions in nations that have flirted with socialism and communism, note also that these religions took many into slavery and worked them to death.

The Way of Yah is not miscible with slavery; many times in the scriptures Yah stresses that he brought us out of slavery.   Religion tends to enslave us, it substitutes the serpent’s truth for Yah’s Truth and obfuscates the Way to free ourselves from the Yoke of bondage.   Yah calls us to Liberty, and, in Liberty we can chose to discard our own puny knowledge of good and evil and seek Yah’s Way, seek His knowledge and truth.

It starts in the first verse of the bible, we must acknowledge to ourselves that “In the beginning Yah created” we can find much of the Way of Yah in the scriptures, other details will be revealed as we travel His Way,   He will meet us from afar and guide us home. It does not all happen at once – it is a long and winding road……

You

You have a decision to make, you may have already made it, you may have made the wrong decision, but you can remake it anytime.

The decision is whether to follow a ‘Religion‘ or whether to choose YAH.

You may think that your religion automatically qualifies as choosing YAH, not so.

Almost by definition religions, whether they be Christianity or Atheism involve choosing doctrines of man not of God.

Christianity involves putting a man in a pulpit in front of the people, spouting stuff that secures his stipend, this is not in the scriptures, it is a pagen practise absorbed into the universal church of Rome.

The scriptures say that we must have a personal relationship with Yah, that we must follow Yah’s rules not man’s rules (or our own rules).   We’ve turned every one to his own way and failed to walk the WAY of Yah.

In Eden Adam chose badly, he chose his own ‘godship’ (knowledge of good and bad) which he then threw in Yah’s face contravening the first of the 10 commandments.

Many people think they have ‘salvation’, but only by following Yah’s WAY do we get salvation as such, we can cry “Lord, Lord” till we are blue in the face, but if we have rejected YAH’s WAY, if we have chosen ‘religion’ and tradition over a personal relationship with Yah, as did the Elders at Mount Horeb, Only you can decide to follow the Way the Truth and the Life following the Pastor, The Vicar or the Priest is to follow a blind man along a broad highway of destruction

Aspects of Yah

There are three aspects of Yahovah which He presents to us and from which we may learn to respond to Him, the first is His Word, which is the gist of the words with which he spoke His Creation into existence, and which includes the entity that Christians worship as their Jesus.

The second aspect is his Shem. This Hebrew word is translated as ’name’ but its meaning is much, much deeper and expresses the whole Character of Yah, most people get stuck at this point because they cannot get away from using ‘religious’ words such as God, G-d or Hashem.   If you cannot call Yahovah by his correct name, how can you even begin to understand the enormity of His Shem.

The third aspect Yah presents to us is His Face.   Light (the light of Creation) shines out from His Face and as it falls on us, we are changed to His likeness, thus if we are to be the light of the world then we must allow the light of His countenance to shine upon us as in the Aaronic blessing, but we have to “seek His Face and turn from our wicked ways”, it is not something attained by birthright of being descended from Abraham.

We tend to start by taking note of His Word, Paul tells us that it is good for correction and teaching but we have to take all the word not just ‘cherry pick’ at it.   Yes, His word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us, but in many ways that is a distraction and can be used to distort (twist) our understanding.   Yah’s Words are the Words of His Creation, and they became human not to die for our sins, but to go through Adam’s death and provide a Way for salvation for us too.   Of all the things in the world, death is the one thing that did not come from Yah, it came from Adam and it permanently separates us from Yah.   The Word made flesh was murdered on a Roman torture device, He went through death, but the ‘cross’ is unimportant, it was the resurrection that is key to our salvation and nothing else.    

Many follow the myth of ‘Jesus’, but this is a truncated story conjured up by politicians in the centuries that followed the events.   The reality of the ‘Trinity’ is Word, Shem and Face.  

The Sweet Savour

The bible tells us that if we do things correctly, they have a sweet savour to Yah, Abel’s smole was acceptable, Cain’s was not.

Abel did what Yah’s TORAH instructed, Cain did it according to his own way, and it stank of the Serpent.   Adam chose to eat of the forbidden fruit (the woman was deceived into eating it).    Thus when Adam ‘fell’ the serpent fell with him and any works arising out of Adam’s forbidden knowledge stink of that snake, and is unacceptable to Yah.

This situation applies to everything that we do.    We constantly make choices; good ones and bad ones and indifferent ones.    We can choose to be a follower of the Way and get closer to Yah, or we can choose to follow a religion, priest rabbu or pasror.

If we choose religion we will be following the way of Adam, if we follow Yah’s way then we will need to humble ourselves and walk the Way as a servant and not as a son of the house.

At first,  servant has no part in decision making, he has to prove that he can do his master’s will not interpret his own version of it as Cain did.   Eleazor did this, and thus became part of Abraham’s household (a ‘son’).

We, all of us, need to be aware of whose Way we are following, Yah’s Way starts the moment we choose to leave the prodigal’s ‘pigsty’, we as individuals step out the door, we alone make that decision, we choose to approach the father as a servant, His Torah is our plumbob, our instrument to straighten our path.   As we keep His laws, His Statutes and His Judgements so we become changed into His likeness and we can be trusted with the tasks of Sonship.

We lose the stink of the serpent and become a sweet savour.

Torah: The Healing and Beneficial Message

Torah is not a dull and stultifying set of onerous rules and regulations as many religionists tend to preach it as, it is alive and well and can live in our hearts today.

Torah was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.

That is the message that the Apostles were sent out to tell the people of Israel, the message that the people have forgotten.

Yah spoke the words that produced Creation, and we live in that Creation, and we are subject to those words which we call ‘Torah’.

Torah defines a Way of life that is healing and beneficial because it is the essence of Yah’s Creation, and if we follow the Way of Torah then we can be engulfed by its benevolence, its protection and its healing power.

But if we choose other gods (including ourselves) knowledge of good and evil, and throw this substitute way (religion) in Yah’s face then we will bee tossed and turned and foundered in the raging sea that is life in Adam’s creation.

All through the scriptures we coma across facets of Yah’s character:-

The Name (shem) of Yah

The Face of Yah (If my people who are called by my name …. Seek my Face)

The Countenance of Yah (see the Aaronic blessing)

The Son of Yah (Torah made flesh)

And there are others.

If we turn away from Yah’s Torah then Yah cannot help us, if we ‘nail it to the cross’ then we are on our own.

So we must humble ourselves before Yah and seek His knowledge of Good and Evil, we look for it in the scripture in Tanack (OT) and we DO it,

Worshipping Jesus’ death on a Roman torture device (cross) is religion, what is more important is Yahushua’s Resurrection, where Torah made flesh broke through Adam’s death and demonstrated once and for all that Torah is the way to salvation.

Yah so loved the world that he gave His Torah made flesh, that whoever trusts and relies on it will have salvation, for Yah did not send His Torah into the world to condemn the world, but by it the world might be free.

Torah is sentient, it meets us as we travel His Way and engulfs us; it writes itself on our hearts and is the prime requirement for re-entry into the Kingdom of Yah.

Remember those Gates defended by Cherubim with swords?   They keep Adam out, but the followers of the way, engulfed in living Torah are allowed through.

If we reject Living Torah then we cannot enter, we remain as Adam.

Abel accepted Torah and his blood cried out, Cain ‘followed his own way’

Seth accepted Torah and was blessed

Enoch was immersed in Torah and was translated.

Noah was pure in his lineage.

Abraham kept Torah.

The Elders of the Children of Israel rejected living Torah at Mt. Horeb

Moses wrote the 5 books of law that provided clues, a sort of picture language,  to living Torah for those searching for the Kingdom of Yah as opposed to exploiting the kingdom of Adam.

If you want to avoid Yahushua turning around and saying “I know you not” then You must have a relationship with the living Torah.

Beginnings

In the beginning Yah spoke Creation into existence.   But John tells us that “in the beginning was the WORD (Logos) Christians assume that this is their Jesus but is that what these verses are saying?

In the Hebrew version of John 1 the Hebrew word used for ‘word’ is ‘debar’ and debar is what we call Torah (Torah in Hebrew is a signpost).

So is ‘Jesus’ Torah mad flesh and dwelling amongst us?   Or was torah ‘nailed to the cross?

Do Christians worship this character Jesus whilst abandoning the words (Torah) that spoke him into existence, are we worshipping the product not the producer?

We have to be very careful here, John is telling us something very profound, that it is the WORDS Yah spoke when He Created that are supremely important not the Jesus, the outcome of those words.

“Torah wept” implies a living ‘word’ a healing and beneficial text that sustains us (gospel) rather than the emotions of a charismatic man.

The idea that the words of Creation are the living foundation of life have escaped us because we have been taught to think of ‘Jesus’ rather than the will of Yahovah embedded within His spoken words that became flesh and dwelt amongst us.  Yahovah is ONE, not a trinity. Trinity is a pagan concept from Sumerian times (Nimrod, Astarte and Tammuz).

For Torah didn’t come into the world to condemn the world, but through it, the world might be free.

Adam became a god, knowing good from bad, Abel was humble before Yah and did as he was told, Cain knew better and did it his own way.   Most of us are Cains rather than Abels we follow not the Way of Yah but the way of religion.

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen (Rom 1 v 25).

Heb 4:12  For the word (Torah) of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.   

Man shall not live by bread alone

So what do we live by as well as bread?   This passage is originally from Deuteronomy 8, and the chapter tells us that ‘physicality’ and ‘food deeds’ are not enough, and that everything that comes forth from the mouth of Yah is what is required, particularly the commandments.

Yah demands that we live according to His commandments, His judgements and His statutes.

He also demands that we follow His Way.

These are commands for us personally, not collectively.   One must have a personal relationship with Yah, sitting on a pew chanting communal hymns is not, keeping His commandments, when we deviate from His way, and turn everyone to his own way, we do ourselves no favours.

Yah can only protect us and give us abundant life if we humble ourselves and turn to His Way.  There is no room for religion, rituals and doing it our way.

It is hard to understand that Yah does not like church buildings and beit Kenessets (synagogues) these are the accoutrements that allow us to stray from His pathway to those of other gods,   we must seek what comes out of His mouth, the Creation that He spoke into existence, and the Way that he lays down in Tanack.

Everything else is deviation…

The Trivia

Where in the scriptures does it tell us to ‘go to church’ each Sunday morning?

The Greek word translated as ‘church’ is the word ‘ekklesia’ which basically means ‘assembly’ and is used in the book of James to describe the ‘tabernacle in the wilderness’ (Horeb).

There was no church building at Horeb, and there were no ‘churches’ in Jerusalem two thousand years ago, but there were ‘temples’ some devoted to Yah, others devoted to other gods.

Rome was full of buildings devoted to other gods, and when Constantine defined his ‘Universal Church’ it was these pagan temples that became the core of his new religion.

When Cain built his walled city, the wall was to keep Yah out, Cain refused to do things Yah’s way, he did it his ‘own way’ as pointed out in Isiah chapter 53.   Cain invented his own religion, presumable based upon the teachings of the serpent from the Garden of Eden.

Yah wants us to make a personal decision to trust and rely on Him (to ‘believe Gr; pisteo) and to keep His commandments and not invent our own as did Cain.

Religion usually implies a collective belief as ordained by religious leaders, but the apostle Paul talks about being a “follower of the Way”.   We must make our own decision to follow The Way, we, personally, leave the pigsty in all humility, willing to give up our princely status and become a servant/slave to Yah.

Do the ‘princes of the Church do this?. Do the ‘elevated’ ones (Rabbis) do this?

Or do the make up doctrine on the fly and expect us to obey or be cancelled…..

Soup

Yah’s Creation is like a ‘soup’ in which we are all immersed,   It is a nourishing soup that can turn us into His image.

We on the other hand can acceptit, we can reject it or we can remain (willingly) ignorant of it.

If we look out the window we see that we are surrounded by abundant life, even in the midst of desert or tundra.   The ignorant may look, but they do not ‘see’.   We can see a seed, dry and dead, but if we put that seed into a moist environment it will germinate, even after thousands of years.

We do not know how germination happens, it is a magic embedded in Yah’s Creation and which we mostly take for granted, but if it should ever fail, we would all starve.

We too are imbued with the same magic, a magic that allows us to interplay with the physical world around us, but what about the spiritual world from which the magic emanates.   If we ignore it we can live our lives according to our own ‘godship’ doing our deeds, both fair and foul in total equanimity until we hit the brick wall of Yah’s discipline, either man’s discipline or Yah’s discipline;  we are all going to be judged before the great white throne and our violations of Yah;s laws will not be forgiven,   Adam chose to use his own knowledge of good and bad, but in Yah’s creation, Adam’s good is bad and Adam’s bad may well be good.   Gods define good and bad, and when Adam uses his godship to define for himself what is good and what is bad, he excludes Yah.   We are born into Adam’s world. We are trained from our early years to do things Adam’s way.   From this we get no healing or benefit.

If we reject Yah’s creation we cannot participate in its benefits and we are subject to the tempestuousness of Adam’s godship.

Another option is to choose the serpent.

The serpent knows much more about Yah’s Creation than we do, and can thus manipulate it seemingly to our own benefit.

The serpent is a spiritual entity, a fallen angel who wishes to subdue mankind and become absolute ruler of Adam’s realm.  To do this, all he needs to do is to subvert and or remove Yah’s Torah from the daily lives of people.  

People who worship the serpent are not ignorant of Yah’s Way, they just prefer the instant gratification that comes from serving the serpent for this servant give instant access to the ‘magics’ of the earth and of darkness..

But there is a better way,

On day one of Creation, Yahovah said “let there be LIGHT.

The sun, moon and stars were created on day 4, so what is this LIGHT of day one?

It is the primeval light of Creation, and Yahushua said “I am the Way, the Truth and elsewhere “I am the LIGHT”.

Whereas Lucifer (the shiny one) in Isaiah (14) says “I am the DAWN LIGHT)”.

This day one LIGHT is not to be confused with the reflections of that light in the creations of day 4.

When Adam ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Bad, he bypassed the primeval light of Yah and chose the light of his own godship.

The Aaronic blessing tells us about the primeval light: and what it can do:-

Yah bless you and keep you Yah make his FACE to SHINE upon you and be gracious unto you, Yahovah lift up the LIGHT of his countenance upon you and give you grace”.

When Adam rejected ~Yah’s light and defined his own replica he had to be ejected from Eden, lit by Yah’s light; under Yah’s light his needs were provided for, but under Adam’s ‘light’ he had to exist as a consequence of his own labours.   Hence we have to relearn to trust and rely on Yah’s light and not Adam’s light that we were born into and inherited.   Yah’s light is available to all, but walking in Yah’s light is a personal choice and not subject to the religions of the Adamic environment.

We like Adamic collectives; we can sing songs and participate, but we cannot learn, and thus grow.   The moment we start seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness we will be kicked out of church or synagogue as no longer ‘productive’(no longer contributing money to the ‘system’.