Being humble has got rather a bad reputation in these days of “just do it”.     Being humble is acknowledging that the other guy knows more than you do, and in the case of Yah, that he knows how it all works, how it all fits together because He created it.  Do you want to be humiliated by Yah?

YES, YES and many times YES.

The world is not a revell platic kit with instructions in how to put it together, it is far more complicated than we can imagine and was put together in a most amazing way.

The big planets are line backers for our planet, they intercept incoming space debris, the moon’s tidal action washes our coastlines and removes our waste out to sea.   It is all so well thought out and each component is vital to our very existence.

Yet we often believe that we know best; we think we can interpret the scriptures to justify ourselves, we change His Torah to suit our own purposes, we keep Sunday sabbath as decreed by the Pope not the seventh day as decreed by Yah.

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If my People, who are called by my name will do four thngs:

Humble themselves

Pray

Seek my face

Turn from their wicked ways.

Only then will Yah heal from heaven,   IF is a big little word, and this scripture applies in both the individual life and in the national life.   But first we have to get His name right, it is not ‘God’ or ‘Lord’ or Hashem’ or Adonai. It is Yahovah or Yahweh or however else the tetragrammaton can be pronounced.    The dispute about pronunciation is a man made thing but Yah just says call Me by My Name.    The name of Yah tells us who He is – the eternal one.

We are humble when we are prepared to be servants not sons as was the Prodigal.

We pray when we have a dialogue with Yah about ourselves and our lives before Him as vassals of the King in His kingdom.

We seek His face when we put no other idols before Him in importance, not ourselves, not the television, not the computer and not the iPhone.

And we turn from our wicked ways when we decide to keep Torah

In the beginning Yah created a fantasy which we humans call ‘reality’ for it is very real to us.    We can to a great extent choose our character in this fantasy; and we can either work with the fantasy, or try to mould the reality to our own benefit.

When Yah looked at His fantasy He saw it as perfect, but when I look at Yah’s fantasy I see ‘reality’ instead, and my instinct is to start to remake reality in my own image which inevitably brings me into conflict with those millions of others also trying to shape their own reality.   It also brings me into conflict with that fantasy as it was created by Yah Himself.

Yah’s fantasy does not change, it is the same yesterday, today and forever, and I can continue trying to change it, and be totally frustrated, or I can learn about it, live within it and use it as Yah meant it to be used.   It is my choice.

Do we think that Satan having been defeated during the three days and three nights, that he remained inactive?

No not at all, he immediately set about perverting the ‘back to the Torah’ movement that Yahushua had started.

He got his opportunity when Nero wiped out the assembly in Rome.   Rome was the capital of the world and to have a trojan horse in Rome was a huge asset.    It just may be that just such a trojan horse was set up in Rome as a ‘revived’ ‘christian’ movement in the closing years of the 1^st century.

But this trojan horse was a symbiosis between pharisaic Judaism and the mithra cult, and which grew quickly and became very influential from the 1^st to the 4^th centuries in Rome, culminating in a line of emperors, one of whom was Constantine.

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If you google ‘heart’ and ‘neurons’ you will find that the heart has the capacity to ‘think’ for itself, now put that together with the idea that we must love Yahovah with all out heart and we can understand what He is trying to say to us.

There is a reality, a physical ability in us for our hearts to control our beings so we can actually love Yah with our heart, and we can have Torah written upon our heart, and we can also lift up our hearts, it is not some kind of figurative speech, it is a real component in our relationship with Yah.

The relationship which was damaged when Adam ate from the tree of knowledge.

In our natural state, we ignore our hearts as just being just a pump for blood, but the scriptures tell us something different, that the heart is a transmitter receiver connected to Yah, probably through the tree of life.

When we communicate with Yah, it is the heart that we must use, so we must ‘find’ our heart and tune it in to Yah’s frequency.

It we allow Him to, Yah will build a portrait of Himself in our hearts, in our innermost places such that we can use it to discern the things of Yah.

When the prodigal decides to leave the pig sty, he alone makes the decision and he alone starts the journey to his father’s house.   It is very, very important to understand that this is not a group decision, it is not a shared decision.   It is a self-centred decision that we alone must make, and we must be prepared to be single minded about it.

It is terribly difficult to abandon friends and fellowships and tread the lonely path towards the house of the Father, but that is why He sends His servants to meet us.

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It is a profound question, on for which the answer lies in the beginning and not midway through.

In the beginning Yah created, and He put man there to husband His creation.   So Yah put intelligence and creativity and sentience into His creation.   The main role was to be handled by man, made in the image and likeness of Yah.

Yah also provided a source of knowledge and a connection to the wisdom required to use that knowledge.    All was well up to the time when Yah divided the man into male and female, and at some point the female was misled about how knowledge worked and still works.

The tree of life is mankind’s connection to Yah,  it allows Yah’s wisdom to flow into man on request, like a faucet where man can control the flow.   Using Yah’s wisdom, man can then tap the tree of knowledge knowing intrinsically from his connection to Yah (life) how to use knowledge to the benefit of the environment under his charge.

The woman draws her participation in the tree of life through the man, and the first chink in the armour, we can guess, is when the man gives her the wrong information about the tree of knowledge.   The woman believes she must not even touch the tree.

The serpent, in rebellion against Yah, uses this to deceive the woman into eating the fruit, and Adam makes his fatal decision.   The woman was deceived, the man chose, using the free will Yah had provided, to disobey Yah and no sin was committed until Adam threw his new found godship into Yah’s face – “she did it, the woman that you gave me”.

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When we add to, or take away from Yah’s Torah, the five books of Moses, we put ourselves in conflict with the Creator and His Creation.    It is most arrogant to assume that we know better than Yah.

Religion is the process of replacing Yah’s truths with man’s interpretations, Yah defined a personal relationship, where each seeks the truths of Yah for him/her self.

And that leaves no room for the Pharisees.

Every religion has its Pharisees, those who ‘lead’, and ‘interpret’ the scriptures for the common people, at a price of course.

The Pharisees of Yahushua’s time preached the Babylonian Talmud, it was a sect that replaced Yah with ‘sages’ after the fashion of Babylon itself.    There are no ‘Pharisees’ in the Mosaic scriptures.

The Pharisees are a pagan tradition which has crept into Christianity and Judaism by the back door, the Temple priests had no authority to change or interpret the scriptures, they carried out temple tasks, handling the animals and organising the people only.

The synagogues were reading rooms where the scriptures were read, a scroll was expensive, probably in the region of half a million dollars equivalent, a herd of sheep slaughtered for the parchment, ink (an expensive commodity) and the scribe working for months and needing to keep his family in food and shelter etc.

So the scrolls were shared, and those who could read, read them to the illiterate (not many).

The scrolls were copied very, very carefully, and the Hebrew scriptures are consistent within a miniscule margin of error.

Nobody in the scriptures is appointed to interpret Yah to the people, and the prophets had to get it right 100% on pain of death.   True Prophets are sent amongst us by Yah to bring us back to His Word and to a personal relationship with Him, they spend most of their efforts trying to get people to see that THEY, the people, are fully qualified to seek Yah’s truths for themselves, they have to live the LIFE of Yah personally by means of Torah (and Torah written on our hearts), not through the vicars, priests, pastors, or rabbis.   The Prophets are the baggage handlers whose job is to trim the excess and make up the shortfalls and relieve us of our worldly burdens.

It is a totally FREE service provided by a loving Creator!

From the very beginning, Satan has used lies against the personal relationship between man and his Creator.   Those lies are even now surging through Yah’s creation destroying all those houses built on the sand of human knowledge.

The dialogue between the serpent and the woman in Genesis 3 is fascinating; and every word is nuanced.   But the big lie of self godship, is built upon a previous half-truth; the woman believes that she must not even touch the tree of knowledge.

Knowledge is a raw material, it is like a ton of bricks which if expertly place each one in relation to another, will build a palace, but which, without the necessary expertise, is just a pile of rubble.

In Eden the expertise was supplied by the linkage to the tree of life, connection to Yah was a connection to His omniscience that enabled knowledge, the raw material  to be shaped and  used to understand and live by the truths of Creation.

Wisdom is the combination of the Creator’s knowledge of Creation and the knowledge which is the product of Creation itself, in effect the tree of Knowledge supplies the knowledge and the tree of life supplies the ability to use that knowledge properly.

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Thou shalt have no other gods in My face….

Do I throw other gods in Yah’s face? Probably, but hopefully unknowingly.    Yah has  ways of dealing with other gods, he pulls them down and smashes them up.  Whether they be temples of Ba’al or of Dagon.

The most amazing confrontation with other gods is His demolition of the Egyptian gods, one by one in Exodus, with the final plague taking as its victim the god Pharaoh’s  son and Heir, proving all along the utter impotence of other gods before Yah.

Perhaps the most important of these put downs involved Jonah, where Jonah is delivered to his destination by a big fish (Dag in Hebrew).

To Dagon (the fish god) worshippers this would have been stunning, Jonah is transported to the beach by ‘Dagon’ himself and spat onto the beach, he then makes his way to Nineveh, but his reputation as a protege of the ‘fish god’ would have gone before him – and he preaches Yah not Dagon.  No wonder Nineveh believed.

Yet again in Daniel we see Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo in the furnace (of the god moloch, the topheth just maybe) and then again, Daniel himself in the Lion’s den. Yah is defying other gods

Yahushua used the picture of Jonah, 3 days and 3 nights in the fishes belly to illustrate His own mission, He was to spend 3 days and 3 nights in Dagon’s belly too (Dagon was a satan substitute as was ba’al) and would be resurrected, spat out of ‘death’, that ‘Nineveh’ might be saved.

Our society too has its gods, it has technical gods, it has media ikons and it has political doctrines all of which we worship and would not be parted from.   Do I love my iPhone with all my heart? Or do I love my Creator with all my heart?