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Which God do you know?

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We Jews see Jesus as our Jewish brother. If He is the Messiah than it will show in time. So far He is the Messiah of the World, in order to find the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel. 

As believers in Yeshua we know that He came first to find the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, which many, not all, Christians are, but they do not know it yet; we do. 

Judaism was too complicated and today it is still very complicated; therefore, no one can join the Jewish religious camp, because we have many religious camps; and joining a religious camp is not the perfect will of God. You can put on the Catholic garb, monastic or priestly garb, which is a symbol of belonging, or you wear no garb at all, belonging to God as you are.

Organized religion was created in order to encompass the three types, the field, tares and the good seed. Over time the truth will come out as to who is who; and individually; each will know who he or she truly is. 

Now, any newfound Sheep of the House of Israel will react to the residing within them gene.

Just as Paul spoke from himself (1Cor. 7:12), “It is I, not the Lord,” so here Moses speaks from himself also, not the Lord. Why? When God introduced Himself to Moses and to the children of Israel saying, “The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin” (Exodus 34:6-7). The following is a threat, which serves no purpose. God did not say this; Moses did; “yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” The Father seeks only His lost children in order to find them and not religiously whipped into obedience strangers. He seeks children and not soldiers. He does not seek you so that he could give you a religion or make you religious. That’s not the purpose. 

I understand that Moses dealt with the field and tares, which were mixed with God’s seed. The negative is usually aggressive and it is easier to overpower peace with uproar than overpower turbulence with tranquility. These are the natural laws belonging to this physical world. So, this mix of people had to be handled with the stick and carrot rigors, addressing each group differently. This mix we find throughout the entire Bible. Learn the difference and be taught of the Holy Spirit of Truth. God’s spiritual world is of the PERFECT PEACE, but not this physical world. First, wisdom is found in understanding of the physical structures makeup. The dust of the earth is cosmic from meteors, volcanic lava flows and crumbling rocks. These violent elements reside in our bodies. All metals, like iron, copper or magnesium handle electricity and magnetism. They repel or draw. Out of this volatile dust the Creator made our bodies and that is the reason why we feel unrest, agitation, stress and so we seek relaxation. But physical substances, like drugs and alcohol, only perpetuate the same. Although physical elements can balance other physical elements, they can’t do that for too long. Eventually people develop habits and are trapped in addictions to the chemical substances. This kind of disposition can only be permanently cured with the heavenly knowledge of peace. Yoga or meditation helps, but only for a while. As a temporary practice these must be repeated and circumstances do not always permit it. There must be a resident within you reminder, which brings peace and tranquility to your physical living frame. 

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. It is written in the prophets, ‘AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me” (Jn. 6:44-45). Have you heard and learned from the Father? If you have, then He would have drawn you to His Firstborn Son, who then saves you from your destructive ways (sins, Mat. 1:21) for that is the actual meaning of His name - Yeshua. What is the purpose of threats if no one can come to Yeshua on his or her own? Punishments and hell’s torments do not produce the quality God is after. Now you understand why we have these words in the Bible. If they do not respond to the love of God and His perfect peace the lawless, loveless and the wicked will stay that way until he or she dies. 
[John 10:34-36] Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? [35] If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36] do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’”

The word of God the Father comes to His own and they are already His extensions on earth; therefore gods. According to Greek mythological mindset, a son of Zeus is Zeus, a god. Although Jesus addressed these words to the Hellenized Jews He did not mean it this way. What He said is this: God’s children hear the Father’s voice. He is Spirit and He leads them, for His love resides in them. God’s love did not reside in those who argued with Jesus (Jn. 5:42). He saw it and told them so, but these words only infuriated them even more, and that is because they pretended to be of God, but were not. If they were of God they would come to Jesus as Nicodemus did and further investigate. Also some of the seventy disciples left Jesus after He told them to eat His flesh and drink His blood. They asked no questions. They did not investigate but left Him saying, it is a hard teaching who can bear it (Jn. 6:60-66)? The love of God would make them do so; a sign that He draws them to His Son. The road to triumph is self-nullification, but few want to know about it. 

When you are only in the letter, dogma and indoctrination you lack the spiritual insight, which comes in freedom, which in turn brings the perfect peace. 

Moses also covered the Kenites (Num. 24:21-22), which wanted to go back to Egypt and stuff themselves with meat and garlic. Flesh is flesh and its priority is only flesh and these people made Israel stumble. You have to have a thick skin, but underneath it a tender heart; this precious commodity the Father seeks. Moses address the amalgamated group of those who were gentle and those who were hard, but the hard overruled the softer, that’s the natural and brutal nature of the physical world. The opposite of this brutal world is the spiritual realm of the perfect peace. After the gain of heavenly insight the wise chooses and applies what he or she knows.

[Deuteronomy 28:63-68] “It shall come about that as the LORD delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. [64] Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known. [65] Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. [66] So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. [67] In the morning you shall say, ‘Would that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Would that it were morning!’ because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see. [68] The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.” 

I, as God’s prophet have received the right to state what I state, not only here but in all of my books. I am preparing the Way of the Lord and make all the crooked—not just some ways—straight. Are you with me? I do not say that if you do not support me you will perish. You will not. I do not say that if you do not follow me then you will perish. I say not. I emphasize God’s mercy and His everlasting love. My elder brother Yeshua plainly told me, “I have commissioned My disciples to preach only mercy and grace, but they also started to rebuke people and threaten them with devils and roaring lions, which I have not commanded them to do. But they got impatient with those who knew not Judaism nor My grace, mercy and love.” 

The Gentiles were unfamiliar with Hebrew Scriptures and much less with the nature of the only one God amidst many gods. Yeshua continued, “I assigned to them a rather a hard task, but they made blunders and lost their cool. I call you to be more than a disciple; teach them mercy, love and our Father’s compassion.” 

I am no better. I also failed Him. I went astray in my ministry. I was terribly hurt and in my search for comfort I sunk even lower, but that also was His plan. Perhaps I could not learn except the hard way. I got entangled with Kenites (tares) who promised to finance my ministry, but God would not receive their corrupt promises and mush less one broken cent. Instead, I got myself into a deeper debt until I cut off all ties with those who only played religious games and milked me like a cow for their own schemes. I know Kenites well. My judgment is true for it has been verified. 

I found many Kenites (religious tares) in the church; and the so-called ministers of God are no ministers, but a money-grabbing offspring of Cain. They threaten people with the devil while they are devils themselves. They ask windows for sacrifices as if that widows’ mite is most exciting. “Woe to those who enact evil statutes and to those who constantly record unjust decisions, so as to deprive the needy of justice and rob the poor of My people of their rights, so that widows may be their spoil and that they may plunder the orphans” (Is. 10:1-2). At first I wanted to work together with them, but their conniving, pharisaic and hypocritical ways did not allow me to continue. They would have to expose themselves and take off their mask, which profited them so well this far. So how could they? The love of money is the root of all sorts of evils. On a balance between the love of God and the love of money the second won. I did receive much hatred, which originated in envy. Too much anointing, which they craved (and have no clue about)… Too many wonders and too many miracles they have never witnessed in their lives… Instead of rejoicing with those the healed, delivered and rescued from death; they have grown more hateful. 

Now I say, I know all things and all secrets. I have received an x-ray vision, and like my elder brother I see through people. However, I do not care to see the filth. I am graciously waiting for any change. Only the Almighty can judge, but only at the appointed time when the cup of wickedness spills over. Until that time I close my eyes and see no evil for it bothers me too much; and hinders my walk with God. This Year of Jubilee (50th year) I received another grace to fulfill the mission for which I was sent. 

As it was hard for the disciples so it has been quite hard for me, but the call remains. After 33 years I finally have arrived at the point of knowing. The Holy Spirit has educated me and yes, He has changed me. The training in self-nullification took a while. At first it was an uphill struggle and now it is very pleasant, like a downhill ride on luge easiness. Indeed, His yoke is easy and His burden is light; and this is only possible when wisdom is fully embraced and practiced. 

[Matthew 5:29-30] If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. [30] If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.

This is not what the Lord said. Man said it. Our heavenly Father is not a mafia boss giving you an offer you can’t refuse, My Son or hell. No one can come to Yeshua unless first the Father draws such. Whatever the motive was it comes from the never satisfied “I” and self-importance. Unfortunately, this is the case and most hide it. When one is genuinely kind and merciful hiding anything would not be necessary, would it? I dare to say it because I know it. If I shock you then it is not me, but the Lord who says it. Spiritual body cannot burn, can it? This mix is typical religious and void of any substance of truth. Those who have the love of God in themselves also heard and learnt from Him. They become is His Firstborn Son Yeshua. 

This lack of grasp of spiritual, endless and nonmaterial things speaks volumes. Hellenized minds breed confusion; a spiritually mature person has nothing to do with these half-truths and illusions, which lead to delusion. If a dogmatic indoctrination were what God wanted then there would be no need for the Holy Spirit of Truth to teach us, would it? Yet, He came. He is with us today. He teaches us (John 14:26), leads and guides us into all the truth (John 16:13). Does He do that or religious establishments dictate to us what is true and false? Someone must set you free first before you even dare to unpretentiously rely on the Holy Spirit. 

Respect for the Holy Spirit, for if you do not respect Him you will respect the man-invented dogma.

This is God speaking: 

[Deuteronomy 4:31] “For the LORD your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them.”

As the books were copied there were those who wanted to make a name for themselves; so they inserted things that really did not belong. We can list many motives here, for human nature has not changed much. These hidden motives are usually well camouflaged. In order to draw attention to the importance of their job rather than to the compassionate God some sentences were added. In time, others who have discovered these errors—through inconsistencies of God’s character—tried to rectify them, but many of these errors (from the older copies) remained unchanged. E.g., the Essenes were the ones who dedicated themselves to the purity of Scripture. But it was too late. They too fell prey to Zoroastrian/Manichean notions about wars between sons of light and sons of darkness. They, being the sons of light, never realized that the eternal fire is timeless and instantaneous, which means: it annihilates all things God made - in spiritual and physical domains. This is not hell. This is called the ultimate justice. Essenes tried to purge the scriptures. They deemed the entire Temple system as unclean. They withdrew to the Dead Sea region of an area called Qumran. The excavated scriptoriums bear clear testament of their absolute dedication to personal as well as community purity, but above all the purity of God’s Word. They lived under a very strict monastic-style discipline. Before a scribe wrote the ineffable Name of God, YHVH, he had to thoroughly bathe in running water, change his clothes and then write the Name. 

When you seek, you find. The Essene versions of the books of Bible somewhat differ from other versions. But the put-together scraps remain disjointed. Because the Essenes deemed the entire religious temple service in Jerusalem corrupt (the Sadducees controlled all temple-related money matters); Essenes also influenced John the Baptist. Also Jesus alluded to the Essenes when He mentioned the sons of light and sons of darkness and the mammon of unrighteousness. 

History shows that some rabbis made names for themselves through their own unique interpretations of the Scriptures. From this trend emerged two schools of Shammai (hardliner) and Hillel (soft-liner), we can politically say, radical right and liberal left. This trend continued throughout ages also in Babylon and Palestine, where the two versions of Talmud were compiled. 

Today, no one in Judaism can independently teach the Torah, or Talmud without quoting well-known figures. No new inspiration is allowed. The past is ‘worshipped’ and adored in all religions. If the prophet Elijah appeared today he would have been treated perhaps worse than Jesus was. Nothing new is allowed within this stale and outdated frame of religion, so any talk of fresh bread from heaven or the new wine is never mentioned for it cannot be handled at all.  

Things change with time for our understanding and knowledge increases. To neatly close this section of the book I invite you to lean on the guidance of the Holy Spirit, which teaches you the true monotheism. Mono means one and Theism means God. God is Spirit, not flesh and blood; and He was never conceived, much less begotten or born. God the Spirit is one. He makes things one; therefore logical and rather simple. Complexities ore demonic and demons are past human lives stuck in the no-time zone. They are fragmented and confusing for they cannot progress. Demons cannot repent nor move forward, learn anything new, and much less understand the fresh and new wine sent by the Living Spirit. Holy Spirit makes things simple; therefore the Kingdom belongs to children. Unclean spirits are dead spirits, wicked or not; still, they hinder all progress. People can have ancestral spirits, which make them be the way they predecessors were and often such people die unchanged. Demons love traditions and old stuff for they belong to the past. Those who conjured them are guilty. Anyone who died in his or her wickedness, violence or perversion; will manifest the same in the now possessed by them a living person. Once one is completely delivered then spiritual growth must ensue; otherwise worse things might happen. 

Whatever makes one, sound, logical clear, and wise comes from the ministering spirits, of understanding, knowledge and wisdom.  When the Holy Spirit comes He comes with other six spirits, comprising the seven Spirits of the LORD. (1) The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, (2) the spirit of wisdom and (3) understanding, the (4) spirit of counsel and (5) strength, the (6) spirit of knowledge and (7) the fear of the LORD. Therefore, whatever is clear, makes sense to you and stirs your spirit is of the Holy Spirit.  Logic makes one; it never fragments; flesh fragments but not the Spirit. Holy Spirit elates, illuminates, clarifies and inspires. Have you partaken of this wonderful bliss yet? The Holy Spirit wrote through me many other books and they will help you better understand and then experience this heavenly bliss each day of your life.

THE TIME BEFORE RELIGION

Ceremonies, elaborate rituals, utensils, vessels, sacrifices, incense, myrrh, the proper and improper slaughter of animals, feasts celebrations with prescriptions for wave offerings, libations… etc. The list is too long, but one can see that man fell in love with these things, and still loves, deriving a sense of pride, identity and belonging. Nonetheless, these things were only permitted.

The wandering Israelites desired meat. Lack of protein can make you grumpy, but was that really the case? When the flocks of quails arrived the people gluttonously devoured them until they vomited. It shows God’s displeasure and scorn. Thus He gave them over to their own cravings. (Read Romans 1:24-28) But was there another way? What was God’s plan, and why no one searched it out?

Obviously that was not God’s perfect will, but He seems to had been swayed. His people, with their demands, could bend His arm. I think that when we discover those divine soft spots we tend to take advantage of them by pushing those buttons as if we are gods and the Almighty must obey our demands.

The emergence of religion

The emergence of religion has much to do with our ways rather than the Maker’s ways, which must be studied, an undertaking most pleasing to Him.

With this example we can see the early and latter stages of the Israelite journey. We see the progress, but rather in the God-permitted direction, and not according to His perfect will, which perhaps is crowned with immortality?  

All peoples practiced religious rites. The Israelites lived in Egypt 430 years; a long history during which one can be profoundly impressed with religion. Visual impressions also impress our genes, as if in time human genome, we can say, craves things it has been used to.

We have now a proof that genes carry ancestral predispositions and habits, e.g., scientists discovered a gene that increases the chances of becoming hooked on cocaine. Addicts were 25% more likely to carry the gene variant than people who did not use cocaine. Scientists believe that genetic factors account for 70% of cocaine addiction, making it as heritable as schizophrenia and other mental health conditions. Studies of twins suggest alcoholism is about 50% genetic.

Addictions come from substance abuse, but besides these there are scores of other predispositions ancestors passed on to their offspring—strengths and weaknesses.  

There was a time when there was no organized religion and no go-betweens defining the Creator to others. We may assume that teaching and learning of the Truth was not yet known; hence, religious observances gained ascendancy rather than knowledge.

The ascent of science could be seen as the final phase in the progression of religion. Any organized religion has the element of conformity; and conformity has many faces. As it is the case with Judaism, Christianity and Islam religious submission comes in different packaging. Judaism is split between orthodox, conservative and progressive; and within these three branches there are several other traditions. Christianity also comes in three, Catholic, Greek Eastern Orthodox and Protestant, with many other branches. Islam is mainly split between the Sunni and Shia with other splinters. Each camp defines their beliefs through their religion’s founder and with the help of their holy literature. Adherents must conform to those different streams of beliefs and interpretations. However, none of these versions actually lead to God, but rather to religion itself; to the packaging, sets of beliefs and too often; subjective interpretations. But let’s take another look at religion.

Outward appearance 

Does God care about the type of a hat you wear, coat, or prayer posture? Isn’t it all for others to see and in the name of self-definition? One does it only to depict belonging, but does the invisible God really ask for it? You can say yes, for it is written (the Bible or Koran), but all of this was never God’s first choice, but rather man’s choice with God’s permission.

A self-defined religion is only that, and nothing more. It obscures the spiritual reality, which in time ceased to be a reality and became more a mystical concept than anything practical and applicable. 

There was a time where someone walked with God without ritual and religious frame and that man was Enoch. Today this mystical individual excites senses, for immortality is completely outside any religious frame, which supposed to hold the living picture.

Life's Endlessness

Life has no beginning and no end. Once it enters into a biological shell that shell lives and must never die for the infused with life individual can learn the meaning of existence and identity.

One needs no self-identity for not one of us has decided to be born; and not even one is in charge of self. We come by grace and not by accident. We must not leave by accident or death, but can walk with LIFE, which God is. We can learn about our biological and genetic makeup and discover that we carry immortal genes just as we also carry the death genes. Then we have the will and choice, which when used for peacemaking and harmony we engage in healing and restoration. Anything damaged heals; sometimes fast; sometimes slow and sometimes not at all. It all depends on the information we work with.