OH HOW I LOVE YOUR TORAH!
YOUR TORAH KEEPS ME!
Oh how I love Your Torah! It is my conversation all the day!
“For then I will restore to the peoples a Pure Tongue/Language, that they may call upon the Name of YHVH, to serve Him with ONE accord.” Zephaniah 3:9
“And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. They sing the Song of Moses, the servant of God, and the Song of the Lamb, saying: ‘Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the Saints! Who shall not fear You O YHVH, and glorify Your Name? For You are Holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You for Your judgments have been manifested!” Revelation 15:2-4
“YHVH desires/wills or is well pleased for His Righteousness’ sake; He will exalt the TORAH and make it honorable.” Isaiah 42:21-24
It is written: “LOVE IS THE FULFILLMENT OF THE TORAH!” In other words the Torah fulfills our Love! For it is the Torah that teaches us how to love the Father and shows us what righteous living before Him and our fellowman ought to be and the Torah teaches us what pleases Him! James writes that “Faith without Works is dead!” In other words faith without living out the commandments or good deeds according to God is a dead faith or no faithfulness at all! Yeshua said numerously throughout the Gospel accounts “If You Love Me keep My commandments!” And “When the Son of Man returns shall He find EMUNAH/ Faith or Faithfulness in the Earth” is Yeshua’s Question to us TODAY in this age as He prepares to return to Earth to reign as KING and Judge! Do we truly have faith and have we sincerely been faithful to HIM and His Commandments and Statutes?
Psalms 86:11-12
“Teach me Your WAY, YHVH, I will walk in Your TRUTH! Unite my heart to fear Your Name! I will praise You O LORD my God with all my heart, and I will glorify Your Name forevermore! For great is Your Mercy towards me and You delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol (the doctrines of Satan)!”
Proverbs 28:7
“Whoever keeps the TORAH is a discerning son, but a companion (Roeh/friend or shepherd/pastor) of gluttons (Zolelim/ the worthless/ low value/ low-life) shames his Father.” Discernment comes from obedience to His Instructions and following His Ways written in the Torah! Without having an understanding of Torah, one will NOT possess true discernment of spirits and doctrine but will be deceived!
Proverbs 29:18
“Where there is no Chazon/Vision/Revelation/Understanding, the people cast off restraints (a measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control or within limits) but the guardian or keeper of Torah/teaching/instruction, Ashrey/Happy/Blessed is he/she.” [For God’s restraints in His Torah are for our own good and safety.]
Proverbs 19:27
“Cease listening to instruction (Torah), my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.”
Proverbs 19:16
“He who keeps the commandments keeps his soul, but he who is careless of his ways will die.”
James 1:5-8
“If any of you lacks Wisdom (Torah understanding) let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the LORD; for he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
Ps 119:113
“I hate the double-minded but I love Your Torah!” That would make those who reject the Torah unstable, double minded folks with mixture in their worship and lives being tossed by all types of winds and doctrines of Satan!
James 4:7-12
“Therefore submit to God, Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of YHVH, and he will lift you up. Do NOT speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the Torah and judges the Torah. But if you judge the Torah, you are NOT a doer of the Torah but a judge! For there is One Lawgiver Who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?
Isaiah 33:22
“For YHVH is our Judge! YHVH is our Lawgiver! YHVH is our King; He will save us! (This speaks of Yeshua who alone saves us and is the Law/Torah Giver!)
Yeshua gave the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai and is the One who saves and He is also the Judge! He is also the Glory that Moses saw when he asked to see YHVH’s Glory but Moses saw only His back (for His time had not yet come to fully reveal Himself) and He prophetically proclaimed His Name as YHVH and caused His Goodness to pass before Moses as He walked towards the Mount just as He did a millenium or so later here on earth as He walked towards Calvary ministering, proclaiming the Name of the LORD healing, feeding the multitude, doing good deeds and forgiving sinners of their sins! Yeshua was showing the Jews of His Day His Glory according to the Torah (Exodus 33-34) but since they didn’t seek for, long for or sincerely asked for it like Moses did, they didn’t possess the spiritual eyes and ears to receive the revelation, and missed it altogether except for a Remnant! God only reveals Himself to those who call upon Him sincerely and seek diligently for Him with their whole heart; for those who are not sincerely seeking, even when He does show up in their midst they will not have the spiritual eyes to see nor recognize Him nor the pure heart to perceive Him! This is the reason why the Pharisees had a problem with YESHUA because He so many times said to sinners whom He healed: “Go! Your sins are forgiven you” and therefore the Pharisees accused Him of blasphemy for they understood according to Torah that only YHVH can forgive sin and that Yeshua was proclaiming Himself to be YHVH! So they wanted to stone Him! And Yeshua asked them “For which of these good deeds do you plan to stone Me? And they replied for a good deed we do not stone You but for blasphemy for You being a mere Man make yourself to be God/YHVH!”
Here is Yeshua, the very image of God, watching over His Word to perform it and causing the Goodness of God to pass before them and showing them God’s Glory through His Life and Ministry (For He is the very GLORY of God) by performing these miracles and good deeds and keeping God’s commandments (in Hebrew MITZVOT is the same word used for commandments and good deeds) yet they were blinded and instead wanted to stone the Lawgiver Himself! Yeshua was showing the children of Israel and the religious of His Day His Deity and Glory but many were offended by HIM instead! But the only ones who recognized HIM were the poor! The poor in Spirit saw Him and entered the Kingdom of Heaven before the Pharisees could even recognize the Kingdom of Heaven was at Hand! The priests should have known better but they were filled with all sorts of corruption and lies!
Malachi 2:7
“For the lips of a priest/cohen/minister should keep knowledge, and people should seek the TORAH from his mouth; for he is the Messenger/Angel of YHVH Tseva’ot. But you have departed from the WAY (Yeshua is the WAY, the Truth and the Life)! You have caused many to stumble at the TORAH. You have corrupted the Covenant of Levi,” says YHVH of Armies. “Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because you have NOT kept My Ways but have shown partiality in the Law/TORAH.”
Proverbs 28:4-5
“Those who forsake the Torah praise the wicked (other lawless ones), but such as keep the Torah contend with them. Evil men do NOT understand Justice, but those who seek YHVH understand ALL.”
The Bible calls those who forsake the Torah ‘Wicked!’ Remember that His Word is eternal and nothing in it shall by any means pass away. Those of us who, though in our ignorance, choose to forsake God’s ways in the Law/Torah and making it void would be considered wicked according to the Word of God. Paul wrote in one of his epistles that transgression is sinning against God’s Law/Torah! We would not know what sin is or better yet whether or not we’re transgressing against God but by weighing what we do in the light of what is written in the Torah! We do not know what sin is until we look deeply into God’s ordinances and statutes in the Torah! Revival always came to the children of Israel only by means of a righteous king or prophet, who, upon discovering God’s Word and being convicted about what God considered sin, would repent themselves and tried turning the hearts of the people back to God’s Torah and Statutes! Revival in our day, in spirit and in truth, will not happen any differently! Everything else is a false profane fire! You see, one does not need to be a cold blooded murderer to be considered wicked in the eyes of the LORD! There are lots of good non-believers who act just as good and righteous or sometimes even more righteous than Christians do yet at the end will be considered wicked in the eyes of the LORD if they had rejected God and His ways! This may not be easy to swallow yet it is Truth; so let us search our own hearts and let God be true and every man a liar!
Psalm 119:53: “Indignation has taken hold of me because of the wicked who forsake the Torah!”
2 Thessalonians 2:7-12
“For the mystery of Torahlessness /Lawlessness is already at work; only He who restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless/Torahless one will be revealed, whom YHVH will consume with the Breath/Ruach of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His Coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the Truth (God’s Counsel), that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the Truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness!”
Now is this referring to those in the world in particular? Not really! The Bible is written for “Believers” first and foremost and is addressing those who are or were once in the faith! So these are His so called People who did not receive the Love of or for the Truth!
Psam 119:150-152
“They draw near who follow after wickedness; they are far from Your Torah. You are near O LORD, and all Your commandments are Truth. Concerning Your Testimonies I have known of old that You have founded them forever!”
Prov 29:27
“An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, and he who is upright in the WAY (Torah keeping follower of Yeshua) is an abomination to the wicked.”
Psalm 119:55
“I remember Your Name in the night (tribulation, trials) O LORD and I will guard/keep Your Torah!”
“The cords of the wicked have bound me, but I have not forgotten Your Torah. At midnight (Middle of Tribulation) I will rise to give thanks to you because of Your righteous judgments.”
Psalms 94:12-15
“Blessed is the man whom You instruct, YHVH, and teach out of Your Torah, that You may give him REST (Quietness or to quiet him) from evil days, until the pit is dug for the wicked (the Lawless ones). For YHVH will NOT cast off His people, nor will He forsake His Inheritance. But judgment will return to Righteousness and ALL the UPRIGHT in HEART will follow it (or HIM or TORAH)!
“My foot has held fast to His steps. I have kept His WAY and not turned aside. I have not departed from the Commandment of His lips; I have treasured the Words of His mouth more than my necessary food.” Job 23:11-13
John 4:32, 34
“But He (Yeshua) said to them: “I have Food to eat of which you do not know…..My Food is to do the Will of Him Who sent Me, and to finish His Work.” The will of God is what is written in Torah and the Prophets which Yeshua came to do and fulfill but NOT to do away with!
Matthew 5:17-20
“Do NOT think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill (that’s ongoing for many things written in the Torah & Prophets remained yet to be fulfilled). For assuredly I say to you till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the Torah till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments (found in the Torah), and teaches men so, shall be called LEAST in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever does and teach them, shall be called GREAT in the Kingdom of Heaven. For I say to you unless your righteousness EXCEEDS the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees (the religious Jews), you will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven!”
1 John 2:3-6
“Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His Commandments. He who says, “I know Him,” and does NOT keep His commandments, is a liar, and the Truth is NOT in him. But whoever keeps His Word, truly the Love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” How did Yeshua walk? He kept the Torah out of Love for the Father!
John 14:31
“But that the world may know that I love the Father, and so as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do….” We show the world we love Yeshua by embracing the Torah and keeping the Commandments!
John 15:10
“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His Love.”
Psalm 119:1-2
“Blessed are the undefiled in the WAY (Followers of YESHUA), who walk in (note: NOT under nor above but IN) the TORAH of YHVH! Blessed are those who keep His Testimonies, who seek HIM with the whole heart!”
John 14:15-17, 20-21
“If you love Me keep My commandments! And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever – the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be with you……At that day you will know that I Am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
“For this reason the Son of Man was manifested that He might destroy the works (lies) of the devil.” New Testament
Proverbs 4:23
“Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.”
“I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.” ” A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will NOT know wickedness.” Psalm 101:2b, 4
Psalm 119:5-7
“Oh that my Ways were directed to keep Your statutes! Then I would NOT be ashamed when I look into all Your commandments! I will walk with uprightness of HEART, when I LEARN Your righteous judgments.”
Psalm 119:9-12
“How can a young man (or the Bride of Messiah) cleanse his (her) Way? By taking heed according to Your Word. With my whole HEART have I sought You; Oh let me NOT wander from Your Commandments/Mitzvot/Torah.” Your Word (Torah) I have hidden in my heart, that I might NOT sin against You. Blessed are You YHVH, teach me Your Statutes!”
Proverbs 31:25-26 speaking of the Virtuous Bride or the Wife of Might/ESHET CHAYIL!
“Strength and honor are her clothing; she shall rejoice in time to come. She opens her mouth with Wisdom, and on her tongue is the Torah of Kindness /Mercy.”
The Bride is to be without blemish, sanctified and clean! How can she do that? By the WORD and heeding the WORD! Sanctify us O God in Your Truth for Your Word (Torah) is Truth! May your body, soul & spirit be kept blameless until the coming of Messiah! HOW? By doing what TORAH says! From Genesis to Revelation! There is no other way for the Bride to be cleansed and to make herself ready for her Bridegroom! Applying the Blood of Yeshua as the children of Israel did while in Egypt is only the Beginning of the journey of Holiness/ Sanctification and becoming a Covenantal People! They needed the Torah to make them a set apart Bride! For before they received the Torah on Mt Sinai they were busy building a Golden Calf and being religious about it and saying: “Behold your god, Oh Israel, who brought you out of Egypt!” That’s totally absurd, huh! Well so has mainstream Christianity done since Constantine made Christianity the official religion of his empire in the 5th Century and exchanged God’s Laws and Statutes for his former pagan ways and called it god or Christianity! Hence Christianity has since created her own golden Calf that blatantly opposes the very Counsel of the One true God and has instead embraced a mixture of falsehood alongside with some important truths and calling it “God” and covered it with a religious cloak! Well, just as well then when the earth sooner or later opens up and swallows up many of the leaders leading the sheep astray alive in their rebellion and blatant disobedience to YHVH that that the One True God will not be to blame for they have had the Scriptures (Torah) and the Prophets to instruct them but they refused instructions! God is light and in Him there is no part dark, neither can there be any darkness in us when we are serving HIM!
Isaiah 5:24-26
“Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom will ascend like dust because they have rejected the Torah of YHVH of Armies, and have despised the Word of K’DOSH YISRAEL /The Holy One of Israel. Therefore the anger of YHVH is aroused against His People. He has stretched out His Hand against them…..for all this His anger is not turned away, but His Hand is stretched out still. He will lift up a Banner/Nes/Miracle to the nations from afar, and he will whistle to them from the end of the earth, surely they shall come with speed, swiftly!”
Zechariah 10:8
“I will whistle for them and gather them, for I will redeem them; and they shall increase as they once increased.”
Psalm 119:18
“Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy Law/Torah.”
Psalm 119:29-30
“Remove from me the Way of lying (this false way of following Yeshua) & grant me Your Torah graciously (It takes God’s Grace to follow His Torah, there is no grace for Not following, the church calls it grace but all it is is a religious license to sin, their self-given green light to sin against God and His ways). I have chosen the WAY of Truth (the Real Messiah according to Torah) Your judgments are before me”
“You rebuked the proud–the cursed, who stray from Your commandments.” Ps. 119:21
Psalm 119:32-35
“I will run the course of Your commandments for You shall enlarge my heart! Teach me YHVH the WAY of Your statutes and I shall keep it to the end. Give me understanding and I shall keep Your Torah; indeed I shall observe it with my whole HEART. Walk or direct me in the Path of Your Commandments, for I delight in it.”
“So shall I keep Your Torah continually, forever and ever. And I will walk at Liberty, for I seek Your precepts!” Verse 44-45
“Let Your mercies come also to me O LORD, Your Yeshua/Salvation according to Your Word!” Verse 41 Well then that means that there is a salvation/yeshuah or Jesus that is NOT according to God’s Word (Torah) That is the Jesus of the church in general! He’s a salvation of cheap grace according to their own image not the image or the mirror of the WORD! They pick and choose what feeds and fits in with the building of their own kingdom, their ego and false motives, their carnal nature and reprobate minds and have made partial the Word of YHVH to their own destruction!
“…you have not kept My Ways but have shown partiality in the TORAH!” Malachi 2:9b
Proverbs 28:9
“One who turns away his ear from hearing/heeding the Torah, even his prayer is an abomination.”
John 9:31
“Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and who does His Will, He (God) will hear him/her.”
Prov 28:10-11
“Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he himself will fall into his own pit; but the blameless will inherit good. The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor who has understanding searches him out.”
“Whoever leads any of these children astray it is better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.” See Matthew 18:6 Yeshua’s own saying to the religious who keep His children from entering the Kingdom.
Prov. 28:26
“He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely will be delivered.”
Prov 29:16
“When the wicked (lawless) are multiplied, transgression (sin against the Torah) increases; but the Righteous will see their fall.”
Proverbs 29:14
“The king who judges the poor with Truth, His throne will be established forever.”
Deuteronomy 17:18-20
“Also it shall be when he (the king) sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this Torah in a book, from before the Cohanim/priests/ministers, the Levi’im. And it (copy of the Torah) shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear YHVH his God and be careful to observe all the words of this Torah and these statutes, that his heart may NOT be lifted above his brethren, that he may NOT turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.”
We tend to remember things more when we write things down and so God commanded that the king not only learn or read it but to first and foremost write it! And now according to Jeremiah 31:31 God Himself will now write the Torah upon our hearts and minds as His redeemed kings and priests that we may remember to do them. For we cannot reign on the earth with Him without having the Torah written upon our hearts and doing what it says! God’s Word and Ways are eternal! The same yesterday, today & forever!
Revelation 15:9-10
“And they sang a New Song, saying: “You are worthy to take the Scroll, and to open its seals; for you were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your Blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth.”
Psalm 119:46-48
“And I will speak of Your Testimonies also before kings, and will NOT be ashamed. And I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I love. My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments which I love, and I will meditate on Your statutes.”
Psalm 119:72-73
“The Torah of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver. Your hands have fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may learn Your Commandments.”
“Let Your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for Your Torah is my delight.” Verse 77
“Unless Your Torah had been my delight I would then have perished in my affliction. I will never forget Your precepts for by them you have given me LIFE!” Verse 92-93
“Oh how I love Your Torah! It is my conversation all the day! You through Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies; for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers for Your testimonies are my conversation. I understand more than the ancients because I kept/Natzarti Your precepts. I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your Word.” Verse 97-101
“I have NOT departed from Your Judgments, for You Yourself have taught me.” Ps 119:102
It is so imperative to be taught by God because then we will NOT depart from His ways! The Covenant is that God Himself will teach us and we will not need another to tell us “Know YHVH for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them… (See Jeremiah 31:34)”
Psalm 119:104-105
“Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. Your Word is a Lamp to my feet and a Light to my path.”
Ps 119:109
“My life is continually in my hand, yet I do NOT forget Your Torah!” Meaning though I have the freewill to choose how I live my life yet I choose to live my life according to Your Torah instructions, statutes and precepts because of my love for YHVH! God will not force it upon us but the upright and those who truly love Him will follow Torah! “Hide Your Word in my heart that I might NOT sin against Thee!” The prayer of David and of all those with true hearts after God’s own heart! That’s Covenantal prayer!
Psalm 119:118
“You reject all those who stray from Your statutes, for their deceit is falsehood.” All those who stray from God’s precepts have been deceived in falsehood and God will reject them unless they repent! Nothing impure shall enter His High Way of Holiness!
Psalm 119:125-127
“I am Your Servant; Give me understanding that I may know Your testimonies! It is TIME for you to act O LORD, for they have regarded Your Torah as VOID! Therefore I love Your Commandments more than gold, yes more than fine gold!”
Psalm 119:130, 133-134
“The entrance of Your Words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple….Direct my steps by Your Word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me! Redeem me from the oppression of man (or the fear of man) that I may keep Your precepts!”
Psalm 119:136, 139
“Rivers of water run down from my eyes, because men do NOT keep Your Torah….My Zeal has consumed me because my enemies have forgotten Your Word!”
Psalm 19:140-142
“Your Word is very pure; therefore Your servant loves it. I am small and despised, yet I do not forget Your precepts. Your Righteousness is an everlasting Righteousness and Your Torah is Truth!”
Psalm 119:144
“The righteousness of Your Testimonies is everlasting; Give me understanding and I shall live!”
Psalm 119:152-160
“Consider my affliction and deliver me. for I do not forget Your Torah. Plead my cause and redeem me; Revive me according to Your Word. Salvation/Yeshua is far from the wicked, for they do not seek Your statutes. Great are Your tender mercies, O LORD, Revive me according to Your judgments! Many are my persecutors and my enemies, yet I do not turn from Your testimonies. I see the treacherous, and I’m disgusted, because they do NOT keep Your Word! Consider how I love Your precepts; Revive me O LORD according to your loving kindness! The Entirety of Your Word is Truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever!”
Psalm 119:161-163
“Princes (rabbis/pastors/leaders) persecute me without a cause, but my heart stands in AWE of Your Word. I rejoice at Your Word as one who finds great treasure. I hate and abhor lying but I love Your Torah” (because it’s Truth).
Psalm 119:165
“Great Peace have those who love Your Torah, and nothing causes them to stumble. YHVH I hope for Your Salvation/Yeshua, and I do Your Commandments.”
Revelation 14:12
“Here is the Patience or Endurance of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of YESHUA/Jesus!”
Revelation 15:2-4
“And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the Victory over the Beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. They sing the Song of Moses, the servant of God, and the Song of the Lamb, saying: ‘Great and marvelous are Your works, YHVH God Almighty! Just and true are Your Ways, O King of the saints! Who shall NOT fear You O YHVH and glorify Your Name? For you alone are Holy! For all the nations shall come and worship before You for Your judgments have been manifested!”
Compare or contrast that Scripture to Daniel 3:15-30
“Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, HARP, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, and you fall down and worship the image which I have made, good! But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?’ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it usually was heated…..”Look!….I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the Form of the Fourth is like the Son of God”…..and they gathered together and they saw that these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them, Nebuchadnezzar spoke saying, ‘Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king’s word and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God…Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego in the province of Babylon!”
Revelation 20:4
“And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Yeshua and for the Word of God, who had not worshiped the Beast nor his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Messiah for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be Priests of God and of Messiah, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.”
Ezekiel 44:23-24
“And they (the righteous Priesthood represented here by the Sons of Tzadok) shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the unholy (or common), and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. In controversy they shall stand as judges, and judge it according to My Judgments. THEY SHALL KEEP MY LAWS /TOROT and My Statutes in ALL My appointed meetings, and they shall hallow My Sabbaths!”
Psalm 119:172-76
“My tongue shall speak of Your Word, for all Your commandments are righteousness. Let Your hand become my help, for I have chosen Your precepts. I long for Your Yeshua/Salvation O YHVH, and Your Torah is my Delight. Let my soul live and she shall praise You; and let Your judgments help me. I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget Your commandments.”
Isaiah 42:21-24
“YHVH desires/wills or is well pleased for His Righteousness’ sake; He will exalt the TORAH and make it honorable. But this is a people robbed and plundered; all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses; they are are for prey, and no one delivers; for plunder and no one says, ‘Restore!’ Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear L’Achor / for the hereafter/ the end/ for the time to come? Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Was it NOT YHVH? He against Whom we have sinned? For they would NOT walk in His Ways, nor were they obedient to His Torah or Law.”
“Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.” -I Corinthians 10:11
“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in Righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17
So what do we do now that we know we’ve gone astray from God’s ways and precepts? REPENT! TURN AROUND and do what is right in His eyes! Ask Him for Wisdom and to open our eyes and hearts for understanding! Begin to listen and purpose in your heart to heed His Voice! Learn to embrace and keep His commandments that you may prosper body soul and spirit and enjoy LIFE in abundance through the Blood of Yeshua! Ask for understanding, grace and wisdom to keep His precepts wholeheartedly! Begin to bear eternal fruit worthy of Repentance! And REIGN with MESSIAH!
Deuteronomy 13:17-18
“So let none of the accursed things remain in your hand, that YHVH may turn from His fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers, because you have listened to the Voice of the LORD YHVH Your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of YHVH your God!”
He gives Grace and Mercy to those who love Him and keep His commandments!
“But showing Mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.” Exodus 20:6
Isaiah 26:7-12
“The WAY of the just is uprightness; O Most Upright, you weigh the path of the just. Yes, in the Way of Your judgments, YHVH, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your Name and for the Remembrance of You. With my soul I have desired You in the night, yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn Righteousness.
{BUT} Let Grace be shown to the wicked, yet he will NOT learn Righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the Majesty of YHVH. LORD when Your hand is lifted up, they will NOT see. But they will see and be ashamed for their envy of people; yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them. LORD, You will establish PEACE/SHALOM for us, for You have also done all our works for us!”
Prov. 28:18
“Whoever walks blamelessly will be saved, but he who is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.”
Psalms 37:37
“Mark the perfect/blameless man and behold the upright; for the Future/End/Acharit of that man is SHALOM/PEACE!” Thank you LORD!
Isaiah 30:15, 18-21
“For thus says ADONAI YHVH K’DOSH ISRAEL /The Holy One of Israel: ‘In returning/repentance and REST you shall be saved; in Quietness and Confidence shall be your Strength,’ But you would not……Therefore YHVH will wait that He may be gracious to you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For YHVH is a God of Justice! Blessed are all those who wait for Him! For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; You shall weep no more. He will be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it He will answer you, And though the LORD gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers. Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the Way, walk in it or in Him!’ Whenever you turn to the right hand or to the left.”
Isaiah 32:17-20
“The Work of Righteousness will be PEACE/SHALOM, and the effect of Righteousness, Quietness and Assurance forever. My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places, though hail comes down on the forest, and the city is brought low in humiliation. Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send freely the feet of the ox and the donkey.”
Zephaniah 3:17
“YHVH your God is in your midst; the Mighty One will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His Love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
And this is the End/Conclusion of everything: “Let us hear/heed to obey/Nishma: Fear God and Keep/guard His Commandments, for this is Adam/Man’s ALL (or in Hebrew: All the Man/Adam, in other words Man’s fullness is in fearing/loving YHVH and keeping/guarding His commandments just as Adam was initially appointed by YHVH to guard or to tend the Garden in Eden and to keep/guard one commandment, but he didn’t and failed miserably. Not only did he allow the serpent in his garden on his watch but he allowed it to manipulate his wife/helper into sinning against God and Adam participated in the sin instead of rebuking and correcting where needed as a Priest of God over his household. Adam failed to be the guardian of God’s Commandment and hence failed to be guardian of both his wife and the Garden entrusted to him therefore Adam [along with his wife Chava] was cast out of the Garden [along with the serpent of old] and they could no longer partake of or have access to the Tree of Life. Selah!) For every work, God will bring in Mishpat/Judgment over all secret things whether good or bad!”
There is no hiding from God and no fig leaf /religious covering will keep any of us from Mishpat/Judgment! We must guard His Commandments to be true gatekeepers and partake of the Tree of LIFE!
Revelation 20:14-15
“Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.” These are those who never feared God nor kept His commandments nor guarded the garden/life appointed to them!
Revelation 20:4
“And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Yeshua and for the Word of God, who had not worshiped the Beast nor his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Messiah for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be Priests of God and of Messiah, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.”
“Psalm 122:5
“For thrones were set there for judgment, the thrones of the House of David.”
1Thessalonians 5:23-24
“Now may the God of PEACE/SHALOM Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Yeshua our Messiah. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
“YHVH bless you and keep you; YHVH cause His Face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; YHVH lift up His Countenance upon you and give you SHALOM/Wholeness/PEACE!” And they (the Priests/Cohanim) shall put My Name on the children of Israel, and I will BLESS THEM!” Numbers 6:24-27
SHALOM ALEYCHEM!
