Don't call the whole thing off!
Chag Shavuot Sameach! Happy Shavuot/Pentecost Holy-day!
Check this out. Shavuot is celebrated as the day that the Israelites recieved the Torah on Mt. Sinai. The significance is that if you love God, Wish to walk with Him and sometimes wrestle or contend with Him, then you're one of His! Yeah.
Because you are stiff necked and stubborn you must be an Israelite, and that's cause for celebration.
To borrow from the great Joe Peschi the actor, "ok, ok, ok, now check this out"
So we read that we are to set up the lampstand constructed of 7 branches.
the same seven branches, ribs, sticks or bones that make up the body of Christ/Yeshua. Seven is a complete number also alluding to the introspective nature of an Israelite who "chews his cud". Remember an animal that doesn't chew its cud is not Kosher/fit. We as Humans created by Elohim are called to inspect ourselves and look at our own behavior, compare it to the ways of God; the Torah and make adjustments in our lifestyle to reflect our belonging to the God of order.
Others have no compass and therefore they end up in the same hole of despair over and over again. That was never Hashem's plan for His chosen children.
But I digress.
Shavuot; the giving of our marriage covenant by God's Spirit; the Ruach Elohim to Moses the Deliverer to give to the people of Israel.
So lets break it down.
In the "upper room" of Mt. Sinai the Ruach Ha Chodesh meets with Moishe and gives Him the Torah; the Covenant of Promises to give to the Israelites all who had recently been set free from bondage and captivity in Egypt. Hey, wait that's us. Right??
In the book of Acts chapter 2 we read that the Talmudim/disciples were in the "upper room" when a mighty rushing wind was heard and the Holy Spirit descended upon them. There were tongues of fire over their heads. The mighty rushing wind could be like the thunder and lightning seen and heard on the mountain while Moishe was up there with God. Moishe's face was radient when he came down, like tongues of fire which also represent the dove over Yeshua after the Mikveh by Yohannan.
Now check this out! While in the "upper room" a place that wasn't necessarily a room so much as it was on the roof where the waters of rain were collected in a bathing pool would be located. This was the place for doing a mikveh which is a ceremonial washing. Like the baptism in modern Christianity it sybolizes the cleansing of the Holy Spirit and the changing of status from common to holy.
Back to the story. We recieved the Spirit of God on Pentecost which is a feastday or an appointed time. Obviously if we celebrated the appointed times; the Moedim HaElohim we would know that Pentecost was prophecied on Mt. Sinai and the talmudim/disciples were fulfilling their commitment to God by taking part in the Shavuot, in the Upper Room and Praying washing feet perhaps to signify that they had indeed been set apart. As You and I are also set apart, so shall we cleanse our brethren's feet.
So could it be that like the disciples and like the Israelites we too should be prepared for the Shavuot and rejoice in its remembrances. After all though we were once enslaved in our own vices and reasonings, the Lord Yeshua saw us as His bride. Even from afar He sought us before we sought Him.
Has the Spirit of Elohim come to this earth or not?
After Moishe's visitation and the gift of the Ha Torah we fell into murmuring and back biting. But yet the Ruach Ha Elohim had come down and surrounded the Mountain of the Lord. Later in Acts we see that on the holy-day of Shavuot we recieved again the Holy Spirit of God, the same Spirit of God that gave the Torah to Moishe. The same! Not different. God doesn't change. Yeshua said, "I will send the comforter; the Holy Spirit"...
Do we believe that He is holding out? we have to wait for some special time other than the Moedim of Elohim to receive the gifts of the Ruach?
Never! We are in the midst of His Presence and we lack vision.
We are the Lampstand, we are to shed light forward. Forward not back at your past or back at your brother's past. but Forward!
Shed light not darkness. The lampstand doesn't shed darkness such as the end of the world theories and the rapture and the tribulation. Are we not in various tribulations now? Have we not brought these things upon ourselves in many ways?
The word rapture isn't in the Hebrew mindset but rather the word ingathering is. Such as in Deuteronomy 30:1-6 we see the re-gathering of the children of Israel back to the Torah, teaching and instructions of God so that we can and will possess the land given to our forefathers, the land flowing with milk and honey. The same land that was given to our ancestors before us when Hashem/Yeshua brought them out of Egypt with a mighty right hand and an outstretched arm. Hence the Cross at Calvary.
Get it?
in Chapter 8 of the bookNumbers we read that after the Levites had been purified, they were to be presented as a wave offering, they are to come to do the work at the Tent of Meeting. It's talking about you and me to come forward, since you have indeed been made clean and purified by the High Priest and the cleansing waters of the Ruach HaChodesh. We are the Israelites (Romans 11) who are to be given wholly to me. I have taken them as my own in place of the firstborn. You now receive levitical priveledges and you receive the firstborn blessings as one who receives Yeshua/Jesus as Moshiach/Messiah. See no one can take away your blessing. However likened to Essav you can sell you birthright for the satifaction of the flesh which is corrupt and sure to die.
We have repeatedly sold out our birthright for foolishness. It is time to return to "the hearts of our fathers" and receive the blessing of the land. but wait! I am not proposing that you can somehow take what belongs to someone else. It has always been Israel's and will always be Israel's. However we must be adopted into the inheritance through the Moshiach who is Yeshua. Yeshua is the Jewish Messiah. He is not gentile/unfit but rather has come outside the camp to meet with us and offer us the priveledge of coming into the camp and He makes us clean. We cannot presume to replace Israel but rather likened to Ruth... Your people shall be my people and your God shall be my God. If anything less than death should separate us, let God deal harshly with me.
I love My Jewish brothers and sisters and want nothing more than for the Christian Church to realize that you can't recieve the blessing of Hashem while rejecting the lifestyle of the Messiah. Being Jewish is so much more than genetic bloodlilne. It is more a lifestyle than genes. All genes were created by the same Creator. YHWH.
I want to learn the Feasts and the Appointed Times out of my love and adoration for The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who is the God of our Fathers.
Ezekiel 37 alludes to the two sticks becoming one in His hand and having one Prince or King over them both. That is the fulfillment of prophecy that in these last days of the great apostacy we will return to the Truth of Elohim; the Torah of God and the Whole House of Jacob will be reunited as it was in Egypt under Yosef.
You are a priest, you are the lampstand. with out the Shamash/Yeshua we cannot be annointed as priests let alone be light to shed any light. we are a lamp without flame/aish.
Chapter 9 verse 13
But if a man who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people because he did not present the Lord's offering at the appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
What do we do with that? Could it be that because of the ignorance fo the Body of Christ we fail to keep the feasts and the appointed times? And as a result we suffer consequences such as lack of involvement in the church by men, there are no priests or Rabbis, there are things like rape, incest, molestation, divorce, murder, abuse of all kinds in the people who call themselves Christians and in the nation that was founded on Judeo-Christian values. Either God fell asleep or we are outside the camp...
What do you think?
Are we so righteous that God is allowing Satan to torment us? Or could it be that we lack knowledge? I'll take the latter one. Thank you.
So where can we find this knowledge? It is in the Torah. Yes, that Ol' Torah that we call the Law. The same thing that we think Jesus came all this way to free us from is the key to the Kingdom that sets us free from the pain of sin.
When you feel that you can't go on, stay put. Stay faithful and be steady.
Allow yourself to be one of the two silver trumpets that blows and calls the assembly of the people of God. When the two are together (house of Judah/House of Ephrayim) then we can conquer the enemies of God's people.
Its not a physical war as much as it is a spiritual war on the hearts of man.
You Count!
You have a new position of elevation so that you can elevate your King!
Light the lamp via the only way through the Shamash Melechienu/Servant King who is the Light of the World. his name is Yeshua Ha Moshiach.
If you have a desire to know your God and Savior more, join us at Beit Tikveh U'Nesim; the House of Hope and Miracles Center for Torah Studies. We are in Lockhart, Texas,
Come just like that!
