Leaving Egypt!

Recently it was made clear to me that we must leave the old mindset.
this is the message that I sent back in regard to the current Egyptian system we are under being brought up in conversation. True that our current "leader" is not pro- God of Israel and infact by actions could be understood to be anti- God of Israel and pro- Islam. However we must remember that because of the hearts of the Israelites being wicked, they elected a leader over themselves that turned out to be Saul who sought to destroy the true King of Israel whom Samuel anointed. Yeshua is that King from the House of David and today He lives in you!

In response to “this nation’s leader has sold out the blessings of Yeshua for pottage”

You are right that this pharaoh has indeed sold out the diligent ones who once saved the people. We have lost the vision because we have forsaken the words given to us by Moses. The words that tell us to teach our children the nature and character of our God. We have failed to do so and our children have joined the ranks of the world system; that of Satan and that of the Pharaoh who knew not Yosef. This so called leader doesn’t know Yeshua and he despises all who wear his name or bear His character.
A whole culture of People is under attack
At one time just 70 yrs ago a man rose up in Germany who set out to utterly eliminate a whole culture; a whole lifestyle. A world population that strived to know and obey the Creator of the Universe. This people at one time knew the Moedim; the appointed times and seasons. They had dignity and took pride in the opportunity to be called children of God. They embraced a lifestyle of the Messiah Yeshua. They; the children of God were an offense to those who were brought up outside of instruction as they were also an offense to those who willingly chose to live outside of instruction. To live apart from the Torah is to be unclean, common, and gentile.
There was only two classes of people; those who chose to live in order and those who chose their own ways; chaos.
Today we stand in a country that we have allowed to fall apart because we failed to secure the walls. We may have destroyed Hitler but the world system has seemingly destroyed the very fiber of our being. That fiber used to be what made us, it was what set us apart. We are not better than others by creation but we choose to be better than we’ve been by adhering to the principles and precepts given to us by Hashem through the hand of Moshe. Those principles and precepts reveal the Mystery of Yeshua and outline what salvation looks like.
I raise my hand and I confess that it is my fault. I vow to make Teshuvah and to begin to restore order to God’s creation.
In order for this land to look like the kingdom that Yeshua came to establish, men must return to the Torah and we must submit to authority and instruction. Too many people go from this teacher to that one, seeking new revelation and never satisfy their hunger. That hunger is the result of never finishing a “meal”. The Kingdom of Heaven is korba/ at hand. Yeshua, Elohim and the Ruach are Echad. When the Ruach came in Acts 2 the presence of Yeshua was made manifest in the spiritual. First comes the physical and then the spiritual.
Just as a boxer trains in the physical seeking the day when all the training becomes part of his spirit so shall we train like Rav Shaul; not simply beating the wind but walking out the lifestyle of a people who once existed in the world. A people who lead and do not follow. We shall be a people who lead by example. We are the people who rebuilt the temple. We are the people who can stop the downward spiral. We are a people born to create and restore and resurrect that which was once dead. We are that people. Satan could not kill us. He still can’t and won’t, if we rise up. I hear Yeshua’s B’Kol voice saying, “Lazarus, Come!”
It is time for us as a people to restore the vision to our old men and dreams to our young.
I am so excited for what God is doing and can do through a stubborn donkey like me. I am so glad that I am that @$$ in the wilderness but I am coming home baby!
I willingly accept being the scapegoat. Someone has to say, “It’s my fault! I will clean it up!” or else it will never change, it will never be cleaned up. No one today is man enough to take the blame. But if taking the blame or receiving the responsibility means there’s a chance for restoration and revival of Nineveh, then count me in.
I accept the ‘scapegoat’ role. I receive the guilt of the nation so that now that Yeshua is bringing me back from the wilderness it shall be for the atonement of the whole nation of Israel.
Whooooo! Hallelujah! If you don’t get excited about that, you better check your pulse.
I love you and encourage you dear brethren, it is not over. After all the vertically challenged lady hasn’t sung yet. 
Where is Mr. Smithkowitz goes to Washington? That person is You. You are powerful enough to make great changes in your community/kibbutz. It begins with us. Yeshua lives in us, his healing virtue and His Word is written all up inside of us. What are we waiting for? Open up our hearts, return to the land that God gave to our fathers, drink the sap from the Tree of Life and begin living. God wills it for us.
Yeah though the temple has be desecrated, it is still the house of the LORD and worthy of restoration.
Avinu Melecheinu, Our Father and our King I repent that I have not established your kingdom in my life until now. I thank you for your Chesed/Grace and Mercy. I receive it though I do not deserve it. You are the only God. My Children will know your name; Yeshua for you are our Salvation. Take over my life and restore my eyes that I see what you see and my ears that I hear your voice and nothing else. You are my source and my sustainer, my redeemer and my refuge in times of trouble. I have taken my eyes off of your hands and sought to protect myself in futility. Breathe your Ruach into my lungs and restore life to this dry heap of bones. Cover me with your skin/Torah and cause your people to live once again. Amen!
If you can say that prayer, there’s hope for the world. His name is Jesus/Yeshua Ha Moshiach!

Pastor Donald J. Maher
Beit Tikveh U'Nesim
House of Hope and Miracles
1018 State Park Rd
PO box 1145
Lockhart, Texas 78644

Do not be discouraged at the future but rather be encouraged about your future. The L-rd our God and Savior Yeshua has not nor will not forsake you. However we should be troubled at the pessimism found within the “resurrected body of so-called believers”. We must begin to rejoice in our identity as Judeos por Yeshua. Dancing and eating is not a sin but we don’t rejoice as the bride at her wedding. It is like we are the cynical bride who says , “I do, but I bet we don’t make it.” I feel sad for Yeshua that His bride has allowed her vision to be stolen by the milk man and the mail man named Lucifer and Satan. Our Creator, Owner and Savior is good, just, mighty and trustworthy. We have scales upon our eyes. The scales of pessimism are as sin in our eyes. We must celebrate our salvation as in Simchat Torah. The Word, The Torah, The Lord Jesus, the Incarnate Word, Salvation, are all contained within the Spirit of the Redeemer Who is the Ha Torah. I watched the Holocaust videos and saw an entire group of people being exterminated because they choose to live for Hashem. Why can’t we also be half as fervent about our culture as those beautiful people were. We must get involved and teach our children leadership and vision. WE have had our inheritance stolen for so long and we also have forsaken the identity for so long that we are unwilling to receive restoration without reservations. Our guilt and years of training in the art of self flagellation has crippled our ability to walk out the restoration, salvation and deliverance that we teach is in Yeshua. Be strong! Do not be discouraged, you are such an encouragement to those who are watching. Those outside the camp are looking for hope and miracles. But if we sing a dirge and weep and gnash our teeth we won’t be able to sell ourselves umbrellas in the rain. We are the hope of nations and looking upon our raggedy Ann selves the future seems bleak at times. We must breath in the Ruach and be made strong. Lead we shall, I want to see young children fervent for Torah happy to grow Payot and wear tzitzit and the like.

SMILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your Father Loves You! The Story in the Torah says we win! Remember???

The Kingdom of Heaven is ‘Korba at hand

How is your vision?
How are your eyes?
How is your heart?
How is your lungs?
How is your life?
The Word says, Without a vision my people perish.
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Jesus says, I came to give sight to the blind.
Isaiah 35:5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
To mend the broken hearted;
Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
To breathe My Spirit into them;
Ezekiel 36:26-28 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside you; I will take the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my Spirit inside you and cause you to live by my laws, respect my rulings and obey them. 28 You will live in the land I gave to your ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
You see you have been adopted into the seed of Abraham who through faith was counted righteous. It is through your faith and not by your works that you are counted righteous.
It is said that your faith is only as good and strong as the object or person in whom you place it in. When you trust the finished work of Yeshua/ Jesus and place your faith and trust in Him, you are trusting in The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob… you are trusting in the God of the Bible, you are trusting in the Messiah your Savior. He had and has rules to live by that secure the blessings for us and for our children.
Is Healing for today? Yes! Undoubtedly. However, if you look back on the Scriptures it clearly states a prerequisite;
Deuteronomy 7:12-15 (if or because you listen to the words and obey them the Lord our God will bless you and heal your body and your land.
The KING of kings has a constitution to His kingdom. That constitution is our blessing, it is our inheritance that we rejoice at receiving. Most of us have essentially moved to the land but have not received our full citizenship in the Kingdom. The reason is because we are waiting to be taken up to Heaven in order to receive the full manifold destiny of salvation. However the KING has claimed you as His own and its time you received your identity. You are a citizen, end of story.
How many have received a traffic citation and never doubted their citizenship in the community they live in? How many walk around thinking that they still have more work to do before they can claim “full” citizen rights? True you may not be walking in authority of the KING but you still have rights and privileges.
Adonai has restored to us the dominion over the earth and over the fallen one. But, because we do not know the full character of Jesus we do not know His nature. We fear that we aren’t really His ‘am segulah’ His special treasure. Jesus/ Yeshua loves you with an everlasting love and pours out His mercy and His grace all up over you. When you receive your identity as a child of the Living God, saved by the blood/covenant/ marriage to the Lamb then by the Holy Spirit you will desire to walk in a manner that reflects your Savior’s lifestyle and no longer will we adhere to the lifestyle of our past. In essence you will be born again, AGAIN!
To adhere to the thoughts and mindset of your past is like bringing ‘soul ties’ into bed with you and your spouse. It is unacceptable.
The old is gone and the new has come. You are a new creation. Say it! “I am a new creation, the old is gone. I am made new through Christ Jesus, Yeshua Ha Moshiach. I am being made new each and every day, I will possess the land that was promised to my forefathers. That land is the Written Word of God/ The HaTorah. It is the very word that Jesus quoted time and time again. It is the bible that Peter, Paul, Timothy, Titus and Matthew, Mark and all of the Talmudim, Disciples read, studied and were confirmed in.
Within the Torah is the prophecy of our rebellion and our redemption. We are indeed in the Last Days and the Spirit of Yeshua; the Spirit of God is being poured out upon all men (and women). That Spirit will move you to return to the hearts of your fathers; Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (Luke 1:17)
By faith we receive our inheritance, and inheritance of eternal salvation through Jesus/ Yeshua. But we need to have faith tied to instruction. That instruction is not found in gurus and magic potions or new age belief systems. It is found in the precepts, principles and attributes of our LORD and Savior Yeshua.
Real men love Jesus, but not enough of us know Him well enough to look like Him and we most certainly aren’t walking like Jesus. Won’t you join in the most important movement in our community today? It is the movement toward walking and talking and behaving in a manner that would be pleasing to our God.
How’s your relationship with Jesus?
Is it strong enough? For who?
Is it all you want, do you have enough? Are you sure? What would Jesus say?
Men your are the leaders of your homes, the providers for your family and the protector to your wife and children. Through He that lives in you, you can do all things. Can you show up for Shabbat?
I am looking forward to seeing you.

The Kingdom of Heaven is ‘Korba at hand. Make straight your path!
And all these blessings shall overtake you… because you listened and do the Mitzvot.

Shalom!

Pastor Donald and Annette Maher

Pentecost/Shavuot... Tomatoe/ tomahto

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!

"In those days"

Today we all woke up to the news that an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Japan causing a tsunami and leaving in its wake much disaster. Later Hawaii was under tsunami warnings and the possibility of mass destruction to all of Hawaii was being contemplated. Then there was speculation over whether California as well as a total of over 45 countries could potentially be affected by the aftermath of such a tremendous earthquake.

What is really going on in the world at this time? Are we seeing an increase in global catastophes?
In the last days we will see the creation of a one world system that will be used as in the days of Pharaoh.
There will be two opposing systems. One will be the Restoration of the House of David and the return to Torah as stated in the prophecies of Malachi, Deuteronomy and the prohets Jeremiah and Isaiah. this new kingdom will be ruled by one king who's name is Jesus the Messiah/Yeshua Ha Moshiach. Teh People of the land will submit under the righteous and sovereign reign of a fair and just King who is merciful and abounding in grace.
The other will be the restoration of the Tower of Babel, a man made system relying on the wisdoms of man to be our saviour. for instance; if we only had better education our children would live better and through some sort of osmosis become better people. The tower of babel causes and facilitates confusion of languages and ways of life. To think that there are many ways to act human necessitates the dilemma that your way will at some point have to be wrong so that someone else can have it their way.
What if Satan the enemy of God's Kingdom wishes to crush your system of economics creating a "famine" in the land? What if the desire of the enemy is to have God's children sign a "peace treaty" or work contract with the One who opposes Elohim in order that we could eat? What happened after Joseph in egypt saved the multitudes is that the fair_oh died and another came "who Knew not Joseph" and that new pharaoh is the current governmental system in America that "knows not Jesus/Yeshua".
After the new pharaoh came into power he forced labor upon the Israelites and tried to first emotionally and spiritually kill them. when that was found to be futile; they multiplied and grew great in number, He then sought to murder the babies (abortion).
Could it be that America is looking more and more like we are leaning toward a Babylonian system. A system of entitlement programs with a multitude of people who think that the Government owes us sustinance?
The Torah of YHWH encourages all who accept it to persevere and to be dilligent. Teh Torah cultivates an attitude of persistence, a spirit of leadership that never gives up until it achieves it's goal, it is a spirit that never gives up. Contrary to modern day philosophy (love of thought) that promotes an attitude that you should wait and get some kind of sweepstakes handout, or being disabled enough entitles you to free social security checks and the like.
Yhwh is counting on you and I to restore order to His Kingdom through the return to instructions given in His Torah.
This current world system rejects the existence and the very importance of G-d in our lives and in our government, and the result is the breaking of covenant with the Lord. How can we expect the blessing from G-d when we reject His instructions, His Feastdays, his Teachings and doubt His provisions.
It sounds like it makes for a fractured relationship. What do you say?
Do you Love Jesus?
Do you want to know Him more?
Do you care what he wants?
Do you need closer fellowship with Him?
Would you like to know how He did things?
I hope that you answered all of the above in a resounding Yes.

Remember that the kingdom will be established by righteous, spirit filled lovers of YHWH/Yeshua who by His spirit will bring order to this chaotic group of people.
Jeremiah 1:5 says, "before I formed you in your mother's womb I knew you, and I set you apart to be a prophet to the Nations."

Will you help restore the Kingdom of God here on earth or will you be like the many who will choose to sit comfortably on their lazy-boy with their remote control in hand waiting for the "rapture"?
If you would, please join us in the restoration of the House of David.David is the type and shadow pointing to the Messiah Jesus/Yeshua.

Well, have you had enough?
Do the headllines cause you to be concerned?
What will happen? Are the movies regarding the "Last Days" accurate?
Well, get ready for change in paradigm.
Did you know that the endtimes escatalogical understanding that is preached in so many churched today is a theory that came to be only 200 years ago?
First let's establish the character and nature of YHWH/G-d.
How can we do this apart from the Scriptures/Bible/Torah.
If you see terms like Torah you must know that I am talking about our Bible or I may be talking about only the first five books of the Bible.
Never the less, we are not talking about anything other than that which we recieve our Lord Jesus from.
The Nature and characteristics of G-d and of Jesus/Yeshua are articulated in the Torah. Before the incarnation through Miriam/Mary we can see pre-incarnate theophonies of the Risen Savior. But most importantly we can establish these truths about our G-d.
He is not a man that He should lie. I must elaborate and say that He couldn't lie as it would deny His character.
You will never see a shadow from His turning. In other words He doesn't change his mind.
That He keeps the covenants that even we break. He is a covenant kepping G-d.
Slavation comes from G-d alone through the perfect life lived in His Son Jesus/Yeshua who became the Passover Lamb once and for all shedding His blood for all mankind.
So let's look at the end of time thought process that so tortures the believer.
the following are only assumptions and falsehoods.
1. God will finally lose it, and destroy the unbeleivers during the tribulation.
2. God will "rapture" up the holy church into the sky and abandon the wicked on earth to be toyed with and tortured by haSatan.
3. Assumption- we are the holy ones and the Jewish people will stay on earth through the tribulation to find out who there Savior is.
First off let me say that I am not writing this to make anybody mad. So don't let the enemy toy with us.
dividing the house has bee the plan and the M.O. of the perpetrator.
Remember so long as we buy into the division of the House of Israel/Jacob the whole kingdom of God is put off for another time.
The intentions of our messiah was to restor the Whole House of Jacob/Israel so that through Israel the message of the Messiah and the redemptive nature of YHWH would be spread/taught. However due to the nationalistic pride of Judah the good news of redemption was kept from the Nations/Gentiles because of their "unclean" status.
When Jesus/Yeshua came to earth it was not to establish an alternate religion. Nor was it to Judge with an iron fist. Rather He said He came to deliver.
Deliver... Deliver from what?
Brokeness, and despair, Fear and separation from a loving God.
Imagine if you will that the purpose of the saviour coming was to inspire us with the Holy Spirit of G-d to go out and delilver our brethren rather than to chastise and condemn. Conviction comes from the Holy Spirit and Condemnation comes from our brethren.
If YHWH looked upon the creation and said, "It is good," then why would He destroy it? Maybe if we all repented of thinking we would know how to run the world and only would submit to His ways; Torah rather than rejecting it sight unseen, then we might begin to see the Kingdom of G-d manifest.
If every man, woman and child began to walk more in the ways, characteristics and attributes of Jesus, we would not have the moral depravity and absence of ethical conduct that is rampant today.
It is not about religion, remember, it is about relationship with the Creator of the Universe. If we love Him we would want to know what pleases the LORD and make efforts to do those things that please God. Not to appease but to be pleasing.
Question... Why hasn't God raptured the church yet and what on earth is He waiting for?
The so-called church is still in exile for the most part, though we "accepted" Jesus or rather the work that He did, we still reject the majority of His Character and separate ourselves from one another with labels. Christian, Jew, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Protestant, Muslim, buddhist etc, etc, ad infinitum.
What I beleive He is waiting for on earth is the realization of His children that we are the wall of enmity that separates the kingdom from coming.
There is one God, His name is His Characteristics and Attributes. He never changes, he never gives up, He never changes His mind, He never makes mistakes.
He is long suffering and patient for us to move.
The power of the Living God and Risen Savior lives and resides with in each of us. Only together can the Kingdom come, bringing change and restoration to our families and to our country.
It will be the nation of Isarel/ You and I who can power the change to happen. It will be the Ruach Ha Chodesh/ the Holy Spirit of the Living God who provides the power and the words. Without Jesus/ Yeshua there is no use .
I believe in the Power of Yeshua with in you to make a change. even if it is small it is a change none the Less.
Where is Jesus/Yeshua today? He is in You!
If He is in you and I then why look up into the physical clouds for His returning?
Why not look into the Spiritual clouds also known as witnesses/believers?
For He will return in the same manner in which He was taken up; in the clouds.
Remember how he was surrounded by the clouds and taken up?
You are the clouds, I am the clouds, we are the clouds!
If we get out of His way the light of the Son can shine through.
May God richly bless you and give you sight to see that His presence is in your midst...
When we look at the Holy half-Shekel, think of it representing the two houses of Judah and Ephraim.
Judah representing the Jewish people who do know the nature and character of the Savior but may not have seen Him yet.
and
Ephraim also referred to as Israel; representing those who are thought by their Jewish brethren to have been scattered to the ends of the earth due to their rebellion to the Torah and are thought to be "dead" due to their spiritual status of being separated from the Ha Torah. This House of tribe if you will permit, is or could be the church today who is in posession of the Messiah but lacks the deeper understanding of the Scriptures that our brother the Jew possesses.


If you coudl imagine the Jew and the Church being the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Ephraim coming back together as one (Ezekiel 37 prophecy of the two sticks) then we can see that our reunion of sorts could restore order to the world. No longer would we be bamboozled and hoodwinked by the political correct acceptance of readical Islam. As Our country rejects the Bible and any mention of Yeshua/Jesus in schools they make mention of allowing Sharia Law being permitted in our Country.
simply doesn't make much sense.
We have Jesus but we stand to learn much more.
Our brothers the Jews beleive in the same Bible we have. They simply haven't seen Yeshua modeled in me, maybe us.
We are going to make it if we begin to look at the world differently and not as though the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would utterly destroy the earth and create another. He loves us with an everlasting love. Can we reciprocate by drawing near to His ways? I hope so, it seems to be our only hope.
May God encourage you this day and every day.

Pastor Donald J. Maher
Beit Tikveh U'Nesim
House of Hope and Miracles
401 N. Commerce Street
Lockahrt, Texas 78644

Rejection of His Own

Recently with the growth that the Lord has provoked in our lives we have seen certain folks that we would normally think of as dear friends act like we were leppers.
This is troubling to say the least, however it is not fatal... for us anyway.
Rejection comes in many flavors but most painfully from the ones you love.
Since answering the calling of the Lord Jesus: Yeshua Ha Moshiach and listening to the Spirit that Adonai placed with in me, I have seen my "family and friends" reject the move of G-d as though it were a plague.
Ezekiel the Prophet states that the Kol Voice of Hashem came to him and spoke this;
that Hashem would place His Spirit with in us and that He would move us to desire to know His spirit. Yeshua/Jesus said that a man cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven lest he be "born again".
What direction would the Spirit of Adonai move us? Toward or away from the Hebrew roots of our faith. Would the Spirit of G-d desire us to move away from the Jewish People or to move toward them with love and admiration. To move toward our brethren and to unite the family of Elohim throught the Spirit of Christ Jesus/ Yeshua Ha Moshiach.
To be "born again" means to be made new and to allow yourself to be taught. For what child is born with attitude that prevents them from learning. On the contrary, the innocent and pure heart is an easel for us to paint upon. We defile the innocent mind through de-sensitization and blatant assaults on the virtue of our young.
But what about us?
Can we trust again?
can we be born again so that we not only trust but are willing to learn the attributes and the character of Jesus Christ/ Yeshua the Messiah?
The other day my wife and friend were walking down the street in our little town when they were passed by an old friend. This was someone we spend much time around a long time ago. They too are "Christians" but i guess they must think that we are different "Christians" and not the same caliber as they are. Subsequently the driver ignore the two ladies and drove on past as though they never saw. Very well.
Later the same day, the driver and her husband were driving through town and it was made quite plain that they both saw my wife and children in the car we have had for some time and chose to look forward as though they were tremedously busy.
Does the Church of Jesus Christ see others that don't attent their congregation as less than whole, as less saved? WWJD?
Ask yourself what would the early church in Corinth or Galatia do?
Did Peter and Paul only go to the Synagogue or did they go and love on the ones who weren't in the temple?
The answer is they reached out and met the people where they were.
This last weeks Parsha states in the Chumash that Yitro/Jethro has 7 different names.
No he didn't have split personalities but it should be noted that under certain circumstances or in different territories he may have been know by different names.
Likewise Yeshua/Jesus may be referred to by different pronunciations yet the scriptures state that you will know them by their fruit and by their walk.
WWJD?
How did he teach? Was it with arrogance?
Of course not!
So why does the body of so called "Christians" beat each other up so often?
Isn't this the same reason that Yeshua took the blessing of the
Torah and gave it to the Multitudes? Ie: the lost 10 tribes?
The Religious Jews would not share the blessings of the Torah with those whom they saw as dirty ritualisticly unclean. This was the old addage, "don't cast your pearls amongst the swine."
With that attitude they held tightly to the greatest gift that had been given to them freely.
Freely I give it unto you, freely you shall give it away.
So now we see the same false piety in the church of today looking down on others because they don't belong to our congregation or den0mination. how are we different?
If indeed we are saved by the blood of Christ through faith then aren't the Jews who held tighlty to the Torah just as saved as the christians who are now holding firmly and tightly to the deliverence that was given them?
We are to walk out the lifestyle and characteristics of Yeshua so that the love of the Spirit is seen and witnessed in us.
What message are we sending in our daily walk?

If you love me, you would keep my commands and do them.
You don't have to do a thing, however if the HOLY Spirit really dwelled in us would'nt it be leading us toward yearning to do Torah out of our freedoms?
Pray about it and ask the LORD what He would have you to do.
I love you and pray that you see that legalism will do nothing for you. Legalism also comes in many different forms such as the form that tells you, "you can't study the Torah because that's legalism".
Matthew 5:17 on says Jesus told the disciples, "Do not think that I came to do away with the Torah and the prophets, but rather I came to fulfill (make fuller, completely clear and understandable) it. truly i say unto you that not the least letter or stroke of the pen will be abollished from the Torah till all heaven and earth pass away.
Shalom, and Rejoice!
He Came to Deliver not Condemn.