Holy and unholy, and offense - or not
Torah
Parashah – Chayei-Sarah / Life of Sarah
B’re’shiyt
/Genesis 23:1-25:18
Holy and
unholy, and offense - or not
Remember
two weeks ago – we talked about:
Habakkuk 3:17-18
“EVEN
THOUGH, the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; he
yield of the olive tree shall fall flat, and the fields shall yield no food:
the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the
stalls:
18 Yet I
will rejoice in Yahuah. I will be
joyously happy in the God of my Yahusha /Salvation.”
This is the big – “Even though – I will”
Have you
thought about this?
I’ve been
thinking about the importance of words…
The way a
phrase can blow a huge wind of motivation
On coals of your heart… that might not have much fire…
What is a phrase that stirs up motivation for you?
I have
seen something from
Daniel 3:25
King
Nevuchadnetzar said:
“Look, I
see four men loose,
walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not hurt...”
“There’s another in the fire”
For a while now…
When you
hear that – or remind yourself of that…
What do you think?
It makes
me think –
I can do
hard things, because there is another with me…
I am not alone!
Where is
that passion in believers today?
I want to
talk about something that takes passion…
Fire… intensity…. Determination that says, I can do hard things…
Kadosh/Holy and khol/unholy
Wayiqra
10 – Aharon’s
sons Nadav and Avihu
have just offered 10:1 “strange fire before YHUH, which He commanded them not.”
10:2 And there went out fire from YHUH, and devoured them, and they died before YHUH.
(If
this doesn’t make it clear to us –
-how crucial it is to know Yahuah’s instructions …!!)
The bodies
of Nadav and Avihu are carried out
and then
Yah has Moshe instruct Aharon and his living sons –
-
Don’t
do the things that you would do to grieve
-
And
don’t leave the Tabernacle – lest YOU die.
-
And then
Yah spoke to Aharon:
10:9 “Do not drink wine nor strong
drink, you, nor your sons with you,
when you
go into the Tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die:
it shall be a chuk le-olam-va-ed throughout
your generations.”
Wayiqra/Leviticus
10:10-11 RSTNE
p87
“And that you may put a difference between that which is kadosh and defiled, and between unclean and clean. And that you may teach the children of Yisrael all the chukim, which YHUH has spoken to them by the hand of Moshe.”
Tomorrow is an unholy pagan holiday in our world.
Halloween
is about satanism.
There is nothing of YHUH in it.
It comes from Druidism.
If you
need to see more of the evil of what is going on today…
Look at
how they celebrate death.
Halloween is about human sacrifice.
You don’t
have to look far – you could just drive through our town
and look
at the disgusting yard decorations!
It should
be a crime to put out the things that some are doing!
It has to trigger people who have had satanic ritual abuse.
Halloween
isn’t even about candy – although that is what our culture will tell you.
That is
even what some churches will tell you.
Come to
our “Fall Festival”…
Some of us
participated in this…
But praise
Yah our eyes are opening!
Anton
Levey wrote in The Satanic Bible on page 96
“After one’s own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht (May 1st) and Halloween (or All Hallow’s Eve).”
But the
WORD of Yahuah says:
Qorintyah
Alef/ First Corinthians 10:21 p 858
“You
cannot drink the kiddish cup of Yahuah, and the cup of shedim/demons: you cannot be partakers of Yahuah’s shulcan/
table and the Shulchan of shedim/demons.”
It matters.
B’re’shiyt
1:5
And called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the day one.
Evening = erev/ ereb = to mix or mingle, evening, darkened, mingle, meddle, mix, “swarms of flies”.
We know
from the beginning where Yahuah created in
B’re’shiyt
/Genesis 1:11
“And Alohiym said, ‘Let the earth bring out grass, the herb yielding zera, and the fruit eytz/tree yielding fruit after its kind whose zera/seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”
– This is not mixed seed.
When things are mixed – that is NOT “put(ting) a difference between that which is kadosh and defiled, and between unclean and clean.”
We don’t
put a difference between kadosh and khol – holy and unholy –
If we say
something like –
- “Well, that is not what we mean when we do it.”
Halloween
normalizes blood and fear… on the surface,
And deep down – is all about blood and fear sacrifices.
Of course it is about blood – because we know – the Truth and restoration is always about Messiah’s blood…His sacrifice was the last sacrifice for sin. He died and He rose! Praise Yahuah!!
--If you
want more information on Halloween
Let me share
a few Scripture verses again…
Wayiqra/Leviticus
10:10-11 RSTNE
p87
“And that you may put a difference between that which is kadosh and defiled, and between unclean and clean. And that you may teach the children of Yisrael all the chukim, which YHUH has spoken to them by the hand of Moshe.”
Qorintyah
Alef/ First Corinthians 10:21 p 858
“You cannot drink the kiddish cup of Yahuah, and the cup of shedim/demons: you cannot be partakers of Yahuah’s shulcan/ table and the Shulchan of shedim/demons.”
Phylypsiyah
/Philippians 4:8
p 891
“Finally, Yisraelite brothers, whatever things are emet/true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things of tov /good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any tehilla/prayer, think on these things.”
Where does
our focus need to be?
On Yahuah.
How do I
see the real issue though?...
My friend
Kim posted something that is
very
important for us to understand – both,
around
this hideous holiday that children celebrate with the adults,
AND in the
discussion of how we share our faith…
“…
sadly, the majority of Christ-followers
don’t realize that witchcraft and paganism
should never have been blended with
pure HOLY worship of YHUH.
And you think you’ve been uninvited from churches??
LOL
You can’t love Yah’s people and not be willing to offend them.
I have greatly offended HIM (YHUH)
in so much of my life and
He was so gracious to let me know.”
Please
hear me – this is not about being mean.
But
people are going to get offended
when they confronted with TRUTH.
Nobody really loves change….
Change is hard…
Unlearning is hard…. So offense happens!
Do you love them enough to offend them?
Because our lifestyle should be offensive to
them!
The things we don’t eat – should be offensive to them.
What am I talking about – “offense”.
When someone leaves what you do….
What are they saying??
Something like…
“I
don’t want to live like you do any more….”
That
is offensive to people!
We need to be making choices and not going along with the popular culture so much that we might actually be offensive.
AND STILL LOVE THEM.
And not going away.
Love does not believe – today
“you are okay wherever you are.”
“You are okay however you are living”
There is so little time…
Do you have enough Emet (Truth) to walk in a faith that won’t quit?
Ezekiel – laid on his side 430 days.
Elijah called fire down from heaven in a stand down with the enemy.
Elisha had the courage to ask for the mantel of Elijah!
Three men said – We will not bow to you. Our God can save us,
But if he doesn’t – we will still serve Him.
Noah built a boat – because rain was coming – nobody saw rain before that.
Abraham left what was familiar…
Debra led Yisra’el into battle.
Mary agreed to carry the Messiah – in the face of cultural danger.
Joseph agreed to marry Mary – when the culture told him not to.
The talmidim/disciples left their jobs and
families.
The real witness of faith –
-lived
a lifestyle and interreacted
with the people around them…
But if
you read their stories, you will find that
Every
single one of them and so many other Bible characters
were
offensive to the people around them…
the
very people that had the opportunity –
-right
in front of them to
NOT be offended and choose to grow and change too.
(I Corinthians 10:32 – “give no offense to the Yahudim,
nor to the nations, nor to the Yisra’elite congregation of YHUH.” – this
“Offense” – is to cause them to stumble.)
When I say “offense” I mean – irritated or even
frustrated and angry.
Messiah lived like this –
-His very life caused people that were not walking in
Truth to be angry.
And He still loved them and offered them opportunity to be healed and do teshuvah and be restored.
As I read some social media this week
I came upon someone who is truly offended by the ones who stand in Truth…
Does that mean we shouldn’t live or speak Truth around her?
No, it means we love her enough to keep living the way He has called us to live and speak the Truth….
In the Torah parashah today –
–
Chayei-Sarah / Life of Sarah
B’re’shiyt /Genesis 23:1-25:18
Sarah lived 127 years.
Avraham bought the field of Machpelah…
and paid a high price for it…. So nobody could say it wasn’t his.
Nobody did him any favors – he wasn’t
indebted.
This was probably offensive to some people.
Avraham sends Eleazar after a wife for Yitzchak.
He takes camels loaded with gifts…
and Rivkah/Rachel
waters the 10 camels.
Rivkah – left her family… the life she knew…
To go to what she didn’t know…
This was probably offensive to some people!
Avraham marries Keturah…. She has many children.
Genesis 25:5 And Avraham gave all that he had to Yitzchak.
Don’t think this wasn’t offensive to some people!
Avraham dies in the end… and then Yishma-El died.
But in this… might be a secret…Rivkah didn’t know the land and people where she was going…but what did she know?
She knew thee were promises…
Just like Avraham had the courage to go
Just like Sarah had the courage believe, even though she laughed.
P 181 in Book 2 of Journey 2 Freedom – Fatherhood and Generational Blessings.
Joshua and Caleb – They stood up for truth.
People weren’t happy with them! – They were offended by them.
Amanda wrote:
Those who do not know what their purpose and destiny was:
1. Did
evil (Deut 1:34-35)
2. Rebelled
against God (Deut 1:43)
I am going to deviate – from Amanda’s work… and add some things…
Yes we were not blessed in many ways –
-because in our bloodline, people did not follow Yah.
And we were cursed.
But – there are still blessings in our bloodlines
Yah is still giving gifts… and some people are acting on
those things
At least part of their lives.
And the blessings pass down…
We get all the blessings that came before (just like we get the curses).
This gives us –
2 Peter 1:3
We’ve been given all we need for life!!!
We’ve got it… we have what we need…
Yahusha said…
Mattityahu /Matthew 5: 44
“Rather I say to you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do tov to the that hate you, and make tefillah for those who despitefully use you and persecute you.”
Do we have the courage to love people enough
to live with passion and determination to walk in Yah’s Ways?
Do we have the faith and the conviction to live different?
Do we have the vision to be offensive…
Would we have said – we can go into the land?
Do we have the spiritual vision…
to love them no matter if…
Because we love them so much that we offer
them the
opportunity to be restored into Truth…?
- Just like Yah did for us.
Maybe we can live like the Bible people…
As Rob Skiba would say…
“Come on, people, let’s go!”
Because it’s Halloween …
And because of what mess we are living in…
Remember -
“…
sadly, the majority of Christ-followers
don’t realize that witchcraft and paganism
should never have been blended with
pure HOLY worship of YHUH.
And you think you’ve been uninvited from churches??
LOL
You can’t love Yah’s people and not be willing to offend them.
I have greatly offended HIM (YHUH)
in so much of my life and
He was so gracious to let me know.”
He was so gracious to let me know.
Will I have the courage to give GRACE (instruction) to the offended?
Come on church, let’s go!
There is another in the fire!
Sh’ma Yisra’el.
