JOHN AND YAHSHUA
We are now living in a time that parallels the time of YahShua. Yah's people were in bondage to the Romans at the time YahShua appeared upon the scene. The religious order of that day had become corrupt as YahShua, Himself, testified. When YahShua came and died as the final sacrifice that ended the physical world Kingdom of Yah represented by Judaism. The Kingdom of Yah then became a spiritual Kingdom known as His church. In these days Yah's people are in spiritual bondage to denominations in a corrupt religious order called in the Bible, "the first" and "second beast".
The word “beast” speaks of the animalistic portion of the fallen human make-up. That part of man that acts out of self-awareness, preservation and selfish gain. "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of "a man"; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." Yah knows man’s number and it is 666. Taking on the nature of the sixth day creation. You can line up sixes from here to eternity and they will never become a seven, Yah's number.
I would like to compare the time of YahShua to the present time and show you where we are in the plan of Yah today.
First comes the natural then afterwards the spiritual. John the Baptist was a type of the true move of Yah that was seen until the Church Age ended. YahShua is a type of the new move of Yah, a higher order, that is about to appear in our day.
There was a man of the tribe of Levi named Zechariah, a priest whose wife was barren. They were both past childbearing age and well up in years. Zechariah ministered within the polluted and corrupt religious order of Judaism prior to the coming of YahShua. While burning incense upon the altar before the Lord, the angel Gabriel appeared to him and told him his wife was going to have a child of supernatural birth. His name was to be John and he would be great before the Lord.
In fifteen nineteen there was a priest by the name of Martin Luther who was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He, too, ministered in the corrupt religious order of the Dark Ages. The Lord spoke to him by revelation and salvation through grace was brought to light. (World Almanac) People begin to experience the new birth and many of the early teachings of YahShua were rekindled.
Zechariah did not believe the message of the angel and was struck dumb until the time of the circumcision of the child as prescribed by Law. It was at this time the name of the child is announced to the public.
Martin Luther never became a renowned religious leader although the church order today owes their birth to him. His life was virtually silent as was Zechariahs.
Later some distance away, in the small town of Nazareth in Galilee the angel Gabriel again appeared to a little virgin. She, too, was told of the child who would be born of her and His name was to be YahShua.
At this present time in the wilderness country of the Spirit there is a virgin. One who is pregnant with the sons of Yah and she is in travail to give birth. The child born to her will put the final touch to Yah's plan for man and they will be great before the Lord.
Zechariah's wife gave birth to a son and he was called John. He was filled with the Holy Spirit from conception, literally the womb.
While in Bethlehem to pay taxes Mary gave birth to the child, YahShua, and it was announced to the world by angels and a shining new star. After YahShua was born Herod the Great sent his soldiers to slay all the children in Bethlehem hoping to kill the Messiyah. But, an angel had warned Mary and Joseph and they fled with the baby into Egypt.
In Revelation we read about the woman in the wilderness who is travailing to birth a child, but a great red dragon appeared before her to devour the child as soon as it is born. This dragon is better known as the Babylon Harlot Religious System or the beast of Revelation.
“We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in child birth right up to this present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of the body. For in this hope we are saved.”
When the woman gives birth it will be to a "man or a fully mature child" and before the dragon, that ol' serpent, can do anything, the manchild will be caught up to Yah and receive immortality and will have come to his throne of authority.
In the hill country of Judea beside a pool of clear water sat a man in animal skin. His beard was rough and his hair lay in strings upon his shoulders. Near him on the ground was a piece of doeskin with a pile of roasted locusts upon it and stuck into the ground is a forked stick holding a honeycomb dripping with fresh honey. "The word of Yah came to John, son of Zechariah, in the desert, wilderness". He arose and, "...went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins". Baptizing in water, John was telling of Messiyah, who would come and baptize in the Holy Spirit and fire.
One day the priests and elders came out to where John was baptizing and asked who he was. He replied “...the voice of one crying, make straight the way of the r, as said the prophet Esaias.” By saying this he was telling them his purpose for baptizing. He was to prepare the people for the coming of YahShua.
The Fundamental and Pentecostal movements come out of the Dark Ages and are ministries patterned after John the Baptist. They spread churches far and wide over the country preaching repentance. They were baptizing in water all that were converted, and preaching the second coming of the Lord. Like John the Baptist, they come in the spirit of Elijah, preparing the way.
YahShua said, "Elias(Elijah) truly shall first come, and restore all things". Then He goes on to tell them that John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah. YahShua used the word "shall come" first and that is future tense. John was already there when He was speaking, so what YahShua was telling them is that another Elijah was to come. You will find the Elijah spirit in the seven Church Ages of the Book of Revelation, which also follows that they are a type of John the Baptist.
Fundamentals and Pentecostals were a powerful move of Yah and were supposed to prepare the way for Sonship. Instead, these movements begin to preach the rapture of the church BEFORE the Second Coming of Messiyah, who is YahShua. This doctrine did not come from the Apostles but from a vision of the rapture that began in 1830, by Margaret MacDonald. She interpreted the vision literally and Bible verses were ascribed to it as proof. It spread throughout the new reformation movement. This turned believers eyes from the true hope of the church.
The reality of what they were supposed to do is to prepare the way for the manifestation of the sons of Yah. “For in this hope we are saved.”
One day YahShua came to John to be baptized and at that point the Spirit left John and descended upon YahShua in the form of a dove. YahShua fulfilled the whole Law for us.
John had finished the work he was born to do and he told his disciples, "Look, the Lamb of Yah, who takes away the sin of the world". Then John later testifies, "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. I would not have known him, except the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, the man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain he is who will baptize with the Holy Spirit. ...This is the Son of Yah."
The sons of Yah came and were baptized into the church, John's ministry, and took part in it. At the time it was a blessed move of Yah and they, like YahShua, came and received the Spirit of Sonship. The church was quick to notice that the Spirit was upon them and gave them important places in the system, even in the ministry.
Some of John's disciples left him and begin to follow YahShua. John himself said, "He must increase and I must decrease". Yet, John kept right on preaching repentance. He had a dead message for YahShua had already come and he no longer had the anointing because the Spirit of Ministry had left him and now rested upon YahShua.
How do I know that happened? From this point on the Bible is silent about John's ministry and takes up the story of the ministry of YahShua. John is not mentioned again except to tell us of his unbelief while in Herod's prison and of his death.
John told his disciples to follow YahShua, but he did not take his own advice. How could John turn his back and go on as though nothing had happened? Yah had testified to him of this man and he had even seen the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him. Why would he not follow Him?
It would mean he would have no more purpose, no disciples, and no ministry. Sometimes the very act of ministering becomes more important than Yah's will. It would mean denying himself the importance placed upon him by his followers and the popularity of the masses who followed him. What was he to do? The only thing left to him now was to go back into the wilderness and fade into obscurity or become a follower of YahShua and stand in the background of what Yah was doing. For a person who has tasted the ministry that is hard to do. He would then have to stand before the gloating priests and elders with their finger pointing.
John's choice was not to deal with it at all. He kept right on preaching as though everything was the same, deceiving his own heart.
I believe, by witness of the Spirit, that if John had willingly laid down his ministry and followed YahShua that he could have been one of the twelve disciples. He could have been alive to be in the New Covenant and could have played an important part in the early Church.
The same choice is held out to those in ministry today. Any minister who is willing to lay aside his power and position and humbly follow the Spirit into the wilderness, submitting to the stripping away of the old carnal religious order, can become a spirit being and play an important part in the end time ministry. "He sets aside the first to establish the second." It is not easy to lay down something that was such a blessing and once a powerful move of Yah.
It is not easy even for those who are just under the seducing influence of the Religious Harlot, who hear the words of this book, trumpet, and are willing to be stripped. Those who lay down their religious pride and the false security of the church order can become a part of the end time move of Yah and partake of the blessings of the sons of Yah.
As the New Covenant was established through the death of YahShua, the curtain in the Temple was rent from top to bottom. That signified that the Glory of Yah that dwelt above the Ark of the Covenant had departed, leaving the Most Holy Place empty. The Glory has departed this present Church Age just as it departed the Temple and John's ministry.
When an old move of Yah is finished or becomes polluted the glory departs as it did with Judaism. There may remain a form of godliness, but there is no power, power of Yah that is. Men's traditions are carried on just as if nothing has happened and most are so duped by emotionalism, like a sexual climax, by the Harlot's religious spirit that they do not even notice the difference.
Now, after YahShua partook of John's ministry, the Spirit lead Him into the wilderness. YahShua was tempted forty days and forty nights. Again this was done for us. Forty is the number value of death. This is seen by the flood of Noah, the wondering of the Israelites in the desert, and by the type of temptations YahShua underwent.
He was not tempted, as a mere man would be tempted. Each temptation was to get Him to use His divine power for temporary self-gain. But, YahShua overcame it all with the sword of the word. When He came out His self-life was dead and He was Yah's man.
Like YahShua, we follow the Spirit as He leads us into the wilderness of the Spirit realm. Wilderness means an uninhabited place, a place barren of man's ways. Yah has a people doing their forties right now out there in the wilderness, outside the camp, denominational walls. Anyone inquiring revelation knowledge of the Lord is to go outside the camp. We put on Yah's righteousness in a place that is ceremonially clean outside the camp, outside church walls. There is no religious ceremony out here, just a purging of our own self-righteousness, and all religious theology and manmade doctrines.
The old man of earth is dying while being taught by the Spirit. The Spirit is teaching Yah's sons true spiritual values and what the teachings of the Bible really mean. Flowing in the anointing, they are being conformed to the image of a Son of Yah and learning to be spirit beings. They are fasting from man's ways, and learning Yah's. They are being cleansed from all impurities or the old wine of religion. You don't see us, most don't even know about us, but we are in the wilderness doing Yah's will.
In the womb, a child is sustained by the mother and eats nothing itself. The sons of Yah are now in the womb of the next move of Yah and are in the fast that Yah has called. They are turned toward Yah, are in the birth canal and will soon be birthed, manifested, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. The last trumpet, message, is sounding now if you have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying unto the church, believers.
The first thing YahShua did after He came out of the wilderness was to go to a wedding at Cana. There He turned the water into wine. When asked to do this, YahShua said, "My time has not yet come". However, He did the miracle, but only His mother and a few servants knew from where the wine came. The master of the wedding feast called the bridegroom and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink, but you have saved the best till now".
It is not yet time for the sons of Yah to be manifested to the world, and only a select few will know who they are. The best wine, Holy Spirit move of Yah, will be served to the world after they have well drunk the cheaper wine of the Church Age. “...we ourselves, who have the firstfruit of the Spirit.” And have now become drunken on the Harlot Religious System's adulteries. First the good wine of emotionalism, then the numbing wine of deception.
Meanwhile, John kept on baptizing and preaching. Talk about a hell fire and brimstone preacher, John was one. He pointed his finger right into the face of King Herod and Herodias preaching them a sermon on morality that landed him in Herod's prison.
The modern day John, Church Age, was arrested by man, religion, and locked away in denominational prison. At this point the church moved into the Laodicea Church Age. In the Greek the word Laodicea means, "Opinionated". The church no longer waited for the leading of the Holy Spirit in it's services, but became a religious entity operating by man's opinion, whims and wishes. They so dominated the services and usurped authority until Yah was unable to move anymore by His Spirit. A religious spirit soon replaced the Holy Spirit in the meetings and the pure move of Yah was bound in fetters in the dungeons of modern religion.
This was no shock to Yah, He knew very well it would happen and made provision for those who remained faithful and were willing to follow Him instead of man. These He calls overcomers. In the Old Testament they were called the remnant, but after the cross YahShua calls them overcomers. Now an overcomer is set aside for Yah and has something to conquer, to overcome.
When YahShua began to preach openly and manifest Himself to the world, He did many miracles. He kept saying, "The kingdom of Heaven is like..." or "The Kingdom of Yah is like..." So, what YahShua taught and did in His earthly ministry was prophesy. He prophesied in type and shadow of what was to come, telling us about and showing us spiritual things in parable form.
During the Kingdom Age, when the sons of Yah are manifested, the things YahShua talked about and the types and shadows of His ministry will be fulfilled. Let's take a look at some of His miracles and see what we can learn.
Many of the miracles recorded in the Bible that YahShua did were done on the Sabbath day. YahShua was raised as a Jew and knew the law of not working on the Sabbath. Did He deliberately do these miracles on the Sabbath just to incite the religious leaders of His time? What was He doing?
The seventh Church Age was supposed to be the Church Age of rest. Instead of resting in the Spirit, it became the Church Age of lethargy, neither hot or cold.
This was the time of Sabbath unto the Lord, a Holy Convocation, meeting, was to be made. The church system is still working, being religious on this Sabbath day and is cut off from what Yah is doing. However, there is a meeting being called by the Spirit of Yah. Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit says unto the church, those born again believers. We are to cease from our religious work, rituals and formulas, and rest in the Spirit.
The first miracle recorded in the Bible that YahShua did on the Sabbath was in a synagogue. Synagogues were equivalent to our modern day churches. There he healed a man with a withered right hand. The hand is what we do things with and is representative of the five ministry gifts placed in the church, believers.
YahShua was angry and distressed by the stubborn hearts of the religious leaders who thought He should not do miracles on the Sabbath for it was a day of rest. They considered what He did a type of work since it was His everyday labor.
I would like to say here, that just as the Israel of old did not go in and possess their inheritance the first time Yah brought them to the Jordan, so, also, the church did not go in and possess immortality and their inheritances in the first Church Age. We are at the brink of the spiritual Jordan again now.
It will soon be an eternal Sabbath, a time when Yah will move mightily by His Spirit to restore the church, true believers, not a building or that form of worship. The Babylon Religious Spirit will be dealt with and destroyed by Yah. The scattered sheep of Yah who trusted in the Harlot will then be looking for understanding. Into their midst will walk the manifested sons of Yah. The withered ministries, hand, in people's lives will be restored to what Yah intended and they will then minister blessings unto all of mankind.
The second miracle was the casting out of an evil spirit. This, also, took place on a Sabbath in a synagogue. The evil spirit began to speak of who YahShua was and YahShua silenced him and cast him out.
There will be a type of men with evil spirits among those who survive the destruction of the church order. They will be men retaining the religious spirit and they will try to minister in the Kingdom Age, but the sons of Yah will put them to silence and drive out the evil, religious, spirit.
The third time YahShua ministered on the Sabbath day was to a crippled woman bent over by a spirit for eighteen years and she could not raise herself up or stand upright. YahShua loosed her from that spirit and she straightened up and praised Yah.
There will be those who are so bent over with earthly understanding that they can not look up and see heavenly things. These only understand things of the earthly, for the deceiving spirit of man’s doctrine and religious theology holds this type of person. Even those who are set, bent over, in their ways for many years will be loosed and rise up into the Heavenlies and begin to praise Yah.
Fourthly, YahShua went to eat at the house of a prominent Pharisee. At the table in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy, a disease that made him too weak to get up and move about. So, YahShua took hold of the man, healed him and sent him away. This was done on the Sabbath day.
There are going to be many whose experience was anchored in the Harlot Religious System and they have been kept so spiritually weak with the disease of religion and it’s teachings that they have dropped from spiritual understanding and can not get up. However, during the Kingdom Age they will be touched by the sons of Yah ministry, be healed of their infirmities, and sent out to do Yah's will in their lives.
The fifth time YahShua did a miracle on the Sabbath day was the healing of the invalid at the Pool of Bethesda. He had been thirty-eight years waiting for the Lord to stir the waters. YahShua just spoke to him and the man picked up his mat and walked.
Many who are discontented with the church today are waiting for a fresh moving of the Spirit. The Religious System has kept them invalids, but they will hear the message of the sons of Yah and see the move of the Spirit they have been waiting for their whole lives. They will take up their lives, mats, and walk before Yah as they have desired to do for so long.
As YahShua went along He saw a man blind from birth. YahShua said, "...this was so the works of Yah might be displayed in his life". Then He asked the man, "Do you want to get well?" After the man washed the mud from his eyes in the Pool of Siloam, meaning "Sent", he came home seeing. This was the sixth miracle done on the Sabbath Day.
It will not be the people's fault they are blind, they were born by faith into the Harlot Religious System. Faith is not an experience. “Faith is the substance, raw material, of things HOPED FOR and the evidence, legal deed, proof of; the assurance or the guarantee (NIV/TAV), of things NOT SEEN.” Faith only hopes for what is wanted even though it is not seen, but when what we hoped for comes, we experience it. We are saved by faith, but we experience being born again. YahShua said, "You must BE born again". It takes the born again experience for you to see, understand, or comprehend the Kingdom of Yah.
The same question YahShua asked the man He healed that Sabbath will be asked again in the Kingdom Age, "Do you want to get well?" If they are willing, the Spirit of Yah will wash the mud, flesh, from their eyes and they will come seeing with spiritual eyes and then be sent out to enlighten others.
YahShua told the religious leaders of His day, "...If a child can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing the whole man on the Sabbath?”
The seventh and final thing Yah is going to do in the eternal Sabbath day of the Kingdom Age is to heal the whole man, spirit, soul and body. Seven is the number value of completion. This is to be the time when death is put under foot and mankind partakes of everlasting life as YahShua promised.
Even all of creation will be free of corruption by taking part in the blessings of the sons of Yah, and they will glorify the Father throughout the Kingdom Age and all eternity.
John the Baptist could have at any time laid down his ministry and followed YahShua, but he could not face the loss of his own ministry. He deceived his own heart and that bred a spirit of unbelief in the depths of his heart that he could not shake off. Later, in prison, it surfaced when he had to ask, "Is He the one...(the Messiyah) ...or should we look for another?"
Sometimes out here in the wilderness we ask, "Why us? Are we the ones? Is there not another, someone more qualified to take the end time message to the world? Why not one of the great ministers or movements with large followings? They could reach more people with the message, come out and be cleansed of the old order and be preparing for the advent of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Let me tell you, this is a very humbling experience. There is no glory to be had out here. The only glory that will be seen in this end time move of Yah is Yah’s own glory. Yah has deliberately hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to little children.
No matter how much you think you know about Yah, out here you find you know very little. Most of what you thought you knew was man's ideas and church teachings and you have to lay them down for the truth of what the Spirit is showing you. We are Yah's remnant, the few, who choose the narrow gate, walk the narrow way of obedience, and overcome the beast, Babylonian Harlot Religious System. We are overcoming by the Word of Yah that is being spoken to us, and by virtue of the blood of the Lamb.
It was Herod's birthday celebration, Herodias hated John the Baptist because he dared preach at her, pointing an accusing finger. So, she conspired with her daughter to force Herod to cut off John's head. Herod delivered John's head to them on a silver platter just as they demanded. John was now dead.
The churches organized into denominations and set men over them in what is called the General Headquarters, under them are the District Headquarters and under them are the churches with their priests or pastors. This became the first beast of Revelation thirteen. Now the churches under the denominations were beginning to look just like their mother, Catholicism, and together they make up the embodiment of the second Beast, the false prophet. The first beast is the governing body of religion and the second beast a Religious Harlot. Well, you know when man takes the reigns of anything it soon becomes polluted with man's ideas and takes on man's ways instead of being what Yah intended.
Already a dead religious order, John's authority, influence, is now cut off. Once, the church, John, did Yah's will, but refused to move on with what Yah was doing, and so now with the death of the Church Age, John, the visible church became the Babylon Harlot Religious System. The seventh Church Age was cut short because it was put to death by the Beast System.
At the very birthday of the Denomination, Herod, while the celebration was still in full swing, the fundamentalism, Herodians, and her gifted daughter, Pentecostalism, conspired for the head, authority, of the Church, John, on a silver, salvation platter. Now she has the head, authority, and rules by the power granted her by the Denomination, Herod, for John's ministry exists no longer.
YahShua warned of this time when false Messiyah and false prophets would arise.
The disciples of John took his headless body and buried it, and brought YahShua the news. When YahShua heard this he withdrew to a solitary place. Then the crowds "Hearing of this, followed Him, ...from the towns."
When it was getting late YahShua told the disciples to give them something to eat. There were only five loaves of bread and two fish among them. YahShua fed the whole crowd of five thousand men, not counting the women and children. There were twelve baskets of food left over.
For a long time we mourned the death of the Church out here in the wilderness. Then the Spirit bid us leave the dead and follow him. If any will come from the town, denominations, out to our solitary place, like YahShua, we will have compassion on them and heal their spiritual sickness and give them the living word, bread. This bread is not something man has thought and taught, but revelation knowledge from the Spirit of Yah. Five is the number value of ministry and two the number needed as witness to establish a thing.
Twelve is the number value of the government of Yah. His government was first established with the twelve tribes of Israel. Then with the twelve disciples and finally with the twelve apostles of the first Church Age. In the book of Revelation John saw that the city, government, of Yah had twelve foundations and twelve gates. In it are trees with twelve manner of fruit. Twelve baskets were left over. Enough, in fact, to feed all whom come into the Kingdom of Yah.
Some Pharisees and teachers came to YahShua one day and ask, "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the Elders?" YahShua answered them with His own question, "Why do you break the command of Yah for the sake of your traditions?"
You, the reader, may ask, "Why do you break the traditions of the church and their teachings?" Then I will ask you, "Why do they make the truth of Yah a lie and use their traditions for profit and gain, not allowing the Holy Spirit to move freely in the services, dishonoring Yah?"
The Harlot began to make her present and newly acquired authority felt in the organized churches and so entered a new era, that of the Beast System. The seducing religious spirit of the Harlot under the direction of the denominations began her reign many years ago. The word "denominations" should be said, "de(the)Nomination", placing by vote. Yah puts nobody into office in the church anymore. The church board or membership under the strict denominational guidelines votes them all in.
When the "John" ministry became a dead order, the modern church became a dead order. There was no spiritual life in her anymore. The visible church is without Yah's presence for the Spirit is now upon the sons of Yah. The visible church has become a religious power. Soon though, its authority will be uprooted and men will begin to see her as the Harlot she is.
A harlot is one who has intercourse with many men, none who are her husband, for profit or gain. Selling herself like wares in the market place, she becomes an abomination in the sight of Yah and soon she will be in the sight of man. If you go in to her, sit under her ministries and partake of it you are having intercourse with her, like as a man who partakes of a woman when he comes in to her. That which is produced by that union is perverse teachings and carnal ideas. It is committing adultery against Yah, your espoused, the one you have committed to, defiling yourself with man and Yah must put you away, He must give you a writing of divorcement. People, this is serious business. It can kill you. The Harlot's seducing spirit will woo you away from Yah if you are not rooted and grounded in Him and cause you to become a whore just like her.
How do you know when you are in the presence of the Harlot? She is found controlling everything and the people cease to grow in the knowledge and revelation of Yah, no longer enduring sound, spiritual, doctrine. She has even exalted her place above Yah and is the abomination of desolation.
YahShua said of these, in spite of the power they seem to execute and all the seemingly good things they did, "I do not know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers" There is no ministry of Yah in her, she will not let the Spirit move. The only glory that is there is the glory of men and ministries.
Yah says of rebellious Israel, which is now the visible perverted church system, “The multitude of your sacrifices,(religious service and self-righteous acts) what are they to me? ...Who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts? Stop bringing meaningless offerings(lip service, solicited tithes and gifts)!
“Your incense(prayers and worship)is detestable to me...” He goes on to say, “Your new moons(revivals and conventions), Sabbaths and convocations (meetings). I cannot bear your evil assemblies. ...When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen."
YahShua looked squarely at the religious leaders of His day and boldly said, "I do what I have seen in my Father's presence and you do what you have heard from your father". You are of your father the Devil and you carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth for there is no truth in him, …the father of lies."
These were strong words and YahShua did not flinch when He spoke them. The word devil means “an adversary” or “an enemy"(Strong's Concordance). One time YahShua called Peter, Satan. The word Satan in the Bible means “accuser" or “an enemy”,(Strong's Concordance).
To be carnally minded is to be an adversary of Yah. “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against Yah...”
"...No one knows the thoughts of Yah except the Spirit of Yah. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from Yah, that we may understand what Yah has freely given us."
The modern day church is carnally minded and an enemy to Yah and His way of life. Again YahShua has said, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me(my people); you do not have in mind the things of Yah, but the things of men." They murder the spiritual life of Yah's people by stripping them of understanding, changing the ways of Yah into the ways of men and replace truth with lies for there is no truth in her. The Religious Order of today carries out the desires of their father, man.
In seven hundred twenty two the King of Babylon, laid siege on Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple and stripped it of it's gold. Likewise, religious Babylon has laid siege to Yah's people and stripped them of power, making them impotent in spiritual things. Yah’s people have become slaves to the church, and many times become a slave to a ministry. Bound with fetters of religious ideology, they receive the "mark" of its carnal mindedness, which is thinking as man. All bow down to the image, church, both small and great, rich and poor and worship it.
I would like to remind you of what YahShua told the disciples. ..."Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees". They did not understand so He explained that He was talking about their teachings. "...Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and teachers, ...You will certainly not enter the Kingdom of Heaven".
The Pharisees were the religious leaders of YahShua's time who taught strict religious guidelines, which they did not follow. Their modern counterparts are the church leaders, teachers and members. The newspaper headlines have been filled the last few years with how well they are doing what they teach. Yah brought them to an open shame yet their followers still do not see. Yah is beginning to uncover the skirt of the Harlot so all may see what she is. Blind leaders of the blind.
Yeast is bacteria that quickly overtakes the substance, or the dough it is placed in and causes it to rise. Through baking the substance the bacteria is killed and the product can then be safely ingested. YahShua was using it as the type of teaching that infects the hearers and causes them to be puffed up because of self imposed righteousness. The truth of Yah does not puff up, but humbles and brings spiritual understanding that is Yah's wisdom, not ours.
Unless your righteousness surpasses the righteousness of the religious leaders and you stop following them, you will of a certainty not be in the last day move of Yah. You have to come out and go into the oven of the wilderness where their teachings and your own self-righteousness is baked out of you by a baptism of fire.
John said YahShua would baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. The church world was quick to grab hold of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but wants nothing to do with the fire. I have news for you, they are one and the same. If you do not have the baptism of fire, you do not have the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
“We speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the, religious, rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of Yah's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that Yah desired for our glory before time began.”
At the death of John that virgin move of Yah so pure and free to all was cut short. The reign of the Harlot Religious System will also be cut short for the very elect's sake.
What the Harlot offers, she exacts a high wage. You are buying your walk, which the god religion holds out to you, nothing is free. If you do not pay willingly, they ask for it without the slightest embarrassment.
YahShua dealt with this situation in His time with a whip. How will Yah deal with the situation today? We are living in a time that parallels the time of YahShua and Yah is about to manifest His other sons.
After the death of John, the church, the sons of Yah heard the call of the Spirit, "Come out of her, my people, so you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues".
Yah always moves out first and then calls forth His followers, a type of which we see in Israel's wanderings in the wilderness. When the glory cloud moved, they followed. If any refused to move on they would have found themselves without the presence of the Lord. Here is where the modern spiritual Israel is worse than the natural.
Yah has a people who have come out of man’s Denominationalized Religious Order and who are following Yah to bring them up into the heavenlies. People who are learning to be spirit beings and whose life and nature are being conformed to that of Yah’s. These will not pollute nor bring anything of the old nature into the Kingdom Age because the old man with its religious carnal ways is dying in the wilderness as Israel of old. This is the work of the Spirit in these times.
YahShua said, "...Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he".
This is a profound statement and is as true today as in the time it was spoken. No greater move of Yah has ever appeared upon the scenes of time than the Church Age. Nothing in all of history has so touched the soul of man as the church and its powerful ministers crying, "Repent! Repent! Repent!"
However, that is not the message of the Spirit now. John is dead! The call of the Spirit today is to come out of the Perverse Religious Order. The Spirit of revelation is calling us to meet alone with Yah in a deserted place. Then you will begin to hear what the Spirit is saying unto the spiritual hidden church. Those who are willing to come out, even the least of those that have obeyed and moved on into the new order with the Spirit, are greater than any in the Church Age. YahShua promised, "Greater works than these shall you do..."
After six days YahShua took Peter, James and John with Him up on a high mountain. There He was transfigured before them and they saw His glory. There also appeared before them Moses and Elijah and they talked with YahShua. Peter, always the impetuous one, said, "Let us build some churches out of this revelation." But, YahShua instructed, even ordered them not to tell anyone what they had seen until after He was raised from the dead. YahShua never set up anything nor did He allow His disciples to do so.
After six days means that the day He revealed His glory to them was the Sabbath. On the eternal Sabbath of this new age Yah began to reveal His glory to His true followers. When we first came out of the perverse religious order and saw the glory of Yah, we tried to set up a church around our new experiences, but Yah soon put that to naught. We still had a lot of the old order in us and did not know churches were of the old order. Now, however, we know that nothing that even resembles the old order will stand in the next move of Yah. It will be as outmoded as sacrificing animals. Yah declared to us, "Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing."
Why did YahShua just take three disciples up on the mountain? Why not all of them? Was He playing favorites? Two or three is the number of witness. These three men were a witness to the glory of Sonship and there were to be no manmade structures, man’s order, involved.
I am convinced that at the manifestation of the sons of Yah, the Lord will appear, but not openly to the whole world. That will come later when men's hearts are ready to say, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”. Only the Sons of Yah will see Him at first and after all things are restored then He will appear openly. This follows the pattern He left us. Only His disciples and followers saw Him after His resurrection.
YahShua prophesied the destruction of Judaism and the visible Temple that represented the religious order of that time. Yah, through John in Revelation, foretold of the impending destruction of the Babylon Harlot Religious System of today. We saw the fulfillment of YahShua’s prophecy in seventy A.D. at the hands of the Roman Empire. You may rest assured the religious form of worship represented by the church systems will pass away just as John describes in Revelation.
If you are a part of her when she falls you will suffer great loss, for all that you trust in will be gone. You will stand without hope because your hope was in the wrong thing. That sense of loss will do one of two things, either drives you to seek Yah or drive you back into what you call the world. Wake up! Seek Him and His ways now before that great tribulation period befalls you. If you do not, you will be cut off from the end time move of Yah.
All will not be lost however. He has saved the best for the last, upon which the end of the world, or the present age, has come. After YahShua arose from the dead, He appeared to His disciples in the upper room while the doors were barred tightly shut. He then appeared to two on the road to Ammaus and later to five hundred followers at one time. The world as a whole did not see Him.
You can partake of the ministry of the sons of Yah, but you will suffer loss, should you remain within the religious systems or denominations. You will, because of unbelief, forfeit your right to the kind of immortality YahShua had after His resurrection. But, there remains the Lazarus kind of resurrection for you, everlasting life.
Allow me to show you something here. Immortality is not the same thing as everlasting life. Everlasting life is for this flesh and blood body, Lazarus resurrection life, and it is held out to all born again believers and they will not perish.
Paul said, “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
There are two distinct references here, corruptible to incorruptible, and mortal to immortal. If they were the same thing why say it twice. The first speaks of a flesh and blood existence that can and does perish. However, that will all change to that which will not perish or die, but have everlasting life. This is the kind of resurrection most believers will inherit.
Mortal speaks of that which can be destroyed which must give way to that which can not. It is speaking of undergoing a metamorphose change or a resurrection patterned after His resurrection. No longer a flesh and blood existence, but becoming spirit beings as YahShua was after His resurrection. YahShua could take upon Himself at will the form of a flesh body while remaining a spirit being. Immortality comes by partaking of the YahShua kind of resurrection. The ultimate plan of Yah is to bring many sons unto glory, immortality. YahShua, being the first born among many brothers.
Paul was assured the first kind of resurrection by virtue of being born again, but he saw something far more glorious in the resurrection of YahShua and it prompted him to cry out, "Oh, that I might know Him in the power of His resurrection".
I want you to understand that this is not something Yah will just dump on us. The Spirit of Yah is meek and will not force you to conform to the death of YahShua anymore than He forces you to accept the gift of salvation today. This is a gift that must be received and therefore we have a choice. The Bible says, to be crucified which means to be put to death, - which is dying to our self-life and carnal existence. If we allow the Spirit to crucify us with Him we will be like Him when He comes. It was Yah’s will to crucify Him and it is Yah’s will that our old man of the earth also be crucified.
You do not have to believe this, but I am telling you there is a time coming when immortal sons of Yah will walk the earth with mortal, imperishable man and that time is at hand.
We have received only a sketchy revelation of the Kingdom Age. The Bible declares, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what Yah has prepared for those who love him, but Yah has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things even the deep things of Yah."
It is going to take us a millennium to set things in order that man has messed up from the fall and then all of eternity to discover the wonders Yah has stored up for us.
John, the witness move of Yah, has been beheaded by the Denominations and the Harlot Religious System is in full power. Just how long Yah will suffer her remains to be seen. As for us, our spirit bears witness with the Spirit of Yah that Yah is beginning to allow us a small voice. A small glimmer of the dawning of the new age is beginning to be seen by those who have eyes of understanding. The plan of Yah is going forward and none can stop it. It is late, if you snooze you loose. How much longer we have before the sons of Yah are manifested is a question easily answered. NOT LONG!