The problem is that the religious man needs things they can see and touch, something their carnal minds can relate to. A spiritual man needs none of these things for they understand spiritual things are not of the sense realm nor are they tangible.

First, I want you to know the religious leaders of today are not spiritual. They are religious and can not bring you to maturity. Religious things are never spiritual. Yah's people are right where they were shortly after the first Church Age. They have neither grown spiritually nor advanced in spiritual knowledge. They still need milk like a baby, and are not able to partake of solid food. We must go on in order to grow up into the Head.

The difference between baby Christians and a mature son of Yah is in their realm of thinking. Babies think only about what is around them and how it directly affects their lives, whereas a mature believer is spiritually minded. That is, they think on things that can not be seen, but are more real than things that do appear. Things seen will pass away while unseen spiritual things are eternal.

The purpose of this article is to stimulate you into thinking spiritual thoughts. "I pray that the eyes of your understanding(heart) might be enlightened in order that you may know the hope of which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe."

Other races of people have given us our great civilization, but religious education came through the Jews. Salvation and spirituality came through YahShua Messiyah.

When YahShua was about to die upon the cross He said, "It is accomplished". All that He had been trying for three and a half years to teach His disciples was now brought into fulfillment. In the same way, what the early Apostles tried to teach was accomplished and they died. The foundation teachings were established and it was time to build upon them. Unfortunately, that did not happen.

Two thousand years later and we are still hearing the same carnal teachings of the first Church Age.

The Gospels speak to all cultures and to the Church Age:

Matthew: Written to reach the religious mind of Israel by stressing the fulfillment of the laws and the promises.

Mark: Dwells on power and acts of authority that appeal to the Roman mind.

Luke: Appeals to the intellect, showing the Master's deity in great teachings with proof of His deity, which the Greeks seek after.

John: Writes to all, especially the common man with little or no education, for it remains simple and full of love.

The churches today appeal to all people who love law and promises. The modern day Markeans seeking power and authority are found in Bible colleges, while the new Mattheweans can be found in religious seminars. Those with Lukean minds go here and there seeking "a Word of the Master" from ministries who give it to them for a price. For uneducated Johneans, a pew, a place to belong and have fellowship. There is no spiritual growth in any of these endeavors.

The Epistles are letters to the churches and are written to correct error and to instruct and encourage. Paul found, however, true spiritual teaching was impossible to relate for the church was carnally minded, like babes needing milk, not solid food.

You no longer need the Gospels or the Epistles, they were for the Church Age. The Church Age has closed now and what we need is the Living Word spoken to our hearts daily by the Spirit.

When you were in school you learned from books and had teachers over you, but when you graduated, you laid aside the books and did not go to teachers anymore. Unless you are one of those people who can not cope well outside rigid routine and who spend most of their life in the school systems, ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of life, or as the Bible says, "truth". These are professional learners, but they are among the most ignorant of all people for life passes them by while they remain secure in their books and institutions.

Most people begin to live their day to day life in the realm of adulthood and put into practice the principles learned in school. Walking experimentally in new knowledge gained by day to day life, not from books or school. The principles remain as building blocks, but experience is now the way to walk and they are free from the bounds of rigorous school life.

It is the same with your spiritual life. When you were young you studied the Bible and listened to teachers. They fed you with the sincere milk of the word. Graduation time is long past, but we, like professional learners or mentally underdeveloped children, return to school Sunday after Sunday. You are none the wiser for your effort, for true growth takes place when you strike out on your own armed with the principles of Yah. You learn to walk as mature adults, eating strong meat prepared fresh daily at the Master's table. This is how you learn Yah's ways. In the Bible you learned "about Him", in a spiritual life walk you get to "know Him" and His ways. You are to become intimate with Him, not the book or some particular teacher, but through the Holy Spirit, our Teacher. Some have made gods of both, the book and human ministers.

Books were necessary when you were in school to learn the principles of mathematics, reading, writing and so on. After graduation, you do not violate those principles, but neither do you order your life by their standards. You mature and became a business person, sales executive or something else. You left the books and teachers behind like the toys of youth.

One of the principles of the Bible is that "you need no man to teach you, for the Spirit Himself, your experiences in Him, will teach you all things". After nearly two thousand years you are still in school and your teachers have lost their spiritual understanding by becoming religious. I will show you the more perfect way. The things revealed to me by the Spirit, neither by men nor religious seminars, will help show you how the Spirit teaches. Religious colleges and seminars teach only religious things and call them spiritual. The written word describes this as having 'no light' in them.

YahShua taught spiritual things with parables because the people of His day were not spiritual but carnal minded. Through parables He hoped to enlighten them to spiritual things. On this side of the cross however, we should not need parables, carnal or natural things to represent or point to spiritual things. He has given us the Holy Spirit so spiritual understanding can be ours. However, YahShua has not changed. He will still use parables or object lessons when His people are carnally minded.

Since most believers, sad to say, are religious and not spiritual, I will now take some of the natural things and show you the spiritual meaning of them. Everything Yah inspired man to build and all natural things are object lessons for the spiritual man. Most, however, see the objects and get so carried away with them that they miss the hidden lesson in them.

There is a vast difference between an earthly kingdom and a spiritual kingdom, earthly things and heavenly things. Man is constantly pulling spiritual things down to his own carnal minded realm. Man always does things backward! They turn spiritual things into natural things and natural things into religious things and miss spiritual things altogether. We are supposed to be allowing the Spirit of Yah to pull us up into the realms of the spiritual. The carnal or natural is tangible and spoken of as things that can be acknowledged by the five senses: see, touch, taste, smell and hear. Spiritual things are intangible and known only by the Spirit that dwells inside. Things like love, peace, joy and fellowship with Yah, the Father.

In comparing natural to spiritual we can begin to see with spiritual eyes. This is eye salve for your eyes.

Numbers play a key role in understanding the hidden things of Yah. Here is a list of numbers and what I have found them to mean:

Number One: Unity; Holiness(wholeness)

Number Two: Witness; Establish a thing

Number Three: Perfection; Resurrection

Number Four: Dominion; Encompassing the whole

Number Five: Ministry; Laying on of hands

Number Six: Man; Carnalism

Number Seven: Completion; Rest

Number Eight: New beginning

Number Nine: Perfect Unity; Openness

Number Ten: Time of testing and proving

Number Twelve: Government of Yah's Kingdom

Thirty: Good will of Yah; 30 fold blessing

Forty: Death; Dying to self

Fifty: Pentecost; Anointing; Jubilee

Sixty: Acceptable will of Yah; 60 fold

One Hundred: Fullness; 100 fold

You do not have to be a mathematical genius to understand that if you want to make a number or something bigger you must add or multiply something to it. Our spiritual walk is progressive and must be added to in order for us to mature. Sometimes it might look as if we are going backward when Yah tells us to use subtraction and lay aside something instead of adding to it, but the end results are better than those we originally had. Here are a few spiritual mathematics for you:

    6 Carnal man 

+ 2 Established in Yah

= 8 New beginning 

When carnal man(6) is born again, he enters into the kingdom of Yah(2) and it is a new beginning(8). Notice the word beginning.

    10 Testing and Trying 

  X 4 Encompassing the whole 

= 40 Death to Self

The whole(4) work of the time of testing(10) and trying is to bring death to our self life(40).

This does not take place within the church system for there you get support for your self-life and it stays alive. YahShua was crucified outside the city (denomination) walls. Like the sacrifices of the Old Covenant which were taken outside the camp and destroyed, our sin sacrifice suffered and died outside the camp.

We are told to come out of the perverse Religious System, and go to Him outside the camp bearing the same disgrace. Anyone inquiring revelation knowledge of the Master is to go outside the camp. We put on Yah's righteousness in a place that is ceremonially clean outside the camp, or church walls. That is to say, we must be purged from our own self-righteousness, all religious theology and manmade doctrines. There is no religious ceremony out here.

  12 Government of Yah 

 - 5 Ministry 

= 7 Completion and Rest.

Here is a beneficial minus for you. When the Government of Yah(12) no longer needs a ministry(5) the people will be complete(7) in Him, in harmony with Yah and at rest in the Spirit, no longer working religiously. The ministry was originally meant to help the church come to maturity, but it has became a power to control lives and act as a mediator between Yah and the people and build little "self" kingdoms. The people of Yah do not need another advocate, YahShua is enough.

There are three levels of growth which require "testing and trying" for the purpose of refining us and bringing us step by step into perfection.

   10 Time of testing and proving 

 X 3 Perfection 

= 30 Good will of Yah/ 30 fold blessings.

The people who embrace salvation but do not go on to experience the Baptism of the Holy Spirit are called fundamentalist and live in the good will of Yah, the thirty-fold realm of blessing.

    50 Pentecostal Anointing 

+ 10 Testing and Trying 

= 60 Acceptable will of Yah/60 fold blessing 

The baptism of the Holy Spirit is only the earnest of our inheritance and part of the fullness of Yah. Some more testing and trying will bring us into the next level. We are told to go on to maturity.

      50 Pentecostal Anointing 

    X 2 Established second outpouring 

= 100 Fullness; 100 fold; Sons of Yah

In this level we are no longer "tried and tested" but are established. The second outpouring of the latter rain will bring the fullness of Yah's blessing and anointing through the manifestation of the sons of Yah. It gives us the fullness of our inheritance and brings many sons unto Glory (pureness), which is the purpose of Yah.

    12 Government of Yah 

  X 4 Dominion 

= 48 Dominion(4) and new beginning(8).

With all encompassing dominion(4) and a new government under Yah(12) we enter the Kingdom Age and take our place with Messiyah YahShua . The total dominion(4) of Yah in the Kingdom Age will bring a new beginning(8) for mankind as the sons of Yah begin to minister to the world.

      5 Ministry 

  X 3 Perfection 

= 15 Holy(1) Ministry(5).

Here Yah embarks upon a new ministry not touched by man, it is holy from Yah. It will be the manifestation of the sons of Yah and their ministry that will free creation and set in order all things messed up since the fall of man in Eden.

I am sure there must be others, but these are the ones I have been shown as of now.

In school we learn to read from books prepared by man to teach us about the things of life. Yah's books are not pen and ink on a piece of paper, but things all around us. What do you read into the things you see and the things around you? Yah has a lot to say to you through the very things you take for granted in your day to day life. Let us look at a few and learn to read the things of Yah like we learned to read the words in a book.

Trees:

Trees are living organisms that have their roots deep in the earth and grow up into the heavens with many branches to express themselves to those upon the earth. They provide shelter and many other needs of life.

When trees are mentioned in the Bible it is speaking of a power which raises out of the flesh with many branches of influence like a government, kingdom or organization. A shelter for the people and those enfolded within their reach.

Food:

Natural food is taken into the body and it becomes the life force of the body producing power and energy.

Spiritual food is the Word of Yah. It is not the Bible as some believe, it is the inner knowledge that comes from Yah or revealed knowledge that comes from the Bible made alive by the Spirit and taken in to our spirit to become it's life force.

Banquet:

In the natural it speaks of partaking of especially prepared food for the occasion such as turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy. Many usually partake of this blessing together and have fellowship one with another.

A spiritual banquet is revelation knowledge and spiritual blessings especially prepared in abundance for those in the currant move of Yah. It is speaking of fellowship with Yah and those of like spiritual understanding. Unfortunately, there are few at this banquet, for most refuse to come.

Wealth:

The natural man thinks wealth means a large manor, five cars and unlimited money to spend. Wealth means acceptance in influential circles and power in getting their whims met. This kind of wealth is never satisfying. That is why there is always a drive for more, bigger and better. Yah's wealth means spiritual principles that gives you stability, holiness, pureness, peace and security in all life's upheavals. It means an inheritance in the presence of our Heavenly Father and a place in the Kingdom Age.

Gold, Silver and Precious Stones:

Silver, gold and gems are the things man holds most valuable. Life is ordered upon the lack or abundance of these things.

Yah gives them value also. Silver, the price of blood, represents our salvation, precious unto Yah and man. Gold is the purest of ores with properties that speak of Yahlikeness, purity and incorruptibility.

In Revelation the Government of Yah, the Holy City, is described as made from precious stones which represent the gifts of the Spirit and spiritual principles upon which we build our spiritual life, and eternal things that do not lose value. We are told to "lay up treasure in heaven", not gold, silver and gems but good deeds, compassion, mercy and kindness. These will be very valuable in the Kingdom Age.

House or Mansion:

A house or mansion is a dwelling place where we find protection from the elements, rest for the body, sanctuary from the outside world and a place where you can rest from the cares of life. A house provides the necessities while a mansion provides abundance.

A house or mansion spiritually is a realm of life; a dwelling place for the spirit in Yah's Kingdom. It too provides protection, rest and is a sanctuary from the cares of life. It is our eternal abode and for some is very abundant. We are building our heavenly homes right now, sending up the material in our life walk. YahShua said our dwelling place would be mansions, how great is up to each of us. How much you invest in the Spirit will determine the outcome.

Television:

The air all around you is filled with pictures and sounds. You can not see them for they are not in your range of vision or hearing. The TV is able to tune in to the frequency beyond our scope of vision and sound, pick them up and display them upon a screen so we may see them.

In the spiritual realm all around us there is insight and knowledge. The carnal mind is not aware of them for they are spiritually discerned. The Holy Spirit is like a TV set that reveals spiritual things to the understanding of our spiritual minds. Tune in to heavenly things.

Telephone:

A telephone allows you speak with someone who is not near you, carrying your voice upon the line to them and they can answer back.

There is an old song that says, "telephone to glory..." That is the idea. It reminds us that no matter how far from Yah you feel, He is not far away on the prayer line. By the way, there is no line charge, so call as often as you like. The line is private and never busy.

A Chair:

When you sit down in a chair you cease from labor and find rest for your body. Most of the time, while sitting, you do nothing that requires energy, however, now days more people make a living sitting than standing, but this is not relaxing.

"There is a rest to the people of Yah", a place where you cease from labor. No energy is expended in this place. Like the wind, you are carried on the current of the Spirit. We order our life in this position and become spirit beings, resting from religious effort.

Streets of Gold:

Sadly, many see these words as literal and expect to walk on gold so pure it is transparent. The physical properties of gold make this impossible. No matter how much gold is purified it will never become transparent. This alone should tell you that what Yah has in mind is something spiritual.

The phrase, "streets of gold" is a spiritual walk of Yahlikeness. A life so pure that it is transparent for all to see through, no deceit, envy, no hatred or lies.

Wine:

A fragrant fruit of the vine fermented to bring pleasure to the palate and a sense of well being to those who imbibe. The Holy Spirit is represented as wine in the Bible. The people upon whom the Spirit fell in the book of Acts were said to be drunk. Like a fermented drink, the Spirit lifts you into the ecstasy of the spiritual realm where there is power to overcome, to do exploits, and be a witness of what Yah is doing at the moment.

Trumpet:

A horn used to soothe the soul with sweet music when accompanied by other instruments. However, it is also used in battle to rouse the troops and to recall them. In the Bible it was used to announce the arrival of important dignitaries and signal the beginning and end of feast days. A different sound was blown for each occasion and people would know what was happening by the distinct sound.

Spiritually the trumpet is a message or messenger and used much the same way as a trumpet in the Bible in the natural sense. Each message and messenger has it's own distinct sound and you can know what Yah is doing by listening to the trumpet. There is a trumpet blowing now if you have spiritual ears to hear it.

When you learn to write in school, it gives you a mode of expression that is not verbal and allows you a more permanent form of communication. When we put something down on paper with pen and ink we are in a sense immortalizing our thoughts and ideas. They become a witness of the words in our mind or mouth which flees with time, but the written witness remains for our later reflection.

In the same way, the word of the Master that comes to us would soon be gone if Yah did not have the Holy Spirit write them upon the tablets of our hearts. We can run there from time to time and see what Yah has spoken and thus we are made more aware of Yah and His will for us as well as mankind.

The apostles and prophets wrote the Bible on parchment for us to read, but the Spirit of Yah writes revelation knowledge upon the pages of our heart for us to ponder at our leisure. The pages of the Bible might not always be there for us, but the writings of the Spirit remain forever and are of much more value.

In this present world we have institutions called Libraries, which contain the writings of mankind on subjects as diverse as man himself. Would Yah do less for the spirit man?

The words and promises of Yah are not only written on the parchment of the heart, but they are also written in the books of heaven. In the Kingdom Age these books will be opened and we will start to live out of the blessings and promises written there.

School days are over, the time of graduation has come and it is time for us to grow up into the Head and become mature spirit beings. There was a time when Yah winked at our ignorance but now He is calling us to lay down childish things and begin to be responsible for our way of life, attitudes and understanding. To whom much is given, much is required and the responsibility for our actions can no longer be blamed on the Devil as Eve did in the first book. Neither can we, as Adam did blame another person. We must recognize that the enemy of our soul was defeated and brought to naught at the cross of Messiyah and we each are responsible for our actions and conduct of life. Growing up is not easy and we have a tendency to shy away from it, but maturity is Yah's perfect will for each of us.

There are three categories of the will of Yah and all of Yah’s people can be found in one of these. The first is "the good will of Yah" or the thirty fold. That is not bad, it is good but there is a better one. The second is "the acceptable will of Yah" or the sixty fold, it is better, but not the best. Then there is "the perfect will of Yah" or the hundred fold in which Yah becomes the all in all and what He desires is our desire and what He would do, we will do. Here we become conformed into His image and reflect His glory.

The churches have the first two, but the last is to be found in Him not in the church system. Let's look at them and find out where we stand.

The Good Will of Yah:

In the world today there are people who are willing to acknowledge Yah and accept His salvation, but they reserve the rest of their lives for themselves. These are willing only to give Yah thirty percent of their life, but Yah loves them so much that He is willing to take any part they offer. A little is good for it is better than none.

The Acceptable Will of Yah:

The ones who have made a commitment to know Yah in His deeds and have the Spirit in part are those who give sixty percent of their lives to Yah. Yah considers this very acceptable and is delighted that He is on their minds more than half the time. These have the firstfruit of the Spirit and do spiritual things more than half the time. Half is better than thirty percent but Yah desires more from His people.

The Perfect Will of Yah:

There is a hundred percent will of Yah people who desire the fullness of what Yah has for them. He is their life, their full attention is upon their Father Yah and this is Yah's perfect will for mankind. He wills that all should come to the full knowledge and understanding of spiritual things. These are no longer in the part realm of the Spirit where half the time it's Yah and half the time it's man. These go out of formal religious services and meet with Yah by the Spirit in the wilderness and there, like YahShua the pattern Son, they are tested and tried for the Words sake and the old man of the earth is slain.

Yah has put a new word in their hearts, different from what you hear in the church system. He is doing a new thing and He is bringing it to pass in this day. But, that word is being "tried" in each of those who have heard the Spirit's call to come outside the camp to the Tent of Meeting. This "trying" is important to weed out those who are not one hundred percent dedicated to the Master and it is vital to our walk in the Kingdom Age.

These are called overcomers for they have overcome manmade religion, sometimes called "the mark of the beast", and the old man is dying in the wilderness like the old rebellious generation of Israel did long ago as a type and shadow.

Yah said for them to go in and possess their inheritance on the other side of the Jordan but they refused. They wandered in the wilderness for forty years until the old rebellious generation died off and then Yah brought the new generation across the Jordan and into the Promised Land.

The first Church Age also refused to go on in Yah and Yah’s people have been wandering in the wilderness of manmade religion ever since. Remember forty is the number symbolic of death. Now a new generation has appeared upon the scene, and the Spirit will lead them into their inheritance and the blessings of Yah.

When the Spirit came upon YahShua at the baptism of John, He was led into the wilderness where He fasted for forty days and forty nights. When He came out He was Yah's man for His self-life ended there. There are Saints who are doing their forties right now in a fast that Yah has called. They are fasting from man's ways and learning Yah's. Like their elder brother, they will come forth as Yah's one new man.

Grace:

Grace is the unmerited favor of Yah. That means there is nothing we can do to earn it and we really do not deserve it but Yah grants His grace to us anyway because of His great love for us and because of the blood of YahShua. Grace is freely given in order to cover our mistakes and our inability to order our life in the correct manner. Grace covers our sins and we are no longer condemned in His sight. However, grace is not a license to habitually sin, or to deliberately do things contrary to the laws of the Spirit of life. There are laws in force in the Spirit just as in life and they are for our protection and benefit, but when they are disobeyed they leave you vulnerable to trouble.

For instance, the law of gravity in the natural realm says, if you leap off a tall building you are going to fall. Grace may cover your mistake, but your body is going to pay for it. Gravity is essential for life, for without it we would fly off into space. Likewise, fire is good to us, it cooks our food and it keeps us warm, but mishandled it can be a very destructive force. It is the same way in a spiritual walk, if we violate spiritual laws we will suffer loss.

The law of the Spirit of life is not something you "do or do not do". Rather, it has to do with the attitudes of the heart, law of love, caring and kindness. Most acts or words come from the abundance of the heart and when you do something hurtful or cut with your words, grace will cover you, but the wound is still there. Like a two edged sword, attitudes which do harm to others inflict damage to your own soul or your inner man. Whatever prompted you to act or speak in such a manner is a problem within you already and vents itself at any opportunity. If it were not there it would not come out. You need to get it removed by going to the great Physician. Thus we seek Yah and practice not breaking the second commandment as taught by YahShua. You treat your neighbor as you wish to be treated. Not following this simple law is rewarded by the harvest of your own attitude within your own heart.

The Law of Harvest:

When you plant seeds in the earth after a while invariably they will come to the surface and produce a full harvest. The same product sown is the product reaped in the harvest. A harvest is many times what was planted. Anger produces anger, deceit repays you with deceit, jealousy with jealousy and so on. That harvest does not even have to come from someone else, it can reproduce within your own heart. It may even look like you are getting by without a harvest on the outside but you cannot escape the harvest of your own soul.

What to do? Go to Yah with your inner man bare before him and allow the "Physician's scalpel" to surgically remove the bad seeds and then your inner harvest will fail. You may then start all over again by planting seeds of kindness. It is as simple as that. When we make up our minds to be kind, that alone would change the whole world, just a little kindness. Then let Yah water your harvest with love and, …"what a blessing you can be!"

Just because you go forward to accept Messiyah at a church service does not mean you are exempt from Yah's laws. There are those who bring shame to the word grace by living like the Devil under the disguise that, …"Grace will cover it." Grace covers the wrong but does nothing to prevent the harvest. Grace is not a channel to make wrong right. It is a means to make "you" right. Grace came to you through the cross of Messiyah, do not do despite to either.

The Cross:

Most people are so ignorant of what YahShua did on the cross that their initial salvation is most of what they see. He did more, O-oh so much more! First and foremost is that He reconciled us to Yah, as our Father. He not only died to save us from our sin, but to make it possible for us to have a relationship with Yah. He gave His life to give man and Yah a common ground in which to relate to each other. I would that men were as gracious! Yah wants nothing more than to share Who and what He is and, through YahShua, share His own glory with you. He has birthed you and made you His own son by the incorruptible seed and brought you into His own realm of existence. Born again man is now a spiritual being suited to live in the realm of the spirit.

At the cross the enemy of our souls was conquered, that ol' serpent, the fallen carnal nature, with its self ego which is the Devil our Adversary. He was brought to naught, stripped of his power. If we would just believe this and begin to order our lives as though it is an already finished work, we would be victorious in life and circumstances. Let's look for a moment at the power of the enemy that was destroyed by YahShua's death and resurrection: Death, Hell and the Grave.

Death:

Because YahShua died in our place and the sin debt is paid we do not have to die if we accept by simple faith His sacrifice for us.

True death is for those who never come to the knowledge of the saving grace of the Master YahShua Messiyah and for them it is emptiness, no consciousness, no life at all. Those that have Messiyah have life and those that have not Messiyah have not life, it is that simple, period. No loving Yah would devise such a place as we are told the soul of man goes who do not know Him. That is the imagination of man's own devilish mind, then they are taught as fear tactics to scare people into coming to Yah.

For us as believers death is conquered, for the world it is still a threat. That is why YahShua said of Lazarus, "He sleepeth", but the disciples did not understand so He said it in terms they knew, "He is dead". Death has no more dominion over born again believers. It is conquered! See the article, "Resurrection".

Hell:

Hell has torment, but heaven is above to the wise that he may be brought out of the hell beneath. Hell is not the grave or a lake of fire in the heart of the earth as men teach it. Hell is here in this present existence where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth; where the worm(flesh) never dies. Hell is being away from the presence of Yah and where the things of life are tormenting, painful and ugly. It is a creation of our own doing most of the time, someone or something else's the rest of the time. But, all can be escaped if we climb up to the heavenly realm.

Most like to think they are innocent, and that the Devil or that life just dumps on them. Poor me, …boo-hoo-hoo. Come on, grow up and stop pointing your finger, accept the fact that the fellow that walks between your own two shoulder blades is your worst enemy. Immaturity lays blame so that it does not have to deal with the problem. Being a mature person means you accept the responsibility for your actions. If you get into trouble you should deal with it as being your own fault. There is where you will find the answer and it is from your own place of responsibility that you can wisely choose to climb up into the provision Yah has for you. YahShua said, "I go to prepare a place for you", but if you never use it, what good is it?

As you learn to dwell in the heavenlies the things which are common to man will run off like water and all the time there is a joy in your heart. It is when you need a lesson in death-to-self or you get out of fellowship with Yah that you find yourself in hell. You can be brought out of both by going to Yah and getting things worked out in you or with Yah. This enemy hell was conquered at the cross if you can believe it.

Grave:

Most think the grave is death, and hell is where you go if you are bad. People are taught to believe that you will burn in the lake of fire forever. For the born again believer the grave is the place where this earthly house is put when we leave it. We still see funeral processions and freshly dug graves. We will soon see the end of gave digging as Father brings into fulfillment the second half of the above prophetic scripture. Because of the work of the cross we go into the presence of the Master to await the time when we get our new house from heaven. Like wedding garments we will adorn ourselves with them and come forth into everlasting life in a house that will never die. This immortality will make the grave obsolete and old things will have passed away.

After YahShua was put into the tomb, He went to Paradise. It was Yah's halfway house for those who lived before the law whose sin was not imputed to them. The Old Testament righteous ones were found there as well. Those devout men who believed in Yah rested until the time of their deliverance. What was it like? Why Paradise for the soul of course! But, no Paradise could compare with being in the presence of the Master Yah Almighty. So, YahShua went to Paradise and preached salvation to those who had not been offered salvation in Messiyah while they lived, and then He sprang open the gates of Paradise and emptied it forever. Some of the men of renown who came from the grave appeared to many after the resurrection. The grave could no longer hold them and they came out of the grave to ascend into glory with YahShua and to stand before Yah's throne in white robes. This was the first resurrection.

Resurrection:

The grave will not hold the Saints of this age either. There is another resurrection on the horizon. There are two kinds of resurrections in the Bible, a type and shadow of what is to come. The resurrection of Lazarus spoke of one type of resurrection, while YahShua's own resurrection spoke of another.

Lazarus was in the grave four days and came forth in a flesh and blood body. The numerical meaning of four is full dominion or encompassing the whole, such as the four compass directions, four seasons and four corners of the earth. Thus Lazarus’ resurrection is a type of resurrection that fulfills Yah’s promises of everlasting life to all of or the whole of mankind.(Jn 3:16)

Once I heard a man preaching on the resurrection of Lazarus, and he was explaining that Yah raised Lazarus from the dead so that He could get the glory. That sounds good does it not? But, that just goes to show how little man knows about Yah, the Father.

In the first place Yah is the very essence of Glory and man's praise can not enhance it. Carnal man loves praise for it boosts his own ego, thus they judge Yah to be like men. No, my friend, all that Yah does is for man's benefit because of His great love.

YahShua raised Lazarus from the tomb as a promise of things to come, to show us the Father's wonderful plan for mankind. Yah's true glory will come when He can give all of us His own glory and we partake of it along with all of creation. For Yah so loved the world that He gave, …and gave, …and gave, and each outpouring is more glorious than the previous one.

Take for instance the resurrection of YahShua. He was in the grave three days and when He came forth He was a spirit being. Those who have a spiritual birth will be found in this resurrection.

What was YahShua like after His resurrection? First of all He had poured out His blood on the cross and was no longer human. When YahShua came out of the tomb He was the incorruptible Son of Yah. The Spirit of Yah was now His life's blood and He could take upon Himself a body as he did in His earthly life. I said body, not flesh and blood. "Flesh and blood can not inherit the Kingdom of Yah."

The disciples were gathered behind closed doors for fear of the Jews at the time YahShua appeared to them after His resurrection. Had they have cut YahShua open, blood would not have spilled out of His veins, but they would have been slain by the unveiled glory of Yah that is now His life force.

The YahShua kind of resurrection is reserved for the overcomers. Those who are willing to let the Holy Spirit's refining fire do His work in their life. Today, Yah has a people out in the wilderness whom are pouring out their humanity, their life's blood, for the life of the flesh is in the blood. Like YahShua, they will come forth in immortal bodies. These are the sons of Yah. YahShua is the first born among many brethren, for "Yah has given us power to "BECOME" sons of Yah."

Paul described a scene in the Bible where "the dead in Messiyah rise first and we that are alive and remain shall be caught up with them into the air, there to always be with the Master". This passage of scripture is not speaking of a resurrection. It is talking about those who die to self in the wilderness. These are "dead in Messiyah", not asleep in the grave and the ones alive and remaining are the sixty and thirty fold believers. Each in their own order shall ascent into the heavenlies as they begin to hear the trumpet message. For you skeptics, I would remind you of what YahShua prayed for us in the disciple’s prayer, "I do not pray that you take them out of this world, but that you keep them from the evil one ".

Escape from this world is one of the foundational teachings of the church system, but learning to live in the spirit realm is the foundation principle of the Spirit.

Yah is a living entity and to be alive means movement, progression and learning. If you have not had a new inspiration from Yah, apart from it coming from a minister, teacher or some other religious person, you are in a rut. A rut is a grave with both ends kicked out. If you are not growing and learning you are dead. Adam was made a living being, but YahShua is a life giving Spirit. Do not quench or suppress the Spirit. "We live and move and have our being in Him", in Yah.

Let us grow in the knowledge and wisdom of the Master through having our spiritual minds exercised by reason of use. Stop being babies in understanding, interested only in games of religion, toys of the church, and immature play. Yes, with maturity comes responsibility, but also blessings and fulfillment.

"Press toward the mark of the prize of the HIGH CALLING of Yah in Messiyah ". It is your inheritance and your destiny.

MY HOMEPAGE