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Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled
Why must Christians suffer? Can’t G_d prevent it?

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One illustration might be a person who has been in a devastating car
wreck, whose body has been trapped in twisted metal and pelted with
glass. If this person expects not to suffer when G_d begins to get
them out with the jaws of Life, then they don’t really understand their
situation. The ruler of this world is a prowling lion who has captured
mankind in his terrible jaws; HaShem would like to help us get free
from Satan with the least suffering possible. But we must fully
commit ourselves to the care of the Great Physician. We realize there
is no way back the way we came; even if moving forward means
suffering (sharing the cross of Christ), we choose (eternal) Life.
As Christians we know we will face tribulations, trials and fears,
especially in the time of Jacob’s trouble; our challenge is to achieve
childlike confidence before an all powerful, all loving Father (Mark
14:36; Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6; Mark 10:15).
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What is the ‘patience and the faith of the saints (Revelation 13:10;
Luke 12:4-5)’? We know that HaShem will curse anyone who receives
the (computer) chip or mark in the hand or forehead (Revelation 14:9-
12). If the time comes when we cannot buy or sell except we receive
the mark of the beast (the radio frequency chip, Verichip, or sub
dermal microchip) in the hand or forehead (Revelation 13:16-17),
then we will possibly be in the situation where the entire world
monetary system has broken down. Where would we hide? How could
we fight it? How would we eat or get shelter?
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Some are storing up goods and planning their hideouts in the woods
to prepare for the END Times, like the families who built and stocked
bomb shelters during the threat of the Cold War. Most of us lack the
time or material resources to accomplish this feat.
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If we (believers) take up a gun or a sword (John 18:11; Luke 9:54-55)
or a nuclear weapon against our enemy who persecutes us, then we
have tried to climb up some other way, rather than entering through
the Door, the Gate, or Christ. Violence and retaliation are not His
(Christ’s) Way (Matthew 5:39). Did the prophets suffer (James 5:10)?
Did the apostles suffer for Christ and His Way (1Peter 2:19; Romans
5:3)? Did Jesus (Yeshua) suffer (John 19:1-5; Matthew 27:30; Psalm
22:16)? What is HaShem’s testimony about Michael and his angels
(Revelation 12:11)?
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Some have become convinced we are now living in the END Times
because the secrets hidden in the Bible are being decoded (or
unsealed) with computers. The Torah Codes or Bible Codes had to
have been coded into the original surface text (by G_d) thousands of
years ago; yet, magnificently, these codes accurately explain and
describe important people and places and events of our own time.
Like deep sea divers, the miners of the Torah Codes spend much of
their lives under constant pressure searching for treasure, seeking
yet another fragment of code to warn others of impending doom,
reporting each news flash, continually reshaping the puzzle of the
New Word Order of Globalism and tracking the intentions of
Antichrist. Will any of this protect them in the time of Great Trouble?
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Like drone bees in the hive, they spend all their time collecting the
nectar of the (Torah or Bible) codes, but they rarely eat the honey (the fruit of their
impressive and important labors) themselves (found at the surface,
with the Farmer (Luke 8:5)). The bees think the honey belongs to
them, but it belongs to the Farmer. They will not rest or sit with the
Farmer and be still; they fret and fret (Psalm 37:1-8) like bees on
guard in front of the hive. If an angel spoke to them they would not
listen; even if the chief prince of the angels spoke to them, they
would continue fretting. And they would chide him for claiming to be.
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What was the primary purpose of the Old Testament? The OT was a
witness to Messiah (Passover Lamb) or Christ Yeshua who would
come to save us by His sacrificial suffering and death on the cross
(John 5:39). What is the primary purpose of the Torah Codes? They
are a witness that Scripture (OT and NT) was written by an omniscient
Author (Holy Spirit) and preserved supernaturally over the course of
the centuries (Matthew 5:17-18). The Bible Codes provide a second
witness to verify the testimony of the literal or surface text of the
Bible.
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You and I can trust the Word of HaShem; it is the Book of Truth. So
now, let us return to the surface text (the Word) and live by eating His
body and drinking His blood each day; we trust in the body (Word)
and blood (Living Water, Living Bread, Holy Spirit coursing within and
beneath the surface text) to give us Eternal Life (John 6:54).
Talk of the Tribulation is daunting. What should we do when we get
anxious hearing interpretations or prophesies concerning the END
Times? When we have taken in as much as we can take, we should
(always try to) find our way back to peace and stillness. We have to
learn (commit ourselves) to get back into the untroubled heart and
the peace of Christ that surpasses human understanding as quickly,
completely, and as frequently as possible. Abide there (Psalm 15:1;
Psalm 24:3; Psalm 43:3; Psalm 99:9; Matthew 17:1-2).
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Especially when we know that great troubles or physical, mental,
emotional or spiritual storms are approaching, it becomes even more
important to slow time and perception down to a single day, a single
hour, a single moment (Matthew 6:24). Read the Word and become
quietly surrendered to His will for you; open a channel within yourself
that has no chatter or static; open a channel to HaShem that is solely
for listening.
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Be still before Him. He IS God. What else is necessary? This is a
strategy that has worked for me personally as a believer who has
often had (disturbing) visions of the future from my youth, but did
not want to be morbid or negative about the future for myself, family,
friends or my children (Mark 4:39); I thrive in this gift of stillness and
peace, although, the storms of life don’t seem to respond to my
command as surely (or as quickly) as they did Christ Yeshua’s.
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Read Scripture. Sit with HaShem in receptive, inner listening, silence.
Invite Christ to be with you at all times. I suggest we always start and
end each day the same way and with the same attitude –- surrender,
trust, stillness, and confidence that HaShem is above all problems,
concerns, principalities, thrones, and powers (Exodus 20:3;
Deuteronomy 5:7; Romans 8:38-39).
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Be still and know I AM God (Isaiah 30:15; Psalm 46:10; Revelation
8:1). And if God be with us, who can stand against us? But
understand this, God is also with you in the trouble or suffering or
sickness or sin you now find yourself in. As a believer in Christ all
things work to the good for those who trust in Him (Romans 8:28); so
you must also pass through the darkness He asks you to deal with
(without grumbling) as well as the light; both are now in His control.
Before, when we were children of the darkness, worldly, it was Satan
using and controlling the darkness for our ultimate harm; now
HaShem uses our trials, wounds, and suffering to fashion a more
Christlike son or daughter of God.
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Be still and know I AM God. This inner knowing means He (I AM, the
Great BEING, the Father) is within you (Luke 17:21; John 14:10). But
you must set your human identity aside and pass through the inner
veil. When a tiny wave becomes still, it reunites with its Source. Begin
and end each day in the Presence of HaShem.
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As the temple of the Living God, the original light of the image and
likeness of HaShem is waiting behind the veil for you to become still
enough to hear His voice (1Kings 19:12). Be still. Seek the inner
kingdom first and allow the outer things to be a bonus. This is the
advice HaShem gives throughout Scripture (Matthew 6:33), and Christ
Yeshua gave it time and again. He also followed His own advice when
facing persecution, challenges or trials, when facing His cross for our
sake, our salvation! (Luke 22-34; John 16:33). Praise Jesus (Yeshua)!
Psalm 37:1 Of David. Do not fret because of evil men or be envious
of those who do wrong;
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Psalm 37:2 for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants
they will soon die away.
Psalm 37:3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and
enjoy safe pasture.
Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the
desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will
do this:
Psalm 37:6 He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the
justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
Psalm 37:7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do
not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their
wicked schemes.
Psalm 37:8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it
leads only to evil.
Psalm 37:9 For evil men will be cut off, but those who hope in the
LORD will inherit the land.
Psalm 37:10 A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though
you look for them, they will not be found.
Psalm 37:11 But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy great
peace.
Psalm 37:12 The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their
teeth at them;
Psalm 37:13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their
day is coming.
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Once we have invited Christ to be Lord of our hearts, Lord of our
minds, Lord of our bodies, Lord of our Spirits, Lord of our all, our
measurement and reckoning of life becomes deeper than our
possessions or human accomplishments or failures. Abiding n the
Vine, we are more than flesh and blood and bones (John 15:5).

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Luke 12:22 He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be
anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what

you will wear.

Luke 12:23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than
clothing.
Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they
have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more
valuable are you than birds!
Luke 12:25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his
height?
Luke 12:26 If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why
are you anxious about the rest?
Luke 12:27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil,
neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these.
Luke 12:28 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which
today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will
he clothe you, O you of little faith?
Luke 12:29 Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink;
neither be anxious.
Luke 12:30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things,
but your Father knows that you need these things.
Luke 12:31 But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be
added to you.
Luke 12:32 Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
Luke 12:33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy.
Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the
heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth
destroys.
Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Although Christ Yeshua knew He was heading for great suffering and
the cross, He took time to comfort us with these words. Jesus set the
example for us as He approached the greatest tribulation and
suffering any human being has known or will ever know.
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John 14:1 “Do not let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe
also in me.
John 14:2 In my Father’s house are many homes (mansions). If it
weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for
you.
John 14:3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the
world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let
it be fearful.
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The peace that surpasses (human) understanding is left to us by
Christ Yeshua. But we should also receive (anticipate, seek, and
finally claim) joy and gladness. They grow in the soil of peace and
stillness we gain from eating His body (the Word) and drinking His
blood (Living Bread, Living Water, Holy Spirit) that vitalizes and
courses in a Life giving fashion beneath the surface text or body of
Scripture.
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Isa 30:15 This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In
repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your
strength, but you would have none of it.
Isa 30:15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be
saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in
confidence.” You refused.
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The peace surpassing understanding is important. We can also live
out our days with joy and gladness (Psalm 90:14; Psalm 70:4; Psalm
118:24). HaShem also wants us to live in the Day (reality) He made,
the heavens and the earth the Word originally created and intended
for us, observing that this Day, this creation of HaShem was ‘very
good’, with rejoicing and gladness. But how can this joy be ours when
there is so much turbulence, suffering, anxiety and sorrow that rock
our boat? There is a WAY; Jesus (Yeshua) walked it, and Yeshua IS it
(John 14:6). It is the way of childlike surrender before an all loving
and all powerful Father.
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Peace in Christ Yeshua,
Michael

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Gen 1:3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

As human beings, by definition, we stumble in the darkness. We are born in the darkness of separation from our original Source, Garden, inner Temple of HaShem (the Name, Lord of Hosts, G_d).

HaShem said the light was good (Genesis 1:4). That light is Christ.  At first the light exists in Adam and Eve (the first Genesis)

Gen 1:26 God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Gen 1:27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

We lost (and continue to lose) contact with our inner light (Christ) by eating from the tree of matter (dust, human knowledge) and the grip of sin or the darkness prevents us from finding a way back to the light and the Garden within us. We are asleep in the Adam dream and cannot wake ourselves. We sleep in the dust of the earth (the human body) (Daniel 12:2).  The inner Holy of Holies where the light resides in us becomes veiled from our view by the body of darkness (Exodus 26:33). This veil is the second Genesis of dust or clay.

This is the veil that Christ came to remove for us (Mark 15:38).

Gen 2:5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
Gen 2:6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Gen 2:7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The Serpent came and tempted them to leave HaShem’s beautiful Garden of Delights, and they are kept out by Cherubim who block their return to Paradise with a fiery sword.

Gen 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

How did we lose the light and forsake the image and likeness of G_d  (Christ consciousness and nature) we were first created in by HaShem through the Word or the light (John 1:3)? Genesis (and Revelation) tell us that the powerful angel Lucifer fell and precipitated the fall of a full third of the angels, in the process becoming Satan, the enemy, the accuser, the Serpent, the dragon, the prince of this world.

So, HaShem made a plan to save us; but first He had to make us aware of the darkness we had fallen into; so He gave us the Law and prophets. The blood of bulls and lambs were a temporary solution pointing the to the Lamb of God, promising salvation by the light for all who trust in the cleansing blood of the true Lamb of HaShem (Christ Yeshua), whose blood was poured out on the cross. Christ Yeshua is the first to rise from the dead (darkness). This Messiah also has the power and authority to lift each one of us into the original light we were created in and out of the darkness. All we have to do is believe Him!

Joh 5:24 “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

HaShem had a plan to send the light (Christ Yeshua, Jesus) into the darkness and to restore as many as He could of His children who fell into the darkness.  The entire Old Testament testifies about this coming light (Messiah) who would allow anyone who believes in Him (Christ Yeshua, Jesus) to be purchased out of the dominion and power of the darkness as a bride was once purchased by her husband to be. Your life was bought at a heavy price; it belongs to Yeshua (Jesus). Don’t live it your way; live it His Way.

Yeshua is in the light and the light is in Yeshua. Only Yeshua can dispel the darkness and return us to the light of Paradise that is veiled within us. We have fallen from a great heavenly light into a deadly sleep or Adam dream or darkness (Revelation 2:5).Yeshua (Jesus) is the light that illuminates every person. Yeshua loves you enough to die for you on the cross. Really.

Forget your own selfish ideas and wants of the darkness; take up your cross, crucify (the material self or person of the darkness) desires and fears and follow Yeshua. Only Yeshua can heal you of all sin and conquer the darkness to bring you all the way back home to the Garden of Delights or Paradise. Walk in Yeshua (Jesus) (John 8:12); walk in the light (Yeshua), and become children of the light (John 12:36). Praise Yeshua (Jesus), the light of HaShem, Who is able to make you completely healed or whole in HaShem!

Peace only in Yeshua (Jesus)

Love,

Michael

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Prophecy is Not the Interpretation of Any Man

Christ Yeshua (Jesus) was so continually filled with the Spirit that His spring WAS –IS –WILL BE eternal, and every Word breathed by Him was filled with life giving Spirit. Even His correction or rebuke fanned the Spirit back to life in anyone who accepted His words, because it defeated the spirit of the deceiver and disarmed the power of the enemy (Satan) in the listener.

Joh 6:63  The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

When I was a small boy we used to float Popsicle sticks and other things along the rain soaked streets when the sewer drains would strain to remove all the water from the heavy spring rains. In my imagination, the sticks were like ships CARRIED ALONG BY THE CURRENT to distant destinations. When He lives in us, the Holy Spirit breathes Truth and Life into what otherwise would be ink on a page or pixels on a screen.

The Holy Spirit does BREATHE LIFE into the words of HaShem’s Children who have been reborn by faith in Christ Yeshua (John 1:12-13).
But my favorite statement of this truth of prophesy by being CARRIED ALONG BY THE SPIRIT is the NIV translation of  2Peter 1:21:

2Pe 1:19  And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

2Pe 1:20  Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation.

2Pe 1:21  For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

They teach lifeguards not to attempt to save anyone who will not give up control and be CARRIED ALONG. So we must allow the man of the earth to die (taking up our cross and following Jesus) (Matthew 16:24), so that Christ can be made alive in us (Galatians 2:20). We have to be willing to jettison the cargo (baggage) of self (Babyon), of desires (sex, food, possessions, violence and territorial instincts, self-gratification) and the spirit of fear. The darkness is heaviness, sin, death. For the Holy Spirit to CARRY US ALONG we have to become children of the light, losing the shackles and the heaviness of sin. Otherwise we cannot walk as Jesus walked, as Jesus WALKS (1John 2:3-6)!

Peace ONLY in Yeshua (NOT from the world),

Love

Michael

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The Kingdom of God is within you. You are the temple of the Living God and God Himself lives in you. You are also the Garden. HaShem’s Garden, the two trees, two dimensions or two worldviews is within.

Genesis 1: Our first Genesis was as children of the Most High (Psalm82:6) in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). HaShem (G_d) created the heavens and the earth in seven days (of 1000 years each; Adam died in the same day he ate from the forbidden tree). The first creation was in the image and likeness of HaShem (Genesis 1:26-27; Psalm 82:6; John 10:34) or the Living Tree. Since HaShem called everything He made good, (Genesis 1:31) where do sin, disease, errors, lack and limitation (evil) come from? The answer comes in chapter 3 where we meet the former ‘prince of this world’ whose head was bruised at the cross of Christ, his power and authority greatly curtailed. Satan also enticed a third of the angels to fall (Revelation 12:4).

Genesis 2: The second Genesis of dust covers (veils obscures) (Exodus 26:33) the first; this is the tree that brings the knowledge of good and evil or the tree of material consciousness or the “Adam dream” that Christ Yeshua (Jesus) testified would become more and more aggressive, sensual, violent, selfish, materialistic as we ate from it and as human history headed toward the End (Luke 23:31).

Baptism is a pledge of good conscience towards HaShem (1Peter 3:21).Baptism dissolves the first veil leading to the Holy Place of conscience within. Baptism opens the Holy Place in the inner temple or Garden within us so we can eat the Bread of Life and experience the Presence and light of the Father directly, personally (Hebrews 9:13-14). Christ in us conquers fear and lusts. Then, as we are reborn of God through trust, through faith in Christ Yeshua, Yeshua (Jesus) begins to dissolve the second veil leading to the Holy of Holies (Living Ark of Christ) or the tree of Life (Christ) (Hebrews chapter 9).

Of course, Yeshua (Jesus) was hung on a tree for our sake and our salvation. All except One (Yeshua) born in the Adam dream are sinners, myself (Michael) included; by faith in Yeshua I am again returning to the image and likeness of HaShem (John 1:12-13). Praise Yeshua (Jesus)!

For our salvation Christ tore the veil of His own body on the cross; Christ came to remove the veil (Exodus 26:33-35; Mark 15:38) between us and the tree of Life (the Father) within. Christ is the image and likeness of our first Genesis, the image and likeness of HaShem (God). Praise HaShem! Christ came to free us; Yeshua (Jesus) came to reveal (uncover) our first nature, our first Genesis by HaShem (Luke 15:18-24)! Praise Christ Yeshua (Jesus)! Not by any human (power) or works (Zechariah 4:6), our faith in His Lamb brings rebirth as sons and daughters of HaShem (Galatians 3:26; John 1:12-13).

Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the (fiery) flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of Life.

The fiery sword of the burning emotions (fear and beastlike desires) (Isaiah 6:2; Revelation 4:6) keeps us from eating from the tree of Life within; it prevents us from experiencing HaShem behind the veils in the temple. The number of their wings (6) tells us these four beasts are forces (rising up as beasts) in man. Both the bronze sea (2Kings 16:17; Revelation 4:6; Revelation 15:1) and the sea of glass represent purification from burning (fiery) (Numbers 21:8) desires through the stillness HaShem gives. Yeshua gives us His peace (John 14:27).

You are the temple of the Living God; you are also the Garden; God gave us this Garden to keep and to tend; within you (Luke 17:21). Is your mind carnal, or is the mind that was in Christ Yeshua also in you (Philippians 2:5)? Do you eat His body (Word) and drink His blood (Holy Spirit; Living Water; Bread of Life) hidden within the flesh of the Word (John 6:53)? What kind of seed or tree is planted in your life? Our concept of the universe begins as a small seed (Mark 4:31), but it sprouts, roots itself firmly in place, and, branches out; we live our lives in the shelter of the tree or worldview we choose.

The fallen mind or serpent trapped us in this dimension; Moses lifted the bronze (understanding) serpent to show that Christ Yeshua would bring the understanding of the spiritual mind and lift mankind (those who trust in Him) back up to the image and likeness of HaShem through the cross. Our sin brings suffering, death. HaShem’s Garden, with the two trees, two dimensions or worldviews is within us. Which tree (dust or Christ) will we eat from? One brings death; the other brings Life eternal. The spiritual Exodus, within.

Peace in Christ Yeshua,

Michael

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Two Trees and a Garden; the Exodus Within

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

We learn more about this beginning of creation in the first chapter of the Gospel of John; notice that Genesis reports that everything the Word created was good. Not only was it good; it was very good.

Genesis 1:31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

The first creation was light, pure, good, so where do sin, disease, errors, lack, and limitation (evil) come from? Genesis 3 tells us how the serpent enticed mankind to eat from the tree (dimension, dream, worldview) of the knowledge of good and evil, the tree of dust, sin, death and human knowledge; most of mankind has continued to seek or worship human knowledge (science, art, literature) rather than the Life, the knowledge of HaShem.

John 1:2 -1:14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

The first Genesis of light (as children of God Genesis 1:27; Psalm 82:6) was veiled (Exodus 26:33-35) (overlaid, obscured) by the second Genesis of clay or dust. Although we live in the darkness of sin, the second Genesis has not overcome the light (Christ) in us; it has simply blocked (veiled) Christ in us, the son of God or daughter of God from our awareness and our view.

Baptism is a pledge of good conscience towards HaShem (1Peter 3:21). Baptism dissolves the first veil leading to the Holy Place of conscience within. Baptism opens the Holy Place in the inner temple or Garden within us so we can again eat the Bread of Life and experience the Presence of the Father directly, personally (Hebrews 9:13-14). Then, as we are reborn of God through trust, through faith in Christ Yeshua, Yeshua (Jesus) begins to dissolve the second veil leading to the Holy of Holies within or the tree of Life (Christ) (Hebrews chapter 9).

For our salvation Christ tore the veil of His own body on the cross; Christ came to remove the veil (Exodus 26:33-35; Mark 15:38) between us and the tree of Life (the Father) within. Christ is the image and likeness of our first Genesis, the image and likeness of HaShem (God). Praise HaShem! Christ came to free us; Yeshua (Jesus) came to reveal (uncover) our first nature, our first Genesis by HaShem (Luke 15:18-24)! Praise Christ Yeshua (Jesus)! Not by any human (power) effort or works (Zechariah 4:6), our faith in His Lamb brings rebirth as sons and daughters of HaShem (Galatians 3:26; John 1:12-13).

Satan works very diligently to convict and accuse us (especially Christians) of sin (Job 1:6-11; Zechariah 3:1-4; Matthew 4:1-11; Romans 7:24); we are even more vulnerable to Satan today because we (falsely) believe in our own cultural and scientific superiority–in science, literature, technology and not HaShem and the Bible; in our arrogance, we believe we are too sophisticated and modern for (what we are led to believe are) biblical myths and superstitions; we think it acceptable and liberal to approve of sexual sin; we cannot deny our sin and be saved because in doing so we make HaShem a liar (1John 1:8-10). Satan and his demons have more success now because we don’t believe Scripture.

Satan convinces us we are tech savvy, advanced, modern. He whispers that the Law is outdated. Satan teaches self gratification, self preservation, greed, and sexualizes the people around us, making them objects to be manipulated for our own satisfaction and pleasure. Satan teaches us pride in our own knowledge (degrees, expertise, achievements) and our technical, moral, cultural, religious, or ethnic superiority.

Fallen sons and daughters of HaShem, why do you want to die (Proverbs 14:12)? Repent of your sins, turn and live (Ezekiel 18:32)! We eat from the forbidden tree of (human) knowledge; we perish in our sin and we don’t rise up again. Or we do rise up briefly, only to meet the condemnation (Daniel 12:2) and judgment of the second death (Revelation 20:14). Circumcision is needed, not of the flesh, but of the heart before Christ Yeshua (Mark 10:15). The fallen mind (serpent) must be raised by the understanding (bronze) of the new relationship to the Father within that is given through the cross of Yeshua the Christ (John 3:14; Romans 12:2; Titus 3:5).

We are often victims of our own pride. We fall easy prey to Satan and his demons’ tricks (wiles) precisely because we don’t believe Scripture; we don’t accept the testimony of the Father through His prophets with the attitude of little children (Matthew 18:3). Satan and his demons are able to work unseen, by the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2). The worst of the Internet, television, radio, and video games are just some visible manifestations of Satan’s power to broadcast sin, violence, sensuality, and to foster desires (lusts) and fears. Satan and his demons also broadcast directly into our minds; this is less true once we are saved (in Christ) and when we regularly consume the body (Word) and the blood (Holy Spirit). Praise the Holy Spirit (John 6:55)!

We conquer fear and desires through stillness (Psalm 46:10) before HaShem. The twin flaming swords (burning emotions in us) of fear and lusts (Genesis 3:24) are the guardians or Cherubim HaShem placed at the gate of paradise (within us) to keep those who are carnal minded from entering Paradise, to prevent those who eat from the forbidden tree (knowledge, sin) from also eating of the tree of Life and living in eternal sin and misery (Genesis 3:22).

Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the (fiery) flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of Life.

The fiery sword of the burning emotions (fear and beastlike desires) (Isaiah 6:2; Revelation 4:6) keeps us from eating from the tree of Life within; it prevents us from experiencing what is behind the veils in the temple. The number of their wings (6) tells us these four beasts are forces (rising up as beasts) in man. Both the bronze sea (2Kings 16:17; Revelation 4:6; Revelation 15:1) and the sea of glass represent purification from burning (fiery) (Numbers 21:8) desires through the stillness HaShem gives. Yeshua gives us His peace (John 14:27).

Only faith in the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 5:6) gives us victory over the beasts (desires, lusts) and over fear, the flaming sword of the burning emotions that keep us from reentering the Garden within or from inner communion and fellowship with HaShem through the Living Ark (Christ) in us.

Those who win victory over the beasts, lusts and fear (Revelation 4:6-11) through stillness and peace (Isaiah 30:15) or the sea of glass (2Kings 16:17; Revelation 4:6; Revelation 15:2) stand on their faith in Christ to overcome lusts and fear (the burning emotions) of the forbidden tree of dust. Christ puts His peace under their feet as a solid foundation of glass or the bronze sea, and the fire (burning emotions) can no longer reach them.

Eating the Word (John 6:63) and drinking His blood (John 6:53) gives us victory over all animal desires and fear. Animal desires for sex, food (and material possessions), self-preservation, and self gratification are beasts rising up within the temple, preventing our prayers from reaching HaShem, separating us from our brothers and sisters, making us enemies of the golden (royal) Law of Love (James 2:8).

Continually pray in the Spirit with quietness and great confidence (Isaiah 30:15). HaShem placed these forces of the guardian Cherubim and Seraphim (Revelation 4:8) within man to help us defeat all such desires. They sanctify the desires of believers day and night, praying without ceasing for us. But it is Christ who commands them to fight on our behalf once we turn from our sins, confessing, and trusting in the blood of the Lamb of God (Yeshua, Jesus), in the cross of Christ, even in the power of His name. He (Yeshua) accomplishes all this; our part is to believe God and let Him become Lord of our day, Lord of our night, Lord of our entering, Lord of our leaving, Lord of our Life.

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and (although) the world was made through him, (and) the world didn’t recognize him. (Even though) He came to his own, those who were his own didn’t receive him.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

If you are plagued by addiction or other sins and falling away, ask a Christian you admire to pray for you (James 5:16) or with you; it is not necessary that you confess intimate details of your problem; HaShem knows everything already. Just ask one or more Christians to help you overcome your addiction(s) and sins through prayer.

It is true that as Christians, we (should) no longer sin because His seed or tree of Life (Christ) is planted in us (1John 3:9). And we should strive to be holy as He is holy. But HaShem also wants to save some who are in a worse condition (addiction or possession); HaShem has that right. Satan doesn’t want us to know that HaShem forgives the wretchedness of those (even Christians) who are still (for a time) slaves to sins, desires, addictions. Some possible steps in our journey from addiction or possession back home to the Father’s house are given below.

Get wisdom from God; how? By asking Him for it! Get faith. Faith that moves mountains (Matthew 21:21; Matthew 17:20) is like getting handed a check from HaShem; even if you haven’t yet got the cash in hand you know it is a sure thing. When you or others pray, act like you have already received what you asked for and you will receive it (Matthew 21:22; James 1:16).

Sometimes the addiction (or the demon causing physical, mental, or spiritual sickness) refuses to be cast out except by prayer and fasting (Mark 9:28-29); we are already saved but still slaves to wretched desires (Romans 7:24) and addictions, often the activity of demonic power. Satan wants us to believe we are too sinful for God to possibly love us. Don’t believe Satan. Eat the Word and drink the blood of Christ every single day; remember Him and give thanks for His body and blood whenever you eat or drink.

Don’t place your trust in your own willpower or human doctors alone; place your full faith in the blood and the righteousness of the light within you that the darkness has not (cannot) overcome. Eat from the Living tree (Christ) in the Garden HaShem placed within each one of us. Stop eating from the tree of (human, material, carnal, desires, fear) knowledge. The light shines in the darkness (within us), but the darkness could not overcome it!

1. Sincerely repent (turn from) your sins; celebrate your new found Life (and publicly declare your new relationship with God) by getting baptized (Luke 9:26; Romans 6:4; Revelation 3:5); accept Yeshua (Jesus) and His sacrifice at the cross for your salvation. Believe that HaShem raised Yeshua from the dead on the third day.
2. Out of Satan’s reach now! Don’t let Satan worry or taunt you. We have already crossed over from death into Life (John 5:24) when we accept Christ Yeshua (Jesus). Yeshua saves (Matthew 17:14-21).
3. The former excitement of lawbreaking and defiance fades. Sin’s former glamour turns to bitterness. Satan cannot use the law to inflame rebellion and desire when we know we are saved (Romans 7:12; 7:16; 7:21).
4. We can begin to use our desire to please HaShem to propel us forward towards sanctification, to please Yeshua (Jesus), to no longer grieve the Holy Spirit now living in us. Personally I don’t eat pig meat; not because I can’t, just to draw closer to HaShem. I do other things simply to please Yeshua and the Holy Spirit. It feels good.
5. Don’t avoid nonbelievers (your testimony about Christ may save some of them), but work and recreate with believers when you can. Ask fellow Christians to pray for and with you. Use your new spiritual muscles to also pray for those less fortunate. These spiritual muscles will grow with use and faith. Read Scripture every day. Then be still. Wait patiently for HaShem to speak in that moment of surrender and peace. It cleanses. It uplifts; it feeds the spirit.
6. Place your trust in Him, eating the Word and drinking the Holy Spirit, Living Water, and Bread of Life continually (daily) within the body of the Word (Scripture). Look for the good (Philippians 4:8). Look up, our salvation is near. He (Jesus) is at the door (Luke 21:28)!

Paul wasn’t giving Christians license to go on sinning; Paul was preaching in dark places where the worst kinds of religious and sexual sins were acceptable; Paul was (also) testifying to the people (of today) with addictions to sexual sins, video games, drugs, alcohol and more; Paul testified by the Holy Spirit (truthfully) that the blood of Christ can save us and wash us too (Romans 8:38-38; Romans 8:31-34); because of this some people were a little confused by Paul’s gospel (2Peter 3:16). Paul was dealing with a complex situation. Trust the Light of Christ, the tree of Life within you to cast out any and all of our demons and addictions (Luke 8:27-39; Matthew 12:22).

He (Christ Yeshua, Jesus) has overcome the world (John 16:33). When you repent and He brings about your rebirth as a son or daughter of God (John 1:12-13), He places His Holy Spirit within you. Now eating from the tree of Life, shunning evil and choosing the good, you overcome the world, because He lives in you (1John 4:4)!

Addictions were not made by the Word because everything God made was good. We already know that. Satan continues to accuse even saved addicts and damage their feeling of salvation and closeness to the Lord by hurting their conscience. Satan wants us to believe that the arm of the Lord is too short or unwilling to save us; but the fact that HaShem sent His only son to die for us while we were still the worst kind of sinners (Romans 5:10) should confirm that HaShem is willing to patiently bring us to a full and complete healing from our addictions and sins (John 8:34-36). God is not fooled or mocked. We need to sincerely repent and turn from our sins, accepting Yeshua (Jesus) as Lord. We can’t do it; but through our complete faith in Him, Yeshua (Jesus) is able to fully restore us (Mark 10:27).

The puppy that has wrapped himself around a tree 10 times may be confused when his Master brings him around and around in what appears to be circles to get him untangled. Overcoming the thorn in the flesh of addiction requires special patience on our part and on HaShem’s part. It is a difficult road back to the light from addictions, but we trust in His Spirit, not in human will (power) or might. Be persistent and trust Him. He walks with us the whole way home. Sometimes when we stumble He picks us up and carries us.

Christ dined with prostitutes and tax collectors. Christ Yeshua demonstrated His authority over every kind of illness and addiction; eat from the Living Tree (Christ) within you. He has overcome Satan, the world

Do not judge yourself or others. Forgive. Show mercy. Let Yeshua (Jesus) be your righteousness. You are the Garden of God. HaShem placed this Garden within you to keep and to tend (Genesis 2:15). There are two trees within that you may choose to eat from; one brings Life eternal and the other sin (knowledge) leading to death.

The Word became flesh, and lived (made His tabernacle) among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Find your way to the Father (the light) within you by absolute confidence in Christ Yeshua (Jesus). The light was (came) first. Genesis 1 explains (the creation of light) and Genesis 2 (the creation of clay or dust). Genesis 1:3 is greatly expanded in chapter 1 of John’s Gospel, where we find that all things that were made were made by the light (or the Word) that became flesh and made His tabernacle among us. The light (Christ or the Word) shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not overcome it.

Genesis 1: Our first Genesis was as children of the Most High (Psalm82:6) in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). HaShem (G_d) created the heavens and the earth in seven days (of 1000 years each; Adam died in the same day he ate from the forbidden tree). The first creation was in the image and likeness of HaShem (Genesis 1:26-27; Psalm 82:6; John 10:34) or the Living Tree. Since HaShem called everything He made good, (Genesis 1:31) where do sin, disease, errors, lack and limitation (evil) come from? The answer comes in chapter 3 where we meet the former ‘prince of this world’ whose head was bruised at the cross of Christ, his power and authority greatly curtailed. Satan also enticed a third of the angels to fall (Revelation 12:4).

Genesis 2: The second Genesis of dust covers (obscures?) the first, this is the tree that brings the knowledge of good and evil or the tree of material consciousness or the “Adam dream” that Christ Yeshua (Jesus) testified would become more and more aggressive, violent, selfish, materialistic as we ate from it and as human history headed toward the End (Luke 23:31).

Of course, Yeshua (Jesus) was hung on a tree for our sake and our salvation. All except One (Yeshua) born in the Adam dream are sinners, myself (Michael) included; by faith in Yeshua I am again returning to the image and likeness of HaShem (John 1:12-13). Praise Yeshua (Jesus)!

Gen 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
You are the temple of the Living God; you are also the Garden; God gave us this garden to keep and to tend; within you (Luke 17:21).  Is your mind carnal, or is the mind that was in Christ Yeshua also in you (Philippians 2:5)? Do you eat His body (Word) and drink His blood (Holy Spirit; Living Water; Bread of Life) hidden within the flesh of the Word (John 6:53)? What kind of tree or seed is planted in your life? Our concept of the universe begins as a small seed (Mark 4:31), but it sprouts, roots itself firmly in place, and, branches out; we live in the shelter of the tree or worldview we choose.

HaShem’s Garden, with the two trees, two dimensions or worldviews is within us. Which tree (dust or Christ) will we eat from? One brings death; the other brings Life eternal. The spiritual Exodus, within.

Peace in Yeshua (Jesus),

Michael

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