Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled
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
