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“Podcast CCCLXXXX: Discipline! What Is Elohim Preparing Us For That Requires Specific Discipline” is ready for listening under “Audio Teachings.”
This is an amplification of the article, posted February 16, 2023: “Discipline! What Is Elohim Preparing Us For That Requires Specific Discipline?” under the Mikvah of Preparation, #89.0.
I John 5:19: “The whole world lies in the evil one.”
What part of “whole” don’t His people understand? “Adulterers and adulteresses! Do not know that friendship with this world is enmity (warfare) against Yahuwah?” Ya’cob/James 4:4. Most rebellious self-willed “believers” are totally far from Him – having no clue as to His nature, ways, and thinking. I encourage you to read carefully Hebrews 11, 12, and 13 this Shabbat.
Yet, for some strange reason they think they are good and will “go to heaven.”
Many believe we’re all the “Bride.” We’re talking “Biblical Bride” of ancient Hebrew culture, not Walt Disney’s Cinderella!
I hope the last podcast discouraged that fantasy. If all are the Bride, who are the guests and the attendants? Who lives on the new earth, and who are the “kings of the earth” in Revelation 21, and the ones who never leave the throne room in Revelation 22.
In Revelation 19: He returns with His “wife,” to be married on the earth, and for the “wedding feast.” His “wife,” the engaged woman, then becomes His “bride” (the married woman) at the wedding. Then a wedding feast takes place with the invited ones.
Who are the guests Messiah speaks of? Who are the attendants Messiah talks about? The confusion is because of Greco-Roman-based religion that allows one to have ideas on their own – those not being Spirit-taught. It is also confused because of apathy to know the Word, and one’s thoughts of their own religious grandeur: religious self-righteousness, personal religious beliefs, religious pride.
People hear something that sounds good and stick it into the “mind’s bag of tricks.” Putting lots of pieces into the bag, people come up with a belief system that gives them a good feeling to continue in their total blanked out, spaced out, brain. Ignorance of the whole Word that backs each need for understanding is so
A friend of mine in a Bible Study admitted she had not ever heard from “God” in her 35 years of being a “believer.” Obviously, personal relationship between her and “God” was non-existent. I’ve had many tell me they’ve never heard from Him. Then they get jealous and mock me for hearing Him. Religion is no substitute for knowing.
Let’s get real here. If you’re engaged to a person, or married to a person, and after 35 years you’ve never heard from them – folks, something’s not right!
This is why being born again, following the Master-Teacher-Trainer, Yahushua Messiah, and being filled with Yahuwah, the Spirit, in the re-born spirit (John 7:37-39), is mandatory for relationship. He wants to establish relationship by communication right away. That’s why He wants to come into our spirit and abide there. “Do you not know that your body is the dwelling place of the Spirit?” (I Corinthians 6:19-20 and I Corinthians 7:23). Your body cannot be His temple unless you ask Him to come into your “holy of holies,” in your belly area. I Kings 8: Solomon had finished the temple, but he had to ask Yahuwah to come into the Most Set-Apart Place over the ark. That place was known as “the speaking place!”
So, there you have it! No “speaking place,” no communication!
You can’t be engaged or married and not communicate. The Matthew 25:1-12 virgins were guests – obviously. Five ended up able to enter the wedding feast, and five got lazy and let their light go out, and Messiah said to them “I don’t know you.” They pounded on the door where the wedding feast was held, and the Bridegroom shut the door in their face, saying “I don’t know you.” (also Matthew 7:21-23 and Luke 13:22-30).
Man’s religions are so silly. Everyone believes as they want to and all think they’re right. Then they wonder why He cuts them off. Two people who love one another talk to each other as often as possible. Thing is, few love Yahushua as Master-Savior-Beloved One; few love Yahuwah as Abba/Daddy/Father. Few find the narrow gate along the narrow path that leads to life!
Discipline takes a person from a true new birth into the Kingdom. Without it, the soul (mind, emotions, reasoning, decision-maker/will) remains wild, untamed, and unable to enter the Kingdom. The process of set-apartness and transformation is an adventure in knowing and being taught, understanding, and “fruit-bearing,” because of obedience. Without submission and obedience to the Master the carnal soul cannot be tamed, and thus will hear Him say “I don’t know you.”
“Few there be that find it…” Messiah said of those who start out on the narrow road after a true new birth, because few have a true new birth. Few even know what a new birth is, and so, instead of being a new creation in training for reigning with the Master in His Kingdom, they get the kick-out result as in Luke 12!
My purpose in writing and podcasting is to wake up a remnant of His people to know Him, and act on what they know. Please read Luke 12, 13, and 14.
Don’t be caught with a lollypop in one hand and a stick of cotton candy in the other hand. They won’t help you when the nukes hit. And we’re closer to that now than ever before.
Refer to the article “Through,” which is #21 under the Mikvah of Preparation!
Blessings, love, joy, peace, Yedidah
February 18, 2023