(Part 3)
Today I am continuing to speak on the Blessed Set
Apart Day. I want to make a comment on the fact that Yehoshua[i]
made a “whip of cords” to drive out the merchants, (Mattithyahu/Matthew 21:12-13). We may have the idea that Yehoshua was very
meek and a servant as described in “ He is despised and rejected by men, a Man
of sorrow and acquainted with grief. And
we hid , as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem
Him.
“He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet open not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to
the slaughter and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He did not open
His mouth.” Yeshayahu/
Isaiah
53:3,7
Yes,
He came to be the Lamb of our Sacrifice. When He was sent to prison and judged
and crucified, He would not oppose them for He came into this world for this
purpose. He came to take our place on the cross instead of us going there and
die for our sin, since the penalty for sin is death. (See Romiyim/Romans 3:23;
Yochanan/John 1:29)
But
He demonstrates that He is Elohim and that He is coming back as the King who
will take vengeance of all His enemies, according to the Scriptures. He will
return to this earth as the conquering King, and will rule with the rod of iron.
Mizmowr/Psalm
2:9 “You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces
like a potter’s vessel.”
Chazon/Revelation
19:11-16 “Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on
him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.
His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a
name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped
in blood, and His name is called The Word of Elohim. And the armies in heaven,
clothed in fine lines, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. Now out
of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And
He himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress
of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty Elohim. And he has on His robe and on
His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND MASTER OF MASTERS.”
(LORD
OF LORDS in the NKJV)
That day was what we call Palm Sunday, or the day
that the Lamb was chosen for the Sacrifice on the Passover. The people chose
the lamb and took it to their home for four days to inspect it, to make sure it
was unblemished. Yeshua went to His Father’s House. And four days later He was
sacrificed and our Sacrificial Lamb!
But that day when He entered His Father’s House, He
found those thieves, desecrating the Temple. We need to understand that in the
days of Messiah in the Temple, was the Court of the Gentiles. They sold the
sacrifices at excessive prices. Because many pilgrims traveled a great distance
and could not bring their slaughter offerings, they would buy them there. But
they sold the animals that had been rejected, for good perfect animals usable
for the sacrifices. Yehoshua knew that
and threw them out. He revealed the fullness of Who He is and what He is going
to do on His second coming, which is going to be very soon.
Question: I wonder if He would enter our churches
today what He would find?
He
is zealous for His House.
Mizmowr/Psalms 69:9 “Because zeal for Your
house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen
on me.”
Let
us remember that Gentiles were considered unclean and were restricted in their
worship of Yehovah. Religion is what
segregate people one from another. But if we simply would obey the
commandments, which instruct to love our neighbor as ourselves, then there,
would be no division. However, it seems that it is much easier to keep people
away who do not think or act as we do, than to try to teach them.
Even
in these days, the descendants of the Pharisees, the Rabbinic Jews, are very
protective and do not want anyone else to worship there. Just recently a good Jewish friend of mine
went to Yisra’el and to the Wailing Wall. She was praying there with other friends from
America, and one Orthodox Jew spat on her face. She was so sad. This attitude is not biblical
and is not found in the Torah. The wall is creating a division between
believers, instead of uniting. However, the believers, who do not belong to the
Rabbinic Judaism, but desire to worship Yehovah, are finding other places. They are going up to the Mount of the Bais
HaMikdash in an effort to as close as possible to where the House of Yehovah
was once located.
Someone mentioned the following prophecy in regards
to this situation.
“Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough
by a well; His branches run over the wall. The archers have bitterly grieved
him, shot at him and hated him. But his bow remained in strength, and the arms
of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty Elohim of Jacob (From
there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel.” Bereshith/Genesis 49:22-24
There is still a wall between the natural
descendants of the Twelve Tribes of Israel and Gentile Converts. Some Messianic
Congregations which allow Gentile Converts they have to prove to be descendants
of one of the Twelve Tribes. And they
also will not want to begin a Congregation unless they have ten members.
This wall will be broken down when Messiah will
return to this Earth.
Yeshayahu/Isaiah
56:1-7 “Thus says Yehovah ‘Keep justice, for My Salvation is about to come and My righteousness to be revealed.”
Blessed
is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; who keeps
from defiling the Shabbat, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
Do
not let the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to Yehovah speak
saying, “Yehovah has utterly separated me from His people”; nor let the eunuch
say, “Here I am, a dry tree.”
For
thus says Yehovah: “To the eunuchs who keep My Shabbats, and choose what
pleases Me, and hold fasts My covenant,
even
to them I will give in My house and within My walls a place and a name better
than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that
shall not be cut off.
Also
the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to Yehovah, to serve Him, and to
love the name of Yehovah, to be His servants-everyone who keeps from defiling
the Shabbat, and holds fast My covenant-
even
them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of
prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on My
altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
His promises, which include the Shabbat, apply to
all people who choose to serve Yehovah. There are not two sets of children of
Elohim, or two Brides, but only one.
While many, Jewish and even non Jewish believers in
Messiah, think that the Shabbat is a Jewish thing, the above Scriptures reveal
the contrary.
Let us stop segregating ourselves and begin to unite
under the same Elohim, Yehovah, the Creator and King of the Universe. We are
one in Him, let us begin to love our believer brother and sister, and keep the
Torah as He has commanded us. Amen.
Shalom!
Yo’el (Joel) 2:32 “And
it shall be that everyone who calls on the Name of Yehovah shall be delivered. For on Mount Tsiyon and in Yerushalayim there
shall be an escape as Yehovah has said, and among the remnant whom Yehovah
calls.”
Call upon Him
now and be saved from your sin and receive eternal life.
“Yehovah is near to the brokenhearted, and saves those whose spirit is
crushed.”
(Mizmowr 34:18)
Shalom,
“Ye-varekhekha
Yehovah veyishmerekha
Ya’er
Yehovah panav ‘eleykha vichunnekha
Yisa
Yehovah panav ‘eleykha veyasem lekha
shalom.” Bemidbar 6:24-26
“Yehovah bless you and keep you;
Yehovah
make His Face shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
Yehovah
lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”
“So
they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.”
Bemidbar
(Numbers) 6:24-26-27
His
Name is very important, and we cannot substitute His Most Holy Righteous and
Powerful Name. Let us call upon His Name and be saved!
[i] Our
Savior, the only Ben/Son of our Heavenly Father Yehovah, our Creator.
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