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Hi: I
got all inspired and put some of my latest thoughts
on the Torah in writing. Bear
Deuteronomy
30
1 AND WHEN all these things have come upon you,
the blessings and the curses which I have set
before you, and you shall call them to mind
among all the nations where Jahuwah your
Mighty Creator has driven you,
The
italicized portion of this scripture indicates
that Jah and Moshè knew that the part of
the curse of the law described in Deuteronomy
28:64 would come to pass because this was a stiff
necked people they were dealing with. That
scripture says, “And the Mighty Creator shall
scatter you among all peoples from one end of
the earth to the other; and there you shall [be
forced to] serve idols, of wood and stone, which
neither you nor your fathers have known.”
2
And shall return to Jahuwah your Mighty
Creator and obey His voice according to all
that I command you today, you and your children,
with all your [mind and] heart and with all
your being,
Jahuwah’s
voice is what is setting forth the laws, statutes,
and judgments in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
and Deuteronomy. Sometimes people say that
they want to hear His voice. All they have
to do is read the Torah. Obeying His voice
is doing what He has commanded in His Torah. Returning
to Him is obeying Him in what He has already commanded. Do
you recognize the phrase “with all your [mind
and] heart and with all your being?” Does
it sound familiar? In Matthew 22:37-38, “Jahshuwah
said unto him, Thou shalt love Jahuwah thy Mighty
Creator with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy mind. This is the first
and great commandment.” Returning to Him
is obeying His voice with respect to the Torah
with all your heart, soul, and mind.
3
Then Jahuwah your Mighty Creator will restore
your fortunes
If
you don’t obey Him, your fortunes are going to
need restoring. We can have our fortunes
restored when we turned to Him in the manner He
requires. Note: The fortune mentioned
here has nothing to do with the god of fortune
or luck. Jah does not cause your “luck” to
change. Rather, the reference here is to,
“personified force or power [Jah’s power] that
favorably or unfavorably governs the events of
one's life.” In other words, when you start
enthusiastically seeking to hear and obey all
Jah’s laws, statutes, and judgments Jah will start
working on your behalf in a positive way.
and
have compassion upon you and will gather you
again from all the nations where He has scattered
you.
4
Even if any of your dispersed are in the uttermost
parts of the heavens, from there Jahuwah your
Mighty Creator will gather you and from there
will He bring you. 5And Jahuwah your Mighty
Creator will bring you into the land which your
fathers possessed, and you shall possess it;
and He will do you good and multiply you above
your fathers.
If
we can get a hold of this concept we have a chance
to greater and mightier than David or Solomon
during the height of their respective reigns. Read
Psalm 119 and you will see the key to David’s
greatness and also part of the reason (perhaps
all or the reason) that he was called a “man after
[Jah’s] own heart.”
6
And Jahuwah your Mighty Creator will circumcise
your hearts and the hearts of your descendants,
to love Jahuwah your Mighty Creator with
all your [mind and] heart and with all your
being, that you may live.
In
Romans 2:29 Paul says, “But he is a Jew, which
is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the
heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose
praise is not of men, but of Jahuwah.” Hmmm,
wonder where he got that from?
7
And Jahuwah your Mighty Creator will put all
these curses upon your enemies and on those
who hate you, who persecute you.
As
soon as we start obeying Him with respect to His
laws, statutes and judgments, with our whole heart;
He puts the curse that was on us for our disobedience,
on our enemies. For some of us, the enemy
has become the governments of this world. I
personally have also seen this apply to individual
enemies.
8
And you shall return and obey the voice of the
Jahuwah and do all His commandments which
I command you today.
I
have come full circle from ‘the law is bondage’
to keeping His Torah brings blessings. I
am now of the position that the more of His Torah
we keep, the more blessings in every area of our
lives we will enjoy. Hosea 4:6 says, “My
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because
thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject
thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing
thou hast forgotten the law of your Mighty
Creator,…” Respecting this, I was shown the
rejection referred to here can be a knowledge
specific rejection. If you reject His knowledge
on healing, you won’t receive healing from Him. If
you reject knowledge on the baptism in the Set-apart
Spirit, you will never enjoy the benefits of same,
etc. The word “law” underlined above refers
to the “the Deuteronomic or Mosaic Law.”
9
And Jahuwah your Mighty Creator will make
you abundantly prosperous in every work of your
hand, in the fruit of your body, of your cattle,
of your land, for good; for the Jahuwah will
again delight in prospering you, as He took
delight in your fathers,
I
am of the opinion that Jah has no objection to
us prospering, in fact, as noted above, He “delights”
to prosper us when we turn to Him with our whole
hearts and show our love for Him by seeking to
obey all of His laws, statutes, and judgments.
10
If you obey the voice of Jahuwah your
Mighty Creator, to keep His commandments and
His statutes which are written in this Book
of the Law, and if you turn to Jahuwah your
Mighty Creator with all your [mind and] heart
and with all your being.
The
whole thing hinges on the big “If” italicized
above. Keeping His “commandments” and “statutes”
is directly tied to loving Him by turning to Him
“with all your [mind and] heart and with all your
being.”
11
For this commandment which I command you this
day is not too difficult for you, nor is it
far off.
One
woman I was speaking with at Feast of Tabernacles
about these types of issues had an AH HA experience
when I pointed out, “He wouldn’t command us to
do something that we aren’t capable of.” Two
other attendees at the Feast were overheard telling
each other that serving Jah is “hard.” I
made a time out sign with my hand and said, “Time
out! It’s time for a rebuke. I can’t
believe I just heard you both say that.” It’s
really a matter of making up our own mind to go
all out for Him. Here, Jah himself is saying
that it indeed is not difficult! Do you hear
me? It is not difficult! Do you hear
Him? He says, “It is not too difficult for
you!” Those two from the Feast need to hear
it; it’s not too difficult for us!! Jahshuwah
addressed this when He said in Matthew 11:29,
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I
am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find
rest unto your souls.” And in Matthew 11:30,
“For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” I
was shown that a yoke has to do with direction. A
yoke is how an ox is directed. Jah, in the
commandment in verse eleven above, is directing
you to the way that you will find rest for your
soul. He is also directing to the place where
the burden is light. In Proverbs 13:15 it
is written, “Good understanding giveth favour:
but the way of transgressors is hard.” By
not keeping His laws, statutes and judgments;
we make it hard for ourselves! Why would
we do that to ourselves?? In Ecclesiastes
2:26 the point is made again, “For the Mighty
Creator giveth to a man that is good in his sight
wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the transgressor
he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that
he may give to him that is good before Jahuwah.” In
Deuteronomy 4:5-7 we find out how we can be “good
in His sight” and get the wisdom He wants to give
us, “Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances
as the Jahuwah you Mighty Creator has commanded
me, that you should do them in the land which
you are entering to possess. So keep them
and do them, for that is your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the peoples who,
when they hear all these statutes, will say, surely
this great nation is a wise and understanding
people. For what great nation is there who
has a Mighty Creator so near to them as the Jahuwah
you Mighty Creator is to us in all things for
which we call upon Him?” Some have prayed
for wisdom. Here is the answer to their prayer. When
they “keep them and do them [His “statutes and
ordinances”]” they become wisdom unto us. It
also brings great “joy” seeing Him work in our
lives like He promised. Remember from above,
“Good understanding giveth favour…?” Do you
want both Jah’s favor and man’s favor just like
Jahshuwah [Luke 2:52], Mary [Luke 1:28], and Samuel
[1 Samuel 2:26]? Then “keep them and do them
[His laws, statutes, and judgments]” and you will
have the same. It cannot be overstated what
a necessity it is to have Jah’s favor and what
a blessing it is to have man’s favor.
12
It is not [a secret laid up] in heaven, that
you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven
and bring it to us, that we may hear and do
it? 13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you
should say, Who shall go over the sea for us
and bring it to us, that we may hear and do
it?
It
seems that many have said that they want to hear
Jah’s voice. He has already spoken to us
through His Word and His Torah [1st five books
of the Scriptures] in particular. Jahshuwah
says in Luke 16:10, “He that is faithful in that
which is least is faithful also in much: and he
that is unjust in the least is unjust also in
much.” Here is my understanding; He has spoken
to us through His Torah. If we are faithful
to do all the things He has openly spoken to us
through His Torah, we will also be faithful when
He speaks to us via our thoughts. Further,
because we have become familiar with His voice
while studying and applying His laws, statutes,
and judgments in our lives, when He speaks in
our thoughts or in our ears we will recognize
His voice when He does so. Because we have
been faithful with what He has written on paper
for us to do, He will then trust with us with
new, greater revelations that come in our thoughts
or ears.
14
But the word is very near you, in your mouth
and in your mind and in your heart, so that
you can do it.
For
me, the question arises, how does this word get
in my mouth? I think I have the answer. In
Deuteronomy 11:19-21 He describes how we are to
handle His Torah, “And you shall teach them to
your children, speaking of them when you sit in
your house and when you walk along the road, when
you lie down and when you rise up. And you
shall write them upon the doorposts of your house
and on your gates, That your days and the days
of your children may be multiplied in the land
which the Jahuwah swore to your fathers to
give them, as long as the heavens are above the
earth.” According to this, most people spend
entirely too little time speaking His Torah, or,
handling it in general. I was shown that
Joshua and Caleb did this. That’s why they
came back from spying out the Promised Land with
a good report. This is further explained
in Joshua 1:5-9, “No man shall be able to stand
before you all the days of your life. As I was
with Moshè, so I will be with you; I will
not fail you or forsake you. Be strong (confident)
and of good courage, for you shall cause this
people to inherit the land which I swore to their
fathers to give them. Only you be strong and very
courageous, that you may do according to all the
law which Moshè My servant commanded you.
Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left
that you may prosper wherever you go. This
Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth,
but you shall meditate on it day and night, that
you may observe and do according to all that is
written in it. For then you shall make your way
prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and
have good success. Have not I commanded you?
Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not
afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Jahuwah your
Mighty Creator is with you wherever you go.” The
word “meditate” highlighted above means, “utter,
mutter, devise, plot, or speak.” Let us be
careful not to let Joshua and Caleb be the only
ones that take full advantage of the success that
is available to us by keeping the “Book of the
Law” in our mouths by meditating/muttering/teaching
it day and night that we might observe and do
according to all that is written in it. I
find it totally mind blowing that He is offering
to be with each and every one of us the same way
He was with Moshè! His treating us
that way all hinges on how well we obey with respect
to meditating/muttering/teaching His Torah. Jahshuwah
heartily approves of this. It was He that: 1) told
healed lepers too honor Mosheh’s command. Mat.
8:4; Mark 1:44; Luke 5:14; 2) Said that the scribes
and pharisees sat in Mosheh seat of authority;
Mat. 23:2; 3) Reproved and corrected
men for not properly honoring their parents according
to Moshè’s command. Mark 7:10; 3) Had
a conversation with Moshè; Mark 9; 4)
Tested questioners regarding their memory of what
Moshè’s commanded. Mark 10:3; 5) He
demonstrated the kinds of revelation we will receive
when we meditate on His Torah. Mark 12:26; 6)
Said that Abraham would have encouraged us to
heed Moshè and the prophets. Luke 16:29;
7) Started at Moshè’s writings to explain
all the scriptures that pertained to Him. Luke
24:27; 8) Explained that he must be lifted up
on a pole the same way Moshè lifted up
the serpent in the desert. John 3:14; 9) He pointed
out that Moshè’s writings (the Torah) would
serve as people’s accuser. John 5:45; 10) Jahshuwah
explained that belief on Him could (possibly should)
come through believing on what Moshè wrote. John
5:46; 11) And, He told a crowd that none of them
kept Moshè’s law. John 7:19.
15
See, I have set before you this day life and
good, and death and evil. 16[If you obey the
commandments of Jahuwah your Mighty Creator
which] I command you today, to love Jahuwah your
Mighty Creator, to walk in His ways, and to
keep His commandments and His statutes and His
ordinances, then you shall live and multiply,
and Jahuwah your Mighty Creator will bless
you in the land into which you go to possess.
Notice
that there is more to this than just commandments;
there is also statutes and ordinances.
17
But if your [mind and] heart turn away and you
will not hear, but are drawn away to worship
other gods and serve them,
So
many today feel that they are not worshiping idols. When
I look around I don’t see many people bowing down
to an idol. However, you are probably worshiping
an idol when you reverence and fear a government
and it causes you to not obey Jah’s Torah. You
are probably worshiping an idol when you see your
job as your source of sustenance and it causes
you violate His Torah and you are afraid to leave
it out of fear that Jah couldn’t provide for your
family?? I can hear it now, many out there
reading this saying, oh, c’mon, having a job/employment
doesn’t violate the Torah. That shows you
don’t know what the Torah says. Having employment
in the typical company today violates the Torah
at least six (6) different ways. You can
see above that Torah violations are what keep
you from being blessed the way Jah has promised. You
are worshiping an idol when you put your faith
in a piece of paper called an insurance contract.
I
was given a revelation on what it is to “serve”
an idol that should be of great concern to everyone
reading this. You are probably serving an
idol when you’ve run out of cigarettes and you
are willing to drop whatever you are doing to
do whatever it takes to get some more. You
are serving an idol when you move things around
to make room for the Christmas tree; or, when
you put a stand on the bottom so it doesn’t fall
over; or, when you carry it up the stairs into
where you live. See Jeremiah 10. You
are probably serving an idol when, like I have,
you are addicted to playing basketball five hours
a day.
18
I declare to you today that you shall surely
perish, and you shall not live long in the land
which you pass over the Jordan to enter and
possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness
this day against you that I have set before
you life and death, the blessings and the curses;
therefore choose life, that you and your descendants
may live 20 And may love Jahuwah your Mighty
Creator, obey His voice,
See
how this command agrees with what Jahshuwah said? In
John 14:15 He says, “If you [really] love Me,
you will keep (obey) My commands.”
and
cling to Him. For He is your life and the length
of your days, that you may dwell in the land
which the Jahuwah swore to give to your fathers,
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
It
is my hope that this article will lead to you
walking in the blessings that come with being
Torah obedient. Jah warns against you, after
hearing about the curse that comes with disobedience
to the Torah, blessing yourself in your heart
saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in
the imagination of mine heart…” Deut. 29:19-20. That’s
the equivalent of saying; we don’t have to keep
the law; we’ll have peace anyway and we can still
be blessed. Jahuwah will not spare the man
that says and thinks like this, but then the anger
of the Jahuwah and his jealousy shall smoke against
that man, and all the curses that are written
in this book shall lie upon him, and the Jahuwah
shall blot out his name from under heaven. Jahshuwah
himself said this same thing when he said in Matthew
7:22-24, “Many will say to Me on that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name and
driven out demons in Your name and done many mighty
works in Your name? And then I will say to them
openly (publicly), I never knew you; depart from
Me, you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands]. So
everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts
upon them [obeying them] will be like a sensible
(prudent, practical, wise) man who built his house
upon the rock.” On the other hand the Apostle
John got it right in 1 John 2:3-4 when he says,
“And this is how we may discern [daily, by experience]
that we are coming to know Him [to perceive, recognize,
understand, and become better acquainted with
Him]: if we keep (bear in mind, observe, practice)
His teachings (precepts, commandments). Whoever
says, I know Him [I perceive, recognize, understand,
and am acquainted with Him] but fails to keep
and obey His commandments (teachings) is a liar,
and the Truth [of the Glad Tidings] is not in
him.” Please don’t let your heart deceive
you into believing you know Him when you don’t
keep His commandments. Bear
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