Do not follow the World

by Sipos Richard | Sep 6, 2022 | Law & Mercy

When you enter the land Yahuwah your Elohim is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Deuteronomy 18:9-11

In the Torah, we find several times the law which prohibits us from putting our children through the fire or sacrificing them to Moloch. Once again the question arises: what to do with this type of law in the Age of Grace once in the Messiah? How does Yeshua accomplish this in our lives if we allow Him to? What is the spirit of Moloch that would endanger and kill our children in our days and in a spiritual sense? What could burn them or rather plunge them into depression, to adapt the concept to our contemporary realities?

In fact, what is the phenomenon that is creeping into christian families today and whereby parents often unconsciously lead their own children through the fire, thereby sacrificing them to the spirit of Moloch? What is this fault which is present in many Christians, gradually letting their children be attracted and open to divination, witchcraft, astrology, spiritualism and any other type of occult practices?

The answer can be summed up in one word: Tolerance!

Sometimes, out of weakness, cowardice, compromise, or simply out of fatigue and fear of being judged like Pharisees, many Christian parents simply say that: “It is already difficult enough for our children to live as believers among the children of the world. Why shouldn’t they also have their own smartphone? Why shouldn’t they be able to surf the Internet as they please? Why should we prohibit them from celebrating what everyone celebrates, from decorating Christmas trees and play stupid and violent games or watch and listen to all kinds of primitive and often occult films and music?”

My own children have already left the rooms where children are taken care of during religious services in Christian churches, stating that they no longer want to stay there. Either everyone is absorbed in their smartphones or they are being broadcasted cartoons that are about anything but the Gospel. These films are not even neutral, but full of witches, witchcraft, devils and other repulsive characters. In this type of situation, my children get up from their seats and leave these places because it does not interest them; it is not their world. They could have stayed, but they did not. They did not leave under compulsion, given that it was me who asked them to enter, thinking that ‘they would be in good hands. Well, I was wrong on that point! Fortunately, they had the wisdom to protect themselves from such influences. Thanks to Elohim, Ruach HaKodesh is already working enough in them to protect them from these things from within. And they obeyed His voice. So they left the room just as we left this whole Christian “marketplace”, where we were only temporary visitors anyway, in order to carry out a certain ministry which naturally was not accepted from their part .

How did we achieve this?

How is possible that our children are so instinctively immune to all these things? Out of obedience! For in the Messiah this law mentioned above is fulfilled like all the others. This means that we must often forbid certain things from our children, but in such a way that they can feel the deep spiritual content. It should not be forbidden out of self-righteousness, pharisaism and legalism, but because the Commandments live in the hearts of their born-again parents who are filled with Ruach HaKodesh. This involves allowing them to take a look into the burning furnace that is the world, while explaining to them that they are likely to get hurt if they get too close. In this way, they can realize for themselves that they are not missing out on absolutely anything and will not subsequently go and get back what their Pharisaic parents have forbidden them as soon as these ones turn their backs and they will have the opportunity to do so.

It is this law that we must ask Ruach HaKodesh to operate in us in such situations.
This commandment finds other echoes and reminders in the Holy Scriptures. In the Proverbs of Solomon we can read the following wisdom:
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away. Proverbs 22:15
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die. Punish them with the rod and save them from death. Proverbs 23:13-14

It is difficult to follow these guidelines in today’s world, since even Christian preachers often teach something very different.

I myself was a child of the world. I was exposed to many harmful influences during my childhood, mainly through television. If someone needs to know something for the sake of “general knowledge” or to fight against is in spirit as part of his ministry, it is not always necessary to be immersed in the thing and have been a part of it beforehand, especially during childhood. We can all imagine who bad manure should taste, without necessarily having to taste it beforehand in order to convince ourselves.

But in our case, it is not even about severely punishing our offspring, but rather about cultivating in ourselves firm determination and consistency. This will prevent us from having to reprimand our children unnecessarily later, or even having to resort to force when it might already be too late.

With a little rigor and perseverance, children develop a form of immunity and resistance to all forms of worldly aberrations and stupidity. Provided that the parents are in the Holy Spirit and not motivated by the religious and legalistic spirit of dry and literal observance of the law. It is crucial to impose prohibitions, but always making them understand and see that what we are now prohibiting them is at the origin, it is the root of the many problems which are clearly destroying the lives of their unbelieving comrades before their eyes. They can see it for themselves (greed, wickedness, selfishness, children far too prematurely disillusioned and emptied in spirit and mind, etc.). It is worth showing them what they are “missing”, but in a controlled way while offering them alternatives with much more content and substance. Rather than owning a television, all you need is a computer, where parents can control what children can watch. It is also essential to never grant them unlimited access to the Internet.

The following phenomenon can be observed in Christian families: their children, although they know Yeshua – under another name-, but because their parents allow them to do the same things as the people of the world, find themselves in an even more serious state of mind than the latter.

Secular children don’t have a counterexample to know whether what they are doing or watching is good or not, so it seems natural to them. In contrast, Christian children feel the contradiction between what their parents profess and what they allow them to do. As a result, they suffer from remorse and have much deeper problems of conscience than their unbelieving contemporaries.

We were shocked to find that even in a neo-Protestant church, made up of a community of born again people filled with the Holy Spirit – at least for the majority of them, at least I hope so – spectacular manifestations of various demonic possessions, depression, self-harm and other psychological disorders are just as present among their own children. The films and music mentioned above promote the spread and intrusion of demonic powers. Spectators and listeners can thus easily be concretely demonized just by watching and listening to them (as in the case of blood consumption, see one of my previous videos). Not to mention the problem of allowing any type of sexual interaction too soon and outside of marriage. In these cases, nothing happens other than these

children being passed through a consuming fire by their own believing parents out of indulgence

School is also a deeply contagious environment, where children can only remain pure from what happens there under the condition of very precise guidance and spiritual coverage. I am not primarily referring to all the scientific lies they are being taught in such places, but quite simply to all these deviant behaviors that other children bring there from their demonized families and which our own children must witness, live and often suffer. Today, apart from me, very few teachers raise their voices against these problems. And if someone does, as usually happens to me, that teacher will have to face the problem of always looking for a new job at the end of each school year, just as I did for many years before using up the last available job in the region. Our profession does not favor colleagues who want to maintain discipline and order, but at the end of the year, they will be dismissed on the complaint of one or two insane parents who take very badly when we make the slightest criticism towards their idolized, bad-mannered and deviant offspring.

It would be good to have more renewed Christian schools with a living faith, and even opportunities for private students to follow a well-developed educational program. This may sound legalistic again, but let’s look around us, the world is deteriorating so rapidly, with ever increasing and decadent violence and sexual propaganda that the time has come when this has become a necessity.

This problem could also be solved if the structure and functioning of our religious communities were exactly identical to those described in the Acts of the Apostles. Since we would have everything in common, we would be close to each other, the education of our children could be resolved within the community, and they would truly learn what is vital and they would not be conditioned from a young age to become little slaves trained to satisfy the demands of the ever-propagating system of Mammon.

See also: Blood consumption, You will own nothing and be happy

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Eye for eye, tooth for tooth

by Sipos Richard | Sep 6, 2022 | Law & Mercy

Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deuteronomy 19:21

This is the favorite and infamous accusation that is used against the Jews and against the so-called “cruel god” of the Old Testament by many people, including many Christians.

It is true that Yeshua himself gives us a seemingly very different interpretation of this law in the Sermon on the Mount, but which nevertheless remains identical to the original:

You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.

Matthew 5:38-39

As we have described many times, Yeshua took back from the people the right to judge and execute judgment. He thus ushered in the era of grace, which continues to this day. From now on, we must no longer react as before, but as disciples of Yeshua we must preach Grace even to our enemy, since it applies to everyone. We must love even our enemy and must resort only to the sole protection of the Messiah and not want to defend ourselves.

It is when we place the right of judgment and vengeance in the hands of the Messiah that this law comes into force again, according to its original interpretation. When someone’s grace period expires, or when someone puts Yahushua’s ones in danger, the Messiah often delivers these by striking the enemy, as he did many times in the case of David, as described in the Psalms.

All of this will come to pass definitively when He returns to judge the living and the dead.

Yes, he will demand compensation from the guilty for every eye, every soul, every leg, and every other thing that has been damaged or stolen, and he will compensate the victims a hundredfold.

It is also for the fulfillment and definitive execution of this Commandment that the martyrs of Yeshua, dressed in bloody clothes, cry out in the book of Revelation. (Revelation 6)

Once more do we have a commandment that is still as valid today as in the past. But here again, judgment is in the hands of the Messiah and we, for our part, have the right to ask for its application.

Until then, our duty is to suffer persecution for His Name, without any resistance or other human protection. If we are slapped for His Name, let us show them that we are also willing to die for Him. Then they can continue to beat us, insult us, slander us, because someone much more powerful than us will take revenge on them for the suffering they have made us undergo.

We don’t have to defend ourselves, because by mistreating us, it is the Messiah they are mistreating.

If you retaliate or curse them back, it is the name of the Messiah that you trample before their eyes. In a word, even if you have not explicitly denied Him or the Covenant you passed with Him, you will have in any case taken back from Him the right to defend you directly. You thus place yourself under the curse of man, having placed your trust in yourself by wanting to play your own lawyer.

If we are attacked for Yahushua HaMashiah, it is Yahushua who must be seen in us. This is accomplished when we suffer what He Himself suffered before the scribes, the Pharisees, Pilate and then on the cross, as a lamb led to the slaughter.

Our enemies for their part will have the choice: let the Messiah execute the judgment implied by this command during the time of grace so that they too receive forgiveness and Eternal Life through the execution in them of their old man? Or will they persist in rebellion until the Messiah returns and the judgment also overtakes them on the physical level thus causing their second death, the one which will be final?

Eye for eye between brothers?

It would also be interesting to talk about how this law must or rather should function within the Church, if it existed and functioned as originally intended according to the model of the Acts of the Apostles? How does Yahushua apply this commandment among his own, among the members of the Body of Messiah?

Because as long as we are in our physical body, it can happen at any time that we commit a sin against our brethren, or even against outsiders, the unbelievers. We often cause trouble, make mistakes, offend our neighbor, etc. In such cases, this law, like all the mitzvahs of the Torah, which speak of compensation, is also valid in the spiritual, psychological and physical sense, and it forces the guilty ones to take certain concrete measures.

Today, more than ever, we naturally can still cause material harm. Secular legislation also has a more or less righteous penal code, based primarily on the Bible, which governs disputes between citizens over how victims should be compensated. And when the guilty is held responsible, as in the Torah, they generally take into account to what extent the offense was committed intentionally or unintentionally, to what extent was the culprit aware of the danger incurred by the other? Was he aware that his bull was dangerous and did he still let it go free, thus causing injury to other animals, or even men (which in our current context could mean the state of our vehicle for example). Or why his house did not have a balustrade around the roof which is also a law in the Torah (and which for us today could among other things mean the level of deterioration of our property) which can end up falling on the heads of passers-by for example, because they have not taken the necessary precautions, etc.
A crime committed through ignorance is considered a mitigating circumstance, and a crime committed knowingly or through negligence is considered as aggravating circumstances. Does the accused person have the right to go to a city of refuge or not, does he have certain excuses or not, having found himself in a situation beyond his control which pushed him in spite of himself to commit an offense, etc. This jurisprudence often works much better in atheist and non-Christian circles, in the world in a word, than among those who should teach the operation of the Commandments in times of Grace, but who most often do instead openly deny it and are therefore trampling on the Word of Yahuwah. I am naturally speaking of the vast majority of Christian teachings.

But between brothers and sisters, the harm occurs especially on a psychological and spiritual level. When we curse one another, when we do not accept the sometimes obvious anointing that the other received from Yahushua. Teachers filled with Ruach HaKodesh are often slandered and rejected by people, because they have not taken courses in theology defined by some human religious enterprise of the name of church or assembly of a certain denomination of which the latter are part. Or simply because it was not their pastor or rather the manager of the company in question who put his own anointing on them, a human counterfeit of the original; that comes from the Messiah.

We can also do harm by calling someone’s difficult-to-interpret words or teachings false or heretical, because we ourselves may not yet have the proper vision and maturity to understand them. In this case, it is the vision of the person being criticized that finds itself under attack – mainly at the level of the ey es – the attacker himself not having clear vision enough to accept us. Furthermore, through this type of curse, they reject all the blessings that could come from the ministry of the person attacked! The very ones which could precisely have the consequence of opening their failing eyes. This is how they harm themselves and their already limited vision, thereby increasing their spiritual blindness. In short, the curse falls back on the person from whom it emerges.

It is for this reason that many of us pray in this sense, in order to be protected. And the return of the curse on the one who formulates it does not happen so that we rejoice in the peril of our enemies, but because without suffering this pain, the unbelievers would not even be able to realize their state of sin and would therefore be unable to repent and be cleansed.

In the Messiah Yahushua, this kind of protection is practically automatic. Those who walk in obedience receive the same protection that King David received from his enemies. This protection functions in Yahushua on the exclusive basis of the promises of the Torah, that is to say the commandments.

In these cases (and as mentioned in my last week’s video: Appointment and obedience to judges), it is always Ruach HaKodesh that speaks from within and, as non-believers call it, it is our “conscience” that does not give us rest until we apologize to someone, until we go to make reparation by for example, returning the object of which the person was deprived because of our irresponsible behavior. By adding if necessary, a small bonus of roughly a fifth of the value as compensation for the damage suffered, as several mitzvot of the Torah command us in a sort of expiatory interest. We will perhaps buy them a good Belgian chocolate, a bunch of flowers (if it is a lady of course), or even bring a replacement object of better quality than the old one, so that it should works even better than the former one, etc. Everyone must therefore recognize and understand what they must do according to the situation and the given case, letting themselves be guided from within by the Spirit of the Messiah.

But fundamentally, your repentance is the psychological and spiritual pain you feel internally when you have harmed someone.

This is the moment when this precise law is activated in your heart by the Holy Spirit.

Have you accused someone of lying or being a false teacher when it was not true? You simply attacked his eyes and his vision. For the accusation is a curse and can hinder the vision, the ministry, and even the movements of the person attacked. Eyes to see, hands to act, feet to minister, these are the things that are under attack in this case. But in the end, it is the accuser who will be affected, it is his vision which will be altered, his ministry and his spiritual life which will mainly fall ill. It is up to the one who curses falsely to suffer the harmful consequences of his own insults. For if the person attacked is faithful to Elohim and innocent, all your curses will fall on your head and it will be your vision, your ministry and your spiritual life that will begin to decline and suddenly encounter serious obstacles.

What should we do when we recognize that we have sinned in this way? As in all other cases of transgression or sin: We must confess our faults and make reparations to the people who have suffered harm. We must declare, in the eyes and ears of all, that what we said about the other person was not only false, but that the very opposite is true. We rehabilitate the authority and the image of the person to the extent that we have compromised it (possibly adding + 1/5 as reparation, which may consist of us admitting that the accusations we have made against him actually apply much more to ourselves).

This is particularly true when we commit sin against our neighbors in the world. Our responsibility towards externals is even greater than in the case of our brothers. When we offend a non-believer, reparation is all the more urgent and necessary, as we destroy in the latter’s eyes the very image of the One we are supposed to represent. It is therefore more imperative than ever to confess, repair and ask forgiveness for our errors, transgressions and sins against them for fear of further damaging the already extremely distorted image that they have received of the Messiah by traditional Christianity.
And in such a case, even though it may seem very shameful, if repentance arises in us, let us openly confess our faults to them with all the more zeal, because Yahuwah can turn even this kind of delicate situation to his own advantage. Thus the non-believer will finally find himself face to face with a Christian who will give testimony to what repentance and humiliation are in the event of recognition of sin. Because unbelievers are much more likely to come across arrogant and haughty “Christians” who indulge in unchristian behavior towards them and who generally feel no remorse given that they naturally consider themselves above, that is to say exempt from the Law, but for my part I would rather say that they are outlaws. For the first time will the ungodly encounter a true Christian, someone reflecting the Spirit of the Messiah who does not position himself above others, but quite the opposite, thus fulfilling the Law that was made Flesh in Yeshua. Then perhaps he will also feel more strength and courage to surrender himself to this reconciling power capable of bringing about such changes that he will have seen accomplished in you if you behave as a true disciple. In these moments of submission, we bear witness in their eyes to the fact that we ourselves are only humans like them and thus they themselves will feel closer to the Gospel and thus more inclined to accept it. They will thus be able to see that we can also make mistakes, but the power that lives in us is stronger than anything and they will thus be able to recognize that it is indeed this very precise power that they have always sought for themselves without ever finding it because having always only met with the spirit of Christian religiosity at most. Then he will feel the need to take the same step, and it will perhaps be you who is going to lead him to being born again, and you will continue your journey hand in hand as brothers.

But the same law was also fulfilled in the heart of the good Samaritan, when – although he was not the author of the crime – he still decided to take care of the person injured in the place of the culprit. He provided him with bandages for the blows, with oil for the wounds, with a bed for the fractures, and money for convalescence. In short: eye for eye, arm for arm, tooth for tooth, etc. This is precisely what the Samaritan offered the beaten Jew. Here, it is not the aggressor who repented, but it was an innocent person who felt compassion at the sight of the suffering of the other, as a member of the human community. He took charge of the material compensation in place of the guilty one. He simply felt the pain of the victim, and among other things, it was this precise law which was activated in his heart and which made him able to sacrifice himself in place of someone else. This man experienced the fulfillment of this law to an even higher degree, pushed instinctively by the Spirit of the Messiah who lived in certain ways within him even without necessarily being born again. Because in fact, the good Samaritan acted not under constraint, but instinctively, from the bottom of his heart and probably with zeal and a deep feeling of happiness for being able to help the deprived one.

This is exactly the state of mind which is our promise of having the all the Commandements fulfilled by Yahushua when they are simply written with fire in our hearts as soon as Ruach HaKodesh comes and dwells in us when we receive him.

The first physical person on whom Yeshua himself applied this commandment from the first hours after opening the Age of Grace, was none other than the apostle Peter himself. Right after his resurrection, Yeshua asked Peter three times if he loved him and would shepherd his flock. This passage from the end of the Gospel of John may seem strange and almost boring to us, because why is Yeshua asking the same question so many times, especially Him, the Master of all things, He who proves hearts and knows everything about everybody?
Well, it is quite simply the moment of reparation through which Peter had to go through because of his cowardice and for having denied three times that he belonged to the Messiah. He denied Him three times before the rooster crowed, now he is required to profess his faith and loyalty to Yahushua three times in a row. Not to ridicule him in front of others, but to make him pay for his fault down to the last penny or dinar, so that he too feels the humiliation and pain that follows to learn the lesson once and for all so that he should never commit it again in the future.

The application – among others – but particularly of this very precise law, has an extremely powerful effect of maturing human minds and which recalls the famous proverb of Solomon in chapter 23 verses 13-14:

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die. Punish them with the rod and save them from death.

If you are the victim?

What happens if you are the one suffering from the loss of an eye, a limb, a spiritual gift, or anything of yours? What happens if you’re the one cursed by someone else? What attitude should we adopt, what measures should we take?

It is in no way up to us to do justice to ourselves. Let us not fight to defend our own truth.

We no longer have any truth of our own anyway from the moment we have placed our lives in the hands of Yahushua.

One thing we can do is to pray that we may be compensated. If we have suffered financial loss, may Elohim himself restore it to us in full, or even more. Let us also pray that Yahuwah will bring back the feeling of shame and repentance in the hearts of those who have sinned against us. In other words, let their own curse fall back on them. Because after all, if they did not feel evil deep in their souls, they would never reach the point of repentance. If we continually plead for the forgiveness and therefore the acquittal of our enemies, we are praying wrongly and against our enemies. After all, covering up sin, sweeping things under the rug, preventing them from feeling the harm they have done to us because we have a so-called a “good god” who forgives everything, simply leads them to death. Our humanistic prayers need to be replaced with eye for eye and tooth for a tooth type of prayers! Evil and suffering are necessary for the sinner to repent.

Because the question of compensation is also included in the message “do not worry about tomorrow”, which we can read at the end of chapter 6 of the Gospel according to Matthew. Do not worry how Elohim will compensate you, for your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things as well.

Did you suffer physical harm? Pray for your healing! Have your teeth been broken? Pray! And not mainly so that the aggressor comes to apologize and pay for your dental care, but above all so that Elohim in the name of Yahushua will make you teeth to grow back again and be completely restored! And then let the sinner come and ask for forgiveness and see the miracle that has been accomplished, so that he may believe and repent as well.

I wrote in another of my articles (Parshat TOLEDOT, where, thanks to the machination of Jacob and Rebekah, Jacob finally receives from his father the blessing which was originally due to him) that it can have very serious consequences if we act humanely and do not wait for Yahuwah to act himself and directly in our interest.

In the Messiah, this law, like all others, is valid and we must pray for its fulfillment on the part of Him who alone is worthy to execute the judgment flowing from the law. Nowadays and as long as the period of grace continues, judgment must be carried out primarily on the spiritual level through the judgment of everyone’s old man. But very soon, when the Messiah returns, Yahushua will execute not only sin, but also all those who by then will have refused to be delivered from it by the Blood of the Lamb.

In short, do not fight, do not try to do justice to yourself, but rather be happy as long as the arrows fly in your direction, for it is also written:

Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets. Luke 6:22-23

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City of refuge: conscious or unconscious rebellion

by Sipos Richard | Sep 6, 2022 | Law & Mercy

This is the rule concerning anyone who kills a person and flees there for safety—anyone who kills a neighbor unintentionally, without malice aforethought. For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life. Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue him in a rage, overtake him if the distance is too great, and kill him even though he is not deserving of death, since he did it to his neighbor without malice aforethought. Deuteronomy 19:4-6

The difference between sin and transgression is illustrated through this commandment.

The world itself is well aware that certain crimes deserve to be tried under certain mitigating circumstances. Indeed, crimes committed with or without premeditation, deliberately or unintentionally cannot be judged on an equal footing. In the case of a fault committed in a non-deliberate manner, the penalty is more lenient and instead of a prison sentence, we generally get away with a fine in order to compensate the victim.

If we are already in the Messiah, and have the Holy Spirit, the meaning for us is this: We can make mistakes and we will break the law. Although forgiveness still applies in all cases when it comes up against our will. When we transgress a rule that we do not yet know, or that has not yet been engraved on our hearts, the grace of the Messiah continues to take place in the life of his already born-again disciples.

I will explain why it can happen that those who are born again continue to live with such burdens in a later teaching entitled: Spiritual Malformations.

It also happens that for reasons beyond our control, we still remain partially under foreign domination and the spirit thus bound in us still manages to deceive and tempt us in order to make us stumble. These areas of our spirit which are not yet entirely under the rule of the Messiah must precisely be revealed by these transgressions. The fault is the signal that a transfer of power here or there must still take place as soon as possible so that our sanctification goes on.

The Messiah himself is our city of refuge. He protects us from the consequences of any transgression we commit in ignorance or immaturity. We indeed often find that we make mistakes, but we do not suffer the consequences, apart from the pain that comes from recognizing these mistakes.

However, going against laws we already know, thereby consciously returning to a state of sin from which the Savior has already once delivered us, can lead to the loss of salvation.

So do not rebel any longer against the action of the Holy Spirit who does nothing but revive the Commandments in our heart so that they can no longer judge us and thus lead us to death.

Let’s stop saying, “God is love”, for He (Elohim) is Love indeed, but He is also Righteousness, and He is above all HOLY.

We cannot separate the attributes of Yahuwah, especially in order to highlight one according to what seems most sympathetic to us and ignore or even downright silence and deny the rest. Let us always remember that this Righteousness and Holiness are in perfect harmony with the entirety of His Word, of which are part the Commandments that Yeshua, the Word who became flesh, has fulfilled and not abolished on the Cross.

Let us also remember that nowhere in the New Testament did the apostles ever proclaim the Gospel by beginning their speech with “God” is love, but rather with “repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near”. Each of their ministry began by unveiling sin and the divine wrath that results from sin in order to break the hardened hearts of sinners so that they could ask for forgiveness and receive Grace. It is only at this very precise stage that Love, Mercy and Forgiveness were also preached to them.

As long as we tell sinners that Jesus loves us as we are and that he is with us, sinners will remain in their sins and continue their lives idolizing the distorted image of a false human shaped Jesus and will never meet the true Messiah Yahushua.

Again, let’s avoid taking biblical verses out of context, but let’s try to get the whole picture of the Word, even if we like some passages less than others. Otherwise, the gospel that we would announce would be false.

He must stay there until the death of the high priest

We can read the same law in another book of the Torah, but with some additional and very interesting elements:

The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. “ ‘But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which they fled and the avenger of blood finds them outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder. The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property. Numbers 35:25-28

What does this mean for us today in the Body of Messiah? Until the death of which high priest should we seek asylum for our sins in the spiritual sense today?

Until our lives have been placed in his hands, until our sins have been blotted out, that is, until we have fully accepted the blood shed by the high priest Yahushua, who died on the cross for us, for the forgiveness of our sins, the avenger of blood will hunt us down and will always have the right to demand our death.

In Old Testament times, it was probably necessary to wait for the death of the high priest because it was the symbol of renewal, of a new era where people’s past fell into oblivion in the eyes of the new High Priest. Because indeed, a high priest according to the order of Aaron, being only a man, is thus incapable of forgetting, of making a clean slate and would always have remembered the sin of the sinner and thus would not have been able to accept his subsequent sacrifices with complete impartiality and purity of soul. The heir to the priesthood does not necessarily remember the incidents that occurred during the service of his predecessor.

But this aspect of the law does not actually interest us. It is useless to speculate and seek explanations on the reasons and logic of this request in the context of the time in which it was formulated, since we are no longer under the priesthood of Aaron.

The death of our High Priest according to the order of Melckishedek is the pledge of our own life. In his resurrection we are also born again and through his ascension to heaven we receive the Comforter, His Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh, who Himself uses us as His tools, in order to be able to attack the principalities of darkness which until there demanded our death.

From here on, we are the ones having authority and the right of judgment over them and not the opposite. Thus we are charged by Yahushua in person to cast out even demons by calling on His Name.

This is why it is important to take seriously, accept and stick to this right, or this city of refuge, that is, to accept the Grace that Yeshua offers to everyone. Because, as we read in the conclusion of this law, whoever resists and gets out of it, will be caught and executed by the avenger of blood.

Once again, we are faced with a good harsh Jewish law that seems completely outdated and meaningless as far as we are concerned today. However, on the contrary – and like all the other mitzvahs and the Commandments of the Torah – it is indeed applied in the lives of the disciples and is thus fulfilled in Yeshua HaMashiah as He promised us.

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Death Penalty for People under Foreign Dominion

by Sipos Richard | Sep 6, 2022 | Law & Mercy

If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns Yahuwah, your ELOHIM gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of Yahuwah, your ELOHIM in violation of his covenant, and contrary to my command has worshiped other elohim, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars in the sky, and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death. Deuteronomy 17:2-5

Another death sentence.

As we discussed in another articles, death penalty is more valid than ever. However, in the Messiah it is complemented by the possibility of Grace. Mercy, on the other hand, is not a substitute for carrying out the death penalty, since mercy only works if someone dies for sin. On the one hand, Yeshua died on the cross for us. But the acceptance of His death, His resurrection, and His reign also presupposes the death of our inner old man.

Grace always results in the execution of the old man of the redeemed person. Thus even this seemingly most cruel command is fulfilled in the Messiah. Someone has to be put to death. Him first and your old man second.

If our old man dies and we become a new creation, we can go on living physically on the earth until the first death, the death of our body occurs.

The second death, on the other hand, does no longer have dominion over us, since the blood of the Lamb is on our hearts and our foreheads.

We were all once under the dominion and worship of the sun, stars or any other deity and spirit. Those who are still on this path should know that this law must be applied and will be applied.

The question is, are you going to allow the Messiah to execute judgment on your old man right now, so that you receive new life and can continue to live in your body, with a renewed spirit, the reward of which is Eternal Life ? Or are you going to remain under foreign dominations in which case, on the day of judgment, the second death will take you away?

Yeshua still lives and reveals himself today. He always answers the questions and prayers of those who seek Him with a pure heart and realize that they need someone to redeem them from this corrupt world and from their sins.

So go and seek Him. And to help you find Him also look for those who are already in Him and who will be able to bear witness to you. Ask Him that sin be a subject of disgust to you, so that through repentance, you receive the baptism of water, then that of the Spirit, the only guarantee of your Covenant with the Savior.

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Put Your Trust in Elohim Only

by Sipos Richard | Sep 5, 2022 | Law & Mercy

The Levitical priests—indeed, the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the food offerings presented to Yahuwah, for that is their inheritance.

Deuteronomy 18:1

By being born again, we become priests, Levites in the spiritual sense. This law is for us a prototype of all the verses of the New Testament which encourage us to put all our worries in the hands of Yahushua, not to worry about tomorrow and, above all, not to look to the world for financial, health or any other help. We must first and foremost turn to Him.

They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; Yahuwah is their inheritance, as he promised them. Deuteronomy 18:2

We can have material goods, tools, but we must not give them too much importance, not rely to them and not be under their domination not to make idols from them. Because they will be eaten away by moth and rust. Our inheritance is in the Kingdom of Elohim. Let us therefore lay up a treasure for ourselves where nothing can harm it and which we can enjoy for eternity.

These treasures are, for example, all the brothers and sisters whom we lead to the Messiah and who will be there with us forever.

But for us, treasures are also those spiritual gifts that sanctify us to earn the crown of life. This is why we must run, as Paul warned us, and not after earthly goods and day-to-day survival but after spiritual treasures.

Let us therefore walk on water, with confidence, because if necessary, even the mountains will move, the seas will split in two, the houses will collapse, the arrows which are directed towards us will fall back on our enemies.

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