The Wilderness Files (Syndrome)

The Wilderness Files (Syndrome)

Posted on October 31, 2017

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Chapter Six

The Wilderness Files (Syndrome)

Scripture

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice, 8Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] and their provocation and embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tried [My patience] and tested [My forbearance] and found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years. (Heb3:7-9 AMPC).1
10 And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them.11 Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and indignation, They shall not enter into My rest.12[Therefore be-ware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God.13 But instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [by the fraudulence, the stratagem, the trickery which the delu-sive glamour of his sin may play on him].14For we [c]have become fellows with Christ (the Messiah) and share in all He has for us, if only we hold our first new-born confidence and original assured expectation [in virtue of which we are believers] firm and unshaken to the end.

15 Then while it is [still] called To-day, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion [in the desert, when the people provoked and irritated and embittered God against them].16For who were they who heard and yet were rebellious and provoked [Him]? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? 17And with whom was He irritated and provoked and grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dismembered bodies were strewn and left in the desert? 18And to whom did He swear that they should not enter His rest, but to those who disobeyed [who had not listened to His word and who refused to be compliant or be persuaded]? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest]; because of their unwillingness to adhere to and trust in and rely on God [unbelief had shut them out. (See Heb 3:7-19 AMPC)


Without Faith

Through our entire life, we need to seek the Kingdom of God first and His Righteousness; then all these things shall be added unto us. Whoever calls upon His Name shall not be ashamed. Therefore, Yaakov arose and sought the Lord His God for an answer; His Leading for the Lord’s next step to take place in his life. The Lord our God is constantly ordering our steps. Our lives been continually directed by and through His Word. He daily directs our steps!
While in the land of their captivity Israel called all his children to draw near to him. He was to declare over them God’s Blessings, that which would take place in the near future, and their latter years, nearing the end of the age. He revealed to them both God’s Blessing and His promise for them and their descendants. He would prophetically reveal to them God’s response, toward them including their promised deliverance.
Before going down to Egypt (Mitsrayim), the Lord appeared to him at Beersheba giving him the sure Word of Promise. The Lord told him, he would see his beloved son. Further God confirmed His Earlier Promise, which He made with Abraham. Once more, God reminds Yisrael includ-ing all who believe on His Name that He is the Rewarder of them whom diligently seek Him (see Heb 11:1-5).
He called for Yoseph to appear before him. He was about to speak God’s blessing over him and both his sons (Manasseh & Ephraim). The Lord gave Yisrael an encouraging word, saying he would see Yoseph before his passing. He would also see his grandsons.
On seeing Ephraim and Manasseh, he asked Yoseph about them. An-swering his father, he said they are the children with, whom the Lord had blessed him. While blessing them he adopted them giving them both an inherited portion with the rest of his sons. Further placing upon them the names of his fathers Abraham, Isaac and his own names (Yisrael & Yaakov).
Now before Jacob’s (Israel’s) passing, he called his children to him. It would be crucial for all of them to be present. The Lord was about to re-veal to Israel, what would take place in due course. He would reveal to them that which would take place in the latter days as well. The times and seasons are all in His Hand.
Israel (Yaakov) was preparing his descendants for the future, which their Lord was planning for them. The Lord knows the plans, the thoughts that He has concerning us. His Plans, thoughts are of success and a future, not of failure. He holds the keys of death and Hades. He has also given us the keys of Heaven.
Remember whatever we bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven. In addition, whatever we loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven (Mat 16:19; Mat 18:18).

Blessing of the Tribes

Scripture

And Ya‛aqoḇ called his sons and said, “Gather together, so that I declare to you what is to befall you in the last days: “Gather together and hear, you sons of Ya‛aqoḇ, and listen to Yisra’ěl your father. “Re’uḇěn, you are my first-born, my power and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of exaltation and the excellency of power. “Boiling like water, you do not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he went up to my couch. “Shim‛on and Lěwi are brothers, their weapons are implements of violence. “Let my being not enter their council, let my esteem not be united to their assembly; because they killed a man in their displeasure, and they lamed an ox in pleasure. “Cursed be their displeasure for it is fierce, and their wrath for it is cruel! I divide them in Ya‛aqoḇ and scatter them in Yisra’ěl. “You, Yehuḏah, your brothers praise you; your hand is on the neck of your enemies; your father’s children bow down before you. “Yehuḏah is a lion’s cub; from the prey you have gone up, my son! He bowed down, he crouched like a lion. And like a lion, who does rouse him? “The sceptre shall not turn aside from Yehuḏah, nor an Inscriber from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of peoples. “Binding his donkey to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes. “His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. “Zeḇulun dwells at the seashore, he is for a haven for ships, and his border is unto Tsiḏon. “Yissasḵar is a strong donkey lying down between two burdens, and he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, and he inclined his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a subject to slave labour. “Dan rightly rules his people as one of the tribes of Yisra’ěl. “Dan is a serpent by the way, an adder by the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider falls backward. “I have waited for your deliverance, O יהוה! “Gad, a raiding band raids him, but he raids its heel. “Bread from Ashěr is rich, and he gives delicacies of a sovereign. “Naphtali is a deer let loose, he gives words of elegance. “Yosěph is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by a fountain, his branches run over a wall. “And 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 One of Ya‛aqoḇ – from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra’ěl – from the Ěl of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you with blessings of the heavens from above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. “The blessings of your father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, up to the limit of the everlasting hills. They are on the head of Yosěph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers. “Binyamin is a wolf that tears, in the morn-ing he eats prey, and at night he divides the spoil.”(Gen 49:1-27 TS2009)2

Israel becoming a nation

Here we see Israel (Yaakov/Jacob) passing on the blessings to all his sons. Jacob been the last of the patriarchs passes on the blessing to the new generation. They are to be the forerunners of the establishment of Israel as a nation. Yet they and their descendants still had to increase both in numbers and in strength.
They were about to enter into God’s next phase for raising a strong na-tion. The Lord was about to fulfil the rest of His promise, as given to their father Abraham many years before. God is no man that He should lie nor the son of man that He would repent. Has He not said so and shall He not fulfil His Word (See Num 23:19-21 NKJ)
While in their land of bondage, Israel became a nation according to the Word of God given to Abraham, our father of faith. These promises fully given to Israel’s descendants included all future matters, times and sea-sons. The Lord would later lead them to completely, take possession of their Promised Land. Through Isaac and Joseph’s life and testimony, they would be able to remain at peace in their land of bondage until the sea-son was ready for the Lord to lead them out.
God is not a man that He should lie, or a son of man that He should repent. Has He said, and shall He not do it? And has He spoken, and shall He not make it good? Behold, I have received word to bless; yes, He has blessed; I cannot reverse it. (Num 23:19-20 LITV)4
Meanwhile, Joseph had risen to power becoming Pharaoh’s Prime Minis-ter. The Lord would watch over them and they would multiply, growing from strength to strength. All during the life of Joseph (Yoseph) after Israel’s (Yisrael’s) passing, they were under YHVH’s protection. The Lord watched over them and they grew! Multiplying from strength to strength.
The Lord also gave them favour with Egypt until after Joseph’s passing. Meanwhile their numbers increased daily. They grew from strength to strength! The nation of Israel became established!
And Joseph said unto his brethren: ‘I die; but God will surely remember you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.’ And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying: ‘God will surely remember you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.’ So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (Gen 50:24-26 JPS)

The Passing of Joseph (Yoseph)

Scripture

And these are the names of the children of Yisra’ěl who came to Mitsrayim with Ya‛aqoḇ, each one with his household: Re’uḇěn, Shim‛on, Lěwi, and Yehuḏah; Yissasḵar, Zeḇulun, and Binyamin; Dan and Naphtali, Gaḏ and Ashěr. And all those who were descendants of Ya‛aqoḇ were seventy beings, as Yosěph was already in Mitsrayim. And Yosěph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. And the children of Yisra’ěl were fruitful and increased very much, multiplied and became very strong, and the land was filled with them. Then a new sovereign arose over Mitsrayim, who did not know Yosěph, and he said to his people, “See, the people of the children of Yisra’ěl are more and stronger than we, come, let us act wisely towards them, lest they increase, and it shall be when fighting befalls us, that they shall join our enemies and fight against us, and shall go up out of the land.” the more they increased and grew, and they were in dread of the children of Yisra’ěl. (Exo 1:1-12 TS2009)

Joseph (Yoseph) Who_ _ _?

This new Pharaoh had neither known nor even heard about Joseph. He had forgotten the famine from which the Lord spared both Mitsrayim, Yisrael and the rest of the known world. He saw how the children of Yisrael increased in numbers, strength and stature . Be-ing fearful, he tabled a law to enslave Israel (Yisrael) , and to abort the birth of their entire male babes after or during their birth .
Therefore, they set slave-masters over them to afflict them with their burdens, and they built for Pharaoh Supply cities, Pithom and Ra‛amses. However, the more they afflicted them; In due course Joseph breathed his last. He asked his brethren, when the Lord their God would lead them out; they take his bones with them. Therefore, they embalmed his body, after he passed on. I due course all of Yoseph’s brothers and their generation passed on. Yisrael still prospered until Mitsrayim (Egypt) came under rule of a different royal house.
Unless they were ready to take possession of their rightful inheritance. They would still need to traverse the Wilderness for fourty years. Although they could have entered their, promise in a short space of time. The Lord had to deal with their flesh.
Despite their opposition, which Israel experienced, the Lord came through for them. When the times, the season being ready Israel cried out for their deliverance! On hearing their cry, the Lord remembered His Promised Covenant, which He made.

Moses (Mosheh)

Scripture

And a man went from the house of Levi and took a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived and bore a son; and she saw him, that he was beautiful. And she concealed him three months. And she was not able to hide him any longer, and she took a basket for him made of papyrus, and she daubed it with bitumen and with pitch. And she put the child in it, and placed it in the reeds by the lip of the Nile. And his sister took her stand from a distance, to know what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe at the Nile. And her slave women were walking on the side of the Nile. And she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and sent her slave-girl and took it. And she opened it and saw the child, and, behold, a boy crying! And she had pity on him and said, This one is of the children of the Hebrews. And his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call a woman for you, a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you? And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and called the child’s mother. And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give your wages. And the woman took the child and nursed him. And the child grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh. And he became a son to her, and she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water. (Exo 2:1-10 LITV)6
For Him to execute His plan. He raised Moses in Pharaoh’s courts. Whom He would eventually use to lead Israel out from captive bondage. He trained Moses in all matters concerning governing, leading and rul-ing a nation. The Lord would lead him into the wilderness fourty years as a herdsman. He was preparing him to lead a nation out from captiv-ity.
His mother suckled him when Moses was still a babe. This done under covering of the watchful eye of Pharaoh’s Daughter. In due course, she showed him to her father. She declared that she has adopted Moses as her own son and an heir after her, for she was barren.
Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him; raising him as her own son. She also trained him in Egypt’s Royal Lifestyle. According to Josephus and the Book of Jasher. During this time, the Lord raised Moses up as one of their finest generals. His father taught him to read and write in Pharaoh’s courts.


YHVH’s Answer


It happened that Mosheh saw an Egyptian (Mitsrian) strike a fellow He-brew. On seeing this, his ire rose within him. Through defending his fel-low Hebrew from the Mitsrian. He killed the Egyptian .
The following day he came across two fellow Hebrews fighting. Once more, he intervened. He was hoping to prove that he would be their future liberator. They remarked on his previous action asking _ _ _.
“By whom are you placed charge o’er us? Will you do us in as you did your fellow citizen?” This became knowledge to Pharaoh, who wanted Mosheh’s head . They were aware of his able, capable leadership potential
Immediately Moses (Mosheh) fled leaving Mitsrayim behind! For fear of his life! On his way, to Midian! Mosheh (Moses) came across a Midianite well. Where seven daughters of Midian’s priest made ready to water their flocks. During which time some uncouth shepherds arrived, rough-ly pushing them aside . Straightway he acted and watered their flocks, keeping the uncouth aside to wait their turn.
Through the courtesy, which he showed these sisters, they arrived at their home earlier than usual. Their father enquired about their early re-turn. On hearing of Moses benevolence, Reuel (his title being Yithro meaning Excellency) the priest of Midian desired to reward Moses ac-cordingly.
For the courtesy, he showed his daughters Reuel (the Midian priest), enquired about Moses. He desired to return this courtesy being the head of the house. He wanted to prepare a table in his honour.

Covenant with Death

Covenant with Death
Posted on October 31, 2017 by fertiileground
Covenant with Death

(Ariel Gate dd 11 Oct 2017 to 21 Oct 2017)
(Notes taken by Joan E Lottering)
(Edited Ian R Lottering)
1 Covenant with Death

Ariel Gate
1.1 How often do we lie?
Any place we are either a witness of life or of death. When/where ever wanted to kill someone, we are connected with the spirit of death. Any tearing down of something/anything leads and relates to death. Any thought of suicide is linked with spirit of death. The Lord sets before us death and life; blessing and cursing; therefore choose life_ _ _ (see Deut 30:15-20). Our thoughts are not hidden from God. Our hearts are predominately evil.
Therefore any gossip or corrupt speech, is bound to lead us in the way of death and /or destruction if we are not careful about what we say. With David we need to ask the Lord to put a watch on our mouth. Because that which is in our heart and mind is sure to reveal itself through our speech. Often Scripture reminds us that which is in our hearts will overflow out of our mouth (see Mt 12:33-37). We/our lives and outcome are determined through the rudder of our soul, the tongue. Often we need to bridle our tongue!
Behold! I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil, in that I command you today to love Jehovah your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, so that you may live and multiply. And Jehovah your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it. But if you turn away your heart, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days on the land where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it. I call Heaven and earth to record today against you. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that both you and your seed may live, so that you may love Jehovah your God, and that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, so that you may dwell in the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them. (Deu 30:15-20 MKJV)
Remember in Christ Jesus (Yeshuah Ha Massiach) we are connected to life. Jew and Gentile in Him are become one new man. Christ paid for us through His death and shedding of His Blood, so that we are able to live (see Eph 2:11- 17). Christ Jesus is our giver of life which is a different Spirit to that of the spirit of death. The spirit of death has no concern, neither does he care less whether we live or die. Remember death and life are in the power of our tongue (see Pr 18:20-21; Pr 12:28). This is the reason we are reminded to guard our hearts, above all else because from out of our heart, flow the issues of life (see Pr 4:20-27).
This covenant with death eventually starts killing us from within, bringing forth destruction even to our generation and those after us. Although the covenant with death is able to destroy us, personally and generationally. Even though neither of our generations nor ourselves are killed due to our covenant with death_ _ _! We need to break its hold over us through our authority given us in Christ Jesus. Repentance on behalf of ourselves, our generational bloodlines and over our seed after us, is therefore; often necessary and much needed.

1.2 Original Sin brought Death
We involuntary are entered into this covenant of death because of Adam and Eve’s sin. For when they acted in disobedience to the Lord’s instruction concerning the knowledge of good and evil heeding the serpent instead of hearkening to the Lord, Death and Destruction entered into all of Creation. Thereby we also inherited death and destruction. Instead of Blessing we inherited the Curse. This curse cut us off from lifetime fellowship with God.
This was never God’s intent for His crown creation. He originally planned for us to enter into an abundant, pleasing life of fellowship with Him. His abundant manifold Love, far greatly surpasses our human understanding. He promises to give Life unto all whom call upon Him. His Name far surpasses all other names, in Heaven above and the Earth below. He desires to call us by His Name. Yet we are only be able to partake of it through our acceptance of His Death, Resurrection and Ascension.
God is no Mickey Mouse god, made through the hands and sleights of men. He is thrice Holy, Gracious, and Righteous without sin. The Sinner is unable to stand in His Presence. We through original disobedience, committed High Treason. We sinned against this Holy, Righteous and Just God; thereby entering into death. Through one man’s sin and disobedience Death entered in (Rom 5:7-21). The Lord forewarned His Crown Creation, the day he would eat of the Tree of The Knowledge of Good and evil, he surely would die (see Gen 2:15-18). This includes all the seed and descendants of mankind, from Adam right through; even until our present day.
Remember Jesus Christ (Yeshuah Ha Massiach), came to Earth to bring and give us Life which is Life More Abundantly. What or how does this abundant life seem to look to us? Are we able to imagine what abundant life means for us? We are entitled to that which God promised us. When I am Born Again, I need to be baptised. Thereby I partake of His Death, Resurrection and Ascension. This Baptism comes with repentance in our hearts.
1.3 After Baptism
We are able to partake of the abundant life. We die to self, living a crucified life. We are then circumcised in our heart. No longer circumcision of the flesh, but circumcision of our heart. This circumcision is a cutting of the heart. Our hearts be broken with that which breaks the Heart of God.

More to follow shortly_ _ _

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Feasts of the Lord

Feasts of the Lord Introduction Although I am not too clued up about the Feasts of the Lord as some areI sincerely believe; We are regularly encouraged, to celebrate them as if unto the Lord. However today we celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles which started the previous day at sundown. This is also seen as a Holy Sabbath. One of the great celebration feasts. According to Scripture there are at least seven feasts of our Lord which we are called to celebrate. We shall see them briefly listed here below. As recorded in Scripture all the men had to appear before the Lord three times a year. Daily dedicating ourselves continually before and unto the Lord! Only recently have I read about the Feasts of the Lord. Regularly they are being celebrated.  These instructions were originally given Moses and Israel. All these feasts are being kept and celebrated through them. Remember Yeshua Ha Massiach(ie Jesus Christ Messiah) in Acts before His Ascension; reminded His disciples that the Times and Seasons are ordained by our Heavenly Father, through His Own Authority (see Acts  1:6-8).  The Lord also gave these feasts, their celebration, meaning and understanding to His servants. For it is recorded the men of Issachar, Moses and the prophets all God's servants, would understand these times and seasons which are appointed by God. We are reminded when we dilligently and urgently seek His Face concerning these matters; He would reveal them to us in due course. For surely our Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7). 5 Therefore I have declared things to come to you from of old; before they came to pass I announced them to you, so that you could not say, My idol has done them, and my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.6 You have heard [these things foretold], now you see this fulfillment. And will you not bear witness to it? I show you specified new things from this time forth, even hidden things [kept in reserve] which you have not known.7 They are created now [called into being by the prophetic word], and not long ago; and before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, Behold, I knew them! (Is 48:5-7 AMPC Amplified Classic). Even forever, continually from the beginning through all time and eternity, including during Messiah's Millennial reign  these feasts are to be celebrated. Each of these feasts are prophetic shadows of Messiah fulfilling the Law and the prophets. They are God's most Holy Fests. The prophets all spoke of these Feasts which are being fulfilled even until our day. They were originally implemented through our Heavenly Father. Since the Beginning of Creation our Lord, Whom is Creator of all things; placed lights in the heavens for us to be able to know the times and seasons. He also bears record of His Godly Feasts (see Gen 1:14-19). 14 Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to Me.15 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before Me empty-handed.16 Also you shall keep the Feast of Harvest [Pentecost], [acknowledging] the firstfruits of your toil, of what you sow in the field. And [third] you shall keep the Feast of Ingathering [Booths or Tabernacles] at the end of the year, when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field.17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God. (see Ex 23:14-17 AMPC). The Seven Feasts of the Lord-  chad@faithfulperformance.com> Leviticus 23:1-4 The Four Spring Feasts – Fulfilled at Messiah’s First Coming Passover (Died) – (Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, John 18-19) Unleavened Bread (Buried) – (Matthew 27:57-61, Mark 15:42-47, Luke 23:50-56, John 19:38-42) FirstFruits (Resurrected) – (Matthew 28:1-7, Mark 16:1-8, Luke 24:1-12, John 20:1-10) Shavuot/Pentecost (Holy Spirit poured out) – (Acts 2) The Three Fall Feasts –  Unfulfilled (Will be fulfilled in exact order at Messiah’s Second Coming events on God’s appointed year) Trumpets – The Feast of Trumpets Idioms (Events); The day of the awakening blast, seven-year tribulation, the opening of the books/gates, the hidden day, the wedding of the Messiah, and the coronation of the Messiah Yom Kippur (Second Coming) Tabernacles (Millennial Reign) – Seventh Feast Just as the four fulfilled spring feasts occurred in the exact order prophesied in Leviticus 23 at Messiah’s first coming, so will the three unfulfilled fall feasts at Messiah’s second coming. The Feast of Trumpets represents repentance, the Feast of Yom Kippur represents redemption, and the Feast of Tabernacles represents rejoicing! Assuredly, repentance has to come before redemption, and only after redemption is there rejoicing. There is still more about God's Feasts, which we shall look at later. But you can always contact chad@faithfulperformance.com for a more fuller study concerning the Biblical Feasts. You can also contact Chabad organization or Sid Roth on Its Supernatural for further information and understanding the Biblical Feasts. I shall cover more about the feasts at a later stage, as I am still a rookie when it comes to the Feasts of the Lord. Faithfully Fertiileground https://www.ian@fertiileground.wordpress.com 2017 October 06

Spirit Connection - October 2017