FAITH [SW-27] - 11 December 2017  (From the desk of Celia Joy Martins)

 

Scripture tells us in Hebrews 11:1 -  that FAITH is the ASSURANCE - the CONFIRMATION - the TITLE DEED of the THINGS WE HOPE for, BEING PROOF OF THINGS we DO NOT SEE and the CONVICTION  of their REALITY [FAITH PERCEIVING as REAL FACT WHAT IS NOT REVELEAD to the SENSES.]

 

Looking further into FAITH:

FAITH is the ASSURANCE - the confidence, belief, loyalty, commitment, devotion, constancy, dedication -  the ASSURANCE - the promise, guarantee, oath, reassurance, warrant, confidence, possession, reliance, belief in -  the CONFIRMATION - the proof, authentication, validation, authorization, approval, endorsement - it is  the TITLE DEED - the LEGAL DOCUMENT, PROOF OF [ownership], RECORD, CERTIFICATE of the THINGS we HOPE for - the things we look forward to in expectation, anticipation, courage, hopefulness, prospect, possibility, potential, desire, aspiration, the Divine plan, the GOAL. Faith is  BEING THE PROOF - the evidence, testimony, verification, confirmation -  OF THINGS we DO NOT SEE and the CONVICTION - the  persuasion of their REALITY - the authenticity, TRUTH, GENUINENESS, CERTAINTY, ACTUALITY, existence - it is FAITH PERCEIVING as REAL FACT - that WHAT IS NOT REVELEAD to the SENSES.

 

FAITH is SPIRITUAL - it is REAL (spiritual) FACT - REAL (spiritual) TRUTH - REAL (spiritual) HOPE - REAL (spiritual) PEACE - IT IS REVELATION in the SPIRIT - NOT REVEALED to the NATURAL SENSES. In the "FLESHLY" MIND/SOUL - FAITH - MAKES NO SENSE.

 

THE BEGINNING POINT OF FAITH is BELIEVING IN YHWH GOD'S CHARACTER - to BELIEVE that HE IS - WHO HE SAYS HE IS.  This is only really achievable with the studying of HIS WORD - to SIT AT HIS FEET - to REALLY REALLY KNOW HIM - to be ABLE to WALK in an LOVE-RELATIONSHIP with HIM - a COVENANT RELATIONSHIP, for our ABBA is a COVENANT GOD, as we can clearly see with the Abrahamic covenant that was YHWH GOD INITIATED - Abraham just had to have faith.

 

IT IS ONLY WHEN we KNOW HIM - REALLY REALLY KNOW HIM that we will WANT to WALK IN HIS WAYS - We cannot be OBEDIENT to SOMEONE we don't really KNOW - we cannot place our lives in the HANDS of SOMEONE we don't really really really KNOW.

 

With KNOWING WHO HE IS, COMES OBEDIENCE - for HE IS GOD - the ALMIGHTY - the CREATOR - our CREATOR - we BELONG to HIM - this WONDERFUL CREATOR-YAH Who DISCLOSES HIMSELF to us in GENENIS 1 as ELOHIM. With REALIZATION of HIS GOD-SHIP - the ONLY REAL GOD - comes RESPECT for WHO HE IS (FEAR of the LORD). A RESPECT so HUGE - we can only stand IN AWE of HIS GREATNESS and our SMALLNESS.

 

And when WE HAVE FOUND OUT WHO HE IS - we WILL WANT TO OBEDIENT to HIS VOICE - HIS WORD - HIS CALLING - DOING what HE SAYS IN HIS WORD - OBEY HIS COMMANDS and COMMANDMENTS - HONOR HIS FEASTS - HIS SABBATH DAY - DO WHAT HE TELLS us to DO in HIS WORD. HAVE AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. We cannot enter in this relationship if we DON'T REALLY KNOW HIM. Yes, we can THINK we KNOW Him - but it is ONLY when WE ARE WASHED from our SINS - and the SINS of our FOREFATHERS - WASHED IN THE BLOOD of MESSIAH that we CAN PRESS INTO HIS PRESENCE. INTO HIS THRONEROOM BOLDLY. BY KNOWING HIM and being OBEDIENT to HIM - we WILL WALK in an INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM - LETTING HIM fill us, drench us with HIS SPIRIT - and THAT is the ONLY WAY to BE FREE from all the TRADITIONS and RELIGION and CULTURE that we grew up in - KEEPING US IN BONDAGE.

 

2 Cor. 3:17 "Now the LORD is the SPIRIT, and WHERE the SPIRIT of the LORD IS, THERE IS FREEDOM."

 

YOU CALL ME MASTER BUT DO NOT DO WHAT I SAY:

In the Words of Messiah: Luke 6:46 "Why do you CALL Me "LORD (Master), LORD (Master)", AND DO NOT DO WHAT I SAY?

 

WHAT DID YAHSHUA SAY? Did His teachings came from the New Testament? No, there was no New Testament - everything He TAUGHT CAME from the OLD TESTAMENT (Old Covenant) - the NEW TESTAMENT (New Covenant) was still in the making.

 

Yahshua came to MAKE A WAY - to PUT a NEW COVENANT in PLACE to INCLUDE OTHERS, the GENTILES. Yes, the blood sacrifices fell away - for YAHSHUA was the ONCE and FOR ALL SACRIFICE (Heb. 10:10 - "... we have been made holy [consecrated and sanctified] THROUGH the OFFERING MADE ONCE FOR ALL of the BODY of MESSIAH YAHSHUA [the Anointed One].)"

 

YAHWEH'S SEVEN SET FEASTS did NOT FALL AWAY - He did not ADD ANY FEASTS - not even PENTECOST. It was all DECLARED as FEASTS or APPOINTED TIMES in the TIMES of Moses. (Lev. 23) Furthermore, Abba had SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS in HOW to OBSERVE HIS FEASTS and HIS SABBATH DAY.

 

YAHSHUA did NOT ADD CHRISTMAS with its CHRISTMAS DATE of 25 DECEMBER (a pagan tradition and celebration)  - the CHRISTMAS TREE (a pagan tradition)  - GIVING GIFTS AND MERRYMENT (a pagan tradition and celebration). He did not EVEN SAY ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE that we should OBSERVE and CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH nor HONORING IT with GIFTS TO OURSELVES - in fact the date - 25 December - is the date on which the 'reincarnated' SON-SUN-god (Tammuz) was born and annually celebrated by the pagans as 'resurrected' on the 25th of December. Through ancient Babylon (Babel) this practice went into the world and eventually into "Christianity".

 

Anciently, Constantine  the "Great" - the EMPEROR (king) of ROME concocted a false pagan-Messianic mixture of a religion in AD 325. His aim was to CONTROL as much people as he could under his RULING. In order to obtain his goal, he combined HIS PAGANISM and MESSIANIC BELIEFS to found his 'new' religion of Christianity. The cross symbol was also his concoction when he "had a vision seeing a huge cross in the air" when he was told to "found" Christianity and CONVERT to his Christianity. He himself was a SUN-WORSHIPER till HIS DEATH. HE DECLARED his new religion as the new STATE RELIGION of ROME. In the YEAR 336 the first celebration on 25th December was added to Constantine's religion. A few years later Pope Julius I - OFFICIALLY DECLARED that the BIRTH OF JESUS WOULD BE CELEBRATED on the 25th DECEMBER annually.

 

Constantine's FALSE CHRISTIANITY (CATHOLICISM)  and his ALLEGED "CONVERSION" was said to be the "TURNING POINT" for the early "CHURCH of CHRIST" often referred to as the CONSTANTINIAN SHIFT. It is referred to as the "TRIUMPH" of the church or the "PEACE" of the church.

 

It was Constantine that assembled the first ECUMENICAL COUNCIL in Nicaea, Turkey, to attain consensus. It was attended by a council of BISHOPS encouraging different churches to work and worship together. Constantine obtained great success in implementing his new religion (mixture of paganism and Messianic beliefs). The SATANIC "TRINITY" of BABYLON (false father, son and holy spirit) were included.

 

From the start the PAPACY of ROME was aiming for a ONE WORLD RELIGION a SUPREME ROMISH CATHOLIC FAITH. They MOVED ALL THE FURTHER AWAY from the TRUE MESSIANIC BELIEFS that were INCLUDED into CHRISTIANITY-PAGANISM.

 

Catholic Church in Western Europe:

The CATHOLIC CHURCH has what is claimed to be the oldest continuously functioning internal legal system in Western Europe, later than Roman law but predating the evolution of modern European civil law traditions.
What began as rules (CANON'S) adopted by the apostles at the Council of Jerusalem in the first century has developed into a highly complex legal system encapsulating not just norms of the New Testament but some elements of the Hebrew Holy Scriptures (Old Testament) ROMAN ANCIENT LEGAL LAW, VISIGOTHIC, SAXON and CELTIC TRADITIONS.

 

The week days all receive pagan gods names:

Sunday - FIRST day of the week - (dies solis) - Named after the pagan sun-god - the "sun's" day - a pagan holiday (the 'father'- and re-incarnated 'father'-son-sun-god)

Monday - SECOND day of the week - (dies lunae)  - Named after the pagan moon-goddess  "the moon's day" or day of the moon (the holy-spirit-god - the fertility goddess - the holy mother etc.)

Tuesday - THIRD day of the week - Named after the pagan god of war (Tiu or Tyr) the son of the pagan god Odin.

Wednesday - FOURTH day of the week - a chief pagan god Odin or Woden - name to honor him.

Thursday - FIFTH day of the week - the pagan god of thunder - Thor - Named after him in his honor.

Friday - SIXTH day of the week - Named after the pagan goddess of love (Frigg or Frija)  and in her honor.

Saturday - SEVENTH day of the week - Named in honor of the pagan god Saturn.

 

The CHRISTMAS TREE was also absorbed into Constantine's Christianity - In Babylon after Tammuz' death, Semiramis told the people that when Tammuz was killed, his BLOOD FELL on the STUMP of an EVERGREEN TREE, and the STUMP GREW INTO A FULL NEW TREE OVERNIGHT, which made it SACRED by the BLOOD of the "SON" Tammuz.

 

After Semiramis' death, the evergreen tree was the pagan symbol of the ESSENCE of LIFE. It was regarded as a PHALLIC (ERECTED MANHOOD) SYMBOL of FERTILITY (sun-god the fertility god). They adorned it with red holly as a 'SYMBOL' of the QUEEN OF HEAVEN's (queen Ishtar/Easter of Babylon - moon goddess) menstrual blood. White berries and mistletoe indicating droplets of the sun-god's semen. Holly and mistletoe was symbolic of invoking powers of fertility in those who touch it or stood beneath it, kissing under it causing the spirits of the god (sun-god) and goddess (moon-goddess - the sun-god's consort wife) to enter them. In Germany the evergreen tree was used in worshipping and celebrating the "YULE-god" which was the RESURRECTED SON-SUN-god as it is still being celebrated today.

 

Easter/Ishtar Sunday was included (annulling and/or 'absorbing' the PESACH (PASSOVER) feast of YAHWEH God) - an annual pagan feast on the first Sun-day when the day and night were the same length was absorbed into Constantine's Christianity as 'Easter Sunday'. The old Babylonian custom to celebrate 'Ishtar Sunday' was absorbed into an annual EASTER PERIOD celebrations (annulling and/or 'absorbing' the Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits feasts of YHWH God) with all the pagan customs with it inclusive of the easter eggs, bunnies, hot-cross buns etc. The hot-cross buns with the 'T' or "+" sign symbolizing the "T" or the "+" the Babylonians were making in front of their hearts which was the "Tammuz-sign" - the sign of the "SON-SUN-GOD". This pagan tradition of the "T" or "+" were included into Constantine's Christianity as the "Father-Son-Holy Spirit" sign in front of the heart or on the forehead as it is still being used today.

 

All the different pagan gods' names were also changed into saints and Saints. Pagan TRADITIONS were included with more suitable and Messianic belief-sounding names and 'covering.'  Along with the pagan traditions an IMMENSE ANTI-SEMITISM (NAZISM) ORIGINATED - fueled by the forces of evil. A hatred and despising of the Jewish people who eventually had led to the holocaust of the Jews in World War II.

 

Ezek 8:1 And in the sixth year [of the captivity of King Jehoiachin], in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house [A CAPTIVE of the BABYLONIANS] with the ELDERS of JUDAH sitting before me, the hand of YAH FELL THERE UPON me.

 

:2 Then I beheld, and lo, a LIKENESS OF A MAN with the APPEARANCE OF FIRE; from HIS WAIST DOWNWARD HE WAS LIKE FIRE, and from HIS WAIST UPWARD He HAD the APPEARANCE of BRIGHTNESS LIKE GLEAMING BRONZE.

 

:3 And He put forth the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head; and the SPIRIT LIFTED ME UP between the EARTH AND THE HEAVENS and BROUGHT ME IN THE VISIONS of YAH to JERUSALEM, to the ENTRANCE of the DOOR of the INNER [COURT] which faces toward the north, where was the SEAT OF THE IDOL (IMAGE of a god) of JEALOUSY, which PROVOKES to JEALOUSY.

 

:4 And behold, there was the GLORY of the ELOHIM YAHWEH, the GOD of Israel [Who had LOVED and CHOSEN them] LIKE the vision I SAW in the PLAIN. [Ezek. 1:28; 3:22, 23].

 

:5 Then He (the SPIRIT) said to me, son of man, now LIFT UP YOUR EYES TOWARD the NORTH. So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, on the NORTH of the ALTAR GATE was that IDOL (god) of JEALOUSY in the ENTRANCE.

 

:6 Furthermore, [the Spirit] said to me, son of man, DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING? The GREAT ABOMINATIONS that the house of Israel is COMMITTING HERE to DRIVE ME FAR from My SANCTUARY? But you shall AGAIN SEE GREATER ABOMINATIONS.

 

:7 And He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold THERE WAS A HOLE IN THE WALL.

 

:8 The He said to me, son of man DIG NOW IN THE WALL. And when I had dug in the wall, behold, there was a DOOR.

 

:9 And He said to me, GO IN AND SEE the WICKED ABOMINATIONS that they DO HERE.

 

:10 So I WENT IN and SAW there PICTURES OF EVERY FORM OF CREEPING THINGS AND LOATSOME BEASTS AND ALL the gods of the house of Israel, PAINTED ROUND ABOUT the wall.

 

:11 And there STOOD BEFORE these PICTURES SEVENTY MEN of the ELDERS of the house of Israel, and in the MIDST OF THEM STOOD JAAZANIAH the son of SHAPHAN [the scribe], with EVERY MAN HIS CENSER IN HIS HAND, and A THICK CLOUD OF INCENSE was GOING UP IN PRAYER to these their gods.

 

:12 Then said He to me, son of man, have YOU SEEN WHAT THE ELDERS of the house of Israel DO IN THE DARK, EVERY MAN IN HIS [SECRET] CHAMBER of [idol/god] PICTURES? For they say, The LORD does NOT SEE US; the LORD has FORSAKEN the land.

 

:13 He also said to me, YET AGAIN YOU SHALL SEE GREATER ABOMINATIONS which they are COMMITTING.

 

THEY WEEPED for TAMMUZ:

:14 Then He brought me to the ENTRANCE of the NORTH GATE of Yah's house; and BEHOLD, there SAT WOMEN WEEPING FOR TAMMUZ [a BABYLONIAN god WHO WAS SUPPOSED to DIE ANNUALY AND SUBSEQUENTLY be RESURRECTED]

 

:15 Then said the Spirit to me, Have you seen this, o son of man? Yet again you shall see GREATER ABOMINATIONS that they ARE COMMITTING.

 

THEY WORSHIPPED the SUN:

:16 And He brought me to the INNER COURT of Yah's house; and behold, at the DOOR OF THE TEMPLE of YAH, BETWEEN the PORCH and the BRONZE ALTAR, were ABOUT TWENTY FIVE MEN with THEIR BACKS to the TEMPLE of YAH, and THEIR FACES TOWARD the EAST, and THEY WERE BOWING THEMSELVES TOWARD THE EAST and WORSHIPPING the SUN.

 

:17 Then the Spirit said to me, Have you seen this o son of man? Is it too SLIGHT A THING to the house of Judah to COMMIT the ABOMINATIONS WHICH THEY COMMIT HERE, that THEY MUST FILL the LAND WITH VIOLENCE and TURN BACK AFRESH to PROVOKE ME WITH ANGER? And behold, the put the BRANCH to their NOSE [actually before their mouths, in superstitious worship]!

 

:18 Therefore, I WILL DEALT IN WRATH; MY EYES WILL NOT SPARE, NOR WILL I HAVE PITY; and though THEY CRY IN MY EARS with A LOUD VOICE; YET WILL I NOT HEAR THEM."

 

O ABBA, please help us to see the TRUTH - with the AUTHORITY of YAHSHUA MESSIAH LIVING IN ME, and by the PROMISE OF YOUR WORD in Is. 55:11 I DECLARE TODAY that NO WORD SPOKEN ACCORDING to YOUR WORD WILL RETURN VOID. ABBA - I BLESS EVERY PERSON READING THIS PIECE TODAY - MAY EYES BE OPENED, EARS HEAR and VEILS BEEN TORN. In the NAME OF YAHSHUA MESSIAH - NO WORD SPOKEN AGAINST ME  - CURSES RELEASED AGAINST AND OVER ME or SEND my WAY by the WICKED or the RELIGIOUS will be SUCCESSFUL AGAINST ME TODAY and every other day. IT WILL SLIDE DOWN TO THE GROUND - STERILE AND NON-EFFECTIVE. EVERY CURSE - CURSE WORD or WORDS of  ILLWILL that is FIRED UPON ME TODAY AND EVERY OTHER DAY - WILL MISSFIRE. FATHER I AM YOUR SERVANT and in YOUR SERVICE  - I AM STANDING ON the ROCK WHO IS MESSIAH - NO HARM WILL COME TO ME - I am under YOUR PROTECTION - I AM UNDER YOUR BLOOD - YOUR complete SPIRITUAL ARMOUR is on me  - YOUR CLOUD OF PROTECTION is HIDING ME - YOUR SHADOW AND YOUR SHIELD PROTECT ME - I HAVE A JOSEPH MANTLE on my SHOULDERS - I AM a FAVOURED of the LORD YAHWEH ELOHIM - the GREAT I AM. IN WISDOM given to me by YOUR RUACH SPIRIT I WILL WALK MY WALK and TALK my TALK - I AM BLESSED with BLOOD THAT FLOW RIGHT, a HEART THAT BEATS RIGHT - MY BONES ARE STRONG - my MUSCLES CARRY ME where I NEED to GO - I WILL PROSPER - MY YOUTH IS RESTORED TO ME LIKE THAT OF AN EAGLE'S  - NO SICKNESS or AILMENT or INFIMITY - or VIRUS or BACTERIA or MALICIOUS GROWTHS WILL EVER SETTLE ON ME -  I LIVE WITH A CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS on MY HEAD - a GARMENT OF PRAISE ON MY LIPS and YOUR MANTLE on ME TO DO WHAT I AM CALLED to DO. IN YAHSHUA HA'MASCHIACH'S NAME. Amen.