The SPIRITUAL ARMOR - 29 May 2019
THE DIVINE ARMOR: (YAHWEH'S WORD - HIS SON and HIS SPIRIT):
Abba PROVIDES us with HIS FULL ARMOR. When we are CLOTHED with ABBA'S FULL ARMOR - we ARE READY to STAND UP AGAINST ALL the STRATEGIES and the DECEITS of the DEVIL. Our ARMOR and our WEAPONS are the WORD - Who is His SON and the HOLY SPIRIT of YAHWEH God.
Yahshua is the WORD - the LIFE and the LIGHT says John 1:1, 4, 5 and 9. Verse 14 says, "And the WORD (MESSIAH YAHSHUA) BECAME FLESH (human, incarnate) and TABERNACLED (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) AMONG us; as we ACTUALLY SAW His GLORY as an ONLY BEGOTTEN SON RECEIVES from his FATHER, FULL of GRACE (FAVOR, LOVING-KINDNESS) and TRUTH."
YAHSHUA IS OUR ARMOR:
Eph. 6:11 "Put on YAH'S WHOLE ARMOR [the ARMOR of a HEAVY-ARMED SOLDIER which YAH (God) SUPPLIES] that you may be ABLE SUCCESSFULLY to STAND UP AGAINST ALL the STRATEGIES and the DECEITS of the DEVIL." (AMP - Yahweh's name restored).
The GREAT DECEIVER:
The Bible WARNS us to NOT BE DECEIVED for the DEVIL is the GREAT DECEIVER - the GOD of the WORLD - LEADING MANKIND ASTRAY - the ACCUSER of all MANKIND especially those BELONGING to YAH ... (See also Rev. 12:9; 19:20; 20:1-10)
SEEKING SOMEONE to DEVOUR:
The enemy (devil) is PROWLING AROUND like a ROARING LION seeking someone to DEVOUR says 1 Pet. 5:8. It gives a picture of a lion holding its DYING PREY - his MOUTH and TEETH on the THROAT of his VICTIME ... CARRYING it OFF ... to FEAST on it.
One who is DECEIVED is like the prey being PURSUED - CONFRONTED and SILENCED ...
The EVIL ARMOR:
The enemy is a COUNTERFEITER - and as such he ALSO PROVIDES an ARMOR - his ARMOR is SETTLED in our (own) THOUGHTS and DOCTRINES - little by little REPLACING the WORD of YAHWEH God (the DIVINE ARMOR).
Our OWN THOUGHTS PROTECT the WRONGS and the LIES we were TAUGHT:
It is our OWN THOUGHTS [and DOCTRINES that we were TAUGHT] that are BLOCKING our WAY from HEARING the TRUTH of the WORD of our heavenly Father - it is DECEPTION in the HIGHEST DEGREE.
I AM A BELIEVER - I CANNOT BE DECEIVED!
Believing does not mean that we are immune against the onslaught of the enemy. The Christendom is the devil's playground. He is not interested in those who are already his ... no ... his focus is on those who are NOT belonging to him.
SELF-DECEPTION & RELIGIOUS DECEPTION:
When a professing believer in Yah, beliefs certain RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE - for example the DOCTRINE of "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED" or "BECAUSE of BELIEVING in YAH I CANNOT BE DECEIVED" - his or her OWN THOUGHTS became an ARMOR - KEEPING him or her in a CONSTANT STATE of SELF-DECEPTION.
SELF-DECEPTION has POWER and it is EXTREMELY HARD to BREAK:
Once a PERSON is DECEIVED, he/she CANNOT RECOGNIZE that he or she is DECEIVED, and the enemy MOVES RIGHT IN BLINDING the EYES and DEAFENING the EARS "PROTECTING" the LIE that has FORMED in the MIND.
1 Cor.. 15:33 "DO NOT BE DECEIVED ..."
James 1:22 "But be DOERS of the WORD, and NOT HEARERS ONLY, DECEIVING yourselves."
James 1:26 "If ANY ONE THINKS he is RELIGIOUS and DOES NOT BRIDLE his TONGUE but DECEIVES his HEART, this man's RELIGION is VAIN."
2 Cor. 11:3 "But I am AFRAID that as the SERPENT DECEIVED EVE by his cunning, YOUR THOUGHTS WILL BE LED ASTRAY from a SINCERE and PURE DEVOTION to MESSIAH YAHSHUA."
Gal 6:7 "DO NOT BE DECEIVED; YAH is NOT MOCKED ..."
Eph. 5:6 "Let NO ONE DECEIVE you with EMPTY WORDS ..."
1 John 3:7 "... LET NO ONE DECEIVE you ..."
2 John 7 "For MANY DECEIVERS HAVE GONE OUT INTO the WORLD ... "
2 John 7:8 "LOOK to YOURSELVES, that YOU MAY NOT LOSE WHAT YOU HAVE WORKED for ..."
DO NOT REJECT TRUTH - DO NOT REJECT the WORD:
James 4:1 "I CHARGE you in the PRESENCE of YAH
and of YAHSHUA our MESSIAH,
Who is to JUDGE the LIVING and the DEAD,
and in the light of His COMMING and His KINGDOM"
PREACH the WORD!
James 4:2 "PREACH the WORD! KEEP your SENSE
of URGENCY [STAND BY, be at HAND and READY]"
In FAVORABLE and UNFAVORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES:
James 4:2b " ... whether the OPPORTUNITY SEEMS to be FAVORABLE or
UNFAVORABLE.
Whether it is COVENIENT or INCONVENIENT,
Whether it is WELCOME or UNWELCOME,
you as a preacher of the WORD
are to SHOW PEOPLE in what WAY their LIVES ARE WRONG.] ...
CONVINCE THEM:
... AND CONVINCE THEM ...
WARN THEM:
... REBUKING and CORRECTING,
WARNING and URGING and
ENCOURAGING THEM,
being UNFLAGGING and INEXHAUSTIBLE
in PATIENCE and TEACHING."
THE TIME IS COMING that TRUTH will NOT BE TOLERATED:
James 4:3 "For the TIME is COMING when [PEOPLE] WILL NOT TOLERATE
(ENDURE) SOUND and WHOLESOME INSTRUCTION, but, HAVING
EARS ITCHING [for SOMETHING PLEASANT and GRATIFYING]
they will GATHER TO THEMSELVES ONE TEACHER AFTER ANOTHER
to a CONSIDERABLE NUMBER, CHOSEN to SATISFY their OWN LIKING
and to FOSTER THE ERROR THY HOLD.
:4 And they WILL TURN AWAY from HEARING the TRUTH and
WANDER OFF into MYTHS and MAN-MADE FICTIONS.