Philip's posts with tag: holy_spirit
28 Elul 5767, 9/11/2007 From Buddhist Priest to Haredi Rabbi by Tamar Yonah Yitzhak Fanger was a typical secular Israeli guy. His story though, is anything but. Yitzchak grew up in the center of the country and after graduating from high school, he went to serve in the IDF. His life took a very interesting turn a few years later, and I was interviewing him as he shared his story with me and my listeners on my radio show.  
Rav Yitzchak Fanger After finishing his army service, Yitzchak was going to make his way out in the world. He decided to learn Reiki (a Japanese technique for healing administered by ‘laying on hands’). After taking courses and excelling in his new trade, his Reiki teacher urged him to go to the Far East to learn to be a
Reiki Master and return to be the top teacher in Israel. Fanger listened to his teacher and traveled to India. There he pursued more learning and became heavily involved in Buddhism. He became a Buddhist priest and was encouraged to go for an extended stay at a type of monastery or solitary retreat for Buddhist priests up in the mountains. There, one was forbidden to speak, their task was to concentrate on mediation, yoga, and to try to reach nirvana. The only work they had to do at the retreat was gardening. Gardening was very important, as they grew their own food.  A few months went by and Yitzchak was well into his daily routine of meditation, yoga, gardening, - and not talking. One might imagine that it would be difficult not to speak for months on end, especially for a Jew from Israel. Yitzchak was getting antsy. He had an urge to talk, to hear his own voice, and the feeling was bubbling up inside him that he felt he was going to burst. The urge got so strong, that Yitzchak ran away, far from ear shot of the retreat and the other Buddhist monks. He arrived at a brook a distance away, and all of a sudden, words came pouring out of his mouth. He couldn’t stop rambling off speech. The amazing thing was, that the first words that he had spoken after months of silence, ---was his Bar Mitzvah portion from the Torah.
 Yitzchak was shocked. Why did THOSE words come out of him? He didn’t identify with his Judaism, in fact, he hated the religious people, especially those from the near by city where he grew up, Bnei Brak. Bnei Brak was full of religious Jews and he had a prejudice towards ‘them’ and that place.
Yitzchak was now 26 years old, he had carved out a path for himself, and was happy about his experiencing this new spirituality. Judaism was a long way away, and had not thought about his Bar Mitzvah since he was 13. He was stunned that the words he read from the Torah on his Bar Mitzvah should be the first words out of his mouth after his long silence. Yitzchak released the built up pressure from within him after his outburst near the brook. He headed back for camp, and decided to put the incident behind him. One evening, a few days after the occurrence at the brook, Yitzchak was ready to retire for the night and crawl into his sleeping bag in the small room he was given. But he kept having a feeling that someone or ‘something’, was in his room. It was a bad feeling, and being an Israeli, he decided to himself, “Mishane makom, mishane mazal” – “change the place you are at, and you will change your luck/destiny”. And so, Yitzchak decided to take his sleeping bag from his room, and sleep underneath the stars that night. As he reached for his sleeping bag, a scorpion jumped out from the part of the sleeping bag where his head was supposed to be. He realized then, that he could have been killed by that scorpion, and that his instinct not to sleep in his room where his bag lie, was not just a fortunate premonition, but that someone, or something, was watching over him.
 About a week later, in the evening, after practicing his meditation, the candle in Yitzchak's room went out. He went to search for more candles in his bag, when he found a card with Hebrew print on it. It was then that Yitzchak remembered that when he was at Tel Aviv’s (Lod) Ben Gurion Airport, a Hassidic Jewish man was passing out cards to people, and handed Yitzchak one as well. The card had some type of prayer, or text from the Torah on it. Yitzchak asked the man what he should do with it, and the man said, just keep it with you, it will protect you. So Yitzchak shrugged his shoulders and then stuffed it in his bag, quickly forgetting about it.
After finding the card in his bag, Yitzchak got an itchy feeling. It was then that a small still voice came from within him and said, “Why don’t you meditate on something in Hebrew, all the time you have been meditating on words in Japanese, try concentrating on the words on this card in Hebrew.”
He thought, "Ok, let's see what happens". He held the card and read one of the lines written there. “Shemah Yisrael, Hashem Elokaynu, Hashem Echad”. It was the 'Shemah' prayer (Hear oh Israel, The Lord our G-d, The Lord is One).
Meditating on this line, Yitzchak repeated it over and over again like a mantra. “Shemah Yisrael, Hashem Elokaynu, Hashem Echad”. ...Suddenly, he started to tremble, and a light bulb went off in his head. No, - it was more like an inner explosion. Yitzchak had a burst of spiritual enlightenment. He had found a treasure! “Yes, of course!” he said. “Yes, The Lord is our G-d, the Lord is one. YES! YES! YES! I want to know more about this. This is truth!"
 Yitzchak looked at his surroundings, the bare wooden hut where he had spent so many months, the foreign looking landscape and geography. It was not where he was supposed to be. No one here, not one of these monks, could teach him about G-d. He decided that the very next morning, he was going to pack his things and leave immediately for Israel. Home. After arriving in Israel and back at his parent’s house, Yitzchak was hungry to learn about Judaism and what the Torah said. He saw an advertisement in the paper that there would be a lecture given on Judaism, with ample time for questions and answers. Almost immediately after his return from India, he found himself listening to a rabbi explaining basic Jewish concepts and a little bit of Jewish mysticism. But Yitzchak’s hunger wasn’t satisfied. He went the following weekend to a Shabbat program held at a hotel, for Jews who wanted to learn more about G-d. Yitzchak was a person who needed logic and scientific explanations. He liked the way in which the rabbis were explaining and proving through intellectual discourse, the existence of G-d. The lecture schedule went from first proving that G-d existed, to the revelation at Sinai, and then to the conclusion that if A was true, and B was true, then C was also true, and that we must observe the Torah and mitzvoth (commandments) that G-d gave us. Yitzchak made a decision after that weekend, and his past quest for truth and enlightenment… that he was going to become a ‘baal tshuva’, a returnee to Judaism, a religious Jew. When he broke the news to his parents, his mother went ballistic. “You’re going to be religious and then you are going to leave me”, she cried. “How can you do this to me”, she sobbed. Yitzchak reassured her that there was no reason to cut himself off from his family just because he wanted to be religious, and that she was imagining things and should calm down. Ironically, the fact that he came off the plane in orange pajamas with a bald head didn’t seem to phase anyone, but the fact that he would start wearing a Yarmulke on his head put people into a stir. <grin> Soon after, Yitzchak rolled up his sleeves and went to work. He opened up his own Reiki center and school for Reiki. He taught students, lectured around Israel, and took in private patients. He was indeed THE rieki master of Israel, and he was doing very well financially. He bought a nice car, a beautiful home, and one day, his mother, who was doing his bookkeeping, called Yitzchak on the phone and told him that according to her latest calculations, Yitzchak was a millionaire! Things were going very well for Yitzchak. He was keeping the Sabbath, wearing a kippah, keeping more and more mitzvoth, and he was content. Things were wonderful, and his business was thriving. One day, after lecturing to a group of Haredi women about Reiki, and hoping that they would want to sign up for his courses he gave, he ran into trouble. After his presentation, one of the women from the audience came up to him and asked him if this ‘reiki’ was ‘kosher’. Yitzchak, answered her that of course it was kosher. After all, one doesn’t eat reiki. What could be wrong with it?
The woman said, just to be sure, if you want us to sign up for your courses, please go to our rabbi and ask him to give you a letter that this ‘reiki’ is kosher, then we’ll be willing to do it.
 Yitzchak did as the woman asked. He made an appointment with the well respected rabbi and asked him for a letter saying that reiki was ‘kosher’. The rabbi wanted to know exactly what reiki was. Yitzchak explained that reiki was based on the idea of an unseen "life force energy". This energy force would flow through him to his patient, as he concentrated on the word – ‘Rei’ which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy". So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy." The rabbi, understanding that many of the eastern and oriental healing methods were based on avodah zarah, -calling on foreign gods, and therefore 'reiki' was ‘unclean’. He told Yitzchak that he was unable to give him a letter saying that this was kosher. Yitzchak did a double take, then leaned towards the rabbi and said, “But rabbi, you don’t understand, this reiki is my profession, it’s how I make my living. You HAVE to give me a letter saying this is kosher. The rabbi repeated that he was unable to give a stamp of approval for this, as it stemmed from avodah zarah, (idol worship) and thus was not kosher. Yitzchak was floored. He was stunned beyond belief. He went home in a daze. His world was spinning out of control, and he was feeling sick to his stomach. As he opened up the door to his home, he threw himself on his couch and started to cry like a baby. He was heaving sobs from the depths of his soul. He was broken. He was bewildered, and he did not know what he was going to do. On one hand, he was the reiki master of Israel, a millionaire, and his years of learning and practicing reiki had become his identity. It was WHO HE WAS. Yitzchak was a reiki master. What would he be without it?
On the other hand, Yitzchak had a deep belief in G-d now. He had discovered the truth and he wanted to cling to G-d, Torah and the commandments. What should he do? After his sobs subsided, Yitzchak Fanger lifted his eyes towards the heaven, and said to G-d, “My G-d, I have never asked you for anything. But I am asking you for something now. I am telling you with firm conviction, I WILL GIVE UP my reiki. But I want a promise from You, that YOU WILL NOT GIVE UP on me!” With that, Yitzhcak picked up the phone, and dialed his mother. “Ima”, he said, “Right now, I want you to cancel all my appointments, cancel all my lectures, cancel all my courses, and all my patients. I am closing down my reiki center.” A scream came on from the other end of the phone. “Yitzchak, are you mad? You are a millionaire! You are so successful! You cannot mean it!” But Yitzchak stood firm. I broke into Yitzchak’s story, because I told him his mother may have been upset as well, because in essence, he was firing her. He laughed and said that everything had worked out for the best. I asked Yitzchak how he was doing now, years later. He told me, “Tamar, I am a millionaire today. I have six children, each worth more than millions to me. I have a wonderful loving wife, we live a religious life and we are so very happy. And do you know what, Tamar? My parents are very happy now as well. They see how well I treat my wife, how wonderful she treats me and the children, and they are so happy. In fact, my own children do not know that my parents are not religious. Whenever my parents come to visit us, my mother comes with her hair covered, and my father puts on a kippah. In addition, my parents had their kitchen kashered, (made their kitchen kosher) so that whenever we go to visit them, we can eat there. Yitzchak added to me as an aside, “And you know what? My beautiful wife just happens to be from Bnei Brak, the city that I had so much hatred for.” Things are looking up, and Yitzchak’s younger brother has also now returned to Torah and mitzvoth as well. His parents couldn’t be happier. Yitzchak Fanger learned much from his experiences. Today, he is a Haredi rabbi. He is now trying to develop a system that uses some of the basics of reiki, and yet does not call for concentrating on foreign names of god.
I was very impressed and touched by Yitzchak Fanger,, and how everything turned out for his family. What made the biggest impression on me was his sacrifice for his beliefs. This man, who was a self made millionaire through his expertise and hard work, gave it all up for Hashem (G-d). What strength that took, because it wasn’t only the money he gave up, but his identity, how he defined himself. What strength and commitment that took, what utter faith in G-d. And I ask myself, and ask all of you who are reading this….
What are we willing to give up for G-d? What do we have in our lives that needs changing, or giving up, to help us serve G-d better?
Are we partaking in bad habits that hurt our health and service to Him?
Are we engaged in frivolous activities that are taking us away from what we should be doing?
Should we stop smoking, kick the TV out, stop visiting the pubs and night clubs? What is it that we need to do this Rosh HaShana, from now on, to make ourselves at least as worthy as this once secular guy from Tel Aviv?  What are WE willing to give up for G-d?
Wishing you all a sweet, happy, and healthy new year!
|  | | Apart from players and a ball, the game requires THREE ELEMENTS: |  | A playing field; | | A will and strategy to win; | | A referee, the whistle blower | | 
| | | | God created a playing field, Paradise, and two players in his image (with a body, a soul and spirit), Adam and Eve to play - or actually just to live in this field and manage it. Then Satan came and turned their lives into a competitive game/struggle by giving them a choice to live according to God's rules or to do their own thing. And they fell for it, causing God to have to evict them from this pleasant field to take up the challenge to play in a rough field that they needed to tame while all along fighting against their inclination not to do the right thing. Those who opted in principle not to make a commitment to play according to God's rules became Satan's players, opposing God's players. And this on a playing field that God had to share with Satan. (The football game has the same "components" as God himself, a Body (field), Yeshua; a Soul, the Father, the thinking, feeling One, the heart; The Referee, Whistle blower, the Spirit. This game with its three components plus God's players and His ball represents the Kingdom of God.) The ball represents the TRUTH, that which is in agreement with God's perfect rules for living and acquiring eternal life, as against Satan's lies. Actually, there are two balls in this game since the truth and the lie cannot exist side be side like in the YingYang concept or "Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security!" In other words, the players on both sides have a ball they need to get into the other side's goal post and one that they need to prevent from getting into their own goal post. Until one of the sides wins, both balls will remain in the playing field. God's players should play to win, although in love and according to his laws, while Satan's team plays dirty and anything goes for the sake of winning, including playing the man and not necessarily the ball. For that reason his players all leave the playing field with red cards, while God's players retire with honors. Some are carried off on stretchers, of whom some don't survive and join the martyrs who are waiting under God's throne. Soon the situation became so bad that God only had eight players left, Noah, his wife and his three sons and their wives. Consequently he had to destroy Satan's whole team in the flood and start all over again with players from Noah's family's offspring . Satan, nevertheless, managed to establish himself firmly in Babylon, that became the breeding ground for demon worship and a one world system of rule for mankind. God foiled his one-world aspirations by dividing the people into groups speaking different languages that caused them to migrate over the world and set up independent nations speaking different languages. Satan kept on developing his evil doctrines in Babylon and disseminating them over the earth - actually, the different language groups already took these doctrines with them when they dispersed over the earth. And Satan is, of course, still in our day trying to set up his one-world system. God all along had a perfect means of salvation built into himself in that he had a Body who could become human, with flesh and blood, that could be sacrificed to establish salvation by his unblemished blood - since salvation is only by blood. However, he didn't have a playing field of his own with players set aside for his purposes. That is, to practice his rules under more favorable conditions with help from him - as well as to provide a mother from among them to give birth to his Son as a Son of man -- to be sacrificed for the sins of mankind. One who was one of them. For this purpose he took Abram and Sarah from Babylon to go and establish a new nation (players) on a playing field that he promised would eternally be theirs - as well as his own personal inheritance. He built an assurance of victory into them by promising that their nation would exist eternally - contrary to other nations that come and go. His honor is therefore tied up with his ability to preserve this nation, the Hebrews, eternally. The match became limited to Canaan, renamed Israel, the home stadium, from where it spread on a limited scale to some other nations like Ethiopia. It became a very boring football match in which the balls were kicked this way and that way for thousands of years. At one time so many of God's players, the Israelites had walked over to the opposition that God exiled the whole nation, Judah and Israel, back to Babylon, allowing his home field to become desolate with only a small number of Israelites left in it. It is actually a notable fact that his inheritance becomes desolate when the Hebrews don't live in it. We see it even in our day in areas occupied by the Arabs. The "Greenline" got its name from everything being green up to the area that was under Jordanian occupation. The settlers in Gaza even produced masses of vegetables on sand dunes that the Arabs said were cursed. Satan was actually awarded a penalty goal when Adam and Eve chose to do things their own way. He was therefore one point up on God. To catch up, God needed to wait for about 4,000 years after the fall of the first Adam for the right scenario to develop, namely the rise of the Roman Empire, for his Son to be birthed in Betlechem. Then God could score that most classical goal by the death and resurrection of Yeshua. It cancelled Satan's penalty goal in paradise, but it didn't disqualify him from the game. He could keep on playing. The Jews were not disqualified either from their role of being the source of the Gospel and of re-establishing the home stadium in preparation for the return of Messiah - to score his second and final goal in the game and thereby bar Satan from further participation in the game - for a thousand years. In the year 70 CE, however, all but a hand full of the Hebrews had to flee from the home stadium and got dispersed into the nations (the Galut, Diaspora) - where God enabled them to maintain their Jewish identity by subjecting them to laws that they kept slavishly without questioning their legalistic nature. It took nearly 2000 years before the home playing field, Israel, was re-allocated to the home team. It cost God the lives of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust to create a psychological moment in the United Nations in which a fleeting sense of guilt caused the nations to vote in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in the British Mandate area west of the Jordan River. Although they had to share it with Satan's false claimant, Ismael's seed, it was a beginning towards restoring the home land to the format and size of that of king David's dynasty - in preparation for the ultimate David in his royal line to rule over Israel and the nations. For 2,000 years the Kingdom of God had to function purely on the strength of the Gospel and God's grace without a home stadium. For most of this time the players (church) were kept in total ignorance of the rules of God's game and doctrinal truth due to the Babylonian practise by the dominating powerful Roman Catholic church to reveal knowledge to an enlightened few in leading positions. (They were vitually just playing with Satan's ball.) The Reformation opened the door for God to bring life into the church and to build a remnant of true believers from the nations who could be added to his Kingdom as members of the Commonwealth of Israel. Ephesians 3:6 This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus. Satan managed, however, to divert the majority of the church to Babylonian roots and gnosticism that rejected the Jewish roots of the Kingdom. They therefore belong to Satan's and not the God of Israel's Kingdom. A huge sector of the Jews have also become rooted in the Babylonian model in their thinking and lifestyle and it is these Jews who were behind the re-establishment of Israel and they have mostly subsequently been its rulers. They for sure don't play in God's team, since their agenda is not to restore Israel to a powerful state worthy to be ruled by Yeshua's on his return, but to maintain a weakened multicultural state that will not be too strong to fit in a one world system. God nevertheless used them to re-establish his inheritance for him to resettle his faithful remnant - whom he will use to restore Israel to her former glory under king David. A land we see in Ezekiel 38 in which her people will live in safety and so wealthy that the nations, Gog and Magog and their allies will come to rob her of her wealth. God's hometeam will be so powerful that it will take an alliance of just about all the nations to take them on. It will only be Yeshua's return to fight for them, that will preserve them at that time. How will Israel become that wealthy? It seems that it can only be as a result of the war of Isaiah 17 in which Damascus gets destroyed and Aroer (Jordan) gets emptied out of people, followed by the war in Isaiah 18/19 in which Egypt will be defeated. It is important to note that the struggle for the Kingdom returned to Israel after her re-establishment. It probably set an approximate for the "fullness of the gentiles" to have come in. It make the Jews once again the main players in the game in the run up to Yeshua's return. How ironic, that they need to battle for the restoration of the dynasty of the the ultimate David, before they even know who he is. However, He will reveal himself to them in his time like Joseph did to his brothers. See "...And then all Israel will be saved." (Based on Romans 11:26) What then about the gentiles in this time while Israel is being restored? They should preserve and separate themselves from the apostasy that has taken root in most churches and congregations and start acting in solidarity with the Commonwealth of Israel to which they belong. Psalms 69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and all that move in them 35 For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it 36 The children of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there
Rom 9:21-25 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? 22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 25 As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved." NKJV
Amos 9:11-12 "On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,And repair its damages;I will raise up its ruins,And rebuild it as in the days of old; 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom,And all the Gentiles who are called by My name," NKJV
Isa 56:8 For the Lord God who brings back the outcasts of Israel says, "I will bring others too besides my people Israel." TLB
See Tribulation Scripturally, the gentiles should also help to restore Israel, the home base of the Commonwealth of Israel, as well as help to re-settle the Jews in it: Isaiah 14:2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD'S land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors
Isaiah 49:22 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I will beckon to the Gentiles, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
Isaiah 60:10 "Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you compassion.
Isaiah 61:5 Aliens will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards 
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I had a dream that I was at home of my former Pastor. There were a lot of young people there that were college and career age.
There was one guy there who was smoking a cigarette, and I asked him if he wanted to be Delivered from the bondage to nicotine. He said "yes." So I made an announcement to everyone in the room. I said "is there any one here who wants to be delivered from bondage to cigarette smoking"? Several people came forward and we all got into a circle and began to pray. The pastor and his son were also there in the prayer circle.
But our prayer was interrupted for some reason, before we could even get started, and so nobody got delivered.
Then the scene switched. I was going into a grocery store or a Walmart (I think) and I saw the police handcuffing some people out in the parking lot, and putting them into the back of a police van that transports criminals to jail.
I heard someone say "those people are from your Church…" So I went up to one of the police officers and said "excuse me I have to ask, what are these people being arrested for…"?
And he said "for preaching the gospel." I was shocked and I got angry and told the Police Officer that he was wrong for arresting them for that reason. He then took out his handcuffs and began to threaten me with being arrested if I did not stop.
Then I was suddenly back at the Pastor's home and I saw those guys again who had wanted prayer for deliverance of cigarette smoking. I tried again to get everyone in a prayer circle and this time, everyone gathered for prayer.
There was one guy missing that had formerly been in the prayer circle. In the dream his name was Ariel. So I called for this guy, Ariel and he came. But he was wearing a woman's skirt, and so I said to him in a loving way.
"Ariel, don't you know that it says in Deuteronomy that it is an abomination for a man to wear that which pertains to a woman, and for a woman to wear that which pertains to a man…God was talking about a man wearing woman's clothing or a woman wearing man's clothing, but he goes one step further and uses the word PERTAINS to a "woman or a man" which means that we are not to mix genders…." He has to put a difference between male and female with regard to the role of the bride and the bridegroom. When he says that there is neither male nor female, Jew nor Greek, he is talking about our inheritance in Christ being equally distributed. But when it comes to our roles, we must make a distinction between the bride and the bridegroom"!
I continued, and got into a preaching mode, as all gathered around to hear me preach:
"Why does God tell us this in his word? Because he is a Holy God, and he wants us to be Holy as he is Holy…He gave us the law to teach us how to put difference between clean and unclean, holy and unholy. The reason why the law was given was to show us God's righteous standards. Grace came to give us the power to live up to God's righteous standards without being under the law. But now that the law is written upon our hearts, we are not UNDER it, it is within us! The Law of Moses is Holy. It only brought a curse because of our weak sinful nature. But the cross of Christ broke the curse and now we have the resurrection power living within us, that is to say the Holy Law of Moses now written in fleshy tables of the heart. If we are walking in the spirit, the evidence will be that we will not violate God's Holy law. But if we are walking in the flesh, we will be breaking all of God's laws. But some of you think you are walking in the spirit, but it is a false Holy Spirit. A false Holy Spirit will not put a difference between clean and unclean, holy and unholy. When Peter had that vision on that rooftop in Acts 10, God told him that he had made unclean animals clean by virtue of the New Covenant. This was a metaphor of the uncircumcised gentiles being now made clean through the New Covenant. But does that mean that God now deems unclean, as clean without change, without repentance? No! He made unclean, clean by virtue of the cross and the blood of Jesus. There has to be repentance from violating God's holy law before we can receive forgiveness and become clean. We are not automatically clean without repentance. Jesus will only sprinkle us with his blood when we come by way of the Tabernacle of Moses. We have to offer up ourselves on the altar of sacrifice and receive his sacrifice for us. We have to cleanse our hands (symbolic of dead works) in the bronze laver and see a reflection of ourselves in the water (the water of the word of God). We have to go to the Holy Place and offer up incense (prayers and worship) we have to eat from the table of showbread (the daily bread of his word, the hidden manna). We have to be lit with the fire like that Menorah that burned with the oil. We have to be like that golden candlestick burning with the fire of the Holy Spirit and always filled with the oil that keeps us burning. And only then can we go into the Holy of Holies with Christ and be sprinkled with his blood! Only then does he sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat for us…We can not approach the Holy of Holies without repentance. Any priest who would go into the Holy of Holies unworthily would die on the spot! Beloved the days are coming like Ananias and Sapphira where people will die on the spot for violating God's Holy Law in the presence of the Lord!
That is why he had to wear bells around the hem of his garment. So that if the bells stopped ringing the other priests would know that he was no longer alive. They would then drag him out from behind the curtain by a rope that was tied to his ankle. We are his royal priesthood, church we need to go by way of the cross, by way of the Tabernacle of Moses. If you see the Tabernacle of Moses from an aerial view, you see that it is in the shape of a cross. There is a false Holy Spirit and a false revival coming, church that will not put difference between clean and unclean, holy and unholy. But God is saying though you are an unclean people, I want to make you a clean set apart people, holy sanctified ….He says 'come out from among the temple of idols and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you…' He will not automatically make everything clean, we have to go to the cross and deny ourselves daily. We have to go through the pattern of the Tabernacle of Moses. That is the pattern and it will always be the pattern. The false Holy Spirit will never agree with the Law of Moses. But the true Holy Spirit will always agree with the Law of Moses. This is that Mystery of Lawlessness that the Apostle Paul was talking about when he said that it was already at work. This is the spirit of antichrist that will promote a false revival because it promotes a false Holy Spirit that will not agree with the Law of Moses! The Double Portion anointing is that of Moses and Elijah. God will always send Moses before he sends Elijah. We cry out for the spirit of Elijah but we reject the Law of Moses. Malachi 4:4 Remember ye the Law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. After this sermon was over, we all got into a prayer circle and began to pray for deliverance.
Interpretation of this Dream and further Revelation I had after the Dream
The double edged sword is that of the Law & Prophets, Spirit & Truth, Wisdom & Revelation. This is the Double Portion anointing that will rest upon the "Two Witnesses" in Revelation 11. They are the "Two Candlesticks" (Smyrna and Philadelphia Church types) and the "Two Olive Trees" (Judah and Ephraim Ezekiel 37 as one stick - [the Sons of Zion in Zech 9:9-10 - Zionsake]) the two divided kingdoms of Israel coming together.
The Two Witnesses are these two groups of people. The Gentile Believers that "overcome" the world and the antichrist. And the Messianic Believers who follow the Law of Moses. These carry the Double Portion anointing of Moses & Elijah typified by Christ's ministry as when he was seen at the Mount of Transfiguration with Moses and Elijah. These "Two Witnesses" carry the anointing of Elijah and Moses and do the same exploits as Moses and Elijah.
In my dream, the church would not receive deliverance until there was persecution. When the police were arresting people for preaching the gospel, then they were open to hearing this message I have to preach to the church.
The young man in the dream had the name "Ariel" because that name in Hebrew means "Lion of God" and it is another name for Jerusalem in Isaiah 29:1. The name Ariel is the name of New Jerusalem, his Holy City which Jesus said he writes the name of his holy city upon those who overcome (Revelation 3:12).
The young man in the dream represents the unrenewed church because he had the name Ariel like that of the Old Jerusalem, but Jesus wants to give him a new name of the New Jerusalem.
The cigarette smoking has to do with burning false incense or false worship and prayers. The origins of cigarette smoking comes from the American Indians who took tobacco and rolled it up in corn husks and used it as a burnt offering to the pagan sun god. They blew smoke signals to the pagan gods with the cigarette smoke. Burning incense is a metaphor of the prayers of the saints and worship: Revelation 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. God had exact specifications for how the children of Israel were to make their incense for the Tabernacle: Exodus 30:34-38 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people. We see from the above scripture, that God says no incense should be burned for ourselves! This also represents us using music for ourselves or any kind of worship medium for ourselves.
Strange Fire is a counterfeit of the presence of the God in the church and it closely resembles the Holy Spirit. Satan, the master counterfeiter is able to mimic some miracles of God the same way that the Pharaoh's sorcerers were able to mimic some of the miracles that God did through Moses. But God only allows Satan to have limited power. Jesus even warned us in Matthew 24:24 that there would be false Christs and false prophets who would show signs and wonders in order to deceive the elect. God is a Holy God and he will not allow his presence to be mixed with idol worship or pagan rituals.
The prevailing attitude in the church today is one of pride, arrogance, and covetousness. This was the attitude in Jeremiah's day in Israel when they presumed to do whatever they thought in their evil hearts to do. Covetousness and a desire for wealth was the motivation for offering incense to the Queen of Heaven and they counted on cheap grace to keep them in good standing with God; Jeremiah 44:17-18 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. As long as they were sons of Abraham, they saw no conflict with unholy mixture. And such is the attitude today even among the leadership in the church: Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. In Leviticus 10:2 Aaron's sons were devoured by the fire of the Lord and they died, because they were disobedient in offering up strange fire or incense which he had already warned them not to do.
God had already warned the children of Israel not to offer strange incense to him in Exodus 30:9: "Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon." In other words, the incense had to be made of the exact spices in which he specified. If they deviated from the formula of incense in which God had set forth, they were committing adultery spiritually before the Lord. The word Adulterate means: to make impure by mixture.
The word strange in Hebrew here in Leviticus 10:1 is zuwr which means: to turn aside, to be a foreigner, strange, profane; to commit adultery.
The Hebrew word for incense is 6999 in the Hebrew Strong's Concordance, qatar which means "the idea of fumigation in a close place thus driving out the occupants; turn into fragrance by fire, (especially by and act of worship) to smoke, offer up burnt sacrifice."
Did you notice what this means? To fumigate the old occupants and drive them out! That means deliverance from demons comes from offering up the right incense to the Lord (Prayers and worship). It has to be made up of the spices that he specifies and the exact proportions that he specifies. There is a divine order to how this incense should be offered up.
In other words, the prayers of the saints cannot be mixed with our own ideas and attitudes. We cannot offer up strange fire that is mixed with wrong attitudes and pagan ideas. Strange fire is a false anointing and a false Holy Spirit that comes from us trying to make up our own composition of incense.
Most in the Church are confusing the Covenant of Sinai with that of Horeb: Galatians 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar (Hagar).
Deuteronomy 5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
2nd Chronicles 5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. The Covenant of Sinai was broken. But when Moses went up the second time, and came back, that represented the New Covenant which he made at Horeb! The ark of the Covenant is Christ---the Covenant at Horeb!
The day that Moses came down the second time with the Commandments was a prophetic picture of Christ coming with the Holy Spirit.
The Old Covenant was pre-figured with Moses at Mount Sinai, but the New Covenant was pre-figured with Moses at Horeb!
This day was called "Feast of Weeks" (Leviticus 23) because it was 50 days after the first Passover, after God "parted" the Red Sea.
The second fulfillment of the "Feast of Weeks" happened on the day of Pentecost which was also 50 days after the Resurrection of Christ when he "parted" the curtain in the temple.
The New Covenant is the Covenant made with Moses at Horeb, not Sinai by the writing of the Law of Moses on our hearts! Jeremiah 31:33 "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." The phrase "New Covenant" does not mean "a totally different covenant", it means "renewed covenant." Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah The Hebrew word here for "new" is 2319 in the Hebrew Strong's Concordance and it means "new, fresh" but it comes from the root word 2318 which is chadash which means "to rebuild, renew, repair."
Aha! So Yeshua came to "rebuild, renew and repair" the Covenant made at Horeb, NOT Replace it!
Why was a "New" Covenant required? Because the old one was BROKEN: Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD Notice that God is talking about the Covenant that the children of Israel broke when they first left Egypt at Sinai! But the New Covenant that he established at Horeb with Moses did not get broken. Christ fully revealed it and "confirmed" it with his own blood (Daniel 9:27, he shall confirm the covenant).
The Old Covenant was "broken" like Yeshua's body was "broken" on the cross. But what happened to his body? It was "resurrected, renewed, repaired" so if his body was broken just like that Old Covenant was "broken" so was the "Renewed Covenant" a "rebuilding, repairing, renewing, resurrecting" of the Old Covenant!
The "Renewed Covenant" can be seen in the fact that the first time Moses came down from the mountain, he found the children of Israel worshipping Yehovah in the form of a golden calf. So he "broke" the stone tablets and made them eat the gold which brought a "curse."
Then he went back up again to the mountain (symbolic of Yeshua's ascension into heaven), and then he came back with what? A "Renewed" set of commandments symbolic of the Holy Spirit writing them on our hearts! Hebrews 8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people."
Hebrews 10:16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them." Sinai in Hebrew is 5514, in the Strong's Concordance ciynay "a mountain in Arabia."
The slave woman Hagar had a son that was born of Abraham named Ishmael who went to Arabia. The Covenant of Sinai was the Covenant of Bondage.
Moses went back up the second time to get the commandments and this time, he came back down and established a New Covenant with the children of Israel at Horeb.
Horeb in Hebrew is 2722 in the Strong's Concordance, chareb which means "the Sinaitic Mountains." It comes from the root 2217 to parch to desolate, to destroy, lay waste.
This is symbolic of the cross where our sin was destroyed. This covenant at Horeb represents the cross, the New Covenant!
We have to follow the pattern of "Law & Prophets" in order to make up the composition of incense that pleases Yehovah God. We have to make sure that both elements exist. Both of these elements are throughout the Bible:
Spirit & Truth
Law & Prophets
Wisdom & Revelation
Elijah & Moses Anointing
The Double Portion
The Two-Edged Sword
Old Covenant & New Covenant
The Crucifixion & The Resurrection
The Blood & The Water (that came from his side)
Justification & Sanctification (1st Peter 1 the elect have both)
Jew & Gentile
Israel & The Church
Faith & Works of the Spirit (James 2, both makeup Grace)
Wise as a Serpent (Law) & Gentle as a Dove (Spirit) We cannot have one without the other. The Letter of the Law kills if it is administered without the Covenant of Grace. The Spirit gives Life and will always agree with the Law of Moses. That is why the Bible refers to it as "The Law of the Spirit of Life."
The Law of Moses gives us the template, but the Holy Spirit gives us the fulfillment!
All Law with no Spirit brings a rigid, dry legalistic attitude, and leads to death. All Spirit with no Law brings with it the danger of a Strange Fire and counterfeit.
The Cross of Christ & The New Covenant Pre-Figured with The Tabernacle of Moses at Horeb after Mount Sinai
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The The Altar of Sacrifice: Represents the sacrifice of Christ on the cross as the Lamb of God. Here we offer up ourselves to him as a living sacrifice and choose to "deny ourselves and take up our cross daily." -
The Bronze Laver: Here the Priest would wash his hands (symbolic of works). We "work" with our hands and so the washing of our hands has to do with repentance from our dead works. The laver had water in it and so the priest would see a reflection of himself in the water. This is a where we ask the Holy Spirit to "search" our hearts and show us the hidden sins of the heart. We receive cleansing from the old nature by the "washing of water by the word." (Ephesians 5:26) -
The Table of Showbread: This is where we eat the showbread, the daily bread of the hidden manna, the word of God. Jesus said "man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of God." Jesus is the bread from heaven. He is the bread of life. (John 6:33-48) We eat his flesh metaphorically as we live on his daily word. -
The Altar of Incense: This represents the prayers of the saints and worship. (Revelation 8:3-4) We must develop a life of prayer and intimacy with him daily. -
The Menorah: Jesus likened the Seven Churches to Seven golden candlesticks. The Menorah could not stay lit without olive oil. We must be like those five wise virgins (Matthew 25:2) who kept their oil supply full at all times. We must be a "light" in a dark world. Jesus said that we are to be the "light of the world" (Matthew 5:14) as he is also the "light of the world." (John 8:12) -
The Ark of the Covenant: This was place where the Holy Spirit dwelled. In that ark were the Ten Commandments. This is the place where God established the New Covenant with Moses at Horeb and the children of Israel. The Old Covenant established on Mount Sinai was broken. -
The Holy of Holies: This is where the priest would go and sprinkle the blood of the Lamb on the Mercy seat. Jesus is our high priest after the order of Melchisidec and he sprinkles his own blood on that mercy seat for us. (Hebrews 9:19-21, 10:22). You will notice that the Tabernacle is in the shape of a cross.
We must come by way of the cross, the Tabernacle into the Holy of Holies. There are no shortcuts. If we attempt to go into the Holy of Holies without this pattern we will die. That is why God protects us from being able to come into his presence lightly. 
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I have discovered that the easiest way to figure out the multiplicity and characteristics of our Elohim (gods - plural), is to do understand our own make up of body, soul and spirit. I discovered this about fifteen years ago during a time of extreme emotional trauma in which I had to deal with the problem of bringing the whirlpool of thoughts that were going around and around in my mind into order to be able to sleep. I realized that one's mind is just able to juggle what it knows into different combinations to find some rationality in a given situation and that my mind wasn't going to come to rest without input from my spirit from God's Spirit. The obvious way to get this input was to pray in tongues, thereby cutting out my mind, but that was all it really did and it didn't result in anything tangible that could ease my mind. It's a sure way to receive instructions and strategies from God, but not of finding rest in him. For that I needed to apply the spiritual principle that God descends on us as our worship goes up to him. Consequently I started worshiping him from a Feast of Tabernacles songbook of the International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem (IECJ). I'm not a singer, but a good whistler (like God - Isa 5:26), so I whistled as I read the words, and it enabled God to minister directly to my soul from lyrics like, "Be still my soul, the Lord is on thy side! Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain; Leave to thy God to order and provide. In every change He faithful will remain... Needless to say, this spiritual operation enabled me to receive so much rest and peace in the Lord that I was able to sleep. It was like a sleeping pill from the Lord, just better, because it resulted in natural, relaxed, vs. a drug induced sleep. The battle wasn't over though, I still needed to get answers and a strategy from the Lord. The Jewish Yom Kipur day of fasting came up, and I decided to fast for three days in stead of just the one -- not that I normally feel obligated to fast on Yom Kipur - I received my "chatimah tovah." (signature of approval) in Yeshua. We lived on a mountain high above the Hadassa Hospital in Jerusalem and there were terraces below our house where I spent many hours praying and worshiping and it didn't just give me the answers I needed, it also showed me the clear distinction between my soul and my spirit persons. Discerning the three persons, body, soul and spirit, that constitutes my being, made me realize that God saying "let US create man in OUR image," can only mean that He also consists of a Body, a Soul and a Spirit. A conclusion that God's BODY is the body in which he appears on earth is fairly logical. Apart from Yeshua having taken up that body, there are many instances where God appeared in person on earth, while we know our heavenly Father is always in heaven. For instance, Abram eventually calling one of the three men who visited him, LORD. Similarly Gideon realizing that he had to do with God in person, etc. This singles out the God of Israel, ELOHIM, from "other" gods, in the respect that he doesn't need a statue or an image to represent him, like Hari Krishna, a Buddha, the moon god Allah's black rock, a cross, a fish, etc. - see Symbolism. What would they be without those objects??!! NOTHING. Saying that the God of Israel is the same God as Allah of Islam, based on the devil's handy tool, called MONOTHEISM, is unspeakably blasphemous!! Most Christians understand that God's Spirit Person is the Holy Spirit although few know him intimately or have an inkling of how vital it is to be filled (baptized) with him and to receive input from him. King David showed this clearly in saying to God: Psalms 51:11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me The fact that it is the gravest of all sins to blaspheme the Holy Spirit, shows us that he is God like God the Father. (I think some evangelists' using the Holy Spirit like a gimmick also amounts to blasphemy) Matt 12:32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. NIV The Apostle Paul explained that God the Father, one of the three Persons of God, is uppermost: 1 Cor 8:6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. NIV
Eph 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit- just as you were called to one hope when you were called- 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. NIV Humans are body, soul and spirit similar to Elohim, and I have identified the Body and Spirit Persons of Elohim. It leaves us with just one option, namely that God the Father is the SOUL Person of God. The soul person is the thinking and feeling (center of emotions) person of man and therefore of God as well. It is in the SOUL Person of God (the Father) where love (for us) is centered as we see in John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. NKJV Let me ask this: In Abraham's having to slaughter his son Isaac on the altar, who suffered the most agony, Abraham or his son? I contend, Abraham, since Isaac didn't even know about him going to be the lamb until Abraham actually raised his knife to kill him. Similarly Yeshua only really agonized about being slaughtered when it was about to happen, while His Father suffered all along about having to send his only begotten Son to die for us. In view of the fact that is the soul person of man that needs salvation for him not to be lost, we should really identify the MOST intimately with God the Father (the SOUL). Ex 30:11 And Jehovah said to Moses, "Whenever you take a census of the people of Israel, each man who is numbered shall give a ransom to the Lord for his soul, so that there will be no plague among the people when you number them. TLB
Job 33:29 "Yes, God often does these things for man- 30 brings back his soul from the pit, so that he may live in the light of the living. TLB
Ps 49:14 Death is the shepherd of all mankind. And "in the morning" those who are evil will be the slaves of those who are good. For the power of their wealth is gone when they die, they cannot take it with them. 15 But as for me, God will redeem my soul from the power of death, for he will receive me. TLB
Prov 22:24 Keep away from angry, short-tempered men, lest you learn to be like them and endanger your soul. TLB Luke 16:22 Finally the beggar died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham in the place of the righteous dead. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and his soul went into hell. There, in torment, he saw Lazarus in the far distance with Abraham. TLB Christians talk about being the bride of Christ, as well as, God is my husband: Hos 2:16 "And it shall be, in that day," Says the LORD, "That you will call Me 'My Husband,'
And no longer call Me 'My Master,' NKJV [In Hebrew the same word, baal, is used for husband and master.]
Isa 54:5 For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of hosts is His name; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth. NKJV
Jer 3:14 "Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. NKJV
Hos 2:7 She will chase her lovers, But not overtake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was better for me than now.' NKJV To be a good wife, a woman needs to know the likes and dislikes of her husband; his prerogatives, vision, aspirations, desires, hopes, etc. Most Christians, however, only identify with the Jesus formula for salvation and prosperity, in which their only responsibility is to keep a local congregation going, or to at least attend church services - even get a once a week spiritual high from being swept along in worship. It's mostly about Jesus with whom they identify because he was with us (Emmanuel = God with us), he paid the price for us, is God's WORD, LAMB, etc. But God the SOUL is the one who appreciates our worship most. He is the One who wants to be glorified. He is the One who says, "I am a JEALOUS God. To truly know God, we need to know what is uppermost in his heart; that with which he is pre-occupied! It is Israel, and we see it from the word Israel appearing 2567 times in the NKJV, Jerusalem 821 times, Zion 162 times - not to mention a multitude of other expressions related to Israel and Jerusalem like, "My holy mountain, hill, etc. It is with Israel that God has an eternal covenant, no other nation. His HONOR depends on the existence of the State Israel and the Jews. That's why Satan tries so hard to wipe them out. The primary reason for Yeshua's coming to earth was the Jews. He said it himself - he didn't come to to establish the church as Brother Jim also explained to us - ssbnsailor.multiply.com. It's about the Jews that God says, "They are like the apple of my eye!" Israel needs to exist for Messiah to return to. However, very few Christians identify with this pre-occupation of God the Father. For 99 percent of Christians who do involve themselves with Jews and Israel, it's exclusively about applying the Jesus-formula to the Jews and Israelis. The few times I've left Israel the last years, I always felt extremely unwelcome wherever I visited because nobody could ever see any relevance in introducing me to their friends, churches etc. as somebody serving the Lord in Israel or having firsthand knowledge about Israel. Of course, it also has to do with my calling to Israel being in solidarity with God's agenda with the Jews and not to apply the Jesus-formula. It also has to do with the idea that somebody who isn't sent out by the church doesn't have validity, covering etc. God is the ONE who calls people, not the church. You have to go even if the church doesn't agree or identify with your mission! For these reasons I have never ever really received any support from any church since I was called to go to in 1982. On my last visit abroad from Israel more than three years ago, I discovered that lectures were going to be given about the Jewish Feasts at one of the churches in the town where I was visiting. I phoned the man who was going to give the lectures and it turned out that he was a Jewish believer. And boy, was he delighted to speak to someone who actually lived in Israel?! In the end, however, he didn't even acknowledge my presence at the meeting - not even as a stranger. It eventually became clear to me that the only interest the Christians at the meeting had in Israel was that it helped them to formulate feasible eschatological understandings. I nevertheless received a strategy from the Lord before I left from there to accommodate refugees from the nations in Israel and to re-settled land that is presently under ARAB OCCUPATION. It is to settle the land like Abraham did, setting up campsites from place to place, as set out in Holy Land Camping. | 
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