"Take Hold
of Your Salvation!"
Learn about Satan's hate for the human race!
Loosen the grip Ha Satan could have over you!
Practice good works, "the works of the faith"!
_Shalom dear brothers and sisters in Mashiach, called-out and readers wherever you might be;
Greetings and much joy in the name of Yahwshua Ha Mashiach, to you and all of those who accompany you and who sincerely seek to honor and obey our heavenly Father with words of truth, accompanied with the corresponding actions as pertains to the life in Mashiach of a genuine born-again "called-out" son of Yahweh!
Beloved sheep of Israel, take the lead under Yahwshua yourself and teach others about our Mashiach by being a living example. Let Torah live in you and convert you into a living and walking example of Yahweh's Torah!
Do not be afraid to be mocked or be imperfect or fall into sin sometimes...it will happen...but if you continue firm in your conviction, those instances for sin will dimish until you are fully living in righteousness. When we do these things that Yahwshua our Master ordains, we accumulate tongues of fire over our heads for the latter day, and when we help a fellow man depart from sin, Yahweh says it covers for "multitude of sins" that we accumulated from the past. By doing good works, be certain that we effectively "erase" any future chances Satan may have to accuse us of those same sins in the future.
Some of us have many many sins from our past life, precious sheep of Yahwshua, but Yahweh has given us the best promise---for He vows to love the most those of us who sinned the most and truly repented the most from those sins. He loves he who he forgives the most. The apostle Shaul is a good example.
Our brother Shaul hated Yahwshua and his followers, and during those awful days of spiritual blindness he accumulated many sins against him. (So much so that they rose to heaven and Yahwshua himself came to personally rebuke him!) Yet he repented form all of them, and proved it beyond any doubt by doing good, teaching righteousness, defending Mashiach and putting his life at stake for the brethren! This gave him a truly clean record. All his sins had been forgiven him by Yahwshua upon his repentance, but the works of the faith that Yahweh designs for us, and which he practiced from then on, proved that he had been born again!
We know our confessions of conversion mean nothing unless we actually prove to us, to Yahweh and to others that we try to live by what we say we believe. Otherwise we appear as little immature children, or hypocrits. Yet many of you this is what you were, little children. Walking as though truth had not dawned on you. And truth only comes alive when we actually start living by it, and putting each workd we learn in practice.
This is contrary to what many of today's so-called "hebrew root teachers" and messianics are preaching today to Yahweh's "called out." I have heard their sermons and studies for years, in some cases week after week, shabbat after shabbat, my dear brethren (either by internet or by attending to their synagoges and assemblies in different parts of the world)---and rarely if at all will they teach their talmidim to abide in the Kodesh Word they learn, live by it, and make a sincere effort to grow to the fullness of the stature of Mashiach as Scripture actually commands us.
They have changed the basis of their preaching from one of the true gospel (the gospel of repentance and living in the "works of the faith"--- so that we are adequately armored from inside-out to overcome sin and have victory over death and ACTUALLY enter in the Kingdom), to a "gospel" consisting basically of hebrew words, traditions, and an outward appearance of holiness that provokes little or no need to make significant changes in their lives. They are not aware they have been deceived into believing that they have to walk in RELIGIONS, and not in the actual, pure, and Kodesh Word of Yahweh. During their calling, these talmidim and teachers have gone from one religion to another, changing beliefs but little or nothing in their insides. Yahweh says of those that "they are always learning and learning, yet never coming to the understanding of Truth."
Their teaching has created a hybrid of called-out people who never actually develop Yahweh's righteous character nor effectively learn to combat Ha-Satan's many delusions. They are neither hot nor cold in the faith, but rather lukewarm. They call themselves by any variety of names: the people of Yahweh, messianics, talmidim of Yahweh, messianic jews, jews, israelites, et al, but as far as their actual relationship with Our Almighty Father goes, they are "so-so" called-out people! Certainly they might appear kodesh on the outside---wearing clothing and symbols associated with israelis or quoting entire passages from the Torah or using fancy words (some of them in hebrew), but unkown to them due to their partial blindness and pride, they have a religion about Yahweh yet not a relationship with Yahweh...
We are not perfect, by no means, but we honestly and genuinely try to overcome each day a little more and blot out one more sin---one by one-- from the long list of sins we previously acquired and made a habit of practicing before we were called. All while asking Yahweh for His help, for His granting us repentance, and His loving mercy and forgiveness.
This is what spiritual growth is about. Studying Yahweh's Word, and letting it live in us and bear fruit by practicing it. When we did not know the law, not only did we not live by it, but we had no clear conscience of sin--like Shaul states. But then the law made us aware of all the things that Yahweh considers sinful and from which He expects us to depart from and start living new lives within His divine law. Some are more faithful, and/or fruitful than others, and He will reward each accordingly, so we want to be among the most faithful, because He promised to love us the most because of all the sins he has forgiven us!
Beloved brethren, when we are chosen of Yahweh--and be aware that He has chosen us from before the time of the foundation of the earth as stated in His Kodesh Word---He uses any of many means to chastise us, keep us within His reach and at a distance where He can continue to mould us, and eventually bring us to His Truth. Sometimes this is a painful process, especially if we resist it or are not aware of the seriousness of our calling. He will make it known to us one way or another, and many a time we will have to undergo through severe pain and suffering. Scripture says "we are called through many tribulations," or afflictions, and this is no understantement. He will do anything to bring us to a condition where we can become aware that we have been living lives of sin and need to change. A father who doesnt chastise his son does not love him, and our Abba Yahweh loves us very much.
Some time has passed since I last wrote to let you know this letter would be forthcoming, so I appreciate your love and patience in this respect. I always mean to address you earlier but aside from the amount of work given my two humble hands, you should know I suffer from a few physical conditions, and sometimes I am struck by more than one at the same time: But Yahweh gives us the strength we need to overcome Satan's physical as well as spiritual attacks on the saints of Yahushua, and this is what our Father wants. That we develop the strength and righteous character needed to rebuke all of Satan's machinations. Yahushua and His apostles talked profusely about this topic.
However, many of Yahweh's called-out are very naive and spiritually-young indeed when it comes to detecting all of the posibilities and strategies used by demons against mankind. This failure obviously comes from defetive teaching. Ha-Satan himself personally sees to it that he has leaders and teachers a-plenty appointed to hiding these monumental truths from Yahweh's people. It is his way to maintain a grip on deceived, blinded and lost humanity. But Yahweh also has leaders and teachers devoted to the proclamation of His unadulterated Tanakj and Yahwshua's true gospel of repentance and the Kingdom. But we must seek repentace and seek the kingdom!
While the ideal thing upon our calling would be to have the wisdom and discernment our Savior Yahushua had to detect these things as they come, and wisely drive them away, most called-out people are totallly unaware of it, and many who aren't are still learning and going through this process at a sluggish pace, which should be more akin to a militancy. I
Indeed, many of Yahweh's people invariably fail to realize when demons come to attack us in one way or another. The typical thing for humans is to realize these schemings too late along the way to be able to do anything practical---after the attack has happened and Satan has emerged victorious.
Many brethren simply see the consequences, or the "illness" after it has struck---not the early symptoms of the disease before it strikes. To some this can be very disheartening for a while. Thus we humans, when we lack that early knowledge, can end up getting sick, being divorced, going into huge debt, ending in prison, losing a home, a family, getting into booze or drugs, etc., before knowing for certain what struck us. In some cases, it might even take years for some to hit-bottom and awaken to reality.
But my beloved brethren, Our loving Father does not want us to suffer. He wants us to be vigilant and alert to Satan's machinations, and He gives us the necessary knowledge to that effect in His Scriptures. But, He knows that due to lack of wisdom we blindly succumb to the enemy's traps. This is why He states, "my people perish due to lack of knowledge." How much knowledge have you acquired to equip you to emerge victorious of each temptation? How much of what you have learned to this effect are you actually putting in practice? How keen are you at sensing early-on the consequences of various decisions and actions when they are set before you, and being able to discern which is best for you?
There are many ways Satan uses to make us fall and try to neutralise us. That we need to be aware and careful of his many schemings is an understatement. He is at war with Yahweh's called-out to salvation. He is at WAR with you and me. And we need to OVERCOME, just as Yahwshua teaches. Never mind what your moreh, minister or teacher says: if He doesnt speak all of Yahweh's words and Yahwshua's messages continuously and consistently, he is NOT feeding YOU---the flock of Yahwshua---adequately. You need to refocus and claim Yahwshua Ha Mashiach as your sole Rabi, Shepherd and Saviour! This means doing what He ordered we do: PRACTICING obedience to His commandments and teachings!
Those who are not yet called to salvation, do not know what causes their sufferings and ailments. They do not know where evil comes from. Scripture says that Satan has "deceived the whole world." Not just part of it, and not even MOST of it. But ALL of it. We have to come to such a state and MUST COME OUT of such deception. This is why Yahweh calls us His "called out." But Satan has effectively hidden and perverted our spiritual ailments, needs and cures. And many times we futelely engage in wars against each other. Humans against humans. Our real enemy unknownst to us. As if all evil we do to each other came from us and not from higher powers! But Torah says we "do not have struggle against flesh nor blood, but against powerful spiritual principalities"!
How many people practicing evil wroks know this? And evil works was "all" we did prior to our calling. How many fail to detect evil as it comes and enters through their hearts and minds to produce sin, and effectively combat it before they cause hurt to others? Very few. We need to see our need to change and start living righteous lives, effectively combating and emerging victorious from sin! Humanity in general doesn't know "what hit them." In fact I even know many called-out brethren who have been in the "truth" (they say) and easily give in to evil when it comes their way, and consequently sin--making no true effort to resist Satan. But Yahweh says that along with temptations, He will give us the door and the strength to escape them! We all need to believe and address these issues, and see where we could be doing a lot better spiritually, and are not even trying!
Some people attiribute their misfortunes to destiny or chance. They do not know there are spiritual beings working "behind the scenes" to wreak havoc and ruin people's lives. You see, dear brethren, they HATE humanity. Their feelings against humanity cannot be put more accurately any other way. Yet many people act and believe in total indifference to this monumental fact. We need to be keenly aware that we have a very powerful enemy who controls millions of other disobedient spiritual beings and whose only purpose of existence has become to lie, deceive, rob, murder and destroy humanity! And sadly, most people out there do not even acknowledge he exists! Others, even a few called-out ones, believe he exists but do not attribute to him all evil, or the power of deception he has been granted by Yahweh. Torah states evil cannot proceed from Yahweh Elohim, and that all that is good originates in and of Him. Therefore evil must come from elsewhere. And that "elsewhere" is the enemy!
Satan rebelled shortly after he was put in charge of governing Earth and all of its creation, humanity included. He had been created perfect and put there by Yahweh to preside over earth's creation as representant of Yahweh's love and perfect law, but this supremely intelligent and perfect spiritual being became selfish ...and developed pride.
What could have been going on inside the mind of Yahweh's most beautiful, powerful, wise and perfect spiritual being, to provoke such a drastic change in his character?
Yahweh says that humans are His foremost creation. Torah states that we were created "a little less" than the angels, but that upon acquiring salvation we will be made superior to them. As we stated earlier, Ha-Satan had been appointed to presive over us and assist us. These thoughts went around and around in circles inside Satan's head for quite some time while he was presiding over us...and he has been given Yahweh's righteous character until iniquity was found in him..! He corrupted himself as he started to see things differently...from OUTSIDE of Yahweh's plan and purpose, instead of seeing things from Yahweh's mind and the abode of Yahweh's laws.
This powerful archangel of the kerub kind came to the point where, in his perverted mind, he realised he had been assigned to oversee some stupid earthlings that depended on him and that Yahweh was planning to make superior to him and the rest of the angels someday in the future. That is the way he began to see us and asses his position in Yahweh Elohim's government.
Yahweh created the angels to assist humans attain salvation---so says Scripture. They are all supposed to help us and protect us while we dwell in physical bodies until we are finally transformed into "overcomers" and enter into the family of Yahweh as His legitimate sons. And after giving this careful thought and consideration, Satan the devil decided he wasn't about to let that happen. He figured if we was in charge of such a great responsibility, why would he direct mankind to the love and worship of Yahweh and not to himself?
He wanted to be the 'most high" in the universe, so he secretly stepped out of Yahweh's plan and selfishly and conveniently "redesigned" it to his own advantage---or at least so he thought! But as we shall soon see he was being tested, and that Yahweh had somehow studied this possibility when He designed His plan for humanity.
Nevertheless, rom that point of his rebellion onwards, his objetive has been to have all creation kneel down before him and not before Yahweh! Fellow brethren, he even tried to convince Yahweh's son Yahwshua, to worship him when he was tempted in the desert!
Of course, Yahwshua "the lamb of Yahweh" knew very well the enemy's intentions and he effectively rebuked him---despite knowing it would later create a huge stir and the sheydim would all join together against him and act through humans instruments to cause his death, dear brethren---betting against all odds that He would not endure to his death! Little did they know that Yahweh had incorporated Satan's rebellion into His perfect plan! Little did the sheydim know that Yahwshua had been given prior knowledge by the Ruach Ha Kodesh that all of these things would happen!
And again, little did Satan know that Yahweh had given him and the rest of the angels a free moral agency---that is, the power and capacity to make decisions for themselves---which means the possibility to act in total obedience to Yahweh's will as much as in disobedience to it. Our all-knowing Father had put the freedom of choice in them to test them! Our Heavenly Father Yahweh knew very well that part of his angelic creation could deviate from their service to Him and His Plan and seek to be self-served.
Did Yahweh create Satan and the demons?
Did He create imperfect, rebellious, evil beings? No, He is not the creator of chaos. He created Lucifer and the angels. He made them perfect and Genesis 1 says all His creation " was good." Isaiah says Lucifer was good from the day he was created..."until iniquity was found in him."
They were all instructed to abide by Yahweh's plan and obey and follow their Creator's will and mindset---which is the way of love, of giving, of happiness, of plentiful, of absolute harmony... Yahweh wanted to share His universe with others, so He created other beings out of love, to love them and be loved by them, as a Father and Creator would expect from his sons and created beings, because "the created is not superior to his creator."
Yahweh set up a beautiful plan from the beginning, to have His creation acknowledge their Father's love, and willingly and voluntarily love Him back. After all, He is a good, loving and righteous Elohim and deserves nothing less than to be loved. But Yahweh had to devise a way to allow His creation to love Him voluntarily. He instructed them as to what was His Plan and will, but nevertheless gave them freedom of choice.
Who would want to create millions of "robot-like" angelic beings and be loved by such, when they have all been pre-programmed to love and cannot do anything else but to love their creator---because they could not possibly feel or act in any other way?
What kind of Elohim would Yahweh be, sitting in His throne and having all these millions of created beings, love, kneel and worship mechanically before Him for all eternity? Would that type of forced-upon "love," please Him?
Of course not! Love means nothing if it doesn't flow out voluntarily! So, in His infinite wisdom and love, our Heavenly Father created the angelic beings and put in them the capability to voluntarily love their Creator.
Yahweh gave them positions, or asigned them to realms, from which His plan could begin to develop through different stages in full cooperation and coordination with His malachim or angels. But after some time of erroneous and selfish judgment, 1/3 of them "fell"---left their heavenly habitations and perfect spiritual nature, and decided to indulge in carnality.
Since that very moment they became spiritually sick, perverted, depraved and utterly corrupted. Their righteous character went from perfect and pure and good, to stained, evil and unclean. And much to their sadness, once an angel corrupts his spirit, and practices evil, he knows for sure he cannot be reinstated back to his original state of purity. His corruption and evil stays with him forever and from the point of his fall, forms part of his intrinsic nature.
My dear brethren, everything evil that fallen angels feel: hate, anger, envy, jealousy, addictions, sexual depravity, selfishness, materialism, etc., proceeds from them and from no one else... They created and devised all these sins...
These sins did not come to them from any other "higher spiritual beings," who they could point their fingers at and blame for their corruption! They sinned willingly and knowingly. They were given rules. As in all "homes" or "governments" there are rules to live by. So the angels must have known that a disobedience to such an extent would forever tarnish their purity, as otherwise Yahweh would not be able to judge them. Despite knowing this, 1/3 of them decided to abandon Yahweh's rules and Plan and go their own way---Satan's way.
So... ever since then, they have always tried to obstruct and abort Yahweh's plan---and succeded at convincing most of humanity that the cause of their own sufferings, ailments, sickenesses, sadness and death is anything but satanic. Some people in their ignorance even blame Yahweh for their sufferings. They do not know what we "who have been enlightened" know.
We know that Yahweh has given humanity six "days" to work things out and govern themselves, and one day (a seventh "day"---which is equal to 1,000 years) when He will bring us together in His Kingdom to righteously govern us... and show us the true world government of never ending peace and righteousness! At the end of those days in the seventh millenium, we will judge Ha Satan and the malachim and help Yawhshua's angels throw them into the lake of fire, and we need to be striving to become kodesh and equipped to do that from this very day--TODAY!
May we be genuinely provoked to study Yahweh's word ardently and diligently as of today, and follow our Master and Savior Yahwshua Ha Mashiach in ALL that He commanded us, knowing that His Word (the written and living Torah), is the key to ETERNAL LIFE and that living by every word of it is paramount to our salvation!
And may we "open the door when He knocks" so that He may literally come in and dwell in us like He wants, in order that we may become fully empowered by His Spirit to do the GOOD WORKS our Father designed for us to walk in, which are essential to develop His ardent, zealous and righteous character. May we aptly grow to Mashiach's full measure and stature, and vested with Yahweh's armor of justice!
My beloved sheep of Yahwshua, these noble, good, pure and edifying things will effectively equip us with the powerful double-edged sword of righteousness necessary to rebuke evil in all its babylonian ways and forms, before actually falling prey to them! And will free us from any and all of the satanic ensnarements, lukewarmness and lack of enthusiasm we might have fallen into; and enable us to effectively overcome our true enemy and deceiver: Ha Satan and his demons along with their spiritual reward of sin leading to DEATH!
We are the salt of the earth and the light of the world, my beloved, therefore seek every opportunity to act out your faith in total obedience to Our Master and King, for these practical things loosen the grip that Satan wants to keep on all of us!
To all I say, get rid of envy, anger, jealousy, lust, greed, covetuousness, instigation and all malice and unforgiveness---and experience the power and purity obtained from righteous living when you start to completely dedicate your temples to living kodesh lives in Yahwswhua!
Study Yahweh's word, come umbly before Him in prayer, seek His forgiveness daily, teach each other not to sin, rebuke each other in all love and honesty, make it a habit to get rid of your most common sins, write letters and messages to teach and comfort each other, share and work in common proyects and in writing Scripture studies for the edifying of the saints, help each other as if it was your own salvation that was at stake, seek righteousness and be very strict with yourselves--"err" on the side of prudence and good judgement...and, most of all....
...pray and give thanks to our Abba Yahweh constantly...realising that even though by mere justice we should be long dead we are still alive and have been granted abundant love and mercy so we may submit to our Father while He finishes the work He has just started in some of us! Let not one fall overcome you! Rise on your feet again as the righteous do, and prove to yourself and to those around you that you will not be led by the same sins again and over again!
My beloved sheep of Yahweh, Scripture states clearly that "mercy always triumphs over justice," and we obtain that much needed mercy only when we come humbly before our Father in genuine repentance and seek His forgiveness! If need be, be the firstfruits in your assembly or community to give the example that Yahwshua can and does live in you when you live as He lived!
Embrace you all in the name of Yahwshua our Master, Savior and King,
With deep brotherly love and affection,
your brother and servant,
Rafael
Any comments or questions on how to continue in our faithful walk in Mashiach are welcome and will be answered with all sincerity and truth, granted you exert some patience when we are travelling or busy.
Greetings and much joy in the name of Yahwshua Ha Mashiach, to you and all of those who accompany you and who sincerely seek to honor and obey our heavenly Father with words of truth, accompanied with the corresponding actions as pertains to the life in Mashiach of a genuine born-again "called-out" son of Yahweh!
Beloved sheep of Israel, take the lead under Yahwshua yourself and teach others about our Mashiach by being a living example. Let Torah live in you and convert you into a living and walking example of Yahweh's Torah!
Do not be afraid to be mocked or be imperfect or fall into sin sometimes...it will happen...but if you continue firm in your conviction, those instances for sin will dimish until you are fully living in righteousness. When we do these things that Yahwshua our Master ordains, we accumulate tongues of fire over our heads for the latter day, and when we help a fellow man depart from sin, Yahweh says it covers for "multitude of sins" that we accumulated from the past. By doing good works, be certain that we effectively "erase" any future chances Satan may have to accuse us of those same sins in the future.
Some of us have many many sins from our past life, precious sheep of Yahwshua, but Yahweh has given us the best promise---for He vows to love the most those of us who sinned the most and truly repented the most from those sins. He loves he who he forgives the most. The apostle Shaul is a good example.
Our brother Shaul hated Yahwshua and his followers, and during those awful days of spiritual blindness he accumulated many sins against him. (So much so that they rose to heaven and Yahwshua himself came to personally rebuke him!) Yet he repented form all of them, and proved it beyond any doubt by doing good, teaching righteousness, defending Mashiach and putting his life at stake for the brethren! This gave him a truly clean record. All his sins had been forgiven him by Yahwshua upon his repentance, but the works of the faith that Yahweh designs for us, and which he practiced from then on, proved that he had been born again!
We know our confessions of conversion mean nothing unless we actually prove to us, to Yahweh and to others that we try to live by what we say we believe. Otherwise we appear as little immature children, or hypocrits. Yet many of you this is what you were, little children. Walking as though truth had not dawned on you. And truth only comes alive when we actually start living by it, and putting each workd we learn in practice.
This is contrary to what many of today's so-called "hebrew root teachers" and messianics are preaching today to Yahweh's "called out." I have heard their sermons and studies for years, in some cases week after week, shabbat after shabbat, my dear brethren (either by internet or by attending to their synagoges and assemblies in different parts of the world)---and rarely if at all will they teach their talmidim to abide in the Kodesh Word they learn, live by it, and make a sincere effort to grow to the fullness of the stature of Mashiach as Scripture actually commands us.
They have changed the basis of their preaching from one of the true gospel (the gospel of repentance and living in the "works of the faith"--- so that we are adequately armored from inside-out to overcome sin and have victory over death and ACTUALLY enter in the Kingdom), to a "gospel" consisting basically of hebrew words, traditions, and an outward appearance of holiness that provokes little or no need to make significant changes in their lives. They are not aware they have been deceived into believing that they have to walk in RELIGIONS, and not in the actual, pure, and Kodesh Word of Yahweh. During their calling, these talmidim and teachers have gone from one religion to another, changing beliefs but little or nothing in their insides. Yahweh says of those that "they are always learning and learning, yet never coming to the understanding of Truth."
Their teaching has created a hybrid of called-out people who never actually develop Yahweh's righteous character nor effectively learn to combat Ha-Satan's many delusions. They are neither hot nor cold in the faith, but rather lukewarm. They call themselves by any variety of names: the people of Yahweh, messianics, talmidim of Yahweh, messianic jews, jews, israelites, et al, but as far as their actual relationship with Our Almighty Father goes, they are "so-so" called-out people! Certainly they might appear kodesh on the outside---wearing clothing and symbols associated with israelis or quoting entire passages from the Torah or using fancy words (some of them in hebrew), but unkown to them due to their partial blindness and pride, they have a religion about Yahweh yet not a relationship with Yahweh...
We are not perfect, by no means, but we honestly and genuinely try to overcome each day a little more and blot out one more sin---one by one-- from the long list of sins we previously acquired and made a habit of practicing before we were called. All while asking Yahweh for His help, for His granting us repentance, and His loving mercy and forgiveness.
This is what spiritual growth is about. Studying Yahweh's Word, and letting it live in us and bear fruit by practicing it. When we did not know the law, not only did we not live by it, but we had no clear conscience of sin--like Shaul states. But then the law made us aware of all the things that Yahweh considers sinful and from which He expects us to depart from and start living new lives within His divine law. Some are more faithful, and/or fruitful than others, and He will reward each accordingly, so we want to be among the most faithful, because He promised to love us the most because of all the sins he has forgiven us!
Beloved brethren, when we are chosen of Yahweh--and be aware that He has chosen us from before the time of the foundation of the earth as stated in His Kodesh Word---He uses any of many means to chastise us, keep us within His reach and at a distance where He can continue to mould us, and eventually bring us to His Truth. Sometimes this is a painful process, especially if we resist it or are not aware of the seriousness of our calling. He will make it known to us one way or another, and many a time we will have to undergo through severe pain and suffering. Scripture says "we are called through many tribulations," or afflictions, and this is no understantement. He will do anything to bring us to a condition where we can become aware that we have been living lives of sin and need to change. A father who doesnt chastise his son does not love him, and our Abba Yahweh loves us very much.
Some time has passed since I last wrote to let you know this letter would be forthcoming, so I appreciate your love and patience in this respect. I always mean to address you earlier but aside from the amount of work given my two humble hands, you should know I suffer from a few physical conditions, and sometimes I am struck by more than one at the same time: But Yahweh gives us the strength we need to overcome Satan's physical as well as spiritual attacks on the saints of Yahushua, and this is what our Father wants. That we develop the strength and righteous character needed to rebuke all of Satan's machinations. Yahushua and His apostles talked profusely about this topic.
However, many of Yahweh's called-out are very naive and spiritually-young indeed when it comes to detecting all of the posibilities and strategies used by demons against mankind. This failure obviously comes from defetive teaching. Ha-Satan himself personally sees to it that he has leaders and teachers a-plenty appointed to hiding these monumental truths from Yahweh's people. It is his way to maintain a grip on deceived, blinded and lost humanity. But Yahweh also has leaders and teachers devoted to the proclamation of His unadulterated Tanakj and Yahwshua's true gospel of repentance and the Kingdom. But we must seek repentace and seek the kingdom!
While the ideal thing upon our calling would be to have the wisdom and discernment our Savior Yahushua had to detect these things as they come, and wisely drive them away, most called-out people are totallly unaware of it, and many who aren't are still learning and going through this process at a sluggish pace, which should be more akin to a militancy. I
Indeed, many of Yahweh's people invariably fail to realize when demons come to attack us in one way or another. The typical thing for humans is to realize these schemings too late along the way to be able to do anything practical---after the attack has happened and Satan has emerged victorious.
Many brethren simply see the consequences, or the "illness" after it has struck---not the early symptoms of the disease before it strikes. To some this can be very disheartening for a while. Thus we humans, when we lack that early knowledge, can end up getting sick, being divorced, going into huge debt, ending in prison, losing a home, a family, getting into booze or drugs, etc., before knowing for certain what struck us. In some cases, it might even take years for some to hit-bottom and awaken to reality.
But my beloved brethren, Our loving Father does not want us to suffer. He wants us to be vigilant and alert to Satan's machinations, and He gives us the necessary knowledge to that effect in His Scriptures. But, He knows that due to lack of wisdom we blindly succumb to the enemy's traps. This is why He states, "my people perish due to lack of knowledge." How much knowledge have you acquired to equip you to emerge victorious of each temptation? How much of what you have learned to this effect are you actually putting in practice? How keen are you at sensing early-on the consequences of various decisions and actions when they are set before you, and being able to discern which is best for you?
There are many ways Satan uses to make us fall and try to neutralise us. That we need to be aware and careful of his many schemings is an understatement. He is at war with Yahweh's called-out to salvation. He is at WAR with you and me. And we need to OVERCOME, just as Yahwshua teaches. Never mind what your moreh, minister or teacher says: if He doesnt speak all of Yahweh's words and Yahwshua's messages continuously and consistently, he is NOT feeding YOU---the flock of Yahwshua---adequately. You need to refocus and claim Yahwshua Ha Mashiach as your sole Rabi, Shepherd and Saviour! This means doing what He ordered we do: PRACTICING obedience to His commandments and teachings!
Those who are not yet called to salvation, do not know what causes their sufferings and ailments. They do not know where evil comes from. Scripture says that Satan has "deceived the whole world." Not just part of it, and not even MOST of it. But ALL of it. We have to come to such a state and MUST COME OUT of such deception. This is why Yahweh calls us His "called out." But Satan has effectively hidden and perverted our spiritual ailments, needs and cures. And many times we futelely engage in wars against each other. Humans against humans. Our real enemy unknownst to us. As if all evil we do to each other came from us and not from higher powers! But Torah says we "do not have struggle against flesh nor blood, but against powerful spiritual principalities"!
How many people practicing evil wroks know this? And evil works was "all" we did prior to our calling. How many fail to detect evil as it comes and enters through their hearts and minds to produce sin, and effectively combat it before they cause hurt to others? Very few. We need to see our need to change and start living righteous lives, effectively combating and emerging victorious from sin! Humanity in general doesn't know "what hit them." In fact I even know many called-out brethren who have been in the "truth" (they say) and easily give in to evil when it comes their way, and consequently sin--making no true effort to resist Satan. But Yahweh says that along with temptations, He will give us the door and the strength to escape them! We all need to believe and address these issues, and see where we could be doing a lot better spiritually, and are not even trying!
Some people attiribute their misfortunes to destiny or chance. They do not know there are spiritual beings working "behind the scenes" to wreak havoc and ruin people's lives. You see, dear brethren, they HATE humanity. Their feelings against humanity cannot be put more accurately any other way. Yet many people act and believe in total indifference to this monumental fact. We need to be keenly aware that we have a very powerful enemy who controls millions of other disobedient spiritual beings and whose only purpose of existence has become to lie, deceive, rob, murder and destroy humanity! And sadly, most people out there do not even acknowledge he exists! Others, even a few called-out ones, believe he exists but do not attribute to him all evil, or the power of deception he has been granted by Yahweh. Torah states evil cannot proceed from Yahweh Elohim, and that all that is good originates in and of Him. Therefore evil must come from elsewhere. And that "elsewhere" is the enemy!
Satan rebelled shortly after he was put in charge of governing Earth and all of its creation, humanity included. He had been created perfect and put there by Yahweh to preside over earth's creation as representant of Yahweh's love and perfect law, but this supremely intelligent and perfect spiritual being became selfish ...and developed pride.
What could have been going on inside the mind of Yahweh's most beautiful, powerful, wise and perfect spiritual being, to provoke such a drastic change in his character?
Yahweh says that humans are His foremost creation. Torah states that we were created "a little less" than the angels, but that upon acquiring salvation we will be made superior to them. As we stated earlier, Ha-Satan had been appointed to presive over us and assist us. These thoughts went around and around in circles inside Satan's head for quite some time while he was presiding over us...and he has been given Yahweh's righteous character until iniquity was found in him..! He corrupted himself as he started to see things differently...from OUTSIDE of Yahweh's plan and purpose, instead of seeing things from Yahweh's mind and the abode of Yahweh's laws.
This powerful archangel of the kerub kind came to the point where, in his perverted mind, he realised he had been assigned to oversee some stupid earthlings that depended on him and that Yahweh was planning to make superior to him and the rest of the angels someday in the future. That is the way he began to see us and asses his position in Yahweh Elohim's government.
Yahweh created the angels to assist humans attain salvation---so says Scripture. They are all supposed to help us and protect us while we dwell in physical bodies until we are finally transformed into "overcomers" and enter into the family of Yahweh as His legitimate sons. And after giving this careful thought and consideration, Satan the devil decided he wasn't about to let that happen. He figured if we was in charge of such a great responsibility, why would he direct mankind to the love and worship of Yahweh and not to himself?
He wanted to be the 'most high" in the universe, so he secretly stepped out of Yahweh's plan and selfishly and conveniently "redesigned" it to his own advantage---or at least so he thought! But as we shall soon see he was being tested, and that Yahweh had somehow studied this possibility when He designed His plan for humanity.
Nevertheless, rom that point of his rebellion onwards, his objetive has been to have all creation kneel down before him and not before Yahweh! Fellow brethren, he even tried to convince Yahweh's son Yahwshua, to worship him when he was tempted in the desert!
Of course, Yahwshua "the lamb of Yahweh" knew very well the enemy's intentions and he effectively rebuked him---despite knowing it would later create a huge stir and the sheydim would all join together against him and act through humans instruments to cause his death, dear brethren---betting against all odds that He would not endure to his death! Little did they know that Yahweh had incorporated Satan's rebellion into His perfect plan! Little did the sheydim know that Yahwshua had been given prior knowledge by the Ruach Ha Kodesh that all of these things would happen!
And again, little did Satan know that Yahweh had given him and the rest of the angels a free moral agency---that is, the power and capacity to make decisions for themselves---which means the possibility to act in total obedience to Yahweh's will as much as in disobedience to it. Our all-knowing Father had put the freedom of choice in them to test them! Our Heavenly Father Yahweh knew very well that part of his angelic creation could deviate from their service to Him and His Plan and seek to be self-served.
Did Yahweh create Satan and the demons?
Did He create imperfect, rebellious, evil beings? No, He is not the creator of chaos. He created Lucifer and the angels. He made them perfect and Genesis 1 says all His creation " was good." Isaiah says Lucifer was good from the day he was created..."until iniquity was found in him."
They were all instructed to abide by Yahweh's plan and obey and follow their Creator's will and mindset---which is the way of love, of giving, of happiness, of plentiful, of absolute harmony... Yahweh wanted to share His universe with others, so He created other beings out of love, to love them and be loved by them, as a Father and Creator would expect from his sons and created beings, because "the created is not superior to his creator."
Yahweh set up a beautiful plan from the beginning, to have His creation acknowledge their Father's love, and willingly and voluntarily love Him back. After all, He is a good, loving and righteous Elohim and deserves nothing less than to be loved. But Yahweh had to devise a way to allow His creation to love Him voluntarily. He instructed them as to what was His Plan and will, but nevertheless gave them freedom of choice.
Who would want to create millions of "robot-like" angelic beings and be loved by such, when they have all been pre-programmed to love and cannot do anything else but to love their creator---because they could not possibly feel or act in any other way?
What kind of Elohim would Yahweh be, sitting in His throne and having all these millions of created beings, love, kneel and worship mechanically before Him for all eternity? Would that type of forced-upon "love," please Him?
Of course not! Love means nothing if it doesn't flow out voluntarily! So, in His infinite wisdom and love, our Heavenly Father created the angelic beings and put in them the capability to voluntarily love their Creator.
Yahweh gave them positions, or asigned them to realms, from which His plan could begin to develop through different stages in full cooperation and coordination with His malachim or angels. But after some time of erroneous and selfish judgment, 1/3 of them "fell"---left their heavenly habitations and perfect spiritual nature, and decided to indulge in carnality.
Since that very moment they became spiritually sick, perverted, depraved and utterly corrupted. Their righteous character went from perfect and pure and good, to stained, evil and unclean. And much to their sadness, once an angel corrupts his spirit, and practices evil, he knows for sure he cannot be reinstated back to his original state of purity. His corruption and evil stays with him forever and from the point of his fall, forms part of his intrinsic nature.
My dear brethren, everything evil that fallen angels feel: hate, anger, envy, jealousy, addictions, sexual depravity, selfishness, materialism, etc., proceeds from them and from no one else... They created and devised all these sins...
These sins did not come to them from any other "higher spiritual beings," who they could point their fingers at and blame for their corruption! They sinned willingly and knowingly. They were given rules. As in all "homes" or "governments" there are rules to live by. So the angels must have known that a disobedience to such an extent would forever tarnish their purity, as otherwise Yahweh would not be able to judge them. Despite knowing this, 1/3 of them decided to abandon Yahweh's rules and Plan and go their own way---Satan's way.
So... ever since then, they have always tried to obstruct and abort Yahweh's plan---and succeded at convincing most of humanity that the cause of their own sufferings, ailments, sickenesses, sadness and death is anything but satanic. Some people in their ignorance even blame Yahweh for their sufferings. They do not know what we "who have been enlightened" know.
We know that Yahweh has given humanity six "days" to work things out and govern themselves, and one day (a seventh "day"---which is equal to 1,000 years) when He will bring us together in His Kingdom to righteously govern us... and show us the true world government of never ending peace and righteousness! At the end of those days in the seventh millenium, we will judge Ha Satan and the malachim and help Yawhshua's angels throw them into the lake of fire, and we need to be striving to become kodesh and equipped to do that from this very day--TODAY!
May we be genuinely provoked to study Yahweh's word ardently and diligently as of today, and follow our Master and Savior Yahwshua Ha Mashiach in ALL that He commanded us, knowing that His Word (the written and living Torah), is the key to ETERNAL LIFE and that living by every word of it is paramount to our salvation!
And may we "open the door when He knocks" so that He may literally come in and dwell in us like He wants, in order that we may become fully empowered by His Spirit to do the GOOD WORKS our Father designed for us to walk in, which are essential to develop His ardent, zealous and righteous character. May we aptly grow to Mashiach's full measure and stature, and vested with Yahweh's armor of justice!
My beloved sheep of Yahwshua, these noble, good, pure and edifying things will effectively equip us with the powerful double-edged sword of righteousness necessary to rebuke evil in all its babylonian ways and forms, before actually falling prey to them! And will free us from any and all of the satanic ensnarements, lukewarmness and lack of enthusiasm we might have fallen into; and enable us to effectively overcome our true enemy and deceiver: Ha Satan and his demons along with their spiritual reward of sin leading to DEATH!
We are the salt of the earth and the light of the world, my beloved, therefore seek every opportunity to act out your faith in total obedience to Our Master and King, for these practical things loosen the grip that Satan wants to keep on all of us!
To all I say, get rid of envy, anger, jealousy, lust, greed, covetuousness, instigation and all malice and unforgiveness---and experience the power and purity obtained from righteous living when you start to completely dedicate your temples to living kodesh lives in Yahwswhua!
Study Yahweh's word, come umbly before Him in prayer, seek His forgiveness daily, teach each other not to sin, rebuke each other in all love and honesty, make it a habit to get rid of your most common sins, write letters and messages to teach and comfort each other, share and work in common proyects and in writing Scripture studies for the edifying of the saints, help each other as if it was your own salvation that was at stake, seek righteousness and be very strict with yourselves--"err" on the side of prudence and good judgement...and, most of all....
...pray and give thanks to our Abba Yahweh constantly...realising that even though by mere justice we should be long dead we are still alive and have been granted abundant love and mercy so we may submit to our Father while He finishes the work He has just started in some of us! Let not one fall overcome you! Rise on your feet again as the righteous do, and prove to yourself and to those around you that you will not be led by the same sins again and over again!
My beloved sheep of Yahweh, Scripture states clearly that "mercy always triumphs over justice," and we obtain that much needed mercy only when we come humbly before our Father in genuine repentance and seek His forgiveness! If need be, be the firstfruits in your assembly or community to give the example that Yahwshua can and does live in you when you live as He lived!
Embrace you all in the name of Yahwshua our Master, Savior and King,
With deep brotherly love and affection,
your brother and servant,
Rafael
Any comments or questions on how to continue in our faithful walk in Mashiach are welcome and will be answered with all sincerity and truth, granted you exert some patience when we are travelling or busy.