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By Darlene Dine E-Mail: jehu5417@aol.com Wanting desperately to reveal all that Jezebel
represents, I have discovered some concepts that challenge the mind.
We have only scratched the surface concerning the exposing of
this spirit. As I write
inspired by the Spirit of Yahweh, let truth be revealed by this same
Spirit. For this Jezebel
spirit kills the very life of Yah in His servants. This one fights to extinguish the kingdom of light.
The question giving birth to this article is: What is the
attraction by which men are drawn to this spirit?
What is the element that draws people to her like a magnet?
What is the ‘fatal attraction?’ Scripture that immediately came to my mind was the
paradox of my answer. If I
know that scripture is truth, then I also know the opposite to be the
devil’s lie. Let me
explain: Yahshua is the life giving force our spirit desires
to be drawn to. So it could
be said for the purpose of this article that He is the ‘divine
attraction.’ We see
what attracts men to Him by this scripture: “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.” He said this to indicate what death he would die. John 12:32 Much ground will be covered concerning this
statement for it speaks of the atonement— the perfect sacrifice. Notice
what follows after speaking of being lifted up.
What Yahshua is actually saying is that His death would draw men
to Him. Pause for a minute and ask yourself this
question; why will His death draw all men to Him?
Why would an act of judgment draw anyone?
Keep these questions in the back of your mind; we will get back
to them in a minute. Let’s
first do a little backing up in the twelfth chapter of John and see what
leads up to this statement for I feel it is of relevance to our
understanding the whole picture. (Please
read the entire chapter on your own.) It begins with a time…place and event.
Six days before Passover in the town of Bethany where Lazarus
(already raised from the dead), Mary and Martha (still serving) were
living. They served Yahshua
supper and Mary anointed His feet and wiped them with her hair (hair
being the glory of the woman). The
house was filled with the fragrance of the costly oil.
So there are several “types”
represented at this place or “event.”
There is Lazarus, a representation of Yahshua’s POWER
over death. We are reminded
by his presence that it was indeed a laying down of Yahshua’s
life by an act of His own will that will be the “perfect sacrifice.”
Life was not “taken” from Him.
He willingly gave it. This
IS His power over death, which manifests resurrection life.
We must follow in His footsteps and willingly give ours to become
sons of the resurrection! The next type was Martha, still
serving. She was
SERVING Yahshua, but Lazarus was sitting at the table partaking WITH
HIM. Listening to His
eternal purpose, not just His temporary ONE!
I see this as a small window to the soul.
There is a HUGE difference here.
There are those who will be too busy serving for they know all
like Martha. (Read John 12:20-28…see how many times
in Martha’s conversation with Yahshua she said, “I know.”
And eventually she walked away from Him having the last word!
See what she was stating that “she knew” and draw your own
parallels. This word she used for know is the Greek word “eido,”
meaning a “complete” knowledge.) Control in this life is only an
illusion. And so Yahshua laid it down knowing the
plans of Yahweh exceeded all that He could ever do. A life that brought as much good as His was not placed above
eternal purpose! And what
is this eternal purpose? To
KNOW Him. To have a
relationship with Him. He
did not just die to give this eternal gift to people.
He died because of His love for Yahweh first and foremost!
This is the priority, which gives birth to the purpose itself. It is the will of Yahweh that we know
HIM through the life of the Son. Knowing
ABOUT Him is not enough for it will not take us into the fullness
of redemption. Our
focus will still be on this life and meeting the temporal needs of
others and ourselves. Phil. 3:10 That I may know him, and the
power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being
made conformable unto his death; This is one of Jezebel’s strategies to
keep you FROM this knowing that happens through relationship and the
fellowship of His sufferings. It
happens through a death to this life!
She will keep all the Martha’s busy serving so that when it
comes time to worship and minister to His
needs, we will be locked into the temporal instead with no vision of the
eternal. Feeding of the
poor, praying for the sick, prosperity, etc., etc.
We will “expect” His focus to be on the same! That does not mean that these things are
wrong in themselves, just the timing in which they are being done
and the priority by which they usurp!
When the purposes of Yahweh are not what motivate us, these things
become the “knowledge of good” from the tree of death.
They appear to bear fruit, pleasing to the eye, pleasant to
taste, BUT BEHIND them is DEATH! Being AS GOD through religious activity that glorifies our
own SELF!!! And oh how
deceiving this can be. This
is so deceiving that Jezebel can actually convince us that we are living
the life of the cross. One such false doctrine is to neglect
family life to do these “ministries.”
I never agreed with it, but was stoned for my stand on this issue
and was not allowed any place in the church to minister unless I was
willing to do whatever was asked of me.
Even if this caused me to neglect my relationship to Yahweh, my
husband and my daughter. You
do NOT say NO to Jezebel! If
you do, you will not go too far. Ministry
in the home was not held in high regard.
It was implied that we should all just
DO the ministry together and this was our “family” life.
I have seen children sleeping in church offices, homes falling
apart, and teen-agers engulfed in sin because of this false doctrine of
Babylon’s system! I
attended a leadership seminar at a church that I was a member of for 8
years. One of the classes I went to was a teaching by a known Jezebel.
I felt Yahweh pressing me to go even though I knew the principles
by which she operated were not of Him.
I was surprised at His leading, but knew He wanted me to hear
something. I was obedient
and open to the truth if it should present itself.
I was also curious to see if this woman was in FACT living what
she was expecting everyone else to live.
I found her life to be only an appearance and found nothing that
she taught to be biblical. It
was a sham! So Yahweh
solidified truth in my life that day and I never again questioned myself
for rejecting these teachings and demands or the guilt that accompanies
them. This spirit is very deceptive and can
take you OUT of the WILL of Yahweh, having you believe it IS HIS WILL
you are in. Making you feel
shame if you cannot DO all these things!
This is very subtly the life of MARTHA and Yahshua rebuked her!
Martha tried to make Him use His
authority to force Mary to help her SERVE. His reply, “Mary has chosen that good part which
will not be taken from her” (Luke 10:42).
Mary was not forced to sit at Yahshua ‘s feet, she chose to.
Martha felt “forced.” She
felt burdened! These are works of the flesh and the tactics of JEZEBEL!!!
It will be a FIGHT to stay in the will of Yah!!!
Jezebel seemingly takes you to the cross with her
sacrificial system and control. This
is happening in epidemic proportions in the lives of those who are still
in Babylon. I found nothing
Biblical to support these false doctrines being taught.
Scriptures about the crucifixion are often used as a way of
making one submit. If you are caught in the trap of this
type of teaching, let me clarify something right here and now!
Your family is first and foremost YOUR HOUSEHOLD
under Yahweh’s headship! This is your SECOND priority in ministry and they are the
individuals to whom you are “called.”
(Your first is to Yahweh Himself.) The church is community and only an
extension of this “core” family.
IT SHOULD NEVER TAKE THE PLACE OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIP! We’d be amazed if we would only let go of the reigns of
control and allow Yahweh to minister through us.
This does not require a program, it requires a relationship!
To hear His voice— be obedient to His will— follow His lead. Continuing on, it is the Martha’s of
this world who are forever pulling us out by manipulation and GUILT to
serve temporal needs when we were first and foremost brought forth to
serve a “heavenly” one. We
were created first to be ministers to Yahweh.
But this seems to be that which is placed last for it involves a
responsibility that few will take hold of.
It involves a moving toward Him just as He moved toward us.
Our servant hood is birthed out of service to HIM.
Let’s look again at our story and where everyone is in the
scenario. The goal is not
to put others in the story, but see where we ourselves would be in the
picture. This is how we
correctly use discernment for Yah will give the right perspective if
pride is not blinding us. Moving away from Martha, let's see what
she was missing. YAHSHUA
was about to die! He was
about to suffer for the sins of all humanity.
Did anyone want to take the time to see what is in His heart?
The anguish, the dreadful anticipation of what is to come.
Does anyone minister to HIS needs?
There is one, her name is Mary.
She gives her ALL in acknowledgment of the truth that Yahshua is
about to give His. This is a type of coming into “full
redemption.” How can we worship
Him in Spirit and in truth unless we see this?
Unless we see when all of this life is gone, the eternal awaits
us. Not with an idea of
some sort of perverted “glory” that will give us a mansion and a
prosperous paradise (self again). But
what will grant us that which is of real and TRUE value.
A relationship with Yahweh, made possible by the atoning
sacrifice that Yahshua is about to make.
THIS SHOULD BE OUR FOCUS AND NOT POSITION OR WEALTH! A recent flyer I received had the IMAGE
of Our Savior hanging on the cross.
The bold headline read, “JESUS WAS SENTENCED TO SUCCEED!” It then went on to describe how Yahshua was sentenced to the
cross so that we could live the abundant life. (Abundance meaning an array of different things.) Of course salvation was mentioned as
well, but not as the predominate reason for the atonement.
I was not only appalled at this advertisement, marketing scheme.
I was appalled that anyone would use a picture of the
sacrifice…GIVEN TO YAH only in such an unholy and
irreverent way. And to
present it as given for such a cheap reason as to pad our bank accounts
and propel us into success! The
Apostles knew of know such life, but they did know HIM! Phil 3:7-11 7 But what things were gain to me, these
I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count ALL
things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus
my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things,
and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him,
not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which
is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by
faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection,
and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. What the atonement is really about is THE
RELATIONSHIP. And if
the relationship is right, we will not USE Him for our gain!
Or display Him bloody and naked on the cross for our MAILOUTS! The relationship is what Eve gave up in
the garden. The serpent
assuring her it was for her “own” benefit. Eve is a type of bride. All is weighed in the balance.
Our place with Him throughout eternity.
If we do not give up that which is seemingly “good” by
men’s standards, we will indeed give up the Most Holy Place.
A coming into full redemption.
The complete seeing only comes in resurrection life.
This is why the angels cry, “Holy, Holy, Holy!”
And Lucifer is determined to keep us from this TRUE worship!
It infuriates HIM! This is why Jezebel will let us have our
gods. She will let us bow
down to idols knowing our dependency on them is what will invite
distrust into our lives. She
will even allow us to hold onto our gifts given by Yahweh Himself rather
than releasing them back to Him to be fulfilled in His timing for His
purpose. She will expose our nakedness as only
Satan can do so we will not TRUST Yahweh with our lives, but hide
instead. How did Yahweh
know that Adam and Eve had eaten from the fruit?
Because they were hiding from Him. But if you tell Him what He already
sees, the atonement is seen. This
is why she does not repent in the space given. For Satan knows to keep ONE away from repentance is to keep
them away from the ATONEMENT!!! What’s even worse is that Satan can
mask the true atonement behind works of religiosity. Isn’t this what happened on the earth with the Scribes and
Pharisees? While Yahshua
was being slain on a tree—the true atonement.
The temple priests were slaying the lambs brought in to
sacrifice. They focused on
their faith more than the GIVER of that faith.
Because of mistaken “expectations,” they missed their time of
visitation. They expected
Messiah to come as KING! He
came first as Priest and now will come again as KING.
The church is not expecting a king for she has taken that
position (His throne). She
deceivingly believes she is in submission!
(There will be a remnant bride in complete submission, not just
an appearance of submission.) Let’s continue to some points about Mary.
Playing out her part in the perfect will of Yah, Mary anointed
Our Savior’s feet, which symbolizes the destiny He would walk and
dried them with her hair, which symbolizes glory.
The woman’s hair is described to be her crown of glory.
This gives us a true picture of worship, for all we
will ever do in this lifetime is laid at His feet. The sacrifice Yahshua is about to make will be the only hope
of glory any of us will ever have and it will be returned back again to
Him for all eternity. So
you can see by this brief review of this chapter that the atonement is
much more than we have seen. It
was Yahweh’s design. It
is not just an innocent man dieing on a cross.
There are brief details all around the story that lead us into
its truth, which is true worship in the Most Holy or Most intimate
place. There is only ONE
high priest. It is His life
alone that enters this place. When one does not receive truth, they will not see
redemption of this kind or “fullness.”
Mary was in the place at this supper where all of us can be.
Giving her all in response to what the Savior was about to do.
She didn’t try to change His mind or get His focus to the here
and now. She just anointed
Him with her life and lay all that she was at His feet.
Can we really say we have done this as individuals or a corporate
body? Do we anoint His
destiny with our most valued treasure (which should be our
ministries or gifts from Him)? This TRUE worship brings us to the complete END of
who we are. If we do not
overcome our “good works,” I am afraid we cannot enter into it. For the priest DID NOT wear his priestly garments into the
MOST HOLY PLACE! He wore
plain white linen. This
place is where Yahweh said He would meet with Moses to give him
the Torah. The very heart
of who He is. How to please
Him. Ex. 25:21 "You shall put the mercy seat
on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I
will give you. 22
"And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from
above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark
of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment
to the children of Israel. This is where His presence would reside—the very
throne of YHWH. This place
of worship in spirit and in truth. It is the doing or trying to become
that brings us short of it. For
it is only a life that comes out of His rest and relationship that
serves His eternal purposes. A
life that understands the value of this relationship as seen in
the atonement. A life
created from His, not separate from it. This we cannot become for it exists only in
the atonement, which makes way again for access to the tree of life.
Yahweh declared His name to Moses, “Ahyah Asher Ahyah,”
translated “I am that I am.” Or
“I will be that which I will be.”
Do not misunderstand this to mean that Yahweh is in a state of
becoming for He already existed before anything else.
He is in a state of BEING. And
it is in our joining with Him that we become, HIS NEEDS
first and then the worlds! And
it is in His moving toward us that He becomes our completion!
(Moses came down the mountain with two things.
The Torah and the plan of redemption!) Without this union, this joining to Him in marriage,
we miss the very life source required to perform His will.
It evolves around a heart that is ONE with Him. This was Mary.
Like her, we can only pay the price of all we possess to worship
Him in this Most Holy Place. Bringing
death to our SELF in every form. This
giving must come from love and not from the expectation of something in
return. Jezebel feeds from
the knowledge of good and is usually not seen as “evil.”
So it does not appear to be a “fatal attraction.”
But that which turns us away from the cross is DEATH!
For we become His murderers.
As the story proceeds (in John, chapter 12), one of
the disciples Judas Iscariot protested to this waste of the oil saying
it could have been sold and the money given to the poor (there are those
temporal needs again). How
righteous sounding! But
concerning Judas we know that his real intention was to take the
money for himself. The betrayer is a greedy thief only pretending to be
concerned for the poor. Even if the money really was given to the poor,
doesn’t this statement consider Yahshua to be a waste?
Think about the value this declaration places on His life.
To use this extravagance on Yahshua would be a waste.
This anointing Him for His death.
This extravagant worship of all that we are! But the poor, now that is a good cause!
What logic has the carnal mind!
This proves the point I was attempting to illustrate earlier.
When we move away from the atonement, the Most Holy Place…we
become His murderers! OH
HOW THIS WORSHIP INFURIATES SATAN!
He sidetracks us with the knowledge of GOOD!
Deceiving us into believing that these are the things WORTHY of
our lives. This is the
carnal mind in action that is at enmity with Yah.
Again worship of Yahshua is chosen over the good purposes of this
world. Mark 14:7 "For you have the poor with you
always, and whenever you wish you may do them good; but Me you do not
have always. 8 "She has done what she could. She has come beforehand
to anoint My body for burial. 9 "Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this
gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will
also be told as a memorial to her." 10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went
to the chief priests to betray Him to them. (Verse 10 is the reaction of Judas.
One that cannot be deceived by “the knowledge of good”
will be murdered. We move
from true worship to becoming his murderers. The story of Cain and Abel is a good illustration of this.) Yahshua defends Mary saying she has come
beforehand (a bride knowing Yah’s purpose beforehand) and anointed my
body for burial. SHE
ANOINTED HIM FOR DEATH! True love will offer all when nothing can be
given in return. This was a picture of the
Bridegroom and His remnant Bride. A
picture of two giving ALL to the relationship, never knowing if they
will ever benefit from it or not. A
risking that may result in TOTAL LOSS, yet doing it because of love
none-the-less! What a
different brand of love than we are used to hearing of.
What a different brand of love that Jezebel offers! The fatal attraction is to offer you some form or
substitute for she knows your heart is craving it. This is the serpent! He
enters as a false god through your area of lack. If you have ever heard of a person who has committed adultery
on their spouse, they will usually say that the person to whom they
‘went to’ fulfilled some sort of need that their spouse did not.
Of course we know that Yahweh is the ONLY fulfillment of EVERY
need we have. But that
person used the adulterous relationship as a form of completing them.
Of course it actually does the opposite, bringing our focus AWAY
from TRUST and into SELF! Eve is incomplete without a personal relationship
with Yahweh (she heard the command about the tree from Adam, second
hand— a type of present day religious authority).
So what does the enemy do? Through
the channels of our incompleteness enters the serpent!
Our fullness is found in the tree of life, so he must turn us to
the other tree. The
knowledge of good and evil is more deceiving to Eve for she finds
her completeness in meeting needs (help meet to Yahshua, the second
Adam). Satan offers this
fruit as that which will help her with her purpose, to be like GOD (the
bride, the church). To be
wise in her own eyes. She
secretly desires the worship, but has deceived
herself about this! The
serpent enters her. OH HOW
THIS DESCRIBES THE CHURCH OF TODAY!
It is Jezebel’s creation stemming from the root of the Tree
of the Knowledge of Good and Evil!
It is fruit produced by the flesh that opens the door for
EVIL! IT IS AN APPEARANCE
ONLY!!! WHAT TREE DO WE THINK WILL BE CUT DOWN AND BURNED
WITH FIRE? IN ALL OF US? Adam then eats of the fruit, willingly releasing his
Yah given authority over to the enemy by way of the woman.
By way of a type of man pleasing.
His earthly relationship meaning more to him than his heavenly
one. THE CHURCH, the bride
taking precedence over a personal relationship with Yahweh!
Adam, selling his birthright and position to rule with Yah for
Jezebel’s FALSE GODS! Does
this describe a priesthood that has been stripped of its POWER?
Stripped of its position and authority.
We will enter back through these same doors to be restored!
THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE!!! In the center of our being are two trees.
One— our Tree of Life. The
other— the tree of death. We
yield to only one. The
fruit ALWAYS looks better from the tree of death for it appeals to the
physical realm where we can be in control of what happens to us.
We can be LIKE GOD. The
tree of death seemingly eliminates the need for us to TRUST something we
do not have complete knowledge of!
This is the FATAL attraction! Jezebel believes she knows good and evil!
Can you imagine the arrogance of that?
And she thinks she is discovering what it is by eating the
FORBIDDEN fruit (FALSE DOCTRINE AND LIES)!
In reality a breaker switch goes off in the spirit realm and man
pleasing begins to take precedence over Yahweh pleasing once ADAM eats
the fruit! The man Adam
sinned because he chose his earthly relationship (to be loved in return)
over His heavenly one. He
chose temporary gratification over RULING with YAH.
He chose to exalt the life Yah gave Him over Yahweh HIMSELF!
Whether it is by wisdom, the pleasures that intoxicate our senses
or the feeling of being “God.” In control, powerful and independent! We will touch on later how these things lure us in to her
entrapment and see that they were the exact things Yahshua overcame in
the wilderness. He gave
heed to “man” instead of obedience to Yahweh.
He listened to his wife, which is a type of man pleasing. Continuing on in the story, it goes on
to a telling of a great many Jews who knew that Yahshua was there.
This was not their only concern (to see Him), but they also
wanted to see Lazarus. They
plotted to put Lazarus to death because many believed in Yahshua because
of his testimony. Must have
had quite an impact wouldn’t you say?
He was living proof that Yahshua had power over death. It doesn’t matter what they planned, this power cannot be
stamped out! This is the
persecution for truth we must face for it is coming upon us if we are true
sons of resurrection! Next comes the ‘triumphal entry’
into Jerusalem as it is often called.
Yahshua is hailed as King— as the Messiah. “Hosanna! ‘Blessed
is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!’ The King of Israel.” Vs. 13 “Fear not, daughter of Zion; Behold, your King is
coming, Sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
Vs. 15 All of these events eventually lead up to a
revealing of truth of what is about to happen in the realm of the
Spirit. Yahshua speaks of
death. He speaks of the
hour that has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
In verses 23-27 He speaks of the purpose by which He was brought
to this earth. Nothing of
His life is mentioned, only His death. “Now My soul is troubled,
and what can I say? ‘Father,
save Me from this hour?’ But for this purpose I came to this hour.
“Father, glorify Your Name.”
Vs. 27, 28 (To a TRUE SON, this is the
purpose by which you come to this hour!) This is what being a King in His Kingdom is all
about. And if we truly
follow Him, we will find this out soon enough.
Enduring to the end is coming to the end of self…to the
crucifixion where you will pass from death to life.
Eternal life. The
death to SELF is all that will “glorify” Him. Then a voice came from
heaven, saying, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.”
Vs. 28 Now that we have laid a little
groundwork, let’s continue where we left off in the beginning.
We arrive again at the statement made by Yahshua: “This voice did not come because of
Me, but for your sake. Now
is the judgment of this world, now the ruler of this world will
be cast out. And I, if I am
lifted up from this earth, I will draw all peoples to Myself.”
Vs. 30-32 The ruler of this world is cast out
through judgment. This is the judgment of this world
(the cross) and it glorifies Yahweh’s name.
The crucifixion is an act born totally from a heart that is ONE
with HIM. Wants what He
wants, lives and dies for His will, loves how He loves—unselfishly. A relationship that is ONLY fulfilled in pleasing HIM!
No man pleasing can come into it for the relationship itself is
all that is of VALUE. We can see the events in the order
of their appearing leading up to what will cause us to be ‘drawn to
Him.’ It is clearly the
sacrifice He is about to make for the sins of the world.
It is clearly the payment of a penalty that all of us owed. This will cast the ruler of this world OUT!
So it could be said as our paradox continues, that a life alive
to self is what will keep us from Him.
A sustaining of a carnal existence rather than a nourishing of a
heavenly one. The
glorifying of self rather than the glorifying of Yahweh.
In the judgment of this world, the ruler is cast out!
In the judgment of our own lives, the same takes place.
The relationship must become all that matters to us. It became ALL that mattered to Him. The Savior of the world is lifted up
to endure a punishment that we could not and to spare us of an eternal
separation from YHWH. This
atoning sacrifice brings us into an eternal covenant that cannot be
broken.
This sacrifice is clearly one that we could not achieve on our
own. Yahweh made the way
for us to be cleansed. This
way required a life— a sinless life.
This honors the respect and value of the relationship while
bringing down the walls of separation that the enemy erected through
sin. Before bringing all this together,
I would like to take a little detour to another valid point.
Before Yahshua began His ministry, He was tested for these three
things in the wilderness. The overcoming of these things is what brought Him into the
fulfillment of His purpose: Desires of the flesh (physical,
senses) To use Yahweh’s power for selfish
reasons To RULE over kingdoms of this earth
by worshipping a false god These three build Jezebel’s
fortress. The desires of
the flesh feed self. And
when it becomes powerful, it uses that power for selfish reasons.
And once self controls it, it crowns itself King and leads others
into the worship of the same false gods that brought it to power.
Our overcoming is in the wilderness when there is no one to turn
to but Yahweh—or Satan. We will NOW learn TRUST in the wilderness
before we arrive at paradise! Yahshua was tempted and passed the
test. And He is the one who
leads us into overcoming. Trust
or abandonment? Faith or
fear? Defeat or victory? The
truth of Yahweh’s promises or the lies of the devil? All sent in a bombardment to confuse, paralyze and destroy
the plans of Yahweh. All
sent to erode our trust in Him for this must be accomplished before we
buy the lie. In all reality
these temptations accomplish the opposite and ‘reinforce’ our
spiritual lives. When the time comes to trust we will.
When it comes time to run, we will stand in faith (steadfastness)
instead. When it comes time
to move ahead on only the whisper from above, “This is the way,” we
will follow. The testings are to work the spirit
of overcoming in us and now to our question from beginning:
Why would Yahshua’s death
be said to draw all men unto Him? Pause and take a deep breath for
we are about to go down a very steep hill at warp speed!
Concentrate on what I am about to communicate. The Yahshua on the cross
represented the fallen nature of man.
It represented our destiny…our hopeless outcome.
It represented Yahweh’s judgment through the words…the wages
of sin are death. He took
on our form as sinful so that we could be clothed in His righteousness.
He fulfilled the righteous requirement of the law, so that Yahweh
could remain true to His word, just and Holy.
This is how He is ‘glorified.’ Now what keeps us from the
atonement is the fatal attraction for it leads us to death.
Even though by appearances the cross looked like death!
Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.
Death experiences are what prove our trust for Him.
The giving of one’s life is proof of true love and will
manifest itself in our love for others. This kind of love does not live for
self. What keeps us from
the atoning sacrifice is indeed what attracts us to Jezebel and her
false gods. Because without the cross we are very much alive to self and
in great need. Our own
playing God and the control of our own lives creates the following: Self-righteousness Self rule The knowledge of good and evil—
to be LIKE YAHWEH. What is left standing is I can be,
I can do and I can have life apart from Yahweh! I CAN ASCEND! What
if like Yahshua, we go to the CROSS instead and all of our ascending in
this life comes to a screeching halt?
We shall see.
Yahshua said anything we do apart
from Him is nothing (including the greatest accomplishments man has ever
seen)! And He even goes so
far as to say this is the condition of our old man (fallen
nature) and brings us to the cross.
This Jezebel cannot tolerate for her kingdom is based on
controlling people with the very elements the cross eliminates: Guilt and condemnation Performance-based acceptance Achievement and the glorifying of
self She looks for those who want the
glory, although it will never be evident to ourselves that we do.
This, in turn leads us FROM the tree of life—spirit and truth.
Satan desires our gift to be used in worship of him.
In simple terms, Jezebel wants to use you and then send
you to destruction (the man who fell among thieves is a good
description). This brings
me to my final point that needs to be made.
This is about a relationship real enough to reveal the truth from
a lie. This love that
Jezebel offers is one of return. You
do this for me and I’ll do that for you, a transaction.
Or a fear of being rejected and not loved at all.
When you pursue a relationship
based on what the person can offer, you are stepping into her territory.
And many of us do it. The
flattery is to tempt you ever so subtly with the worship.
Acceptance offered, individual talent and gifts praised.
Use it all for His glory—won’t you?
These things given by Yahweh Himself are used as the magnet as
she worships them and offers you the enticement your old man thrives on!
The worship is turned to the gift rather than the giver of the
gift. BUT, she cannot
attract one who is NOT seeking glory! She cannot attract one who is NOT seeking ACCEPTANCE, but has
come by way of the atonement and abides in this truth! This is the magnet that will draw
you in. The glory
(knowledge of good) and the judgment (knowledge of evil).
BOTH COME FROM THE SAME TREE!
For to touch the glory is to also touch the JUDGMENT.
Let me explain: At first it will seem as if you are
enough and then the reality of the cross will come.
Your self-righteousness will be exposed for she knows what you
stand in. She herself led
you to this very poisonous fruit. It
is then that she will strip you of your garment and leave you naked and
bleeding to your shame! This
is Satan’s right and you cannot take it from him no matter how much
you rebuke and cast out. Yahweh
gave him this right. If you
stand in your own self-righteous pride, you will have no place before
the mercy seat, which is His throne.
You will be cast out! Many
in the ministry will not know that they are doing it!
A judgment with no repentance is final!
Judgment now is the wake up call to truth and answers Yahweh’s
question to Adam, “Where are you?”
(Which was the first question asked to Adam after he sinned, he
blamed the “woman” Yah gave him!)
There will be a remnant who will
answer the prophet’s call to REPENT!
A remnant who will COME OUT OF HER!
Jezebel will still justify the lie in
the FACE of judgment! THROW HER
DOWN IN THE AUTHORITY OF RESURRECTION LIFE!
The NAME of Yahshua! The false cannot live in this
spiritual reality (resurrection). The
bringing of self into the Holy Place is a defilement to the relationship
between the Bride and the Bridegroom!
Committing fornication with her and eating food that has been
sacrificed to IDOLS! Re 2:5 Remember therefore
from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else
I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of
his place, except thou repent. Rev. 2:16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and
will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. Re 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and
she repented not. Re 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that
commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of
their deeds. Rev. 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard,
and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will
come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come
upon thee. Rev. 3:19 as many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous
therefore, and repent. Are the pieces starting to come
together? She will allow
you to become King and self-ruler, only to use your power for her
kingdom when the time comes. In
the garden the serpent tempted Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. Away from
that which would bring life. The
tree gave birth to all the false doctrines of Jezebel that have led
Yahshua’s ‘elect’ away from the truth of the atonement.
It has strangled the very life of Yahshua out of His church!
BUT OH HOW YAHWEH HAS A PLAN! The great harlot is convinced she
sits as a QUEEN! On
Yahshua’s THRONE! Rev, 18:7 "In the measure that
she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give
her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen,
and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.' 8 "Therefore her plagues will
come in one day--death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly
burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her. Where we are now in history is not
just a covering up of sin; it is a compromise that says,
“We have no sin.”
It is an excusing away of the words of Yahweh and a justifying
of the lies. When you
do not repent, you HAVE TO JUSTIFY! It is a diminishing of consequences.
A portraying of Yahweh as a passive God that is okay with
disobedience. Disrespect
for another’s wishes is destructive to a relationship.
It devalues the person and drives an unseen wedge of mistrust
between them. This is what
we do in our relationship with Yahweh when we disobey His word or
compromise it to suit ourselves and build our own kingdoms instead of
His. This is the spiritual
adultery we commit for there is only a serving of one (Satan) or the
other (Yahweh). No in
between. The world should be able to look at
the bride and see Yahshua! Jezebel
has perverted Yahweh’s character beyond belief and become like her
father, the devil! Now, let’s see one more time, the
“divine
attraction!” What of this atonement made it
glorify His name? His word
remained true, but He hung on the cross Himself to rescue us. A revealing of how valuable the relationship was to Him (like
Mary as a type of bride who poured out the oil). Jn.15:13 Greater love hath no
man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. This love does not rescue self.
It does not look to self. It
will seemingly receive no reward in return for its giving.
This is the LOVE that endures to the end for there is nothing
that can destroy it. The love that poured forth from
Yahshua on the cross was His glory! The atonement is about love and
about how this pure love manifests itself. Yahshua illustrated it in the
cross. And Jezebel hates
it. For in the cross is the
real that exposes the false! One
love lives to fulfill, the other to BE fulfilled! The bride without spot or wrinkle
lives to fulfill her BRIDEGROOM and only for that purpose!
Yahshua’s only purpose was to
REVEAL Yahweh. The cross
not only revealed Him in mercy for the atonement He provided in giving
His Son. It also revealed
Him in judgment for His hatred of sin.
Jezebel’s fatal attraction leads us away like a magnet from
both of these spiritual realities!
Yahshua draws us to Him by
BOTH! We see
Yahweh’s mercy in providing the atonement.
His love and the value He places on our relationship with Him.
We also see His character revealed in His own turning away from
evil and its horror. We see
that His JUDGING of it truly was and is an act of love. Inside the Most Holy Place is the
throne of Yahweh. Its
foundation is truth. Its
cover is where He meets with us. Underneath
the wings of the Cherubim where the blood of Yahshua cries for
forgiveness. What is the fatal attraction?
All that will draw us out from there.
This place of meeting. Man-pleasing,
alive to self, glorifying or condemning of self (both born of pride),
loving only for personal gain, the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil which gives birth to a false spirituality.
These are Jezebel’s weapons and we must overcome them. All of our overcoming is to return to this place—where we were in the beginning surrounded by His glory covering our nakedness. Nothing separate, but in union with the eternal YHWH and His purpose. Ministers to Him in the Most Holy Place. There are only two answers for this ego. One is the Cross / the broken Alabaster Box; or the judgment of eternal consequences. The choice is ours which it will be. "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve." |
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