-Love like Aluah

         

Reading several scriptures about love, I realized that I hadn’t yet been able to completely walk in the kind of love that Aluah revealed to us in the scriptures and by His WORD. The problem that we seem to have with understanding Aluah’s love is that there just aren’t that many examples in the natural world that can be compared to the Aluah kind of LOVE. Most of us can understand the parts of Aluah’s LOVE that can be compared to a father’s love for a child or caring for the weak. Those things can be seen even among the wicked and un-qadash but there is a depth to Aluah’s love that most have never explored.

“Hatred stirs up strife but love covers all sins.”

-Mashly 10:12

“He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.”

-Mashly 17:9

Kasah: to cover, conceal, hide

to be clothed

With these two small sentences in Mashly we can to begin to see a side to YHUH’s Love that most of us have not thought about; LOVE doesn’t ever want to bring unnecessary shame to anyone if it can be avoided. LOVE will not reveal sin to anyone that does not need to know about it. Sin must be reproved but love seeks to cover that sin until it and the shame that it brings is removed forever. Don’t take the statement written before the wrong way, love doesn’t hide sin, it clothes the person so the shame of the sin is not seen.

“He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have Loving-kindness.”

-Mashly 28:13

                It is interesting that one cannot attempt to cover his own sins. For the one that sins there is only one decree that they confess and forsake those sins.

“Unto Adam also and to his wife did YHUH Alhym make coats of skins, and clothed them.”

-Barashath 3:21

Labash: to dress, wear, clothe, put on clothing, be clothed

“And Noach began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and he became uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Kana’an, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. And Shem and Yafath took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father, but their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.”

-Barashath 9:20-23

Kasah: to cover, conceal, hide

to be clothed

When Noach became drunk, he revealed himself inside his tent. Let me be so bold as to uncover the mashal (proverb or parable) of this action. When one becomes uncovered or naked they have revealed their shame, their sins become visible for all to see. For the righteous this is a horrible state to be in.

Ham looked on his father’s shame and then went and shared his unseemly knowledge with his brothers. He did not act in love but rather ran to uncover the stumbling of a righteous man. Shem and Yafath were not willing to look upon their father’s humiliation when he was at his most vulnerable. They covered their father’s shame without ever seeing it themselves.

When Abam sinned he tried to hide his sin unsuccessfully. YHUH made for him and his wife coverings that more fully concealed their shame. Sin always will ultimately become visible, but how and to whom should the shame of iniquity be revealed? Should a person’s shame be uncovered so that the wicked can make a mock of them, and slay the righteous that is already wounded?

According to the prophets there are only two types of people, the righteous and the wicked. So how do we define which is which, is it simply because of their fleshly sins or is there more to perceive in this matter? Many of the men YHUH Alhym called righteous committed sins that seemed to be great, yet YH YHUH was their Salvation and covered their sins without a second thought. Others that made errors that to man might have seemed small but YHUH rejected them all most immediately. What was the difference, why was one counted righteous and the other wicked?

“When I say unto the wicked, you shall surely die, and you give him not warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life. The same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand. Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your being. Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die, because you have not given him warning. He shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood will I require at your hand. Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned, also you have delivered your being.”

-Yahzaq’Al 3:18-21

Notice that the scripture never makes the statement that the wicked turns from his way. It says if you warn the wicked and he turn not from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity. The wicked’s heart will not turn from his sin; he is in agreement with his sins. The righteous on the other hand will not come into agreement with sin. They will repent from their errors when YHUH chastises them.

We need only to look at the first two Kings of Yashr’Al to see the difference. Dud (David) quickly turned from his errors when YHUH Alhym corrected him. Dud’s heart smote him time and again when he sinned against the Ways of YHUH Alhym. Shaul continued in his sins and excused himself from hearing the voice of YHUH. It is evidently demonstrated by these two men, that the terminal error is not the fleshly sins but is the wicked's hardened heart that will not be reproved by the Almighty.

 “Now the birth of YHUH Ha Mashack was on this wise: When as his mother Marym was espoused to Yasaf, before they came together, she was found with child of the Ruack Ha Qadash. Then Yasaf her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.”

-Mattithew 1:18-19

Yasaf was not willing to shame his wife to be even when he believed that she had committed one of the most horrible sins that he could have imagined against him. LOVE will never revel or take delight in another person is entangled and stumbles in sin. The scripture states that Yasaf didn’t want to make a public example of Marym because he was a “just” man, being just therefore would mean that we would never want to put anyone to an open shame because of sin. This does not mean that LOVE would ever stand by and approve of any sin no matter how small. It is sin that kills not LOVE; LOVE always seeks to deliver from the power of sin.

Now maybe we can begin to comprehend how man’s ideas have deviated from the LOVE of YHUH. Man wants to be vindicated and to feel some emotional gratification when dealing with someone else's sin. YHUH our Aluah always deals with sin based on the need for men to turn from their sins and repent. With Aluah, dealing with man’s sin is a necessity not a want. This is the revelation YHUH Ha Mashack began to show when dealing with the woman caught in adultery.

“When YHUH had lifted up Himself, and saw none but the woman, He said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Has no man condemned you? She said, No man, Master. And YHUH said unto her, neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more.”

-Yahanan 8:10 -11

YHUH Ha Mashack deals with both the punishment of the woman’s sins and the very sin itself with one SPLENDID stroke. He simply removed her accusers and the punishment was gone; then He reproves her sin by telling her to go and sin no more. How wonderfully unsearchable are the depths of Aluah’s Loving-kindness toward us!

Up until now it has all seemed well enough; we all want our sins forgiven and so we are willing to see how we must forgive others... but here comes the other shoe so ready yourself for the next step in the YHUH kind of LOVE.

“For Aluah so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Yahanan 3:16

Most of us know the above scripture well and embrace the message that YHUH our Aluah conveys to us by it. And if I were to ask most of you if we should walk as Ha Mashack walked you would all agree... right? We all love the fact that Aluah is a Good and Loving FATHER willing to take us back after we have sinned.

If you seek love from our Father in Shamym, you will turn from your own sins, but will also be willing to clothe those who like you have fallen and need to be lifted up.

Your life isn’t your own... be perfect as your FATHER in Shamym is perfect.

-Absolute Designation of Shalum-

          


          How long will it be until those that confess to believe on the Word of YHUH understand that the circumstances, elements, countries, peoples, nations, kingdoms, and anything else that you can name ARE ALL SUBJECT TO HIS NAME AND HIS WORD.

           If you will not believe then surely you will not be established.

           Remember, YHUH knows how to deliver the Righteous. Didn't He make iron to float? Was not the sea and the river opened by His Hand for His people to cross over? The fire had no power over the bodies those that trusted in Him. Lions mouths were shut for the sake of His servant.

           The earth and all that is there in belongs to YHUH. Land, sea, air, and all things obey Him; He has ordained a day in which the wicked and all that rebel will be judged.

           Trusting Him is the absolute designation of Shalum.

-Chadash Covenant-

“Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For regulation must be upon regulation, regulation upon regulation; measuring-line upon measuring-line, measuring-line upon measuring-line; here a little, and there a little: For with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people. To whom He said, ‘This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing.’ yet they would not hear.  But the Word of YHUH was unto them regulation upon regulation, regulation upon regulation; measuring-line upon measuring-line, measuring-line upon measuring-line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.”

-YashaYHU28:9-13

The time has come that there must be same to grow up into the mature ways that YH YHUH desires for us to walk in. Children frequently do not want to be taken away from the breast; it is hard for them to give up the milk when it is all that they have known. Weaning a child is not a pleasant thing for the youngster to endure, but often when the task is finally achieved there is much celebration, and a feast is usually prepared by the father to memorialize the event.

YHUH delivering His Word one regulation at a time, and measuring out the Truth of the Almighty with a measuring-line a little bit at a time is a wonderful act by our Father in Shamym. It is the equivalent to feeding a child with their mother’s milk from the breasts. But now comes the hard questions; is that where our Father YH wants us to stay? Is His desire for us that He continually hand feed us regulations such as, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”? Let’s examine quickly that one command we just quoted and try to comprehend what the fulfillment of it may look like. Then we might understand what it means to go from milk to strong food.

From the outside many people seem to guard this command, although in the times we live in fewer and fewer care to even know that it is there at all. But if I live with my wife and never touch another woman I appear to be both guarding and fulfilling this command, right? Well, let’s not judge things quite so fast. YHUH does not see as man sees, man can only look from the outside in but YH YHUH sees everything, He looks at the heart. If I am then going to truly Guard and fulfill this command I need to be aware of how YH YHUH our Alhym looks at things. Mashack (Messiah) revealed this commandment to us so let’s examine what He showed about His Father’s will.

“You have heard that it was said by them of old time, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say unto you, that whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

MattithYHU 5:27:28

Mashack did not alter or change the command at all but rather exposed what the strong food of the command tasted like. The depth of His definition didn’t merely cover an outward behavior but excised the veil of the flesh to expose the inner most part of the man. He plainly showed that a man should be one with his wife not only on the outside but from the inside all the way out. Praise YHUH!

Understanding this one principle is the key to where our Father wants us to walk when we grow up into His Word. Many view the Turah (Law) as a set of instructions to be honored from the outside. It could be compared to the way someone might honor the laws of a country or state but might not necessarily have to appreciate or agree with them. For example one might obey the seed limit while driving but might not agree or ever even comprehend why they should have to drive a certain speed at all. They drive the speed limit because they don’t want to get a ticket. Many try to guard the Turah in the same way, merely doing it in order to keep out of trouble. The command must start from the inside of a man and then the outside will follow also.

This is where the “letter of the Law” is weak. I know there is someone already mad at me for what I just wrote but wait just a moment and hear what is being said before you judge a thing. I am not speaking evil of the “letter of the Law”. What I am trying to convey is that there are no letters in the heart of a man and that’s where YH YHUH wants His Word to live.

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. You blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.”

-MattithYHU 23:25-28

The example above shows the hypocritical nature of those pretending to guard the Turah of YHUH by merely trying to keep the “letter of the Turah”. A person may achieve the appearance of righteousness but in truth it will always be just a fancy paint job covering up a room full of decaying corpses. The solution given to this awkward condition is to “first cleanse the inside of the cup and platter that the outside of them may be clean also.”

Yashr’Al found themselves in this condition many times, trying to fulfill the Turah from the outside in. The results were always the same, sooner or later the sink of failure makes the noses of all that pass by wrinkle up at the odor. So given that the condition of a man’s heart is “deceitful above all things” (YaramYHU 17:9), how can the Turah of YHUH prosper in such a wicked place? Let’s take a look at what our Father has said concerning this.

“Behold, the days come, says YHUH, that I will make a NEW COVENANT with the house of Yashr’Al, and with the house of Yahudah. 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 Mistrym (Egypt); which My Covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, says YHUH. But this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the house of Yashr’Al, after those days, says YHUH, I will put My Turah in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their Alhym, and they shall be My people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know YHUH, for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says YHUH, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

-YaramYHU 31:31-34

There are some that deny this Scripture all together saying that there is no “New Covenant” but rather the Scripture is saying a “Renewed Covenant”. I went along with this error for some time until I reexamined what was being spoken to me by our Father. First, look at the word translated “new”, that is the word many say means renewed. Let’s inspect what it actually the definition of the word and how it is used in other scriptures.

The word is H2319, chadash, defined as new, new thing, fresh. I suppose the word fresh could be taken for renewed but the word is used a total of 53 times, so how is it rendered the other 52 times.

“Now there arose up a new H2319 king over Egypt”

“When you build a new H2319 house, then thou shall make a battlement for your roof”

“Also in the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new H2319 meat offering unto YHUH”

“When a man has taken a new H2319 wife”

“If they bind me fast with new H2319 ropes that never were occupied,”

These are just a few examples but if you would like to study the word out it is basically the same all the way through, the word “new” is simply defined as new.

This information is important but if we would just hear what our Father is speaking to us this exercise wouldn’t even be necessary.

“…a NEW COVENANT with the house of Yashr’Al, and with the house of Yahudah. 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 Mistrym (Egypt); which My Covenant they brake…”

How is it that He can say that He will make a new covenant NOT ACCORDING to the one He made when He brought them out of the land of Mistrym and we don’t believe what He said?

HE SAID A NEW COVENANT WITH YASHR'AL AND YAHUDAH NOT LIKE THE ONE WITH THEIR FATHERS IN THE DAY HE TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO BRING THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF MITSRYM.

To deny this covenant is to deny what YHUH said He would do for his people to be their Alhym. This New Covenant is the vehicle YHUH said He would use to put His Turah in our inward parts and write it in our hearts. I don’t know about you but I want all of that that He will give to me. I want YHUH to be my Alhym and me to be His people. So if He has a New Covenant that will accomplish this and put His Turah into my heart then Praise YH YHUH I am with Him with all my strength! Moving forward, let’s see if we can find signs of this New Covenant elsewhere in the Scriptures.

“Therefore say, Thus says the Master YHUH, Although I have sent them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the lands, yet will I be to them as a little Miqdash in the lands where they shall come. Therefore say, Thus says the Master YHUH, I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the lands where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Yashr’Al. And they shall go there, and they shall take away all filthiness and all its abominations. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a NEW RUACK within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh. That they may walk in My Prescriptions, and keep My Right-Rulings, and do them, and they shall be My people, and I will be their Alhym.”

-Yachzaq’Al/Ezekiel 11:16-20

And again,

“Therefore say unto the house of Yashr’Al, Thus says the Master YHUH; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Yashr’AL, but for My Qadash Name's sake, which you have profaned among the heathen, wherever you went. And I will Qadash My Great Name, which was profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I Am YHUH, says the Master YHUH, when I shall be Qadash in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all lands, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, I will cleanse you. A NEW HEART will I give you, and a NEW RUACK will I put within you.  And I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Ruack within you, and cause you to walk in My Prescriptions, and you shall guard my Right-Rulings, and do them. And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be My people, and I will be your Alhym. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.”

-Yachzaq’Al/Ezekiel 36:22-29

O how I love these two Scriptures, even though neither say “New Covenant” outright, they do strongly show the effects that this “New Covenant” will have on those that are part of it. The New Covenant is designed to give us a NEW RUACK and a NEW INNER-MAN; it takes away our filthiness and replaces the stony inner-man with a soft inner-man of flesh. It even goes so far as to say that YHUH will put His very own Ruack within us, and cause us to walk in His prescriptions. 

We began our study discussing being weaned from the breasts, and eating the strong food of the Word of YHUH. If one receives this New Covenant cut in the Blood (Ruack) and flesh (Word of YH YHUH) of the Son (He that comes forth from the inner most part of the Father) of Alhym. The Father Himself will give to them of His own Breath. Then the Turah of YHUH will begin to spring up from that one as living waters. The Turah will come from the inside out and not from the outside in.

The Word Himself becomes one with those entering into to this New Covenant making them to be one with the Father Himself. Even as it was written, “Hear O Yashr’Al, YHUH our Alhym is one YHUH.”

The Turah of YHUH is unchanging but as we clearly see Abraham fulfilling the Turah of YHUH without a written law, so we also are given access to his Turah by it being written in our inner-man. Not only this but also His Word cleanses us from our sins. I tell you that this is the mystery of all those that trust in Him, that they should not trust or serve themselves or the arm of the flesh. But that they should deny self and walk as the Mashack walked fulfilling the will of YH the Father. For by His standard, signal, signal pole, ensign, banner, sign the sin of Adam is put to death that we might be made free to serve Aluah in the body of His Firstborn.

The Scripture declares in YaramYHU3:16-17 that there should come a day when “it shall come to pass, when you be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says YHUH, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of YHUH: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more. At that time they shall call Yarushalam the throne of YHUH; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the Name of YHUH, to Yarushalam: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.” This Scripture also witnesses to the New Covenant that is not like the one given as He took them out of Mitsrym, because He said “they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of YHUH: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it.”

The Almighty has concluded that man in his own strength cannot fulfill the Turah necessary to be in Covenant Unity with Him. So, He has given us of His Own Self, that it should be of Him and not of man that we are made righteous. Even as it is written, "I will go in the strength ofthe Adany YHUH: I will make mention of Your righteousness, even of thine only.” All that put their trust in Him shall not be ashamed. YH YHUH has become our song and our strength. 

YHUH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS! YaramYHU23:6 and 33:16

“Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: And they shall be My people, and I will be their Alhym: And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: And I will make an EVERLASTING COVENANT with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me.”

-YaramYHU 32:37-40

“Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which satisfies not? Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat you that which is good, and let your being delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto Me: hear, and your being shall live; and I will make an EVERLASTING COVENANT with you, even the sure loving-kindnesses of Dud (David / the Beloved).”

-YashaYHU 55:2

“Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to YHUH, to serve him, and to love the NAME of YHUH, to be His servants, every one that keep the Sabbath from polluting it, and takes hold of My COVENANT; Even them will I bring to My Qadash mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon Mine altar; for Mine house shall be called an HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLE. He Adany YHUH which gathers the outcasts of Yashr'Al says, Yet will I gather others to Him, beside those that are gathered unto Him.”

-YashaYHU56:6-8

Comprehending the Turah of YHUH and fulfilling His commands cannot be achieved by one’s own efforts and in one’s own strength. Those entering into endless debates and arguments over the letter of the Turah have already shown that they lack the instruction of the Ruack ha Qadash, for the Breath of YH YHUH is One with Him. Those that possess that Breath convey His will written in their minds and in their hearts.